Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-06-01
THE DAILY OPTIC.
East Las Vegas, New Mexico,
SAN MIGUEL COUNTY.
THE TERRITORIAL PRESS.
LExtracta from our Exchangea,

cd fourteen indictments and twelve nc
bills.
Chief Ruppe, Of the Albuquerque FIRE
department, Is circulating a subscrip
tion list for the fire alarm system.
Better FIVE acres OF good bees thar
q whole farm of slovenly cultivated
ones, says a Pecos vslley exchange.
Ripe cherries are now on hand in
the Mesilla valley, and the green ap'
pies are just large enoughf for the small
boy.
Mrs. j. M. Adams has opened .
private school in the school house IL
Lordsburg, where she teaches the little
ones mornings.
On the 10Th a young cyclone sweep
ever the lower ella, blowing off the
tops eff trees and unrooipg the Rich
mond school house.
Dwight Wheeler, the carpenter, who
was called to B~araboo, WIS, on &C
count of the sickness of his mother, has
returned to Albnqerque.
A. N. Goudey, prominently connect.
ed with the Bluewater irrigation
scheme, with headquarters at Los An
aelea, is in Albi querque.
Miss Nellie Spiers was very pleasant
]y SUI prised by a number of her young
friends at Roswell, who honored her
with a farewell surprise party.
Born, TO Mr.. and Mrs. John Pratt,
at Gallup Friday morning, May 2sth.
a son. AN parties are doing well I'M
der The care of DIR. Il. H. Edmondson.
The Pecos valley farmers have about
finished the first cutting of alfalfa.
l. w. Holt, of Mcmillan, has
shipped five cars east of the first cut
ting.
Miss Kate Holmes, of Eddy, who
went to Big Springs, Texas, on account
of the illness of her mother, has re-
turned, her mother having recov-
cred.
Wylie Parker was seriously hurt by
his horse falling with him near Ros-
we'll. He was out near the cedar hills
and was brought to town early Wed
nesday morning.
Miss Fannie Nowlin leaves Albuquer-
que in q few days for her summer
vacation, first stopping in Missouri for
a time and journeying on finally to
Roanoke, Virginia.
The three Rivers section Of country
is looking up. In addition to a store
and post office soon to be established
there, several families are moving in,
and more coming.
F. q. Tracy has moved his house at
Eddy.from Mermod street, between
Alauada and Guadalupe, to the corner
of Canal and Shaw, where the NJ. E.
tabernacle once stood.
r, f. Maddux has purchased the bar
of the hotel Pauly in Roswell from Z.
Il. Oliver, and has had the partition
between the room and the barber shop
torn out thus giving more light.
The trustees of the new Methodist
church at Lordsburg, have rendered
the use OF their new building, on the
Sundays they are not using it, to the
members of the Christian church.
Cristobal Garcia, a P.nos Altos Mex
lean, was tried for muderipg his brother.
The defense was that the brother was
killed in a drunken row and no murder
was committed. The jury acquitted
Garcia.
At the residence of J H Villa M at
Mcmillan near Eddy, on May
22nd, 1897, Z. G. Quinn, of Camden,
Me +. died. Interment was made in the
Seven Rivers cemetery, three miles
east of Mcmillan station.
A Deming man has discovered q way
Of telling when a case will be settled at
Silver City, He says an outsider can
stay in Silver City indefinitely, but
be begins to borrow money his
case is reached and then he can 60
The Selden dam on the Rio Grande
standing The flood we'll, SO far only a
Of the pilings have been washed
AWAY. The pipe line, thoughts not in
As good condition and the damage done
san only be ascertaIncd when the water
goes down.
On Wednesday afternoon, as Jesse
Van Wrinkle was attempting to turn a
)and of range horses out in the hills
eight miles northwest of Roswell, his
horse fell en- him, hurting him
very seriously. 1t was thought by his
companions that he was killed out
'ight. i
The gentlemen of the Lead avenue
Methodist Episcopal church in Albu-
,uerque, who had charge of the ice
,ream and strawberry festival on Gold
venue, last Saturday night. acquitted
themselves in fine style, and proved q
,reat success ia the art Of waiting on ,
ustomers. i
The Mandell property in Albuquer-
Iue, has been conveyed to Messrs.
Noti G. Gradi, consideration IS. 800.
The business of Mandell Brothers is Z
asst being closed up. For sixteen !
ears the firm has been identified with |
albuquerque, having done an extensive !
BUSINESS, heirg well and faVorably !
.nown all oyer the Territory. I.
The Huntington mill at the "Helen
White Oaks district, is running
a full tune and with abundance Of
igh grade ore. A portion Of The value :
saved en- the plates while a fru van G
er catches what remains The results s
1 he operations are gratifying TO the {
AN gement The develop ! ent work \
the n'ne is progrefsiag and condi- I
ona i'm nroufuC II