Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-03-18
THE DAILY OPTIC.
East Las Vegas, New Mexico,
san MIGUEL COUNTY.
THE NEW MEXICO NEWS.
lExtracts from Our Exchanges.

Ducks are plentiful on the San Jua
and teal on toast is becoming a con
mon dish.
A grand ball and supper will b
given in harrington on the night O
the 22nd inst.
Robert @. Gortner, Of Santa Fe, /
confined to his room with a severe at
tack OF the grip.
Everybody in San Juan county !
busy blowing, raking and planting
their gardens at present.
G. A. McCourtney, paper hange
and painter of Aztec, has decided /.
go to Pennington to live.
Miss Alberta Hurt has returned t.
Santa Fe from Clinton, Arizona, wher,
she has been teaching school.
Elk. Governor Ross, secretary of tht
old board of immigration, will act q!
secretary until the meeting in April.
Boone Vaughn is building a resi-,
dencs on the Brown ranch near Farm.
ington. Henry Morris is doing the
work.
Trees a-e Budding and o the greer
foliage win cover the many hundreds
OF shade trees, when Eddy will be ssthe
land of beauty"
Fifty new single primary desks were
received by the school board at Silver
City, and have been placed ia one OF
the primary rooms.
Miss Lillian Markley's petition fol
retention as postmistress at Farm.
ington is being generally signed by the
patrons of the Office.
George r. Dowrie, died. at Lords
burg. He was born in Wabash, In
diana, twenty -one years ago and had
lived there all his life.
Mrs. F. Johnston is now temporary
librarian at the free public library in
albuquerque, Mrs. Geo. Knapp having
resigned the position.
W. III. Woods has leased the Blank
enship place near Eddy and win run it
the coming year. He will pasture the
town cows and horses.
Curg Williams, Of Pennington. re-
ceived a telegram from Pueblo, Colo,
stating that his father was in a dying
condition at that place.
A library OF 210 handsomely bound
books has been received at Pennington
to be used for the benefit of the Pres
byterlan Sabbath school.
Prof. S. M. MCGOWAN, superintend-
ent of the government Indian school,
who was east the past few weeks, has
returned to Albuquerque.
The Times is informed that a company
representing considerable capital will
establish a large fruit packing house in
Pennington, this summer.
Clave Merchant, OF Eddy, purchased
from Arthur de Lentulus thirty head of
milch stock consisting OF one and
two-year-old heifers. principally.
Allen Mcintyre, an old-time miner
of San Pedro and Dolores, who has
lately been working a property in the
Ortiz mountains, is mysteriously miss
ing.
The sugar factory at EDDY, which
up last October, has made into
sugar all the beets raised in the Pecos
valley. and has closed down for the
season.
r. A. Diver, who has had charge OF
the store for the Steeple Rock COM
pany for some months, was in Lords
burg, en- route to his home IN San
Francisco.
Pablo Anaya, of Ranches de Atrisco,
out from Albuquerque, deputy United
States marshal, who has been i'll for
the past two weeks, with pneumonia,
is improving.
Col. M. j. Egan, andJ. H. Hopkins,
of Clifton, were in Lordsburg, return
ing home from a trip to Phoenix, where
they had been watching the doings OF
the legislature.
Mike Twomy, a well-known mining
man who resided in Grant county, for
many years, is superintendent Of the
Commonwealth mining company at
Pearce, Arizona.
Harry Booth, for a long time post
trader at Fl. Bayard, who went to Salt
Lake City, some months ago, was In
Los Angeles recently, looking for a
business location.
J.. w. Stokes, who farmed the
Beckett & Pronce ranch, Eddy county,
last season, has engaged in mining, he
having departed for the Salinas mining
fields near Tular0sa.
The people of Pennington have great
pride in their surroundings and are at
present at work planting trees. flowers
and shrubs and otherwise preparing to
beauty their premises.
Reports are flying about Santa Fe
that local statesmen have received tel
egrapbic advices from Washington
that no appointment for governor will
be made before April 18th next.
There is quite an epidemic of grip
prevailing in Lordsburg. No n has
been seriously sick. but a great many
have been SO uncomfortable that they
did not feel like doing hard work.
Mrs. Rose Schowalter, who, with
her brother, Mr.. Maddigan, spent a
week in Albuquerque, the first Of Feb
ruary, passed through that city,
with his remains, for her home
in Pennsylvania.
The city schools at Santa Fe will
have public closing exercises on Friday
at the Sisters of Loretto academy at
D. M, by the Sisters rooma, and at the
court house at night by the other rooms
OF the public schools.
Two colored gentlemen have taker