Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-10-05
.IHE DAILY OPTIC.
East Las Vegas, New Mexico,
San MIGUEL COUNTY.
Much News About the BustlinR City
of Pueblo, Colo Not Found
in the Local Papers.
tha Editor of the optic.

1S97-The foot ball cranks are in "a
blaze OF glory at least: those are who
belong to the Centennial high, school
team Of this city, who defeated th'
Central school team, for the city cham
pionship, yesterday. To an old-fash'
Toned fogy, like the writer, it does seen
like a wanton waste OF valuable time,
to put in horrs of useless effort to de-
velop a new style Of vicious kicking,
that will temporarily cripple, IL moi
MAIN for life, the opponent who seeks
for 81. called honors as q ball kicker,
School studies must, to some extent a!
least, be neglected, in order to become
q proficient ball kicker, and mar
manner, but then football, like dwell.
ing in the German universities, Is a fad,
that must be upheld regardless Of per.
sonal injuries that may be sustained
Tue girls whom the lords Ut ore ation
pronounce silly, because of their weak
ness for a large hat with q two-story
flower garden on It's dome, are remark.
ably sensible creatures, compared tc
the callow youths who grow an alb
normal shock Of Paderewski hair part.
ned in the middle, and combed down
over their brows, that the world may
know that they are oail kickers. US
The ministers who came to this city
last week to hold a conference and
Bible study, have completed their
labors, aud gone to their respective
homes As q result, the wise, ole, yellow
legged hens who climbed under the
barns when the preachers came, In
order to avoid a personal contact with
the family dinner pot, are in the
5ackyards again, scratching The bosom
OF mother earth for a dainty worm.
Two ''bisquIt shooters" at the South
ern hotel, got into a sociable row, last
Wednesday, turning the dining-room
If that famous hostelry into a battle
field, as 1t weve. When the ruction
subsidized, 1t was found that one OF the
belligerents had two ugly knife wounds.
which required the service of a medico,.
to sew up; the other combatant had a
badly, confused nose,and later on, was
arrested on a charge OF assault with
intent to kill and now he regrets thai.
he did not use a stuffed club, instead of
o dull case knife.
According to the report Of the su
perintendent OF puplic schools for this
cnunty, there are fifIy-fonr school DIS
tricts. In these ffty-four districts
thir y women are employed as teachers,
which proves that lovely woman is
forging her way to the front IN Colo
rado and crowding out the lords of
creation from positions once solely
filed by men. Pretty rough on thu
male pedagogues, yet we are in favor
of lady teachers; so are the big boy
scholars, for 1t Is ever SO much nicer
to have a good looking young lady
spank knowledge and good amer
into a boys. system, than it would be
II some nasty man, strong as boarding
house butter, smooths out the wrinkles
on the basement of a pair of knicksr
bockers, with a piece of pine slab
We have been there
Paeblo's great steel works is evi.
dently getting itself 10 readiness for
the era Of prosperity that seems to be
headed Coloradoward. The proprie
tors of the works have a number OF
skill mechanics eng ged 10 taking
out some old and obsolete machinery, |
which is to be re placed by new ms
chin ry Of the latest aud most improv
~ L,,d Tor thu manufanfura NJ atael
rails BY the time these changes are
completed, the works will be prepared
TO turn GU first-class work at eastern
prices, and fill all orders with prompt
ness These works nj manufacture al
kinds of merchant iron and steel, iron
pipes, steel rails, railroad spikes, bolts
aud angle bars, and when in full opera
ton in all of its departments, gives
employment to about 700 men
Pueblo also possesses three large
smelling plants, each OF which is
work. 8 day and night, and in the ag-
gregate gives employment to about 900
men. most Of whom receive good
wages These smelters handle silver.
lead and gold ores, and their annua
production OF bullion amounts to many
millions Of dollars.
That prosperous days are 10 sight
for Colorado mine operators IS
evidenced by the fact that the Santa
Fe railway received for shipment to
Argentine, Kansas, during the past
We k, lwerty-six car loads of gold and
silver ore from Cripple Creek. Tht
average shipments from this camp did
not average more than four cars per
week, previous to last week.
An eastern paper remarks editori-
ally, that Bryan is logically the candi-
date for president on the democratic
ticket in 1900, which is aaother way Of
SAYING that the logical result of such a
nomination will be to convince the peo
pie OF this country that the democratic
party still poss sses the happy faculty
of making an ass Of itself at just the
right time.
Pueblo don't occupy n back seats,
IL you please, and there are no flies on
her. She will send TO the Denver
mountain and plain festival a magnif-
ic4nt float, that will astonish our neigh
bors 10 the suburban village. Five of
Pueblo's beautiful girls will occupy
that float in the parade. Miss Allen
will be Pueblo's festival queen. and the
Misses Piper. Evans, Cooper and Noble
are maids of honor to the queen 1t
is safe to say, that during the pArad.-
the Depvefites will be oblivious to all
things save the float which will carry
this galaxy OF Pueblo beauties.
James H. Rynerson, Of Las Cruces,