Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-01-08
THE DAILY OPTIC.
East Las Vegas, New Mexico,
SAN MIGUEL COUNTY.
TERRITORIAL TOPICS.
lrxtracts from our Excnanrss.I

ington. ..
Mutton, seventy.fve cents at the Fol-
som meat market.
Born, to Mrs. Fred E. Holt, at
Pennington, a son.
Grant county is now under a'solid
democratic regime.
II. B. Swartz has leased the Aztec
Inder, from E. d. Sharp.
All the Territorial officials + at
work on their biennial reports.
The public school system In New
Mexico will not 60 backward.
Assessor Gillett, OF Grant county, has
appointed Clyde Smith his deputy.
A daughter was born to Mr.. and
Mrs. A. j. Griswold, over at Aztec.
The Clayton hotel served its last
meal, under the present management.
Fred A. Anderson, Of the Rincon
Weekly,is a candidate for alcalde OF his
town.
Miss Francis OFT, of Silver City, is
clerkiDg in the Rosenberg establish
ment.
E. M. Gibson, of Bloomfield, San
Juan county. is going into the hog
business.
Chas. E. Miller was chosen chair
man of the Dona Aua county board, al
Las Cruces.
E. G.. Stivers, late of Albuquerque,
is making a good paper of the San
Juan Times.
Miss Addie Clayton, Of Silver City,
Is teaching a term Of school near Gilt
ton, Arizona.
Lou Miller and Pearl Locke gave a
ball in Danes new store building, over
at Pennington.
Mrs. M. Scott and son, OF Quincy.
Illinois, are visiting Robert Love q
family at Ration.
Mrs. Betton entertained her boarders
at Ration with an enjoyable dance at
the Southern hotel.
James Brent's little daughter has
been quite ill at Silver City, but is
rapidly recovering.
There was Q meeting Of Lincoln post,
No. I3, department of New Mexico, q.
A. R., at Pennington.
Edwin Stalnaker arrived home in
Ration from a two-months visit to West
Virginia and New York.
A travelling photographer by the
name OF Richmond, was holding forth
in Aztec, San Juan county.
Messrs. Ed Smith and Joe Gordon
left Clayton for the Cimarron on a
hunting and pleasure expedition.
Rev. A. Mcintyre. of Trinidad, COL,
arrived IN Aztec and will remain sever
alu weeks and possibly may locate
there. z
Homer Tarbill, Of Allison, was be-
fore the teachers examining board in
Silver City for q teachers certificate.
He got it.
Judge S. r. Mcbride will deliver a
sample lot of about ten tons of ore from
the s.Mangos" mine to the Silver City
smelter.
g. E. Conway returned to Silver City
from a months trip through Arizona
in the interest of the Silver City reduc
ton company.
Miss Jessie Casad, who had beer
visiting relatives 1t Mesilla, left TO-
San Antonio, N. NJ, where she IL
teaching school.
The demand was so great, that T
Rouault's cannery at Las Cruces wal
unable to fill but one-ffth of the orders
the past season.
Some little excitement has beef
created In Pennington by the report o
u very rich placer gold find on the Sal
Juan neal Jewett.
The Cooperative building and loar
association is selling stock at Albuquer
que, having opened the tenth series OF
the LIST of January.
G. B. Willard, manager Of the "Lit
tie Fanny" interests IN the Mogollons
arrived at Silver City from his home ii
Hutchinson, Kansas.
There was a horse race in Aztec be
tween Dolph Lusk's mare and a pom,
belonging to a travelling photographer
Dolph is winner by S..
Perfecto Rodriguez, Of Silver City
has been appointed a deputy U. S
marshal by U. S. Marshal Hall, an,
has qualified for the Office.
Col. j.. W.. Brady, OF Santa FL
writes glowing accounts of his valuabl
mining properties in the state @
Jalisco, Republic OF Mexico.
A. H Officer resigned his positio
in the First National bank at Ratio
and accepted a position In the Office
the Maxwell grant company.
David Weinmann is negotiating fc
the purchase OF the interests Of Lou
Lesser, in the firm of Lesser, Lewinso
& Co, down in Albuquerque.
Through the efforts Of Mrs. M. .
Borden and Mrs. Dolph, OF Iowa,
very promising organization Of the "
G. T u, was effected in Gallup.
There will be several marriages /
Albuquerque 10 the next ten days, bu
the prospective grooms all say
..Please keep it out of the paper"
The oyster supper at the Presbyte
ian church, in Pennington, was Target
~patronized and q success in ever
respect. The net receipts were $27.
Albuquerque is congratulating he
self upon the probabilities OF obtainin
an irrigation canal, a new hotel an
an electric street railway-on paper
A.. w. Shidler's new residenc
on his ranch near Far mington,
receiving the finishing touches. 1t wi
make o commodious and attracti'
home.
Geo. w. May, who is now maxim
La boma At Lamar. Colo. spent a fa