Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-04-20
The DAILY OPTIC.
Fast Las Vegas, New Mexico,
SAN MIGUEL COUNTY.
new MEXICO news

hxtracta from ON H~xchnnges.l
: Mrs. w. IL. Barrett ID on the sick lisI
at Las Cruces.
Bicycles continue to increase in mum.
Der in Las Cruces.
Gerson Gusdorf and Frank Barron
left Taos for Red River.
Born TO Mr.. and Mrs. Juan Amador,
at Las Cruces, a son.
Died, in MesiIla, Robert Rigel, aged
twenty mine years.
John b. Bryan Is assisting in the as
SCISSORS Office at Las Cruces.
Q. w. Greene, jr., OF Eddy, has
located permanently in FL Paso.
There is a move on foot to open q
large department store In Eddy.
Rev. Hale Townsend, Of Santa Fe,
is still confined to his bed by illness.
New Mexico will make quite a cred.
liable exhibit at the Tennessee centen-
NAL.
M. r. Baker, Taos attorney, will
give special attention TO mining litiga-
ton.
Locust trees are leating ont at Las
Cruces, and will soon afford a good |
shade.
If Las Cruces is to have a baseball
club, 1t is high time prac ise was COM
mencing.
A. j. Baca has given up his school
on the Iona, and will engage in bust
ness In Taos.
DR.. W. S. Harroun, of Santa Fe,
was called to Pecos town on profes.
sional business.
w. +. Bakers family returned to
Las Cruces from St. Louis, where they
spentthe winter.
The armers of Eddy county are gen.
orally we'll satisfied with the water
service at present.
DR.. Bsarup left Eddy for a three.
weeks trip in Lincoln county among
his many patrons.
James Devine, leader Of the First
regiment band, at Albuquerque, is the
father OF a new girl.
DIR. t. T.. Martin has been making
extensive improvements on his resi-
dence and office at Taos. L
Rev. Scoggins has moved into the
Murphy house at Las Cruces, formerly
occupied by Rev. Phelps. L
The bishop has telegraphed to Albu- !
querque f%orbidding dancing in connec- Q
ton with ST. Johns mission. '
A large consignment of fruit trees from '
the DeWeese-D Dye nurseries at Canon
City, Colo. were received at Taos.
j. d. Morris resumed work on the 81
''Vallery" placer mine, ten miles be- b
Taos, on the Rio Grande.
The old adobe building in the rear
Of the shoe shop, just west of the post p
office at Taos, took q tumble to itself. il
Someone made an unsuccessful at b
tempt to enter the house occupied by .
Conductor McHugh. down at Silver
Rev. Millican, of Ell Peso, is assist /,
ing DIR. Emerson in the revival ,
meeting at the Baptist church in
Eddy. q
w. w. Cox came into Las Cruces
from his ranch with 265 head of cattle,
which he had sold for shipment TO
City. !
Rev. II. o. Laid, who is well re- :
in Santa Fe, is now rector i
Of the Episcopal church at Jamaica, {
Long Island.
Capt. w. H. Jack. president Of the g
cattle sanitary commission, will spend I
The next two weeks on his cattle ranch
IS IN Union county.
A. +. Windham, the livery man at .
Eddy, will put in twenty bicycles q
shortly, for the use of his customers 9
who prefer bikes to horses. :
Hugh Freeman was chosen secretary :,
the Union club at Eddy, in place OF !.
@. H. McLenathen, VINO could net '
spare the time to attend TO the duties.
Mrs. Scion E. Rose, of A%lbuquer-
uue, accompanied by Der children, {
will leave about the middle of the ?
week on a visit to relatives In Tonnes F
see. (
Jeff Chisum, one of the old-timers in 0
Eddy county, will start about May 1st Il
with d trail herd OF cattle for Colorado, r
Salida, where Mr.. Chisum will 8
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The strawberry festival at the Rio =
Grande hotel, in Las Cruces, given by I
the ladies of the Epworth league. was
quite an enjoyable affair. The ladies !.
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