Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-10-14

TO the Editor OF the OPTIC.
The conference convened in the
Spanish chapel in Ration, New Mexico,
October 9TH. 1897, Bishop @. o. Nc
Cabe, D. D., presiding.
j. B, Sanchez was elected secretary,
L. Fernandez statistical secretary, and
L. M. Harwood, interpreter.
The sunrise prayer meetings, con
ference sessions, and evening meetings
were all we'll attended; often the house
was packed to its utmost capacity
The Sunday OF the conference was {
grand day. The morning love-feasl
was o accounting Ct trials, hardships,
prosecutions, victories and rejoicing
The bishop preached in the morning il
the Methodist Episcopal church,
English, with clearness and grea'
power. and at night in the Spanish
chapel, through the interpreter.
The collections showed increase II
nearly all the benevolences, and the
membership a gain of nearly 200.
The bishop and DR.. Gee expressed
themselves as we'll pleased with the
conference. Some twenty three OF the
members were present. The great dis.
lance and lack Of funds prevented quite
anumber from coming.
W. have thirty preachers, about g.
500 members and p~robationers, twer-
ty-four churches, nineteen parsonages ;
valuation, altogether, $50, 900.
Miss Rodrigues WAS present to repre-
sent the Harvard home. a girls indus
trial school at Albuquerque under the
auspices Of the w II M. s. The
home Is a beautiful building, we'll fur
nished with nice rooms and new furni
ture, custing altogether about $40, 900.
1t is filling up with Mexican girls and a
prosperous year is contemplated. 4
One OF the encouraging features of
the conference was in the report OF the
superintendent, who l. also agent of
the Albuquerque college and has
charge Of the boys biblical
industrial school. He had rec.
ohanended to the English con,
ference the purchase of a piece OF land
Of sixty acres near the city with the
hope of making an industrial home
farm for boy Students, where poor boys
can work their way through school.
Subscriptions were taken for the same
and the Mexican people showed great
Interest In the matter. When some Of
the American preachers at Albuquer
~. rr1r -.tto n tha lorA 49, 90
them said, If it was bought for
that purpose, he would pay
for one acre, that was S35.
When the agent stated this fact, the
Mexican pastor from Tucson said he
would pay for an acre, that ~, $35.
Miss Rodrigues. In behalf Of the Har-
wood HON ., subscribed an acre, $50;
the superintendent of the misslon, an
acre. $35; Rev. L. M. HARDWOOD, Ell
Psso, $35; L. Frampton, for his three
year-old boy, Walter, an acre, $35 I;
Samuel Psdilla and his father-in-law,
G. Martinez, each a half acre for Sam
uel's three-year-old boy, Jose Gull
lermo G Padilla, $35; LUIS Garcia
and wife, an acre for their babe, Ro
maldo Rogenio Padilla, though 10 his
mothers arms crying, $50; suffice 1t
say the boy quit crying; Albert ia
cobs, for his son, Sampson, who
weighed 159 pounds before he was
twelve years old, an acre, $50. This
was nine acres, each $35, making a
total of 1915
At the close OF the morning service,
one of the native preachers resumed
the call for help for the above-named
enterprise, and the following respond
I'D: Leandro Romero, Clayton, S.;
Varos, of Taos. 30; VI. Ores
pin, Comet IS, ESQ; R. Oigulns RI
ton, ST.; Margarita Gonzales, Ration,
81; Esperanza z. Gonzales. Rs
ton. 81; j B Padilsa. Raton,
ST.; j P. Sanchez, Ration. Sill
Martinez, Ration, ST.; g.
Melton Garcia, Ration, 80; Miss
Conn, teacher, Ration, 81; Miss
Mcintyre, So; l. Fernandez and wife
of Peralta, f,r their three year-old boy
one acre, S35; senior Valdez. Ration.
80 cents; Sonora Romero, 50 cents.
Total, $380.25.
Then the agent stopped cH ana
preached at Wagon Mound and pre-
sented the subject which resulted as
follows: Francisco ~Pattenghe. So 30;
Pedro Martinez, $2. 30; Mrs. L M.
Howe. 81; Joseph Matt, So; Abisino
MARTINEZ, IS.
The bishop pronounced the statistic-
al secretary's report the finest he had
ever seen. DR.. Gee said he had never
seen iner gotten up reports IN his
conference In Indiana. Respectfully,