Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-05-21

lie accordingly, ~ Is said, Induced o
committee Of Arizona Legislators to
critically inspect hts political record,
rhey reviewed the case thoroughly
and, of course, gave him a clear bill OF
health. Among other charges thus
Inspected was n that Mr.. McCord
had sometime or other pulled the
financial leg of the Steel Motor COM
papy, Of Cleveland, Ohio. and got a
rake-off amounting TO $50. 900. Nc
Cord went on 70 Washington, filed his
application and waited. Sure enough,
the charges then came pouring 10
against HIM, among others,an affidavit
from the Steel Motor company, just as
he had suspected, and as fast rs they
came, be pulled bis clean bill Of health
and anRwered them promptly and evil
IDENTIFY to the full satisfaction OF the
appointive powers. That's the way he
secured the job. Perhaps MoCord's
tactics may prove serviceable to some
OF our New Mexico statesmen now out
Of o job.
Comptroller Eckels has declared a
second dividend Of 10 per cent. 10
favor OF the creditors Of the First ma
tional hank at Eddy, max ing IN all 40
per sert. on claims proved, amounting
TO $50,406.
Wagon transportation contracts have
b. 90 let by the U. s. army quarter
master, as follows; Wingate station to
Fort WiDgate, N. M three miles, John
8. Van Doren. 3 27-100 tents per 100
pounds betwtei those points, snd 81 rs
per 100 per 100 miles for Transports
ton to outside points. Halls station
to Fort Bayard, N. M three miles,
William ID. Murray, five cents per 100
between those points and 14la cents
per 100 between Silver City and the
post. n
The work Of taking Inventories 81
the property will begin on Tuesday
next and the Sonora railroad between
Benson, Arizona, and Guaymas, Mexi-
co, will be turned oYer by the A. II. &
s. F. to Huntington's Southern Pacific
company on June LIST.
Whoever wins in the governorship
contest, ii it ISN'T Prince, will know
that he has gone up against a pretty
A,rong string OF Influence got together
BY the ex governor. Among those who
are pressing Princes claims are: DR..
Chauncey NJ. Depew. Of the New York
Central railroad; George j. Gould, Of
the Missouri Pacific; C. p. Huntington.
Southern Pacific; Aldace +. Walker,
representing the Santa Fe and A. &
system; Il. T. Jeffrey, of the Denver &
Rio Grande; II. b. Hyde, president Of
the Equitable life Insurance. company;
w. F. Smythe, the irrigation expsri
and writer, aud Wilson Waddingham,
the largest individual landowner IN
the United States, whose holdings in
New Mexico aggregate considerably
over 1000. 900 acres.
That primes Of royal gooc fellows,
w. s. Hcpewell, en- route from Hills
boro TO Las Vegas, is here to-day on
public business. Mrs. Hopewell went
on to Las Vegas last night, after en-
during a hard trip up through the
water-soaked Rio Grande bottoms.
Their train encountered wash out
breaks In the A., L. & S. F. above and
below Socorro, and met with a whole
days job in travelling from the A. & p.
junction to Albuquerque, some thirty
miles. MIR. Hopewell has 10000 acres
OF Rio Grande valley lands that had
been put into The SeIden irrigation
and dam enterprise. Realizing how
timid capital is, he now fears that Gen
Mckenna's action 10 that affair may
disgust the English and French syn.
dictate that were putting up the money
to carry on the work and cause them to
draw out. This would prove a positive
calamity, not only for southern New
Mexico, but for III Paso and Juareg, as
well. The present high water is also
likely to destroy and render valueless
oil the work that had been done on the
Selden dam and which was left without
a1y sort OF protection by the contract
ors because OF the obstructive policy of
certain Mesllla valley pa rites
But didn't Senators Mason and
Daniel do the business for CubaP
When the west and south get together,
something is bound TO pop!
Morrison, the judge and ex-U. s..
marshal. whom the New Merscan was
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