Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-04-22
lExtracts from Our Exchangss.

The business of La Belle merchants
and hotels Is on q rapid increase.
The infant child OF Mr.. aud Mrs.
VIM. Pointer died at Pennington.
Gusdorf Bros, OF Taos. are erecting
a large lodging house at Red River.
The Colorado tunnel company has
resumed work on that property at La
Belle.
Mrs. Stanford. sister OF Mrs. j. r.
Fusselman. Of Eddy, died at Meridian,
Miss.
Mrs. Parker Is building two addition.
al rooms to the Parker house at Tul-
arosa
j. Adams, of Keokuk, Ia, ia visiting
his sister, Mrs. 4. 8. Crosson, up at
Ration.
Miss Floretta Shields left Farming
ton for Colorado, where she goes TO
reside.
Chas. Meyer expects to move into
his new residence in La Lug about
May LIST.
A great deal of interest 10 being
taken In the beet sugar industry In this
Territory.
Mrs. Nsstor Armijo and Miss Ophelia
Henriques left Las Cruces for the City
Of Mexico.
j. P. Casey. ir., returned to Las Cru
ces from an extended visit to San An
tonic, Texas.
Repairs have been made on the
house in the Catholic church enclosure
at Las Cruces.
Chas. Mason, running the delivery
wagon of the steam laundry, had o
runaway, up at Ration.
MIR. and Mrs. Gus Bracket, OF the
Sugarite, Colfax county, are the proud
parents of a daughter.
Walter Inlay paid $5 and costs
into the city treasury in Eddy, at the
suggestion of Justice Roberts.
New bicycles for r. G.. Tracy and
Mrs. G. II. McLenathen arrived at
Eddy from the manufacturers.
Considerable assessment work Is be-
ing done at La Belle, as many new To-
cations have lately been made.
Four thousand pounds Of mohair
were shipped out from Eddy by the
Matheson commission company.
Miss May Robinson departed from
Ration for Weir, Kan, whore she will
spend the summer with relatives.
DR.. J. J. ShuIAr and daughter left
Ration for Virginia, the DOCTORS old
home, TO be gone several weeks.
Rueb. Letton returned to Ration from
Red River. where he delivered the out
fit of the Red River Mining News.
II there is one thing above another
in which the Pecos valley can claim
superiority, it is its superb moonlight
nights.
The Rincon Weekly 10 three years
old and is owned and edited by Fred
A. Anderson, and managed by Oscar
Wood.
The public printer has no laws to
give away. The secretary makes dis
tributions OF the volumes as provided
by law.
Samuel Van Waggoner arrived at
Las Cruces from Socorro, and will
have charge of the Presbyterian Mis-
sion work there.
Bud F. Smith, the Three Rivers stock.
man. has purchased the Sanders & Co.,
stock OF goods at Tularosa and placed
). j.. Sanders in charge.
Died, at Orange, Texas, Mrs. Nathan
Smith, mother of Captain Smith, Of
Las Cruces, on April 10th, aged ninety
six years and eleven months.
Mrs. Ely, mother Of DR.. Chas. H.
Lovejoy, arrived at Santa Fe from
Minneapolis to spend the summer with
her son who is there for his health.
DR.. w. NJ. Luttrell, agency ply
stefan at Mescalero, accompanied by
J. NJ. Rowland, indpstrial teacher at the
same place, visited ruiaross.
A new ore chute has been tapped In
the "Midnight" mine, in the La Belle
camp. at 175 feet depth, hematite
sparkling with SmalI particles Of free
gold.
The Ellidge ditch which supplies
water for the irrigation Of Animas
valley land from Aztec TO Flora Vista,
has been enlarged and improved, this
spring.
At an examination Of teachers in
Eddy, Ralph Mann was recommended
for a second grade certificate by the
committee, Miss Potter and Professor
Brantley.
The match social given at the M. e.
church parsonage at Pennington was
enjoyed by all who attended, and o
neat sum Was realized from the enter
tainment.
The apricots are in full bloom 10 San
Juan county and the peach buds will
be out in q few days. Apple trees are
lesfing out and one can almost see the
alfalfa grow.
The Lordsbnrg school closed q very
successful term. Miss M. johnson,
who has been II charge, acquitted her
self creditabIy- and proved that she Is
an able tencher.
DR.. Wrightsman's class At Farm
ington is progressing nicely. Drawing
has now been taken up. and II will
hereafter prove an interesting branch
of the instruction.
Business Is rapidly reviving at Nogal.
The WAmerI0an" mine IL settling up 3
large amount Of new machinery pres
parntory 70 ~inoEpasing The foFce oi
work men % thas yalEahla property,