Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-04-19
THE DAILY OPTIC,
Fast Las Vegas, New Mexico,
SAN MIGUEL COUNTY.
THE new MEXICO NEWS.


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lExtracts from Our E~xchanges.I
Water troughs are all the rage anon
Deming merchants.
Cattlemen In Colfax county ar
using lead to stop the rustlers.
Civil Engineer Preston returne'
to Ration from Los Angeles, Cal.
The Dsming minstrels are gettin,
down to business In great shape.
More trees are being planted In Rs
ton this spring than aver before.
Frank Barney, lessee OF the Southern
hotel, died at Ration OF consumption.
Mrs. J. E. Goblin purchased the
Montezuma hotel property. in Springer,
Mrs. Frank Bragg, who was seriously
sick at Ration, is reported improving
Calico ball at Deming, April Goth.
Watermelon day u. Demirg, August
20sh.
Frank Cloud has accepted a position
as mixologist with M. Truda, up at
Ration.
Double the business is transacted at
Springer that there was at this time
last year.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Vogt, Of Ration,
are rejoicing over the arrival OF a fine
baby boy.
The right sort of a white man would
be strictly sin it' with a steam laun-
d y in Deming.
Eliz~abethtown, not to be behind in
the up-to date civilization, has organ
lied a base ball club.
The sheriff is in charge OF a bunch
of cattle at the stock yards at Deming,
which are in dispute.
The remains of Mrs. Eliz beth Floyd,
of Blossburg, arrived atRaton from
Denver and were buried.
DR.. F. w. Rathbone, late OF Kansas
City, arrived in Albuquerque and in
tends to locate there.
Married, in Elizsbethtown, John
Nicholas Harms and Miss Eliza West,
Justice Burnett off stating.
w. G. Wallis has returned to Dem
ing from Mexico, where be had been
to deliver a bunch OF horses.
J.. J. McEwen, a retired business
man of Silver City. lied at his home
in that city, from heart failure.
The Headlights ornithologist re-
ports that the first swallow of the sea-
son arrived in Dsming, April 7tb.
The Deming tennis club has re-
organized and will hsvs two courts
running in full blast all the season.
Clark & Co. are building a corral
on their vacant lots at Deming for the
accommodation of their customers.
Local cattlemen, at Deming, have
been busy making their spring delivery
which has commenced in good earnest.
The latest reports from the Mimbres,
Grant county, are to the effect that the
fruit crop vas not damaged by the re-
cent frosts.
Judge Collier at Albuquerque SEN
fenced August Raymond, convicted Of
burglary, to the penitentiary at Santa
Fe for n year.
Geo. Bailey. of Wichita, Kas-, left
Springer for home, after spending a
few days visiting the family Of II. B.
Steward up there.
Miss Maud Davis, of Hillsboro, who
has been attending the university at
Albuquerque for two years past, left
for Madison, Wis.
Ed. Bowlden, of Trinidad, is max
ing arrangements to leave for Red
River City. where he will engage in
the hotel business.
Mrs. Martin, mother of w. T.. Martin,
and Mrs. w. e. Martin, wife OF the ex-
councilman, of Socorro, have gone to
Lima, Ohio, on o visit,
Mrs. S. B. Newcomb. wife of Judge
of Las Cruces, who has
been seriously i'll for some time, is
but surely recovering.
The animal meeting of the Congre-
y~atioual association will meet at Gal
up April 2I.22. A number of delegates
rom Albuquerque will attend.
Judge Joseph Boone, Of Deming,
las SO far recovered from his recent
illness, that he is able to come into
own for a few hours each day.
james Wilson, lessee of the wool
occurring plant OF Albuquerque, spent q
lay in day in looking over the wool
preparing industry at Las Vegas. !
Henry Nordhaus & Son have put in a
vater trough and hitching rail In front
# their store, at Deming, for the ac-
,%ommodation Of their patrons.
Mrs. Rudisille has been recommend
ID by many OF the leading republicans
Il Lincoln county for appointment TO
be office Of postmaster At White Oaks. l
George Norton. editor Of the Silver
,ity I4dspendent, passed through
en- route to San Francisco, ac- s
iompanied by . Chinaman f,r depor- !
Henry d. Bowman, Las Cruces
and a candidate for appoint
aent to the Office of receiyer OF the ". !
!. land Office at Las Cruces, has gone !
o ST., Louis. t
Epitacio Gallegos, a well known !,
itizen of Santa Fe, is mentioned in {
connection with the appointment as a
ity marshal under the new city adj 3
ninistratIon. I