Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-04-13
THE DAILY OPTIC,
Fast Las Vegas, New Mexico,
SAN MIGUEL COUNTY.
THE new MEXICO NEWS.
EXTRACTS from our E1ohaugss.

lNAeiocts rum Our uAcuauKob.l
The hotels at Elizabethtown are al
doing a good business.
Elizabethtown will have q baseball
club this season.
Judge Henry L. Warren, OF Albu,
querque, is in Denver.
The fruit crop at Monticello has beer
quite badly damaged by frost.
A bevy OF capitalists are expected to
arrive in Chloride in a few days.
Mrs. Nellie Wilson visited Chloride
friends the early part OF last week.
John James shot and wounded o
large mountain lion or Mineral creek.
Orrin R'cs will represent Distrlc,
Clerk Driscoll at Lincoln In the district
court.
Elizabethtown will soon have tele.
phonic connection with the outside
world.
Considerable building and improve
ment is going on all the time in
Bland.
Hon. Antonio Ortiz, jr., was in AL
buquerque on a visit to Don Francisco
Armijo.
A. Martini, the popular r~estaurauter
Of Eiizabethtown, served 100 meals In
one day last week.
Messrs. McGaffey and johnson were
up from Roswell to Lincoln for the
purpose of investing in sheep.
The improvements on the Harvey
house in Albuquerque may be BON
sidered as a foregone conclusion.
Born, to the wife OF Chas. Drake. OF
Eliz .bethtown, Saturday, April 3rd,
1897, a fine. large. healthy girl.
On Easter Monday evening, the lodge
of Woodmen of the World at Albu-
qleique, will give their ball at Armory
nal.
A. R~osenwald, of Albuquerque, has
bsen in Elizabethtown looking the
ground over with a view of starting IN
business.
The James Bros. have C ,mpleted the
wagon road from the Wing mill to the
Wing mines, and are now hauling ore
to the mill.
Chas. BsyIess left for the City OF
Mexico, where he goes to write up the
railway shops In the interest OF Ameri-
can railroad journalism.
$. II. Gray returned to Lincoln from
Roswell, Thursday, where he had gone
a few days previous.t to lay in a stock Of
wines, liquors and cigars.
The little SON Of Mrs. Wilson, OF
Chloride, met with a painful accident,
by falling against the stove and burn
ing himself quite severely.
g. Fl. Laidlaw, of Chloride has
moved back to Hlllsboro, where he will
open an assay Office and become q per-
manent fixture of that town.
Mrs. John GAVIN, cf Baldy, was 10
Elizabethtown last Friday on business,
and was kept busy during the after
Misunderstanding with old friends
Geo. L. Ulrick, C. D. Mayer and
Joe A. Gumm came down to Lincoln
White Oaks Sunday evening, each
some business before the county
dads.
w. E. Bryant came up from Roswell
10 Lincoln last week, and has opened
up a barber shop in John Pollock's
and is now ready to serve the
Joseph Helwig, assistant clerk 10 the
land flee, Commercial club building,
At Albuquerque, lie taking q few days
at the hot springs. near Las
Frank G. Bloom of Trinidad, Colo.,
vas 10 Lincoln Wednesday. Mr.. Bloom
is general manager of the Bloom cattle
company of Lincoln and Chaves
,ountiee.
w. F.. Blanchard was down to
Lincoln from White Oaks and Stanton.
asst week, looking after a little bust
ness before the board OF county CON-
n%issioners.
A letter from Hon. Fl. B. FERGUSON
'eceived recently, indicates that the
will be in Washington three
longer. He IS doing all pos.
iible for New Mexico.
Court will last three, possibly, four
weeks in Lincoln county. There will
% plenty of business to keep the mills
longer, but the funds may not
70 sufficient TO clear the docket.
Frank Huntington, formerly Of Ute
begun moving his household
fleets into his newly purchased resi-
Ience in Elizabelhtown, and will soon,
With his family, take up his abode
here.
Henry Walker and Juan Torres, of
seventon, were brought before justice
jordova on the charge Of cattle steal
ny. They waived examination and
heir bond was placed at $500 each,
which each has since given.
Plans are now being drawn for a new
Iotel, soon to be erected In Bland. The
tructure will be built Of stone and
rick, finished with the best obtainable
be two stories high and will
%ontain, all told, thirty rooms.
Ia the presence Of the parents and
and a few friends of the happy
PARTICIPANTS, a worthy young couple.
Hiss Mary Bruce and Mr.. James w.
4. Sullivan, of Bland, were united In
be sacred bonds OF m%atrimony.
There are six Communicates, Knights
remplar, in New Mexico, n each
D Ration, Las Vegas, Santa Fe, Albu-