Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-05-03
n DAILY OPTIC.
East Las Vegas, New Mexico,
san MIGUEL COUNTY.
7HH TERRITORIAL PRESS.


The grocery store Of 8. 8. Beatty hat
a narrow escape from burning down a
Santa Fe.
Measles In Springer, but mot Of
malignant type.
w. H. Sellers is the clerk In th,
postofice OF Red River.
The Springer Stockmsn has entered
upon its sixteenth volume,
Beautiful linnets have made theil
appearance at Las Cruces.
John }. Myers and II. H. Armstrong
opened up q saloon at Red River.
G. Gusdorf's lodging house at Red
Red River City Ia about completed.
AL Carter, formerly Of Hpringer,
nov lives at Blossburg, CoIfax county.
News reached Las Cruces Of The
death of Mrs. Mary Hufford at Organ.
The quarterly meeting OF the NJ. Il.
church will be held ct Springer, May
9th. :.
Herman Mutz. the hotel keeper Of
Elizsbethtown, spent several hours in
Red River.
Juan Holmes died at Santa Fe Of
typhoid fever, after an illness Of eigh.
teen days.
The st. Yincent's orphanage child
rem gave an educational exhibition OF
Santa Fe.
The Pecos valley expects to have =
s~anitarium, according to reports from
that section.
BEDFORD Job eloped with Miss An
ME Davis, fourteen years Of age, down
at Silver City.
Local butchers a. Las Cruces report
that it is almost impossible to get cattle
for butchering.
Marshall Kilburn, Of Silver City, now
runs the street sprinkler with no extra
cost to the city.
The Mining News at Red River is
having a neat building erected to the
rear Of the tent.
John Richardson, o colored man
we'll known about town, died at Silver
City Of brain fever.
W. S. C~orpening, of Las Cruces.
received a nice new refrigerator to be
used in his fruit store.
j. III. Peck sold his ranch near Me-
silla park to Kenneth Maciver, q recent
arrival from the east.
Martin Amador's little girl was Bit
ten at the depot in Las Cruces by O dog
owned by Pinto Pine.
The district court for Grant county
will onven on May 18th, the thidr
Monday in the month.
w. R. Fox has opened . grocery and
provision store two doors east OF the
Victoria hotel at Red River.
Miss Laurel Hood, stenographer and
typewriter, has an Office in Mrs.
Woods store, at Red River.
Louis Huning, of Los Lunas, was at
A lbuquerque on q visit to his wife, who
is there for medical treatment.
Mrs. Mary Bruce left Las Cruces for
Earlham, where she will reside with
her son, =. M. Bruce, and family.
! The heavy wind storm at Silver City
blew down a portion Of the brick wall
surrounding the Stecker residence.
Jesse Ludkins, who has been quite
i'll with pneumonia, at Red River, is
now improving under the care OF Dr..
Lucas.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. II. Belts, of Silver
City, gave a very pleasant entertain
ment at their luxurious home. to 9 few
friends.
f. A. Thomas and J. III. Anderson
have about completed their building at
Red River and will open . saloon
therein.
DR.. A. III. Van Cleve, of Silver City,
accompanies his sister, Mrs. Marshall,
her return trip 10 her homo a.
Cleveland.
Mrs Norma Wood has opened
fruit, confectionery, stationery and
cigar store, opposite the Jayhswk store.
Red River.
Mrs. John p. Casey, ST., and daugh-
ter, Ruth, left Las Cruces for Santa
Rosalia Springs, Mexico. to be gone
about q month.
Mrs. w. H. Newcomb gave an enter
tainment to several of her friends, ct
her beautiful home in the western sub
urbs of Silver City.
The Athens company Of Hemntite,
expect to begin work on the yellow
Jacket" mine with good force OF
men within a few days.d Ii
Lucille Bansz. the young daughter Of
Judge Bantz, suffered a severe injury !
to her knee cap, by falling from q BIZ
cycle, down at Silver City.
Louis Hollenwager will soon begin
work on the "Little Johnnie, "Jen-
nie' and the ssLas Vegas" mines up
Mal!ette canon. from Red River
The class'i In ~elocution at the Silver
City normal school gave an entertain
ment, Saturday, May lst under the
leadership OF Prof. A. Il. Bennett. h
A. M. Rowland. OF the Shalem
left Las Cruces for Kansas
City. and will bring ten or twelve
children for the colony on bis return.
DIR. Lane, OF Las Cruces, will shortly !
begin the construction Of fine new
residence, the plans and specifications
Tor which are 0 being made by Fred
Bascom.
The Very Rev. Peter Bougarde,
bishop OF Tucsor, arrived in Santa Re
and LIFT for New York, whence be will
'ail for France. his health being very
delicate and his pAvs{cian advising him