Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-04-28
THE DAILY OPTIC,
East Las Vegas, New Mexico,
san MIGUEL COUNTY.
THE new MEXICO news.
Extracts from our Exchapoe..

some fresh meat.
There has been q shutter faminor Il
A ztec, San Juan county.
There 10 considerable sickness at Az.
tee; no serious cases, however.
Millard Green and family took their
departure from Aztec for Arizona.
The fifty trees recently planted in
the plaza at Santa Fe are all starting
nicely. :
Rev. boucher, parish priest at Isle.
ia, N. M, visited Rev. Lassaigne, At
Las Cruces.
Mrs. NJ. A. Pierce has opened q iirst.
class restaurant in a big white tent at
Red River City. -Yisf
The farmers in the vicinity OF EDDY
complain loudly that the merchants
refuse to buy their butter.
The lambing season is about o7er
and John Byrne, the Eddy sheep man,
has harvested 1900 lambs. s
L. L. Liken received his stock OF
drugs at Red River City and be can
now dispense to tie afflicted.
H. q. Bradley is having erected q
modern, up to-date Office In front Of
the old one at Red River City.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Bolton, OF Eddy,
mourn the loss OF their first born, o
daughter, of some three months.
Near Fruitland, San Juan county, q
grey horse and q buggy were seer float
ing Gown the San Juan river.
The wind got funny at Red River
City and blew Prof. Burt Aber's tent
over and his music into the river.
The fruit buds In San Juan county
are all right thus far and the prospects
for a large fruit cr,p are excellent.
News from Taos is TO The effect that
a great deal of placr mining will be
done this season alo ig the Rio Grande.
John Moore and sister, Miss Louise
Moore, arrived in Eddy from Piqua,
Ohio, and will reside in the Peces val
ley.
A shooting gallery adjacent to Thorn
d Warnock's saloon at Red River City
is to be one of the innovations of the
town.
Invita- ons are out for the second
annual mmencement ball OF the
school OF mines at Socorro IN May 7th
next.
DIR. Frank l.. Given, who has
been located at Rincon for the past
two months, has returned to Hills
boro.
Rev. John r. Cooper, wife and
daughter, OF Brush, Colorado, visited
MIR. and Mrs. John r. DeMier, at
Lava.
A banquet and some half dozen other
social diversions are on the tapis at
Las Cruces for the near future, for the
ladies.
MAIDEN & Howard gave an opening
to the public at large in Red River City
which kept their barkeepers busy until
morning.
DR.. Kidwell, of Red River City, Is
having a breastpin made from a small
nugget taken from the "Tom Boy" in
Pioneer gulch.
judging by the records in the county
clerks, Homer Hays is the only real
estate nan at Pennington whois doing
any business.
A mining company Is being organ
lied by J.. T. McCarthuf Eat Eddy for
working the copper mines In the CALI
mas Peak country.
Jos Bruder received three wagon
loads OF household goods at Red River
City to complete the furnishing for his
hotel. the Victoria,
The cantata, FAIRY Land" given
at the opera house in Eddy for the
benefit of Mrs. j. L. Dow, was Q grand
success in every particular.
E. Mcqueen Gray gave q Shakesper-
ian reading at the Eddy opera house,
which was we'll attended and proved
an entertaining selection from Hamlet.
Mrs. J. j. Stewart came into Red
River City via Antonito to join her
husband. They will open q restaurant.
one door south OF the Victoria hotel
soon.
A mechanic and bridge builder OF
Durango has taken the contract for
raising the Harrington bridge, which
has been endangered BY the high
water.
The body Of Miss Carrie N. Clifford.
recently deceased, was exhumed at
Eddy and accompanied by A. 2. Good
hue, was started for the old home In
Name.
The horse race at Pennington re-
in a victory for the Mexican
pony, the opinion now prevailing that
Curg Williams ''Dogie'' was clearly
ou;-classed.
DIR. Cowan, OF Las Cruces, accom-
his two nIeces as far % Albu-
qnerque. The young ladies will visit
relatives at Goshen, Ind.s for the next
six months. T,
The revival meetings Of the Baptist
church at Eddy have been quite sue
several new additions having
been received to the membership OF
the church.
w. P. Seymore. Of Oak Cliff, Texas,
In Eddy, after "a absence Of
seven ears, having formerly been en-
gagged in the mercantile business . :
Seven Rivers. I
A. U. CIR ve., Of Cedar Hill, SIN
Juan county, is putting the finishing /
on a handsome frame house.
There is d tubstb initial stone cellar
underneath.