Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-09-25
THE DAILY OPTIC,
East Las Vegas, New Mexico,
SAN MIGUEL COUNTY.
THE TERRITORIAL PRESS
IExtracts FROM Our Exchangss.

with rich GOLD discoveries and heav,
mining deals. tf 3c5fTl.
Miss Josephine Bassetta departed
from Socorro for q visit to her oil
-home in Kansas.
prL,h!9 eebooI house, at Cerriilos, lack
provided at 6daSs! and more is to b
The United States court or
land claims is still struggling with Il
FL Rito grant case.
Cozier q Murray, OF Eddy. have se
cured a brand new Columbia TANDEM
for their customers.
Mrs j +. TowIe, while gatherin,
fruit. at Socorro. fell and sustaine,
quite serious injuries.
The greater portion Of J. r. Hale
mule teams are hauling rock for th,
smelfer. at Cerrillos.
DR. G r. Grain left Roswell 70
Tennessee I ! see the Nashville expo
sition and visit relatives.
The s. L North mill, at Cerrillos
is about ready to begin the treatmep
OF ore by the Stewart process.
Apiaries are fast multiplying in th,
Pecos valley. and owners are findine
them a source of much profit.
Reports from the Hagerman neigh.
borhood state that all the fever patients
in that locality are improving.
Miss Sue Mead. Of Las Cruces, has
charge OF the intermediate department
OF the public school at Cerrillos.
Arthur Biscbcff q Co. will soon open
a frat-class market in the large
store room formerly occupied by the
Oxford saloon, over at Santa Fe.
The chemical engine was used At
Eddy to test it's efficiency in killing
c%aterpillars on the cottonwood trees.
Governor Ofero has appointed ROYAL
A Prentice, Of Las Vegas, a notary
public in and for the county of San
Mignel.
DR. Ferguson, OF Roswell. expects to
soon begin the erection If a residence
on the lots just purchased from John
w Poe.
On tho 4th of October prox the Sis
ters Of Loretto will opeu achool for
rvs in the public school building. at
Socorro.
Ernest Grunert, Of Roswell, went
fishing in North Spring river, and
oaroht a four-foot eel that weighed
eight pounds.
Oliver Marsh will engage In the hav
and grain business. at Cerrillos. on
October Tar. after his retirement from
tho %pos.ofica.
Ben Smith, from Cox CANYON, was
In Eddy with q load OF early rose po-
t%atoes. which he sold out OF $1.50 to
OIL rs per 100.
j. G. Tmhoh formerly manage of
the local Postal telegraph office, over
there. is organizing a class in telegra-
ply. in Santa Fe.
Gus Wohleemnth. the Kingston ice
man. has sold out his entire stock Of
ics and Sierra county is threatened
with an ice famine.
R. w. Davis. Jr., Of Denver. with
Mpasrs. Fraser & Chalmers, arrived in
Cerrillos and will remain until the
smelter is completed.
W. II. Kennedy received by wire, st
Cerrilioa, fhe sad intelligence that HE
father. StephNe~ T.. Kennedy, died that
morning at Ithaca, N. Y.
Albuquerque hack drivers have re-
ducod the fare to any part OF the city
to twenty five cents. and are doing q
better business in consequence.
judge A l. Kendall bought the plat
of ground living hetween the Palace
hotel ard the railroad. at Cerrillns,
extending from the street back to the
arroyo.
The special mail service between
Pacos and Willis has been discontinued,
and n regular route established. Under
the new arrangement Willis will re-
ce,ve mail three times a week
The Sipio Salazar ranch sold at Lin
coin. under foreclosure OF mortgage,
was bought in by the mortgages ia
az so per acre, bringing about $3 700
There was considerable competitive
SLIDING. sA
Owing to the lack Of sufficient avail
able funds in the treasury. 1t is the
Or ntiment of the Socorro school board,
hat II will be impossible to open the
public school of that city during the
year of 1897.
R. d. Harkey arrested w. F Baker,
one Of the proprietors of the Bon Ton
meat market. at Eddy, charging cattle
theft. Harkey found eight hides buried
near sha place where Bakers c"'''s
were slaughtered.
7 T. T,aver.y, the enterprising
orooa~. - Eddy, Is working upa sale
tor Pecos valley vegetables, and has
succeeded in dlsposing of several
shipments, the prices realized netting
the producer o handsome sum.
The present variety Of New Mexicn
weather seems to be a puzzle to the
oldest settler. 81 have lived here for
thirty wears and never before saw any
thing like it, is a remark frequently
heard 10 conversation on the street.
r. A Reynolds, Of Sierra county,
who has been IN Denver for several
DAYS as a member of the committee on
revision of the miuine laws, appointed
by the late gold mining convention,
was Interviewed by the editor Of the
Denver Daily Mining Record.
Discharged. Yesterday, convict No.
9s4 James O'Dnnneli, sentenced on
October "a. 1896. from BernaIillo
county, TO one years imprisonment for
grand larceny; earned good time; 0
viot No 9S5. Neville Leggett. SEN
fenced On October "a, 1895 from Bsr-
nalillo county TO one years. lmprison-