Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-05-21
H DAILY OPTIC.
East Las Vegas, New Mexico,
SAN MIGUEL COUNTY.
THE TERRITORIAL PRESS.
LEKtraots from our HxchanEes.

F~TT - $1,000
Q. II Smith, an old.timer at Silver
City, returned there from Philadelphia
4 baby boy was born to Mr.. and Mrs.
Chas. Bsckman at Ration. but lived only
a few hours. Hfi2 M
Mrs, b. @. Keep, Of Asp "a, Coo, il
in Ration visiting her daughter. Mrs
Chas. Parson.
Mrs. r. P. Bracket left Ration for
Topeka, Kan, where she will visit for
several weeks.
G. v. Stafford is busy at Aztec q lar
rying rock for the public hall ne Ia
about TO build. Z
The Aztec social club will give a
dance at the school house on the even
ing of May 2S;h.
Miss Helen Drew has returned to
Santa Fe from Arizona and is stopping
at the sanitarium. - :
The acting governor has pardoned
Apolonio Sedillo. convicted in Lincoln
county Of larceny.
Work upon the foundation of Judge
Nisbet's residence at Roswell will be-
gin in a short time.
George Ratbjon 10 hauling rock to be
used in the foundation tor the new
school house at Aztec.
Mrs. Walter q. Hadley, of Albuquer-
que, was 10 Ration attending to her
business interests there.
Mrs. Frank Leslie is at Red River
for The purpose OF investigating the
possibilities of the camp.
Surveyor General G. F.. EasIey re-
turned to Santa Fe from a weeks visit
to Denver and Colorad, Springs.
Revival services are to begin at The
Methodist church in Silver City. next
Sunday morDipc. Mrs. Rev. @.
L. Bovard will p: ca III the morning SER
mon.
Artist Calhoun spent a few days in
tie hosl ital al Smver City. t1e WIS
taken suddenly i'll with kidney trouble.
Postmaster Sicily has been SUPER
intending the erection of a break water
around the old p~ostofice site at Silver
City.
Mrs. Thos S Hef q, who has been
on a protracted visit to her old home
in ~Staunton, Va, returned to Silver
City.
L. L. Stewart made the best record
at the shooting gallery at Ration and
won the riff }. Il. P. Barton won Sec
ond prize.
Mrs. Il. P. Blrnes is expecting her
mother to soon arrive in Silver City
from the east, who will spend the sum
mr. there.
Miss Maud Miller has just closed a
very succe ssful term of school at Han
over, and is at home in Silver City for
the summer
Gilbert Hansen, an old-time Wiscon-
sin veteran who has been a citizen OF
Santa Fe for several months, left tina.
place for the soldiers home at Santa
Monica. Calf.
Mrs. Windridge is cIerking In the
p~ostoffice store at Silver City, while the
proprietor is looking after his duties as
cattle Inspector.
There are three car loads of
machinery at the station in Silver City
for the Queen mining company at
Cooney, Grant county
The dance given at Newcomb hall,
Silver City. by Messrs. Farnsworth, Jones
and Lucas, was we'll pAtronized and
proved a fine social success.
Miss Ida Currie, who was present at
the meeting of members Of the worlds
fair committee IN Aztec. lost a Naval,
blanket on her return to Clio.
Children's day exercises consisting
of songs, responses, readings. and re-
citations will be given in Silver City,
Sunday night at the Methodist church.
Donaciano Cordova, who mas been
absent from Taos for the last three
months, has returned there and is at
his old place in the Santistevan es-
Enlistment.
Col. Tenant went to Tres Piedras
from Taos. He returned with two Of
his new carriages and Q new supply
Of candies and nuts for the Clifford
confectionery store.
Dewitt G. Webber and family, OF
Denver, are ia Santa Fe on q visit TO
relatives. Mr.. Webber is an ex-state
senator and ex-president Of the Denver
fire and police board.
Seven Of the ladies who were mem
hers 81 the worlds fair committee of
San Juan county met In Aztec for the
purpose OF disposing OF the articles
which formed the exhibit.
Freighters have been unable to haul
Goods from Embudo 20 Taos, on ac-
count of the high waters in the EN-
budo creek and other streams gu the
route. Freight is now coming in via
Tres Piedras.
s. a. Gysin. the genial secretary 81
sha Monttzuma mining company,
wh;ch own valuable piacers ~ the
famous ssBlack Copper district, was
IN Taos on business connected With
his company.
Governor Prince left Santa Fe aor
Albuquerque TO be present At the TAX
inc Of testimony III the partition suit Ct
the Cebolleta land grant 10 Valencia
county as attorney for the New York
claimants to the tract named
Special Deputy Schoonmaker ar,
rested q solder at Silver City upon the
charges Of robbery and desertion. He
broke open a trunk AZ Fort Bayard and
took several pieces Of swelry. and Il il
charged, was on his way TO Mexlco'
when arrested.
Al The meeting held IN ; nordts