Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-05-11
CURnllNr TOPICS.
Some Mining Matters and Other AT
fairs OF Momentary Interest
TO Our Readers.

tno bdch VI AoSuiotihB othot PooP'S o
aft airs, Ia after tho contractor who is
building The U. s.. postofics in this
city, for alleged violations OF the eight
hour law. They propose to bring the
matter to the attention Of the U. S. at.
torney general, and If they can get his
ear awhile, the contractor will no
doubt soon be lounderlng in the "con-
somme.n This "uDion" has also sent
/ protest to President Mckinley
against the appointment of J. Il. Cor
don, as postmaster of this city, and
they also make a broad-gauge kick
against the sub-letting of the contract
to a St. Louis firm, for the herting APP
paratus in the Guggenheim building,
about to be erected. They also cherish
a grievance against Gov. Adams for
having approved the recently enacted
law prohibiting boycotting. 1t Is a
sad spectacle, indeed, to see a heart
less governor approve OF a law that
prevents a free-born American citizen
from exercising his h~eaven-born right
to boycott a fellow workman, whose
opinions are somewhat different from
his own, but all the same that anti
boycott law ia a just law, and it will
stand the test to which the labor union
proposes to put it in the courts.
Mary Ellen Lease, the petticoated
back number in Kansas politics, de-
clares the recent foods in Oklahoma
were SEM by God a a punishment.
This is the first intimation we had that
the erratic Mary Ellen is a resident OF
Oklahoma.
May 30sh coming on Sunday, the q.
A. R. OF this city, will observe Memo
rial day on Saturday the 29th, with
the usual ceremonies at the different
G cemeteries. Memorial services will be
held in church on the 23rd inst. The
annual state encsmpment of the q. A
Il. wi | be held at Colorado Springs on
May 18th and 18th, and the indications
are thet it will be largely attended.
Cripple Creek Is steadily increasing
it's gold output. From January 1st to
April 3rd, 1897, the total output
in gold in the Cripple Creek district
was 1857, 500, which is an excess
over the output for the same period in
1896, of 81, 940 ,220. Cripple Greek
district has forty-eight mines in opera
ton which are clsssed as paying prop
critics the most profitable mine among
the number being the Portland
in 1896 showed a gross earning
Of 1000, GOO; the "Indepsndence"
mine comes second in rank, with gross
earnings amounting to 100000, while
fourteen mines in the district show
gross earnings ranging all the way
S1O0,O coo to 5000, 900 during 1896.
The lowest producing mine in 1896
the "Dead Pine" which shows a
gross earning Of but $4,000. There is
probably no other mining camp in the
States that a show such
splendid results in four months OF
work, yet good as the results are, the
prediction is made that the output for
he next four months will exceed that
If the Jour months ending with April
10th.
There is a current that the
sVulcan''mine,u up in Gunnison county,
recently produced Gre that assays
10 unces in gold and 672 ounces In
to the ton; the managers Of the
nine decline TO either verify or deny
he report of this wonderful strike.
Perhaps the boys in the "Vulcan''
nine have been sampling a new brand
# coffin varnish.
The iron moulders in the steel works
n this city who went out on a strike, a
ew weeks since, rather than accept o
iut in wages, are still on strike. They
eport having plenty of money on
land and while that holds out, no con-
are in order, unless they come
rom the officials of the works.
w. j. Bryan. in his answer to Fatty
,leveland's recent speech at the Re-
orm club. seems TO still be iaboring
nder the halluoination that the peo-
lie of this country made a grievous
when they elected Mckinley,
Of the great and only William
I. Happily for the country, the ma
,rity OF voters thought differently.
The grand jury impanelled on Mon
az last, for the purpose of ~investi-
ating the saloon keepers and gam
lers who have for SO long violated the
closing law, were in session
uring the week and examined a small
of men and woman, comprising
/ classes of society yet, strange to
~, after one weeks investigations,
Ie jury has as yet brought no indict-
ent against any saloon keeper or
amber. The grand jury reminds the
ritter Of a congressional committee
is appointed to Investigate some
ing or somebody. They get every
ing in readiness and then summon
cry inhabitant that Is within reach to
stify. Then they sift the testimony.
hat takes time. Then they come to a
inclusion. That takes time. Then
ey pass Judgment. That takes time. /
hen the report is turned IN with
cir final recommendation, 1t general ,
turns out that The sisomething that (,
as investigated has passed into ruin !
ID decay, Or the s'somebody" investi- .
ted has in the meantime died of ex- ,
old age, hence further action in 1
Q premises is no longer needed. 9
ssult The case is dropped and JUS !
% smiles once more, because the I
Of the law has been vindicated
ably and so fully. 4
Loaded dice have been found at
src~ulaneum. If the ~excayators, who .
e now turning things upside down, {
that ruined city, will examine the
xt "stiffn they unearth, they will no
ubt find q full supply Of aces and 3
ks stuffed up bis Goa sleeve. Truly, =
ere is nothing new under the sun, =
Harris9n's girl baby. t
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