Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-05-19
GOOD oRrsr.
Our Albuquerque Correspondents
Sends Up a Days Mill Run
OF Newsy Matter.
IsriaI correspondsnes Of 1nr urrro.

q Manager Young, Of the Browns, has
strengthened his team by the acquisi.
Q ton Of Guinlin, who pitched IN the
games played here with the Leadvilles.
He made q good showing, yesterday,
on his first appearance with the Browns
+ against a picked nine, the score being
In. double figures for each side-40 to
10. On Thursday, the Australians
will meet the Browns. They will be
easy game IL the reports OF them as
ball players may be relied upon.
Frank Smith, son OF j. J.. AIsop's
employer, the manufactures OF sheep
dip, is a descendant OF the famous
John Smith OF historical fame.
AS. Grant, the postal clerk who
comes here from Los Angeles frequently,
Is not only q pianist of merit, but he Is
a whistler whose reputation as 10 the
latter is best known to his immediate
friends. He produces two tones Of
one time, q marvellous performance.
Grant was on the train held up at
Rock Springs, some months ago. and
recognized Parker at Prescott when the
robbsr and murderer was first taken to
that place.
Summer traffic TO Jemez hot springs
has opened, Johnston & Moore's
stages, going via Corrales and Zis,
starting out last Thursday with two
passengers. Other parties preceded
these, the latter making the trip by
private conveyance. The Trimbles
advertise q lire OF stages To S~ulpburs,
connecting with the Santa Fe at
Thornton. Those who have travelled
to the Sulphurs by this route from
Bland, do not have a good opinion of
the road. The former route is a trife
longer, but the roads are good, with
the exception Of about ten miles of
sandy loan.
Victor Vizette, general s%uperintend
emit OF the Harvey. system, is promised
a trip TO japan with Fred Harvey.
Victor says II he lives he expects to
make the tour Of the world.
Competition 10 soda water continues,
Geo Neher, who recently acquired Joe
De Mars interest having cut the rate
per dozen to 81. A. Harsch, who has
had a tilt with Melton Chaves, owner
of land at Coyote springs, as 10 title,
has the largest trade, a business he has
on some twelve years. Santiago
Raca, ex-county assessor, has been a
the springs for months looking for one
Of the parties. Like many dons in this
his bank accoun Is pretty low.
Second street is fast acquiring front
rank as q business thoroughfare, the
transfer of the post Office to that street
to many changes. Within {
years the following firms have
changed to second street: CONNER q
Ilaesner, Melini & Eakin, Jafia gro.
,ery company. II. simpsons loan Of
ice. Western Union telegraph CON-
,any, Wm. Farr, Albuquerque mer-
company, M. q. Nettleton, j.
Johnston, Kirster q Co., Whuaon
company, Rroekmeir,s Cycle
B. @. Pratt, Mrs. M. @. Wilson,.
rwey, tho ~paintors UadortnKcr ~nfvas-
ort, Pete Murphy, painter, T, Y, May,
lard, jeweler. Elwell, clothier, Ger /
nan restaurant, Lambs fish market. =
Farquhar, the halter, lnsley & Hobbing,
md Emil Mann made their start on
he street. The ssofice" people use
his thoroughfare in their journeys to
md fro.
Storerooms, situate between Railroad
nd Silver avenues, are in demand.
iold 9 has improved some, the :
of the San Felipe, nine months
go, however, injuring the street. Its
e-opening, an uncertainty, will tend to
tract travel. as also projected improve
nents-not this year, however.
Charley Mcdonald, the twlrler, has
'een in rare luck for a year past. He
odds a clerkships with the general
torekeeper. and was recently chosen
chool clerk, against Chas. Kimball,
/. B. Ray, FLA. Burlingame, N. L..
and W. S. Brayton, the
asst named being q resident Of scarcely
wo years. A
The securing mill has remained quiet, e
q view Of a needed sewer connection =
'eing unfinished. The mill will re- q
ume work this week. y
rCome in when you have an OpTIo
bout you, as / am interested in Las
1egas and THE 0rrro tells every
hing,'' mildly suggested H. II. Tilton,
o the writer. Tilton, who is an Or
,aoizer of Odd Fellows, lodges, keeps
henry Brockmeig's books.
The gilded youth. Miss Major Haw-
Tins, who kept the Kuhnen cigar store E
or a brief period, was a liberal fellow :
nd The boys enjoyed his hospitality to n
he fullest extent. Hawkins 10 up north (
omewhere. J
When Judge Warrenss housekeeper
lrives up in search Of that gentleman,
he invariably applies the term, "My,
Iudgein Il so happens that Mrs,
Gibbs is q slater OF the barrister.
There ia a wide breach 10 the school y
the local dailiea giving good !
space for numerous hearings. The
bone OF contention seems to be with
reference to the superintendent and
.eachers. An explanation would take
np too much valuable advertising and
news space in THE OPTIc. +
Engelbert Scheele, formerly OF Chas.
[Iteld's. Las Vegaa, more recently OF
Rosenwald's here, has gone to farming, r
ae Is secretary Of the Alameda farm
ing company, above town, and though
be is on the ranch, he oomeA to the l
,iiy to look after the business end OF
matters.
Since Joe Barnett came back, Bob
Brown, Dixon and others close to Joe
been fighting tho titz-Corhett
mill over again. The ahove-named
ardent supporters OF Fompadour
jim.