Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-05-18
IN TOPICS.
They Arc Taken Up aud Handled In
True Bippus Style.

1N@eee Nv o"afSh ohbfnoo rHa th@i
crews for work In their yards, in max
Ing up and In receiving the trains tina
arrive and depart during each twenty
four hours. There are three switch
men, one engineer and one fireman tc
each engine; hence the day and nigh
force employed In switching cars NUN
Der fifty men. Each Of the other -four
roads entering Pueblo have from two
to three switch engines to handle their
trains each day; so 1t can readily be
seen that the number Of freight and
passenger trains to be handled each day
10 this city Is ~phenomenally large for a
city Of $4,000 inhabitants. The five
railroads entering here employ in their
various departments from twelve to
fifteen hundred men, which puts Pueblo
second 10 rank 10 railroad business in
the state. Denver heading the list.
The republicans Of this city have
opened up a permanent headquarters
in the board of trade building, where
the members Of that political faith can
always drop In to read the papers, dis
cuss politics snd formulate plans TO do
up Billy Bryan, to the queens taste,
should he again be willing to furnish
the ''~cadaver" for the democratic fuuer-
u in 1900. The leading republicans
o~elieve that by keeping mp a permanent
headquarters, meeting there frequently,
infoi mally and at stated meetings, the
orr anIsation OF the party will be more
thorough and it's work more effective,
which naturally pressges a victory 10
the coming fail campaign.
To-day, Pusblo's famous and de-
Iightful summer resort, Lake Min
nequa, will be formally opened to the
public for the summer season. Oue of
the regular Sunday attractions will be
The band concert, by the noted Cow
Boy band. The electric launch, which
was so much admired at the worlds |
fair IN 1898, is another attraction.
A ride around the borders of the lake
IN this launch is both novel and pleas
ing.
Thursday night, two Italian section
hands living on Third street, INDUCED
in a free fight, which resulted in the
death of Luigi Leuto. Joe Greco, who
is charged with the murder OF Leuto,
vas himself severely cut by Leuto.
rhe murder WAS committed with an ak;
Leuto's head being split open. Greco,
the wounded man is now 10 the
Woman's hospital and lies securely
handcuffsd TO his cot. Greco, the slay
OF, has q penitentiary record of two
years. service for attempting to murder
an Italian saloon keeper in this city in
1892.
The various societies OF young peo-
pie connected with the local churches,
are making an effort 10 furnish a more
wholesome class of reading matter for
barber shops, than is to be found in
The sensational police, aud sporting
papers, always kept on file in these |
chin -scraping parlors. Now, this may. :.
may not, be o good move, but If the
young folk will devise some method
hat will prevent a barber from talking /
! customer to death, while he is being /
a long suffering public will I
arise as one man, and call them !
:
The grand jury which went into r
session two weeks since, to IN I
7estIgate violations of the Sunday :.
,aloon laws, seems to be modelled y
lfter the famous London circumlocu- B
ion office, whose energies were gen. '
rally put to their severest tests, in dis
a way of law not to do BUSH
less in hand. Only q few indictments a
rave been found against saloon keep +
RS, several OF them being outside the I
,Ity limits, the others being small con-
erns in the suburbs. The big saloons
md gambling places on Union and !,
;anta Fe avenues and Main street have :
$ yet, not been brought to book.
SeforesP o
Oar courts of justice have been doing q
God work the past week. Eight very r.
Undesirable citizens were given an OPP b
.'ortunity to retire from public life, in
he pen at Canon City, their period Of
etirement ranging from one to four !,
years. A job lot of candidates
or similar honors are left over for the
weeks grIst, some Of whom no b
oubt will get there, all right. j
A Young Woman's Christian asso ,ia- r,
ion has been organized, and the ladies b
re now making arrangements for
a suitable building In the bust
ess part of the city to be used as
heir headquarters. 1t is intended, as c
Don az the association gets into work Z
ng order, to open a restaurant, where T
girls can get a good meal at q Z
easonable price. An employment 0
ureau will be added as soon as |,
'ossible, to assist worthy women and r
irls in securing employment. 8
Friday night there was a very en- [
husiastic meeting of representative v
itlzens of the city, at the board of {
rade republican headquarters. to dis
uss the subject OF celebrating the 4th
i July IN d patriotic manner One Of !
be peculiar features of the meeting T
vas that there were found to be persons :
who represented twenty FIVE =
lifferent states and several foreign '
countries, A number of speeches and c
uggestions were made, but no definite :
.ction was taken. Another meeting to 4
10 held very o o will no doubt insure '
IN old fashioned 4th Of July celebration,
including lprid oratory, the screech Of
he prond bird OF freedom, the small
10Y and the fire cracker, and the ice
,ool lemonade minus the lemon, that
oil as patriots, love and drink, and
hen find ourselves tied In q complex !
low knot which some medico unrayels
i his leisure later on.
Eugene Y. pebs. who, while Ia this
ity some time ago. posed as the friend
( the worklpgman has shown his tree
olors, by his endorsement OF The in-
gne speech Of President Boyce, Of ths