Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-03-11
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From the Denver Evening Post.
The board Of penitentiary commits
s%ioners at Santa Fo have recommended
a full and complete pardon for 5. M.
Folsom, who Is wearing the garb Of a
convict for wrecklng q bank at Albu-
querque. John Smith. who stole o
three-dolIar burro, must servo bis time.
Miss Maud Muller Is teaching the
Hanover school 10 Grant county. She
Is not the Maud who raked the hay
once upon a summer day andsmashed"
the venerable Judge who was riding by
on his way to the district court.
Every Wednesday night. the ladies
waste thor sweetness on the business
air In the rooms Of the Commercial
club at Albuquerque.
Judge Lea says he will marry the
editor OF the Roswell Register TO his
chosen one free OF all charge and throw
10 q judicial blessing, and as a lack Of
funds may have been the only sLumbl-
ing block In the love path Of the gifted
scribe, a marriage notice with som
gratulatory trimmings may soon 60 the
rounds Of the Territorial paperr.
A Roswell believer gave q whole
years. salary to the Methodist church.
II that doesn't make his peace, calling
and election sure, the fellows who
didn't give anything may as well pull
off the track.
The inmates Of the Territorial psnr:>
Tertiary are crowded for room, but
rather than turn guests away, the land
lord will spread "shakedowns" on the
floor and make all corners as comforta-
bic as possible.
Captain Collier, Of Ration, has gone
to Washington to show just cause why
he should nail his name plate to the
door of the ancient gubernatoriaI palace
at Santa Fe.
Lincoln sports bet horses, COWS and
burros on the races, with just enough
money to lend tone TO the event.
The Cerrillos brass band 10 out OF
debt, and the glad strains the happy
members eject from their instruments
keep the echoes all tangled up in a
musical tumble.
Editor M%cCutchen, Of Socorro, has
acquired a new boy baby which he
hopes may some day carve its name
high up on the pillar Of newspaper
fame with q gifted pen.
Now the people sit and wonder In
amazement where in thunder
All the seekers after Office plums have
gone to.
They are after White House Mack, and
you'll see them limping back
With that disappointed feeling, POGO
pronto.
1t it is not an OPrIc-al illusion, Las
has a hen which lays twin eggs,
one inside the other. Nothing of that
sort ever happened under democratic
rule.
Excited quacking and evident COM
motion among q large flock OF ducks
on a bayou Of the Rio Grande away in
the Silly watches of the night. started
every one in the vicinity to guessing ut
the cause Of the trouble. Perhaps
they were celebrating Grover Cleve-
downfall.
The school directors at Las Cruces
decided at their last meeting to extend
the school term two months longer than
usual. They are trying to raise pres
senator's, editors, governors
and such things down there.
A nan at Las Vegas paid off his
physician one day and died the next.
The medicos should erect a story ]
to that mans memory.
The p~ostofice and store at Is Mesa
was robbed, q while ago, and instead
3f getting up on q goods box and tel
ing the excited people what he would do
4 he succeeded in getting an avenging
hand on the burglar, the proprietor
the woodsaw going and said
nothing, but kept 8 weather eye aiar,
ind now has the thief safely locked up.