Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-06-02
THE DAILY OPTIC.
East Las Vegas, New Mexico,
SAN MIGUEL COUNTY.
THU TERRITORIAL PRESS


The infant child Of Mr.. and Mrs. w.
H. Nichols Is quite sick at Eddy.
Another party left Eddy for BLACK
river, the first OF the week. Same good
time. Same few fish.
II IS now practically a certaint,
that court will be held in Eddy the las
Monday In June, the 28lh inst.
John Il. Joyce has purchased The
handsome residence Of w. A. Fin
lay, on North Canal street In Eddy.
The sugar company at Eddy reports
that applications from valley farmers
for increased acreage are quite numer.
Gus.
Col. A. w. Harris, Of Kingston, ar
rived home from Washington. ID @,
where he has been for a month or two
past.
Tom Handel has gone Out of the
meat market business at Hilleboro and
will probably remove to Colorado with
his family.
John Bombach is again In Tularosa
from Las Cruces. John is dong the
carpenter work on w. S. Shepherds
new residence.
Last week it was straw hats that
bloomed in Eddy this week it is crash
suits The combination appears cool,
even IL 1t is not.
The Santa Fe "Diamonds'' on Sun
day, for The second time defeated the
"Bfownsn at the college grounds by a
score of s to 8.
Eddy is credited by the Territorial
weather bureau with having the high
est monthly mean temperature for
April, which was GIL 80.
The lumber for finishing the work on
the Dark canyon spillway neal Eddy
arrived this week, and 1t was expected
to have all repairs completed there,
yesterday.
A pleasant social was given Miss
Nette Tousend, at the home of her
parents, ia Hillsboro. All the yonng
folks were there and partook Of deli
cious ice cream and cake.
Not even the s%accharine beet escapes
the punster. Here is one from Cali
fornia; .sThere is one good thing
about the sugar beet business, it doesn't
hurt it any to run it into the ground"
Twenly-one loaded wagons passed
through Tularosa in one day last
week. Most of them were boand to
Lis Cruces and FL Paso, while Others
were strangers, health and home seek
ers.
The range price of sheep Is steadily
advancing g~Seasonable rams have
covered every portion Of the Ter.
ritory and the most prosperous
ranch year in fifteen years is now as
sured.
Charley Taylor and Clint Smith are
kodak artists recently receviog c%ollec-
tions OF line pictures, the result of their
skiltfuiness. Eddy and surrounding
districts are a 'muchly taken"
country.
Geo. Swaggart has returned to Tul
srosa from Engle having delivered ths
first bunch of the Maxwell cattle t.
Jonu FL Riley. The cattle had to b
held several days at Engle on account
of washouts on the railroad.
MIR. David farr. manager of The
Chico sheep company, and Miss Id
Murray were united in marriage in A
buquerque. The ceremony was per
+ rmed by REV. N. E. Foulks, at the
residence of the bride, 322 Baca
avenue.
Agricultural Superintendent Nisbet
states that another week will abou
complete the planting Of beets for hi
season in the Pecos valley. A fea
fs,mers may find Unnecessary to re-sred
81 few acres, but the main planting will
be over.
Samuel Hill, OF Roswell, was tried
in Justice Parker's court at Tularosa.
on a warrant sworn out by w. S
Shepherd. Mr.. Shepherd charged Mr..
Hill with forceabiy nuldil g him up a
his residence, and relieving him Of
5000 10 cash.
The engineering department Of the
irrigation company is working upon
maps preparing for an enlargement Of
work at Lake Mcmillan reservoir near
Eddy and also drawing plans and es.
timating upon the cost of cisterns for
several valley farmers.
AT the Gun clubs grounds In Albu-
querque, last Sunday, Joe Barnett
NJ sde the remarkable score Of forty six
1--we birds out Of foriy-eigbt, killing
Ehirty-six straight. He missed the sixth
bird end killed the forty-third, but it
fell dead outside of the boundary
line.
The ten acres Of mother beets, plant
ed by the sugar company for seed a
EDDY, are growing nicely and give
every promise Of o good yield ~
seed The crop will be harvested
some time in July. About one pound
Of seed to thu beet is the estimated
yield.
The funeral Of Mrs. Jesus de Her
rera tool place al Santa Fe from the
cathedral to San Rosario cemetery, at
8 O'clock. The deceased vas sixty
ive years Of age and the cause Of her
death was dropsy. She was the grand
mother Of Mrs. A. p. Hill, q good
woman ard highly respected.
There was discharged from the Ter
rittv vial penItentiary at Santa Fe con-
vict 967, Jose Duarte, q dotted States
prisoner, sentenced from Grant county
10 eight months imprisonment and 70
D y costs OF SS7.12. In addition to
the eight months, the prisoner served
Unity days to pay ccsts, but earned
tNcniy days for good behaviour