Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-02-26
YHH NEW MEXICO NEWS.



Vacant houses are rather scarce |
Las Cruces.
Local real estate agents at Las Cru
ces, report business as very brisk.
A. L. Morrison left Santa Fe 70
Washington, where he will attend tn
inaugural ceremonies.
Mrs. Nestor Armijo has returne'
homo to Las Cruces from O visit 1
relatives In Albuquerque and La
Vegas.
Fred Bascom, Of Las Cruces, has Al
sselectric" invention in O rotating
bottle with which much amusement i
created.
The "chicken pie" supper Of th'
ladies' aid society Of the Methods
church, Albuquerque, took place las
evening.
Mrs. M. A. Barela, the mother-in
law of Col. w. H. H. Metzgar, Of Al
buquerque, was dangerously burned o.
Pajarito.
DR.. John Tascher and b. Ruppe are
working to organize a lodge OF the
Independent Order OF Foresters in AL
buquerque.
A rumor was current at Aztec to the
effect that several local capitalists are
preparing to build a large public hal
in that town.
The acequais in Lincoln county have
been cleaned and put in condition fol
spring irrlgation-in fact, water has
begun to flow.
The dance given at the Jarvis hotel,
over there, by the Aztec social club,
was one of the most enjoyable affairs
of the season.
J. G. Kofoed has been very sick at
Kingston. One side seemed to be
paralyzed, but he seems to be improv-
ing at present.
The rains and SHOWS of this winter
over the Territory, will afford abund-
ant pasturage for cattle during the
coming season.
In the justice court at White Oaks,
judgment was rendered against George
Sena in favor of Chas. ID. MAYER for
the sum of $98.
The orchestra at the Methodist SUM-
day school in Silver City is promising
well-more instruments will be added
from time TO time.
The pupils of the Sisters Of Loretto
academy entertained the friends and
patrons Of the school, at Santa Fe, with
o splendid program.
Mrs. j. Gutierrez left Ration for her.
homo in the vicinity Of Springer, after
several weeks' visit to her daughter,
Mrs. Pedro Sanchez.
A bitter fight has opened on the bill
for the compilation of the laws of the
Territory, and it is claimed the bill will \
be killed in the house.
The Ration gun club has about COM
pleted a combination with the Las
Vegas and La Junta gun clubs for
monthly return shoots.
r. II. Duunahoo, of Roswell, de-
clared his intentions to get a title from
Uncle Sam for the homestead which he
has been holding the past five years.
Lee Fountain is riding broncos for
Wiley Parker, down at Roswell, and
says some of them jump so high that
he gets q good view of the lower Pscos
valley.
Col. A. w. Harris, one OF Kingston's
ablest and most successful mining men,
left for the east. He will attend the
inauguration OF Presidbnt-Ele Nc
Kinley.
Agent Conway, Of the Silver City
reduction company, returned home
from Hillshoro, after purchasing six
carloads of ore for delivery to his
smelter.
Five yokes of oxe dragging a huge
pillow on the grading Of Broadway,
Silver City, was n Of the unusual
sights seen, even in the great west,
these days.
Supt. Mclaughlin, of Pueblo, Colo,
was in the Hillsboro district to arrange
for a renewal of operations at the
"Catherine" mine, in which he owns
an interest.
E. d. Sharp is hauling lumber and
brick preparatory to erecting a six
room house on the lots which he re-
Gently purchased from 9. 9. Brewer,
over at Aztec.
A Mr.. Woods, a member of the
Cleveland & Hillsboro placer company.
is quite sick, down there, with a severe
cold. DIR. Beal, Of TERRA Blanca, is
attending to him.
Gus Duvall is shipping ore from his
s~sSheeney'' mine al Hillsboro to the
placer mill. The ore from this prop
erty is free milling, and is mined from
quite a large vein. 4
DR.. j. r. Haynes will begin the
practice of medicine at Albuquerque, |
on his ow account, on March 1st, and
has rented a suite of rooms in the N
I. Armijo building.
Some very rich samples, and also
mill runs, were sent out for test from
the Scurlock-S Schneider prospects in
Gold gulch in the La Belle camp. Work
is going on steadily.
Fred Wardenburg returned to TrIni-
dad from a trip to Elizabethtown and
Red River City. He reports lots OF
snow in that region, but everyone en-
Unused over the prospects.
S~wearengen, Perry and Seager, of
Elizabethtown, have a contract to do