Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-05-31
THE DAILY OPTIC.
East Las Vegas, New Mexico,
SAN MIGUEL COUNTY.
.THH TERRITORIAL PRESS.
[Extracts from Our Exchanges.

rillos ball tossers of trying to arrange
a game with Santa Fe.
Three ears OF machinery have been
received at Silver City for the cooper
Queen" mill at Cooney.
II is said that a young gentleman in
Socorro desires to trade off his bicycle
and purchase one built for two.
The click OF the moving machines
are heard all over the Mesilla val
ley, and o large crop is being har-
vested.
Mrs. Ada 8. Brown, who has been in
Albuquerque for the past year, expects
to leave IN o few days for Omaha, Neb.,
and Sioux City, Iowa.
The Callard mill at Hillsboro is kept
busy on ore from the eRichmond,' y
and $50 tons are at the mill ahead OF
the work of reducing.
Two wagon loads of ~peachblow pc
tatoes came into Las Cruces from Pen
as co, in the Sacramento mountains.
They found ready sale.
A baseball contest came off at the
Las Cruces grounds between the Cruces
team and the college boys. The latter
carried off the hoDors,
Frank w. Parker and family, after
an absence Ia Arizona of about one
year, have returned to White Oaks and
will hereafter reside there.
Msssrs. Chavez & Herbert, the enter
prislng merchants of Tularosa, will
soon establish q branch store at the
Armijo ranch on Three rivers.
Felix Costales and wife transferred
land at Dona Ana,to Russell Walter, a
warrantee deed for which has been re-
corded with the probate clerk.
The Golden Crown flour mill at So
zorro, has exhausted It's wheat supply
and has orders for thousands OF pounds
OF flour which cannot be filed.
The Madrid school house was the
scene of gaiety Monday night, be-
ginning with an entertainment and
ending up with a dance. Good time
reported.
j. Ii. Baker, a miner and assayer Of
fourteen years. experience, has con-
cluded to locate in White Oaks and
will open an assay office as soon as his
material arrives.
Mr.. A. L. Howell, of Socorro, re-
ceived a telegram announcing the
death of his father, which occurred q,
1880 The evening before at Dardanelle,
Arkansas, the family home.
Hon G. B. Eddy has turned over
coal lands valued at 5000, 900, to The
New Mexico railway and coal CON-
pany. These coal deposits are located
at Malagra and Salado, in Lincoln
county.
Deputy U. S. Mineral Surveyor
has completed his work, at the
Jarillas, on the four claims owned by
DeMules, Baird and others of Las
Cruces. Patent will be issued on these
ella ms and all controversy settled.
A party OF surveyors, headed by j..
Fewson Smith, arrived in Deming
overland, from Mexico. They will re |
survey the old grade from that city to
Palomas. 1t begins to look quite IA
vorable for the early building OF the
road south.
MISS Fannie Nowlin, one Of the pop
ular young lady clerks at HELD Bros.
big dry goods store at Albuquerque, Is
arranging to leave one evening nexi
week for Roanoke, Va, where she
will spend the summer with relatives
and friends.
Married, at the Methodist parsonage
in Deming on May goth, Miss Susie
Culp, Of Hadley, to Edward Miller, Of
G ok's Peak. The ceremony was per-
formed by Rev. Govett and witnessed
BY Mr.. and Mrs. j.. III. COLON. of
Cooks Peak.
Tha sample Shipment from the
raIaud S." sent to the Silver City re-
duction works for treatment two weeks
ago, nettcd over $500 for the three
tone, running two and e~ight-tenths
ouaces in gold per ton, the balance Of
the value being silver.
Judge Joseph Boone, OF Deming,
received the sad news this week of the
sudden death Of his only brother, Hon.
Hannibal Ell. Bone, at Navasota, Tex
as, on the 23rd inst. Deceased was
born in Upton county, Tenn, and
was in his sixtY-fourth year.
John sayles, an old resident Of So
zorro, died at his residence In the
northeastern part OF town after an Ill
ness OF several weeks. At the time Of
his death he was about forty-two years
OF aga. He came to this city in 1880,
married here, and permanently settled.
About ten days ago, 4 Mayield
made a rich strike in an old abandoned
mine located a half mile east Of the
store at Hanover, Sierra county. The
ore, which is q lead carbonate, runs 40
to 80 per cent. and ten to twelve
ounces Of silver, and judging by inves-
legations made by sinking several pros
poet holes along the trend Of the de-
posit, the supply Of ore is inexhaustible
and equally as good in n place %
another.
A kangaroo court was held at the
Brewery saloon in Dsmlng, Tuesday
night, a nan from Kansas being the
victim. 3 X McKeyes held down the
bench in 4 highly satisfactory manne
The Jury, TON Word foreman, return
ed q verdict Of guilty as charged and
placed the Kansan under $500 bond,
Wedn sday morning the gentleman
from the sunflower slate stole into Q
car with some cattle and left town,