Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-08-18
Special Correspondence Of THE orrIc.

Of excitement this morning by the an
nouncement that Morris, the fourteen
year-old son Of the late DR.. b. M.
Thomas, former Territorial secretary,
had wandered away from o party at
Badly mountain IN Saturday afternoon
and no trace Of him could be found.
In company with his mother, Mrs.
Jacob Weltmer, Mrs. Gulliford and
daughter, a Mr.. johnson and others,
young Thomas left here on Friday
last for a trip to Mount Badly, tor
ty miles distant. They camped at it's
base, Friday night, and on Saturday,
made the ascent of the peak. Coming
down, Morris concluded that the trail
WINS too far around; he was hungry
and wanted to reach camp quickly, so
he struck ont cross-lots, as it were
and dropped into tho wrong canon.
Word that the boy was missing
reached here at 8 O'Clock last night.
Major Thomas T. Gable sent a couple
of men on horseback at once, and this
morning a'dozen men followed, among
them being Capt. F. Muller and w. E.
Griffin. At 10 O'Clock, Major Gable
t%elephoned to the penitentiary and
secured the blood hounds, which
Deputy Sheriff Dick Huber knew well
how to run, and the major himself
arted for Tesuque Indian village to
engage IndiAs .~-Aile-o 90 SO in search
Of the boy. When Gable hit the road,
a few hundred yards north of old Fort
Marcy, here came young Thomas,
l%eisurely plodding his way into town.
Gable at once informed him of the
general alarm felt for his SAFETY, gave
up his horse to HIM, and told him to
ride back to camp as fast as ne could
and give ~ his distracted
mother and friends ocu-
lar proof Of his safety. A half-dozen
young men who were mounted and
provisioned for the search accompanied
young Thomas and they reached the
camp al Badly mountain about5 O'Clock
this evening. The campers will get
homo tomorrow night, and the next
time they take a hayward kid like
tha at out in the mountains, they will
probably put a bell on hun. The
youth said he did the best he could
upon finding that he had lost the trail
he followed down the stream and
stopped Saturday night at Nambe and
last night at Tesuque.
The new collector OF internal reve-
nue. for the district of New Mexico and
Arizona will probably get into official
harness about September LIST. He has
filed his bond with T. b. Catron, R. j.
Palen, H, B. Cartwright, =. Muller, J.
6. Schumann, Sam Eidodt and Bernard
Seligman as sureties for 100000.
The new surveyor-ge neral. Hon.
Quinby Vance, will also take the office
about the first He is now in Sierra
county preparing his official bond.
Rev. Hale Townsend, the aged
rector of the Episcopal church, died
here, yesterday morning, OF Bfight's
disease. The ladies Of the guild will
give him decent burial, tomorrow.
Bishop j. Mills Kendrick was with him
In his last moments and will preach his
funeral sermon, tom orrow.
Another sad death is that OF the
two-year-old daughter of Don Jose
Segura, the able and versatile editor
of FL Boletia Popular. The little one
was laid to rest, yesterday afternoon.
The deepest sympathy is felt for Mr..
and Mrs. Segura.
Messrs. j.. j Sheridan and w. A.
Cassman arrived here from Silver
City, last night, and to-day entered
upon their respective duties as deputies
for United States Marshal G. M. For
aker. Pretty good men, they are.
I saw the Messrs. Veeder, of Las We
gas, on the plaza to-day. Their hand
some monstaches caught the Santa Fe
bellies at first glance, and how they did
pass in front of the Catren block at 2
O'Clock p. m. to-day, when tw 0 SAM
tarium fairies held 'em up!
Word comes here from Silver City
that Editor George Norton, of the In
dependent, is dangerously i'll. Mrs.
Norton stopped over here on Saturday,
en- route, to Silver City, from a trip
east.
The Hon. Jerry Leahy. of Ration,
was down here to-day, looking after
that district a%ttorneyship for Colfax
and Union counties. Well, maybe!
Governor Otero is evidently pretty
we'll pleased with the way things are
running out at the Territorial peni-
tentiary. Yesterday he took the Hon
CYRUS Leland, Of Kansas, out to see
how thipgsswe going, and to-day be
and Don Solomon Luna, of Valencia
county, made a trip to the pen. Dur
ing his term as warden, Colonel Berg
mann has added nearly $500, 900 IN
actual values to this Territorial lnsti-
tuition. Possibly, that is the reason
Governor Otero is so deeply Interested
he wants to see New Mexico's best
interests advanced. we are told.
Frank Clark, the ex collector OF GUS
( toms at FL Paso, was in town yester.
day. and ictt for the national capital
with a bee in his bonnet. He wants to
suceeed Lieut.. v A. Stottler as agent
for the Mescalero-Apacles at Tularosa,
N NJ.
The report here is to the effect that
Mayor Spiess is greatly interested n
ascsrtainiDg whether or not District
Attorney J. H. Crist has paid in ell
MONEYS due the Territory and The
counties Of the first district. Spiess
wants that Job badly and it won't be
Gov. Otero's fault il be doesn't get II,
Young Mr.. Gilmore, the Greensboro,