Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-11-16


Special Correspondence Of The Optic.
SANTA FE, N NJ, November 10Th,
1897 IT. B. Catron contemplates q
Trip to Washington along about TIT
christmas holidays and while in the
aationa! capital. he will again call on
he powers and urge the re-occupancy
Of Fort Marcy as a military post
Secretary Alger is understood to be
very kindly disposed toward the prop
,~sition, and Mr.. Catron says both
Gov. Otero and Secretary Wallace
agreed to do all in their power to
further the project. MIR. Catron feels
greatly encouraged yer the outlook
Tor success since Gen. Otis, command
ing the military department of Colo
rado, has again referred to the subject
IN his annual report.
/ haven't seer it in print in New
Mexico, but the north Texas papers
have it that Ex-Sheriff Charley Perry,
he who fed from Chaves county, has
been killed in a fight with Kafirs in
South Africa.
Ii is stated that Eddy Bros. have hi.
another snag in carrying forward their
White Oaks railroad. They thought
they had matters fixed for buying the
~ 80 as- ~nsIao - traaE ont "a n
Paso owned by the defunct Chispa Goa
company, but the Southern Pacifi
company slipped IN and bought the
line ahead of them. Il 10 q fact moi
generally known that the Southern
Pacific ewns some $50 acres of coal
'ands in Lincoln county, N. M just
east of White Oaks. However, Eddy
Bros. will build that r~ond-.heY know
no such word as ~'sphale."
M. G. de Baca, of Las Vegas, was
here yesterday in conference with Gov.
Ottro.
Through the efforts of Hon. A L
Morrison, the secretary of the treasury
has granted the Santa Fe nationa
the use OF the western end If
she federal building grounds for drill
and parade purposes Capt. Matthew
Is having the grounds shaped up il
hopes that the next encampment OF
he Territorial militia Will be held
here.
j. W. Akers, OF this town, is going
K ensively into the sheep business lp
western B~.rnalillo county. He own.
he Canada de Los Alamos grant there
and is stocking it with a choice lot of
-heep. By the wav, j. A. S%tinson,
Of G. B Reynolds, Of R,y
mond, Neb, reached here to-day from
Omaha, and says the NEBRASKA gram
growers are gong extensively into th'
feeding Of New Mexico shetp for mar
ket. The business is rapidly being
educ4d TO a science, and he thinks
New MexIco Is To day In tnu rsrrIot
O begin the raking in of ST. 900, 900
'r so annually from this sort of co
operation between producer and feeder.
Native New Mexico lambs are better t.
feed than the Merinos, for the reason
hat they do not run 30 much grease
MO the wool, but take ON flesh more
Rev w. Hayes Moore, of Doyles
town, Pa the new Presbyterian pastor
here, preached his first sermon yester
day. He made a most favorable i'm
prsssipn. Mr. Moore is a graduate Of
ne theological seminary at Princeton,
IS a man of broad views and eloqu. Mt.
and above all IS a true American in
MS ideas and teachings.
Jake Levy the well known clothier,
ven duck and quail shooting down
bout Galisteo lake, on Friday. Re.
home on Saturday night, he
became separated from the party AND
ost his way. Ever since little Jack
sad death in the foothills
Fans have displayed excessive
nervousness under conditions of this
zind, aud when word reached the city
hat Jake was lost, half-a- hundred
were ready to take up the
Detachment after detachment
vent out and rode through the night.
The local cavalry tvoop sent a large
quad under Col. T. P. Gable
nd the penitentiary hounds were taken
long to follow the trail Taking the