Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-02-15
THE new MEXICO NEWS.
Extracts from Our Erchauges.

or, and will be absent ten days.
L. G. Put erbaugh delivered his first
lot Of lamp burners at Cerrillos.
A very pleasant social dance was
given at the Hotel Mac in Cerrillos.
The little child Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Stewart is reported very sick at
Madrid.
Mrs. z. A. Spiess entertained the
young people in honor OF Miss Mary
La Rue, Of Las Vegas, over at Santa
Fe.
IS. Floersheim came down to Spring
er from Trinidad, and will put in his
time there, where he has large inter-
ests.
Several OF the county prisoners at
Springer have been doing some outside
road work, under the guardship Of Jay
Gale.
F. q. Peterson has purchased the P.
j.. Towner residence at Springer and
will put a number Of needed repairs
or 1t.
The gasoline engine for the &C. & c."
mine, at San Pedro, was hauled over
to that place by J.. F. Williams, Of Ger
rillos.
Contractor Hubbard, of Springer,
has some large contracts under way,
and is looking out for parties who a
furnish him large consignments of
lumber.
Judge Darlington, president OF the
Montezums gold mining and placer
company, who has been over in Red
River for a few days, returned to Eliza
BEETHOVEN.
j. d. Fresquez, who for two years
has acted in the capacity Of deputy
probate clerk, up at Springer, has been
retained in that position by Clerk
Manuel NJ. Salazar.
Rev. James A. Menaul, whose recov-
cry was despaired of by his physician,
at Albuquerque, is slightly improved,
to-day, and there is a bare possibility
that ne may ecover.
Rumor has it that the Springer
cement works have been sold to a com-
pany that will at once put them in
operation under the supervision Of a
skilled manufacturer.
One thousand dollars was offered for
the vote OF a councilman at Santa Fe,
and the man who made the offer
thought he was lucky in getting away
without being scalped.
A daily stage line is to be put in
operation in a few days from Ration to
Elizabethtown and Red River City. 1t
is only thirteen miles farther from
Ration than from Springer.
TERRA Amarillo, over in Rio Arriba
county, has a newspaper, and volume
1, No. 1. has been issued. Ell Heraldo
is the name, and Jasper F. Ortiz, man
ager, with Frank v. Potter, editor.
j. F. Imhoff, for some time past the
local telegraph operator for the Postal
telegraph company at Santa Fe, who
was succeeded by w. M. Townsend.
will open a cigar store in that city.
A party of Santa Feans contemplate
a trip to the City OF Mexico in the near
future. They talk of chartering a
special car and living in it throughout
the trip a la Raymond and Whitcomb.
Mrs. J. f. Towle, of Socorro, who
has been very sick for some time, had
a hemorrnage of the lungs last Sunday,
but is reported much better. Her
mother, from Albuquerque, is now with
her.
The contract for hauling ore from
the ssLegal Tender mine to the Ma
iors mill, on Grouse gulch, Colfax
county, has been let, and as soon as
the ore bins are ready, hauling will
commence.
Mrs. Simona Gutierrez, wife of Cruz
Gutierrez, had a preliminary hearing
before Justice Crawford at Albuquer-
que, charged with the awful crime OF
poisoning her husband. She was held
without bail.
Henry M. Porter, largely interested
in cattle, real estate, mercantile bust
ness etc., has submitted a proposition
TO Contractor Hubbard, of Springer, for
the erection of a two-story forty six
front business block in that place.
The other afternoon, while a number
Of county prisoners were out at work
in Springer, one made a break for lib-
erty. Deputy Sheriff Gale commenced
shooting at him, and it became so
warm that he dropped and surren-
dered.
Walter and Elmer Booth left Eliza
BEETHOVEN for the Black Copper district,
to work on the "Wedge'
and the "GracIe" Iedes. These
properties join the .BIack Copper" on
The south and are owned by Booth,
Burnett & Cline.
A decree was entered in the case OF
w. M. Weaver, assignee for the estate
of Chas. Zsiger. against VIM. Poole, at
Albuquerque, forecloslng the property
in litigation, which IS located near
Chilli. The court appointed =.
Medler as master.
News received from Washington at
Santa Fe, states that owing 20 . CON
tinued attack OF chills and fever, John
A. Catron was obliged to resign from
Annapolis. His father app ointed him
alternate to John ~Symington, OF Santa
Fe, who will be examined in March for
entrance to West Point.
After February 10Th, all cattle from
the state Of Chihuahua. Mexico, will
have to come into the United States at
the SUPPORT eatry at Deming, N. M,
owing TO quarantine regulations OF the
state of Texas. prohibiting them from
coming in at Ell Paso between February
18th and November 10Th.
Gov. Thornton has appointed M. w.
McCrath. Lnrdsburg. Grant county A.