Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-01-21
THE DAILY OPTIC,
East Las Vegas, New Mexico,
SAN MIGUEL COUNTY.
TERRITORIAL TOPICS.

Santa Fe is being visited by a larg'
number Of federal c6ice-seekers.
Arch Christian is tunneling on th
"Challenge" lead at Hematite.
The Hematlte tunnel boys are laying
off. Cause: nc powder in camp.
Miss Efie Mayield is suffering from
an abscess or the face, at Deming.
H. H. Kidder is setting out trees OF
his residence property, at Deming.
q. Wormser arrived at Deming from
California on q short business trip.
ID. A. Clouthier made q shipment o
several cara Of cate from Springer.
The legislature IS not showing a dis
position to be controlled by the lobby.
Rev. R. M. Craig, OF Sauta Fe, wa.
elected as chaplain of the Territorial
council.
Eben Burnside, formerly Of Den.ing,
10 occupying a lucrative position at
Gallup.
Harry King has started a tunnel to
explore the Independence" lead at
Hematite.
F. Foster and Lon Osmer are putting
up fifty tons Of ice for MIR. Turner at
Hematite.
Col. Max Frost will purchase the
NeW Mexican, and make of it a repub-
lican paper.
Mrs. Mary King, late Of Deming,
has been quite i'll at q hospital in
Cleveland, Ohio.
Lon Osmer and Geo Jor dan recently
had a SIP assay from the "Resque"
claim at Hematite.
L. F. Butler. from Red River City,
was in Hematite, purchasing goods for
his Red River store.
L. D. Burns, capitalist, politician
and philosopher, arrived at Santa Fe
from TERRA Amarillo.
III. H. Sherman has sold a sixteenth
interest 10 the IN. r" mine at Hem
attic to Harry Brainard.
VIM O,msted, n member of the AL
buquerque bowling club, nsde the
high score OF 2S9 points.
The smeller at Hematite is lying idle. |
The owners are awaiting some neces-
sary piping from Trinidad.
Rev. Lawler, of Trinidad, will con.
duct services every night this week at
the Baptist church in Ration. /
George Rose, better known as
'Roxie" died 10 Deming OF heart fail
ure, aged about forty.fve years.
Petitions against the division of Dona
Ana county are being circulated at Las
Cruces and very generally signed.
Died, at Wagon Mound. Jose Padil-
la. father of Rev. Samuel Padilla, OF
the Spanish M. E. church at that place.
J 5. Garcia, late probate clerk of
Bernalillo county, was selected by the
Territorial council for engrossing clerk.
NJ. W. Mills shipped to Springer,
from his big Kansas farm, a car of fat
hogs, which he butchered for local
markets.
Howard Rockwell and Charley Wing
are much elated over q rich strike re-
Gently made in the ''Manzanets" at
Hematite.
Coal oil sells In FL Paso at fifteen
cents a gallon. Ia Santa Fe it costs
twice as much and it isn't o very good
grade OF oil, either.
In the Springer precinct, Nestor
Martinez and Esteban Trujillo were
elected justice of the peace and COR
stable, respectively.
r. D. SlaneA and son, Arthur, from
Springer, are recent arrivals at Hem
attic. They will stay there the re-
mainder of the winter.
RMessrs. Peterson, Spark, Wade and
Higgins form two shifts on the "Black
Copper mine at Hema.ite. They
have two feet Of good ore.
George Mack and Dock Grossly are
getting some good-looking ore out OF
the s.Last Chance" at Hematite, own
ed by the Athens company.
Sam Liudauer left Deming tor the
east. He will make stops at New Or
leans, Washington and New YORK and
may take a trip to Germany before re-
turning.
Father Paul Gilbertop, of Santa Fe,
and e. w. Guyer, Of Union county,
were sworn in respectively as chaplain
ard engrossing clerk Of the house by
Speaker Llewellyn.
j. w Josephs returned to Trinidad,
Colo, from Clayton, quite sick. He
sold out his saloon or account of dull
times, and will start In business in
Trinidad in a short time.
Erwin j.. Adams, OF Monte Vista,
Colo, and Miss Nellie Freelove, were
Joined in marriage at the Lead avenue
Methodist church parsonage, in Albu-
querque, by Rev. WEIGH.
Robert Graham. of Ration, suffers
with a badly bruised face and head
which he received at the hands OF one
John Chapman. The alteration was
over a little bill Of $21.
The supper and social, given by the
ladies of the Catholic church at Ration,
was an immense success. After the
supper a large crowd INDUCED in a de- =,
liehtfuI dance until a late hour. )
Rev. Mary j. Borden, of Gallup. has
been appointed delegate for New Mex
leo, to the convention Of the National
American suffrage association, which .
meets in pes MONIES, Iowa, January !
26th. 5
G. F. Myers, OF the hardware firm of '
<. j. Post & Co., Albuquerque, is still
ia st. Louis, and will attend the birth
day anniversaries of his aged parents
there. between now and the first o.