Santa Fe daily New Mexican., 1897-11-01
MEADOW CITY NEWS NOTES
Rail Connection Between Las Vegas
and White Oaks The Jose Chaves
Case-New Depot and Hotel.
POLITICAL GOSSIP AND OFFICES
Candidates for Territorial Appoint
ments-San Miguel County Will
Be Strictly In It.

Correspondence New Mexican.
East Las Vegas, Oct. 80, 1S97.-The
article which appeared in the New MEX
loan of the Gath inst, and was inserted in
Vegas connecting with the White Oaks
railroad, is suggestive of an activity that
ought to, but does not seem to exist here,
judging from the lsxity of interest shown
in outside affairs by those who are most
interested. | do not Alean to say we all
are dead to the doings of other points, or
that we are irretrievably blue Guided
by the disappointments of former pro-
moters and failure of their schemes; or
that we are hide bound to such an extent
as to be lmpervious to anything except
decided cut at our vitals, and cannot
take aggressive action in our own de-
tense. But when the time for awakening
has arrived and railroad propositions in
New Mexico are being taken up and sue
cessfully foated, there can no longer ex-
ist any excuse for lethargic submission
on the part of our merchants and prop
erty owners, to seeing other portions of
the territory that have hitherto been
tributary to Las Vegas, commercially
speaking, taken from her and gobbled
up By others through the building of
lines of railroad that have cut down the
once extensive area our people traded in,
to very small and rapidly diminishing
field, without some effort being made to
regain or replace this lost territory.
Some six years ago, as your readers
will doubtless recollect, the Denver-El
Paso Independent railway proposition
was before the public. Much work was
done and money expended, fruitlessly as
it resulted. 1t would be question of
grave doubt whether such scheme could
be resurrected, even if found feasible, as
you suggest. But there are other propo-
sitions that would give greater and more
immediate results, and The Optic of the
25th hits the nail squarely on the head in
its excellent and pointed editorial,
headed "As to railroads." If its hint is
not sufficient to serve the intended pur-
pose, that of showing what is inevitably
to be expected and will certainly trans
pire, then we are set of dumb heads and
the loss is ours through our own supine-
ness, and we ourselves are alone to blame.
Matters political are quiet. Interest
centers on the appointment of the judi
ciary and various opinions are hazarded
as to the favored ones in the race. Con-
lectures are made as to to this or that
applicant and would-be ermine-wearer,
but as Bobbie Burns once remarked, "the
best laid schemes of mice aud men gang
aft aglee," so it will iixely happen in this
particular instance.
The reprieve of Jose ChaI ns Chavez,
occasions but little COZ as
it was expected. One OF 49,.
sociates in crime, "o
Caballero, is still here in full ell
of the freedom of the innocent, anu -
question is often mooted, why he is not
arrested and suitable reward meted ont
to him for his Grimes Politics are queer
things, and the way of the politician may
truthfully be reckoned as beset with many
pitfalls, skillfully concealed with q true
trapper's instinct, but nevertheless ex-
ceedingly dangerous to the unwary or un-
thinking.
It is likely that the coming session of
court will be productive of few startling