Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-01-29
TERRITORIAL TOPICS,
lnxsracts from our ExohAnsss.l

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Mahoney, Of Deming.
Prof. Townsend, Of Las Cruces, In
tends leaving for the tropics shortly or
scientific expedition.
AS. Sweetland Is employed tenn,
porarily at Emil Kleinwort's butcher
shop In Albuquerque.
Billy Amonette, Of Roswell, orders
the Register to tho address of his
brother At Marlin, Texas.
DIR. B. Gilbert and wife, OF Silver
City, went to Denver ON q COMBINED
business and pleasure trip.
The Fort Bayard orchestra will fur,
nish music for the social club dances
at Silver City In the future.
The ore crusher and the mill At the
"Elnora" mine, White Signal, Grant
county, we're put in operation.
President Jordan, Of the agricultural
college at Las Cruces, paid . visit to
Santa Fe on educational business.
Miss Kate Carper returned to Ros-
well from a two weeks' visit ia her
sister, Mrs. VIM. Albert, at Eddy.
Robert Golding will have charge of
the wholesale liquor and cigar business
OF Bell & Harvey at Silver City.
w. 5. Sheek has sold his well-drill-
ing apparatus at Pennington to q gen.
tleman who resides on the La Plata.
The old Southeast Sentinel plant at
Silver City was sold by Landlord New
comb to the Eagle Office, down there.
Capt. Henry Sturges, of Springer an
old newspaper man and a good citizen,
IL at the Exchange hotel in Santa Fe.
Jesse Harwood left Pennington for
Hesperus, Colo, where he will be en-
ployed during the remainder OF the
winter.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Whitehill were
presented with q brand new baby girl
at their home in Pinos Altos, Grant
county.
The Eden Valley school will be ex-
tended three months, with Miss Kate
Carper, of Roswell, continued as
teacher.
Senior Francisco Mallen, Mexican
consul at Ell Paso, has visited Las Cru
ces several times recently on official
business.
There will probably be no division
of any of the northwest portion OF
Dona Ana county at this session Of the
legislature.
The teachers of the public schools al
Silver City meet at the normal, every
Saturday, to discuss the subject OF
child study.
The Ration public schools have made
arrangements for a series Of lectures
every Friday during the remainder Of
the school term.
G. IL. Crosby, jr., Of Ritchfeld,
Utah, a travelling correspondent for
the Salt Lake City Herald and News,
was in Santa Fe.
Between his planing and grist mills
and his carpentry business, John Nor
gan finds plenty to do, over at Farm
ington, these days.
Mine Inspector Fleming returned to
Silver City from a tour of inspection
among the coal fields in the northern
part of the Territory.
That the country in and surrounding
Pennington is an oil and natural gas
field, has been sufficiently demonstrated
to admit of no doubt.
A. Hammond has bought the interest
of j. W. Overman in the blacksmith
shop at Roswell, and will continue the
business at the old stand.
TT. J,..Af,t d,.aouc ~ fha roaoa1aal
In East Ration, which made victims OF
q number of children several weeks
ago, has gradually abated.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Storey. OF Silver
City, are in Ell Paso, where Frank had
been ordered by the p~ostofice depart
ment to await instructions.
Mrs. S. c. Chapman, mother OF Mrs.
Addison Walker, arrived At Santa Fe
from Fort Madison, Iowa, and Will re-
main several weeks on a visit.
Canaigrc is especially indigenous to
the climate and soil of San Juan u
ty, as it is found 10 abundance in a
wild state all over the county.
The morning talks given BY Prof
Light at Silver City upon the subject
of study, thus far have been devoted to
wrong methods of mental efforts.
The Durango stage has been arriv-
ing late for several nights at Farming
ton, on account of the snow and bad
roads on the upper end Of the line.
Many thousands OF fruit trees, prin-
cipally apple, will be planted In the
vicinity of Pennington, fSan Juan
county, between now and May first.
Dyke F. Engleman, OF Durango,
Colo, was in Pennington. San Juan
county, looking around with the view
OF making an investment in real estate.
The placer gold fields along the San
Juan river are attracting much atten-
ton at present, and a boom for this
region is rapidly gaining proportions
F. w. Cochran, a prominent sheep
raiser, of Sherwood, Texas, who has
been visiting his mother, Mrs. W. B..
Murphy at Las Cruces, left for home.
Mrs. Mae A Allison, the divorced
wife of w. H Fl Allison, of Albuquer-
que, lately Of Yucca, Arizona, died at
the residence Of Ed. Johnson, down
there.
Mrs. Kate N. de Chaves left Santa
Fe for Las Cruces. Mrs. Chaves has
been III for some time and hopes to find
improved health in q change of eli
mate.