Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-05-01

bdhveP, icf W. bcU, and BIZ ianilly
aill probably spend the sumter on
the prlnue fruit farm In B'psrula val
lev. la the boom duys Of Dsnser tho
properly just sold cost nearly $40, 900
The fire Insurance tangle IL still
tangled, but it Is nov probable that tho
moyemen TO pull all companies out Of
New Mexico has failed. The Royal
insurance company u that II
will comply with the new law, deposit
$4,000 in hands and 'sstay In" Ii
they ali do it, Territorial bonds will DO
in big demand.
Some comment is heard here to-day
over the fact that Mayor Spiess was
not on hand to greet his law partner,
MIR. Catron, at their Office, this morn
ing. Mayor Spiess lett for Albuquer-
que, last night.
-sFhe first 100 copies of the new laws
were distributed through the mail by
Secretary Miller, to-day. No work IL
being done by the commission appoint.
ed to compile the laws. 1t Is said the
commission will commence to grind
on April 18th, In case Gen. Bartlett
isn't lost in the shuttle at Washington.
The man who Is really to be accred-
tied with the sale of the capitol, insane
ASYLUM and other Territorial bonds, is
Mr.. Julius H. Gsrdes, the ~well-known
haber- dasher at Santa Fe. After others
had failed, he went at in a business
like way and through bis old friends.
Messrs. u. l.. and Geo ID. Cook & Co F,
Chicago, made a success OF it.. Lots
| Of people IN New Mexico know the
Cook boys as foe, all-round fellows.
Both Ben and George Cook have horse
backed 1t all over New Mexico in form
er days.
The story Is afioat up along the line
of the ID & X. q. that the big end OF
the Red River boom is town lot specu-
lation and that little or no attention ID
paid to developing the DISTRICTS min
eral sources. Many a poor miner Is
going in there 10 search OF employment,
IL is said, and coming out feeling that
he had made a mistake. Working
men of all classes had, perhaps, betttI
investigate before pulling up stakes
and pulling out for Red River City.
John II. BlsIn, of this town, will
probably open a branch OF his store al
San Pedro. He believes the old camp
is gong to hum as 10 days of yore now
hat the Carley-Aranda gold find il
turning out to be such a big thing.
Thought all the cattle in New Mex.
leo had oeen shipped out. but it seems
there are a few lett. One hears Of
sales of 8 900, 5 900 and 8 900 steers
almost daily. Lyons & Campbell. Of
Silver City, have just se!d 8 900 head a.
SIG, S18 and S2t Tor Is, 3 aud IS, re-
- ,ctively. Grant county shippers
have orders in for 2 1000 A T. s. 5. +
cars for making shipments next month
Ksv. G S Madden, of the n. f
chutcn in this place. whose mission IL
Washington has caused some gossip il
partisan political circles, got home
last night. II saw the Inauguration
and gained twslve pounds in weight
while toasting his toes at the Eobit
house and, also, occasionally undel
President McKinley's mahogany, it h
said, but he is as devoid of fruit as
last years bird nest, when the report
oral pump is applied on affairs
political.
Miners about these diggings say tina
Representative Reynolds new mining
law prohibiting relocation of forfeited
claims until ninety days elapse, is un
constitutional, and is likely to be o
more bentfii to the lawyers than th'
miners.
II sse," said an OPTIC reader, to
day, ssthat Gen Bartlett has at last go
on To Washington, and is haunting thu
official p~ie-counter.. God help thu
republican party in New Mexico now.'
/ do not undertake 10 interpret THU
observation, but evidently the speaker
is not of that wing Of The party which
regards Gen. Bartlett as ga modes
man." In any event, he'll hardl,
swing the chief justiceship, even shoull
he muster backbone enough to ask fol
II. JUNIUS.