Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-04-20
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ng district, the other day, which gives
40 names and locations "a no i,eeoooc
more OF less, Of cleim, staked out in
hat wonderful camp. A man who
ban look at these myriais Of white
ines On a blue ground. that cross, and
run into each other, at all sorts of
and from every direction OF the
compass, and find the particular claim
no is looking for, and not get IN attack
OF the 81. yitus' dance, has q nervous
strong enough to drink Pueblo
whisky, without developing a full
nedged case Of de'irium tremens.
Pueblo is putting on metropolitan
airs. A police watron Is to be mi OF
the city officials hereafter. Mrs. L. A,
Stevens, who ran for the state legisla.
ture, last fall on the democratic ticket,
and got left, Is prominently mentioned
for the place.
Mrs. Birdie Morgan has filed an APP
pIicat ion for enlistment In the state
guards. The officials of the guard are,
Il seems, in q quandary what to do
with the fair BRIDES application.
Mrs. Morgan had better stay at home
and devote her spare time to disciplin-
ing her liege lord and spanking the
olive branches into : proper state Of
subsection.
My, what q turning out OF officials
there will be IL Mayor-elect Ormsn I'M
dertakes to provide for the hungry
horde Of office seekers that are now
making Orman wish, almost, that nr.
King had won the racel All cannot
be appointed, yet each insists that he
Is the right man, and each gives q
formidable list Of reason why he should
have the Office he aspires to.
Tom ~Finnegan, a ~switchman In the
local yards here, had an impromptu
surprise sprung ON him, a few days
since. The sur prise was in the shape
OF q twelve -hour-old girl baby which
some one had deposited on the
front door steps. A liberal supply Of
fine clothing lay beside the little
waif, whose parentaee is q profound
mystery. Tom pl eads "not guilty.
bat as the olive branches in the Fin.
negan home are all boys, the little
stranger will be adopted, and no doubt
she will loon be old Toms particular
pet.
The ~gubernatorial bee that has been
b uzzing in Pedro Perea's bonnet will
soon cease its siren-like notes, when
President Mckinley appoints some Other
aspirant for governor OF New Mexico.
1t will be as good as q circus then to
see Don Mariana s. Otero HE himself
behind the cool shed to give his Cleve-
landau stomach a chance to oscillate
a few, while the don is smiling vocif.
erously and saying ~ told you sol"
Friday was Arhor day for Colorado
Many thousands of trees we're planted
throughout the state. A half-holiday
was also given the children OF the
public schools 10 this city.
Presidential lightning struck Mr..
Greedy Whitford, of this state, who
was appointed attorney for the United
| States for the district of Colorado.
Mr.. Whitford has no kick 90 ming
now, and smiles as comprehensiyely as
II he were the proud daddy of triplets
Fatty Cleveland, while president,
held that. for the government TO give
relief to people stricken by a great
calamity, was paternalism, to which
he objected. President Mckinley, on
the other hand, sent q special message
10 congress, requesting it to pass an act
for the relief OF the Mississippi valley
sufferers. That was p~aternalism, ac-
cording to Grover. but the people Of
the country, who have something more
than viscera in their makeup, bless
Mckinley for his humane action, and
thank God fervently that Cleveland is
q back number now.
Appropriate services were held on
Good Friday, in the Lutheran, Erisco-
pal and Catholic churches of this city.
The music and singing were especially
fine.
The victory won by the republicans
in the recent elections at Socorro, is no
doubt largely due to the efforts OF Jack
McCutchen the democratic editor down
there. When Jack gets to writing
political editorials, the average demo.
Graf makes q break for the republican
camp, where he abides until his vote is
cast for the republican nominee. Jack
means well. but lacks the sense to real
ixe that he has mistaken the calling for |
which nature fitted him. Hs ought to
edit q wood pile with a buck saw.
Hanging has been abolished by the
Colorado legislature. Silly women
can nc longer waste their maudlin
sympathies On the murderer who is
standing in the shadow Of the gallows;
can these inhuman slayers here
forgive the world that has never
wronged them. and then be jerked to
glory at the end OF the hangman's
rope.
The Woman's bi-metallic club, Of
this city, which took an active part in
the recent municipal campaign, has
decided to close its business and hold
no further meetings until some time
next fall.
The editor of the Cripple Creek
Times has q level head on bis shout
derg. He is of opinion that the BIZ
metallic commission appointed BY
President Mckinley, to bring about in
bi-metallism, is a wise
move, and that Senator Wolcott Is the
man to bs a. the head of the |
He also expresses the
that this commission will bring
bout good results. Most of the other
colorado editors have an idea this
onntry will tip up endways and spill
. all, unless wa have q fifty-three-
ent Bryan dollar 10 unlimited guam