Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-01-30
THE DAILY OPTIC,
East Las Vegas, New Mexico,
SAN MIGUEL COUNTY,
TERRITORIAL TOPICS.
EXTRACTS from our rxchansss.l

Auu uIo ~ WOrk On tno now Cauhls
Major Hammer and wife left Albu
querque for Aeavenworth, Kansas.
The wife Of Andres Sandoval, O
Tortugas, Dona Ana county, is dead
The town of Ration is to be incor
porated As a city. A step In advance
s. G. Scaddon, the Postal operate
At Ration, was In Las Vegas on bust
ness.
The Odd Fellows of Gallup vii
erect a large, two-story building, thiI
year.
Theo. thinner, of Albuquerque
contemplates going to Phoenix tc
reside.
H. y. Kinsell's store at Cerrillos will
hereafter be known ~ the 'cash bar
gain store"
Revival services are In progress
every evening, At the Methodist charoh,
In CerrilloS
DR.. L., H. Chamberlin 10 now well
established In his new dental Offices nl
Albuquerque.
Miss Mary Cuniffe, who has been
living with her sister in San Antonio,
Texas, has returned to Las Cruces.
Miss Mollie Stunbaugh, a blind lady,
gave a musical and literary entertain.
msnt at the Palace hotel in Cerrillos.
Daniel Arias, Las Cruces merchant
tailor, has removed from his old stand
to Main street, opposite the p~ostofice
Alarger acreage of wheat will be put
In, in Socorro county, this year, than
ever before in the history Of the county.
In western Socorro county, there is
very little cold weather and the finest
winter so far that has been had for
years past.
J. A. Wolcott left Buffalo, N. Y,
last week, for Fig ,bethtown. He will
stop at McLoud, Kas., to visit a
brother.
A surprise party, upon the occasion
of Roy Green's birthday, was given at
the residence Of Mrs. James Brydon,
down in Cerrillos.
Col. q. w. Thatcher, q wealthy
MIN operator and politician, OF Aspen,
Colo has been in Elizabethtown look.
ing over the country.
The governor has appointed Charles
Hall Adams, of No. 20, Court street,
Boston, Mass, to be commissioner Of
deeds for New Mexico.
Or. John Frazier, who, for over a
year. was up In the Sacramento conn-
try. lett Las Cruces for a more tropical
country. He will probably locate in
Tobasco, Mexico.
The work of constructing the new
stamp mill'in the Cochiti mining dis
frlet has commenced, and the mill,
which is to cost S75, 900, will be com.
pleted ia August.
The present status of the smelter
project at Cerrillos, IS very satisfactory.
Senator Elkins has signifed that he is
willing, for his part, to deed the land
desired.
The Knights of Pythias at Madrid,
are making preparatio ms for a thirty
third anniversary ball, to be given
there on Friday evening, February
10Th.
G. N. Cotton, the w%ell-known Indian
trader, at Gallup, has already made q
contract with Eaton & Pringle, contrac-
tors and builders, of that place, for the
construction OF a ore-house.
Gallup voted $4,000 for water
bonds, which sum is to be used to en-
large the present plant. The bonds
have been advertised and q number OF
inquiries for them are being received.
The governor OF Colorado has issued
a requisition on Gov. Thornton for the
arrest of one Waller Rankin, wanted on
. charge of mayhem in Colorado, and
supposed to be somewhere in New
Mexico.
Representative Reynolds, Of S~ocorro,
gfavors the bill by Major Llswellyn as to
assays by the school OF mines
very much and will aid to its passage.
He tanks the bill will aid mining in
New Mexico greatly.
The New Mexico volunteer firemen's
association has q committee on hand at
Santa Fe. watching an opportunity to
get fair play, and as loon as the new
county projects are disposed of one way
or another, they will strike.
DEGREES of separation In three
divorce cases have recently been en-
tered at Albuquerque, Uig VIM. d. Nc.
Coy vs.. Susan MGR Mccoy; Micaela
Young VS.. VIM. G. Young and E%stevan
Sandoval vs.. Felicita S. do Sandoval.
Mrs. H. B. Hersey. who has been
so;ourninr in Mexico for over two
months, arrived at Santa Fe, accompa-
MED by Mr.. and Mrs. Santos Ortega,
who will remain as her guests for some
Mrs Ortega is well known in
that city. where she resided, prior to
her marriage, IS Miss Jennie L'Ecgle.
Gov. Thornton has appointed the
following to be notaries public. for and
in the counties in which the appointess
H. r. Harris, of Socorro;
William G.. Roy, Of Mora; J. G. Luccro.
Of Springer, Colfax conntyi Zeb. s..
Loueileyan, of Mora, and Luciano
Ulibarrs. OF Parajiso, Guadalupe county
II. Sharick, the jsweler, who was
wel-kuown to old-time albuquerque
ans. deserted his family and "skipprd
.outr about eight years ago. he made
his way to Tacoma, Wash, where be
went into business and for a time did q
very furnishing trade; about a year
ago, he decsmped from that place, and
has now beer heard from at Guatemala
City, Central America.
Owing to the fact that the regular ,
80 o, for Valanofa counfv il aet