Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-12-30
THE DAILY OPTIC,
East Las Vegas, New Mexico,
san MIGUEL COUNTY.
BlPPUs BUDGET.
To the rditor Of the OPTIC.

TO the Editor Of the Optic.
Pueblo, Coo, December 9th 1897.
-Holiday week. with its good cheer
and its merry making, has come and
gone, and is now but a memory, pleas.
ant, or otherwise, as the individual
case may have been. Pueblo got there
In grand style as usual. celebrating
with a LAVISH hand thst brought hap
piness to 1000 hnbgry children, and
many families Of the poor who needed
help SO much. II was quite a task TO
furnish a square meal for 1000 hungry
children. who otherwise. would have
had no Christmas dinner worth men,
tionipg, out the ladies who undertook
the task, made a splendid success OF It
The hard times Off year since would
have made such AN undertaking i'm
possible, but things have changed, aAd
for the better. In Pueblo's history
there never was a Christmas when
presents for the young and the old
were SO freely bought, or money so
readily donated for charitable works;
and this fact proves that our city has
received it's share OF returning prosper
ity.
The holiday week has also, had its
tragic side--the murder Of Tierney,
the swIichman, whose rejected mistress
Is now behind prison bars charged
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have been a particular motive for tho
murder. Tierney and his mistress hal
been drinking rather freely, they
probably auarreled 10 their rooms, and
finally came to blows. and when the
woman real zed that the wounds In
A ict, d on Tierney would prove fatal,
he was thro wn out Of tae second-story
window oeto the sidewalk, where he
del, and was, when found, half
covered with Snow. Tierney WAS said
to have been we'll connected, but of
late years he has been going down
grade at a break-neck pace, which
ended in his death a week since, at the
hands of he mistress he had SO long
plssed off on his friends as his lawful
wife.
Ia pleasing contrast to this tragedy,
was the trial ard conviction of the
brute Boyden, who was charged with
ourag,pg Mabel Fagau, a little ten
ys r-old airl After the assault.
B .ydrn lsfJ the child In the river
bot { ms, ia an almost dying
condition, from the injuries inflicted
her. When daylight came tho child
managed to drag herself TO the nearest
house. where assistance was given the
little s.ff rer. Boyden escaped Getec-
ion and arrest FIR several weeks, but
Il last the dsiectiv-s loca'ed their nan
His trial occurred during Christmas
and the jiry found MIN guilty as
He will no doubt receive
be full limit all wed by law, which ia
yssrs. He should, however. b
Jung, Sush human devils as he, can
- pot to batter use when dead, for
can then become useful as fer.
material.
a. A. Kaliam, a we'll known en-.
tineer on the Santa Fe road, stationed
t San Msrrial, who WAS recently mar
led Ia Albuquefque to Miss Cora
ARMSTRONG. and then started on o
,ridal tonr to Tennessee, visited rue
10 on his return home, With his wife,
nd spent Christmas with the wri'er's ,
emily. The many friends who gave /.
fr. and Mrs. Keilam such a royal
end off whan they started on their
'edding ,cur, Will be glad to welcome
lem oack IN a few laws. when they
to 60 to hnu ,%ekeepiDg. and be
at home'' to their friends every day
the week, including Sunday.
How we did pity the folks who tried
, extrect CONT ri and good cheer from
wI,h the thermometar
lnnkeying anywhere from 2 70 20 de-
,ees below zero. Hero, Christmas
Nv wsa warm and pleasant. with the
,ermomotar registering G8 degrees;
nd a bright sun shining Ill day long
ptrs,n who cannot be happy on sncf
sunny Christmas day, hasn't got
enough to know when life l
'or,h the liyirg.
All of the churches In the city cels
rated Christmas in a becoming man ,
err. An excellent musical program a
,as given in each church, all wer. !
with interested worshippers. +,
I tho Salvation Army headquarters
p~propriatp, though somewhat noisy q
were held. II the Salvation :
would oriy kick the stufin'" /
ut OF their big drum, and throw !
heir tomhorines into the back alley. !,
heir sarvisas on the street, and In ,
ne b~arracks wonld be much nicer. and ,
spprecia'ed (
But a fe d avs more, then all OF Us
wha have been naughty, and
ia our habits, can indulge IN
be regular annual swear eff. that
on the first Of the year.
generally lasts atont ten hours |
'hese annual svear-off's are always :
a%ilures, yet at each recurring New !,
day. they ara repeated, {
rohably from the force of habit. :
Here Is q Happy New Year to The