Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-03-27

THE new MEXICO news.
lExtracts from our Exchanges.

hotel.
Mrs AL Blew is on the sick list at
Ration.
Ben Peach, Of Clayton, has gone to
work on the Bell ranch.
Born, at Las Cruces, to the wife Of
Albert Ellis, a daughter.
Born, at serta Fe. to Mr.. and Mrs.
Fred Mcbride, asdaughter.
John Clark, for years a resident OF
Las Cruces, is % employed in Ell
Paso.
Mrs. Ed Fox, Of Clayton. is visiting
her mother. Mrs. Schroeder, on the
Cimarron.
l. b. Harrington, representative OF
the Denver Post, was at Ration in the
interest of that paper.
Bob Mansker Is hauling lumber from
Clayton to his Cimarron ranch, where
he will build a nice residence.
Mrs. AL. Lane and Miss Berthe Drake
left Albuquerque for Las Vegas, where
they will visit for a few weeks.
Mrs. VIM. Dougherty returned TO
Ration from an extended visit to rela-
tives and friends in Pennsylvania.
Rev. w. d. Clayton returned to AL
buquerque from Fort Thomas, Arizona,
after an absence of about five weeks.
t. e. Mitchell and j. s. Holland
have been appointed administrators of
the estate of Geo. A. Bushnell, over at
Clayton.
The clause in the fee and salary bill
which cuts off salaries for coroncrs and
policemen, went into effect on its sig
nature by the governor.
Mrs. Van Arsdale, with her little
son, of Wanamie, Pennsylvania, is at
Ration for an extended visit with her
sister, Mrs. j. w. Grouse.
Rev. Carlisle, a C~ampbellite preach
or from the Sacramento mountains,
arrived at Las Cruces with q load Of
vegetables for that market.
Mrs. X. M. Ball, Of Anthony, died,
on Monday night, and was buried
Wednesday. The funeral sermon was
preached by Rev. B. B. Scoggins.
Baird & May slaughtered eight
beeves at Las Cruces. They have con-
tract for furnishing beef to contractors
on the canal and at the Selden dam.
Rev. S. E. Carruth, Methodist min
lister holding special services in Las
Cruces, delivered a discourse in the
billiard DON of a saloon in that town.
Juan and Willie Ascarate left Las
Cruces for their ranch in Mexico, to
assist in gathering and driving 1000
cattle to Deming, which have been
contracted.
George and Ed. Love, of Ration, re-
ceived a telegram conveying the sad
intelligence Of the death of their
brother, Jesse, who died, at Valpa-
raiso, Indiana.
Sheriff Pat Garrett, of Dona Ana
county, came up to Santa Fe. bring
ing With him Walter Collins, sentenced
to the. penitentiary for two years, for
an assault to rape.
A Mrs. Chaves, residing on north
Third street, Albuquerque, aroused
Marshal Fornoff from his slumbsrs at
midnight, and stated there was a ssman
around her house."
DIR. 7. NJ. Bowyer left Las Cruces for
Santa Rosalia to test the healing |
virtues of the waters of the springs,
Miss Hatcher went along to nurse the
doctor who is very feeble.
George Marsh, OF Santa Fe, received
a letter from Denver, which stated
that his sister, Miss Laura, was some
better and that the physicians now
thought she would recover rapidly.
Jack Culley, brother Of George, c,
b. and j. X. Culley, who was at Albu-
querque to see his brother, the Rev.
Culley, from London. England, will
return to the Bell ranch, San Miguel
county.
The mission at the Catholic church,
which had been in progress for two
weeks, closed its labors at Las Cruces
and the priests. Fathers D'Aponte and
Cahill, left for Ell Paso to continue their
labors.
Petitions praying for clemency for
the two B~orregos, Alarid and Valencia.
are being circulated in the several
precincts of Santa Fe county and so far
over 5000 signatures have been
secured to them.
Angel Alvarez is in Jail at Las
Cruces, charged with shooting at Mar
garlic Barela, who. Alvarez claims,
was trying to relieve him OF what cash
he had on his person. Hence the
shooting and subsequent arrest.
Professor Light has been testing the
eyes of the students in the Silver City
normal school. Only four out of the
entire school were found who had per-
feet sight, while a large number were
not previously aware Of any defect of
vision. !
Prof. j. B. Walter. a veterinarian OF
large experience, has been in the
Mesilla valley for ONE days. and has
treated horses and cattle for Frank
Kropp, Messrs. Keezsr, Holmes, Gar
rett, Stewart and others, down at Las
Cruces.
At the meeting of the BIO Grande
presbytery in Las Cruces, Rev. T. G.
Beattie, Of Albuquerque, was chosen
moderator, and Rev. e. M. Fentop, Of
Jemez, clerk. The next meeting of
the prcsbytery will be held in Albu-
querqus.
On or about the 1st Of April the Jaffa
grocery company, (H. N. Jsffa, nan
ger) now occupying quarters on Rail-
road avenue, Albuquerque, will remove
into the store room on Second street,