Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1897-01-15
THE DAILY OPTIC,
East Las Vegas, New Mexico,
SAN MIGUEL COUNTY.
TERRITORIAL TOPICS.
lRxtracts from our rxcnanrssL


Mrs. w. B. Murphy has been on thu
sick list at Las Cruces.
Miss Annie Freeman entertained hel
many friends at Las Cruces.
@. E. Chase is again at bis post In
the railroad Office at Las Cruces.
The Jolly Six cleared 1856 at theil
dance, down at Las Cruces.
Anastacio Barela, OF Las Cruces, il
recovering from his spell Of sickness.
Uncle Jake Schaublin is feeling
much better now, down at Las Cruces.
Died. at her residence in Las Cruces,
Matilda Caroline Lee. wife Of Andrew
r. Lee.
A number of Improvements are con-
templated in Las Cruces, In the near
future.
Lswlessness is fast abating at Las
Cruces, under the rule of competent
officials.
New aspirants for the postofice ct
Lsa Cruces are being announced al
most daily.
Mrs. Tulsa Moya dc Sesma, wife Of
Cirilo Sesma, died Of childbirth in Old
Albuquerque.
Frank Hill, young business man At
Ration, was confined TO his room with
a severe cold.
Joseph Brennan and. wife, Of Albu.
qnerque, are happy over the arrival Of
. fine girl baby.
Mrs. Jake Copeland, at the Block
mill, Chaves county, is dead from q
blow on the side.
W. o. Thomas, the Las Cruces
photographer, is doing quite . good
business, these days.
Johnny Dissinger is doing q pros.
porous tonsorial business in the juno
l o city Of Rincon.
Jesse Brazel. Of Gold camp, visited
Las Cruces to have a piece of steel
taken out of his eyes,.
Uncle Lib Rainbold, Of Roswell, has
been under the weather for some time,
but is now convalescing.
Geo. Powell, of Missouri, brother Of
''Doc" Powell, the blushing brakeman,
10 IN Ration On q short visit.
Maj NJ. Morgans, the big "honest
money" advocate, of Lake Valley, was
in Hillsboro. the other day.
Sheriff Garrett, of Las Cruces, Is
hiring men for the Selden dam work,
by request OF the contractors.
A number of friends of Mr.. and Mrs.
Lrnano onnott on M than, m ,oIoaanpt |
surprise party, up at Ration.
The mill for the Cochiti district, is q
sure 60, and will be ready for the min
ers and prospectors by early summer.
Petitions against the division of
Dona Ana county are being circulated
at Las Cruces and very generally
aligned.
C. E. Moore has let the contract with
Del. Stevens for a fve-room brick cot
tsge, with modern improvements, M
at Ration.
DIR. Bailey and son, Harry, are ex-
pected to return to Las Cruces from
Nogal, where they have been engaged
in mining.
Mrs A. L. Christy has been appoint
ed Administrative of the estate Of her
late husband, A. l.. Christy, down at
Las Cruces.
Oscar Sutherland, a machinist, re-
turned to Ration from Arkansas City.
Ark, where he spent the holidays
among relatives.
Mrs. Fannie Wright, secretary of the
Rescue home at Albuquerque, went to
Cerrillos, where she has recently es.
tablished a circle.
Misses Dode and Fannie Maxwell, OF
Raton, are visiting their grandma,
Mrs. G.. w. Cook, at her handsome
home ON the Sugarite, Colfax county
At the regular meeting Of Santa Fe
lodge No 2, X Of P =, the ewly-elected
officers for the ensuing term were duly
installed by the grand representative
1t was reported at Albuquerque that
Miss Edna Mills, daughter Of Mr.. and
Mrs. w. H. Mills, bad recently fallen
heir to the snug sum of $40, 900 through
the death Of an uncle at Chicago.
w G Ritch who was secretary Of
tuc 1cIiItOiy loi iWciVO yoaio Il 10
one of tie early settlers of New Mex.
leo. has been visiting Santa Fe and
Albuquerque.
Ed. Ochs, Of New York, years ago
chief accountant for the mercantile
house of A. Staab, at Santa Fe, is in
that place on a few days. visit among
old time friends.
Steve1Arnold, in the %butchering bust
ness at Santa Fe, was in Albuquerque.
Mr.. Arnold purchased 800 of the sheep
that we're in the wreck near Glorieta
and shipped them to Iowa.
Juan Armijo, Of Albuquerque. who
recently married Miss Rose Ortiz, OF
Penn Blanca, has made arrangements
to locate there and will shortly open
a stock of general merchandise.
Col. J. Franco Chavez and family ]
arrived in Santa Fs from Valencia !
and will spend the winter '
there, Col. Chavez being n of the ]
members Of the legislative
council. !
The Albuquerque Citizen, for the
past few weeks, has been in possession -,
of facts to the effect that ). F. Sulzrr, J
of 1.-The FAIR" down there.
was selling out his stock of goods and
would soon retire from business. |
G. < Moore, the harness maker, has !
returned to Ration from a trip to Chi, !
csgo, Cincinnati and other points
where he purchased an elegant new