Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1898-02-17
NEWS or OUR AE!GHRORS.
Doings, Personal and 0therwis
in New Mexico and the q
Contiguous Territory.
SILVER CITY.

Ile CllV6T ClJY htuucCl0u WORKS
have been sold to the Hearsts, whose
mines in Pinos Altos are among the
richest in New Mexico.
Died., on Monday evening, Miss Ollie
Kemp, who has been in this city attend
ing the Normal school, Of pneumonia.
The deceased was about sixteen years
of age and very popular.
Since the appointment OF Mrs. Gallo
way to the postmastership Of this city,
considerable speculation has been in
dulged In as to the probable new loca-
ton Of the Office.
1t is gratifying that the Industrious
and charitable ladies connected with
the hospital are now In condition to
meet the expenses Of that institution
without using the fund appropriated
by the Territory for that purpose.
SAN MARCIAL.
Fireman John Snyder is having his
household goods transferred from Rim
con to San Marcial.
Engineer VIM. Hockett has recovered
from his late spell Of sickness.
Fed Horn, the round house stations
airy e%ssiyneer, is confined to his bed by q
very oo,. e attack of rheumatism.
EIeu lylnagrey's painting crew is doing
good work in decorating railroad build.
ings throughout the town with a fresh
coat of dark red paint. Nearly half the
dwellings have been thus treated. Tho
windows are covered with canvass, and
the paint is spread in a rapid manner
through a hose.
DR.. A.. A. Shaw has made several
frt.xC -. On knws A. ..~J.~
assistance to Mrs. Trip, nee Miss
Nugent, who has been seriously in
disposed.
ALBUQUERQUE.
A portion OF the proceeds Of the
library ball will be used to purchase
sixty five new books for the library.
Contractor Edward Medler is erecting
a $1,000 frame residence for his son, 9.
w. Medler.
The city has been filled with stranded
individuals going to and coming from
the tunnel for some time past. Those
returning have a good round sum com
ing to them and will be we'll fixed in a
few days, when they get their pay. In
the meantime, however, they are
obliged to subsist on slow living and
high thir king"
L. B. Stern has bought out the inter
est Of Sol WELLER in the dry goods firm
of l.. b. Stern & Co.
Seldom has Albuquerque witnessed
such imposing funeral ceremonies as
those held over the remains OF Frank
Gutierrez.
ROSWELL.
Lee Clinkscales struck q 1CO gallon
flow in the artesjan well he is boring
for JAS. Farrell, at 1855 feet.
Invitations are out for the wedding
of Drew Willingham and Miss Alice
Kibbee.
II. b. Hamilton Jr., and Miss LOWE
Wetmore were married at the residence
of the brides parents.
r. i. Barnett has purchased a bunch
of select cattle from Drew Willignham
1t is quite probable that a large
lietel will be erected here during the
spring and early summer.
Mrs. Retta Woodman and daughter
have come from the Panhandle to
Roswell and will reside there for the
future. Her two sons have been there
some time and the mother went there
make a home for them.
Berthold Flesher left on . visit to
Albuquerque, and when he captures
and brings away that part of the popu-
IN which he is most interested,
he won't care so much about the rest
of the Duke city. /
SANTA FEE.
Deputy Treasurer Celestino Ortiz,
one of the most faithful and competent
of the Territorial officials, is confined
to his residence, today, by illness.
County Collector Fred Muller is
about to purchase the Levi Garnier
property on the south side.
Carleton post, G. A. r., has just
received from the war department
thirty eight volumes of the Official
Records of the Union and Confederate
Armies" which will be q welcome
addition to its library.
Gus O'Brien, at the st. V~incent's, Is
steadily improving and will be out and
about within the next few weeks.
District Court Clerk Bergerc is fixing
up the clerks office at the court house,
and having a new railing put into the
same.
There is a corps of three surveyors
and assistants at work on the line of
the ID & r. G. railroad between this
city and Espdnola. 1t is understood
that this coming spring and summer
the line of the road will be Strengthened
and otherwise improved. |,
The roster of the New Mexico
National Guard for 1897, shows an
organized force of thirty-fve officers
and 627 men and an unorQaniZed force
l;oI1o 80 n.tI;ts, dnfu of az C11 man
TRINIDAD.
n. S. Barr, who has been appointed
night watchman at the Gulf depot, has
been empowered to act as a deputy
sheriff without pay by Sheriff Clark.
bertha Burke arrived on the Gulf
train from Denver. She was In the
custody of Sheriff @. T. Clark, who
brought her back to this city on q war
rant sworn out by her brother, charging
her with embezzling 1888 of his money
John Butt was buried from the
Lutheran church, Rev. Samuels con
ducting the funeral services. Mr..
Butt was born 10 Schweitzipg Baden
fifty eight years ago.
A big lump of coal fell on Alex Lu-
cas- in the Bloom mine, badly crushing
his leg, but fortunately without SER
lously injuring him.
The jury in the case of the people VS..
Paul Frohlick, charged with the MUIR
der of Sig Neuman, failed to agree,
standing ten for acquittal and two for
conviction.
ARIZONA.
According to the report of the live
stock sanitary commission, recently
issued, Flagstaff shipped last year
4.94l head of cattle. and slaughtered