Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1898-02-16
NEWS or OUR NEICHDORS.
Doings, Personal and Otherwise
in New Mexico and the
Contiguous Territory.
RED RIVER.


Lee Crow last week purchased thu
one third interest In three claims on
Black mountain held by Joe Crosby
ID. A. Mckay is steadily recuperalinl
from a prolonged siege of illness.
Notwithstanding the depth Of snow
on the hills, there must be between
forty and fifty men working claims
A letter received from Martin Sulli,
van, Of Denver, states that he has
entered into a contract with tile Rec
River mining company as su%perintend
ent at $3.50 q month, for eighteen
months from date.
Mr.. Hayward, of Las Vegas, who
has mining interests here, was q guest
of Frank Deutsher, of Mallette canon,
last week. He thinks that Red River
has a great future.
Word arrived from Anchor that the
Edison" mine will start up with a ten
stamp mill about April lst.
EDDY.
w. D. McBurney, eldest son Of J..
ii. and Il. A. McBurney, died at the
home of his parents in Eddy, New
Mexico, aged thirty years and four
months, of consumption.
A. L. Douglas will go to Klondike
as blacksmith for the party headed by
II. q. Nisbet, leaving Eddy for Vic
toria, b. c., in about ten days.
The children of MI. and Mrs. Bick-
well, residing in the Kerr residence, are
down with the measles.
At the business meeting of the Ep-
worth League Miss Eta Blaksley was
elected first vice president.
The club rooms. are attracting a
large circle of business men who there
have a convenient and cosy place to
chat and compare notes.
ELJzABETHTowN.
J.. A. Raught while at work on his
placer ground in Humbug Gulch picked
up a nugget OF gold that weighed sew
enty five carats.
George Anderson, gave a dinner at
birthday of DIR. Ed S. Furay. The
invited guests were Jno. Gysin aud
Jacob Kemmerer.
NJ. r. Baker, negotiated the sale of
a half interest in W. mining claims in
the Comanche group.
Mike Walsh, manager of the Colfax
-GoAdAining and Milling company, was
down from the mine and reports that
they have recently encountered a rich
lead of ore two feet thick which assays
over one hundred dollars per ton.
AZTEC.
The Aztec Sunday school has organ
lied a home department in connection
with its work, Of which DR.. West is the
superintendent.
1t is likely that the splendid collection
of Aztec relics owned by John A.
Koontz, will be moved to Aztec ere
long. They are at present stored in
the court house at Durango.
DR.. Condit performed a successful
surgical operation on Alexander Ro.
m Ida, at Largo.
An anonymous communication was
received by County Clerk McRae the
other day, dated at La Plata poseofice,
alleging that two gambling rooms are
in operation at La Plata without pay
ing a license. and that they are tine
of the young boys on the
Travel is brisk these days and Aztec's
hotels are doing a rushing business.
SANTA FE.
Testimony in the divorce case of
Mrs. Prudencia de las Moves Romero
de Santistevan versus Juan NJ. San
tisteyan, Of Taos county, is being taken
Referee Sam E. Black. General
Bartlett appears for Mrs. Sa%ntistevan
and c. A. Spiess, Esq for Santisteyan.
The cause alleged in the petition Is in-
human and cruel treatment In the part
Of the defendant.
III. b. Kelly, of Cheyenne, Wyo.i is a
at the Exchange. MIR. Kelly
stage into Santa Fe from 1858 to
1858 and this is his first visit III forty
ears to the historic city and capital Of
New Mexico.
Information from Washington is to
he effect that Hon. Matthew q. Rey-
holds, us. attorney for the court OF
private land claims, has been strongly
recommended for appointment as US:
for the eastern district OF
Missouri and that his chances for ap-
are very good indeed.
Mis-. Thomas NJ. Jones and daughter,
Miss Florence, left for California, in
charge Of a sick Indian girl, whom the
government is sending TO her home In
Centralia, Wash.
DEMING.
It is expected that the Stems Pass
train robbers will be placed upon trial
week.
st. Luke's church was filed to the
doors by the numerous friends of Miss
Olive Hughes. the charming daughter
Of Mrs. NJ. E. Hughes, and sister to
Mrs. DIR. Hagen, to witness her mar
riage to Edwin Eley, of Lordsburg.
l.. l.. Browning, M of the Oldest
residents of Deming. but who has been
In Mexico for several
months, has returned home
Lance Sinks has bought out the IN
terest of J. G. Davis in the blacksmith
shop on Pine street.
Mrs. Samuel Burnside received a
telegram from California saying that
her brother Lockwood had been thrown
from a horse and killed.
Margaret. the little daughter of MIR.
and Mrs A. J. Clark, is suffering from
an attack Of pneumonia.
J. L. Vaughn, of the Mimhres, has
sold his cattle, about 200 head, to the
Foster brothers.
ALBUQUERQUE.