Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1898-02-07
THE DAILY OPTIC.
East Las Vegas, New Mexico,
san MIGUEL COUNTY.
THE TERRITORIAL PRESS.
lExtracts from Our Exchanees.

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George Willis left Lac Cruces with
fourteen men to work on the e! Paso
& Northeastern railway. He found il
impossible to engage any more.
Col. Mothersill has o some large
cattle deals on hand, but the ~colonel's
largest and most successful deal will be
a political deal he now has on hand.
Mrs. Judge McFie, of Las Cruces,
won a beautiful ladies' gold watch rs o
pr.z, for working out q puzzle publish.
I'd by uome eastern firm in the Chicago
papers.
1t takes twenty seven hours to go
from Las. Cruces to Silver City, and
twenty five hours to return by rail.
,rse old stage coaches made the trip in
twenly.four hours.
w. w. Cox, of Las Cruces, has
leased the San Augustine residence
and stables to S. v. Haley, and is
boarding his family with the above
named gentleman.
DR.. Luttrell's little five-year-old
daughter, accompanied by his sister,
arrived from Knoxville, Tenn, in Las
Cruces and will spend the winter with
the doctor ut the Mescalero agency.
Fred Pierson, the miner who had the
misfortune to lose the sight Of one eye,
IS In Las Cruces under the medical
care Of DR.. Cowan, who believes he
a I'VE the eye, although the sight is
gone.
w. f. Gilliland and James Haines,
OF the Fresnal canon, passed through
Las Cruces on their way to attend
court in Silver City, having been sum-
moned in the Clifford whitecapping
case.
DR.. w. N. Villas, of FL Paso, the
leading physician of that city. was
called in consultation at Las Cruces.
with DR.. Mcconnell, in the case of
Mrs. Cameron. sister Of Mrs. Judge
Newcomb.
DR.. A. L. Mahaffey, the physician
and surgeon at the Albuquerque gov
eminent Indian school, states that he
v%accinated $50 Indian pupils, and that
the virus took on all except three.
He also reports the health Of the
'scholare first class, and no serious ILL.,
mess of any kind among them.
Probate Judge Fountain has been
to Silver City to sit on the
United States petit jury. Judge Foun-
tain tried to be excused on the ground
that he would be obliged to open his
court in Mesilla to-day, but answer
was returned him that the law Of ex-
ceptions only applied to practicing
lawyers.
Mrs. M. A. Granger, Of the Las
Cruces Presbyterian mission, who has
been i'll with nervous prostration for
weeks, is again at her post of
iaty. Her school now numbers sew :
Bnty-one enrolment with an average of
sixty daily attendance. The scholars
all .pesk English and are progressing I
in all branches. I,
1t is understood that when the cattle
Of the Detroit land and cattle company
were sold the ranch of the company
went along with the sale, the stipula :
lion being $40 a head for the cattle the
land included. The report that the
number Of cattle delivered was $4,000 I
Is false, as there were but 1900 head
the ranch. !.
Last week w. B. Walton wrote the /
Liberal that be would 5000 !
give dis undivided attention to the /:
Headlight Tie next day /
writing this letter be sold the ,
HeadLqM to Messrs. Written and
Long, who have ordered g material ;
Ind promise to have the Headlight out !
his week in It's usual size and with its t
usual brillancy. J