Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1898-02-01
THE DAILY OPTIC,
East Las Vegas, New Mexico,
san MIGUEL COUNTY.
THE TERRITORIAL PRESS
Extracts from Our Exchanges.

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EXTRACTS from Our Exchanges.
The Postal telegraph cuble compan,
have opened their Office at Socorro.
Lumber is in good demand in Blanc
at 800 per thousand for the best and
SIG forthe next grades.
Elliot Hendricks u acting as clerk a
Hotel Windsor, in Eddy, be taking ths
place made vacant by the goiug Of G
M. Blair.
Anastacio q. Torres was In Socorrc
visiting his family, and left for Palo
mas to continue the public school al
that place.
Ed. Brown arrived in Las Cruces
and has purchased Of Jeff Isaacks anc
w. w. Cox 500 head OF choice cattle
to be sent to pasture in Kansas.
The highest temperature for the
month of December, as recorded by
the weather bureau for New Mexico,
was IS degrees, at Eddy, on the 30th,
The Cochiti gold mining company
Is orgacizad under the state laws Of
News Jesay. capitalization, $50, 00C
shares at the par value Of So per share.
Mrs. Samuel Roberts was hostess al
a heart party in EDDY, in honor OF hei
sister. Miss Mary Abel, OF New York,
who is spending the winter with her In
that place.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Price, oil
Socorro, celebrated the twenty-ffth
anniversary Of their marriage in the
midst of their family and near
relatives.
The old dead grass has been burned
off Of the court house yard, down at
Eddy, that the new shoots of green
may have better opportunity to show
themselves.
II. i. Bellamy is now employed in
Tyson & McConneli's drug store, down
at Las Cruces. He has had five years.
experience as a drug clerk in Kankakee,
Ill.,, his native city.
Mrs. w. w. Ward, who suffered a
dis!ocaticn Of the jaw, at Eddy, is
again under tho physicians care,
neuralgia Of the stomach being the
CUupidlub luis ilm6.
Simon Labonrie. nephew of Rev.
Pedro Lassaigne, writes TO his uncle at
Las Cruces that he is now residing IN
Lyons, France, and is greatly improved
both 10 mind and body.
George II. West, Of Greeley, Colo,
who has been making a tou of all the
sugar beet districts of the country, |
Visited Eddy, and has put In the time
since looking over the situation there.
Noah Ballard, well known in Las
Cruces, had the misfortune to have his
collar bone broken while attempting to
move some machinery in the new
cynide mill ct Faulkner near H%lllsboro.
Over fifty guests gathered at the
home OF DR.. and Mrs. Duncan, down
:. socqrro, and spent the evening at
progressiye high five. Mrs. e. L
Browne won the first prize for the
a lhandsome cut glass vase.
A woman named Bsnlna Sais,
thought to be insane, walked into So
zorro from some small place near San
N&rciaI, where, It is said, she nursed
her g~randchild, down with the small
pox. The health officers soon captured
her.
e. Merrill, the superintendent of the
Cochiti mining company, left Bland
for Denver, where he will meet Messrs
Pcsey and Coram, and assist in the
awarding OF contracts for the machin-
cry for the mill.
At the present time there are over
sixty men at work for the Cochiti gold
mining company, the recent pur-
OF the .Albemarle" group,
and nstensib!y the ones which lately
aud bonded the "Crown Point
group.
q. w. Briggs, for many years con-
pected VITA Montgomery Ward & Co.,
correspondent, is 0 boarding
With s. w. Ktzsr, dewn at Las Cruces,
Mr.. Briggs was also on the reportial
staff of the Chicago Tribune for q
short time.
Pat Coghlan and wife still occupy
their old homestead at Three Rivers.
The loesSion is a perfect paradise, the
residence being the finest in that
Of New Mexico and stands in
the midst of as fac an orchard OF mag
nificent Californis fruit as is to be
seen in this Territory.
q. X. Miilard, who has been looking
after the interests OF The Little Fanny"
people in the recent struggle with the
Colonial company for the possession OF
certain mining property 10 the Mo
gollon distric', Socorro county, left Tor
Silver City, and was overtaken by a
telegram announcing his success.
+ M. Kealer was compelled to shoot
. valuable riding animal belonging to
Miss jeanette Watellet, down o
Socorro. During the preceding night,
the mare had attempted to jump a
picket fence and was so fearfully IN
| ared BY the sharp points thet death
b. shooting was the mercifui end.
A Taarxxssa lady. Mrs j. w. Towle, OF