Las Vegas daily optic., 1900-05-02

J. H. Lightfoot Is putting in demo
cratic paper at Captain.
The White Oaks ~EaeIep is addin,
new machinery and types TO It's once
Messrs. Roy Lackey and John sprin,
made final proof on their homestead.
It Clayton.
The lambing season is now on and
the. sheepmen Of Socorro county re
port an excellent crop.
The three-year-old son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Ignacio Baca died at the parents
home n Los Barelas. BernalIlIo coun
ty.
Each Of the literary societies Of
the Albuquerque University. win give
an entertainment before the close Of
school.
The second annual ball Of the
Young Mems Catholic club, at Albu-
querque. proved to be very success
full affair.
A. Ridgeway has been selected 70
take the place Of F. !. Marsh as super.
intendent of'the "Old Abe" coal mine.
at White Oaks.
There is now no longer any ques-
tion but that Bland win be provided
with railway facilities by October next
at the farthest.
William Teeple. father Of A. r.
Teeple, cashier of the Pecos system.
arrived in Roswell with his family
from Baird. Tex.
H. E. Wilson. clever young attor-
ney, formerly of Denver, whose shin
gle now swings in the wind at Bland,
visited Albuquerque
At the residene OF John T. Stone
down in Roswell, d. c. Thomas and
Miss Annie Yeary were married, Rev.
Hancock officiating.
Hills & Montoya. of Socorro, sold
their entire stock Of range horses from
yearlings up for IS per head to King
& Son, of La Junta, Colo
The Toledo, (Ohio) Times" pub
fishes long interview with A. R. Glib
son, of Santa Fe, who is at present in
'the states" in the interest Of the Co
chiti tunnel company.
Mrs. George W. Johnson of Albu--
querque, was the victim of runaway
accident which resulted in her sus-
tanning very painful but not perma-
nent or dangerous injuries.
The Indian trading store of G. F.
Jones at Gallup was burned to the
ground and all the contents were de-
stroyed. The loss was $4,000. Only
$500 insurance was carried.
Frank Large captured six young 10
bos last week near Lea lake, east Of
the Pecos, and succeeded in poison
ing the mother after she had killed
twenty-five or thirty lambs.
Waiter Jones, of the firm OF ]. w.
Jones & Co., of Frisco, Socorro county,
reports that his father, ]. w. Jones,
who went to Alabama in February for
his health, died on March 11th.
Miss Nofsinger, of st. Louis, who
went to Santa Fe for her health some
time ago, is filling the position Of stem
ographer in the office of Solicitor Gen
era1 e. L. Bartlett, in that city.
Luis Gonzales held up and robbed
Mrs. Oscar Funk and Miss Edith Will |
liams half mile from Santa Fe Their
stout resistance prevented his carry
ing out other british purposes.
Dr. T. p. Martin, secretary of the
New Mexico board of health, and for
years practicing physician at Taos |
recently received from Denver a strict |
ly up to date automobile or gasoline
carriage.
John " Barker, formerly connected
with the big mercantile institution of
Flournoy & Pickard Co., at Bland, left |
for Denver, where he will assume the |
management of an extensive mercan-
tile agency.
The Grown Point" group Of mines
at Bland have formally passed to the
control of w. J. Cartan, of Boston;
Samuel Newhouse. of Newhouse tunnel
fame at Cripple Creek and other Den
yer capitalists.
One of the Normal classes Of the Al
buquerque University recently took up
descriptive astronomy, though it is not
a requirement and the beautiful stars
of the skies are being observed with
increasing interest.
Ed Dodd, senior member of the
brick contracting firm of Dodd &
Lembke, returned to Albuquerque from
San Pedro, where he is manufacturing
$4,000 brick for the big Copper min
ing company OF that place.
B. F. Barnett returned to Ros-
well from the mountain country whith-
er he and Mr.. Honk went to purchase
cattle. They succeeded in buying
1000 head near San Marcial. Of
these 1900 are COTS and 500 yearling
heifers.