Las Vegas daily optic., 1900-04-27

nome near Cimarron. Colfax county
The Silver City public schools win
close the present term On june sth
New books are being constantly ada
ed to the high school library At Ratio.
Rev. sheafor. Of Ration. conductes
the funeral Of Mrs. NJ. M. Chase. d
Cimarron.
A mysterious bundle was found In
some bushes near Hillsboro. It con-
tained the body OF a newborn infant
Married, at catskill, by R. Butler
justice OF the peace. Peter Dondenno
to Mrs. McNaren. both OF Evans Mnl
camp.
Mrs. Trinidad Garcia died in East
Ration of consumption. aged about
fOrty-hve years. She leaves daugh.
ter to mourn.
DR.. w. R. Powell. Of Philadelphia.
Pennsylvania, owner of the Conf
dence mill at Elizabethtown. passed
through Ration.
J. R. Kissee, of Cripple Creek, Colo.
RADIO, and Mrs. Magdalene Jones, Of
San Antonio, Texas. were married at
Ration, by Rev M. Armstrong.
D. Risdon, of Ration. completed a
good substantial bridge over the Una
de Cato about half a mile above Ian
don Moore's ranch. Colfax county.
In twenty-six Of the school districts
in Mora county the schools have been
closed down already for this term, in
order to avoid deficits in the school
funds.
Under the new city administration
at Ration all the streets and alleys as
well as the private yards are becoming
neat and clean. Let it be so in Las
Vegas.
Jose Fresquez, of Ration, has been
appointed census enumerator for dis
trict SS, which is composed of Max
well City, Dorsey and Chico Springs,
Colfax county.
Denver parties have commenced
work on copper prospects near Lucero,
Mora county, and the alum deposits
eighteen miles east of Wagon Mound
are also to be worked
The Young Mems Catholic club at
Albuquerque, have completed all ar
rangements for their annual ball,
which will be held on Monday evening
next at the Armory hall.
Capt. E. S. Walker, of the Eighth
United States infantry and son of
Judge J. H. Walker, of Ration, has
been detailed as chief commissary of
the department of Alaska.
Francisco Gonzales y Baca and
others are opening up body of fine
looking bituminous coal on new
claim located about three and half
miles northeast of Santa Fe
1t is claimed that every ingredient
essential to the manufacture of glass
Of all kinds abounds within three
miles of Ration and the establishment
of glass works there is suggested.
Those desiring positions of cadet in
the revenue cutter service should re-
member that examinations will be
made at the postoffice in Albuquerque
on the 18th, 18th and 18th of May.
Bob Campbell. late of Albuquer-
que, is at his old tricks again and has
'mysteriously" disappeared from Grip
pie Creek, where he held a position
with the Postal telegraph company.
The March report of the New Mex
leo weather bureau shows that the
mean temperature for the month at
Las Vegas and Santa Fe ranged mid
way between the 40 and As degree line.
The Ration coal and coke company
have been mining and shipping 1,50O
tons of coal day and it is positively
known that that output will be main
tanned or increased during the summer
H. B. Ferguson left Albuquerque
on trip to White Oaks to look after
his mining interests. Mr.. Ferguson
Is one of the four principal owners in
the famous "Old Abe gold mine, dowr
there.
It is feared that the last cold wave
destroyed most of the fruit in Sierra
county, but the local papers eUtract
comfort from the fact that it also hat
a depressing effect upon the gushing
spring poet.
On the evening of Tuesday May Is
the Cresto Mathean literary societ.
at Ration will give its last entertain
ment this term and an extra effort i
being made by the members to hav
a fine program.
Sam w. Agee, of Silver City. re
ceived the gratifying intelligence tha
he, with one other student, had bee
awarded the alumni prize of the s.
Louis college of pharmacy for exec
lent work in the junior course.
At the north end of the Magdalenai
in Socorro county. and ten miles nortl
west of the north end of the Magda
lenas, there are strong veins of higl
grade copper glance ores with silve
values running up to fifty ounces.
The ranges of Mora county are
fine condition, and cattlemen wi
make more money this year than eve
before. The sheepmen will have
larger percentage of lambs in the
iiocks than at any time in ten years.
Charles Fisher, one of the employ'
of the local house Of Gross, Blackwe
& Co., in Albuquerque, has enter'