Las Vegas daily optic., 1900-04-26

The people Of Old Albuquerque hay,
organized and intend to improve the
historic plaza.
At Bland cochitl Tribe No. Is va,
instituted with charter membership
Of thirty-four.
L B. Miller has sold his interests
lately purchased from MelinI & Eakin
at Albuquerque. back to the firm.
James suffren and family, who spen,
the winter in Albuquerque. have de
parted for their home in Virginia. Ill
Col. w s. Fletcher, of Santa Fe. has
been appointed messenger and extra
clerk in the surveyor generals once.
Mrs. w. R.Price. OF Santa Fe. has
gone to Burlington Flats. N. Y. 10 visit
q married daughter for month or 40.
A decree Of divorce was granted in
the case Of Ermine L. Schwenk vs..
Edward w. Schwenk. at the Aztec
court.
At Madrid tribe was instituted. to
be known as Glorieta Tribe No. IA.
1t starts out with fortyone charter
members.
Baltazar, the one-year-old child of
Juan Lucero, was buried from the old
cathedral in Rosario cemetery at
Santa Fe.
Fred Higgins has purchased a nice
corner lot south Of c. D. Bonney at
Roswell and will erect a brick resi-
dence thereon.
Solicitor General E. L. Bartlett, re-
turned to Santa Fe from visit to Cal
ifornia, where he spent several weeks
with Mrs. Bartlett
The Mutual automatic telephone
company has revised its telephone list
at Albuquerque and is distributing new
books to its subscribers.
Messrs. Loper and Gambrill bought
q section of land fourteen miles below
Roswell and contracted with ]. H.
Fox for an artesian well.
Mrs. T. B. Cat-oa left Santa Fe for
Battle Creek, Mich, where she will
remain several weeks for the benefit
If her health at the sanitarium in that
city.
H. G. Petty and R. L. Miller have
purchased three lots north of the
court house square at Roswell and
have begun the erection of lodging
house.
Lieutenant George Curry, Of Alamo
gordo, is gaining distinction in the
Philippines. He with sixty scouts led
the charge at San Mateo and did excel
lent work.
Mrs. l. r. Sheckles, who had been
caring for the fifteen-year-old daughter
of L. c. Houck and wife at Redlands,
Cal, for the past few months returned
to Albuquerque.
The ladies of the Presbyterian
church at Roswell are going to have
charge of the floral display at the
street fair for the benefit of their
church building fund.
Messrs. Robt. Kellahin, r. L. Miller |
Chas. Mcdonald, c. F. Brown, and G.
H. Poll, all well-known business men
of Roswell, have formed the New Mex
leo 1ncandescent light company.
W. E. Thacker, manual training
teacher at the Albuquerque govern
ment Indian school, has been trans
ferred to the position Of disciplinar-
Ian at the Indian school at Genoa,
Neb.
Lots of superior iron is being taken
out near Glorieta for use as fux at the
Cerrillos smelter, and much prospect
ing is being done in the vicinity OF
Glorieta and some promising ore has
been found.
w. H. Godair has been hard at work
in Roswell, putting in place the ma
chinery for his brick and tile factory
and the plant will turn out 10000 brick
day and give employment to a large
number of men.
The management has already ac-
cumulated about 500 tons OF Magda-
lena ore at the Cerrillos smelter, and is
receiving more every day. So 1t Is
safe prediction that the plant will soon
resume operations.
A pension of SIT a month has been
granted to Mrs Berenice K. Luna
widow of the late Lieut.. Maximiliano
Luna, who lost his life while crossing
the river Agno with General Lawton
In the Philippines.
In the case of the Territory VS.. ). w.
Ray, found guilty Of murder in the
second degree, the court at Albuquer-
que overruled the motion for a new
trial and sentenced the prisoner to
twenty years in the pen.
number of San Marcial people
have received neatly engraved station
.ery. sent from Pittsburg, Pa. by Mr..
and Mrs. John Loeffler, announcing
the marriage of their daughter, Mary
Rachel. to Frederick Weckerle.
W H. Eisfeld and wife. newly
welded couple from San Antonio
Tex although they register at the
Grand Central from Terre Haute. Ind.'
are in Albuquerque and they will prob
ably remain for a few days.
Simon Neustadt, the big general
merchant of Los Lunas, reports bust
ness very good in his town, and that
the farmers along the Rio Grande
80 .to~ aava nrf.