Las Vegas daily optic., 1900-03-02

A Traveller Tells Us Some Things He
Observed on His Travels.
[Kodaked tor Th e optIc.l

aufeftentlg laAl down tneIe-
A. B. Fail. Jno. d. Bryan and H. B.
Hamilton now stand up to the legal
rack in El Paso; also taking business
in their old homes in the territory.
The S. P. road gifts up and dusts"
as one negro said. and also totes de
mail" as another said just as truthful
ly. and raises sand as both might have
said. without contradiction.
Ducks. geese and quail are plenti-
full in the southern part of the terri
tory. and the hunters are taking ad-
vantage of the suspended quail law
in Dona Ana county, two men having
shot eighty one day recently.
A big prairie fire was raging along
the S. P. R. R. track on Monday even
ing. between Cambray and El Paso.
It undoubtedly originated from sparks
from the engine, and was seen from
Las Cruces as well as from other
points along the A. T. & S. F. r. R.
Justice Of the Peace Newcomb. OF
Silver City, who dispenses justice
with an even hand, and gets there
with both feet at all the delightful so
cials there, is making the pistol toter
remember the law, and several bad
men have coughed up into the city
Golfer.
Ralph Halloran has been insurine
the unwary in Grant and Dona Ana
counties, and lost trunk in the
shuttle. He thought it would be
found at Albuquerque. going there
from force of habit-though it does
seem strained to say that any habit
in the trunk could have forced the
trunk to follow suit
The photograph man, with his mys
terious paraphernalia, and tuberculaI
attachment, or horn, or cornucopia
or some ne plus ultra business, with
which he gives phonny and graphic
accounts of ex-post facto happenings
in New York, or Boston, or Chicago
got on the train at Bernalillo Tues
day night for Santa Fe.
Dennis Sheppard, an honorably dis
charged Rough Rider. recently riding
more roughly on a freight train of the
A., T. & S. F. R. R., out of El Paso
pleaded guilty before U.S.Commission
er Chaffee, at Las Cruces Tuesday
for breaking the seal of a u. S
bonded ore car and was held to await
the action of the grand jury.
Civil Engineer p. E. Harroun, who
knows more about the current of the
Rio Grande than ((according to his
confession) about the current coin
of the realm, crawled out of his bed
early Wednesday morning, to catch
the 6 o'clock train out of Albuquer
que with stadia, rod and transit
bound for the low line ditch, hum
ming a distich as he bound.
There is a lovely stretch of land
as even as ball room floor, stretching
from the railroad at Las Cruces, III
to the town, certain block of which
is owned by the company. Not long
since they divided the same into lots
offered them for sale, with the result
that three new houses have beer
added to the community, and the city
is being built toward the railroad.
W. A. Buntain, a man of some res
erve, being as he is superintendent
of forest reserves Of Arizona and New
Mexico, fell up from Silver City Wed
nesday morning, where he had been
looking after the Mimbres, from
Grant courty-the Mimbres reserve
you know at the same time not init
mating that the Members from Grant
county, are without reserve, though
geographically they are without the
reserve, for sure.
G. A. Bandy, of Weatherford, Texas
is now running the Rio Grande hote
at Las Cruces. Bob Hatton, who fol
so many years wrestled with the
mathematical, financial, philosophical
moral and ethical questions naturally
as perplexing to the landlord as
sum in long division, having become
secretary to the Modoc mining com
pany and also being engaged in sell
ing mining supplies, which he likes
better than the hotel business, espe
cially as the activity in mining il
the Dona Ana county mines has flush
ed business at Las Cruces, and Boil
gets his share.
The ladies OF the Women's improve
ment association of Las Cruces, wht
have done so much to convert waste
sand into veritable Chinese garder
park, with its umbrella China trees
over the tops of which can be seen {
delicious little bit of oriental pagods
work in the center of the park, never
tire in well doing, which is expected
of them, of course, being women, Coz
bless EN-. Last Tuesday night they
gave the old fashioned, but never ia
tiguing play called "Deestrict Skule.
Some well meaning persons became
so absorbed that they came near miss
ing the train. The proceeds went to
ward improving the park.
There is a Chinese "open door
near El Paso, which the government
has no desire to keep open, but /.
largely sought by the almond-eyed Of
the orient. Marshal Foraker, Asst
U. S. Attorney Money and Chinese In
spector Mehan, had eight deported