Las Vegas daily optic., 1900-03-02
EXTRACTS FROM EXCHANGES.
New Mexico News scIssored sodlIv
From the Newspapers.

Work has again been started on the
piacers N tie San Juan river.
William Modden. Of Vernon county.
No. has located near Pennington.
Mr.. and Mrs. celso Ancador. Of Jua.
rez. Mex have located at Las Cruces.
Gustave Bero is erecting flve-room
brick dwelling house at Pennington.
Bryant Rhea has accepted a clerical
position with Coin & Burns at Ration.
W. Kershner, F. Briggs and ]. c.
King have leased the Palace" saloon.
up at Ration.
Mrs. A. s. Bundy is the new teacher
in the primary department Of the
Bland school.
c. Post has been elected president
of the senior class of the agricultural
college in Las Cruces.
Mrs. Walter King left Ration
for Maitland, Colorado. where she win
ANo40C viii lltlI luOlnCI.
Harvey Townen, of Tulluride, Colo,
has settled near Pennington. and viii
engage in horticulture.
G. W. Mcneil, of New York city, a
knight Of the pencil, is the latest ar
rival at Elizabethtown.
Pedro Martin and Miss Francisco
Fisher were united in wedlock at
Ration by Rev. Juan Sandoval.
The Maxwell house at E'town is
filled to overfiowing these days, with
prospectors. miners and capitalists.
The Dona Ana county commission
ers voted $50 toward defraying the
expenses of Prof. ]. G. Carrera at Paris
The Durango. Colo. postmaster is
working to secure a rural delivery
system for Aztec and Pennington, N.
M.
A meeting for the purpose of or
ganizing the Colfax county pioneer so
ciety will be held in Ration on March
10Th.
R. R. and A. e. Anxier, of Pike
vile, KY, who located at Las Cruces
for their health, have moved to El
Paso.
Burns & GARDENERS assay Office at
Red River will soon open for the ac-
commodation of the miners of that
camp.
Fourteen families will move from
Fruitland to locate along the new mod
ell ditch being constructed near Farm
ington.
M. M. Chase, the big cattle and
sheep raiser, was in Ration, the guest
of his daughter, Mrs. c. B. Kohl
housen.
Rilla, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. j.
w. Kight, was married at Farming
ton at her home to Clement Russell
of Durango, Colo.
An elocutionary entertainment will
be given at the court house in Santa
Fe March 23d, under the auspices OF
the Platonian literary society.
1t is rumored that Prof Haverkampf
has received the appointment OF post
master at the ,Jemes Hot Springs over
It's present incumbent, Col. Franc
Perea of that place.
Demetrio Melendes, a miner work
ing for Johnson & Ernest on their
claim near the "Anson S" at Hanover
Grant county, was terribly injured by
an explosion Of giant powder.
Judge ]. v. Humphrey, of Junction
City, Kan; A. Foss and w. A. Conner
have organized a company capitalized
at 100000 to work on the Monometal-
lie group in Dona Ana county.
There is a scarcity at E'town Of
teams for hauling. The Montezuma
company cannot put all its properties
in operation on account of not being
able to get in a sufficient supply Of
fuel.
Sheriff Garrett, of Dona Ana coun
ty, has arrested Win Cravens and
Will Mccall, brother-in-law, cowboys
who are said to have furnished horses
for the raid on the Bowman bank at
Las Cruces.
c. B. Rogers, formerly with the In
ternational machinery company at 81
Paso, is superintendent Of the "Modoc"
mine at Organ. The mine en-
ploys thirty men. and will soon make
large shipments.
A new strike of cube galena has
been encountered in the Bennett" at
Organ. The lead was struck below
body of tale, which was exposed
while clearing away debris which had
accumulated in an old drift.
1t is now maintained that the body
of Juan A. Velarde, of Gladstone, who
had been reported murdered in Col
fax county, has not yet been found,
previous reports to the contrary not
withstanding. One theory is that Vel
arde merely skipped the country.
The Torpedo company at Organ,
Dona Ana county, has forty miners
employed in running drifts. The $50
foot station has been put, and in the
drifts fro mthat. station the ore bodies
nave been located. The company
ships a car load every two days.
Bishop Scanlan's Visit.
From the Salt Lake Tribune"
Bishop Scanlan returned home late
Sunday night from his months trip