Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-06-26
THE TERRITORY.
Brief Resume OF the Important
DOings in New Mex
leo Towns.
MINES, FARMS, RANGES, ETC.

The advice of a Silver City butcher
TO try a boil" is being unanimously
declined.
Adolph Whitzel Of Silver City has
secured a lease on the famous Baltic
mine at Chloride.
NJ. w. Murphy has the contract for
carrying mails between Silver City
and Fort Bayarl.
abandoned their boats and are learn
ing to walk again.
Recent assays from ore in Gold
Gulch, Grant county, run from twelve
ounces 70 $4,000 10 the ton.
As an evidence Of good faith, Man
ager Cheatham of the Alyarado Is put
ting a new pair Of scales in the store
room.
4 tramp locked up in a refrigerator
car in Las Vegas for three days had
a decidedly frigld manner when re-
leased.
An Albuquerque reporter complains
of being attracted "by a hubbub of
noise, such as hammering, pounding
and other noise"
Los Angeles capitalists have paid
$4,000 for a "a interest in the
Casino group of mines in the Bald
mountain district.
Passengers from the north last even
ing reported passing through a ire
mcndous hail stom in Golfax county.
1t is said fully three inches fell.
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The secretary Of the interior has
approved selections made by the ter
ritory Of New Mexico Of 2,23S acres
lof land in the Las Cruces land district
to be used for a miners hospital.
The National association OF dancing
masters has adopted a new dance
called the La-Kow-Ta. A New Mexico
editor who has seen it says il is a
cross between a schottische and an
epileptic fit"
Sheriff Jas. X. Blair. has returned
to Silver City from Chihuahua, Mex,
with Ambrosio Mendoza, who MUIR
dered little Julia Werney several years
ago. Blair Swallowed his man for six
weeks before he got %extradation pa
pers from the Mexican government.
B. Ruppe of Albuquerque has re-
turned from a trip to the Grand Out
vera with a new theory regarding the
place. The remarkable feature is that
this theory which Mr.. Ruppe has
evolved from his inner consciousness
is exactly that advanced by the most
|eminent arc~haeologists.
The following funds were received
at the office OF j. II. Vaughn, terrific
rial treasurer, yesterday: From Il. w.
Hubert. collector and ex-offieio treas
urer Of Lincoln county, $4,779.52, taxes
for 1902; from II. o. Bursom, super.
|%intendent of the territorial peniten-
|tiary, $3.50, convicts' earnings.
Still Doing Business: The New Mex
leo Insane asylum at Las Vegas con
ltinnes to do business in spite of the
investigation just closed. II will soon
receive another patient in the person
|of Bias Luna, a Valencia county man
who vas adjudged insane by Judge
BAKER and ordered committed to the
institution at once. Luna Is undoubt-
edly insane. He Is at times violent
land has TO be carefully guarded.
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Surveys Ordered: Orders have been
issued at the office of the surveyor
general for the official survey of the
Scarlet lode, mineral survey No. l1bl,
situated in the Red River mining dis
trict in Taos county. II. Ii. Brown
and others are the claimants and the
Survey IS TO be made By William Me-
Kean OF Taos, United States deputy
mineral surveyor. Also for the Off
/ STOMACH Ills.
A weak stomach IL the cause Of all
sickness. The blood becomes imniro