Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-02-03
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New Mexico News Scissored Bodily
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From h Newspapers.
Three new railroads will be built in
central New Mexico this year.
The Union meat market at Carlsbad
changed hands, the Benson brothers
buying u w. P. Mcintosh, Jr. Guy
Benson will continue { o act as mana.
ger.
Invitations for an evening reception
on Friday, the 9Th of February, at the
executive mansion in Santa Fee by
Governor and Mrs. Otero have been
sent out.
Invitations have been issued at San
"a Fe for a card party to be given next
Wednesday afternoon by Miss Palen
in honor of her guest, Miss Rothgeb
OF Las Vegas.
A r. Gibson, who has been serious
ly ill at Santa Fe, is improving. 1t
will be, however, a week or ten DAYS
before he will be able to be out and
resume business.
w Z. Bass has bought the furniture
OF the Pecos Valley hotel at Carlsbad
n Will hereafter conduct thai hostel
ry, the owner. DIR. K. H.. Upton, retir-
ing from business.
H. G Abbott of Springer, one OF the
largest sheep growers of New Mexico
ana the west, on the opening day of
the national live stock convention.
read a paper on the sheep industry of
New Mexico.
Solicitor General E. l.. Bartlett at
Santa Fe has received from Delegate
h. 5. Rodey a copy of a letter sent by
that Official to the secretary of the in
terror regarding the disposition of the
Fort Marcy reservation.
Miss Juanita Zeiger, a popular and
attractive young lady whose home is
in El Paso. who has been attending
the Albuquerque high school, left for
her home. Her sister will remain in
Albuquerque until the end of the
school term.
q. M. Powers. who recently Il
chased the Trainer ranch on Rocky
Arroyo. arrived at Carlsbad from
Panhandle City, Texas, with a carload
of household goods and one of horses.
He will soon be settled in his new
home. and will considerably improve
the property.
J. X. Mallett, who for the past few
weeks has been serving as cashier in
the ~Rothenberg & Schloss Cigar Com
pany's retail house in Albuquerque.
has accepted the position of pharma-
cist in Inc Postal Pharmacy, succeed
ing w. r. Page, who goes to the L..
b. Putney wholesale grocery house.
Mr.. Chase of the ranch north of Cim-
arron has ten or twelve teams at work
building a large reservoir which will
take two months to complete. This
reservoir is expected to hold sufficient
water to irrigate his large orchard
and 200 acres of agricultural land. It
is a half mile up the Ponil from the
ranch home.
Tho force of clorkc in Tnhr Doob-
er's big store at Belen has beer in
creased by five or six and all hands
are kept busy until late at night. The
volume OF business that will be done
in Belen during the hex year or two
is bound to make it a hustling town
as is evry evident by reason oil the
present activity.
The limited accommodations of the
little town of Belen are crowded. ey-
cry bed n cot in town being taken.
Even the floor of the railroad station
is covered every night by snoring,
b~lanketed figures, while numerous
camp fires along the track are sur
dundee all day n all night by men
waiting for work.
James w. Wade of Victor. Colora.
do. accompanied by his son, arrived
at Carlsbad to make hat city his
home. He is a contractor and builder
and will engage in that business for
the present. though he is figuring on
the purchase of a farm. His family
will come as Dor as he can find a
house to live in.
Manager Cheatham of the Alvarado
hotel at Albuquerque, has instituted
a fire drill among his bell boys
Harry Mckay has been elected cap
tain OF the squad. Every night there
is n practice and every line of hose in
the building is tested. The boys arc
growing highly efficient unuder Capt
Mckay's instructions.
Mrs. t. ID. Burns of TERRA Amarillo
her two daughters, Mrs. Murray O.
Trinidad, Colo, and Miss Marguerite
Burns, have gone to the City of Mex
: leo. where they will remain durine
the coming two months. Miss Louise
Ortiz of the City of Mexico. who ha.
been the guest at the Burns home fol
several months. returned with them.
A one robber held up the store OF
Felix Grant and the saloon of j. B
Cam at Tres Piedras. The hold III
took place about 10 o'clock. In botl
cases the alarm was given before any
thing was secured. The man wore
mask. but he is thought to be a vel
known character of that vicinity. H,
was frightened away from both place,
before anything was secured.
The turquoise mines are located fiji
teen miles southwest of Silver City il
the Burro mountains. They were dis
C ared in 1888 and have been exten
si,oly worked since that date, produc
Ing gems Of rare beauty and value
No authentic statement a be had o
the value of the output. 1t is believe,
to be from $3.50, 900 to $500, 900. TIL,
exhibit of turquoise at the Buffalo es
position, which attracted SO much al
tention, was from the above mines.
The two men who were implicate,
in the robbery of the car of bulliOl
on the Ell Paso & Northeastern roa,
near Jarilla have been captured b
Deputy Sheriff Wilkinson while the
We're in camp about a mile from tn
Modoc mining camp. They are bot
young. one being about twenty-five
and the other t~wenty-eight years ole
They were taken to Alamogordo an
placed in jail. 1t is believed the great
err part of the bullion will be recover
ed.
Gross. Kelly & Co. are having
new 1.S00-foot siding put in at Beler
and the railroad company is also lay
ing 1000 feet of track on the opposit
side of the right of a just belO,
the station. Just now Gross, Kelly
Co.'S headquarters are in two or thre
tents near the station. Their ne'
building will probably be erected nea
h junction, and will go up just a
soon as possible. Mr.. C~avanaugh. tn
company's manager at Belen, is ha,
ing his hands full just at present.
The small bridges in this sectio
are badly u of ear and need fixin
some of them rebuilt. On the Cimal
ron road, especially, is this q fact, an