Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-03-11
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died in Las Cruces.
Ben Renfrow and VIM. Booth left
Captain for Belen where they will
work on the railway.
New drainage and new sidewalk are
being laid on the east side of the
school building in Gallup.
One case of diphtheria is reported
in Gallup. Mrs. Vilgilia Masoero be-
ing the unfortunate person.
The little child of Mr.. and Mrs. M.
iup, died of spinal meningitis.
Miss lisa Pickles, who had her leg
broken at J. b. Dawson's a month ago,
left Maxwell City for Ration.
w. II. Burlaghe, deputy sheriff at
Clarkville. expects to make a trip
through southern Arizona soon.
Jacob Copeland was found dead last
week in bed in a little house where
he hadl been camping on Eagle creek.
Sergeant Patrick Karigan is contem-
plating the building of a new resi-
dence on his lots ON Hill avenue in
Gallup.
Mrs. w. w. Wilson of Johnson mesa
gave a dinner on February 2Sth in
honor of the 54th anniversary of her
husbands birth.
Justice DeShon, Of Gallup, sentenced
a couple of street fakirs t o five days
and Marshal Winders has been using
them on street work.
Miss Nellie Winders, one of last
years High school girls of Gallup, has
been employed as substitute teacher
in Miss Ritchie's place.
The base ball season promises to be
a lively one for Gallup, as there are
several clubs in the neighborhood, and
all are gettingsready for business.
JEFF Bond arrived on the Bonito from
Texas. He is a brother of Fred Bond,
pastor of the NJ. E. church, anu comes
to make his home in New Mexico.
The Epworth League of Las Cruces
will give a literary social at Hatton's
hall, March 18th. Music, readings, rec
itations and refreshments. Admission
10 cents .
Married, at the Dawson House at
Maxwell City, Sunday evening, Thorn
as Mcbride andn Miss Ella Leather
man, both of Cimarron. Rev. Bollman
officiating.
Miss Beatric Cuniffe, daughter Of
Mrs. Henry CunIffe of Las Cruces.
who las been visiting Mrs. John H.
Riley at Denver for several months,
returned home. 4.
Luke Skinner. who has completed
100 feet on the Buckshot mines, at
Bonita, has returned to his home on
the mesa, where he will try farming
for the next few months.
Richard Hecksher of London, who
has been up to Clifton, looking after
the Clifton Consolidated mines, Of
which company he is president, came
down to Lordsburg and went to Los
Angeles.
The Montezuma band of Gallup, un-
der the leadership of Will McSparson,
is improving rapidly, and during the
summer months we understand the
band will try and arrange for some
out door concerts.
John Ballens and e. A. Van Week
have been in L~ordsburg from San An
tonic. Texas looking after their mining
interests. They, with other San AntO-
Mo people. are interested with Christ
Yaeger in the Virginia district.
The Shannon concentration has been
running in Lordsburg for adjustment.
The machinery works smoothly. Su-
p~erintendent Anderson expects the
tanks will be tight and free from
leaks. and then he will commence put
ting the ore through. q.
A. D.. Miller and Sudie Hammer were
married in Lordsburg by the Rev. w.
A. Dickey. Mr.. Miller is in the en-
ploy of the Lordsburg and Hachita
company al Hachita. where the newly
welded couple will make their home.
Ed. Compton was in Gallup recently.
and reports his oil well down about
$50 feet, and that water stands with
in about thirty feet of the surface.
This proves that plenty Of water for
i~rrisating purposes can easily be had
in The vicinity of Gallup.
FRS. James Roberts, of Maxwell City.
had a surgical operation performed for
appendicitis. The operation was per-
formed by a Trinidad physician and
DR.. Connect, of Ration. Mrs. Roberts
is doing as well as could be expected
under the circumstances.
The Gallup gymnasium bids fair to
be a decided C Rev. G.. l.. Pat
terson secured between forty and fifty
subscribers some weeks ago, COLLECT
ed their first dues and sem for suf-
icient apparatus with which to begin.
The Aberdine mine Of Lordsburg
shipped a car load of concentrates
to the Ell Paso smelter.
The oratorical contest at the College
in Las Cruces proved to be an exceed
ingly interesting and decidedly instruc-
tive occasion. President Foster open
ed the exercises with a thoughtful adj
dress on Advantage of O~ratorical
Contests" In which he said many
good things. The result Of the con-
test gave Mr.. John Freeman the first
prize of $40. his subject being 'The
Man Who Succeeds"
On Saturday evening, February 2Sth,
Ration Grove No 3. woodmen Circle,
was organized and the following off,
GERS were elected and installed by }.
H. Gam, deputy istaliing officer: Mrs.
J. C. Mason. Guardian; Mrs. Pym, Me-
gician; Mrs. Edith Etheridge, Atten-