Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1903-03-13
New Mexico News seissored Bodily
From the Newspapers

months with friends In tucson
Sunday, March Is, in Silver City, a
game OF baseball will be played be-
tween Fort Bayard and Deming.
Spring is being ushered in by a most
enjoyable list Of caro- parties and even.
ing entertainments in Silver City.
Mrs. C. c.. Shoemaker has been i'll
for the past few days at Silver City,
being threatened with pneumonia.
VIM. f. Armstrong came into Hach.
tia from Separ. He expects to make
his home there in the near future.
Oliver c. Bosbyshell of San Francis
CO. arrived in Lordsburg to accept a pc-
sition in the Southern Pacific office.
Mrs. w. H. Jack LEFT Silver City for
Los Angeles OF a pleasure trip. Mrs.
Jack expects to return in about two
weeks.
H. D. Gilbert, of Silver City who
has been i'll for a couple Of weeks. is
mp and about again feeling very much
improved.
Jackson & Avis are making arrange
ments for q franchise to construct an
electric line to the College addition of
A1amogordo.
The work on DR.. Crocker's house in
Lordsburg is progressing rapidly, and
the new abode promises to be a very
attractive home.
Oscar Wood, the Hachita Mercantile
company's genial clerk, has returned
there after an absence of some weeks
ON a home visit.
Mr.. and Mrs. John McCabe went out
to their ranch at the Anamas from
L~ordsburg. where they intend remain
ing for some time.
The report has reached Silver City
that Mrs. George Turner, neo Miss
Florence Laizure, is the proud mother
of a bouncing boy.
The Silver City baseball men are be-
coming enthusiastic and active, having
done some successful practicing dur
ing the past week.
The Deming high school girls have
sent a challenge for a game of basket
ball with the Silver City NormaIs at
Deming Monday, March 10th.
Four teachers of Alamogordo. weary
ing Of the blessings of boarding house
life. have gone to keeping house, not
"baching." however. because they are
not bachelors.
Judge Lucius p. Deming spent sew
eral days in Silver City attending to
purchasing supplies and necessaries
for conducting his furnishing Burro
mountain camp.
A most enjoyable card party was
given in Silver City at the home of
Mrs. 10 e. Sheridan. All the guests
were loud in their praises of their
evenings enjoyment.
The canaigre pant and other weeds
are coming through the ground the
past few days in Pennington and these.
as well as the warm showers. make
a decidedly spring like feeling.
Allen J.. Culver and A. j. Downs have
located the Dobbin mining claim in
the Silver Hill. Jarilla. district. Proof
of labor on the High Five mining
claim has been filed by j. L. Taylor
and S. NJ. Perkins.
News comes to Alamogordo from Ell
Paso that Miss Silva Jordan and Will
Smith, were married in Ell Paso last
to Arizona to reside, but meeting a for
mer sutton, was induced to wed.
The concert given by the Silver
City Normal mandolin club and Prof.
E. l.. Dunlavy at Fort Bayard was pro-
nounced a success. The club and Sill
vcr City visitors were royalty enter
tanned after the concert by the off,
GERS a their club house.
Mrs. Bertha Miller, suffering from
consumption. died on n of the snow
bound trains Of the E. p. & N. E. rail-
way. The body vas prepared by A. j.
Buck OF A~lamogordo and shipped to
Chicago. accompanied by the husband,
J. NJ. Miller, of Pittsburg.
C. w. Clapp left Lordsburg for Silver
City. having been summoned there by
the grand jury to be present during the
hearing of the case of the Mexican
Cheverea. who was arrestd several
weeks g on the charge of stealing
dry goods from an S. p. freight al
The Badly Tunnel people are work
ing two shifts and are making good
Roadway. The breast of the tunnel
is looking good and they expect to
cut a good vein in the near future.
The stock in the Gold and Copper
Deep Tunnel Mining and Milling com
pany went from thirty to fifty cents
per share on Feb. 20.
DR.. C. G. Cruikshank visited Alamo
gordo. He is working up a big irriga-
ton enterprise in the San Andreas
mountains, has had q reservoir site
surveyed and xpects to make 10000
acres Of land productive. A Company
has been incorporated and the plan is
far advanced.
Sheriff j. X. Blair returned to Silver
City from a trip in which he has been
In search of Mexicans who have been
making away with any burros which
they could lay hands on. Three OF
these Mexicans were found and arrest
ed by Sheriff Blair. who Immediately
brought them into Silver City, where
hey now await their trial.