Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-11-05
FORMER LAS
vECANS NET
A Few People Who Once Lived
Here Run Across.
ALL SEEM TO
BE DOING WELL
Young Men of a Few Years Ago
Making Their Mark. Old
Friends Among Them


Col. James A. Lockhart is at the
head of the Lockhart Live Stock Co
at Rocky Ford, Colo, where he fed
5000 head of cattle last year and
topped the Kansas City market with
them at every shipment. His feeding
facilities cannot be surpassed, he
having just closed another five-year
contract with the American Beet Su-
gar Co., for the pulp from their big
sugar factory at Rocky Ford. Will
Lockhart is member of the com
pany that bears his fathers name
and Jimmie Lockhart is located some
where in Old Mexico. The family
residence is still maintained in Colo
RADIO Springs.
Charley Collins, a former Optic
pressman, and who before coming to
the Meadow City was engaged in the
butcher business at Chetopa, Kansas,
alongside of r. w. Hayward, is still
holding forth at Rocky Ford and vi
cinity, where he is making good
money and saving it for that pro-
verbal rainy day that comes in every
mans life.
W. G. Anderson, late of The Optic,
has associated himself with
r. c. Howard, an old printer
and editor, in the publica-
ton of the Daily Traveller at Arkan-
sas City, Kansas. They have neat,
we'll equipped office. occupying two
stories and are publishing as spright-
Iy "A paper perhaps as the town can
afford Till lately they had employed
as foreman of their composing room
an intelligent Indian who had been
educated in the Chilocco Indian
school, across the line in Oklahoma,
where a number of young men from
New Mexico are making men OF
themselves.
W. NJ. Whitelaw, who was among
the small army Of '79ers to come to
Las Vegas from Hutchinson, Kansas,
Is now an attorney in Kansas City
and said to be holding his own
among the best of them. The wife
whom he married here has joined the
majority, survived by two children,
and Mr.. Whitelaw has taken unto
himself another helpmeet.
John p. Hopper. member Of the
firm of Hopper Bros. here, something
like a quarter of century ago, is
now growing up with the country at
Shawnee, Oklahoma, where he is en-
gagged in the grocery business. He
was the third grocer to locate in that
thriving city and there are at pres.
eut that many dozen there.
Rev. Johnson. who had charge Of
the A. NJ f. flock here, has been sta
toned at Arkansas City, Kansas by
his conference.
Travis F. Jones, who engineered
the big dicker with ]. ID. Hand for his
landed interests out at Los Alamos.
presumably resides in Waco. Texas,
though he is often met on the street,
of Oklahoma City. where he has mon
ey invested and which Is said to be
the best CITY of its age and size In
the United States.
J. w. Lynch is leading spirit in
affairs at Ponca City, Oklahoma, and
is one of the wealthy men OF that
Territory. He is engaged in the land
business. owning many blocks of city
propertv himself, both improved and
unimproved. and his large office Is
almost always thronged with health
seekers, home,seekers and investors.
He also has extensive property In
terests in Fort Worth and at other
points in Texas Mr.. lynch hfS ''p-
resented his district in the Territorial
legislature. where he characteristics
ly introduced a bill legalizing train
robbery OF course II was zone loI
purpose and that purpose was IKE
lv subserved by the introduction OF
the measure.
Omer X. BENEDICT. a typo on The
Optic a decade ago. went to Oklaho-
ma three years ago when the Kiowa
Indian reservation was thrown open
to actual settlers. He drew a farm
a, the government drawing. proved
up on It, and continued work at a
printers case till be had gotten to-