Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-11-05

first payment on printing office
He now owns the Daily News-Repub.
lican at Hobart, Oklahoma, besides
his farm and fine city residence,
and Is getting on well In the world In
every particular. He was a candidate
from the new country" for delegate
to the Chicago national convention
and was chosen As alternate. going
to that city, his former home. as such,
city that he had left only few
months before to seek fame and for
tune.
Don Davisson.at one time years ago,
about the only Job printer In Las We
gas who could be relied upon for
tirst.class work turned out in the
highest style known to the art, is
still with the Pueblo Chieftain, in
the capacity Of assistant foreman. He
owns valuable well-stocked ranch
out from Colorado Springs. on which
his sister, recently married, resides
Frank Michaels. remembered by
the printers who abounded In the
southwest in the days of hand compo-
sition, before the type-setting ma.
chimes came around to throw the boys
out OF employment. is ad setter on the
Pueblo StarJournal.
Jim Burnett, lame bootblack in
Las Vegas in the early sos, desti-
tute and deserving, has amassed
snug fortune in Guthrie. He went to
that territory at the opening and in
vested what money he made In city
property. 1t enhanced in value rapid
ly and made him independently rich.
Curly" Caldwell. who drove hack
for J s. Duncan when Dan Rhodes,
the veteran and most successful hack
man in all the southwest, was punch
ing cattle on the range, Is now a prac-
tising attorney al Weatherford, o. t.
and candidate on the democratic
ticket for the territorial legislature
After leaving New Mexico he was
elected sheriff of county in Nebras-
ka and Cleveland appointed him re-
ceiver of the U. s. land office at King
fisher, O. t. Mr. Caldwell is married
and has a son older than the father
was when he handled the reins over
Duncan's prancing steeds.
J. A. c. ("Red'D Minner. lucky
and polite hack driver in the early
and lively days of Las Vegas and who
has since cavorted around the coun-
try considerably, has struck it rich in
/. Guthrie, He is popularity well known
throughout Oklahoma, having resided
at Kingfisher, where he married a
handsome young widow with two
bright little daughters, and at other
places in that favored land He is pro,
prietor of the saloon run as an annex
to the Hotel Royal at Guthrie and
never made money faster in his life
and that is saying great deal for
Cal Minner, as he is familiarly
known in that city of eight railroads
and a prosperous future. He is the
best dressed man in the city,caters to
! first-class trade, and has decided
and appreciated pull in politics.
| Mrs Hornberger, whose husband
was passenger conductor running
out of Las Vegas many years ago
) and who at one time fairly coined
money as proprietor of the st. Mich
olas hotel, made the run to Guthrie,
Oklahoma, single-handed and alone
when that section of country was
opened to SETTLEMENT fifteen years
ago She staked out claim in what
was then supposed TO be the middle
Of street but subsequently she
found herself located on a corner lot
within block Of the main business
street of the now capital city, with a
population of 10000 souls She built
herself nice home there and is liv-
ing in ease and comfort.
Mrs. Hornberger, whose husband
hand and worried his pocket book at
railroad contracting, after having LETT
Roswell, has been heard from in OK
lahoma where he viii likely locate on
ranch and take life easier for
while.
George Biser, formerly of Las We
gas. is still foreman in the Santa re
shops at La Junta, Colo, and is SAID
TO he next to c. NJ. Taylor, division
mechanical superintendent, in line oil
promotion His son. Harry. VIE and
child also hold forth in that railroad
town, to which the building of the
new Santa Fe shops means every