Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1905-06-22

purchase or otherwise acquire. sell or
otherwise dispose Of. real estate and
personal property rs the purposes OF
the lodge shall require, The term OF
existence Is MT wears, and the prin'
cipal place of business Is Ration. with
John Joerns as manager.
Mineral Surveys Ordered. =.
Surveyor General NJ, o, ~iewellyn
has ordered an official survey made
OF the Key group, comprising the Key
No ., Key No. B.. Grand Mogul.
and Dora b. lode mining claims. sit
uate IN the silver Mountain mining
district IN Socorro county. The
claims are owned by the Mines Dew
clopmcnt Company. through James q.
Fitch. Of Socorro. as agent. Tho sur
vey viii he made by United States
Deputy Mineral Surveyor oliver r.
Smith. OF Socorro,
Overcome BY Cas-
Wednesday morning Of last week
about 2 o'clock. MelQuiades Baca. Nv
ing about a mile south OF Pinos Wells.
went into his well TO repair the pump.
he was overcome by foul gas and fell
into the water, drowning. His helper,
= sheepherder from Old Mexico, went
to his assistance and met a like fate.
The well is about $50 feet deep and
contains 50 feet Of water. Mr., Baca
was n brother OF Hon. Carlos Baca,
Of Valencia county. who owns
the ranch on which the fatalities &C.
Creamery Started.
Roswelrs creamery started Mon.
lay, Manager Hobson had everything
ready for the opening and the plant
will be put In operation with the
Of milk from 500 COWS. II Is
he hope OF the management to in.
the number OF contributing
TO fifteen hundred. The cream
Try Is located in the Hohson-Lowe
building. where the cold storage plant
s operated. one door west Of the post.
,ffice. 7. II. Garesline is Ia charge as
,utter.maker and he will be assisted
" Albert Hobson. The success of
his enterprise Is wished by all and
Is progress will be watched with in.
crest, says the Record.
New Uniforms. :.
Captain B. Ruppe. of Company G..
New Mexico National Guard, of Albu-
luerque, has received word from Ad-
iuiant General A. P. Harrington. at
Santa Fe. that the new uniforms of
lhaki for the use of the guards
throughout the territory. are now on
hand. and will be sent to the various
at once. The new uni
are the regulation field uni
of the regular army. and are
vastly superior to the regular uniform
by the guards. A recent rul-
ng In the war department was to the
effect that the national guard OF the
different states and territories rank
ed next to the regular army and
should In the future be supplied with
The same high class equipment that
The regulars are.
i~mpersonated an officer.
william MCCLELLAN. a mere youth,
was arrested at Albuquerque and
taken before Justice of the Peace
Craig. on the charge Of i'm
..ersonating an officer. The COM
plant was made by a certain liquor
dealer in that city. who charges that
had been calling him up
over the telephone during the past
few days and threatening to arrest
him for alleged violations of the law,
He called up this man again. and
while in the act Of talking was cap
tured by Constable James Smith. The
young man was taken before Judge
Craig and given a preliminary hear.
ing. He pleaded not guilty, and was
to the county jail in de-
fault OF $50 bonds, to await the &C.
ton of the grand jury.
Top Price for Wool.
Fred J. Otero returned to Albuquer-
que from Rio Arriba and Taos coun-
ties. where ha has been closing up the
work of making the wool clip from the
Otero sheep ranches in those counties.
He was In Espanola several days and
as a result Bond Brothers, the Espa-
nola merchants, have contracted the
entire clip at twenty-four cents a
pound. which Is Just m cent under
the top price paid this season in the
southwest. The contract calls for the
delivery of from 10000 to $4,000
pounds. although Mr.. Otero says that
the entire clip will aggregate fully
$4,000 pounds. The Otero ranges lie
in Rio Arriba. Taos. and San Juan
counties and the sheep are among the