Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-12-29
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take the gFVal RasA Island raiir.ssa
and the 'rainmrn viii le3 >s,l nft at
Santa Rosa ard H.4u nt4l ~a1k 0..r
10 Las Vegas. ONLY ~lAa> tlA~ mills
II will afford yon a h" ',., og,lnptun:,,
20 write ~ the cU4a'g>. A." ah,. sn.,a
Is from three 10 t,u: f.ss deep and
y0u wont see anything IN: iach.ah
bits When YOU STRIFE The toxin ';n.
tts of Vegas you MAJ Hs4 furr In h. tl...
marshal and police fer u lot nj railr,ai
tFamps. They will undoubtedly take
you before a justice 0f tAe l~arx wau
can neither read. ~rl'e, ur spsaA A
word Of English. tie will perhaps
give you ninety days op th&. s;rt+'s,
and as I hal the pleasure ri bling
the chairman OF the STREET and bredsr
committee ! wilt give all an eass
''yoh" as possible.
Your program Win he:
First Day.
He will send you up In the is0t
springs and grand canyon. As "ur
halt busted street ear company has
Quit running cars 10 the springs and
the canyon you will have 10 go In Dan
Rhodes hacks. Dan Is an odd timer
and will show you all the sights In the
canyon. You will see also the fine
$500, 900 Montezuma hotel that the
Santa Fe railroad company donated
10 the Great National sanatorium fak.
irs and which great national humbug
never materialized. Consequently
your view will he restricted In or about
the fine structure 10 but a few half
starved bats and c~ockroaches, In driv.
ing back To town Dan is I u take YOU
back by Galinas park and race - sck.
another hot air enterprise tina was
sold last fall by the sheriff on a me
chanic's lien. Then when You get TO
East Las Vegas the next sight IL that
Of the Carnegie library situated In u
patch Of weeds. A donation was seCnr-
ed from Carnegie for the building by
a lot Of sharks on a pretensc that II
was for the benefit OF the poor McXi
can people. But they located 1t so far
from the west side. where about all
the poor Mexicans live. that there Is
not one In five hundred who knows
where 1t Is. Consequently the west
siders have u out the dinero for III"
support of the library and the thing Is
on the bum. Next Dan has %instrnc-
tions TO show you the tent city. just
on the edge OF town. about forty tents.
at a cost Of about $500 each. They
were built by the hot air fraternity to
rent to lungers and suckers at ten to
sixteen dollars a month. But the ten
ants all got frozen out last winter n
nothing remains in them but prairie
mice. After supper I will show You
Buffalo hall and the electric light plant
and give you all free tickets to the
opera house and fair. where You ar"
sure to hear some sweet music by tho
Mayflower band. The reception com
mittee has planned to entertain you
all In fine western style. OF course,
every one of you will he expected -
cough up seven or eight dollars each
for the benefit of the old stone church.
Second Day.
| will show you our nice postoffice
that was stolen from us three years
ago by a lot of east side political
sharks. We carried the case through
the courts of the United States and
won 1t back, the only case of the kind
that ever went to the biggest court IN
this or any other country: and | have
the honor of being chairman OF the
SpGCtdt tuWu CUktltfliIttC u Nth ID" 49,
business with a Washington lawyer
in winning back the office.
Now boys, If any Of you would like
to go into the dry farming business we
will send you over to the east Sic
and for fear you might meet a lot OF
those hot air land boomers who Will
talk you all to death a special com
mittee can accompany you and show
YOU about a half million acres OF al
kali prairie land up on the mesa
where they plant their r four or
five feet deep so it will be sure TO be
ripe before 1t gets to the top OF the
ground to avoid the cold nights and
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