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LAS VEGAS DAILY OPTIC, TUESDAY, MAY 4, 1909 4. For Tomorrow Illinois Belle Sugar Com ;:j ; 3 Cans for - 6 Cans for 12 Cans for-" I. .......... 25c -f ...85c Blair Extra Sugar Corn 10 CENTS PER CAN v $1.15 PER DOZEN Buy all you want, you run no risk. We GUARANTEE every can. "The Store That's Always Busy" Use Ovir Phone 131, A Simple Tst If you want to know whether you are des tined to be a success or failure financially, you can easily find out. Cqlxi You Save Money? If you can persistently lay aside a certain portion of your saviugs each week or month, there is no doubt about you being a success financially. . This Bank will help you to make the test, and furnish a safe depository for your funds, with interest at 4 per cent.on time deposits. The First National Bank OF US. VEGAS. NEW MEXICO. CAPITAL and SURPLUS $130,000.00. JEFFERSON RAYNOLDS, President. ' E. D. RAYNOLDS, HALLETT RAYNOLDS, Cashier. . Ass't Cashier. I MONEY SAVED On Domestic Coal, Best Screened Baton Egg, $4.75 per ton Just what you' want for cooking, Free from Sl&te or Slack . : d. w. condon r a.t your grocer's. Also see us for Seed Wheat! Las Vegas Phone Main 21 Foot Main St TRY A JAR OF Peanut Butter PUT UP BY Beech Nut Packing 'Co. ALSO " ' ' "c " Figs and Stuffed Fard Dates Packed in! glass jars thereby retaining freshness and flavor. Crcscrs, Esizthzra aailCsksra Afe You Going? . TO THE ALASKA-YUKON-PACIFIC EXPOSITION If so file your namd'with as !and we will issue a ; " ; ' ' card to you addressed to i j The Majestic Manufacturing Co. UJi Seattle", who will 'see that you ar mfpr,t.ablyiHtaken n care of and extended all courtesifis- r i; T possible. ' - Ludwig Wrrt Ilfeld Agent for the Majestic Range. LOCAL NEWS. Governor Curry has appointed George A. Fleming of this city a no tary public for San Miguel county. Always hot water at Nolette barber shop. -- Jim Lowe, mailing clerk at the local postoffice "'is, now taking his annual leave of absence and is spending his vacation in Denver. '. i Straight Guggenheim rye over the bar at the Antlers. served La Pension dining room how open. Families desiring Sunday' dinner please order Saturday. ; .,, The ladies of the East Eide, Altar society will hold their monthly meet ing with Mrs. H. W. Kelly, 825 Sixth street, on Wednesday. ACCIDENT! We were Informed that John Fapen dislocated the third vertebrae of his spinal column gazing at the El Pala cio giant kite. Ha was taken into the store and speedily recovered when be saw the array of real bargains that walTed the counters. " Earl S. Showalter has been appoint ed clerk in the postoffice of East Las Vegas, vice C. F. Ringer, who has been transferred to the railway post- office service. The regular meeting of the trus tees of the Las Vegas grant was post poned from yesterday to today .owing to the unavoidable absence of Messrs. Pierce and Gallegos. - , r . .. Mr, and Mrs. W. D. Hayes have tak en up jthelr residence in the . .Gilder sleeve cottage on east Palace avenue at Santa Fe. Mr. Hayes has -, bad charge of the government tree nur sery in Gallinas canyon and had re sided in the residence at the station. St. Paul's Memorial church corner National avenue and Eighth .street. On Wednesday at 10:30 a. m., the Rev. W, E. Warren, rector of the Church of the Good Shepherd, Silver City. Everybody invited. - Thos. Seward, for the past three years manager for the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance . company in New Mexico, has received notice from the Dear Friend: -" This is the time of the year when dried fruits are good. Did you ever try blending them? Cook ing a few apricots" and prunes or peaches and apricots toge ther, it improves them wonderfully, j your friend, jj JAtJOB. j They n'ave' a fresh ekock of peaches,; ; aprioots, raisins and currants at STEARICS GROCERY head office of the company at New ark, N." J., to report at Spokane, Wash., as soon as possible, to take charge of the company's office at that place. For Sale Good 1200 pound work horse and surrey. Will sell separate Apply at Hub. The Rev. Henry Easter, rector' of St. Clement's church, El Paso, Tex.j at St. Paul's cnurch,' corner National avenue and Eighth street, 7 : 30 p. m.y Wednesday. Auxiliary service, every body welcome. ?' FOR SALE-3 cows, Bain wagon, Cypher's incubator, bone cutter, pen of pedigreed White Leghorns. Drink- house, Olive 5052. Three men worked all day fixing up the Y. M. C. A. tennis courts at the corner: of Fourth and Main streets. The grounds are fast being put into condition and ' the courts promise to be in excellent shape in several days. LOST Black leather pocket book, containing cards, checks, and money belonging to A. H. Crowell; lost near corner of Sixth and Lincoln, about 8 o'clock Monday morning. Return to Op tic office, and receive reward; no questions asked. The library board has put a man, to work on Hillsite park watering the grass and taking care of the grounds. A committee will go around among the business men of the city next week to raise money by 3'ubscription to pay for the work. There is a surprise In store for the members of the Royal Highlanders at the meeting of the order tonight All members and new members are to present themselves at the O. R. C. hall in the Pioneer block at 7:15 p. m. No member should fail to attend. Governor George Curry, who is in vestigating the affairs of the terri torial asylum for the blind, has ac cepted the invitation to make the commencement address at the New Mexico school of mines at Socorro on June 13. , ''' Hon. Ralph E. Twitchell delivered his lecture on the "American Occupa tion of New Mexico." at the Elks' opera house at Albuqureque last night, before one of the largest and most appreciative lecture audiences that has ever assembled in that city. Judge Frank W. Parker sentenced H. D. Maynard, the Santa Fe conduc tor, convicted of bribery in connection with smuggling Chinese into this country, to eighteen months in the penitentiary, and to pay a fine of $150. Tom Miller, colored Pullman porter, indicted with Maynard, plead ed guilty, and was sentenced to elev en months in jail. The transfer of positions by A. A. Atkins of the East Las Vegas postof fice and Oscar Lindberg of the St Louis office has ; been approved, to take effect May 15. Mr. Lindberg is forced to come west on account of the health of his wife and for this reason the transfer was- made. Mr. Atkins goes into' the registry division of the St. Louis postoffice, which Is a big promotion for him. , James Monahan, a lame man, who had been begging on the streets for some time was arrested last night for public intoxication and was given a hearing this morning before Julge D. R. Murray. He pleaded guilty to the charge and was given his choice be tween a fine of $10 or 15 days in jail. Finally he was told that the sentence would be suspended on the condition that he immediately leave town and he has not been' seen by the officers since . , Tomorrow" 'moMIhg at 8:30 H. L. Starr, the hypnotla.wbos wiU,,appear at the (Duncan opera house' tomorrow evening, ;will put a young man of this city In a hypnotic sleep and he will be , awakened tomorrow evening on the stage at the opera house. No doubt but that Mr. Starr's first ap pearance on the stage in public wUl be'-greeted by a large1 and appre ciative audience. He is very popu- LAS VEGAS' EXCLUSIVE DRY GOODS STORE , ; vrf LANCf OF THIS WEEK White fancy i shirt Waist, trimmed with lace and em- V broidery 50c, 1.00, 1.25, 1.50 and $1.75 worth double. .:.-':' " - - " Black and wnite check, 1 yd. wide Taffeta, worth $1.75 yard at $1.15 yard. New line of white wash dfess Skif t, "also Linen color - 'JiJ' dressing sacques, kimonas 1 JL, V I O S1,XTH STREET ,: -I- M lm Cm Jet: neon & Son .'.MS-'-' ) " f EADING UNDERTAKERS, B-ICENSED EMBALM ERS iVe have exclusively tha only white funeral car in Lbs Vegas. (-. - ' - - RIGHT SERVICES at REASONABLE FRiCES v-' : . .. : Phone Main 258, G25 Douglas H. O. BROWN TRADING CQ DEALERS IN AI-KALKA. HAY and GRAIN, BULK HEEDS. VEHICLES IMPLEMENTS and WAGONS. Get Our Prices before baying. Bridge Street Phone Main 85 lar in the cily and has. made many frierds since residing here,- all of whom wish him great success in his new field, ' 1 . Call up Main 27(5 tot naniatinne and other cut flowers. Floral designs made up on short notice. Parry Onion. .- Engineer John R. Kirk was quite painfully Injured yesterday when No. 10 ran into the rear end of a freight at. Kennedy. ; He Jumped through the cab window when he saw a collision was unavoidable and fell In such a way that he wrenched his back badly, and slightly injured one ofi his kid neys. He was brought to the city on a stretcher and is now confined to his home, 212 Ninth street. It will probably not be long until he is again in service. Traveling Man Has, Heavy Loss. A. H. Crowell of St. Louis, a trav eling man, representing the Wesco Suppy company, met a heavy loss yes terday. He had a room ab one of the local hotels and at 8 o'clock in the morning, sent his clothes to a tailor by a call boy to have pressed. A couple of hours later he missed his pocketbook and alleges that' he forgot to remove it from the suit It con tained a little over $100 in currency and two checks for $76. Both the boy and the tailor denied having seen the pocketbook, bnt Crowell had them both arrested and brought before Justice of Peace D. R. Murray last night. ?They were dis charged as there was not a particle of evidence against them. Wo Will Sell "Rodl Bird" Laundry Soap f f 10 Bare For (!. II. BOEDER'S "THE COFFEE MAN" To Those Who Wear Suicide Uses Bomb. Mount Vernon, 111., May 4. A dy namite bomb was the means employ ed by Carson Martin, farmer, 45 years old, living in Belle River south of this city, to ctnjamlt suicide. Martin took the explosive to an outbuilding yes terday. The structure .was blown to bits- and his body scattered over the premises. He left a letter declaring his intention to take his life. Cold Kills Daring Adventurer. Detroit, May 4. Captain Carlisle D. Graham, aged 68, who achieved fame by successfully making the perilous trip through the Niagara rapids five times, died here yesterday from a cold. Four time Captain Graham went through the rapids in a barrel and once swam the distance. Overalls mfltr it tt . i i:qvi v nn i ca a ' pair of Overalls? i Recmlar Price lifl.OO. for 75a . If not, Why not? - We have extended the sale on the $3.50 and $4.00 shoes at the re markable price oi $2.50 until the 1st. of May. J. A. TAICHER.T, 615 Lincoln Ave., Next to Wells Fargo Express Co. Finch's Golden Wedding Rye, aged in the wood. Direct from distillery to you. At the Lobby, of course. 6-11J the hygeia: ice MADS FROM PURE DISTILLED WATER ' ' V - VS PRICES: 2,000 lbs or more each delivery : 1.000 to 2,000 lbs. .". ' 200 to 1.000 lbs. " " ' . 50 to -. 20 Jbs. , Le.s than f Ibfrt. r"yV -' -20c per hundred 30c " 40c " 50c 75c' i CRYSTAL ICE; CO,, McGuIre & Webb Phone Main 227