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miles distant, and connected with the city by rail, are the Las Vegas Hot Springs. The old town on the W. bank of the Gallinas river retains many features of a Mexican See also:

VILLAGE

village, with See also:

low See also:

ADOBE (pronounced a-db-be; also corrupted to dobie; from the Span. adobar, to plaster, traceable through Arabic to an Egyptian hieroglyph meaning " brick ")

adobe houses facing narrow and crooked streets. Its inhabitants are largely of See also:

SPANISH

Spanish-See also:

AMERICAN

American descent.

The' part on the E. bank or city proper is thoroughly See also:

MODERN

modern, with well-graded streets, many of them bordered with trees. The most important public institutions are the New Mexico insane See also:

asylum, the New Mexico normal university (chartered 1893, opened 1898), the county See also:

court See also:

house (in the old town), the See also:

academy of the Immaculate Conception, conducted by the Sisters of Loretto, See also:

SAINT (lat. sanctus, " holy ")

Saint See also:

Anthony's See also:

SANATORIUM (a modern Latinism, formed from sanare, to cure, restore to health, sanus, whole, healthy, well; often wrongly spelled sanatarium or sanitarium)

sanatorium, maintained by the Sisters of Charity, La Salle See also:

INSTITUTE (from Lat. instituere, to establish or set up)

institute, conducted by the See also:

Christian See also:

BROTHERS, RICHARD (1757-1824)

Brothers, a Presbyterian See also:

MISSION

mission school and a Methodist See also:

MANUAL

manual training and commercial school. There are railway See also:

machine-shops, and various manufactories. Las Vegas lies in the centre of an extensive grazing region, has large stockyards and annually See also:

SHIPS

ships great quantities of See also:

WOOL, WORSTED AND WOOLLEN MANUFACTURES

wool. Three of the local See also:

NEWSPAPERS

newspapers are published in Spanish. Las Vegas was founded in 1835, under the See also:

government of the Mexican See also:

REPUBLIC (Lat. respublica, a commonweal or common-wealth)

Republic. On the 15th of See also:

AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August 1846, during the See also:

war between Mexico and the See also:

UNITED

United States, Gen. See also:

Stephen W. See also:

Kearny entered the town, and its See also:

ALCALDE (from the Arab. al-quadi, the " Cadi " or judge ")

alcalde took the See also:

OATH (0. Eng. ddh)

oath of See also:

ALLEGIANCE (Mid. Eng. ligeaunce; med. Lat. ligeantia, &c.; the al- was probably added through confusion with another legal term, allegeance, an allegation; the Fr. allegeance comes from the English; the word is formed from " liege," of which the derivatio

allegiance to the United States. There was but little progress or development until the arrival of the railway in 1879. In 1888 the part See also:

east of the river was incorporated as a town under the name of East Las Vegas, and in 1896 it was chartered as the city of Las Vegas. The old Las Vegas, See also:

west of the river, was incorporated as a town in 1903.

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