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Crouch has lecided 10 hack ont of the Thirl Judicial District Clerks office.
 Secretary Rltch IS complained of for not making a sQnare official re- surn oF last election.
 The Grant County Herald says Governor Wallaee's chance in the Senate for confirmation IS slim.
 Charley Bottom, of Grant couaty has lost ST00worlh of Berkshre and Essex hogs by death from qulnsey
 The Santa Fe New Mexican veu- lures the opinion that T B Catron will resign the oficeof q S District Attorney for New Mexico, and that N. A. Breeden will be urged for tLe position.
 According to tue Rocky Mountain Sentinel, tae Atchison, Topeka < Santa Fe railroad Is completed across the Raton mountains and into New Mexlco, and along the whole line to Las Vegas the work Is being vigor- ousY pushed. Teams for the in- terIUr will load at that place n April or May. and as soon as possible en- zines will purap up on the Rio Grande.
 The Grans County Herald says that the work of extending the Southern Pacific railroad is "all iR my eye, Betty Martin. y and the company will suail along during the session of Congress-when that ad- journs the company will cease work. The editor does not seem to be aware of the fact that mile a day Of track is being laid, and that the cars will running from Yuma to Maricopa Wells (l75 miles, by the lst of April.
 The Clmarron News and Press. from an interview of Ex-Governor Axtell by Cleveland co } Herald reporter and published iii that paper, draws the conclusion that he has gone back oh New Mexico thinks 1t sterile country, and that the native population Is composed of NexIcans, Indians and half breeds, having no capacity fer high civilization The Governor now says these people arc miserabiv poor, live n mud hats al- most without furniture, are sesnuly clad, and do lot even provide them selves with regular meals-carn and goats milk being by them considered good enougL for q fourth of July dinner or q wedding spread Since his excelleney has been gwen a ticket of-leave and gone back to 0hio he sees nothing in New Mexico to at tract immigration lie says much more, and every word IS a dig at New Mexico and her inhabitants.
 There IS a lie out concerning the| grabbing capacity of New Mexico, but whether to charge 1t upon Ax5ell or Viii D. Dawson IS the question. D., in his centennial effort of Our Markets. " says they are supplied with fruits, both native and lni ported with vegetables as tender and sweet as ever dame nature nurtued with meats, domestic and wild fat. juicy and toothsome with feathered gaIHe in season !; with frogs legs and fish ali the year round. Besides what our market affords y Will also goes heavy on .our moons of blas and golden spIendor, rainbow tints, dew gemped and sparkling grass" This IS something more than goats milk aHd corn to invite iani grafton, aud in the great centennial year, an4 old resident of Santa Fe chips in in support of Viii, ard gives tongue to 1 ihe opinion that New Mexico is the 1 Lest country on Gods green earth to be buried m, and gives as a reason i that he loves her
 -plains so broa0 and fee,
 V here elk and deer unfsttercd go. We would give more of the old resi- l dents reason for 50 loving Neg Mex leo that he would not be buried any ] where else, but must chop in order to show from Axtell's message to the Territorial Legislature, in 1875, that he did not always think as meanly of I New Mexico and her people as bis { Cleveland utterances indicate. Read It IS proper to call your attention to the centennial anniversary of our existence as a nation. and Co the ex- position of the worlds industries ip with 1t at Philadelphia next year. It IS certainly desirable { that New Mexico be properly repre- sented there. We are rIcll in min erals, and samples of our grams { would attest the richness of the soil