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The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1882-12-02

j. L. Justice and David Knight,
arrived Thursday from Colorado.
These gentlemen arc fresh from the
Elk Mountain district in the Gun
nison country, and come equipped
with a full prospector's outfit. AT
ter looking over the mines here for
n day or two, they will accompany
Col. Cronin to the Captains to ex-
anime his property there, after
which they will take in the NogaI
and White mountains. Mcssrs,
Justice and Knight are old miners
and just the kind of men we are
glad to welcome to Lincoln County,
because we know our mineral will
bear the inspection Of experienced
men.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1882-12-02
Special Notices.
A Steinway Piano at "a
Bargain.

Mr.. L. \. Walz having sold his Cariz-
ozo Ranch, he aud his lady wish to dis
pose Of their piano within the next sixty
days. II is one Of Steinway II Sons best
and is good Ms new. Should a purchaser
be found they will dispose Of it rather
than ship it back so the states; and offer
il for half the cost price in New York
freight off. This is II better opportunity
to get a first class instrument than can be
found elsewhere in the Territory. Call on
them atthc Ranch or address White Oaks,
Now MeNicO.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1882-12-02

The stage company in putting on
the new coaches have raised the
fare to fifteen dollars. We doubt,
seriously, the policy of this move
as there seems to be a general
impression that the old rates
were sufficiently high, considering
the fact that the company had
been to but little expense in con
structing or repairing the road.
The fact that the mail contract was
taken at too low a figure is no rea-
son that the company should seek
to make up the deficiency by
charging passengers to and from
White Oaks exhorbitant rates. If
this kind Of thing goes ON, the peo-
pie will be compelled to seek other
methods Of communication with
the railroad.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1882-12-02
A THANKSGIVING TRAGEDY.


At midnight on his lowly roost
The turktcy) lay drcamingof thchour,
When he would take IN upward boost,
And light on some high tower.
In dreams on dress parade he bore,
The style that %pea-cocks mostly wore;
In dreams his first proud gobble heard,
Then took a patronizing air,
While strutting round the pullets fair
As light of wing, and free from care
As any other bird.
Al midnight on the barn-yard fence,
The farmer ranged his silhouette band
A molly crowd of hoodlums dense,
a long jack knife in either hand.
There had a thousand poultry stood,
There had the gladeartb drank theirbloot
On last Thanksgiving Day.
And now there brcathed that scented air
The sons of sircs who slaughtered there
With hands to buck and tongues to sWeat
As fast and free as they.
The hour passed on, the Turkey 'wok,
That fly dream vas his last
He woke to hear the hOodlums shrek
We've come, we have, your neck TO tweak
He woke to die mid ieer and joke,
And shout, and yell, andbungling stroke
Then heard in death the boss cooks song
As he across lots came along
And soused him in the pot.
I'll roast him or ] am a liar!
I'll roast him by the kitchen fire (!
I'll roast till his bones prcspirel
Then serve him while red hot.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1882-12-02

Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fc
trains from all parts of New MeXi-
co and Arizona connect daily with
the Chicago and Alton trains in
union depot at Kansas City, run
ming through to Chicago and st.
Louis union depots without change
Of cars. This is the only road run
ming entire trains through, and the
only road running dining cars.
Reclining chair cars on this road
are free of extra charge. For III
formation address F.. G.. High,
western travelling agent, G. IL A.
railway, Denver, Colorado,
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1882-12-02

Two small boys in the back part
ofthc house made themselves very
conspicuous last Sabbath, in the
Sunday school, by their unseemly
conduct. One of them took par
ticular pains to exhibit a museum
of curiosities which he carried
around in his pockets after the
manner of the small boy. They
were about forty years of age, and it
might be i'll order for his Scrutiny,
Judge Brent, to keep an eye on
them in future.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1882-12-02

1t is not every fat pocket-book
hat one sees lying around on the
sidewalk, that carries a bonanza
for the finder-for particulars APP
ply to Henry Bellamy or the Gov
ernor.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1882-12-02

J. p. Eakers has returned from
Socorro and remembered the LEAD
Err office with several bottles of
beer put up by Ilammcl Bros, Of
that place.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1882-12-02

Mr.. w. S. Hathaway informs us
that his company have decided on
the Meach reduction works, and
will ship the machinery at once.
1t is said to answer the purpose of
Breaker, Stamp mill and Pulver-
izer." We hope for it an entire
success.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1882-12-02

Engineer Robertson Of the Santa
Fe road, will be at San Pedro in a
few days, if not already there, and
we have the news from pretty good
authority that his visit is made for
the purpose of looking over the
route preparatory to extending that
branch Of the A., T. & S. f. to
White Oaks, and thus get the fly
on the Ell Paso road. AS we have
said before, the first road in will
get the cream Of the business.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1882-12-02

Dick Young, in charge of Miss
Jennie Ilobson and Miss Ida Tai
iaferro went out to make a raid on
the commissary and fuel at Red
Cloud Tuesday. Dick thinks that
with two such efficient lieutenants
he will be able to capture the fort
if Robson has not planted the ap-
proaches with torpedocs.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1882-12-02

The news comes up from the
lower country that Ash Epson and
Pat Garrett have gone into the
poultry business. They want a
breed of fowls that will crow, vic
tory or no victory.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1882-12-02

"Judge Miller" Sam McPhcr-
son and Fred II. 1rccne, came in
from Vegas Tuesday night. Mr..
Greene halls from Massachusetts
and has come here from the bleak
New England shores for his health.
Mack and Fatty look as if Monte
yuma water agreed with them.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1882-12-02

Herbert Strickland, a mining
engineer from Silverton, up in the
San Juan country, came in from
Socorro Thursday morning. He is
here examining the coal and water
supply in the interest of English
capitalists, with a view Of securing
certain White Oaks properties, the
exact nature Of which we are not
yet at liberty to state.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1882-12-02

Ed. Bonnell says it is all a mis-
take about him taking a partner in
the real estate business. Ed. man
ages hat himself, while Elmer
looks after the mines.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1882-12-02

Those who werefortunate enough
TO receive invitations attended the
dance at tho White Oaks house
Monday evening. 1t was said to
be a very select affair.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1882-12-02

J. A.. Sweet, lawyer, conducted
his first ease before Justice Lea
last Monday. lie did the most
talking, but the other fellow had
the most law, and got away with
him. With a little more expert
ence we think j. A. will turn the
tables on him.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1882-12-02

Charley Reamcr, who shot and
killed Joe Fowler at Flagstaff, in
July, was tried last week in Pres
colt and acquitted.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1882-12-02

Mr.. John w. Harrison, of St.
Louis, Mo-, was in town for several
days last week. An effort was
made while he was here to harmon
ize the differences between man
ayers of the IIomestake mining
company, whereby he would have
taken entire charge, put in machin
cry and opened up on an extensive
and business like plan, but this was
defeated through the suspicion or
obstinacy of one man. BY this I'M
warranted action we fear the mine
will have to go through a long
series Of litigation whereby neither
the management, the stockholders
nor the community will reap any
benefit from a mine which ought to
be shipping bullion to-day. We
understand Mr.. Harrison, in CON
nection with Col. IIeman, has been
more successful in his endeavors
to secure the Rockford mine in the
Nogals, owned by NJ. M. Gaylord.
We are glad to see such men as
Mr.. Harrison secure a foot-hold in
our camp; for what it needs above
all things else are men who know
how to operate mines on practical
and business principles.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1882-12-02
LOCAL ROUNDUPS.

Jerry Hocradle, from the Jicar-
illas, came in smiling yesterday
from his ranch.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1882-12-02

Several cases Of smallpox are
reported among the MeXicans
down on the Donito, near Lincoln.
1t is the unfortunate result Of the
case reported in the LEADER a few
weeks ago, where a man was left
in a dangerous condition at a Mex
lean house by two unknown persons
and who afterwards died with the
disease as stated. The contagion
as yet, is confined to a single com
munity, but it is in order for the
papers west Of the Rio Grande to
speak of it as "the terrible ravages
of the fell destroyer III Lincoln
county"
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1882-12-02

j. A. LaRue stopped for a day in
town on his return from Las Vegas,
to his home at Lincoln.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1882-12-02

Col. Cronin-tle i%rrepressible
Mickey-came in from Socorro
during the week to look after the
interests Of his mining property in
the Captains. He reports the tide
setting in towards Lincoln county,
which ere long will make things
hum entirely.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1882-12-02

Mr.. Alcock, Of Carizozo, begins
to show up like a veteran cowboy,
and can again ride straddle without
more than three cushions under
him.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1882-12-02

The Thanksgiving party held at
the Brothers House was a very
pleasant affair, considering the fact
that 70 many Of the society people
were out Of town. The LEADERS
man-about-town went and looked
over the counter and smiled on the
gay assembly, but like Mahomet he
knew it was only given to mortals
to enter Paradise once, so he turned
away and sethis face firmly toward
his den.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1882-12-02

cS5- The White Oaks House is fast re-
covering its former popularity under the
careful management Of EIrs. j. B. Collier.
The best rooms to be had in town.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1882-12-02

In the interests of humanity we
ask the people in the infected dis
trict on the Bonito to use all due
precautions to prevent the spread
Of the smallpox; if this is done
there will be no necessity of its
going beyond that immediate
ncighborhood. If thisis not done,
then our citizens will at once
take measures to quarantine against
the people Of that region.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1882-12-02

The following prescription for
smallpox is used by the sisters of
charity in Philadelphia, and is
strongly recommended Sulphuret
of zinc, one grain ; foXglove, (digi
talis) one grain 4; half a teaspoonful
Of sugar; mix with two tablespoons
ful Of water. When thoroughly
mixed, add four ounces of water.
Take a spoonful every hour. The
disease, it is claimed, will disap-
pear in twelve hours.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1882-12-02

We want a correspondent in
every mining camp and on every
ranch in the county to give the
LEADER every item of importance
that occurs in their respective neigh
borhoods. We will be glad to
pulish all communications of i'm
portance to the county, and if our
friends do not wish to write out a
detailed account, send us the facts
as they occur and we will put them
in shape for the public. What we
want to get at is a short, concise,
statement of what is going ON over
the whole county. Who will be
the first to grapple on?
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1882-12-02

There are parties now trying to
bond the Williams Brothers IL Cos.
coal mine, but the boys still hang
fire. The late railroad news is
working on them.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1882-12-02
Business Notices.

ST Proof Of Labor blanks to be had
at this Office, fresh from the machine.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1882-12-02

II. /. Newman, of FL Paso, has
purchased Pat Coglan's ranch at
Tularosa. We have not learned
the price paid for it.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1882-12-02
JOSE MONTANA Y SAIS,
Comersiantes Pormenor
LINCOLN, n. NJ.

AvIso-NosotrOs los ava1o firmados dis
limos IL Nd nuestros lctOrcs que emos mu-
dado nucstrO comcrsio II la ticnda nucva
pora vendcr mas barata que ninguna otra
persona por dincro, BAL. mcnudello Y asi
crello que tencmos un buen surtido, de
~cfectos, V tambicn vcndemOs mails a un
presto rcdusido pascnado sen ganOrde Sc
ala Tienda de Jose Montana y Sais SUI
Lincoln. n. NJ.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1882-11-30
"Hasn't It. George "

There is quite q good joke now going
the rounds at Vallejo, Cal, says the
Wheatland Graphic. A young lady vis-
iting there is quite sweet on q certain
young journalist. One morning the
pair started out for . long ramble over
In the Contra Costa hills. Being gone
all day, they returned in the evening
completely worn out and fatigued. The
young lady and gentleman were met by
q party Of their friends, soon after their
return. and were asked as to what kind
of a time they had. Now the young
lady has very unhandy habit of prov
ing any assertion she may make, by
appealing to any friend that she hap
pens to have with her at the time. So,
as usual. away she went, and answered
the enquiry as follows: '-Oh, we had q
fine time. But climbing over rocks and
bushes has made me black and blue all
ever, hasn't it, George?" (appealing to
the young man who had gone out with
her, George said emphatically that
he'd be hanged if he knew anything
about it; and now the young couple get
no rest from the chatting of their
friends.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1882-11-30
A Plea for Uncle and Nammv.

Among the pathetic figures in the south
are the old plantation negroes whom the
downfall of slavery left without homes
or means OF support at q time of life
when they could do little or nothing to
help themselves. An Atlanta gentle.
man is preparing to raise a fund. for
the establishment of a home for these
aged relics of the past. s.Kept in slavery -
says the Atlantis Constitution. ..until
they were too old to adapt themselves
to the new order of things-turned pen
niless on the world when the old limbs
were too stiff and weak for efficient
work, without sons able or willing to
support thsm, simple-minded, affection
ate, sincere-there is much in their piti-
able condition to excite sympathy. They
are seldom beggars, and still less seldom
dishonest With their hearts in the old
plantation days, few wants and simple
habits, they prefer to sit in the sunshine
and suffer in the body, while feeding
their souls with day dreams. 1t is the
affection and sympathy that all people
must feel for this shabby, honest, fast
vanishing figure of the old plantation
darkey, that brings tears quite rs often
as applause from those who witness
Milton Barlow's Incompatible persona
ton of Old Black Joe, and that has
made Uncle Remus the tenaerest and
best beloved Of story-tellers. Much of
the money that goes to colleges for
young negroes might well be put in q
home for ancient ones. and he will be .
true philanthropist who makes q DIVER
sion in this direction.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1882-11-30
Tho Most Beautiful Frsnohwom.u.

Lncy Hooper writes from the French
capital: The prettiest woman In Paris
has returned TO Paris. Anybody who
has ever seen the fair and fnnaous
Madame Bernadaki. the celebrated Rus
sian beauty, will know at once whom
l mean without any further description.
saw her in her box at the opera the
other night. looking the very type Of
perfect, If soulless, loveliness. In feature
she resembles greatly the portraits of
Madame Recamier. The eyes are Of =
deep. lovely blue. the nose squilinc. the
mouth small and shaped like cupid,s
DOW. The exquisitely shaped head is
set to perfection on the white. rounded
throat, and the shoulders in mold and
In coloring would put to shame the
most artistic form that ever was sculn-
tured in MARBLE II her face were onfv
expressive il would be divine. In her
superb toilette OF white satin the other
night she was simply dazzling. She
does not altogether understand how to
set on her own marvellous beauty. She
breaks the lines Of her exquisite form
soy wearing great masses Of flowers On
her coxsage, and she mars the outline
OF her shapely head by similar additions
70 her couture. 1t is said that she will
De next season one of the queens of
rarlsian society. Some encumberrnent
which had weighed on her husbands a
estates will be removed and he will
come into the possession of vast wealth,
which. joined to bis wife's personal
charms. viii fully suffice to secure the
position OF the pair in the beau monde.
nope that some one of the great por-
trait painters of the day will, during the
coming season, immortalize On canvas
thesface and form of this fiesh-and-blood
Venus.--Philadelphia Telegraph.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1882-11-30
A Terrible Mosouito Story.
A correspondent in Dooly Cor

"A correspondent In DOOly County,
Ga, writes as follows:
Our friend Harris Spring Greek mos
quitoes are nowhere. A Lime Branch
mosquito struck cotton-picker the
other day, and he said he thought an
owl had hit him. A neighbor of mine
was caught out after sundown in his
shirt-sleeves, when q gallinipper struck
him between the shoulders, SO that he
could not reach him with his hands.
He fought him right and left over the
shoulders with a brush. Not succeed
ing in dislodging him, he backed on q
pine and tried him horse-fashion; but
the more he rubbed the worse he got,
and finally he concluded that some one
was boring him in the back with a
three-fourths augur. Cow-like he be-
took himself to thicket, with no better
luck. A bushy tree top being in easy
distance, he went on all-fours head
foremost through that Nothing made,
he went backward in the same position,
thinking to lift him from the rear. But
no 60; so he went in again and waved
right and left and reared up and down;
still the thing hung. As it was about
dark, and he knew his wife knew he
had not had time to go to Blakeiy, and
had seen no one from there, and there
was nothing in Damascus or Arlington,
he took himself to q hog-wallow, and
he thought he would drown the .'devil."
The expedient proved fruitless, and as
the matter was now becoming serious,
he determined to rid himself OF the pest
at the cost of his shirt. Accordingly, he
unbuttoned and shucked his shirt, ex-
cept where it was pinned to his back.
and that he couldn't loose with his
hands. He now cut a hole in the tail
of his shirt and hitched to knot on a
log and tried to pull loose. But still no
go. He now became badly frightened,
and imagined that the drill of some ar
tesian well had turned up and struck
him in the back. and made for the
house. On his arrival, of course his
wife was frightened, and would not be-
lieve anything or touch anything, but
told him if he would hitch on to peg
in the warping bars. she would saw him
off. He had a convenient hole and
soon had it over the peg. His wife be-
gan to saw and told him to lean for
ward, SO that the saw would 90 easier,
and of course he fell in position to
have the wound easily examined. With
the aid of a pair Of tongs, she soon ex-
tricated the bill Of the gallinipper. ad-
ministering one of DR.. Doser's porous
plasters and a little soothing syrup, and
the patient was soon quiet.
P. S.-The shirt still hangs on the
warping bars, for the wife thinks there
is a snake in it, which the mosquito had
caught, or something else. My neigh
Dor says he feels tolerably, but he looks
mighty pale.-Dooly Nescs.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1882-11-30
The Dickens Racket,

A tramp printer while passing q drug
store heard q gentleman remark to the
druggist that he was the exact picture
of Charles Dickens. The printer saw at
a glance that the druggist was fattered,
and Immediately settled upon plan by
which he would be relieved Of the pain
full necessity of striking the barten-
der" Pretty soon the printer returned,
and stepping into the drug store said to
the proprietor: 3s
Excuse me, sir, for addressing you,
but in passing your house I could not
help but notice striking resemblance
between you and the late and famous
Charles Dickens, whose manuscript
have many time set up. The sight Of
your face in q moment turned upon me
a flood of recollections in relation to the
great novelist
won't you be seatedP' asked the
druggist:
mo, l am in something of hurry to
get pint of whisky for sick friend." :"
Il have very fine whisky here, SIR"
"Yes, but as my finances are low. or
rather exhausted. am compelled to get
it where ! am known. Up the street
81 can let you have it on the same
terms" said the druggist smiling In
recollection of his resemblance to Dick
ems. II never have any misgivings in
regard to a man whose face bears, as
yours does. such indications of honesty"
The printer secured the whisky and
when be reached the ''ranche," a sQualid
room where he lived with another print
er and shoemaker, he related his ex-
periencc. when they all agreed that a
rich mine had been discovered. For
several days the printer secured the
whisky, and then. the secopd went
around and was struck with the resem-
blanoe. Finally the shoemaker's turn
arrived. He was drilled carefully by
the printers and cautioned, on account
Of his neglected literary training, not to
make any ventures.
tCh, can hold it down." said the
shoemaker. .'Give me the bottle. Til
get the best he's got" He went to the
store and meeting the proprietor said:
sWell, sir, it's mighty strange, but
you are exactly like Dickson"
Like whom, sir?'
dickson the book-hipden Don't you
KNOW nlMr
ssNo, siri ] doa't.''
.'Its mighty strange. The boys have
been coming around here for some time,
talkin' to you about Dickson and gettin'
the whisky. but when come you don't
know anything about it. Fill up this
bottle anyway, cap'n. don't want the
gang to guy me- 49,
The druggist took tho bottle, and
moving around among different jars filed
I, while revengeful twinkle danced in
his eyes. When the shoemaker returned
to the ''ranche" the printers compli-
mented him on bis success, but shortly
afterwards. when they heaved and
groaned in sudden and awful sickness,
they cursed the druggist and his resem-
blanoe to the great master Of London
low life description. Travel.
Lpr