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The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1883-07-07

10 the breadth OF an Eastern State,
by the oaths of deputy surveyors,
in the interest of gentlemen" of
very great landed interests. We
know that there is no fraud, or
torn Of perjury which has not been
employed in New Mexico, in very
recent times, in furtherance of at
tempts to steal lands from the Gov
ernment, and from under the feet
of those whom, and their associates
had occupied it for generations
Moreover, we know, that law-abid-
ing as our people are, they will not
submit to orders or DEGREES of
courts issued in aid Of farther
schemes of the same nature. No
matter with what technical regular
ity proceedings may be had, or
with what specious reasoning they
may be fortified, the sense OF JUS
tice of whole people cannot be
outraged with impunity. DEGREES
and orders which an immense ma
jority believe unjust and fraudulent,
are as SO much waste paper. Nor
will the people fail to note, or to
remember who profits, who aids,
or who acquiesces in the schemes.
Such may as well bury their politi-
cal aspirations, if any. with their
worthless grants" Better for
them, in the day of reckoning, that
they had never been born.
While these are our views upon
the salient points involved, we yet
think that the Oteros and their at
torneys, as well as Judge Axtell,
showed indiscretion, and it is bare
ly possible that while the one is
subject to pnblic contempt, the 9th
ers merit imprisonment.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1883-07-07

of dealing in stocks and mines
Mining investments will hereafter
be governed by the laws of legiti-
mate business, and mining will be
carried on as a legitimate industry.
Mining stocks, having real basis
of value, will sell again for prices
just as good as the basis will Justify
Mines of visible, and not entirely
speculative value, will find again a
ready market for their visible value
and in estimating that value secu-
rity Of title will enter for a large
percentage. The owner of fairly
developed prospect, with Govern
ment title, will have, ere long, no
difficulty in realizing every dollar
in sight in his claim.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1883-07-07

Esq, Second Secretary to the Eng
lish Embassy at Berlin writes +: "If
the various countries maintain their
present rate Of increase, fifty years
hence the United States will have
population of 1870, 900, 900; Rus
sia, approximately, 1853, 100000 /;
Germany, SO, 900, 900; the United
Kingdom, 100000; Austria
Hungary, and Italy, both 44,oOO,
600; France only 4O,O00,000.
Germany has already in round
numbers 7, 500, 900 more inhablt-
ants than France, without includ-
ing Algeria. For war purposes,
however, it is observed that the bal
ance is not SO heavily against
France, for whereas in Germany
there are only 965 males to every
thousand females, in France there
are 991. Germany has, therefore,
only three-and-a half millions of
males more than France.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1883-07-07
BoNITo BRRvITIEs.

Considerable work will com
mence very soon on number Of
prospects in the camp.
Messrs. Bourne and Dougherty
made big strike near the head Of
Eagle Greek a short time ago. 1t
IS gray copper, copper glance and
brOmIdes.
The ranchmen who hold cattle
on the creek can't agree with the
ones who are putting in gardens
and hence much trouble results.
There is some talk of saw mill
coming in.
The town of Bonito is building
up rapidly and promises to be
quite village.
Twenty thousand sheep are held
by Mexicans in the mountains but
the miners keep them out of the
valley.
Pat, Garrett, Sheriff Poe, and
Judge Terrell have let our small
ranchmen have punches of COWS
from which the camp derives but
ter and milk.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1883-07-07
TERRITORIAL.
MINING INTERESTS.


Men interested in the business of
mining have been compelled of late
to give some attention to the caus-
es Of the extreme dullness of the
market for mining claims. The
change in less than three years has
been startling, and in the minds of
many of considerable influence up
on eastern opinion, the causes of
the reaction are such as to call for
the Intervention of Congress, and
the enactment Of amendments to
the mining laws, which are not un-
likely to be made at no great dis
tance OF time.
The very facility with which
claims are acquired, is a detriment
to the real miner operator. THETA
cility with which large tracts Of
mining ground may be located and
withheld from Improvement by
man whose compliance with the
law is on ly nominal, has become
crying evil, calling for legislative
remedy.
The prevalent disposition among
real miners and mining investors, is
to assilnilate the mining laws in
principle to the laws governing the
settlement and acquisition of agri-
cultural land. No complaint can
be made by any class, if the num-
Der of claims which one man may
locate be restricted to such as he
can really and effectively develope.
And the benefits of such restric-
ton would be immediate and gon-
eral. Claims" would then have
a real. and not as now, a purely
speculative value. A camp would
then possess fewer "claims," but
thoss it had would be developed or
in process of development, and
value would have a legitimate ba-
sis.
There is a disposition, moreover,
to (" list" no stocks not based on a
Government title. Past expert
ence seems to demand such mea-
sure. AT present, stockholders in
numerous properties have no secu-
rity except the fidelity with which
their agents and managers may
comply with the annual require
ments of law, for the support Of a
merely possessory right. In sew
eral recent cases, this has proved
insufficient. There is a growing
disposition, also, in eastern mar
kets, to consider no mining prop
erty as marketable without the Re
ceiver's receipt.
Worthless stocks are no longer
saleable. Claims, developed with
corner stakes and = ten foot hole,
are no longer marketable. The
present depression will pass away,
but not in the sense that tmngs vii
return 20 the old haphazsri way
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1883-07-07
Lees Sword.
From the Clarksville Virginisn.

From the Clarksvillo Virginisn.
A little over two years ago the
following correspondence passed
and we think it settles the question
beyond a doubt that Gen. Lee
never offered his sword and that
Gen. Grant never declined to re-
ceive it. The original letter we
still have in our possession;
BUFFALO, L1HTH1A SPRINGS, Va, |
March II, 1881. {
Gen. U. S. Grant, New York:
Sir: In a friendly discussion
between gentlemen of northern and
southern proclivities as to the truth
history a question arose whether
Gen. Lee at the surrender actually
rendered and you received his
sword. 1t was mutually agreed
that you should be written to fol
a decision. There is no idle curio.
sity for notoriety in regard to this
request, and a reply from you
would be highly appreciated.
Very Respectfully,
7. d, JETFREss
Gen. Grant replied as follows or
the bottom of the same sheet o.
paper:
Gen. Badeau's book, now in the
hands of the printer, will give the
exact truth of the matter referred
to in this letter. There was no de
mand made tor Gen. Lees sworC
and tender of it offered
u. S. GRANT,
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1883-07-07

LET it be understood that we pay
our own debts, but cannot efford to
pay those of others. We do not
60 on the principle of "robbing
Peter (Mackel) to pay Paul" Paul
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1883-07-07
OFFICIAL PAPER OF THE COUNTY

Published by The Lincoln County Publishing Company
WIN. CAFFREY. Editor.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1883-07-07
The Otero-Axtel Case Again.

4hS SSSAO AA<ASSA ONSS AbesAA'
We are not alone in the opinion
as expressed last week, that even
if Chief Justice Axtell has not ex-
ceeded his legitimate powers in his
late action upon the Otero cases, he
has used them in a cause, and with
a spirit of vindictiveness which will
and ought to deprive him of the
respect of honest men throughout
the Territory We have not space
for a resume of the complicated
suits growing out of the Orteiz and
San Pedro grant matters. 1t iscer-
tain, and it is enough to know, that
disinterested parties, long resident
of the neighborhood, and not espe-
cially friendly ito the victims of
Judge Axtell's ire, believe that the
corporation ousted by the Otero's,
from the mine they claim, has no
shadow of title to the soil or min
erals not based upon deliberate
fraud. The corporation may itself
be, and probably is, innocent of the
fraud itself, but is certainly not un-
willing to profit by a fraud of which
whoever be innocent, no one con-
cerned can be ignorant.
The Oteros, personally, amount
to nothing, except as they repre-
sent a principle, and the interests
of numerous class. Upon the
territory claimed by this corpora
ton to little, if any of which it has
Just title, are hundreds of miners,
whose labor and investments, with
those Of ancient Mexican occupants
like the Oteros, have given the pro-
perty all the value it has. The
cause Of the Oteros is the cause of
the miners there, and everywhere
else in New Mexico. The prize is
a very rich one, but we are certain
that the corporation of Eastern
millionaires will never grasp it,
though the machinery of law be
never SO cunningly prostituted in
its interest.
There are men who will doubt
less be found TO speak of the high
respect which, with humble pos
ture and bated breath, we should
concede to the Court and its man
dates; the humble and thankful
patience with which we should
await its pleasure and convepience.
We yield to none in reverence to
the laws, or in respect for those
who, with dignifed, impartial in
dustry administer the laws. But
for courts which can stoop to unjust
delays, rulings, or punishments to
further the schemes of land sharks,
and their agents. we have no re-
spect. In this particular case we
make no charge. Our belief is that
the Judge, a man of reputed vim
Gictive temper, is an unconscious
tool. We do know, however, that
charges might have been justly
made against more than one Terri
torial court in sold times" We
know that records have been falsi,
fed, fraudulent surveys accepted,
documents stolen, aye, and mel
murdered in New Mexico, and in
very recent times, in furtherance oi
schemes of land stealing. Noun
tains have been literally moved
/ (on paper for miles. Streams have
heen turned and leagues expanded
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1883-07-07
AN exchange very. truthfuly 70.

AN exchange very truthfuly re.
marks tha one of the curious about
the professional champions of the
working-man in this country is
that suone of them ever work.
Herr Most has an easy life of it
taking up q collection every time
he exhortS workmen to burn down
the factories that give their wives
and children bread, he fills up on
free beer and goes to sleep in a
free bed. He is the worst monopo.
list we know of.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1883-07-07

EVERY community has its dogs
and ours, those which from size or
other characteristic, are known by
all the populace. White Oaks is
no exception to the rule.
"Tige," is the oldest, largest,
and best knswn dog in camp. He
came here with Jack Winters, and
is recognized as the Oldest settler in
town. We own an interest in old
"Tige" Our interest cost nothing.
but it is "Tige's" interest that we
have an interest in him.
Then there is "Nickel," the
smallest dog in town. Because of
it's insignifcance it is known by all
men.
But the meanest, mangiest, lou
siest dog in camp is known az
" Paul Wagner" who through this
weeks Era invites us to dignity
him with a kick. We decline, nor
will we until he pays honest Peter
Mackel for the shoes he stands in
Robson & Young what he owes
them-pays Jake Miller ane Blood
for the whisky with which he
swashed his dirty bowels, lover $500
Ozane & Anderson what he owes
them-Rextord for labor-what
borrowed money he owes, and at
tains such status that he can get q
pound of meat from our local butch
er on credit. He says the LEADER
is indebted to him. In SO saying
he lies. We have, in his own
handwriting, evidence that he is
indebted to the LEADER, and when
court meets it is our purpose to in
stitute criminal proceedings against
him. Until then the dirty whelp
can yelp, snarl, and show his crook
ed teeth. He is known by all our
people, and by all equally despised
Speaking of dogs, Shakespeare
was acquainted with a mean one OF
whom he said, and we apply to our
mean dog:
Earth gapes, hell burns, fendS roar
saints pray,
To have him suddenly conveyed from
hence
Cancel his bond of life. dear God, pray
That may live to say the dog is dead"
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1883-07-07

Richard McGinms an old citizen
of White Oaks, populary known as
''Red Dick" came in from the Ga
llinas Thursday, and reports a
broad smile on Jerry Hocradles
countenance. The Glorious Fourth,
brought big shower ofrain, which
filed his tanks, and he now, has
plenty of water tor travellers and
freightors. He has gone for his
COWS, and will manufacture butter
and cheese. and will be able here
after to entertain the travelling pub
lie and his friends.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1883-07-07

What's the matter with Swedenl
The rulers Of the Swedes are not as
oppressive on the poor as in Eng
land, the country is quiet, and
there is as great plenty as ever,
yet the people are leaving it like
as If there was plague in the land.
Over 40, lett last year and it is
estimated that $4,000 will leave
this year. Speaking of emigration
and population L n II Goodsin
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1883-07-07

The most readable article which
has appeared in the Era for months
was the extract from. the LEADER
which the odorous Wagner utilized
ITO his own damage this week.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1883-07-07

JAKE MILLER is on deck with a
heavy cargo OF good liquors, the
best that ever came to the Oaks.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1883-07-07

o. H RoTHACKER in a letter from
Chicago to his paper, writes about
Henry Ward Beecher reaching his
seventieth birthday. In summing
up the character Of the man he says:
'If one can imagine a composite
of Robertson, Edward Irving and
Theodore Parker one can get some
where near the mental individuali-
ty Of the man who has just finished
his ssventieth year. He has been
honest with his religion and honest
with his country and has suffered
much travail and ill-will by reason
of his honesty. He has lived a
grand life. In the history of our
day there RS no figure more pecu.
liar or more striying. He has been
religious and a political patriot
He has deserved we'll of his time
and the republic. He can face his
tory and the hereafter with a lifted
brow MAY the aua Of the earu
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1883-07-07

An official order was last Satur-
day issued by Adjutant General
Drum, at Washington, promulgat-
ing the finding Of the court martial,
and announcing President Ar
thurs confirmation OF the sentence
in the case of Paymastsr Jas. r.
Wasson, and continuing as follows
''By direction of the secretary of
war the sentence in the case of Ma
jor James r. Wasson, Paymaster
United States Army, will take ef-
feet July 3, 1883, from which date
he will cease to be an officer ofthe
army. The Kansas State Peniten-
tiary, at Leavenworth, is designat-
cd as the place for execution Of so
much Of the sentence as relates to
confinement, where the prisoner
will be sent under direction of the
commanding general of the depart
ment Of Texas. The adiutani gen
sral will cause publication TO be
made as provided by the terms of
the sentence" The term of inn
prisonment, at hard labor, is for
eighteen months, and the require
ment in regard to publication is,
that the crime and punishment,
name and place ofabode be publish
ed in the newspapers of the state
from which he came, and in all the
newspapers Of the place where he
was last stationed. Paymaster
Wasson, though born in Ohio, was
appointed from Iowa. Galveston
was his last station.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1883-07-07

shine upon 1t for many years before
it's wrinkles are smoothed IN the
dawn that is to follow"
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1883-04-24
FARO AND KENO.
The COntrasted Methods Of Gambling
Of Two Great Journalists.

The Mail and Herald, two promi.
nent dailies of Stockton, edited re.
spectively by Ed. Colnon and Arthur
McEwen, two prominent journalists
formerly of this State, says the Carson
Appeal, are discussing the gaming
and amusement line. TIE question
of allowing faro and keno to be play
ed in Stockton is now being discussed
by the two papers mentioned, and
the argument has reached such a heat
that the writers are already beginning
to accuse each other of a lack of in
telligent knowledge of the game.
McEwen says:
"a man who would whipsaw the
ace and attempt to call the turn by
putting Gas we have often seen him)
four dollars (his weeks salary on a
card that was as dead as Thompson's
colt, is hardly the person to discuss
this great question intelligently.'
TO which Colnon responds in the
next issue:
"a man who would let his money
borrowed from us) lie on the jack I'M
til said jack has passed to the silent
ma ority, and a drunken check guer-
rilla appropriates the swag, while the
player, with his eye on another mans
bet, fondly supposed he was copper
ing the queen; enters this important
argument considerably handicapped"
The writer has seen both these men
play faro and keno at Orndortf's saloon
in early days. McEwen was continu-
ally trying to play complicated "sys-
tenn" breathed into his car by a dying
Mexican, which required double
force in the look out chair and all the
coppers and markers on the table.
Whenever he reached over to change
his bet he was sure to brush stack Of
blue chips off IA winning card with his
long coat sleeve, and his very appear
ance at game was signal for riot.
Colnon on the other hand, was quiet,
modest player, seldom venturing over
two-bit bet, and in fact it may be
said that he played the game more for
the opportunities afforded for the
study Of the human character than as
steady means of livelihood. In the
keno room, however, he was an lntol-
cradle nuisance. His slight deafness
and unfamiliarity with figures caused
him to stop the caller every few min
utes to find out the number Of the last
ball, and again in his excitement and
propensity to see double if his spec
tacles were not on right, he often
called "Keno." in sepulchral tones
when the necessity of the cry was not
apparent to the internal revenue col
lector whose duty it was to keep track
OF the mathematical equations of the
game.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1883-04-24

- Relaxation - often recon-
mended-much sought for-little rea.
lized. The correct appreciation of the
etymology Of the word would save
many a headache. Men seek for re-
taxation in Europe, at Saratoga, New.
port-anywhe:e at distance. Mean.
while they knit their brows, compress
their lips, ard set their teeth togethe,
to meet what they call strain. Hall
the real strain lies in those taut and
rigid muscles of the face. Relax
them. Rub cares wrinkles off
Slacken the tension, even for a minute
and return to the work with a smile
1t is relaxation realized. The relict
is simple and surprising.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1883-04-24
VEXATIOUS DELAYS.

Many Of the mining men of Wood
River complain of the lengthy, and
apparently caqseless delays to which
the plats of claims for which patents
are sought to be obtained are sub.
jected in the Office of Surveyor Gen.
eral Chandler. Instances are cited
where plats sent to that Office were not
returned for several weeks. This is
something that there is no way of &C.
counting for here; and there seems tc
be nothing to do but await the Sur.
yeyor Generals pleasure. This, es.
pecially when the short seasons are
considered, is not very satisfactory.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1883-04-24
THEY MUST "RUSTLE."

Some of the recent arrivals, we are
informed, who are probably disap.
pointed at their failure to pick up
immediately on arriving, vast fortune:
in the easy ways pictured by theil
vivid imagination, are damping thei1
luck and cursing the respective edi
tors of the New Northwest and of the
DAILY and WEEKLY TINES, because
articles published in those papers in.
duced them to come here. This is all
bosh! This section is vast, rich, won
derfully favored by nature, and offers
more inducements to settlers than
any other on the face of the globe.
But the prizes must be sought,
grasped and retained by personal
effort.
None of US who are here now, es-
tablished in business, had very much
to boast of when we came; nor have
we yet much more than foundation
"a start. But when we came we did
not walk about on the desert-for we
had no streets then, nothing but an
open desert-and curse the country.
We saw that the country was new and
that we must rely on our individual
efforts-that we must "rustle." And
rustic we did. Some of us went to
the woods and cut logs for our cabins,
while others went prospecting; but
all meanwhile sleeping in the open air
and living off of beans, bacon and
bread-and such bread! Some of us
had wives who--noble women!-did
not disda;n to share our privations
until better accommodations could be
secured, and some of the principal
necessaries of life obtained.
Well, we "rustled," prospered, and
soon had country fit for white
men and women to live in. Let the
newspapers initiate our example. This
section is young yet, and most of it is
still undisturbed and in its virginia.
state, with its mineral resources barely
scratched. Let them 60 out in the hills
and dig, or out on Camas Prairie, in
the valley or gulches, and take up
ranches, or timber or mining claims,
and they will undoubtedly prosper If
that does not suit them, let them seek
employment at days wages in the
mines, the tie.camps, along the rail-
road, or in the towns. In brief, let
them "rustle," and they will soon
prosper.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1883-04-24

-Extremes meet! The Germans
in this country strenuously oppose the
Sunday laws and long for the customs
of their Fatherland. The people of
the Fatherland per contra are making
. strong agitation in Berlin to enforce
the closing of all workshops on Sun.
day.
Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1883-04-24


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Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1883-04-24

1t is very justly said by the
press of the United States that the
repute and business of the whole
country are extended just in proper
tiop es it's journalism is broadened
and strengthened.