The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1883-01-26


The committee has now got a secretary
whose honesty, integrity and ability
have never been challenged.
The trouble in Egypt isn't over with
yet. A false prophet has arisen there /
and is making war upon the govern
ment. A fight occurred between the
forces of the rebel and five hundred |
of the government troops in which two .
hundred and forty of the latter were
killed and the remainder were taken
prisoner.
Samuel Russell who died at the age of |
eighty-four years, in Newark, Della
ware, lately, kept until his death the
first dollar that he ever earned. a
great many men that can be pointed |
out in every district in this country
will have to live to be older than this
to get that first dollar if there IS no
change in their personal habits.
There is a rumor a1Oat at Deming
that Boston parties have project
ready to put into operation for huild-
ing railroad from that point to run
into Old Mexico TIE course of the
line Will be due south and it will run
between the Sierra MadTe and Sierra
Mojada ranges. 1t will follow this
course until it gets tired or brings UP in
some city already made or to be build
ed.
DR.. Dobbns, the millionaire miner
is in from middle camp. The smelter
fred up as he left Thursday morning,
on Juanita and Hardscrabble ore. DR..
Dobbns and r. NJ. Tweed, his partner,
have made a fine strike on the Garfield
lode, situated near the summit of the
Magadalena. AT fourteen feet the ore
Observation-Disclosures to ten feet.
Test assays just made gave sixty dol
lars in silver and lead. A specimen
chunk now lies on the counter of the
Grand Central. Work will be resumed
next week.-Socorro Sun.
The Atchson, Topeka & Santa Fe
railroad company, with view of en-
couragng the development of the min
ing interests of New Mexico has made
large reduction of the freight tariff
on New Mexico ores to Pueblo
and Kansas City. This reduction will
greatly boom mining interests, as it
will leave miners a much larger mar
gin on their ore, and will admit of their
shipping ore Of lower grade a greater
distance for Observation-Disclosures
Journal.
There IS trouble in France. Immedl-
ately following the funeral of Ganbet-
ia, Prince Jerome Napoleon issued q
manifesto setting forth his claim to be
ruler of the people who preferred to
govern themselves and published it in
the Figaro. The prince was arrested
and thrown into prison. His friends
and followers comprising the nobility
who prefer the empire are organizing
troops secretly throughout the republic
and preparing to liberate their leader.
Damaian Romero, a seventeen year
old lad who one year ago shot and kill
ed William "A. RockSmidt in ColfaX
county, was, on the 18th, found guilty
of murder in the first degree and has
been sentenced to be hanged on the 2nd
of next month. Gov. Sheldon permits
no unnecessary delay in the execution
Of the Judgment of the court. He evi
IDENTIFY does not propose to give PreSi-
dent Arthur an opportunity to inter-
fere again. The idea is good one.
Such a large majority of the mem
bers of the Kansas legislature, now in
session, are in favor of the reelection Of
United States Senator Plumb, that it is
deemed unnecessary for that gentleman
to come home to "see about it," and it is
generally understood that he will be
chosen as his own successor. without
leaving his post at Washington. This
will be the first time that any man has
ever been elect ed to the senate of Kan
sas without being on the ground, and
gong through hot campaign.-Albu-
Querque Journal.
AS was generally supposed the ex-
treme cold weather of last week was
not confined TO this section. From all
parts of the west the news of the in
clemency of the weather OH the 10Th Is
now arriving. AtOmaha and through
out the northwest the weather has been
the most severe seen in five winters. A
blizzard was cutting around over Ne
braska and snow blockaded tie rail
roads. Throughout Colorado and ad-
joining states in the evening at o'clock
the reports show: At Leadville, indi-
cations Of snow, zero; Robinson, snow
ing hard, degrees below zero; Red
Cliff, showing hard, 10 degrees below
Alma, showing hard, below; Kokomo,
showing hard, 10 below; San Francisco,
showing hard, 2 below; Boreas, snow
ing hard. below: breckenridge. cloudy.