The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1883-02-16

inmates in time to save their lives if
possible.
Governor Sheldon has issued a proc
lamation offering reward of FIVE hun
dred dollars for the capture of VIM
one of the prisoners recently
from the Lincoln county Jail.
where he was confined for the murder
Juan Chaves y Pine.
The governor of Minnesota wanted
Frank James upon reqaisltion to an
swer to the charge of murder in con-
nection with the Northfeld bank rob-
berry, but Governor Crittenden says that
he cannot deliver the prisoner to any
other state till after the disposal of the
indictments against him in Missouri.
The artesian we'll at Tsyah, Texas,
which has just been sunk by the
Texas & Pacific railroad company, has
proved grand success. The well is
800 feet deep and raises the water forty
feet above the surface. This virtually
settles the question of utilizing the vast
tract of land known as the Staked
Plains.-Lone Star.
Leo Hartman, the Russian nihilist
now in this country, talks pretty freely
of revolution in his natiye country.
TIo dania thot oihilicpo hos l,oa,, o,n
pressed, and declares that the corona
tion of the Car will not take place on
the 9th of May. He says The nihilists
have no personal chiefs and recognize
no leader.
Las Vegas Optic: PIP. Wilcox, agent
at the San Carlos Apache reservation
in Arizona, was in Las Vegas to-day
bound for Denver. He told reporter
that the bucks are laying down the Win
chester for the shovel and hoe and that
since the tagging and roll call system
was inaugurated $50 more bucks have
come in and declared themselves peace
able.
The Albuquerque Review sensibly
remarks: "As to the long accounts of
executions, a change in public opinion
will soon come. Common sense and
intelligence are becoming more popular.
1t will begin to be fashionable after a
while to publish short records of the
death of criminals, and then it will be
the duty of the newspapers to keep the
fashion alive"
Director of the Mint Burchard is of
the opinion that without an interna-
tiunal agreement as to the relative
value of gold and silver, continuance
of the coinage and circulation of silver
by the United States would tend to
make this country the dumping ground
for the silver of all nations, while gold
would find its way out of the country
as fast as imports came in.
Miss Alice Blaine, daughter of ex-
Secretary Blaine, was married at her
fathers house in Washington on the
9th inst, to Brevet-C Colonel John j.
COpplnger, of the United States army.
Colonel Coppinger is now on General
Pope's staff as inspector-general of the
department of the Missouri with head
quarters at Fort Leavenworth. His
army position is major of the tenth
regular infantry.
Robert Layton, grand secretary of
the Knights of Labor, testified before
the senate committee Oh education and
labor that coal miners we're compelled
by the employer or operator, on penalty
Of discharge. to deal altogether at the
"pluck me- stores, owned by the EN-.
ployers, and to pay more for everything
than they would be obliged to elsewhere
They also had to buy all their tools
lamps, oil, powder, ETC., out of their
wages, which averaged not more than
$3.50 per year.
In order to attract the attention she
merits Kingston will ,as soon as practica
BILE publish general circulation, 10000
copies of forty-eight page pamph'
let setting forth in plain, modest Ian
cuage the exact facts regarding the To-
cation of Kingston, the character of its
surroundings, the general geological
formation. the nature and extent Of the
mineral belts, together with a descrip-
tion of each mine or prospect upon
which any considerable development
has been made"
The Graphic thus describes the quail
eating performance of Walcott: A
stranger, unawares of the cause and
seeing one man thus silently eating anC
forty other men standing by and az
silently watching him, might with some
show of reason imagine he had stun
bled upon lunatic asylum. 1t has {
"luny" look. The by-standers talk il
low tones to each other. They seen
sad and serious. The quail-eater is th'
saddest and most serious of them all
When he rises and sadly departs til,
crowd closely inspects the plate o
bones to see If any flesh adheres.