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

Senator Hoar was reelected from
Massachusetts,.
Senator Ransom was reelected from
his state of North Carolina.
John G. Harris has been elected sena-
tor from Tennessee. Harris is the old
war governor of the state.
Twelve thousand dollars will be
offered by the government for the
house in which Lincoln died.
The Santa Fe gas company has de-
clared dividend of five dollars a share.
The company is evidently not all gas.
An enterprising firm in Albuquerque
is going to build atwenty-acre.lish-pond
for the propagation Of German carp.
The Planters house in st. Louis was
damaged by fire last week, 10 the ex-
tent of $4,000 and several fives were
lost.
Arkansas is going to submit to the
people constitutional amendment
which shall prohibit the payment of
the TIayfoId bonds.
Geo. Schelter, proprietor of the New
hall house, Milwaukee, bar. has been
arrested charged with setting the fire
which resulted so disaStrouslY.
Central City the Oldest American
town in Grant county, is about to or
ganize town company and have the
place surveyed for patent
Silver City butchers goto Fort Worth
Texas for their beef cattle because, as
they claim the stock is not to be had
in New Mexico or Arizona.
Twenty-eight persons have died of
smallpox recently i'll the little Mexican
town of San Jose in the northern por-
ton of Socorro county, on the river.
The Silver City New Southwest says
at least 800 mule and OK teams are con-
stantly hauling goods from Deming to
Silver City and surrounding mining
| camps.
Albuquerque is raising money by
subscription to build a new jail. and
the board of trade is having printed Il
pamphlet entitled Albuquerque as II
business center"
A movement is on foot among stock
men to do. away with the revolver
among cowboys, anumber Of. firms re-
fusing to employ herdsmen who carry
arms of any description.
The territorial supreme court has is
sued an order directing that Las Cru
els shall hereafter he made the point
for holding the sessions of the district
court Of Dona Ana county.
The Fl Paao and White Oaks rail-
! road will probably be built this sum-
mer. 1t is stated chat ground for the
( line has been broken at both ends of
/ the route. The statement is not true.
Conrad & Co., manufacturers of Bud
weser beer have failed. Assets and
liabilities are about half u million dol
lars. The firm did a business of s ,500,-
900 year but too much of it was cred
it for the capitalization.
"For the first time in the history of
the city of Boston, Samuel T. McCleary
is not city clerk" says the Advertiser.
"Father and son, they have filled the
Office sixty years, a period which was
equally divided between them"
The Sunday Sun brings the news that
Prof Luguemare has discovered a zinc
lead near Socorro. Geo. Yeakel dis
covered tin IN the San Mateo's lately
which proved to be iron. These things
do happen.
The Socorro Sun chronicles that P. A
Simpson, our new sheriff, in trying to
arrest two demonstrative cowboys shot
and killed one of them. The dead man S
name was w. H. Townsend and he was
in the employ of Hancock of Las Vegas
Hotel fires are IN fashion now. The
Quincy House of Quincy, Illinois, one
of the largest hotels in tie city burned
on the morning of the 10;h. No lives
were lost. The fire caught from de
fectlve fiues. The loss over amount OF
insurance will be light.
Numa Raymond is preparing to erect
Il large block of buildings at Las Crucis
Immediately. The structure will fill
all the space between the Commercial
hotel and the corner south. Its dimen
sions will be 7Oxs0 feet, and the Rio
Grande Republican, ejoces that one OF
the rooms will be fitted up for its es
pecial accommodation.
The Santa Fe New Mexican annoan
ces its determination to continue the
agitation of free school system in
New Mexico until 1t shall be an accom-
plished fact. The intention is laud
able one, and the efforts of the New
Mexican should be seconded by every
territorial paper. Free schools are an
absolute necessity here as we'll as in
other portions of this land,