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

is now free from smallpox.
Window was elected by IS majority
to the United States senate.
Senator Jones, of Nevada, is about
to start an ostrich farm in Arizona.
Santa Fe is shipping ice to El Paso
and thousands of pounds of corn to
EspanOla.
William Richards, a hotel proprietor
at Georgetown, has skipped. His cred
itors lose about $500.
An appeal has been made to Secre-
tary Teller to have him order the Pueb-
lo Indians vaccinated.
Mcpherson was reelected United
States senator from New Jersey, and
Plumb was reelected from Kansas.
In the lower Pecos Valley, Tex, cat
tie are dying off by the hundreds. Al
kali water is believed to be the cause.
The poles for the telegraph line be-
tween Deming aud Silver City have
been delivered on the ground and the
line Will be put up as soon as the wire
arrives.
Congress must repeal the law author
izing the coinage of the standard silver
dollars, or build more vaults to keep
them in.
A discovery of petroleum has been
made in the vicinity of Ration and ex-
ctement is said to he running high in
that locality.
The boom at Dcming still continues.
Two brick yards are in successful Up-
Grafton and a number OF BRICK houses
are being erected.
The pest house at Santa Fe, opened
for the accommodation of smallpox
patients, has been closed, there being
no further use for it.
At Hillsboro, j. r. Johnson and
nephew, shot and killed man by the
name of Fields, who had first attacked
the former with Il pistol.
Hon. Thos. NJ. Bowen was nominated
by the republicans of Colorado for Unit
ed States senator for the long term, and
H, A. w. Tabor for the short term.
The Fltz John Porter bill passed the
senate. The bill provides that Porter
shall receive no pay or allowances pri-
or TO his reinstatement into the army.
An electric light company has been
organized in Albuquerque and will be-
gin operations at once. This Is the
hrst company of the kind in the terri
tory.
Three columns of long primer an
nounce change of editors on the Lin
coin County Leader, MAJ. VIM. Caffrey
succeeding to the editorial chair of that
paper.
The Silver City Southwest states that
it has heard from private sources that
General Logan is working in the inter-
est of Fort Bayard for twelve CON-
pany post.
A coal train on the Georges Greek and
Cumberland railroad, running from
Cumberland TO Lonaconing, w. Va,
jumped the track while on a steep in
cline, killing fifteen men.
The wardrobe of the Chinese minis
ter at Washington is valued at $780,
600. He never appears at a reception
twice IN the same dress, and all of them
are of the richest silks and satins.
The printers of Albuquerque have
formed an organization for the better
protection and care of members of the
craft in case of sickness or pecuniary
distress, when the sufferer is worthy of
help.
The people of Las Cruces have sub
scribed one hundred and eighty-fve dol
lars to assist in building new court
house and Jail. and eleven dollars to-
ward identifying the Presbyterian
church.
The.atlternating editorial in each sue
cessive issue of the New Mexican in
regard to the wonderfully increasing
subscription list of that journal is at
tracting considerable attention-fr0m
the other papers.
A railroad is to be constructed by the
Northern Pacific company, from Port
land, Ore. to Kalama, thirty-nlne miles,
thus connecting the entire railway sys-
tenn of Oregon and Washington terri
tory with the Northern Pacific.
One of the counsel of the defense in
the star route case says that the expen-
ses of Brady. Dorsey, and Vaile. in the
recent and pending trials will be fully
100000. of which Brady and Dorsey
are reported to have spent $4,000 each.
A terrible cutting affray occurred at
Socorro on the 25th inst among a party
of drunken Mexlcans who were quar-
reling oyer the use of the hot springs
water. One man had an eye knocked
out and another had his head laid open.