The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1883-08-31
NEWS AND COMMENTS.


ping ore.
The field officers of the first regiment
of the New Mexico cavalry all reside
at Mesila and Las Cruces.
Two soap factories. both using the
soap weed as the basis of their work,
Will be built at once at Las Cruces.
A large body of silver glance ore has
been made In the Morning Sun mine on
Socorro mountain. So says the Sun.
Mr.. Endlck the new superintendent
of the Sierre properties of Lake Valley,
has discharged most of the old employees
and put new men in their places.
The Columbia mine of Lake Valley,
sold by the receiver to settle differen-
ces between adverse claimants, was
purchased by the Sierra Bella company
for S30,5OO 25.
Frank James trial at Gallatln, Mis-
souri,, for completely in the Blue Cut
train robbery is now progressing with
the chances about ten to one IN favor
of acquittal.
Socorro is going to have a music pa
Wilton on the plaza for the use of the
band boys. That unsightly squire
ought to be fixed up, and this there
fore is move in the right direction.
The Santa Fe New Mexican Review
brings information of a new find of
copper ore in Santa Fe county. the
ledge being forty-five feet wide. If
you are telling story tell good one.
The extent to which the whisky pro-
hibition movement is entering into po-
iitics in Iowa, being endorsed unquali.
fiedly by the republican party renders
the result of this years election more
uncertain than usual.
A Salt Lake negro who killed an Off
Ger while resisting arrest, was pounded
up by other officers taken from Jail and
hung by one mob of citizens and taken
down and dragged about the streets by
second crowd of infuriated men.
Mr.. McGee late superintendent of the
San Pedro copper mine has leased OF
the Ohio company the Magadalena
smeltei and has put it in operation
Evidently he thinks he can run it
more successfully than previous parties
who have had charge of it.
There are four opium joints kept by
Chinese in Albuquerque on which the
Journal is now waging open war
There is no law in the city at present
which governs such cases so some or.
dinances will have to be enacted on the
subject ere they Can be handled.
The most disastrous cyclone yet heard
of this season as proved by returns
being received was that of Rochester
Minnesota. 6l3 houses in the city were
demolished, thirty-one persons were
killed and hundred wounded, a mum.
ber of them fatally. 129 families art
wholly destitute, besides a number in
the country who lost their all.
The most Industrious man yet found
in New mexico lives at Polvodera. He
claims pay from the Santa Fe railroad
for 1868 days work done by himself OH
the public acequia last year, and rem
dered necessary by the railroad grade
The title "indolent Mexican" surely
will not apply to this claimant.
Fisherman Arthur if given another
term of the presendency of the United
States will not leave a fish in fresh wat
er on this continent unless he reforms
Judging by the kilograms received from
his party now out on the Northern Pa
cific road the chief executive must sit
with rod and line hanging from cal
or stage window constantly to catch
from passing streams the finny tribe.
Chas. Chaves, Abel Duran and AnriliO
Lora were tried and convicted of mur'
dering three Cinnamon near Fort Bay
ard last February, and were sentenced
to be hanged on the 14th of next month
A deaf and dumb boy nine years OF
age was the principal witness in the
case and he gave his testimony by
means of pictures Of the horrors which
he drew.
The Mexican authorities want tc
punish the depredatlng Chiracahuas
for their misdeeds but general Crook
says that when the savages surrender
ed to him promised them that they
should not be punished for past acts
SO long as they behaved themselves
and that to proceed against them now
would be to act in bad faith. Will
some friend of Crook tell the people
why in the world the general made any
such an agreement with whipped pris
oners? This information strengthens
the story that the Indians captured
Crook.
The Golden Retort mentions: "a
very ingenious device for the washing
of placers, the invention of French