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The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1883-05-05

WE think it has been windy
here this season. Well it has
been, but before us is a copy of the
Dodge City (Kansas) Times which
in the following paragraph SATISFIES
us that what we took for wind was
but gentle zephyr.
"Sun City, Barber county, a
town of ten or fifteen buildings,
was totally wrecked by the wind
Saturday night. Mr.. Saunders
lost a store and stock of goods and
hotel; loss, about $4,000. Mr..
Douglas lost the top of his store
and a part of his stock. The house
of Mr.. Allen was blown away and
lost, Mr.. Allen was killed, and his
wife and son missing. -Four or
five small houses are left to mark
the town site"
Another paper says;
"On Sunday afternoon, April
22nd, terrible cyclone visited sew
cral small towns in Mississippi.
The town of Beauregard was des-
troyed and great loss of life occur
red. Wesson Jared equally as bad.
Several churches We're demolished,
and hundreds of persons in the
congregations injured, where they
were not killed outright. The
scenes witnessed by the survivors
were fearful and heartrending.
When all the loss of life in the
vast sweep of the storm comes to
be summed up 1t will amount to
nearly one hundred. The dead at
Beauregard are q, and at Wesson
81"
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1883-05-05

CONGRESSMAN KAssoN, of Iowa,
to an interviewer, on the subject
of national politics, said: $50 far
as | can judge, the issues are all
uniformed, and the probable candi-
dates Of both parties are still not
to be guessed. There never has
been an approaching campaign
where so little can be discerned as
the next. The President-makers
are evidently watching each other
closely, as well as the situation,
and the object is more to conceal
probabilities than TO reveal them. y
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1883-05-05
NUMBER SO.

THE Chicago Tr5Juae publishes
4 map Of portions of Chicago, for
the purpose of showing the moral
condition of things in that thriving
metropolis, and says: Chicago has
q, 100 licensed liquor shops. and,
adding the drug stores, groceries,
restaurants and dives in which Ii
quor is sold without licenses, there
are probably 5000 dispensaries of
intoxicants within the city limits.
This gives one dramshop to every
120 inhabitants. or one to every
twenty-four families. There are
less than =, 800 stores for the sup
ply of food-groccrs, butchers and
bakers-in the city, or less than
half as many food depots as there
are rum holes" In some localities
pretty nearly every house is sal
oon, and, If not saloon, some
thing worse. Within an area of
twelve miles the Iribune's map
shows 235 saloons and 100 houses
of prostitution, which, doubtless,
places Chicago some distance ahead
of any city on the continent in such
matters; and, what is singular
about it, the saloons arc all making
money. The 7TiJue says that
''many Of the owners of these sal
oons had, within a recent date, be-
gun business with a single barrel
Of beer, a bottle of whisky and q
counter consisting Of a plank rest
ing on two barrels; and yet in a
very short time they were in every
case able TO take in large stock of
liquors and furnish the saloon in q
manner similar to that of their
long-established neighbors." Ger
tainly Chicago is a great city, and
probably, all things considered,
quite as wicked as Boston, New
Y ork, or ancient Sodom.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1883-05-05

PROFESSOR Mezeroff, the dyna-
mitist, publishes a manifesto de
claring that the advocates of the
use Of explosives as a means of ex-
torting concessions from tyrants
are now III a position to take care
of themselves and cause the ty-
rants aforesaid to tremble on their
thrones. He then proceeds to ox-
plain a plan by which a fund of
$50, 200 or double that sum
may be raised by Irishmen to pro-
vide for blowing Great Britain out
Of the water His modesty does
not permit him to indicate who
should have the disbursement OF
the fund.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1883-05-05

WITH etheral mildness comes the
statement that the young son of
Senator Fair, from drinking too
much of the old mans whisky, has
tried to shoot his father, and that
another youth in Western Virginia
has beaten young school-mistress
to death for striking HIM with the
rod. We begin to lose faith in
the poetic maxim that Sin the
spring the young mans fancy
lightly turns to thoughts of love"
1t is in the spring that poisonous
plants begin their growth and rat
tlesnakcs come forth. 1t is IN the
spring that the young man is apt
to be most bilious, waspish and
warlike.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1883-05-05

Mr.. Jay Gould has declared TO his
near friends his intention to retire
from his active business life on the
completion Of his steady yacht the
Atlanta built for his projected tour
around the world. His son George
j. Gould, young man of %, is to
take his place as a speculator, and
Mr.. Gould himself will lead
a private life. Mr.. Gould's
fortune is carefully estimated in
round numbers at 800, 900, 900,
ofwhich $50, 100000 is in the stock
Of the Western Union Telegraph
Company, and $20,000;000 in the
stock of the Missouri Pacific Rail
road Company. In real estate he has
never put much money, consider
ing the size of his fortune. His in
yestment in this kind of property
altogether amounts to 50, 900.
Jay Gould to-day is considered the
richest man not only in America
but in the world. His large fortune
has all been made in twenty-five
years. In 1850 jay Gould was
clerk to country store in Schoharie
County n. Y. Salary $l5a month
That any man conld start from
such a salary and yet roll up a for
tune of$100, ,c00,00 in twenty-five
years seems among the impossible
hties. A fortune of 800, 100000
year will yield Gould an income
Of Sc, 900, 900. This is equal to
S500,O0O a month, 1925, 900 a
week, or nearly $1S, 600 a day,
Sundays included.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1883-05-05

Our old friend, Ed. L. Bartlett
is now a full fedged colonel, hay.
ing been appointed Chief of Gov.
Sheldon's staff with said rank. We
congratulate the Col.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1883-05-05

Dublin, May 2.-Patrick Delan-
ey and Thomas Caf'rey, two more
of the men charged with participa
ton in the murders of Cavendish
and Burke were arranged for trial
this morning. They created sen
sation in the court room by plead
ing guilty to the charge against
them. Both were sentenced to be
hanged on the 2nd of June. Be
fore Caffrey had pleaded guilty he
was informed by his solicitor that
the Crown gave no hopes of a nit
igation of the sentence Of death
that would be passed upon him.
When Delaney was called upon
to plead, he said: 81 am guilty
of being in the park at the time
Cavendish and Burke were killed.
but did not commit murder. |
plead guilty" The Judge explain
cd to him that this really amounted
to a plea of innocence. Delaney
then formally pleaded guilty. He
said: 81 was brought into this
foolishly, not knowing what it was,
not knowing it was my work to go
to the park. We had to obey the
orders of the society or take the
consequences. When l got to the
park | could not get away. saw
the murders committed but took
no part in them. l went to the
park on Cavanaugh's car. He
speaks the truth; so does Carey.
The murders were committed by
John Brady and Timothy Kelly
and by nobody else. | saved
Judge Lawson's life. l was put
on to shoot him by Mullett and
Brady. The only way to escape
the task was by calling the guards
attention" O'Brien then passing
sentence to Delaney said he had
his duty to perform. He pitied
him because he showed some feel
ing for his wife and family. The
prisoner would see to what misery
they have been brought by the
wicked system of conspiracy.
When Caffrey was placed in the
dock, his face wore a smile. In
consequence of pleading guilty it
was again fully explained to him.
He persisted in the plea. On be-
ing asked whether he had anything
to say why sentence should not be
passed on him, Caf'rey replied in
loud, clear voice: "All have to
say, standing on the brink of the
grave, is, | did not know what was
going to happen until twenty min
utes before the murders were com
mitted. was bound to 60 to the
park under pain of death"
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1883-05-05

Mrs. SLOWER, sister of the late
Andrew Johnson, and whose name
was familiar when her brother was
President of the L. s., died the
other day in Tepnesseee.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1883-05-05

GEN ALBERT PIKE, famed as a
poet, scholar, Confederate and the
highest muck-a-muck Mason in the
country is now doing New Mexico
and Arizona. Gen. Pike occupies
the exalted position Of "Grand
Commander Of the Supreme Coucil
Of the BIRD Ancient and Accepted
Scottish Rite for the Southern iu-
risdiction." which includes all
south of Mason IL Dickson's line
and Territories west of the Nilsson
ri River.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1883-05-05

THE prohibitionlsts got another
black eye the other day. The Su-
preme Court of Iowa decided that
the prohibitory law Of that State
was unconstitutional Carry the
news to st. John.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1883-05-05

THOSE who were rebels during
the late war, and still cherish re-
vengeful feelings towards Grant,
will now have the privilege of
licking him in the near future, as,
by order of the late p. NJ. General
Howe, the Generals phiz is to Or
nament the ? cent postage stamps
which are 10 take the place Of the
present 3 cent ones.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1883-05-05

THE telegraph informs us that on
last Sabbath Henry Ward Beecher'
preached from the text +" Love one
another" The old dominic once
got into trouble fitting around
that passage.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1883-05-05

THE cattle drive at Dodge City
this spring is estimated at 245,O
head Great snakes,
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1883-05-05

"JoHN A. LOGAN" is the way
the next President of the Upited
States will sign his name.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1883-05-05

THERE are two things that White
Oaks hasn't got, and don't want; a
dude and base ball club.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1883-05-05

' Is not informed we will
m that work upon every
has been shut down for
nd will continue so until
Y, now on the way hither,
lere. When work is re-
ne LEADER will keep its
ully posted on mining
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1883-05-05

The wind appears to have gone
out Of business.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1883-05-05

The White Oaks papers are
made up almost entirely Of miscel-
lany to the exclusion of informa-
ton about the mines.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-05-17
Fatal Gas Explosion.
VIcKsBURG, Miss, Ma,

'''''''''a,. vIcksBURG. Miss, May 4.
Between ten and eleven o'clock Wednes-
day night an explosion in the gas department
occurred at the Refuge Oil Works, owned by
Ed Richardson, about two miles below this
city, resulting in instant death to Miss
Minnie Lavender and serious, and pro-
badly fatal, injuries to Miss Lille
sIcMasters, Harry Parks and Robcr.
Hobs0n. Bernard Donneliy. and Andy
Green was also painfully injured. 1t seems
Misses McMasterss and. Cavander, accompa-
MED by Mr. HAIRY Parks, about nine clock
"Wednesday night hook occasion to visit the
mill for the purpose of witnessing its work
ihgs throughout all its various departments.
NIr. Parks escorted the young ladies through
all the departments. with the aid of a lantern,
and explained their various workings.
When the party came to the gas-house,
which is isolated from the main buildings, the
door was opened by Bernard Donnelly, whose
duty it is to wind up the machinery
at night. DonnelIy requested Parks not to
come in the building with the lantern, but
he, determined on showing the ladesstfe
workings of the machine, approached near
10 the door, the ladies followed closely be-
hind, when almost instantaneously the en-
tire building seemed to be one solid sheet of
fire The garments of the ladies We're soon
ablaze. They made an effort to reach the near
est residence, and while doing so were literally
burnt almost to crisp. The blaze from
their clothing lit up the country around as
they fled across the hills through the night
Miss Lavender died at two p M, after suf-
fering the most terrible agonies. 1t is be-
lieved Donnelly and Green will recover, but
littls hope is enter tanned for the rest of the
Injured.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-05-17
Six Men Killed in a Mine Accident.

f..t HALIFAX, N, S., May 4.
A terrible accident happened in the Vale
colliery, New Glasgow, yesterday morning,
by which six miners were killed outright.
three miners probably fatally injured, ant
two or three more or less hurt, but not Sc
riouSly. The workmen were coming to the
surface from below when the rope attached
to the brake suddenly broke, and the box.
running down the slope with fearful veloc-
ity, struck the bottom with terrible force.
Following are the names of the killed: J..
r. ellis, Colin Campbell. A. Frazer, w allacc
McGilliveray, j. McEachern, William Har-
man.
The following are not expected to recover:
A. Mcleod, Richard Taylor, boy named
John Nicholson.
A boy named C. Irving and a man named
Malcolm Beaton, who were also in the box.
will likely recover from their injuries. The
particulars given of the terrible accident are
of the most CHASTITY character. The men On
the surface at the mouth of the slope were
horror-stricken when they perceived the fear
full and helpless position to which those wn
had been coming up in the box were suddenly
placed and for moment stood Spellbound.
Nothing, however, they could now do would
save the death-doomed miners. For brief
second of time they could hear the car rush.
ing down. In moment the sound Of the
crash at the bottom was heard, and
they knew that some at least o,
the men making their way UP
had met sudden and awful death
AS soon as possible communication was had
with below, and the news was sent above
that six of the occupants of the car had bee.a
dashed to pieces at the foot OF the slope, and
their mangled remains, bathed in blood, lay
ina heap on top Of these were three
others, two men, Mcleod and Taylor, and a
boy, Nicholson; who, on examination, were
found to be terribly injured, but not dead.
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-05-17

PITH AND POINT.

-s.Boartl wanted''-as the young
lady said when she came to mud-pud-
die in the sidewalk.
There is no power on earth that
can make good citizen of man VINO
does not work.-NeU Orleans PhttoSo-
pher.
IT believe" said one man, speak
inc of another, ssthat he would do any
thing-even eatsuccotash MIA ssfspse
hotel"
There appears to be no reason why
the English should not now taEe klndly
to that famous American ballad: ..John
Browns body lies moldering IN the
grave. - Boston Post. II a.
-Aristocratic ma, chatting with aris.
tocratic visitor, is interrupted byxtwo
little daughters running in; son, ma!
ma! we've Just seen Uncle Jim! Hes
upon a wagon, hollerin' barlsillVy
A Piute Princess has Just matried
her twentieth husband. A few enter
prising Piute princesses would soon ex-
terminate the male portion OF the tribe,
and save our Government considerable
money.-NorristoaDn Herald.a
A Western paper has ami sMbSrate
article on s.Some Causes of q monetary
Strineency." If there are, any new
causes we don't want to hear. anything
about them. The old causes are ebout
all we care to wrcstle with.FN14e, T.
Graphic.
"A gentleman who has been think
ing of buying a hack, having Visited a
menagerie, comes home Sradanf with
10Y. "Pm going to buy one OF them re,
BRAS" he says: ssone of those ritied
horses. They must carry much further
than the ordinary sort!'''',, Il 'i s.s.sspas
A man has invented a chair that
can be adjusted to 800 different Posi-,
tons, and yet a man who suspected
his wife was going to ask him where he
was the night before couldn'tiget into
position in that chair which seemed
comfortable u Boston Transcript.
Latin in drug store must come
down: The green boy leF'ning the
,ruggist's trade has too good a'clance
to poison customers by mistake Where
everything is covered by u langnag, he
does not understand Medicine should
be taken in straight EnglisK@N. o.
PtcGyuaae. -
A 'longshoreman entered coffee
and cake saloon in Barclay, street on
Friday, and, after eating, plate of fish
cakes, called for "a cup ov coffee an
pace ev poi.'' .sVot kind uf pyp'
asked the German attendant. "Quinz
poi' .'Mintz?" .'No, quinz, ye thick
headed Dutchman. Do look bike a
man that 'ud ate mate on Friday?"--
N. Y. Herald. Y ~ Jar 4
No, gentle Cockney,s the George.
Washington, of whom you seem to have.
heard for the first time, was never ga
'orse breeder" We have an indistinct
recollection, however, that on one oc-
cas;on he took Bull by the horns1and.
as the Irshman said, ''gave him agood
batting" George was rather q genius
in that line, and if you will look the
story up when you return to .'Hold
Hingland'' you will find some reference
to him in the British Chicago,
Herald. 'ts .r.s. t.t ,.st v,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-05-17
Miscellaneous Items.

Despite the most strenuous efforts of
the Health Department the smallpox at st.
Louis had not diminished to q recent date,
but on the contrary had gradually in
creased. During the month of April there
were over fifty patients sent to quarantine
and there was said to be greater number
in private families in various parts of the
city. 'rt-~ +- b. -fs- So. b 80
The other evening George A. Smith,
a travelling salesman of Chicago, was
found near the Missouri Pacific Depot in
independence in an insensible condition.
An examination showed. that he, was
bruised on the side, two of his ribs were
broken and that he had received serious in
ternal injuries, which caused his death the
next'day. He recovered Consciousness be-
fore he died and said he thought he had
fallen off the platform, but as his watch
and chain were missing it was thought by
some that he had been s1ugged and robbed.
A dreadful accident happened at
Kansas City the other afternoon, resulting
in the death of one man and the injury of
two others. "A gang of dirt Iifters were
engaged in cutting down an ENHANCEMENT
to the grade of the street when an immense
quantity of earth-cavedi in on them, bury
ing Edward Coleman and Joseph Stillwel1
under its weight. Coleman died soon after
being dug put and Stilwell WIS found to be
seriously hurt.
Several land buyers are looking for
homes and stock and grain farms near Sa-
lem, and it is said the chances are that
good deal of land in that county will change,
owners this spring. -
West Pfains has new bank. - 8 u
State exchanges are warningfthe peo-
pie to look out for a couplesof frauds who
are travelling under different names, claim
ing to be Government pension agents in
search of those entitled to an increase of
pension. They demand five dollars in ad.
vance to look up.he claim. The Govern.
ment has no such agents.
According to a local paper. there
will not be more than one-fourth
OF. a melon crop raised at Diehlstadt, il.
Mississippi County, this year. The farm.
ers there will plant more corn than pota-
toes.
Work has commenced on a new
courthouse at West Plains Howell County,
Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-05-17
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY;

"A Canadian has invented a method
of putting glass in sash without the en-
ployment OF putty1u rtTwwpnr
Some Swedish slnanufacttlrefs oh
matches are proposing to set up large:
factory i'm northern New York.
o., Glass shingles are now. being man.
ufactured at Pittsburgh, which are said,
20 be more durable. and impervious to.
rain than slate or any other material.-
Pittsburgh POST
A paper watch has been exhibited
by Dresden Matchmaker. The paper
is prepared in such manner that the
watch is said to be as seryiceable as,
those in ordinary use. a7n7 9nt.
A German patent has just been.
taken out for the manufacture of bot
ties, etc, from. CAST. iron, containing
twelve per. cent. of silicon, q compound
which is said to resist action of the
strongest acids: ..a'''i ' -, - ..
DIR. Quesneville stated before the
Societe d'Hygiene that he had pre-
served water potable for more than
three years by adding to it half a grain
of salicylic acid for each quart. 1t is
recommended for use in expeditions in
warm climates.
After long consideration of means
for stopping n ship suddenly -twhen
emergency requires . German has
adopted the principle of recoil of a
gun as the only feasible basis for en-
pertinent. He proposes to fasten on.
the front of the Ship an immense can
non charged with some powerful ex-
plosive and ready to be fired by cleo
tricity at a moments notice. He sup
poses that the recoil wonld exactly
counterbalance the momentum of the
ship, the arma ment, of course, being
proportional to ,thes.onnage.v
In a letter to a. friend IN Berlin.
Prof. Norlenskjold lately wrote as fol-
lows: LAS for my expedition to Green
land, it is my intentions. starting from
Anleitsiyikfiord on the west coast in
sixty-eight degrees thirty minutes north
latitude, to push into the interior. Re-
lying on the fact that all the winds
which reach the coast from the interior
are dry and comparatively warm. be-
heve, contrary to the prevailing opin-
ion, that the interior is free from ice.
further believe that, under the meteor
illogical conditions now existing south
of eighty degrees north latitude, ice
covered continents are a physical i'm
possibility M()saSYt rF,1
The increasing scarcity of Jtallow of
animal origin has attracted the att n
ton OF candle and 'sosp manufacturers
to a vegetable grease introduced into
Europe toward 1S4S. and the use of
which is steadily growing in France and
England. The tallow tree is of Chinese
origin; it grows also in the northwest
of India. and has been Introduced into
South Carolina. where il has been Gull
tiFated for ten years. 1t produces n
fruit the core of which Is coe, re} with n
layer of thick tanow, and contains n
yellowish aromatic oil, tised In the same
country as q heatiegi agAnt.lI Aft,a. the
placking. which takes place in July in
the senth and in October in the north
OF emma, hot water is poured on them
and the grease is skinned Off AFTER ,,e,.
ting cold with spoons: tho tallSw.
nodded INTO the form of bamboo canns
Is directly brought int" commerce.