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The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1883-02-03
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ORDER

Rditor LEADER:
Now that White Oaks and our
town are coupled together in bust
ness and friendly relations, by the
daily stage of the Southwestern
Co., we r on afooting, which, if
properly made use Of, will continue
to turn profit to both towns. Ev-
cry day brings business men from
your town, who are alive to your
interests, and after looking over
our busy little place, speak all alike
that the San Antonio coal fields
and coke ovens now warming up
must make this the prominent rail
road point between Deming and
Albuquerque.
The San Andreas Copper Noun
tain Mining Company, shipped two
loads Of supplies to their works to
day. These works promise well,
and are located just half way be-
tween our two towns. Mr.. Lam
son is actively engaged in the
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1883-02-03


dismember that leg, and | will
attend to the stomach and upper
part of the body. He will be dead
before we arc done with him. We
must remember that society has
some claims on us, and not let
our better nature be worked upon
by the post norton promises of a
dead drunkard. Then | took my
icicle and began fumbling around
the abdomen portion Of pas re-
mains, and my chum took a rough
piece Office and began to saw his
leg off, while the other boy took
hold Of the leg and said he would
catch it when it dropped off. Well,
pa kicked like a steer. He said
he wanted to make one more APP
peal to us, and we acted sort of
impatient but we let up to hear
what he had to say. lie said if
we would let him loose he would
give us ten dollars more than we
gave for his body, and that he
would never drink another drop
as long as he lived. Then we
whispered some more and then
told Inn We thought fayorably of
lis last proposition, but he must
swear with his hand on the leg of
a corpse We were then dissccting
that he woHld never drink again,
and then he must be b%lindfolded
and be conducted several blocks
away from the dissecting room,
before we would turn him loose.
He said that was all right, and so
we blindfolded him and made him
take a bloody oath, with his hand
on a piece of ice hat we told him
was another corpse, and then we
took him out of the house and led
him around the block four times,
and left him on a corner, after he
had promised to send the money to
an address that [ gave him. We
told him to stand still five min
utcs after we left him, then remove
the blindfold, and 60 home. We
watched him, from behind a board
fence, and he took off the handker-
chief, looked at the name on Il
street lamp, and found he was not
far from home. lie started off
saying: ''That's a pretty narrow
escape old man. Nc more whisky
for you" | did not see him again
until this morning, and when |
asked him where he was last night
he shuddcred and said none your
darn business. But | never drink
any more, you remember that.
Ma was tickled, and said | was
worth my weight in gold. Well,
good day. That cheese is musty.' ~
And the boy went and caught on Il
passing sleigh.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1883-02-03

The Lyndon, Vermont, Union
has a long article about female
doctors, and how it would not do
for a very sick man to attend him,
saying suppose a man "knew his
tongue was coated so it looked like
a yellow Turkish towel, do You
suppose he would want to run out
over five or six inches of the lower
part of it and let that female doctor
put her finger on it to see how fur
it wasl Not much. He would
put that tongue up into his check,
and wouldn't let her see it for TWEEN
ty-fve cents admission. We have
all seen doctors put their hands IN
der the bed clothes and feel of a
mans feet to see if they yer cold.
If a female doctor would do that it
would give a man cramps in the
legs. a male doctor can put his
hand ON a mans stomach, and liv-
or and lungs, and ask him if ne
feels any pain there, but if a female
doctor should do that same thing it
would make a man sick, and he
would want to 81 up and kick him
self for employing IA female doctor.
Oh, there is no use in talking, ii
would kill n man.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1883-02-03
TERRITORY OF New MEXICO,
EXECUTIVE OFFICE,

~
ESPECIAL ORDERS.
1t is ordered =
L. That the designations of Cap
tain j. S. Young, First Lieutenant
j. W. Southwick, and of Second
Lieutenant j. b. Bantield, Com
pany OH" First Regiment, New
Mexico Militia, be not accepted.
II. The officers above named
have been guilty of publishing in
the newspapers false statements
concerning the orders of the Gov
ernor and COMMANDMENTS Chief, and
have published criticisms upon said
orders, and have, moreover, shown
a selfish unwillingness to obey law
full and proper orders for the pro-
lection of people in their property.
1t is therefore ordered that said Of
ticers be, and they are hereby dis
honorably dismissed the service,
and their commissions are hereby
revoked.
III. The Governor and Com
mander-in-C Chief is happy to state
that this is the only instance where
the Militia of New Mexico have
falsiied and criticized the orders OF
the Commander-in-Chie and
where designations have been ten
dered, and public security leopard
lied because to serve the people
and protect their property and III
terests would result in trivial pecu-
MARY loss.
LIONEL A. SHELDON,
Governor and COMMANDMENT Chief.
OFFICIAL EDWARD l.. BARTLETT,
Adjutant General
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1883-02-03
Lincoln County Leader.
Saturday February, 3, 1888
COMMUNICATIONS.

lsilAUI l1bADfh
There seems to be an evil spin,
abroad in every mining camp and
every town in the Territory, which
deserves sharp condemnation from
the press, and from every liberal
minded, progressive citizen. This
is the spirit of detraction and miss
representation. 1t seems to be the
first impulse of some natures to
SANDER and vilify every mining
enterprise or movement of public
interest in which they are not con-
nected or have a personal pecuni-
airy interest. The principal expo
nents of this vicious spirit, are, al
most invariably, men who have
been failures in older communities,
and have left to the great relief OF
said communities. They infict, for
a time, the new mining camps and
young cities of the west, knowing
that they possess no intrinsic merits
Of character which would eventu-
ally enable them to acquire the res
poet and confidence of the commu-
nifty. They endeavor to achieve
success by meddling with every
ones business, and by cunningly
devised lies, SOW distrust, destroy
faith and confidence in the commu-
nifty to such an extent that it is i'm
possible for a healthy public opin-
ion to exist. Where these YAM
pires have become prominent,
especially in an infant mining
camp, they care nothing for the
general interest or permanent
growth ofthe country, but expend
all their devilIsh activity, in public
and private, to create anarchy and
confusion. They revel in disorder,
as they imagine that fear Of their
ability to do mischief will better
enable them to succeed in their
plots, in such a state of society.
The sooner these characters are
spotted and their ability for NAL
icious mischief limited by the open
expression Of an outraged public
sentiment, in every camp which is
afflicted by their loathsome pres
ence, the sooner will prosperity
follow.
In the infancy of every new
mining district, all money that is
spent in prospecting and develop
ment, before production common
ces, must come from abroad, and
every man who prevents or at
tempts to prevent a prospect hole
being dug, is an enemy Of the
camp and deserves the severest
public censure. 1t takes a great
many prospect holes to discover
the valuable ore bodies. Capital is
naturally timid, and one vicious
tongue can destroy faith in a min
ing camp faster than a hundred
honorable men can build it up.
Now let the press come to the
front and fearlessly denounce this
spirit of detraction and malice.
Let it aid the mass of the people in
building up a sound and healthy
public opinion in all directions, and
it will be gallantly sustained.
The time is rapidly passing when
the highest interests of whole com.
munities can be demoralizod and
destroyed by q few cunning unscru.
pulous cranks.
ORDER.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1883-02-03
His Pa Dissected
From Peck,s Sun.

From Peck's Sun.
81 understand your pa has got
to drinking again like a fish,"
says the grocery man to the bad
boy, as the youth came in the gro
Gerry and took a handful of dried
apples. The boy ate a dried apple
and then made up a terrible face,
and the grocery man asked him
what he was trying to do with his
face.
"Say, don't you know any bet
ter than to keep dried apples where
ii boy can get hold of them when
he has got the humps! You will
kill some boy yet by such dunn
carelessness. | thought these were
sweet dried apples, but they are
sour as a boarding house keeper,
and they make me tired. Didn't
you ever have the mumpsl Gosh,
but don't it hurt thought You
have got to be darn careful when
you have the humps, and not go
out bob-sledding, or skating, or
you Will have your neck swell up
biggern a milk pail. Pa said he
had the mumps once when he was
a boy and it broke him all up"
Well, never mind the mumps,
how about your pa spreeing it.
Try one Of those pickles in the
jar there, won't you. I always
like to have a boy enjoy himself
when he comes to see me" said the
grocery man, winking to a man
who was filling an old fashioned tin
box with tobacco out Of the pail,
who winked back as mucha as to say,
cit that boy eats Il pickle on top of
them humps we will have Il circus,
sure"
"You can't play no pickle on
me, not when | have the humps.
Ma passed the pickles to me this
morning, and l took one mouthful,
and | liked to had the lockiaw.
But ma didn't do it on purpose, [
guess. She never had any mumps
and didn't know how discouraging
a pickle is. Darn if I didn't feel
as though | had been struck in the
butt OF the ear with a brick. But
about pa. He has been fuller'n a
goose ever since New Years day.
| think its warning for women to
tempt feeble minded persons with
liquor on New Years. Now me
and my chum, we can take a drink
and then let it alone. We have
got brain, and know when we have
got enough, but pa, when he gets
to going don't ever stop until he
gets so sick that he can't keep his
stummick inside Of hisself. 1t is
getting so they look to me to brace
pa up every time he gets on a tear,
and | guess | fixed him this time
so he will never touch liquor again.
| scared him so his bald head
turned gray in a single night"
"What under heaven have YOU
done to himnow," says the grocery
man, i'll establishment. II hope
you haven't done anything you will
regret in after years"
Regret nothing" said the boy
as he turned the lid of the cheese
box back and took the knife and
sliced off piece Of cheese, and took
a few crackers, and sat down on a
soap box by the stove. "You sec
ma al annoyed to death with pa,
He would come home full, when
she had company, and lay down on
the sofa and snore, and he would
smell like a distillery. 1t hurt Inc
to see ma cry, and I told her |
would break pa of drinking if she
would let me, and she said if
would promise not to hurt pa to GO
ahead, and l promised not to.
Then l got my chum and another
boy, quite a big boy, to help, and
pa is all right. We went down &c
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1883-02-03

pipes, Just like | read that medical
students dowhen they cut up a man.
Well, you'd dido to see pa look ut
us when he woke up. / saw him
open his eyes, and then we began
to talk about cutting up dead men.
We put hickory nuts in our mouths
SO our voices would sound different,
so he wouldn't know us. and ] was
telling the other boys about what a
time we had cutting up the last
man we bought. | said he was
awful tough, and when we had got
his legs off and had taken out his
brain, his friends came to the
dissecting room and claimed the
body, and we had to give it up,
but | saved the legs. | looked at
pa ON the table and he began to
turn pale, and he squirmed around
to get up, but found he was fast.
| had pulled his shirt up under his
arms, while he was asleep, and as
he began to move l took an %icicle,
and in the dim light of the candles,
that were sitting on the table in
beer bottles, | drew the iciclc
across pas stummick and l said to
my chum, Doc, l guess we better
cut up this old duffer and see if he
died from inflammation of the STUN
mick orfrom hard drinking, as the
coroncrsaid he did Pashuddered
all over when he fclt. the icicle going
over his bare stummick, and he
said, For Gods sake, gentlemen,
what does this mean? l am not
dead The other boys looked at pa
in establishment, and l said, We'll,
we bought you for dead, and the
coroner's jury said you were dead,
and by the eternal we amt going
to be fooled out Of a corpse when
we buy one, are we Doc!' Ny
chum said not if he knowcd his
self, and the other students said,
OF course he is dead. He thinks
he is alive, but he died day before
yesterday, fell dead OH the street,
and his folks said he had been a
nuisance and they wouldn't claim
the corpse, and we bought it at the
the morgue.' Then l drew the
icicle cross him again, and | said,
Il don't know about this, doctor.
| find that blood follows the scalpel
as | cut through the cuticle. Hand
me the blood sponge please Pa
began to wiggle around, and we
looked at him, and my chum raised
ms eye-lld' ana looked solemn
and pa said, hold on, gentlemen.
Don't cut into me any more, and
can explain this matter. This is
all a mistake was only drunk.
we wentm corner and whispered,
ana pa kept talking all the time
lie sald II we would postpone the
hog Killing he could send and get
witnesses to prove that he was not
DEAD but mai nc was a respectable
citizen, ana had a family After
we had held a consultation L went
to pa ana told INN That what nc
sand about beng allve might posi-
oly DC true, though we mad oul
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the discovery shaft, the general
course Of the lode, and such dc
scription with reference to some
natural object or permanent monu-
mcnt) as shall identify the claim
with reasonable certainty.
3.-Thc examination of title to
unpatented claims is necessarily Mt
tended with much uncertainty and
embarrassment.
In the first place, the records
may show a location regular and
valid in all respects and a perfect
chain of title, and yet the title may
be worthless for several reasons:
The same ground may have been
previously located by another un-
der Il different name, or the loca-
ton may be crossed by a dozen
other locations, and these are mat
tiers which an abstract of title
would not disclose.
Nor, in the second place, will an
examination Of the ground itself,
with reference to conflicting CLAIMS,
suffice to supply the defect Of the
abstract. The stakes Of an adverse
claimant may be out of place, or
have been entirely removed, and
yet the rights Of said claimant
would be preserved by a location
certificate duly made and recorded.
Thus, the investigation of title
must be conducted, to a great ex-
tent, by inquiry, which is entirely
outside the abstract and record.
This difficulty might be obviated
by requiring official surveys and
maps Of all claims to be made and
recorded on the County records,
but the present laws require moth
ing Of the kind, and although in
the older mining districts maps are
published which are very useful in
the investigation of titles, these
maps being unofficial, are only Use
full according to their accuracy and
completeness.
4.-Prior to patent a mining
claim is always subject to forfeiture
by failure to make the annual ex-
pendlture (&1o0) required by law,
and this i, a fruitful cause of litiga-
ton and annoyance. After entry
for patent,no annual assessment is
required.
By being absent from his
claim for a period ofsixty days or
longer, the claimant might lose all
title, although his location and po-
sessory title up to that time be per-
feet. An adverse claimant might
have applied for patent to the same
ground under another name, and
the failure Of the first locator or
his assigns, through ignorance of
said application or otherwise, to
file an adverse in the proper land
office, during the period of publ
cation for patent go days. protest.
ing against the right of the said
claimant, would be deemed by the
government a waiver of the right
Of said first locator in favor of the
second.
6,-ln cas- of an adverse loca-
ton though it be Of later date, yet
if the second locator is first to APP
ply for Il patent, the burden of
/, proof will be upon the first to show
his superior title. In such case,
the rule being that the plaintiff in
| cjectment must recover upon the
, strength Of his own title and not
. upon the weakness of his advorsa-
rvs, he might be required to prove
r atiirmatiyely a full compliance, by
him and his grantors, with all the
requirements of law, from the time
f Of the original location, a require
ment which, in many cases, would
defeat the rightful owner.
a government patent does away
t with these numerous objections.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1883-02-03
LIONEL A. SHELDON,

Governor and Commander in Chief.
OFFICIAL EDWARD l.. BARTLETT,
Adjutant General.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1883-06-09

Making tie viltal and 49,.
fre ar1s To Tia pablo 1S.d. - .S.n
!evec or In any other publjo ~.
towards such public ro.d L
public place within range 49,
ineanor. and providing The rs".s.Ieu
aud for other purposes. -
Sec. i. Be it euacrad nv ~. NJ,
the Parish Of Lafourche. In rss.ls.ses
seinbled. That whoever shs3S 49,
%ansorly 9iscnarge . pistol cr sGSse1
~ .ne Puollc ROAD, ON the public ~
any other public place, or shaI. vsIS
n.s w premises or those Of anoxkAr
: ana wanroniy discharge suoh -
.o.1 towards tho public road, leyes
puo..G place Within range Ut saeA ~ &
OF puolio place shall DO guilty q
nor n shall be liable, upou A. ss{5
tnereof before any court Of Soarrss
diction, to = fine Of not more thsn 49,
dollars, or ~ imprisonment in ~ 49,
o exceeding thirty days, or ~. n
erection of the court. 49,
Sec. =. he it enacted etc.. TbaA...xZ
any fine which may be collected 49,!
ordinance shall 60 to the benefit a. r.
mer and shall 10 paid over to snch ~.
upon its collection blythe court exr.;xsE
risdiction. in the a
Sec. 3. That this ordinance ~
from and after its tirst p~ublication h.
cial% journal of the Parish.
May spPfssssss . ~ adopted this ~
lS'gnedl .. T. GRlSANOan
c...;s.,. President d Rslss
j. +. ALLAN. Secretary.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1883-06-09

After a long time, the Morgan
City Free Press, that has been call
ing for outlets in the Mississippi
river has finally, after being called
upon time and again by the oENTI-
MEL, come out, like a little man,
and says that it wants an outlet
made below New Orleans into Lake
Borgne. Well that would he a
good thing for the people living be
low and q few miles above the rropo
sed cut off for q few years. when
they would be glad to SEQ the cnt
oil removed into the desert Of Saha
Ia.
Now will the Free Press, some
rainy afternoon, explain to its read
e:s what good au outlet into Lake
B6rsne would do, towards stopping
the crevasses above Vicksburg that
send down through the Washita
Valley, the river that overhows all
the country between Bayous La
foufche and Teche.
II it would have any effec. on
the river Is miles above its propos
ed position glad would we be to
have the manner of it explained.
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1883-06-09

Among the deaths in New Or.
leans on June 1, 1888 was that of
William Hamilton, Engineer and
Sugar Boiler, aged Al years.
We remember we'll when the de
ceased came to Thibodaux, q home
less boy, in 1853 and worked in .
blacksmith shop on jackson street.
He subsequently found employ
mont in the Foundry, then worked
by Gary and Jackson.
Later he learned to boil sugar,
and to repair machinery, and &C
quired q reputation that was known
throughout the Sugar District of
Louisiana, and which furnished him
with remunerative employment at
all times. He was married to a
Miss Todd by whom he had two
daughters, now residing with their
grandmother in New York. His
second wife is q daughter of the
late A. J. SHARP Of Ascension.
A good and useful man, has pass
ed away. aa
The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1883-06-09

The Assumption Pioneer -ad
vances the idea that our present
Constitution does not permit Police
Juries of Parishes to donate funds
to aid in the increase of the capaci
ty and ability of the Charity Hospi
tai.
We are not going to argue that
point whether it is we'll taken or
not.
W. ask the Pioneer however.
whether tho Constitution does not
require Parishes to provide for
their own sick aud helplessf and
when q Police Jury appropriates
money to enlarge the Hospital in
New Orleans to which it can send
its INDECENT sick, whether that is
going beyond the llmitsf The Pc
lice Jury of Assumption will not
injure the constitution if it appro
pirates q few hundred dollars to the
Charity Hospital, and hereafter
send their helpless sick to that
hospital, instead of having the PED
pie direct them to Thibodaux for
this Parish to take care Of.