The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1883-11-23
NEWS AND COMMENTS.

DclOIo IL DtCOHltS IOO painful.
General Crook is very sanguine that
Charley McComas is still alive and will
soon be restored to his relatives.
The Watch Dog of Silver City has
stopped its regular howl and will only
bark hereafter when suspicious char
acters are about.
Governor Sheldon is paying visit to
his old home at Cleveland, Ohio. He
will spend goodly portion of the win
ter in Washington.
The Silver City postoffice is source
Of trouble to the newspapers of the
city. Some intelligence and accommo-
dation therein is desired.
At San Antonia, Texas, on the 18th
news dealer was fined $40 the min
imum of the law for selling Police
Gazettes. r. X. Fox will pay the fine
A revolver and rope were found
concealed in the mattress in Joe Fowl
er's cell, in Socorro, last week, by COL
Eaton and Others who made search
on suspicion of something being wrong,
The doctors say that mans digestive
organs bear more resemblance to those
of a hog than to those of any other ami
NAL. This will explain many of the
strange and peculiar actions of man.
Cold weather has caught the people
of the states and gwen them snow in-
stead of mud. In New Mexico the
roads are dry and smooth, the air is
balmy and life is comfort.
The SOcorro Sun would be Just as
readable If 1t wasn't necessary to tear
it to pieces to get it from the wrapper.
1t has the most shabby workman for a
mailing clerk in the territory.
The Hebrew and Unity churches at
Denver will unite for their thanksgiv-
ing service this year. This comblna-
nation is little strange, The union
proposition came from the Hebrew
congregation.
Harper's publications are getting
their customary twenty-five or thirty
dollars worth Of advertising from the
country press for one years subScrip-
ton. Several New Mexico papers throw
in this amount of space for ten dollars
worth of paper and magazine.
The Santa Fe railroad has adopted
mountain time for the running of
trains on its road, the change going
into effect last Sunday. This is just
about the same as local time the differ
ence being but a few moments. This
new system of time is being universally
adopted through the United States.
A secret organization called the Ma
tional League for the Suppression of
P0lygamy is organizing in the states.
The headquarters are Cleveland, the
place of its inception. The object is
explained by the title of the order, and
its watchword is "p polygamy must gor'
The Albuquerque Journal states on
Information received from Senator
Ross who is now in New York negotia-
ting bonds, that the narrow gauge con-
nection from Espanola to Albu1uer-
que is likely to be built immediately if
not sooner.
The evening Advert tiser is new pa
per which is issued from the old Miner
office at Socorro,by High, Hoffman and
Patterson. If the advertisements we're
reset in workmanlike manner with
some style about them the appearance
of the paper would be greatly improv-
ed. There is no towering ability shown
in its get up and it is no rival of the
Sun.
The Carlisle mine in Grant county
shows breast of ore fifty feet from
top to bottom and thirty feet wide, all
of which pays well for reduction, The
mine has also three hundred foot
shaft which makes equally as good a
showing as the surface This state
ment is on the authority Of the South
west Sentinel of Silver City. The. lack
of water is the only embarrassment to
the working of the property.
1t takes forty Mexicans to rob train
and then they failed to make a success
of it. A band of this size took rail
from the track of the Mexican Nation
al railroad near La Jarita and wrecked
the train, killing the fireman. They
made the conductor deliver up $4,000 in
silver, but before they had chance to
rob the passengers it became known
that one of these had escaped and
gone for relief. The forty valiant
thieves then fed The Mexicans ap-
pear to be accepting American customs
very rapidly.
The truth of the Alamo ranch mur.
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