The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1884-04-12
FORT STANTON,
April, 1th 1851.

April, 9TH 1854. 4
Mild spring weather is again
gladdenirg the hearts of the good
people of this post and vicinity.
despite an exhaustive effect by the
clerk of the elements, to introduce
Il belated snow or slept storm. and
soon we will have q taste of wealth
cr of a dalce for niente-tendcncy,
when the parched OK will sigh for
refreshing showers, and the Rio
Bonito, Rio Ruidoso, and other
chief canals, will hide Themselves
in the sand and moss along under
ground 30 escape the intense heat.
am requested not to say much
about the excellence of the weather,
for tear the Deputy Sheriff will be
sent up here to take it to Lincoln
If he succeeds no better THAI lie
did in arresting the lynchers OF
Pearl, we would have bad weather
enough in the next ten Years to soil
a paper collar. You will probably
remember the exodus lie caused
here last spring and summer while
engaged in that missionary enter
prise.
Grass has begun'to spring forth,
and the trees show signs Of leaving,
and so do many Of the soldiers, es-
pccially those locches upon u leni-
ent government, who enlist cy-
ery fall with the early frost, and in
spring fold up their tents like the
Arabs, and silently steal away.
Company gardens are now being
worked, and not many weeks will
elapse, ere this particular part Of
the Bonito valley will blossom like
the rose. Captain Lawton'S troop
("B" Cavalry is in advance of
the others i'll the matter of garden
ing, and his hotbeds are well
worth visit.
Cabbage plants, four and five
inches high, cauI'tlower, lettuce.
tomatoes and peas are we'll I'D
vanccd.
Mr.. Delaney, Post Trader, has
built extensive additions to the an
cient ruins yclept the "store, (which
WAS discovered by Ponce dc Leon,
Vasca de GamI, and Mr.. Baca, or
some other Spanish Dom, in fifteen
hundred and something, and is
mentioned in history a. Il relic OF
the prehistoric Mound Builders.
The additions consist of Il soldier X
bar room and dining hall, and
now the vene able Pile assumes
the dignity OF an oriental caravan
sary, with its court-yards, open
squares, placi:a's and labyrinthian
passage ways.
Mr.. John Hurley, a French gen
tlcman, not unknown to- fame. pre-
sides at the bar, and dishes hop
soup to the warriors, while Ardy
Richardson, Esq, another illustri-
Gus hidalgo, is always ready to
shake his sun-kisscd locks at any
one who is conviviaIIy inclined.
The bar-room Is well fitted up, and
contains billiard and pool tables,
at which the Nations defender.
may, in these piping times of peace,
pleasantly pass the time away bat.
tling with the harmless billiard ball
nn the field of the cloth of green,
while swapping lies about the hon,
ors they won with the death-deal
ing rife-ball on the field of the
cloth of gore.
A yomgqnilldriver, who reports
i"r Il newSplper published not
over thousand miles from here,
visited the Post sor time since
for the av"wed purpose of writing
up military life from an enlisted
mans point of lew, and to expose
any abuse of privatcs by officers,
or non-c"mnisSioned officers of the
army that might come to light.
He spent a day or twonosing about
the quarters ami kitchens, and ob.
tanned part ofthc facts in an al