Golden era. (Lincoln, N.M.) 1884-188?, 1884-12-04
COUNTY NEWS.

laughing Joe ''sinlles for all, on the
street once moro.
William Morgan, claiming to be
an attorney, and hailing from Las
Vegas, was here the latter part of
the week looking up a location.
The last cleanup on run of "a
tons Ct South Homestake ore at
White Oaks averaged over s34 per
ton, and the ore is still improving.
NJ. l.. Pierce, a Roswell cattle
king, stopped over here TUESDAY
night, on his way to Ft. Stanton, to
see how the Official pulse beats since
tho election.
Joe Lea came mp from Roswell on
the fast line Tuesday evening and
has gone to join the Soccorro Chief
tain and his clan, for forray over
the Rio Crande.
Justice Aguayo's court has been
running pretty lively for the past
week, and the grists havs been prin-
cipally Of the class requiring a little
steady engineering to get them into
court.
/ Buck Powell, ". G. Warren and
Billy Matthews, abont the liveliest
spike team that ever comes to town,
pulled in from the Penasco few
days ago to rig out in dude clothes
and buy calico and Christmas pres
ents.
The latest reports from John
Chisum are, that after being taken
to Eureka Springs, Arkansas, he at
first rapidly improved, but that he
has since taken a relapse and there
is now but little hopes of his re-
covery.
We always knew Cline getaway
up on cabbage but this year he has
run to posies, and the other day
while we were. fixing UP pie at the
Office he came and battered the kitch-
ca door down with cauliilower that
measured forty FIVE inches around it
Just above the cars. 1t looked large
enough for flower garden Of Itself
but Cline swcays j. biossomcd out
before it got its growth and thereby
lost lis head.
James Rainbolt, the public herder,
from tho upper Bonito, with Amos
Eakcr, another hospitable gentle
man of the,,same locality, who runs a
private herd Of his own, camo down
last Saturday, according to adyer-
tiselncnt, and sold two horses and g
colt, which had gone astray and had
been for some time in charge of Mr.
Rainbolt. The prices realized at a
public "hoss" sale in Lincoln are
not such as to make that way oi
swapping oworship popular.
The people of Las Vegas gaze
with moon-eyed wonder upon tur-
nip raised near that place, weighing
eleven pounds and quarter
Lands! That is nothing to crow
about. y turnip raised in any oi
the valleys east of the White noun.
tains in Lincoln uounty must tip the
testers beyond the fifteen pound
E notch before it can get even & notice
in the ERA. Over a year ago there
was an account Of one published
in these columns that really die
that, and the boys up on the heaC
waters Of the Bonito, Eagle Creek
and the Penasco had only begun tC
tickle them up then.
3, As we have received letters from
several of our friends requesting u
not to institute proceedings for th'
purpose of contesting their home
s stead and pre-emption claims, on ac
count of illegal publication, thereb,
= causing much ysxation and loss Il
well as delay in obtaining final pa
pers, we have decided to make n
contest as to notices now being pub
lished. We hereby advise all per
Sons in future, however, when sue
notices are to be published that the
- compel Mr.. McFie to have thcr