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The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1884-06-07
Don CARLOS
\ horse as near perfection,
FOR ALL PURPOSES
as can be found !. =,

The services of the saddle and
harness STALLION DON CAR
Los are offered to a limited II M
Der of MARES this season at my
"RocKwALL" RANCH, Is miles
southwest of White Oaks, and Z
miles south of Carizozo Ranch.
DON CARLOS is Is hands high
and weighs 1000 pounds. He is a
blood bay, black heavy name and
tail. Seven years old, Compactly
built. Very kind and gentle, yet
a spirited mover. lie goes ALL
THE CATS under the saddle, NOV
ing very gracefully and easy. In
harness he works single or double,
pulling like an OK, when necessary,
or trotting to a buggy, a mile in
tour minutes when required.
HE IS a PERFECT HORSE
Terms:-$10 for the season, cash
in advance. Apply to
j. +. SLIGH, White Oaks. p. O..
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1884-06-07

The c~opartnership heretofore existing
between the undersigned, doing business
as w. II. Weed & Co, is this day dissolv-
eel by mutual consent. w. II. Weed is
alone authorized to collect all bills due
the late firm, and will pay all the indebt-
edness thereof. w. II. Weed will con.
tinuc the business at the old stand.
w. II. WEED.
A. BAvoUsKT.
White Oaks, May %. 1884. 32t4
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1884-06-07

Nor tnat our people are expert
encing any especial revival Of rell
gion, but owing to the long interrup
ton of our mails, for fresh and orr
ginal reading there has been quite
a demand the past week for bibles.
and the few owned were loaned out,
ours among the number. Thai
LETT us without any entertaining lit
srature, to fill which felt want Jas.
A.. Tomlinson sent us with compli
nents a Dutch almanac, which
only the devil (our devil is Dutch.
could read.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1884-06-07

Ok the last day of court, DIR.
Lane Of this town, lost, either in
Lincoln, or on the way hither, a
case containing four tooth-extract-
crs, for which lie will pay a liberal
reward.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1884-06-07

WHAT shall we do TO be shaved I
is now the question agitating the
minds of many Of our male popula-
ton upon whose faces the h%irsute
fretfully groweth. A barber is
sadly needed here.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1884-06-07

EVERY man wants to read the
LEADER, and every woman bustles
around tor copies of it. This is a
joke-plans and specifications there
of can be had on application at
tins office.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1884-06-07

joins WALTERS is a grass-wldow-
OF this week. The female members
Of his family having gone below
that is, to the lower country-on Il
visit.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1884-06-07

THERE is certainly something
glarlngly wrong in our local mai
service. On Wednesday morning
the stage from Carthage or San
Antonio, brought to the post office
here a mail which had been sent
from here on Monday, only trans.
mitted to us in a different pouch
from that in which it left. In the
lot we're 10 registered letters and 2
registered packages. Who is to
blame we know not, but somebody
is, and we hope that z. NJ, Bello.
my's report OF the incident alluded
to will result in exposing the party
responsible, and his removal.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1884-06-07

CHARLEY BUFoRD and Mrs. Char
ley b. moved, on Wednesday, to
the palatial residence across the
arroya lately occupied by L. II.
Chandler.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1884-06-07

IL the makeup OF this weeks
LEADER news has been carefully
and vigilantly eschewed.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1884-06-07

A NEW bank was opened in town
this week, which has been open for
depositors night and day. A man
named Monte is president. If he
has a Christian name we don't
know it. lie is a Black man.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1884-06-07

SAM McPHERsoN has become IL
ranchero, and done gone ard left
us, We are sorry to part with him
and hope he will succeed in his
new enterprise.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1884-06-07

WEDNESDAY O. d. Kelsey, John
Woodland. VIM. O'Brien and
James Couch, came in from Hud-
gems ranch, where they have been
at work for a week past.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1884-06-07

If We lave good luck, and the
waters su5side, news as to the nom
inccs of the Republican Convention
tins week, will reach us before
election day.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1884-06-07

THE bridge at San Antonio has
been swept away. When we will
have Eastern connection the Lord
enlv knows,
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1884-06-07

En-. KELLEY and Pete Ried arc
working on the Hannibal.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1884-06-07

TIE Whitoman building is about
ready to receive its iron roof.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1884-06-07

J. j. DoLAN and his interesting
family spent a couple of days in
camp this week.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1884-06-07

THE bnilding lately occupied by
j. y. IIelphingstinc is now head
quarters of Col. Heman and the
Homestake Gold Mining Co.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1884-06-07

Written FOR The LEADER
White Oaks, June 3rd, 1884.
En- LEADER:
While sitting in my dugout my
mind wandered back to the days of
my youth, when roamed over the
Western Slope of the Rocky Noun
tains, where the red man, or red
devil, then held full sway. Many
Of my old companions since then
have passed in their checks. | may
say, where are the thousands who
left their homes with hearts
swelling high in anticipation OF for
tunes soon to be gained, OF bright
hopes never to be realized! Go
ask tho mountain winds, signing
through the gorges and deep can-
ons, where the loved ones lie? and
in mournful strains they vii ans
wer: Here, bleaching in the sum
mer's rain and winters snow.
Sometimes the generous prospcc-
tors have inferred the remains of
those they found and erected a
head stone Of schistose, and with
axle-grease written this simple cpl
taph, KILLED by the Indians;
name unknown" While in the
little kitchen of the farm house, in
the cold northern cline, an aged
mother sits beside the fire, waiting
the return Of her absent boy, and
these are the words she murmers,
"will he ever return, viii he ever
return :"
In a tenement house on the 9th
floor in the city Of New York, lives
an atfectionate wife and babe.
They too, are waiting for the re-
turn of a fond father-methinks |
hear the care worn mother tell her
child, papa will soon return,
soon come home"
/, too, have never returned.
Age, toll and want has worn fur
rows over my brow. | will soon
chip, OF pass in my checks. Who
will protost2 OrvRIER.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1884-06-07
Everyday Philosophy.

When wcarinoss with life my spirit fills,
When deep disgust consumes me with
my lot.
! draw some store of comfort from the ills
haven't got.
TO find that fortune at your coming flies.
To be bankrupt in health, ia fame, in
purse.
Is bad enough; but, | philosophize,
1t might be worse.
necessarily we make a great ado,
The mouth Of Misery is wide agape
But happier We, | fancy, if we knew
What VIC escape.
The common woes Of life are bad enough.
Misfortuncs fall as easy ~ the dew,
And still for every morning steak that's
tough,
There might be two.
This one is sick; his Maynard fate cries
out
Against the leech, the calomel, the bed,
q in~consideratc person, cease to pout-
You might be dead!
And this one hath the mitten; he has
wooed;
Nainly, alack, his wooing it has sped,
Well-cvcn in this there's comfort, rightly
viewed
lie might be wed !
And here is one who whines: his all is
swept
Away in panic; he has had to fail"
He should, ! think, be cheerful, that he's
kept
Safe out of Jail.
But late lost a twenty-dollar bill
And did | wiring my hands that l had
blundered3
Not |, indced!-Im very thankful still
Twas not a hundred.
Sooth, should | Ger capsize when walks
are bad,
And my good c~lavicle involve in wreck,
S rencly, | should %say-IIow very glad
1t not my neck.
o tlust me-better not TO make ado
At the few miscries of our common lot.
There's millions of emf we only knew
We haven't got.
j. +. F., IN THE MANHATTAE FOR JUNE.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1884-06-07

The genial Tom Wallace cackled
in towl this week.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1884-06-07

FROM Mr.. L. W. Stewart, who
arrived from Carthage yesterday
morning, we CLEAN the following in
formation as to the condition of the
r. r. There haye been three
trains sidc-tracked at San Antonio
since last Monday night, there be-
ing washouts both above and be
low that town, 1t is expected to
get these trains off to-day. The
bridge at San Antonio is still pass
able for foot passengers, but it is
in a very dangerous condition, as
about 200 feet OF the piling is
washed away from under it, and it
is only being held together by the
rails, and there is no telling when
1t will go. On Thursday morning
1000 feet OF track was washed away
at Alamillo, a short distance above
Albuquerque, thus cutting the
latter place off from northern com.
m%unication. New breaks take
place faster than old ones are re.
paired Fears are entertained that
the town Of San Marcial will be en-
tirely swept away, as the river has
made for. itself a new channel, cut
ting the town in two.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1884-06-07

TIMOTHY SHEEHAN, one of the
pioneers of Nogal, spent a couple
oi days in camp this week. He
reports the boys all at work in the
rahon, and claims that the boom
for that district Is not far distant.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1884-06-07

w. c, MCDONALD, who has been
absent on a surveying tour for
some time, came in this week to
ascertain the name Of the Repub-
lican nominee for the Presidency,
We could only tell him that his
name WAS spelled and pronounced
exactly like that of the next Presi-
don't. Ills reply was, 7Vi5n so51.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1884-06-07

c. ScHAEFFER and C. T. Clark
are in from the Jaliinas.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1884-06-07

EVERY effort possible has been
put forth by IL people to receive
Geographic information touching
the Chicago Convention, but all
dispatches have been wholly unin-
telligible except those from u old
friend, Pat McGraw, who is reputed
to have experienced a change of
heart and joined the Republican
church, and only the concluding
sentence Of his Cant you say
something's" could be deciphered.
At least, SO says the operator, Jas
A. Sweet.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1884-06-07

WE notice two or three of our
people sporting linen busters which
they brought hither from the
States. Unless times improve, the
owners of said busters will have to
sew fur on the collars and wear dus-
ter overcoats next winter.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1884-06-07
LOCAL ROUNDUPS.

Luck someNtnes makes n name,
but pnntors ink 80 black ana solemn.
VII givo II mnn peculiar fame,
Whom put In this peculiar column.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1884-06-07

''Evu to him who evil thinks. y
Our people unanimously think
there is too much water nowadays
in proportion to the supply OF
whiskey. Certain it is the supply
is greater than the demand, and
being an anti-mOnopol.st we are
opposed to it.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1884-06-07

ARAGoN, the Mexican. who at
our last term of court was tried for
horse stealing and sentenced to the
p%enitentiary for a term of five
years, committed his sentence the
other night. His watchful Tailor,
Smith Lea, says that at the time OF
his escape the prisoner was shack
led, and though only beyond his
vision three minutes, the fellow
scaled the prison walls and by run.
ming secured his liberty. OF course
the Tailor was not to blame, certain
it is the prisoner wasn't, hence,
like the rising of the waters, Provi-
dence, only, will be chargeable
with the escape, Aragon doubt
less considers it providential that
he was under the guardianship of
such a kind and swlft-stepping
keeper. Next.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1884-06-07
TIE RAILROAD ERA
I'M

Our Standard Library books for IL cents
and IS cents arc about the size Of this entire
advertisement. The type IN
nearly all the books are Small
Plea, the size used in this SEN
tence. Each book is printed
handsome paper cover, with the nSmo printed
on the back and sila.
The Lincoln County leader. [volume] (White Oaks, Lincoln County, N.M.) 1882-189?, 1884-06-07


ready to receive its iron roof.
j. j. DoLAN and his interesting
family spent a couple of days in
camp this week.
IN the makeup OF this weeks
LEADER news has been carefully
and vigilantly eschewed.
THE bnilding lately occupied by
j. y. IIelphingstine is now head
quarters of Col. Heman and the
Homestake Gold Mining Co.
JoHN WALTERS is a grass-wldow-
or this week. The female members
OF his family having gone below
that is, to the lower country-on Il
visit.
CHARLEY BUFORD and Mrs. Char
ley b. moved, on Wednesday, to
the palatial residence across the
arroya lately occupied by Z. II.
Chandler.
SAM McPHERsoN has become IL
ranchero, and done gone ard left
us, We are sorry to part with him
and hope he will succeed in his
new enterprise.
If We lave good luck, and the
waters su5side, news as to the nom
inccs of the Republican Convention
tins week, will reach us before
election day.
WEDNESDAY O. D. Kelsey, John
Woodland. VIM. O'Brien and
James Couch, came in from Hud-
gems ranch, where they have been
at work for a week past.
Ok the last day of court, DIR.
Lane Of this town, lost, either in
Lincoln, or on the way hither, a
case containing four to0th-extract-
crs,f for which lie will pay a liberal
reward.
EVERY man wants to read the
LEADER, and every woman bustles
around for copies of it. This is a
j~oke-plans and specifications there
of can be had on application at
tins office.
WHAT shall we do TO be shaved I
is now the question agitating the
minds of many Of our male popula-
ton upon whose faces the hirsute
fretfully groweth. A barber is
sadly needed here.
A NEW bank was opened in town
this week, which has been open for
depositors night and day. A man
named Monte is president. If he
has a Christian name we don't
know il. lie is a Black man.
TIMOTHY SHEEHAN, one of the
pioneers of Nogal, spent a couple
oi days in camp this week. He
reports the boys all at work in the
rallon, and claims that the boom
for that district Is not far distant.
WE notice two or three of our
people sporting linen busters which
they brought hither from the
States. Unless times improve, the
owners Of said busters will have to
sew fuI on the collars and wear dus-
ter overcoats next winter.
"EvlL to him who evil thinks. -
Our people unanimously think
there is too much water nowadays
in proportion to the supply OF
whiskey. Certain it is the supply
is greater than the demand, and
being an anti-monopol.st we are
opposed to it.
w. {. McDoNALD. who has been
absent on a surveying tour for
some time, came in this week to
ascertain the name OF the Repub-
lican nominee for the Presidency.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-06-19
Post Office Secrets.
RULE OF THE DEPARTMENT AS TO I'M
PARTING INFORMATION.

"There is law of the Post Office
Department that requires absolute Sc
crecy upon the part of employees as to
the business of the office. If stranger
comes to inquire for letter, or concern
ing letters sent, we can give him no IN
formation unless he is the party directly
interested. 1t is the same in the money
order department. We are not author
lied to make known amounts of moneys
sent or received. In fact the employees
cannot give away any of the business
secrets-and this order is of long stand.
ing"
"How does the rule affect the letter
carriers ?"
"It is the same as l have said con-
cerning the other departments of the
Office. Order No. AZ applies directly to
these, and sets forth that as carriers
have special opportunity to get hold of
information of private character con-
cerning persons on their routes, they
should rigidly guard themselves against
repeating any of it, or in any way init
mating that-they have facts which would
prove injurious to the persons inter-
ested. And they are forbidden to give
any information as to letters sent or re-
ceived by persons on their routes, this
latter provision going so far as to include
even members of the same family,
whether they do or do not live in the
same house."
SIS the order obeyed literally ?"
''No complaints have ever been heard,
and the gentlemen on the force are such
as would not violate the unwritteu law
of common honor, nor the strict in
functions of the department This order
to forget secrets that come in the away
of business, is enforced in banking es-
! Establishments and no infractions are toll
Grated. The Post Office Department is
likewise emphatic in demanding that the
rule shall be obeye1.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-06-19
She Twigged.

He called at the house and asked If
she had any carpets to beat, adding that
he had been in the business for over
twenty years.
"How much to beat that parlor car
pet ?" she asked.
cone dollar"
"Why, that's awful There was a
man here yesterday who offered to do
the Job for fifty cents.
EXACTLY, madam, but how was he
prepared?"
"He had club in his hand"
81 presume so. He intended to take
the carpet out on a vacant lot, didn't
he ?"
eyes, sir. Our yard is too small, you
know"
EXACTLY. That is a tapestry Brus-
sells carpet. 1t is badly worn. 1t has
numerous holes in it. He would make
great show in getting it out and in here.
Out on the lot he would give you away
to every one who asked who the carpet
belonged to. Is that the way to do
Job of this sort p
"How do you do it q
81 take the carpet out through the
alley. I wheel it home. 1 beat it In a
yard surrounded by high board fence,
and while I am returning it, all nicely
rolled up and covered with cloth, il
any one asks me what 1 have reply that
it is a velvet carpet for 224 Blank street.
If any one asks any questions l call at
the houses on either side of you and ask
if they have just ordered a new Wilton
They watch me and see me come IL
here. Madam, in the language OF the
Greeks, do you twig ?"
He was given the job.-Detroat Free
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-06-19
A Touching Story.

CONGRESSMAN Blackburn, of Kentucky,
quoted as telling this story: 'Four
days before went to the front with my
regiment we had a little girl baby. She
is now grown, and you always see her
with me at any social gathering. Well,
in our army the furloughs came very
rarely. When we got into line there was
no great chance for a man to get home.
1t was about three years afterward that
a few of us were one night going down
the Mississippi on a river steamer. l
had been sick and was returning to my
command, but pretty we'll broken up
even then. As for money, we did not
have any, and the night was hot as /
laid down on the deck, my throat almost
parched with thirst. Pretty soon little
girl came along with a big glass of
lemonade. l tell you it looked good to
me. She saw me eyeing it, stopped a
minute, looked doubtfully at me and
finally came up to my side. You look
as if YOU wanted something to drink,
she said, and offered me the glass. 1t
wasn't quite the square thing to do, but
took it and handed it back empty. 1t
was like nectar to me. Then / thanked
the little creature and sent her away.
Soon after, just like every child, she
came back leading her mother to see the
poor soldier. By Jupiter, it was my
wife, and the girl was the baby whom l
had last seen as a baby but Just born.
You can imagine the reunion. They
were with my brothers family and
happened to be going down river. That
was the only time during the four years
fighting that saw my wife and baby,
and under these circumstances what man
would ever forget it.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-06-19
A Poor Mormon Boy.

The Mormon business is getting too
deep for the editor of the Milwaukee
San. and he needs the assistance of
some one that is posted to help him out.
Every day letters come from Utah, from
all kinds of people, asking advice and
asking questions that would puzzle a
Philadelphia lawyer to answer. Thefol-
lowing is a sample:
DEAR SIR-Knowing your kindness OF
heart in helping people in trouble, l
make bold to ask you to solve for me my
relationship to the parties named in this
letter Some years ago widow named
Taylor, with two daughters. left Eng
land and came to Utah, and a man
named Cannon married them all, and in
twelve months time the youngest
daughter left Cannon and married a
man named White, and she had a
daughter by White, and in fourteen
years time White died, and then the
Taylor girl went back to Cannon, and
then Cannon married Whites daughter
as well. As ] am son of Whites
daughter by Cannon, viii you let me
know what kin to Cannon the Widow
Taylor and her two daughters are? The
Widow Taylor has five children by Can.
non, her Oldest daughter ten children by
Cannon, and the other daughter has five
children by Cannon, since White died
Please answer in your paper and obligt
A Poor MORMON Boy.
News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-06-19
Thad. Stevens Strong Individuality.

His whole life was shadowed by de-
formity in the foot, which caused slight
lameness and gave morbid sensitive
ness to his nature. While in New York
he desired to join the lodge of Free
Masons, but this physical defect rendered
him ineligible. He was much chagrined
and became most violent and pro-
nounced opponent of the order, never
losing an opportunity to denounce it in
unspairing terms. This hatred took a
strong political bias and from that time
he was one of the most bitter and unre-
lenting anti Masons. His strong individ-
uality impressed every one who ever met
him and his sayings and doings are still
remembered in many characteristic Incl
dents. Judge Durkee, who, like Stevens,
was Vermonter, and was an ardent and
me he was once engaged in trying a
case with him and received a letter
which was positively unreadable. He
gave the letter to a friend promising q
llbSlai pOlOOhVaSoO vi bhS EIOSpVC1lNO lcS
if she would translate If. She earned
her reward after some hours hard work
on the epistle. His writing consisted Of
two or three letters in the beginning OF
a word, followed by an irregular scrawl.
He was once asked to read letter Of
advice which he had written a client.
He glanced over it, found himself quite
unable to read it, and handed exit bs
with "Humph, don't write letters tc
read myself. L wrote it for you to read.
A gentleman once wrote asking an
opinion, but neglected to inclose the
customary fee. With grim humor Ste
vens returned a blank sheet of paper by
| next post. st.--PhiLdoel11hia Press,