Golden era. (Lincoln, N.M.) 1884-188?, 1885-10-01
COUNTY NEWS

tions for court.
Gardner Rigles started for Red
Cloud Tuesday.
Jack Weldon has gone to Socorro
after bis family.
Several parties in this place, have
men out cutting hay.
Jesse d. Greenee's little child, at
Ruidoso, is quite sick.
Mr.. e. J. Mclean, a wool buyer
of Socorro, is looking the county
DER.
The barn going up in front of the
court house is not as handsome as it
might be.
Only about e-cighth of the hay
is in that the contract calls for at FIT.
Stanton, we are told.
In letter from Capt. Brazel, he
says that they are having way up
time visiting friends in Texas.
Maj. Lewellyn. Frank Lesnet and
Capt. Rogers are in the Guadalupe
mountains, hunting "bar."
Sheriff Poe and Deputy Brent
were back from the lower country
tax collecting. They did not have
very good success.
James Holimon, from the Seven
Rivers country, was buying stuff to
keep soul and body together of our
merchants Saturday.
G. NJ. Danner is putting up a
large barn on his property lately
purchased from Mrs. Ellis, to acco-
modate his stage stock.
Alex Carpenter was in Lincoln
posting bills and advertising for
Browne & Manzanaras Co. He is
now down by Tularosa.
John J. Cockrell, son of Senator
Cockrell, of Missouri, will settle in
Lincoln and practice law. He is
expected here in December.
j. F. Holder, Of Eagle Creek, was
in Lincoln Saturday with potatoes.
he disposed Of them without any
trouble at 81 cents per pound.
\ b. Allen and ]. a. Gordon, Ft.
Sumner parties, were in Monday as
witnesses for Mont A. Deem, who
was making final presumption proof
Whoever the road commissioner iS
for this precinct, we would like to
call his attention to the ditch just
Oh this side of the post Office. 1t is
a miserable mud-hole.
Mr. and Mrs. Bona Baca, Mrs.
Capt. Baca, and Mrs. Sam Corbet
left Saturday for Albuquerque to at
tend the territorial fair. Bona prom
ised to tell US all about it when he
returned.
j. n George of Aqua Azul, was
in proving up on land Saturday. Mr..
George subscribed for the ERA to
send to the old folks at Oak Grove,
No. Buck Gnyse and Al Frick
were his witnesses.
Joseph Freudenstien, representing
Philip Prager's wholesale liquor
house, Socorro, was visiting our mer-
chants the last of the week. This
makes his second or third trip into
this county, and Judging from the
business he was working up he will
be back again soon.
Jack Thornton started for Frank
Lcsnet's Sunday to carry a message
that Just suited him. He went
after Miss Lehey, who comes to
work for j. ]. DuIau. Jack made
the the quickest time on record
going, bus came back exceedingly
slow. Team played out, you know.
Proceedings of the Lincoln Coun-
ty Stock Association on second page.
1t will be seen by them that the
loss by Texas fever up to Septem-
Der 22nd. was l,l00. This com
prises only the dead stock actually
found. Probably 800 or more have
died from this disease not accounted
for IN this report.
When II. X. Thurber was in this
county, he and Lieut.. Scott, went to
the Ruidoso on fishing trip. Scott
caught l65 trout and Thurber Ill
in two hours and five minutes. Mr..
Thurber has ished in all the noun
tain streams of the east, but says he
never saw any stream that would
equal the Ruidoso.
Juan de Jesus Maldonado, living
some twenty miles below here, met
with an accident last week that cost
him his life. He left the house to
90 after his mules, short distance
away, and being gone longer than
was usual, his son started out to hunt
him up. He found him ON the bank
of the river dead The prints of a
mules shoe was plainly visable on
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