Golden era. (Lincoln, N.M.) 1884-188?, 1885-04-09

the stockmcn's, association Sunday.
The Penasco people want a coun-
ty building of some kind. When
they have law suit now the jury or
prisoner has to go to. the brush till
the case is decided.
Andy Richardson, Tom Eubank
and one or two others from the Fort
were having their pictures taken in
Lincoln the other day. Andy had
the appearance Of q ''bad" man.
viii Ellis Keeps the finest lot Of
cigars ever brought into Lincoln at
the same price a poorer article sells
fer. Why smoke ''stinker'' when
you can get frstc article?
Col. w. 7. Holt, writes from Dem
yer to have the GOLDEN ERA for
wa-ded to him hereafter. One good
trait of the Colonel Is that the money
always accompanies requests OF this
kind.
The county commissioners met last
Monday and were in session two
days. The business attended to
during tha. time was ilnmense,a full
account of which vii! be found in
next weeks issue.
Iona Baca has a curiosity OH his
ranch. It is . hog g-sheep or sheep
hog. It's hair, tail and feet are like
those Of any sheep, while his head is
that Of a hog. 1t eats grass and runs
with herd Of sheep i'll that vicinity.
w. C. Mcdonald has been around
assessing US fellows in Lincoln, and
of course we were pleased to see him.
Nothing pleases US better than to go
down in our pocket and pay 800 or
$500 in taxes. But if mou will
insist on accommodating property,
they must expect to help educate the
youth and the penitentiary steals.
The buck-board from this place to
1T. Stanton, nade its first trip on the
new schedule, Saturday. Mail now
leaves Lincoln for the railroad at 8
a, m. and arrives st . p. m. So a
letter mailed Mt White Oaks, say
VI MAY morning, arrives in Lincoln
the sams evening. This makes Our
mail .no9e convenient and quic@er TO
anl from tho East by several hours.
Along t!.c first Of February a man
came along with paper which had
several names attached to it aud
asked us to put down our signature
and one dollar. On inquiry we were
informed that it was for the benefit
OF our roads. He added however,
that we might take our choice of
paying the dollar or working two
DAYS. As luck would have it, we
had q dollar and handed it over.
Now there is nothing strange in all
this. But we were informed by the
county commissioners Tuesday that
the party who collected our money
never gave bond nor made any re-
turn of moneys collected, and that
Mr.. Chas. Fritz was appointed to fill
the position Of road overseer and had
fled his papers. This is about the
way it stands now: We will have to
pay Mr.. Fritz two dollars or work
two days. Now there is something
strange in all this.
We took q run over to White Oaks
Friday, the first time out of town for
over seven months. We went nearly
on purpose to see the babies. Every
baby i'll the town was the prettiest
and cutiest we ever saw. Now, this
will mako the mothers have a
splendid opinion of us. We
wouldn't dare say anything else, for
what little experience we have had
with the fair sex, we are compelled to
admit that they are the boss OF
all they survey. We remember
that when going to school we had a
little spat with one of these sweet
eyed, modest little girls and she
throw an ink bottle at us. We have
cause to remember this, for a large
scar on our forehead often puts u:
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