Golden era. (Lincoln, N.M.) 1884-188?, 1885-01-08
COUNTY NEWS.

The proceedings of the Board of
County Commissioners will appear
next week.
II. A. Buford gave the ERA Office
a call Tuesday. He is a rider from
away back.
II. H. Pierce, of the Las Vegas
Stock Grower was here attending
the meeting and corralling items for
his paper.
G. w. Holland, on the Penasco
has sold his ranch for $1,000 to a
gentleman from Texas, who will
move his family up in short time.
I. N. Bailey, Of Ruidoso filed his
bond and qualified while in Lincoln
the other day and now puts a big j..
p. at the subsequent end Of his name.
Frank Lesnct, the hlondest blonde
of the Ruidoso, will create disturb
ance among the Creoles Of New
Orleans sometime during the month
of February.
c. b. Eddy, VIM. Robert, H.
Milne and Mr.. Holt, all cattle kings
Of the Pecos, were prominent in the
stock meeting here the first three
days of the week.
a. w. Bryan has 50 far recovered
from his late injuries as to attend
the meeting of the Board Of County
Commissioners and the Stock Asso-
citation at Lincoln. He still has a
slight hitch in his gait, However.
The proceedings of the Lincoln
county Stock Association meeting
at this place will be published as
soon as the copy can be furnished
by the efficient secretary j. J. Dolan,
who at present is very much over
worked.
S. w. Lloyd, of Three Rivers,
donates cow to the ERA's live
stock show this week. Every one
who has struck Lloyd for square
meal or a glass Of buttcrmil!s, knows
that his heart is about as big as his
ranch. which is one of the neatcst in
the county.
Who would have thought DR.. NJ.
J. O'Rourkc, of tie Indian Agency
would have taken lis defeat for
county school superintendent SO to
heart as to pack up his household
Jewels and Lis kitchen furniture,
and skip back east? But such seems
to be the Gaze.
There was a full board at the first
meeting of the new county commits
soners. With the affairs of the
county in the hands of such men as
Judge Stone, A. w. Bryan and
John A. Brothers the people can feel
pretty safe that they will be honestly
and intclligently administered.
The news of the killing ut White
Oaks reached here about nine o'clock
Monday night, and sheriffs Poe and
Brent started at once for the scene
of the tradgcdy, facing an all night
gale, the coolest of the season, to
find on arriving in the morning that
the party who did the shooting had
already been arrested, had his hear
inc and been turned loose.
L. f. Bailey, \. 7, Williams, and
J. p. Monger, three bold and reck-
less riders from the EddyBissel
range, at Seven Rivers, came up tc
Lincoln on weeks lay of, for a little
fun as well as business. The first
named was a former typo, but left
the case and stick about eight year,
ago for the saddle and quirt, anc
has ever since been Il wild and recl
less cowboy. While in this Office
he tried his hand at sticking type
and found that it had lost but little
Of its old cunning.
The Taliafcrro brothers. Jone,
and NJ. s, Of Lincoln, New Mexico
are congratulating themselves upol
the success Of their newspaper en-
terprise after two years of journalist,
effort. They may well do 50 anC
we add our congratulations to theirs
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