Golden era. (Lincoln, N.M.) 1884-188?, 1886-01-21
COUNTY NEWS

1t seems to be in the air. Even
the moon gets full these evenings.
The Nolan grant. in Mora county,
has been restored to the public do
main.
Grant county offers $3.50 per head
as reward for each and every hos
tile Apache Indian killed by citizens.
The music those Albuquerque fel-
lows dispense, would come pretty
near making man love his mother
in-law.
VIM. Robert came in Friday from
California. S. A. johnson fixed him
up with a team, and he went on to
the ranch.
A drummer named Kaufman, rep
resenting B. Schuster & Co., Ell Paso,
was doing the merchants up the last
of the week.
J. p. Eaker, Capt Wilkerson,
David Penrod and Dad Davis, all
Penasco and Aqua Chiquita citizens,
struck the county seat, Sunday.
The snow is so bad about Nogal
that freighter of this place has made
two attempts to get to the mill for
lumber and had to return empty.
HI Harrison had a pony ratlled off
ct the saloon, Thursday night, and
sold twelve chances at $500 per
chance. John w. Poe threw + and
won the caballo.
a brief history and first-c class map
of every state and territory in the
union is very desirable as work of
reference. These are contained in
Guide and Hand Book.
The inside of this issue is filled
with bright, original matter. \
newsy, written letter from "
Stanton; "a Model Lady, written
by lady, and an essay by little
girl are to be found there.
The snow blockade in Kansas still
continues. 1t has its advantages as
well as its disadvantages. 1t gives
the young people time to make love,
and the old codgers time to play
Greece OUT to their hearts content.
Mr.. Jones Taliaferro has retired
from that excellent paper the Lin
coin GOLDEN ERA, and is succeeded
by NJ. S. Taliaferro We wish the
paper continued prosperity under
the new dispensation. Socorro Bul-
lion.
w. S. Davis and J. p. Eaker pre-
sentcd us with the head aud one leg
of an eagle they killed at the Felix
on their way into Lincoln. The
bird measured from tip of wing to
tip, seven feet, and its claws eight
and one-quarter inches. Quite a
good sized canary.
a. w. Bryan, Of the firm of BRYAN &
Gunter, has sold all hls ranch and cat
tie interests in Lincoln county to Mr.
Oyer, the California partner in the
old firm of BRYAN & Gunter. Mr..
Bryan and family will leave in few
days for California to visit their old
home. Gunter & Co. is the new
firm.
Something always happens when
when a ba tch of Penasco fellows
strike town. Monday was noexccp-
tion. Three of their horses wadcd
into the water hole in front of the
court house, and had not assistance
arrived just when it did, all of them
would have turned up their heels to
the daisies.
Jesus Scandoval, living near No.
gal, after digging down thirty feet
in solid rock, and being laughed at
by nearly everyone in the country,
has been rewarded by striking Il
large body of splendid water in the
Tucson Mountains. He has taken
up the land surrounding the we'll un-
der a soldiers homestead.
Intelligence has just reached this
city from Parral, Mexico, of the
death of Dave Rudebaugh, IA former
wicked and lawless resident of Las
Vegas. Report has it that he was
killed at that place in a difficulty in
II meat market. He fatally Shot
two persons before the fatal ball
struck him, and after death his head
was severed from his body and ex-
hibited about the streets on the end
of a pole. Las Vegas Optic.
General Mckenzie, who was re-
tired from the army because Of in
sanity, is reported to be dying.
What pity that Mckenzie, as he
was few years ago, could not be in
Crooks place out in this country.
He was the best Indian fighter in
the army, and to his extraordinary
courage and energy, there was added
in him strategic qualities of the very
kind to enable him to successfully
cope with tlle methods of Goronimo