The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1888-03-02
FAIRVIEW.

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ing. A gOOd program viii be rendered,
a. usual
{. Heam Is fencing the ranch adjoin-
inc his W and recently purchased
ftom W. Miller.
NJ. W. Robins. after n pleasant trip 10
this part Of the range. returned 10
Kingston last saturday.
Miss sadie StaileY and Miss Edith
Holmes. Of Chloride, have beeE visit
ing Fairyiew friends this week.
MIR. Harry Adams who lately sold
his ranch and cattle TO W. J. Hill for
si200, left for Arizona on Tuesday ;
coach.
II. c. Kniseley left for Los Angeles.
Cal, on Tuesdays stage. A pleasant
dance In his honor was given him
Monday evening.
The Chautauquans observed Long
fellow day last Friday by reading a
program selected from the works of
the poet. A fair sprinkle of outsiders
attended.
Progressive euchre dies a hard death.
At it, revival here Wednesday evening,
b. ID. Mason and Mrs. John Wheeler
carried of the first prize while another
less lucky couple were awarded two
beautiful leather medals. handsomely
inscribed.
Tree planting is now In vague here.
Several citizens have wisely substitut.
ed fruit trees for the purely shade
trees. An apple or n peach tree many
not cast Such a greatful shade as a cot
tonwood but IL contains more promise
of unripe fruit.
About two o'clock p. IN. last Tuesday
the inhabitants of fairyiew were start
led by the cry of "Firer" and immediate.
ly afterward flames and smoke were
seen issuing from the SAMSON build.
ing, nearly opposite the post office. Al
ter everyone had been sufficiently
paralyzed by the alarm, a reaction took
place and men, women and children
J rushed frantically with buckets to the
nearest wells and pumps for water.
such was the enthusiasm displayed
that even delicate young ladies who
had never been known 10 do such a
thlng before, nov, in the excitement
of the moment seized the handles of
the pumps mot the spouts) and worked
them at a Billy Kingsbury race-horse
speed. Everybody threw water and
some their buckets with 1t, and others
threw the buckets without any water
at all. Everybody ran up and down
and into each other and every body
jumped over the garden wall to get a.
head of everybody else. One man ran
into the burning building aud took a
good look at 1t and then concluded that
u little more water could do no harm,
so he went aud got u bucketful. An
other man placed u table In the door.
way so that IL was impossible to get in
TO save the valuables without disturb
ing the table, which everybody tried TO
do but couldn't. So everybody had Il
wait until the doorway burnt up, after
which nobody dared TO gOinto the house
because there was no house to 90 into
And then the wind blew in the wrong
direction and every body thought the
town would go; and then the wind
blew In the right direction and every
body thanked heaven. The cartridges
in the house exploded, the guns and
pistols went off and everybody was
scared and nobody was hurt and then.
after every combustible thing had been
consumed, the fire went out. Wher
discovered the fire had already mad.
considerable progress and, in spite Of
the heroic efforts Of the people. nothing
of value was saved hut some bedding
and trunks. The proverbial looking
glass was not thrown out of the window
and the feather bed carried carefully
away, but equally strange performances
when a rescuer discarded a $40 saddl,
for the dry goods box ON which It wat
resting, and also when another excited
individual distinguished himself b.
grabbing a sack filled with hay (wortl
about twenty cents leavinga valuable
gun to its fate. The house was occu
pied by james and VIII 4. Taylor who
ut the time of the catastrophe, we're ii
Grafton for which place they had lief