Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1889-10-25
NEWS NUGGETS.
Various Items Of Nows Gathered from Our
Exchsngea and other Sources.

Exchengea and other Sources,
Albuquerque Citizen: New Mexico
should stop the Importation of priests from
Italy and beer from st. Louis.
New Mexico is receiving considerable
free advertising throughout the east, on
account Of the fruit and vegetable e1hib.
its sent there by the Mesllla valley, Albu.
querxue, Santa Fe and other points.
Socorro county was awarded first premi.
um on everything in the way of fruits veg.
etables and farm products that was placed
on exhibition at the late territorial expo
nuon.
Optic; II was Las Vegas banker and
it occurred IN. this wise; A friend from
the east invited him across the street to
have cigaA The best was ordered and
cost twenty-five cents apiece. The friend
lit his and walked away. but the banker
forthwith returned to the cigar stand and
swapped his fragrant HaYana filler for
Eve nickle cigars.
Las Cruces News: 0ne of the first jobs
our agricultural experimental station
should undertake is to ini out which spe-
Gle of the Irish potato Is best adapted to
our valley, and what is lacking in our soil,
if anything, to make the cultivation Of
that necessary article complete success.
John II Slaughter, New Mexico stock
grower, has driven to western Nebraska a
herd of 5000 steers and is selling them di-
rect to the farmers for feeders. Slaughter
is the originator of this scheme and has
found it so successful that his next year .
drive will be not less than 5000 head of
selected steers.
Master Meshanic Hockett is of the opin-
ion that the bottom lands in the vicinity Of
San Marcial can be successfully and cheap
ly irrigated by pumps such as we're on ex-
hibition at the Albuquerque fair.
q. A. Richardson, of Roswell, received
letter frem one of the proprietors of the
Parsons mine, which stated that new ma
chinery for the working of the ore in that
mine was being shipped from Chicago.
Optic: Parties down from Trinidad
state that Uncle Dick Wooton, this old
mountaineer, is about to lose a finger or
two of the right hand, the result of an
awkward accident. It was his provoking
weak eyesight that was bothering the old
gentleman some months ago. But he is
aow getting pretty well along in years and
as a natural consequence is gradually los
ing possession Of the faculties OF mind and
body alike.
New Mexican An agricultural wonder
is on exhibition at the New Mexican office
to-day in the shape of a bunch of oats.
Hon. A. l.. Morrison brought it in from
the farm of Theo. Heinlen, twenty miles
northwest of Las Vegas. The stalks are
seven feet two inches in height and each
head carries 200 or more grains. The field
from which this was cut was seeded the
middle of June and harvested the last of
August; this is the second crop ever grown
upon the land, and the oats were grown
without irrigation.
The town of Roswell already has six
prominent streets, ten or twelve large
stores and from 120 to l40 houses. 1t is
the new county seat of the new Chavez
county and has the advantage of attract
ing settlers to its rich farm lands by being
the location of the United States land Of
fee.
The man who shot the baby burro in So
corro county, mistakinR it for jack rsb-
bit has very little to say about hunting.
The school census shows 1876 in Springer,
an increase of 35 in the past year.