Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1889-08-23
NEWS NUGGETS
Various Items Of News Gathered from Oui
Exchanges and other Sources.

Various Items Of News Gathered from Our
Exchanges and other Sources.
Plospector: It is supposed that the
train robbers we're frightened into aban-
doning their attcmpt 10 rob the train last
Monday night by reading the law making
train robbery a capital crime. The only
clue to the identity Of the men is the fnd-
ing of copy Of the laws passed by the
18th legislative assembly near the scene
Of the wreck. There is a difference of
opinion regarding the cause of their fail
ure to rob the train. One faction claims
that they had possibly been sitting around
the telegraph pole waiting for the train to
come along, and that each Of the three
agreed to read piece out Of il to pass
the time away. Number read the bill
where an alien is not allowed to enter the
hospital in case be is burt He, being
Mexican, became frightened lest he should
get hurt and skipped out. Number 2
read the train wrecking act and followed
number l. While number turned to
the act providing for the calling of con-
stltutional convention, and after finishing
it concluded that Arizona must have in
creased greatly in population since he Wis
tied her last year, and wisely concluded he
would be caught in such thickly popu-
lated country, and picking up his hat he
sauntered down the road to Benson and
signed petition in favor of statehood.
And yet there are people in Arizona cruel
enough to insinuate that the 18th legisla1
tive assembly accomplished nothing.
The Harvey eating houses have gone inl
to the hands Of the Santa Fe road and
Fred Harvey's name appears as managet.
The Florence Enterprise says that brick
are as cheap as adobes in that town and
that the new court house will be built of
brick
G. B. Eddy in Denver News: We will
place under water about 100000 acres Of
the finest fruit land in the world and will
settle the Pecos valley with farmers and
turn it into perfect paradise. Ia south
eastern New Mexico there is a beautiful
valley along the Pecos river, winch is
river four times as large as the Platte.
We place dam in the river thirty-six
feet high of solid masonry, winch backs
the water up for seven miles; from each
side CT this dam we start our canals,
which will be at this point ninety feet
wide and about seven feet deep. All the
water is taken from the river, carried up
on the hills and the whole valley thus
placed under irrigation. We expect to
have enough water for 100000 acres OF
land, and since we organized last October
over 10000 acres Of government land
have been filed upon. The land is all
government land and is open for settle
ment. We make our money by selling
the water"
Two Republics; The Topolobampo col
ony still lives and is occasionally heard
from, 1t has neither proved failure, as
was predicted by its enemies, nor prosper
ed to such an extent as to astonish the ma
tives, as it was claimed 1t would. 1t seems
that the colony. which is conducted on a
cooperative or semi-socialistic plan, is rath-
er prosperous than otherwise. Frequent
ly the organ of the federal government
publishe short lists Of new accessions,
but as no mention is made of those persons
who have returned TO the United States it
is a difficulty to say whether the colony is
growing in size or not.
Chama New Mexican: Messrs. Plom
teaux and EweI have sold their flock of
$500 sheep to w. Ballard of Leadville.
Colorado. The lambs brought rs cents
and the wethers and ewes Sl.75.
News-Register The presence of drunk.
en- Navajoes in and about Gallup, is of
daily occurrence and emphasizes the state
ment that they should be removed to the
reservation. Those now outside are grow.
ing more demoralized daily and are unmit-
igated nuisances. The interest of both
the Indian and the white man demand
tudJ tu1 NNO AdSra suoulu uc hepl bcpd-
rate, and unless this separation occurs soon
trouble will result before long.
Our delegate to congress, Marcus A..
Smith was evidently born lucky. Besides
being elected to congress, and owning a
one-third interest in one Of the bust pay
ing mines in the camp, he has a peach
tree which bears the largest juciest, heaYi-
est and most highly colored peach that
was our fortune to sample. There is only
one solution Of the problem as how he
raised such fruit and that is that when he
was sending out seeds to his constituents
from Washington he kept the premium for
hlmself.-Prospector.
Folsom Idea: There is a rumor aaoat
Of the organization of a vigilance com
mittee whose business will bs to rid the
country of thieves and robbers who are
conspicuous in robbing peoples houses.
An Important Element
OF the success of Hoods Sarsaparila is the