Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1889-02-08
NEWS NUGGETS.
Various Itsrns of News Gathered nom Oul
Exchanges and ether Sources.

Las Cruces Newsi Colonial P. Mother.
Sill, accompanied By Mr.. JnO. H. Plumsr,
Of Detroit Mich. Col. MOthersill is man
agsr Of tbs big DetEoit & Rio Grands Cat
lie Co., whose range iS on the JornAda, and
be is now making extensive improvement
on his ranch, The most important Of which
is an immense pumping station. BY which
be will be able to place water hr out on
bis range, thereby utilizing grazing lands
which have never been used before. Il is
stated that the mammoth pumps and en-
ginss for this enterprise will cost in the
neighborhOOd Of e60.00O
Fl PaSO wants = l6 company military
post.
The diphtberiA scare has closed The Al.
buquerque schools for 4 couple Of weeks.
Governor Ross has pardoned DR.. Martin
the dentist Who was sent up few months
ago from Lincoln county for rape.
Albuquerque Citizen: Pine Blanca,
small Mexican settlement in this county,
is in high state Of embarassment over
the fight Of its parish priest, Rev. Father
Naret, who skipped away the other even.
ing with q Miss Silva, daughter OF the
priests landlady. He wrote to friends in
this city and Santa Fs from FL Paso, stat
ing that he had arrived there and would
soon be of for Europe. Numerous COM
rt,;uk. kav. 81 LATE haa. I'D -..--l;...
this priests conduct, and his fight Was not
unexpected.
Silver Belt: MeusrS. Thompson and
Middleton, mail carriers on the Florence
and Globe route, have been contending
against great odds since the storm of last
week, but have succeeded in making their
regular trips, within the schedule time.
Mr.. Thompson informs US that the snow
fall iS the heaviest witnessed on Pinal
mountain in nine years, and the weather
continues 10 cold that the snow iS not thaW-
ing in the least, and from present appear.
ances it will be several weeks before .
blackboard can be driven over the noun
tain.
| Optic: Eleven head Of burroS. taken
up BY the city police and impounded,
have been sold at public Outcry. They
brought abont sixty and Sl1tY.6Ve cents
each.
Albuquerque Citizen: There Is a mar
down in Lincoln county who never drinks.
Mind you, there Is only one, and the
neighbors 20 miles to see him. He claims
that he has not within ten years, drank Il
quart of water.
The New Mexico supreme court last
week disposed of the long drawn out AaI-
we'll land grant cases. II seems that the
government brought suit in Colorado and
in New Mexico to set aside the patent to
The grant The Colorado case was taken
to the supreme court Of the United States
and finally decided against the govern
nlSnt. The New Mexico supreme court
holds that the suit commenced in this ter
ritOry covers the same points as the Col :
RADIO SUIT and that il should be decided the
same way. The opinion concludes as fol-.
lows: The United States having eX-
haustsd its powers in fruitless effort to
cancel this patent, it becomes the dsty Of
the court and the people to abide the 6nal
judgement Of the highest tribunal to
which n controversy can be appealed, and
to seek redress for meritoriOuS grievances.
if any .Iist, at the hands Of = just and
generous government. Now let the Col
fax county anti-RranterS stop killing pso-
pie who buy farms Of the Maxwell COM
pany.
Rio Grands Republican: One day last
week. as the Silver City train was coming
down the grade from Matt station TO the
river, the connecting bar Of the driving
wheels on the engineers Slds Oi the en-
Eine broke, and In fraction of the time
it takes to tell it, the great bar Of steel
was slashing around with every revolution
Of the wheel, crushing the cab at every
turn, until when the brave engineer and
fireman succeeded IN stopping the train,
there WAS not a vestiRe Of the cab remain
ing on the engines it wR1 scattered along
the aide Of the track Tor several hundred
yards in fragments, How the two men
who we're in it escaped is one Of the myS'
tenes Of dangerous railrOAdinR. The en-
CINE was run into the ban NareiAl shops
for repairs.
Prospector: Every Chinaman'S birth
day datos from the China New Years
This method Of dating ones age iS very
similar 10 the mining law Of the United
States which provides that aSSeSsmenI
work must be done on the 6rst Of January
A mining claim is liable to be jumped i
the work has not been done, and China
man is sure to be jumped il he does mol
settle his debtl on that day. The question
arises, WAS not our mining Law copied frOu
the Chinese TehgionP
A telegram from Pensacola, Florida
dated the 29th, states that snow fell ther'
the day before and il was the second SNOW
snow storm in twenty-five years.
ManV women 6nd great difficulty in Ar