Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1889-11-01
NEWS NUGGETS.
Various Items of News Gathered from Oui
Exchanges and other Sources.

Various Items Of News Gathered from Our
Exchanges and other Sources.
While a butcher named Kelly and
clerk in a store at San Pedro was in a
playful scuffle at that place last week a
pistol was accidentally discharged, wound
ing Kelly in the abdomen, from the effects
of winch he died the next morning. No
blame other than carelessness attaches to
the clerk
The Las Vegas Optic says two of the
commissioners Of Mora county have been
indicted for malfeasance in Office They
are charged with bribery In letting the
contract for the.new court house, pocket
ing the sum OF $1,000 each.
Black Range; Shortly after noon last
Wednesday, very large and strange look
ing bird was observed flying about in pur-
suit Of tame pigeons and segeral shots
we're hred at the stranger but without ef-
feet. Finally the bird few down the val
ley followed by Andy Kelly who finally
succeeded in getting a dead shot on the
feathered monster, which proved to be
pelican. The bird measured eight feet
from tip to tip and four feet four inches
from the tip Of the beak to the feet Just
what the deceased's business up in this
country was no one seems to know. He
may have been a deep water rustler on his
way back to the coast from Topeka,
The Tombstane Epitaph says it is ru.
mored that the visit of President Douglass
Of the Copper Queen company will have n
direct bearing on the starting up of scme
Of the big mines of that section.
Colin Cameron writes to the Stoekman
from the San Rafeal ranch: THE morn
ings are getting very cold here, and all
day long fire is necessary in an adobe
house. Steers hold their own yet, and will
do so for some time yet unless ain sets in.
If 1t does, then good bye, they will fall of
rapidly.
California engineers have accomplished
the difficult task of lifting the Feather
river, fast flowing stream, ffty feet and
carrying it more than a mile in an artiR.
clal bed at that height above It's old chan
mel. 1t has been accomplished In a little
less than year The object was to drain
the river near Oroville in order to reach
gold deposits believed to exist In its bed.
The promoters of the great enterprise are
chiefly Eoglishmen
What is said to be the biggest locomo-
tive In the country is on the Erie road. 1t
has SIX drivers, FIVE feet eight inches in
diameter. Weighs 10000 pounds and
measures ffty-two feet four inches on the
track, tender excluded. 1t has hauled
eight cars, vestibue pattern, distance of
eighty eight miles in two hours and four
minutes, making four stops. Its offenders
are 2Ox24, and its boiler extends the full
length Of the locomotive, with fire box
eleven feet four inches in length.
j. Il. Hampson, the well known railroad
contractor, in company with James Suli-
van, has secured the contract for construct
ing the branch of the Vera Cruz road
from Vera Cruz to Jalapa They contract
to complete the section by the 18th Of Sep
tember, 1890.
Albuquerque Citizen: The Dutch bond
holders have signiaed the acceptance of
the Santa Fe plan of reorganization and
in few years from now, when southern
Kansas and Colorado haye gained in de-
velopment, the road will be restored to
the dividend paying HIST
Optic: G. A. Richardson, of Roswell,
says that nine railroads are assured for
that town, and that the tenth is in antici-
patton. What magnificent circulation
fabricator Mr.. Richardson would make for
a metropolitan newspaper