Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1889-09-13
NEWS NUGGETS.
various Items Of News Gathered from Our
Exchanges and other Sources.


Exchanges and other Sources.
Prospector: George Croslee has horse
which is older than the hills. He read in
the Prospector about Brown seouard's $
elixer. He killed two young rabbits and
made some of the elixer and administered
it to the old timer The result was aston.
ishing. In hauling a loed of wood
through South Pass of the Dragons he
usually takes an extra pair of animals to
help the pole horses, of which the old
timer was one, up the grade. The old
horse had not been hitched up for three
days after taking his medicine. On COM
ing to the grade where he usually stops TO
double up, the old horse gave a snort and
Jump and pranced for a yard or two and
then settled down to business 81 oopld
not believe my eyes, SAID George. 'He
just squared himself and It was no more
trouble for him to pull that yer load than
TOR one OF you city chaps to wheel baby
wagon. The horse was on the street yes
terday and exhibited unmistakable signs
Of being in his second childhood.
Journal Miner: The national govern.
'nent last year appropriated S9s, 1908 to-
ward defraying the expenses of the terri
torial government of Arizona for one year
This is exclusive of appropriations for the
marshal's Office, but represents the amount
which the territory would have to nav if Il
were a state.
Nugget; And now Wayerly Johnson
has struck it again-bigger than ever
i've feet of solid, shining coal, equal to the
best grade used by bis Satanic majesty
Waverly is satisfied with it and so are we
Experts are invited to test and pass their
Judgment upon its quality.
New Mexican; A Gallup woman
dreamed one night that she had found a
pot of gold in the cellar. Next dav she
went down and found a Jug of wbislkev
that the old man was keeping shy. Great
town, Gallup.
Silver Belt; The iunketing committee
OF United States sooators find themselves
necessarily obliged to pass through Ari-
zona on their return trip to Washington
and IN doing so will not delay at any one
place longer than necessary for resident
citizen committees to hand through car
windows reports concerning water sites.
arid lands and few spoonsful of the soil
proposed to be tickled by the hoe in the
bands of the husbandman.
A Kansas banker thus explains the fnon-
cial disaster of the Santa Fe road. Abont
three Or four years ago mania seized
three great corporations to gridiron Kan.
sas with railroad IRON, and each tried hard
to see which could cover the most pronnd
without regard to character Of the ground.
the resut-railroads were built where tbey
will not be required for ten years to come.
The Santa Fe canrot prosper until it is re-
lieved from the dead weight of those
worthless branch cross roads. They are
simply leeches sucking the lire-blood of
the Santa Fo proper. The second prime
factor IN the trouble is the failure of crons
IN the Santa Fe's territory for the past two
years. Wheat was almost a complete
failure and corn an entire failure in south-
western Kansas, west of say Newton on
the Santa Fe line. so that there was moth.
ing to ship east worth speaking of be-
tween Pueblo and Newton, a distance of
800 to $50 miles, except cattle. and the
cattle trade, of which the Santa Fe for
merly had monopoly is now divided be.
tween itself, the Rock Island, and the M,s.
sonri Pacific, the Santa Fe however, still
retaining the largest share.
The highest service fee ever asked for a
trotting stallion Is $500. The owner of
Axtell now proposes to ask twice that
amount for the service OF this phenomenal
trotter Yet some say that the develop.
ment of speed in a sire amounts to moth.
ing. Pedigree and blood are something.
bat speed is everything. Records talk
and there is no uncertain sound about
low mark.
The Flagstaff Champion says that there
are now five saw mills in active operation
within radius Of twelve miles of Flag.
staff. Each of these mills will cut from
.hirty-dve to forty thousand feet of lumber
per day.
The Gallup Register has a paper
weight made from a piece of petri6ed oak.
ound south of that town. Tie Register
'eports the discovery of petrided forest
where the stone was found.
The Sioux Indians receive from the gov
'rnment $l4,000,00O for 100000 acres
If land
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