Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1890-11-21
NEWS NUGGETS.
Various items 81 News Gathered from Our
EnCbAnges and other Sources.

Various items 81 News Gathered from Our
Exchanges and other Sources.
Silver Belt: The four Indians, ad-
judged guilty Of the murder Of Edward
Baker, and Roscoe Grifith, another
ward Of the Government "whose skin
is not colored like our own," left
Globe on the 9TH, and in order to in
sure their presence in Yuma, they
we're securely shackled and escorted
by shelf Thompson and a detail Of
U. S. troops. The quartctte were
sentenced to q life Imprisonment.
Mr.. Griffith was given two years for
attempting the life of squaw with a
knife. Indian lovers will sympathize
with the Indians in their confinement
and wonder why the white man camps
on the red mans track, but they
should console themselves that the
wheels Of weary life will at last stand
still when Guadalupe, his two sons
and Bak-el-cle will be freed from the
round of prison duty. Mr.. Griffith,
whose affection for his squaw was in
the point of his knife, will again snuff
mountain air in '92.
The Normal Echo; 1t has been
asked why the ROSTERS around Tempe
crow at all hours of the night. We
referred the question to the thinker
in our natural history class and after
he had set his great brain at work to
account for the fact, he advanced the
theory that the roosters have been
brought here from the different Allan
tic and Mississippi Valley states where
it is the established custom of all
orthodox and well-regulated roosters
to crow at M midnight and at daybreak.
These Tempe roosters honestly try to
give notice Of midnight and daybreak,
but, they;are still running on Boston,
Cincinnati, st. Louis time ; hence the
racket at all hours of midnight.
1t is to be hoped that these roosters
may yet, like old Hassayampers, show
a proper pride in our own section, and
when the the territory is admitted,
may all be ready to crow coincidently
on Arizona state time.
Black Range: The skeletons OF
three persons, one male and two fe-
males, evidently, were unearthed at
the Mud spring ranch few days ago.
They were found in the old wagon
road leading from Chloride to Fair
view and were covered by only a few
inches of earth. From the manner in
which the skeletons were found it is
evident that the bodies had been hur-
ridly buried or dumped in a hole in
the ground. The bones show evidence
of long ago burial, as many Of them
are badly crumbled and decayed. OF
the three skulls found but one was in
good state of preservation. This skull
is Of most peculiar shape and be-
longs to a man of some wild race Of
people, the Apache or perhaps the Az
tee race, as the bones give measure
ment of a man considerably less than
six feet tall while the head would in
dicate that Its owner was considera-
bly, over six feet, and the teeth are In
very good condition giving evidence Of
a person some thirty years of age.
The other skulls are smaller, one Civ
ing evidence OF about the same age as
that of the man, while the other Of a
person of fifty or sixty years.
+. G. Smith prints the following
card in the Albuquerque Democrat ::
Il wish the public to understand that
my wife, formerly Miss frankie Lott,
is held a close prisoner by her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. @. G. Lott, and that /
am refused permission to see her or
she to see me, / want the public to
know / am willing to.support and care
for her at all times, but while she is a
prisoner / will not be responsible for
maintenance The Good Book tells
us that Lots wife was rather a hard
character and of distinctly salty fla
vor, but who would have supposed
that old Lot himself was such a hard
hearted old wretch. Smith ought. to
shoot the old fellow and salt him with
the remains of his, Lots wife.
Optic: Deacon Wooster yesterday
left at this office stalk Of oats, well
headed out and matured, seven and
half feet in length, grown on Barney
Daily's ranch, near Roclada. And
without irrigation, Senator Dorsey
without irrigation. And over 1000
feet above the level Of the sea, too,
Senator Dorsey.
Prof. Spatcier of Las Cruces receiv-
ed five palm trees from the United
States department of Agriculture at
Washington. These trees came orig
inally from the banks of the Nile.
Citizen: One of the coming enter
prises in the vicinity of Albuquerque
will be tho raising of celery on COM
mercial scale. Tourists and health
from the east concur in saying
that Albuquerque celery is unsur-
passed by even the celebated Kalama-