Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1891-09-04
NEWS NUGGETS.
Various Items of News Gathered from Our
Exchanges and other Sources.

sdhpAO Vi silver weighing 4VO POUNDS,
was recently extacted from L.
Ephraims famous Promontorio mine,
near Nogales, and brought to that
place. This magnificent specimens is
composed principally Of native and
horn silver and galena.
"A Mexican residing at La Mesa has
found that a half burned sky rocket is
not a corn cob and does not make
reliable fire. In the vicinity of his
residence, there is stlll cloud of
broken tortillas floating in the air, and
his coffee pot was found three miles
away.
All kindsof newspaper work in Mex
leo are poorly paid, says a correspon-
dent of the Globe-Democrat Editors
get from $40 to s25 week in Mexican
money, which is only from $3.50 to SIS
week in American money The es-
say editors get the highest salaries.
As to telegraphic news, the papers
seem to think nothing of quoting from
their contemporaries kilograms which
have been used day or two before,
and an event three months old will be
put in with as much assurance as
though it just happened. Time, in
fact, is OF no importance in any affair
of Mexican life, and neither the peo-
pie nor the editors seem to care as to
whether the matter is new or old.
Optic: The old cinder platform, at
the depot, is being removed, both at
thenorth and south ends of the house.
1t is being replaced by kind of i'm
mature granite, brought up from Sill
yer City. This stone is very soft, feels
like soapstone has more Of white
substance than the usual granite,
pulyorizes and packs under the roller,
and when wetted hardeus into one
solid mass. If it is what is claimed
for it, it must be one of the best sub
stances extant for sidewalks, and its
general adoption will only depend up
on whether railroad tariffs will ex
clude and preclude its use. Another
platform, similarly constructed, is to
be put on the east side of the>track.
Says the Republican: Mcdowell,
the late editor of the defunct Lincoln
Liberty Banner, has returned to the
Jayhawher state, completely disgusted
and Thoroughly convinced that in New
MeXicoth alliance is not needed and
does not supply long-felt want.
The Tombstone Prospector of the
Goth says: 0 Homo, bright and early
this morning, being released from his
confinement, struck out for tall tim
Der. Before going he told Sheriff Kel-
ton that he had in view, among other
matters of moment, the exploration
of the little difficulty now existing in
southern California known as the Sal
ton lake. ArraYed in Il full walking
costume, in style before the food, and
armed with small vial containing, as
he told the sheriff, "elixir Of life," he
disappeared, like a fleeting shadow
down Toughnut gulch, defying the
world at large to tread on the tail Of
his coat.
A local event, near Badly, was Of in
terest to visitors, last week. 1t was
the leader of the Penitentcs, accom-
panied by some fifteen women and
twenty children, marching through
the fields and over the mesas, pro-
nouncing the benediction and praying
for rain. The leader would line out
the song and the women and children
would join in the chorus. They could
be heard for distance of several
miles. This took place on Wednes-
day, ana rain fell on Thursday. This
beats the rain machine all hollow
Las Vegas Optic.
The territorial board Of equalization
have Fixed the taxable value OF live
stock at IS, for cattle, ponies, $40
stock horses, Sl2. The value of the
track from Mutt station to Lake Val
ley was fixed at $500 per mile
| Grants were assessed at from thirty tC
forty centsper acre. The assessment
of the Southern Pacific railroad com
pany was fixed at $4,000 per rlile
The Sierra land s. cattle company sue
ceeded in having its goat herd taxed
at 81 per head.
Prospector; Arizona is fifteen OF
twenty years behind Colorado in thu
development of her mineral resources
and the growth Of The industry in oul
territory must be slow. First OF al
we need railroads, and, more thar
that, competing lines, before there
can be any marked improvement.
Says the Phoenix Herald: "WorJ
comes from Yuma that all is not love
ly in the prison Official family. It /,
} claimed that the superintendent Il
entirely tooeconomicial for the higher
, loGlcials and as a result there is moth
ing 20 whack up"
The only radical cure for rneuma
tism is to eliminate from the blood tn,
/ acid that causes the disease. This Il
, fhOrOuohlv effecfad nv the narcavarin,