West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1892-06-16

them and place them under the in
iluence of the Evil Spirit. Many
years ago, IN the pioneer history of
the West, Il band Of Indian warriors
captured stage coach carrying
the u. 5. mail. They cut open the
mail pouches and found lot of IL
Illustrated papers. They were great
ly interested IN these and spread
the papers on the ground and lay
down in group to examine them.
A company of United States Caval-
ny was hot on their trail and charged
right in on to them before they
knew it, SO intent were they in ex-
aiming the pictures, and they were
all killed, crippled or captured be-
fore they could make any defense.
The survivors attributed it all to
the evil influence of the pictures,
and have eyer since regarded such
things with superstitious fear. One
of the ladies OF our party, who had
photos with her of her children,
showed them to some of the squaws
with proposes and tried to explain
to them that it wouldn't hurt to
have the ba0y's picture taken.
They seemed greatly interested and
pleased with the pictures, but asked
the lady where her children were,
and when told that she had left
them at home, refused to believe
but what something bad had hap
pencd them, and snuggled their
own little copper colored chunks of
humanity mp closer than ever. One
young squaw, who was right pretty
and neat looking, had a string of
beads around her neck and waist
about twenty yards long. ! asked
her how mnch she would take for
the whole string, and she sand,
"Undolla," Zone dollar), which was
cheap enough, and / thought of
purchasing it for a clothes line or
bringing it home TO divide up
among my girls, Chat is, | mean
my cousins and aunts), as there was
enough Of it to make necklaces for
a whole female seminary. On
second thought, land "Second
Thoughts" are the best) concluded
that this would get me into trouble
for the next generation to come, and
so compromised by purchasing about
two yards of tho beads for ten cents.
The town of Albuquerque is the
largest in New Mexico and has a
population of about $4,000. 1t is
situated in the Valley of the Rio
Grande, and is quite q railroad
center. 1t is headquarters for the
Atlantic & Pacific II. r., one of the
largest systems in the west. The
shops of this road here employ five
hundred men. 1t is also division
headquarters for the Santa Fe Sys-
TEN, and the northern terminus Of
the Pecos Valley Railroad and the
southern terminus Of the Albuquer-
que & Durango r. r. The altitude
of the city is about five thousand
feet, and the average height of the
mountains surrounding the Valley
on all sides and in full view of the
town, is about IL, 900 feet above sea
level. The summer weather is very
warm during the day, but cool at
night, and the equal temperature
and almost eternal sunshine, make
a paradise for the consumptives
from the northern chimes. The
site of the present city was staked
out in the summer of 1880, al
though there has been q Mexican
town Of the same name on the
banks Of tho Rio Grande, about a
mile and a half distant, for two
hundred and fifty years. The old
town is far the most interesting to
the eastern visitor, and is connected
with the new and American part of
the city by wide, dusty streets and
sleepy old horse car line. The
name is derived from the founder Of
the old town, the Duke Of Albu-
querque, who received a large grant
Of land in this section from the
Spanish Crown and settled here
about the middle of the Seven
tecnth century.
The old town is a sleepy old place,
built up almost exclusively OF adobe
buildings and with irregular, mar
row streets. The population is
made up Of Mexicans, intermixed
with Spaniards, some Indians and a