The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1895-04-12
LOCAL NEWS.

6teoeCA hVAb ONuudN.
Silver, oo1S. Lead, s205,
Turn out and clean the streets.
How about the wagon road to the
cemetery
Chris R%ugseguer has made some i'm
provementh to his premises.
MI. and Mrs. W. j.. Hill were over
from Fairview Wednesday.
"A travelling photographer struck
town last Tuesday. He did not linger.
Mrs. Thos. Scales and Miss Sims
came over from Fairview this morn
ing.
Mrs. j. F. Thompson is visiting with
Mr.. and Mrs. McA ughan at their home
above Fairview.
G. E. Bunker came in from the ella
yesterday. He will so back In "a day
or so with his family.
w. J. Hill has commenced gathering
cattle for shipment. He will deliver at
San Marcial between The 25th and 9th.
If you want the local news OF the
county, subscribe for THE BLACK
RANGE. Don't borrow your neigh
boris.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. S. Miller, of Lake
Valley, have returned from a months
trip in Mexico. They had a very en-
joyable outing, SO Mr.. M. writes us.
The wind storm last Friday beat the
memory of the Oldest inhabitant. The
wind screeched and howled all day
and sand from Arizona, California
and Texas mingled with the native
sand to such an extent that the neigh
boring hills were invisible and the sun
was rendered lndistinct. No particu-
lar damage was done.
The amount of local news matter
which THE BLACK RANGE supplies
its readers, fresh from the pen of its
corps of excellent correspondents, is
rapidly gaining popularity. THE BLACK
RANGE now. carries as much and as
good a line of county news as any
country paper in the territory, and out
aoes several parpes that boast of city
life.
Hon. r. M. White paid Chloride a
short visit one day this week while on
his way from Grafton to Hermosa. He
reports the Goldrox and Rocks Gold
mines showing up well'and that they
are being carefully diagnosed by that
careful prospector Col. Lew Kruse.
MI. White says the mines of that dis
trict are looking well, all showing well
of the yellow metal.
Billy Dawson has turned his hevy of
Quails loose upon the freckled face of
mother earth. While these birds are
wild and "hard to curry" they return
regularly to their coop for food and
water. $4,000 for the detection and
conviction of any person or persons
molesting or killing said birds.
A Phoenix, Arizona dispatch of the
9th says that on Friday last three
white men who were hunting horses
near the San Carlos reservation were
fired on by a band of Apaches. The
leader Of the band that done the shoot
ing said to be Dandy Jim" who was
recently pardoned out Of the Yuma
~penitentiary. Whether this report, OF
any part of it, is true we do not know
Mr.. james Wing, accompanied by his
accomplished sister Miss Alice, arrived
here Tuesday evening from Worksop
Motifs, England. Mr.. Wings return tt
Chloride is for the purpose of looking
after valuable mining interests. Mr.
and Miss Wing are gladly welcomed
by the people of Chloride. They are
comfortably domiciled IN the Kocf
residence, and they find New Mexico
climate quite agreeable after beini
s~now-bound in a Kansas blizzard.
Thos. Scales was over from Fairviev
Sunday and informed u reporter thai
his company threatens to settle vi
their affairs before the spring term o.
district court opens. 1t is hoped tha
they will carry out their threat. Yet
later and from another source, We arr
informed that the company, before
making settlement, will send out al
expert to examine the Typographical
as well the meteorological formation O
the company's affairs, as it were.