The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1895-04-05
KINGSTON, Continued.

sent to where it will do some good. 1t
is a useless waste of energy to con
stantly shoot it into good, strong, hon.
est silver men. Turn it loose on the
single standard heathens of New York
and elsewhere.
The advance in silver is a more GER
tain barometer that silver will be re-
habiliated than the howl of the street
fnancier who never shipped an ounce
of silver in his life. nor never would if
he lived a hundred years.
"Burro" Jones has returned from a
two weeks horse hunt throughout the
county. He reports stock in some Sec
lions in bad condition, and in other To-
calities looking well, notable on the
western slope Of the range cattle are
"hog fat"
Prof. Mayer will close the public
school Friday evening. and on Satur-
day evening the school will give a pub
lie exhibition at the opera house. The
term has been very successful, rebound
ing to the credit of Mr.. Mayer as an in
structor.
A separation of a gentleman and his
spouse filed the void of gossip last
week. 1t was one of those cases of a
balky team that meyer did pull tOgeth-
er, an every day occurrence, as the re-
cords of numerous district courts show
in every locality.
Judge West has followed the Picka-
dilly ditch across the creek. and now
has plenty of water for irrigation pur-
poses. Oliver Wilson has extended it
through his ranch, where it is taken
up by the Mexicans and dltched to So
moro, the east suburb.
Alloys Preisser, the new, popular and
competent assessor of Sierra county,
spent most of the week distributing
blank statements to the Taxpayers of
this precinct. He takes right hold as
though be had always held the Office,
and will make a model assessor.
James Mclaughlin, "Big JIM" re-
signed his position as engineer at the
Kangaroo mine, and hit the cars
Saturday morning for Cripple Creek,
where he has secured a much better
position of the same kind. He said he
'longed to go some place and cool off"
There are several periphastic stu
dents to be seen frequent, Do not
know if they are studying bacherology
or etiquette, but they'll get there if
they ride the trail through. Progress
seems written on their brow, and on
ward and upward branded on the left
hip.
Since the great unterriHed retro
manged on the people, deserted silver.
and stabbed every other industry they
could reach, we have been steadily 60
ing down deeper into the pit of des-
pair, desOlation and destruction. AT
ter 1896 there is not a man, woman or
child living in Kingston that will ever
see that old, ~sore-backed democracy re-
turned to power in America. i.
An exciting argument was INDUCED
in Wednesday evening in front of the
postofice in regard 10 the relative merit
of an evening Oh morning paper, No.
n was hurt although "his honor"
showed signs of a cyclonic collapse.
We listened and learned for the first
time, that all the night long work on a
great morning paper vas a useless ex-
penditure of brain, muscle and life,
and concluded to 90 home and sub
scribe for some boiler plate weekly.
Deuteronomy Whitman, good, hard
working, honest miner. who for the
past year has been leasing on the
Templar mine, on North Percha, with
varying results. spent Saturday and
Sunday in town among his many
friends. Deut. is one Of the boys that
will stay with an ore seam and de-
serves all the wealth the Templar con-
tains. He hopes it will give down
some of its kindness before the wintry
blasts whistle through the tree tops.