The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1895-03-22
KINGSTON.

horns,
Till st. Patrick came in the early morn.
Don't fail to attend the band stand
meetings,
Thomas Nelson, the cordwainer
sports a new bat.
Henry Gherkin is not a picked Gu.
cumber If he is a GherkiD.
Some people paw the air and think
they are picturesque.
Wagner's juvenile drum corps is one
of the attractions of the west end.
Nearly all the vultures have left this
locality. The carcass needed recuper-
alton,
Mrs. W. C. Cowley, whom it was
thought would lose an eye. is out of
danger.
Alexander White returned Saturday
from the sands of Arizona, where he
spent the winter.
Shorty" H%onslnger will manufacture
his potato tops this year into verjuice.
St. Patrick got here Sunday morning
in the dimness of the vernal esquinox.
Torpidity prevails to an alarming ex-
tent, but 1t is hoped that warm wealth
er will loosen matters up, especially
mining.
Judge West Is making garden and
otherwise repairing bis fine yard. He
believes in solid comfort instead of
croaking.
Mrs. George Holt has returned from
Rincon where she has been negotiating
for a ranch. She is a practical farmer
and will make it pay if any one can
There is some talk of establishing a
twlle factory here during the year.
There are several experts in town who
are masters of the art and who will
gladly take hold.
G. w. Butler, of Rincon, delivered
the last of his 1894 alfalfa crop to
Kingston consumers Saturday. He re-
ports this as the best market, with a
fifty mile wagon haul to overcome.
Mr.. Fl. j. Hagar, the lumber king,
has removed his family to Hagarstown,
five miles out, where he has erected a
large and cOmmodious residence. He
reports constant improvement in the
new town, and the lumber business
pari passu.
Woodson Parks, at one time in bust
ness here, who shot and killed a man at
Cooney, Socorro county, Christmas
night, one year ago, is still IN Jail at
Socorro. He writes friends here that
he expects to have his trial next May,
and thinks he will be acquitted.
Sitting Bull of the Magodi, has
taken up a ranch on Carbonate creek
where he will spend the summer rails
free holders for the benefit of his fol-
lowers. He is just over the line OF the
reservation and should be called in be-
fore the grass grows over the trails.
John Bennett. the mohair chief, will
remove his saw-mill and G. Clay his
store to Arizona, as soon as the big
ditch on the Colorado river, above
Yuma, gets under full speed. Several
other of our best citizens are talking of
going down there and entering land.
The 16 to l play has been rewritten,
and the company are now rehearsing
daily. 1t is of home production and
will be ably presented by local talent
for the benefit of the benighted public,
There is some quiet talk that the play
will be put on the road for the season
of 95-6.
Burt Cowley who has been browsing
on Arizona prosperity, wild honey and
cactus, during the winter, writes that
there is not enough grease in the coun-
try for him, that he has turned the
burro's nose northward, and will not
halt, even for a SNOW slide, until he
reaches Cripple Creek, Colorado.
Tuesday evening the big six Concord
coach was driven clear through, the
Hrst time in many weeks. Every one
thought it loaded down with capltahts,
but it only had Blackwell & Cos adj
vertising male bovine aboard, which
was promptly put on exhibition at
Fred Lindner's, for amusement of all
the smart people who believed all the
artists lived in Kingston.
Hon. I. d. Hilty, in company with
Lee Davis, the lion killer, left with the
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