The Black range. (Robinson, Socorro County, N.M.) 1882-1897, 1895-05-03
LOCAL NEWS.

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Plume property.
Mrs. and Mrs. w. j. Hill are over
from Fairview to-day.
Walter Hearn and Tom Whitley
went over the range to-day.
George Ritchey and Chris. Olson are
rusticating on Diamond creek.
Mrs. Annie Adamas was down from
the ranch one day this week.
Miss Madame lie Phiew and Miss
Sadie Stsiley visited the city the early
part Of this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. RugseCger started yes
terday morning for San Marcial. Mrs.
r. goes to Santa Fe.
The cattlemen on the west side Of
the range are rounding up cattle for a
general shipment on the Goth,
When moss gets six inches long On a
mans back be is no longer an orna.
ment to the human family and his
usefulness as a citizen is wholly worth
less.
A report is out that Indians recently
killed two men on the Blue, near the
Arizona line, and that government
troops are scouting in the ella
try.
Mrs. j. F. Thompson and Mrs. S. e.
Corson will leave tomorrow tor Hills
boro. The former goes to her daughter,
Mrs. Jas. Dalglish, and the latter goes
on business.
DR.. Blinn has completed his new
hen house, the lingering completion Of
the same having been something of a
standing joke on the builder. But now
it's Docs turn to cackle.
If the present continued wet wealth
er continues, many of our citizens
threaten to vacate the country. They,
in quest of a less humid climate than
} ours, would undoubtedly 20 to Oregon
or Washington.
The most disappointed man in the
world is the man that is always look
ing in the newspapers for something to
get mad at and can't find il; and the
next most uncomfortable individual is
the man that searches the newspaper
for something to get mad at and finds
it.
1t is repoted that the Black Range
Smelling company acknowledged judg-
ment to attachments agaist that com
pany in the district court, and that a
stay of proceedings for ninety days
was granted, thus giving TIE company
time to fully consider tho matter of
liquidating and renewing business.
The incubator, an invention that has
so rapidly promoted the chicken in
dustry by turning out baby chickens
to order, has, in New Mexico climate
met a strong rival in its line Of busl-
ness, from the fact that a Chloride
citizen recently Matched out a brood of
bright-eyed chickens by simply placing
the eggs in the sun. Sun-hatched
chickens are said to mature earlier than
those Matched out by the artificial
heat that is generally employed in in
cubators.
This week Mark Thompson received
from the postofice department at
Washington, d. G., blank bonds for
the postmastership. 1t was also mem
toned that. unless the required bonds
were not promptly filed, the Chloride
office would be abandoned. Undoubted-
ly the present administration considers
that a town that boasts Of but one lone
democrat who wouldn't have the post
office under any conditions, is not
worthy of recognition by that august
body. The required bond was prompt
ly made up and the papers returned to
the department.
MIR. John Stephens, of st. Joe, Mo-,
who is in the Range in the interest of
the Black Range Smelling & Mining
company, and Hon. R. NJ. White paid
this Office a pleasant call yesterday,
Mr.. Stephens, under the able guidance
of Mr.. White. is looking over the min
eral resources Of Chloride, Grafton and
his report will undoubtly settle the
fate of the aboYe-named company. In
speaking of the competency and
ability of Judge Bantz, Mr.. Stephens
pronounced him in the highest terms,
which is a pretty good recommend
coming as it does from nj who re-
ceiyed decisions against cases in which
he was a defendant in court presided
over by Judge Bantz.
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