Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-10-18
TERRITORIAL CHIP BASKET

Bob Ransom is now the owner of fine
new guitar.-White Oaks Eagle. He is
probably more pleased than the unfortu-
mates who live in the same house with
him.
The Deming Headlight insists that
''lesd is the weighty metal now" Here
tofore many people have INDUCED the
delusion that the specific gravity of gold
was greater than that of lead.
man named Byron down at Deming
is profusely advertising shot soda"
Doubtless he has been reading the lurid
poems of his lame ancestor, Lord By
ron, and realizes the necessity of sustain
ing the family fame by dispensing shot
stuff"
In affectionately bidding farewell to
Mr.. Rodney G.. CLARK as associate editor
and business manager, the Deming Head
light pays graceful and merited com-
pliment to the talented gentleman named.
Mr.. Clarke is now employed by the Dem
ing Mercantile company.
The esteemed Headlight continues to
complain about the bad sidewalks at Dem
ing. The Chip Basket sincerely hopes that
the sidewalks at Deming do not exhibit
as many CHASTITY grins and as many shin
ing and protruding metallic teeth as do
the wooden passage ways about Santa Fe.
The bonnet and millinery business at
San Marcial is said to be booming. It is
perfectly proper that Dame Prosperity
cinating headgear with floral decorations,
and new dresses of the latest cut and
pattern with just as expansive umbrella
sleeves as she pleases.
The Lordsburg Liberal is energetically
backing President D. O. Hobart, Of the
territorial board of equalization, in the
capacity of sort of ANXIOUS curise In the
pending newspaper litigation wherein
10. E. Sheridan 10 complaining witness
and chief alligator.
The White Oaks Eagle, Democratic,
expresses disgust at Grover Cleveland's
evident intention to break into the Unit
ed States senate from New Jersey. II
New Jersey can afford to load up with
such an incubus, New Mexico will patient
ly try to worry along a while longer In its
present condition, vlvidly realizing that
after all there are worse affections than
being a territory.
Ex-Governor and Mrs. Edmund G
Ross celebrated their golden wedding at
Albuquerque on Friday. These good
people became tangled up In the sweet
and silken threads of matrimony at San
dusky, O., half century ago, and now, In
the afternoon Of life, as they sit hand in
hand serenely Watching the rosy rays
of light flashed upward by the setting
sun, they form most beautiful domestic
tableau.
The White Oaks Eagle reports beats
unoommonly plentiful IN Lincoln county
aud expresses anxiety lest some OF them
may be irritated into coming out of the
"acorn patches" and adding q few hunters
to their midday menu. The Eagle evil
IDENTIFY overlooks the fact that an incident
or two of that kind, properly written up
and rendered attractive with "scare heads, /"
would nightly improve its local page.
One of those special correspondent
fiends down at Silver City recently sent
an hysterical dispatch to the eastern press
to the effect that man there twas stab
bed 10 the Mexican quarter" The corre-
spondent was In such q rush that be
failed to explain whether "the dangerous
wound" was inflicted in the "fors" or
"hind" "Msxican quarter" or whether the
injury caused external or internal hem
ofrhsge. AZ the poor man finally died IL
10 probable that "heart failure" snsusd O.
an ulterior conseq uence Of tho singular
stab. Al