Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1897-08-09

AN EDITOR WITHOUT NERVE AND HIS
WELL DESERVED FATE.

Cold Social Cut-No Harm Done.
The Grass Valley Journal, which is
sued its first number last week, has sus-
pended publication, and its editor is
hiding in some cave Oh the side of Bill
Williams mountain. When Mr.. Morris
came to see us about establishing a
weekly at Grass Valley, we laid down
certain cardinal principles for his guild
ance He either forgot what we said by
the time he got home Or he lacked the
nerve to carry them out afterward At
any rate, his first issue was hardly OFT
the press when "a man named Lukens
entered the Office and pulled the editors
nose. He not only pulled it, but pulled
hard. He not only pulled hard, but he
got away without being shot. That set
tied it with the Valleyites. An editor
who would allow his nose to be pulled
was not the man to boom the town and
uphold it's prestige. They moved down
on him and drove him into the bushes,
and if he ever returns they will hang
him. We have no sympathy to waste on
Mr.. Morris. He had it i'll his power to
establish great weekly and make fame
and money, but he lay down and lost
everything. Wherever he weeps he
weeps alone
Not Candidate.
Colonel Jordan Black, our genial and
enterprising townsman, has given us
authority to state that he is not can
didate for the mayoralty of Giverdam
Gulch, nor, indeed, for any other office
in the gift of the people, Three or four
days since we had it Oh what we con-
sidered the very best authority that the
colonel had an ambition to be mayor
and had said he would down us at any
cost or sacrifice. Determined to get at
the bottom facts at once, we loaded our
guns and called at the colonel's Office
He seemed somewhat surprised to see
us and for few minutes was reluctant
to state his position. He finally decided
that he was not candidate. We APP
prove of his decision. The colonel is a
nice man and all that, but SO busy that
he could not fifty attend to the duties OF
office. This is our third term as mayor,
and we shall be elected again. We do
not claim to own the Office, and we do
not wish to be charged with bulldozing
would be candidates. We simply believe
that we are the best man in town for
the Office and shall hold it until some
one equally as good turns up or we are
tired of the cares and responsibilities.
Any one announcing that they have
aims and ambitions will receive an
early visit from u.s.
A Cold Cut.
Society in Giveadam Gulch has stood
by it's traditions in the noblest sort of
way. Some three months ago Mrs. Colo
mel Jermyn of Cochise place set her
face against popular feeling by import
ing from Denver galvanized wire
clothesline and an ice cream freezer and
a red rocking chair. Society frowned
upon these innovations, but bided its
time. Cards We're issued two weeks ago
for a grand reception OH Tuesday even
ing, and Mrs. Jermyn exhausted every
effort to make it the event of the season.
When the evening arrived, not guest
showed up. 1t was cold, cold cut and
the coolest kind of rebuke. We under
stand that the lady, so far from feeling
crushed to earth, as might be expected,
still deties public opinion and has sent
to Chicago for $40 rug and a lamp
with a red shade. The result will be So
cial ostracism. Our people have their
! little idioms and are not to be moved
from them, and disaster inevitably over
takes any one trying the experiment.
Mrs. Jermyn, whose name has for the
last three years headed the Four Hun
dred, may now be considered out of it
altogether, and years of humility will
not restore her lost prestige.
Don't Mistake 1t.
Next week Mr.. John Freeman will
begin the erection on Apache avenue of
the largest saloon in all Arizona, and
the same will be completed as fast as
possible. The bar will be long enough
for 40 men to stand up to at once, and
one of the features of the place will be
8 cent drinks. The front and back doors
will be unusually high and wide, SO
that one can ride through the place on
horseback, and shooting at lamps, de-
canters and mirrors behind the bar will
not be discouraged. The idea is to make
an old time place Of it, and Mr.. Free
man has every reason to anticipate a
success.
No Harm Done.
We are in receipt Of letter from the
mayor of Richland, N. M, stating that
a man named Henry Rice was hanged
there two weeks ago by the local vigil
lance committee. The charge against
him was stealing cayuse, but scarcely
had he been buried when it was discov-
cred that mistake had been made and
the wrong man hanged. Although they
went to work and hanged the right man
the people felt q little conscience stricl-
Ell. It was ascertained that Rice was
from this town, and the mayor writes
I to express regrets and ask what can be
done about it. Rice left here about three
months ago. Our people will remember
him as a lazy, shiftless critter, with nc
ambition above getting drunk. There
was some talk Of hanging him here, and
had he held on long enough that would
have been his fate. We can't see where
any harm has been done. He didn 7
steal the cayuse, but it was just as well
to hang him and get him off the earth.
He had no relatives, we believe, and il
he had they would not raise row about
it. If the good people Of Richland have
nothing more on their conscience, they
need worry no longer. M. QUAD.
Near and Close.