Santa Fe Champion from Santa Fe, Kansas • 7

A NEW SOLOMON. The lad's face grew paler, but without word of complaint he disappeared. He now went fifteen miles into tie country contemplates a removal into New Mexico as the chief field of its operations. The manager and secretary of the company are now in Las Vegas, and the prol labilities aro Unit the headquarters of the company JuUice Duffy, of New York, Scores a Hit in and found work in studies near to niuht-Kchool. At the end of a year he again pre sented himself before Mr.

Blank. a Pohco Court Decision. Justice Dnlfy, iu the Essex market police ourl. rendered a 'tension that knock THE GROWTH OF KANSAS. The secretary of the hoard of agriculture has recently published the returns of the census taken March 1.

1S7, which shows that the population of the state at that date was mi inere'isc of during the year ending March 1, lu 1880, the national census showed Unit the population of Kansas was 990,090. The state census of 18S0 showed a population of 70,801 inhabitants less than the United States census of 1880. The decrease was "I can read mid write," he said briefly. "1 gave him the place." the emu over Solomon's fame for justice nlly. say, the said, years afterward, "with the conviction that in the process of time he would New York Herald, take mine if he made up his mind to do it, Grayhaired Charles llobb.

a hardy old irieklayer of seventy-three, who lives at The Great Southwest" Kl Paso is to have ti new foundry, Deinlng is going to have a baby sh )v." Tin1 fats ami loans hail a base hall mutch at Fo, Simduy. Santa l-'e and has Vegas an having another controversy about their base hall At a depth of (VJO loot in the artesian well at Homing thoy are finding limestone. Philadelphia hase hall club will play at Las Vegas November 1, and Santa Fe No-vembei' 2. The editor of the Optic at has Vegas is in daily receipt of turnips and other garden produce. Boom item in the Chaiua paper: "Tom Hurst won $10 on one hand at nb: Men rise slowly in Scotch business houses, but he is now our chief foreman." No 78 ulberry street, was brought be will he loca'ed in this city.

Orville 11. Ward, aged twenty-six years, committed suicide Thursday at his father-in-law's, hear Newton, by shooting himself in the head, lie had separated from his wife after a few months of married life and her refusal to again live with him is supposed fo have prompted him to the deed. A judge in the fifth district has decided that a city incorporated by the state cannot change its boundaries until authorized by the legislature to do so. This, if it is good law will cause' considerable trouble all through the state; for there is perhaps not a town in Kansas that has not made The Chinese Wall, fore the justice charged with stealing an probably apparent rather than real and was due to the greater accuracy with which the federal census was taken overcoat from Levy Silverton. a second-hnnd clothing dealer of No.

(11 Bayard Gen. 11. Wilson reports the Great Wall of China In fine condition where he at that time. The census of 1882 showed M.147 less population than iu 18801 By street. examined it.

though ruinous in parts. "It the state enumeration the population of Kansas March 1881 was Last "How is t-hii, Robb?" said Justice eye ng the old man severely over his is from wenty-five to thirty fjet high, liftenn to wenty fot thick, and reveftet 1 If I I March the population was This shows an increase in the population of the g.asses, "Hid you rob tins man of hii coat?" ouisnie ami in wnn cut granite masonry, state in six years, of or per additions to its original site. laid iu regulur courses with an excellent nurtar of lime and sand. It, is surmount cent. This growth is lew, it any, paral lels in the history of a country reinarkahh for rapid increase of population.

ed by a battlement of gray burned brick eighteen or twenty inches thick, cverei At the present rate of growth Kansas will have, nearly doubled its population with and pierced with crenelated open when the federal census of shall he The grand jury in Valencia county, N. have made a report that shows a queer condition of afT-drs in that, county. The jury report that they find Paul O. Stone, the probate clerk, totally inefficient and utterly unqualified for the office he holds. They say that on a tax roll of $ISU)00, iGWhOOO is returned delinquent, and intimate that, very crooked work has been going on there.

It appears by the record of the court that Stone had not been ingsfor the defenders, whether archers or 1 1 1 i 1 inauiuocKnien, ro are through, me rear take. With such facts for a basis, tin people of Kansas are justified in claiming the title of "the Empire State of tlu I. en veu worth Times. ker Tuesday, Frank Herring sustained injuries in McMullen's saw mill near Magdalena, from which he has died. Governor delivered' an able and eloquent address at the opening of the Arizona fair at I'heonix.

Santa Fe claims that $100,000 of eastern money has been invested in real estate at the ancient during the past few months. Ij.Free.burn drove a team of Wells. Fargo's horses to the river for water at Socorro. A man placed a revolver to his head and took $7.50. "Divd a bit of me iver rob a living man yer honor.

I'm a hamid-workingman. 'I here is me dinner yer hnnor (placing his meal done up in a hamlker. diief on" the bench before the court was on me way this and wle-n going through Bayard shvet this man ran up to me and tried to take the coat off nie liable. "Let me kvk at your hands." said the justice to Kobh. "Good hands.

They show hard work. Is that your coat?" "Dade, an' it is, yer honor. Me best Sunday coat." "Does it fit you? Try it on. Let me see how it tits." The old man with a satisfied smile jerked himself into the coat. or inner revetment wall is also furnishe wun a lower impel, but it is nor crem luted.

The top is paved with a double A Strange Wreck- uyer of: brick al'orit foot square. The naturalized at 'he time of his election, but has A wen since. inside of the wall as made of earth am A very curious shipwreck occiirod in loose st ne, wed rammed in. Every two A two months' widow in Albuquerque New York on the 11th ot august, ihe hundred or three hundred yards there is vessel was a Spanish bark named "Maria is much worried, as she claims, over the visits of her late husband. She iL 1 1 1 1 1 1 a flanking turret thirty-five or forty reet high, projecting beyond and overlooking I isegas.

ine memuersmp is mnirai the face of the wall in both directions, Louisa," and was on her ay from Havana to the Canary Islands, stopping in New York to receive a copper bottom. to twenty-five, and the monthly dues have 'ft. tll pv 1nftk5' and near each turret is stone staircase leading down between the walls to a door The spirit is always anxious to know if the On the afternoon of August 13th, the vessel went into a dry-dock at twenty-sev opening upon the ground in the rear. A fellow named Sharkey, who has been young widow is happy, and says that he ihe most astonishing thing about it employed on the artesian well at Baton, is perfectly satisfied with his condition. enth Street.

South Brooklyn. Ihe dock is, However, that, it climbs straight up the IS, UUWCVCl, I ..1.1.. I skipped out the other morning, leaving a The spirit then pats her cheek with great "Isn that a daisy fit, yer honor?" said Robb, smoothing out the wrinkles and looking from under his heavy gray eve-brows at the justice. "Turn around. Let's see how it sets in the back," said his honor.

"A first rat fit. Will you swear that coat's yours?" "Willi? I will that, yer honor! I'd swear it on a stack of Bibles that'd rache to St. Pater's dure." "Did you see this man take this coat?" said Justice Duffy turning to Levy. "I did not see him take c-o-e-t," said Levy, "but c-o-e-t va was oi urn movaute o. uy.

gte fc anJ m08t molntain gide. tenderness, and sometimes imprints -a few creditors to mourn his departure. sunK so as 10 pernm thelr descends into ghostly kiss upon the brow of its beloved one. Such is the story told by the young woman, who is now a firm believer in spiritualism. A host's caresses must be, to 'iy the least, visionary.

filling with water the c-mpai-tinents ot imM ColonelJohn llelpingstine.lttfe manager of the Coronado Beach company was presented with a handsome gold watch by his employers when he resigned. A number of drunken Indians attempt which the dock is composed, and then 1 Z. pire to the other from the sea-shore of pumping the water out. When the pumping has been completed, the bark rested in ihe dock with her keel three feet above ed to force an entrance to a house occupied c-o-e-t 1 buy-for "You can go to work," said the justice bvMrs. W.T.

Griffin at Gallup. The the gulf ot re-Chee-Lee to the desert wastes of Turkestan. No spot is left unguarded or uncovered, and no matter 'how fierce, and active were the wild tribesmen The Chicago Linvt. Omaha Dame -You have been married the surface of the water. Shortly after midniffht a number of those on board were to Robb.

'The coat fits ou and I believe it's yours," lady's husband and another man gave the red men a sound thrashing. aroused by the t-ense that the vessel quit a number of times I believe. "Ah, Moses!" said Lew. Mv Chie.Hgo Grass Widow Yes, but 1 shall c-o-e-t! Ah, holy Moses!" And he raised who assailed it. or how innumerable their armies, it is evident that it mid, if well defended, defy the world to the day of was finking, Before they had time to think, there was a heavy crash, the bark never mary again.

"You are still vourjL'. his hands in horror at Patrick Gavin Duffy's "Solomon's decision" as he left the stand. it is al- rolled sharply port and the water gunpowder and artillery. Indeed pouring over the r. I Mo a le objecte mOS impossiUo to conpeive0Hts up Joseph Bishop, an employe of the Vulture mill, at Prescott, lost h's hard by getting it caught, under the stamp.

Mr. Bishop was attending to his duty in the mill when the accident occurred. Ed Wilson and C. A. Howard have es 'True, but I superstition-.

1 should iptnre, he afraid in marry ng iln." Were lUlOW Il iiciuss uic ihjcr. mi jin.au violence. One of the passengers who was except through treachery or great neglect on the irt of those whose duty it should I-ndeed! nsloen on ton ot the cabin was struck on I'hirte. is an unlucky caped from iail at Albuquerque, by some be to detenu it. It is laid out in total defiance of the ruls of engineering, and the the head by a piece of chain, knocked senseless and drowned.

Nine others were severely iniured. It is supposed that the walls are so solid and inaccessible, and the gates so well arranged and defended, that it would puzzl a modern army with a Couldn't Stand That. Ihllo, it's 11 o'clo'k!" remarked a outside parlies si wing through the bar-of a window and then unlocking the cell doors. In Albuquerque home-grown celery, very tine, sells for ten cents per bunch, or accident was caused by one or more of the Ihe doclf conipaiTinems s-priiigmg a i ii i i i i hrst-class siege train to get through it, it traveling man as he set down the glass; burden i A COLORED NAPOLEON OF FINANCE. H'S Own Version of His Amusing Encounter With a Railroad Bunko Man.

"Am yo" de boss 'roun' hyar?" asked a colored man in a checked suit and white plug hat of ancient make, ashe sauntered up to the lieutenant at the Central station this morning. "For the time being, was the re bai was or inree nunureu ions any effort whatever was made for its do "guess I'll go home." three for twenty-five cents now, and home-nrown onions, of enormous size, for three fense. What's the matter? Afraid of your The Tricks cf a Bird. cents per pound. wifeV" THL BIG DITCH.

"Boys," said the diamond wearer at the Timntt the other evening, "I have a story You bet I What does she do when you're out late; lumbail and Drew, ot are ready to tackle any team of bird-shooters call hur mother?" linois. Drain-. The Great Mason County, toteiJ. You see that, open window in the in the territory, for S100 to $500 a side, Naw her mother don live at, our age Canal fifty or more birds, the match to be shot house." corner room opposite the Enterprise office. Weil, for ten days the bell, thiveor four at Doming.

Letter in the Country Gentleman. 'Does she mount guard with a rolbng- It has been said that ex-Congressman There has heretofore been a marsh of times a diiy. has callei from that room Hard, of Ohio, tmd John Mackay had Aaron, the bell boy, Las rushed up stidrs some acres in extent on the west unearthed a land grant from Old Mexico 'iNO; she don t. 'What does she do, then?" 'Well, gentlemen, she just kicks a little that covers the entire territory of New Mexico. Some men want the earth.

with his usual decision and energy every side of Mason county, which lies along the time only to find the room empty and the Illinois river, that stream making the door Finally we took to wat( bins western boundary. This marsh, since the and then she 'ups and cries. Good night; I'm in a hurry. Merchant traveler. sponse, wnat can i do tor you i "Dis am a wicket sort ol.) a town, sah," observed the visitor as put down his valise and umbrella.

"Only average, my returned the officer. "Somebody been swindling you?" "I read consid'iible in de papers 'bout deni yah bunko men robbiu' an' stealin' from country folks what cuius in fo' to buy truck in de town," was the non-committal statement that was used as a reply. The lieutenant bristled up. seeing a case in view, and inquired: "How much did you lose?" Between the towns of Kl Pao and ('races there have been at least one hun the nidi and balconv, but the bell contin- settlement of the state, has been great The Pope on Colors ued to ring when we knew no one had en- duck and other game hunting grounds, dred new farms started and over two thousand acres put in crops for the first tered. We were much worried, servants though considerable of to the The pope has recently rendered a decis time this season.

ion in the import mt matter of colors most beiiaii to gossip about spooks, tmd we were i it i farmers living on its borders. 1 his marsh a raid that the obe-Democrat spook de- 6 tit ft le buyers are beginning to nuike purchases iu New Mexico for the eastern suitifcle lor the dress ol young women. DHitmenr would hear ot it. a was too ns recenuy i.een uraineu oy ine As he hits been declared to be infallible much for the bell boy, who puts Lis hands county ditch company, consisting of the markets. Prices offered so far are low on the banister and then falls to the lower but there is every prospect that they will this decision will prove, of interest.

His farmers owning the adjoining lands and floor, instead of coming down in the eleva become much better before the close ot the the outside proprietors of the marsh lands. niece, Maria rem, is to lie married iu No tor, and so he resigned Lis position; Louis, the proprietor, grew grey, and even my The main ditch is sixty feet wide at top, year. The Rio Grande valley is capable of sus vember to 'uint Michaei Maroni, an officer in Die Papel Guards. The Pope is superintending the of dress cf the forty, feet at bottom, and eight feet taining as dense a population France or Italy, and the fruit producing lands tirido elect, and bus sent a le'ter to his nerve was Well, what do you suppose was the matter? You have heard of the, vocal tricks of a mot king-bird But it not tin imit itiob ring we for the indicator in the office showed that the button bad been touched. )ne of the along the river win in a tew years ue as valuable as the orchard lands of Califor niece through lis secretary, in which he expressly stipulates that her choiee of colors is to'he limited to three white, blue deep.

It is fifteen miles long, has a fall of four feet to the mile and drains with its laterals, which are thirty feet wide at top, fifteen at bottom, and with a depth to correspond with the mains, from 200,000 to iiOO.000 acres. The cost of the whole is estimated to be nia "Befo' I let' home up in Popcornville de ole 'oowan says: 'Obadiah, yo' keep yo' eye skinned fur dem bunkoors, an' fo' Uod if you 'low dem to skin yo' I'll smock yo' brack mouf full of blisfahs," continued the colored gentleman as he wiped the band of his hat. "Yes; why didn't you follow your instructions?" observed the lieutenant, as he assisted a bum out and up the steps. "Comin' down on de train I runs across er white gemmen dat looks like ho am boss ob de railroad." "Wore diamonds, 1 suppose!" "Bigg's' I ebor seed, sah!" 'All right, go ahead and tell us ho you were skinned." iiud black. He writes that, thoy are the I lus Ins been a great week tor sens newspaper fellows over the way solved the three color most becoming to youn pao- turns in the Central city.

two men have mystery. He saw on? of the mockers light met violent death another dropped dead pie; ray and hro.vn suit onlyold r.uneu; in the ee, look around fui lively, and then and iur ait can jr mors jieuoes no' mve from heart disease, a prominent citizen re md then fly nut 0U0, and more than it should have fly in, peck the but'on when the bell sounded. them. London Cor. New York World.

We the been with careiul management, the con ported to have lost his mind and another is stricken with paralysis. ry fiction, but I watched to-day over the transom ano saw he bird-act. imd heard A genUenian from Missouri, who wear tractors get fifteen cents a cubic yard tor doing the work, and that is five cents per yard more than it should have been. The earth removed is sand and day mixed, and offers little resistence to the machinery. In an Off-Hand Way.

"Dan," sail a contractor to one of his ihe songster chuckle ashe ttew away. AVe lus pants at halt mast, to his room close the shutter now and will have no He done sat erlongside ob me an' sober at the Arniijo house, Albuquerque, the further tihtrms from that room. Silver 'marked dat de wedder wah wahm." other rdght, and after disrobing blew the The dredge doing the work floats in the Ciy Enterprise. trusted employes, "when you sre down seeing about that Hint this morning I wish yen would mention to Dempsy that I would gas out. If the clerk ha not discovered water ot the ditch and makes 100 feet "Old style." said the lieutenant.

"After we'd done chatted 'bout de craps what had happened there would be an nt'OifPflua Ot'itfif lit i' 'TMi i-i .1 f.t-i- mi other Missouriun flapping his wings in the Bound to Succeed. Uonm of the drained bm.l will iilWdelv and de 'lection he done said: 'I learned mighty cuyns game out to de fair ground t'other great beyond. The following story stikingly illustrates amount to twenty-five dollars per acre, and like to have that little bill paid. You needn't press it, you know, but just mention it to him in an off-hand manner." the truth of Lord Beaconsiield's words, thenee grading down to a trivial matter of A marriage license has been issed to "Tim to-i-iit nf iif-'cc: i fniiutinu'V in nnr- I money Shan You Kee. a Chinese storekeeper, and 'Chestnut murmured the othcer, "Says he, 'If yo' hain't got no objeck- The work has been in progress for sev- JVnss Guadalupe 1 auilla, a young lady ot shun I'd show yo' how the snap era! vears.

and meantime the land drained Mexican persuasion. Shan is thirty-two Thirty years aco. a barefoot, ragaed ur- has nrodnml jmrnrini iw emna of whe.it a ml vears old and Guadalupe twenty-two. Says, 'go head wid yo' Den This is believed to be second marriage of a "Yes sorr." "I got the money from Dempsey, sorr," said Dan, on his return. "I am very glad you merely alluded to it in an off-hand way, I suppose? sorr; I banded him the bill and tawid him if he didn't psy it I would let off me hand and give him a wipe in the jaw that lie wouldn't foretfir awhile, chin presented nimselr betore the desiv ot corn.

'flus ear the yesr of severe the principal partner of a large firm and drouth matters have not progressed as asked for work as an errand-boy. favorably in resuect, to rrons. thousands of Chinamin and a Mexican woman in Kl hauls out three kyards de jack o' spades de ace ob hawts and de queen o' clubs. Paso. Den he fling 'em 'roun' keerless like and l'here's a deal o' ruining to be acres 0f corn having been lost bv "firine" The Denver, Memphis Atlantic (Mis say: said Air.

juanK. lesringiy, mteciing nnnseniienfo nf tin lmwal hit souri Pacific) railroad is completed en broad Scotch accent. "Your first qualifi- Lf the usual moisture. The thoughtful "'Pick out de An' I picks up. Den he says, bet yo' kan't do and he paid itnt waust.

--Boston ouner no cation wud he a pair shoon. anion tr the nroiectors of the s. beme and The boy, with a grave nod. disappeared, owners of the land are now aware that mo. "And vou bet him?" answered the He lived t.v doing odd jobs in the mark they have made a mistake in not provid et.

imd slept under one or skills. Two ing for holding a portion of the watr and Practice. A Texas parent had a mouths passed betoro be bad saveo recognize the fact that the ditch is twice tirely tor miles west of Krt Carson and it is void that they will he in Pueblo in thirty days. Dayton, which is a new town on this road directly south of Carson, is going to be a division point and wili have a roundhouse, etc. The Sou th w- xtvrn Town and Investim-nt company, whi'-h now has its heudquarh rs at Springfield.

Colorado, contemplates a enough money to buy the shots. Then ho took Zweibeer's sou sor Pro: lemons at the dimensions it should have been. I it were not for the fall four feet to the mile put no he nrisenu Iniured lilanicone officer. "Cose I did, an' fuddenuo' 1 put hup do stuff, five col" dollahs." was the response. "And yon lost it?" "No.

sah. 1 picked out de jack de fust time an' grilled de st'H't. Mr. Lly Kyard man he want to bet agin, but 1 up an' boded his shirsv plug bid. an' de con- house, but was to do his th morning, and held out a p.u tire.

a few locks or dams would hold tin he said quiel ly. ing on the piano at home. The parent water wiien it will bo needed lor crops; "1 hae the shoon, i'n!" Mr. sir. with fliihculty i n-iw it will take many.

However, tie not had da reivi'iva! into New Mexico, as the chief a su icimt that the h. Onedavli! mi want a place land is level and no easily worked that aid: held or their optxiuons, He manager live naixt do' ductor il.t-iicd him out you would dis- ed the circumstance. Not in those rag-, hp. rrace tha hoiue." no gr -at exii ature will be nacesary to do 011 pra. the 11 practiei 1 in down town The liusitated a itiouieiit, and then aul secretary oftho company are now in I.e.-- Yogas and the probabilities are that the headqu trteix of the company will be located in th ciiv.

''li piano station." "Weill" ga-ped the dumbfounded lieutenant, "if yon weren't robbed, why did vou come here?" estuMisn a ot irrigation, and vt may expect to see the Mason county ditel converted into great- channel for irriga tion within a quarter of a century. webr. out without word. Six month "Lvry day? "How fmg lav." did yer. pnnti-c jester- Professor Messenger, of the government Indian school near Aibuquerqite, it is said, has received notice that he will be transferred, by his own request, to the charge, of the Kearn's school.

Professor Messenger is a thor- tas-ed before he re urned. decciilly clothed in coarse bin new garments. Mr. Blank's interest was roused, h'or Hie fust time lc looked at the boy attentively. His thin, bloodless showed that lie had stinted himself of food for months in order to buy these clothes The manufacturer now questioned the boy closely and found, to his regret, that he could neither read nor write.

"It is necessary that you should do both "Two hours. J' "And to-day hours." "I am glad to hear that practice so "In de fust place I je want yo keei-yo' eye open fo' a sleek man wid big dim i'ns, an, seckintly t-dl dent newspaper writahs to state dat Obadiah (diver James Jackson, a distinguished culled citizen of Popcornville. am wisitin' in de city fo' de purpose of makin' social calls, an' dat he hab made quite a hit in de bunko business. Jes' tell em I'm de culled Napoleon of finance." And pickin? up his Talise and umbrella, be hailed a Central avenue car and rod away on the front platform. t.UUlOJ t.

Wim.K some of our eastern exchanges are filled with reports of distress in western Kansas, and people returning east, the announcement is made that the business of the trden City hind ofiice has readied the enormous figure of $340,000 for the List quarter, Settlers are proving up at the rate of from fifty to seventy-five every day. Coolitlge Citizen. 1,. th.it itv mnr.t t1 ciiu nam iitiu-iii 1UU UlAk I1U1L '7, cine tvu nnlock the piano. Here is the kev.

I before we could employ you in carrying locked the piano and put the key in my i home packages," he said. naye no Veg.is item The Southwestern Town and Investment company, which now has its headquarters at Springfield, Coierador.