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Gazette. t f VOL. 1 LAS VEGAS, N. M., T 11 URSD AY,. SEPTEMBER 4, 18TÍ). NO. ::4 I- Las Vegas Daily Gazette- J.H.UOOUlt, IWIltor. Itaads io flic East. Business inou of Las Vegas c.innot a Hon I (o neglect good wagon roads to the Port Ibiscoin and Panhandle coun try. We are informed that the direct road to Baseom by way of White mores ranch and Apache Springs- is nlmosl impassable to loaded wagons. This is not a proper outlet for a town aspiring to a metropolitan propor tion . It, aflects the interests of the business men directly because it is a l'sa of trade. They must come to. the. front and urge upon the road comtnis- sioiiers and authorities the vast im portance of mending these highways. It is useless to diseus the subject at great length. The importance of the matter is thoroughly understand by any one who has given the subject consideration. That trade belongs to Las Vegas naturally and it will come here if no obstacles intervene; but bad roads are great obstacles and must be overcome. "We must havr the trade mid consequently must build the road. . Talk won't do it but action only will secure the desired object. We shall try and keep this subject before the public until the object is aecomplish- The woman question which has been discussed so generally for the last twenty years is receiving special at tention of late. The result of the agi tation heretofore, has beca to open now avenues of employment to women until now they are found in nearly all 1 he trades arts and sciences, aud in many places are permitted to vole and bold office. The result of women vot ing in Wyoming is said tobeemineut ly satisfactory and has added such an impel us to the woman suffrage move ment that it is probable other territo ries and states Will lake the same step in the near future. A man can go to the d ogs by way of the plains, mo'iniains and a new rail road town, with a more fatal ce lerity and a greater certainty than by any oth;:r route. Here away from the restraints of home and the influence of friends, the many of weak will, yields to the many temptations around him and is gone. It is by no means the worst men who go the quickest, fall the hardest aud sink the lowest but is frequently good nattirod, well mean ing persons who kit merely from lack of stamina At th-1 same time many many men are made heller, strength ened, but'.!, up in every way by the conflict and temptations constantly around them. Noble chari'ies arc as catching as vicious examples. A few years ago the New York Timas organized free excursions to enable poor children to have a breath of fresh air and spend a few Lours with nature. The exam ple v-.'-is IVd lowed till now' all the large cities have free exclusions flower mis tfoin by which much misery is alle viatcd and much happiness is produc ed. The Co'.ikiiwg Spraguo scandal still continues lis run in the eastern pa pen and bus, of course, taken a poli, lb-a! turn Nearly all the Democra tic pupers nv.'i most of the ttepiiblioan paper.- opposed to Conkhng make the se:i.i:!,il 'is b-td a-'. possible while the paper.- friendly to hint declare hini in. icie: ut !.!' any evil and hold him up as an ill use ! iu in, a kind ofpolitie.il vr in fact . i?.;:ie exei.em-'Ut ha? been created i:i Leadvülc by he db :o cry that the !.is a: Í !es( rij'iioii of locations re corded by surveyors are in many c ases -'cornal, i .-'living the locators i:i c :-) üí.o. and dillicully-when they do ;it le their el:i, us. Jt is : I va n lie.-t to hire a competent Mtruyur at the iir.-f. S0! - The boom for Hendricks for prei 1.'?il appears to bo confined to the Democray ' of Liuliana. It is one. ir.et iu his favor however that he has al ways been put on a ticket when the bancos were the most desperate, and his may be the case AiU time. t More about the Schools. Editor Las Vegas Gazhttb. I believe there has been something in the GAzriTK in reply to my few "plain questions," I have not read it and probably' shall not. I oiler the following general observations aud re marks. 1st. Here is a million of dol lars more or less now in my bands which 1 will promptly pay to the man who can give a reason which will be satisfactory to our ..taxpayers why we have no public school "in Las Vegas and who can explain satisfactorily also w hy our public school expired just when it did. 2d. I -wits in" the Post office of Las Vegas, Saturday Aug. :50th. A. 1. 1879 and a gentleman was there who seemed to be reading just then the Las Vegas Gazjíttk of that date. He said to me "Here is one question I can answer any how." "What question?" said I. "Is there a man in San Miguel Co., etc." "Well what answer can you give to the ques tion" "I was in the meeting or the Board ofcommissioners last fall and heard the motion and know just what disposition wis made of the money." "Well what disposition was made of it?" "It was voted to the Jesuits and the Sisters." That man may have well lied, I dont know. His words if true have little eiT'ect, on my mind the prevailing belief, and universal conviction are just as strong and deep without that gentle man's statement as with it although he was and is just as likely to tell the truth as the rest of us so far as I know. The 3d thing I oiler is this note which 1 received through the post office very recently. Las Vkoar N. M. Aug. 30 1877. J. A. Anniu Dear sir. Great credit is due you and your association in re gard to our Public School. The Rob bing of our school money must be stopédat once. A. Fj:i:j:thixkkií. ' Which note r.lso is without effect on me in reference to the main question. I do indeed thank any man who is disposed to take a hand in putting a stop to this robbing, if any robbing exists and if there is no robbing where is the money? IS ut the note itself of course can have no effect on any mind in produ cing any conviction concerning the real administration of the school fund. Thai conviction rests on grounds en tirely different in their nature. 4th I think I know what, prevailing belief and uncontradicted report are and anvbodv can learn all about if be wishes to do so. I sav uncontradicted I mean of course except by the Jesuits themselves who plead not guilty of course, as every other prisoner at the bar does (yes gentlemen you are at the bar of public opinion.) And we all know further all who have read any, know what '"the greater glory of god" requires at the hands or tongues of the members of the Holy Frater nity. The mistake which these gentlemen are continually making is the mistake of supposing that nobody in this town can read or has ever read history. 5th And this is my last remark. Here I drop the subject for the present. "Mr. Anuin is at liberty if he find it beneficial to his health &" ((Jazkttk for Friday; Aug. 29.) Let not my fel low citizens suppose for a moment that there is anything in that language of the nature of a threat.' 'Not at all. very far from if. The members of that holy brotherhood would not touch a h'iír of t he head of any living- thing. Why f Ley "would not needlessly set f"ot upon a worm." Thcv are only d only so! ci ou- you know, 'list in I he mysterious and inscrutable provi dence of the Lord I should he suddenly seized w ith a fatal attack of "hole through me." That is all. Ccnlhmcn where is th:; tax money? Are v,e all fool-? The annual gold production of the slate of California is eMimaled at but sixteen millions of dollars per year. Twenty years ago California lead the world iu the amount of gold mined ! while now Kiisshi's produe.dor. exceds ' that of California by one half. Silver ' is now the mcial of the Unit id States. Arizona Trade. The Arizona correspondent of the Chicago Inter-Ocean writing from Preseolt 6ays: .While San Francisco lias been selling goods to merchants jiere she has been condemning the mines of Arizona, and commanding as she does, the press, has kept Last em capital from coming here in order that she might divert it to the deve lopment of the mines nearer her own doors. She has made Prescott a hewer oí wood and drawer of water, and the servant does . not love the master. Prescott merchants are inclined just now to figure: with Chicago wholesale houses, and I believe, after somewhat careful investigation?' t'hicago . can freight goods (100 miles from ihe ter minus' of the Atchison, Topcka and Santa Fe Railroad at Las Vegas, and drive San Francisco iromthis market. The business in general merchandise of Prescott alone is about 2,000,000 a year, and with the development, of her mines business must of course greatly increase. This development bus been slow and halting, for causes I have mentioned in other letter?, though a marked improvement in the attitude of capital toward mining enterprises is more noticeable. - Mormons on the Little Colorado A private letter lately received from a gentleman on the Little Colorado expresses surprise at the number of settlements aud number of people in each settlement along that stream. He savs they are making hundreds of streams and producing about all they need to live comfortably. They most ly live in towns, but each has his own land to .'ultivatcon the outside, as w as the case in the early settlements of Utah. The writer says that but for the generally known fact that these people or Mormons there is nothing iu their conduct that would lead the ordinary observer to suppose they were other than settlers of the prom iscuous character usually found on the frontier, except their common in dustry and thrift would excite such a supposition. Arizona Citizen. Edison Still Hopeful. From a communication just receiv ed from Menlo park, the writer learns that steady progress is being made in the solution of the electric light pro blem. The cost of the platinum alloy lor the lamps has been reduced that the expense of the whole burner will be even lews than an ordinary gas bracket. The standard meter for measuring the electricity led to the burners has been improved, and Mr. F.di.-on has perfected a method of in sulating niid convoying I he wires from lite generating stations tothe house of the consumer, lie is certain that this generator cannot be inprovd. He shows that ninety-four per cent, of horse power is given out in the elec tric current, and eighty-two is deliver ed in the wire outside of the machine. Light-ninths of the current is used for the light, and one-ninth is lost in the machine. His latest experiments give seven gas jets per hwvse power, His later experiments bid fair to yield sa tisfactory results, and he is already willing to declare it a success Ctett'eyo Time. B- A Itclir wf (lie Taut. (From llio iiK'U'i City CliVoniole.) Iu the early days, long before the discovery of the Comstoek lode, the Washoe Indians used to 1 ave lead in abundance. Where I hey got it wai a mystery which emigrants could not solve. Fremont, in his account ofhis travels across the continent, slates that he purchased lead from these In dians. Ho was not able to learn where Ihey found it, or how 1hey melted it from the ore. Upon this point the sa vages were strangely silent. About a thousand feet casi, of the Scoi pion claim there is a pince w hich bears every appearance of having been the locality in which the Judiaus carried on the process of smelling. There is a big stone now broken in halros, which contained a bat-in about twelve ieet iu diameter, cut out as regularly a though done by m-i-otis .-killed in the use of steel tools. The stone was at lea -t forty feet wide when in'üct. There arc ;iím the reu naris of furna ce lites, in the form f charcoal, :hes. etc. There is a!.-o much sj-'g scattered over the surface of the ground. An old trad leads from t Viis point to FIow ery, where there a i-Ivdge of carbona te of lead; which was found lo have Icen woiked when lirst discovered bv Hit! uhite. The Indians, is sup. Imim (I, carried t he h-nd ore tothe place of siuei I ing, on account, of the j abundance of timber thereabout;!, j What Uiev did with I he lead, lot Ihc; than to Hsu it for .ornament-. a:d io trade for oilier things with neighbor- j ing tribes, nut kti'vn. .At this time lire-nrne-i were scarcely knout'.; among ih"tn, .he bow and arrow being tiiec.nlv deadlv weapon whith t!'-v ! tt.ed for killing game. - lavi f-.Tid Dai-i would make fi' iuoi-rMiic ticket iu sso. 'j-,,. ''. I w 1 III Could rally round i)t id ami Ihc Mouth whoop it up lor actio-. -Ciiiciiinati ' Killed by harne thief. Wichita. Kan., September 1. Iti cb'ard Stevenson, United States depu ty marshal, was shot to death in King man county. Saturday, by a horse thief, who escaped to the Indian Ter ritory. Jle arrested t he thief at Wel lington, and was returning with the prisoner aud property to Kingman. The men w.ere iu a carriage, lii des cending a sudden declivity the thief snatched Stevenson's revolvar and shot him through the breast. He then mounted the best horse and lied. Coinage. ; PhiladelphiaAugust 40. The coin age executed at. , tjhe United States mint in this city during "August' ag gregates 1,894,220 pieces, valued at 2,V:3;),497. Of this amount $1,970,050 were silver dollars, ; Yellow fever continues unabated at Memphis. More farmers are leaving England for the United States. Active elforts are making at New Orleans to check the yellow fever. The official majority of Blackburn for Governor of Kentucky is 43.917. Illicit whiskey makers iu Alabama have been visiting the United States officials again. The National gold bank and trust company of San Francisco has gone into liquidation. It is generally believed that Cornell who, is Conkling's candidate will be nominated for governor of New York by the coming Kcpublican conven tion. The Phoenix Arizona Herald is to be changed to a daily. W. J. O'Neil of Washington 1). C. " will be on the staff. Two companies off he Sixth caval ry and two of 1 lie Twelfth infantry, are stationed at Camp Verde, Arizo na. Arizona papers are confident that the mines of that territory are supe rior to those of California aud Neva da, - A few days ago the Gazotk gave an account of the hanging of two men at Phoenix Arizona; one of them Kel log was hung for killing Luke Mono ban. The ev. deuce shows it to have been a cold blooded murder the vic tim havitig been shot in the back by Kellogwhowas laying in wait for him as he was returning from town. The treasury department has placed lo,00ti,lM) in gold to the credit of the assay office in New York to be used in payment: for foreign gold coin and gold bars now being received in pay ment of the balance due this country. I'altionullc 1'refU'Iun.g:. As he was ascending tire pulpit Mops, one of the editor button-hoiod nun to wisper an additional caution 'ihe liquor dealer has just com,; into the church and he gives its lift sonie- mies. I. wish you would be particu lar not to .allude to the wiskev bus iness or the. temperance question. I he young uimisUr, gelling frighten ed to see I lie moral ground thu.s Mead lly narrowing before him, inquired: "VS Imui or what shall I peach against, ihen.'; Jiiu cuie,. ,))ly ,..,- H..: ". air of triumph. -Preach against he Mormon.; they haven't got a friend in town." t Lom.tniic young ladies who would ike to encounter some great danger, be recited by it handsome yortfig man wit.i a ctirJnig mustache, and after ward marry him, should go west, tins deljgh! tul experience was recen tly enjoyed by a ladv who was visitiit" a friend iu Dubuque, Iowa. The gir.s went out to drive, Ihe hoive r.r.i "way, the M ratiger tainted, the dan ger was gn at, i'o rose a "allant young JVbow, stcppKl HaMioiM-, bi'-nght, wafer iron, a Spring aad dal,ed it m the lair l!iUr (ace took the gir to his mother's hott.-e. and (irovo t.iem home in Li. own hm'-v the glinii,.. wkicb the reviving ina'i- en eaugut r that i-ldmiig eve and hat gracefully dusdwl upper lip did he ous!t!cs. v,as married lo the l'-a.it)i:il yo-;mg om, l;u.:i:mv !1; t-1. a - A spnrlsriiüu, who, during t Jim s!,oc i;i!r season, had gone i0 (,';ys': a we-k v i'! a friend in the couuiry. on (ho i,:i;;:t!i a general' h iiátinn. i. í!e;(i wailing for a special on-, si, id. ;' his i'linuvcd hoc); '- saw s..ii;' ti t fit! (courry as 1 came to-day bv li,c :;);. er r.,v!.-' "You V.'iü ,.M(.V',ii li:-';-,"' was ll;''. reply, -'as you g, back lo-m.-rrow by the lower one.'-" .. The 1 etroit l';ce Press ('; Is lh:i! Do oil" l.n;! a s'aícM-ir.i u i'j wmi-Ic ev. ; i wo mbi'tso ! i to light a c.;oir by 1 1 ; t í -1 . 1 1 1 g a v. i.o km :iol! 1 pie!: ic.-it: a ' J Gambetta is as lavish in his ente tainments and as reckless of exjiens as he i?i ofhis language in the Cham ber of Deputies., A recent fete cos Id m 3;,0o0. just $10,000 more than his salary-as President of the Cham ber. The affair was lavish in the last degree. Seas of beer flowed, lakes of elarcf, oceans of champagne says the Standard, it is hinted that a wealthy political partisan found a good deal of the cash for this expense. One of the confidential employes in Ihe executive department of the Unit ed States signal service died of a bro ken heart last week because he hsd thoughtlessly omitted to send athree liours' rain upon a hilppy Sunday school picnic. Poor man!" And now he has gone to a eoJintry. where the barometer never indicates rain areas or even 'so much as "cloudy or threat ening enlhvr."Jnrliifloii Jlawh eye. ' The .story going1 the rourdsthat. 'Tob'' Ingersol! has gone over to the Democracy is wide of the trulh. Col. fugersoll has called a convention of liberals to meet in Cincinnati, for the purpose, he says, of consultation as to the propriety of forming a new po litical party, that shall ''be iionsectar ian, the object which will be to do away with ghosts that haunt, supers titions that control, and all laws that, deny civil rights to honest men; and also to reclaim for the use of man t he seventh dav." No one blames a business-man for wanting his sign to convey a big idea of bis business, but a Verinonl black smith, in a hamlet of 400 people, rather overdoes the thing when his sign reads, "Foreign and domestic horses shod here." Heavy dust storm yesterday mnking amoit disagreeable day. The dust, is the worst feature of our climate. , A man, who from his position ought, to know, sas that some men against, whom indictment were returned by the grft.'id jury have been seen in town of late and no effort was made to ar rest therm. A Good many persons an first arriv ing here are troubled with coughs and colds and a tendency to catarrh is seriously aggravated but after a time the ofieci: of the pure air is seen and a complete cure results. This may not be an invariable rule, but it is certain such has been the result in manv cases. Keports from all the wesierti stales indicate that the corn crop will be im mense with t gnat increase in w number of feuding hogs. Foreign de mands to be supplied promise an ac tive markei at low prices, but. with the crops as they ntv little or no ad vance in prices. . (íenl. J. P.. Hood who died a few days ago at New Orleans, left a his tory of the Avar from a rebel stand point, in manuscript. lie probnbly made a large per cent by dying before itsappearance in print. The peopls in the eastern cilies are counting the days till the mosquito' song shall cease for the season. U hi! iu this favored land it is heard so se dom that the presence of one oft - blood t'iirsty brotherhood is wort.n making a note of. Brookshls Coiuicje! Tin-i fionse ti ms V;h iu".'. !y rcaunblied ttirou'.iniil. li:.xitiitf vvll wc it iu:.. u;nl iüiti' ío.l. Kveiiytlihjí (..'Iism-i twit v.- i Hi t lie o.- labl i.-ti inc,t e!c;iii, cola orCihit: muí i'.ir.icmo. TESTABLE 1IVITINÍL The patronage of the traveling pub- ladirc 8. A. KublJ3!lf Pro'i Í