Thirty-Four (Newspaper) - August 20, 1879, Las Cruces, New Mexico P Evory at LAS ANA X TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION GU Throe 1.00 NEWMAN quantum valere RATES r n Osi Inch OM 1.28 discount ok ttmi of lit AU tie which uai will Mt by Address VOL II 7 LAS CHUCKS N M SL AUGUST 20 1879 We understand wa- ter and Albuquerque ditches is low ell to i u n Vo wa st i Vl ft c r serving the purposes of the people gentleman lately froin there states that instead of being turned back into the river so as to ments lower the these is allowed to run out over the bottom and that the roads in places are so flooded as to be able Aside from the local in- this waste it is resulting fr on the cause of serious hardship to settle- ments lower down the river All the residents along the Rio Grande are equally entitled to the benefit of water and in a time of such general drought as t h e It is From the town of El Paso to a point thirty miles above this i t t-i town no wa- ter in the river If the towns above would turn left in their ditches serving their purposes back into the river it might reach this ley in sufficient quantities to be settlements below there hundreds of and above there appears this year to beyond the immediate precincts of have gotten into the broken and country ad- joining on At South the mail bet and Las quite a number of cases appeared earr iib to secure mail riders for that portion of the line those cases we still linger epidemic has for three seasons played business interests of this ty People haye been by as to leave the fields without laborers and the freight trains without drivers have felt its decreased sales and the are the who appear not to ha ve been by the general tion of business This year it seems to be The e fleet s in uid j not particular and are I ii this year hardly assumed 1 i may do so before sori v Wc caution managed in iiV By a law rt JSf L jii nbt only ini care it care should be it lie both ripe fresh time to eat before is for the day pulled before strikes it i and wh at is loft of the next day hogs utilized in irrigating Our arc dying for want of it and we have a right to insist t ha t none of it- be waited We call upon the ties of Socorro Valencia and Bernalillo counties to exercise their authority in the matter and send us down all the wa- ter there is to spare and hope pur contemporaries at will use their ence toward the same end We need only the the water badly are our crops being lost and our but we have not even water to drink except from a few wells on the premises of those who are in circumstances to afford such conveniences malarial fever which has now in this neighborhood for three summers although not by any means as virulent this spending its force heard qf no deaths and those attacked recover much more quickly than the twq pre- evidently dying out ley and it is TO be hoped that the neighboring of coln will hot have t o pass through the same experience as that which has afflicted this county It looks as though gradually toward the as the experience of the last few months shows it to have spread into the of Lincoln county while it is slowly river It in the more elevated and dryer altitudes of the mountain try At any rate its force seems to be about spent in this neighborhood and the cians say that with a proper attention to diet no sion need now be felt by any one The trouble is that the poorer classes will not heed such advice The fruit son is here and the amount of unripe withered and season as in the two preceding ing fruit consumed by the poor ones still prevails to an is absolutely astonishing scarcely realized by those entire families scarcely eat into direct contact anything from one week's end vt v-v I f f of Mexico ho haye sufferers u d murdering of this notorious gade would like to know what ren ari Agent or has to immunity to arid aro m- c formed that at the very tinie band ting in this and Grant Gen Hatch to him to to conic to the Mescal ero cy protection so A I nbt found by the ger at that but has since accepted the proffered ty and is to-day quietly i ng rations the instead of from of Grant The troops that were ostensibly scouting the whole country for him could easily have captured or killed the entire band but it have been ed cheaper to sue for peace with him and reward him foi his crimes than to punish him We stated at the time such show was being troops hither arid er that they appeared to have orders not to find the gade Whether such orders were actually issued or not it tb i There menls along h li ryo il t tant railroad ia the on arid t inar ser an up they are to have ii I rfv of the Territory down t i V this is Judge Lynch jtb ate I i matters We the zens of that town too think they will long allow themselves a- of i rlf the executed it for the if not the in the of that fs siire to fall's THIRTY-FOUR i t s thanks to Bro for In and another but melons grapes is certain that the troops were the Daily Which ar rives six times a week in ex- change for our weekly issue 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