A “QUIET” TOWN IN NEW MEXICO.

Temuka Leader, Issue 9428, 8 July 1882, Page 3

A “QUIET” TOWN IN NEW MEXICO.

The following extracts from a letter (kindly placed at. the disposal of the. Ar^dw'Observer by Mr Welsh) received, by the last mail from Mr J. Colville, of Las Vegas, will be read by hia numerous friends in the .district “1 am still in the butchering business, and doing well. . - I can make more here in one month than in the Arrow for two years. I take as high as 150 dols a day cash over the counter, with- trade increasing every day. The railroad is just about finished to the hot springs, and aud we expect anether road here in six months, which will;give this town-a great-start. 1 There are lots-of people coming here for their health. Town property has advanced 150 per cent sinee-T— wrote you last. This is getting a very peaceable town now. The-citizens .hung three felilows to a telegraph pole here, and gave a lot of fellows the run out .of . town, with a caution not to come here again ; if they do come they will be “invited to a necktie party,” which will not be very good for their health. Most of the noted chaIracters of this country are .all shot-down , [now ; and the Indians are as.good as any [white man in the country. | We have the smallpox here, but it is ■not very bad, and the people do not take ■much notice of it. It plays up badly Iwith-Mexicans- and Indians, as they have Ino preper. attention. I will send you the ■life of “Billythe Kid,” the worst despe. Irado that ever- lived in this town. He lwa« ; ri/ young/Irishman/ and a /perfect ■terror. But a young sheriff named Pat fcarfett pihned'hiin with his.shooter, arid Relieved ih’e'country of'a great nuisance. Billy the.. Kid ” has. a brother, who ■4eaVs vengeance, against Garre tc ; but if. Ire comes to Eas "Vegas they will soon put Bhat notion out of, his head. I have' only Been ,ona man,shot herayet; and,he was a Another heathen put two Boles in him/before you could say knife. ■Tie revolvers they have here are very Buick, arid;you have only to keep pulling ■hestrigger/til! they are empty.”