Population Of Towns
source date: 1890
availability: public-domain

of clothes, the defendants won again. Finally the stranger staked all he had left to his new friends. The two defendants then went their way and the stranger came on toward Silver City, stripped of all his property. He was never seen after he parted from the defendants. It is thought by some that his losses so preyed upon his mind that he committed suicide in some gulch. Inasmuch as the defendants couldn’t produce the man whom they won the goods from, the jury brought in a verdict of guilty, and the judge to clinch the verdict gave them four years in the penitentiary. Moral : Never stop to gamble with a stranger on the lonely plains, even if you do win you are liable to get the worst of it. ( 28 ) Population Of Towns It is not possible from the census figures, at present, to give the population of all county seats, but the following are correct : Santa Fe, 6,038 (within one and one- quarter miles of plaza); Albuquerque, 3,794; Old Albuquerque, Los Griegos and Los Cande- larios, 2,265; Las Vegas, east, north and south towns, 4,693; Silver City, 2,252; Las Cruces, 2,416; Tierra Amarilla and Ranchos, 1,812; Los Lunas, Los Lentas and Los Chaves, 1,140; Lincoln, 1,000. — Albuquerque Citizen.