Population Of Towns
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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.
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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.