Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1891-08-14
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Exchanges and other Sources.
The HillsbOro Advocate has the fol.
lowing: Windy Dick Huber, one Of
the four penitentiary breakers is
Grant county criminal and quite
desperate. Before committing the
crime for which be was serving SEN
tence he shot and killed a Mexican in
Pinos Altos. He escaped punishment
by the "self-defense" plea and the help
Of influential friends, While being
held in the Grant county Jail prepara-
tory to his trial for attempting to way
lay and rob the Boyle Bros. of the
Mountain Key mine, Windy Dick put
up job to outwit Sheriff Whitehnl
and escape from the jail, But Old
Harve, as the sequel proved, was too
smart for Windy, and instead of suf-
fering to any great extent from
Windy's plans turned them into a big
boom for himself for a third term,
Windy and his cellmate were allowed
to exercise in the corridors Of the Jail
occasionally, and on one of these occa-
sions Windy fixed up couple of dunn
mics and put them in their beds to de-
ceiye Old Harve when the latter came
to lock them in their cells. Dick and
his mate crawled up and secreted
themselves between the cell roof and
the ceiling, intending to stay there un-
til the chance presented Itself to seize
the night guard, gag him, take away
his keys and escape. Old Harve be-
came fully aware of the scheme, how
ever, aud when the prisoners had got
fairly concealed under the ceiling,
sent down town for his constituency
to come up and behold for itself one
of the most diabolical attempts at Jail
breaking and murder in the history of
the west! When the constituency ar
rived Windy and his mate were order
ed out of their hiding place and placed
in irons in their cells, and thus what
might have proved tragedy proved
only great political boom.
New Mexican; At meeting of the
regents of the territorial insane
asylum at Las Vegas the architects
were ordered paid SO, All, estimates of
the work done to date. Carl w
Wildenstein was designated as the
member to visit Santa Fe and push
the sale of the bonds in the sum OF
$4,000 With this money in hand,
the insane asylum building will be
under roof by October1. Fifty thous-
and brick were ordered from the
penitentiary yard in Santa Fe, it only
being necessary to pay the freight on
the same.
The Yuma Times expresses great
faith in valuable mineral discoveries
through the active exploration Of
overllowed Salton desert now in pro-
gress. That paper says: "a large
part Of the southern portion of the
Colorado desert is still a country of
mystery and the Salton lake will re-
suit in one good thing at least, and
that is the mystery will be unveiled
and explained away. The mud and
lava VOLCANOES, hot and cold springs,
hOttomless pits and yawning chasm,
the hundreds Of acres of quicksands
and volcanic ashes which are known to
exist, will most likely prove of but
tYiainrr frn,oortopao 1,tr aou,,npisou of
the discoveries which are likely to be
made. During the year 1879 CocOpah
Indians brought into Lerdo to Geo. e.
Bateman, specimens Of rich clnnabar
rock and also some of the ore in the
form Of a powder, which they said
existed in the country adjacent to the
sulphur mine, An effort was made TO
find the place but it proved unsuccess-
full, nor has it been discovered yet.
The Indians, with all the superstition
of their race, refused to act as guides,
and in an offhand way directed where
the mine or deposit lay. Large mug
gets of gold have been brought by In
dians at intervals from the desert re-
gion, but the placers have never been
found. Even If the parties now out
should prove unsuccessful in their eff
forts, Others will be organized, the
history of both the woe and the wealth
of California's Colorado desert will be
published to the world, and with the
data properly arranged will make very
interesting and instructive reading"
Gallup Elk: The old chestnut says
that "you can drive horse to water,
but you can't always make him
drink" In Gallup you can't even
drive a man to water as long as they
have a nickel left or anybody will set
'em up.
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