The San Francisco call., 1896-03-11

sickle and all places OF business are closed for
an hour at noon for luncheon. They open in
the morning at z O'Clock and close In the even
ing at 8. Jiminez is a city OF 1000 inhabitants,
Catholic church, bull-ring, plaza, Ma
sonic temple aud several public schools. There
are also three hotels and several public meet
ing halls, which are utilized for entertain
ments by travelling dramatic and operate CON-
panies.
the climate, although warm, is healthful. Cot
ton, corn, wheat, beans and an inferior quality
OF tobacco are the principal agricultural prod
ucts. In the neighborhood many silver
and lead mines.
Life is slow but sure in Jiminez The tastes
of the people are simple, and they have not yet
been educated up to the point OF yearning for
the unattainebe. There is the church and the
bull fight on Sunday, a concert In the plaza on
Thursday and Sunday evenings, and the twang
Of the light guitar and the diamond flashes
from the languid eyes OF dark-skinned senor-
ilas every evening.
Ay de mi! How one wishes that he were
young and in Jiminez.
S. F. Loughborough, formerly Texas
Ranger, and an exSheriff and ex-member OF
the New Mexico Legislature, is at the Grand.
Mr.. Lough borough, though appearing yet
dramat incidents.
He has contended, with the object of pre-
serving order. against some OF the most danger
Gus outlaws that ever infested any country,
and has been shot no less than three times on
as many different occasions, while on others
he has escaped amid storms of bullets.
His experience began as Ranger on the
Staked Plains and along the Rio Grande. 1t
was the business OF himself and the other
Rangers to detect and arrest the smugglers OF
the border, hunt down the cattle and horse
thieves and bring to justice in the speediest
way the outlaws who fled to the Texas Wllds
from Eastern States.
Mr.. .Loughborough was just from Virginia,
when partially as matter of adventure he
joined the Rangers. Like the other Rangers he
had to furnish his own horses necessary for
ranging, his saddle, rifle and shotgun and
and his services he got the pay of $50 month,
which Texas has paid her Rangers since she
placed them on her border.
Many a night Mr.. Loughborough has slept
out in the cold and snow OF the open prairie,
but even this was pleassnter than to be riding
at full tilt and suddenly come to draw in
which was camped q band OF outlaws. That
meant fight. and there was ram or LEAD from
one side to the other, till one side or the other
met defeat. Then it was question OF count
ing the dead.
az cannot tell what such an experience is
like" said Mr.. Loughborough last night. at
is a new experience. There is nothing else like
it. 1t is sublime and terrible, and with
quaking something like stage-fright, but after
the first shots you think nothing more Of 1t,
and simply load and fight for all you are worth
till the end"
Mr. Loughborough has also fought CO.
manches and Apaches. He has obtained and
preserved as relics OF those thrilling days some
headdresses and other trophies OF the noted
chiefs. Some of these relics can no longer be
got on the border, for the Indians who wore
them have been wiped out.
He keeps them as souvenirs OF the bloody
days when, full of adventure and puis-.
ating with life. he rode his relays. of
ponies and braved death in hundred
ways. He couldn't do it again, and says he
couldn't. That is, he has no wish for that
kind of a life any more. He wonders how he
escaped, and shudders when he thinks OF the
days upon days and months upon months
that he rode over the wilds of the prairies
AS Sheriff in New Mexico his experiences
were not always tame either, and all In all he
has had career OF danger that he Wouldn't
care to repeat. Mr.. Loughborongh is not at all
boastful. He is not that kind OF man, but OF
few words and of modest ways. He is now rep
resenting a large commercial house He is
nephew OF Alex Loughborough. the attorney,
OF this City. He says the duties OF the Texas
Rangers are almost exactly the same as those
OF the Canadian mounted police.