El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-07-30

soon after 10 O clock. The tragedy oc-
Cured near the residence of w. T.
Barr about 200 yards from the Black
canyon road, mile and half from
the city. The body was discovered by
a man on his way to town, evidently
soon after the shooting .-Phoenix Re
publican.
Oliver Hinson, son of B. j. Hinson,
living three miles north on the Black
creamery yesterday and racing with
another man, was thrown from his
wagon. Both bones of the left leg
were broken and crushed. The horse
Notwithstanding the discontinue OF
the driver went on and won the race to
the creamery.-Republi
Parties coming from Table Mountain
Copper camp, state: The company has
one AZ inch smelter in blast and will
blow in another stack of the same size
as soon as some needed repairs are fin
ished. There are upwards OF 10000
tons of good grade copper ore, liberal
ly sprinkled with fine gold-now out
on the dumps and upwards of 125, 900
tons of $12 milling ore.-TucsOn Citi-
zen.
DR.. A. J. Munk, of Los Angeles, is
in the city. He is returning from the
stock range near Pearce. The past
ures are good, and stock in fine condi-
ton. DR.. Munk says the ranges are
overstocked and if the feed is to be
kept up stock men must reduce their
herds, and the good prices now pre-
vailing ought to encourage this. The
for the future.
Ed. johnson and party, who have
been camped on Mount Lemon since
the Fourth of July have been heard
from. They are having pleasant out
ing and it is reported have killed ten
bears, eight mountain lion and seven
teen wolves, to say nothing about the
number of different animals they have
run or frightened to death. The party
expects to return to Tucson about the
middle of August.-Star.
Mr.. Young, in charge of the Mid
land Construction Co.'s grading outfit
on the summit four miles st of Globe,
informs US that he has thirty-fve
teams, all of which will be at work
in day or two. The cut to be made
at that point is the heaviest work on
the entire line between Geronimo and
Globe and will require three months or
longer to complete it. The cut will be
1900 feet long and 81 feet deep at the
highest point of the summit.-Globe
Belt.
Not long ago Cochise county cat
tleman wrote to friends in Nogales a
quietly humorous letter in which he
depicted the damage done his trousers
riding through the brush and chapar-
raj while riding the range. They sent
him pair of pantaloons, the seat of
which had been reinfOnced with q
disk of tin, copper riveted, and all the
seams of which were covered with
broad strips of tin-slso riveted. He
came into town this week to thank
them.-Oasis.
The big and expensive mining suit of
Jordon VS.. Duke, involving valuable
copper properties near Jerome, is to
go to the supreme court of the United
States. Mr.. Lloyd Johnston, clerk of
the territorial supreme court, yester-
day received Instructions to prepare q
transcript in the case, It will be 80
voluminous that the preparation will
require more than two weeks. This
matter has been in litigation several
years. At the last term of the terrific
rial supreme court a judgment of the
lower court for the plaintiff was af
frmed. Since the first action was in
stituted. another embracing practical
ly the same matter. under the title of
JordOn vs.. Schuerman, was begun and
tried in Pima county on q change of
venue from Yavapai' That was also
decided in favor of the plaintiff. This
is the most vigorously fought mining
case brought in this territory within
recent years.