El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-18
LAS CRUCES NOTES
Some Stories of Curious Decisions
and Curious JudgeS.-A Tender
foot's Good Judgment.-A1lege
Tin Mine FOund.-PersondI


Notes.
Special Correspondence of the HERALD.
G. D. Barney is in town.
Duncan McCown is in from the
Organs.
A. r. Strachan, of Denver, was in
town Friday.
A. A. Bailey, of Brook field, Mo-, ar
rived in town on the 18th.
T. A. Thompson, of Houston, Texas,
arrived in town last Friday.
Miss N. w. Fisher of Chicago, is
registered st the Rio Grande Hotel.
The pleasant face of E. L. Shackel-
! ford of your city, is to be met in town.
Col. Henderson, of the Bennett
Stevenson mine, was in after supplies
| Friday.
We were glad to meet 1. M. Law
renee, one of Ell Paso's merchants, on
our streets Saturday.
Two, four, five, and six horse or mule
teams are no uncommon sight on our
streets these days drawing copper ore.
Harry K. West, Esq, a prominent
lawyer of Marceline, Mo-, spent q
couple of days in town the past week.
| The Torpedo mine has been exposing
its rich copper ore for years in plain
view. Many miners had looked at it
and passed it by with shrug of the
shoulders. "It is only copper stained
rock" they would say, but this spring,
some tenderfoot came along, looked at
it, and says, 81 will have that assayed. :"
He sent sample for assay and receiv-
ed returns of 35 per cent copper. The
wagons are loaded from the top of the
ground, no other tools but pick and
spade are necessary.
| A tin mine is the latest discovery re-
ported in the Organs to date-tin and
| mica. If it turns out to be tin
1t is said that the supply
will be immense. Several who
have examined it say that it is
mineral sure, but that they are sure it
is not gold, silver. copper, lead or iron,
of this they feel sure, let what 1t is they
say they do not know but Inclined to
the belief that it Is tin. II it shall
turn out that the Organs and San An
dreas can supply the tin demanded in
this country what better could be
wished.
Lawyer Ham of this city, says he
had peculiar decision last week. He
brought suit for forcible entry and de-
tainer for Juan de Dios Ochoa against
q heTS LII tOWa. <AlkGE wrestling
all day over the case the justice rem
dered his decision that defendant had
not forcibly entered or detained the
premises but that plaintiff should have
a judgment of S5 damages against de.
fendant. But defendant should recov-
err costs against plaintiff.
This reminds the writer of another
decision of a justice in this county q
few years ago, when a party was ar
rested and brought before the justice
on charge of felonicusiy killing
cow of the value of $50, without the
consent of the owner. After hearing
the care the justice decided that de-
fepdaut was not guilty, but rendered
Judgment against him for $50, the
value of the COW.
We have had in town another ex-
justice of the peace who, according to
his own story. has been an odd charac-
ter. He says he lived at a mining
camp, $50 miles from the county seat:
that there was living at the camp a
Mormon family, man and three wives.
Wife No. 2ooncluded she liked another
better than the Mormon and applied to
the justice for relief. He says he set
the marriage aside and she
went ahead and married the other