The Lamar register., 1899-08-30


What may terminate in double kill
ing occurred soon after noon Sunday
on n ranch six miles east of Wray-
One young man. Harry Staininger, is
dead. and another, Frank Murdoch, is
thought 10 he mortally wounded as the
result of the Jealous guardianship ex-
ercised over small patch of watermel-
ons by Henry Bartholmus. 1t is pre-
sumed that the two boys. who are
about IL years old, were going to in
wade a watermelon patch belonging TO
Bartholmus. but while they We're in
the public road and yet short dis
tance from the coveted melons, Bar
tholmus jumped out of the tall grass
where had been concealed and fired on
the boys with double barreled shot
gun. Bartholmus gave himself up.
The Court of Private Land Claims
held Il session at Santa Fe on the 24th-
The survey of the De Vargas grant
was approved allowing the plaintiffs
II. .434 IS acres in Santa Fe county, in
stead of the $1,000 acres claimed. The
plaintiffs We're Louis j. Purdy ct al
The grant was made prior to 112S. The
court was engaged the remainder of
the day ON the case of Eutimio Mon
toya VS.. The United States. The suit
involves the Socorro town grant and
the main points at Issue are number
of legal documents dating back to 1917.
which Ii Is claimed are forgeries. The
grant was made by the Spanish gov
crnment November IS. 1877, and COM
prises over l.3OO square miles of the
most fertile and prosperous region OF
Socorro county
Wyoming's big coal camp will put
out this year at least 6oO00 cars of coal
as against $1,000 cars last year. The
mines have now a working force-in-
side and out--of 1.40o. being an in
crease of $50 over the force last year
| There will be 1.Jo6 more cars of coal
shipped from Rock Springs during this
month of August than during the
/ month of August of last year. The pay
roll of the mines for last month was
/ about $4,000; for this month 1t Will.
I doubtless. be in excess of $780, ,0GO. The
business of the Rock Springs Union
/ Pacific station last year very closely
| approached S2.ooooo0. This year it
| will be much IN excess of that great
4 sum. To the coal business of Rock
! Springs has been added during the last
| ten months the supplying of the Union
/ Pacific Kansas division. amounting to
I fifty cars per month. The shipments of
/ the station included this year over
! 1.000.OO0 pounds of wool-an Increase
/ over the wool marketing of last year.
4 As a result of Illegal balloting for
/ maid OF honor in Logan county. the
I commissioners have declared the cleo
/ tion void and the county will not be
/ represented.
( While being conveyed from Trini-
I dad TO the pentcntiary at Santa Fe,
I New Mexico. Tom ketchum, alias
/ Black Jack broke down and con
7 ressed his identity 10 Sheriff Stewart
,f J,.., NTnxian
/ had known him for years. and to him
/ Ketchum said he had planned the rob
| berry of The Gulf train near Folsom in
/ 1891. He was in Arizona when the
4 robbery occurred, and his share of the
Z haul. 500, was taken to him by Il
member of the gang. He states that
I the gang had a place near Baldy, New
/ Mexico and had spent much of their
! time there for a number of years. He
| declared that he did not know of the
| Colorado 4 southern hold-up of July
I 11th until informed of it after his cap
( tnre. He and q companion spent n
! year in Old Mexico. having returned
I from there n short time ago. He told
| the officer he had been in constant
dread of losing his life. and had de-
! sired to go TO South America. For
| this reason he planned TO rob the
I Colorado & Southern train this month.
ana II Eot ''r'po
from the express car he would go
there. Sheriff Stewart states that
Ketchum was in bad condition when
the officers left him, and it is not
thought he can survive much longer.
Black Jack" himself, has been cap
tured and the gang that has borne his
name and terrorized the southwest for
years has been broken up. But one
man of the four leaders is at large.
and the chances are he viii be captured
before he can reach the mysterious rem
dezvous west of Clayton, New Mexico.
The Colorado Il Southern has received
telegram from Special Agent w. II.
Reno stating the wounded bandit who
held mp the Texas express single hand
ed. Wednesday. August 10th. and who
gave the name of George Stevens, has
been positively identified by half
dozen men. all personal friends, as
Tom Ketchmn. the original and only
Black Jack. Last Tuesday night he at
tempted suicide by strangulation. but
was discovered in time. A reward of
$4,000 is ON the body. dead or alive.
Of Tom Ketchum. the notorious Black
Jack Arizona and New Mexico both
offer rewards. in addition to the sums
Eut up by the Wells-Fargo Express
Company and the Colorado < South
ern. Black Jack has been hunted for
years. The gang achieved its first no