, 1899-08-31

What may terminate IN n uouDie XIII
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 to be mortally wounded as the
result of the Jealous guardianship ex-
ercised over n small patch of watermei-
| ons by Henry Bartholmus. 1t Is pre-
sumed that the W. boys, who are
about II years old, were going to In
wade a watermelon patch belonging to
Bartholmus, but while they were In
the public road and yet n short dis-
lance from the coveted melons, Bar
tholmus jumped out of h tall grass
where had been concealed and fired on
the boys with n double-barreled shot
gun. Bartholmus gave himself up.
The Court of Private Land Claims
held n session at Santa Fe on the 24th.
The survey of the De Vargas grant
was approved allowing the plaintihs
13,434.3S acres in Santa Fe county, IN
stead of the $4,000 acres claimed. The
plaintiffs were Louis j. Purdy ct al.
The grant was made prior to 1I2S. 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 ana
the main points at issue are a number
of legal documents dating back to 1877,
which 1t is claimed are forgeries. The
grant was made by the Spanish gov
eminent November IS, 1917, and COM
prises over 1.30O square miles of the
most fertile and prosperous region of
SOcorro county.
Wyoming's big coal camp will put
out his ear Mt least GO,OOO cars of coal
as against $4,000 cars last year. The
mines nave now n working force-in-
side and out-of 1.400. being an in
crease of $50 over the force last year.
There will be 1900 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,
doubtless, he in excess of 100000. The
business of the Rock Springs Union
Pacific station last year very closely
approached S2.GGD. coo. This year it
will be much in excess of that great
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
fifty ears per month. The shipments of
the station included this year over
100000 pounds of wool-an increase
over the wool marketing of last year.
As n result Of Illegal balloting for
maid of honor in Logan county, the
commissioners nave declared the cleo
ton void and the county will not be
represented.
while being conveyed from Trini-
dad to the p~enltcntlary at Santa Fe,
New Mexico, Tom Ketchum, alias
BLACK Jack" broke down and con-
fessed his identity to Sheriff Stewart
of Eddy county, New Mexico. Stewart
had known him for years, and to him
Ketchum said he had planned the rob
berry of the Gulf train near Folsom in
1897. He was in Arizona when the
robbery occurred, and his share of the
haul, $500, was taken to him by a
member of the gang. He states that
the gang had a place near Badly, 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 q Southern hold-up of July
18th until informed of it after his cap
ture. He and Il companion spent n
year in Old Mexico, having returned
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
Colorado & Southern train this month,
and determined that if he got $500
from the express car he would 60
there. Sheriff Stewart states that
Ketchum was in a 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
lame n terrorized the southwest for
years has been broken up. But one
man of the -four leaders is at large,
and the chances are he will be captured
before he can reach the mysterious rem.
devious west Of Clayton, New Mexico.
The Colorado Il Southern has received
a telegram from Special Agent w. ii.
Reno stating the wounded bandit who
held up the TeXas express single hand.
ed, Wednesday, August 10th, and who
gave the name of George Stevens, has
been positively identified by half q
dozen men, all personal friends, as
Tom Ketchum, the original and only
Black Jack. Last Tuesday night he Mt
tempted suicide by strangulation, hui
was discovered in time. A reward OF
$4,000 is ON tile body. dead or alive
of Tom Ketchum, the notorious Black
Jack. Arizona and New Mexico boil
offer rewards, in addition to the sums
put up by the Wells-Fargo Express
Company and the Colorado Il South
ern. Black Jack has been hunted fol-
years. The gang achieved its first no
toriety in August. 1896, when they rob
bed Il store and killed n man, neal
Kingman. ArizoAa. Since then railroad
trains, banks and stores have been held
up and robbed in n sensational man.
mel. The bank at Nogales, Arizona
was held up, when the teller began
shooting and the robbers were foiled
They took to the mountains and es.
capped. Nearly Il dozen men have been
killed and something like S20O,OOO has
been secured by the gang. Three times
the Colorado Il Southern has been held
up II once the Santa Fe California
limited.