Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1901-06-11
ANOTHER MURDER.
Grant County Adds Another Blood,
Crime to its Long List.
INTERESTING PARAGRAPHS.
special Correspondence.

Special Correspondence.
Silver City, n. NJ. June l0.-Anoth.
er murder vas added to the already
long list committed in Grant county,
at the mining camp of Pinos Altos on
last Saturday evening. Sunday morn
ing a Mexican named Trinidad Paraja
was found lying in the middle of the
main street OF the camp with his head
crushed To a pulp by a sharp stone.
which lay near by. IL is stated by the
son of Fred. Newman, whose resi-
dcnce Is directly opposite the scene
of the murder. that during the night
he vas awakened by voices in the
street and heard someone cry out,
Don't kill me- but being very sleepy
did not get up. The Mexican who
was killed was a wood chopper In a
wood camp just above Pinos Altos,
and he with several other members
OF the Mexicans working at the wood
camp had in the early part OF the
evening been seen In some Of the sa-
looms drinking. When the murdered
man was found he had a small bottle
half full Of whiskey on his person.
Three Mexicans, named casper =.
Sandoval. %lndalencio Portillo and Isl
doro Portillo. were arrested and
brought into Silver City Sunday. II
is stated that the sheriff Is after an
other Mexican who IL Is thought was
mixed up in the affair.
Mrs. a. u. Laird, who has been WIS.,
iting her relative in Sterling. Kansas,
for the past month, returned home
Sunday.
VIII Carvil met with q very painful
accident the other night by stepping
of the sidewalk and spralning his
knee very seriously.
Charles Spann, who Is one Of Silver
| City's young men, but 10Y employed
at Clifton. Arizona, was a passenger
on to-day's incoming train. 1t is re
ported that Charlie will be wed to
one Of this city's prominent society
young ladies' before he returns.
At the last meeting of the board OF
regents Of the normal school Mrs. "A,
S. Goodcll rendered her resignation
to the board as n member of the fac
ulty, which was accepted with regret,
Resolutions were passed ~appreciatiye
| OF her valuable services to the school
during the time she was a teacher In
that institution. Miss Sarah Ellis, OF
Franklin, Ind. was elected to fill the
vacancy. Appreciation was shown by
| the board OF the Valuable htINlttb Vi
Miss Alice Bailey. who was made a
regular member of the faculty.
silver City Is to have a new park
which. II Is said. will rival any In the
southwest.
Murray Bros, the well known Cen.
trial merchants, have opened a branch
tore in the prosperous mining camp
Of FIerro.
The Grant county board OF commits
sioners met the latter part of last
week as a board of equalization to
canvass the assessment returns OF the
present year.
Mrs. James S. Carter and children
returned from quite an extended pleas
ure trip to Washington, ID. c., on a Wis
il to relatives. an Sundays train.
Several citizens have reported that
they have been held up on their way
home late at night by some unknown
parties during the past week and the
city marshal Is on the outlook for the
gang.
The Santa Rita base ball club has
challenged the Silver City club to play
them n game OF base ball ut Santa
Rita on the Fourth OF July for a hun
bred dollar prize,
=. II. Smith. the Deming capitalist
and mining promoter, was In the city
yesterday on business matters,