The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1902-03-27

/ nifty miles from FL Ia-O, anu WAS tue
result OF bad blood which has existed
between the two men for some time.
( The story OF the fight is that the oper-
I ator at Lanark, by the name OF Brown,
and Hulin were eating when Gardner
came into the dining room. Soon alter
both men pulled their six-shooters.
Gardeners shots few wide OF their
mark. Hulin's first shot struck Gard
ner in the abdomen, but did not knock
him down The next shot hit him
near the heart and he fell PROSTATE to
the floor. He lived only few hours.
The Silver City Mining aud Devel-
opment com pany has filed incorpora-
tion papers at Santa Fe. The capital
is 500, 900, diyided into 100, 900 shares.
Headquarters at Silver City. The in
corporatOr and directors are: Ernest
Harms, Edward A. Layne, Lawson a.
Snyder. This company is home con-
Germ although some of the capital is
being furnished by eastern parties.
The company has group OF FIVE cop
per claims on Silver Flat near Legal
Tender Hill about mile southwest of
the city and for the last year have had
a force Of men quietly developing them.
Messrs. Wright and Endicott came
in from their prospect in the Big
Burrors, and they think they have got
a good thing. There is a we'll defined
ledge, which they haye traced from the
canyon over a hill, and At the top'of
the hill it is more than six hundred
feet above tho floor OF the canyon.
Wherever they have sampled this
ledge they have got gold values.
There is graphite in abundance, and
the peculiar thing is that this graphite
assays about sixteen dollars in gold.
At first they thought they had big
thing in the graphite, but when they
found that the market quotations for
pulverized graphite in the eastern
markets, were thirty dollars ton they
concluded that the graphite was not a
bonanza.-Liberal.
A case which attracted considerable
was tried on Wednesday.
The defendant was Victor CulbersOn,
OF the lyons & Campbell Ranch Il Cat
tie company, and he was charged with
defacing brands upon six
head OF cattle claimed by H. c. Wash
burn and Z. f. Wilson, OF the middle
ella. The case was vigorously con-
Quoted by District Attorney Llewellyn
and ably defended by Attorney Percy
Wilson. Mr.. Culberson made no denial
of the fact that he had taken posses
sion of the stock in question and had
barred out the 3XX-bar brand of de-
PENDANTS, but claimed he had reason to
believe that the same was the property
of the company for which he was work |
ing. The jury took the same view and
returned verdict Of not guilty. 9th
err similar indictments pending against
and the incident closed. independent |
The following from the Silver City
ton, where two sisters OF the bride
Harvey and Leonard-reside: |
The marriage of Miss Frances OFT and |
Robert Richard Copeland took place
last night at Q o'clock at the residence |
Of Hon. ID. G. Hobart, in this city. The |
ceremony was performed by Justice of |
the Peace w. II. Newcomb in the
presence of only the members of the
family and one or two intimate friends. /
after the ceremony a |
light buffet supper was served. The
will come as complete sur
prise to the myriads Of friends OF the
young couple in Silver City and vicin-
lty where they are both well known
AID very popular in society. The |
bride has grown to womauhood in Sill
yer City and possesses all the qualifi-
cations which go to make good wife.
Mr.. Copeland is master mechanic at
Tho smelter and has already secured a
good position in FL Paso where the
young couple will make their future
home. The Enterprise joins in hearty
CALCULATIONS.