The copper era., 1903-11-26
NEW MEXICO NEWS


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 Eugene Dotson, au infant Of the up- per Gila in Grant county, was poisoned and died from drinking cresolene.
 One of the largest cattle sales con- -ummated in Grant county in recent years vas made last Monday when Joseph Allen Potter, Miss Abbie Potter and eastern stockholders disposed Of their large interests in the C . ; cat tic company. operating on the 5apeilo, to Ed. M. Walker, Victor CulbertsOn, j. ". Pcnucwill and Chris Reihs. all of this city. The consideration ia pri- yutc Enterprise.
 IL i- rumored that Judge Parker will have all 5he saloon keepers in the county up in court and notify them that they must keep their saloons closed on Sundays. or be fined for every sunday they keep open. The enforcement of the Sunday law in the past has been farce that smelled strongly Of blackmail The law should either be enforced strictly or not at all.-Libcral.
 Abran Abeyta, eX-treasurcr of Socorro county, coughed up SIS 600 to the county commissioners last week, as part of the county funds he was 50 careless as to get mixed up with his rrntor the entire amount let it was that or nothing. The Democrats are not getting as much satisfaction out of the dcfalcation of this alleged Republi- can official as they would like to for it was they who elected him to his first term in the trcasurcr's office.
 The sensation of the special session of .hc third district court for Grant county took place last week, when in answer to the summons Of the court, half dozen saloon keepers, mostly from Silver City, answered the response and were called to the jury box where Judge Parker informed them that the time had come for the strict enforce mcnt of the Sunday law and that in the future he proposed carrying out this plan. The announcement did not come as an entire surprise, however, as il has been whispered about persistent lv for the last week or 90 that the Sun day observance law would become q very active factor in the statute books as far d. Grant county is concerned, after the special session Of court.
 
 John shannon. who has a fighting reputation on the Mimbres, was tried in the district court for assault with d deadly weapon, and acquitted. He re- turned to the Mimbres country. He was riding along trail with q friend when couple of mcn.stcPped out Of the brush and com@cnced shooting at him. One shot hit him in the back, and another killed his companion, Federico Rodriguez. shannon may "rt well. IL i- -upposel that Shannon was shot by some person who thought justice had not been done by the court and thatthe killing of Rodriguez was ua accidcntt If the court cannot dea -TT7TT rtIstf.c frr Is Cvtdcut some or the residents of the Mimbres think they can take the place of the court Liberal.
 The railroad dynamiters, which have been causing eo much trouble in the north seem to have imitators in the southwest. Saturday night the water tank owned by the F.. Paso & Southwestern road at Roden was dynamitcd. The road had not been warned, nor been asked for blackmail. There has been some trouble at Rodeo between the railroad and Wm. E. Bond over the right of way, Bond having made d homestead entry that covered the right of way. but this case ie in the court, and was to come las; week, and Bond was at Silver City, to attend court, at the time the dyuamiting was done. The tank is a hugo steel affair set on a stone founda- tjou. The tank was not entirely de- stroyed but was leaking badly, and will have to be taken down before it is repaired. At latest account there was no clue to the perpetrator of this das- tardly affair Liberal