The copper era., 1904-03-03
NEW MEXICO NEWS


City, died at his home in Globe last week.
 \ child was born to Mr. and Mrs. F.. W. Clapp Monday, the 22nd. Mother and child are doing well. while the congratulations of friends have been
 frequent and numerous. Tn honor o' the sex the parents have concluded to cal the little one Martha Washington
 C.app
 4 desperate attempt was made to escape from the New Mexico peniten- tia~y last week. Seven life conyict- o:erpowered the acting superintend- cut R C. Garrett, and then cut him with a knife. because he would not tel. them the combination to the prison armDry. Alter cutting the telephone wires 10 the city. the convict5 gagged and bound him. and proceeded to make their escape. On their way up stairs to seize the wives and children of the officials, to be used d. shields, the pri5- ouer7 were oycrpowered by the guards.
 Walter Hoffman, federal prisoner, meanwhile, drove 10 the city, and se- cured an armed posse Co help queIi the disturbance.
 A special from Silver City, New
 Mexico, says: This section of the country is very much in need Of water, and if, during the next thirty days rain yy snow does not fall in good quant ffes, the cattle on -tf6 ranges wtll~.ufTer. It looks at present as if the southern part Of the territory may have great loss in stock, as the ranges are very dry, and the cattle will die for want Of water. This has been the dryest and mildest winter that this section has experienced for q long period of years, as no snow or rain has fallen to amount to anything since the rainy season in the early 'all.
 Archibald Nevins. a mining engineer Of Grass Valley, California, died Janu ary 7th. Of pneumonia at Snow ball, Arizona, where he was examining mines for Oakland men. Deceased, last summer, returned from Korea. where he was connected with the Oriental Consolidated Mining com pany. He was native of Nevada cOubtyl California, and is survived by a wife and two children.-Minfng X Scientific Press Archie Ncvins, a5 he was usually called, was well known in this section, having been superintend- cnt of the Stceplc Rock DeveIopme 1t company's mines in this county in lS9G-7. He left here in Novem Der, 1897, 1 10 take charge of the Tomboy mine in Colorado, and after a few months went 10 Alaska. He was comparatively a young man, and had the reputation Of being an excellent miner and skilled cngineer-Libcral.
 Little else has been talked of in business and cattle circles last week, outside of the alleged arbitrary action taken recently by a large cattle com pany operating in this and adjoining counties in rounding up all horses on the government range, driving them to Deming and there selling them for what they would bring. It is under stood that several hundred head of horses were thus disposed of-horses that were worth from SD to $20 and they were sold for from S3 to ,. While some of the individual losses are not great, others will run up into hundreds of dollars, one small cattle owner, south of Silver City, having had sixty odd head taken. One small stock owner. from the Burro noun tains, informs the Enterprise that he had two horses taken, one of which was singlefooter and for which he would not have taken $50. It is under stood that the animal brought & in i Deming from the special buyer, who l was on the ground. At least several l Silver City parties had horses taken | up and sold, and moreover, every ami maj was branded and the brand re- corded with the Cattle Sanitary Board, thus establishing the ownership ot the | animals beyond the preadvcnture of a ! doubt. Presumably the law, under 1 which this high-handed action was | taken, Is to be found in Section I2O of 1 the Compiled Laws of 1s97.-Enter- prise.
 The accounts Of the killing of Abel | Duran, q constable of Silver City, | which occurred at Central City last | weeN are anything but plimentary | Turner. Infact it has the appearance of being a cow ardly murder. The following is from the Silver City Enterprise: "In the preliminary hearing before Justice Of | the Peace Crowley, last week, Deputy l Sherid D. NJ. Turner was bound over ! in the sum Of g. GOO to await the ac- l tjou of the next grand jury, on the l charge of killing Constable Abel Duran last week at Central. Turner was brought 10 this city and lodged in the county jail. Bondsmen were furu- ished and Turner was released. Robert Boulware and NJ. V. Portwodd went on Turner's bond. The prelimi- nary hearing lasted the greater part of three days. Upwards of twenty witnesses were examined and those who were in attendance declare they never before heard so much conflicting testimony. The facts in the killing.