The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1906-02-15
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Company D, New Mexico National
Guard, of Silver City, Grant county,
has been recognized and many new
men haye enlisted. The Silver City
company is working hard so as to be
ready for the inspection by reg ular
army officer some time in April.
Kansas forty-fYe years ago became
a state, and there was not a mile of
railroad and but one telegraph line,
namely to Leavenworth, in existence,
and still there are senators and
representatives who would deny
statehood to New Mexico today, al
though it contains about $500 miles
of railroad and a larger mileage of
telegraph lines.
A cave-in of a hill of Stag at the
Comanche smelter at Silver City last
week buried the briquetting plant of
the company and damaged much
valuable machinery. Although a
force of ten men are employed in the
building, not one workman happened
to be near when the accident &C.
CURED. The plant had just been
completed. About 500 tons of Stag
we're in the slide. The briquetting
plant cost $4,000. Owing to the ac-
cident the blowing in of the $50 ton
furnace just completed, will be de-
layed. The company has a battery
of three boilers and will erect three
more. The machinery for an electric
generating plant is also on the
ground. At present force of men
is excavating for the new concentra-
tor and tramway which is to lead
from the briquetting plant to the
concentration.
Deputy Marshal Fred Fornhof, who
Investigated the confession of Frank
Bell, who claimed he was the man
who killed Col. Chaves, found that
the man was crazy, and on the verge
of delerium tremens, when he made
the confession. A further investiga-
ton showed that on the day the muir
der was committed he was at Grants,
some two hundred miles from the
scene of the murder. There is docu-
mentary evidence to prove this, in
the shape of entries on mercantile
books. Bells real name is Augustus
Gottschalk. He is German by
birth, and has frequently confessed
murders, claiming at one time to
have killed twenty men at Fort Sum-
ner, and three at Lincoln.
Four dollars per head for graded
sheep have been offered of late by
buyers in this territory but no sellers
were found This is quite contrast
from the unlamented days of the
Cleaveland administration, which
graded sheep of the same age and
kind would hardly bring Sl.25 per
head.-New Mexican.
1t is also quite a contrast with a
few weeks ago, when the territorial
board of equalization said that sheep
should only be assessed at S1.35 per
head, and the board attempted to put
other property on basis of sixty per
cent. of its cash value.-Liberal.
R. W. Thompson, of Simon, a
Southern Pacific section foreman,
while out on his section, between
Simon and Stems, last week, discov-
cred a pool of blood alongside the
track. On examination he found a
trail where body had beenldragged,
and following this up found the dead
body of a man about two hundred
yards from the track. He notified
the authorities at Simon and Coroner
Wood Walker impaneled jury and
held an inquest. 1t was found that
he had been shot in the back of the
head, and hit alongside the head.
where a long cut had been made, his
pockets had been turned inside out,
and a small coin bag was found that
had been opened and thrown away.
His bundle of blankets had been cut
open. He was a man about forty
years old, five feet, eight inches tall,
hair sprinkled with gray, mustache
and about three weeks growth of
beard on his face. He had on suit
of good clothes, and over them wore
a pair of overalls. There was no
paper or anything about him by
which his name could become known.
He had been seen west of Simon and
at Simon, and so evidently was trav-
cling east. The jury brought in a
verdict that he came to his death at
the hands of some unknown person.
1t is probable that he was travelling
with some other hoboes, who learned
that he had some money and killed
him for it.-Liberal.
Between the 400 and 500 levels of
the Gold Road mine there is said to
he n solid body of ore six feet in