Bisbee daily review., 1909-04-06
CAPT. KELTON
 INTERVIEWED
 ONCOURTLAND
says Receipt of Building Ma teriaI is Light But States is Due to Fact That Wagons Are Used for Hauling

Captain c. B. KeIton, who was in ! Tucson this week, said the activity
 which was apparent at Courtland dur 1 ing the sale of town lots had subsid I cd somewhat and that baild ng opera tions were in progress. more especial | " in what promises to be the bush ! ness district. Tie receipt of building ' materials is light n view of the fact chat applies are. at the present time.
 brought in by wagons. Stages are run daily between Courtiand and Tombstone. as well as | Douglas. Bishee and Pearce. Autorlo ' piles are in service between the new 1 town, Douglas and Bisbee. | The Southern Pacific extension said Captain KeltoD, is virtually com pleted from Pearce tO Courtland Al depot Is now under construction at tbe present terminal Of this road or | the outskirts of Courtland. Tho El | P;ss0 and Southwestern spur from ! Douglas will not reach CourtIand for ] several months, according 10 the cap ] Ia n's estimate. This company made | terms with the Calumet and Arizona | company for ore shipments 10 Dong | las. a strong incentive for that line | to push railroad building co the ! CoHrtland district.
 Captain Kelton reports that 235 men are employed by the three com panics now operating in the mmed- i fate vicinity of Courtland. He said he was not at present interested in ! affairs at Courtland, but was con ] cerned in the promotion of another { ltownsite which he cons dered better ! land. This townsite will be in close 1 relation to the junction Of the rail | roads entering the new district, hence | his optim stic view of the situation The former TucsoDian is enthus- | iastic over the prospects in mining ! in the Courtland section, the early completion of the extensions made by the two railroads creating an 'm- petus in development work at the camps Of the three, mining companies. Activity in all lines vii be more manifest after actual completion ot the extensions and the freigiit and paSseDPer denots near the sh h'pping point of the district
 In the eighties Captain Kelton was sheriff of Cochise county. He has been located at the Washington camp in Santa Cruz county and in Tue son in recent years.
 FL PASO, Texas, April "Details of one of the most desperate suicides { or murders that ever shocked this 1 section have just been brought here !! by customs officials of this city who | went to Columbus Saturday to at tend to the entry of 700 head of cat | tie at that place.
 Five miles north of Columbus there | lived Q man by the name of Ash who i had gone to that section and taken | up @ homestead. He was a bachelor and lived n little house that he built for himself.
 Passerby Terrified.
 Sunday morning a passerby was mortified. upon riding into the yard. to see the lifeless body Of Ash lying across the dead body Of the only horse the man owned
 The neighbcr hastened to Colum- bus and notified the authorities. A deputy sher fl accompanied by Deputy Collector P. H. MagiDDis and Mount ed Inspectors A. J. Kyle and A. c. Ashe, started for the lonely ranch house. Arriving there they discov- cred traces of either a desperate bat tie and murder or one of the most maniacal suicides that has been re- corded in the history of the county.
 Orgy of Destruction.
 If it was suicide, the man made t a reckless orgy of destruction. The | house was shot through and through | V'th 3U-30 bullets. The water keg that the man had used had been rid diad with bullets: All the furnish i1gs of the house had been taken into the yard and made into a bon i fire The mans horse had also been | shot several times. The ghastliest | s ght of all was the body of Ash, i himself From the position in which It was found it seemed that the man had killed his horse and had then sat | down with his back to the belly of I the fallen animal. placed his 30-30 10 I his own head and fired. The body | vas stretched across the horse as thoueh by intent, the rife at the side Of he corpse.
 The last and fatal shot that Ash | had fired tore the entire top of his 4 head off and scattered his brains . skull bones and pieces of scalp for 9 | distance of thirty yards. It is thought 1 that the bullet must have been soft | nOsed, as only that kind would have | produced such an explosive effect.
 Suicide Theory Probable.
 Tce decis on of the men who saw ! the awful scene of wreck and death i was that the man had committed sui eide, though there is a possibility that enemies may have done the deed.
 The body of Ash was taken into the shack and some of the men re- turned to Columbus, where they tele- | graphed to a brother of the dead man who lives at Raton and who is
 at present serving eDIke grand jury
 at that place.
 In reply to a query da the officials
 as to what dispos tion should be made
 of the body, the brother replied that | 1t should be buried on the mans homestead. The men then returned
 to the ranch with a rude box for coffin and the remains were placed
 in a lonely grave, near the scene Of the unwitnessed tragedy.
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