CHARLES G. VAN HORN
source date: 1889
availability: public-domain

CHARLES G. VAN HORN Quite a social time was had at the ball at Chenowith’s on the Gila, some two weeks since. Dud Hayes and John Lovely, both working on the LC ranch, got away with a demijohn of “elixir of life” enroute to some Spiders in the Mogollons. They danced and drank, and drank and danced. They finally had a misunderstand- ing over one of the Gila belles, and went out to talk it over. John Lovely, who was in any- thing but a lovely humor, drew his gun and shot Dud through the left thigh. When Dud saw the blood spurt he became very angry.