PIONEER CITIZEN DIES
source date: 1891
availability: public-domain

PIONEER CITIZEN DIES Maston Emery, who came to this country forty years ago, and fought Indians along with Kit carson, died at the home of John Perry, on the Mimbres, last week. It was through his efforts that the Dry Cimarron country was first opened up. He was an old trapper and hunter, a big hearted pioneer who had thrown away fortunes and died in poverty. It is such men who usually open up a new country,