Shooting At San Juan
source date: 1890
availability: public-domain

Shooting At San Juan Edward McEnterf, an employe of the NAN ranch, was brought to Silver City under arrest for the shooting of a Mexican named Favian Gonzalez on Tuesday last at San Juan, a settle- ment on the Mimbres. According to the only account as present obtainable Gonzalez was in a store quarreling with and threatening two other Mexicans with a knife. McEnterf walked in and seeing the handle of the knife exposed from beneath the bosom of the Mexican’s coat, asked what he was doing with it when Gonzalez struck at him with the knife. McEnterf there- upon shot him, inflicting a wound in the region of the collar bone.