John Brockman has brought suit against…
source date: 1888
availability: public-domain

comes.” Ancheta on hearing the remark, asked who they were, when the two on foot started on a run and soon disappeared among the thick brush. The man on horseback did not move for a time but finally started, but his horse seemed to be fagged out and moved very slowly. An- cheta thought that the horse the fellow was riding was one of his, and ordered the man to stop, who paid no attention to the request but kept on going. Ancheta then fired at the fellow who by this time was nearly out of sight. An- cheta assisted by officers, then removed the horses to safer quarters. “Rancher. John Brockman has brought suit against Gibson and son, owners of about 400 head of cattle which they recently brought in from Texas and turned loose in Mr. Brockman’s corn- field, for $99 damages. The Texans did not stop at this, but moved their effects into one of Brockman’s houses, and declare that they pro- pose to stay right there. They seem to have no respect for the rights of property owners, and start in to buffalo, bulldoze and intimidate men who have expended thousands of doBars and many years of hard work in improving their homes. The stock associations of Dona Ana, Sierra and Grant agreed in the past to combine in prosecuting intruders of this sort, and have