Steve Upton, one of Georgetown’s popular…
source date: 1888
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have the oppor- tunity, if detected in his crime. Steve Upton, one of Georgetown’s popular young men, was a visitor to this city last week. His old partner, Frank Whitney, fell a victim to the dreaded yellow fever at Colon, Central America, last summer. Frank was one of the brightest young men that ever lived in this section, and the news of his death will be re- ceived with sincere sorrow by his many friends. Mr. Upton also had the fever but is now in better health than ever before. The boys were in the employ of a New York mining company, and together visited several of the mining sec- tions of South America. Mr. Upton is delighted with the Argentine country, but says that Buenos Aires is a very unhealthy city. In Uru- guay, owing to the almost continual warfare, there are ten women to one man, and a traveler is compelled to hire a body guard to keep the girls away. Steve didn’t like it there. Cooney Camp Killed hy a Tree. — Contradicting a Correspondent Cooney, N. M., Feb. 18, 1888 To the Editors of the Enterprise : Owen Hayes, an-old-timer of this part of the country, while chopping a saw-log on Silver creek on the 14th of this month, met with an accident that caused his death three days later. The particulars are as follows:

money from the drawer. It is to be regretted that some of these sneak thieves are not caught in the act and shot down. A man who will enter a house for the purpose of robbery would not hesitate to commit murder, should he have the oppor- tunity, if detected in his crime. Steve Upton, one of Georgetown’s popular young men, was a visitor to this city last week. His old partner, Frank Whitney, fell a victim to the dreaded yellow fever at Colon, Central America, last summer. Frank was one of the brightest young men that ever lived in this section, and the news of his death will be re- ceived with sincere sorrow by his many friends. Mr. Upton also had the fever but is now in better health than ever before. The boys were in the employ of a New York mining company, and together visited several of the mining sec- tions of South America. Mr. Upton is delighted with the Argentine country, but says that Buenos Aires is a very unhealthy city. In Uru- guay, owing to the almost continual warfare, there are ten women to one man, and a traveler is compelled to hire a body guard to keep the girls away. Steve didn’t like it there. Cooney Camp Killed hy a Tree. — Contradicting a Correspondent Cooney, N. M., Feb. 18, 1888 To the Editors of the Enterprise :