game of solitaire long enough to have a talk…
source date: 1888
availability: public-domain

live always he had as well die one day as another. He jocularly said he wanted to “go to hell on a black horse.” Early this week he gave up a ( 17 ) game of solitaire long enough to have a talk with Father Girard, but did not show great interest in religious matters. On Monday last the death warrant was read in Spanish to Pilar by John Patton, of the Enterprise office. Several days ago carpenters erected a scaffold on the north side of the court house and built around it a high board fence reaching to such a height that people on the hilltops and neighboring houses could not see anyone upon the scaffold. About 60 tickets of admission to the enclosure or to offices commanding a view were issued. Birt Carter, of the Mangas, caught a mon- ster female mountain lion last week at his ranch. It was brought into town and put into the same cage with the male lion captured by “Uncle Jim Metcalf” some weeks ago. The two play together like kittens. From Ihe July 13, 1888, Issue of The Enterprise