Silver City Enterprise — 1888-1890 (full OCR, Internet Archive) — 1888-06-01
source date: 1888
availability: public-domain

Two colored girls, of the soiled variety, in imitation of their white sisters, were yester- day promenading Broadway, attired in mother hubbards and puffing away on cigarettes. There is no other town in the west where this class of humanity are shown as much liberty as in Silver City. If there is no ordinance to prohibit such vulgarity one should be passed immed- iately. A beef was butchered on Lawbaugh canon, near the Gila last week, by unknown parties, who took the meat away with them, but leaving the hide after cutting out the brand and cutting off the ears. As the round up was going on in the neighborhood the thief must have been a bold one. The carcass was discovered the next morning after the animal had been killed and the thief trailed several miles. The people of that section are pretty well satisfield as to who did the killing, and are also of the opinion that it is not his first offense. If he is ever caught in the act the chances are that his body will grace the limb of a tree. John Woods was brought in from Carlisle Tuesday by Tom Dowd, G. W. Wheatley and Cash Keen, for shooting up the camp. Three or four weeks ago he fired into a party of Mexicans, wounding one of them. Of course it was all done in fun, but John may find it a. pretty serious affair before he gets through with it.

uesday by Tom Dowd, G. W. Wheatley and Cash Keen, for shooting up the camp. Three or four weeks ago he fired into a party of Mexicans, wounding one of them. Of course it was all done in fun, but John may find it a. pretty serious affair before he gets through with it. Bessie Harper, who waylaid and assaulted Ruby Fowler, was bound over by Justice Givens to await the action of the grand jury. Bessie assaulted her victim with a stone tied up in a towel, and after knocking Ruby senseless beat her in a shameful manner. Her scalp is cut to the skull in different places and her face is badly beaten up. Bessie is out on bail. Mrs. George Fisk, wife of a stockman near Wilcox, who w~as bitten by a mad coyote, sui- cided rather than die with hydrophobia. She shot herself through the head.