A prize fight occurred between two of the…
source date: 1890
availability: public-domain

romptly and vig- orously defended their company’s property are well deserving of what they receive ; the thanks as well as the admiration of the whole com- munity. A prize fight occurred between two of the demi-monde Wednesday evening in which one of them got cut in the hand. From the April 25, 1890, Issue of The Enterprise Mysterious MurderOn Tuesday morning last, Sheriff Whitehill received a letter from James Metcalf, of Man- gas springs, stating that Mr. Metcalf’s sheep herder had found a Mexican shot and dying in the hills, four or five miles from the ranch. Accompanied by Judge Isaac Givens, the sheriff repaired to the scene of the supposed murder. An inquest was held, the verdict of the jury being: “that the deceased had come to his death from the effects of a gunshot wound inflicted by some person unknown to the jury.” The story told by Mr. Metcalf’s herder is to the effect that, while herding the sheep last Mon- day, about 2 o’clock in the afternoon, he heard a pistol shot and saw a black horse with a saddle and bridle on, running away from the vicinity of where the shot was fired ; a man on foot was running after the horse. A short time afterwards one of his dogs bayed some- thing which attracted his attention to the dog.