James Moore Shot Dead By D. C. Cantwell
source date: 1890
availability: public-domain

Enterprise A Killing James Moore Shot Dead By D. C. Cantwell On going to press the Enterprise, through various sources, learns of the killing of James Moore by D. C. Cantwell, of the Black Range ( 20 ) Cattle Company, a few miles distant from Fair- view, in Socorro county.The causes which led to the shooting, it is said, are an outgrowth of the law suit of the Black Range Cattle Company vs. Cantwell, in which the latter was worsted. Again it is urged that Cantwell’s chances for the appointment as census enumerator of the stock interests of the territory were imperiled and defeated by J. B. Petrie, manager of the Black Range Cattle Company. Whatever the causes may have been which culminated this tragedy, it is not the pur- pose or intention of this journal to discuss its merits or de-merits. The fact remains, however, that Moore is dead and that Cantwell shot him. Mr. Ralph Moore, who resides on Diamond creek, near the scene of the tragedy, on being interviewed by the editor of this paper, states that on the afternoon of the 24th ult.