A killing occurred at the 3H headquarters…
source date: 1891
availability: public-domain

e resident of this city, has opened a grocery and provision store on Broadway, two doors from the post office. Poultry, eggs, butter and all kinds of produce will be handled, and all the delicacies of the season kept constantly on hand. See his card elswhere in this issue. A killing occurred at the 3H headquarters ranch in San Simon on the 29th ult. Dick Strat- ton and Dud Pruett, two employes of the San Simon Cattle company, were plowing in a field, when one Burns and a man named Johns open- ed fire on them with Winchesters. Dick Stratton was shot, whilst Pruett escaped uninjured. The wounded man was taken to the house and Dr. Simpson, of Lordsburg, was sent for, who dressed the wounds, but Stratton never rallied from the shock and died two days later. Both parties were arrested and had an examination before Justice White at Bowie, and were com- mitted to the Tombstone jail to await the action of the grand jury. The affair occurred just across the line in Arizona.