would get left, a large sized dinner bell was…
source date: 1891
availability: public-domain

from Grant county was fined the drinks for the crowd, and for fear some of the boys would get left, a large sized dinner bell was rung, calling the clans together. A Mexican from the valley remarked with some sarcasm: “Those are the intelligent jurymen from Grant.” ( 85 ) A low degraded specimen of the human race, a Mexican squaw, takes up her station at the front of the postoffice building nearly every evening, and importunes gentlemen passing along the sidewalk. When no heed is paid to her solicitations, the passerby is saluted with imprecations delivered in an undertone. She has done time before in the city bastile, and should be sent up for a good long term. John Bell, a cowboy working in the Gila roundup, was thrown from a horse last week and his leg broken in two places. He is at the Sister’s hospital, and doing as well as could be expected.