Ramon Lopez and Rafael Chavez, two sheep…
source date: 1891
availability: public-domain

exploded, blowing off the thumb and index finger of her right hand. A little babe playing near by had its face badly cut up by the flying particles. Juanita will probably lose the sight of an eye, but Doctor Woodwille, who is attending her, thinks he can save it. ( no ) Ramon Lopez and Rafael Chavez, two sheep raisers from Concho, in the southern part of Apache county A. T., were shot and killed at Holbrook yesterday forenoon. They had just sold their wool clip and were engaged in a game of monte in Tom Pickitt’s saloon with two cowboys, Joseph Crawford and W. C. Bell. The betting was heavy and drinks plentiful. A row took place between the sheep men and the cowboys, when Crawford and Bell pulled six-shooters and fired simultaneously at Lopez and Chavez, who fell corpses to the floor. The murderers backed themselves out of the saloon with their smoking revolvers in their hands, and on getting outside mounted their horses and escaped, going eastward. A posse is in pursuit. Crawford was in the employ of Hill, of Springer, N. M., and is well known by all stockmen. Bell has for the past year been in the employ of the Aztec Cattle company. — New Mexico.