A number of heavily laden freight teams…
source date: 1891
availability: public-domain

es and Sketches of the Southwest.” We have not seen this book, but we know it must be delightful, for we doubt if a dull sentence ever flowed from the pen of this graceful and charming writer. A number of heavily laden freight teams pulled out for the Mogollons this week. Hugh A. Teel, one of Cooks Peak’s most prosperous miners, is in town. J. F. Bisby, of Lone Mountain, spent sev- eral days in the metropolis this week. The familiar figure of Capt. French, of Alma, was seen on our streets this week. ( 115 ) From the November 27, 1891, Issue of The Enterprise Only A Magdalen Mrs. Jennie Forrest, a recent member of the Gem Theatre troupe, died in this city Tues- day morning, under peculiarly distressing cir- cumstances. Having failed to realize her ex- pectations on the stage, she gave up the sha- dowy glimmer of the footlights, and retired to private life. Being a stranger in a strange land, and being financially embarrassed, the poor girl, without a friend or a helping hand upon whom to depend, was driven to desperation. As a dernier resort, on Saturday evening she entered a bawd house, hoping to earn sufficient money to take her back east. She spent but tv/o days under the contaminated roof.