Four carloads of merchandise arrive here…
source date: 1891
availability: public-domain

of venue to Sierra county. It is hoped the juries of that county will do their duties at the trials. Four carloads of merchandise arrive here daily, and nearly as much is shipped to sur- rounding mining camps, and other points tribu- tary to this city. ( 119 )Col. C. B. Stocking, an old time citizen of Grant county, has been sentenced to one year in the penitentiary from Pinal county, Arizona. Something over two years ago he was acting as a guard in the jail at Florence. A prisoner made an assault upon him, and the colonel seized a pick handle and struck the prisoner over the head with it, fracturing his skull. The Arizona Enterprise, a most excellent paper, by the way, has been pretty severe on the colonel, and gives him a parting shot on what it pleases to term the “light sentence” received. That the colonel did or did not exceed his authority as an officer, we are not prepared to say, but from carefully watching the case in our Arizona namesake, we naturally infer that it had some ulterior motive in its severe comments on the case. Stocking has a record covering many years as a peace officer, and it is certainly one that any man might be proud of. In the discharge of his duty he has been compelled to take life not unfrequently, but never did so unless he was first fired on.