Miss Katie Thompson, the boss potato cul-…
source date: 1891
availability: public-domain

as much as he started in with. He will go from here to Florida. Miss Katie Thompson, the boss potato cul- turist of the southwest, left Monday on a visit to her home in San Antonio, Texas. From the December 25, 1891, Issue of The Enterprise From the Albuquerque Democrat. Jack Kerr shot and instantly killed a drunkard named Kennedy, in Kelly’s saloon at Cerrillos. Five shots were fired at Kerr be- fore he could get his pistol out. Other persons were in close range of the flying bullets and narrowly escaped. An old grudge was the cause of the difficulty that led to the shooting. Kerr is under arrest. A new phase of the telegrapher’s strike has been developed. Wednesday of last week night, Robert Black, a citizen of Lordsburg, assumed the responsibility of ordering some scab operators out of town at the muzzle of a six shooter. They left, and the action of Black is generally condemned by all law abiding citizens. There was no occasion for any display of violence, and it has not been discovered upon what authority Mr. Black acted. The offensive parties might have been treated a little less shabbily. Such high handed proceed- ings should be frowned down, and Mr. Black’s assumed responsibility should be enquired into. J. H. Bragaw, the merchant miner of Georgetown, spent several days in the me- tropolis this week.