Silver City Enterprise — 1891 (full OCR, Internet Archive) — 1891-09-18
source date: 1891
availability: public-domain

J. Riedlinger will establish a bottling plant at Hillsboro and Clifton. J. Riedlinger, Jr., will conduct the Hillsboro branch, while an expert from St. Louis will run the Clifton establishment. The Grant county contingent at Las Cruces last week was very frolicsome. Every new man arriving 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.

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. General Superintendent Gilchrist of the S. C. & N. met with an accident on Saturday evening last. He in company with another man was traveling on a hand-car at the rate of twenty miles per hour when an obstruction was encountered. General Gilchrist was thrown high in the air and lighting upon his left shoul- der, it was badly fractured. A special convey- ing the wounded man arrived here Sunday morning, and he was conveyed to the Sisters’ hospital where he was attended by Dr. E. L. Stephens. He is doing nicely. Billy Conant, foreman of the J T ranch, met with what might have been a very serious accident last Saturday. He was riding after a cow when his horse stepped into a prairie dog hole, throwing him to the ground. It was some time before he recovered consciousness. Col. Horace Hooker, the broncho buster, is in his native element when there are cows to punch or a bucking broncho to ride. Horace is the life of the round-up.

stepped into a prairie dog hole, throwing him to the ground. It was some time before he recovered consciousness. Col. Horace Hooker, the broncho buster, is in his native element when there are cows to punch or a bucking broncho to ride. Horace is the life of the round-up. Bay Shannon, for whom the United States marshal was anxiously looking with a request to do duty in Uncle Sam’s court at Las Cruces as juryman, is with the boys holding his own on a bucking broncho, as well as at the mess wagon.J. E. Wolford, of Lone Mountain, one of the most respected citizens of Grant county, met with a serious accident while blasting logs near his ranch Monday last. He was using black powder, which exploded prematurely. Every stitch of clothing except the shoes were blown off his body, and from the waist up the skin on the front side of the body was blown en- tirely off. The skin hung down in long shreds, like the moss on a tree, and when the arms were held up they resembled a bat’s wings. The most serious injury was done to Mr. Wolford’s two hands, the palms of which were badly torn, and all the nails but one were gone from the fingers, as if torn out by pincers. The skin was also stripped from both legs from the middle of the thighs down to the shoe tops. In this condition Mr.

done to Mr. Wolford’s two hands, the palms of which were badly torn, and all the nails but one were gone from the fingers, as if torn out by pincers. The skin was also stripped from both legs from the middle of the thighs down to the shoe tops. In this condition Mr. Wolford made his way to the ranch of Thomas Holson, from where he was conveyed to his own home. His beard was entirely gone, and his face was as black as a Negro’s, leaving him unrecognizable by intimate friends. Dr. Stephens was sent for, and soon relieved the in- tense suffering of the patient, who is now re- covering slowly. Mr. Wolford has not been able to give an account of how the accident occurred, being only able to say that it was caused through carelessness. The most remarkable feature of the accident is that no burns or bruises of a serious nature, aside from those of the hands, was sustained. Of course the general character of the injuries are serious enough but it is thought that the patient will recover, but it will take many weeks to do it.