Unprovoked Murder
source date: 1888
availability: public-domain

Unprovoked Murder There was a murder at Coomer’s saw mill, near Pinos Altos, last Tuesday, which, so far as heard, seems to have been unprovoked. The circumstances, as reported, were about as fol- lows: A Texan named R. J. Carson, who work- ed awhile at Black’s mill, as a carpenter, ob- jected to sitting at the table with Mexicans. Mr. Feasel said that if Carson could not endure such an association he had better depart. A Mexican named Dolores Salaiz, who has a family in town, rather resented the attitude of Carson, and the pair quarreled. This was a day or two before the killing. On Tuesday the talk was renewed and Carson fired a fatal shot into the mouth of Salcido. The deceased was a teamster