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From the Liberal
Last Friday night occurred the funniest
hold-up of which there is any record in this
section of the country. At midnight Messrs.
Doyle, Plunket and Dougherty, three miners
working for the New Mexico mining and mill-
ing company at Pyramid, came out of the shaft
to eat their lunch. The men were wet through,
but instead of sitting down by a fire and eating
their lunch they were invited by Bill Caldwell
to stand up and put their hands above their
heads. As the request was emphasized by a
Winchester rifle the invitation was complied
with. Caldwell marched them down the road
apiece, turned Plunket loose and then went on