Persons are also warned against purchas-…

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ioned against purchas- ing or bartering for a one undivided one third interest in and to the NANW brands of cattle and horses located on what is popularly known as Nan Ranch on Chicken creek, county of Grant and territory of New Mexico, formerly known as the Lassater ranch. Persons are also warned against purchas- ing a one third undivided interest in said ranch, the interest aforesaid belongs to the under- signed as evidenced of record in the recorder’s office of said county. One S. T. Harkey is now making claim to the whole of said property by virtue of a frau- dulent and fictitious bill of sale from James W. Patrick, and one C. H. Dane claims a lien on the whole of said stock by virtue of a fraudulent and fictitious chattel mortgage executed in favor of said Dane by the said Harkey. The object of this notice being to put un- suspecting persons on their guard in treating with either said Dane or Harkey in reference thereto. The property and title is now in litiga- tion in the courts, and the status of the same fixing the rights of the undrsigned will be here- after determined. Geo. F. Patrick. Silver City, N. M., August 6th, 1888 From Ihe August 31, 1888, Issue of The Enterprise