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saloon into the semi-darkness of the morning, without any quarrel having taken place, and in a few minutes the fatal shot was fired. It was one of those foul murders re- sulting from the vicious, depraved disposition in man which causes him to kill another to see him fall. From ihe January 11, 1889, Issue of The Enterprise County Commissioners Meeting On the re-assembling of the board at 7 p.m. it was found that there was an insuffi- ciency of oil, and Col. Sam Carpenter sent down to the city and purchased fifty cents worth of candles and illuminated the court house on this inauguration eve. It puzzled the bystanders to determine whether it was a wake or an attempt to foreshadow the inevitable result two years hence. Thieves Sneak thieves and burglars are at work. Last Monday night they broke into a storage room in the rear of the residence of Sam’l Eckles and rifled three trunks of their contents. The loss is estimated at $300. Mrs. Eckles lost sev- ( 1 ) eral valuable dresses. As yet their is no clue to the robbers. On the same night at about three o’clock in the morning the till of the L. K. restaurant was broken open and $16 stolen. “Joe,” the proprietor, the most popular Chinaman in town, says it was a Chinaman who stole the money, and it’s an even question that “Old Joe” will locate the thief and bring him to punishment.