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ty couples for living together in an illicit manner, in the town of Mesilla. From this it would seem that the minority re- port was not so far wrong after all. Let the officers of this county do their duty and the justices of the peace and ministers will reap a harvest. James Turner, early Friday morning, stab- bed Wm. Courtney with the blade of a pocket knife, one of the wounds being near the heart in the left breast. During the melee Turner bit a piece out of Courtney’s chin. Courtney states that the trouble was brought up by his refusing to loan money to Turner. Turner is now in jail. Courtney was able to be on the street on Wed- nesday. Jose Maria Rascon, of Morenci, recently shot and killed Carmen Calderon. The mur- derer has been arrested and confined in jail at Solomonville. The woman was well known and popular in Morenci. Her remains were fol- lowed to the grave by three hundred people. J. J. Taylor, formerly a blacksmith of this city, who was sentenced to be shot for robbing a train in Sonora, is still alive. He is being held as witness against two others, who were impli- cated. Taylor’s partner, Rohling, has been sen- tenced to ten years in the salt mines.