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ashamed of such marksmanship, and besides that, if he again desires to engage in another such enter- prise, he should first procure a gun. Those little things will do well enough for children to practice with in Omaha, but they don’t amount to much when a man means business. Cummings was also placed under arrest, when his bondsmen withdrew, and he is now in jail awaiting the action of the grand jury on his rape case. He is a big, lubberly, good- natured, slovenly looking person, who does not appear to have style or energy enough to make himself popular with the ladies. The woman who was the cause of all the trouble, left town the next day, and it is sup- posed that she returned to her family. Fred Meyers and Bill Suggs, two horse thieves, were recently killed in the Animas valley by stockmen from Mexico. They were shot while asleep in their blankets. After re- covering their stock and taking the fire arms and saddles, the cowmen returned to their ranches across the line, leaving their victims for others to bury. The bodies were not found until several days afterwards on McCabe ranch. A Cutting Affair Yesterday morning, between 1 and 2 a.m. Jo Baker stabbed and fatally wounded Franz Gustav Valdemor Bruno, a German boy who had been employed in the Exchange on the night watch. Bruno had closed the house, gone ( 13 )