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ght by one of the men with the deputy, tried to get away, and was shot dead. His body was brought in here yesterday. Great indignation was felt and ex- pressed at the attack on Mrs. Wallace, and great efforts were made and no pains spared to capture her brutal assailant. ( 15 ) Pinos Altos Notes It is not an unusual sight to see half dozen or more of ladies and gentlemen!?) wending their way to Sing Lee’s laundry these bright afternoons. If it were not for a peculiar bright- ness of the eye, and an unusual pallor of the cheek of the visitors, it would be rational to suppose that the object of these visits was for the purpose of obtaining their last week’s washing. This conjecture is evidently errone- ous, and taking the statement of school chil- dren, and they are infallible as judges of the motives which actuate mankind, the only con- clusion which can be arrived at is Sing Lee’s laundry is a “hop joint,” and the visitors are what is technically known as “hop fiends.” Would it not be well for parents to inquire into this matter, and ascertain if it is quite the cor- rect thing to permit an establishment of this kind to flourish less than fifty yards from the public school, which is a source of pride to every resident of the mountain metropolis?