Saturday night the gay old lothario and…

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Saturday, when Mr. Baker was un- ceremoniously “fired” from the office. Mr. Baker denied nothing, but claimed that he was not married to his wife. He had lived with her, but had a written contract, which he showed and really appeared to think that he had done nothing wrong. Saturday night the gay old lothario and wife No. 2 were married by Rev. Williams, and on the following day they took the train for Chicago. An Enterprise man saw Mr. Baker at the depot and asked him how he liked married life. Baker looked daggers, but said nothing. Ed Moulton came up from Deming Tues- day, bringing along a colored gentleman who had been sent to the Grant County hotel for stealing a corset. This trifling offense will cost the county several dollars before the prisoner is discharged. Justices of the peace should use a little more discretion in such matters. Mrs. Amanda Ford, a colored lady, who took rather a dark view of life, took an over dose of morphine one day this week with sui- cidal intent, but was pumped out by Dr. Ste- phens, and is now restored to her usual good health. Her fit of blues was brought about by receiving a letter which stated that one of her children was lying at the point of death in a ( 20 )