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and raising disturbances, or at least that their arms be taken away from them before they are allowed to leave the post. Our county has enough murderers of her own to look after, without being called on to board and pro- secute criminals in the employ of the govern- ment. A. L. Foster, S. G. Taylor, Ben Taylor and C. W. Gassaway were arrested on the Mimbres last week, on a complaint sworn out by Vic Culbertson, who claims that they have been killing his cattle on the range. The evidence against the boys was all circumstantial, but they were bound over in the sum of $500 each to await the action of the grand jury. It seems that the boys were in the upper Mimbres coun- try on a hunt, and that Vic found where one of his calves had been killed near their camp. The hide had been destroyed. Vic followed the boys and found them with fresh meat in their pos- session. He claims that a large number of cattle have been killed in that section during the present winter by hunting parties, and he and his neighbors are tired of it. Double Killing A Drunken Soldier Kills Two People, Wounds Another and Is Shot Himself