Just before daylight on Tuesday morning…

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h deadly effect. Steele shot at Patterson twice — one bullet going in the left shoulder and one in the mouth, and the last shot will in all probability prove fatal. Steele was immediately arrested and held under $5,000 bond to await the result of the wounded man’s injuries. Just before daylight on Tuesday morning last some miscreant fired the wood pile lying near the Skillicorn and Snyder mill at Pinos Altos. Had it been discovered ten minutes later it would undoubtedly have destroyed the mill. As the mill was closed down awaiting result of the legal proceedings in injunction on the mine and no fires about the premises, it was certainly the work of an incendiary. No punishment can be too severe for such a miscreant and no doubt if those firebugs are discovered, the citizens of Pinos Altos will not await the law’s delays. From the April 18, 1890, Issue of The Enterprise