It is only just to mention that Messrs…

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w him they ran from the house and through some fields adjacent to Pinos Altos with Davenport and Wm. Graham after them, firing as they ran. While Davenport and Graham were scaling a fence Huber and Mayfield fired five shofs at them and they got off the fence in a hurry. While the robbers were running down the canon below, the balance of the posse and citizens came up and the robbers, seeing that they were being headed off, Huber sat down and threw his six shooter in the air thereby signifying surren- der. It was then found that Huber had a flesh wound in the arm, supposed to be made by a bullet from Davenport’s pistol. During the melee, Graham and Davenport came near being shot by their own party several times. It is only just to mention that Messrs. Bell & Stephens, of Pinos Altos, by whom Huber was ( 14 ) employed for a long time and whom it is cur- rently reported have been friendly to him here- tofore, rendered the officers every assistance they could and tried to bring the crime home to him when they had reason to believe him guilty. The young men who so promptly and vig- orously defended their company’s property are well deserving of what they receive ; the thanks as well as the admiration of the whole com- munity. A prize fight occurred between two of the demi-monde Wednesday evening in which one of them got cut in the hand.