Five years hence the little community of…

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alert and constantly on guard and nothing was attempted until morning. Mike was permitted to saddle his horse unmolested and go to the house for his rifle; when this had been securely fastened to his saddle, Muse “threw down on him,” and compelled an immediate surrender. For a time Mike indulged in a volley of epithets and ex- hausting his vocabulary of expletives, he yielded to the inevitable, and on Monday last was placed in the county jail. The youngster is a dangerous man, and his capture rids the county of a noted thief. Five years hence the little community of Silver City, numbering 2,460 souls as per the enumeration of the Enterprise, will become the great center of wealth of the southwest. ( 24 ) Wholesale Shooting Six People Shot in One Day at Bonita Bonita, four miles from Fort Grant, was the scene of several bloody tragedies last week, resulting in the death of one man, a woman and a child, and the wounding of three other per- sons.