d  attempted  to  shoot  Jas.  Mirk  on 
the  road  near  the  Santa  Fe  round  house  Mon- 
day. The  highway  man  relieved  Mirk  of  three 
dollars  cash,  shot  off  his  own  finger  and  wound- 
ed his  horse,  and  was  bound  over  to  the  grand 
jury  on  charges  of  highway  robbery  and 
deadly  assault.

Col.  Lockhart  has  moved  into  his  new  resi- 
dence and  is  so  busy  fixing  up  that  he  has  for- 
gotten politics  for  the  present.

Shooting  At  San  Juan

Edward  McEnterf,  an  employe  of  the  NAN 
ranch,  was  brought  to  Silver  City  under  arrest 
for  the  shooting  of  a Mexican  named  Favian 
Gonzalez  on  Tuesday  last  at  San  Juan,  a settle- 
ment on  the  Mimbres.  According  to  the  only 
account  as  present  obtainable  Gonzalez  was  in 
a store  quarreling  with  and  threatening  two 
other  Mexicans  with  a knife.  McEnterf  walked 
in  and  seeing  the  handle  of  the  knife  exposed 
from  beneath  the  bosom  of  the  Mexican’s  coat, 
asked  what  he  was  doing  with  it  when  Gonzalez 
struck  at  him  with  the  knife.  McEnterf  there- 
upon shot  him,  inflicting  a wound  in  the  region 
of  the  collar  bone.

From  ihe  October  10,  1890,  Issue  of  The  Enterprise

Gold  Hill  Suicide

For  a past  week  or  so  C.  S.  Cooper  was  on 
a spree  at  Gold  Hill.  Tuesday  he  apparently 
sobered  up  some  and  took  a Winchester  rifle 
and  went  hunting.  After  he  had  been  out  a

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