e  tried  before  Justice  Givens  and  fined 
$5  and  costs  each.  The  case  was  a very  aggra- 
vated one  and  it  seems  a peculiar  construction 
of  the  law  when  the  minimum  penalty  is  as- 
sessed against  the  most  audacious  law  breaker, 
for  whose  benefit  the  severer  penalties  were 
enacted.

There  are  several  hold-ups  in  town.  Throw 
up  your  hands.

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SERIOUS  ACCIDENT  AT  SAN  JUAN

Charles  Gamble  was  severely  hurt  at  10 
o’clock  last  Tuesday  by  a horse  falling  upon 
him.  He  in  company  with  two  others  were 
riding  rapidly  toward  his  home  at  San  Juan 
on  the  Mimbres  river  when  his  horse  stumbled 
and  fell  with  him.  Those  with  him  brought  him 
home  where  he  lay  unconscious  till  5 o’clock 
p.m.  when  the  messenger  came  to  Silver  City 
in  search  of  a doctor.  Dr.  Kimball  of  Cooney, 
who  happened  to  be  in  town,  left  at  midnight 
on  Tuesday  to  attend  the  patient  since  which 
time  nothing  farther  has  been  learned.

EDITORS  NOTE:  10-15-65

It  is  known  that  he  died  as  result  of  the  accident. 
Mr.  Gamble  was  the  father  of  Sudie,  Mrs.  Louis 
Jones  of  Glenwood;  and  Emmy,  Mrs.  Joe  Porter,  of 
Apache  Creek.  Sudie  told  me  that  her  father  owned 
what  is  now  the  NAN  Ranch,  on  the  Mimbres,  and  that 
he  was  buried  in  the  cemetery  on  Lower  Mimbres,  just 
beside  the  road  to  Deming.  In  December,  1962,  Carl 
Mrotzek  and  I went  to  the  cemetery  and  placed  the 
Gamble  tombstone  upright.