Crime in a tidal wave appears to be sweep-…

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has discovered that he owns the apex on the whole of the Bonanza hill. His claim is the oldest location and he is going to apex them other fellows just as soon as they dare to enter his side lines, so they had better look out a little — there are no flies on Charlie. Crime in a tidal wave appears to be sweep- ing over New Mexico and Arizona. The number of murderers in the past month are appalling, and call for a remedy. Our new smelter people do not exactly follow the petition of the Lord’s Prayer which says “lead us not into temptation.” They place their silver in fifty-pound chunks along the window sill. This may prove too great a temp- tation to even the average Kingston citizen who has been out prospecting and has not struck it as rich as he expected, and is dry for a drink or hungry for a meal. Such a party gathered in a fifty pound lump last Wednesday, just as the shades of evening were falling fast. Whether the shots fired at this friend of silver by Mr. Kemp, the assayer, were effective, your correspondent does not know at this writing.Four more convicts made their escape from the territorial penitentiary at Santa Fe on Monday last. It was at 4 o’clock in the after- noon when the break was made, and four horses at work in the brick yard were captured, the convicts holding up the drivers with wooden pistols.