exploded,  blowing  off  the  thumb  and 
index  finger  of  her  right  hand.  A little  babe 
playing  near  by  had  its  face  badly  cut  up  by 
the  flying  particles.  Juanita  will  probably  lose 
the  sight  of  an  eye,  but  Doctor  Woodwille, 
who  is  attending  her,  thinks  he  can  save  it.

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Ramon  Lopez  and  Rafael  Chavez,  two  sheep 
raisers  from  Concho,  in  the  southern  part  of 
Apache  county  A.  T.,  were  shot  and  killed  at 
Holbrook  yesterday  forenoon.  They  had  just 
sold  their  wool  clip  and  were  engaged  in  a 
game  of  monte  in  Tom  Pickitt’s  saloon  with 
two  cowboys,  Joseph  Crawford  and  W.  C.  Bell. 
The  betting  was  heavy  and  drinks  plentiful.  A 
row  took  place  between  the  sheep  men  and 
the  cowboys,  when  Crawford  and  Bell  pulled 
six-shooters  and  fired  simultaneously  at  Lopez 
and  Chavez,  who  fell  corpses  to  the  floor.  The 
murderers  backed  themselves  out  of  the  saloon 
with  their  smoking  revolvers  in  their  hands, 
and  on  getting  outside  mounted  their  horses 
and  escaped,  going  eastward.  A posse  is  in 
pursuit.  Crawford  was  in  the  employ  of  Hill, 
of  Springer,  N.  M.,  and  is  well  known  by  all 
stockmen.  Bell  has  for  the  past  year  been  in 
the  employ  of  the  Aztec  Cattle  company. — 
New  Mexico.