Four carloads of merchandise arrive here…
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of venue to
Sierra county. It is hoped the juries of that
county will do their duties at the trials.
Four carloads of merchandise arrive here
daily, and nearly as much is shipped to sur-
rounding mining camps, and other points tribu-
tary to this city.
( 119 )Col. C. B. Stocking, an old time citizen of
Grant county, has been sentenced to one year
in the penitentiary from Pinal county, Arizona.
Something over two years ago he was acting
as a guard in the jail at Florence. A prisoner
made an assault upon him, and the colonel
seized a pick handle and struck the prisoner
over the head with it, fracturing his skull. The
Arizona Enterprise, a most excellent paper, by
the way, has been pretty severe on the colonel,
and gives him a parting shot on what it pleases
to term the “light sentence” received. That the
colonel did or did not exceed his authority as
an officer, we are not prepared to say, but from
carefully watching the case in our Arizona
namesake, we naturally infer that it had some
ulterior motive in its severe comments on the
case. Stocking has a record covering many years
as a peace officer, and it is certainly one that
any man might be proud of. In the discharge
of his duty he has been compelled to take life
not unfrequently, but never did so unless he
was first fired on.