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Show HE WAS INSANE. Tha Wild Demonstrations of a Mad Man on the Train. At tho complaint of a conductor Sheriff Burt has been entertaining a guest who was sent to hira on a charge of lunacy, lie was registered as John Doe and was met at the Rio Grande depot in response to a telegram. The story a.i told by tho passengers is that the prisoner as the train was bow'ing forward suddenly rose to his feet and with a howl of a catamount produced a knife with which he proposed to produce pro-duce gore in unlimited quantities. The conductor assisted by several passengers passen-gers who assailed him from tho rear succeeded iu disarming the fellow who was then kept under survillance until the arrival of the train. He has recovered recov-ered from the attack aud was discharged dis-charged tilts morning. Tho boys at police headquarters have been entertaining a wayfarer who is troubled every now and then with senile dementa. He is 8;i years of age and has lived in this valley from its earliest settlement. He is harmless, wanders along aimlessly and inoffensively inoffen-sively and will end his day in that far away realm into which his mind has been swept. |