| Show considerable excitement exists among the saloon keepers in the vicinity of albuquerque near mexico over the fact that indictments have been returned against them for violating the sunday law and permitting gambling on the premises this is the first time that a district prosecuting attorney has endeavored to see that the sunday law is enforced and by his action he has gained the dislike of almost every dealer in liquors some saloon men have come forward and acknowledged that they are violators of the law and paid their fines while others are bold enough to say they will never pay aud and are holding secret meetings for the purpose of arriving at some course of action on the ad dinst the stage running 1 between georgetown and silver cit city new mexico was robbed by bv road agents the highwaymen who wha were well mounted and wore masks hailed the stage about six miles from deorge georgetown on the driver refusing to answer the hail or rein up he was fired at and wounded severely in the arms and alefs legs the T h e robbers secured little of value vain e from r M th the e Pa passengers who were four in number but obtained 1000 from the express box after the robbers left the driver drove quickly into town and gave the alarm and a deputy sheriff anda and posse imme immediately lately started in pursuit the citizens of silver city made up a purse for the wounded driver who is a poor man with a large family the following cases of those charged char ed with violating the edmunds law tave have been tried at blackfoot idaho up to may ath unlawful cohabitation E romer homer hezekiah dut D af fin david jensen niels andrus chris gardner john J williams C A craynor Fr aynor george whittle and C A tolman a verdict of guilty was rendered by the jury in each instance tolman gave the required promise to obey the law as interpreted and sentence was suspended be being allowed to go free upon his personal recognizance in the sum of chas josephson was acquitted polygamy and unlawful cohabitation ed taylor verdict not guilty unlawful cohabitation 0 two counts john J jolley olley andrew jacobson and nels graham verdict of guilty on both jos lewis and chas H wright verdict of guilty on one count each not guilty on the other thomas 11 wi wilde I 1 quilty de pleaded to one indictment and the jury returned a verdict of guilty on the other at santa cruz cal on may alth a two years old child attempted to cross a creek on a plank and feu in and was drowned |
