The shooting heard last night was done by Constable John Sellman killing a mad dog for a neighbor.
El Paso was shaken up yesterday afternoon by a thunder and lightning storm, followed by a good rain.
The Valentine robbers who killed Dick Elsberry have not yet been corralled. The rangers are still hunting them.
Yesterday afternoon Colonel McCann of the Equitable set-up a fifty-one pound water melon to a party of his friends.
Yesterday Collector Davis was presented with a very handsome and costly Mexican sombrero by Collector Bauche of Juarez.
Deputy Sheriff J.O. Jones wants it distinctly understood that he never was a member of a lynching or of any other kind of mob.
Yesterday Chief Fink received a letter from John Wesley Hardin’s brother in Austin making inquiries as to what property, if any, the dead man had left.
The Mexican national Athletic Club of the City of Mexico gave a grand assault at arms last night in which Billy Smith of El Paso went against Charlie and Jimmy Carroll for points.
Lightning caused the telephone in the Santa Fe office to give forth a noise like the sharp crack of a little rifle yesterday, and Will Brown called “hello” just as if “central” had called him.
The district court at Alpine adjourned yesterday. On a change of venue the case of Brewster county’s treasurer, Garnett, who is charged with robbing himself, was transferred to El Paso county.
The International Copper Smelter blew in yesterday with bright prospects for a long run. The company has large quantities of ore on the dumps at their mines if the rain will hold up long enough for it to be moved.
Yesterday a TIMES reporter walked right into a hot gold-silver discussion. Captains Davis and Fewel and Postmaster Julian were talking for the ambrosiac colored cash while George Look was clinging to “the dollar of our daddies.” The reporter having neither gold or silver to convert into cash wanted paper money,
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