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temper and pleasantly tried to explain to him that this was not the place nor the opportunity for him to act in an improper manner. Knox did not take kindly to this advice, and in a few minute® he and the host were “wiping up the floor” with each other, and Knox was finally put out of the room onto the parade ground. These proceedings broke up the party, and the festivities were postponed. Knox remained' about the fort until the stage returned from El Paso, and then ac companied It on its way to Santa Fe. On the next Monday Knox returned on the coach on its way from Santa Fe, and again remained over. That evening most of the officers of the fort were at 'the sutler’s store; in the party was Knox and after all hands had par: taken of drinks, the conversation reverted to the affair of the week before, when Knox and Lieutenant John E. Oliphant of the First California Cavalry, became engaged in a “scrap” over the merits of the affair. Knox maintained that he was right in the matter, whilst all the rest of the party insisted that the host of the da nice was right; whereupon Knox and Oliphant came to blows, but were soon separated by the officers present, and shortly afterwards tihe party dispersed Knox and some of the party had passed over the parade ground and were just approaching the quarters of the commanding officer, Colonel Francisco P. Abreu, when Oliphant, who in the meantime had visited the quarters of his company and had obtained a revolver, approached Knox and his party, and, without warning, shot Knox in the back. The post was soon in an uproar, and Knox, who had received a mortal wound, was taken to the hospital where he died within an hour. Oliphant was mustered out of the service, with his company, September 20, 1866, and was afterwards killed in a shooting affair at or near what is now Deming, in Luna County.Jack Col line d ied in Mexico, of disease, in the ’70s. Johnny Dalle was killed in 1870 in Chihuahua. “Tennessee,” during 1868, was employed on the stage line between La Mesilla and Tucson, as a driver, and the stage was attacked- by the Apaches near Apache Pass, (Fort Bowie). Two of the passengers were killed, “Tennessee” was| taken a prisoner, and to prevent his escaping the soles of his feet were badly cut. This party of Apaches was attacked by troops from-Fort Bowie within a few days, but all of the red devils got away, after they had filled poor “Tennessee's” body with awowi.STEEL The GiWeNew have blt;panies po ratio worknn ginning the inc ures tc been mWESTUtica senger railed l comoti\ plungec below t Wilkins J. Wrig their Ufengine!severel;jured.poisorChica the exelt; al As so Departr ports w 455,000 States food poprohibitcontain: by theG. R. C OFWash probabl turns h as chie system ants, w. insularto perflt;ALL TlSt. P dred pehave si] at Vard handeddeeds.Hava New Mi
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Santa Fe New Mexican
Santa Fe, New Mexico, US
Sat, Apr 01, 1905
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