On a cold February evening in 1896, prominent attorney Col. Albert Jennings Fountain and his eight-year-old son Henry rode home across the White Sands of New Mexico. It was a trip the father and son would not complete—they both disappeared in a suspected ambush and murder at the hands of cattle thieves Fountain was prosecuting. The disappearance of Colonel Fountain and his young son resulted in outrage throughout the territory, yet another example of lawlessness that was delaying New Mexico’s progress toward statehood. The sheriff, whose deputies were quickly becoming the prime suspects, did little to solve the mystery. Governor Thornton, eager for action, appointed Pat Garrett as the new sheriff, the man famous for killing Billy the Kid fifteen years earlier. Thornton also called on the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, who assigned top operative John Fraser to assist Garrett with the case. The evidence pointed at three men, former deputies William McNew, James Gililland, and Oliver Lee. These three men, however, were very close with powerful ex-judge, lawyer, and politician Albert B. Fall. It was even said by some that Fall was the mastermind behind the plot to kill Fountain. Forced to wait two years for a change in …

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "One of three supersonic frogs just flown past the sound barrier by North American Aviation test pilot Joe Lynch is examined by Captain Robbie Risner, Korean eight-kill jet ace, Clovis Air Force Base, Kathleen Hughes, Universal Pictures actress who soon will appear in the forthcoming 3-D fantasy, "It Came From Outer Space" and Bill Collins, ringmaster for the Jumping Frog Jubilee to be held at Angels Camp in the Mother Lode Country, May 15-16-17."

Letter from Thos. L. James to D. W. Kempner discussing a solution to the type of hay being secured to send to Plantersville in replace of hay from Sugar Land.