Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1888 — A Noted Scout Killed. [ARTICLE]

A Noted Scout Killed.

Billy Carson, * son of Kit Carsm, the famous scout, shot and killed Thomas J. Tobins in a fight at Ft. Garland, Col., Wednesday. Tobins was a companion of Kit Carson and almost equally famous. His most noted exploit was the capture of the Mexican bandits, the Egpanosas brothers, single handed, for whose capture, either dead or alive,the Territorial and the United States Government had ■■ Since President Cleveland went • in‘e the White House .it has beep four times draped in mourning—for Grant, for Hendiicks, for Arthur and for Waite.