From: george.kincaid@worldnet.att.net   
      
   Damn! I thought maybe it was an old mining town or something, like a lead or   
   silver mine. Interesting place.   
      
   "Gerald Clough"  wrote in message   
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   > Von Fourche wrote:   
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   >> "Gerald Clough"  wrote in message   
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   >>>Little law. If you walk into the hotel at Lajitas, the privately owned   
   >>>town, early in the morning and you pester the clerk enough, she'll tell   
   >>>you who those booted and spurred men are who are sitting in the side   
   >>>room drinking coffee. They're employees, and the job title is   
   >>>"Peacekeeper." It's a very peaceful place, even though a deputy sheriff   
   >>>may only get down there twice a year.   
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   >>     Privately owned town?  How can a town be owned privately?   
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   > It's just property. He bought it. Paid $4.25 million. Rough place, though.   
   >   
   > A while back, someone slipped up on the Mayor, Clay Henry III, and   
   > castrated him. He (Clay) was probably drunk. He usually is. They figure   
   > Jim Bob Hargrove done it. His (Jim Bob's) maid found the mayor's nuts in   
   > Jim Bob's refrigerator. The D.A. said it was over something Clay got from   
   > Anne Archer (the actress) that Jim Bob figured was rightly his to taste of   
   > first.   
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   > Jim Bob claimed Steve Smith, the owner of the whole shebang, did it and   
   > planted the goods on him to frame him. The jury hung after a day and a   
   > half of deliberation the 394th District Court in Pecos. Helluva trial,   
   > though, with the mayor's family jewels introduced into evidence and all.   
   >   
   > Clay didn't used to be such a drunk. He was young and strong and a clean   
   > liver back in 1998 when he killed the former mayor in a fair, stand-up   
   > fight to get him out of the way so he could have the job. No trial for   
   > that. It was kinda a private matter between the two of the them. Nobody   
   > else got hurt, and Lajitas still had a mayor. Border politics is just   
   > hell.   
   >   
   > ( Really. I don't make this stuff up. )   
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   > --   
   >                       Gerald Clough   
   >    "Nothing has any value, unless you know you can give it up."   
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