News of Ector County Texas

Odessa Pitcher Found Dead in Tourist Cabin Odessa Texas April 1, Buford Armstrong 28, ace pitcher of the Odessa semipro baseball team, was found shot to death Saturday in a West Odessa tourist camp cabin. A small caliber bullet had pierced the left side of his body near the heart. There were no blood stains in the three room cabin, nor any signs of a struggle.Officers said they were told Armstrong was missing from home since Friday night. He was a former House of David pitcher.	Woman Bent on Vengeance Rides from Texas to St. Louis. ST. LOUIS, May 6,1899.—A little woman, dressed in a bicycle suit of army blue and giving her name as Ernie Bloss, called at police headquarters to day and searched the rogues' gallery for the picture of a man named Warren Bennett Ulysses Russell Mayne, who, .married her at Fort Worth, Texas, one year ago and then deserted her. She followed him all the way from Odessa, Texas, on her bicycle, and intimates that when she finds the man she will shoot him. The wronged woman believes that Mayne has another wife at Quincy. Ill. Before leaving his Texas \wife Mayne told her he had wealthy relatives at Albany, N. Y.	El Paso, Texas, . June 8, 1899 - Word reached here yesterday from Odessa, Texas, of the killing of two cowboys there Tuesday by a deputy sheriff. The cowboys, Buck Heart mid Eugene Kelly, rode Into town and proceeded to shoot up the place In the once regulation style. Deputy ..Sheriff Joe Brown heard the shooting and as soon ns possible attempted- to arrest the two men, whereupon the cowboys turned their weapons on the deputy. .He responded promptly, with the result that when the smoke cleared away both Read and Kelly were found lo be mortally wounded and both died in a few hours later
Joel Lewis left on last Tuesday for Odessa, Texas, where he expects to make his future home Joel has many friends here who wish him every success in that section.	Aged Mother in Little Texas Town Anxiously Awaiting Return of Child.-Jan19, 1911 Supposed to be living somewhere in White Pine county, or elsewhere in Nevada, Mrs. Frank Hotchkiss, otherwise known as -Miss Minnie Howard, has come into the possession of a small sum of money, and is not aware of that fact. An aged mother in a little Texas town is anxiously awaiting the return of her child. Friends and relatives have been searching all over the west for the missing heir but their efforts 'have been unrewarded. , She was last heard from at Cripple Creek, Colo., five years ago, and suddenly disappeared from that camp without apprising relatives of her destination. Mrs, Bessie Reed of Odessa, Texas, has received information that her daughter was last seen near Ely, and has asked the- residents of that community to aid her in the search.—Expositor	Pearsall, Texas, Nov. 20.—Clifford Hess returned lately to Odessa, Texas, having (been here for several weeks on a visit to her parents..
INJURED YOUTH'S ARM AMPUTATED Special to the News.. BEAUMONT, April 21,1928—Gordon Nees, son of T. H. Nees, president of the Security State bank, .suffered the amputation of his left arm and other serious injuries in an automobile crash near Odessa, Texas. Tuesdav, according to word received by his family. The youth was reared in Beaumont but left here about a year ago. He is expected to recover		LOS ANGELES. April I9,1928.—After a search of six months. Mrs. Mosell Mc- Dowell. Odessa. Texas, has found her two children and probably will obtain their permanent custody in domestic relations court here. Mrs. McDowell charges that Mrs.T. F. Bears and Mrs. E. P. Wyek. sisters of her divorced husband, secretly removed her children, Bennett. 14, and Dorothy. P. from a private school in Odessa, where she had placed them.