Newspaper article and might it relate to farriers/horseowners

Oh Ray, you know how past lives go. Some things get a bit sketchy. Not much I could say anyhow, it was a bit after my time. I would have stayed as far away from the action as possible anyway due to my employment as a Highwayman at the time. It was also just a bit before I sailed a schooner round the Horn of Mexico. I was also a dam builder for a time,not that it matters. My fortune teller even says I might get to fly a starship sometime in the future, I'm pretty she's nuts though.

I never knew that Mexican territory extended all the way to the horn back then. That must have been before Teddy dug the ditch.