Arizona weekly miner., 1875-01-15
ELEPHANT BERRY.

We had intended to let the mammoth ape whose name appears as editor of the Yuma Sentinel severely alone, until day or two ago when citizen of Prescott requested us to inform our readers that Berry uttered pratuitous falsehood when he stated Tn the Sentinel of November [, 1874, that ''he a fBerry) lost sl .5OO by trusting certain in- a fsrnai sconndreis in Prescott and vicinity
 Tbi. being A reasonable and legitimate re- nuest. we now assert that Berry lied when he said so. and that it would take more than SI 800 to pay for the whisky which Berry ..bummed" during his long soiourn m Pres colt, not to speak of that which he guzzieu in our sister county of Mohave, previous to the day upon which he found himself dcoai- red from the privilege of swallowing free whisky in Cerbat.
 Again. we have been asked our reasons for not giving the lie to certain assertions oi his, regarding ourself. We'll, one reason Is :: Berry Is a natural and artificial lar, whom nobody was ever known to believe. Then, he did tell one truth about us, !. C., that drink once got the better of us, at sociai marty given by Col Baker. We were drunk that night, and have never vet attempted to deny it. But, Berry drank ten times to our once, and the only reason that he dld not fall down and crawl on all fours, like the beast that he is, was, there was not sufficient liquor in the house to fill his hogshead. He has said, in the Sentinel that no man ever saw "Wm. J. Berry" drunk. In answer to this, we say that Win. J. Berry lied when he said so. When he lived in Prescott, his first great care was to fill himself with whls- ky. after which it was his custom to walk, like the swine that he is, on all fours, to hls den. Again, he cannot have forgotten his visit to Lynx creek, in the summer of lS64 when he rolled over pine log, dead drunk, and served useful purpose for Jocose man, who is still resident of this section of Arr zona. Yes, Judge, we own up to that little drunk of ours but, unlike you, we were not pointed out and derided as a regular whisky bloat nor did any person ever at i tempt to use us for water-closet, as you were used that day, on Lynx Creek.
 | As to your being a better editor than the writer of this, it is for the public to judge not for you to assert, although you have as | serted 1t.
 You have called us blackguard, regard | less ofthe old story about the pot and kettle linen you UdNc uCCuSSu uS oi toa"y '''o " Gen. Crook you, who have toadied and bent your knees to every placeholder. capitalist and bar-kceper in tbis section of Arizona you, who made an ass of yourself by firing an anvil salute in honor of tine arrival of Gen Stoneman, who, you will recollect, never ac knowledged the 'honor done him." AnC you take up the cudgels for thieving lndlar agents and, by so doing, go back on your rec ord, made when you used to write and speaf against the ''lndian Ring Robbers and Mur derers" An, Judge, you have had many mas ters; have been everything (save an inde pendent man), by turns, and nothing long Had you changed your shirts as often as yo' have changed masters, there would be on' sand-bar less in the Colorado river, and WI would not know that you are in Yuma when according to your published statement, yo' should be in San Francisco.
 Hoping that these few lines will find yo drunk and obedient to your masters, as usua
 we say, in your own ''classic" language, "un cork and be d--d."