The Arizona sentinel., 1876-02-26
YUMA. A. T.. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26 I876
Colorado Justice.

Jim Farkor, WnOSo labCn-SCTlnS
 hangs out at the. head of Blue
 Lizzard Gulch, was duly elected
 justice of the peace of that section
 of El Paso county. Recently Jim
 convened his first court to hear
 the complaint of Elder Slater, a
 travelling missionary, who had
 caused the arrest of Zimri Bowels,
 a resident of the foot hills, upon a
 charge of. stealing the Elders
 One.eyed mule. AS Zim had been
 arrested in the act of casing the
 descent of the mule down Mad
 Gun Mountain, with his lariat
 fastened to the tail of his animal,
 the,. proof against him was con-
 elusive. Accordingly, the justice,
 after much legal perplexity of
 mind, proceeded to sentence Zim
 to one years imprisonment in the
 territorial penitentiary, which
 sentence he concluded as follows:
 "An' now, Zim, seein' as Pm about out of things to eat, an' as you will have the cost to pay, I 1 reckon you'd better take a turn
 among the foothills with your
 rifle, an see if you can pick up
 some meat before might, as you can't start for the Big Canon be- fore noornin'." Which marketing duty was performed by zim bring ing in: :.Cne, blacktail lawn and a 1 rabbit within the time prescribed as postscript to the sentence.-l The next morning the constable, Mike Irving, started his prisoner through the mountains for inc penitentiary. They arrived the | second day, out, having shot & | deer, two antelOpes, and a small | cinnamon, bear on the way. These they sold to the warden of the prison. Having divided the mo- ney, the constable proceeded to hand over Zimri,, together with the following mittimus from Jim Parker, which is carefully pre-. served in the penitentiary ar-
 To the he'd man of the Colo. rado prison, down at the foot of the, Big Canon on the Arkansas Take notice: Zimri Boules, who come with this here, Stole Elder :, Slater's One-eyed mule, and:it was all the mule the Elder had, and, I sentenced Zim to one year in the Colorado pris. on, and hated to do it, .seein' as Zim once stood by me like man when the lnjuns had me in a tight place, an arter I sentenced Zim one year, for, stealing the FL der's mule, my wife, Lizzy, who is kind O tender-hearted crit ter, come and leaned her arm on my shoulder, and says she, "Fa- ther, don't fOrgit the time when Zim, with his rife, covered our cabin from Granite Mountain, an' saved us from the .Arrapahoes, and Father, 1 have heard you tell that. after you was wounded at Sand Creek, an helpless, it was rifle that halted the Injun that was creeping in the grass to scalp you" An then there was a.: tear splash fell upon the sen-I tence and I changed my mind as follows :: Seein' as the mule only had but one eye,. and weren't morn half d mule at that, you can let Zim go at. about six months, an sooner if the Injuns shud get ugly, an furthermore, if the Elder should quiet down and give in any times, l will pardon Zim out instanter. Witness my official hand and seal.
 JAMES PARKER, J. P. :. The warden informed the con- stable, that he could not receive 7 the prisoner on such a commit. ment, and explained that Zimri should have given a bond in the { sum of $500 to appear at the dis trlct court. This was accomplish ed by Zimri subscribing his name to- an old replevin bond calling for $500 found among the; papers transmitted to the constable by his predecessor. [. Then, as the constable intended returning by way of Pinon Mountain, to ex; anime a bear den, where he had seen a couple of cubs playing last spring, he gave the bond to Zimri to take back to the Justi. e., But limri, while on his. return traded the $500 bond to a, mountain squat ter, just in from Missouri, for a horse, saddle and bridle, and the prisoner is believed to be, at this , time, a dashing hunter on the Plains.
 7T .. :J
 M. Jannet. a Frenchman of great reputation for honesty in his own country, has written a