The Phoenix herald., 1880-08-20
ALAMEDA STATION, A. T. Aug. 10.

ALAMEDA STATION, A. T. Aug. 10. EDITOR HEyALD:-Since islander and scandal seems to be the fashIon
 Of the day, The Phoenix ExpOsitor
 ;ries very hard to keep his foot in it,
 which he has demonstrated by pub
 fishing in last weeks paper very
 pernicicus reply to my "espistle," as
 he calls it. Hcvery carefully desects
 my cards, published in the HERALD.
 and tries to cxtrI cate himself out of
 the meshcs, like a house fly out of g
 cobweb, and in order to m;ke the
 thing shine furnishes it's readers with
 Some people, it is said, can not tell i the truth as long as they can subti-
 tute lie for it, and ihIs seems to be
 exactly the case with the Expositor
 1 regret very much that have to in-
 dulgc in any personalities. How
 ever the truth is that all the fuss
 about this Indian whisky business
 originated from that great confounder
 of the day, the Expositor, and not from the Mexican, who he is also
 trying to drag into the mud to be
 deflcd.
 My friend, the Expositor, says in
 his defense, in last weeks reliability
 "When Mexican, who is clerking for Mir. Harris. etc. etc." Now the
 infant knows full well that the man
 referred to is noCNa clerk but cook,
 this the infant, himself, told me. I
 will mark this, Expositor story No.
 123, and will say, if the Expositor
 don't see the difference between
 cook and clerk I am blind enough
 not to see any difference between the
 infant Democrat and Jackass. He
 further says: If you will wait un-
 til teamster who, one day last week, started with h.s family to the Verde,
 returns we will produce the man who
 hauled barrel of whisky, etc The i foregoing is booked Expositor lie
 No 124- The gentleman, Mir. Sears,
 who brought out my liquors and goods. pitched his tent within 90 yards of my store on the Gila, on Friday last, returning from the Rail
 road. The very day the Expositor tells its readers that he had gone to the Verde with his family. This IS excusable on the grounds that the infant don't know the difference be- tween the Verde and Gila River. Now comes Expositor veracity No. 125, also the man who has seen In dians skulking along the fence, etc. This I answer by saying that the in fant had better send out his reliable reporter, named in the article I am now dressing, to ascertain whether there is a fence around or about my premises or not. The following is Expositor reliability No. 126, which he perniciously preludes by saying: "Now, MT. Slosser. you stated to us, in the presence of a witness, that five gallons would cover the quantity of whisky taken to your station and | that whoever said you had taken 1 more uttered falsenood." Almighty | tooter of your horn, is it possible 1 that you are suffering in your garrct ! from the severe dog day heat; is it all l cohol on the brain or did you mis- understand owing to the fact that | yeu are not accns; omed to that music 1 al voice Uf yuur ic,.tnnic friend: I | here give you, as near as I can re- | member, the language used in our conversation relative to the five gal Ions of whisky: "There IS no aues ton about there having been whisky sold to Indians on the Gila, and I | have been informed that as much as | a five gallon keg full of whisky had | been traded to the Indians at one | time" 1 wonder if the chief and his | witness will bc able to correct them selves by reading the above? Final ly ;n closing his lengthy article of | noxious islander he says: "The word of an honest Mexican is just as good | as that of Mr. Slosser, or any other man." That is just what think and l maybe the word of the Mexican, Pedro, is just little better than that i of Frank Cox and hIs infant chief. l "Qui facit per alum norum facit per | S." MT. Harris man, Pedro. says | he did not see Indians buy whisky at | my station. Now the only way that | I can see for the Expositor 10 clear i itself iS to procure about halfa dozen i affidavit men to pull him out of the | gutter. In reply to his vinegar to my sourkraut l will say. that his | vinegar will have all leaked out. | when l will yet have plenty of sour kraut. H. E. SLOssER.