The Daily Tombstone., 1886-03-13

' to warm up. There were six others there e-aiso. 1 had not been there five minutes when MT, Deputy put in his appearance again and searched the whole. crowd, me excepted. There was but one professional tramp in that crowd, the others all being trIdesmcn, miner among them.
 About fifteen minutes afterwarl we we're startled by noise excluinling: "Gentlemen, whose coal are you burn ing" and before any one had time to answer. the same voice continued: : You gentlemen had, I guess, better get up and leave this place" which was followed by the appearance of a half-dozen men armed with Winches- ters and six-shooters. They marched us half mile from town and told us to "keep agoing." I was the only one that was going east, the others wanting to go the other way, but the One Hundred and One-as they called themselves refused 10 let them go that way, even refusing to hear them, and the consequencswas that the poor devils had te go about three miles around town to go the way they wished 10.
 l stopped that night and Sunday at the pump-housc, about a mile from town, made break into town Sunday night and got out on train to Wilcox.
 I have no objection to honest people compelling "professional1'
 TRAMP TO MOVE ON,
 or even hanging him. but I do pro test against any crowd of men corn polling set of men to walk across the dcserts of Arizona, who are will ing to work when work is 10 be had especially, when the vigIlantes are led by a man who is the agent-as l was infolmed-of Sisson, Crocker & Co., the firm that the people of Califor- niI have had so much trou le with in regard to employing Chinese instead of white men, and another-who is the same deputy-marshal that did the searching-that Is supposed 10 upheld the dignity oft the law. Why did not the marshal order Us out? Was he afraid of us? 1 can assure him tbat there was not the least danger from that crowd.
 Business at Benson seemed to be at a standstll, although the general stores were doing q pretty fair busi- ness.
 Wilcox was pretty lively the few days waS'in it, as thclc was quite ? large shimcnt of cattle going to the Los Angeles market and a great many cowboys in town. Business seemed to be taking a boom and the merchants looked happy.
 The Stockman was to enlarge perhaps has done so already-as it's increased patronage demands more room for advertisements, and its genial proprietor does not want to en- croach on it's reading matter nor de- priye its readers of any news they are entitled to-
 Wilcox people have good word for TIE TOMBSTONE.
 The next stop was for an hour, al night time, at Bowie Station, where I ran into.a camp of Uncle Sam's men and had the experience of. seeing d gun pointed at me and being chal- ienged by sentry. I passed as friend, and got warm at the fire. could see nothing else there at that time.
 I arrived in Lordsburg, N. M., in the morning. It has improved some what in the past five years, but is de ceiving to the eye in its number of house:-atout one half being empty. Business was very dull at this point, and how the proprietor of tre Lords Advance makes his paper support him, i5 a mystery. I understood that Shakespeare, three miles from Lords burg, has made but little lhange In the past five years. The marrow guage road to Clifton cooked Lords burg's goose.