Tombstone epitaph., 1888-02-04
ALLEGED ARSON.
Kidnapping Pure and Simple-Ducks for the
 Lawyers.

LoCHIEL, ARIZONA, Jan. 2o, 1888.
 EDITOR STAR:-A case of arson is re. ported here, which bids fair to be full of exciting developments within the next few weeks. The facts, as near as your correspondent can learn, are as follows:
 Last Friday night, between 8 and 9 o'clock John Peterson, who was at the house of Joseph Campini, discovered that Campini's stable and hay ricks were on fire.
 MT. Campini ran to his stable, and with difficulty rescued his horses from the flames, but his stables and hay were totally destroyed.
 There are various theories as to how the fire occurred. Peterson alleges that the incendiary is James Sutherland, be- cause Southerland passed Campini's house about 4 o'clock of the afternoon the fire occurred, driving a stray COW home. Southerlapd's friends make a counter accusation against Peterson, and Mir. John Ray and other citizens allege that there are circumstances which tend strongly to show that Peterson re- gently set fire to little hay stack of his own, for the purpose of throwing suspi- cion on man whom he wished to in jure.
 MT. Arther Landers and Mir. Pavey. near neighbors of MT. Campini, state that there is a Mexican working for Mir. Campini and is probable that he may have thrown down cigarette paper in the hay, and the fire originated in that manner. No one that knows Jim South. erland believes that he would be such a william as to fire any mans property.
 Immediately after the fire, as your correspondent is informed, Camplni and Peterson went to Southerland's house, some miles away, where they found Southerldnd in bed with Bobby Watts, young ooy, son of F. H. Watts, Esq, prominent ranchman in the West Hua- chucas. Peterson and Campini entered the house, as is reported here, with drawn revolvers, arresting Southerland and demanding confession. Souther- land protested his innocence, and beg ged for his life, which was threatened if he denied the crime. Young Watts was most scared to Geath and alleges that his presence alone prevented the lynch ing of SoutherlanG, as rope was put around his neck by Peterson and Cam pini.
 MT. Beressich states that Peterson struck Sutherland over the eye with the end of revolver, and the eye looks as ifa bottle of ink had been thrown in to it.
 Indignation is running high against Campini and Peterson, especially the latter for the treatment of Southerland. Great sympathy is felt for MT. Campini, and it IS not believed that he would have accused Sutherland, but for presence of Peterson, who is an enemy of ofSoutherland and sought an opportunity to revenge himself upon the latter.
 Southerland is one of the most harm less men of the whole county. He is a kind of man who could not be tempted to do any man wrong. He is moreover cripple, having broken one of his legs, and the brutal cruelty of these two big strong men toward him has appealed strongly to the sympathy of the whole community.
 Campini is worth SIo,ooo and Mir. Southerland's friends say that he will in- stltute suit for damages, based on the fact that he was arrested without a war rant, that they threatened his life and did him great bodily harm. There is fat pickings for the lawyers ahead.
 Since the robbery of Berreda & Co., mez's store, they have moved into a new store building, further away from the line.
 Six cases of smallpox are reported in in the town of Santa Cruz, Sonora. The superintendent of railway mail service at San Francisco has ordered the mail for this office to be sent in the