The St. Johns herald. (St. Johns, Apache County, Arizona Territory [Ariz.]) 1885-1903, 1888-06-28
Territorial Items.


Of a canning establishment.
Phenix is catching on to the Cal
ifornia style Of advertising. A box
of Salt river valley apricots was re-
Gently sent to President Cleveland.
One of Wells Fargo's messengers
named Stevenson, robbed a pack
age on the Atlantic & Pacific road
of $4,000 a few days ago. He was
tracked to San Francisco, where de-
tectives are on the watch for him
and they feel certain that they will
get him before he gets out of the
city.-Albuquerque Citizen.
In common with the rest of the
west, since the Inauguration of the
present system Of government es-
poinage in matters pertaining to
public lands, Arizona possesses a
magnificent speciment Of the dam
phool family in one Colonel Bevans,
whose latest exploit has been to
censure both the local land office at
Prescott, as well as the Chief JUS
tice Of the Territory for rulings
made in a certain land case in
Apache county simply because both
tribunals did not do just as the
autocratic Colonel thought they
should. While the Colonels appa-
rent desire to run every official in
the Territory, from q Justice of the
Peace up, in the way he wants them
to go, may be good one, rfortu-
hately for him q man in his dotage
Is hardly up toIa contraet of such
magnitude.-Hoof and Horn.
Joseph Porter, the convict who
escaped from the penitentiary was
recaptured after a fight. Superin-
tendent John II. Behan was quite
i'll when the escape was discovered
in the morning, but 'notwithstand-
ing his sickness, lie procured In
dian tlailers and started in pursuit
The convict crossed and r9crosSed
the Gila river, finally y taking to the
thick brush, through which horses
could not go. Supt. Behan coming
upon the trail where it led into an
almost impenetrable thicket, took
the lead and advanced upon the
ambushed ruliian, who was armed
with Winchester rife. The CON
Wet fired at Bchan, who returned
the fire and kept advancing until
the convict again fired through the
brush, but was finally overtaken by
Bchan and captured. No one hurt,
but Behan narrowly escaped
Ep.taph.
Wm, Sparks, better known here
about as "Timberline," had a lively
time with q bear on or near his
ranch about ten days ago. MIR
Sparks had set trap for a noun
tain lion, and on visiting it found
that a bear had been caught and
had walked off with the whole out
fit. He started in pursuit with a
Winchester and trailed him for some
time before coming on his bearship.
When he did find him bruin was
mad, and in stepping back to avoid
an infuriated rush Timberline fell,
face under, down hill. The bear
lost no time in taking advantage Of
the situation and seizing Timber
line at the under side of his thigh
gave him a lively shaking up. The
victim Of this rough usage, how
ever, held fast to his rifle and man
aged to throw in cartridge. He
twisted around and just as the bear
let 90 to take a fresh hold Timber
line fired, the ball entering the ami
mails mouth. This ended the bat
tie. But Sparks was badly hurt,
one Of the tendons of his leg
bruised and bitten severely. He
bound up his wounds as best he
could and walked half a mile to a
SnrinU where he washed and aUain