Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-02-22

oOl uioUAAO1ly llldU uS6u IlO lnuuCO- ments whatever to make him stay by l me, however much I desired it, but only requested him to exchange ami mais with me, seeing that the mule appeared very willing to go back but not forward. To this he consented; | and after giving me some general di- rectlons about my route and remark ing that l would probably be guided by some crows and carrion buzzards in my search for my dead friend, we parted. Cheerful parting words these were!
 The tempest was now at its highth however the horse was willing enough to go forward and for about half mile everything went well enough when all at once we came to dead stop: the horse had evidently lost the road which running over some rocky hills was not plainly marked, not being travelled over with frequency. 1 dlsmounted and knelt down, lighting the few dry matches that 1 found in my match box Everything else about me was as wet as it was possible to be.) While l was occupied holding my horse by the bridle, another fearful thunderbolt struck in the immediate vicinity; the horse made a jump and broke loose and l dropped the match box. Of course the most sensible thing that l could have done under the circumstances would have been to sit right there and wait for daylight or at least for a clearing up of the weather. But l did not do this sensible thing; I com menced to grope about in the dark maintaining however always the di- rection of the Santa Rita mountains whose lofty peaks I could plainly see now and then standing out boldly in the lightning illumined sky. Alter while the thunderstorm began to abate, the rain ceased altogether, the streaks of lightning became fewer and finally ceased altogether; by this I lost my only guide or finger post, for around me was the blackest darkness and the deepest silence. But hark !! here comes sound waited over the mesa howl, now another, then few more and directly the internal concert llOHl u Aulldl Cu s J
 throats of bowling coyotes floats upon the night air and strikes upon my nerves already in high degree of ten sion Had they scented or perhaps already found my unfortunate horse?
 Were they tearing him to pieces?
 Would they dare to attack me? As l carried a good new Colts revolver
 carefully loaded before starting, l had
 but little fear of the latter, but still
 made for every object whose density
 of darker darkness in the ohscunty in-
 dicated solid body, be it tree, a
 rock bush or whatever it might be-
 in order to keep at all events my back
 covered. The bowling seemed to me
 to increase with every minute and
 am afraid to tell the number at which
 I estimated that bowling crowd of
 coyotes. While I thus wondered, stop
 ping slowly with extended arms l came
 suddenly to a steep descent, lost my
 footing and rolled or rather slipped
 down about fifty feet to the great
 detriment of my trousers back, ant
 landed safely at the bottom of gulcl
 and very near one of those oak treei
 that were then found in great pro
 fusion around Fort Crittenden and oh
 wonder and joyl under this tree stoo(
 my horse.
 I mounted and urged the horse ol
 with my spurs, giving him his owl
 choice as to direction. He turned
 slightly to the left and almost i'm
 mediately began to gallop without th'
 least hesitation and 1 soon discoveret
 that we were surely on road. Hoy
 long this gallop lasted I know not
 We were suddenly brought to a stan'
 by the sonorous voice of somebod
 calling out: "Halt who come there?
 This, which in war times is not al
 ways friendly greeting, sounded lik'
 sweet music in my ears. It came iron
 O. % sn,Atr of Fort ,Crittendar'r Hfn '.aisfa,7
 the corporal of the guard was promptl
 on hand and guided me at my reques
 to the tent of Lieut.. J. w. Hopkin
 (since died while en route to Por Lobos, Mex) By him I was received most hospitably and made as comfol
 table as to my physical wants as wa possible. i told him the sad taiie c friend Wooster's more than probabl
 murder and he promised me all tn
 assistance I sholud require in the ext
 cution of my sad task. Being con
 pletely exhausted I soon fell asleep. Early in the morning 1 went to tn sutler store and then learned to m ) great joy that Leslie B. Wooster wa alive and well; that he had been dt , tained at Wise's hay camp ion ac count of the latter's absence but woul , be this very day back at Wallen wit some hay-cutters. So also retuine
 to Wallen later in the day, Capt l Moulton having kindly furnished m l an escort. But that pressing bushes 5 at Wallen never came off, I was tol, t At the very moment that l was al r proaching the adobe barracks ( ? Wallen on the Crittenden road, ? saw across the creek my frien t Leslie B. Wooster and party descen' | ing the hill on the Whetstone road l the last rays of sunset shone bright I upon his smiling face as he took c I his hat and waved to me a friend 2 welcome What a beautiful suns' 8 there was on that day.
 [ Ballot reform for Arizona should O e cupy the leading place in the polite h campaign of the Territory this sun T. mer and fall. The system adopted
 Idaho, Montana, Massachusetts al 6 other sections of the Union has prove o very satisfactory to both parties, in i q workings, and will undoubtedly n generally adopted throughout tl T United States. Arizona is no exec r. tion in her needs in this direction al |; her professional politicians and bu: It ness citizens will each be intereste ], the one to make favorable polite h record, the other to protect the inte e ests of their business, keep taxes doy y to something like normal figure al g. secure and maintain the very be T. character of officials. Treasu & wreckers and that class of politicia e. represented by "Little Steve" will I opposed to ballot reform every tir i'd and most bitterly but their opposlti n will simply show the hand tn q play and the people will know t