Arizona silver belt., 1893-11-11
crlrxD Fnom THE FAST.


 Citizen the following Capt Alfred Hedberg, whose killing by Lieut. nant Nancy, at Fort Sheridan, Ill,, yester- day morning, was announced in last evenings Citizen, was we'll known in this Territory, having servtd as Cap tain in tho 18th infantry and com mandant of Fort Cummings, in Grant county. In 1872 he was court mar tialed at Santa Fe on charges of rape and embezzlement, and the charges being proven he was dishonorably dig missed the service, and also sentenced to one years imprisonnent in the pen itentiafy. President Grant remitted the imprisonment, A few years since Capt Hedberg married the woman who cauaed his death. She had friends in her Oakland, Cal. home, who had Q strong political pull, and iswas through this inhuence that the Captain, after several years of dishonorable expulsion, was restored to his former rank in the army. He was noted for his brutal and tyranical disposition, and it is quite likely that the men of his command will dispense with the usual resolutions of regret at his taking off
 Capt. Hedberg was known to some of tba rao,.la,fg ,f Cl.I, .I . additional details relative to his life and character are recalled. One of the in- cidents in this connection is in regord 10 the organization of mining camp, some twenty years ago, known as Camp Ralston, later as Shakespeare, Grant county, \. M This camp was ost,,b- hshed by Ralston, prominent Califor- nian, who subsequently, committed sli- eide by drowning in the San Francisco bay, owing to bank failure.
 Hedberg who was in military com mand at Fort Cummings, moved the eommissary supplies attached to the fort to the camp and establisheda a store, and placed Gus Hepner in charge. Implicated with Capt. Hedberg in this transaction were hls two officers, Lieuts. Fitch and Ryan They were all charged and convicted of the offence of embez- element. The prevalent idea then on- tertained by many officers of tho army was that the government wns a goose and that any one was at liberty to pluck a feather. Hedberg, Fitch and Ryan were so thoroughly imbued with the force of this supposition that they did not consider it breach of honesty to cell the supplies of Uncle Sam and turn thereby an honest penny to their own account. Posterity, however, proved the fallacy of this cr5el and the punish ment meted out to the offenders set precedent that has had salutary ei- feet. The camp referred to has surround ing it many associations that glyes it historic interest Among these asso- siasions is entwined the name of B. G1Hsz Brewn, who ran second ou the ti6fes Headed by HofG6s e'res,ey, in presidential election of 1872. Brown Incorporated company at the camp in fie sum of S1O, 1000, 900 and the mine there became known as the Indus mine. The fruits of this speculation are best described by one line; ''The mine and implements sold at sherilfs sale for $2,50O." The implements alone pos sessed value.
 Many are the tales told of the old Indus mine, and few years ago inter est was revived by the presence in Globe of a gentleman from New Or leans, who held somy certificates of stock in 1t of which be WIS willing to diyest ownership for a p.oney consider atioh. There was slr4ething humorous in this atteRpt to sell worthless stock and to few who lad knowledge of the matter and who We're approached by the gentleman from the Crescent City, l it recalled the Fsmark of Ssllie Brass, in one off Dickens works, rslatiye to the lemonade; 'It was good if you make believe a good deal, but if you don't it ain't worth nothing"
 The gentleman from New Orleans made no sales in Globe and departed under the impression that the Indus mine stock was deludon and snare