Arizona silver belt., 1894-09-15

tfNNtTN picked up | new lid to coffee pot, a
 short distance farther preasy sack,
 and then a dirty blanket and raw
 hide rops. To confirm the belief that
 the murderer of Philley wass an Indian,
 whose track they were following, Mir.
 Thompson found on the trail two
 sticks such as are used by Indians to
 ignite fire, One is @ short round
 piece of soap weed whitfield to a point
 at one end; the other, a piece of mes
 cal with fiat surface, in the center of
 which is shallow hole. To ignite a flame, the mescal is placed on Che
 ground with the fiat surface up, the
 sharpened end of the soap weed placed
 in the hole and the soap weed rotated
 rapidly between the palms of the
 hands, the friction causing sparks.
 Following on, the trail took cir
 cuitous and very irregular course for two or three miles and led into the
 Four Peaks. MT. Thompson believes :i.:s.tt .i.stt 5G Sunday chis indian must haEe
 caught sight of them, as previous to
 that the trail indicated that he had
 picked his ground, but on Sunday the
 trail for distance of seven miles led
 through the toughest country imagina- ble, across canyons, up and down steep declevities and through brush The pla- ces where the fugitive oamped on Sat urday and Sunday nights were seen and examined The same moccasin tracks observed near the scene of the murder were plainly visible, and from the peculiarities of the foot prints (un- usually large and long, Mir Thomp- son is confident that it was the trail of the Indian desperSdo, 1.-The Kid" He had followed the Kids trail sever al times before and is familiar with the appearance of his tracks. Bars of soap and other articles from the pack were picked up at several places on the trail.
 Continuing on, on Monday they followed the trail out ofthe Four Peaks country into the Tonto Valley, cross ing the creek near Tom Cline's place, Salome creek above Dutch Woman mountain, and into the Sierra Anchas to the box canyon near where young Baker was killed by Indians Satisfied that the Indian was gaining on him Sheriff Thompson abandoned the pur- suit
 The Gazette gives the name of the murdered man as Horace Philley, aged 20 years, and says: He was a native of fTexas, near Dall..s, and had been 8 resident of Arizona about five years. He was an orphan, bis only immediate relative, brother who came to Arizona with him, having re- turned to Texas. A cousin, s. J. Roach, is Q resident of the valley. For three years Philley was in the employ of Murray & O., taking care of range cattlein the Bloody Basin re- zion, on the western slope of the Mag atzal range. He was highly esteemed.o D
 Owing, doubtless, to the pau city of facts in it's possession re- garding the murder of Philley, and its love of the sensational, the Gazette gives wings to its imagination and ad- vances the preposterous theory that the mysterious death of young Philley may possibly be ascribed to the re- newal Of the Tewksbury- Graham feud although there is not one iot2 in the evidence bearing on Pbilley's death to support, or even suggest, such the- ory, and the attempt to further blacken bhe characters of Ed. Tewksbury and John Rhodes, who had already been roully traduced by the press of Phm- nix, is cowardly and reprehonsible act Fortunately for Tewksbury and the evidence gathered in re- gard to the killing of Philley is so full and so strongly supports the belieF that Philley was the victim of an h. dian assassin, ae to make the crude theory of the Gazette appear ridicu- Ious.
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