Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-04-20

net return all the property left belong
 ed to him; but when the union soldiers
 succeeded the confederates 1 returned with them and Mir. Lazard faithfully aC-
 counted to me for all property and pro tits made in my absence.
 1 recall one incident that occurred
 while I was absent. Mir. Lazsrd sold a bunch of cattle to J. G. Cspron for s2500
 to be paid for on their delivery by Capon to the subsistence department of the army. The cattle was delivered and
 payment male toCapron, ,who at once left for Sonora to engage in business with out paying Lazard, but who followed
 him to Magdalena and demanded pay
 ment. Capron laughed and said,
 "Frenchie, 1 owe you that money ln Ar
 izons and will pay you when l return
 there, but under the laws of Sonora you
 cannot collect 1t here unless l make an acknowledgement of my indebtedness to
 you, which I certainly shall not do.' That night there was a social dance and
 supper at which there attended MT. Camou, a French friend of Lazard, and to whom he told of his troubles with
 Capron. Daring the evening after the
 wine had flowed freely and Capron,
 among the others, felt happy and con vivial, Camou asked him what the trouble was between himself and Laz- ard. Capron replied that he owed him S2500 for cattle but would not pay him until he returned to Arizona. Next
 morning MT. Cannon called Cspron's at tention to his acknowledgement the pre-
 vious evening of his indebtedness to MT. Lszsrd and on his behalf demanded pay
 ment. Capron deemed discretion the better part of valor and concluded to
 make payment, but changed all his gold
 and silver and paper for "iolas," (Mexl-
 can copper ceuts), and which Mir. Lag
 ard was compelled to accept as 1t was | lgal tender in Sonora. These were load ed on a mule pack train belonging to Fritz Contzen, who is still with us, and
 taken to Altar and traded for cattle
 which were driven here and sold to the
 government. Besides collecting a just debt and
 making handsome profit on his trip, Mir. Lazard realized more successfully than did our pioneer Pete Kitchen on
 his noted trip.
 Mir. Lazsrd had another experience in | Sonora. In 1866 he and J. Ii. Toole en- tered into a flour contract for supplying | the troops, the flour to be purchased ID Sonora, but as Toole wanted to faclll- tate matters in making deliveries and
 receiving payment the contract was run ID Toole's name. After the contract 9as thus drawn and Toole thought he saw hIs way clear to alone reap the pro- | fits, he ignored MT. Lazard, who at once | went to Sonora and contracted for all the available supply, and when Toole went down there he found his game blocked, and meeting Lazard on the street in Hermosillo made terms at Mir. Lizards dictation. He next engaged | with T. NJ. Yerkes in the erection of a
 saw mill in the Santa Ritas, and met with success until the mill was burned. la 1870 he and W. J. Osborn pur-
 chased the sutler's store at Camp Crit
 teuden from H s. Stevens, Osborn sub sequently selling out to Lazard, who in turn later on sold to Thos. Hughes. It was at this time that his health began to fail him and he became troubled with the painful afiiiction which eventually
 caused his death.
 On the discovery of the copper mines at Bisbee he went there and successfully
 conducted a mercantile establishment, and also dealt in mines there and at
 Tombstone, but was again compelled to close out on account of his failing | health.
 During his long residence in Arizona
 he was quite successful in most O; hIs
 many and varied undertakings, but lost
 heavily by repeated Indian depredstions
 and has a clam now pending against
 the government for payment of part of
 these losses.
 August g, 1878 Mir. Lazard and my
 self made, for the first time during all the years of our connection, full settle
 ment of our business transactions in-
 cluding dealing iu merchandise stock,
 mines and mining, government con- tracts, water ditches at Pueblo Viejo
 and San Pedro, etc., and it affords me