Phoenix weekly herald., 1897-10-07
AN ALL ROUND ARIZONAN.
One of the Rising Young Men of the
 Territory.
The Romance and the Reality of Cow
 boy Life.

The following from the pen of B well known newspapers man of this city and I published by she StOcknld7t, while it 1 appears in the glamour Of romancs con sists of ssssensnb of realities touch | ing one ot our best known young busi
 men, Wall 0 Bsraes
 The wRiser sseys: Speaking of the appointment of Will 0 Barnes to he u
 member of the Live Stock Sanitary 1 board, s well known Pnoenician eX- pressed himself yesterday as ;more than l well pleased.
 | Barnes" emphatically said he, 1 knows more about cattle than any other man ia ArIzons, and besides is
 one of the incest fellows iu the world. 1 He Is a prima favoRite doWn in Phoe-
 nix, where he spends his winter, and | managed to fad eapsoisl fsvos with u 1 Phoenix girl, the daughter of Walter | Talbot, the seme girl to whom he was welded few months ago with social l eclst. Oo top of this he Is 8 Fepu bli- can of the most pronounced descrip tion and was Of immsnse help last campaign in She offics of secretary or the Terri sorial central committee. He got the | strongest Of recommendations to the 1 place of United States marshal for Ari zous end would I am SD ses have secured
 the first place if Griffith had not secur- l sd prioF cinch ca the off ics ss the ns- l tional convention. All around I don't l believe there ia a mau in Arizona who l can more saeiiy convince kicking cstslemsn of ths necessity for the l seversst inspection ot all cattle ship l ments whether in or ons.
 Anyone who has seen Barnes in Phoenix singing in the church or dsnc | ing ss though it wBs his sole occu patton in life, can little imagine him as l saw | him one evening on tde Tonto Basin road. 1 was working ogsr toward Tonto. l horseback, and had jass stteined the top of that roted sccllv;sy known ss Sore wtaii hill on 5he Rsno srsil. Hare, face to face, whom should 1 encounter but Barnes, sttired in chaparejos, high heeied boots, big hat and tGttered hickory shirt. While we clesped hands
 he explained he was on in edvancs of herd of bulls sud COWS he was bringing
 fFom Apache county to pasture 6Hd
 fatten on Salt River vslley alfalfa.
 There was grass st the top of the hill,
 and an easy holding ground, so there we
 unssddied, there to pass the night iu
 dry camp, the animals having been
 Ws:sred in Sycamore creek, nils be-
 low. By the time ths foot-soKe, tired
 herd had been turned and set to graz
 ing, Barnes had gotten the fire going
 and was ready fer the contents of the
 kyacks the packhorae bore. With the
 deftest hand he mixed the bread for the
 Dutch oven, while one Of the cowboys
 sliced the bacon snd put the coffee on,
 and then, while awaiting tue meal, he
 fitted a couple of shoes to the saddle
 pony he was to ride she next day. It
 was in the fall tins and the air on that
 hilltop WAS keen. Our capacities were
 in keeping and never was a supper bet
 ser relished.
 After the meal hsd been put away
 snd the relief set On the night herd
 there osms tims of story telling, that
 also was utilizsd by several Of the cow
 boys in necessary repairs to clothing
 and saddle outfit. But the fire burned down and the tired borders rolled themselves in their blaDke5s and audi ply slambered. In the middle of She night there was stir and 8 few mutt tered. though luFid, remarks, as the relief guard tried to Eope their ponies from ous She heard of twenty OF more down the hill came the retrs ain of | song, song thab was about the woes of some Texes cowpuncher and that | appeared to have about forty3leven | verses, but the tenoF voice that sung | it perfectly blended into the romance l of the occasion and under its spell the restless cattle seemed to quiet. for they osssed their milling snd bedded down for sleep. The singer was Barnes, and as l raised ou my elbow and looked out. l saw him, blackly outlined against the ssar-studded sky, trotting his horse along a ridge that overlooked the herd, skipping his quirs against his leggines, keeping sIne to his song. Next morning ie wss he who rsked up the csmp fire and 'roussed' up the boys aud helped start the herd towsFd even before the breakfast was ready.
 "Yes." continued the narrator, I've seen Will Barnes under almost all conditions and for an all'round Ari- sonsn there is hardly his equal to be ouud"
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