The oasis., 1897-11-06
Saturday, Nov 6, 1897.
Wouldn't Do Wholesale Bo-iness.

occurrence bIducptihe at NVsoiOS some months since:
 A Phoenix man not long ago was on
 the edge of violating the laws of God
 and the state of Sonora by fighting duel. While at Nogales with party of friends, he fell in with a German
 baron who happened to be engaged in
 a mining enterprise on the Mexican
 side. The baron and the Phoenix
 man got into dispute one night over game of billiards. Tine dispute was
 mild and gentlemanly at the begin
 ing. The Phoenix man without losing
 his temper, acquired that degree of conversational freedom which quar-
 rel always inspires in an American and began pouring into those noble German ears such a language as had never assailed them before. This was the ground work for duel. The baron issued a challenge and the de-
 tails were arranged by Col. w. P. Har- low. It was to come of on the Mexi- can side. Nobody but the baron was in earnest about the duel and it was supposed that he would be cooled of during the night, but he didn't. He spent half the night in arranging his earthly affairs and preparing for the
 worst. Col. Harlow was anxious to stop the affair before the men took
 their places if he could do so without loss of honor to the American. The idea was to induce the baron to pro- pose peace. If he should persist in settlement at twelve paces Col. Har- low had arraged that the antagonists should face each other with blank car tridges. But the baron was bent on
 bloOdshed and the party crossed the line. The Phoenix man had a swift horse for the Mexican police know no- thing about joking. If the duel should be interrupted imprisonment would be likely to follow and freedom would be regained only after the settlement Of a triangular international discussion of the incident On the way to the baetle field Col Harlow, who walked with the baron, enlightened him re- garding the American code. "Ir you kill him. said he, you're only half done; kill his seconds and as many Of his friends as possible before they have time to pull their guns. All these gentlemen, your seconds, as well as his, are dead shots, so it is possible that nobody will escape but | the referee and the surgeon" The baron hesitated. He didn't mind 1 shedding his own or his antagonists J blood. but he didn't want to partici l pate in military movement and ex- pose all his friends to the rayages of 1 war. He signified his willingness to 1 make peaceful overtures. The par ties shook hands and cemented their { s-s of ri woods and many other places where | the peculiar variety of cement for re- pairing broken friendships is kept on sale.
 But the Republican hasn't told the story entire. The weapons selected were a pair of old fashioned horse pistols, with barrels as large as small howitzers. Harlow had them loaded with light charges of powder, and for bullets he had large quantity of sta ble offal pushed into the barrels. There had been no partiality. Both pistols were loaded alike, and the job was intended for both belligerents. At a critical juncture the Phoenix man became suspicious and said: See here, Harlow, I believe you are trying to job me, also.n "Oh, mo-" replied Harlow, ''you know l wouldn't job you" 'I know nothing of the kind, was the earnest response, "and 1 don't like the look Of your eye Harlow assured him by Mars, Bellerophon, Janus and all the other great gods of war, that nothing of the kind was in- tended, but it was a vain assurance: the valiant Phoenician would not cross the line en route to the field of honor without guaranty that the affair should be headed off before the field was reached So Harlow lnven- ted the story which finally brought