Arizona republican., 1898-03-26
GARVEY'S BEEF CONTRACT.
A Acquisition Issued Yesterday for
 One of His Assistants.

Sheriff Scott White of Cochise county was in the city yesterday after requi- sition upon the governor of Oklahoma for the extradition Of Noble Stanley, wanted in Cochise county for participa- tion in gigantic cattle steal. Stanley has been hunted for since early in Feb ruary He was lately located at Okla homa City and was arrested there on Thursday. Sheriff White obtained the requisition and left last night for Oklahoma City after wiring the officers there they could earn S100 if they would hold him in spite of impending habeas corpus proceedings.
 The cattle stealing with which Stan ley is charged was the bOldest and most gigantic enterprise of the kind ever carried on in that part of the country. Several months ago William Garvey was awarded the contract for furnishing beef to the military post at Huachuca. He took the contract at a surprisingly low figure and his rivals wondered how he was going to fill it without damaging himself. He had few cattle on range 1n the mountains not far from the post, which circum- stance intercepted any suspicion that y. Beside Garvey was above suspicion. He was a jovial Irishman and was generally considered reckless. Garvey employed two cowboys, Stanley and another man, at $30 a month each Then the cattle stealing was begun systematically. Garvey and his assistants began preying upon the large herds along the San Pedro and Babocomari. If cattle were missed now and then the cowboys in charge supposed that they had wandered away, had perhaps died on the range or had fallen victims to Mexican cattle thieves, an ever present and unavoid- able evil.
 Garvey and his cowboys grew bolder and bolder and 1azier and lazier. The exertion of rounding up a wild steer on the range became unnecessarily se- were, so that now and then a milk COW belonging to the post suddenly disap- peared. Then another and another failed to return to the post. It was plain that these cows had never wan 0ered away. It was also plain that the Mexicans had not stolen them It was equally plain that rustlers would not have run them off when they could have invaded the large herds on the ranges with less risk and better re- suits. Thus by the reductio ad ob- surdum process of reasoning suspicion was directed toward MT Garvey and his outfit Still no attempt was made to prove anything against him, but the story of the missing milk COWS was heard at the ranges and the herds were watched with greater vigilance so that Garvey was compelled to fall duyir, of cattle.
 One day a cowboy made a discovery in an abandoned mining shaft half filled with water. He saw partly pro- truding from the water a gunny sack which looked as if it was full of some thing. He drew it out and found that 1t contained two cattle hides. The cowboy pursued his investigation to the extent of discovering other gunny sacks. The find was reported to Sher- ln White, who caused the shaft to be emptied. The cattle hides were spread out on the ground. There were forty five of them bearing fifteen brands Fifteen of the hides bore the brand of B. J. Roberts. Others belonged to B. A. Packard, w. c. Green and J. V. Vickers. Ten other cattle ranges were represented in the discovery
 Garvey and one of his cowboys were arrested, but Stanley could not be found. A couple of weeks before that when Garvey found that the cattlemen were growing suspicious of him he became aware that he would have to complete his contract in a more 1egiti- mate manner. He sent Stanley to Mexico with s475 to buy cheap cattle and smuggle them across the border. Stanley had probably grown wary of the dishonest life he had been leading,