Arizona republican., 1898-01-22

asked for supper.s The men working at the mine were eating their even ing meal. The stranger made a bad impression. The cook told him that he could not have supper, and the foreman requested him to move on. And he went.
 "The men at the camp, that is, the Americans, get the papers from the United States and they keep pretty good track of the news of the day, particularly the criminal news. There was description of Dunham at the office, and it occurred to the foreman after supper was over that his visitor might have been the California mur- derer. He remembered the dropping eyelid, the scattering white hairs in the heavy growth of hair which Mexican sombrero covered, and the sharp, nervous features which had caused so much remark at the camp table when he appeared at the door, The foreman went and read the de- scription of Durham. He was sure that the murderer was the man who had stopped at the camp. His sus- picions coincided with the opinions of every one who had seen him. But the big reward was not tempting enough 10 start them out in the dark ness to find him.
 'sIt was the day after the strange man was at the Cosita camp that I heard of him. He had visited the home of a Mexican late at night and obtained food The Mexicans are ac- customed to having people come to their jsckaEs at all hours of the night but they took an immediate dislike to this man. It is a custom respected by all Americans travelling in Mexico to hand over your gun and belt when you accept the hospitality of g ranch man. But this man did not do this He carried two sixshcoters and a knife, but he did not offer to part with any one of them. The Mexican was ordered, rather than asked, to give him something to eat He was nervous as long as the strange man was at his camp. As soon as the American got bite to eat he was off. It was near the Mexican's camp that he told me the story, and together we tracked the mans horse from the camp. As soon as I got the direction he had taken out in the hills, I set out to follow him
 "I soon satisfied myself that the man was going up into the uprer Aros country where the Mexicans never go and where the desperadoes all go. I was a day behind him, but I felt sure that I could easily overtake him, as I was familiar with the trails and he was not, which I knew from the fact that he had inquired of the Mex ican with whom he stopped of the distances to several settlements in the mountains where he could ob- tain food. I followed him easily. and I watched his tracks closely to know when l was getting near to him. He never left the main trave!ed trail ex- cept when he would see persons com ing, when he would hide until they passed. I was afraid of getting lost, and the heart of the Sierra Madres is not the choicest place to lose ones self in, although I am sure 1t is the easiest. There are deep canyons which the trail winds through for miles at a time, and the mountain peaks rear their heads so high as to rob the canyon of sunlight the great CT part of the day Where you think the trail should lift itself out of the darkness ard into light it takes a course entirely contrary. It tries to ascend the highest peak in the range without making curve or retrac ng a stsp. Aud the traveller is left no alternative. He must follow the trail.
 ''He had long ride without food. and I knew he had nothing to eat with him. 1 rode faster and faster until got out of the canyon and onto the backbone of the hills. The morn ing of the second day I came to di- verging trails, and it was difficult for me to tell which one my man had
 taken. l finally took the one which would take me to the iAros river. My friend, the suspect, obtained food at a Mexican camp. He fed his horse but did not stop to rest long. I had
 gained considerable on him and I felt l sure that I would meet him at the
 next settlement, where I could have
 him arrested. I was within ten miles of the place where I would meet him
 when 1 met a Mexican on the trail
 l asked him if a gringo had come to
 the pueblo, and he described my man
 as having come to the settlement
 with an evident intention of getting
 drunk, for as soon as he arrived hf
 began to fill up on mesca1 He had
 been drunk from the hour he hit thf
 town.
 f'I knew that Durham was in a DO
 sition where he could not afford te
 get drunk and lay around Mexican
 town. felt that he had been hunt
 ed too closely to show this weakness
 and the more I thought of it tht
 more convinced I was that my mar
 was not Durham. Would a man wht haa guarded his movements so eff l fpnfuallU and had ha d