Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1898-01-12
HOW DAVY CROCKETT DIED
Not Davy of the Alamo. but His Nephew
 at Cimarr0n, Y. IT.


 capitalists, said C. J. Nixon. 8
 mine expert and mineraIogist.
 "Awaiting the arrival of certain
 parties I was to meet. l stail at
 CinarrOn. at the famous Lambert $
 hotel don't know whether it l.
 now in existence or not, but then. considering its environment, 1t was
 so far as beds and the table went, a
 remarkably good house to step at.
 But there were other features about
 # that were rather startling to :
 man of quiet tastes. The landlord,
 with something of pride, pointed out
 the bullet holes that riddled the
 walls and ceiling Cf his barrOOm
 and informed mo that 9 men had
 been killed in that roOm-seven in
 a single year. He told me of some
 of the orgies enacted there when the . cowboys came in from the round UI
 with a realism that made me glae
 that had arrived at q time whg-
 they were expected to be cut on tE,
 range. 1 exhausted the sigh Of
 the town-a ltle half AmeriC01
 half Mexican settlement built alons
 the Cimar=on Tiver-in enc brief stroll and spent the rest of the f-=
 day there with a novel iI Ils 'l room. which was also t- h.. office.
 Two COW men rode i-
 early in the Gay and, in
 with one or two of cLc en- paid pretty Ca1-Uut -- Jc Lambert's bar. My hesI ga
 sion to point out o.s a. aUG tell me in q whisper was Davy Crockett, who l ne tG New Mexico from Te Vas e nephew of the Davy ted ID sCng and story who -l5 dayl in the massacre at tLL -luo.
 He did most c -s business when the three negro -Iie-s were shot in this town h year. saiL Lambert. He and . 'suler, the man that's with him, ID go out and live with the U-es 1 Apaches until the affair bles- sve1. No, they never were t.au Int to trial. couldn't get a grand jury in COlfaz county to indict them. The sheri1 holds warrants against them. but # would be as much as his life is worth to try to arrest them. You can see how nice and peaceable they are when nothing comes up t5 irri- tate them.
 T looked with interest at Crock ett, a little, wiry fellow with a thin tipped, determined mouth and a keen, unquailing eye, but in no way unpleasant of expression or manner. He and his companion were typical cowboys in dress. They drank steadily and quietly all day, the only effect of the liquor they took being to make them by degrees a little more jocdlar and tallative From time to time the name oi Reinhart, the sheriff. came up, and l could see that there was u1 good feeling between them and him.
 Evening came, and at about lC o'clock l went up stairs to my room. leaving the two COW men and their friends still drinking at the bar. did not go at once to bel, but sat by my window enjoying the beauty oi the night, with it's soft, cool air, clear sky and brilliant stars. I had begun to undress when the two COW men came out from the tavern and mounted their horses. Iheard them tell some one that they were going out tO their camp on the mesa to start on a COW hunt next day. Each had a little harmonicon-mouth or. gan, its often called-and they rode down the main street of Cimarron side by side, playing in unison 9 tune which was pleas ant to hear.
 had turned from the window, when bang, bang, bang-bans, bang bang, bang-bang, came the s0uE of a voIley of shOtguns from some where down the road, thss a cry and a rush of horses feet. I've horses were flashing out of town like runaways. On one was a sway ing man, who still kept in his sad. dle; the other was riderless. as ] learned afterward Davy Crockett lay dead iii the road, shot tull of slugs and buckshot. A party. evi- ienJIy learning the route r',t two cow men would take, had Ian foI 1 them in ambush behind a len-e ! Crockett fell dead to the ground ! with the sound of the volley, but . his companion, desperately wound ! ed, managed to cling tO his horse, ] and the animal took Im out ot !. danger and carried him to the cc- . -le camp. He eventually relOyeTcd ' rom hlS wounds
 Tt was generally sad in Cimar ron that the attacking party was c : 'heriff's posse, headed by Reinhart don't know thar the statement ,ver was denied, for. if true. he might have been acting within tbe limits of his authority. l knew enough not to mix or meddle in yimarron feuds or politics and To. .o be inquisitive. I never heard hat any pretense of investigation vas ever made as to this carefully lremeditated killing, which was an incident of my introduction intc New Mexican life. New Yors Sun.
 Those YaVapai County Bonds
 Judge Street on Saturday. in Phe-