Arizona republican., 1898-07-11
COWBOYS" OF ARIZONA.
The f i:s1 to Shed Their Blood on
 Cuban Soil.

The f irz1 to Shed Their Blood on
 Cuban Soil.
 George II. Snalley, formerly of'The Republican staff, has the following in the St. Paul (tIinn) Gicos regarding tte officers of Arizole's Rough Eiders:"
 "It is notable that the 'Rough
 Riders from the rac:nes and desefts i a.d mining camps Qf Arizona, that Cinderella in the 'ami.y of the states kept in lne territorial Kitchen by her naughty sister,, .Ho-l,i je the first to meet the enemy in battle and coase- crate Cuban soil U freedom with tleir blood Those who knew them felt sure that they would show the same daslliEg courage ia any tilt with the Spaniard that they aI,oHe in their encounters with the Apaehes or the
 more dangerous bands Of maraudars that were the terror of the plains for years
 There are many interesting men n Roosevelt's regiment oe Rough Riders and the names of many Of them are associated with Indian war fare in the southwest CT in the later day task of ferreting ont the desperate gangs operating in ArIzona and New Mexico Some of the men who are now marching on Santiago de Cuba, under command of Col. Wood and Lieutenant-Col. Roosey cit, a year ago were riding night and day in pursuit of Jim Parker 8 noted desperado. who escaped from the county jail at Pres colt, Ariz., after shooting the assistant county attorney and wounding sev. eral other officials; some Of them were members of -he posse waich fcl- lowed Black Jacks gang after the successful hold-up Of the Santa F'e express at Stein's Pass, Ariz.. on the night of April 8, and among the iri-
 zona cowboys many Of them did not experience being under fire for the | first time when the Spaniards took l them by surprise last Friday morning
 in Cuba.
 There was a gathering of these
 cowboys at the Crown Point gold
 mine in the Castle Creek mining dis
 trict of Arizona the first part Of April.
 when I visited the camp. The 'rodeo'
 had just begun, but the cowboys had
 thrown up their places on the ranges
 to join Major Brodie's cowboy regi-
 snent which he was then recruiting
 Major BrOdie was picking his men
 from the ranges, and he had gathered
 about him a large number of the most l fearless fighters in central Arizona 4 declaration Of war was expected at
 any time, and the boys were inpa- tiently waiting for it to come. Major Drodie hurried of to Prescott the day I arrived to get the latest news from ! Washington, and the cowboys scat tered ont to help on the rodeo the rest
 Of the day. and until the major could
 arrive with the news. The office at
 the camp contained a list which in
 cludad the best known cowpunchers
 in the neighborhood. and men were
 coming from distant ranges to offer
 their services in the cause of Cuba.
 s'The news spread over the terri
 tory that Major Brodie was getting
 up' a cowboy regiment. and the Grown
 Point mining camp had become 2
 rendezvous for the cowboys for miles
 about the camp. They all knew
 Major Brodie and they were anxious
 to get with him to the front. The
 cowboys have the greatest respect fer
 man who has shown himself to be
 a fearless fighter, and Major Brodie's great record in many Apache raids in
 Arizona has endeared him to all ol
 them Among all the cowboys I met
 doubt if there was one of them more
 anxious to go to war than was ths major himself He had spent yeal developing the Grown Point mine and , he had blocked out an immense body | of ore. The working shaft had at ] tained depth of 300 feet. and in the , last twenty feet of work a rich strike had been made Ore running as higf as s1 900 to the ton of free gold ha( been encountered, and drifts on the vein which carried the new discovery } had revealed an indication of perma l nency which would have banished al } thoughts of war from the minds O
 most men. But Major Brodie ordered
 the pumps pulled out of the shaft. dis charged his miners, and held himsel t ready to leave for Whipple Barraek. with his men as soon as the WOr( , should come And it was this en ? thusiasm and energy shown by Majo, Brodie which gave Arizona the hOrol 7 of having the first volunteer regimen in readiness to move to Tampa. Int , Crown Point could wait to be re | Major Brodie and his band of bravi ] cowboys had done their share toward relieving the suffering of Cuba. An(
 today the mine is dark, and it will st remain until the war is ended
 ''In stature Major Brodie is a goot ] type of the Indian fighter of the south ] west. He is a man of medium sig : with broad shoulders and a bearins ] decidedly military. Although he ha t reached his fiftieth year. he is stil
 straight shouldered and as full O vigor and fight as a young man o s twenty years. He frequently mad } the ride from Grown Point mine |, ' Prescott, distance of forty-five miles D in the saddle, and he is known anon 0 the cowboys as good rider Maio Rrodie lives in Prescott. where he ha t T comfortable home. His wife wa