Arizona republican., 1899-05-24

cents was merged into a seductive sign a mile farther on "Fabst or ! SchIitz on ice 25 cents a bottle" It was nothing to him. Impelled by in exorable duty he could not turn aside though he resolved to disintegrate te those blurred and indistirolC signs on his way back. He only urged his wheel forward the faster and looking
 neither to the right nor left, saw no
 more road-hoUses.
 A vehicle, even a load of hay in the road. became only a smUige to him.
 He passed rapidly driven carriages as
 if they were tied to the fence. Then
 the spires of Alhambra were in sight
 and reaching a slight eminence in the
 road. the reporter saw the ambulance
 less than a quarter of a nile ahead.
 He urged his pantiHg bicycle some more and dashed into Alhambra just as the ambulance was drawn up in front of the store. He sprang from his jaded wheel and listened with painful intentness to the store-keep- CTS relation of the trag:c events which had just plotted a page of AI- hambra history.
 The store keeper sid that 3 Mexican woo1 hauler, whose name he didn't knew, was at the drug store about the time old man Bryant, a cattleman, stepped there to get a prescription for a bottle Ci beeT filled. The Mexican got to picking on old man Bryart, who resented it and tried to borrow a revolver but couldn't get one. Then he went into the store and got pitchfoTk and sashayed at the Mexican. There was a difference of opinion among the bystanders, the store keeper said. Some of them thoCgft he stuck the Mexican. Others thought he came within an inch Of his heart, others thought it was two inches and others. still more coasarv- ative, estimated that the old man fell short about three feet. Anyhow they disaTGned the old man and the Mexican again became violent. The bystaEders interfered, and some of them knocked him down with their fists. The store keeper broke his fist. and proffting by FLs error, the rest of the citizens used hammers.
 How many was kilIed?" asked Joe Boyce. He had not heard distinctly. Nobody" replied the store keeper Whats that?" inquired MT. Boyce, ! shading his ear with his hand. "No- l body" repeated the store keeper, Out l the MeH'can he bled a good deal" !
 
 water to drink in theTe?" The au- -horit:es all took a drink and Deputy l Sheriff Slankard inquired about the | Mexican. The store keeper said he 1 had gone that way, pointing in the i general direction of San Jose, Cal. | He thought he must be about a mile | an-- 9 half. The deputy sheriffs rode | after him and Justice Johnstone asked ! about the disturbing telephone mes- sage
 The store keeper said that it had not been intended to alarm Phoemx hat MT. Wood had only telephoned i Q the Water Company to let that in- ;titution know that Alhambra was not asleep While he was at the tale- phone another man came Up behind ordered the aTbU1anloe5 "A little osh Ike that" said the store keeper effectively, some times puts folks Q lot of trouble.
 The reporter came back to Phoenix o allay popular apprehension, 'ut the anbUl3nce waited under q made tree until the deputies returned with the Mexican, Saavedra 4ares. Deputy Slarkard said le overlook him jcgeing along in lis wood wagon i've a warrant for Out' arrest SdlO the OIICer. Sta 'ueno," replied the Mexican. carelessly nd good naturedly. As the store -eaper had said, there was a good deal f blood on him and many gashes and omissions, but he remembered noth- ng about any disturbance. Now and hen he picked cut a tooth which had 'een knocked loose in the encounter with the population of Alhambra and hrew it away, because it interfercd Tith his conversation. The Officers rought him back to town, not as but because they thought e might need surgical attention. He Tas taken to the house of relatives at i've Points and when last seen he eemed to be getting sober. The party , assed old man Bryant and his cattle 7 II the way to town, but 9s it appeared hat he had been only a kind of an :. perient of the riot, he was not mo- i 2sted
 Whatever other historians. future :, r contemporary, may say of the dis lTthance at Alhambra yesterday, the /. 0rgeoirg is a true, concise and exact arrati0n Of 1T.