The Florence tribune., 1900-01-13

seen taern and carried them of. Meyers brought the glassess into Florence, and they were shown to several per sons, amongst them to Dave Gibson, who the moment he saw them and heard where they were found, said they were the glasses carried by Dr. Tappan, and it was so many years ago that no one present knew anything about Dr. Tappan, or ever even heard any of the circumstances in the case. Gibson, who was an old soldier and might say raised in the army, said that they were just such glasses as used by officers iu the army. They were Tap pans glasses and he had hung them there with the intention of attracting the attention of whoever might follow his trail, and lead to his rescue. They were given by Meyers to Jesse Mayhew of this county, and one of the Super visors, and by him sent to Dr.. Tap. pens relatives in Ohio. Strange those
 
 glasses had been hanging in con- spicuous place for more thar twenty eight years, and yet no one had seen them
 And now comes the strangest thing of all in connection with this sad his. tory. A man by the name of Heekel hae lad q ola Ia years ago between Florence and the Tortilita mountains, at favorite h. dian camping place known as the Squaw Tanks. It is in to.erably level arroya, running west from the Tortilita mountains ou. into the plain, northeast of Red Rock and the Picacho country, and drains the whole western slope of the mountain. MT. Heckel has settled here in this valley and started COW ranch. He settled there some months ago and was working in the sandy arroya with scraper to build tank to gather water for his stock. Tn his work, few inches below the surface, he uncovered shoe, very old, shrunken and twisted by time and the | elements, It was a number six or seven shoe, such as are worn by soldiers, and had been ripped, evident l ly by bullet, from the instep to the toe, partly leng thwise and diagonal, and inside were the bones of human foot. It was brought into town and left at Dr. Brockway's drug store, where it can be seen at any time by | persons anxious to set such relics. The writer of this is confident that it is the foot of the unfortunate Tappan. It is true it was fouad some distance from where the field glass and skull were found, but it is in the same country, and the water in the rainy season all runs by Squaw Tanks, coming from the hills where the trail was lost, and where undoubtedly he perished.
 Poor unfortunate man and was there ever sadder easel If the proper steps had been taken at the start he might have been saved from most horrible death. Alone and wounded, every step taken was in torturing
 g-withont food and -freque5sStlT= \. snout water, suffering at night ffreGfE efEl tue cool winds, the country torn up by innumerable gulches and hills, weak in mind and body from the fearful scenes he had passed through. Oh 1 what a sad death to diel what fancies and thOuphtS tOol< nosSaSSiOu of his brain Forgotten by the world, as he thought, and not even an effort ma de to rescue him, or give his poor bones a decent burial sad sad fate.
 And yet the travelling public roll along in their palace sleepers, almost over portion of this ground, never for one moment thinking of the perils nd difficulties that attended the early set tlement of Arizona.
 Florence, Ariz., Dec 1st, 1899.