Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1900-04-25
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 her repuattion during the weeks of aIwosf incessant fighting before Petersburg and Bermuda Hundred. She lfet her life in a scrimmage in whiefs she was nearly the whole thing, fof she had a way of taking matters into hef own control and carrying her rider inte. the thickest of the. fight, whether heskked it ,Ornot.
 She was such a warrior herself that when she got worked up to the proper pitch she paid no attention to bugie calls or orders, and always st,rted in 0 thrash the enemy single hayTded. That was one reason why she was called Helen Blazes. But there was Another her temper.
 The name was not spelled just that way by the boys of the Third New York cavalry; but Jeb Smith. the man who rode her-and the only man who ever could ride her-was a minister before the war broke out, so he changed the original three words of her name into two, thus quieting his conscience and satisfying "the boys" at the same time.
 She was picked up one night on a scouting expedition. Wink Tomkins brought her into camp the next morn ing, and he was a sight. You could hear him swearing at Blazes when they were a mile away, and between his curses and the laughter of his companions, and the plunging and kicking, biting and striking of the mare as they ap- preached, it made a pretty sight for tired cavalrymen.
 There, by thunderI" said Wink. i've landed her here, Cos I said would. The fellow that can ride her. can have her, for all care" and he pitched the lead rope to me.
 Blazes was beauty, there was no de nying that. and old McNamara-our captain-had his eye on her from the moment he saw her.
 We'll, there's no use in describing an that happened then. It took six of us to get a saddle and bride on her, and three out of the six were laid up unfit for duty for a week after it; and after that she threw, one after another, pretty near the whole company.
 Nobody could ride her until Jeb Smith came along. He had just been relieved from guard and was tired, but when his eyes lighted on the mare, he bright ened up.
 That's beauty, boys" he said, for he was a great lover of horsefesh, if he was a parson. The mare was stand ing idle at that moment, as docile as kitten, and nobody iD the world would have guessed what devil there was in her. Tompkins drawled out:
 ''Get on her back, parson, and try her"
 Mind you, there was not one ip the crowd who had not tried her, and who could not show a substantial bruise for his temerity. But the parson never caught on at all, and we all stood back while he handed his piece to a com rade, and without a moments hesita- tionf walked straight up to the mare anu DCkdn AO A0O ANA hOS~r oA0 - more, she seemed to like it.
 You could have purchased the whole company for a very small sum at that mcment, for we felt mighty cheap. We dsdn't know whether it was jugglery, of what it was, but the fact remained that the mare did not treat him as she had treated us.
 "Say, parson," bawled Wink Tomp- kins, ''have you ever seen the critter before?"
 Certainly not" was the calm reply. ''Why?"
 "We1, I'm blowedI Boys, there's suthin' in religion after all."
 While he was thus expressing him self, Jeb leaped into the saddle, and in a moment more he was riding around the place as easy as you please. Blazes single-footed, dog-trotted and can tered, and you'd have thought she was a aChristmas-tree-rocking-horse, for all the ugliness she showed then.
 ''Who owns herr" asked the parson.
 You do, Jeb; you've earned her." said old Mac; and he walked away with a scowl on his face
 We'll, Jeb was delighted, and he lis tened with amazement when we told him what a circus we'd been having. It was plain that he did not believe all of it, and presently be led her away to the stable, took the saddle off and tied her.
 There was only a pole between the horses, and Jeb hadn't got half way back to where we were sitting, when there was the worst racket in that sta ble you ever heard. You'd have thought the rebs were after us for the noise and .tumult. The horses neighed and squealed and you could hear boards splintering and timbers falling. Blazes had kicked herself loose, laid up two horses, scared for life half dozen more, and paved ner way right through the back of that place to liberty. She was pointing for home, too, when Jeb saw her.
 Here, yon!" he yelled, and she stopped and waited while he went up and caught her.
 We fixed up the stable, but we passed a unanimous resolution that Blazes couldn't tarry there any more, so the parson took her about 20 rods away and tied her to a fence. Then he gave her some oats, and you'd have thought she was the three graces rolled into one she was so quiet; but it didn't last long.
 She finished her oats. and maybe she got tired or thirsty. or something. Any how, she pulled away one section of the fence, and broke loose from that, and then she started for the stable again. Some of us heard the horses squealing and kicking. and we went down to see what was the matter. and I'm blessed if Blazes wasn't trying 10 eat them.
 She'd reach in and take mouthful of loose flesh, set her teeth on it and pull, and then. when the horse she was biting kicked. she'd wheel and kick too. After that we made Jeb tie her
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 William r. Herrin. chief counsel of the Southern Pacific company. has been elected president of the Central Pacific railroad of California.
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