Arizona republican., 1900-12-23

sensation in his head, but did not fall from the seat. The bandits fearing their first shot had gone amiss con cluded to give it up as bad lob and waste no more ammunition.
 When a good. safe distance had been left between the party and the robbers. the team was halted and the driver and the other drummer proceeded to assay Mir Campbell for lead. They picked some twenty buck-shot out of his face and forehead. most of them nav ing entered but a little beneath the skin. He had enjoyed the benefit of a careless loading or the bandits gun, else would ms tombstone now be crumbling with age. The robber was not over thlrty ol forty feet from him and had the proper proportion of powder been placed oe- hind the buckshot MT. Campbell woulu have been forced to finish the trlp without his head-piece. As it was ne kept it in bandage for a couple oI weeks and curiously enough the shot that irritated him most was one tile' landed on the end of his nose.
 His trip through the territory was
 finished without further tragic lHci- dent and after some time spent m Gan fornia he moved to Denver, where ne has been a great part of the time sllce' when not on the road. ,
 He had a similar experience or a stih- liar nature up in Montana some tliie afterward. Again, he was trdNeli!ie with another commercial man py 'he
 ,on,a of T. s. Merchant. The stage was going from Glendale to Melrose' Merchant had made some heaVy cor Iections at Glendale and the odIlui'' 1,revv if Their idea was to Kill Mer- chant and take his money. Mercnalil ,ras riding on the seat with the drlNer and from a secluded place they opeIe" fire The first shot was aimed at NIT. Merchant. but it missed him and Killed the driver. Merchant caught the dylhS man and laid him down at his lee'' then grasped the reins and WhlpplnS inc horses into a run, drove them sale- lv into Melrose. MT. Campbell was uh- harmed this time and the bandit was afterward captured and hanged.
 Mir CampbelPs early life was spent in California, and he knew quite number of men iii early life who after- ward achieved fame, if not glory, III Arizona as "Alkali Ikes." Among them was Jack Ringold, who was brave, rear less and quick on the trigger. RinSo!o parents lived across the street Iroli Mir. CampbelPs parents in San Jose.
 When Jack determined to come to Arizona. the night before leaving ne maid a friendly call at the CampoeIl residence. He had two big siX-shooters strapped upon him and the elder Campbell asked him what he was gong to do with them. He replied: m going to Arizona and the first man thapI calls me a liar has got to shut ms teeth' He kept his word, and in later days became one of the most notorious desDeradoss that ever lived in the ter ritory. But his time came, like 1t does to all men, and he killed himself to avoid being captured and hanged. He has two sisters, good women. still AV- ing in San Jose.
 Asked what he thought of Phoenix. MT. Campbell replied that it seemed like a dream to him. Scarcely famil- jar looking house can be found in the city, and but very few faces that he remembers. He said that if anyone had dared to predict twenty years ago
 what Phoenix is today he would !. nave been taken lnIO the nearest va | cant lot and shot,
 Among those he remembers is Mayor | Gang, who in those days, kept the old Bank Exchange hotel; and Charlie Sa- lari, now in business at Five Points,
 who was in those days landlord of the | Phoenix hotel. MT Campbell expects hereafter to make Phoenix regularly in the interest of his firm.