Arizona republican., 1901-01-08

checkered careers; but we were dcs
 tined to have that same trip. We soor
 reached Davis siding, where we wer,
 to be met by buggy to take us to th,
 camp. and we were not disappointed
 In the distance We saw Mrs. Lesii,
 speeding over the prairies in her bug
 gy, drawn at a fas. clip by the mart
 Nit Dlcus sold her some time ago There is joke attached to the sal,
 of that rig that ought to be repeated
 Just who the joke is on Is hard to tell
 Mrs. Leslie came tJ Jerome some time
 ago to purchase a horse and buggy
 Hearing that Nit Dlcus had a rig tC
 sell, she hunted him up and bruachaG
 the subject to him. Nit looked wise
 sized up his victim, and concluded sht
 was dead easy to palm the mare ,f
 on, and began to talk business. Mrs
 Leslie was asked to take ride in the
 buggy. behind the mars, and accep.cG the invitation. Around the town tEsy
 fairly flew until the lady was in love
 with the animal. Then the question of values was discussed. Mrs. Leslie
 who Is 8 trader from away back, asked the price of the outfit. Mt yquinteJ his good eye, fiicked horsetiy off thl mares back with the buggy whip
 sized up his customer again and told her thak being as it was her, he would give the outfit away for the paltry sum of s75. Mrs. Leslie returned the gaze saw that he was dead set on selling the rig and offered him $50. Nit climbed out of the seat. gave her the lines, t-pk the money. put on hold front, and offered to bet her $lO she could not drive the mare up hill
 The animal was known to br the worst mare on earth to balk. That trait came out on her when Mrs. Les lie and Mrs. J. B. McAlistcr attempte to drive her from the river to town the next day. The road was muddy and as they were coming up the hill from Cannibal Gulch. the old mare stopped and would not go another e:gp, Mrs. Lcslie read the riot act to her, said a few words uncompl,mentary 10 the tra- der from Missouri who had sold her the crltter, looked at her companion and wept tears of Insullird joy. There they would have stayed till Gabriel us w VI hou hot o NSA'N along with a wagon. tied rope tc the mars's neck and lowed her to town. Since Mrs. Leslie has had the animal. she has, by kind treatment, took all the balk out of her. and has one of the very brst animals in this county. She remember red Nit in her prayers. though, for she thinks his intentions were good to sell her as we'll as the mare.
 We'll as I mentioned some dime ago, we saw Mrs. Leslie coming to meet us, and were soon in the rig. hiking for their camp in the hills. four miles to the northward. Arrived at camp. we found Messrs. Marschell and Leslie there with the team they had hired to haul a load of goods from Jeromr Junction. The camp consisted of a large tent and house made by MT. Marschell, who is natural genius. He had tunnnled into the hillside about twenty feet in quest of the delusive copper, and. not finding what he was in search of, concluded to put his la Dor to good use by making a house. He then covered the open cut With cedar limbs and earth back to where the tun- mel began, He made door at the mouth of the place. put up fireplace. cut places Into the sides for hunks, and had a house that was cool in sum- mer, warm In winter, and dry when IL stormed. The fireplace s one of the best features Of the house, and was ap- preciated by Prahm and me who don't often havr the pleasure of backing up to fireplace and warming backs. The draft of the fireplace is something wonderful: it roars till 1t can be hsar1 five miles away and draws everything in front of it up through the chimney. Prahm, who was the first to go into the tunnel after the fire was started was heard yelling at the Bop of his voice for help, and we all went into tho tunnel to ascertain the cause. There he stood, hanging on to one of his boots by the strap. His other foot was against the wall and he was sw'l. ing and ha anglns on for all that was in him. He had attempted to warm his toes. and, not knowing the strength of the draft, had stuck his foot almost into the flames. Qpicker than thought the draft caught his boot, drew 1t off bis his foot and was taking 1t up the main Chimney, when he grabbed the top strap and yelled for help. Marschcll. who saw the cause of the trouble, ran to the top of the tunnel and stopped up the chimney with large stone, when the draft was shut off and Prahm saved part of the top to that boot. The balance of the day he wore ] blanket on the foot that he attempted to warm by Marschell's patent fireplace. A good many such incidents have hap pened since the fireplace was first built and some narrow escapes from death have resulted from persons going too close to the front of tho concern.
 Dinner was soon ready In she tent, and we fell to with appetitrs whetted by the ride through the country Af- ter dinner we went out to look ct the claims and found some very promising prospects. The group consisted of some eleven claims In all. At o'clock MT. and Mrs. Leslie arrived from tho Junction. where they went to take tho team back, and brought with them q large and choice piece of venison. from a fat deer. killed that day by Joe Smith. For supper, we had venison steaks, cut from the loin of the deer Talk about your good mtat! That ven fson was the chief. Tuesday morning we took another trip over the hills and then returned for dinner. Again we sat down to roast venison and fri' d Mrs. Leslie Is a famous