The copper era. (Clifton, Graham County, Ariz.) 1899-1911, 1901-07-04

mucn mlgn not DC sdlu Va Vue d Iuallou,
perhaps. if the preponderat ing element
consisted OF the exotic asses that are
the two frequent results OF superfc-
ial system Of "culchaw." But the typi-
cal prospector, who lives in close touch
with the great mother. seeking gol den
sermons in rocks and twinkling sands
in the babbling brook, develops a ma
ture broad as the plain he traverses
and a heart big as the mountains he ex
plores. His chivalry is not OF the
genufiecting variety. Neither is it
thin scum OF outward respect covering
cesspool Of inward insult. He may
offend the nice little conventions OF the
drawing room, but he gives you from
the depths Of his honest heart court
esy and respect your own brother could
not excel and probably would not equal.
He may sit in your presence with his
hat on, but he wopId ngll off his coat
and defend you to the death. That is
true chivalry.
Now the sun has reappeared and the
sandy streets are dry. The Wallapai
Indians are in evidence, and il is great
sport hunting them with the kodak.
No deer ever fed from hunter as the
Wallapais flee from the camera. 1t is
bad medicine box which will take
strength and kill their papooses, and
no amount of money will induce them
to risk its evil effects.
a white man, old enough to know
better but with the soul that scars
above work, is dealing Mexican monte
in shack near the hotel. All day
long the little room is packed to suffo-
cation with bucks and squaws, and the
air is filled with the gurgles and grnnts
that compose the Wallapai language.
That isn't all the air is filled with eth
err, but further allusion would be in
delicate; besides water is too valuable
in Arizona to be wasted in washing In
dians, anyway. The bucks place their
chips in lordly Indifference as to the
result, but the squaws, true to the
eternal feminine, keep up a shrill
cackle Of delight or dismay as the fav-
orite card turns up in the right or
wrong place.
Poker is very popular with the
squaws. They are all over town, squat
ted in the sun around outspread blan-
kets, playing the great American game,
handling their cards with a deftness
and betting with a gameness that
would do prp6if n tbh UapinSt old ,,t
in the country.
There is an Indian trial on hand OF
which the presiding justice is also an
editor, also the coroner, could preach
if he had to, or fill any other old office
that happens to be begging for an in
cumbent. Old chief Cherum and his
son-in-law are on trial for disturbing
the peace. An enterprising Mexican
has smuggled into Cherum's camp
Kingman fire-water, which is noted
for producing more potent jags to the
finger than any other brand. The eff
feet was disastrous, for as Beecher,
the Indian interpreter said: "They
all get drunk-raise h-around there"
Cherum and Jim, by virtue of their
dignity as heads of the camp, having
absorbed the most of the frewater,
raised the sulphuric regions according
ly and were run in by the Indian police.
Jim like dutiful son-in-law, pied
guilty, assuming all the blame, and
willy old Cherum, posing as an injured
innocent was dismissed.
Arizona has style of doing things
peculiarly her own. She is nothing if
not recherche. Even her judicial exc
cutiOns are conducted with an eclat
that is unknown in a community
where hangings haye not attained the !
dignity of social functions. A beauti- !
full gilt-edged card, engraved and en-
bOssed in the best style OF the printers |
art, displayed in the sheritf's office,
reads as follows:
Mr.. Sheriff,
Mohave Co.,
You are hereby cordially invited to at
tend the hanging of one
GEoRUE SMILEY; MURDERER.
His soul will be swung into eternity on
December s, 1899, at = p. m. sharp.
Latest improved methods in the art !!
of scientific strangulation will be i'm |
ployed, and everything possible will be |
done to make the surroundings cheer
full and the execution success.
Sheriff Navajo Co.
Now, such delicate little attentions |
as that make hanging a pleasure. |
Since the restoration OF capital pun
in Colorado seems to be an
assured fact, attention of the humani- |
tarians is hereby directed to this meth
cd of mitigating the horrors of a hang
ing by surrounding it with all the
glamor of pink tea.
Now the trials are dry, the burros
are packed, and over yonder beyond
the desert, outlined against the tur
quoise sky are the brown hills of prom
ise. Hope gilds the desert trail, and
the bristling green fingers OF the
'Joshuas" seem to point out the way.
A Ayaunt poverty Hail wealth
They call this desert, they who do not
know.
That these brown hills with stunted
verdure crowned.
Are but a casket cunningly devised
BY Natures skill to hedge her jewels
round.
Oh Pilgrim seekest thou the wealth OF
Dude,
The dazzling thing that make the
pulses bound?
Tfs here. tits here in solitudes so vast
Where trace of vaudal man have ne'er
been found.
Oh student, world'st an ancient page
unroll.
And read the secrets OF a vanished
race?
Tis writ in ruins, stored in canons
deep.
And studs the wales of this enchanted
place.
Call this desert? Land OF mysteries!
Where wording, poet. sage and mys-