The Florence tribune., 1901-05-11

 crowd. Stopped at restaurant (Browu's, as I now remember), and bundled in there bag and baggage. Good meal after wash. Some street shooting in the morning, followed up later in the afternoon about the time of our arrival, by two other parties, apparently not friends, from their marked hostility towards each other with rifles and six-shoooters, which were finally captured before any gore was spilled. No law apparent other than miners law, and that doesn't sit and deliberate very long, but acts promptly, we understand. The street looked oddly enough to me tonight, and reminded me of frontier oil town. Good drainage. Mingled with the hardy miners tonight. Talk of killing some one in the air tonight. Everyone goes heeled. Jumping min ing claims seems to be the chief cause of trouble. About 2,0OO people here, with good big future ahead"
 But, "tempora mutantur" While Tombstone was in those days the live Hest mining town in the United States, it gradually settled down to the pos | session of a more or less peaceable community. Our reception was lively enough, especially so for 'tenderfeet," ," but as we had cone to stay, we didn't take us long to become identified with ! the town and it's customs, although we got along very we'll at breakfast" time, without the necessity of cutting notch on our Colts to whet the appe- tite.
 Churches and schools multiplied {; nevertheless, the early attempt to tame the unruly and bring all under proper restraint by the aid and help of the institutions provided for the moral betterment of all, were at times attend ed with amusing results. recall the attempts of lhe Rev. Mcintyre, the first clergyman in the place, early in 80, to hold church services. Seated on old boxes and boards in large tent, everything went all right, but when 8 hall was hired and little luxury in. ,dulged in, church matters became con. fusion worse confounded. The hall faced on Allen and Fremont streets had common platform in the center, which was divided by curtain, so thai sounds were painfully perceptible from the Fremont-street side, and poor Me
 Intyre's amens had to be we'll sounded in order to be distinguished from Al
 hands round" iu the dance hall on tht
 opposite side of the muslin curtain.
 remember 8 funny incident, too
 which occurred in the little Episcopal
 church, when one of my friends, wish , ing to be liberal at the evening service
 deposited, as he supposed, $5 gol,
 piece on the plate, but which, sad t
 relate, proved to be a check resem
 bling the coin, stating it to be "goo
 fer one drink at Charley Ills" l vii
 not remember who redeemed the check Well, the boys were liberal in thos :, days, and everything seemed to g
 and that same spirit of liberality WI
 prevalent every where.
 f Speaking of the press, though, r Q minds me that my old friend, Harr :. Brook, now of the Los Angeles Times n and used to do trick or two tt
 gether in those days, and supply info a nation ''direct from the front" abou , the movements of the hostile Apache and what Harry doesn't know abor ,s newspapering isn't worth knowin i, He was the "whole thing" prodig II ous inventor of news, with my assis 70 ance, at times, "from the front" 1 .r would set up the type, print the pap ;a and later go out on a collecting to ;u with six-shooter down his boot-le "a Subscribers usually "coughed u ,a when Harry appeared.
 ,n A day that recall, one that Tom I. stoners now living will not forget, " Id the one during which "Johnny behi n. the deuce" was brought into to1 fv from Charleston. That was the to they saw the Earps and Doe. Holid d stand off the crowd bent on having ut man who killed the engineer of lis Charleston mill. That was galli er preservation of law and order on ta- part of the intrepid Earp posse, 6 re- the nearest approach to wholes or- killing that Tombstone ever saw. on remember one wild ride party 5as us made on hot summer day to to Three C's ran ch in the Sulphur Spr to Valley, forty five miles distant nd rescue some ladies aud party at UT. ranch house. The party was picnic md in one of the pretty canyons of VII, Chiricahuas, when some cowboys ing tiles approaching. In few momeI in fanked by the cowboys, the wt ,st- party was madly dashing over ast plains in full view of the Indi