Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-10-04

, Mexican women and children. taking
them across the Angustura del Inferno
| (the Strait Of HELD where at low tide
the island is but step from the Sonora
mainland.
These are the people that ARIZONA
| Charlie proposes TO tame or exter-
inmate. II will not be like leading his
| knights In quest of the Holy Grail, nor
| yet In search of the fleece of Phryxus
ram, but neither will the knights under
ARIZONA CharlIe's' banner be as mild.
| nor yet as deyout, maybe, as the tabled
| Grail hunters or the followers Of Jason.
In the company that will sail from
San Pedro in the steam yacht San
Diego will be none but men Of proved
courage. crack shots and experienced In
the ways Of Indians, Nearly all of
them have spent years on the desert
and ranges, where the rule Of the sur
yiyal Of the ittest applies, and as they
are alive they must be IT.
Two conspicuous members Of the
company will be Del" Lewis, sheriff Of
Cochise county, Arizona, and j. II.
Thompson sheriff of ella county, Arl-
zona. Nothing more Is needed as
voucher for the courage Of these men
than the statement that they have lived
to serve the terms Of their offices In
fact. Mr.. Thompson is the first man who
ever lived through the term of sheriff
Of ella county His predecessors died
in the discharge Of duty" when at
tempting 10 make the arrest Of some Of
the outlaws that formerly had things
their own way in both counties.
Lewis and Thompson are crack shots,
In the early days they rode the range
with Arizona Charlie" end ike him,
were In the wars with the Apaches.
Thompson rid his country OF bad men
and IL now serving his fifth term as
sheriff. Lewis ran the outlaws out Of
ella county and is living so peaceably
that he fears he il becoming lazy
Then there is Charles Cowles, who
gained frontier fame as a member Of
the carp gang, end Arizona Charles
three brothers They are younger than
the leader, but their careers have been
scarcely less eyentful Arizona
Charlie says Of them that "they were
brought up on the San Carlos reserva-
ton among the Apaches. and they know
every trick Of an Indian, from infancy
to the happy hunting ground" They
are Jim and Jake and "Mobhly'
Meadows. Jim is a cattleman. Jake,
Is marshal " Yuma and "Mobbly" the
younger Of the brothers IS a manager
for the Imperial Land and Irrigation
company on the California side Of the
Colorado river He is the KID Mea-
dnws Of wild West Show fame, and IL
the acknowledged champion rough and
trick rider Of the West,
MEADOWS a GIANT COWBOY.
Charles Meadows, the knight ban
neret Of the expedition, Is typical
cowboy-just figure TO adorn the FIRST
page Of boys story paper He is by
no means the rough ana ~ld person
that his fav0rite cognomen, Arizona
Charlie" Indicates him to be, but Is as
modest Of manner as a hazed fresh
man and as polished as a society figure
His conversation is that Of the cultured
traveler-.not a bit Of the wild and
wOolly westerner. In stature that
dashing king of cowboys is six feet
three, as 1.-THE as one Of j. Fenlmorc
Cooper's Indian heroes, and IN years he
Is one or two less than 40.
His three brothers are taller than
Charles He has travelled twice around
the world With his wild West show.
and since abandoning that career. ex-
cept for a few months OF successful
mining In the Klondike, has spent his
time in the large cities OF the East and
West
ARIZONA Charlie" is today one Of the
most interesting characters Of the West,
not alone for his marked personality,
but FOR his record on the range. Almost
his first experience with Indians was
soon after his parents had moved from
California to Arizona, when In an up
rising Of the Tonic Apaches both Of his
parents were massacred. The boy took