Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1902-07-09
ALL'S WE'LL THAT ENDS WE'LL
A Wrong Delivery of a Team Saturday Causes Suspicion of Two Gentle men Innocent of Any intended
 Wrong Doing.

A little episode occurred on Satur- day that is probably more humorous to an outsider than to those connected with it. Col. Duncan NJ. Hood. who keeps a team and a canvas covered vehicle in a Prescott livery stable, ordered it sent down on Saturday morning at o'clock to the corner drug store for his use during the day. Two gentlemen from the east, who are here on mining business, visited a livery stable the evening before and ordered d rig sent down to the Hotel Burke at 9 o'clock the same morning for a short trip in the country on mining business. It so happened that the rig selected by the livery stable keeper for them was a canvass topped one also.
 Promptly at 9 o'clock a rig ap- peared at Hotel Burke, and the two visitors got into it and proceeded on their journey. On account of the nervousness of one of the horses, and to avoid the fire cracker shooting which was in progress on the streets, they drove out of the business part of town through an alley. They had taken Col. Hoods team and buggy. After waiting some time for his rig and it failing to put in an appearance, Col. Hood started on a tour of in vestigation. On going to the livery stable he found that the team had been sent to Hotel Burke instead of to the place designated. Inquiry there revealed the fact that two strangers had driven off in it, and in stead of going through the principal street, had selected an alley to get out of town through. All of this looked very mysterious and suspicious to the colonel, and the facts were re- ported to the sheriff's office, and deputies were sent out in different directions to locate the supposed purloiners of the team and buggy. Col. Hood was himself sworn in as a deputy, and, armed with formidable looking gun, joined in the search.
 It so happened that he selected the Copper Basin road for his scout ing expedition, and when about four or five miles out of town met the two strangers driving his team leisurely along on their home coming trip. The colonel intercepted them and de- handed to know of them why they were driving his team. Explanations which followed resulted in Colonel Hood permitting the gentlemen to continue their journey to town, ac- companied by him on horseback.
 The episode recalls a similar one in which the late Hugh McCrum figured a number of years ago, and which, to the day of his death, he never could quite see the point of the joke, and d subject which was also a tender one to mention to him.
 He had ordered a saddle horse sent from the livery stable to be hitched at a certain place, on which he wanted to make a trip to Whip pie. Finding the horse there at the appointed time, be mounted it and role to WhiPple. but was followed there soon after by deputy sheriff with a warrant for his arrest for stealing a horse. 4 man from the country had arrived in town and hitched his horse at the place for the hitching of the livery horse for Me Crum, and supposing it was the ami maj he had ordered mounted it and rode off. When the owner of the horse discovered that his animal was gone he immediately swore out a warrant for his arrest. not knowing who it was that had ridden his horse off.