The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1903-10-08

and mules seven miles farther and report
to the Chief Inspectors Office at Mag
dalena to whom | shall send q report OF
the matter by a mounted guard. in whose
charge you must consider yourself. or at
least your property
.'Tl!en we are really under arrest!'
said I.
well, call it so if you will" answered
the Inspector. "Your person does not cut
much of n figure in the matter. but your
mules and wagon, harness and brides you
must certainly consider as embargados'
lawfully under attachment. ., ..,.
HOT SPRING DESTROYED. .,.
Within half an hour the mounted guard
| carrying the Inspectors report to the chief
office at Magdalena arrived, armed with
carbine and revolver. and we started,
reaching the town of Ymuris about dark
of the third day. Here | was horror
struck by the information that the health
giving hot spring in the valley below was
no longer in existence. because the owner
of the field upon whose borders the spring
was situated had constructed an rrigating
ditch passing directly through the hot
spring and rendering it forever useless.
This was the death-blow to all orr
hopes for my wife's recovery. BY this
! time she was very sick indeed, and I'M
| conscious the greater part of the time.
physician who held n diploma of the best
medical faculty of Vienna, Austria. hap
pened to be in Magdalena q had met him
| before in Tucson and his son had been
one of my pupils. gave my brother-in-
law letter for him containing the re-
quest that he would come to see my wife,
with whom l stayed while my brotheriii-
law proceeded with the wagon and team,
always under guard. to report to the Gus
tom House ut Magdalena. Fortunately il
turned out that an uncle of my wife hap
pened to be the Project of that District
and although he could not interfere direct
ly with the Federal authorities, who con-
| trOlled the customs, he rendered US such
good service through his influence that
| our bonds were accepted for the return
OF our wagon and team within 80 days.
DEATH OF MRS. SPRING.
| On the following day DR.. Brown ar
rived. A short examination Of my wifc's
| condition convinced HIM that she was be
yond all help. He said that she would
in all probability not outlive a week, and
| that we had better remain where we were
in reasonably comfortable quarters, in
stead Of being overcome by her demise
ON the road in the hot weather then pre-
vailng. She died four days later on the
very day that our lamented President
Garfield was shot by Guiteau in Washing
cemetery at Ymuris. Three days later ".
returned to Tucson.
Very soon after my return l met q
man in the street who had been with lis
during the miner expedition" | invited
him to my house. where we had long
talk, during which he informed me that
he had quit mining and was then a cow
puncher on the IIC ranch up north. 'IIavs
you heard Of our Fourth of July ce.ebra
tion?' ne asked. / answered in the mega
tive. "Well," said he, 81 must tell you
that most remarkable incident. You know
Hank and Yank, the inseparabes: they
lived herea bouts for four years previous
to going up North" l knew the two mel
very well, and he began his story, whici
will make my readers acquainted with
two Of the preYiously-mentioned four meJ
whom | know to have been in the CLUTCHES
Of the Apaches and who have escaped
from them unhar,ned.
CTO be cOntinued)