Bisbee daily review., 1903-06-27
FROM HERE AND THERE

city, and that no serious results fo,. lowed. Ed Vail, the well known Tucson oattleman. was bitten by one of these reptiles once, and narrowly escaped death. Wiley E. Jones, ex district attorney of Graham. county was bitten by a Gila monster two years ago, and for two days after wards his life was despaired Mr. Jones had purchased the reptile and was keeping him at his hotel for ex. hibition to the guests who stopped there. One afternoon he had the monster out of its box and was ex- p'aining to some ladies in the hotel office something about the brute's an cestral history. The reptile snapped his finger and held on until choked loose and to death by the hotel porter. In less than two hours MT. Jones' tongue was swollen out of his mouth. and he suffered agonies for days. It was ten days before he could leave his room
 E. B. Mason: One of the big mines which first attracted general attention to Arizona was the Silver King, in PinaI county" said Mir. Ma son yesterday. '1 was there when ore was being taken out that was al most pure silver. Three men. stole and shipped away forty or fifty thou sand dollars worth of the ore, -,d got away. They located claim near the wagon road over which the ore N as hauled from the mine 10 the mill at Pinal, two miles below. One of the men got job driving one of the pig ore teams. His partners would go up to Silver King, taking couple of ore sacks with them. They would ride back on their partners ore wagon and on the way would fill the ore sacks with the richest pieces and dump them from the wagon opposite :. heir cabin. The two men were work ing all the time on their mine, and occasionally they would make a ship mert, composed mostly Silver King ore" MT. Mason and his brother were owners of the mines lying on either side of the Silver King mine and, quite naturally. passed theii nights dreaming of the great wealth which would come to them from the mines. The Silver King company owned but one mine, but took from it over s7,0o0O00 in dividends. Ar adjoining claim to such 8 mine would quite naturally make the owner feel that he had a cinch. Finally, how ever, the sIIse- King dug all the ore from their mine. ana uever found an other body. That sealed k." said MT. Mason. Since leaving the Silver
 King I have never put another dol far into mines, or had anything to dc with one"
 Speaking of Judge Barnes yester day reminded me that the greaa est might orr ever recorded in the his
 tory of So,omonville, county seat O
 Graham county, was during the frs term, of court held there after Judge Barnes had vacated the bench. Dur ing his term as judge he of courss held himself away from ''the boys" a. much as possible, in order to preserve the dignity of his official position
 though none ever doubted that hi' heart was with ''the boys" at all times On the occasion called to mind now the court had been in session severa days, the highly poker games were in full operation, transient faro deal CTS were dealing top and bottom games. and big dance had been ad yertised as a means of entertainment to the court visitors, and everybodl was in splendid humor. Judg' Barnes. ex-Sheriff Ben M. Crawfort
 (who had just finished his term), Al len R. English of Tombstone, Dr. A
 H. Haener, now of the big brewer! company at Hermosillo, Mexico. witl 1.-two or three others, composed th marty who made the menoraol might of" famous among all Wh'
 were at that time residents of Solo knoxville. Judge Barnes is a Viohn ] ist. the kind that were most popuia in Illinois and Missouri fifty year ago Dr. Haeffer played the guitar and English and Ben Crawford ie' the singing. "Clementine" was thel | I fayorite gong, and it alone was sung
 heinz rendered in every imaginabi variation and parody. At the bal
 'udee Barnes played Rye Straw. t"Arkansaw Traveller" Cowboys De
 'eht," and many other fayorfres O
 10th ancient and modern times. Di Haeffer "called of" and English "cu
 he pigeon wing" After the inhat
 ltants of the town went home iron
 the ball. the revslers kept going. visit ing every house in the place an serenading each one. At in tn
 morning they were stiu singing Glen
 entine" in frorst of the hotel and UT der the window of Judge Sloane, wh Lhad succeeded Judge Barnes on tn bench. As Barnes and English wer
 about the only lawyers attending cour
 who had any cases. there was "notf ling doing" in court for several day.
 Ever since that "sight off" in Soi'
 monville-ffteen years ago-Judg Parups has been addicted to tei'in