The National tribune., 1903-07-30

Right here, think, is the place for me
to mention two interviews Governor Saf-
ford had at Washington, which | heard
related by himself. They 20 Tar TO explain
the so-called Camp Grant massacre"
which / shall describe in later chapter,
and which, in the opinion of every right
minded man, was forced upon the pOpu!a-
ton of Arizona by the authorities at
Washington themselves, who turned Il
deaf ear to all representations and en-
treaties of our long-suffering settlers. Gov
ernor Stafford, in an address to the Society
Of Arizona Pioneers, delivered at Tucson.
| on Aug. {, 1888, said: I'm 1870 ! met
Gen. George Stoneman in Washington. II
was generally understood that he was
about to be appointed to command the
Department of Arizona. | urged upon him
in case he was sent there, the necessity
of an active and vigorous campaign. l
told him Of the fame | believed to be in
store for any officer who would succeed
in cOnquering foe who had held his own
against the Governments of Spain, Mexico
and for II years against the United
States. After listening attentively to me
he replied that he did not consider there
was any credit to be gained fighting In
dians, and that the great mistake our Gov
ernment had made consisted in taking
away from the Indians such a desert and
worthless country as Arizona and New
Mexico. | saw at n glance that if Stone
man was forced upon us we could expect
but little relief and no sympathy. l went
to Gen. Sherman and suggested that per-
haps a younger and more ambitious man
might be sent in his place, but in effect
was informed that the military authOri-
ties at Washington were capable of man
aging their own affairs"
MY SHORT EXPERIENCE AS A BARKEEPER
All this time / had been working at the
brewery of Levin IL Goidtree, who had
also rented and kept barroom uptown,
which was attended to by young Ger
man. In the month of September this
man, having inherited a small fortune in
Germany, quit his employment, and my
employers requested me to take charge of
the establishment until such time as they
could find regular or professional" bar
keeper. This task was not at all to my
| taste, although, l am sorry to say, drank
liquor enough in those days, probably for
the reason that everybody else did. But it
was one thing to go before bar and order
drinks, and quite another to stand behind
| the bar and hand out liquors tO-well, let
| US call them Tom, Dick and Harry.
l had been running the place about
three days when one afternoon, while /
was putting everything in order for the
evening customers, fine old gentleman
came in, sat down at table, and ordered
glass of whisky. He engaged me in a
friendly conversation, during which the
| fact developed that he was Maj. Dufiield,
Inspector of United States Mails for the
Territory of Arizona, recently appointed
as such. The three doors of the barroom
were wide open; presently n man passed
| by the front door. Like a rock shot from
a catapult the old Major darted through
the open door and in about two seconds l
saw him engaged in a lively scrimmase
of ''fsticuffs" with the man who had lust
passed, upon the sidewalk. This one, after
about two or three minutes lightning like
| give-and-take, ran off into q by-street
picked up rock, threw it toward his an
tagonist, who, for some reason or other,
seemed unable to follow him, and then he
disappeared.
The Major came limping back into the
barroom and sank upon chair, apparently
suffering great pain. The rock had missed
| him, but it soon developed that upon going
out he had made a misstep and broken an
ankle. In this condition he had done the
boxing. l summoned assistance; for a
wonder, a Constable had seen the battle
from afar, and upon approaching had
heard some of the conversation carried on
in loud and violent manner by the COM
batants.
As the Major, whom the excitement of
| thO pittiS udu upuelu tuuS IdT, now col
| lapsed and was almost fainting, he was
carried to his room; the Constable knew
both parties to the fight, and took my
name as a witness.
From the crowd that had been attracted
by the occurrence l now learned that the
cause Of the quarrel was of several weeks
standing, and resulted from the fact that
the man assaulted, whose name was Fred
Maish, had been employed by Maj. Duff
field to plaster and kalsomine several
rooms. This work, in the opinion of the
latter, was imperfectly done, not fulfilling
the conditions Of the contract entered into
between them, and he refused to make the
payment persistently demanded by Maish
l also learned that Maj. Duffield bore the
reputation Of being very brave man;
that in the draft riot at New York in 1853
he had seized negro by his feet, and
planting his back against the closed portal
iof public building reached by broad