Bisbee daily review., 1905-11-19

resolutions formed by the Mining Congress" which met in Fl Paso. in regard to Water on the Deserts" of California and Arizona The pro gram was one of the most enjoyable since it is one in which all of the members were interested.
 During the business meeting Mrs. PhilbroOk was unanimously elected delegate to the Federation in place of Mrs. Bledsoe who is unable to attend.
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 (Written by Mrs. Dyer of Douglas,) When I first saw Tucson in the summer of 1883 the streets. the houses, the walls, the air and the inhabitants were all of one color. Scarcely a house was set back from the street or had yard visible, near ly all being inclosed in high adobe walls with here and there a tree looking over the top. The effect was indescribably dreary during the day, but at night it was not quite so bad. In the summer the moonlight lent the brown flat roofed houses a charm to which they could lay no claim in the garish light of day. Then, too, in those early days, most of the inhabi tants were Mexican and they felt free Ic follow their own bent and added to the romance of the warm moon light by wandering around town with a guitar, playing and singing as they went, sometimes stopping at the house of a friend to play for th9 young people to dance in the street. Everybody slept out of doors and it was charming to be wakened out of sleep by the strains of La Paloma' approaching, swelling, dying away Gown the silent street.
 But the time when the Mexican most fully enjoyed himself was when September brought the yearly feast of San Augustine. It was truly won derfuI and surely if the good saint could have looked down from Heaven he would have been shocked at all hat he saw in the old Levin's Park at the foot of Pennington street There were open saloons on every side, roulette and a variety of other gam bling in full swing, people of all ages selling candy and pastry, while Tn the center the rawhide band, arrayed in tall peaked hats played joyously away in a flip kind of style, while some senors and senoritas hoped merrily around in the dust. All the while crowds of people were wandering about looking on.
 "The most amazing sight was to see some of the American ladies, leaders in society, sitting at the rou- 1a4f fa }oh for dnar life with MexicanS Chinamen, he gros, escaped convicts, seemingly proud of the contrast their fine clothes and ieweled fingers made to he coarse attire of the men around hem. The bewildering state of mind of the stranger was increased by hay ing various men in the crowd pointed out as criminals who had fled to Ari- zona to escape the law. but who were not molested as long as they stayed in Arizona the authorities of other states evidently considering that the society of Arizona could not be con- taminated I particularly remember one interesting gentleman who went by the taking name of 'Six-toed Pete and who was said to have slain an unheard of number of people and there were so many of Mir. Six-toed Pete's kind and so many more who slayed the happiness of others with their evil tongues.
 'In those comparatively early days Indian outbreaks were still common and so terrible, one needs to have experienced at least little of the terror inspired by the dread Apache to understand the feeling. In the spring of 1885 the writer was just below the summit of Mt Lemon with her husband and daughter. Geronimo was out on his last raid but the h. dians had not been in the Catalinas for so many years that there was no thought of danger, so imagine the terror when Minnie ran into our room in the dead of night calling out, Father, father, Mir. RamsdelI is out. side and he says the Indians are here.' We rose and dressed. Two young men near were notified and came to the house with their guns. There was nowhere to go, nothing to do, so we sat through the long hours till morning fully expecting the at- tack that never came. We stayed wv dAJ 4OiAStA LAtE "E were SGul for from the Mammoth mine. We started on the long drive at daylight and on the way did not know what we might find at any turn of the road, or behind any pile of rocks or clump of bushes. We have since learned from an Apache scout that while we were in the mountains a band of eight Indians lay all of one day hidden in some bushes not more than three hundred yards from the house. They saw there were four armed men so went away in the night for reinforce ments, fully intending to return and make an attack but were not quick enough and so we escaped.
 Tt is not strange that the early settlers of Arizona felt as they did towards the United States authorities when such stories as the following could be true:
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