Bisbee daily review., 1905-11-19

Douglas. Ariz., Nov. 1S.-(Special.)- .)- George Walden and Frank Jones, both of Bisbee, about whom there has been considerable uneasiness on account of a story to the effect that
 they had been killed by Yaquis in So
 nora, arrived in Douglas yesterday
 with a story to the effect that they
 with a story to the eeffct that they
 had only saved themselves from death by a running fight with a bandit gang, the color or nationality of which they could not learn, which lasted for over half an hour. AS it is | Walden had a bullet blow through his
 wbiskers so close to the skin as to scar it, while both had a closer call to the great beyond than falls to the lot of most men who do not have to answer the summons at the time. Both are very anxious to know, however, how the story of their affray in the mountains reached Douglas
 and Bisbee ahead of them.
 "We were about 125 miles south- east of Douglas when we were fired
 upon and our camp equipage and two
 burros stolen" said MT. Jones this
 morning. Tt was on November 7th
 that we made our last camp on the
 top of a mountain and set out to
 prospect the hill. We had been
 warned to stay by our arms closely
 and we had them with us. About 3 o'clock in the afternoon of that day
 we returned to camp. Walden was
 walking ahead, and suddenly asked
 me if l knew where we had camped. I replied that it was about where he
 was standing, and then he observed the ashes of our fire and his jumper, which was lying of in the bushes. At the same time he saw a man about seventy feet away raise a rife to his shoulder. He called to me to beware, and I dropped behind boulder. There was no cover for hi mthere and he stepped backward, just as the
 man fired. The bullet went through his whiskers, and then We were fired upon from three sides. We never saw any of the men, but we did jump down a bluff about twenty feet high to a ledge which was covered with boulders. The others knew the noun. tain better than we, for they at once followed by a roundabout way, and before we could get to the bottom of the hill we were forced to take
 
 times. I do not know whether we
 hit anybody. We never saw anything
 to shoot at, as they all used smoke
 less powder, and we could only aim
 in the direction of the sound.
 Finally, however, they left our trail, and we put out. We made forty five miles that day, and the next day came upon the cook wagon of the Diamond-A ranch outfit at a round. up. The boys there told us that we were naturally lucky, as they had known lots of men to go into that l section in which we had been and | never come out.
 Tt required nine days for us to ! get to Rodeo, where We caught a | freight train last night and arrived | here shortly after midnight this | morning.
 We were on a hunting and pros- pecting trip, and saw lots of good | copper property, but no silver or gold. ! We lived on the fat of the land, had could eat. Both my partner and my self. intend to find out how this story ! reached home ahead of us. It ap- pears that the news travelled faster than we did, and if this is the case some one must have brought it who knew more about it than we do." |
 Jones and Walden left Douglas with two burros and an outfit on Oc- tober 18th, registering their animals at the local c, stoms office so that | they could return with the animals without trouble.