Arizona republican., 1905-07-25

him he could make more money paying money out for the government than he could taking it in on his own ac- count so he went into official service. MT Purse accompanied him for the reason that it is always desirable for disbursing officer to have his purse along in the event of an oppor- tunity for making a business turn. If these jokes are not considered funny nobody has to laugh at them.
 Dr. Lind says the people of the up- per country are still very much wrought up over the brutal murder of Messrs. Plunkett and Kennedy. He says one rather peculiar thing in cor nection with the incident is that up to the time he left Roosevelt nobody has been able to get into communication with Mrs. Plunkett. who as previously mentioned. is on an overland trip to New Mexico with relatives. She Is somewhere in the mountains remote from telegraph lines and as far as known no message has yet reached her. Her two brothers however were in the vicinity of Roosevelt and were with the various parties seeking to find the murderers.
 There is a hope that the men held in Tucson are the guilty ones and there is some reason for believing that they may be for the latest theory at Roose- welt is that they left the country via the west instead of via Globe The Indian trailers say the men never went to Globe but just outside of that town the trail was retraced in a general way almost back to Roosevelt where it turned west. presumably over the Roosevelt road to this valley. There is a theory that the men came this way as far as Goldfield then turned south ward in which event they may be the two MeXicans captured at Red Rock.
 Speaking of the work of the Indian t.ailers Dr. Lind said that while the occasion of it was horrible, it was worth a good deal to him to observe the methods of the Indains He was with the party when the Indians first visited the Plunkett house and found the trail The first thing the Apaches did was to view the bodies and work out their theory of just how the crime was committed. Then they went through it in pantomime to demon strate its probability and to learn by personal intuition just what the mur- derers would naturally have done when they left the house.
 They first found on approaching the house. where the men had taken off their shoes. They measured the tracks both of the shoes and of the stockinged feet. then followed them to where one man entered by the front door and the other by a rear door. Then came the pantomime and then the Indians shot out of the house rapidly as a marderer might be supposed to flee from the presence of his victim and turned in the most natural direction. They had not gone. far when they discOveredCthe outlaws tracks, a little further the knife and the bludgeon, etc. The In dians played pantOmime all the way through. When they found a place where the outlaws had evidently ran. they ran also. where the outlaws walk ed. they walked, and through 1t all they travelled so swiftly the whites could hardly follow. It was the same way when the" entered and left the ditches. Wherever one of the whites questioned the sureness of the trail the Indians would go little slower and in short order find a track and prove by and otherwise, the cor rectness of their conclusions. The whites were finally convinced that the trailers knew their business and no longer disputed things with them. The Indians followed them nearly to Globe, l then followed the trail back again near ly to Roosevelt where it turned to- ward the Roosevelt road to the west, l and which is the foundation of the be- lief that the mu-derers came toward this valley.