Bisbee daily review., 1908-03-29
ISAAC EARTH VISITING
 IN OLD PUEBLO
Says Apache County Is Pfos- porous and Tells of Sen-
 SationaI Killing,

| TUCSON, March 2S.--Mr. and Mrs Isaac Earth and little daughter were | in the city yesterday. Mir. Earth is the district attorney of Apache coun l ty, with a home at St. Johns, and he is the only Democratic officer at this time in that normally republican county. He came down to Phoenix for the meeting of the territorial
 committee of the democratic party and concluded with his family to make a trip down to Chihuahua for a
 short time. Their stay in this city was due to train schedules.
 Yesterday morning MT. Earth was reminded of his official position by the receipt of telegram from his as sistant telling him of two murders which had just occurred there and which demanded his attention.
 One of them was that of a Mexican youth by the name of Ramon An zurrez, of the town of Concho, whose dead body was found Sunday morn ing. The lad had been beaten to death with stones and clubs and was horribly disfigured. The first report was that there was no clue to the as sassjns, but later he received word that they suspected two Or three par ties and that warrants are likely to be made within day or two.
 The other telegram told of a mui der that had all the essential features of the Thaw and Loving cases. One of the well known characters in that section of Arizona is G. F. Murray, one of the Roosevelt Rough Riders. Following the ascendency of the hnl several territorial and county offices and. later was appointed ranger. After he had been in office while and had established a record for competency and efficiency second to none, he learned of some attractions of the law and wrote letters to the guilty parties. offering to compro- mise for a certain sum of money.
 On learning of that and some other deals, MT. Earth himself indicted Murray several times. The latter was tried on a charge of extortiCn and acquitted, his testimony that he wrote the letters to secure admissions of guilt being believed by the jury
 On his statement to Mir. Earth that he could secure an appointment as a member of the mounted police of the territory of New Mexico, and that he would settle down and do the right thing, the other charges were then dismissed and Murray went to his new job. He settled at Ret ner, which is near the Arizona line, and made a reputation of the very best as a fearless and faithful officer during his term of service, capturing some of the worst outlaws operating in the entire country.
 Saturday night he returned home from a trip out on official business and discovered that man by the name of German had been destroy ing his home in his absence. Mur- ray did not show any mercy but kill ed his man at once. He then called up the chief of mounted police and said that he would go to Albuquerque to give himself up.
 Mir. Earth says that Apache county is up and coming and everything in that section is as prosperous as can be and that the past three or four years have made the people up there independent of enc poor year.
 No one realizes what a great az ricultural country we have in Apache county said MT. Earth. We have an area that is tiilable that is as extensive as the old timber lands of Michigan used to be and we have the very finest fruit country in the world When we have a full crop we have more fruit than we know what to do with hardly. Apache county is going to keep pace with the rest of the territory in the mat ter of development, even though we do not get quite so much advertis- ing as the rest of the counties, es- pecially down in the southern per tions."