Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-11-21
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CAPTAIN WHEELER, OF RANGERS GETS LETTER FROM BACK EAST THAT SHOWS GROSS IGNORANCE OF ARIZONA.

Captain Harry Wheeler of the Ari- zona rangers returned to Naco Sunday after making an extended trip over the territory in the interest of the ranger force, says the Bisbee Review. This is 8 regular trip which is made by the ranger captain at certain intervals, and much of the territory which is covered by the ranger force is checked up.
 In speaking of the work of the force and the territory which is covered, Captain Wheeler stated for the Review that everything is making fine progress and that conditions are entirely satis. factory "Conditions are certainly gratifying all over Arizona and there is an excellent feeling prevailing every. where. The cattle are in unusually good condition and the stockmen are in the best of spirit, I have never seen the cattle industry more prosperous and Arizona cattlemcn are bound to come out in fine shape this year. The range is particularly good. "
 Continuing Captain Wheeler said: ''It was pleasing to find that every. thing was reported quiet over the terri tory and the ranger force has been con fronted with little or nothing to do of a serious nature from an official stand point, of late. There is no territory where everything is so quiet and where so little disturbance exists as right here in Arizona. The time of the bad man is with the past, and the Sunday story writer of narrowing tales of the bandit and the outlaw must draw wholly upon his imagination, or must depart to other fields.
 "It is amusing to read some of the letters which l receive from the yellow journalist of the east in quest of mater ial. From the tenor of their letters l am almost persuaded that we still live in fear and trembling of old Geron imo and his raiding tribe of Apaches, and that the shriek of the iron horse has never been heard in our domain. Some of them even think that we still live in huts and are cleaving our way through the wilderness with meat axe. It seems as hard to civilize these blood thirsty writers of tine east as it was to break the power of the lurking Indian on the frontier more than a gen eration ago.
 ITO all such there is but one answer, and that is that there is less lawless- ness in Arizona today than in any of the thickly populated cities and states of the east; that law and order is the predominating feature in the southwest, and that men are too busy building their homes, developing their mines and founding a new and splendid civiliza- tion to give passing thought of the ro- bust and fertile imagination which is continuing to libel and misrepresent the west.
 Asked as to the continuing of the ranger force. Captain Wheeler observed that it was entirely with the territorial legislature. "They know what the ranger force has done toward looking after the international line, as we'll as the cattle interests of the territory. That mounted police is to the benefit of the citizens of the territory there is no doubt. There are twenty-three mem bers of the force and eight, or more than one-third, is maintained right here in Cochise county. This is for the reason that there is more or less busi- ness growing out of Mexico, and of the renegades from both sides of the line lodging backward and forward. This is to be expected. I have heard very little objection to maintaining the rang CT force, but it comes up in the lcgis' lature at regular intervals, and has some following from certain sources. This is up to the people, of course, and they must judge for themselves what their best interests may be-