Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-12-13
MITCHELL WAS ONCE RESIDENT
 0F ARIZONA
MAN WHO LICKED PAPKE ONCE WORKED IN COPPER QUEEN AT BIsBEE AND WAS WHIPPED A GREAT MANY TIMES.

BISBEE, December 12.-Stanley Ketchell, who recently regained the middleweight championship of the world by defeating Papke in San Fran. cisco was at one time on the pay roll of the Copper Queen company and res ident of Bisbee. He was car-man in the Czar shaft, and according to the statements of his associates was a good worker and could muck dirt with the best of them. He was pleasant fel- low generally and one of the companion able boys He could take his "morn- ing's morning" with good grace and l smacked his lips as one who enjoyed it thoroughly. He seemed to be interest ed in his work and at one time thought that he would like to follow the life of hard rock miner, and work on the lowest level at $3.50 per day,
 He had the rigid idea of thrift also, and was anxious to get as much of this world s goods together as possible, and he also had vague dreams that he would some day become a prize fighter. "I | would like to make successful prize | fghter,' said he to one of his friends while talking upon this subject, eff for no reason than the money that there is in it. I want the money"
 But although Ketchel dreamed dreams of the ring and of the conquests of former champions who had passed in one long panorama befort the eyes of the admiring multitude, the results of his engagements in Bisbee did not point to line of conquests. He bumped in to Joe Strinker in the change room at the Czar and was trimmed to "fare- you.well. l" In several of his friendly bouts in the pugilistic circles of this camp he was several times walloped and continually found those who could place the gloves on all sides of him.
 But the former car-man developed rapidly, and along with his brawn and science his confidence came. He would tackle buzz-saw. He was soon appear | ing in the arena on Mexican soil and met several of the local scrappers in the bull ring at Naco, Sonora. Kid Barney, McClug, Jack Gray and others went down before his prowess, clear ing the field for new worlds to conquer
 He next appeared before the lime light in Los Angeles, where he found faster company than he ever expected, but he was game. The history of his series of fights with Papke in Milwau kee, Los Angeles and San Francisco, in which he won two out of three are all fresh in the memory of the reader. He showed himself to be "goer" of the first water and man of remarkable vi- tality He also dragged down a lib- eral competence, which is placed to his credit in several of the banks of Cali. fornia
 He has won the much coveted prize of "champion "' which is dearer to the average prize fighter than all the gold which it brings.
 But Ketchel has been guilty of sew eral breaches of the manly art which will never be told by his friends with any great degree of gusto. The coast papers were all full of how he beat into insensibility a green boy who had requested that Ketchel put on the gloves with him and give him a few pointers in handling them. He turned himself loose upon the farmer lad with the same visciousness he would vet. eran antagonist and left him bleeding and entirely out. For some time the unfortunate youth was given up as an imbecile.
 The manner in which he swiped Papke when the latter reached out to shake hands in the first fight will al- ways be spoken of with blush and as something that is quite unbecoming to one of the old carmen of the Copper