Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1908-08-27
WEIRD TALE
Of COL. LEWIS
TOLD BACK EAST
Says He Is Ranger Officer
Off on FurIough-0id Rang
ers Never Heard of the
Man.

The Connellsville, Pa, Courier
prints the story found below of Col.
Stanley Huntley Lewis, whoever he
is, who was in that city last week pos.
ing as a lieutenant of the Arizona
Rangers during the state eucampment
of the Uniform Rank of the knights OF
Pythias. The opinion of the officers
in Bisbee and old members of the
Ranger force were in the city yester-
day is that Lewis branded himself a
fakir Of the rawest type when he hand
ed out the dope printed about him.
self They never heard of man
named Lewis in tne Arizona Rangers.
and are positive no one by that name
ever served as a lieutenant The
lieutenants of the Rangers for some
years back were Johnny Foster, who
Is now deputy United States marshal
in the southern part of the territory,
Capt. Harry Wheeler, who was pro-
NOTED when Capt. Rynning left the
Rangers and Lieutenant Odds, VINO is
still in the service. Following is the
story printed back in Pennsylvania
about Lewis:
"A slim and sun-tanned young officer
in the fatigue uniform of a first lieu
tenant, and driving a red Ford racing
csir, attracted much attention on the
streets yesterday in spite of the num-
bers Of more brilliantly decorated
knights. Stanley Huntley Lewis, the
gentleman in question, IS 4 lieutenant
in the Arizona Rangers, or mounted
border police, whose duties CORES
pond with those of our state constab-
ulaTy. The colonels commission pos
sessed by Mr.. Lewis is an honor be
slowed by President DiaZ of Mexico.
A slight defect of eyesight caused by
sand storms of the American desert
has given Lieutenant Lewis a years
furlough, which he is enjoying in a
motor car tour Of the east, having
driven his machine from Tucson to
New York last March. He is we'll
known as a writer OF military stories
and poems for the Munsey publica-
lions, and has consequently a personal
acquaintance with T. Jenkins Hams,
whose tales of adventure in the same
magazine are no more thrilling than
his recent participation in the Annis-
Hams tragedy.
" 7 know both the Hams we'll said
Col Lewis today. I was at Fort Riley
when Capt. Peter c. Hams was sta
toned there, and more queer, IN
assuming man l never met. His
brother Thornton is Of Herculean
build. The captain is near-sighted
and below medium height, and has
been known in literary and Bohemian
circles as an aII-round good fellow
have no dczbE that the captains
mind was temporarily unbalanced by
real or imaginary wrong, and that he
would eventually have wreaked venge-
anee on the man ne believed to be
its author, whether instigated by
Thornton or not
Col. Lewis career has been inter
esting. a major OF Cuban insurgents
in 1896. an officer of government
troops in Venezuela, later in the
Rurales of Mexico. wounded severely
on various occasions, having a crease
across the frontal bone from Spanish
sabre, and one ear deeply gashed by
a Yaqui Ratchet detected half an inch
from death-stroke.
The officer was the center today OF
an interested group of Brother
Knights, he being a well known mem
Der of the Pythian body. He is heart
lily in favor Of the proposed arning OF
the Uniform Rank with standard mil
itary equipment and its use as re-
serve force which Is now under con-
sideration in the state of New York