Tombstone epitaph., 1909-02-07
MescaI" Sees Co.
 chise's Latest Wonder

t"V hfaps anu i Cousu h'oHoeS w snare revised statute of the vintage ot '7S, a copy of Pentecost on fees. a file of THE PRosPEcroR, which con- stitutes an elaborate library in Ari. zons, I would go into business with myself righ. there.
 Now, Courtland booze would make 6 maneater out of a hired girl, yet COurtland has not yet arisen to the dignity of "killin."
 This fact is attributable doubtless to the joint and true assertion that they have no grave yard. no under taker, and the population has no time in which to attend funeral.
 The Niggertender, formerly the Legal Tender, embraces every feature from a prayer book to 6 cyclone fac tory. From an ivory statue of George Washington to c second. hand coffin, from a saint to horse thief; from angels of purity whose opal eyes re- fleet the colors of celestial rsinbows to feminine atrocities that could bluff e cavalry charge with their aprons. O, she is great,
 The town is three miles long and still "a strerchin'." It is tine ltst chance 10: every broken down gam bier every used up tin horn, claim jumper and hobo in the Southwest, but the old time primitive pioneer conditions are truly enjoyable by the man who slept in Fort Misery on Goose Flat on Granite Greek or soaked up mescal in Wickenburg long years ago. These conditions are simply tenn porary and constitute an echo of by. gone days.
 The fact that tragedy has gone wide of the camp illustrates the decadence of the old spirit and demonstrates that it is only a pioneer community in form. Very soon everything will take on modern form, and school house: and other improvements will arise from the rocks, born of the protoplasm ct progress and the district ~ill cast of every suggestion of the historic past, That automo ride is still in my mind Where we left the Jack rabbit co fsl behind;
 Then out in a gressewood quarter sec l tion,
 We were caught in the sand and lost
 our connection"
 And while we proceeded our thirst tt quench,
 The chauffeur applied the monkey | wrencb,
 And just as we swallowed 6 good old
 gin-i1z
 That dandy old Rec began to whizz,
 At une sleeping place. perhaps thu beet in the camp, we had to double uI with . man. If you never slept wisf one of your own gender, never try it I'd rather go out and make hobby horse of the ridge pole to keep from freezing to death. Firss he wheezes then he sneezes, then he snores anG then he roars. In this instance it wal the "Chauffer," and his remarks in his sleep, cutting the profanity out, were like this:
 "Houk, honki Reckon we've lost our spark. Give'r the low gear; no back up and hand'r the intermediate no, she's lost her connection-
 And then he proceeded his fist to clench
 And crawl under the bed with a mop. key wrench.
 o, the night was hideous, bed was . rack of torture; we could not stroll forth under the stsrs; first for the reason that it was cloudy, and sec ondiy because at the fret step we should take we were apt to roll a hundred feet amid old cans and barb wire and cast of bedstesds and . houssnd other things, 60 we just roasted it out.
 We did venture forth once, when g demoniac thirst possessed us and sought the Courtlsnd water works which consists oi . barrel of slksli water in the rear of the kitchen, but we never found it.
 There is s great demand for mechsn- ics and any man who can hit nail three timee out of five is beeled for 6 carpenter, and any man who can sharpen e psrsfne candle with but cher knife can get . job dressing steel
 Courtland and the Leadville district possesses undoubted merit, but 1t is e bit congested st present. Hundreds of impecunious sdventurers have gath cred there in the hope of snspping up something. About thirty days from now the s,tuation will sober up and the cool-besded investor will have . fine opportunity to do business.
 The Copper Queen, the Calumet ( Arisons, and the Great Western, all