Bisbee daily review., 1909-12-31
TIBURONTERRORS FRDVE HIGHLY
 EXAGGERATED
Bisbee Exploring Party Found No Wild Men and Not Much Mineral Wealth, but Plenty of Game.

With the return of John iiaSan, William Kiernan, Chester hilgore and Joe Beals anu Johnson. the Bisbee- ties who accompanied the1iburon ex- petition to the wilds of this unknown island. the Review has come into pos session of a complete account of the results of the party's findings, which is now published for the first time.
 D.. Fayette A. Jones, who com handed the expedition. went direct to Albuquerque, via Fl Paso and ar rived home in time to spend Christ mas with his family. Clint Clenden- ing and J. A. Bateman went from Guaymas to the Rio Mayo where they will remain for a couple of months.
 The boys who have returned here say that they certainly enjoyed their trip and that it was well worth the time and money. At Guaymas they bought two masted schooner or sloop, Of eleven tons capacity, stocked t up with arms. ammunition, food, Dr. Jones' scientific instruments and twenty kegs of water each of twenty gallons capacity. which, figuring on using five gallons day, constituted forty days water supply. Some trouble was experienced over flying the stars and stripes. the company either having to get permit O. travel with Mexican captain. Alter Q twenty-four hour delay, however and the use of s1O gold piece the authorI' ties turned the party loose and they were of to the land of fame and for tune.
 A little way down Guaymas har- bor Joe Beals discovered that the stars and stripes were waving from the masthead of the sloop upside down. It was rightsd, while the un- lucky party who hoisted it was court martialed and sentenced to be leu ro the Seris immediately upon landing at Tiburon.
 Despite numerous mishaps in fight ing the currents of the gulf, they final ly hove in sight Of the island All the way up the gulf it was necessary to dodge tides and currents, which, to put it wild, are something fierce in this portion of the gulf. To cap the climax, when within fifty miles of the island the sloop's rudder came of, the salt and sugar were washed over board by a huge wave and the boat slammed upon a rock, sprlnging 9 leak. which, however was quickly patched up with the aid of pitch and canvas.
 This induced them to put into Keno bay, on the mainland, where they
 
 Everybody was tired of the boat and it would have taken pretty savage band of Seris or any other wild men to have prevented them from land ing. They were greeted on setting foot to land by party Of six natives, clad in calico garments, trousers com ing to their knees, barefooted and coatless. They were Of the sociable sort however. Two of the party went skirmishiGg about fer eatables and soon returned with a couple of fat deer. One of these was given to the natives, who soon brought back in re turn a supply of salt and a large black sea bass weighing about ninety pounds.
 That most of the Indians were on the mainland was soon discovered, as the next morning a band of twenty came into camp, headed by their chief. to pay a visit and see how the explorers were hooked up." They offered no violence, however. taking in with due respect to the armament of the crowd.
 They then set sail for Tiburon. across the bay. Making anchor in sheltered cove, all the supplies were the rest wen= inland scouting for water and any dangers that might lurk in the unknown region.
 One thing that impressed them most was the millions of pigeons flying about. Numerous sharks. too. swarm ed about the boat as the landing was effected, and woe be to the man who would advertently allow his legs to dangle over the side of the boat into the gulf. The island of Tiburon. they say, was rightly named, as translated into English it means shark" and the surrounding waters were alive with them.
 They found a good watering place about four miles from where the boat was left. A spring bubbled through the crust of the surface the waters ran a distance of sixty feet and then sank into the earth, to rise no more. At night pigeons by tens of thousands swarmed around the spring to drink, a pretty sight In the morning Clint Clendening killed five deer in two hours, so deer steak for breakfast was the order, with squab on toast as a side dish. Some class to the style of living. after having been over a week on the beat on diet of canned meats and friioles.
 The party ran into i,eat many camping places which slgniied that Indians had been there, though only migrating to tho island in the spring. About these old camp fires were hun- dreds of turtle shells. all sizes, some of them measuring six feet across.
 These turtles go ashore in the spring, and that is what brings the natives to the island. These Seris, it is said, are truly the widest of the wild and only wear a breeeh-cloth abOut fo1.rtaen inches wide in the way