Weekly journal-miner., 1910-03-30
Arizona DeSperadoeS Are Living in The
 Tropics
Burt iA1vord and Bravo Juan in South
 America
(By Cyclone Bill" ]

The question is frequently asked,
 "What has become of Alvord and
 Stilesi Is Bill Stiles dead7" coupled
 with occasional rumors that these
 notorious characters are still in hid
 ing in the mountains of northern Mex
 leo and southern Arizona, all cal
 culated to excite the apprehension
 of newcomers and prospective invest
 ors. The following will be read with
 some pleasure by people interested
 in the affairs of the territory, and
 the story, as here related, will have a
 tendency to set at rest, at least, some of the groundless rumors re- ferred to, says "Cyclone Bill" in the Phoenix Democrat.
 I met Homer Dubois, well known in Tucson, not long since, who has travelled extensively for the last three years through several of the southern republics, including Venezuela and the Isthmus of Panama, where he resided for some time, and while I will not attempt to voueh for the truth of anything that either Alvord, Stiles or Bravo Juan may have told Dubois, will voneh for the truth of his statement to me, having known him from boyhood. I know him to be truthful and absolutely fearless.
 CT can't tell you much about Billy Stiles" said MT. Dubois CT saw Stiles, however, after he had left Arizona. I saw him in Los Angeles and talked with him. Stiles told me that he was working on a ranch not far from Los Angeles; that he was done with Arizona, and whenever he left the vicinity where I met him he was going farther away.
 "But," continued Dubois, "I can tell you something about Burt Al word and Bravo Juan, and I will tell you just what each one of them told me, with reference to their de- parture from Arizona. l met Bravo Juan on the street in Venezuela town. At first I did not recognize him, but he knew me, and made him self known to me. He asked me about many people in Arizona, and said that after the 'hold-up' at Fair bank, near Tombstone, in which J. D. Milton, after having his arm shat tered by bullet from Fingered Jacks Winchester, gave Jack his dose of buekshot, from which he died few hours later, Bravo Juan, Stiles, Alvord and others became badly scattered. Milton sure used a scat ter gun that day. said Juan. 'II scattered and still scattered, and II may 'be scattered still farther, but I'll tell you this much, I won't never go back to Arizona. I concluded to quit robbing and go to work, and that is what I did. First, I had to make my getaway, which I am here to tell you was no easy job, with those Arizona officers after me. But I made my way to Mexico, ana finaally on down to Panama, where 1 worked for the government until I came here. From here I shall drift south, but not north, toward Arizona; not for me-
 "Now, as to Burt AlvOrd,'' said MT. Dubois. "When I first met him down there he was working for the government. He had charge of a gang of natives working on the Pan anna canal. He told me that for a | year after his arrival on the Isthmus he had worked as a common laborer, but that familiarity with the Spanish | language was the means of his pro- | motion, and for some time he had | charge of a gang of laborers, and | that he had saved up $1,000. The re- ports in Arizona that Alvord had mar ried a wealthy widow, owner of a | sugar plantation in Jamaica, and | that he was living in Jamaica, is all bosh. Alvord did marry a woman on the Isthmus, but she was not wealthy. The last time saw him he said he had 'quit' his wife, and that he was going to Argentina, and am satisfied he went there.
 Thus it will be seen by this mar rative that Arizona has long since been rid of Alvord and Stiles. Opin- ions differ, in official circles, concern eerning the reported killing of Billy Stiles in Nevada, something over year ago. I made bet of the finest hat in Tucson, not long since with Captain Harry Wheeler, that Stiles is alive; he bets that he is dead.
 I have always claimed that "Hual- ipai" Clark killed the notorious Apache Kid, whose deeds of cold