Bisbee daily review., 1912-05-21

It was years ago before there was a thought of Gila county.
 A few bold spirits had pushed their way across the sands of southeastern Arizona and formed a settlement on the Upper Salt River They were men to whom the limitless freedom of the frontier was sweet. They were rugged, fearless souls to whose hearts the sight of wild untroddan regions lent delight, and to whom adventure was glorious. Their only occupation was the care of herds and the world of grass which nature had spread like a carpet over mountain, valley and plain, assured them financial ln- dependence.
 Winter was approaching and these hardy knights Of the spur were scat. tered over the Sierra Anchas, drifting their stock from what would soon be a waste of snOwbOund canyon, down toward the sunny mesas, where the king or winter held no 5 sSay
 Come Upon Skeletons
 For fear of the treacheIou ous Apache, who had not felt the tanning influence of lead and education, they usually travelled in squads, or al least suffi' ciently near each other that pistol shot could signal for assistance. On a gloomy afternoon in November, two of these hardy frontiersmeu were rid ing down what is known as Coon Creek. quitely pressing before them a little band of stock which they had gathered on the higher steps of the Sierra Anchas, now moYing smoothly across clad bars and mesas, now dodg- ing through chaparral aLj among boulders, now making laborious de- tours up the Hillside 10 avoid impass. able falls in the creek Oed. They had driven their little herd around a rocky point, where only narrow footing permitted the stock to pass between a towering precipice above and a frightful deClivity Gelow, and
 were descending again to the little valley below pushing and crowding and loosening the rocks which gath cred force as they rolled and went 1 laundering down the steep hillside [ into the little valley below: the cat 1 tie as they neared the bottom, drew | ahead of the nOrsemen rapidly, and | poured into the creek bel some 200 | yards ahead of the meu As the | horsemen came up with them the cat | tie stopped and seemed to be holding { a council over some object near the ! center of little grassy bar. IL is 2 | well known fact among stockmeI ! that at times, especially du ing cloudy weather, when the surface of thc
 earth is damp, cattle have a penchan for chewing bones, a fact which ha! ] never been explained, but which, ney erthless, is known to be fact. Or such occasions this peculiar procliy | ity is usually attended by much un | necessary believing and paving. A
 the moment referred to, several ami maIs were seen to be exercising thi puzzling trait, and when pressed for
 ward by the horsemen, carried hl
 ghastly find in his mouth. Little al
 tention was paid to the matter at tn moment by the men, who were so ia miliar with IEe habits oi their lon horned friends when one of the horse men, attracted by the cracking O bones in the tall grass beneath hi , horses feet, looked down and dicoN cred a human skull and the indi: ? tinct outline o. complete skeleton Calling to his companion, they dis mounted and found two skeletons Onl about four feet apart. Alter due COT sultstion the men agreed tC push thei P cattle on down the mesa and retur
 the next day, and int2rT, what the believed to be all that remained ( two white men. and in the meantiu the skeletons remained undisturbed Grave Discloses O re
 ! diseopered the rti1s el &rat, from il foindation area, fnust have been ! } commodious cabin with stone foundi !. ton. It must have been constructed { l wood and subsequently, burned. q 5 there we're ashes and half burne 3 timbers in and about it. Every effo
 was made to discover the identity (
 the skeletons, but time and element n and animals 3Ed Indians had remove g every trace, until, digging the sha
 low grave iaside the foundation of |