Williams news., 1913-10-09
NEAR COUNCIL MEETING

| no quorum present. One men. be
 was working Tn the mill, one was on a trip in the country, and the
 third absentee, Caufman, was off buy ng team of mules.
 Several visitore were present,
 however, and in the absence of city
 business, the gathering took on the nature of "smoker." Among the
 gentlemen present were two mem
 bers of the party of eight well
 known Williams nimrods, who had
 returned from a deer hunting trip
 ,ver on the J D diamond range
 the previous day. It seems the
 party was planned to include ten
 hunters, but the we'll known Phoe-
 nix doctor and his friend, failed to
 put in an appearance. The medico is chief surgeon in the big hospital
 at that place and had couple of serious cases on. hand that he di1
 not want to leave. The other gen:
 tleman did not ca~e to come alone.
 Well, the two mighty hunters
 told their attentive listners all about the trip, or ar least all they "ared to tell the three big buck they brought home. the vensior
 .hey got away with in camp, and
 many minor incidents of the trip. They saw Anderson,th we'll known hunter and trapper. One of the listners said he had seen Anderson
 hill four deer out of a bnn"h of five, running their best through the brush, with four consecutive shots. And the hunters brought home three bucks. Of course with a party of that sort it is customary to share and share alike, but how could eight men use three deer? So Tuesday evenings express carried the carcases of two bix fat bucks to Phoenix-one to the doctor and one to his friend. If the thought passed through the minds of any of the listhers, that the two deer that were shipred to Phoenix, and possibly the third one, had been killed by proxy, not an eye batted or a muscle twitched. Hunter Anderson would make mighty good proxy.
 Now comes the bar X punch CTS story. He was at the J D dia- mond camp just after the Williams party left and came to Williams the following day. He only told it or condition that it should never be repeated. It seems the Will Hams hunters camped near a water hole and not far from the J D dia- mona camp. Time, just between daylight and dark-a little too dark to see the sights on a gun; occasion, all hands engaged in slowing away bountiful supper. Cowboy doing his share of the slowing and telling hunters how plentiful deer were in the hils all around. Each hunter, if at all lucky, ought to get buck before noon. next day, A cracking of brush and thud thud of feet, and There's bunch across tke ravine, coming down to water, in a hoarsA whisper from the cowboy. The
 next few seconds probably devel- oped more buck ague in a given time
 than was ever known in Coconino county. In less time than it takes to tell it, everybody was shooting.
 In telling the story the evening previous, the councilman said there were at least a dozen deer in the bunch and that over fifty shots were fired, while Smith sail there were over twenty deer if there was one. After the fusilade a noise like the struggle of a dying animal was heard in the brush, but the number of bucks killed instantly could only be surmised. Then the long drawn, plaintive bray of mother burro for her first born, or maybe her second or third born, drifted down from the ridge above. By Ianka thnl1nht tha,r ruo.o Ioo. ,,