The copper era and Morenci leader., 1918-06-14
ARIZONA REWARDS
 POWERS GATORS
MONEY IS SENT TO CAMP FUND OF TROOP OF THE FIFTH UNI TED STATES CAVALRY, NOW IN SERVICE.


 A check for $s.O0O drawn on the Arizona state treasury has been mail- ed from the office of the governor to Troop l of the 18th United States Cav airy, now stationed at Hachita, New Mexico. .i
 This money represents the three re- wards of $1,0O0 each offered by the state for the capture of Tom and John Powers and Tom Sisson, slayers of Sheriff R. F. Mcbride, Undersheriffs M. R. Kempton and Deputy Sheriff D. K. Wooten, all of Graham county. The outlaws were captured on March by patrol from Troop I south of Hachita. eight miles south of the international boundary, the sold. lers having followed the slayers into Mexico as the three were trying to es- cape across the line. The soldiers had been on the lookout for them.N Not shot was fired by either side, the outlaws being almost exhausted with the long chase. They were taken to Hachita and later to Graham county. By agreement of the patrol that ef fected the capture, the large reward was assigned to the troop fund of Troop 1, Graham county also offered reward to stimulate the hunt for the slayers. and this, too, will go to the troop fund.
 The payment of this $3,000 reward by the state writes the last chapter Of man hunt that was declared to be one of the greatest ever conducted in the southwest and in which at one time more than 1000 men, including ni 10Th ,&I searching for the three slayers. The outlaws, for the capture of whom this large amount of money was paid by Arizona, are in the penitentiary, each with life sentence over him. The killing of the three peace off, cers followed the attempt of Deputy United States Marshal Frank Haynes of Globe, assisted by the Graham coun | ty officers, to arrest the two Powers boys as draft evaders. Sisson aided the youths in the fight with the off, cers, as did Jeff Powers, father of the two boys, who was wounded and died few hours after the battle that oc- cured early Sunday morning, Febru- ary 10, at their mountain home in Rattlesnake canyon. near Klondike, Arizona. l As the four officers approached the home of the Powers boys they met a fusilade of shots and returned the fire. Sheriff Mcbride, Undersheriff Kemp ton and Deputy Wooten fell mortally wounded. Immediately the two Pow CTS boys and Tom Sisson, former United States soldier, took to the mountains.
 Posses soon were formed and took up the chase that led back and forth over Graham and Cochise counties, lasting three weeks and winding .in and out of the Chiricahua mountains. one of the most inaccessible of the Icontinental divide. Sheriff Harry c. Wheeler of Cochise county, pursued the trail day after day, at times only few hours behind the fugitives. With him went a score of possemen, while around the mountain range for dis tance of 50 miles were strung 1000 civilians and soldiers. Sheriff Wheel er and his posses finally were forced 1 to abandon the trail on account of Q heavy fall of snow in the mountains.
 Soldiers from Troop later took up the trail and had followed it for ten days before the outlaws were captur- ed. From Hachita the slayers were removed secretly in automobiles to Graham county and then to Greenlee county, where they were tried. Inn prisonment for life was the senten- ce passed on them by a Greenlee coun ty jury.