Year: 1872

dino that up in the mountains they had


recently discovered brass mine--yery


rich ore, too he added, when he saw the


Englishman open his eyes with aston.


ishmcnt.


l.. You've got some droll Pixies down


there, said the General; 2" one Of them


met me once, and said he had travelled


on the Gila with certain person, a


friend of mine" You like that John


Nugentp" he remarked but he's a


nasty little beast" Now, Nugent is re-


markable for his scrupulous neatness


and said, II guess you must be mis-.


taken; he always passed for very clean


man." Il know him" said the Pike,


with a sneer of disgust; didn't travel


with him for three weeks2 and didn't
used to see him 20 down to the river


every morning with little tin cup and


dirty little brush he used to carry in


his pocket, and scrub, and hawk, and


spit, till it almost made me puke to see
him? | tell you he's a nasty little


beast. II believe there's not hard


story in the country that is not fastened


on Arizona, said the Arizonian, land


the tales they tell about US and our Ter
ritoryI have done us almost as much


harm as the Apaches."


Do you know how to carry on agri.


culture down there?'' asked the Judge


There was fellow who hired himself


out as farm hand in Arizona, and the


first day his master told him to cut some


wood. So he asked for an ak, but the


farmer said, No, we don't cut wood


with an ak here" and gave him a sledge-


hammer to knock and break off the mes
quit which they burn down there. The


next day John was ordered to cut some
hay, and was looking about for scythe,
when his master said, "We don't cut
hay with a scythe down here and gave
him a hoe to chop down the woody
stalks with which they swindle the horses
there for hay. The third morning the
farmer called his man to come out aud
plant corn. John looked for hoe, but
his master said. "We don't plant corn
with a hoe out here" and gave him
crowbar with which to punch holes in
the ground, wherein TO drop the corn;
and John left the country in disgust at
that kind of farm work.


This country is quiet now" said the
the General, '"but when first came into
it it contained some rough people. The
head Of the famous robber Joaquin Mu-
rieta, and the hand of his lieutenant,
Three-hngered Jack, were brought into
my camp but few hours after those two
scoundrels were shot; Jack Powers and
his gang used to herd their bands of
stolen horses on my own rancho as they
drove them through the country; and
Jack once kindly came to tell me that
he would kill the first man of his gang
that took anything from me. Mason
and Henry, the worst of all the road
agents in this State, used to go through
Kern county waylaying and robbng;
and in those days man had need to be
careful, not only of his money, but his
life. They have story here" said
the Doctor, "of courageous woman in
this county, whD was alone in the stage
which Mason and one Of his gang
stopped. The driver threw down the
treasure box, when the two robbers
stopped his horses, and Mason thcreupon
opened the stage door, and leaning into
The stage, ordered the woman to give up
her money and rings, pointing cooked |
pistol at her at the same time. The wo-
nan looked at him coolly and said:


Look here, dou't you see that you re |
pointing that pistol directly at me? and |
It's cooked; you seem TO be little ner-
'ous, for your hand trembles; / wish you
would point it away from me; it might
20 of and hurt me- Mason was so
struck by the womans GOODNESS, that
With an oath he slammed the stage door,
md told her TO keep her valuables.
She was lucky" said the Californian;
with these road agents you can't some
lines most generally tell how good-tem.
,ercd they are, or in how much of
lurry; and they are not always as polite
IS fellow who recently at San Luis
sey, in written notice begged to in
innate to the police, that he was about
n onan a telepranh office -