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Show PASSES IN .EiStHECKS ''Old Caribou .Brown," a Noted Frontier Gam- bled Is Deal i- r. TUCSON. Ariz.,. May', 19. With . the death - - last -night of "Old Caribou Brown" there passed away one of the most picturesque characters in alt the frontier .history of the gfeat; Sonthwest. Henry F. Brown, famed In sporting- circles cir-cles of the Southwest under the sobriquet sobri-quet ot? "Caribou Browri. vjat fora quarter of a century one of 'the most notable figures in the gambling circles of this section of the country. He died at the ag ;of 8T. "Caribou Brown"- was a native- of County Limerick. Lime-rick. Ireland, and in his early-manhood followed the teea as . captain of a merchantman. mer-chantman. Brown for a quarter of a : century made his . various bomns - in Tucson. Tembstone, Prescott, Wlckenburg and Phoenix. He made and lost a dozen for tones over the gambling table but throughout - Ms checkered aareer' t be maintained the name of being honest. |