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Show Bandits' Reign to Be Ended BEAUVOIR. TO BE HOME . FOR. AGED CONFEDERATES Small Army of Determined Men Pledged to Exterminate the Outlaw Gangs Which Have Infested Arizona A The largest posse of men that ever searched for fugitives from justice are hunting across burning desert wastes, over lonely, sunbaked moun- tains, through parched gulches and 1 , canyons in Southern Arizona the . between along the boundary United States and Mexico for desoutlaws half-breeperate, Indians and Mexican desperadoes. The border between Arizona and New Mexico, of the United States and Sonora, of the republic of Mexico, has long been the rendezvous of several of the most dreaded bands of murderers, bandits and lawless, hardened characters in tbe West. There is scarcely a region on this continent more favorable for unrestrained outlawry in the most desperate forms than the region of the boundary between the United States and Mexico, especially along the southern limits of Arizona. Away up among the rugged mountain peaks are caverns and fastnesses where bands of outlaws may live for months with meagrest protection against invasions of their hiding places. Apache Kid and his fifteen fiendish followers lived among these mountains for months, while the United States troops and armed posses vainly sought them in 1893, 1894 and 1895. Very few white men know the dizzy tortuous trails that lead around cliffs and over extince volcanoes from the valleys up among the crags and peaks of the Dragoon or Santa Marias. Several thousand men might have sufficient food for a whole season and nothing would give a clew to their whereabouts. There are thousands of eyrie spots on the mountain sides where a handful of armed men may, with rifles, hold off a company of soldiers. Stretching away from the feet of the mountains and foothills on both the American and Mexican sides of the boundary are camps of gold, silver and copper mines, homes of alfalfa growers and sheep herders, stock ranges, honey bee ranches and settlers cabins. These have long been the objects of robbery, assault and murder by the fugitives from justice who have lived in the mountain fastnesses and the hidden canyons and gulches. The frequent raids of the outlaws upon the herds, flocks and homes of the settlers down in the valleys has finally brought every one In the southern parts of the Territories and in the northern to combine In a common movement against the bandits of the mountains. The dozens of attempts by small posses to capture or punish the criminals have been absurd. The largest and most notorious gang of outlaws in the mountains of Fima county is that led by Doc Hattler. In some parts of the territories that name is held in dread. Doc Hattler is about 60 years old, and for twenty years he has been a refugee from justice. He came from a New Jersey town at the close of the civil war and was a tough citizen in Dodge City and Newton, Kan., thirty-livyears ago, when they were the in the most lawless communities West He ran a keno saloon at Dodge City and fatal rows in his saloon were of monthly occurrence. One night four men were shot to death there during a fight over gambling. Hattler finally shot a pop ular cowboy straight through the heart and the whole population of the border toton rose up against the murderer. Hattler fled from Dodge City to Dennison, Tex. There he was an desperado. Hhe was sus pected of robbing and assassinating a faro dealer one dark night, and he d d d Mex-steril- ZULU I ' STUDENT AT COLUMBIA Youth Comes From Far Off Africa for Education in America. When Columbia university opened for the fall term there sat in the fresh- - Doc" Hattler. uteil to the gang numbers more than thii ty. The Beeson gang, composed of about seven of the most desperate criminals ever known on the frontier of civilization, is another outlaw body that makes its headquarters among the Dragoon mountains and preys periodically upon people and companies on both sides of the boundary line. The Beeson gang gets its name from Bob Beeson, who escaped from the Territorial penitentiary at Santa Fe, N. M., in 1890, where he was sentenced for life after participation in highway robberies, murders and other desperate crimes. Beeson was shot and killed by a railroad brakeman on the Mexican Central railroad two of the express years ago In a hold-ucr near Juarez, Mexico, one night when there was a shipment of gold bricks aboard from the Chihuahua mines for Denver. The gang still retain Beesons name. The Wclls-Farg- o detectives say that the Beeson gang have several abodes in the mountains and that they shift their hiding spots every few months. The holdup of the Southern Pacific overland train at Steins Pass in Arizona, when the express car was wrecked, and the safe was blown open and robbed of some $43,000 in money was the most notable crime ever traced.to the Beeson gang. But none of the robbers has ever been brought to justice and not a dollar of the booty has ever been recovered. The gang is not altogether composed of rude, hardened characters. Two of the Beeson gang are said, on the auUnited States thority of former Marshal Foster of Benson, Ariz., to men from a New be middle-ageEngland city, with airs of refinement and evidences of superior education and breeding. They were seen at Tuscon last spring, where they passed themselves off as mining investors. Two years ago they spent several months at Tacna, where they assumed the role of amateur geologists, while they planned the successful robbery of the Southern Pacific d overland. It Is believed that one of these gentlemanly men was the man who assassinated Sheriff IJowlson, who led a posse against the Beesons in Pinal county in 1896. p d east-boun- a o - Beauvoir, the former home of Jefferson Davis in Mississippi, which the widow of the Confederate leader has just sold for $10,000 to the Sons of Confederate Veterans, is a fine old OF PRINTERS DEVIL. Bestowed on Newspaper Imps in the Year 1490. When Aldus Manutius set up as printer in Venice, about 1490, he came into possession of a little negro boy. This boy was soon known all over the city as the little black devil. For at that time negroes were not often seen in Venice, and some of the most ignorant people believed him to be either hn embodiment or an emissary of Satan, who, according to the superstition of the towns, aided Aluds in the work of his profession One day Manutius, desiring to dispel this strange and spreading opinion, displayed the young imp publicly to the poorer classes, making this short but characteristic speech: Be it known to you and to all Venice, that I, Aldus Manutius, printer to the Holy Church and the Doge, have this day made exposure to all of the printers devil. And if any think he is not like us, flesh and blood, they may come and pinch him, and they will find that though he is black he is human. This derivation of the expression printers devil" as applied to a boy who made himself useful in a printers office, will explain to many people that there is nothing vulgar intended by the word devil when used in this sense. d to-da- A HOT The Worm Turns. Little Tompkins (on his dignity),, Marie, Ive been a good husband t0 you all these years, have been patleDt ar.d have put up with every humllit tion, but, fiercely, the worm hu turned at last you shall not have m sons trousers cut down for me COME-BACK- . After which the billing and cooing ent on with even greater tenderness tnan before. 5 First in Costume, was given two hours to leave that region. He has a criminal record in XI Paso, Deming, Tombstone, Silver City and Albuquerque. He was detected in a holdup of the Las Vegas, N. M., stage in 1889, when gold bullion to the amount of $12,000 was express taken from the Wells-Fargbox. When the sheriff and several deputies came to arrest Doc Hattler and his associate in crime the outlaw shot one of the deputies dead, and, amid a rattling fire of revolvers, be and an associate leaped down a ravine and got away. A posse from Las Vegas took the trail and followed ths bandit and his associate for thirty Sparkling Sermon. Husband I dont believe you heard You s word of the sermon were looking the whole time at the diamonds that woman in front of us wore. Wife Well, there are sermons in stones, you know. Puck. d ORIGIN Half-Bree- Better Understanding. Do you think you will like me just as well, she asked, when I tell you my hair is dyed? Yes, dear," answered her elderly lover. I hve known it all the time. Will you thiuk any the less of me when I confess that my hair Is a wig? Not at all. I knew it was. the first time I ever saw you. hour j, when the trail was lost in the darluess of the night among the Rocky mountains. Three months after Doi Hattler and three associates e were recognized at Hermosillo, ico. Shortly after a Mexican hacienda was robbed of silver plate and fine bor-e- s and the posse that took after the robbers recognized Hattler as he led on horse through the chaparral tovard the Santa Maria mountains. Hattler has added some fourteen JAaerican and Mexican refugees from justice to his band. The list of mur-attrib-rs, robberies and hold-up- s Glass Eyes for Animals. Glass eyes are now made for horses, cats and dogs, as well as for human beings. These animals use a larger eye than man, and several are ordered for them at the same time, as a new one is necessary about once' in six months. The edges become roughened and produce irritation, from tbe acids of the secretions affecting the enamel. Actress Rebukes Prominent Man. R. O. Colt, a member of the famous Colt family of gunmakers, who makes his home in Charlotte, N. C., was slapped in the face on the street the other day by a pretty actress. Miss Grace Hobart Hanson, a member of The Tyranny of Tears company, who claimed be was annoying her by his attentions. Has Had Enough of Politics. Gov. Candler of Georgia, whose term of office soon expires, says he will hereafter stay out of politics, Tf th boy will let him. The Woes of Cupid. fickle, said Miss Miami Brown. Dey goes back on you on de slightest provocation. What's been happenin? asked Miss Olina Jefferson Tompkins. Mr. Rastus Pinkley come aroun try-ito kiss me, an so as not to seem too willin an audacious. I smashed im wif a flatiron, an jes foh dat he Jilted me. Men is sho house where Mr. Davis lived after the war. It is associated with the personal history of the leader and will be used as a home for indigent Confederate veterans. ART OF EARLY DAYS Remarkable Aboriginal Carvings Found In Australia. Recently a number of remarkable aboriginal carvings were discovered at Jibbon, Australia. They are on a flat rock, which most probably was a lookout station for the natives. When the fact is taken into consideration that they devoted little labor to their dwellings or to matters relating to their personal comfort it is a cause of surprise that they maintained efforts sufficient to outline figures of gigantic size by grooving them in the solid rock. At Jibbon are the outlines of three whales, one twenty feet six feet inches long, another thirty-nin- e feet in long and a third thirty-twlength by eleven feet in width. The Is marked across the center of the figure, from one outline to the other, by two parallel straight lines. A shark fifteen feet long, a turtle ten feet, a human had twelve feet, a stingaree nine feet and a Wallaby six leet are also carved upon the rock. o n Outclassed. The headless horseman was recently observed standing on the Tarry-towbridge. Great Scott! he exclaimed, as an automobile whizzed by, Im out oi date. The proper thing is to be a horseless headsman." Just then the clock struck twelve, and he jumped into the creek with a howl of despair. Organized Labor. You are not a workingman, said the curbstone orator, "or you wouldnt talk that way." "You are wrong, sir! fiercely answered the man who had Interrupted him. I am a member of a Browning club, and if an Institution of that kind isnt organized labor, I dont know what it is! A HOT Weary Im afraid Ill injure my teeth if I eat this pie. Kind Lady Ill let you understand, sir, that I made pies before born. Weary This must be one of them. No Embarrassment. Is it true that Piker is financially embarrassed? He is awfully in debt, but it doesnt seem to embarrass him any. ONE. SOUGHT TO MAKE PEACE. Isaka Seme, Columbia's Zulu Student. rather man class a slight and wholly modest youth who has come farther to make Columbia his alma mater than any other student there. He has planned for himself a seven years course. After that he is going to England with a Cecil Rhodes scholarship, he hopes to add still another degree to the two he expects to earn here. He signs his name Pixley I. Seme, but if he wrote is among his own people it would be Pixley ka Isaka Seme. The last word is pronounced as if it were French. The ka simply means junior. His home is in Natal, South .frica, and he is a Zulu, the race whose armies swept conquering over the veldt, never faltering and never turn ing back till they met the white man with his machine guns and bullets that kills a mile away. Pixley Ka dark-skinne- 's The Wise Deacon. "Deacon, began the old colored parson, do you ebeh say Git behind me, Satan? No, bruddah, Ah do not, said D Ef Ah told Satan to git con Green. behind me he might stick me when it want lookin'. Ah keep him right la front whah Ah kin see him. Unfortunate Lord De Broke You have aw no natural curiosities aw Miss Cutting HIntz No; we Import them. Capt. proposal Increased the bitterness felt toward them, and brought about the feeling exhibited in the house of commons recently. Shaw-Taylo- r. Missouri a Cattle State. During 1901 the annual output of Missouri's cattle amounted to 1,068,-62head, valued at $27,165,700, com pared with 1900, when only 940,206 head were shipped, for which was received. So also as to hogs. In 1900 2,844,364 hogs brought $22,840,242, whereas in 1901 3,192,034 hogs brought but $22,344,238. In 1901 114,134 horses and mules were shipped, for which $7,989,240 was paid Sheep to the number of 538,954 were shipped, and they brought $1,888,339 $34,-101,2- Erroneous Ideas About Drowning. e A swimmer, correcting popular errors, stated that accidents to swimmers are seldom due to cramp, but to apoplexy resulting from sudden cooling. The sinking three times is a curious error, as some persons swal low water and strangle on first Immersion, sinking but once, while others many sink and rise fifty times. The expert has saved sixty-fiv- e lives, and he has found that the drowning person cannot be stunned by a blow in the face, but that he can be handled by pressing the thumbs under the ears and ducking his head until manageable, this being done from behind. long-distanc- Rev. George Chainey. early this year. The manuscript volume thirty. "Revelations, , for saved, but the manuscript volumes was other twenty-eigh- t but will be rewritten, Chainey says. for was the Mr. A London Solomon. A London justice has just made an important decision regarding dressmakers disputes. He will not have dresses tried on In court because he Remark. He (pleadingly) Why can't we be married right away? She (coyly) Oh, I cant bee it leave father alone just now. He (earnestly) But, my darling he has had you such a very long time Sir! She (freezingly) YEARS OF WORK WASTED. Flames Destroy Valuable Manuscript of Rev. George Chainey. Many years of work went to waste when fire destroyed the Williams Bay residence of the Rev. George Chainey The manuscript for of Chicago. twenty-eigh- t of the contemplated thirty volumes of The Unsealed Bible, a work which has occupied Mr. Chainey for the last fourteen years, was the prey of the flames. Formerly a member of the Rock River conference, Mr. Chainey later became a Unitarian and finally a free thinker. He claims special revelations by visions, and his writings are largely along this line. The Unsealed Bible was intended to he a book of thirty volumes, the first of which, Genesis,' was published Guaranteed Cure. Is hard cider a temperance drink?" asks the visitor of the farmer who li pouring the apples into the cider press. It is, says the farmer, while i reminiscent smile flits across hie face It Is. I reckon that after a man up off of hard cider he is fuller of remorse and readier for the pledge than after surroundin almost any other kind of Vicinity Counted. I have come to the city with nj son, who is about to enter the lav school. The first thing is to find a boarding place. Do you know any place that you can recommend?" Well, no, not near the law school But I know a good place near the medical school. Indeed? Then Ill have him study medicine. Irish Landowner Fails in Attempt to Reconcile Conflicting Interests. a heavy owner Capt. Shaw-Tayloof Irish lands, is the man who called a conference of landlords and tenants to meet at Dublin and attempt to reach an understanding, which failed owing to the refusal of other landlords to attend. The attitude of the landlords toward Capt. Shaw-Taylor- you vert Wealth of Death Valley. In addition to borax deposits, Death valley contains an immense salt field, which may in time become valuable, It Is about thirty miles long, from two had long since come to the conclusion to four miles wide, and the crust of that with ordinary dresses any lady salt probably averages one foot in could wear a dress to make it look as thickness. Refining would be necesif it did not fit, and he was also per- sary before the salt could be placed fectly satisfied that any milliner or upon the market. dressmaker could pull it about and make it fit when it did not do so. Long Government Service. Judge C. M. Tompkins illustrates the saying, Once a government clerk, Work For Biographers. He is George Meredith and Swinburne, always a government clerk. the English poets, live in houses only Nestor among the clerks of the pen a short distance apart, but they see sion department, having been aplittle or nothing of each other. Mer- pointed to that position in 1861, and ediths health confines him closely. has'' served continuously ever since, Swinburne has become a confirmed re- In spite of his 80 years he is still in fuse. But the two keep up a volum- active duty. inous correspondence and the letters Fashionable Factory Girls. that pass between the houses are said to be rare reading. Factory girls in Leeds, England, go to work fashionably attired, numbers Arbitragers Work Well. of them on cycles. ; The various permanent boards of conciliation and arbitration in the The Worlds vPostage Stamps. United Kingdom are known to have The various countries of the world settled 685 labor troubles during the use 13,400 different kinds of postage past year. stamps. Not a Pleasure Trip. I suppose you can let me have a decent room for a few days, said the Eastern man. Sure, for as long as you want to stay, replied the Chicago hotel clerk. Ill need it longer than that I dont want to stay in this town ten minutes, but Ill have to stay a week at least. Pat over heaht Got In Too Late. I did not see you at church Briggs last Sunday." No; I didnt get In until Braggs you had gone to sleep. Th New Poster Girl. "Miss Sereleaf says that she wu called The Poster Girl at the resort where she spent the summer, re marked Maude. Very appropriate, replied Mamli She was up against the wall mortd the time, I noticed. A TIP FOR HIM TO GO HOME. As Others See Us. Did yez iver notis how thim are afther wavin' their shakin ave their heads .whin theyre talkin? Mike Faith an Oi hove. Thot do be th only way the jabberin furriners Oytalians hands an can make aich other understband. Phwat theyre talkin' about, bgorry, I dunno. Wild Guess. There, thank the stars, thats the last load! By jove, I hope we dont have to move again for 20 years! Look, George theres a man with a camera! See, he is setting it up. What do you suppose he wants? Guess hes after a moving picture, my dear. Between Friends. Clara Mr. Clumsily paid me a queer compliment last evening. Maude What was It? Clara He said 1 reminded him of sugar. , Maude Well, dear, you certainly have your share of sand. . Edith Hlntz You must not play with Mr. Borems new hat, Willie Why not? Edith Hintz You might hurt It of lose It, and hell want it minutes. Willie W in In the Crowded Car. Squeeze' along a little, will you? Dont you see Im right up against a big, fat man? Thats why I asked you to squeeze along. He can be compressed nearly a foot more. Squeeze along. Two Points of View. "You can never tell what will turn observed the ward up in politics, heeler. "Yes, that Isn't the worst of it, reYou can joined the never tell who will be turned 'down. In After Years. You once said I was the Wife only woman in the world." Husband Yes, and I ought to have been sent to an Insane asylum before it was everlastingly too late. Quite Friendly. A Fatal Case. Wheh I want to borrow a dollar, I "All is at an end between ns, never go to a friend," he said, as if the haughty maid with the W he were leading tip to something. tinted hair. My love for you Is ft "Ah!' well," replied the other, exAnother case of heart failure, d tending his hand, "let us be friends. queried the young man in the ; Positively Cruel. The Benedict A man in Texas has been severely punished because he had three wives. The Bachelor I should think sc if be was compelled to live with all three of em. As Usual. Mrs. Waggles Theres a fire sale around at the grocery store. I wonder if he's selling his milk any cheap- er? Waggles I guess not. damaged by water. Thats only Really Unkind. Softleigh Yaws, foh two days I aw was alone on tbe with less pwaiwie alone thoughts, doncher vl: bo , know." Miss Cutting Poor fellow! you must have suffered from Might Make a Better "I wish it was tne Record day before f1 ' day. i Why? "A man paid me some mono? & and Id like to have the spee8 it over again. In Demand. At the Slimmer Hotel. ' Born Co. Advertiser From your references 1 To what do you attribute th Beryl Who was that young man see youve had four places in the last that just tipped his hat to us? cagg woman's fondness lor month. Applicant Yesm; that shows how much in demand I am. Sibyl I cant imagine. Lets see oh, yes, that is the man I became engaged to last week. mony? It must be a combination and hereditary instinct J , - i |