Show AFFAIRS IN ARIZONA news from somo some time past recalls the stirring times and exploits of the notorious kansas border ruffians the reports that come over the wires certainly outdo all tho the yellow backed horrors oi of dime novels hardly a day elapses without telegraphic information of another sanguinary collision between the tile turbulent elements of our southern neigh neighbor bons and as the dispatches bring only what you might call the cream of the events the most shocking atrocities tho the state of things in some parts of the territory can without any stretch of tho the imagination be considered as one altogether unhealthy the tile central characters in the numerous blood bloody y dramas which e it F have been enact edof lates cem to be g the earp brothers on the one side and the cowboys on the other LV I I from inquiries instituted by a reporter rei of the san francisco examiner from officials argo co we are enabled to give our readers a few details which will throw light on some of the recent fatal feuds and may prepare them for further desperate developments in the reign of terror the cowboys at tombstone a prominent scene of the tile exciting encounters encounter R arc are a gang of about sev enty five men living in the licin vicinity ity some of whom own ran ranches clies and are engaged in the legitimate though unromantic pursuit of raising cat tic while others pursue the bovine business on the shorter road of cattle cattie thieves and for a change will occasionally relieve a stage of its valuables ike glanton clanton a raw hide bide aad bloody bones desperado of the first water is the leader of the fraternity which counts counti a number of adherents in tombstone through whose countenance they are able to terrorize terro rizo the town there being even tolerably well founded suspicions that a leading official stands in with the felonious crew the ma majority i arity of the best citizens of tombstone however howey cr aie are in favor of the earps who drew upon their heads the wrath of the cowboy cohort when the latter came to town some time ago got on a protracted spree and attempted to run the town in which pastime they were frustrated by virgil earp who was then marshal of the place the earps now number four brothers james virgil wyatt and warren morgan having been killed the brains and licad head of the brotherhood is wyatt who is branded by his enemies as a gambler and otherwise a bad fellow while on the tile other hand we have numerous testimonies of leading men of several kansas towns as to the uniformly good conduct and respect respectable aple character of ea earp rp he lie habinc leaving occupied responsible offices in several places and for terms of several years in in succession the officials of wells fargo coalso go also clear wyatt earp of all suspicion of ever having had bad a hand band in a stage robbery the earps as before alluded to having incurred the hostility of the cowboys frequent encounters have occurred between beaw cen members and adherents of the factions in a spirit and manner similar to that of th the C Con corsican sican vendetta the death of a member of one gang is aaeng avenged ged on the head of one of the other combination and thus murder leads to murder and the fires of revengefulness over the tile death ofa of a friend arc are only extinguished in the blood of an enemy the latest but we are afraid not yet the last act in the bloody drama consisted in the finding of the dead body of frank stillwell a cowboy near tombstone which was reported in the HERALDS telegraphic columns A later dispatch arom from tombstone stated that the kills earp party consisting of wyatt Earp E arp Doc holliday asters and xa man named johnson all supposed ased to have been engaged in the assassination of frank stillwell had arrived in town that at I sheriff behan received a telegram za from tucson to arrest them but that the party refused to bo be arrested and mounted their horses and left fur the town of tucson where it is said they will surrender themselves wyatt earp bassand has said that lie would never surrender to sheriff behan because he be believed that if ho lie was once in his power without amis ami the sheriff would allow the cowboys in the jail to mur murder der him it itis is difficult to tell which party will come out victorious antho in the conflict but there can bo be no doubt that there will be more wick wicked ed work in arizona from the blood drenched tangle of the contending Z combinations if the two law defying conflicting flicking elements would wind up by mutually exterminating cadi each other tho the law abiding im citizens certainly wo would uld have cause to congratulate themselves on the good riddance |