ALONG THE HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS.

ALONG THE HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS A MORSEL FROM THE MAIL BAG:

Early last summer a lady wrote to us from Bangor, Northern Ireland. She said she planned to spend several weeks on a ranch in Arizona this fall and asked us for recommendations. We were to write her in care of the Canadian Pacific, Los Angeles.

We sent her our August issue, our ranch number, and discussed ranches with her in general, stressing a number in different parts of the state that we felt she would like.

We heard nothing from her until shortly after she arrived in Los Angeles. She thanked us for the information and told us she had selected one of the ranches that she thought would be to her liking.

In mid November the mail brought us a letter from her written on the Furness Liner, "Pacific Grove," from Panama Canal.

She writes: “I just want to say how very much I enjoyed my stay at the ranch. I was extremely lucky in striking the round-up time and found it all frightfully interesting. I was also fortunate in being there for a dance the cowboys had in a school house, which showed me another side of western life.

“We are now bound for Panama where we are due on the 21st and should be in London on the 9th of December.” “However, my stay in the United States was very pleasant, especially at the ranch-very many thanks for telling me of it and I hope I can visit it again sometime.”

TOMBSTONE SAGA:

Robert H. Austin of Jacksboro, Texas, supplies us with an interesting notation on the robbery and killing in Bisbee in 1884, and a glimpse of how history is writ.

Mr. Austin writes: “On the back page of the Arizona Highway journal you make mention of the killing and robbery of Bisbee, in 1884, and the hanging of four men on one scaffold and the mobbing of the fifth “I was in Clifton at the time of the nasty mess. I knew all of those boys, three of them quite well. The man that was mobbed was a real friend to me, although I never drank, gambled or run with the toughs, for I only knew them in my business which was barber “The man that was mobbed really planned to rob the paymaster for the miners, but it was to have been the night after the robbery that did take place This man's name was John Heath and he was from Texas. He really knew nothing of the job that was pulled off until he was awakened by the uproar. After the robbery two of the men came direct to Clifton, and called up a man who had been running with them. When they left this man went to the deputy sheriff and told him what they had done. The next day a posse went after them up the river from Clifton. I knew both of them but do not remember the name of but one, that was Howard. We called him Tex “John L. Sullivan was in San Francisco, visiting the coast. He came back over the Southern Pacific, got off at Benson and went to Tombstone to see the boys. He said he wanted to see some really bad men. The sheriff took him to the jail. He looked at them

“Tex Howard said, 'And you are John L. Sullivan.'

He said, “Yes.” Tex asked him just how long it would take him to knock a man out. He said he believed he could knock any man out in four rounds. Tex pointed to the sheriff, who was a small man, and said that he (the sheriff) was going to knock four of them out in one round next Friday.

“Sullivan said he was ready to go.”