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* * fflAN EFFICIENT OFFICERBill Sparks i•* on*' of the old timers of tl»** territory. Ho wont *•» Tombstone* in I£79. whore ho was employed as a mirror* cow puncher and packer for the government. He al*o hunted f»*r the Carlyle, Clifton. Tombstone nnlt;! Caonic market-. When the Spanish •American wan broke out he enlisted and went to the front as a packer. After the Cuban war was over he went t*» the Phillipincs, visiting China, Japan and the Hawaiian Inlands. In is-1 Sparks worked partner* with Jack Newman, now a Globe capitalist, at the old Longfellow mine in Clifton. In 1*01, together with Pat Pauley and “Specimen Jack he ran j the main drift of the seventh level of ^ the Old Dominion mine, and Sparks was f the first man to pay $3.50 a day to min ers following the cut iu wages cnu-ed by the democratic panic of Cleveland's administration. Hj»arks wan one of the beat rangers in the service of this ter-‘ ritorv, the record* showing that he en t| listed four consecutive times. He wan* stationed at Globe and it was owing to his vigilance that cattle-ruitllng eases have almost entirely disappeared fromr th* court# **f Gila. Pinal and Graham counties. Sheriffs* for political reasons,* would not pay attention to cattle rustling, and when complaints were made and arrests followed it was necessaryM to place the cases iu the hands of the 11 rangers to secure the evidence. Bill 1 Sparks never failed to get the infer-r* matron deal red. If elected sheriff of » Gila county Bill Sparks will give equal s treatment to every man, without regard r to nationality, busines- affiliations or p financial condition.# * #I
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Globe Daily Arizona Silver Belt
Globe, Arizona, US
Wed, Oct 14, 1908
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