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James Hinton— reported the greatest bear 

 hunter in Arizona— a fine pack of trained dogs. 

 While I was a visitor at the ranch Hinton paid 

 us a visit, and he told me that not long before 

 on a single hunt, extending over a period of 

 one month, he had killed eighteen bears and 

 three mountain lions. He had no record of 

 how many of these animals he had destroyed 

 during his lifetime as a hunter. 



The Cibicue Indians, and those living along 

 Oak Creek, have the reputation of being the 

 worst Apaches on the reservation, though Cole- 

 man assured me they are mere children. He 

 has lived his whole life among the Apaches, 

 and his experience has taught him that so long 

 as they are dealt with honestly, treated as hu- 

 man beings, left by themselves so far as condi- 

 tions will permit, and tulapai manufacture is 

 restrained, as at present, they will remain en- 

 tirely harmless and peaceable. 



Like children they have a keen sense of jus- 

 tice and injustice. When they desire anything 

 that is denied them by the agent, they accept 

 the ruling as a child accepts the ruling of a par- 

 ent. But when anything is promised them, or 

 any agreement made with them, they expect 

 the promise or the agreement to be fulfilled lit- 

 erally. Mr. Coleman believed, in the light of 



