ARIZONA REPUBLICAN — APRIL 13, 1913
Spring Brings Out Scourge of Dangerous Brutes ♢ Together With Another
Peril—Hillside Ghyser—Fear Reigns
Warm spring weather has brought out the hibernating Hodags in the Bloody Basin and Verde countries, and in addition a new peril in the shape of a breed of cousins to the hodag, which the ranchers of that region have named the Hillside Ghyser.
The ranchers are becoming very alarmed at the prevalence of hodags and ghysers, and are contemplating holding meetings and getting action in the state legislature to curb the perilous pests. The following letter from a ranch hand in the Bloody Basin is self-explanatory. “E. R. P.,” who wrote it, explains in a marginal note that he wants his communicaton in the Sunday Arizona Republican as that is the only newspaper that penetrates into the fastnessess of the upper Verde and Bloody Basin countries.
Bloody Basin, Ariz., April 3, 1913. Editor Republican:
Sir—ln your Sunday edition of March 2 I notice an article mentioning the disappearance of the dangerous hodags which have inhabited Bloody Basin and vicinity for some time. Now being a resident here. I wish you would permit me to have a few lines in your valuable column, and I will try to clear up the mystery which has been troubling everyone for so long. Your correspondent was correct when he described their disappearance and no trace of them being found, but as the warm weather has returned, so, also, have
