European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 12, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The hallelujah people of Arizona stories by Jules Loh associated press on the of the House trailer parked near the old Gold mine in is a sign by my spirit say eth the hallelujah on the counter beneath arc two boxes of Rifle bul Praise the lord and pass the Armuni when we armed said brother wrestling an antique truck up a Mountain Road so rugged his pistol almost bounced off the that old Devil and his army stopped being As noxious with their that old Devil is a Miner named who int talking these not to and especially not to brother his army consists of three hired one of them called locally the fat brother Jack is the Jack Shepherd of a flock of renovated miscreants known As the hallelujah by leading them to said one of a former brother Jack shows the path from the uttermost to the utter the feud is Over a Gold it is As bizarre a Story As anything out of Zane who also might have selected the a mining Camp where prospectors once picked up nuggets As big As Turkey and spilled blood Over is a ghost it is 20 Miles from a paved Road in desert so hostile the upraised arms of the Saguaro Cactus seem to be pleading for but the bullets Are and brother Jack sure wishes they would cease firing so he can get on with is grand he Aims to build a Lake out pumping water from the old mine and to Plant a Vineyard for the hallelujah people to labor and resurrect a it will become a holy ghost he brother Jack is a s3yearold preacher who came to the ministry he after a life of he has great Bushy a booming wean patched jeans at tires a pistol he Ted his hallelujah people the desert Here last there Are 42 of plus about a dozen hallelujah occupying a ramshackle Camp of trailers and buses and renovated mine they drove Here from where they grew oranges and where brother Jack got hold of shares of scent a in a company called the Rhenium purported owner of the octave abandoned since on arriving they found Carlson living in a trailer at the Entrance to the mine Carlson has since barricaded the re Quiring the hallelujah people to use Boul de strewn trails Carlson also claims a portion of ownership in the but that apparently int the source of the in fact they were friends at Carl son wanted a Rock crushing Mill built nearby hallelujah boys hired out their brother Jack met an other local Al a travelling carnival concessionaire out doing a Little prospecting in the off Haynes and brother Jack went rigged up a Sluice about a mile away at Weaver which is not on the octave and started that what i think is at Root of All brother Jack All of a sudden Carlson wanted As out of eve the Gold is the Only Way i can explain in any at brother jacks new years communion service three men showed up toting the men later told an Arizona reporter they were hired by that they had been shot had shot had been threatened with and had caught hallelujah boys trying to steal the Way brother Jack tells All the shooting has been from the Carl son except they burned a Cross one night on that Ridge Over and i did Rake the Ridge with my yes i he also said he threatened to do the same thing when three armed men met him at a turn in the which had been for that brother Jack is to be arraigned in he says he is not worried because god will protect being in the and wonders Why he cant get similar Legal action for his own Litany of he has told the sheriff about lord they include a pistol a shot through his truck door a Hole is definitely there a shot aimed at a dog that is almost hit a and assorted other mis deeds that have led him to Fence his Camp y with barbed wire and Combine prayer walks with sentry duty at j Yav Apai county sheriff curly for his says that j things gotten so buggy buggy Ive at signed my chief Deputy to the j Deputy upon i have find a Lack of i think its a civil v there the octave mine War j one thing the Deputy said he upon found something that might be a criminal matter after All and be is keeping his Eye on some hallelujah boys opened up an old mine which had been just v enough to get a whiff of a curious theres a possibility a body is Down the Deputy the Becker the the the big the the the those Are the names of the seven saloons on a single Block in the Small town of population it stands upon the Banks of the big Horn River As Montana answer to its Citi Zens abiding dread of the merry the Wagon the Hardin the four the Hill those Are a few dont forget the elks and the american said Monk wiping the moist that makes two add it up and there Are fourteen a loons and there All making Monk sloans Eugene whose people pioneered this nodded this town spends More per capita on booze than any other in the including Eugene Sloan at least that what the distributors Tell i dont know if there Are offi Cial but from what i see right Here on Center it sounds right Monk Sloan is proprietor of the big Horn one of the More appealing of the 14 for its Frontier which he and his father have lovingly what the sloans see outside the swinging doors on their Side of Center be tween second and is a Row of seven five of them the integ Rity of that staggering sight violated Only by the town dry who locks up before and looking As if it is gasp ing for Flower in a place where everything seems exaggerated the the Mountain the boasts and the Pride it int Surpris ing that montanans should provide for their drinking in a big Way in this part of the state has a Spe Cial attachment to Elbow ending just South of Here oysters men Rode to singing their theme the Garryowen come join with me each Jovial come booze and sing and lend your according to Monk his big Horn built in 1910 when Hardin was coming into its own a Railroad at one time was m swashbuckling a joint As any on the he took it Over in after it had been Long and spent the first weeks Patching Bullet they used to stand at the bar and shoot Beer cans off the Monk Sloan one night two Guys stood in Here face to face and emptied their pistols Between each others just having Monk Sloan is a open faced Man of with a great dome of a forehead and a Jaunty red he grew up in got wanderlust and travelled the world for a company that builds he tired of came Home and discovered the big Horn Saloon was up for he bought not because Hardin really needed another but because be was attracted by the grand old bar and fancy Back bar with its columns and u was badly in need of but u was authentic old now it looks As it did weve tried to make it an attract comfortable figuring to draw a Happy we do for the most but it still rowdies at times than i like in u gets downright in Small grudges build fends grow Over the somebody makes a somebody else re sents everybody is full of next thing you know theres a freeform All i guess theres not much else to do in if youre looking for a place to go have a youve come to the right Page 10 the stars and stripes june 1977