The Phoenix herald., 1880-09-03
Of Capital Chips, from Bill
 Blank.
Ainsworth's ScandaI0us Lias0a With Pauline Markham,
Hostile Husband Hunts Doc with a Shot Gun.
Plenty PithY Prescott Paragraphs Prepared by the Pungent Pen or
 our Pream5IIaiinJ Penciller.
TnEauLAR HERALD connEsroSDENT-l ]
PnEscorr. 4. T, Sept. 1. 1880

PREscorr, X. T, Sept 1. 1sSO-
 One thing that really seems funny
 in this mountain town is the peculiar
 reverence that it's inhabitants have
 for the old pioneers There used to
 be similar feeling n California for
 those who arrived there in search ot
 their fortunes in '49 or the spring of
 ,5O. but it has gradually faded away.
 So here there is term.
 % OLD HAssAYAMPAs,
 That puzzelled me for long time
 when app jed to the old residents,
 but ! found out that there is stream
 named the Hassayampa which heads in the mountains some ten or twelve miles south of Prescott, and runs solth till it unites with the Gila.
 From 1883 to the present time the stream has been worked by placer miners, and in early days yielded d
 great deal of gold, and supported
 many people, and the phrase Il used to work on the Hassayampa in 64" was password to tLe best society, and SO at last the name came to be q title to designate the oldest inhabi- tants, but there's norhing in il to my ear, and I had about as soon be called
 AN OLD BLK
 Or old stiff as an old Iiassayampa-
 Some of these old fellows were men Of brains, though rather un- evenly balanced, I fancY) and have figured as correspondents for the pa pers to some extent and have not been too modest to let the fact be known, either This prelude brings me up 10 the point wish to make, viz That every time a letter from Pres colt makes it's -as2llearance in any uewsnap.:r isel-4l .ar-a..s- .-l.4---- else, and t gets back here and is cir culated some old Hlss;l' gets the cred it of it. If there are any men who have come to ulis section of Arizona recently, who know anything about war or can write out their owl ideas the public have not found them out vel, and so ] have had lots of fun Gy hearing my productions accredited to some body else, and could name al least half dozen gentlemen who are accused of writing for the HER AID and who seem to me to feel con sidcrably inflated by the proud con that they are each one Of them suspected by those who know his style, you know" of be- jug Bill Blank. THE AINswoRTH FAREWELL PARTY Came of according to programme and was d success. It was an invita- ton ball-expenses paid by previous and five dollars paid at the door-and was very select. IL was in the theatre-supper was splendid, music by the Ft. Whipple band and, of course, was excellent; the weather, simply magnificent. Tine Doctor was arrayed in q suit of spot less white and looked like hero, and us happy as biyalve- Some thirty odd couple were present, in- cluding nearly all the officers from Ft- W nipple and their wives. Some other folks and their wives who do not generally associate with the Mob Hill'' set, were invited and promptly embraced the opportunity 10 swing around the circle with the aristocracY, and they gave kind of tone to the party and made it appear as though the Docs" practice was not entirely confnded to upper crust.
 Probably no invitation ball was ever gotten up that did not slight some parties and cause some growl- ing, but
 A MORE AGGRAVATING sSUB Was never administered by any invi- tation committee than Was given to c. P. Eagan. of Fort Whipple, Chief Commissary of Subsistence of the of Arizona. Every other officer at the Post was invited, even the Captain chief clerk had all invitation, but none was received by Eagan, which looked as he had been very active in promoting the party, and was Aims wOrth's intimate friend
 The fact was that Eagan's fight against Silent. in which he was badly beaten, was disgusting to the whole community, and it was manifest that the ball would be failure from non- of dancers, if it was known that Eagan was expected on the floor, so Ainsworth was told that Eagan was too much weight for them to carry, and Eagan and the subject were dropped together Lieut. Wotherspoon did not attend the party, being indignant that his friend Eagan was so ignored, so it is stated, and they will not accept any invitations to minglc in Prescott SO ciety hereafter, unless accompanied by apologies for this insult The full details Of this dig at Eagan will be more satisfactory to Judge Silent than even the public demonstration in his favor, at the Coutt House, or a draught of pure nectar from Jupi- ter's own cup
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