Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-11-29
DEMING.
Excursionists From Boston-The Tramp Nuisance-A Crazy Passenger
 Cuts a Conductor

ENcurslonlsts From Boston-Ihe Tramp
 Nuisance-A Crazy Passenger
 Cuts a Conductor.
 DKMISG, Nov. 24, 1884
 This Is the season of excursions, Saturday night the Seigler party of 153 people paid us couple of hours visit; this party came from Chicago, Min neapolis, St. Paul, Milwaukee and other cities of the northwest. Although mostly composed of elderly people who composed the wealth and solidity of the sections from which they came, they were very social and comparatively liberal lot of people and came with altogether different views of the country and our people than did the Bean Eaters (as the Boston e1curs ion of the l4th was dubbed by all the railroad men,) who when they double locked their pocket books asked for everything the saw and paid for all the information they got with thank you. While using the best of Queens English they never Were known to use the expression "tske something" They gave us good re- hgIous and temperance advice, dis trIbuted tracts and some favorite railroad posters, interpretations in which they probably held stock, but nary a dollar or good impression did they leave behind them while in Deming. The Seigler's did leave few dollars and a favorable impression, especially fou: young girls who were absolutely pretty, which fact made the boys want to be sOciable to the whole party. Another party is due from Chicago in week or two.
 The tramp nuisance is getting to be intolerable with us The last fire, viz Lockhart, Hopper Bros. & Co.'s ware house, was no doubt caused by tramps and We are infested to such an extent that the merchants and citizens have raised a monthly fund of Sl50 which is to be paid J. w. Tucker an ex-sheriff and one of the best officers III this sec ton to rid the town. For the past two days tramps have been scarce up town and around the warehouses and lumber wards but they infest the railroad build Ings, cars and yards. Saturday night one of the railroad car repairers named Jas. Benson when going home about 10 r. n. carrying pair of shoes under an arm and a bundle of underolothIng under the other, was stood up by two tramps near the car shops. When told to throw up hIs hands he took 1t as joke and upon refusal to comply, the tramps fired two shots in quick succession. Jim was considerably astonished-but managed to drop his bundles and return the fire hay ing only small deringer he failed to hit or to do more than frlghten the tramps of. He, however, has to wear new pair of shoes almost ruined by big bullet hole through the toe Of one and the heel of the other. The boys have organized and are going to make a grand raid on the emigrant cars, where the tramps go at night, build mp fires in the stoves and make themselves comfortable for the night and are hard to dlslodge.
 This morning, while the west bound passenger train was here. crazy pas senger, an old man from Texas, got out kDife and attacked the people on the platform right aud left. J. F. Collins, conductor, received a wound directly over the heart, but the knife struck rib, and We don't think 1t penetrated so as to be dangerous. The other man, James Reeves, from Steinville, Texas, passenger going to Duncan, Arizona, was cut in the same place, and the wound, it Is feared, will prove mortal The crazy man had been disarmed while on the train by conductor Collins, he having taken away big knife and a sword cane, also his money-some Sl25. Who he IS or where he belongs cannot be ascertaIned, although he claims to have relatives in Deming. After the cutting was done the mob used the old cuss up pretty thoroughly, and he won't do any more mischief for many a day. The train WAS held till a doctor dressed their wounds and the wounded men were taken west. J.