Arizona weekly citizen., 1884-04-05
Reform in Fair Management.

A number of earnest writers are work, ing to change agricultural fairs rom the
 harvest field of swindlers and drunkard.
 makers, which Tn so many cases they
 have become, into institutions having
 for their chief aim the real 0nnd nf the
 agrIcuIturaI interests. A Chicago Fri
 bune writer well says. 1t IS to be hoped
 that so worthy work will meet with
 unbounded success. In the hope of
 making both ends meet, agrIoultural
 associations, including state boards of
 agriculture, have too often made of the
 fairs they managed means of gathering
 together prey to be robbed by confidence
 operators and other swindlers. Fortu-
 nately it can be sh VII from experiedce
 that agricultural fairs can be made to
 pay expenses without resorting to the
 by no means questionable expedient of
 licensing plunderers to ply their evil
 arts under the sanction of the manhge- ment One instance in proof is furnished
 by the Central Michigan Agricultural Society, which has during the fourteen years of it's existence never permitted the selling of hquors on or near it's grounds, and has never allowed any con tdence operator to practice his tricks within their jurisdiction, if it came to their knowledge. The officers may not have always waited to ascertain whether or not theIr measures were strictly legal, but they very promptly hustled the oi- lenders off the grounds without cere- mony. If there is in the state If Michigan or any other state for that matter. a more prosperous and respectable fair association than the one named, the fact has not become generally known.
 But, in justice to a hard-worked and most deserving class of men, it should be said that, m too many cases if not in all, managers of fairs have a by DO means profitable Or agreeable task when they try to create and sustain interest enough in tue minds of the people to make R fair successful, financially and otherwise. Many fair has left it's man. agers with deicit to make up out of their own pockets. They have, as a rule, found 1t extremely difficult to induce farmers and towns people to give any aid in dicharging such q lebt, even in places where a liberal SUD- port can be obtained for a fair which is to be held. Managers may have done badly in licensing gambling, the sale of liquors and other vicious practices on their grounds, but has there been, after all, no excuse for their SO doing It is l 10 be hoped, now that public opinion has been so strongly expressed, that there | will be radical change m thIs matter. | md that hereafter no manager of an az | T cultural fair will be found daring | enough to sanction the admission to the l lair grounds of any of the swindlers who | nave, under the wing of agricultural | societies, preyed upon the publc so long. |
 Phillip Clark. formerly telegraph operator at Camp Thomas, but lately of | Camp Apache, who was sent out from he latter place some ten or twelve days lgo to repair the line to Thomas, has lot been heard of since. A party was ent out from Camp Thomas to search or him and also scouts from San Car os. On the 23rd instant they found ome of his clothing oD this side of the lila, where the line crosses, and also discovered his tracks leading into the water. The suppOsition IS that he was Irowned in attempting to cross the river. Silver Belt
 For the benefit of the Florence Enter rise and several others of our aataanad