Arizona weekly citizen., 1888-03-10

looked kindly down upon the tiny cur
 rent of the Santa Cruz snd the rugged grass clad hills which crowded clos, upon it. The sun grew bolder: hi, brightest rays now glinted upon th, timoered pinnsules of the Santa Rita. h up the dome and towers of the sacreJ Tame Of San Xavier del Bsc and gildec into RlsdDess the melancholy, dusty streets Of the quRInt old presidIo on the banks of the HoIy Cross.
 Outside of town the last coyote was skdiking to his hole, iIresponsiye to the yelps of distant kindred which announced treasure trove of dear burro in the mesquite jungle; an energetic old moth. CT quail was calling 10 her brood; 6 7ink-esred jsck-rebbitt. almost large enough to be taken for the twin brother ot the burro upon winch the coyotes were banquetting, scurried howeward to his summer residence under the roots of the sage brush.
 Within the town nature was awaken ipG to the daily round of toll. or what passed for such among a people with whom decorous idleness has long been re- fined into philosophy. Game cocks. hen, and bullets were scratching for the hap
 
 welcome to the coming day. One of Dona Guadalupe Mohtoys's rszor-back k pigs was sedstely trudging down the street, hunting for his daily provender. In the good old days" piles of garbage were always conveniently handy st every corner; but, since the coming of the so- cursed Gringos, it was & red-letter day ID pigs calendar when he could lind 70 much as s mess or cOrn-husks within 6 a distsnce of less than six blocks.
 WAXING UP.
 Before long the lcrds of creation be- gan to stIr. First thUse outside the houses and then those within. for by the indulgence of simple and Arcadisn community 1t was tue privilege of the gsyfsrer, destitute of money, entering the town after nighttsll to camp on the main "piaZs" and make down bis blank cts with the earth for Q pillow and the stars for q canopy.
 Don Msnuel Martinez and his com psnion belonged to this favored class snd, in the absence of hotel or lodging house. had nightly made fres with the earth and sky of ArIzOns- The air was cool and fresh, degree or so too crisp for comfort, but as Don Msnuel arose from the ground and adjusted his rain bow serspe to his shiverlng shoulders, he consolded himself with the reflection: "Aborits vieue Is trisada del pobre."s
 Mechanically he rolled himselfR cigar cite, mechanically be kicked his dog which had kept warm fighting fleas all night, and mechanically be growled to his companion to get up.
 al Manuel Martinez and his friend; not bull, coarse, plodding, everyday work. dut work of A more elevated type such ss gentlemen could ssfely put their hands to. For, be it understood, both our drRmstls personR were gentlemen ID the lOftIest sense of the term and would scorn any such degredatlon as manusl labor.
 Don Manuel indeed could write his name double He was not simply a Martinez. but by right of hIs mother. s Salszsr as well, and close relation of the Salazsr who had led the revolution in Sonora in favor of liberty and the 
 (Which constitution
 Why the revolution when Gaudsrs WAS governor"
 But I thought that Pesqu;era led that?"
 "Carsrabs, Amigo! That was the third revolution that Pesquiers condnct- ed. This was after the second revolu- tion of GsrGsra and the first of OrtZ You should know, my friend, that m Sonora we have had forty-seven reyOlu- tions in the past nineteen years, and all of them for liberty and the Constltu- tion."
 IYpoLEST AND INDIFFERENT.
 And Don Manuel Martinez ' Salzzar puffed contemptuously at his cigarette, ghat manner of man his 0riugo lnterlocuior could be who knew SO lite of history. ..
 He rather despised the slowness of the American element about hIm-slow in manner, quiet ID dress, and gloryiDg in the absence of revolutions.
 He knew that since the unsuccessful of senor DBvls, of which he had hszy and distorted recol- lectIop. nothing 10 change the form of their government had been attempted by the well-mesning but slo~-moylng sA sAmericanos" of the North, and that farmers, blacksmitbs, bankers, priests and merchants pursued the even tenor If their respective wByF, indifferent 10 such soul-stirrIng appeals as were then appearing in Sonora, Of "Ctsn- lara and the CopstltutioDP Pesqulers and Llbertyr' Ortiz and the People.
 Our friends were what are known 10 the initiated ss Knights of the Green in blunt language Not that there was anything strange about that. They were not the only gamblers lu Arizona by good deal. There were so many of the noble fra;erpl'y clustered about the different little mining com nuuities ID the Southwest, at the period whereof we write, that the "Qusr'z Rocs :" the Palace" the "Gem, the .S4uste" and all the other scores upOn scores of sample rooms" and clnD rooms" found comfort and profit ID keepiug open night and day, week ID and week out, the clicking of "chlps. the dropping of cards upon the tables. and tbe stolii calls of the dealers being in striking but agreeable contra-t to the soueaking of tuneless harps and vI)liHs which ground ont the music of the re- spectlve orchesirss.
 RUN OF LUCK.
 The blind goddess had dealt gener- ,usly with Martinez and his friend Val .nzneIa on this visit to Tucson. During the whole week of the fiesta of San Agos- tinss. their run of luck" had neither turned nor slsokened. end whether at the purely MexIcan games of Monte, aObusas" and "Loteria," or the more ,trlctIy American ones of Faro, Keno and Diana, their stock of silver dollars had grown by degrees until they were now able to return to the delightful land of sonora. in tune for & repetition of the same career in the grsnder fuircion of San Francisco, soon to be celebrated m the border pueblo ot Mssdalens. They had only to redeem thefew articles mon which the oblising pswnbroker had advanced the money with which tney had begun their contest with the tiger" and then sll would be in resdi- ness for them to join the first train of wagons rolling out of town.
 This WAS why they had arisen so early and why they now made their way down dusty streets. not altogether free from carthage. past fiat-roofed adobe houses, Inf simple structure and single story, to the broader svenue in which stood the