The St. Johns herald., 1888-10-04
HOLBROOK LOCALS.

Proverbs are tEuths boiled down.
 All men are created equal, but this equality ceases at the moment of their birth.
 The Democrats of Holbrook hold their precinct primary next Tuesday.
 The District Court is over, and the un- fortunate ones are returning, thanks to the Divine Ruler that it is so.
 No fire in town lately; nevertheless. I see indisputable evidence of one. How are those things thusly?
 Major Wai1 seems to have a "soft thing" in the matter of drivers on his new mail route to Keams' Canyon. The softness of the thing depends however, principally upon the len. ,th of time she holds forth at the Canyon.
 The Atlantic & Pacific Railroad Com pany have changed the running time of their passenger trains; they now pass Holbrook at night, instead of day time as heretofore.
 Messrs Brown & Kinder are prepar- in to erect large ware-room to be used in connection with their extensive livery business. Rumor says Sam is gelng to do it pretty plenty soon.
 Major o. P. Chaffee, our efficient post master, now has in connection with his businessias postmaster, stock of sta tionery,S the disposal ot which will oc- cupy all his spare time.
 The widow Blevins, her daughter Mesa and daughter-in-law Eva Blevins, were Tn town a couple of days this week.
 Drawing party lines seems to please everybody. Ali with whom have con versed ssupon this subject-Democrats and Repubfcans-arS satisfied with the move, and say: "It is the only proper manner in which to eliminate the tricky barnacles that have heretofore fastened themselves upon our body polite.
 I would respectfully suggest the name of the Hon. St. George Creaghe, as a strong candidate for the shrievalty of Apache county. MT. Creaghe is an old timer in :his county-a thorough gentle man, and one with whom to dc business would be a pleasure-and if elected to that important office, will do honor to the county, to the office, and none the less, to those who gave to him their sui frages.
 Tarantulas, horned-toads and centipedes
 Also, piercing mesquite daggers. With thorny bushes, grass and weeds,
 To bleed the traveller as he Rtaggers. Why paint things in. a rosy light,
 And never tell the simple fact, thus: How one sits down to rest at night,
 And often sqnats upon cactus.
 Bud Jones, an employe of the Aztec Land and Cattle Co.,, was arrested last Saturday, on charge of train-robbery carried to Flagstaff for Identification, but immediately thereafter discharged by the Magistrate. It behooves even pub fishers of newspapers to keep their weather-eye open, as the country is flooded with would be Vidocqs.
 T. P. Robinson x O., are now in their new building, and feel justly proud of the fact, that they now have store sec ond to none in the Territory.
 Oh, how waxy are the political con- sciences of some people; they would stultify their conscience. their principles eff they ever had any ), their weak-kneed political convictions, all for the sake of an office. however insignificant that of flee may be.
 w. w. Wall has secured another mail contract to run between Holbrook and Keams' Canyon. This new route was established a few weeks ago, and will run weekly between here and the Can yon. Mir. Wall leaves on his first trip next Monday, October 1st.
 The Chairman of the Democratic County Committee, E. J. Simpson, is too thoroughly Democraticin principles, and entertains too much respect for him. self and his party convictions, than to use subteruge to stultify himself, by tue mere use of name or technicality. |