The St. Johns herald. (St. Johns, Apache County, Arizona Territory [Ariz.]) 1885-1903, 1888-06-21

stopped over in town two days last week,
en- route to his old home in Minnesota.
Our precinct constable says, that he is
not going to assume any official response
bility, without a good "condemnity'
bond and, if the powers that be don't
like his style of doing business, they can
'provoke" his "a-pint-mint.
my, what silly goat,
That thinks itself a po-at;
But, writes itself an ass
At once.
And, for want of mother-wit
1t has d:gged itself pit
And stumbled into it
Like Ounce.
Pedro Montana was in Holbrook for a
few days last week. He saws Cleveland
cannot be reelected, winch, of course,
puts the eternal kybosh on Growers
chance. But, can't see how few hun
dred Mexican sheep are going to defeat
Mr.. Cleveland for the Presidency.
White hats and red bandanas, are to
be the prevailing fashion in head-gear
for the next four years. And not to be
lache in their party patriotism, Major o.
p. Chaffee, and another ''son of patrio-
tic liberty" have ordered from their
especial hatters" in St. Louis, the nee
essary and proper head-gear for the sea-
son. Go thou and do likewise.
w. G. Barnes and w. II. Burbage.
were out the greater part of last week,
getting signers to our petition for the re-
moyal of the county seat to Holbrook.
hear they were quite successful in Sc
curing many to sign, and to advocate
the proposed change.
Messrs. Zuck and Terrill left here last
Saturday, for trip through the south
ern end of the county, soliciting signers
to petition for the removal of the coun-
ty-seat. Holbrook people are thorough
ly aroused i'm this matter, and will not
leave stone unturned in the consum-
nation CT their cherished desires.
w. w. Wall, ye lnvincible, irrepressi-
BILE and Incompatible Jehu of Holbrook,
has beeh doing big business in the
passenger line this last week. Mr.. E. j.
Casson, general floor manager OF large
and wealthy band of pilgrim-tourists,
telegraphed Mr.. Wall TO meet him at
Carlo with teams enough to carry twen-
ty-five people out to that wonderful nat
ural curiosity-the petrified forest. In
that party of twenty-five, were eleven
ladies'; besides guy" who found
piece of bread and butter petrifed.
Holbrook is, without doubt, the most
happily situated town along the line of
the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad, be-
tween Albuquerque and the Needles;
beautifully embowered as it is, in grove
of ancient and stately cottonwoods. AS
the future county seat of Apache coun-
ty, its facilities of communication by
rail, and accessibility from all parts of
the county, make it the most desirable
point of location for the seat of govern
ment of any competitor in the county.
The people generally of the northern
end of the county, are unit on the
proposition for removal and are making
strenuous efforts to this end. Granted,
as has been said, that a majority of our
people are actuated solely in this matter
by purely selfish motives; nevertheless,
there are a number here, who are gov
erned in this matter by much higher
impulse than mere selfshness, and who
are assisting the movement in every le-
climate way. People whose only am
bition is self-aggrandizement, are very
apt to be purblind and warped in their
(if they possess any judgment
to warp, and generally manage to dis
play their asinine extraction. Notwith-
standing the ass element, with which
every community is more or less afflict-
ed, the sensible portion thereof, rightly
the source, go quietly along
in the even tenor of their way, and I'M
accomplish the wished for
result. NIMROD.