Arizona weekly enterprise., 1888-10-06
TELEPHONE ROW.
Incident in an ArizOnian Camp During Apache Times. Experience of a T nder- foot. The Novel Efforts by Which
 an Arizonan Rid Himself of
 niaagreeahle RnOm-mafe.
Alta California l

It was in May, 1885, that the news was wired to Clifton, a small mining town in the eastern portion of Arizona, that Geronimo with his Chiricahuas had left the reservation at San Carlos, and was once again on the warpath. Although civilization with its attend ants of railway and telegraph had then penetrated the region, the nature of the country was such, with its vast stretches of sandy deserts, impossible mountains and sparse settlements, that news travelled slowly, and week or more intervened before any knowl- edge of the whereabouts of the mis- creants was ascertained.
 Meantime, Geronimo baffled pur- suit, and, with savage cunning, plum dered the outlying ranches, murdered their occupants and escaped to the fasthesses of the Mogollons.
 It was during this period of scare and excitement, when rumOr was rife. with tragic detail, and the sad reality of things was sufficiently bitter, that a comic phase of Arizonian life presented itself.
 "Rooming with me-" and the gentle man narrated the story to an Alta re- porter, twas a young dentist from the classic regions of Braddock's defeat, whom the landlord of the hotel had unceremoniously thrust into my apart ments, which, by the way, consisted of an oxlO room, possessed of two cots and singe door and window, ii uated Ill the extreme end of long board sided and canvas-roofed structure known by the euphonious name of Telephone Row. The structure was about eighty feet in length by ten in width, and was segregated into as many rooms as could conveniently be partitioned off. The partitions reach ed about midway to the canvas roof, and as a consequence a snort in one room went the whole length of the building, hence the name of Tele- phone Row.
 This new roommate was not of a kind that l 'cottoned to- to use the slang of the Territory, and I determin- ed to rid myself of an unwelcome in truder, but as the town was crowded so that chance to sleep in the early morning hours upon the billiard table of barroom commanded its price and premium, was at a loss to discover a method by which we could part com pany, unless 1 did the parting by reslgning my room to the new occu- pant, which was not at all disposed to do.
 "A day or two of further acuuaint- i aace save me an insight into my com panlon's character, tiia .tiisG tat was, thast though nature might have endowed him with as much courage as the average man, she had not at the same time given him the faculty of simu. latlng bravery when he had none.
 "His fears of Indians made him quite communicative, and with the assistance of the wits of the town, determined to give him a mild sort oi Apache scare. The town was let into the secret, except the selfish motive upon my part, and it was determined to give the tender-foot, as he had early become rated, scare.
 "Ihe afternoon and evening were given up to the discussion of Indian outrages and the probability of al Apache raid upon the town. In tho evening congregation assembled 1T each ot the various rooms into whicl Telephone Row had been divided, ant everyone vied with his neighbor in tn, recital of bloodthirsty incidents of tn, Indian country. When the young mal from the region of the Allegheny hac
 his fears sufficiently worked upon, tn crowd scattered and departed. "Left to ourselves, my room-mat became unusually communicative
 though scarcely risking his voice abov
 a whisper, except when a failure upol
 my part to grunt out an affirmative t his oft expressed fears, would lea, ; him, despite the assumed danger of l chance Apache overhearing his muffle i voice, to risk a higher pitch of ton , and summon me back from the Ian
 of Nod.
 , About midnight, armed men b ' twos and threes would alternate i ,, coming to my door and insisting tha
 one Of us should get up and help guar
 the town from pretended surprise
 To this l demurred but finally cor e sented, and apparently left my con I panion to his lonely vigils.
 @ By care and stealth one of thos f useful but provoking little Mexica s burros was driven close up to tn $ building, and after much cajoling an +- effort had its head thrust through tn 5, open window. Whether it was th
 novelty of the position or what, th
 burro at the exact moment gave or
 of those unearthly brays peculiar { le the species, the dissonance and strengt , of which is entirely out of proportio if to the size of the beast.
 "The terrific noise caused the hea @ of the dentist to appear from beneat T. the blankets where he had safely el
 sconced himself, and casting one glan,
 at the burro's head by the windo,
 with wild yell, he sprang throue r the door into the open air and landt i ,s in the barrel which served to hold Il
 refuse of the hotels kitchen. Is "He was rescued, his wounds I IT paired, his fright assuaged, and on u 'n morrow, unable to endure the chaff
 the towns wits, left on the train f
 Lordsburg, and once more I reign, CT sole monarch of Room l, Telephol h. Row."
 ne A Railroad Clerk Wakes Up and Ora,
 S15,OOO.
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