Arizona republican., 1890-08-03

m lnuDlN. But II must De or the pest
 quality. Several carloads week are
 brought here from St. Louis and Chi
 cago. It strikes me that there is an inn
 mense amount of cash sent away for
 this article that might as well be kept
 here if the article were manufactured at
 home. Our barley is of the best hops
 alone would need to be imported, and
 no where can ice be more cheaply man
 uiactured. A really first-class brewery
 would be paying investment in Phu-
 nix.
 l NOTICE that number of the city ditches are being filled with the nastiest
 kind of black muck, that is offensive in
 the extreme to eye and nose, and is
 enough to start typhoid fever. Would
 it not be well to abolish the system of ditches upon the main streets? Now
 that the city is abundantly supplied
 with water by the Phoenix Water Works
 Company, the next thing to be attended
 to is the matter of drainage. This, of course, can only be properly secured by means of sewers, and sewers there should be and at once.
 TIE lapsing of the control of Gilmer,
 Salisbury X Co.,, over the local stage
 lines brought back to an old-timer a
 flood of recollections concerning his staging experiences. 'r shall never for get old Jim Stewart" said he. Every
 body knew Jim, who used to be man. ager of the Salisbury stage lines in Ari- zona. Well, the stage to Maricopa, about ten years ago, was robbed about twice week. The job was always done from behind certain broom brush three miles south of Phoenix. When shot gun was pushed over the bush and a calm voice commanded that the express box be tossed down, the box always came. The passengers were rarely molested. old Jim got very restless from the monotony of the robberies and gave his drivers a warm wigging about it. Why don't you whip up and run past them? 9 he asked What do I give you fat stock for? I'll drive this hearse down to Maricopa myself tonight, and I'll see if any blankety-blank stage rob Der stops me- He drove. The messen- ger, who was seated by his side, was pointing out the bush behind which the rObber was always concealed, when out from its shadow stepped man with a shotgun, and sharp monOsyllable came to his ears: 'Stopn Jim lost no time in stopping his team and is said to have been the most untiring of them all in holding up his hands,"
 l HEARD the other day a story that ap- peared to me funny. During the spasm of vigorous enforcement of the laws that occurred during the latter part of Judge PiEney's term, about four years ago, complaints were sworn out against q large number of elders and bishops of the Mormon church for bigamy. Brother Johnson, of Tempe; Brother Macdonald, of Mesa Brother Crismon, of Lehi, and large number of other shining lights were indicted. In some manner the issuance of the warrants was made known to most of them and they skipped to Sonora, to rusticate for their health's sake, upon the banks of the Yaqui river.
 One of the victims marked for arrest was Elder Steele, of Upper Lehi. His wives, three or four in number, lived up there on adjoining farms, and the PiOOi was lpSlllNt' btpulN shal Stein and Porter Mofatt had charge of the warrant. They travelled the long twenty-five miles from Phoenix and got to their destination about dusk, found their man and noti- fled him that he was under arrest. The announcement was received pleas antly. 'All right" said he. "Just | wait till l water that colt out there and | l will be ready to go with you." Per mission being granted, the polygamist | united the colt and led him over to the ditch, by barb-wire fence. The officers stood in the open back door of the house, about hundred feet away, keep | ing sharp lookout. They saw through | the gathering darkness their prisoners | form behind the horse. The animal | finished drinking, but was not led away. The Marshal walked out to the ditch. The horse was tied to mesquite fence | post. On the post hung Mir. Jones coat. The bird had flown. While the police men were watching his coat he had slipped under the fence, through the alfalfa, to Ernest Crismon's house. Here he was furnished with the best horse on the place and within forty eight hours was on Mexican soil. How lid the officers feel?