Arizona republican., 1891-03-08
ON THE CURBSTONE.

COUNCILMAN FRANK, in spite ofanxiety about high water at Yuma, managed to hold up his usual cheerful demeanor last week. One of his latest stories is this: You know used to keep store at Ehrenburg. That was when Dick Mccormick was Governor. There was a military post at Ehrenburg and the cap tain in charge of the Quartermaster' of fee dearly loved his whisky. Hardly q day passed that he did not fill his bottle from my barrel. Well, one day McCor- mick came into Ehrenburg on the stage from California and the East. He had seen the captains wife in Washington and she, knowing of no better present, sent by him bottle of prime whisky to her husband. Temptation was too strong, however, on the dry journey from San Bernardino, and it was only an empty bottle that the Governor arrived in Ehrenburg with. 1 helped him out. 1 filled the bottle from the usual barrel and Mccormick took the captain his wife's present. The scheme worked all right, for it wasn't long before the cap tain called me over to taste some won derful whisky his wife had sent him. never gave it away, and l suppose the captain never discovered that his Ken lucky nectar was nothing but the regu- lar frontier article of chain lightning" " A NUMBER of Pima Indians, of the fe- male persuasion, have developed into goddesses of liberty. The merchants had large amount of bunting left over from the summer and succeeded in dis posing of it at cut rates to the dusky Indian maidens. Consequently a hun dred or so ot them walk proudly around wrapped in the American flag.
 
 A PRETTY good story comes from Tue son, which may edfy some of the late members of the defunct -Four Hundred" club of Phoenix. When the club was first organized, last season, it was known as "The Forty" Later the name was charged, not by order of a board of directors, but accepted gener- ally by the members not curious enough to enquire nor particular enough to cave for the reason. The story goes that Pr eminent and very popular young society mSs, who changed his residence about that tlme from a neigh boring city to Phoenix, joined "The Forty" and cipher was thereby added.
 lHEARD pretty tough tale 'f mean ness the other day. During thc food two residents of Murphy's addition eASb gave shelter to q family left homeless by the inundation of Linville's addition. The bowels of compassion seemed to have been totally lacking in the landlord of the two benevolent families, for he raised the rent of each $5 month for overcrowiing the houses.
 HUMAN nature is curious indeed. The late flood developed that fact in it's full ness. Fer instance: I was investi- gating around Mexican camp after the first rise and found woman who had left her home so precipitately as to lose her shoes. As good angel, at this time appears a lady with an excellent pair of shoes and the same were tend cred to the distressed female. She turned the footwear over several times in her hands, evidently looking for de- fects and then, with whine, said "Los sapatos son muy grandes'-''They are too large" And she lied, for they would have fitted her well. l don't know what prompted her, feminine vanity or Q desire to retain her chief subject of complaint.
 l HEARD that several of the Mexicans in the relief camps refused to work dur ing the second rise for less than dollar an hour. But their rations were cut off