The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-06-28

and unanimously adopted. From 8 time-stained paper of that day I repro duce it:
 The day will be ushered in by a unanimous salute at daybreak from all the guns and pis- tols in the camp
 800 A. M.-The people will assemble on Main street in front of the stage office, each carrying a small flag, if he's got any.
 9:30 A. M.-Formation of the procession by Jim Bradley, marshal of the day; the right wing of the column to rest on the Golden Girl saloon.
 1000 A. M.-The order to proceed will be given, and the procession will march down Main street to the creek up the creek past Sam Warren's cabin to Pattersons tent, thence north along the pack trail to where one-eyed Dick killed the Mexican, east to the speakers stand, where the circus showed last year, back Of the dance house.
 PROGRAMME AT THE STAND. 1. Song-"My Country 'Tls of Thee" etc. Jack Abrams natural voice and Maj. Backus, bass 9. There being no Declaration of Independence securable, Pete Craven will endeavor to read Washington's last address to his army from the Fourth Reader.
 8. Tune on the banjo by Big Tom, accompa- nied by Aleck Davis, who will dance 8 jig
 4. Grafton by his honor, Hon. Judge Ramsay to which we invite unanimous attention. Sub iect: "The Day We Celebrate"
 5. Addresses by such other distinguished speakers as the audience may desire to call upon for few remarks.
 After the conclusion of the platform proceed ings the people will each disperse and pass the remainder of the day as he sees fit and at D. m. all will again congregate at Rocky Dave's, where Q stag dance will be given free of charge. Those who desire to represent ladies will give tIo, 70 n the evening and will be awarded badges to distinguish themselves from the sterner sex. Such persons are requested to act as ladylike as is possible under the circumstances. Any rude or unladylike conduct will result in talk ing away their badges and compelling him to take his place with the other sex.
 The day was a glorious one. As the first gray streaks of dawn began to nose their way up the eastern horizon, roar from old man Jamison's army musket awoke the echoes and the den- izens of the camp simultaneously, and soon the report of firearms accompan- jed by lusty yells could be heard on every hand. When, the midsummer sun rose in regal splendor over the range to the eastward, its slanting rays lit up a most enlivening scene. The entire population of Jimtown and several adjacent camps had assembled | on the main street, and liberal dis play of flags on every hand lent color | to the strange picture. And such flags! In those early days the red shirt was the most conspicuous part of male at- tire, and every partly worn shirt in the diggings and many that had not yet shown, break had been sacrificed to serve as stripes in the roughly con structed emblems of liberty. The de- mand at the one general store of the camp for muslin of which to form the white stripes and the stars and to be dyed with indigo to serve as fields in which the stars could gleam was great, and the limited stock of that half-white, half-yellow unbleached material was soon exhausted. Gabe Harlxer, who as father of the celebra- tion idea felt that the success of the