Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1894-09-14
TRIED TO BLOW Err OUT.
Two Threshing Machine Pro-
prietorS Arrested
Charged With Establishing a Com
petitive Performance Between a
Whistle and a Campmeerlng.

Fred Carr and W. q. Hostetier were
arrested yesterday afternoon on a
charge of urbing the campmeeting
at Norton's Grove. Both demanded
jury trials and the cases were set by
Justice Kincaid for 10 O'Clock this morn
ing.
The defendants are owners, proprie-
tors and business and editorial mana
gers of threshing outfit which has
been laying waste the country north of
the city.
The offense complained of is alleged
to have been committed on Wednesday
night and consists of having brought
the whistle of the engine into vocifer
GUS and successful competition with the
proceedings at the campmeeting.
The compliments say that the engine
whistle was turned loose about eight
O'Clock which was about the time the
meeting got under way. The blowing
of the whistle at all at that time of
night was unusual but the campmeet-
ing people supposed there might be
good ground for it and temporarily sus-
pended operations waiting for the
whistle to crawl off the perch. They
waited a minute, two minutes then five
minutes. Five minutes by the way is
an awfully long time for the continuous
blowing of a steam whistle.
The five minutes expanded into ten,
and delegation OF the camp meeting
people went across to hold a diagnosis
on the case of the engine. At the end
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the steam was exhausted the whistle
gave one defiant and expiring squeak
and relapsed into silence. The COM
mittee discovered that the whistle had
been fastened open with the evident
purpose of producing permanent noise.
In reply to the remembrance of the COM
mittee Mr.. Hostetler said that the engine
was his and the whistle belonged to the
engine. The steam which produced
the voice was generated from water py
means of ignited wood or other com bus
tible material, all of which had been
properly paid for. The circumambient
atmosphere which had been disturbed
and agitated by the sound waves, set in
motion by the whistle, belonged to
God.
Beside the engine was a half-mile
from the camp meeting. Mr.. Hostetler
disclaimed all responsibility for the
acoustic fact that the sound at that dis
lance was no less unearthly than it was
ten feet from the whistle This was q
circumstance which could no doubt be
intellIgently accounted for on the
theory that the night was perfectly
clear, and what little breeze there was
was headed toward the campmeeting.
Everything, in fact, seemed to be favor
able to the transmission of sound in
that direction.
The general drift of Mr.. Hostetler's
remarks was that the committee was
without Jurisdiction in the case and was
off its reservation. The complainants
say that they are in possession of evil
dence by which they will be able to
prove that the whistle was blown with
malicious or mischievous intent; that
Mr.. Hostetler had specially dedicated
and set aside the night of Wednesday,
September II, 1894, between the hours
of p. m. and 10 p. M, to the perform
ance Of that fatulent feat which he is
alleged to have described as blowing
the calnpmeeting out"
Mr.. Carr is said to have been only
passive offender. He took no other
part in the performance than to merely
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