The Arizona sentinel., 1895-03-16
in the Capital City
PHOENIX. Ariz.. Mar. IL. IS!

| AGGlIe. TOU1 GOTH CT lO COIu6E Ol every street are strung many color ed flags. Every window, every doorway, balcony and pillar is one mass of decoration in which the green palm, the many colored bunt- ing and the fanciful design are indiscriminately and tastefully in termingled.
 From time to time strains of music permeate the air, for Phoe- nix is mad with joy, for the rail road is here and has come to stay.
 The streets are so crowded with people that they are at times i'm passable. Everybody is happy and for time business is at a standstill and a general holiday prevails for young and old. Tuesday the cele- bration began and ends today. On Tuesday afternoon the largest pro- cession ever witnessed in Arizona paraded through the business sec ton of the town, which was so crowded that traffic was totally suspended, the balconies were bril- liant with color and the faces of beautiful women. The attractions of the parade were so many and varied that space will not allow me to detail them, but throughout the whole was observable the most per feet descipline, two of the most notable examples being the march ing of the Indian school and the airy manner with which Speaker Harry Carpenter dressed in full regimentals managed his horse.
 On Wednesday afternoon took place 8 ball game and many inter esting races at the park and at night, ye Gods, bedlam was let loose, King Carnival held sway, flour. filed the air and Phoenix presented the appearance of a snowdrift in distress. Today a wild west show will hold forth at park in the afternoon and at night the A. O. U. " give a grand ball at Workmans Hall.
 All Yuma seems to be here. All apparently animated by a com mon praiseworthy purpose of hold ing down by main force the Terri torlal Prison in that interesting burg.
 Last night during the Carnival while flour was flying the thickest 1 was confronted by a seeming semblance of a man. At least it had legs, arms and a body from the neck upward it was apparently a bushel of flour from the midst of which struggled stray remnants of flourishing beard of sunburnt hue.
 From one capacious ear flowed at frequent intervals light particles of spotless flour. I stopped mortified at this strange and horrifying spectacle, strange even among all the horrors of the night. For a moment silent it stood then a watery tear gently rolled athwart the flowing mass leaving a furrow in its train nearly as deep as the Arizona Canal and then it spake, or rather sighed, "there is no place like home" Fearful apparition 1 cried, who art thou, who dare op- pose my passage
 q cannot blame you" the thing said, even my wife and seventeen children would fail to recognize me now, I am he who once stood among the mighty known to men by the name of Geo. A. Duke, J. F., but now" sob checked for a moment further utterances, "for past transgressions I have been converted into a sack of plebian flour. Tonight I sallied forth, clothed in my judicial dignity, thinking 1 would command the respect of these testers, but alas all the four in Phoenix seems to have drifted my way until now 1 am the being impersonage of four in the ears, flour in the eyes, four in the stomach, four everywhere, and if I never survive this night tell my friends that was cut off in the flour of my manhood" Another tear welled like an artesian spring from a cavern where an eye ought to be and the relic of a great Judicial mind slowly and man. fully drifted from my sight and