Arizona republican., 1895-08-28
The Petrified Man Hies
 Himself Away
To a More Congenial and
 Lucrative Cline.
His Appearance in This City a.
 Dismal Failure.
Another Person Makes Ills En- trance in the Drama and Tells
 an Interesting Story.

The ossifed man and his packers have departed; like the Arab, they silently folded their tent and vanished. A long and suspicious looking box was shipped aboard the north bound Santa Fe train yesterday. The baggage smasher who tackled the box only made one effort to lift corner, for it weighed but small item of 460 pounds. Two men, I. P. Burnett and another man, purchased tickets and also went with the river production, their destination being Prescott.
 The exposure of the fraud published exclusively in TIE REPUBLICAN of yes terday morning was widely read and the paper was in demand. The young man Cummings, who assisted the re- porter in his investigations, yesterday morning tackled up large sign in front of the vacant house occupied by the mysterious night toiler, which read as followe: "Ghost of the petrifed man, 15 cents admission" A good many peo- pie visited the house and although the sign was intended simply as joke good many paid the price of admission to sec the interior of the house where the wonderful petrifed man was care fully moulded.
 Although the flake" has gone, J. K. Burnett, the expressman, still remains in the city, but it is said he still retains an interest in the property. The city however, Is loser by the outfit going off. for they failed to pay the license fer exhibition and dodged the tax collector to avoid the payment.
 Yesterday to th9 persons of the 1 drama was added a mysterious in- l dividual, name unknown, who may for all the purposes. of the tale, be con sidered as Jones. Jones first made his appearance three days ago, when he tried to rope 8 citizen into purchasing the image. The citizen, who had been in the vicinity for while and knew thing or two relative to stone men. tatly accused Jones ot complicity in it's man. ufacture. It thereupon developed upon Jones' confession that he was the man. ufacturer. Tbe secrets of the process, he said, he had learned in Selma, Cal from Ira Barrett, who so long had 8 thriving manufactory at that place till exposed by the San Francisco Examiner. Jones had tramped hither and was flat broke" when he made the proposition to the Burnett brothers to make the image on the basis of hls expenses and third interest. They hired the house for him on the Cave Greek road, and there he wrought for a week, as des- cribed in THE REPUBLICAN of yesterday, occasionally aided by I. P. Burnett, the supplies being brought by J. K. Bur nett. The latter's body, he stated, fur nished the original, whence the mold for the casting was obtained. Every thing needful was obtained in Phenix. Tuesday night all work was done, and the Burnett brothers carried the casting away to place it in the river bed. ready for finding.
 Jones had very poor idea of his work. It was his first attempt and, es- pecially in the hands, he declared the I job failure and said that he could make ten times as good man at the next try.
 1 The speculation he said had cost the Burnett brothers somewhere between $75 and $l00. They expected to coin money with the figure, but the week of exhibition in Phoenix was failure. Little more than enough to pay the ex penses of the exhibition and the exhlbi- tors was secured, largely through the lack of advertising. They kept the 1 figure on bed of sawdust, well heaped around the sides, that the marks of im- perfect manufacture might not be visi- ble.
 Jones finally told them that he was dubious of his work and that the hands were likely to drop off or crumb ble. He advised that the figure be placed in secret storage until the circuses came and to one of them it might be sold for few hundred dollars. Sunday the ad- vice was taken and the rooms at the Gregory house were abandoned.
 There can be little doubt that the present time is upfavorable to the pro- duction of "petrifed men," whatever might have been the temper of the populacs at tue date of the production of the Cardiff giant. Now 8 ''petri6ca- tion" meets with about the same sort of a reception as did the story of that an- cient salt who told of the far land he had visited, "where purified birds sat on the purified limbs of purified trees, singing purified songs "
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