Arizona republican., 1896-02-19
A CARNIVAL SPIRIT
 lS IN THE AIR. The City Has Now Assumed Its
 Gala Dress. Visitors Arriving by the Trainload. Three Companies of Regulars
 Tn Odmp.
  Prominence of the Indian and Wild West Featur es of the Cele- bration-Delightful
 Weather.
Three Companies of Regulars
 in Camp.
This morning begins the midwlnter


 sent abroad her warmest invitation. The city is blaze of color, the streets are very tunnels, roofed and bounded by bunting, streamers, flags and palm leaves and every individual is adorned with the carnival colors of red, yellow and white. Visitors are here by the thousands and merTymaking is the or der of the period.
 The carnival is the outcome of sthe great celebration that last March greeted the advent from the north of the Santa F'e line of competing rail- road. Then for the first time did the city assume festal attire and welcome within her gates the thousands who came to celebrate the event. The eel ebration was a success in every way In it the carnival feature was promi- nent, and the suggestion that it be made an annual midwinter event was met with all approval. A carnival as sociation was formed and today the work of its managers will be appar- ent. At the head of the local commit tee as director-general has been Frank c. Hatch. Through the committees hands has passed sum approximating $6,000, contributed by the business men to the further glory of their city.
 Novelty has been the prevailing idea of the management Arizona, it is appreciated, ifs in especial renown for her features of the wild west kind, and trip to Arizona without an experi- ence with cowboys, Indians or cactus would, of course ,fbe entirely out of form. In deferenee to this idea the programme has been largely arranged.
 Phoenix is a bustling city of 10000 population, with fine business blocks, broad streets and high class of popu lation in full enjoyment of all that modern development may bring. Around about are hundreds of thou sands of fertile acres redeemed from the desert, irrigated by giant canals, covered with the verdure of trees and vines and of the wondrous alfalfa. Yet here, to the greater contrast with civilizations environments, have been brought the cowboy with his reckless sports and the Indian in all his primi- tive simplicity of costume and GUS toms.
 At the eastern edge of the city, near the park, at the end of the car line, has risen a village, wherein are tenn porarily resident 400 Pima and Mari copa Indians, as well as representatives of nearly all the southwestern tribes. Cheered and rewarded lby a rare as sortment of calico remnants and by abundant supplies of meat, they will go through their racial dances the dance that celebrates the harvest home of the corn season, the sacred dance for rain, the dance for war and the dance of victory. With them are their ponies, to be numbered by the gross, and tomorrow in the grand parade all will be in evidence. The almost naked bodies of the long and sinewy savages are striped in black, yellow and red, not in uniform pattern, though nearly every Pima warrior has imparted fe- rocity to his visage by delft touches of the brush around mouth and eyes. But | they are ot savage, after all, and a broad smile of simple good humor spreads over each copper hued counte- nance when a word is spoken in friend 1 ly spirit. The squaws, of course, are l not to be thus described. There is at intervals seen the lean and toothless old crone, whose picture might be that of the Witch of Endor, but more at tractive to note are the younger wom- en, almost invariably plump and pleasing" of the oleaginious type sup posed to be peculiar to the Esquimaux in times of abundant blubber. AS to raiment, the men wear 8 breechclout and a feather head-dress; the women a cotton chemise and some gaudy over i dress, usually a cotton table cloth of fancy pattern.
 i But near to the park is a camp of a very different nature. In it are 150 Indian school children, brought yesterday from Sacaton by Agent J Roe Young, of the Pima and Marico-,a Indian reservation Most of them a (