Arizona republican., 1897-11-11

M OSIlLCf oLss flOCIlIN.
 
 it is presumed that he was to receive | something for his contribution to the hot number. It appears that both he and McFarlin were paid in meal tick cts or other legal tendsT until last Saturday, when the gaunt ectre of starvation began to assume definite and concrete form. Collins is less hardy and used to privation than Mo Farlin and naturally succumbed first. Being unable, he says, to collect any thing from the Democrat, he assigned his claim to McFarlin and lay down in despair. The ass; gnment was made in due legal form, as the follow ing document will show: Phoenix, Arizona, November g, 1897. '.H. A. Hughes (tha Arizo- Dsmo- cnat) to Thomas Collins, Dr. To bal ance due for work and labor done and performed, S5.
 Territory of Arizona, County of Mar icopa, ss:
 "Thomas Collins being first du.y | sworn on oath deposes and says that | there is due and owing to him fn5m H. A. Hughes the sum of five dollars on the above account over and above
 
 | THOMAS COLLINS. Subscribed and sworn to before me 1 this 9th day of November, 1897. | (SeaD "A. J. EDWARDS.
 My commission expires March 4, 19OG"
 "For value received I hereby sell, assign, transfer and set over unto 1 George w. McFarlin all my right, title, interest, claim and demand in, of and to the above and foregoing claim and account.
 THOMAS COLLINS.
 Witness:
 (SeaD "A. J. EDWARDS
 This was on Tuesday. McFarlin be- gan tottering the day before. He had gone to Flemister pleading fer some | thing Then he. says MT Flemister instead of paying him anything, treat ed him to the disclosura of a secret. He said he was only the apparent | owner of the Democrat. The real proprietor was Dr. H. A. Hughes, who had set him up as a sort of breast works against the retaliating shots of an indignant populace. Flemister recommended McF'arlil to see the doctor. McFarlin did so and says after having been employed by the doctor and the apparent owner as a schuttlecock for some hours, the doc tor gave him an order for $15 sui of clothes.
 McFarlin received this with relief, for it is We'll known physiological fact that one warmly dressed can more successfully withstand hurgar or that one on full stomach is less affected by extreme cod. But the new clotE els were only a temporary expedient, for his hunger 1eassertsd itself iihe next day and he again wis ited Mir. Flemister. On this occasion MT. Flemister denied that the Demo- crat owed MT. McFarlin anything His glory in! connection with the hot num- Der was a sufficient reward and what ever he had received in the way of meal tickets and clothes was to be : regarded as a gift. At this point un- friendliness sprang up and there wsre threats of broken heads and souls to be sent to perdition.
 MT. McFarlin's next step was a con- sultation with an attormey, who ad- vised him that the first thing to be done was to prepare aa itemized ate ment of his account with the Demo crat. He did so and it is acknowl- edged by historians to be the most unique document of the kind ever is- sued since mem began to get into debt to each other. It is as follows:
 Phoenix, Ariz., November g, 1897.
 H. A. Hughes (the Arizona Demo- crat) to George w. McFarlin, debtor To P days labor (mechanical
 work done and performed
 on the Arizona Democrat
 between the 18th day of Oc-
 toiber and the 9th day of Mo-
 vember, 1897, at S2.5O per
 day .............. s55 .OO To writing, editing and pre-
 pairing numerous, various
 and sundry villainous editor
 ials against M. H. McCord
 for three weeks at $1O per
 week ..... .... ...... O0O To correcting and editing
 numerous vi1lainous and
 scurrilous editorials pre-
 pared by said Hughes for
 three weeks at $5 per week 15. GO
 Total toI date ..... ........ $1OO. % Credits to date -. ........... $36.75
 Balance due =. ..... ...... 63. .I5 To amount due on account of
 Thomas Collins, hereto an
 nexed ... =. ..... s5. .OO
 Total due ..... .... ...... $68. .75
 The second and third items, it will be observed, are models of frankness and sincerity from which any jury would infer that the maker, MT. Nc F'arain, could no tbe tempted to de- part from exact truth in ary particu- lar. The attorney presented the bill to Dr. Hughes, who referred him to MT. Flemister, who in turn re-re- ferred him to Dr. Hughes, so that all