Arizona republican., 1898-07-28
..MINING SUPPLIES.
AT THE HOTELS

Everybody il Arizons knows Dan Ming. It would be superfiuous to tell that he is from Graham county, that he is one of the earliest settlers of Ar izona, that he has been a figure of i'm portance in politics, that he has been several times legislator and assisted in legislating upon the good and the bad people of this territory great many of the good and the bad laws un- der which they are now stumbling along as best they may. And because of the slpernuity of all this it is need less to mention it.
 Dan Ming is one of the best racon- teurs on the coast, the trouble with most of his recitations lying In the fact that publication is impossible for the reason that the newspaper man has not yet existed within Dams sphere Of movement capable of writing the pc culiar twist of tongue and expression always accompanying the denoue- ment.
 At the Commercial yesterday after noon Dan explained how he happened not to be at Santiago de Cuba. It will be remembered that all of the papers of the territory had published csa item to the effect that Dan Ming had gone to the front as captain of large com pany of aparejo packers. This has never been contradicted.
 'tI was going" said he, "but con- found them, they wouldn't take me. You see, about five months ago I had a fracas with a fool horse which re- suited in my having a sprained ankle, likewise a pair of crutches. Then somehow or another malarial fever seized me for it's very own and I start ed in to fight it as I had fit my horse and the result was sprained stomach. I had always been led to believe that whisky would cure each and every ailment of man. Here I was with beautiful case of fever, and where 1 re- sided there was plenty of whisky. I fought her hard, but the fever won out Then I tackled bull-necked doc tor and all he said, after I handed him a couple of $20 sinners, was, 'quinine.
 '1 don't know how I got the notion, but I had it that quinine was sure death. The doctor said he had swal- lowed about fifty pounds of it in his life time, and I caved. I bought it by the pound and began taking it in pro- portion. It knocked out the malaria fever, sures you're born, but it. has left me with nest Of grasshoipers singing in my ears. 1 rather ike this, and now when there is the least sign of a letting up on the part of my band of grasshoppers I feel certain that old malaria is returning and I grab for my quinine pouch.
 ''It was while I was factoring myself under the whisky theory and while yet endeavoring to cut a graceful fig ure on crutches that the aparejo busi- ness came along and it terminated be- fore I had developed the grasshopper business.
 My business pow is to get to the Philippines. Not as a soldier, sir, but as civilian looking for that of which long deprived. When the army was here in Arizona, before the railroads came in to interfere with the business of the country, there was plenty of money in circulation. The govern ment sent the money in bulk and it was distributed evenly. We all got whack at it, and then we passed it around. Everybody had money, everybody had plenty of everything. and everybody was happy and con- tented. The railroads came in, the soldiers went cut, and since that time it has been skirmish from day to day and from year to year. Now am tired of it.
 "There will be big army in the Philippines for a long time to come. There will be plenty of money there. There will be contracts and at good figures. I understand all the points and haven't forgotten one of them. So I am going to get to the Philippines by hook or crook, or by waiting until frost and walking there. I am going to be near the immediate circulation of the worlds medium, you bet your 'boots,' and I start for the front tonight, not with uniform and sword or gun,