Arizona republican., 1898-02-03
PHOENIX STREETS.

t'I'b gott a gold in my ed, and l gan hardly dalk," and the man refer red me to friend for any news about his town.
 You see,' explained the friend, i've came down from the mountains where it is cold. and I suppose Bi1 y got careless here and went cut with nothing on his mind.''
 Down in Tucson" says a vstor, they have one of the best stocke1 public libraries in the southwsst. The citizens keep it up and new books are added to the shelves every day. But here in Phoenix-well, there is a pub lie reading room anyway, and I sup pose we ought to be thankful for small things"
 The change in the weather which has left us in the midst of summer has started a mild epidemic of la grippe. But it's life will be short here Our old friend Sol comes around every dsy for no other purpose than to pick up such things.
 Tucson gets the Bostonians and we get Si Perkins. But Tucson has a new opera house, and the Bostonians object to singing in a barn. When the new Phoenix opera house is completed we will be in a position to entertain the best artists in the country.
 Friday is Arbor day and in the Sat River valley the ranchers will go forth in all the splendor of oVeralls, a linen shirt and straw hat and cut some cot tonwood poles. These he will shove into the ground and return to his house The water will come down the lateral from the canal and the posts will send out branches and the branches will put on leaves, and when the midsummer sun comes the posts will be shaded from its scorching rays.
 Out near the Arizona canal a ranch CT showed two cottonwood poles into the ground and tied the ends of a rope about their necks which his good wifa used as a clothes line. These posts are now large trees, and the rope has long ago buried itself under the fll- len leaves.
 After you have written up this in terview with me, please bring a proof to me and I will correct it," and the interviewer meekly says he will be glad to do it. But the proof nevfr gets to the interviewed If it does the managing editor knows how it will come back. The man will want o change its construction to meet the approval of his own ideas, and tha brevity and style of the interviewer will be mercilessly slain. The work of setting the article will be doubled and the chances are the whole thing will consist of three or four ideas half dressed They will shock the public and make the interviewed wish he had not intercepted the reporter ii the duties he has been trained for years in.
 "The genius hobo is never fully 3D. preciated by people generally" said a we'll known business man. "It is only once in awhile that we get a peep into the sphere of wild romance which involves his life, last summer I was returning from a trip to Los Angeles. The trip was unpleas4 nt, and particularly that part of it wh ch was taken up in crossing the Mohave desert. The cars were filled win dus. all day, and at night when the beds were made up in the sleeper the car was suffocating. I went out on the rear platform to get a breath Of air, and seated on the steps I found an old man riding there He was g'ad to have my company for he immediately began to tell me his troubles, and the events of his life which he thought would interest me. He said his n3 me was John Lee. He spoke the nam $ of several prominent Phoenix citizens whom he claimed to have known well during the Indian warfare of the early history of Arizona.
 When I got tired of standing l bade. my friend good night, mad start ed back into the car. Our pleasant acquaintance ended by the man ask ing me for dollar. This I gave him