Arizona republican., 1898-02-16
PASSING THOUGHTS.

A man Tn PreScOCC Sd1Q to me one day, Here is a problem: tell me why 100 pounds of freight can be carried from Prescott to New York for say two dollars. while it costs man sixty do!- lars (the figures are not exact, but the contrast is known to be widely diff ferent) to make the trip? The freight is dumped into a freight car and is handled a number of times, while the man gets aboard and requires no at tention from start to finish" I said 1 was not in the railroad business, but on laying the matter before a railroad official he mildly said, if the applicant for information wanted to put himself in sack and be handled as freight he could be accommodated and sava the excess he would be required to nav for the comfort of riding in a fine coach attached to fast train and on which he paid for these privileges There is wide difference in the ac- commodations. Hobos get off even cheaper than freight, but it is q tough proposition, besides one takes his life in his own hands
 
 l was dining at a Phoenix lunch counter last week at the hour of mid
  tion to the open door-not that he ex- pected me to retire. No; he was like every other Phoenician, and he wanted me to note the fact that down here they don't even close the doors during the winter season. The screen doors were closed but they let lots of out side air into that restaurant.
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 Up in Yavapai county lives w. A. Rowe, miner of many years experi- ence. He has been doing assessment work on Lynx creek and in the Chap paral country. He has been in politics several years and was president of the constitutional convention. His name has been mentioned by the democrats for delegate to congress, but the nom ination has never reached him. In the early part of 1894 I learned that MT. Rowe was on Lynx creek. To make a long story short MT. Rowe told me that seventeen years before he and his partner, MT. finders, had left Ore gon after a futile effort to secure a leading hotel. The two had made an offer, it was declined, and off they started toward Arizona. The day fol- lowing their departure a telegram of acceptance reached their former ad- dress, but too late. They heard of 1t after travelling 800 miles but they decided to keep on. In 1877 they reached Yavapai county and set up in general merchandising. This was failure, due to bad debts, and they settled all right finders re- turning to the land of his birth, Den mark. MT. Rowe began prospecting with an early prospect of realizing I knew both men in Oregon and the visit to Prescott in 1894 was the first time I learned of their whereabouts since their departure from the coast.
 During the month of December I was in the White Hills Charley Clark, formerly of Jerome and Pres colt. and a young man named White were presenting the projectoscope with photograph accompaniment. The admission was 75 cents. Hap pening along I found White working the machine, while Clark was manipu- lating the photograph and featuring. As the proprietors were busy I kept door. The revenue for the evening was some thirty dollars. about as good as the first night Clark said the scope" was as good as a gold mine. l They were headed for Mexico and the last I heard of the pair and the scope was at Holbrook, where White was killed by falling off car last We'd | nesday.
 '1 was in Prescott two years ago and one evening I meandered to the 1 west side of the plaza in district they call "Whiskey Row." said a we'll known traveller to me on Sunday. | "Of the ten saloons, several had a sort | of continuous show bulletined to fit. | For instance. in one resort, at S:45, Miss Lizzie would sing the latest songs; at the next place at 800 Pro- lessor Rubberneck was booked for a act; 9:15 was set in the next saloon for the appearance of the Stein sisters in their novelties and at the fourth Madamoiselle Sangalle was down on the bill for an operatic selection. The programmes were evil dently arranged so that the crowds might rotate from one saloon to the 11., ! T., !.