Arizona republican., 1899-02-23
HIS IDEA OF RICHES
What Frontier Boy Would do if He
 Had d Million Dollars.

Yesterday being a holiday, the leg
 islature did not work-or talk-but Clerk NIessinger told a story in the
 committee room. The time was some
 years ago. The scene was Dripp ng
 Springs ranch-somewher in Gila
 county, which is somewhere in Arl- zona. The population Of the ranch
 was lying round after supper, talking.
 Among the members of the ranch fam fly were Messinger, who was cook; Judge Edwards, who was waiting on the table, and who has since got into
 the newspaper for whipping Q news
 paper man. c. w. P. Hunt was there.
 Mir. Hunt is now legislator, but he
 was then engaged in the honorable vo-
 cation Of punching steers, CT milking
 cows, or something of that sort There
 was also Mormon boy, who has no other name in this story, although he is it's leading character.
 He was about IS years old. He was
 born and raised on ranch near the Dripping Springs, and the imme iiate neighbOrhOod was all the world he knew. He had once visited the town Of Globe, going with a freight wagon. This experience had made Globe his ideal city and ''freighting' Lis ideal of commercial enterprise. He had been brought up in poverty and his food had been of the piainest. but he had seen the freight wagons, laden with the products of civilization. and he had dreamed of the contents of the boxes.
 The conversation of the family had drifted into the possibility of riches, | and every man gave his imagination flight while he told his friends what | he would do if he had a million dol 1 lars. MT. Messinger declared that if | he commanded a million dollars he | would build a distillery one hundred f yards from the springs, plant the in | space with mint, and live | nencefOrth on tulips. Mir. Hunt was confident that ii he had a million dol jars he would move to Mesa and get | least once.
 Judge Edwards was determined that when he got rich he would emp-oy the government secret service to round up all his enemies, so that he could get It them with a gatIing gun.
 Finally the turn came to the MOrnOl 1oy He had mentally discussed this question many times, and he was well He had considered all the 5randures and luxuIies of the world Lnd had selected his pearl Of great
 
 vas no hesitation in his manner. What would 1 do if l had a million he exclaimed. ''W ny, Id bay ten-horse outfit tomorrow. Id reight between Globe and Casa 3rande, and I'd live on canned goods.
 The legislature meets this morning with 19 working days of official life be- ore it and as much in it's mouth as it an possibly masticate, although it will bite off more, in the form Ot bIl5. There have been introduced in the louse 10S bills and in the council t8. There are still under consideration in he house committees sixty measures, nd in the council eighteen. In the Ouncil, ten bills are under discussion Il committee of the whole, and i'll the louse, fifteen are on the clerks desk nd in whole committee. he pr2c- ical work of the egislature-appr1- riating money for the maintenance of he territorial institutions has not cen done. Bills have been introduced D the house making appropriations or the normal school the univers -ty, he penitentiaTy, the insane asylum nd for the completion of the capitol, ut none of them have been reported ut of committee. The committees ! 7ho visited and investigated the in l titutions, have not yet reported, but :, hey will report on Or before Feb. 9.