Graham guardian., 1902-02-14

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to the Republican Office without a
guide, and husky one, armed
with a-with 2-gallon receptacle
covered with wicker work and fill
ed with something besides at
mosphere and desiccated cock
reaches. Harvey Lee is model
of propriety. did not see much
of him, but Billy Spears and Scotty
are bad injuns, night prowlers and
sleuths. The Republican plant is
the most elaborate In the Territory
and | acknowledge grateful obliga-
tions for courtesies extended me
in tn,"t office
GOING NoRTHwARD.
7 have found out III meandering
about great cities that it Is some
times necessary 10 move on, and
one Sunday morning at 8 a. m, J
found myself gliding Northward
on the Santa Fe, Prescott & Ph9-
nix, the cleanest, smoothest and
most accommodating service on
the trip. Out over the desert,
across the Augua Fria, out to the
Hassayampa, which had punched
the meek, though foxy, burro long
many years ago, we swept. Where
once trudged with blistered feet,
my hands full Of the heart of the
"nigger head" cactus, which |
chewed constantly to save the
meagre store of water in my can
teen. Now the greasewood and
paloverdo sweep by my wondering
eyes in endless procession. Then
the gaunt Sahuara, against the
blistered side of which some victim
had been bound and burned by
the relentless Apache years ago,
heaves in sight and is gone and we
are in Wickenburg.
You can hardly imagine the
change. The crumbling walls o.
the ancient residence Of the vtner
able Henry Wickenburg are sur
Grounded by business houses, while
lain is covered with tents anC
the pa. lures, characteristic
wooden struc., nermanen
of the beginning of a
city. | tried to meet the Neu,-
Herdtd fellows, but it was Sunday
and they We're doubtless sleeping
off the exhaustion which arises
from the ponderous and innumer-
able duties arising on each and
every Saturday night.
From Skull valley to Prescott
is an interesting ride. Hon. Mike
burns Of Mohave and Mr.. Morgan,
OF kingman, were my only com,
panions in the spacious coach, and
the so minutes employed in wind.
ing. to the top of the range north
of Copper basin drew forth many
"reminiscences of the DAYS when
the daring boys would Shoot an
Apache from the top of a pinon
tree, then scoot through the un-
dergrowth for his life.
All at once the laborious "chuff,
chuff, chuff' of the engine and the
slow grind Of the fanges cease,
and the accelerated "clickity click"
over the joints, announce that we
are sailing down grade with the
historic gem of the Bradshaws
only 8 miles away,
PRESCOTT.
We are there. The first familiar
form is that Of Jim Lowrey, who |
runs transfer business. Then we !
all walk up in town. The old
forest of shacks and tents and
'dobes and houses of slabs and |
houses Of pearl oil cans and dug
outs, has given place to the neat
est, cleanest, most inviting little
city of all Arizona. No other
name in the vocabulary Of the Ter
ritory causes the genuine old
timer to prick up his cars ana
stop "chawin'" as does the word
Prescott" A. the very SOUND,
tbs fragrance of bacon and the
aroma of camp coffee fill the wer,
air. The smell Of the pines seems
to make his heart leap as it has
not done for years, while the noun
tain zephyrs signing through the
pinons recalls the days when be
had laid the victims of the cruel
Apache to sleep beneath the long
Ie,v"I piAr, and revclcd in perl
nus, priney;sl sPicndor at the gJa.
of iount WHOA. Vow Whilo T.,
New Prescott seems stnange, aytl-
Gclai and aimast faDcjful to tie
old inner At first, The
throng Of old familiar faces which
soon surrounds him, causes all dis
to vanish and makes
him feel that after all, the New
Prescott is the better.
Of all the ancient land marks
in the historic old town, only one
remains as the Mecca of the pioneer
in the New Mountain beauty, and
that is Fort Misery on Goose Flat,
where old John Howard, one of
The hest men who ever blinked,
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