Arizona republican., 1902-02-20
DOUBLE HEADED GAZETTE
MT. Webb Takes His Part Away and
 Secretes It.

! This mornings sun will cast his re-
 fulgent beams upon a bifurcated news
 paper. the Arizona Daily Gazette. Two { Of them will be read at the breakfast tables of an astonished public. From
 the earliest times the people of Phoe-
 nix have believed that one Gazette was
 enough and some have been heard to
 say that if it were even fewer the de-
 mand for it would be met. What ob- serVations will be made upon the sud den precipitation of two of them upon a public already oppressed by political uncertainty and an inadequate water supply is difficult of conjecture
 The double headed Gazette is con- sequent of the late violent eruption of i sam F. Webb upon the Journalistic sit nation. On Tuesday night Mir Webb
 thoughtful of the things that happen to unguarded newspaper property and apprehensive of the course of Colonel McCord on his return to Phoenix caused the Gazette to be moved from it's first floor location in the O'Neill building on Adams street. to the basement of the rear of the same build ing on First avenue. Everything was moved before daylight-linotype. press type, imposing stones. stock and all There was nothing left of Colonel Me Cords Gazette except a safe, desk and font of job type. It was a mirac- ulous removal. Those who are used to carrying heavy loads and red hot stoves are yet wondering how it was done so quickly.
 When Mir. Webb had got everything into its new quarters he bought the strongest double locks and prepared for state of seize, holding his ear close to the ground to discover. if pos sible the returning tread of Colonel Mc- Cord.
 When MT. Webb took possession of the Gazette the only change he made in the policy of the paper was to sub stitute his name for that of Colonel McCord as manager thus making pub lie and official announcement that he was the only person authorized to pay any debts the Gazette might owe. The partisans of Colonel McCord were dis posed to regard Mir. Webb's moderate position as a condition of armed neu- trality and let 1t go at that until the return of Colonel McCord. But the re- moval and secretion of the office in the night time could be looked upon only as an act of war and it was decided to meet edition of MT. Webb by one of Colonel McCord this morning. It is hard to get out a newspaper with q font of job type and press. but appar- ent impossibilities are often accom- plished by newspaper people and this one has been surmounted.
 Most of the employees of the Webb Gazette followed the machinery as the constitution is erroneously supposed to follow the flag, but they cannot be made sure of their status without de- cision of the court. One of them be- ing asked yesterday what proprietor he was serving illustrated the transitory state of things about the Gazette office by saying that he didn't know, as he hadn't been at the office for nearly two hours.
 The Daily Enterprise, which has been a marvel of regularity in appearance on every afternoon except those of Sun days and holidays, did not appear as usual yesterday. An alarm quickly spread that it, too, had fallen a victim to MT. Webb's repacious appe- tite for newspapers. A later and more terprise was still intact and had de termined to remain so by carefully locking itself in until Mir. Webb could be put under restraint. The truth is still less alarming. In the excitement of moving Mir. Webb's Gazette q part of the common machinery employed in | the production of the Enterprise and | the Gazette was deranged. The Enter prise will appear this morning. Thus | Mir. Webb, like another Joshua has in | terfered with solar affairs. For once | he made a morning newspaper out of | an evening journal. 1