Bisbee daily review., 1903-11-15

with us. What could | poor aewsrj
 per man do? For the first time i
 my life prayed. I rrayed for all ID
 friends and atl my -EeiE.es I eve
 prayed for Jerry Barton, who has n
 [ ore chance for heaven than a chi
 up a ounco game on :1e for C. cen,i
 and all this time exported every SC,
 ond to be blown in.o the arms of th
 Angel Gabriel. All at once the ia
 came. I looked around, and the goa
 was still whole. I was still alive an
 still dry. How could it be explained
 Why, the car of giant powder had bee
 unloaded the day before.
 Benson is an elongated towr
 stretching parallel to the railroad distance of some 400 wards. The bag gage transfer consists of a one-eyet
 Mexican with a wheelbarrow. Tn town contains two stores There il
 c good school house. and the nices string of clean little kids in the lant are stringing away toward it. There i is church with a fire tower in iron O. it with bell on it, and two more churches, all made of mud on the out side. I don't know what they are like OF the inside, as I did not have the password. To offset this. there art bunch of beverage joints-I don't kLow how many, as I did notl ast to the end of the row. Then there is a little cemetery on T smiling slope drove town, which seems to invite the weary traveller to cone of
 One discovery I made which the Benson old-timer overlooked was that Benson had a park. It is just 24 by 56 feet, and is carrc.cj with blue g.ass when it is ne' green. It is shaded by several olu-fashionec To- ct St trees. the kind that furnishes the tis. thorns. the terror of Ihe barefoot ed small boy. Patsy Delahante owns it. and will soon have a fountain. He will put rp a seven-foot plaster Paris goddess of liberty in the center of the park, hollow of course, and turn the water into a hole in her big toe. whereupon she will proceed to squirt it out over the aforesaid blue grass
 The reform school will begin to grind on the first, also on a number of ircorrigible kids from different parts os the territory. Ed Sewers. Jim Col l;ns and myself are applicants to en- ter the school, and rotoing but our age bars us.
 The smelter is nearing completion. It is a peculiar oil-burning type of a plant. It has been tried on a small SC ale and pronounce successful MT. P:dgeon is the chief promoter of the enterprise. Unlike most Arizona bl siness men. MT Piogecn is a mar ried man. don't know whether he has any little squaps around the house or not. Everybody is praying that the new shelter will be a sue cess. There is certainly a good fie.u To; custom smelteI in Benson, but the old boys who own mining proper as in the surrounding hills are not al le to get out ore [ nd sort it down until they know they will get enough ut of it to settlo their bean bill
 
 'ee, was in town while I was there He brought in some samples from his lcw camp en lne west bank of San Pedro, about 90 miles below Ben 'on. If war breaks out he is heeled, Is it is glitterlng galina a thousand me
 It is great treat to walk down to he gliding San fedro about a mile 1 rom Benson. and wallow in it's cool waves. The only difficulty is how to 'et out without being caintily shod 1 T sticky mud. On the occasion which 1 have in mind. took my clothes un- Ter my arm. walked rp to- the pump 1 Iouse. and had them turn the hose on 1 ne. The Benson Press mas everything | Is own way. There is not even a ubber stamp agent in town to dispute IS sway. Talk about your picnics. he only disadvantage in this monop ly is that Br'er Shardin has no morn 1g contemporary to scoid at, call bad ames, then go out in the evening and hoop up with. The decline of the Tater melon season is keenly felt by le Press squeeze, also by yours truly. 'ho used to resort to the sanctum and issect these delectable yegetabias nder the eyes of tte "dito-. who is master at the art
 There is not much friction around le Press office. and the art of hiring nd firing is unknown, since Editor hardin is editor. city reporter. min g correspondent, linotype. job man. evil and all. If he shouldn't be ,ntented, ask the wise guy Solomon by.
 There is an elegant lot of old thor lghbreds in Benson whom I am all avs delighted to meet. They owe e debt of gratitude in not bawling 1t their names, and I am taking the 'bt out in bed and l'oard. ard baked iilshead and other things eomnenc- { g with 'b" every time I go to Bel- D. The venerable justice of the peace
 Benson, who came to the town hen Mule gulch was hog back. gen. | ousiy supplied me with a batch of which will appear later { the mean time we ell have a variety
 affection for Benson which time T tide nor scolding mothers-in-law ' n ever impair