Arizona republican., 1904-07-10
HIS EvENTFUL LIFE
Something Happens to H. R. Patrick
 Almost Every Day.

H. R. Patrick passed through lPhoe, nix yesterday for Wickenburg where he has gone to survey a mining prop erty. At least that is what he says he has gone for though it is suspected that he intends to look out a new right of way for the lower reaches of the Hassayampa- That stream would doubtless be improved if water could be gotten into it in some manner
 MT. Patrick told a friend here that the next canyon he proposed to lay out in this part of Arizona would be right where The Republican office Is now and that it wouldn't be 8 dry wash either but would carry a torrential flow of blood. He seems to be offend ed that people should dubt the authen- ticity of his early engineering works here. He floors all controversy with the question, eff I didn't survey the grand canyon, who did?''
 MT. Patrick is a very busy man. He just finished three jobs that he was holding down all at once and had only been home a few hours when he was called to Wickenburg. The three jobs were: working all day on the Kyrene & Orient railroad and taking the train at night for Maricopa where he work ed all night for Perry Williams and theoretically working his own ranch here all the time and paying himself off accordingly MT. Williams went east on a vacation and left his Mari- copa hotel in Mir. Patrick's care. MT. Williams came home a day or two ago for which MT. Patrick is glad as he has had no sleep since he went on watch. Maricopa as everybody knows is a night town. Everything that goes through there from limited trains to highwaymen, travels in the night But notwithstanding his hard stunt Mir. Patrick got so fat he couldn't get into his pantaloons any more so he sold them to an Indian for a quarter and got a new pair. Maricopa is a place where lots of things happen; more things perhaps than in any other town of it's size. Mir. Patrick relates a couple of incidents that he partici- pated in last week. One of them was O pantomime fight with a woman In which he was knocked out.
 The depot agent reported to him that there was a Mexican woman sitting in the station that he thought would like a bed and suggested that as MT. Pat rick could talk Mexican better than any other language in the world ex- cept Yaqui, he would do her a kind ness by giving her some attention. Mir. Patrick supposed of course the agent had concluded she was a Mex ican woman after an unsuccessful at tempt to converse with her and noting that she was a brunette, without any preliminary sparring he approached and told her in his most polite Castil- ian that if she wanted to enjoy the real comforts of life in Maricopa she would seek repose in the Hotel Williams. Sir" she said, If you nave anything to say to me, you must address me in English; I know nothing about that lingo" Mir. Patrick insisted that he could not speak English and beat a re- treat. It was the only hole there was in the fence.
 The other incident occurred the night the committee from Tucson that came here to call on the governor in the in- terest of Elias, returned home The members all stopped at the Williams house and were assigned to cots in the large dormitory which embraces all that area between the Southern Pacific railroad and the Sonora line and which is lighted by the moon when it is 4lSHleu at all. OU InlS paTIlCuIdI nlSnI the Philadelphia schedule was at It's full, the fierce roaring of the rabbits in the mesquite forests adjacent had ceased and-there is really nothing else down there to complete the description with.
 Anyhow the male guests of the hotel had all been assigned to quarters and had peeled down to the limit (Mari- copa having local option in matters of dressl when Attorney A. Orfila of Tucson stood erect on his cot and told his audience that it was so near the Fourth of July and the occasion was so inspiring he just had to deliver a patriotic oration or he'd bust. And he proceeded to do so. MT. Patrick in the meantime had laid aside his dark clothes, dOnned his pajamas and stood in the doorway watching the proceedings. Just as MT. Orfila reach ed a fine S2.50 climax he turned to make an impressive gesture and beheid Landlord Patrick in the doorway. In the semi darkness he thought it was a woman. With a wild shriek Orfla dropped and crawled under the blan- kets. The next morning he apologized to Mr. Patrick who told him it was the first time he had ever been taken for a woman though he had been talk