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Arizona republican., 1905-11-02
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Arizona republican., 1905-11-02

GEO. W. v1CKERs. Pres. and Gen. Mgr.
Arizona republican., 1905-11-02
MRS. E. M. MosHER,

1916 Wright St, Los Angeles, Cal,
 Formerly of Phoenix.) Invites spOndence with Arizona ladies, relative to purchasing dry goods, garments, etc, for them in Los Angeles. Exact attention given all or ders. Goods properly bought and promptly shipped.
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Frequently Used as Models.

Messenger boys are frequently used
as models, both by photographers and
painters. The time charges make them
cheap for this service. # they happen
to be suitable. The boys are sent for
every day to act as bell boys at recep-
lions, and also to take up carpets, es-
cort women to theaters and other
places, nI4rse babies. and watch house
during the temporary absence of It's
regular occupants. One boy was called
to act as Santa Claus last Christmas !.
another. a few days after. to sit UP
with a dead pet dog.
A woman arrested and lodged in a
police statfonhouse a few weeks ago,
on a charge of having robbed man Of
a roll of bills, asked for a messenger
boy soon after. and when he came she
sent him with a message to a friend. 1t
was learned subsequently that, before
being thoroughly searched, she had
managed to secrete the moneys and
when the messenger boy came she sent
1t by him TO an accomplish. Another
woman once employed Il boy to go
about with her all day In hired car
rage while she visited all the saloons
III a certain neighborhood. Her visits
were very short, and, If she drank any
as she began. The boy stayed In the
carriage while she went inside, and he
doesn't know whether she was drum
mer or was looking FOR some one, OF
what Another boy who happened tt
be suitable for the purpose was hired
every evening by an acrobat to do par;
OF his act with him. This resulted II
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(okespaz1a Iz1ze-s Gazuz5aazena fZ 2as1oaS

was on picket duty the night before the
fight Tired and sleepy. he heard what
he thought at first were woodsmen chop
ping down trees. There was the con-
slant chop, chop of the AK, and Their
would GENE the louder crash as the tree
fell. It dawaed on him, however, that
what he heard was not the chopping
and falling Of trees. but the sound OF
mesket fire and the louder crash of can
non. and he Immediately sent word 20
his commanding officer. In the battle
which followed he and his troop was
Under a terrific fire. and at one volley
from the enemy twenty-nine of the
forty-two men IL his company fell. He
himself was shot through his cheek. He
went home on furlough after this It
! was thought that he was much more
seriously wounded than he was. and his
walked into the house with his face
| swathed in bandages she said: ooh. il
that bullet had gone half an inch to
| one side you would have been killed."
We'll" replied young Warner. eff it
had gone q half inch the other way
would not have been touched and
wouldn't have been home now" After
| this IL was with difficulty that he could
get his mother TO sympatflze with him,
so the colcT4eI says.
| Before this battle he had a PRESENT.
ment that something was going TO hap
pen to him, and he burned a bundle of
nois lest they fail into strange hands.
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Scouting for Grant.

On another occasion Colonel Warner
jourheyed far into the eremy's country
for General Grant, taking with him a
number of Confederate prisoners under
a flag of truce. His real purpose was
10 discover the lay of the land and how
aakv +roops were stationed there. After
many varied experiences and collecting
all the required information Colonel
Warner and his small escort managed
to escape across d river into the union
country just before troop OF Con-
federate cavalry. which had been hard
on his trai: for miles. rode up. 1t was
a matter of minutes.
colonel Warner fought through the
entire four years of the war and was in
a long string of big battles, Including
Shiloh Vicksburg, Fort Donelson. He
declares that the Gonfederates did not
surprise the union forces at Shiloh. al
though 1t is commonly reported so. He
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supporter for the goyernorship OF the
State planned an ovation to greet him
as he emitted the convention hail. Bands
had been Engaged to play as he came
down thdaisle, and there Were thou
sands on land to cheer him. When the
time camdfor him to enter the conven-
ton. and weryone was on the quf vive
to give hi a royal reception there was
TO Coloneiwarner to be found. After
a dilfgent earch 1t was discovered that
he came ito the hall by the rear en-
trance and had taken his seat IN the
back part il the stage unopseFFeu by
anyone.
II you s Colonel Warner to relate
some of his experiences In the war of
81 he will Invariably tell OF the ex-
pioits Of soae OF his comrades. His
admiration or General Grant is IN
bounded, When Colonel Warner was
inyaIfded hone and the army doctors
had told himthat if he remained at the
front he eona not live. General Grant
was kindnessftself TO the young officei
who had attrGtcd his attention on sew
eral oceasions He provided him with
transportation not only for himself but
also for his horse. a splendid mare
which had bebnged TO Warmers colonel
and which Ind been left to him %hen
the colonel vas shot An order had beer
issued tfatlaI horses which were pri-
vate properly should be turned over &c
the dtartArmaSter for the use OF the
army In spite of this order Genera
Grant "a allowed the young soldier to take
his horse home with him ana gave mn
tfause orta ton to bring It back
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Service as Office Boy.

A rather queer use for the messenger
boy is TO have him serve As office boy
In sucn work he is hired on time
charge, 80 cents for the first hour and
% cents for each subsequent hour, and
he is frequently called upon to act III
such capacity Recently a boy was
called TO an office building, where. in
an outer and snarseIy-furnished room,
he served as odi &c boy for two hours
While q. crowd of people, evidently there
by appointment, moved into and out Of
an inner room, in which were the people
who called him He had little 10 do, and
Trough he asked no questions-or dtd
no .'ruhbering," as he expressed 1.-THE
office is of the opinion that his eia-
ployers were simply making some sort
OF bluff.
Up to within year or so ago a mes
selger boy was detailed to go &c Il hollse
III the fashionable section, every Fri
day night, to dine with an old gentle
man. ThetabIa was deliberately appoint
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ssuuauAmuG MeZ1nzeen1s ar1azNs1abog

born in the Shenandoah Valley, He in
turn pushed farther west and settled in
eastern Indiana. He studied medicine.
and when qualified to practice married
and sought field for himself. Missouri
was the land of promise in those days.
and the young doctor and his wife
started for the AIississ .ppi. Reaching
the settlement now called Farmer City,
in Illinois, he stopped to attend sick
man. He found that there was no other
doctor in the community, SO he decided
to remain there.
Here it was that his first child was
born. DR.. Warner. as 1t happened. was
reading Roman history at the time and
much admired the prudent and stead
fast character of the Emperor, Vespa-
Sian This decided him to name the
baby boy Vespasian. Thus Colonel War
ner came by his rather odd name. When
he was a little tot he was unable to
negotiate the rather formidable name.
Vespasian. and called himself "Pash.'
and for years he has been known to his
friends and relations as Pash' Warner.
Today Colonel Warner wears on his
watch fob q copper coin made in the
reign of Vespasian. 1t was given him
mary years ago, and he would not parI
with 1t for any money.
When Vespasiau Warner was less than
year old. his father moved to Gin
ton, the county seat. 1t was in the
next few years that DR.. Warner gave
I'D forever the practice of medicine
How he happened to take such a radi-
cal step is typical of the Warmers. DR..
Warner had q daughter afflicted with
painful disease His skill proved IN
able to bring the Ionged-for relief. lie
sought the aid of the best pfy sicians
II
ance In the practice of medicine on the
ability of the doctors to cure his daugh-
ter He deliberately resolved that If he
and the other physicians Were unable
te cure his daughter he would no longer
hold out the hope of cure to others.
The little girl died and DR.. Warner
closed his medicine chest forever.
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Sticks by His Regiment.

Several months afterward. his father.
who was then colonel of the Forty-first
Illinois, wrote to Vespasian that il he
would be transferred from his regiment
to the Forty-first, he would make him
Quartermaster-serge Although this
was not a commission 1t was a bed OF
roses compared to the position OF d
private. But Vespasian decided to stay
in his own regiment and sat him down to
write his father a letter that he would
not accept the offer Although he did
not say, nor does he TO this day. he
preferred to stand on his own merits, and
il ne was to be promoted to get it for
good work. As he finished his letter his
colonel lifted the flap Of his tent and
came In. Colonel Richards said he had
lust received letter from vespasian's
father saying that if he was permitted
to transfer 80 the Forty-fi Illinois
ne would 4uartermaster SER
geana C hafds asked the
youn sol he wanted to do.
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vesnasian Goes to School.

Colonel Warner tells an amusing
story Of how he first happened to go to
school. He was a newsboy on the rail-
road which ran through Clinton One
day he was aboard train carrying
wrecking supplies to an engine which
had run off the track and fallen on its
side in a ditch Instead OF slowing up
and dropping the supplies the train
continued at full speed past the upset
engine. This proved too much for the
newsboy. When the train was just
opposite the wreck he jumped off. 1t
would have broken his heart, the colo
mel saws, to have missed seeing that
engine. Fortunately the jump from
the train running between twenty and
twenty-five miles an hour-ft was the
best steam could do in those days-did
not break his neck. But the conductor
of the train saw the youngster jump,
and when he had picked him up later
told his father that If he let Vespasian
continue to work on the railroad he
would surely be minus q son. Then
DR.. Warner decided that 1t would be
better for Vespasian to go to school,
and he went.
When the war broke cut in 81 Yes
pasian Warner was studying law in
Clinton He was already a graduate OF
old Lombard University IN Galesburg.
He was just nineteen years old. Not st
ali strong. his father insisted that
he had in him the seeds of consump-
ton, and that if he went into the army
he would surely die. Nothing could
shake Vespasian's determination to en-
list, however. 1t was fortunate he did
so, for the rough life and hardships
were just the tonic he needed to build
him up into a strong and robust man.
Had he continued to study it is posi-
BILE that he would not be alive today to
hold office as Commissioner Of Pen
sions He enlisted as a private in the
twentieth Illinois Infantry.
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Goes to Harvard.

When the civil war was over Yes
pasian Warner, 4 captain and brevet
maio for gallant ard meritoriouz SER
vice, though he was only twen.y-three
years OLD. was ordered 10 the plains
and served against the Cheyennes AMI
Sioux until July. 1866. He decided 30
take up again the Study of law in which
he had been engaged When the war
broke out Harvard was the law
school which he selected
81 had never been farther East than
Indiana, except during my service in
the South said Cololel Warner Il
had been living a wild lie among g wild
people on the plains. So I bought my
self light yellow suit. a white stiff
hat, stub-toed and high heeied boots
which came half way up my leg, and
struck Boston. I had never seen ner
in such peculiar getups, so they SCENE
to me. But I hadn't been there long
before I discovered I was tie odd one
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Thirteen Has No Terrors.

No man lives without at least or e SUI
perseition. it IS said. If this be the
xule, 1t is probable that Colonel Warner
has the Temnants ca pet superstition
slowed away somewhere about his
person But 1t is not the time-honored
thirteen that has terTors for his inner
soul. Far from it. He was thirteen
years old when he earned his first
money IS q newsboy on q railroad
train. It was on the thirteenth day of
June, in 81, when he enlisted in the
army. and IL was the thirteenth day
OF July. Co. when he finally resigned.
He was nominated to represent the
Thirteenth district OF Illinois on July
/, 1884. There was q. deadlock IN the
invention. and 1t was not till the 613th
.1lot was cast that the turn of af-
IRIS came which assured Colonel War
his nomination on the 62lst ballot. He
at present chairman of the House
nnaittee On the Revision of Laws.
onmittee having thirteen members.
!. suaIly he was appointed Commissioners
OF Pensions on January 13. 1906.
The first OF the Warmers now SO deep
y rooted IN the sofi OF illinois came
to America IN the eighteenth century.
The stury German pushed on TO tho
frontier, then on farther west than Yir-
gtnia. Colonel Warmers fayher ,was
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For answer Vespasian handed the colo
mel the reply he had just written to his
father Colonel Richards appreciated
the youngsters pluck and not long after
he received second Iieutenantis COM
rnissio,! in his own regiment.
This same Independent spirit and de-
sire to stand on his own feet has char
acterized Colonel Warner throughout
his public career. He has always stood
stanchIy for what he thought to be the
right Though a good Republican, he
has not suffered himself to be led line a
blind man by his party on all occasions,
nor has he followed like a sheep. When
the free silver issue came up, In 1895.
and the Republican party still hest
tated which side to support. Colonel
Warner thought the arguments of Its
supporters could not hold water. and
he said so on the floor of the House.
Again when the Porto Rican tariff
bill was under discussion Colonel
Warner was convinced that IL would
only be just to the people Of Porto
Rico to grant /: free trade. He was
one of the two Republicans out OF
twenty-five from Illinois in the House
who opposed the bill
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Rzeazc La7ucz. J6auAyza2zls LaMsueAfA6z

SO I went 60 irst-elass tailor and
got an outfit"
81 remember that the college sopho-
mores attempted TO haze some fresh
man living in the same house with me
and several other law school students.
They never tackled the law school
freshmen. But our landiady gave US
warning and we helped the freshmen to
put the sophs out. Not long after this
two of us were passing pooh ooTn
which was much used by The college
men. We got wind OF the facs that the
sor.homores had one Of our men, a son
tnink OF Gen. Joe Wheeler. IF the Col
feterate army, and were making II UNI
comfortable for him, SO We forced eur
way in There was large crowd or
sophomores damned IN tight as saF-
dimes and at the far end of the room.
pushed up against a table, was young
Wheeler The crowd was swayfng ana
hun1ming and things looked bad Tor our
eIassmate We called out to him that
we were there and were coming TO him
AS soon as he heard our voices and
knew that there were at least two
friends near. he whipped out long
bowie knife Gentlemen, said ne
will YOU kindly open a path for me
10 reach the door, And they did.
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apashn Warner, Landlord.

Tn Clinton. ILL.,, stands the substantial
brick building erected many years aso
~, Hfoore 6. Warner for their law ana
-ear estate offices. When Vespasian
warner returned from Harvard he en-
+a,.ad into a partnership with Clifton H.
Moore which lasted until the latter
death. and married his partners daugh-
fer Mr.. Moore had great faith IN the
f,,tt,re of Western farm lands ana IN
vested all the surplus income OF ms
large practice in them. When ne oieo
he was the possessor OF thousands %
ocras of land and of a fortune amount
ing to about s, o00.eV
About eight years before Mr.. moore 5
death Colonel Warmers wife oied ana
the colonel later married for the second
time. This marriage did not at all m
terfere with the relations between the
two mariners. And on Clifton Moore
death Colonel Warner had a great COM
,,1ir,ept raid him. For his father-in-iavs
stated in his will >hae he left the great
hulk of his enormous fortune to his
grandchildren. with Colonel Warner as
sole trustee. with the direction that tins
trustee be not required TO give bond noi
6Ya an Inventory. Few men have beer
SO trusted by another.
Resides his attention to his profession
and TO service OF the State, Colone
Warner has managed this great estate
most successfully. He controls aDou
e5 900 acres, which makes him one O
the greatest Iandlords-fn the sense usef
| In the Old WorId-in the United states
This property, almost entirely farn
land. lies in eight different States-lhi
nnis. Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Mime
sofa. Missouri. Georgia, and California
In business matters Colonel Warne
| ..,rta;rsa close scrutiny OF affairs. bu
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Chorus Girls Constant Patrons.

All sorts and conditions Of men employ
messenger boys, bat they are busiest
at night, when the gay world. the world
OF whims. of sudden and pressing. If
Gnimportant, needs Is widest awake.
Chorus girls are their constant patrons,
and their service TO them is as varied
and spectacular as the stage itself. It
is a frequent thing now when q play has
the part of d messenger boy who mere
" carries a message on or off the sta ge
to employ the genuine messenger TO
act it. For this purpose a message is
simply left at the office nearest the
theater, with instructions to deliver it
on the stage Of the theater at a Ger
tain hour. For this service the proud
boy wears his brightest uniform, and
for the short while he has the chance
feels every inch an actor. Some theaters
have call boxes on the stage, and ii is
not an unusual thing for one of the
performers TO call messenger to send
a MESA ge to a friend In the audience
and receive an answer during the prog
ress of the play. For this purpose the
boy Is taken behind drop scene on the
stage and through n hole in It the per-
son IN the audience is pointed out.
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Cannot Stand Shams.

Colonel Warner cannot stand shams
When the bill for $50. 600. 600 appropria-
alton for national defenses was about
to be discussed in the House shortly
after the blowing up of the battleship
Maine, word came from the White
House to Speaker Reed requesting the
members to speak Of the appropriation
as q peace measure lest some OF the
Diplomatic Corps in the House gallery
be offended Man after man rose and
spoke of the peace measure Colonel
Warner grew hotter and hotter under
the collar. Every man, woman, and
child in the country. bar q few mug
w11nlps, wanted war. Colonel Warner
knew It, He stood the peace talk as
long as he could. and then he jumped
up and told the House what he thought
Of il. The bill he said meant war.
war such as the country desired, and
there was not the slightest use of at
tempting to conceal the fact by call
ing the appropriation n peace measure.
In a second the House was in an up
roar. arI Colonel Warner was eheered
to the echo.
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HIST LIKE LINKS IN A CHAIN

his pocket bulged out. He knew tns
proprietor of fourishing bucket shop
in Kansas City and could prove as plain
as the nose on your face that IL was
the chance of q lifetime to make Kill
ing IN wheat He shipped the ron 20
his friend in Kansas City and saw II no
more for wheat went down instead OF
up. He sighed, oiled up tae secret spring
in his faro box and returned TO MS num-
drum trade.
Now. the simple farmer boy knew per-
fectIy well that his friends were going
10 lose their money when they bet on
his trick. 1t amused him TO see how
foolish they were. And the faker was
aetlteIy aware that the simple farmer
boy was going to get nothing out PEN
niles: the boy must be a cnuckienead 10
suppose he was running the game 20
lose money! Next, it was clear to the
faro man that the faker was going to
no cleaned out; he had th0ughtfully
fxed the game to that end, and the
hrcEetshoT proprietor had not the re-
nsotest doubt that the faro mans roll
would remain III his POSSESSION: certain
ly he wasn't running bucketshop for
his health.
And So knowing all about things, be-
ing an adept at the game and having
the best of information. he bought
Amalgamated Copper at no TO peat the
band In due time his bucketshop was
closed. his horses We're sold. and it
OF being the king pin, was q mere link
III the great get-rich-quick chlin.--F'rom
| Catching Suckers by VIII Payne. in
| the Saturday Evening Post.
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A Typical American.

Personally the new chief of the Pen
sion Bureau IS delightful. Genial and
accessible, he is q very modest man.
and it is with great difficulty that he
can be persuaded to talk Of himself ana
his experiences. When he does tell
story, he always gives 1t a humorous
twist. with the joke usually on him
self. One could talk with him for a day
and never tire. for his stories are in
variabIy amusing. but very little in
formation would leak out about his
splendid war record or the vast bust
ness interests which he manages.
Tall, broad shouldered, with thick IRON
gray hair, Colonel Warner is a typical
American. A son of Illinois. when Chi
eago was considered West he has the
heartiness Of the Westerner. grad
uate Of the Harvard Law School, he has
the polish which invariably goes with
an education in an old university town.
But there is nothing affected about him.
To the casual observer he Is merely a
man OF culture who has travelled much.
He is most particular as to the fit and
fashion of his clothes. for he holds that
3 welI-dressed man IS never conspicu-
Gus. He Is a great stickler for neatness.
4 good dinner with congenial company
about the board Colonel Warner loves.
His fondness for good stories. whether
he tells them himself or merely listens,
is remarkable. The colonel Is & great
reader. and spends many hours with a
book in his hand. He has the same
fondness for solitaire that General Grant
had, and when he IS tired or has a
knotty problem to solve he invariably
takes up pack OF cards and plays a
game.
Colonel Warner is q great worker. but
as a rule he never appears To be In q
hurry. He always has time to discuss a
nice legal point raised in litigation. He
takes delight in following out all the de-
yiauons and variations of the law.
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Of All NationaIities.

Messenger boys are of all nationaHties
and designedly so. for some of their
patronage comes from foreigners. When
ever a call Is received from q foreign
quarter OF the city boy speaking the
language Of that quarter is sent. Boys
are also dispatched on periodical rounds
OF the Italian banks To collect such ca
Diagrams as may be waiting there.
The tips and perquisites that fail to
tha lot OF tie messenger hoy are vari-
Gus as the humors of his many patrons
Generally speaking, however, he is of a
winning personality, and when frequent
ly employed by the same person he is
well thought of. A fashionable woman
who employs messengers great deal
sent Il pair of shoes last Christmas to
every boy in the branch office which
serves her. In the average case the mes
senger boy sheds his uniform when he
is about seventeen years old and gradu-
ates into other field Of usefulness,
though some Of the messengers are old
men.