Arizona republican., 1906-06-11
THE COUNTY JAIL
 EMPLOYMENT AGENCY
General Headquarters for Employ
 CTS and Dissipated Hired Hen.

The season has now arrived when the tax paying farmers. who represent the bone and sinew of the land are made to appreciate as at no other time, the real blessings of a county jail Such an institution is 9 great conven- | fence to the entire public from time to time when a really bad man is ap- i prehended in a community and it is well to have a good jail to keep him in but if there were none he could be chained to a tree and be held just as securely. The real purpose of the jail though. is that it may be used as a general point of rendezvous both for the wage paying farmer and the hired
 man. Phoenix has her pretentious ho-
 teIs. her clubs, her churches and other institutions of culture and higher so-
 eial conditions but unfortunately the
 hired man does not gravitate higher
 with any dependable regularity. There
 arc numerous saloons, which are more generally patronized by the hired men.
 but there are so many of them, the
 saloons that one can never tell which
 place to look for any particular man.
 This atmosphere, of course, is not di-
 rected to all hired men; just those who
 have to be looked after, for of course
 there are lots of them who are depen-
 dable and have minds of -thelr own.
 Eventually they are apt to get out of the 'hiredman" class and become hon est taxpayers themselves, or some oth-
 CT sort of employers. But the class in question always cOngregites at the taiIs between Saturday night and Mon day morning. And those who are slow in coming in sometimes have their movements accelerated by the ac- tlvity of the constables. For instance,
 III landed seven muscle workers charged with drunkenness. Constable RedwInc rounded up two. Constable Woods grabbed couple. Yesterday Consta- ble Redwine added two more to the list and incidentally Deputy United States Marshal POterie put one behind the bars But his man was an Indian and may or may not be given to real work when he is sober. It is to be pre- sumed that during last night these preservers of the peace added some
 what to the list of lodgers at the coun- ty house
 Yesterday afternoon Farmer George
 AlIire called to look over the register
 and pick out the members of hls | threshing crew that might have re- ported. He found Farmer Martin Gould already there looking for deIin- | quent members of his threshing crew. 1 While they were inspecting the guests ! Farmer Selim Ackel who runs a head ] CT, came to pick out the men that wore
 his tag. And so it went all day long | Some of them had to come back two or three times before they could round up all the boys but at that 1t was bet l ter than having to chase all over the county for them. All they had to do ! was to wait for they knew that all the men would report as soon as they got ! broke.
 | Still the farmers are resourceful, and 1 if they had no jail, they would proba
 bly, get along some way. It Is said that i in the early days here before the jail ! was enlarged, the really successful i farmers got around this nuisance by | each one arranging a private debauch 4 for his own men. He would keep them ! in the grain field all week under the ] promise of a good time on Sunday, .l then on Saturday night he would bring out a gollon of whisky and a keg of beer and let them all get drunk on the II rench.