Bisbee daily review., 1906-07-22
FRANK ALEY INDUCES IN 4 FEW FUNNY
 RESERVATIONS
The Bill Nye of the Cactus Plains Sees Humor in
 Trip to Bisbee.

| went to Naco yesterday. All I have to do is to get there, my nuner- our friends are prompt to pass the hat and raise enough 10 send me hack. they are very liberal with fioaters.
 Naco has recently passed through moral upheayal in the form of local prosecutions, incolying alleged coal and cross-tie merchants, bv the side Of which San Francisco and her tragic history are weak tea.
 The railroad company in i,s broad munificence carries you up 10 Bishee where it was raining. One could skate on those yitrified brick with his shoes till it got too fast for him, then n.ake rough lock of the seat of his. pants till he slowed down. Being properly wet. no smoke went up.
 Just out by the Dowdet house. the train stopped. and the conductor came along ard implored us not 70 get 1 ranicked as we were safe. We were safe from everything ex- cept starvation and thirst. A land slide had stopped on the track @ad the outlook was dismal.
 snaked Gown to Lowell and got an arm load of sandwiches, blue ribbon ard cigars and prepared to spend the night, when We suddenly proceeded. i Dear Old Don Luis looked sweeter and l further away than ever. and the :On- ductor would not stop long enough to give me time to go over and see if any of the boys were still living Power full particular" soIse O. these cen ductors.
 When we head out from Osborne to Naco i. seems the road has shrunk since we walked 1t last September. Everybody and Davy Crockett are at the depot i'll Naco Even Frank Abrams was there. with brand new hay. which proved to be that old flea bitten grey Shellacked oyer. Frank keeps the finesl LoGse in the south 1 west, and invited me 10 register c o. d. provided would leave the next morning. I took him up and he tock Ice up stairs and deposited lie In a cell with chiffon and baby blue sur roundings. so dainty I was afraid to cough for fear I would spoil something. O how l longed for my old tarp and blankets, where I could flop around in any old shape without disturbing the immaculate appointments of a model "bedwoir l aapose that is good word Uncle Bob Frazier has lost flesh since saw him last. he has got town | tc 265 pounds and his wife is becoming alarmed. Bob is doubling up his fife insurance every day
 Doc Brandon has acquired such an 1 independent practice these days that nal formed, glass eyed hereditary. Aztec tnyalids can toat their business son ewheIe else.
 G. C. Barry and Old Boy Els ha ve sent in their application to the Saiya- ton Army subject 10 the action Of the Township court in the pending fuel proceedings.
 Miss Rabbit. the efficient assistant Pestmistress, after arranging 70 fo!- low her people to Fl Paso. concluded she could not break away from little Naco just yet, and will remain with the line town until autumn, and may be then some
 Jen Long mas iound out something. Jen is a painter. He thought nobody loved him lick kntfl tse other day he went out hunting and got lost Pretty soon Mrs. Lcns passed it around. She said she had had enough Of trouble training one man up to the pcint of domestic uti.it5 an6 she could noC afford to train a new one in the ways of buying pins and needles and thread, and buckram and gingham and calico. and such. so she wanted us to hunt Jen up and il was not ten min utes until the whole town was out looking for Jeff with everything trGm a Stretchsr to brass band, inclusive. We found him asleep under a Dalo verde with a yenoIno--5 cotton tail creeping stealthilv upon him a:-and a malpai boulder, and we just arrived in time 10 save him. He was the glad dest side winder you ever saw. when he got into the home bound proces- sion.
 Naco has every reason to believe 1 now that the new Southern Pacific ex- tension will be hers. IL is the fly logical connecting point. After long 1 years of waiting it would seem that { the little border town is abor5 10 | realize reinstatement to her former | condition C prosperity
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