Arizona republican., 1906-08-15
STANDING UP
 FOR ARIZONA
People Hear Ofthe Territory From
 ". C. Percy.

l Brainard, Minn., Aug. 9.-CSpeciaI Cor respondence of The Republcan.)-W note by our paper as it comes to us 1 from the homeland" each day that you are enjoying the good old summer 1 time weather. Well we have had some days here when we have wished for a | little of good old Arizona sunshine for
 We have had some cool and rainy
 weather and few nights which called for an extra stick of wood in the kit
 chen range after the evening meal was over
 | Even the bright sunshine days here
 are not such that one needs to take | off his coat while walking about, and the native looks so peculiar when you speak of the weather being cool OF comfortable for they seem to feel it
 warm.
 l have had many inquiries concern ing our southwest and Phoenix and the Salt river valley and have taken great pleasure in being a booster for these parts, oftimes taxing my voice to its limit in answering of questions concerning the advantages presented by our climate and soil.
 Among the many inquiries from for
 mer friends and neighbors here I mo-
 ticed that concerning the work of the reclamation service at the Tonto dam
 site was about first and showed that
 this work is being watched by the masses of the people in the east and north Climatic features claim second attention for l have found so many here who are tired of the long cold winters and yearn for milder cline have passed out much printed matter on Arizona particularly the Salt river valley and prepared several newspaper articles, covering the valley, the Tonto project and the Grand Canyon of Ari- zona. together with railway facilities for reaching our territory I am glad to note through The Republican that both parties are working in unison through their central committees for the defeat of the jointure move. I have had much inquiry concerning the out come but am maintaining single state hood and my arguments against joint ure are all well taken. I have had one occasion to have my bristles ruffled i when few days ago while in conver- sation with one of the leading attor- neys here. He presented a statement i which he claims was printed in one of | the eastern magazines where the writer was giving a vivid description of cruel | treatment rendered the inmates of our territorial prison at Yuma. Among | other statements was one that the | prisoners had but a closet of a room to sleep in with a small round hole the | only ventilation and that the inmate i had to lie on the floor bereft of all 1 with the temperature at 100 | or more and that a peep through this small hole revealed the prisoner in a panting condition next to torture He claimed he cut the article out and sent 1t 10 Congressman Page Morris asking | him in the sense of suffering humanity to call the attention of our Arizona del egate. to the condition.
 l immediately denied the story and pronounced it the work of some knock CT who perhaps had never set foot in Arizona. l was asked if I had been there and knew such was not the con- dition. l smiled had stated that I had | never visited the Yuma prison either alone or accompanied but I knew as a citizen of several years standing back ed by a personal acquaintance with many of our territorial officers that the and other conditions prevail ing there were of the best and that I ! would inquire for details of the condi- tions relative to sizes of wards. rooms etc, for his particular en- Iightenment as he is an admirer of 1 Senator Knute Nelson who "a tenk no lake ArezOna leedle bet" Please put me in touch with the governors office that I may get some data on our public institution which is giving these poIi- ticians so much worry.
 We are all well and enjoying our wis 1t, We have no big fishing stories to tell yet for we haven't been out to our lakes much but expect next week to cast line for black bass and pike and may then be able to put Hi and Jake on the g with our success
 w. c. PERCY. | RIIpIkI 0E MDC TD0H