Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-10-27
FLAGS THE FLYER
 WITH HAT BOXES
ATTORNEY GENERAL CLARK
 WORKS A UNIQUE SCHEME ON
 THE SANTA FE AND REACHES PRESCOTT ON SCHEDULE TIME.

This is the story of how Attorney
 General F.. s. Clark of the territory of
 Arizona stopped the Santa Fe limited
 at Holbrook, which place President Rip
 ley's fastest mail train is in the habit
 of passing at the rate of sixty miles
 an hour; and, likewise, it is the story
 of how the ingenuity of Arizona s at torney general put at naught, with no
 weapon more alarming than harmless
 bandbox or two, the ironclad rules
 President Ripley has made concerning the non-stopping of the Santa Fe linn tied at Holbrook to pick up passengers,
 As learned by a representative of the Prescott Journal Miner, Attorney General Clark was in Holbrook last Friday, with an overwhelming desire to come to Prescott in time to attend the ceremonies of laying the corner stone of the Masonic temple There was no train on which the attorney general could possibly get to Ash Fork, and thence to Prescott, in time for this, save the Coast limited, and it, alas. did not step at Holbrook under any con. sideration to pick up passengers.
 Appeal to the Santa Fe agent at Holbrook to flag the train was met with refusal as adamant in it's firm ness as was the Masonic corner stone and messages to those "higher up" proved equally unavailing.
 The attorney general was in despair, and was just contemplating a mad dash across the country on horseback, when it came to his mind that the Coast limited was a government mail train, and therefore obliged to pick up the mail sacks at the various stations.
 However, this fact held out small hope of him attaining his object, which was to board that particular train, as the limited scoops in the mail sack at Holbrook from crane beside 1 the track. while flying along at the rate of a mile a minute.
 But the sight of that crane gave the l attorney general an idea. Only one mail sack, through the arrangement of | the crane, could be taken aboard the speeding train, and if there were two sacks
 Hurriedly, Attorney General Clark made his way to a millinery store, | where he secured two large ladies hat boxes. With these under his arm he made his way to the postofiice, where the Holbrook postmaster was just put ting up the mail sack that was to go aboard the limited, via the crane route.
 Thrusting his burden through the postcfiice window, the attorney general asked:
 "How much to send those by mail to Prescott?'
 The amount stated was paid over, the packages stamped and addressed, and the postmaster turned to put them in the mail sack, when he discovered they were too large for one sack, al- ready crowded with mail, and that an other sack would have to be used.
 With this discovery, the postmaster caught an inkling of what was in the attorney generals mind, for, turning to the latter, he is said to have de- clared that the whole business was a scheme to stop the limited, and that he, as representative of the postal service, would have none of it.
 Rather curtly, the attorney general him that he was there to see that packages left for mailing were at the earliest possible op- portunity and, that painful though it might be, any dereliction of duty upon the part of the postmaster would be reported to Washington.
 The postmaster wilted, and the extra nail sack, containing two empty band boxes, was locked and carried down to she depot, just as the Coast limited rounded nearby curve.
 Of necessity the Santa Fe's fast nail train was Jagged, for the pur- pose of putting aboard the extra mail !. tack. ,
 And that is the story of how Attor- iey General Clark stopped the Santa Fe limited with two empty bandboxes.
 Needless to add, when the train hur- riedly resumed its flight across the country, the attorney general was 'nugly ensconced on one of it's uphol- tered seats, en route to the next stop, Ash Fork, from which place he easily ecured train to this city, arriving lere Friday night. {