Arizona republican., 1907-12-09
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THE HOBO PEST-Not since the days of the panic in the nineties has there been such a hobo pest in these
 parts, especially along the line of the Southern Pacific as has existed this fall. It cannot be laid in great meas
 ure to the present financial furry, l dignified in some parts by the name of panic. for the pest began before the furry did. There are some good men
 no doubt. who have been driven to that ] life but very few will be found among
 the brake beam army. Good men as a
 rule. do not have to resort to that sort
 of life. and what is more. they won't
 do it unless they are caught far away | from home and friends. They can
 starve more gracefully where they
 are known than along the line and
 do as well if not better in the way of creature comforts. It appears that the
 hobo army increased its ranks during
 prosperity and nobody noticed it as | long as everybody had a quarter or meal to hand out, but when cold wealth
 CT came they all rushed south and the | financial pinch on top of that cut off | their easy money and they became hungry, surly and vicious, having ac- quired the idea that the world owes them a living. A few days ago they ! assaulted a train crew near Benson,
 resulting in one to two dead hobos and
 badly NyOunded conductor Since | then, couple of them held up a con-
 ductor at Yuma and robbed him of
 everything but his clothes. Wednes- day night, two of them fell off a | freight train west of Yuma crushing
 their left legs. One died in the county | hospital and the other is in a bad
 way. The incident at Maricopa where
 several were killed drinking wood all
 cOhol, several weeks ago, is recalled,
 and there are daily clashes between train men and the vagrants In one
 case score or more took charge of a train and ran it until they got tired,
 then left it. It may be that train men
 are sometimes unwarrantably cruel.
 but it takes Il mighty good man to
 draw the line and if the train men did
 not do something to put fear into the i hearts of this class of criminals.
 good man would not dare travel
 TERRIBLE TIGERc.-The Phoenix ' Tigers bit chunk out Of the Phoenix
 Athletics yesterday afternoon at East lake Park. winning the football con-
 test bv q score Of II to 0. The Tigers
 were a ferocious bunch and the Ath-
 letics were never very formidable, all | though as the score indicates, they ! held their jungle opponents part of the
 time. However, Luke, one of the
 most bloodthirsty of the Tiger eleven.
 demoraliZed the formations and line
 of the Athletics and Tyson and Chris toffenson made touchdowns. ( Soto fig
 ured largely as a good tackler and sev-
 eral others of the Tigers were able to
 eat 'em alive at opportune moments. One Athlete was put out of commission
 and several others received severe jolts and carried off the field of battle sev-
 eral bruises. They will all be feeling
 mighty sore today. The Tigers hav-
 ing had taste of gore. are now look
 ing around for other victims and may
 bring down team from Prescott for next Sunday week from Sunday The Tiger lineup was: Center. A. Tribo-
 let; right end, Christofferson; right tackle, D. Griffith; right guard. Hog sett: left end, Soto: left tackle Don-
 nell; left guard Sunderland; right
 half back, quarter back, Tom O'Con-
 nell; right half back, F. Vermillen; left half back, I. Hogsett; full back,