Arizona republican., 1908-07-14

and beast caught in such would prob ably suffOcate, because the downfall had displaced all the air. However. cattle seem to have forewarning of such perils and either leave the space or get under dense foliage that keeps them under a reservoir of air I have seen dense black storms drift against Black Mountain and go to rags in five minutes. The peak, like a bull calf, sucked and butted out of the storm it's fluid and sent it flying in exhausted tatters southward. And the seismic waves GncOrrectly named sandstOrms) have not passed over this region for three years. These spectacles as viewed from a mountain slope and passing over Paradise and Salt river valleys, are incomparably grand.
 And what has become of our noxiOus varmints? Early this spring a few rattlers and hydrophobia skunks came out to inquire if Arizona had been admitted to the Union. Informed that it was in statu quo. they ex- claimed: Well, Los Estados Unidos for us:" 1 have not seen a Gila monster for three years, nor a taran- tula. Seldom nov does the common pole cat call, and scorpions and cen tipedes are not any more encOun- tered. Glory be! Let them stay in the United States, and Arizona stay out. Apparently some of our wild cats have been attending the late na- tional conventions, and God forbid their return. It is true that these venomous things are conspicuous by their absence. Late reports of the crazy noises at Denver and at Chicago indicate that some of our mountain lions and wild cats were metamor- phosed into yelling delegates. Those from this region were singing against injunctions against themselves and the same for Mrs. Cooney. our Diana.
 Since she went to the coast wild cats are becoming bolder and more mum erouS.
 The Phoenix mine is vet in opera tiOn. We are eagerly anticipating the promised resumption of development on the Ben Hur. A little later the Mormon Girl may resume.
 The resources of this region may be estimated from this account. Last | October 1 a money order privilege was l ordered for this pOstoffice against the l advice of the postmaster and some of it's patrons for no business of that sort worth mentioning was expected. The first money order was drawn in the
 last week of November and since then | the postmaster his sent to his de- pOsitory and paid on orders received
 rather more than $100 per month. That is something to offset the sum-
 mer quiet here. The postmaster is
 rapidly failing in health and after
 nearly twelve years service is gloom
 fly anticipating the near future.
 I was surprised to read of the re- cent death of Mir Bunce, late of the Phoenix postal service. He was up here for a few weeks and went away looking as if he might eventually re cover. What a Moloch is tuberculo- sis! Three of these victims fingered here last winter until they felt the hand of death on them and still they hoped. One we got into the Sisters hospital but a few hours before he died; another entrained for his home and the third. after, leaving here, hid himself in a cheap lodging house of Phoenix, where on my request the Franciscan brothers found him, took him in and revived him so that he might return home to die. Father Novatus has written me that he wants to be advised of all Catholic tuberculosis victims in the regions around Phoenix who may be in needy circumstances, so that he can admin ister to their bodily and SDirituaI needs. Father Novatus is a pious, energetic and generous priest, to whom the sick and dying can confi- dently apply for bodily and spiritual relief.