Weekly journal-miner., 1909-10-13
BAR ASSOCIATION
 ADOPTS NEW MEMBER
CFrom Fridays Daily)

it, he's black as the ace of spades.
 He has most of the lawyer-like hab- its, excepting chewing and smoking. In that respect he sets a good ex- ample to the rest, of the bar. He has a voice that would startle any ordinary courtroom, and smell that stampedes horses at a range of six hundred yards.
 But he seems to be right at home among the lawyers. His name was Nose when he was first discovered, but since he decided to locate in Prescott, it has been deemed neces- sary to have that changed. Many of them already have sombre remind CTS of their obligations to a certain distinguished financier of this city, and besides, about two-thirds of the lawyers thought if his first name should be "Mose" his surname ought to be "Frederieks" or "Larimer it being well understood that the B Par association will not stand for any discrimination between the two lead ing banks of the territory.
 It all happened at St. Johns, the county seat of Apache county, while most of the Prescott lawyers were at tending court there this week. Dis triet Attorney Ross discovered him chained to a freight wagon in front of corral near the headquarters of the local justice of the peace.
 He talked to him awhile-at a safe distance beyond the length of the ehain-in a broken mixture of Bar and Arkansas. Ross says that when he first saw him he was standing on his hind legs, reeiting the Rule in Shelley's Case, and moving for change of venue. Realizing that he being somewhat fearful that the chain might break, Ross broke all records and most of the ten commandments in getting back to the hotel, where the legal gentlemen, unaware of the impending addition to their fraternity, had assembled for dinner.
 In a few hurried gasps, Ross told his tory, and for once the miracle of lawyer talking two minutes without interruption, objection or exception was witnessed.
 Judge Doe, seated at the head of the table, immediately grasped the importance of the situation and a few other edibles within reach, and appointed Lawyer J. E. Jones of Flag taff, said to be the best horse-trader in the fraternity, to dicker with the boss of the freight-wagon for the new member of the bar. Jones did his duty like a mau, and, borrowing a megaphone from the manager of a travelling electric theater, he fearless " a~~-""~r~a wi4Iin ehon+ing range of the bar wagon.
 It took forty dollars to conclude the deal, including Jones' commission, and this sum the lawyers finally dug up by borrowing from each other un- til John Mason Ross had barely enough to pay his hotel bill.
 Jones carefully tied this colossal fortune to a briekbat, but to save his life he couldn't throw it more than four feet from him. He said it seemed unprofessional. He called on Norveil, the court stenographer, who IS used to separating the lawyers from their money, and he shied it clear into the midst of the freighting outfit-a distance of about hundred yards.
 This concluded the negotiations, and the new member, after being securely | something that the average citizen would like to see happen to more lawyers-was formally initiated into the legal profession-that is to | say, the Bar association-by chang ing his name and cutting off his rations. A long argument among the lawyers ensued as to whether the1 new one was acquired by descent or purchase, and this was settled by the | freighter, who suggested that he was acquired by descent, as he caught him while he was coming down tree.
 The only real trouble occurred in devising ways and means of getting the new member to Prescott, where he is to be retained in the geological garden at Murphy park as special counsel for the Zoo.
 His crate WIS first trussed up be- hind the rig that Judge Doe was to travel in from St. Johns to Holbrook. When the judge saw it, he remarked: That's one member of the profes- sion that I positively refuse to ride with. I realize that the team carry