Arizona republican., 1910-01-07
BRONCO susrINe-J. L. Scott, .

! exhibition on east Washington street 1 Wednesday night that it is said was we'll worth seeing. It was Elks' night ! at Nat Reiss' carnival and the local 1 brethren came out in force, parading
 from the hall to the show grounds | To make the parade worth while bi | of color was added by mounting Exalt | ed Ruler Driscoli and Brother DeSouza i on a camel kindly loaned for the occa-
 sion, by the carnival management, to- ! gether with the official camel leaders. On another camel Mir. Scott was { mounted alone. It chanced that this bright snappy weather and the good feed the camels have been enjoying
 lately had greatly exhilarated their | spirits and thet were quite frisky. Mn. ! Driscolls camel, however. conducted himself with usual grace and some measure of consideration for his riders. | MT. Scotts mount though was full of ginger. but he kept most of his feet on the ground the biggest part of the time until he came within a block of , the show grounds. Then MT. Driscoll ! reached over and tickled Scott's mount
 in the flank, with the result that the
 camel gave an exhibition of low wild west shows are conducted on the Sa- hara and MT. Scott gave an exihibi- tion of how an Arizona cowboy dis
 mounts from 2 horse he cannot ride.
 Due to the. mud cushion of Washing
 ton street. MT. Scott suffered no in
 jury except as to his pride.
 BOARD OF TRADE-The directors
 ,f Ea ,-I of da hal t,aeatin0
 yesterday afternoon that was devoted
 mainly to routine business and the
 auditing of bills. A letter was read
 from the San Francisco committee
 engaged in boosting for a Panama
 canal opening exposition. inviting CO.,
 operation. In view of the fact that
 San Diego has d similar project on
 hand and PhoeniX' is not decided as
 to which place she wants to favor or
 where her own interests lie. the let
 ter was merely filed without reply.
 for the time being. Elliot Evans re-
 ported that he had secured. while re-
 gently in Los Angeles, permission for
 the board to place advertising litera-
 ture in the racks of the Alexandria
 and the Westminster hotels. and di-
 rection was given that such litera
 ture should be forwarded. The Chi cago City Garden association has also offered to aid in advertising this sec
 ton in the lectures to be delivered under the auspices of that organiza-
 ton. especially on the subject of os- trich. farming. providing the board will furnish slides for illustrating the lectures. Thomas Sheppard presented ta ,bx I
 lies Weekly to give Arizona four one page articles. to appear in four diff ferent issues one article at a time. ! in consideration of Arizona furnishing the paper 1000 subscriptions. Both !, these propositions were referred to | the committee on advertising
 AN OLD PIONEER-Captain C. " | Meeden of Yuma. who has been in | Phoenix for the last two days, is an | Arizona pioneer of the older school | dating his residence since 1869, when i he came to Yuma as a river captain | in the employ of one of the big com panies then engaged in the naviga- ton of the Colorado. For ten years | he lived on the raging waters of the | Colorado. except such intervening pe- riods as his good ship was stuck on one stand bar or another. which pe- riods were frequent, but of short du- ration. He left the billowy wave to mingie in territorial and county poli- ties to the extent that in 1880 Gov eruor John C. Fremont. the pathfind- CT, appointed him superintendent of the territorial prison, which position leo. -II Tritle. He has always been promi- nent in Yuma county affairs. and is now assessor of the county and chair man ofsthe board of trustees of Yuma | school district. Of his assessorship | he is quite proud. and has reason to be. When he was. elected to the of- I lice Yuma was third-class county. | but by increasing the thoroughness of the work in the assessors office as auxiliary to the natural increase of valuations. Yuma is now in the rank of the first-ciass counties The captain comes to Phoenix but seldom. but knows many people here and all over the territory. in fact. and when he does have business here he finds the office of his old-time townsman.. Surveyor General Ingalls,. peaceful and pleasant harbor. whether or not
 1t chances to be a bit stormy out in the main stream.