Arizona republican., 1910-08-22
 IN ARIZONA Postmaster General is On Way To Moki Snake Dance sAMES AND SMITH ALONG Elliot Evans, Who Returned
 Yesterday After a Vaca-
 tion in East, Was a Eel
 low Passenger With Post
 master General
sAMts AND SMITH ALONG

After five weeks vacation spent
 in eastern cities Elliot Evans returned
 to Phoenix yesterday morning On the
 same train with him was Postmaster
 General Hitchcock and a party of
 friends. The postmaster general is
 now in Arizona but will not be in train at Gallup and from there will invade the reservation of the Mokis and witness their famous snake dance
 Mir. Hitchcock boarded the train at Chicago but it was some time before the other passengers learned that he was among them. He was accompanied by Chairman Sames of the republican central committee and Hoval Smith. MT. Evans was asked if MT Hitchcock discussed the political situation in the two territories.
 MT. Hitchcock did not talk politics on the train 10 any great extent" he said, but on one occasion he expressed himself strongly in favor of simple and moderate constitution. He seemed 10 be of the opinion that our getting statehood will depend largely on the sort of constitution We draw up"
 Mir. Evans visited Philadelphia, his former home and birthplace. It was his first visit there in twenty years
 Do you know" he said. in deserib- ing his emotions when he got off at the Broad street station after twenty years absence, T felt like Rip Van Winkle l looked first at the strange new buildings many times higher than any that Were there when 1 left that city And then l began to look for familiar faces in the passing throng- for the boys l knew twenty years be- fore. For some time I did not recog- nize anybody. Then it occurred to me that the boys were no longer boys but grown-up men with streaks of gray over their ears. After that watchel the gray haired men and here and there I came across a friend of by gone days"
 Much of his time was passed at At Iantic city and some few days in He said that the people of are disappointed in their haven't as many people 1 as they thought they were going to 1 nave and many of those seem to be | lesirous of leaving the smoky city Four Or five of his friends announced | heir intention of coming to the south ] vest.
 The cities he visiteds seemed to be | airly prosperous. The stores were | ,rowded and the hotels well filled. | Every one-seemed to have plenty of | money but complaints are heard on all | ,ides of the high prices. Half can eloupe costs thirty cents in most res aurants and hotels, and the price of | neat is soaring.
 There is che thing the Salt River alley farmer may be thankful for" aid MT. Evans, flor the present at least le has enough water for his crops. All trough Pennsylvania and ohio I saw he farmers harvesting oats under two eet high and was told that hay would ,e forty dollars a ton. As We came westward there was evidence of more ain Kansas had a good rain and her orn crop was reported saved. When ve got to New Mexico there was still nore rain-so much so that We had 0 come by the Bedan cutoff to avoid
 washout at Las Vegas"
 In Pittsburg he attended a very punk viation meet Curtiss and Mars were he attractions. They flew up to one nd of the field and then flew back gain. He waited an hour for them O do something else and then came way
 MT. Evans started out on the same rain with A. l.. Moore. the fair com missioner. Mir. Moore went to De- roit and from there followed the cir uit in search of the best trotting and