Arizona republican., 1911-04-22
HEARD IN THE L0BB|ES

Most people felt an interest in the
local option election held in Phoenix
! Tuesday. but few were more wrought
up over the outcome than F. s West
| fall, the cashier of the Farmers and
| Merchants bank. \ few days before
! the election Mr.. Westfall went over
! TO Los Angeles with Frank Shedd to
! have his high forehead so1thed by
the ocean zephyrs After several days
| Of unrestricted delight the gentlemen
| decided TO return Tuesday afternoon
and took the evening train over the
ESOuthern Pacific. Settling comfortably
/ back in their section, they began to
converse on divers topics of mutual in
/ terest in a soft and solemn tone. such
! a tone as might be expected TO eman-
/ ate from the lips of a bank cashier
/ and the proprietor of a fashionable
! caraVansary, until-AIr Shedd re-
marked, Il wonder if Phoenix went
| dry Death to peace and quietnessi
Mr.. Westfall became absorbed in the
possible outcome of the election-fOr
/ he is a strict prohibitionist-and he
| insisted in getting off at every station
at which his train stopped To make in
quiries concerning the election in
| Phoenix. At one town he approached a
stalwart man on the platform. and
said ingratiatingly: i beg your par
! don, but could you tell me if returns of
/ the Phoenix election have been received
/ here. Is there any way by which |
could determine the result of the cleo
/ ton? Did the town go dry?' The big
man looked him over in surprised
sort of way and volunteered to state,
/ All, go chase yourself. Were mind
\ ing our own business here. Who gives
a hang about Phoenix" This discour-
! tesy enraged Mr.. Westfall who was on
I the point of chaStising the impudent
| fellow when the whistle blew and he
Iclambered aboard The man on the
platform was only a hundred pounds or
I 50 Mr. Westfalrs superior in weight.
| but il is a good thing for him that the
/ train pulled out. When Yuma was
| reached his patience had reached an
| end. He could wait no longer. He
would know the facts at once In his
haste To ask questions he fell off the
/ train too soon and turned a series Of
somersaults that would have made his
| fortune in Sells Floto. As a result of
/ his intrepidity he wears a bandage on
his wrst-but strangely enough-a
smile on his face. He does not seem To
be either displeased or chagrined at the
outcome of the election, and says PhOe-
nix is still a good place to live in. In
/ fact he declares it is ideal, in view of
the information he received after he
| fell off the train, for the returns had
reached Yuma when he ricOchetted
along the depot platform. He learned
/ no h..r ~ IL f,rTT L.
/ all night long Mr. Westfall has stop
] ped at the stag since his return.
|
There was no Phoenix when Charles
| Chisman first came west. In 1S47 he
/ left a home in the east TO go to Utah.
and two years later he left Utah to go
to California. This made him for
ty-niner.' and he had all the romantic
hardships that fell 10 the pioneers of
the gold fields and the west In IS he,
with other coast men went up to settle
San BarnardinO, and one year later he
returned to Salt Lake City, where he
has been living ever since Now ne
comes to Arizona to visit his children
who left Utah years ago to settle in
Mesa, and when interviewed yester- /
day at the Commercial, he declared |
that the entire trip had been happy for |
him. That il made him glad i'm his |
heart 10 meet his children, now grown |
men and women, and delighted to I
see such a beautiful country as the /
Salt river valley. Mr. Crisman is a /
grand army man and a grand man, /
with the army left out The west owes /.
a great deal TO such men and he ought |
10 take peculiar pleasure in travelling /.
through a country which he was one ]
of the first to visit. He freighted over |
the plains from San Pedro to Salt Lake
City number of times, and is a regu-
lar, all-round old-timer. After spend /
ing a few days in the city he will go
back 10 Mesa, spend more time with
his children and return to his home at
Salt Lake City.
one week ago last Sunday n prOmi-
nent New Yorker arrived in the city,
unheralded and unknown. 1t was no
less a person than the Honorable L. y.
Palmer of the New York bar, a man
who has distinguished himself so often
in handling difficult and important le-
gal matters that his name is synomOus
in the east for brilliancy and perfect
understanding OF the law. He regis
tered at the Hotel Ford, but decided to
go to a ranch for a month or two, as
he came to the southwest for rest, and |
thinks he will find more complete re-
taxation on some rural property, where
he can hear the chickens crow and the