Arizona republican., 1911-04-01
HEARD IN THE L0BBIES

been coming to Arizona every year since 1883. and he not only has d
 great admiration for the territory
 as it is now, but always has thought
 it one of the coming states of the country. There has been a great change in the Salt River valley since IlSSS, greater change than the ma
 jority of the people are ever going
 to be able to appreciate. The ne dency of q newcomer is to believe that the locality he enters has al | ways been just as it is at the time of his arrival, for it is difficult for
 the mind to imagine the state of a locality before it was developed and l opened up. The great changes which ! time brings can only be understood by man who was there before and
 after. Mir. Darden has been here
 before and after" and as d result he
 knows whereof he speaks. He is not
 numbered among those who speak
 vain and foolish things-at least not
 when he eXpatiates- on the merits Of Phoenix and the surrounding country. | Speaking last night of Arizona Mir
 DaFden said: It's not only a good territory now. but it always has been | l always did pin my faith to this
 country. and l feel as though l know las much about il as the next man. All | Arizona needs to be perfect is state hOOd-and she's going to get that It's a pleasant thing to meet a man who gives a whole -hearted indorse- ment instead of feeble, Doubling | Thomas sort of a perhaps-it- will amount to something some time com pliment.
 Given a carload of Italian marble
 and a truck of bronze fittings John Baeklund could transform a granary into a palace. It is understood on good authority that the Count of | Monte Cristo's underground palace on
 the island of the same name was decorated by great grandfather of the present Mir. Baeklund, and if his grandfather could make the ca"
 ern dream in veined and polished marbles, the present MT. Baeklund could have gone him one better and made it into a transporting vision. Anyone curious to see sample of MT. Baeklund's work can do so by going to the new banking rooms of the new National Bank of Arizona. on the corner of Washington and Cen ter. where he did some Of the best work and most artistic decorating he has ever done in his life. which has been long and varied. He has a facul- ty for putting the right thing in the right place which some people never learn. as, for instance. the mischieVoUs boy who placed his fathers false teeth
 in the garbage can. and his reputa- tion as a decorator and artisan has been gained by panstaking effort and care Mir Baeklund leaves in a few days for the east. and is now lawaiting instructions from his house.
 the F. H Andrews company of Chi
 cago acquainting him with the scene
 of his next labor. MT Baeklund stops
 at the Stag.
 | Not being altogether satisfied with the prestige and glamour Of his no- bility. Count Deubel at the Adams Annex has aspirations to gain wide reputation as a mining man. He
 went out to the Nulture mines the
 other day with two friends of his.
 Did he go for the purpose of sight seeing or for the cultivation of his
 sadly undeveloped aesthetic sensi- Utilities by dreaming over the land scape? Not at all. he went out to
 expert a property in which he holds stock. (NO laughing allowed in the galleryD The count has made his
 debut as a mining man and he eN- poets to reap a fortune by his in-
 vestments. The property in which he holds an interest lies in the vicinity of the Vulture mine. and it will put it's wealthy neighbor to blush some day. So says the count. His trip mp
 to the VultUre was very pleasant, and his highness says that the lunchepn
 served in the camp dining room was
 very much better than is served in first-class Berlin hotels He found it delectable and appetizing and in-
 creased in weight as a result of its
 assimilation.
 ID. Q. Colley of the firm of Isaacs X CoIey of the city of Los Angeles.
 has been stopping at the Commercial lhotel for the last three days, and
 left this morning for the coast after
 doing a record breaking business in
 Phoenix Mir. Colley has been mak- ing the town for the last three years. and says he always looks forward to his trip to the Salt River valley be-
 cause of the certainty of doing some
 thing with the merchants of the docal- ity. The men of Phoenix are Beau
 Brummels. according to the sale book of MT. Colley. which shows enough
 collars. cuffs and all sorts of articles
 designed to decorate and enhance the natural and superior beauty of the
 male sex that if one-half of one third of them are sold and worn in
 the city during the twelvemonth the capital of Arizona will become
 fashion center.
 man of dynamic force has been entertained at the Hotel Ford during the last few days. A man with ex- ltraordinary energy and a man with power to uplift. He has been in- lstrumental in numberless great move