Arizona republican., 1913-04-11
JOLLY FISHING
 PARTY AT REEF
Some Solons Make Record
 Catch at Granite Reef, Then Count the Bones in
 Each Fish Over Banquet Board

Loaded with plenty of fishing tackle, and with Walter Brawner as chief engineer of the bait department-he being equipped with worm catchers- a jolly party of fishermen, composed partly of solons and partly sports men, all of them good fellows, loaded themselves into the automobile of Celora Stoddard. and with Stoddard as driver and Hon. Tom M. brennan as mechanician, they hied them away to Granite Reef yesterday afternoon in search of the water phenomena i that make such toothsome meals. | That they were successful beyond 1 their fairest expectations is proven i bv the fact that forty-fiVe piscatory 1 specimens repOsed in the quarry bag ] by the time. the party was ready to I start back. Returning to the city | the whole business was taken to Tom i Sing at the American Kitchen and orders were given that the fish be | fried properly with all the needed { fixings and that two buckets of joy
 water be provided When it was seen this was all going to be fixed as per l the orders the telephone was gotten l hot getting in touch with other rare | spirits to fill the seats around the | loaded table.
 | In going toward the dam, the party 1 had made an effort to get hold of Judge Powhatan s. Wren of Yavapai | county, one of the most popular of l the members of the legislature, but
 this failed so Judge Wren was picked | up coming back. Then Auditor Cal
 laghan was pressed into service. all
 though he had just completed a hearty 1 meal on lettuce salad; and Ira H. :. l Huggett was dragged into the melee, | being a newspaper man it was taken l for granted that he was always hun gry.
 The fish were cooked to a turn. but | before the eating contest was per 1 mitted. d number of fictitious toasts
 were indulged in by among those | present. Each man toasted his dear est friend. Leon Jacobs. who sat at
 one of the heads of the table-there
 were two heads-spoke to The Gov
 ernor. He hopes to be one some
 day Auditor Callaghan talked about
 Prison Automobiles; T. M. Dren-
 nan was elOquently espousing the l cause or causes of Senator GugSen-
 heim," when he was called down;
 while Senator Brown, being an au- , thority on protests, spoke to that sub
 feet Walter BraWner addressed his remarks to The State Senate; while
 Judge Wren. who halls from we'll he spoke on Mint Juleps. H. M ! FennimOre once worked for a tele- phone company, the one in Phoeni> i now. and he talked learnedly of Why We Raised the Rates" giving a life : like example of going value and in l | creased cost of construction. Celor; 0 NJ Stoddard the infant member O . | the Republican Central committed t 1 said he thought more of 'Peerles t Democracy" than anything else, n made him lay awake nights, h
 talked about that. Then everybod
 talked about fish, and ate about a Q the fish they cared about for tn . evening. and it being about lat q enough for all of them to think abot l. going home. the party broke int l. about ten different parties and dis d persed.
 l. The joke of the day though. wa ,r on Celora Stoddard. Walter Brawne ,f being the bait engineer of the tri y was given the care of the catch. | le built a little pool out of rocks in u = side of the stream and put the ifs le in it. About 3:3O, Celora Stoddal II announced that he had caught thirt. in three fish He went to look at the i'll all in the little pool, and he on of saw two there and Brawner Ia of 1 claim to both of them. Celora tn Id marked the last fish he caught, al
 in three minutes caught his thirt
 fourth fish, which proved to be t
 same fish he had had before. B
 this is only a fish story. The arcf
 tectural construction of the pool w
 then examined, and it was fou n that the two that did not get o n were forced to stay because the ht
 through which the thirty third degr
 one slipped was too small for the
 to escape.
 of Doc Craig. also an honorable, W
 i of the party earlier in the day
 refrained from partaking of the fl
 he caught because he is so tendt ho hearted he couldn't bear to think TOT it. The biggest fish that was ice caught belongs to Tom brennan Sl1 cause he just missed catching hi le- In fact brennan SWearS he felt of '.bpaSfie' njbbIinS at the bait.