New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-11-17
WOMAN SHERIFF
BARSSHORT SKIRT
Dresses Nearer Ground
Look Better, Declares
Arizona Visitor.

$50 long, Roberts. Better ditch that
hat before y hit Moo Yawk."
If you had been in Camille, Ariz, a
few days ago you might have heard a
GROUP of deputy sherIffs, ex-cow punch
ers, shout this message to Mrs. Id
cretia Roberts, deputy sheriff Of Santa
Cruz County, who leaned from win
dow of an overland train.
Mrs. Roberts was elected constable
by a plurality Of three to one ov>r
two male cow-punchers, John Yost and
George Bryley, and was later appoint
ed deputy by Sheriff BILL" Mcknight
Of Santa Cruz County. She is the first
woman sheriff in Arizona, and the
first woman elected to office since
suffrage was introduced in that land
of prairie dogs and rattlers.
81 wouldn't live in Moo Yawh u
they gave it all to me-" said Sheriff
Roberts, as the toe Of her booted foot
beat tattoo on the carpet OF her
apartment in the Hotel McAlpin yes
terday. 81 got in yesterday on the
Antilles from New Orleans, and
have seen a little of the city. SKY
scrapers-well, they are sorter impress
sive. but the place is cold. l had to
have my room moved so | could get
more sun.
"Y'know the sun always shines in
Arizona. In Yuma they : bar where
they give free drinks 20 everybody
when the sun doesn't shine. It's hot
as hell in Yuma. But VEAL are USED
TO Il. and we like H."
Mrs. Roberts, said she didn't know
much about suffrage. The women
wanted it an they got it, that's all,
said she. "The first thing they did was
to turn the place dry, and Tucson ana
other places have fallen off in popuia-
ton.
moo Yawk is so noisy, too. Every
thing bangs. 1t gets on your nerves. |
don't see why they don't put rubber on
those side door streetcars to keep EN-
from banging"
Mrs. Roberts runs her own ranch
near Camille, which is not far from
Nogales. It is an old homestead, OF 100
acres, and has about ten horses, exelu-
sive of the wild ones, and some 20O
head Of cattle grazing on II. She IS in
the saddle most of the day, she says
and on long trips wears overalls. Her
silver sheriff's badge, 2 circle inclosing
a five-ponted star, she showed with
pride: and also a vari-colored horse
hair lariat was exhibited, with the ex-
PLANTATION that a circle around person
sleeping on the prairie made with this
rope would keep one safe from rattlers.
"A rattler." said she, never crosses
hair rope"
what do you think Of the short
skirts the women here wear?" was
asked. 80
"Well," replied the sheriffette. 81
don't kinder like 'em. Not that ! am a
prude, or anything. But-well women
kinder look better when their skirts
are nearer the ground"
Mrs. Roberts, with her broad
brimmed sombrero and her riding boots
caused many a curious neck 20 crane
in the McAlpn lobby yesterday. The
business. she says, which calls her TO
New York is to sell mining stock her
own and found a tuberculosis sana-
forum in Arizona, somewhere near No.
gales.
The woman sheriff has arrested sew
eral Mexican boot-leggers, she says:
when they get too troublesome" SAID
she, "all have to do is deputlze some
men and they have 20 help me. But
usually my .3s. which hangs in hol-
ster by my side, is medicine enough