Arizona republican., 1917-10-01
LITTLE JAMES
Traffic Congestion on the Santa Fe

Ong Root Winslow, Sept the 2S-This is as fur I got yit becos tn Porter woke me up at a. m this morning an sig You better git your Coes on fer this is Pretty Near fur as tn Feenix Cars goin' to go. If you're goin furder you'll haf to make other Arrangemence" I didn't care none fer when got woke up was Hungry anyhow an they'sa a man named Harry here where you can git Mees at All Hours. I been here hrs. an I've had Meels.
 Traffic is very hevvy tn Santy Fee railrode which found out myself In order to accomydate it they're selln' tn same Pullman births twcet at wunst. They sold Lour an I got into early I when tb goin to start an say good by trends which mite not never see agin an when I got back found lot of Rat Tan soot cases, female Hats which bot before tn present Small Styles come in an Coax. Pretty 2 Wimmen sat down in tn Debree an looked at me like was a Curossity Wun of a Ole Woman an Wun a Young Woman. Tn Oie Woman she to tn Othern "We see some Strange Sites when we're travelin."
 After while tn Ole Woman to me do you know "figgers" when you lem?
 thought she meant somethin' persne an repze: Why, I wasn't hardly lookin at you. I beg your Pardon if I seemed to be Starin.'
 "Oh" she sez q don't exactly Meen figgers; I Numbers Lour 9, frinstance."
 You meen this here Birth?" sez.
 "Yes' she sez.
 got out a Red Ticket which tn ticket agent give me an it seZ "Lour g. She got out wun which sez "Lour g" too
 Well this is funny" sez tn Ole Woman.
 Its that" tn Young
 sez Tt looks like Lour 9s gon' to be Pretty Crouded tonite.
 Tt won't hold more'n anyhow" sez tn Ole Woman.
 "Ill tell you what can do" I; "1es shake to which of three gifts out"
 ''No" tn Ole Woman, which shows at she an't Troo Sport, i've won't do it; it mite be of an want to git Seprated We wuddent mind none ben' seprated from you jist now"
 Mister Dryer of Feenix which sells Ottymobees settin acrost the He sez at they's Plenty of Room in his Sect an asts to I done so an we talked about tn Wor an tn Fokes in Feenix till tn Conductor comes around and sez- he'd like to take anuther Slant at my Birth Ticket. He looks at it an then looks tn Ole Woman give him an sez Well, this Beets hell Tn feller what got this ticket off of must of been sen' tickets with Both Hands. an Hand didn't know what tn othern doin' It don't look very good for you Everything in tn is full 'cept sexions which b'longs to Prescott If you set up till git there an nobody gifts on there you have of 'em"
 T ain't got nothin to do but up" sez l. but cuddent you telygraft find out sooner list where I'm at?'
 That's so." tn Conductor, an at tn next Stashun he Tellygrafts Prescott the Rest of tn United States west of tn Rockies to know if they anybody else at wanted to git on tn Feenix Sleeper It Sort of a Generic Invtashun but he didn't git Replize
 About nine o'clock tn Conductor hunts up agin an finds in the Smokin Room where they lot of travelin' men and Ralerode Men givn' in their Relijus Experiences of Msspent Lifes Tn Conductor happy an Smilin. 9Th Mistrys Solved guess" he; they ain't nobody fer No. 6. It looks like tn ticket sellers made Mathemat- ticle Mistake, fer and is much alike. They ain't Reely Dffrunce between 'em only of em is upside down."
 Sometime when git Time I'll tell you what kind of Town Wnslow is. I like it what Seen of it but when went it tn First Time this morning it wasn't quite Dayte yit mebbe they some things didn't git to see rite
 LITTLE JAMES