Bisbee daily review., 1918-02-03
HOisting c Flag

This is a tale of how two boys real American yOungsters-wsnt hunt ing and succeeded in stirring up a con- siderable talk and jolt of graphic patri- oJiSm in the Warren District The fact that the two youngsters are print CTS. in the embryo. should not mitigate against them in the least
 Last Sunday with shotgun and sev- eral shells. Arthur Roper. thirteen. with a companion. started a-hunting. They mad no flivver and no money to pay street car fare to the country club IL is doubtful if either one could tell the difference between a White Wing and a Mountain Quail Yet s-hunting they went
 Their hunting ground was the Cop per Q1een Hill. the top of which is surrounded by Bucky O-Nei Point The fact that very little game ventured so near to the activities of a big indus trial community did not enter their heads They climbed and climbed Neither smokes cigarettes Neither has indulged in the supeTlatives Of cuisine; thereby knowing nothing of short wind They trudged and tTudsed and treasured their shells
 Finally the top of the hill IoOmed in sight and first of all attractions that met their gaze was a big flag pole with rope attached but no flag They calm ly surveyed the standard but nothing of its meaning came into their heads The throwing of rocks at Mexico. sev- en miles away across the haze, al tractei their efforts
 4 boy will tire of anything. however and soon the muscles along their shOul deTs ached Q little and they turned their attention 10 the business al hand that Of hunting But little could they see Despairing of anything to shoot, one of the two had an inspira- tiOn- Some tin cans were laying about the foot of the flagpOle- They tied the sans on the rope and hOisted the cans to place of prominence
 Then the shot gun came into play. , They peppered the cans and left them for dead-but still hanging on the pOie and returned to Bisbee. unaware thas they had started something Some steel-eyed man. walking along a Bisbee street saw sOmesh:ng on me Bucky O'Neil flagpOia that ild not 9e- semble a lag Besides a breeze vas in the air and the fias-i5 flag il was should have been caTiI1g iIS folds The pole. to the naked eve. appeared 10 be holding the body Of a nan alongside of it Many thcLshss crowded the Bisbee mans mind Could il be a hanging, sent to shock the Bisbee folk from their lethargy:
 But q field glass. fOcu..,C on the Dole dispeii5d his misgivings- lie saw ssy- eral cans hanging Onthe pOie-nO H-Ore no less
 it was then the rep0rt=i came in- This pUrveyOr of ney-s. satneIer of all that is good. bad and indifferent about folks and other things. happen ed across the story. He also happen cd across the inside of the story He decided he would have his own little joke Consequently a warning notice was put in the Review the following day and a couple of frightened young stsrs were the result.
 Late in the afternoon young Roper approached the foreman of the job de partmenl-
 Mr- Johnson. can ! get off For an hour this afternOOn1 ] will put it in overtime"
 The request was granted.
 Then downstairs. tO the business or flee. hurried the boy He approached the cashier with a request for an old flag. tattered and torn which adurus Jubby-hole Iu the basement Ol tu'