Arizona republican., 1920-02-16
Little Stories
 Of The Town
Russia while in the service of the state

Russia while in the service of the state
 department.
 Peter, it seems, developed extraor- dinary coyote chasing propenSitieS while in Arizona. Instead of staying
 home at nights, as all good wolf hounds are supposed to do, he insisted on
 breaking his leash and go woof-woof- ing over rock, Till and spar until all
 his four footed arch enemies were un-
 der cover, dawn broke to end his pastime.
 But these midnight parties were dis
 astrous. Cactus doesn't grow where Peter comes from, and each morning I he would limp home with all four paws
 full; of cholla and prickly pear. Some
 one told MT. Miles that A. l.. Black, at the Ceilings Vehicle company, used to "huskies' on the dog teams in the Klondike. Peter was taken down last
 Tuesday, and fitted.
 Latigo leather was used in their con- struction. They were laced up the front and steel plates with teeth to
 grip flat surfaces were adjusted to the bottoms. Then Peter, looking very
 much though he had been whipped, was turned loose out asphalt pavement. wet and slippery from a thunder shower
 Frightened. he refused to move at first. Then he took a step-cautiOusly, then another, and another, lifting each leather coated paw with it's steel plate high in the air and setting it down gingerly as though he were on very thin ice. Then he rubbed them with his nose, sat down suddenly as one padded member slipped from beneath
 him. and looked appealingly at his
 master for help.
 The crowd of onlookers shouted with
 laughter, and Peter looked hurt. Peter
 was a wel1-bred dog and not used to the coarse jibing of crowds. His mas ter then took off his shoes and accepted the dogs thanks given with a digni- fled rub of his nose against MT. Miles IJeg.
 Coyotes in the future had better look out,' said Black, viewing the prod uct of his handicraft and looking ad- miringly at Peters iron -sinewed legs
 and husky, strong jaws. When he
 gets used to his new shoes he'll make 'em hum!"'
 Compelled by the exigencies of his job, State Auditor Jesse L. Boyce in yaded the sacred republican faStneSseS of the fourth floor at the capitol build ing Saturday, where democrats never eventure unless supplied with body guard. On his Saturday mission, that Of paying off the republicans who dominate the fourth floor unanimously, the democrat auditor was safe, but he kept his pay cheeks extended in front of him so that all could see and under stand. Luckily, the adjutant general happened to be out. As the adjutant generals pay is held up by the auditor, it is not certain just what the adjutant general would have done under such circumstances.
 Wearied of all the attention that he safc r,d nf a rar mi and then, Attorney General Wiley E. Jones has dispensed with telephone service a his down town night offices on First avenue and henceforth can be
 reached by phone only at his-daytime offices in the capitol. The attorney
 general says he expects to have peace now, part of the time, particularly from those republicans at the capitol,
 who wise his expenses.
 When the capitol family have any little arguments relative to bets they
 go to the attorney general, if not to the supreme court, and get some advice that counts. J. l.. Sellers and Jimmy Allen, state engineers office, had bet up last week about a name appearing l in The Arizona Republican .In- garam', Sellers being certain to the | extent of s that the name stood for Ingram" of the engineers office, and Allen being certain to the extent Of 50 that it did not. They went to Louis B. Whitney, assistant attorney general. asked for an opinion, and foolishly mentioned that one or the other stood to win s5. Whitney decided in favor of Sellers, under the flaw of "iden sonans", which he quoted right off the bat and a. copious length. and then he charged Sellers s10 for the advice. Allen be- 1;eves that Sellers ought to pay for the advice, but Sellers holds that state employe he is entitled to free service The supreme court may be asked to intervene.
 When Officer Tindell saw negro jump from the window of a grocery store near Five Points early one morn ing last week. he immediately gave chase. Although Tindell has a fairly
 long and sprightly pair of legs. the dusky prowler was hitting on all four" before the officer fully realized what was happening.
 Calls from the officer served only to accentuate the speed of the negro. There was only one chance left to halt the racer. Tindell drew his revolver and fired into the air. The report from
 the revolver brought fellow officer to the scene, but the negro didn't stop.
 You should have shot in the direc- ton of that fellow, so he could nave
 heard the bullet whizizng around his
 ear" advised the newly arrived off
 cer. Why did you shoot into the
 air?'
 Say. I guess I knew what I was
 doing when I shot into the air. re- piled Tindell heatedly. That fellow wasn't running. He was flying. Undersherif Charles Bowers and Clerical Deputies Mitten and Diehl spent a majority of last week telling flu" victims that they had no whisky to give out on prescriptions. Under sheriff Bowers declares that most of the "ill'' ones who apply marked their crosses opposite the dry sign when Arizona abolished liquor, and that they now are attempting to use every pos sible device to get some of the coveted honey and fire mixture.
 Whats the matter?" he asked one l a prflicaut Have yolI got the flu 2"