Field Notebook: California, Oregon, Washington, Texas, British Columbia 1926, 1927
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"sement Standpoint'. The 1927 rituation of 'Wolfville' will be held on February 17 to the 23d, and it'll be better bigger and grander in every way than last year's fa- mous show," he said. The fourwing members of the tades council acting as an executive committee will have entire charge of the project: J. W. Hop- ins, chairman; W. C. Milsap, Fred teger, Harry DeFord, Tom On- cott and L. E. Brewer. In the Legislature PHOENIX, Ariz., Jan. 15 (P).-- The ease with which Mulford Win- or of Yuma wields the gavel as resident of the senate, aided and batted by caustic repartee, reminids the old-timers in the press allery of Speaker Tom Reed in the ational house of representatives ome 30 years ago. A southern congressman, replete with rhetoric but short on logic, ose to a point of order, charging that he had been accused of being "lobbyist, filibusterer and law- er." Reed remarked, dryly: "We will roll the last charge." Major Kelly, state historian; Billy Spear, editor of the Arizona Republican, and Ned Creighton, ean of the active reporters, daily cupy the press galleries of the legislature. Never has a legisla- ture met without the presence of his official trio. Major Kelly in- stincts he comes in only as an on- ooker and that he is "through" as hrunicle of current events. Mr. Spear takes copious notes and ap- pers as intensely interested as the regular reporters. Ned Creigh- on daily dispenses legislative longings to the press of the state. Bob Caples, 69-year-old reporter, citizen of the world and, in his own words, a connecting link between the dim past and the present, is daily on the job in the press gal- ery for a Miami newspaper. Bob shows the activity of a Cub re- porter and the enthusiasm of youth in his daily ramble for news. Forty- ive years ago Bob was editor of a newspaper in Tucson, and he re- calls with gusto that only through revenues from saloon and gambling ouse advertisements was the pa- per able to meet the Saturday payroll. Wood Sutter's sense of humor often is exhibited on the floor of the senate. A senator had arisen several times, and in emphasizing his objections to a bill, had repeat- ed himself so often that he had at- tracted the attention of every one in the chamber-a signal ac- complishment. The senator from Cochise very formally addressed the chair and asked permission to address a question to his colleague who had the floor at the moment. "Is the senator starting a new speech or he continuing the first speech he started?" Sutter asked with his best seriousness. VACANT HOUSE IS DAMAGED IN FIRE A small fire in a vacant house called the fire department to the corner of Church and Franklin street early yesterday morning, and the blaze was extinguished before any serious damage re- sulted. Yesterday afternoon the depart- ment answered an alarm turned in from North Main street, only to find out that it was a false alarm, thought to have been turned in by boys playing in the neighborhood. Police officers were unable to check exactly who wa