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Show KESE IS A REAL "COOLER;" The Sinister Lock-up" at Clifton, Ariz., in the Solid Rock. It is strange in this enlightened age to find iu use a dungeon hewn from the solid rm-k after the fashion of the historic f'hitVal drB'if !. But such a place exists. nd h? the UniW States at that. It is the ""ooler" of Clifton. Ariz, t is cut off info t ho rock side of the mountains, a sort on sunshiny days to the rays reach the tw.. cells which compose the jail. The rossbar of the T tunnel is d -'vided into the two cells each 6x12 feet is brought to the prise men, in ob '"fl ua rrit,aftth&at coSntry "e Sping at ihS'afacehotel. After a lmn- apnVrrioou,nU,;h, a ,,HCe a prisoner' re-reT;Xtil re-reT;Xtil n?S 1,k",i' d!me museum re.)- t! ,ilxe of a wild man. weatw f'. the bud conditions, the iftinT.oiH.4,11",1 pVl pt Arizona is almost H tt11'' T?. tUink f a P'1!C n0t talnin 5 f S, HJ1. or;Hnry bathroom eon-UanJ eon-UanJ ?Sl V,Vto fort drunken Mex-J-.rrf;- is often lhe case after pavday. T?eV?,nc ,fHT back into historv. Ho h,:a llcr.ls ,about as queer as "the jail. Ui lhiF,Z1d, v,saSe covered with al-vi,,J al-vi,,J T u e. whiskers, and hair to match, either hair nor whiskers have been cut 2LrnJned for years- In ne l)ast he has duty as a miner, but now he earu ms three meals by keeping the kevs to irLijr?n .d.00r -and hriii&ing food and drink to the prisoners. i Kffi'1 was blasted out of the rock in by the Longfellow Mining company, com-pany, and used by them to put awav the miners when they had partaken of too much firewater. As the town of 'Clifton grew and became be-came more pretentious, a jail was found necessary and the city officials have, with the permission of the mining company, com-pany, made use of the dungeon. San trunciseo Examiner. J |