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Show 00 TUCSON NOT A WILD WEST TOWN Salt Lake. Jan. 15 Mrs. H. L. Bec-mer Bec-mer and her sister, Mrs K. B. IloV man, both former Salt Lake women, now residents of Tucson, Ariz., who have been In the city for several days in connection with the burial of Mr. Bcenier in Mt. Olivet cemetery, lelt 1 last night for the Arizona city. Mr Beemer, who had been an employe oi the Utah Fuel company, having been employed at various camps of that concern, was a victim of tuberculosis and died in Tucson recently after a Stay there of a month on the orders I ol his doctor Mrs. Hob-man. who was in the office of-fice of the Union Pacific here ten years ago as a stenographer, and who. 1 with her husband, in charge of car distribution for the Southern Pacif 5c at Tucson-, has lived there ihree years, said yesterday at the offices, of the Union Pacific: "The policy of retrenchment ot j the Harrlman road seems to be gen- eral. Down in Tucson they recently abolished the position of claim clerk, and something like two score of employes em-ployes have been let out of the serv ice there, while In the headquarters of the road, the Plood building, in San Francisco, more than 250 clerks have been lately discharged for th: same reason. Tucson is a passenger and froight division on the Southern Pacific, and the most important point between Los Angeles and El Paso It has a population of about 2:5,000 now, and has changed from the old day 3 of the rough-and-ready style appre ciably In the las, few years. There 8 no gambling, hasn't been for several sev-eral years, and the saloons no longer run all night, as they used to do. ' In fact, the total absence of the former border element is noticeable to a great extent, one reason, ot course, being that the place Is a typical typ-ical "lungers' town," which has undoubtedly un-doubtedly had the effect of militating against the old order of things. It is just as quiet now as any eastern city of the same size." 00 |