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Show YOUNGEST PEACB OFFICER, of m tlao. The youngest pear officer In tha United Rtatea Uvea at Congreaa. He la Richard Iloscha, 14 year old, the aon of Deputy Sheriff Pete Iloacha, who baa been a deputy sheriff under all administrations ad-ministrations In Yavapai county for twenty years a fearless and efficient officer. Hlrhard iloscha Is small for boy of 14. lie baa block hair and eyes and look ot great Intelligence. He cams to Phoenix recently, bringing tha 16-year-old aon of a county official who had become Infatuated with tha Coon-town Coon-town 400 and ran away with It Young Bosch waa asked It tha young man was glad to go back. "No," ba said, "ha didn't want to come, but there was no way out of It for him." Another Anoth-er boy, the stepson of a well-known resident ot Phoenix, also ran away with tha ahow. He waa wltb It at Congreaa, Con-greaa, but has not been apprehended. Tha boys were to get II a day and board. Their part In the performance waa assistant in tha erection of the tent. The next atopplng place after congreaa the boy understood to ba waa Denver. There was to be five day of nothing to do but eat and draw salaries. sal-aries. In consequence, they dealred to remain with the ahow a few days, anyhow. any-how. Young Mr. Iloicha flrat cam In. to prominence about a year ago by the arrest of a Mexican for whom tha oncers on-cers bad been looking for lorna time. He and another Mexican bad fought a. duel Intended to be deadly, for the favor fa-vor of a aenorlta. One of them waa wounded, and the other left the country. coun-try. Bom months afterward thla lit-tie lit-tie boy, then only 13 years old, found the duelist, and at the point of a gun took aim Into camp. Arizona Republican. |
