Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1908 — John W. Walker Passes Through El Paso en Route East to Spend Some of His Coin. [ARTICLE]

John W. Walker Passes Through El Paso en Route East to Spend Some of His Coin.

El Paw Herald: John W. Wslkeif, official court stenographer for United States court sitting at Tombstone, Arizona; chief criminal photographer for the county Cochise; Elk. Shriner. Chief He Goat in the Tombstone Herd of Lymphatic Liars, and everything else wegt of the whetstones that are not nailed down, is at the Sheldon today on his way to Chicago, Illinois, to rub off some of the Arizona alkali and get iMa, a suit of store bought clothes and a boiled shirt once more. —tech year thn prirln of thg peanut politicians in Cochise county A. T., grabs the brass rail of a varnished car and goes back to the village on the inland fake and proceeds to separate hiiqself from the hard earned at the rate of two bits a throw, American money. He does everything from the stock yards to the steamer and if he misses anything on the way it is because it has not taken on a tangible form, for the way he soaks np things to tell the “fellers back at Tombstone” would make Sherloct Billy Smith green with envy. Mr. Walker is a prominent member of the National Stenographic association and is considered one of the fastest and most accurate stenographers in the west. He has a record of taking tne evidence and breparing the transcripts in all of the mining litigatiou of the Warren district during the past tiv»years. While acting in the capacity of the stenographer tor the second judicial district, of the United States court, he has been connected with a number of cases of the national importance, including the famous William Randolph Hearst case. The United States government has retained Mr. Walker to act as the official government stenographer during the trial of the Mexican revolutionists that were c ptured iu Los Angeles ami to be tried In the Cochise county court dnriujf Jhe April teiw.