Arizona republican., 1895-07-23

counts ne was resting easy.
 Dr. F. Childs will lecture at the Salvation Army tent next Thursday on the evil effects of drinking. Most of US know the effects the morning after drinking and it will be unneces sary for the doctor to awaken memories of a night over the flowing bowl.
 A balloon ascension and parachute jump was advertised to take place at the park Sunday afternoon and good crowd was present to witness the feat. The exhibition would doubtless have come off, but the weather was not pro- pitious and the ascension was post poned until next Sunday.
 The farmers of the Giia valley are happy, for the Florence canal is run. ming bank full of water and no scarcity of the fluid is now looked for, as abun- dance of rain is reported from the head waters of the Gila and San Pedro rivers. The water came none too soon, for vegetation was about dying for want of irrigation.
 Claude T. Adams received telegram on Sunday from J. \. Zeigenfuss at Oakland, Cal, announcing the death of his little daughter Josephine. The cause of death was meningitis. The little girl was nine years of age. With her mother and sister she had been visiting at Oak land, their former home. for the last two months.
 E. F. Kellner returned Sunday morn- ing from Washington. He left Sunday evening for Los Angeles with his daugh- ters. Misses Willie and Frankie Kell- ner, where they will attend school for a year. Upon his return he will send his wife and youngest son to Europe for awhile and he will make his stay in Globe for few months.
 Writ of hsbeas corpus proceedings were instituted yesterday afternoon by Attorney J. 0. Kellum at the instance of J. W. Finnison, who was sentenced to serve twenty days in the county iail by Justice J. W. Allen of Frog Tanks, for assaulting R. Toohey. It is alleged that the commitment papers in the case were faulty. At the request of Acting District Attorney Bennett, Court Commissioner Jordan continued the hearing of the case until Thursday.
 Will Cox and family, Misses Annie Behrens and Jennie Beard returned Sunday evening from Camp Greek where they had been enjoying a short vacation. The had splendid time and the trip will be especially rememb bered by Misses Beard and Ora Cox for they had an adventure that nearly cost them their lives. One day last week the two young ladies went bathing in the Verde river and got into water considerably over their heads. They were rescued just as they were sinking for the last i time.
 Sunday evaning was cool and de- lightful and if there had been a moon to Illuminate the city it would be just lovely for bicycle riding. Henry Low. ell thought so whether there was moon or not and he endeavored tc lower the coast record by making 8 spurt on Center street. As result the record is not broken, but his wheel .s for be simply miscalculated the loca ton of bridge and made hole in the waters of the canal. He walked back to town with broken wheel and wet suit of clothes, but then they are trifiing incidents to cyclist.
 Lucas Lerma was tried yesterday i1 Justice Johnstone's court on charge O aggravated assault charging him with chewing the ear of another Mexican and at the same time trying to sever his jugular. On ex animation of Lerma he stated tha when he was intoxicated he had an inordinate desire to emulate canni bal by eating flesh and that when any body quarreled with him he alway. tried to sample the nasal organ or sr ear of his opponent. The justice i'm posed very light sentence and for the next six months Lerma will have ar opportunity of sampling flesh from the anatomy of his fellow prisoners in the county jail.