Arizona republican., 1899-09-01

thing desperate, and he selected a de-
! fenseless girl as his victim. There are
instances where the law is entirely too
slow in Furnishing crime, and this is
certainly one of them. It is surpris-
| ing that the peop.e o. Springarville did
| not take the law in their own hands
and visit swift and awful punishment
| upon the inhuman wretch. in doing
which they were t5uly warranted"
Mr.. Antonio Gonzales IS in from
: Gonzales lakes Cformerly called La
gunas Largas). He reports rapid
progress in a worthy enterprise. He
and his sen and -father-in-iaw have
constructed n dam 25O yards long and
/ ten feet high at the center, and have
caught during the recent rains three
0 feet OF wafer which covers an area of
sixty acres. They expect to treble
THIS depth and that will of course
spread over n much larger AREA. This
reservoir is only twelve miles from
American Valley reservoir and is
! twelve miles from the Arizona line,
; IN SOrOccO county, n. NJ There are
many places all over the country where
small investments would sore suffi-
cier.- water to fITigate good farms. and
others would do we'll to follow Mr.
/ Gonzales example. There are also Ic-
cations where larger investments Of
capital or federal al would store vast
amounts Of water and render fertile
enough land 70 cause towns to sD-Ing
up and flourish like green bay trees
St. Johns Herald.
Tuesday evening 4 man r,,med Fl.
Darrah was captured as he was getting
out Gf Hooker & McFarland's cellar,
which ne had entered fer the purpose
of stealing liquor, AMI lodged in Jail.
The next day he was taken before
Judge Barton for trial. The judge
found HIM guilty and he'd him to ap-
pear before the grand jury under $500
copds. Tue51ay morning Hooker q
Mcfarland noticed that their cellar
had been entered through a hoe IN the
wall between it and Clark5 building,
and number of bottles CT liquor sto-
len They put jim Harrison in the
cellar that night to keep watch. About
II O'Clock Jim sew the form of man
er'er the place through She hole in the
wall Cooking his six-shooter. he COM
manded him to halt Tire man made a
break to escape, when Harrison fired
at him. The ball struck the ceiling.
passing through into the bar room
near the rOulette wheel The crowd
inside scattered, while Elmer McFar-
land ran outside to head the man off
wien he came from under Clark's
place. The fellow ran iE,so Elmsr's
arms and WAS captured.-Jerome Hust-
Ter.
A telegram was received this after
noon at the shertff's Office from Dis
trio Attorney R. NJ. Ling. says the
Journal-Miner stating that he had
stopped off at Flagstaff today and
showed a photograph of the New Mex
leo train r0bber who is supposed to be
the Camp Verde murderer. to the two
men who are in Jail in Flagstaff
charged with being complicated in the
murder Of Wingfield AID Rodgers.
named Lee Cutw1Tth and John Gamer
on, and they positively identity the
photograph to be that of Bishop. This
tlghtens the chain very clGseiy ubout
the prisoner held IN Santa Fe, and
helps to identify him as .he murderer
our officers SO much desire IF it be
comes necessary Captain Boyd will go
to Santa Fe tor this purpose. Captain
Boyd says he IS positive he can i'd nti-
~ the man who committed the murder
any place on earth. The governor CT
New Mexico has refused tc surrender
the wounded train roibber, on she
ground, it is alleged, that he has con-
fessed that he is the notorious Black
Jack. However, nothing will be lett
undone by our officers to clear up the
mystery, and if possible bring the
gULIty party or parties 80 justice
James n. Bethune has the following
communication in the Prescott CouF-
ier: ''The writer has just returned
with quite a party of ladies and gentle
men from trip to the Grand canyon
and writes this to warn nil intending
visitors there against the extcrtion of
the man, Pee Berry, by name, who
has the monopoly CT the trail from the
blink of the canyon to the river A
party Of six Or eight Of us agreed with
him for the hire of two h0rs5s at So so
each and guide at So; he at the time
distinctly stating that no charge for
toll of those on foot would be made, !
But when we came to settle with him.
he repudfated his bargain with US and
refused to accept the sender Of the
amount agreed uon, and demanded s.
IN addition. When the stages COLI
tanning our party and another party of
visitors were about to leave the hotel
the next morning on our return trip !
TINS IeIlow made his appearance with |
a revolver most ostentati0usly dis /
played and declared that neither stage
shcufd leave until his outrageous de- |
mend that we pay him 81 more than
We cwed him be complied with, and, |
to say, the drivers Of both the |
stages held them at a stendstin at his |
command After much CONSERVATION |
among the ladies Of the party, and en- !
their account, we submitted under pro-
test 20 the hO.d-up with tire best grace |
we could, and got permission to leave. |
We have nothing but commeRdation |
and praise for the management of the |
hotel ct the canyon and it's genial and !
proprietor. but we
most seriously protest against the |
h0id-Cp by the trail man,
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