Arizona republican., 1900-07-13

nied to the train by several of his young friends. among them his cousin I5-
 year-old Emma King. She got on th=
 train and when it started slowly ske
 ran to the platform. but pretended she was afraid to jump off. and so was carried away with the train. There was an immediate suspicion that all this was a part of the play, so that when Mrs. King received a message from her
 daughter yesterday afternoon saying that she was all right her anxiety was
 wholly removed. She will go up to
 Wickenburg today and bring her wan
 dering daughter home again.
 LATEST SNAKE STORY A Pres colt paper contributes the following snake story: A prospect0r who came in from the mountains yesterday ayers that a few days ago while tramping over the hills. tired and thirsty, he saw large hawk bearing a canteen in its
 b5ak light in the top of a tall tree. Thinking that he might get a drink of water, he raised an Outcry which scared the hawk and caused it to drop the canteen. Running up hill to pick up the canteen, the prospector was as tonished to discover that it contain5d q a good sized live snake, which had doubtless crawled into the canteen to escape from the hawk, and the hawk had carried off both the canteen and its contents. Some pr5spector had doubt less thrown away the canteen after he had drunk up all his water or what ever liquid refreshment filled the can teen before tha snake took charge
 PROBATE COURT. After a hear ing in probate court yesterday upon 9 petition for letters of administration upon the estate of Myron s. Webb. the petition was allowed, the bond of the administrator being fixed at Sl,Olg A will was also presented for admission to probate. The will was not known to exist and was discovered in a curious way. It had been deposited among a lot of other papers in the Valley bank for three years. Some time ago a daughter of the tcstatOr Louisa G. Webb. died, leaving a will in which certain piece of property was disp0s- T of. The administrator of the estate discovered that she had no deed to it and a hunt was begun for the resting place of the title. At length a man wh, had witnessed the will was found and then the will itself. It is a very simple document. merely stating that it was the wish of Myron s. Webb that his daughter should have his property. Upon a hearing of the final account Of the administrator of the estate Of Michael Welz. the account was ap- proved and the administrator dis charged. Horace W Stark=y was ap- pointed guardian of Anna Starkey Pierce. A petition was presented to sell real property If the estate of Michael Wormser.
 A BEER DRINKING BOUT. Re corder Jobs held a levee yesterday morning at which the principal guests were Herman Guenther and his wife Emma. and Nicholas Brechtol and his spouse. Maria Gilmore. About Il o'clock the day before Maria made a friendly call on MT. and Mrs. Guenther and a beer drinking bout was insti- tuted. MT. Guenther was busfly en- gagged for two hours in the pursuit of the duck. At l o'clock the bout broke up and the parties adjourned with protestations of love ana r. gard. Later in the day Maria returned to make polite an respectful inquiry. Yer An ner." about a pocketb3ok containing $f.30. Mrs. Guenther had not seen it and then the air b5gan to be filled with fur. Mr Guenther took part in it and about the same time MT. Brecthol came up and made it four handed. The pO- lice interfered and suppressed th= riot for the time. but it almost broke out again in police court. when all the par ties tried to testify at once in Irish and German. Maria cwelt particular ly upon th= dissertation Cf a 'kittle Q beer with which MT. Gu5nther hit her. MT. Guenther was the star wit nsss. He was in a frenzy of excite ment and described a scene of carnage. shotguns, revolvers and knives. He held up his elbow upon which he said Brecthol had thrown him with murder ous intent. l. was sadly abraded. NJ. Guenther k,pt constantly before the court. tapping it with his fingers. eX- claiming. "Is dot noting? Mein Gott, shudge. look at dot Is lot n5ting?" They were all fined $4 apiece.
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