Arizona republican., 1902-04-04
NEWS OF THE N, N Q R T H
PRESCOTT

lins. a reputable attorney, figured as | the leading man, and a very unwilling | one. Collins was coming down the | street at his usual swift gait, commun- ing with himself, when something struck him in the ear. It began to dig into his ear with such good success it was soon out of sight, but not out of hearing. Leaping ten feet into the air. Collins hit the ground running and bolted across the street and ran into |. house. Throwing his arms frantically about his head he told the lady that a crow was in his ear and asked her, for the love of God, to gouge it out The lady had nothing at hand except q hairpin and proceeded to dig into the supposed crow with that weapon. Every time she jabbed the thing it went deeper, and Collins yelled the louder. The good woman dropped the hairpin and picked up a butcher knife to continue her researches. That was too much fer poor Collins. Jumping through the open door he took a shoot for the nearest doctors office. and was hitting only the highest places when the "crow" serenely backed out of his erstwhile home and flew away. Col lins stopped and gazed at the departing bug, which was about the size of a red ant, in utter amazement. He was heard to remark as it flew up into the air. I'll be - if that isn't the big gest little bug I ever saw"
 The people of the Verde valley, real izing the value of good land. well wa tered, have started putting in water wheels to raise water to hitherto un- productive land. w. w. Nichols start ed the movement by giving a contract to C. s. Smith and Harry Marshan, two carpenters. or Jerome, to put in a six teen-foot water wheel on his place The wheel worked to perfection. raising thirty inches of water nine feet. Peter and A. M. Strahan, two successful ranchers, followed suit by having Q wheel built thirty feet in diameter. This mammoth wheel cost them $4O0. but it raised sixty inches of water to a i height of sixteen feet. They are now enab bled to irrigate a large tract of splendid land. The reclaimed field will be put out to apple trees right away. A man was drowned in the Nichols wheel shortly after it was completed. In trying to rescue his nat. which | blew into the ditch above the wheel, the unfortunate fellow fell against the revolving wheel and was pulled be- meath it. When found he was lyin:; in about eighteen inches of water, flat on his back, with one paddle pressing against his stomach, and another against his neck.
 Other ranchers will soon put in wheels to raise water to high ground.
 Henry Ewing. the well known ex- pert on 'Indianology," is in town from Kingman as interpreter of the Indian | language. He is also mining exper, and assayer.
 P. T. Hurley. the butcher, was ir town yesterday, returning to Phoenix yesterday morning. MT. Hurley owns a shop in Jerome and was there several days.
 Coy Carey vas in town today from his station on Turkey creek and was somewhat excited over an assay he had just received from Barnkart. The ore assayed was from a large ledge he has recently located and carries over s3t in silver and lead.
 Miss Grace Oldham was elected to fiji the position of manager of the frec reading room in place ot Miss Wilson who resigned to accept the seat ol honor in the Groom creek school
 congress and reports 300 men at work for the Congress company, against which strike has been declared Most of tht men are Mexicans. The mill is running
 full blast. A union of fifty men wa:
 formed at Groom creek yesterday ana
 one will be formed at Octave at once
 April 2.-Another homicide has beer
 added to the long list that stains tht
 good name of Prescott. Iris time tn,
 man killed was a painter. J. R. Ward
 who had but recently arrived in town
 The killing took place in a saloon il
 the rear of the Fisher building. Tn,
 facts are as follows: Yesterday after
 noon the deceased and several Next
 cans were drinking mere than wa.
 good for them, in the saloon run b,
 Ramon CordoVa. During the after
 noon a TOW started between Ward anC Mexican giving his name as Simol
 Aldarata. The combatants were sep
 arated before any damage was done tc
 either but they got together again il
 short time. Eye witnesses state tha
 ill the final row, in which Ward Wa
 slain. Aldarata was standing agains
 the end of the bar when he was ap
 preached by Ward. The former pro
 ceeded to pull gun of the bulldog pat
 tern, and began firing at the approach ing man. When the crowd arrived ol the scene, attracted by the firing, the, found Ward lying on the floor of tk,
 saloon, Weltering in his own blood. Th bullet that killed him entered the lief side and probably injured the spina
 column. An examination showed tha the man. besides having been shot wa battered by some dull instrument
 which might have been gun or coul,
 have been a hamme" or an ice pick In the dead mans pocket was found card with the following upon it: "Fo
 signs, employ J. R. Ward. Residence United States. The homeless sgi writer; survivor Of the war witt
 Spain." There was no weapon foun.
 upon or about the body. save a smal
 pocket knife. Justice Cornell held al inquest on the remains. The verdic was that the deceased met his deatl from the effects of a pistol shot, firet l by Aldarata with criminal intent. Tn
 murderer will be given a preliminar, hearing this afternoon
 l D. D. MCDONALD.