Arizona republican., 1904-08-11

EARLY MORNING ARREST-W. T. Lunt was arrested early yesterday morning for being drunk and disor- derly. He gave 5000 bail which was forfAited bv non apearance in court.
 HERMANN GUENTHERS BURIAL The remains of Hermann Guenther the aged gunsmith who died Tuesday do not occupy a place in the potters field. His two sons, who reside al San Diego, Cal, telegraphed $1O.OO with which their father was given burial in the Loosely cemetery yesterday.
 JUST LIKE FINDING lT-Night be- fore last w. P. Doweu of 15 West Washington street found a sum of money at the park. If the owner of 1t will call at Mir. Dowelrs place of busi- ness today between the hours of Il and 12 and prove himself to be the owner and pay for this notice he may have his lost wealth.
 THE BONANZA STRlKE-The Re publican a few days ago announced rich strike in the Bonanza. There have really been several good strikes in that rich old mine lately but the last is the biggest of all. Persons who came in from the HarQua Hllas yesterday said that a great deal of ore from the new eighteen inch ledge of fabulous value had already been taken ont and piled up awaiting reduction.
 THE HEAT OF YESTERDAY-A great many persons were willing to swear that yesterday was the banner day of the season for heat. It was perhaps as uncomfortable as any of the hr,t ha one degree higher than on the day be- fore and five degrees less than the re- cord for the year. There was a fall of ten per cent in humidity from forty two of the day before but thirty-two per cent is much higher than when the theremon1eter registered 112 earlier in the season.
 NEW ATIONS-Articles of the following corporations were filed in the office of the county recorder yester- day: Cuban Land and Development company, capital stock, $10,000,000 in corporators H. Rickel, E. R. Moore anu H. Bennett; Coapa Development com pany, capital stock, S5O.OOO, incorpora- tors N. W. Seager. J. w. Wheeler and w. R. Heacock; Texas Kentucky Oil company, capital stock, S1,OO0,O0O, in corporators ". B. Skirvan and M. $. Waller; The Knickerbocker Syndicate, capital stock, S1,OOO,OO0, intorporatofs c. A. Bates, M. Kastriner and L. $. Welton.
 A MINERS INCH-A great many people would hardly consider it a piece of news in a mining and irrigating country to publish a definition of what is known as a miners inch of water. Yet it is not likely that one man in fifty in this town knows or could tell anyone else, though the measurement of water is something that concerns nearly every property owner or Ieaser of agricultural lands, beside a large proportion of the employees of property owners. The explanation of a miners inch has been frequently published and it is recorded in various reference books and cyclopaedias, yet within the week three or four men have applied at this office for the information. For merly the miners inch was a varying standard, different in California, Ari- zon1 and Colorado, but in recent years this unit of measurement has been made uniform. In quantity a miners inch is one fortieth of a cubic foot of water passing through an aperture in one second. In the California statutes it is described as one and one half cubic feet of water passing in one minute which is exactly the same thing. The condition for securing an inch of water according to local GUS tom of measurement, would be, theor- etically, the passing of water through an aperture one inch square, under pressure of five inch head; that is with the water behind the gate five inches deep above the aperture. But practically hardly miners inch would pass through such an aperture with that pressure, or in other words through an aperture one inch by