Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1904-08-24

A letter was received from County , Assessor Frank Luke, who is at Lot
 Angeles, saying that bis brother John who submitted to a surgical operation } there, was improving rapidly and that
 he would be able to be about within ten days. The disorder requiring. the operation was rupture with which
 he bad been tro bled for great many
 years. A curious thing about it i:
 that though the Luke brothers have
 been almost constantly together foI
 several years the county assessor knew
 nothing of his brothers affliction
 until recently. y.-Republican.
 The announcement of Joseph 1.
 Roberts appears in this issue as 8
 candidate for sheriff, subject to the
 action of the republican convention.
 MT. Roberts was one of two repu blican
 candidates elected at the last election,
 and as he has performed the duties of his office in a faithful, conscientious manner and as there seems to be an
 unwritten law in this county that an
 official who does this is entitled to reelection, MT. Roberts enters, the campaign under favorable auspices.
 With the present feeling which exists throughout the county the prospect for the success of the republican ticket at the polls was never better.
 The biggest flood ever known in the history of Silver City, N. M., and one which did great damage on Sunday night was the result of cloudburst in the mountains above that city. No lives were lost, but many narrow escapes were had and fifty homes were completely washed away. As the food came early in the evening every one was warned in time to esC ape. The Santa Fe railroad was washed out in many places and seven bridges are out between Silver City and White water. An arroya twenty feet deep and hundred feet wide runs through the town and this was overfiowed. Goods were damaged in many stores.
 Mrs. Joe Ray, of Groom Creek, at tempted to commit suicide last Thurs day evening by shooting herself with a revolver during the absence of her husband. The motive which prompted her to the deed is not definitely known. She placed the muzzle of the gun to her right temple but instead of passing directly through her head the bullet was deflected towards the front of her head and passed back of the right eye destroying it entirely and lodging beneath the left eye. She was brought to Mercy hospital where the bullet was removed. The wound is very dangerous one and may yet result in the accomplishment of the end intended by her.
 The story told by the Tucson Star, of Thomas Grindell's trip to Tiburon, differs very materially from the hair raising story published in the Exam iner and is tame in comparison to it. Accor ling to the Star. MT. Grindell reports the Seri Indians, who jnhabit Tiburon, to be a very inferior race and perfectly harmless. If they have fish and corn they are we'll satisfied. There are about thirty of these h. dians on the Island of Tiburon, whose sole occupation is that of fishing. Their only dumesticated animal, ac- cording to Mir. Grindell, is the mud turtle. The island, he says, is a desolate waste of .sann and rock with little or no vegetation and no evidence of mineral, notwithstanding the exag- gerated reports to the contrary. The tales told of the richness of the island are absolutely false. The west coast has been extremely dry until the past two weeks when ample rains have fallen.
 First class job work at the Journal , Miner office.