Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1904-08-10
to Prescott again and take up his position in this office.

to Prescott again and take up his position in this office.
 Judge R. E. Sloan, after carefully considering the habeas corpus case of J. H. Darrah, ordered his discharge from custody. Darrah had been held under S1, 500 bonds to appear before the grand jury on a charge of attempt ing to leave the county to defTaud his creditors The particular act alleged was the sale of the Fashion livery | stable on which there was a mortgage, and the non- payment of the balance due on a note on which F. B. Andrews was an endorser. J. NJ. Watts, clerk of the district court, left Saturday for visit to his old home at Delphi, Indiana, and l other places. He will be absent about | month and will visit the great ex- position at St. Louis on his return trip, when Mrs. Watts, who has been at Delphi for some time, having been called there by the death of her | father, will be with him. Major Watts | has been almost constantly at his ! desk in the court house for the past | seven years and has well earned his vacation.
 While we are pleased to chronicle the much needed rains in the stock i range districts, so far as Yuma is con- cerned no rain is neededsor desired not here. The conditions are much | more pleasant when the atmosphere is as dry as a powder horn. When the mercury is the highest and the air the dryest, then is when the nights are cool and the days even more endur- able than they are in the north. | Here's where everybody sleeps good and feels good. As an old timer re- marks. "T'ell with your rain; we've i get the Colorado river; what more do we t?"-Yuma Sun.
 Bold bandits are said to be operat
 ing in the vicinity of Groom creek. Gus Swanson reported to the sheriff's office that he had been held up on Saturday by two men and robbed of 5148, while riding along the trail be- tween Maxton and Walker. While hIs clothing showed several knife cuts there was not a scratch on him but his horse had cut on its shoulder about a foot in length which had to be sewed up. On Sunday, Jos Fulks, young man recently from the east, here took ride out to Groom creek and thence over to Walker and reports that he was intercepted on the trail by two men and commanded to throw up his hands. Instead of doing so he put spurs to his horse starting him off on a gaIlop. He says that he rode between the meu and as he passed them he struck one of the men with his fist. Just after passing them shot was fired, but neither he nor the horse was hit. The sheriff went out on Sunday to investigate the Swanson hold up.
 In the last issue of the Journal Miner the announcement was made on
 information given out by the railroad company that the Santa Fe track had been repaired in CroZier canyon and that Santa Fe trains instead of being detoured over the $. F. P. & P. rail
 road would run direct over their own tracks. At the time the information
 was given out it was correct, bat the Santa Fe company had not counted on additional washouts. Before their west bound trains on Wednesday had passed through Ash Fork an other cloudburst occurred, dam aging the track considerably and preventing the passage of trains and traffic was again diverted via Prescott and Phoenix. Repairs were again completed and trains were expected to be run over the main line on Thurs day but another food struck it on Wednesday night causing more delays and the first west bound train to pass over the road after Saturday, July 30. was on Friday, August ,. The last east bound train to cume via Prescott was on Saturday August 6.