Arizona republican., 1904-12-27
TIE NIImRFR OF sPOoLs.-The


 THE NUMBER OF sPOoLs.-The pile of kodak spools at F. L. An drews & Son on which people nave been calculating for some time was counted yesterday. There were 3lbl. Mrs. s. F. King was the fortunate timator. it having been her fixed opin- ion that there were just 320O- GuesseS ranged from 300 to 75.000.
 BRIEF VISIT.-R. Toohey is here from Jerome to spend a few days with his family. Mr. Toohey has been en- gaged for some months in freighting between Jerome and the Equator mine taking coke to the Equator, or Iron King shelter, and on return trips hauling the smelter product to the Tinted Verde works for refinement.
 A COLORADO VISlTOR.-Mr. Charles B. Ward. a prominent attor- ney of Boulder, COlo is in the clty' spending the holidays with his wife and daughter who came here some lime for the health of the former and who are stopping at the residence of Mir. and Mrs. Beverly Cox. MT Ward is a very prominent member ot the Flks. having recently retired from the office of district deputy for Colorado.
 A PICNIC PARTY.-A party of young ladies and gentlemen of PhoenlX mt in 2 very pleasant Christmas on Sunday. They organized a picnic and an excursion combined. They visited the Hole-in the Rock, the Pima Indian reservation and attended services at the reservation church. There was a delicious lunch which had been pre- pared by the ladies of the party and It was thoroughly enjoyed. On the re- turn the psrty came back by way or Camelback. The members of the par ty were Misses Zela Avis, Sallie Peery and Willie Osborn; Messrs. Clarence Classcock, Ross Michael and Charles Ice.
 COLLECTION OF TAXEs-The figures showing the total collection of taxes for county and territorial pur- poses were made up yesterday at the office of the county treasurer. The whole amount is S205, ,6S0.24. the larg- est on record. The delinquent list foots up S24, ,S66.76. the smallest in re- cent years. All this has come about in spite of the talk about hard times which were supposed to have been more ''corky'' this season than at any time within the past ten years. The delinouent list will be found to be still lower than it appears for the deduc- tions for widows exemptions have not yet teen made.
 FULTON BROUGHT BACK-Dep- uty Sheriff Duncan came in yesterday morning with Harry Fulton, who had been arrested at Maricopa the day De- fore for stealing a watch from Mrs NJ J. Dobbs, by whom he had been employed as a cook. Fulton will De arraigned before Justice Burnett tJ- day He denies that he committed the crime complained of and as the watch has not been found and as no one saw him take it, it might be lithcujt to connect him with the missing proper ty He had been suspected from che beginning on account of the suspicious manner in which he left the hotel But suspicion served only to cause inquiry about his movements and it was found that he had tried to pawn the watch A man identified him in jail yes teTday morning. Fulton was also known here by the names of Long, Lang and a few more.
 WOMAN BEATER PUNISHED An alleged man named Jesus BUsta- mente has becn living for a year or so with a woman named RefugiO Gradil- las, in the .5--c- part of the city. Christmas night he went to their house and called the woman out in an al- ley where he assaulted her very bru- tally. Her cries attracted the atten- tion of others, who informed the po- lice. By the time they arrived the man had gone but the woman said she wanted to make a complaint against him so she accompanied an of ncer up town to get Q warrant. When they returned to the house they found that Bustamente had been there dur tIa.ai..