Arizona republican., 1904-07-26

1 During the flood in Salt river they ran
 up the stream, or down it, deponent don't know which, and when the water suddenly receded all the little potholes tanks and sWampy places in the sand ! above the dam, were left full of fish 1 who had no way Of swimming out. | Many died as the waters dried up l around them but many more were
 found still alive and the fish harvest
 CTS got all they could eat and many
 more to feed the chickens. They were mostly carp and hump hacks but oc- casionauy Q eat fish was found among
 them.
 ACQUISITION HoNo7EO-Acting l Governor Nichols yesterday honored q requisition from the state Of Kansas
 for the return to that s.ate or John L. Carter the. story of whose arrest on a charge of embezzlement commit Ited six years ago in Linn county, Kan sas was printed in the RpGblican yes | terday morning Sheriff F. <. Pres
 ton of Linn county left this morning with his prisoner The old man was badly broken up the more he thought | of the disgrace he would have to face on his return. Sheriff Preston be- 1 lieves he is one Of the most fortunate of officers. His capture of Carter was | like getting money from home. The | old man hld returned just in time to be arrested.
 WATERMELON DAY-The ladies of the Critten;on home circle will give watermelon day on Thursday, July | 2S. in the vacant store room next door to the second hand store of Spears & Wattawa. Ice cold watermelons will | be served. All you can eat for 10 | cents and rell genuine, iced lemonade at 5c a big glass. The Florence Crit Itenton home is a charitable institution and it's doors are always open to un> fortunate destitute women. The eX- ! penses are maintained by the charit- able people of Phoenix. During the ! summer time particularly it is hard to get money enough to pay expenses. ! owing to so many being away. For Ithis reason the circle asks for q liberal patronage.
 RETURN OF PROF. MATTHEWS President 4. J. Matthews of the Tempe normal school returned this morning to Phoenix after a six weeks
 visit to St Louis He was the dele gate from Arizona to the National ! Educational association and after at tending the meetings Of that body he took in the democratic convention. He reports that the two days and nights he spent there were the most exciting of his life and that it seemed as
 though in the excitement every dele
 gate there had lost his self control Next he in company with Carl T.
 Hayden, mother and sisters, Chas. A.
 Staufrer and Guss Noll which com
 posed the Arizona colony started out
 Ito take in the fair. President Ma
 thews says that while all were good on
 the sight seeing and considered them
 selvs good walkers and Charlie StIuffe-
 beat them to a finish and still kept l going. returning at night after all had
 retired and being the first one out in
 the morning While the fair was a
 marvel to them alL it was too big and
 they had to come away after having
 seen only a very small part of it. PLAIN CASES-Ye est er6ay morning
 James Burson repoT.e1 to Officer r Moore that when he went to the resi- dence Of a young man named Nerdugc on South Second avenue, to employ D ] Lall LD co@-St III ei JOD OA p--oLE- Aa4 5
 VerdugO was absent but he noticed or a finger of Verdugo's sister, a good gold ring. The ring, Mir. Bursou said was his property and he had lost ! from the pocket of his pants that werj z temporarily hung on a wall where n,
 had previously done a job of plaster ing in which VerduSo helpd him. Tn officer accompanied MT. Burson bacl to the house and asked the youn;
 woman where she got the ring. Sh, l said she had bought it of a woman l that was peddling jewelry, but tha I if 1t belonged to Mr. BurSon she woul,
 gladly give it up. and did 90. A littl
 later Q local bicycle dealer called tn
 officers attention to q bicycle a Mexi
 can had offered for sale for three dol
 lars and that the dealer had recogniz a ed as belonging to Harry Troops. Tn f officer sought the domfcile of the Mex , 1 ican and his wife told him that he r husband had found the wheel in tn f brush below their house in the Mont n gomery addition. Both cases Her ? circumstantially perfect but it va plain that after the property had bee
 restored nothing could be done an
 the officer proceeded to do nothing.