Arizona republican., 1905-03-13
NEWS FROn THE BASIN
The Thrilling Rescue of a Barrel of
 Whiskey.

Livingstone, March S.-(Special cor respondence of The Republican.) An accident which almost deprived the in habitants of Cline, Ariz., of all their good whisky, occurred at Roosevelt on the 7th instant. Geo. Cline who runs a saloon at that point, attempted to
 take a barrel of whisky across the river at Roosevelt, which he had just brought from Globe. The barrel was
 fastened to a pack mule. while Cline
 rode on behind. When nearly across
 the barrel broke loose from it's fasten- ings, and went sailing down the stream.
 Cline on seeing his property sail off
 swan after 1t, and managed to get on top of the barrel, but seeing that his
 life was in danger. and that he could
 in no way save the firewater, he let go
 his hold and managed to get to the shore. The whisky was beached at
 Thompson's camp, some nine miles
 down the river. MT. Cline thought so
 much of his property that he offered S2O for its recapture.
 After several days of clear weather 1t has again started to rain, and the river is on another rise. Heavy rains around Globe and vicinity have again caused the Gila Valley & Northern railroad to go out of business. The smelter of the Old Dominion has shut down and all the miners have been put to work on the railroad in order to get Globe in communication with the rest of the world. Mail is being transferred from Ft. Thomas to Globe by wagon, the first for several days coming through today.
 All roads in Tonto Basin and vicin- ity are in awful condition, and very ' teams hauling heavy supplies to the
 dam from Globe can make only five
 miles a day under the most favorable conditions.
 The office force at Livingstone will
 shortly be removed to Roosevelt. The change will be made by April 1st, at
 which time 1t is estimated that the new office building will be completed The Globe baseball team were guests
 of the survey at Livingstone on Sun day, March ,, a team composed of
 members of both the Livingstone and Roosevelt teams being their opponents. The Globe team was composed of many
 good players and were equipped with
 bright colored uniforms, and as one
 native said, they even had spikes in their shoes, but they were not one.
 two, three when it came down to play ing ball with the survey aggregation. One seldom sees a game among anna teurs free from errors. The locals got but two and the Globe boys three. The survey aggreg gation certainly did not look like a bunch of ball tossers,
 some playing in the kahlxi uniform of the survey, some in Levi Strauss over7
 alls, and some in corduroy trousers,
 but they knew the game, and went out
 to win from the very first call by the
 umpire to play ball.
 Peterson and Griffin pitched for the
 survey, and Burch did the twirling for Globe. He was not himself, being a trife sick from the long trip to Liv- ingstone, but for all that he pitched
 a very good game.
 Griffin did the major part of the
 pitching for the survey, relieving Pet erson in the third inning, who was forced to leave the game on account
 of a sore arm. But four safe hits were
 made off of Griffin's delivery. and his support was perfect. Tom Parish at | 2nd base for the survey team played a rattling good game. He was death to safe hits, and-Allison at short was | a close second. Pinyan was a stum- ] bling block for Globe base stealers,