Arizona republican., 1905-06-27
THE COLONEL MADE GOOD
Restored the Fish Record to the City
 Hall Where It Belongs.

In yesterdays issue was a story Of
 the record fish caught in SaIt river
 this year by an Alhambra man. It
 was mentioned at the time that Colo nel Robert NJ. Hudson who earned his military title keeping people of the grass at the city hall. was out in the
 brush trying to start something. He was advised to represent at the ear Hest possible hour if he wanted to keep in the running and he has done so.
 The colonel failed to land anything of startling importance on his Sunday eXTedit'on, but early yesterday morn ing he started out for another try
 This time he took Fred Gardner along for a mascot Fred also served as a sort of a pattern to go by. The colonel wanted something as near Fred's size as Salt r.ver could produce and he got ia But not without a fight
 Last evening when the party re- turne1 the colonel was proudly cxhib- iting huge salmon with body like a family butcher bill and a head like a colgre ssman. Subjected to the scale test tFe fish was given Q rating of seventeen and a quarter pounds and the colonel was given fifteen minutes in which to congratulate himself Fred Gardner says the fish is a fine thing to look at and though he lost his life he was an adversary worthy of tte coIo1ePs steel In trying to land the monster the colonel lost his bal ance and was pulled in,o the water. but he hung on to the line and saved himself by a toe holt until Fred could come 10 his assistance.
 ANOTHER STORY.
 Honest John Morris another coIored man, who has some aspirati as a fisherman and who inclines to the Rob- erts school of angling rather than the Hudson Gardener cult came to town last night and relates a different story l He says Fob Hudson didn't catch any fish yesterday but that he bought his l so called record breaker of a Mexican for seVenty-fiye cents. He claims to have seen the transaction and that | there was a deal of scratching round down there in the brush to make | change. Honest John says he did not I intend to give the thing away but Bob | had made him. sore for he was there ! when the Hudson party came up and disturbed him in his meditations. He says Bob and Fred had a Mexican to do their fishing with a pitchfork and that no hook and line was used. Fur thermore he says the real big fish of the day was caught by this Mexican and turned over to conutryman who was w:.h him without Gardener or Hudson ever seeing him. Honest John says he must have weighed thirty pounds. John says he likes to see fair play and since Bob put him out of the -unning by soaring away the fish Ee determined to see that Roberts iS not imposed upon.
 THE REAL RECORD -IcE
 But tho man who holds the real re- ,ord for big fishing is Geo. McCarty, the night watchman. With his son Ed he irove down to the river last evening ust before sundown and brought back salmon that measured thirty inches ong and tipped the scales at twenty bounds flat. It was 1:20 this morning when the head was placed on exhibition n The Republican office and it was hen too late to change the headlines. But these facts are published for the easoR that The RepubDc can is now the organ of the Salt river fish rmen and they are entitled to know he latest. Honest John will have to how something tangible before his hirty pound story will be given official ecognition. MOTHER WONDER OF SCIENCE