Arizona republican., 1905-08-04

| that Mr. StarkWeather only comes to
| town in the daytime and had sized up
| the cricket supply from what he had
seen. When it was fully explained to
/ him just how many crickets were in
| evidence here after o'clock at night
and gone again in the daytime he
/ withdrew his offer All the brown leg
horns and green leghOrns and "yaller'
! leghorns in the county couldn't eat the
present cricket output if they worked
day and night
CORONER CALLED-CCroner Bur
nett was sent for last evening to hold
an inquest over the body of strang-
er who had died alone i'm the southern
part of the city. The inquest disclose
ed that death was of natural causes,
a hemorrhage of the lungs.
A SUIT FOR DAMA0C--sonn p.
Orme yesterday began suit in the dis
trict court against the MaricOpa Canal
company for damages in the sum of
S400 by reason of the failure of the
defendant to deliver water which he
had paid for. The complaints stated
that the plaintiff is the owner of two
sections of land under the canal. On
October 49, 1904, the plaintiff paid $19S
for 10 inches of water from that date
to May Is and again on May % he paid
$3.50 for the same number of inches
from that date to Sept II. In April
of this year the plaintiff had about 200
acres of alfalfa in a promising cOndi-
tion but by reason of the going out of
the dam of the company it was unable
to make delivery of water and in con-
sequence the plaintiff suffered damage
in the amount sued for. Regarding the
going out of the dam the plaintiff does
no n Rf nf htIf hA
result of carelessness and unskillful-
ness on the part of the defendant.
THE CHECK ARTIST -AGAIN-Af-
ter a hiatus of a month or so the
check artist made his appearance in
Phoenix again. That was about a week
ago but his tracks We're not discovered
until yesterday morning. A man call
ing himself J. w. Williamson offered d
check to NJ. Pollard of the Anheuser
The amount of it was S35.25 and it was
drawn on the Valley Bank by w. o.
Isaac. The next day it was deposited
in the National Bank of Arizona
among a lot of other checks and cash,
ny Mr.. Pollard. In due course it went
through the clearing house and yester-
day morning reached the bank on
which it had been drawn. Cashier
Lloyd b. Chfisty at once pronounced
Mr. Isaac was called in. He said it
was a forgery. He had given no such
check and had never heard of William
SON. Mr. Pollard swore out a warrant
for his arrest but he viii not be able
to greatly aid the officers in their
search for him for he can remember
nothing of his appearance.
A CLIMATE FASHIONABLE R
Do toll f- in, no ri
reservations and deserts along the ella
river where he has spent the greater
part of the last four months. He says
he would like to say something in
behalf of ArizOna's summer climate to
those people who are so prone 10 kick
about it He says he don't remember
when Arizona had . longer continuous
hot spell than this summer without
break of some kind, and where he has
been along the ella river, without
shade ice water or any other modern
luxury, it has been a great deai warm
er than in Phoenix Some of the time
too, he has been pretty low on drink
ing water and has taken into his
system stuff that a government mule
would turn up his nose at. But not
withstanding all this he never felt bet
ter in his life than he has this sum-
mer He says too that he has not
spent his time sneaking around under
the mesquite trees looking for cool
spots but most of the time he has been
working hard about fourteen hours
day.
A SERIOUS FALL-Judge J. w
4, Mccormick had a bad fall yesterday
afternoon that was a narrow escape
from death. He was in the rear of
Wakelin's grocery store where there is
freight elevator three or four feet
wide and five or six feet long. be-
tween the floor and the basement,
which is used for storing surplus
stock. The elevator CHANGED to be at
the bottom. some nine or ten feet be-
low. Judge Mccormick did not not
ice the trap and stepped into it back
ward, falling to the elevator floor be-
low. He was pretty badly Jared up
and thought for a moment that he
was in the act of being killed but
those who came to his rescue were
pleased to discover that he did not ap-
pear to be dangerously hurt. Fortu-
, nately he did not hit on his head.
| One arm was badly skinned up and
there were other bruises and contu-
sions. physician was summoned
| and the judge was taken home in a
carriage. An examination failed to re-
| suit in the finding of any broken bones
and as far as has yet developed there
was no internal injury, though he was
! badly shaken up and sore all over in
| spots
FUNERAL OF FRED M'cALL-The
funeral services over the body of Fred
/ Mccall took place yesterday morning.
! 1t was attended by the members of the
! order of Eagles and by a large
number of friends whom he had made
! in the course of his four years resi-
! dence in Phoenix. The interment was
/ in the Catholic cemetery. Mr.. Mccall
! was not very well understood even
| by many who knew him almost from
| the time of his arrival in Phoenix. He
was inclined to be reserved so that
| what was learned of him was learned
| from those who knew him at his former
home in Chicago. He was educated
for the law and it is said made a bril-