Arizona republican., 1905-03-12

DEPARTURE OF MIR. CoDE-Mr. w. H. Code, chief irrigation engineer | of the Indian bureau, leaves Phoenix
 tomorrow night for Washington, D. C.,
 via Denver. on telegraphic instructions
 from the secretary of the interior. A JAPANESE GIRL-George w. ! Webb, head of Chinese inspection ser vice for this part of the country ar rived in the city yesterday from Pres colt with a Japanese girl who will probably be depOrted. The inspector had been working on the case for some time. This is believed to one of the many Japanese girls who have lately been brought to this country for i'm moral purposes and who under the federal law have no right to be here. This girl says she has been in the country for seven years, but it is thought that it can be proved that she came less than year ago.
 MUST HAVE A CiRCUIT-H O. Finch, the man who passed a $700 check at the Casino saloon the other day drawn against an eighty dollar bank account and who was arrested and is held for examination on Mon day. seems to have had something of a record before he came here. How much of record does not yet appear but more will probably be known in a day or two. Chief of Police Kinney yesterday got the following telegram from F. Gunther in Temecula, Cal: 'H. O. Finch forged checks on Whitney Bank New Orleans. Letter following explains" Whether MT. Gunther is an officer or just one of the common peo- pie" is not indicated by the signature nor is there anything other than the inference. to shoY that Finch is want ed on any criminal charge. The letter mentioned in the message will there fore be awaited with interest.
 A FINE HORSE-Talking about good horses there is one fine animal in the valley of which little has been heard, even though he has been here a couple of years. It Is a four year old Belgian Coach stallion and is owned by Lin Orme and John Myers, neigh boring ranchers, who live about eight miles northwest of Phoenix. The horse was imported to California from France and was brought here about two years ago by B. O. Fuller, a we'll Known Los Angeles horseman. Though only four years old the horse weighs about 2,000 pounds. The owners had him on exhibition in town yesterday and he is only one of number of
 
 that have never yet participated in the local horse exhibitions. If all the fine stock in the valley could be gathered together in one show it would make | an exhibition the valley could we'll be l proud Of And there is a chance yetI for more good horses for this is nat ! ural horse country. The holiday horse | show was grand success but the ex- | hibition next winter will 5e more ex- tensively prepared for an ought to be | a great deal larger
 SALTON LAKE REFILLING-One | of the California papers that leaked | into Phoenix contained a report that | the water of the Colorado river which Is very high, was being diverted into Salton- basin as it was in the notable i flood of fourteen years ago, only that it was pouring in greater volume and great danger existed for the settlers in that country and perhaps for the Southern Pacific railroad tracks. No details were learned but a fuller re- ference to the flood of fourteen years ago may be of interest to those who nave not heard of the incident Salton Is a Southern Pacific station in the heart of the great Colorado desert, the name of the station being derived from l the fact that the only industry of the place is an immense salt works, the salt being made by the evaporation of pumped water. A large portion of this lesert, or what is known as the Salton basin is many feet below sea level and was undoubtedly at one time a part of lI he ocean or an inland sea- About Il fourteen years ago in time of high water, the Colorado river broke through an arroya and flooded this 'asin, forming a lake several miles Il