Arizona republican., 1906-02-23

to their home in Arlington. MT. Lew is reports that after having acquired the lower end of the Arlington canal, the company decided to reconstruct the upper end of it, building the first
 5000 feet from the head in accordance with a new line by which the canal will leave the river almost at right angles and then parallel the old canal some distance farther back from the river. The purpose is to get a canal that cannot be washed out with every big flood that comes down thc river, and also to set a better heading The new work began a week ago Monday, says MT. Lewis and .vhen it is finished Arlington will have the best canal it has ever had and one that mey ne de- rended upon to mold. The work, it is | expected will be finished, and the water be turned into the ditch by April 1st. About forty men and teams are now at work. A few more good men are needed. There wore plenty availa- ble day or two ago, but they keep coming and going all the time.
 A WILD RUNAWAY-A runaway very shortly after the noon hour yes
 terday occurred on East Adams street which for a time threatened very se-
 rious damage. As it was, however, no
 one was hurt and the wagon or team
 in no way damaged. The runaway
 team was hitched to a very heavy wagon owned by the Phoenix Flour
 miils and at the time they became
 frightened they were standing at the
 rear of the mill at Adams and Second
 street. Their driver says they were hit
 by a shot from an air rifle and start ed to run. They ran to first street west on Adams and headed directly
 for the Burtis lunch room. When i within a very few feet of the curb, a ! gentleman standing on the sidewalk threw up his arms and caused the team to swerve in their course and 1 turn south to Washington street. Had the man on the curb not acted as he ! did, undoubtedly the team would have ] had a spill on the walk at the Burtis
 corner, and, considering the many glass windows in the store front it is probable there would have been sever al windows broken. As it did result, ! the team ran to Washington street
 and then east and turned north again | on Second street, coming to a stop at
 the point where they started to run.
 A LOS ANGELES INCIDENT-The
 Los Angeles Examiner publishes a
 story of reai heart interest," one. of 1 the chief actors in which is Professor F. s. Haford, formerly a teacher of the Phoenix pubic schools. The out | line of the story is that of a widow
 woman, named Mrs. Ewart. who con- ducts a private boarding club of about 1 twenty students of Occidental college. held the personal effects of Hafford. ! who was employed in some capacity at the college. for an alleged debt Oi | fifty dollars, thirty of which he owed i Mrs. Ewart and twenty he owed to the 1 club for board. Haford brought suit
 to get his baggage, and Mrs. Ewart re- piled that she was holding it for a debt
 for the necessaries of life. To that Haford replied that the woman promis- 1 ed to marry him and he will sue her 1 for breach of promise if necessary to
 secure his baggage. claiming to have ] plenty of testimony with which to win
 the suit. He says she entTeated him to | stay at her house and help conduct the | club and he would never want for a ! home while she had one. He claims | that to accommodate her he refused to
 sign a contract in the work of his pro-