Arizona republican., 1906-12-06
OF LOCAL INTEREST

WICkENBURG VISITOR - Harry Cowell. a leading business man ol
 Wickenburg. is a Phoenix visitor.
 GETTING BETTER - Mrs. Julia Lount. who was quite seriously indis-
 posed for two or three days, is now very much improved.
 BOARD OF coNTRoL-There was a meeting of the territorial board of control yesterday but it was devoted mainly to routine business.
 CHILD STUDY CIRCLE - The mothers child study circle of the Churchill school will meet in the school house this CThursday) afternoon at 3:3O o'clock. There will be refresh ments and a social hour.
 HOME ON A vlSlT-James Shay. who was raised in Phoenix, but is now resident of Douglas, is here fer a visit of a couple of weeks with rela- tives and friends.
 TAXPAYERS MUST HURRT-This is practically the last week for the payment of county taxes. There will be a day or two next week when they may be paid but payers will find it much more satisfactory to attend to the business this week and SO not en- danger themselves in the rush. FRANK CRISWGll IMPROVING Mir. and Mrs. Jack Gibson returned yesterday morning from Tucson, where they went to see Frank Criswell, who was badly injured in a railroad wreck. fsr.n.r h sfU..w dFa rapidly, though it will be long time before he is completely restored.
 IN THE JUSTICES COURT-Fran- cisco YningO got seven days and John Doe was fined ten dollars for disturb ing the peace, in Justice Johnstone's court yesterday Andrew Healer and Ike Thomas were found in a box car belonging to the Santa Fe company. They were given thirty days each but judgment was suspended for twenty four hours so that they could get out of town.
 NATIVE ART-If anybody thinks the Arizona Indians are lacking in nat ural artistic talent. he should look in one of Harry DiehFs show windows. There is on exhibition there the cutest kind of a statue of a baby. It may lack some of the grace and proportion exhibited in the work of old Mike Angelo, but considering that this statue is woven instead of "sculped." the artist did a good job. It is of the ma terial of which the native baskets are made and is uniquely constructed, though as a substitute for a real baby it has no excellency except its quiet and unobtrusive department.
 THE RIVER-Though Salt river is receding it is not setting the world on fire by any precipitate or unseemly haste. There is still flowing a volume of water which indicates there is per haps more where the present supply came from. though lot of it may yet be in the form of snow.-f IL was esti~ mated yesterday afternoon that at the Arizona head there was approximately S00.000 inches or 10000 second-feet passing. At the intake of the power canal above Roosevelt there was rise of six inches at g o'clock yesterday morning. the water at that time being three feet deep over the crest of the intake dam. There was a slight rise in the Verde about ? o'clock yesterday DuN IoAiiiiiS uhtAptNNNu VT alarming.
 MIR. BALSZ'S SIDE OF IT-Former Deputy Sheriff Joe BalsZ was able to be up town yesterday for the first time since the severance of his relations with the sheriff's office on November 90. There was a natural wish on his part to remove an impression that he was guilty of negligence in the hand ling of the Redwine case and that he was removed for that. He said that he had less to do with that case than all most anybody else connected with the office. On the night before the escape of Redwine he said that he was sitting in the office when the prisoner wanted to go down town and asked him to take him. MT BalsZ said he replied that he could not but it was suggested to him that it would be all right He said they went and remained until Redwine had transacted certain business which he said he had on hand. They went to several places and returned to the jail little after 10 o'clock. That was the extent of his custody of Redwine. The next day he was sick but returned to the sheriff's office in the evening of Thursday. He did not see Redwine fharo and paUar Sau- him a rd