Arizona republican., 1906-02-14
FIGHT FOR A CHILD
 A ROOSEVELT INCIDENT
A Story of A Strange Attachment
 Not Yet Broken.

Roosevelt, Feb. F, Especial Cores pcndence of the Republican)--A some what peculiar combination of circuni- stances has arisen in regard to the family affairs of ona Bazan of tliis place, and Henry Blevins of Globe. over the ownership Of a child of NIT. Blevins', Some time ago MT. B!evins
 put his child in the keeping of Bazan
 and his family while he was absent
 from town. The child has had proper care and treatment and is said to have won a warm place in the heart of the
 Bazan family and the difficulty arose when last week MT. Blevins asked to have his offspring returned to him.
 Not being nere himself, he commis- stoned his brother-in-la Harvey Morris, to get the little one and bring him to Globe. When MT. Morris pre-
 Eented himself at the Bazan home and asked for the boy the Bazans refused to give it up saying that he had u,. au- thority to take him. A somewhat ] lengthy argument resulted in which Morris did ais best to gain control of the child. but to no avail. He left the place empty handed.
 Morris then sought out the constable and placed the order for the child ia his hands, bus up to Saturday night . he was successful in his mission. Tae most peculiar part about the whole af- fair is that Bazan IS a man with q very large family ef small children and why he should want to add an other one to his flock. not his own, seems wholly unexplainable.
 Wm. Carter. a teamster employed in 1 handling gravel for the government.
 met with a very serious and painful accident, on Wednesday morning of l last week. Carter was hauling gravel
 for MT. Harrison who is lining the sluicing tunnel with concrete, ard it was while returning along the lower canyon from one of his trips that the accident occurred. The exact cause of the fall seems to be rather indefinite,
 but it is believed that he was driving along not paying much attention to his ! team when suddenly the wagon wheels struck one of the large bouldcrs, which l the road happens to be filled with at 1 this place and before he could save himself was thrown headloHg down tae i bank. The force of tie fall was suffic l tent to cause inconsistencies and it
 was some minutes before he was dis
 covered by his companions. pr. Him chon of the hospital was hurriedly summoned and the unfortunate man was taken to the hospital before his i injuries were attended to. After an eX- animation it was found that his left i snoulder was very badly bruised, his upper left arm had sustained a frac- | ture and that there were several bruis- 1 es about the head. During the evening
 his arm was set by pr. R. F. Palmer,
 who reported the patient 10 be doing
 as well as could be expected under the
 circumstances.
 Friends of Mr. Augustus Newell, Jr-, will be very sorry to hear of his sick ness. news of which was received here last week MT. Newell left here with MT. J. D. Stannard and party in the capacity of rodman and it was while
 at work in the field that his illness
 overlook him. He had a host of friends here who are very much pained to near of his present indispositiOn and all wish him a speedy recovery.
 Business for the Mesa Roosevelt Stage company nas improved to such an extent that the management has found it necessary to put on three eN- tra express stages a week. These
 stages leave Mesa Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings and carry pas sengers as well as express. Even with the increased facilities for handling
 their business their agent in this place
 says tnas even now the company can
 not meet the demand made upon IL
 by the steady increase of traffic.
 Jim Spraig, the young man arrested
 last week for stealing hardtack from
 one of the tents on the hill was giver
 six months in the county jail at Globe. Poor Jim.