Arizona republican., 1908-08-03

scale. Before the fake was exploded number of sedate editors were clawing each other over the impropriety of the scheme.
 Another of his stories was about a little girl being carried away by toy balloons and then being saved. She was spending the summer on the shore of a lake, when one afternoon an ltal- ian passed with two punches Of bal looms. Her mother was near by and decided to buy her one. While the Italian was getting his change he gave the balloons to the little girl to hold. They were tied together and the strings caught under her arms.
 Before they realized what had hap peHed a gust of wind came and the little girl was seen flying high up in the air. There was a great deal of excitement, and the mother ran among the people screaming for someone to save her child.
 Tt happened that there was we'll known rifle shot at the resort. He began shooting at the balloons and punctured enough of them to cause the child to drop to the ground slowly and without being injured"
 One famous story of Mir MulhattOn's is omitted from the Baltimore Suns list It was that of a river which broke out in Iowa several years ago A farmer was digging a well and struck vein of water which gushed forth and began wearing the sides of the hole away. By the next morning the hole was as big as a hOgshead of molasses and by the following night it was as large as bank barn. On the next day the people in the vicinity began moving to higher ground.
 Republican reporter, then a boy read about it in the old reliable Week ly Toledo Blade. He could hardly wait until the next issue of the Blade to find out more about the newborn river and he rode miles to the country postoffice on Blade Day. and was astounded when there was not a word in it's many columns of reading matter relating to the Iowa phenomenon. He consulted other papers such as a cOun- try boy could get hold of before the days of the R. F. D. but all of them showed the same lack of energy. None of them had followed up the story of that river Nor did he ever hear of it again until a few years ago he met MT Mulhatton at Tucson. Mulhatton said that he had so many other things on his mind that he was unable to give the river the attention it required to keep running.
 Since his residence in Arizona he has done considerable imaginative work. He wrote few stories for The Republican several years ago but his greatest performance was to send a meteor careering over the country in the vicinity of the Rissey mine in Pinal county, killing hundreds of sheep and mutilating thousands of others The story closed with an exact de- scriptiOn of the fall and location of the meteor The narrative was sent out by telegraph and brought out to this country a corps of scientists from various educational institutions.
 NIT. Mulhatton says that he writes these stories with a clear conscience They amuse without harming the reader in anyway. The fact that they may be considered to be true is not demoralizing. In his personal dealings the word of MT. Mulhatton is as good as that of the average man, yet one night a man between whom he and another a serious question of veracfty had arisen. filled The Republican of flee with glee by bringing Mir. Mulhatton with him to substan- l tiate certain statements he had made l a mining enterprise in which certain persons complained that | they had not been fairly dealt with