Arizona republican., 1908-04-27
OF LOCAL INTEREST

DRUNK OR CnkZY-The police , picked up d man giving the name of Morris Williams on West Washington street yesterday. He will he held un- til this morning to determine whether The is crazy or was merely drunk. WHO WANTS lT?-A farmer on Saturday afternoon picked up a sack of sugar and bundle of calico on East Washington street. and brought il to the marshals office. where the owner can secure il on proving prop erty.
 CRlTTENTON HOME NOTICE This is the regular meeting day of the Crittenton Home Circle. but owing to the special prayer service of the diff ferent churches held at the South M F. church at 2:SO pm. each day this week in interest of the temperance people, the meeting has been pOstpon ed until next Monday.
 BODY FOUND-After q search of two or three weeks. the body of an old resident of Kingman named Red man was found on a mesa couple of miles from kingman. The man left under peculiar circumstances and it was feared at the time that he Was insane. for which reason he was searched for continuously until the body was found.
 WHOLESALE LIBEL-C. P. Silver nail of Flagstaff has been convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary for Ia year for writing obscene letters to Flagstaff women. about eighty of them
 
 mailed m Chicago. He professeS in- nocencc and an appeal has been talk en. Silvernail is manager ot a town hall and the theory is advanced that the letters were written to spite his enemies. real or fancird
 THE RECOVERY OF A PEN About a week ago Justice Johnstone missed a fountain pen from his desk. He knew within a period Of five min utes when il was taken and the fin ger of suspicion pointed straight at d person whose identity the justice re- fuses to disclose. but who was stand ins bv the desk when the justice left il temporarily. So sure was Col. JOhnstoRe that that person was the thief that he set all of his friends among the sleuths after him and they reSOrted to various devices to get sight of the pen. Yesterday J. A. Portcrie whose services had been en- listed. saw the man writing with a fountain pen Porterie took d long chance for he could not have identi- fled Justice Johnstone's pen from any other in the world. and snatched it from the hand of the writer saying that it was his own and had been stol- cn from him week before. It was after all Col. Johnstone's property.
 MAN AND HORSE MESSENGER C. ShawVer. proprietor of the Cowboy corral, is very concerned over the mysterious disappearance of q man and horse. the latter being his prop erty. Saturday morning a stranger applied Cor the renting of a saddle horse. saying he would be back about noon. At dark Sunday evening he had not yet returned. That is all MT. Shaver knows of tle incident. but it is evident that the horse and rider have either been oVertaken by misfor- tune or the rider has deliberately stolen the property. The horse is a bUckshin with white mane and tail and is branded bar H on the left side He took no special notice of the man but speaking from memory he would say he was about 25 years old. smooth shaven. about five feet nine inches tall and would weigh about 40 pounds
 LOST BOY FoUND-Willie Ross. the nine year-oId runaway has been recovered. He was found yesterday morning. the proprietor of d candy and soda pop stand along the roadside be- yond the slaughter house, where he had been doing a thriving business ff three days under the guardianship of an old man by the name Of Ignacio Pima. The boy appeared at Pina's house four days ago and represented to him that he was an orphan and had to make his own way in the world. The boy for all of his ten dency to be q wanderer on the face Of the earth has a natural commercial bent. He has been something of d success as a free lance among the newsboys. The papers he sells are not selected with reference to their fresh- ness. His plan is to secure a couple of papers Of the current day and then fill them in with other papers printed any time within the preceding two weeks. These papers are sold to pur- chasers who appear to be in a hurry or if they are not the boy always is after making sale
 A MEXICAN EXHIBIT-Senor Au- gustin Pima, Mexican consul in Phoe- nix, expects to make an extended visit in the home country the coming sum mer and will probably go on the ex- cursion now planned for June 90 if it Is carried out. otherwise he will go in the usual way. He stated yester- day that he has many things in mind to look after and one that he is now very carefully considering is the in- stallation of permanent exhibit in this city. of Mexican products He will call on President Diaz and at the va rious government departments for ap- proval of the enterprise and if all works satisfactorily he will secure