Arizona republican., 1909-05-24
Of Local Interest
WHITSUNTIDE-The

ITSUNTIDE-The Jewish feSti- val of Whitsuntide begins Tuesday evening and lasts until Thursday evening. It is commemorative of the giving of the law to Moses on Mount Sinai and is celebrated as a feast, not as a fast. On these dates the people of that faith are supposed to adorn their tables with the best their means or their resources permit
 ONE VIEW OF Hone of the strongest arguments ever put out in favor of the use of whisky comes to this office from the National Model License League. Dr. Joseph NJ Mathews, eX-president of the Ameri can Medical association. and for sev- enteen years president of the Kentucky state board of health, says that for every one death produced by whisky. there have been one thousand deaths produced by the drinking of impure milk: for every single death produced by whisky, there have been five thou sand deaths from the drinking of con taminated water" It isn't difficult, in the light of such distressing facts. to see that what the American people has AO hO 70 plbNtNl lAS ll1dlAlA iS Ap NuA out milk and water and use whisky ex- clusively Paraphrasing Patrick Henry, Give us whisky, or give us death"
 A GLOBE HoMIclDE-According to the latest reports from Globe, the coroner's jury which was drawn in that city to investigate the death of John Columbo, who was shot by Dep
 
 ported, and expected to continue in session for another day before there would be any probability of their ar irving at decision. An endeavOr was made Thursday. before the death of the victim, to secure a statement from him, but the Austrian insisted that he was going to recover, and he refused to make any statement. Although there is considerable difference in the testimony of several of the witnesses, it is generally agreed that the officer was not to blame. and that he fired the fatal shot in defense of his own life. Deputy Sheriff Edwards had gone to the Pioneer saloon for the purpose of placing under arrest Sam Wuicich. who had been firing a revolver at ran dom during the progress of a fire. Wuicich refused to surrender his gun, and the officer clubbed him over the head with the butt of a revolver. At this time Columbo interfered and grab bed the revolver which the officer held in his hand Edwards, thinking that the gun would be wrested from his grasp, turned it toward his assailant and pulled the trigger. The shot pen etrated the abdomen of COiumbo, mak ing six incisions in the intestines. About twenty-four hours after the shooting. he died in the hospital at the old Dominion. Further testimony will probably be introduced relating to re- marks which the wounded man made immediately after the shooting. The general opinion is. however, that the officer will be cleared of all blame.
 A PIONEER PRINTER-William Ludy whose name is entitled to be en- rolled in Arizona's Hassayampa Direc- tory, drifted into Phoenix the other day and quite likely has drifted out again by this time. Ludy is a printer by trade and a good one. one who was known all over the west in the old hand -piker days. and particularly in Arizona. Like many another printer however he yielded to the lure of the gold and could not stick to his virtuous profession only long enough to get stake and hit for the hills. It Is un- derstood he is here this time on the trail of a bonanza and it is hoped he will find it for the tracks have been seen all over these parts during the