Arizona republican., 1909-11-17
Water Pouring Through lbe
 Tunnel al Roosevelt WORK ON DAM RESUMED
An Apache Resented By Murder a Woman's Epi- thet Because He Believed a White Man Would Have Done the Same Thing.

Roosevelt, Nov. Special Cores | pondence of The Republican)-The i water of the lake was turned through ] the tunnel here last Monday morning l only one gate being opened for the | time being. This gate was opened ! about II o'clock but it was in the
 neighborhood of 12:1o before the wa | ter shot its wa through the mass of mud and silt that had congregated on the upper side of the gates during the months that the tunnel had been closed on account of work that has had to | be remodeled and that has Just been [ completed. The gates and tunnel. which originally were supposed to be completed at d cost of some S300.0o0 have now taken up to date somewhat over S50N000 Now that the gates have been remodeled and the work so far completed that they can be used in their regular capacity, the motive power operating them is to be changed from hydraulic to motor power. and machinery has now to be installed as the next move on the pro- gram.
 J. NJ. O'Rourke and company have started to lay rock in the part of the dam that has been held in abeyance for the completion of the tunnel to allow the water an outlet during the time that the gates were shut and while work was being done on the tunnel. James O'Connell was the man that had the honor Of doing the last piece of work before the water was allowed to pass through the gates. This consisted of the removal Of the temporary dam at the mouth of the tunnel. placed there to keep the water from backing up into the tunnel while the work of reconstruction was going on This work of removal could be entrusted only to practical miner who knew just how much powder would be required to demolish the structure without injuring the sur rounding property. He did 1t thor oughly and without injury to adjacent structures. =.
 The drilling and loading took four teen hours, but when the button was pressed a clean job was the result.
 Last Saturday afternoon Roosevelt's near neighbor. known as Grape Vine district. was the scene of an atrocious murder perpetratcd by an Apache In- dian. one Gilbert Neal. and was due to the effects of whisl;ey sold him by a Mexican just this side of Globe. The victim was Mexican woman living at Grape Vine with her husband. Her name was Juliana Bltreres. about 47 years old. The Indian called at the house while on his way from Globe to Roosevelt and asked for something to eat which was denied him. and for which he asked d second time and being addressed by an epithet ob- noxious to white men, he leveled his rifle at her and fired. She had just turned away from him and the shot struck her in the back of the neck. and being a soft-nosed bullet from a 3O-3O rifle passed through her neck and face. tearing most of the lower part of the latter away. He then got upon his pony and coming to town hunted up the deputy sheriff and told him that he saw the Mexican womans husband fire the shot with d shotgun The officers went to the scene. taking the Indian with them. At first he had quite time trying to locate where the shooting had taken place, but the body was finally found. owing to the sus- picieus way in which the Indian talked he was well watched, and noticing the distrust of the officials he at length confessed to his having killed her. giv- ing as his reason that the term ap- piled to him would have been resent ed by white man in the same man. ner. When the party reached the scene of the crime the husband of the murdered woman walked out to meet the Indian and his escort and held a gun close to his side with the inten- tion of killing the Indian then and there He approached within three or four feet of the Indian and was just in the act of raising his gun to deal summary vengeance on the red slayer when Deputy Francis Cooper, who had been watching him. reached out and grabbed his gun just as he was in the act of raising it to fire. Judge Evans. who happened to be at Globe al the time, was recalled by telephone and came over Sunday. meeting the officers at Grape Vine. The first part of the inouest was held there and an adjournment was taken to Roosevelt the same evening at o'clock. The In- dian again acknowledged his crime, and at the conclusion of the inquest was hurried out of town to the jail at Globe. that being deemed by the off, cers in charge the safest place for their prisoner owing to the excited state of feeling prevailing at Roose- welt The body of the murdered woman was brought to Roosevelt Sun day and buried here Cn Monday fore noon.
 The old road leading down the hill of Calamity from where the comis- sary and shops of the government are now situated. to the ferry. and that during the last five years has been