Arizona republican., 1909-02-01
Of Local Interest
YUMA suNco MANI.

YUMA BUNcO MAN-Almost with
 in shadow of the penitentiary James
 Foster defrauded the citizens of Yuma and made his escape to Phoenix. Be
 fore he could get his game in opera
 ton here. Sheriff Livingston arrived on his trail and on Saturday night he
 returned to Yuma with the hands of Foster safely secured in a pair of bracelets of the latest pattern.
 A BLOODY AFFAIR-The floor of
 one of the rooms of the sheriffs of
 flee was smeared with blood on Sat
 urday night It flowed from a long gash in the left arm of Ramon Salazar
 who had been engaged in a contro-
 versy with an unknown man in the Porto Rico saloon. The wielder of the
 knife is still at large. Salazar is still weak from the loss of blood.
 GOT BACK tGL RIGHT d. C Evans. assistant journal clerk of the assembly. returned yesterday morning land announced that he had sure seen Los Angeles. His calculations were made to a gnat's eyebrow for he had jUst ten cents in his pocket when he stepped off the train. He intended to get back sooner. but was detained by his sympathy for Mayor Harpor who needed his advice about how to settle the questions the people are putting up 10 him in punches. MT Evans says Los Angeles is a good town. notwith standing it is outside the Roosevelt reservoir district. The Southern Paci- fic and Santa Fe railroad trains still stop there without Tagging and the ocean continues to be regarded as a drawing card, though energetic real es tate men are planning to drain it and cut it up into city lots
 AN IMAGINARY MINING DEAL Sheriff James Smith of Yavapai coun-. " arrived in the city yesterday morn ing This was the first official visit of Sheriff Smith and the first visit. of ficial or unofficial he has paid to the capital within three. years The sher- If is on his way to Douglas after a nervy swindler by the name Of Miller, who last fall sold a sucker an imagin- ary mine and received a part payment of $50 The purchaser of this bo- nanza after a vain attempt of several weeks to locate. began to suspect that MT Miller was not the kind of a man he had been thought to be and later investigation showed that Miller was not only not a mine owner but that he was a hobo who had probably never seen a mine The authorities have been looking for this promoter ever since and a few days ago they learned that he had come to the surface in Douglas.
 ONLY BORROWED IT-Deputy Sheriff Davis came in last night with Jose Gomez who he had trailed fifty miles in a hunt for a stolen gun. Co., meg was sheep herder for Levi Young A few days ago he broke into the tent of B. F. Reaksecker jr., beyond the Agua Fria and stole a revolver. 1t happened that the day before MT. Reaksecker had taken down the num- Der of the weapon and he reported his loss to the sheriffs office: When the officer overlook Gomez the latter de nied that he had been in the tent but the revolver was found among his blankets. Then he remembered all about it. He said that he had only borrowed the weapon. He was passing the tent on the track of some burros that he thought had been stolen and having no gun he supposed that he might need one when he overlook the thieves If Reaksecker had been pa tient only a day or two the gun would have been returned to him.