Arizona republican., 1910-07-11
WHILE ON HUNTING TRIP
Body Has Not Yet Been Recovered. The Unfor tunate Young Man a Wis itor and Relative of John J. Kolberg.

Chester Colby. young man Of twenty-one and a second cousin of j J. KoIberg of the Arizona Laundry, was drowned yesterday morning about 10 o'clock in the Arizona canal at ln- dian Bend. beyond Scottsdale. tel ephone message bringing information of the tragtdy was received by Cor oner Johnstone and also by the sher- ifs office MT Kolberg was told of it and immediately he, Deputy Sheriff Adams and Harry Hancock of the reclamation service left for Indian Bend. A dilligent search for the body was begun, but it could not De found. The search will be renewed this morning Before leaving for home yesterday evening Mir. Kolberg offered a reward of $25 for its re- covery.
 Colby on Saturday evening went to the home of MT. Kolberg, where he had been living since his residence in Phoenix, and told Mrs. Kolberg that he was going on a hunting expedition with five other young men. He said he would return on Sunday evening.
 The party left in two vehicles, young Colby, w. H. Gault and $. F. Turner in one and the other three. who live at Scottsdale, in the other The party stayed all night at Scotts- dale and yesterday morning Colby. Gault and Turner set out on the hunt
 The came to the canal at a point near Indian Bend and a short dis tance above the place where the dredger is at work deepening and widening the canal The water at that point runs a little less swiftly than below the dredge. but it Is of depths varying from ten to eighteen feet. At that place the canal is near ly eighty feet wide.
 Turner, who is a good swimmer. took a rifle and swan across the canal Reaching the opposite bank, he called to his companions that un- less they were sure of their swim ming ability, not to attempt a cross ing. Turner then went into the brush or forest, and soon he heard the cries of Gault Running back to the canal, he saw only Gault, who told him that Colby had gone down. He said that as Colby was preparing to enter the water he said that he could not swim, but Gault thought he was jok- ing. He plunged in and was mak- ing good headway toward the oppo- site bank He had almost reached il when he threw up his arms, dis appeared and was seen no more.
 The young men hurried to Scotts- dale, whence they sent a message to Phoenix. On the arrival of MT. Kol- berg and party the search was be- gun. though Mir. Hancock pointed out the great difficulties in the way. Before he reached Indian Bend he had ordered the gates shut, so that by the time they arrived the water had been lowered about three feet. The shutting of the gates had shut out only a part of the inflow, which could not be wholly excluded with out turning aside the flow from Granite reef The water in the canal was of so much importance to the farmers below that it was thought best not to open the gates below and turn the water into 8 wasteway for the quicker emptying of the canal.
 The chances were that the body had been swept below. It was thought that it might have been swept Into the ure0SeT, put that WAS examined by divers and it was found that the body could not have en- tered the machinery The dredger was at work and each great shovelful was watched with dread lest it con- tain the mangled body of Colby.
 The dredging above the Indian Bend had gouged out great holes in the bed of the canal, of different depths; some of these holes might be eight or ten feet below the general level of the bed, and it was surmised that the body might have been caught in one of these excavations; if not. it had been swept on down.
 Harry Hancock. Tom Parish and Turner began diving and Deputy Adams went to the reservation nearby and returned with twenty-five In- dians The diving was kept up until it was thought every hole had been explored It was the opinion of one of the divers that with the swift current at the time Colby went down he could not have found Judgement in one of the holes. The diver said that he had made an experiment He had lain down on the bottom and the current was still sufficiently strong to roll him along the bottom.
 After the exploration of the canal at this point. the search was aban- doned for the day and directions were given that all headgates below be