Arizona republican., 1920-08-22
River stona RanhIes

SIOpS RambleS
 M A = The Colorado river has aoout ceased its cutting in the GiIa aney east of the Yuma Ice Company's .Se piant, and from present indications. ehe main channel of the river is swing ing out into the middle of the river he'd neIe seems to be sand bar which mas been thrown up by the river inst olI tne place where the serious cutting mas been done and which has ahout cut of of the water. At any rate the s9eeu or the current has been decreas- ca a great deal during the past few oays ard a great deal of water Is running down the middle of the river instead of at the very bank Of Inc IVer. The road up the Gila valley has been ruined at the place of c,,+ tng. In fact for some hundreds of feet there is no road at all as +ba road and the fence which was on tha west side of the road disappeared into the hungry maw of the river some days ago. The high power line up the Gila river has been moved from its old location and is now some hundreds of feet from the location of the old lire. TWO poles were washed out before tha change in the location of the line was made-Morning Sun
 Sells Woman Own Rinq
 HISBEE-J. K. Kruger, proprietor of the Racket Jewelry store on Brewery Gulch, was arrested yesterday and bound over for trial in the superior court on charge of receiving stolen property The charge arose out of lhe mysterious disappearance of val uaple diamond ring belonging to Mrs Margaret Hoban, buyer in the ladies' ready-to-wear department of the fneips Dodge store, who was offered ner own ring for sale when she went 10 buy one in the jewelry store.
 Mrs. HOban left New York at the conclusion of a buying trip on August ana arrived in Bisbee August 8. She opened her trunk at about Il o'clock that night and found two diamond rings and some Liberty bonds miss ing. There was nothing to indicate at what point in the journey the trunk might have been opened, but Mrs. Hoban went about to find her miss ing property The first place that she went was the Racket Jewelry store on Brewery GuIch, where she pretended that she wanted to buy a diamond ring.
 Among the first rings that were shown to Mrs. Hoban was a valuable diamond ring of her own. She said that Kruger told her he had given a man a watch for it and that it was a bargain at the price he named, $150. Local jewellers called in at the hearing yesterday valued the ring at $200.
 Kruger was bound over for trial in the superior court on $500 bond on the evidence introduced at the hearing Daily Review
 COOK HItS Woman
 GLOBE-A. F. Banicevich, a former cook at the county hospital, charged with assault by Miss Nadine Higdon, was given a preliminary hearing yes- terday morning before Judge H. H. Pratt, and bound over to the superior court under s2000 bond.
 Banicevich, according to Miss Hig- don, hit her in the face with his fist, knocking her down. The other wit nesses, William Miller and George Thomas, painters, who were working at the hospital at the time of the al- leged assault. also testified that Bani- cevich assaulted Miss Higdon in that manner.
 The defendant claimed that Miss Higdon hit him in the face, and that he pushed her away from him and that she fell down and pulled him over on her.
 Miss Higdon is a nurse at the county hospital and the assault occurred last Saturday afternoon.-Arizona Record.
 Range Feels Drouth
 MESA-The desert cattle range, and for that matter, the nearby mountain ranches, are beginning to feel the need of water. Grass is poor and unless rain comes within the next few days will die out entirely. A good rain now would brighten up the pastures until frost Speaking of conditions yester- day, one cattleman stated that unless it rained very soon, he would have tC wean all the larger calves and begir feeding them The mothers are get ting thin and will soon be in no shap, to go through the winter.-SouthCid, Union.
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