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The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1877-09-29
THu f,rontb e GENERAL all over

THE drouth is general all over
the'southwestern part of the Uni
ted States andi extends into Mex
leo. With its effects in the
southern part of California we
have already been made acquaint-
ed through the press. In New
Mexico several cases of starvation
have been reported among the
poorer people. In Sonora cattle
have died by the thousand. In
that country the irrigable land is
owned mostly by the rich, and the
poor depend on raising corn, beans
and vegetables on lands watered
only by the summer rains. This
year the rains have been wanting
and the summer crops are a total
failure. The prospect for the poor
of Sonora is indeed a gloomy one.
In Arizona the drouth has caused
much inconvenience and some
loss, but still nothing disastrous.
There has been, and is grass
enough for all the live stock in the
country. The corn crop has failed
entirely in many parts of Yavapai
county; along the ella, near Flor
ence, water has been too scarce
for successful irrigation of summer
crops, but the regular winter crops
were good and grain is abundant;
Salt river has been lower than
usual, but there has been water to
spare in it all the year through;
the grain crop was large one and
is ample to supply the wants of
the Territory until next harvest.
Mining operations have not been
seriously interfered with by the
drouth, though some of the mills
have been unable to run on full
time. Looked at from all sides
this one fact stands prominent:
that, in spite of the general and
undeserved character given to
Arizona as a desert country, she is
passing througha spasonof general
drouth much more successfully
than neighboring States which it
has been customary to regard as
more highly favored by nature,
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1877-09-29

reached; the sceneof the fight in
the evening" Twelve hostile In
dams were killed and thirteen
captured; ofswhich six have been
brought in~ here and seven lave
been taken to Camp Bowie hy the
troops. The number wounded has
not been ascertained, hut is heliev-
ed TO be large. Six animals were
recaptured and considerable plum
der secured. Why the seven cap
tives were taken 10 Camp Bowie
is hard TO explain, unless upon a
theory that the troops have had
a hard trip.in which they were. as
Usual. just too far behind to take
any share in the fighting done ny
the friendly Indians and are de-
termIned TO enjoy some glory by
exk hitting captives. Those In
dams belong here, will have To
come here and should have been
sent here in the first place. The
telegraph has probably given you
the army version of the affair; the
foregoing is that of the friendly
Indians.
The party Of hoStiles attacked
was that making the largest trail
and was probably the one that has
been raiding around Silver City,
rs two of the captured animals
were recognized and claimed by /;
resident of that place.
The results Of this expedition
under Captain Jim have shown
where and how the renegades are
to he found, and Agent Hart pro-
poses to without delay equip and
send cut after them "A force of %
picked Indians from this rpserva.
ton. The effects of this punish
ment upon the renegades has eX-
erted salutary influence upon
other Indians lately brought in
here and intending to follow the
example of the Warm Spring
tribe. A few more such blows and
the capture of Pon-se-nay and other
scattering outlaws will virtually
put An en6 to the Indian trouble
in this part of the Territory.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1877-09-29

THE Democrats are 10 have \
mass meeting It Phoenix October
9Th, for The purpose Of effecting a
county organization for MaricOpa
county. The usual programme
will be carried out. The Yavapai
Democrats organized, resulted
thanks to the Enterprise and de.
clared that newspaper the party
"Organ. That's what busted ii
and threw it into the hands Of that
sterling old Bourbon De mOcrat.
Hon. Paul Weber. The Maricop,
Democrats ought TO start an "or-
gan" of their own. Their county
is prosperous enough to support d
first class paper. if it wants to.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1877-09-29
Odds and Ends.

SMALL POX 81 reading rapidly
at LAS Vegas. New Mexico.
No term of11he District court
will be held this fall in Mohave
county.
The San Bernardino Argus says
sheep are dying in the mountains
by thousands.
A great ore strike is reported in
the Palmetto claim on the Me-
Crackin lode in MOhave county.
A POsTOFFICE has been estab-
lished at Globe City, Pinal county,
with j. j. Berning Vosburg as
postmaster.
GEN. GEO. B MCCLELLAN has
been nominated for governor of
New Jersey by the Democratic
stare Convention.
The regular hob-tail quail Of the
Mississippi valley is found in the
mountains of Eastern Arizona. .
Until We saw and handled bunch
of them we dI'l not know they
existed this side of the Rocky
mountains.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1877-09-29
Station for Sale.

TheUndersigned offers for sale OATMAN
FLAT Station and toll road, with tools and
every thing complete. Price $500 currency.
A. IL 3m. VIM. FOURR.
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Fort MOhave.

The Enterprise advocates An
abandonment of this post, on the
ground that no danger can be ex-
pected from the Mohave Indians
and that it is too far from the
mountain country to control the
Hualpsis. AS that paper is pub
lished under the shadow of depart
ment headquarters lis views may
be- looked upon as colored 10y those
of the department commander.
and TO that extent they are enti-
tied TO consideration. No imme-
diate danger need be expected
from the Huatpais, hut Fort Mo
have is the only post affording
protection to the entire north
western part of the Territory. Ii
possesses immense advantages AS
a Ease fer any future military op-
erations that may become I eces-
sary in that section. Situated as
it is on the bank of a navigab,e
stream. supplies and reinforce
ments can be landed there by
steamboat at short notice. 1t affords
the only military protection given
to one of the most thriving cOun-
ties Of Ariznna, and should he one
Of the last posts in the Territory
to be abandoned. 1t lies within
easy striking distance of thecoun-
try exposed TO danger from Indian
hOstilIties sand must be maintained
as a base as long as there is an
Indian in the county from whom
danger may be apprehended.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1877-09-29
SAN CARLOS INDIAN POLICE.
Twelve Renegades Killed and Thir-
teen Captured.
SAN CARLOS INDIAN RESERVATION,
SeDtember II 1877

SAN CARLOS INDIAN RESERVATION,
September II, 1877.
SENTINEL: Captain Jim I'm
diam just returned fir IN a fourteen
days scout with party of sixteen
police and three volunteers, all
Indians from this reservation. The
second day out he fell in with a
force consisting of one company
of the Sixth cavalry, under Capt.
Topper, a few soldiers and a. COM
pany OF Hualpai Indians under
Lieut.. Hanna and Dan O'Leary
and a company of San Carlos In
dians under Lieut.. Rucker and
Jack Dunn. The direction of the
campaign was given to the San
Carlos Indians, they being more
familiar with the country and
with the hoStiles' movements.
The whole force then followed the
Warm Spring Indians who, to the
number Of 800, had left the reser
walton Sept 2. The Indian scouts
kept a days marrh ahead of the
troops until the 9Th. when Captain
Jim's little party, with five of
Fuckers San Carlos Indian scouts,
took three days cooked rations
and makinga forced march struck
the hostiles the next day at the
foot Of the MOgoIlOnes above Fort
West. Lieut.. Rucker, Dunn and
O'Leary were close behind with the
rest of the enlisted Indians and
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1877-09-29
The Difference.

This is the way the Union of San
Diego speaks of a matter that vital
lyafects the welfare of Yuma:
We are informed that the United States
Government has injoined the Southern Pa
cifc railroad Company from crossing the
Colorado river with the perisLable impedi-
ment, constructed on piles, which that
company has the assurance to call a bridge,
the completion of which would'act as to-
tai prohibition to all future navigation on
this river. The Government will not be
trified with in a matter so important to
commerce and to the welfare of the people
at large.
Howa "perishable impeachment"
can affect future navigation any
where is a "paddycism" that
would cause smile, but for the
envy and spleen that prompted it.
When San Diego SEEM d to have
some assurance of getting rail-
road, Yuma tossed up its hat and
cried "Hurrah." When railroad
hopes are about being realized at
Yuma, San Diego grumbles and
does its best to defeat them.
The same diff renee in senti-
ment has actuated the officers of
the two railroad corporations in
their actions and expressions here
at Yuma. Tho.e of the Southern
Pacific have never spoken here
unklndly, nor have they sought to
tike any advantage of or to iniure
the prospect here of the Texas
Pacific. With few words they have
just kept right on building their
railroad till it is to-day within 90
feet OF the Arizona bank. Now it
Is published that Col. Joseph U.
crawford, SCOTS agent, takes the
credit OF having instigated cab
met officer to forbid further prose-
cution of work on the bridge until
Congressacts on the matter. Craw-
ford must be as proud of this as
Arizona is grateful to him for it.
Crawford came here in Scntt's
interest last winter and declared
that the only practicable crossing
OF the Colorado river for hundreds
OF miles was at the bluffs; he pur.
chased a strip of land through
town commanding that crossing
and went back to California boast.
ing that bis strategy had compile
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1877-09-29

Tom SCOTT has rented the Chase
mansion at Washington for the
winter. A princely hospitality
will be dispensed to assist The pas.
sage of a bill substituting the Tex
as Pacific Railway. Room will
probably he made somewhere in
the kitchen or servants hall even
Tor the representatives from San
Diego, unless they have already
worn out their welcome at his
quarters in times gone by.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1877-09-29
Good Ranch for Sale

Eighteen miles from Tucson. Chbice
Irrlga6le bottom land, Excellent grazing,
berry. Thirty acres in CORN, Innn;-3 at
Sentinel Office. T1f ~
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From the Citizen.
THE FRYER PROCESS.


This process of working ores,
was all the rage couple of years
ago. 1t was regarded as perfec-
ton. and the lucky Fryer thought
millions cheap price for his right
in fact he would not completely
sell out at my price. Money was
no object to him. 1t has been
about year since we have seen
mention of the process, until now
it appears again as "adOpted by
the government of Chile" and
that the government will imme-
diately apply it to the working of
the ores of the government mines
of that country, and that a COM
pany i'm New York is formed with
capital of several millions to Ope-
rate with it under the patronage
of the Chilean government. This
process is a proven failure by
American miners, although receiv-
ed by them with much favor and
thoroughly tested. 1t cost many
earnest and honest miners much
time and money, and it is a pi y
that it should now be used to blk
others.
Along the valley of the ella and
tributaries, as far west as Clifton,
Arizona, heavy rains are reported.
Near the bridge, the Clifton cross
ing of the ella, the fall of water
was so great as to overflow and
break the banks Of the irrigating
ditch.
The immense value of the Cliff
ton copper region is being every
day more clearly shown. The
heavy shipments of copper made
annually by Fl. Lesinsky & Co.
running into the millions of
pOunds-are now being supple
mented by the product of the fur
naces of MessrS. Sweeney d Glea-
son, of the same Copper Mountain
district. Their first consignment
of three thousand pounds has been
received by [. n. Cohen q Co., of
Silver City, and will be followed
by larger and more frequent ship
ments. This copper is regarded
by experts, as being almost per-
fectly pure and will lose but little
in the process of refining. We
understand that Messrs. Sweeney
q Gleason intend to increase the
capacity of their works by erecting
one of the Bennett patent cupper-
plate furnaces.
Mr.. r. B. Kelley informs us
that he is about to resume work
on his immense mine of lead ore
a few miles west of town. He
finds a m rket in Globe district, it
being needed there in the work.
ing of silver ores.
District Court meets October s,
and Chief Justice French has al
ready set Il number of cases for
trial. Indictments number one and
thee against G.. ID. V. l.ovejoy are
set for the Sth. Deputy United
States Marshal will bring the pri-
Soner fruln Yuma in season for the
trials.
The officers of Company I, Ari-
IONA militia, were commissioned
by Gov. Hoyt on the 10th. Char
les M. Billiard is Captain and Geo.
II. Voolfolk First Lieutenant.
The Company was recently form
ed in the Upper San Pedro Valley.
Adjutant General Hughes receiv-
ed the commissions for these Off
GERS on Thursday of this week.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1877-09-29

A JOINT railroad meeting will
be held at Los Angeles next Mon
day of citizens of Los Angeles,
San Bernardino and San Diego
counties. Just what it may be
expected to accomplish, beyond
venting dissatisfaction, is doubtful.
1t is about time for Yuma to take
part in the railroad demonstrations
INDUCED in by our rural neigh
bOrS.
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DRY GOODS,
CLOTHING,
GENTS FURNISHING GOODS,
HATS, E4f
B0OTSAND SHOES.
DRY GOODS
HARDWARE,

HARDWARE.
FANCY MOTIONS, CUTLERY, CORRECTION
cry, TOBACCO AND CIGARS, LIQUORS.
Miners, Farmers. Transfers. .Boatuen
Families and Saloon Keepers supplied
with everything desired and at prices that
will astonish' the people and surprise the
man who defes competition. Give me q
call and examine my stock before purchase
ing elsewhere. i't-
eenbaclxS Taken at. Par
Goods sold at old gold prices. Five per
cent. allowed for all gold coin. Iean,and
will sell goods at lower rates than any
other merchant in Yuma. Times have.
changed. The railroad has come. Ready
sales and small profits from now on is the
word. Come on with your cash and, try
me. ISAAC LYONS.
National Republican., 1877-01-25
How About Rebel claims:

The American people want to know what
the Democratic House is going 10 do with the
rebel claims. The Judiciary Committee have
had an amendment to the Constitution pro-
hibiting the payment of these claims under
consideration. Their duty was to report the
matter within twenty days. Twice twenty
days have expired, but not word has been
heard from the committee on the subject.
Every time a resolution is presented in the
House demanding them to report on the mat
ter 1t is slaughtered by a strict party vote.
The Northern Democrats deceived the public
by passing the original resolution. They did
1t with bluster and pomp and much exhibition
OF sincerity. That sincerity was fraud and
deception. They were not in earnest. They
dare not report an amendment favorable to
the resolution. They are kneeling to their
Southern allies like = bastinadoed elephant to
his rider They have been cowed by their
Southern friends.
National Republican., 1877-01-25
SUBSCRIPTION Rates.
THUkspAYtll l.,....,,.........JANU Is ls5
The Compronise Forced by Bogus
Claim.

The Democrats have given up all claims on
The doubtful States, except Louisiana. It is
on the action Of the Returning Board Of this
Commonwealth that they are now making
their last struggle for the Presidency. This
will be the positive character of their fight In
the National Returning Board which has been
constructed by the joint commission. On the
points involved in this case they demand q
compromise from the Republican party.
Their claims in this matter are character
lied with bold ellroutcry and unparalleled
impudence. According to law the votes OF the
State must be canvassed and declared by the
Returning Board. 1t is clothed with the
power to reject the votes of precincts which 1t
may deem fraudulent. This power is unques.
toned. The board, according to the law
which constituted It, returned a majority for
Packard and Republican Legislature.
The Democracy determined to make a fight
in Louisiana and carry II into the National
Legislature. They egged the Nichols fac
tion to strife, and counseled them to override
the action of the legally y-constituted tribunal.
assuming to decide for themselves who was
elected In open defiance Of all law in the case.
II Is on this State alone that the Republican
leaders have been forced into q revolutionary
and unconstitutional compromise. They
knew that compromise with this law
deiying banditti, armed and actuated by mob
violence, was puerile and contemplate.
They knew that 1t was against the spirit and
letter of the Constitution. They knew that
II was yielding to an element which had by
truculent usurpation and wanton sedition
destroyed the enfranchised privileges Of . race
which IA looking TO the Republican party for
protection and justice. They knew all these
things, and still yielded to the claims of the
mob. violent faction, endangered q victory
constitutionally won, and entered a maize Of
uncertainty which may lead to complications
fatal not only to the great Republican party,
but to the peace aud safety of the nation.
National Republican., 1877-01-25

a strong speech In the House to day In opposi.
tion TO the compromise plan. Mr.. Hamilton
holds that the new scheme is simply measure
adopted for expcdiency, and not because Il
lie right or just. 1t Is measure which has
been forced upon the Republican Senate by the
menaces Of the Democratic party for the sole
purpose OF msncuyerlng President elect
Hayes out of the position to which he has been
constitutonally elected, He claims that 1t is
not only unconstitutional, but dangerous to
the safety and liberties of the Republic. The
article Is ell worth a careful perusal.
National Republican., 1877-01-25
The Burden of Their Song.

For sixteen years the Republican party has
been victor In peace and war. Amid the roar
aud din OF It's every battle has been heard the
voice of the Democracy, crying Compro-
mise I" Compromise =" Compromise % It
has been their song and their sermon, their
prayer and their wall. Whenever defeat has
stared them In the face they have whined
"compromise " compromise w like an
effeminate child smiling for sugar plum.
When traitors threatened to withdraw from
the Union they cried, "Let US compromise p'
"Iet us compromise "
When the STAKEHOLDER dema anded that the
fugitive slave should be dragged from freedom
back to bondage they moaned, "Concede ~
"Conceds ~
When the slave master, but q few years
ago, hurried his gang Of slaves for sale, male
and female, warranted to breed like cattle
linked to each other by iron fetters, by the
very shadow of the Nations Capitol, and tn,
popular voice of humanity cried out against
the grim and shameful crime, this SAINT
compromising faction whined, CTS rlgh.
lt's right to feed on the flesh and blood Of
human chsttels. We must not interfere with
slavery"
In 1854, when the fierce struggle for ma
tlonal unity shook the Western hemisphere tc
its very foundations, the voices of this party
were heard above the thunders Of artillery
and the noise and shock Of battle, crying
"Compromisc ~ "Compromise " "Com.
omisep
This utterance seems to be It's only stock In
store, for whenever they are beaten or defea
threatens them they Immediately set up th,
piteous wall, Compromise" Compromise ?
"Concede % /" "Concede ~
National Republican., 1877-01-25
what Is the Matter Win Bartlett.

SO far the New York Sun has been silent
oa the compromise bill.
What Is the matter with Bartlett' His
fingers are constantly in Mr.. Tilden's Golfers
surely his brains ought to be active In his in
terests. That is what Mr.. Tilden Is paying
gold into the till Of the SUMS office for.
He ought to get the worth of his money.
Bartlett Is great constitutional lawyer.
In one fell swoop Of his pen he mA Aht
unrayel the mysteries of that immortal
work. But he has not said word about
It. He knows the compromise to be uncon.
stitutionsl, and is quietly, like a sly dog
that he is, waiting until the mixed tribunal
has declared Hayes elected, and then
he will have Mr.. Tilden come before the su.
preme Court with quo ,cdrrdntO, and make
that august body pass upon the constitution
ality of the electoral bill. Bartlett is q sly
foz, and Tildsn's gilded gulneas make him
ALI the more willy.
National Republican., 1877-01-25
Probabilities Of the Vote,

A canvass made Of the Senate yesterday morn
ing shows that the following is very near the re.
suit Of the vote:
For the BHi-Mcssra. AlcOrn, Allison. Blaine,
Booth, Burnside, Bogy, Cameron OF Wis, Barnum,
BayArd. ghaffee, Ch='stianry. Cockrell, Conkllpg,
Cooper, Dawes, Dennis, Edmunds. Frelinghuysen,
GoldMwaite, Hamilton, Howe, johnson, Jones of
fla,. Jones OF New. Kelly, Kernan, Aaxey, Pad
Thurman. Wallace, Whyie, Window, wlthsrs,
Wright and Teller. Total, 30.
Iguina he BiiE-Messr., Boutwell,, Bruce, Cam
eroh OF Pa. Conoyer, Dorsey, Eaton. Ingalls,,
CraEin, Ferry, Merrimon, Mitchell, Morton. Me.
Crary, Patterson, Spencer, Sargent, sherman,
West, Gordon, Morrill, and Stevenson. Total, q.
1t was expected that Blaine would oppose II,
but he has concluded In Its favor, although he
does not believe II Just the thing.
National Republican., 1877-01-25

GEN. BELKNAP has been In Washington since
April last awaiting his trial. No action looking
towards trial Of the case has been taken by the
authorities, although nearly ten months have
elapsed since the indictment. Geu. Belknap has
no doubt that the result Of the case will be favor
able to himself, and as 1t should be promptly
tried or promptly dismissed, he yesterday ad.
dressed the following notice to the District At.
torney, demanding an immediate trial:
District OF Columbia, Criminal Court, &c. United
States of America VS.. VIM. W. Belknap.
Hon. n. II. wells, District Attorney:
SIR! You will please take notice that shall ap-
ply to said court the 10Th day OF January Inst
10 o clock m, as soon thereafter AS the said
court shall convene, for an immediate trial In the
above entitled prosecution.
Yours, &c, WM. W. BRLKSAP.
National Republican., 1877-01-25
Iahn @. HamiIten,. xisws.

On another page will be found very able
article on the electoral bill from the pen Of
John O. Hamilton, the son Of Americas own
Hamilton, the first Treasurer Of the United
States. II Is addressed to Hon. VIM. Law
Senoe, Of Ohio, who, It b expected, will make
National Republican., 1877-01-25

AMENDMENTS are being proposed to the toss
up-penny compromise. The statesmen who have
incubated and Matched the contrivance as an OK.
pediency to bridge over the bloody ohasm claim
that the action Of the mixed tribunal will not be
Influenced by partisan motives. In just classl-
hcaton Of the members Of that tribunal we have
seven Republicans and seven Democrats. The nj,
tesnth man, who is to be Supreme Judge, has
not yet been chosen. He must necessarily be So
lected by lot. There is no American but what
has his political sympathies. The "lot-drawn"
ffth Judge will be either a Republican or Demo-
crat, and he being the odd number will be neces
sarily the majority. Now the way to avoid this
danger will be to let the tribunal be composed Of
the equal number fourteen. with this number
party feeling must be sacrificed to patriotism and
public good In order to arrive at decision. Would
1t not bs wise to drop thefdnh Judge and fight
the contest with equal numbers