Arizona citizen., 1877-12-21
Items from Yuma sentinel.

The Board of Supervisors has ex- tended the time for payment of taxes until Wednesday, January 9, 1878.
 The Signal mill shipped SOO pounds of silver, 970 fine, December z:
 It is officially announced that after December 15, 1877, steamers will leave Yuma every Saturday about noon, for Aubrey and way landings; at least one steamer a month will leave for Mohaye.
 A force of forty Chinamen has been kept at work grading down the hill be- hind the steamboat office, preparatory to laying down a passenger platform and runaway for unclaimed baggage, down to the warehouse of the railway.
 Divine worship was held last Sun day at the court house by Rev. MT. White. Audience small, partly from want of notice and partly because of rival attractions of the Feast and of an acrobatc performance at the Yuma Exchafge.
 Zeckendorf Bros. of Tucson are re- ceiving 100 bags of almonds and other nuts, besides large lots of fancy gro ceries. Looks as if Tucson has a few dollars left for luxuries.
 Up to date we have not had frost here, to say nothing of ice. The official record of Yuma's mean winter temper ature places it at about 60; the of ficial record of the mean temperature of our hottest months last summer puts it at 92.
 As we go to press it is raining beayi- | ly. The wind and clouds have been coming from California and give req son to believe the drought there is at an end. Arizona depends too much on California, for capital and assist ance, to feel indifferent to her wei. fare.
 John P. Cum, of THE CITIZEN, has been doing the Globe country. We bet he obtained many subscribers. He is quite popular in that section among the old settlers, who knew him well while he was Agent for the San Carlos Indians and who fully endorsed his administration of that position.
 Extensive deposits of cobalt ores have been discovered near the southern line of Yuma county. Some fifty pounds of specimens brought in here were pronounced to be coal, though the mineral sharp of the Sentinel thought It was black oxide of copper. Professor Thomas Prce, of San Fran cisco, pronounces it cobalt and tells coal prospectors to pound up their specimens; if the powder is black it may be coal, otherwise it can not.
 Col. James NJ. Barney this week shipped 10000 pounds freight to Tue son by Appel's tram, which pulls out today, and also 10000 to Mcdowell by Buckalew. MT. David Neahr shipped 52, ,000 pounds of the Tip Top machin- cry by J. Contreras and Buckalew's trains, leaving today. French Steve's train got in yesterday and will at once load for Globe district. Gardner and Deguerre's trains are soon due with loads of rich silver orc from Globe, shipped by J. CollIngwood & O., of Florence. On Thursday, Neahr ship ped 12,500 pounds of wool to San Francisco and yesterday several tons of high grade silver rock.
 George Volner and John Ryan, con- victs in the penitentiary, escaped Wed nesday afternoon, but both were re- captured.
 November 6, A. Lange of Gila City was forced into a difficulty with an impertinent Mexican, and shooting oc- cured in which one Zeferino Lopez was shot and soon after died. The grand jury indicted Lange for man. slaughter, and the trial jury acquitted him. Lopez first drew a pistol and made threats which at stations along the road, if not always elsewhere, justifies the promptest and most effect i've work by the threatened party.