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The Arizona sentinel., 1877-04-14
YUMA A. T.. SATURDAY, ApRII, H. s77

dant harvest of ducks in the early morning. Their faith was fully realized On this occasion, for, b.. fore the suns rays had touched the acrid waters, Captain Joe and his band had caught scores of the hapless birds. There is one part of their incantafiOns in which there is obvious virtue. A detail. each with torch or firebrand, Is stationed in or near the fresh water springs on ths edge of the lake, and while singing, dancing and doing other necessary things 10 prOpitiate the Great Medicine, at the same time keep the ducks away from the fresh water. where. otherwise they wOuld br perfectly safe from these raltS of crystals. The principal supply of the lake iS from two immense and bottom less pools or artesian waters lWat- ed quite close to it's edge. The valley itself Is entirely surround ed with nigh mountains, it's soil and general characteristics being nothing unusual 10 the country. But the Indians say no other lake within their knowledge ever affects ducks as does this, not withstanding there are many others whose waters are even more impregnated with salt. bo. rax, etc. in solution. than this ap- pears to be. The Lieutenant brought over quantity of the crystals, which he will submit for scientific analysis, tOe ether with a statement of the effect produced on the birds as here outlined.
 The scientists will have some thing to puzzle their brains for some time, we think. before they educe perfectly satisfactory ex- planatiOn of the phenomena, all the facts considered.-InyO lnde. pendent.
The Arizona sentinel., 1877-04-14
0 A BAR { Is attached to the honse, where the Teay best WInes, Liquors and CtguaY,
 can always be found.
 ISAA AC LEVY. Oct. 2Ist. 1876. If
NOTICE.

To George Islip claimant in the Buckeye Lode first Northern extension in the Castle Dome Mining District, Yuma County, Ari- m.
 You are hereby notified, that if you do not appear within (9O) Ninety days from the date hereof. and pay to George Tyng at the SENTINEL office, Yuma, A. T. your proportion of the expense incurred n the amount of work done on said lode, during the year l-72 to 1878 inclusive. as required by law; tLe undersigned will claim Forfeiture Ofyour interests ID saip lode 10 accordance with the miuing laws now in force.
 LAMPS Nj RARNFY
The Arizona sentinel., 1877-04-14

the heat of the other three mOn- ths, offers the sea bathing of San ta Monica within 15 hours by rail. An atmosphere so charged with ozone and electricity. that you can scarcely brush your hair smooth; an air 30 dry. that wood. en kegs don't hold molasses. yet at an elevation of only 120 feet above sea level-good, solid, un- rarified dry air for weak lungs tn get oxygen and ozone from, with out painful distension; rare rains and no fOgs. Right here in Yuma County you have a perfect sanita- rum, grand agricultural resources and excellent mining prospects,. Any one of these would build up a State; yet there are old resi- dents here, who affect to discre dit all this; men who will wake up at no distant day to realize their short sigh.edness, when they see later corners growing rich OH the very means they now spurn. Enough of Us appreciate the good country into which we have drop ped, but we fall short of the duty, we owe others and ourselves, of disseminating this knowledge to bring others here to share our good fortune. The SENTINEL will do it's best and gratefully accept and scat CT information about Yuma County; but your duty lies in sending this Information to others and bringing them here for their benefit and that of your county.
The Arizona sentinel., 1877-04-14
Metallurgical I'm dicasOr.

This is the high sounding name given to new invention in San Francisco. It's advertisement says:
 In the hands of the inventors and prOprietors, it not only indi- cates the precise location of the precious metals, but the particu. lar kind. the extent and applOxi- mate value"
 This seems to be something got. ten up to run an opposition to the "HOUdOO stick, that the hOyS have been using at Castle Dome aud in the Globe District. If this new machine can do what Is claim ed, the owners would not be ad- vertising for business they would have too good thing in finding covered lodges for themselves.
The Arizona sentinel., 1877-04-14
Yuma.

 A turbid river rolls along
 In haste to join the sea-- From burning lances of the sun To br at length get free. From down the south comes Gila there To join the flowing tide; To ColoradO's sturdy food
 A welcome, willing bride. Where here the rivers mingle now Their two lone lives in one, T, On Arizoua's tOrrid side
 A higher lie has just begun. The arid sands and mesas bare. Frown hrrcrly though they may. The feet of marching enterprise Are pCwerless to stay. The couq' Tor, man has set his stakes Upon the desert earth; Ana, spite of sun and wind and drouth, Evolved nobler birth. And Yuma rises at his call
 To don her fair array The gateway 0t the Southern land Grown migbtier than to-day. The desert shall beimade to bloom And blOssOu as the rose; Tbe fig supplant the cactus thorn And frIends replace mans foes. The iron coursers of the land Shall come with wak'ning tread, And Yumo's future brightly beams, By trude and commerce. led. Written tor the SENTINEL by Mir. Jasper Packard of the La Porte Chronicle, ,lndiuna, who has paid us a weeks visit.
The Arizona sentinel., 1877-04-14
Advertise Your Territory.

We quote the following from oneOf many letters constantly re- ceived, and all of the same tenor |: i've want information as to the means of getting oyour Territory. it's condition and business facilities generally. We are flooded with
 pamphlets, describing Colorado, Kansas. Texas and other States. but get nothing about Arizona. !" This letter was from Pennsylvania and also speaks of the general interest felt in matters relating to our country. Different sections of California have been kept be- fore the United States by the activity of residents in circulating their newspapers among their friends and acqnaintances back in the East. See how much Sta. Barbara owes to the "PreSs" and san Diego to the Unio', and World.
 Hundreds of people have come into California, bought homes and settled down, who were first in. duced to come by reading local papers distributed among them by the pioneer residents. AriZO- mans act, as if they were ashamed of their country, or as if they did not intend to stay in 1t themsel- yes. Few among them correspond regularly with their relatives back in the East, much less send them papers, ,or other information, for which they are really hungry
 Compare AriZona with Nevada. Our mines promise better and more than hers did, before capital opened them. Nowhere has she -uch grazing, as can be shown by
 Yavapai and Pima Counties. No. where in Arizona can be found
 such deserts as aff1ict Nevada. Here in places the thermometer gets up to 110 in the shade; there it goes down to 20 below zero. She can boast no such forests, as are displayed on the MoYolloDes range. Yet Nevada is 8 State,
 rich and prosperous. A railroad helped her; it will now help us. Scarcely a cubic yard of gravel from the watershed in Yuma County, of the Gila and Colorado rivers, can be washed without exposing from one to many colors of gold. Along both these rivers and within Yuma County are i'm.
 mense areas of fertile land, sus. ceptible of irrigation and that is still unoccupied; land that has been proved inferior to none for sugar cane, coffee, oranges, figs, grains, vegetables and fruits. Here in Yuma County we have a climate that for nine months of the year has no equal on earth, I|:::..zi..st for those Wno 6
The Arizona sentinel., 1877-04-14
A Wonderful Lake.

We have more than once heard of the wonderful properties of the Waters of Deep Spring Valley Lake, but, until the present, not with sutficIency of detail to g,ve the story full credence. Lieut.. WeiheropOon, Co. D., 12th U. 5. Infantry, in cOmnand Of the releif party for Captain Joe's Indians, passed several days last Week in the valley and bears witness to the literal truth of the remarkable phenomena. These are, that at certain times the ducks, which visit the lake iu great numbers, becUme so loaded uUWn with crys tallizatiOus of bOrax, salt, or some similar substance that they are utterly unable to fly, and While in this condition become an easy prey to the Indians, who wade into the water and pick them up in their hands. In fact, this subs tance often collects upon the birds bills in such weight as to actually drag their heads under Water and drown them. As asserted by Mir. Beasely and family, who have lived near the lake for years. the ducks are often loaded with seve raj pounds weight of this substan- ce-not less than ten pounds in some instances. During the first stages the crystals are quite even ly disposed over all the birds feathers above water, sticking them together as firmly as II glued. Then it accunIulates in lunches or strings forming drags or rafts with which the bird can swim but sloWiy, if at all, and ii formed from the bill or head, soon causes it's death by drowning.
 The specialization always takes place in the ght time and entire- ly disappears after d few hours exposure to the morning sun, or in border of the lake. The cOndI. tiOns necessary to produce the crystals in this manner are no less remarkable. It occurs during the Spring months only, and only on clear nights with north wind; never on cloudy nights or with the wind from any other quarter than the north. The lake, which is about a mile and a quarter in length and perhaps mile in with is not over three feet in depth at the deepest. Strong winds, no matter from what direction, agi- tate it's waters to the bottom, glv- ing them d milky or yellOwish cast. If this effect was produced by the, dessicating north winds exclusively, it might afford some clue to the cause of the extensive specialization at such times, but it is not; other winds stir the gaS- es from the bottom quite as much or more than that.
 During the Lieutenants stay in the valley the wind one night was from the north but the sky was overcast; as fOretOld by Captain Joe, no ducks were caught next morning. The following night the wind was from the same point, but there were no clouds. On such occasions the Indians spend the entire night in singing andiD their peculiar incantat;ons, in full faith that thlsy tnhii insure An abun-
The Arizona sentinel., 1877-04-14

We see by the Salt Lake papers that large numbers of MOfnOno are being sent out to form set dement's on the line from St George to Mexico, some in Arizona and some in Mexico itself. This apparently means railroad build ing in that directiOu.-Sdn Ber- 9fTIinO IIi1sey.
The Arizona sentinel., 1877-04-14

The first printing press in Am erica was set up in Mexico, in l536. next in Peru, in l586;i Cambridge; :; Mass, in l639; in New London !; Conn.,. in l709; in Charleston, 5, C. in l730. The first press west of the Alleghanles Was in Cincinnati 17S3; the first west of the Missis- sippi, at St. Louis. in 1808-The St. Louis Republican.
The Arizona sentinel., 1877-04-14

Mir. B. V. Wardwell has just arrived Tn Los Angeles from Northern Arizona. He reports the pasturage as first-class in that section. He encountered numer- Ous flOcks of sheep on their way to Arizona pastures from points as far north as Santa Cruz.-L. A.. HeT0Id.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-11-22

The Cream City (Wis.) Courier
makes this point on the Republicans:
The Wisconsin and the Sentinel en-
phatically stated before election that
the democratic platform called for IT.
redeemable paper money the same as
the greenback platform. We will see
if they are willing to stick to their as
sertions now that the combined green
back vote, for Mallory and Allis, out
strips the republican vote by more
than 35. 900. Let us see how much
they will clamor for what they call
honest money. Mighty honest it is
when the poor are robbed to pay an
unjust interest into the hands of aris-
tocratic money-sharks whose only
ambition is to devise thieving schemes
to extort money from the general peo-
people through the cloak of taxation,
and when the voice of the laboring
classes rebukes them with overwhelm-
ing greenback votes they cry out, dis
franchise the poor, they vote away
our money for public improvements.
Shame on such rascalS.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-11-22
SUPPORT YOUR OWN NEWS
PAPERS.

The Indianapolis Sun contains these
wise words, which the Greenbackers
Of Minnesota would do we'll to care
fully consider:
The Independents must learns to depend
on their own press and drop all others -
SAMUEL SINNETT.
chow slow the people are to learn
their power. Is there any man SO
innocent and unsophisticated as to
believe that specie resumptionist or
national banker will subscribe for and
support greenback paper! Bankers
and bondholders know who serve
their interests best and they stand by
their friends. The people are not so
wise. If the farmers. mechanics.
workingmen and merchants Of the
country. who are opposed to the Re-
sumption Act. the National Banks,
would stop taking the papers that an
tagonize their interests, and throw
their patronage in the hands of green
back papers, an upheaval and revolu-
ton would occur inavery few months
They would close the mouths of their
enemies. They would create ppb-
lie sentiment in three months ,khat
would overwhelm the robbers. Why
do they buy and read the stuff that
the bondholders stick under their
noses! Why do they continue to
furnish the chains that bind theml
Why will they continue to apply the
torch to their own homes. Remem.
ber, it makes no difference whether
you believe what you read in the bul.
lion press or not. The ultimate effect
is the same. You help furnish the
means that enables your enemies to
deceive somebody else, and aid tC
throttle the cause in the success OF
which you are vitally interested
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-11-22
jim BiKER .iNSWERED.

During the recent canvass the illus
tious Jim Baker told the people that
there was no intention to destroy the
greenback, but that as soon as it was
paid off it would he issued again, and
so on I'D infnitum;unti the same debt
had been paid over and over again a
hundred times
Garfield, who can spread himself
over more. surface and cover fewer
facts than any sman in the United
States, used the same argument the
other day in Congress. He said:
1.-The advocates of resumption
did not propose to destroy the green.
back, but to dignity and glorify it.
The law was not to destroy but to re.
duce the volume of greenbacks to
$4,000, 100000, and to make that
amount convertible into coin. The
drift of his speech was that the es
sence of the present struggle is on the
one hand to make the greenback bet
ter and on the other to make ii
worse.
Whereupon Mr.. Hewitt, Democrat
NJ. c. from New York proceeded tx
agree with Garfield as to resumption
but to puncture his argument as tx
the greenbacks. He said:
"Mr. Hewitt, of New York, said h,
had prepared speech upon the bill
before the house, but the gentleman
from Ohio (Garfield) had travelled al
most the same ground which he hat
intended to take. He concurred full,
in what the gentleman had said in re
gard to the necessity of adherinl
firmly to the policy of resumption
He differed from the gentleman in on
Or two respects, mainly in this, tina
he dissented from the doctrine tina
the greenback could erer be re-issued
He believed that when a debt Ud
paid it acds paid forever, AND TIL
GREENBACK ONCE CANCEL
ED COULD NOT BE RE-ISSUED.
So much for Jim Baker.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-11-22

Here is an item on that very Curl
Gus and interesting question:
power of the witch-hazel to indicate
water. We have seen some things
that lead us to believe in it:
The lie Sueur Sentinel says
An instance is vouched for where
the so-called ''water-witch" has DEM
onstrated his hidden power. On the
farm of James Maloney, in Tyrone
township. after l.. F. Rogers. who
had dug numerous wells in the vicini-
tv. had bored down 100 feet without
finding water. Mr.. NJ. concluded to
employ B. F. Carson. of this place, a
.water-witch." to point where water
could be found. Mr.. Carsan pointed
to three plrces. in either of which he
claimed water could be found. One
of these places, where Mr.. C. said
water would be found at depth OF
from SO to 40 feet, was tried. and q
vein of water was struck at "a feet
and a larger one at a feet, within 81
| feet of the failure to find water at :
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-11-22
473; 1856, $40, ,424 157; 1860, $36, ,753, ,4Os 1866
5l27 ,3l8 1870, $86, SAC, $40: 1916, 1918 855.,

473; 1866, $40, ,424, 157; 1860, $36. .753 4O8 1861
$45, 1877 1913; 1870, $86, SAC, ,9lO 1916, 1918 855.
743
Population-l85O, $3.50; 1860, 172. .O22. 1861
25O, ,O99; 1870, ,7O6; 1876, 597 ,4O7: 1877,
675, 600.
Three Thousand Six Hundred Common
Schools-COmmon school fund three and a
half million dollars. School lands sold and
unsold, two sections in every township If
sold as heretofore, will realize ten millions of
dollars.
Government Lands-Adults, male or female,
can have 100 acres free by five year. s resi-
dence, and 100 acres more by planting 40
in amber in four years-not liable for past
debts
Railroad lands can be secured at present
from eight cents upwards by settlers first
buying the stock and bonds OF the companies.
They can be bought also Oh long time at low
interest, at from Il TO 81 Ar here.
ular resorts for invalids. No fever and ague,
incipient consumption.
Death Rate Minnesota. | to every 155;
Kansas. to "a; Texas, to Ga; Nebraska, |
to IS: Missouri, l to 81; Massachusetts, l to
81; United States, to IA England, to 46.
Average deaths to 900 the world over, % ;
average in ST. Paul, 1867, IL, (otficial)
Exemption Laws-Eighty acres, or one lot
and house, with furniture, tools, farm mple-
ments, etc., exempt.
We would advise our readers to send
for some of these envelopes and use
hem~wheneyer they write to cores
pendents outside of the State.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-11-22

The terrible sufferings of the peo-
pie, in the eastern states, even of
men of education and culture.-are
illustrated in the following extract
from Philadelphia paper
On Monday evening a tall. WELL
dressed, man registered in the New
England Hotel as Herman Hirst of
New York. At IL o'clock he descend
ed to the office and said he was going
out to hear two new German tunes,
and went to the Atlantic Garden. He
returned to his room about an hour la
ter. At l o'clock he called for the
chambermaid and asked for drink Of
water, saying that he was dying with
thirst. The proprietor of the hotel,
suspecting that all was not right,
went to the room at 4 o'clock and
found Hirst dead, but the body was
warm. On Hirst's person was found
a letter from Prof. J. R. jacques OF
Albert College, Belleville, Canada,
saying that but for the professorshir
of language not becoming vacant as
was expected, the faculty would IA
vorably consider Hirst's application
for the position. There were several
collegiate diplomas, and photographs
of a man and IA woman in his posses
sion. He had only twenty cents
Near his bedside was found a package
of Paris green.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-11-22

"a burned child breads the fire."
The Minnesota democrats will know
better another year than to make
common cause with the little band of
impracticables in Donnelly's leading
strings. 1t wasn't paying invest
ment. Minneapolis Tribune.
What has the Democracy lost by
nominating Mr.. Banning! The state
is republican anyhow. Suppose they
had nominated hard-money demo-
crat;-does any one believe they could
have elected himl Mr.. Banning re-
ceived thousands of republican votes,
but he lost the votes of good
many hard-money democrats. Was
that our faultl
The republican newspapers are
very solicitous that the Democracy
should not take up greenback doc
trines. They are afraid it might de
feat them; and if there is any ont
thing in the world the Republican.
would hate to see it is the Democracy
defeated Hence these tears.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-11-22

In Mower county the Greenback
vote was larger than the Democratic
vote, and nearly one-half as large as
the Republican vote. Here are the
figures;
For Lieutenant Governor: Wake
field (Rep.) 1857; Meighen Green
back 500; Ames Dem) 45l.
For Secretary of State: Irgen rep.
l,426; Rice (Greenback) 5O2; Linholm
(Dem.) 435.
For State Treasurer: Pfeander( Rep)
l4l2; Staples (Greenback) SOP; Meagh-
er (Dem.) 452.
Mr.. Banning received 900 votes
while the rest of the Democratic
ticket received but 450 votes.
And yet the fools say the Green
back party has no strength.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-11-22
A VALUdBLE IMMIGRATION
DOCUMENT.

The Chamber of Commerce of st
Paul has prepared the following COM
pendulum of facts in reference to the
growth and advantages of Minnesota;
and White, Stone & Co. of st. Paul,
have printed about half million
envelopes, at cost of only ten cents
per thousand above the price of blank
envelopes, with those statistics print
ed on the back of the same:
The wheat crop of 1877 is estimated at forty
million bushels, averaging over - bushels
per acre-five millions more than any other
State.
The estimates of the crops OF other States
are as follows: Illinois, IS, 0O0, ,0OO bushels;
Iowa "a ,OOO, 900; New York 14,OUO, 600; Penn
sylvania 10000, 600; Wisconsin 2, 00O, 600
Ohio q, 900 900; Indiana q 600 600: Callfornis
Is 900 CO. Kansas Il, 900 ,O00 Missouri 16, 600,
600; United States 675, 600 600.
| Railroads in Operation-ln 1882, 10 miles
1870, 1,092K; 1876, I,S76; 1877, 2,l09; 81
built this year
Increase Of Wealth = Assessed-166O,t 1905,
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-11-22

Although Mr.. Bishop, the Demo
cratic candidate, is elected governor
by majority of the votes cast in
Ohio, he has by no means received the
votes of a majority of the electors.
VIM. Allen in 1875 received $4,000
more votes than Bishop. The Dem
ocrats did not all vote for Mr.. Bish.
op; nor all the Republicans for West.
Bishop is evidently minority gov.
ernor. The Greenback vote, on the
other hand, increased in Ohio. from
1853 votes for Peter Cooper to 10000
for the Greenback and Workingmen'
candidate, increasing the vote at the
rate of 1000 per cent.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-11-22
The Greenbackers of Olmsted cou

The GreenDackerS OF OlmSted cOun-
ty polled a very respectable vote.
Here are some of the figures. we take
from the vote given for Mr.. Roberts,
candidate for secretary of state on
the Greenback ticket: Byron, 2; Cas-
cade, s; Pennington, 9; Kalmar, %;
Rochester township, "A: Rochester
city, p; High Forest, SO; Pleasant
Grove, 90; Quincy. 8; Viola, p.
In Pleasant Grove, the home of our
old friend @. II. Page, the vote stood
Wakefield 81; Ames I; Meighen,
(greenbacker) 9S; or majority of "a
over both the other tickets. In High
Forest township the vote stood as fol-
lows, republican 80, democrat 40,
greenback So.
These results show what could be
accomplished in every county in the
state if we had the men in each town
ship to make the necessary canvass.