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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-03-20
THROUGH FREIGHT.

G:l5.P NJ, Arrives AT Richmond TUESDAY
THURSDAY. and SATURDAY. Con-
meets with steamer al West Poct from
Baltimore CONNECTS with R!clronf
and Danvic. RChmon! and Pcters-
burg. aud Chesapeake AMI ONO rail-
roads.
LOCAL PASSENGER.
l 600 A. NJ Arrives nj Richmon daily except SUE,
day. Connects with Richmond anu
Petersburg aud ChcSapcaNc aaI V"I'
railroads.
LOCAL FREIGHT.
400 p. NJ. Arrives at Richmond MONDAY. WEp-
NESDAY. aud FIR DAY. '9I
meets 1t West Point with steamer l'1'
from Ma.tap0ni and PTnilink"!-F'e'
Landings.
No transfer OF freight al Richmond 30 or from
southern points. Cars run through Between Al-N'''
and West Point. 49,, ,,.. -,,ss
Careful handling aud dispatch. with lowest ra'eS'
guaranteed. ., .,..,,t -a,e,.
Through bills OF laiiug. with guaranteed F"'es'
issued TO all northern aud western points. a..
Through tickets sold Ia all northern, casS 49,, i" 49,"
western points. and baggage checked tirvush. ~,
For tickets apply at General Railroad Let ,nd
ace, $50 Main street; at the Exchange hosfiin an
company'S depot, corner Twrnty-Ihird sua p'>"
'' ia e n. II. DOUGLAS. Superintendent.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-03-20
RICHMOND, IoEK RIVER AND CHHSprtsrJ
RAILROhn. I
OF TRAINS.

RICHMOND, YoEK RIVER AND CHNSrEsKgy
" RAILROAD.
SCHEDULE OF TRAINS.
THROUGH PASSENGER.
800 p. N. Leaves Richmond r ESDAY, THUR
DAY. and SATURDAY. Conntcsa i,
West Point win steamer IIayau2 for
all points on York river and Rll,l.
more. Arrives in Bll'imorr az $ A.
": connects with raii.lines for W..h-
lngton. Philadelphia. New York. Boz
ton. and all western point Connects
at Richmond with trains on Richmond
and Petersburg AMI Chesapeake aud
ohio railroads.
THROUGH FREIGHT.
500 4. N. Leaves Richmond TUESDAY. TIL Rs
DAY. AID SATURDAY. Connects
with steamers 1t West Point for river
landings Baltimore AMI all western
points. Connects at Richmond With
Trains on Richmond and ianyc rail-
road. Richmond and Petersburg and
Chesapeake and Ohio RAILROADS.
LOCAL PASSENGER.
800 L. 81. Leaves Rich,nol! daily except sum
day.. -.
LOCAL FREIGHT.
700 A. NJ Leaves Richmond MONDAY WE'D
NESDAY. and FRIDAY. Con.
meets at Wt~t .Poiu, with steamer Ns
for all landings Oh llattaprni aud Ia.
munkey rivers.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-03-20
BY NJ. Bales, Auctionecr,
Ills Main street


GRUBBS & WILLIAMS, Auc,ioneers. NH 16
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-03-20
DEPARTURE~OF STEAMERS.

GRuBBs C WILLIAMS. Auctionccrs.
NH IL, 17&td -as@.#
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-03-20

DARK WANTED.-FIVE HUNDRED
- CORDS SPANlSH-OAk and CHESTNUT
OAK BARK wanted. Inquire ut Manchester Tan
merry and Sunlac Mills or ut Sumac and Bark Mills
corner of Seventh street and canal Richmond, Va
NH 5-1m JOHN p. HULST.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-03-20
WANTS.

WANTED, n SMALL HOUSE and
w LOT, or VACANT LOT, in good neigh
borood located west of First, not north of Clay or
'o'in Va 0' - 81. j. T.. APPERSON,
NH oo.2t .#-- Real Estate Agent.
The Arizona sentinel., 1877-12-15

THE copper mlnes ot .,ionteZuma district, adjoining Castle Dome and some 40 miles from here are once more beginning to at tract attention. The low price of copper and the cost of transportation have kept these mines in the back ground for many years. But the arrival of the railroad is making available their stores of metal. As is common with copper lodges, near the surface they carry ores in great variety, but copper glance and brown silicates seem to be the prevailing ores. Some of these mines occur in long streak of micaceous schist less than mile wide at its widest part Through this schist the copper veins run in all directions. Close by are some heavy copper ledges, on which only assessment work has been done, but which which are remarkable for carrying coarse gold. Col Barney, of the Silver King, used to carry a pocket specimen from one of these lodges WHICH pore d SOlu SpcCliicH "OiSHlhS "' least SIP, and gold button of about the same weight, which was run out by Win P. Miller in making an assay from the same mine. We have not seen that district for several years, but to the best of oul recollection the gangue of the ledges with in the schist streak is quartz, while o those outside of it, it is lime spar of variou: kinds. The copper and gold specimens from that district in the SENTINEL cabine are carried in gangue of gyysum. Int Ysabel mine, Montezuma district, was thi' 1 week sold for 5000.
The Arizona sentinel., 1877-12-15

RAILROAD improvements have moved slowly this week, number of the mechan- ics being off duty until plans are received here for setting up steam windlass and platforms for loading the steamers. The same boiler will probably pump water for the tanks. A force of forty Chinamen has been kept at work grading down the hill behind the steamboat office, preparatory to laying down passenger platform and runway for unclaimed baggage, down to the warehouse. The dirt excavated is car fied across the river and there used in fill ing in around the end oi the bridge. The same force of Chinamcn will level up Mad ison avenue, along the track, and then bt sent to excavate rock, for rip-rapping tht bridge piers, at point about half way be tween Pilot Knob and Ogilby station.
The Arizona sentinel., 1877-12-15

EXTENSIVE deposits of cobalt ores have been discovered near the southern line Of Yuma county by L, A. Smith 6 Bros. Some 5 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, both of which it somewhat resembled. Its lamellar structure conveyed the idea of Ignite. Prof. Thomas Price. of San Francisco, pro- nounces it cobalt and tells coal prospec- tors to pound up their specimens; if the powder is black it may be coal, otherwise it can not be. This cobalt deposit is such an enormous one, that we have hunted up the following information about this metal. It rarely occurs ill metallic state, but is usually found in combination with sulphur or arsenic and of light gray color. In Missouri and South Carolina it occurs as a | black oxide in combination with black oxide of manganese and, as Dana describes it, Smiths specimens fill the bill exactly This ore is frequently mistaken for black oxide of copper; it is soluble in muriatic acid; breaks down into gray powder; in masses it has the resinous lustre of some forms of coal and usually carries about 4C per cent of cobalt. It gives deep blue color to borax bead under the blow pipe The entire annual consumption does moi greatly exceed 1000 tons. According tC all accounts Smiths cobalt croppings alone would supply the world for years: It is only used, to any considerable extent, bl glass makers, enamelers, painters, paper makers and for making colors. With alum it is made into blue colors; with magnesia rose; with zinc, green; and with nitric acid, red. If any man wants to make { corner on the cobalt market, here is hi
 chance, right here in Yuma.
The Arizona sentinel., 1877-12-15
The GiIa City Homicide.

November 9th, A. Lange was sitting Tn chair tipped back against his house at Gila City. A number of MeXicans clme up and Lange asked Jesus Cos, who lived near him, how many melons he had left. SefeIino Lopez spoke up and said: "He has got all that you can buy" Lange said in Spanish "Why do you talk that way to me? I was not speaking to you" Seferi- no, who had heen squatu g down, jumped up, drew his pistol and said; "You can't jaw me, if you are in your own house." At the same time Lange sprang up and ran into his louse and Seferino took po- sition near the corner. When Ldnge came to the door with shotgun, both fired at once. Lopez missed and jumping on his mare rode of, pistol in hand Lange's fire put load of quail shot into horse tied near the corner. Lange then ran inside around the house. Lopez was seen to reel in his saddle when galloping of, at dis :ance of 40 or D yards from the house. He was not seen again till eight days after wards, when his body was found in the willows at the edge of the river, about 400 wards from the station. His pants and drawers had been taken off and were lying near him; also his pistol. His ht rse has been recovered, but the saddle and bridle have disappeared. One hand was slightly wounded with fine shot and a hole, an inch and half across, was knocked through him from butt to groin. Lange was first indicted for murder in the second degree. It being explained to the Grand Jury that they had no business with the degrees of murder, they indicted him for manslaught- CT. The second indictment being defective was qaashed on motion of the District At | torney, under direction of the Court, and the Grand Jury took another turn at it On the trial the prosecution failed to show that any one saw Lange fire the fatal shot or that Lopez could net have been killed
 by some one else. The jury brought ill q
 verdict of Not Guilty. Lopez used to keef
 the station at New River, on the San Diego
 road, and at the time of his death, wa;
 keeping station on the Sonora road, neal
 the boundary. The tragic record of all th'
 stations along the Gila road makes station
 keepers very prompt in meeting apparer
 attacks. It is not so very long since ,hre'
 men were murdered at the next station t'
 Lange's, at Mission Camp. The fate O
 Jim Williams of Mohawk, of Ed. Lumle
 at Keryons, of Whistler and the hostler a Berke's, of the entire family at Bluewate and of others along the road is still too fresl in men's minds to admit of allowing a des
 perado to get away, pistol in hand, afte making one bluff with it, without reachin out after him with such weapons as a pro |, tecting Providence may have placed in ou hands. But the jury said Lange did nc
 kill him anyhow.
The Arizona sentinel., 1877-12-15
"Intense Heat" at Ynma.

We learn that the weather was so cold on the desert night before last that the cars which arrived at Yuma yesterday morning were covered with icicles.
 That is what the Los Angeles Herald says and it is about as correct as the com mon reports of our summer climate. Up to date we have not had frost here, to say nothing of ice. The official record of Yuma's mean winter temperature places it at about 50; the official record ot the mean temperature of our hottest months last summer puts it at 92.
The Arizona sentinel., 1877-12-15
Recaptured.

On Wednesday afternoon a wagon load of young men on a lark, with music and stimulants, was driven onto the Peniten- liary grounds, Tn violation of rules. The attention of the guards was attracted by the unusual occurrence and two convicts, working at the blacksmith shop, slipI ed down over the hill and broke for the will low timber across the Gila. Immediate pursuit resulted in the speedy capture of George Volner, of Prescott, ard better known as Bismark." The other convict John Ryan, also from Prescott, was car tured the next day at Las Flores, ab, ut Is miles from here. A gate should be put across the road leading to the Peniten tiary grounds and no passage allowed, ex cept to teams authorized to enter.
The Arizona sentinel., 1877-12-15

FROM Captain Polhamus, who left the Cocopah at Chimehuevi valley on the 7tE, on her way up the river, we learn that the last of the machinery for the new Me Crackin 20 stamp mill left the river at Aubrey on the 9th and has long ere this been delivered at the mill site. MT. Wool ley, who has been for years engaged in putting up quartz mills in Nevada, vert up on the Cocopah to Aubrey on his way to McCrackin. He will superintend the putting together of the machinery. Harry Knowles had got his quartz mil up at Elm pire Flat and got steam on her for the firs time on the 9th, and started up to try things and get them into running order By this time he is regularly at work. Pol hamus says the mill is a perfect beaut, and equal to anything of the kind he eve saw. There were over 100 tons of quart on the mill dump, just lousy with gold and Pol. thinks it will not take Knowle long to pound out fortune if he can ge much more of that kind of rock. Knowles machinery for dressing copper ores ha not yet been put up.
The Arizona sentinel., 1877-12-15

THE Colorado sails to-day with passen- gers and freight for Aubrey and way ports as follows:
 xxx, package; L G, 1; M G c, 29; P 6 7; P & P, 16S; M L P, 56; T, B. M B 1; A c s, 251; K Bros, 56; N &Co,2; M G, 5; OL w, IA; A J B, 12; L P N & Co, 8; J M c, 3; McC M Co, 291; NJ Go, 196i B K & Co, 66; T c B, g.; J c & Bro, 31; l. F, 53i J c c, 20; F G P, 1; w T s, 6; L l., 1; J s $, 9: P W, 1; M 70, 1; N A G, l. MIG, ?; E F, 4; ] s P & Coz; w F x Co, 4; P M Co, f; B, 8; G c, 10; J R D, 1; T J G, 1; A & R9.
 Much of this freight is to be landed at Ehrcnberg for Prescott.
The Arizona sentinel., 1877-12-15
Sherin's Sale.
County of Yuma, ss Territory of Arizona. ''

County of Yuma, 60
 Territory of Arizona.
 By virtue of an execution issued out of the District Court, Second Judicial District, Territory of arizona, in and for the county of Yuma, a ainst the Colorado Commercial and Land Company, tested on the 7th day of December, A. D. 1875, for the sum of eleven hundred and sixteen (S1116) dollars, together with three hundred and thirty-one 75- 100 (S33175) dollars, costs and disbTse; ments at the the date of said judgment, and accruing costs, have siezed all the right and title which the said Colorado Commer- cial and Land Company had on the twenty: third day of October, A. D. 1877, Of, in, and to the following described premises, which I shall expose for sale as the law directs, at the Court House ill the town and county of Yuma Territory of Arizona, on Saturday, the 18th day of December, A. D. 1877, at lO o'clock a. m of said day, all that certain real estate described as follows; to-wit: Five Leagues of Land, bounded on the north, west and south by the Colorado river, east by vacant land, being the property claimed by said Land Company, commence | ing at the junction of the Gila river with the Colorado river, in front of Fort Yuma, and following the natural course of the Colorado river to the ancient Mexican ford of said river, known as the "PasO de los | Algodones," the eastern side of said grant | being line drawn from the junction of said river to said Mexican ford; said land | being in the county of Yuma and Territory of Arizona.
 Dated Yuma, A. T., October 23, 1877.
 o 27-7wl w. A. WERNINGER, Sheriff.
The Arizona sentinel., 1877-12-15

TIE city elections are close at hand, but we observe no excite ment, no drinks, no cigars, no compliments about the high toned style of the SENTINEL, no coln-no nothing. Last year at this time things were different and no voter need have drawn a sober breath, unless he wanted to. Candidates! Arouse! There are some city lands left, and Texas Pacific prospects are brightening. There is not another chance of kissing Stanf0rd's- foot, but there is brilliant prospect oi getting a kick or two from Scott.
The Arizona sentinel., 1877-12-15

THE Gila City placers were located
 number of years ago by company con-
 posed largely of army officers. Bull Run
 Mcdowell had large share in it, and it
 was generally known as McDowelPs out fit. Capt J. G. Costa, of McD.'s staff, one of the New York Costas. got leave of ab- sence and came out as superintendent.
 They bought an old pump of the Benchley
 Water Works, of San Francisco, and laid in an immense amount of machinery, pip ing and supplies. Their outfit nearly filled the old brig Laura, which brought it from S. F. to the mouth of the Colorado river. Some idea of its quantity may be formed from the fact that they paid Clint Thomp-
 son nearly S7,00000 for hauling it out to
 Gila City from Yunl, abJut p miles.
 They were going to pump water from ;he
 G.la river onto the placers and wash them
 down by hydraulic process. B1'ides hav-
 ing been shot in the jaw, Costa was Decul- 1 far in other respects. He had come here | at the beginning of summer and adopted
 tlc theory that olr Indians had solved the
 problem of clothing for hot weather; so he
 gridu lily accustomed himself to going about in breech clout and big S)nora
 hat until his skin was a rich bronze, shoul- der, cheek and heel. Most of their stuff
 had been delivered ol the ground and the
 erection of their III mIchnery was well under
 way when an expert named Sears was sen
 out to examine the property. He crossed the San Diego desert on a buck board in
 July, got sick and disgusted and reported
 ar inst the enterprise, almost without
 looking at the ground. Costa and tho
 mechanics had prospected the gravel a odd moments and were very enthusiastic
 and confident of getting much gold. Blu
 the company accepted Sears report and
 in regular military style, gave orders t'
 stop work and condemn ard sell everything
 at auction Costa wanted to take all the stock himsel and go on; tire mechanic;
 offere to go on and put the works in opera tio1, charging the company nothing l they did not ge: gold enough to ply thel wages. But brass buttons had decided tht the work should stop and would suffer n' contradiction. So the outfit was sold ou at big loss, before it got to work. It neve made st.am or even fired up. The pun and engine was sent back to San Francisco
 In 1870 an old man named StevenSo brought down boiler and pump to wor 5 the same ground. The boiler was sold a l. auction to pay steamboat freight andJ. W Jones took thu pump to pay the old man t whisky bill. Chris Horner has them bot
 ROW down at his shop. Ayear or two afte
The Arizona sentinel., 1877-12-15

THE following rule was adopted Deccm- Der 12th, 1877, by the District Court of the Second Judicial District of Arizona. It closely resembles Rule 31 of the Supreme Court and reads as follows:
 Rule XVI. When causes are entered upon the Register of Actions, each of the parties, plaintiff and defendant, or appell. ant and respondent, shall be primarily lia- ble for his own costs, and the clerk or other officer shall not be required to perform any service for either party, unless his fees for such be paid in advance, if demanded This rule shall not apply to criminal causes.
The Arizona sentinel., 1877-12-15
Reduction in Fare.

We are reliably informed that the fare for dogs on the steamboats between Yuma and Ehrenberg has been reduced from $500 each to s22,50. It is highly gratifying to record such liberaity on the part of the Southern Pacific R. R. Co.,, owning the boats, in meeting our people half way in developing the resources of Arizona. The old steamboat company made n" charge but in those days few dogs travelled. Cats are carried free, if there are not too many of them.
The Arizona sentinel., 1877-12-15
County Physician.
O 13-Sn

Proposals to serve as county physician of Yuma county, A. T., for the year 1878, will be received at the office of the Boarc of Supervisors of said county, until Monii day, the 18th day of December, 1877, at 10 a. m. Proposals must be rendered in sealed envelopes, endorsed as such. Pro- posals must state whether with or wlthout post mortem examinations. Payment will be made quarterly by warrants against the General Fund. The right is reserved to reject any and all bids. No propOsals en- tertained except from duly qualified physi- clans. :.
 By order of the Board of Supervisors of Yuma county. 4. I.
 N24E3wl GEORGE TYING, Clerk.
The Arizona sentinel., 1877-12-15

IF we get through another and fourth week without having a new case of small pox, the people of Yuma may begin to re lax their precautions. \ little boy of our acquaintance had high fever one day this week and d small poX scare was started right off The entire neighborhOJd for. bade their children from going near tic sick ones house. The doctor came, shook his head, looked wise and gave the young ster physic. The next day, and every day since, the cherub has been making cart wheel of himself in the sand before tho court house and winning tle other boys choicest marbles. That is fair specimen of most of our "cases."
The Arizona sentinel., 1877-12-15

COLONEL JAMES M. BARNEY this week shipped 10000 pounds citizen and nearly 13O,OOO government freight up river: 10000 to Tucson by Appers train, which pulls out to-day, and also 10000 to Mcdowell by Buckalew. Mr. David Neahr shipped 5000 pounds of the Tip Top machinery by J. Contreras and Buckalew's trains, leaving to-d day. French Steve's train got in yesterday and will at once load for Globe district. Gardner and Daguerre's trains are soon due with loads of rich silver ore from Globe, shipped by J. Collingwood tt Co. of Florence. On Thursday Neahr shipped 12,5O0 pounds of wool to Christy S Wise, San Francisco a d yesterday sev- eral tons of high grade silver rock.
The Arizona sentinel., 1877-12-15

that Haggett brought down g complete outfit. He bought out Gila station and To- cated his ground. A. L. Grow, present supervisor, made the pipe and got all the machinery to working in good shape. Con- siderable gold was washed out, but none of the party understood the business. They set their sluice boxes too steep, and with such faulty rifles that they lost most Of the gold. Jesus Cos boy washed out gold as coarse as S2.5O chispas, from their tailingS. Haggett got crowded for money, gave it mp and sold out. The machinery was Sent u9 to the Colorado River Indian reserYa- tion and pumped water there couple of years. But the government did not pay for it and it now lies at the Picket Post ready to work on the Silver King mine whenever water is struck there. Now we are getting ready to chronicle happier outcome Of the next Gila City enterprise. The gold is there on big scale; money, skill and industry can take it out
The Arizona sentinel., 1877-12-15

THE adjourned term of the District Court only lasted three days. Lange was acquitted of manslaughter; Royce vs w. c. Barney, passed for the term; Reilly vs. Rowell, judgment for defendant; Reilly vs. Jerry Shine, fraud not proven and plead ings taken under advisement by the Court Hughes vs. Darlington, discontinued Alexander vs. County of Yuma, judgment for appellant for costs; Thompson vs. Werninger ct el, submitted on briefs.
The Arizona sentinel., 1877-12-15

THE Gila arrived on Saturday with eight passengers, including Col. J. D. Wilkins and five U. S. army prisoners, 75 bales of wool, 71 hides and lots of produce. The Colorado and barge arrived Sunday even- ing. It was hard to say whether the barge lowed her down or vice versa. The river was very low and the Colorado is getting too old 10 wade; floating is about all she can do now, ard for that it needs water.
The Arizona sentinel., 1877-12-15
time.

COL. H. c. HODGE has our thanks for a CODY of his book, "Arizona as it is." We have read it with much pleasure, finding that it faithfully depicted scenes with which we have long been familiar. The authors views on Indian matters are eX- ceptionally sound. Everyone taking an interest in Arizona should read the book Hurd & Houghton, of New York, are the publishers.
The Arizona sentinel., 1877-12-15

A FRIEND at Signal writes that: Tom Ewing took charge of the Signal Mining Co.,, as superintendent, Nov 2Oth. Little had been accomplished untI. he took hold now all goes flourishing; the mine looks splendid; one large shipment of bullion has gone down and more will soon follow Our mail is a failure. It takes longer to get letter here from San Francisco or Yuma, than it does from New York to Prescott or,Tucson.
The Arizona sentinel., 1877-12-15

IT now seems very certain that the Wes- tern Union Telegraph Co. has gobbled up the Atlantic and Pacific, including the line to Yuma. The SENT1NELs well known friendship for the former concern entities it to many privileges that will undoubted- ly be denied 10 the organs of the inter- ior. Haines CD. B. will surely see that our heavy dispatches come through all ri rht
The Arizona sentinel., 1877-12-15
TWO BANKS SUSPENDED,
Bad as San Francisco.
N o A S S E T s.

Yuma is following the bad example oi other cities in having busted banks. On Thursday night two of the banks on the feast grounds suspended payment, in con- sequence of neavy runs. When we asked he President of one of them if there was enough left to settle that little SENTINEL bill, he said NOl No panic has ensued and no alarm is felt in mercantile circles here