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The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1878-11-02

SAN Francisco is vitaliy Interested Ill
railroad which shall pierce the heart Of
Mexico The Southern Pacific Railroad
Company are about to begin Il new cam
paign, as we understand the matter. They
hayc constructed railroad from San
Francisco to Yuma, on the Colorado river,
:: distance exceeding 7u0 miles. Reach
ing this point they were beset with new
difficulty Tom Scott, rs the nominal
head of the Texas Pacific Railroad, ap-
pearcd in Congress tc oppose further
progress He had obtained land grants
for building Il road from Fort Worth by
wav of Yuma, to San Diego. If now Con
gress would endorse his bOnds-that is,
furnish him capital enough TO build the
road and large surplus to go into his
own pockct-he proposed to proceed with
the work 1t was evident to everybody
that he did not intend tc proceed on any
other condition. His land grant had
lapsed, but that was only slight impcdl-
ment. His immediate business was to
block the further progress Of the South
ern Pacific Railroad, because it would III
tcrfcrc with his plans. The company,
having entered Arizona, was forced to
halt for more than Il year, partly because
of the distractions which Scott had
placed in the way. The latter had organ
lied powerful Interest in the Southern
States which was backing him in Con
grcss. The Louisville Couricr-J Ournal
was one Of the champions Of that interest.
The question has gone over to the next
Congress, which Scott hopes will grant
him the subsidy which he seeks.
The Southern Pacific Railroad Com
pany, having reached Yuma more than
year ago, and having waited for more than
year, has now made a new departure
Under Territorial charter from Arizona,
which is still IL force, they are about to
resume operations, and push the road
through that Territory. Already a very
large collection Of material has been made,
Ties have been going south, aud rails have
/ been collected, so that now the material
is pretty well concentrated for the con
struction of some 200 miles OF the road by
way Of the ella river. The road IL not
only reaching out for the great mines Of
Arizona, but every mile pushed in that
direction is an additional mile towards
the heart OF Mexico These are points of
great interest to San Francisco. We have
secured only small and insignificant
trade with Mexico by sea routes Some
thing better thar this will yet be accom-
plishrd by u railroad which reaches the
great business ccntcrs Of that Republic
Bulletin
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1878-11-02
SIutiIated Mails,

1t really appears as if the mail con
tractors on all routes entering Santa te,
are growing more and more careless
everyday, if we may judge by the
mutilatcd condition of letters and papers
received here.
If rats were permitted to make nests In
the mail sack, letters and papers received
in Santa FG could hardly be in much
worse condition than that which they
usually present when the pouches are
opened after arrival here, by the abomlna-
bic buck. board mail routes. And 1t can
not he expected that they shall be received
in any better condition, when it is notorious
that the passenger accommodations on
these vehicles Of misery are so limited.
that persons riding on them are forced to
tramplc on tie mail bags during the day,
and if they sleep at all to lie on them at
night What wonder then that the con-
tents of the bags are in bad condition?
That is what the Rocky Noun
tain Sentinel says about mails.
It sounds as if it had been writ
ten about the mails between
Yuma and Prescott.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1878-11-02
Modern Railroad Building

The railroad woIk gcing on at Baden;
where the Southern Pacific Railroad Com
pany are building new track around tire
swamp, affords about as good All example
of modern railroad science and art as man
could find, to travel the w6rlt over. At
one point they are driving piles TO make
Il break water. at another driving piles for
q bridge, at another excavating cut, ~
another filing an embanknent. Almost
every step III the work of all varieties of
distance of IL mile, and the work going on
exhibits The wonderful degree Of perfection
that has been reached in the business.
Every thing works To- charm and every
ste, taken Is complete when flushed.
The experience of fifty years has enabled
railroad builders to reach perfection in
the labor economy and practical results
Of their work. Everything moves with
precision and dispatch. Here they hare
about twenty-five teams and seycnty-tive
men. Every man knows his place and
the boss" knows to dot how much can
be accomplished in Il day. What a given
number of teams II certain number OF men
are required and specific number of cubic
yards of excavation or filling can be done.
4 Yankee clock cannot exec. the regular
ity, precision and certainty of the opera
tinns now going on at Baden.-RedwoU2
CitV TimeS and GaZrttp
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1878-11-02
Tie isenyer and IsiG Grande Route

Contracts have Just been for the grad
ing Of the Denver and Rio Grarde Rail-
way through the grand canon Of Arkansas,
from Canon City westward to the mouth
of the south Arkansas, tftY-siX miles. No
railroad in the United States has ever been
built in a wilder gorge tan this. The
walls Of the Canon are from 5000 to 1900
feet high, and in many cases vertical on
both sides. The ouly parallel to this
stupcndous work is to be found i'll the
Lima and Atoya Railroad in Peru, built by
Harry Meirgs The pioneer narrow gauge
oi America Is bravcly maintaining its
reputation for pluck and enterprise which
it won when it started on its career eight
years ago in the face of every obstacle, iii
opposition to the opinion and advice of
many eminent engineers, who ridiculed
the baby road" but three feet wide, and
without any further capital than the brains
and credit Of three engineers who first
organized and carried it to brilliant
success Tue road has never failed to pay
its cxpenscs and to keep its obligations
good from its inception, III It new country
so sparsely settled that Il broad gauge
road must have inevitably failed to pay the
interest on the increased cost of its cons
struction. Il has maintained its credit in
European monetary circleS and scents to
have, no difficulty in rettinT all the funds
it requires To push its tack into new tields
1t is now the longest, rs it is the oldest,
narrow gauge road in America Bulletin.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1878-11-02
An EngasshInan's Introduction to
Sitting BEEl.
Washington Correspondence of the Gin
cinnati Gazette.

cinnau Gazette.
Those who have visited Washington
have seen Grecnough's sitting statue Of
Washington in the cast park of the Capt.
tol grounds. Mos! Of those whose eyes
have never been SO fortunate As to have
rested on it know that it is Il colossal liz
urc of George, naked to the waist, sitting
out in the sun and rain, vi hout any hat
or umbrella, in :. marble chair, on top of
a granite block. His out-Strctched hand
is lifted aPpealingly, aud the common ex-
planation of this is that he is pointing 10
the Patent Office, where hangs the last
suit Of clothes he wore rs Commander-in-
Chief OF late they have wheeled this
great stone image into the area immed-
ately in front Of the main porch Of the
Capitol.
Standing here, in loose plaid walking
coat, and loOser trousers, was II real John
Bull, looking around with one eye-glass,
the other morning, when his vision rested
full on George. Turning to Major Ben
Perlcy Poor, who happened TO bc near, the
En@lislnnan said:
"Aw, beg pardon, sir; but what is that
large marble iigufe:"
That, sir" replied the Major, with
great gravity, is Sittin Bull"
"Aw. Really, now Wonderful! Aud
you've got him up SO soon, Aw, what an
extraordinary people, to be sure"
With this he left the Major and started
down the steps, and the last seen of this
astonishcd Englishnan he WAS walking
around the granite base, whereon Wash
ington is seated, reading the inscription,
which onc full walk around is needed to
complete: First in war, first il; peace,
first in the hearts OF his couEtryElcn.'
That inscription must have puzzled j,
Bull considerably, and caused him to re-
peat with cmpha is his former ejacula-
ton: "Aw, what an extraordinary peo-
pie, to be sure"
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1878-11-02
Gone 50 Work.

Civil Engineer Hood aud a portion Of
his surveying party, lett Tucson ON
Tuesday, with complete outfit of camp
equipIgc. His surveying party con-
ssts of twenty five men, who will join
him at Picach, where they will commence
the final survey this way. The southern
Pacific now means business, as the
material Is arriving daily at Yuma TO
build the route already surveyed and Mr..
Hood is actively at work making the iinal
survey from Picach to TucaOn.-Star.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1878-11-02
LOST ON TIE CALIFORNIA
DES ERT.
Terrible Su;ieIinas of Mail
Rider.

The contractor for carrying the mail
from San Diego To Yuma has just made
arrangements with the railroad company
by which the mail is taken to and from
Yuma ou the cars to 4 place on th= desert
six miles west Of Volcano Station, aud IL
few boughs have been placed together
there to form a Slight shelter for the horst
back mail riders, who carry the mali
thence to Indian Wells, an old station on
the line that has been Travelled for many
years past. The Chiect in making the
change is to shorten the distance to be
Travelled horseback, and with the ulterior
purpose of putting on buckboards, to con
meet with the cars to and from San Diego
IL short time hence. The change requires
the mail riders to pursue diagonal course
across the desert that never has been
travelled before, and consequently there
is no trail that can be followed with abso-
lutte certainty at all times.
One of the riders, Il Mexican, left Indian
Wells Il few dnys ago with instructions to
see if he could find good road to con-
meet that station direct with Volcano Sta
ton, on the railroad line; because, as it Is
now the cars have 20 stop on the desert
where there is no station, to supply the
mail rider, and their animals with what
water they need. and which is let out of
tanks on the cars for them Into barrels.
The Mexican got along all very well until
he reached Il spot where there were some
large sand hills, and there he dismUunted
to feed the mule he was riding. While
doing so Il mule got loose from him and
walked off Il few feet The rider tried to
catch il, but without avail, and kept fol-
lowing the animal up from about noon
until nearly dark, when fortunately the
mule threw It's head downward in such II
manner that the bride fell over its head
aud subsequently cntangled one of its legs.
The maiI-rider was most ardently iniuced
To follow up the mule because his cantcen
# water was on its back. AS it was about
dark when he caught the animal the rider
concluded to remain where he was until
daylight, which hu did He thcu went on
over til. desert in the direction of the
railroad, but had not gone far when the
mule gave out, as also did his water. AS
the mule would not stir. nc was compelled
to hobble it and leave it where it was,
with some barley for it to eat. After many
hours walking the rider came to some
low, muddy ground, in trying to cross
which he mircd. This fatigu=d hiln So
badly that when he did get acruss it Inc
coulu but barely crawl along the ground;
and ut last, after nearly giving up, he
reached Volcano Station last Sunday on
all four>, unable to speak. Restora.iycJ
were administered, and by the following
morning he had recovered considerably.
The same day search was made for the
mule, but it could not be found.
These facts are furnished us by Il cor
respondent who obtained them difet.
from the unfortunate Mexican mail rider
himself-San Berhardino Times.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1878-11-02

10000 pounds of wool has been pur-
chased from the Navajo Indians, this sea-
son, by traders living In their country.
One Navajo is said to own as many as
6.GDO head Of sheep. There are no people
i'll the United States that understand
caring for and raising sheep equal To- the
Navaj ajocs.-M Miner.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1878-11-02
Notice..

UNITED STATES LAND OFFICE,
FLORENCE, ARIZONA. June Is, 1873.
T AN AUTHORIZED BY II TEXAS
i Pacific Railway Company" to receive
applications from occupants of the odd
sections reserved TO said company by Act
# Congress, at 9oubIc minimum price, ($@50
per acre. payable upon perfection Of title.
CHARLES D. POSITION.
une ~ LIFT
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1878-11-02
& e NJ o v a L .
HENRY M. ALEXANDER,
Attorney at Law,

AND NOTARY PUBLIC.
Commissioner of Deeds for the States Of
California and Pennsylvania.
Office, Main street, next to Express office,
Yuma, Arizona.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1878-11-02
SAMUEL HAMILTON,

ATTUKNE1-Al-L l-LAN,
Mineral Park, Mohave county, Arizona.
will practice in all the Courts of the Ter
ritOry.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1878-11-02
WIN, r. STOKES,

NOT AIRY PU B L ! C.
Colorado River Reservation, Yuma county,
Arizona.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1878-11-02

Goods sold at greatly reduced rated
Highest prices paid for all Arizona pros
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1878-11-02
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RUSH g. WELLS,
Attorneys at Law,
Prescott Arlzoia'
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1878-11-02
Defy Competition.

An merchandise consigned 10 my cara
will receive careful handling and be for
warded With dispatch and by experienced
frcightcrs, at lowest market rates.
The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1878-11-02
The Arizona Sentinel.

Published every Saturday by the
Sentinel Publishing Company
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-09-11

on board, and some boats ~er.
ing In davits. Even if they conld
been got at, they would have haa nave
little service under the circums,.u Of
Within five minutes the Princes ~:
keeled completely over, and won, H1ce
IN the deep water. Some small L oMh
FASTENED TO the scene, and the Das'a's
Trek, another steamer belonging 10 ,,g
same company, which was eiso m ;" W tle
passage up the river with party Of a as
cursionists, went to the rescue. I'm, "a
river for a hundred yards was inI, 4 0s
drowning people, screaming in anon;s u
and praying for help, and "a i u msu
growing dark then, not much con,d Vas
done. 1t is believed not more Thar ~, ee
persons escaped out Of 500 on boaSs ~
The vessel Alice was long and lo...
river steamer, built for excursions dow WV
the river Thames, of which the midG,a
and upper classes of I.ondoners wsre
very fond. She had saloons on the 70,
ward and after decks, and her nassau aU,'
ger-carrying capacity was unusualIr
large. A large proportion of hc.
passengers last evening were on the nv
per saloon deck. and must lave se a
beforehand their impending doom. bu,
those in the stern Of the steamer had ~"
warning till they heard tie crash and
found passengers from the forward decI
OF the vessel running to the after mart
Beyond the fact that the tide was ahont
two hours ebb, which would enable ths
Princes Alice to ease and stop sooner
than the screw steamer, which would be
borne on the tide, it is impossible ~
discover any of the circumstances inn.
mediately preceding the collision. Be-
fore the boats came in contact there
were cries from one to the other ~
keep out of the way, but as usual in
such cases, the accident was probably
due to misunderstanding.
The cause OF the Princess Alice disas-
ter is believed to be that both vessels
were rounding sharp bend in the river
caused by the projection of point Of
land whereon the powder magazine of
Woolwich arsenal is situated. In order
Ito turn this point, Princess Alice had
crossed over to the right bank of the riy-
er, and was thus out of her course: her
lights were probably obscured by the
shadow of the powder magazine. and
being much smaller and lower than Bv.
a0eA Castle, the latter was upon her be.
fore danger was perceived.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-09-11
The Ill.Fated 'sPrincess Alice"

The steamer Princess Alice which was
run into and sunk with frightful results
on the Thames, near London, ON the 3rd
inst, by the collier, By,OeR Castle,
was one of the largest saloon vessels of
the London steamboat company. The
Princess Alice left Glavesend for London
soon after o'clock in the evening, and
arrived at Woolwich at about 8. The
By,reA Castle was then approaching on
the opposite course. Two steamers
were near the middle of the stream,
just off the city of London. The gas
works at Becktyn are almost at the pre-
else spot where the fatal accident oc-
Cured, which is between Metas and
Wentworth. What happened is impos-
sible accurately to detail. All that is
known, amid the maddening excite
ment is. that the screw steamer struck
the Princess Alice on the port side, near
the forecastle. A scene which has
had no parallel on the river en-
sued. A very few persons cham-
,bered on the vessel, but nearly all
rushed to the afterpart of the. Princess
Alice. As her bow subsidized gradually
under the water, shrieks were fearful,
and nothing could be done to save life.
There were dozen or more life buoys
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-09-11

says: InOma9 Nltn0ou and w. w.
Redding, TELEGRAPH operators It Gre
NADIA, are dead FIannery, ox-supt.
of the w. U. Tel Go. at New Orleans,
has arrived At GIknada, and will keep
the Office open. In cases reported at
Memphis to-day, ~; deaths from yell
low fever 76. ISe undertakers are
pressed to bury 4edead, and at Elm
wood lot to-day,d dozens of coffined
dead were lying q top Of the ground
waiting for internent, it being diff
cult matter to p{bcure even colored
grave diggers. Information from camp
Jo. Williams is % the effect that
deaths occurred fhere of persons re-
Gently received intD camp. 1t contains
about Is sick. Reports from along the
line of the Memphis and Louisville
Railroad state theie have been deaths
at Brownsville, and there are seventeen
cases there.
At Vicksburg, Sept. LIST, eight physi-
clans reported 50 new cases. Twenty
five interments today.
New Orleans advices of Sunday, the
LIST inst, are as follows: Weather cloudy
and warm to-day with light shower this
afternoon. 253 applications for relief
were made to the Towards. A men,
Der of the visiting committee reports a
more general spread of the disease and
finds it encroaching upon localities here
tofore measureably exempt. c. f..
Whitney, of the committee, reported %
new cases in his district and related an
incident that occurred at the corner of
Race and st. Thomas streets in the up
per part of the first district, which
seems to show the rapid spread of fever
in that locality. AS he approached
this corner he saw six or eight little
children standing there. They ap-
peared to recognize him as one of the
Howard association and each ap-
pealed to him to 60 with them
to their respective homes and see
the sick. He went first to the nearest
house pointed out, followed by the lit
tie ones, then to the next, the procession
getting one less at each house until
every appeal had been answered.
Though the present situation is sad the
general impression seems to be that
the worst has not yet come. The an
cient order of Hibernians make an ap.
peal to similar organizations throughout
the United States for assistance. They
say yellow fever is thinning their ranks,
the distress is pitiful and their resources
exhausted and appeal in Gods name for
assistance to alleviate the sufferings of
Their afflicted brethren.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-09-11

SOME one at Saratoga has been bur-
lesquing the toney tandem-teams so
fashionable there, and this is the way
he did it. A common dirt cart was
equipped with two seats and two-horse
tandem. In the front seat was the
'jintleman at large handling the ropes
or reins over the two crowbaits OF
horses, while on the back seat facing
backward were two servants in comic
livery, one of whom had huge sun
flower in n button hole. They had a
tin horn accompaniment and went
through Broadway.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-09-11
The Trade Dollars.

A Washington dispatch says Secretary
Sherman has addressed a long and in
teresting letter to H. 0. Booth, of Mans
field, O., concerning the issue of the
trade dollar, and the present deprecia-
ton in its value. Upon the latter point,
Secretary Sherman says at no time and
on no account have they ever been re-
ceived or paid out by the treasury, and
it is a cause of regret that so many
of our people should have &C
cepted them ut their face value,
thus enabling their owners to
put them into circulation at consider
able profit. Under date of July 25,
1878, the director of the mint published
tables from which the value of coins
can be ascertained. He does not adj
wise any one to dispose of them at such
rates. AS early as Aug. "a, 1875, the
department informed an enquirer that
trade dollars had only bullion value,
and this information has been
repeated scores of times and pub
lished by the press throughout the
country. To avoid the labor Of prepar-
ing manuscript letters, the director of
the mint embodied the information in
the circular, adding thereto tables for
computation of such value that there
was no new decision involved in the
circular, though possibly its publication
may have FASTENED depreciation of
coins to their true value, an even. which
was inevitable a,N could not have been
much longer delayed.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-09-11

JOHN ]. MOORE, late postal clerk on
the Union Pacific road, who some
months ago stole from the mails the
$4,000 in Canadian currency, the prop
crty of l. G. Baker & Co., Of Fort Ben
ton, has just been tried at Laramie City,
Wyoming. The case was concluded on
the 10th, the jury returning verdict OF
guilty. Moore was sentenced to a term
Of ten years in the pententiary.