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The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1878-03-20
DELINQUENT NOTICE.
sHKBA SILVER MINING COMPANY.

II LOCATION Of principal place of business,
IL San Francisco, California. Location Of
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NoTICE-There are delinquent, upon the
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The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1878-03-20
Dissolution Of Partnership.

NOTICE Is hereby given that the pert
IN ;nership heretofore existing between
Joseph Thomas, John Thomas and Charles
Thomas is this day dissolved by mutual con.
cent. JOS. PHI THOMAS,
JOHN THOMAS,
CHARLES THOMAS.
Winnemucca, Feb. %, 1873. 4w
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1878-03-20
Dissolution of Partnership

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due thu sAIney JOR DAVIS,
j. L. GUTHRIE.
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The Arizona sentinel., 1878-03-02
POking Fun at Yuma = Summer
 Freaks of Nature.

J. Ross Browne was in Arizona in 1863 and wrote a book called "The Apache Country" This is what he said about the climate of Yuma:
 The climate in winter is finer than that of Italy, It would scarce be possible to suggest an improvement. Inever experi- rienced such exquisite Christmas weather as we enjoyed during our sojourn,
 Perhaps fastidious people might object to the temperature in Summer, when the rays of the sun attain their maximum force, and the hot winds sweep in from the desert. I have even heard complaint made that the thermometer failed to show the true heat because the mercury dried up. Everything dries; wagons dry; men dry; chickens dry; there IS no juice left in anything, living or dead, by the close of summer. Officers and soldiers are SUD- posed to walk about creaking; mules, it is said, can only bray at midnight; and I have heard it hinted that the carcasses of cattle rattle inside their hides, and that snakes find difficulty in bending their bodies, and horned frogs die of apoplexy. Chickens matched at this season, as old Fort Humans Say, come out of the shell ready cooked; bacon is eaten with spoon, and butter must stand in the sun an hour before the flies become dry enough tor use. The Indians sit in the river with fresh mud on their heads, and by dint of constant dipping and sprinkling manage to keep from roasting, though they ususlly come out parboiled.
 Out of every ten men who have read that, nine have taken it in sober earnest five have repeated it, and three have sworn they've been here and seen it all.
The Arizona sentinel., 1878-03-02

clouds of pulverized sand and
 dust. You can watch them in
 their progress as they approach
 hours beforehand, and when they reach you the dust penetrates into every crevice, the finest silk not
 being impervious to it. They last generally day; sometimes three. The winds blow up quickly and violently.
 Among the curiosities of the coantry are it's aborigines. From about sixty miles above Fort Yu- ma to about fifteen miles below, live the Cuchanos, or Yumas. A belt of land some few miles in width, forms neutral ground be- tween them and the Cocopahs; the latter living below, and near the mouth of the Colorado, within the limits of Mexico, and the former almost entirely within the United States. These, together with the Maricopas, who now live up the Gila with the Pimas, orig inally formed one tribe. Disagree ing upon the choice of chiefs, they separated. Until recently they have been deadly enemies, carry ing on a war of extermination to the knife.* The continued war fare with each other has compell- ed them to manifest a seeming friendship for the whites, has oc- casiOned great loss of life and property, and been detrimental to their increase. In consequence of their great suffering, the Yumas have found it necessary and eXpe- dient to live near the post every day numbers are seen lettering about the parade ground, and through the quarters of officers and men. The two tribes speak the same dialect, follow the same habits and customs, and dress in the same manner and of the same material. The Maricopas, how ever, are fast becoming embodied with the Pimas, and seldom visit their kinsmen.
 This eliminated in the massacre of
The Arizona sentinel., 1878-03-02
YUMA, ARIZONA, SATURDAY, MARCH ?, 1878

er,. it is claimed that the State
 governments action was illegal and uncalled for. The commis- sion came to Arizona and built 8 little village, where it remained idle for months. Captain Stone appealed to the United States for protection, but nothing was done. The work was broken up and has never been renewed. The regular protests and legal steps were talk en to secure the rights of the American owners of the contract, and a very able opinion was ob- tained from Caleb Cushing, as to the validity of the contract, and its binding character on the Fed eral government of Mexico. Had our government been as ready to protect the rights of it's citizens, as other nations are, two-thirds of the State of Sonora would to-day be owned by the San Francisco capitalists who joined Jecker in the contract. Jecker himself be- came a citizen of France, and it was in enforcing his rights acquir- ed under this same contract, valued at many millions, that Napoleon III found a pretext for invading Mexico. There are claims still pending under the contract, which may yet afford pretexts for stub born litigation, if not for war and blOOdshed.
The Arizona sentinel., 1878-03-02
The Famous Jecker Contract.

In 1857 J. B. Jecker & Co.,, Anto- nio Escandon and Manuel Payno, of the City of Mexico, on the one part, and J. B. G. Isham, of San Francisco, California, on the other, entered into a contract for the survey of the public lands of the Mexican State of Sonora. The contract was based upon @ grant to the house of J. B. Jecker & Go. by the general government ot Mexico, the terms of which were an absolute transfer of one third of all the public lands (terrenos baldios) with the right of purchas- ing any portion of the remaining two-thirds for cash, in preference to any person offering the same sum. The condition of this grant was an accurate survey, with maps, of the public lands, with the most exact possible description of the climate, productions and advantages for commerce and ag- riculture. The time allowed for this survey was three years.
 By series of deeds this con- tract became vested in the hands of Jecker & Co.,, J. B. G. Isham, s. w. Inge, J. Mora Moss, Wm. M. Lent and J. c. Calhoun. A sci entific commission was organized under the command of Captain (afterwards General, and now an Egyptian Pasha) Charles P. Stone. Perhaps never before was there so excellent an organization for a similar purpose-consisting of so many accomplished men in each department. Vessels were pur- chased for the surveyof the coast. The headquarters of the commits sion were fixed at Guaymas, and the survey carried on for a long time with vigor and accuracy which promised an early and suc- cessful completion of the work, thus securing to the contractors a property whose value can hardly be estimated in ordinary figures.
 Difficulties sprang up between the Sonora government and Cap- tain Stone, which led to his expul- sion from the State. There are two radically different versions of this difficulty. On the one hand Capt. Stone was charged with vi- plating the laws of the. State, and fomenting revolution; on the oth-
The Arizona sentinel., 1878-03-02
An Old Kentucky Duel.

A writer in the Frankfort Commercial says:
 A duel was fought lat Soap Island, in Bridgeport, in 1886. The participants were Shelton and Kingsbury. Shelton thought it real; Kingsbury knew it was joke. The guns were loaded with soft soap. Shelton won the first fire, banged away and drop ped behind log. Kingsbury walked up, nut the muzzle of his gun against the head of Shelton, and pulled the trigger Such a looking man was never seen. Soft soap covered his head entirely. In the agony of despair Shelton reached up got hard full of the soft soap, and exclaimed: "Oh, my poor brains my poor brains!" Real izing the hoax, he sprang up and chased Kingsbury of the island with rocks, swearing all the while like sailor-
 Shelton afterwards enlisted in Sam Hous- tons war, and made good soldier. Con- ing back from Texas he passed through with his gun on his shoulder. One of his old friends cried out " Halt" He did so. "Present armsl" He presented. < Make readyln He did so. "Take aim!" He aimed. "Firel" He wheeled, fired right at the fellow, the bullet just missed his head, went through the door and dropped ,n the floor inside. Shelton took to his heels.
 In the civil war he made brave soldsHr, lntiinching in his attention to duty, aud lied like soldier at Missionary Ridge.
The Arizona sentinel., 1878-03-02
Yuma in 1S54--III.
(By Lieut.. ". Michler.)
RIVER-BOTTOMS- S-EARTHQUAK ES
 -CLIMATE-INDI


 RIvER-BOTTOMs OMs-EARTHQUAKE Es -CLIMATE-IND
 We turn from this barren view and look with pleasure upon the bright green foliage which marks the course of the Colorado. The river bottom, varying in width, is generally broad and fertile an alluvial deposit, covered with a thick growth of timber. Large cottonwood trees, different varie- ties of willow thickly matted to- gether, and impenetrable thickets of arrow and grease-wood, grow near the river; further back the mezquite, of two kinds the flat pod and the screw bean-thrive and flourish. The bottom is in- tersected by innumerable lagoons and sloughs which, during the annual rises, fill to overf1owing and irrigate the soil. The earth is consequently impregnated with the salts of potash, magnesia and SOda,* which are held in solution by the water. No vegetation will grow beyond the influence of these overfows, and when a white effiorescence appears upon the sur face of the ground it is useless to plant, as nothing edible for man or beast will grow there.
 The delta of the Colorado and Gila is below high water mark, and is subject to overfows. The soil is mixture of clay and sand. There are some few varieties of grass scatteringly distributed. The distance from Fort Yuma to the mouth of the Colorado is about 16O miles. The whole of the country strongly resembles the Rio Grande in the general appear ance of it's vegetable forms vari- cities of cacti, the maguey plant, Larrea Mexicana (hediondilla) and the fouqueira (whipstock cactus) are all found here.
 To add to the interest of this section of our land, we find it is subject to earthquakes, by which it is sometimes depressed and elevated. In NOvem-
 * The waters of the Colorado do not carry in solution noteworthy proportion of the salts named. It is more likely that the potash and magnesia were formed in the soil itself, by the decomposition of field spathic and magnetism rOcIe, and that soda is heritage from the ocean which | once covered Yuma hundreds of fathoms deep. Evaporation of the overflow causes the efflorescence. The raising of forty | bushels of wheat to the acre, heavy crops | of barley and alfalfa, and fine vegetables in great variety, fully reverses the verdict | of sterility pronounced by Lieut. Michler l in 1854. Irrigation does it. Editor
The Arizona sentinel., 1878-03-02

These wash-outs along the rail- road play the deuce with country papers. If the mails don't come through pretty soon, our scissors will get rusty. If Tucson can't get Pennsylvania papers, she will run short of Democratic editorials.
The Arizona sentinel., 1878-03-02

Fort Yuma is in latitude 32 deg, 23 min.. 3 sec north; longitude, 37 deg, 3S min., 9 sec. west from Washington; altitude, 267 feet above tide water, and at the highest point of the rocky bluff on which it is built, no feet above the bank of the river -IHinton's Hand Book
The Arizona sentinel., 1878-03-02

The latest thing In the monopoly line Is an attempt to concentrate in one company the whole petroleum trade
The Arizona sentinel., 1878-03-02

This eliminated in the massacre of 1857, already described in the SENTINEL.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-10-10
NEWS ITEMS.

The Pacific Mail Co.'S steamship Georgia
was lost on Punta Arenas reef on sunday.
The released Fcnian prisoners arrived in
New York sept -, having warm reception.
The United States Is the only nation in the
world that is steadily decreasing its public
debt.
Russia has promised to support the claim
Of Greece in the adjustment OF the frontier
question.
The Republicans carried the state of Colo
RADIO last week 10y 5000 majority This is the
second general election since Colorado was
admitted a state.
Queen Victoria and the Prince Of Wales
have transmitted letters to Athens favorng
moderate conciiatory arrangement between
Greece and Turkey.
The Marquis OF Lornc and Princess Louise
will sail for Canada on the l4th of November,
ON the steamer Samaritan, which has been
chartered to convey the new Governor gene
raj and royal consort.
The Black Hills Pioneer saws an immense
deposit Of zinc and gold-bearing quartz has
been discovered about i3 miles in direction
north-westcrly from Deadwood, the exact To-
cation of which remains n secret.
1t il said that the trustees of the Catholic
college ut Manhattanville, y. Y, have pur-
chcsed Ben Holidays mansion on Ophir
farm and about forty acres of land surround
ing II, with the intention Of removing the col
lege there.
The total amount Of contributions sent to
the South from the Northern states 10 relieve
the suiicrings and distress caused by yellow
fever is estimated at 100000 already. II is
a magnificent sum 10 bee gathered from gen
crous people, in small donations.
Up to Saturday list just 100 cargocs Of this
years wheat had been cleared from San Fran
cisco. The aggrehate was l7SlJ6 tons, val
ued at sG,073, 497. This is the heaviest move
ment Of wheat during the first quarter Of any
harvest year in the history Of California
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-10-10

The Liverpool Post says: "There
is much comment in commercial cir
Giles upon the decrease of the exports
from Great Britain to the United
States, and the great increase Of
American export trade. The figures
Of the last fiscal year show an in
crease of 1922, 100000 in the exports
from the States, and diminution of
74,550,000 in the imports. 1t is ex-
pected that one result of this will be
an early and large demand for gold
for America, which may materially
affect the rate of discount. Last year
the requirements of America were
met by means Of United States five
twenty bonds, but these, we under
stand, have all been absorbed, and
nothing but our gold will now satisfy
Uncle Sam"
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-10-10
Killed by the Indians.

NORTH PLATTE, Neb., Oct. 5.-The
mail carrier who arrived here from
Norton, Kansas, this evening, via
Indianola, Nebraska, states that
seventeen men are known to have been
killed by Indians in the vicinity of
Sappa. He states that hostiles were
raiding Beaver creek Wednesday,
All is quiet now at Indianola, though
the people are much excited between
there and Platte valley.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-10-10

Reliable information from Umatilla
has been received that an Indian was
killed recently on White Horse creek,
having been pierced with five bullets,
and that a party of Indians riding
across the country had been fired on
by persons unknown, who are sup
posed to be men seeking revenge for
acts committed by the savages during
the last campaign. The people are
apprehensive that another war may
be brought on by these aggressors,
as the Indians may retaliate and kill
other persons. Six Of Coggan's muir
derers are in custody, and the perpe-
traitors Of other outrages will be APP
pretended in time, as the necessary
information has been obtained.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1878-10-10
Notice to Donation Claimants.

The attention of claimants to donations of
land their assigns and legal representatives,
is particularly called To that part o! Section 3
OF the act of Congress approved july Eth,
lSd, entitled AN act to amend an act appro-
we'd September twenty seventh, eighteen hun
dred and fifty, to create the office of Survey
or Gcnl of the public lands in Oregon etc,
and also the act amcndatory thereof approved
FEBRUARY nineteen fourteen eighteen hundred
and fifty three which reads us follows, to
wit:
"All claiming donations under this act or
the acts Of which il is amcndatory, shall
give notice to the surveyor General,
or other duly authorized officer, Of the partcu-
lar lands claimed rs such donation, within
thirty days after being requested So to do by
such Office; and failing 81 81 thcclaim-
ant or claimants shall forfeit all right and
claim, thereto"
Now therefore the undersigned, being such
"othcr duly authorized officer" do hereby
give notice, To each md every person, his or
her assigns and legal representatives, claim
ants OF donations OF lands, within the district
OF lands subject To sale at the United States
District land Office at Vancouver Washington
Territory, under said acts of Congress: tn at
each and every of them, within thirty days
from the Sd day of November 4. d. 1873. (bc
Ing the day of expiration of six weeks publ
cation hereof give notice TO the Register and
Receiver of said Land Office. at Vancouver
Washington Territory, "of the particular
lands claimed as such donation land falling
such notice the claimant or claim
ants shall forfeit all right and claim thereto"
n witness whereof the Register and Re
ccivcr of the said United States District Land
Ollicc at Vancouver Washington Territory,
have hereto subscribed their names this 10Th
day Of October \. ID. ISIS
W. H. SMALLWOOD, Register.
5. W. BROWN, Receiver rs