The weekly Arizona miner., 1880-01-30
OUR CALIFORNIA LETTER

STOCKTON, CAL, Jan. 2j.h, 1880. ED MINER This ancient metropolis of the San Joaquin district of California, has had its ups and downs like other California cities, but is just now on tbe uP grade and about to pull through and remain as # has ever been, a frst-class Pacific Coast town. holld improvements are visible on every hand; crop prospects for the coming season are al least fair and hear but little mur- muriDg about hard times
 l came here three days ago at the request of Secretary Gosper, who desired me to ac- company him 70 inc prIvate Insane Asylum oi Langion < Clark, where the insane of of Arizona are kept, and where he is in hopts 10 ne able To get s still further redue- iion in the rate from that which is now paid for keeping them, he having succeeded on a former occasion in securing quite reduc- tion from the old contract
 The Secretary On this occasion went to Sac,amento on business and was to meet me here yesterday, or the day before. bur, as l have ju-t learned, was unexpectedly summoned tO San Francisco again and wiil not be able ta visit s;ockton until he starts br home, when lac will come up here in Inc morning and remain three or four hours and meet the Yuma train al Lalhrop,
 Yesterday. I visited tae Asylum on ny own hook and found it very pleasantly lo- cated and neatly, and, should thlng. proper ly kept Mr Chas. Hammer, who is in charge, Was very polite and attentive io me aud showed me through the various male wards where there were in the aggregate something ever IJ0 unfartunates, whp, from one cause and another, have lost their req son. Of these who are rauny mauiac., there are not very many. and gs 1t happens. none from Auzona. OI the nine men and three women here who came from our terri tory. all are able 10 feed and dress ihem- selves except John II. Salt from MolIave county. who is prralyzcd both in brain aad body. and is hopeless imbecile. Mike Rressler, from our county Is on ihe books ss one of the best patients here, and the doctors think nigh. be discharged # it could be done without his coming in con- tact with anything to unduly excite him. V haud. shaking 1T vigorously, for several minutes, at the same time asking all man uer 0f questions about everybody he could think of in Prescott He seems &s rational as ever saw him, and says that all he asks l. his lib,rty and ha will never trouble Ari- zvna again, in fact. he says he would n0' have come back thi. time ii he had stayed aWa- from Prescott and the excitement az ... T. s- the only man here from Iayapai, the eich; others are divided among the other coun- ties
 NJ. Tanner having shown me about the malc department as much as 1 desired. in- troduced me to the Matron of the femae portion of the establishment which is kept on the same principle as the other, viz z;- Clean, comfortable sleeping and eating apartments, recreation grounds, etc, etc. l asked especially 10 see Moilie Monroe, and was shown tO plain buT very tidy and pleasant roomin the main nEiiuing occupied by Moliie and another patient aam"d Carrie Jansen, oi Pima couniv, neither Of Whoni showed any evidence of iusanily, so far a- ! could observe, though 1 GId bot CoHvrlsc with Mrs. Jansen. Molie could not rrnym- bef my name, though she said she knew lived in Prescott and after being told who was upbraded herself for n0i calling the name at once. Sic looks well and talks Ti-.i tionally enough. though doubt whether lt would bs safe 10 trust her with her iiGesty yet, or, in tact, whether she will ever be any better. She seems to be entirely devoid of aDy higher separations tban 70 go back and resume the wild and di,solutr life she 1 ed in the mountains of Arlzoua, and if she ! were set at liberty to-day she weuld be ou the way t0 the Bradshaw mountains t3-mor- i row Dr. LauIlon told me yesterday that 1, her appetite for iIquor is just IS strong Dsw ] ls 1t was when she came here, and, although | sho has bad none for two years. she cravcs it : ali the while, and would resort to any strate- i gem to obtain bottle if she could.
 She told me that 1 would hear, from the ] doctors, that she was crazicr thau ever, lu; ! that t Was no such thing. anu that u was only mcanncss iu her. She said tba. she was the meanest thing on earth, and iHicrd . ed tu be SO until she was t:uncd out aGd a- lowed io do as she pleased
 The Matr0n told me that MollIe lacked moral feeling and principle, but that she was hot entirely bad, as she found her pos -essed of tender impulses and always relGg to assist those who arc unable ,o help them : selves. The matrOn has tried 10 inspire he. with an ambition to bc better and live win higher aims in life, but has abou: despa;s | of ever accomplishing anything in lIat di- rcetion. T ,. 5.
 
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