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The Arizona sentinel., 1882-01-21

& The closing of stores, shops,
saloons. ETC., on Sundays is be-
coming a common and popular
custom in business communities,
all over our country, and needs
no compulsory law in most cities
and: towns, especially as relates
to mercantile .stores. Nor is
there need of such compulsory
law, for if the people are educat-
ed to comprehend the laws of
physiology, which inevitably
govern the functions of mans
moral and physical natures, they
will, better without this law, ia
vOr the custom that so material
ly benefits them, by contributing
the necessary rest and recupera-
tion. The moral sense of the
people, rather than Legislative
enactment, should adjust this
matter; and if the citizens of Il
community have too little of il to
induce them to adopt and main
tain the custom, then are they
unfit, as they would be unwilling,
to obey such compulsory law. il
enacted. in such community
such a law could not be enforced.
And as Arizona has no law re-
curing the closing up of places
OF business on Sundays, every
community in the Territory is
left free to act according to The
dictates of its moral sense, AS t.
what is best in this respect. 81
are we, here in Yuma, at the
mercy of our own judgment and
moral sense in the premises. In
the past, when we were less ex-
posed to the criticism of visitors,
when we had no railroad connec-
ten with other parts Of the coun
try, with its prosperous towns
and cities, and Yuma was but all
Isolated town, it was of much less
consequence as to our moral
status. We all, alike, have an
interest in, the towns real and
permanent prosperity; and hence
should unite in our efforts to Sc
cure this desirable end. Let the
stores Of Yuma be closed 10y mu-
The Arizona sentinel., 1882-01-21
Mining and Silver. District Notes

The strike on the Remnant Is one OF
The most important ever MADE in sdc
Territory. wide streak Of horn silver
has been encountered, making the entire
ore body average very high.
Qsite city is being bail On he 6em
msnt ground. Dwelling house, Store and
club house are being erectei. Activity
in building is always sign Of pros sriiy.
Assessment work is beirs done on the
Rover, Melissa and Silver Cloud.
There has been new find made OF
fabulously rich mine, not far slant from
Silver District. We await confirmation
before publishing full particulars.
Walt liar, of Klara Camp, is in town
and reports the Lost mine as prospecting
well, and turning out considerable good
ore.
Black Rack and Silver Glance looking
fine. Work continues night and day.
Work will be started up on the cel+-
| brated Princess mine at an early day
rhis mine has yielded a large quantity of
ore, and it has been surprise to all that
the mine was allowed to lie idle SD lcng.
The Prime ess has shaft 100 feet in depth,
cross cut and two drifts on the ledge,
and in all the workings there is plenty of
metal in sight. This mine has produced
more carbonate ore than any other claim
i'll the district.
Messrs. Downey Harvey and Ed. Arm
strong went up to Silent ON Mondays
stage. Mr.. Harvey is in terested in the
Remnant mine, and Mr. Armstrong will
open a general merchandise establish
ment at the Remnant
VIM. Johnson team left Ginocchio &
Co.'s corral on Sunday loaded with lum-
Der for Remnant mine.
The Castle Dome mines are hosting
their ocular amount of ore, and continue
to make large shipments to the compa-
ny's works, at Melrose, Cal.
| The news from Ellsworth District is
good A number of The mines are being
thoroughly developed, and give promise
of being remuneratiye at an early day.
The rain which visited US last week
HAS filed the tanks with water, and the
miners souls with Joy.
The Arizona sentinel., 1882-01-21
A Good Suggestion.
TERRITORIAL PRISON,
Yuma, Jan. 20, 1882.

EDITOR SENTINEL - Permit
me, through the columns OF yunr
valuable paper. to ask the gener-
Gus and liberal minded to donate
to the inmates of the above NAM
ed institution any books or peri
odicals that they may have to
spare and deem will be Of benefit
or interest to them. There are
many here WHO would return
grateful thanks for donations of
this kind. In the end it may BIZ
the means of promoting mnch
good, and this to many would be
ample payment for their liberail-
ty, together with the knowledge
that they had assist 3, however
slightly, IN shorteniug ne time,
by pleasant reading, II .y-G Who
had transgressed tn law eth "
by force Of circumSjau-es or Ia
moments of passion.
Part les donating WI please
bear in mind to dir u Gre VI
C. V. Meeden. Supt.
Sincerely trusting -Hat lie
above will meet with the tire
appreciation of your many ln,eili.
gent readers, and thai they viii
respond by donations, however
small, | have the honor to ~
main, very respectfully,
ONE OF THE ABOVE.
The Arizona sentinel., 1882-01-21

tual agreempnt between the pro-
prietOrs, selling nothing on Sun
days, save to such parties as must
leave town before Monday, and
to these without full opening of
The stores. This rule once estab-
lished would tend to encourage
settlers among us, who would
otherwise not care to locate here,
but would rather go to towns that
have established a system of no
trade on Sundays. This change
would secure us greater respect
from neighboring towns, that
have such Sunday regulations,
and, of course, would tend to in
crease both our population and
I wealth. Yuma caunot afford
longer to remain fOssiiiZrd
town, dragging in the rear of all
the other towns in the Territory;
and if her property owners would
enhance the value of their eS-
tales, they must utilize every
available agency, one of which is
to close the doors of their BUSH
ness houses on Sundays. You
| 4. II al IL,
day for recreation and rest. You
are killing yourselves by over
work. Seek the rest your sys-
TENS require, and saloon proprie-
tors in due season will follow the
example, and will stray off to
rGsticate or rest, as they elect.
Gentlemen, the change will pay.
The Arizona sentinel., 1882-01-21

We are informed that the Board of
Prison Commissioners have applied for
the balance of the bonds ($13,0U0l of the
$4,000 appropriated by the last legisla-
ture for Prison work. We think the
application premature, and that its grant
ing would prove adverse to the public
good, since this $500 woald become an
interest bearing fdnd, an unnecessary
bill of expense, and this, too, while the
amount drawn last July, $1,000, is not yet
wholly expended. In behalf of the tax
paying people of the Territory, we en-
phatically protest against the granting OF
the application at this time.
The Arizona sentinel., 1882-01-21
SEALED PROPOSALS.

Office Of the Board Of Supervisors Of Yuma
County,.
CEALED PROPOSALS FOR FURNISH
~ ing medical attendance and medl-
cine to the INDECENT sick of said county,
for the remainder Of the year 1882, will be
received up to 10 O'clock, A. NJ, January
2lst, 1882, The successful bidder to give a
reasonable bond for the due performance
of said duties, payment for the same to be
made quarterly, in warrants on the gen.
eral fund of the county.
The lowest or any bid not necessarily
accepted. All bids must be directed to
the Clerk of the Board of Su supervisors,
marked Bids for Medical Attendance"
BY order of the Board, JAN 7th, 1881.
G. NJ. KNIGHT,
Clerk
The Arizona sentinel., 1882-01-21
SEALED PROPOSALS.

Office Of the Board of Supervisors Of yuma
County.
CEALED PROPOSALS WILL BE RE
- ceived up TO January 21st, at ten
o'clock, A. M, of that day, for printing in
a newspaper, published in SAID county
for the remainder OF The year 1882, such
notices and orders as may be required by
law to be su published, bid 10 state
amount per square OF one inch, payments
to be made quarterly, in warrants on the
general fund of said county.
A reasonable bond for the performance
of said contract will be required from the
successful bidder.
The lowest or any bid not necessarily
accepted. All bids must be directed tC
the Clerk of the Board OF Supervisors
marked bids for Printing"
By order Of the Board, Jan. 9th, 1882.
G. NJ. KNIGHT,
Clerk.
The Arizona sentinel., 1882-01-21
We are indebted to the kind

We are indebted to the kind
ness Of F M. Darlington, of Cen
trail City, ID. r., for copy of the
New Years edition of the Black
Hills Pioneer, publish ed at Dead
wood, by A. W. Merrick, Esq.
1t is large 16-pago edition, 112
columns, and is replete with val
liable and interesting matter. 1t
must prove a very acceptable and
highly priced New Years gift.
The Arizona sentinel., 1882-01-21
DIED.
NEW. TO-DAY.
SEALED PROPOSALS.
Office of the Board Of Supervisors-cf Yumc

Office of the Board Of Supervisors of Yuma
County,
. EAlED PROPOSALS FOR BOARD
= ing the county prisoners for tie re-
mA;nder OF the year 1882 will be received
up to 10 o'clock, A. M, January 2ist, 1882,
bidder to furnish two meals of good,
healthy food to each prisoner daily, To be
delivered ut the Jail. Payments TO be
ma quarterly in warrants on the gener-
al fund of said county. bidder to give =
.ea sonable bond for the due performance
oi aid contract.
T he lowest or any bid not necessarily
accepted,
III bids must be directed to the Clerk
ol he Board Of Supervisors, marked "9Id
f1r Boarding County Prisoners.
BY order of the Board, Jan 9th, 1882.
G. NJ. KNIGHT,
l.
The Arizona sentinel., 1882-01-21

There being some discussion as to the
right of persons carrying passengers for
hire without license, we publish by re-
quest the la relating to the subject.
Every person who shall sell or vend any
wine or distilled liquors, butchers meat,
drugs and medicines, and who shall keep
horses or carriages for rent or hire, when
their business or sales amount to more
than On averge of five Thousand dollars
per quart r, shall pay quarterly. license
tax Of twenty dollars; when such business
or sales are less than five Thousand dol
lars per quarter; quarterly license tax
of eight dollars. See Compiled Laws 1871
page $40, Chapter 40, section Q.
The Arizona sentinel., 1882-01-21
A GIrl's Choice.

1t was in drug store of course. All
interesting incidents occur'in drug stores
that is nearly all. She was pretty, with
golden hair, one Of those kind of beauties
the poet would have called an ''angel,"
but for tho fact that colony OF pimples
on her air frontispiece precluded all
thought of a celestial being. BOwing TIM
il = to the handsome clerk, she asked for
"Swarnc's Ointment for skin diseases"
-nJ upon receiving it vanished like the
morning dew before the summer sun.
The Arizona sentinel., 1882-01-21

Croekery, Hardware, Mining Implements
Watches and Chaas, Gold and
Plated, CcllelOid jew
clrY,
The Arizona sentinel., 1882-01-21

On application of Lucy "oolsey, by
her attorney, L. A. Mullan, Esq, on Mon
day last, o. F. Townsend WAS appointed
the Guardian Of Johanna, her minor
daughter. No better appointment could
hive been made.
The Arizona sentinel., 1882-01-21

Gov. J. j. Gosper. made a brief visit to
Yuma on Saturday asst. His mission Wa
of purely business nature; bat, never
theless, during his two days sta7, irres
pective of party, everybody paid tn il
respects TO Governor Gosper. Many who
had never met Mr.. Gospe~ before, were
pleased to tiad in him AN Inteliigen. and
entertaining gentleman. This was his
first visit to Yuma, anu it seems that he
has captured the good wishes and atfee-
lions of both men aud women (Gu3 es
pecially the latter. We were about the
first to advance the name Of 60 per, io
Governor We do SO still, and feel yet
sufficient confidence in his nomination
and confirmation,
The Arizona sentinel., 1882-01-21

On Thursday the steamer MohaYe was
brought up to be made ready for her TIP
IN the river, January Both.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-09-28
Frnit in Illinois.

Apples, except a few varieties, are
rendered nearly worthless by the acab-
bing and cracking Of the fruit. Grapes
are rotting and falling, and will max e
less than a quarter of crop, of poor
quality. Pears and peaches are the
best crop for years. As the soil parts
with lis vegetable matter and becomes
compaCled, the grub-the sc0urge of
peach trees on loose and open soil
gradually disappears, or does so little
damage that the tree gets to be ylgOr-
Gus and hardy. For these reasons,
perhaps, for several years past, there
have been more or less pc aches, and
this year every peach tree Is loaded
with fruit. WnIe 1t would be a poor
and possibly u bad investment TO plant
pear trees ON d large scale on the ay-
erage prairie soil, yet from what is to
be seen OF the crop to-day in private
gardens, and from the uniformly good
crops of the last five years, no fruit
viii pay better if the accumulation of
wood and coal ashes and old mortar
and the wash of the kitchen, and the
waste of the woodshed and coal house
are used.
1t would be something like an as
sumption, perhaps, to say that pear
blight results in most cases from par
,iaI exhaustion of the soil. still that
was the suggestion Of Downing, and the
fact that the pear tree hourishes best
where there u the greatest amount Of
available potash and phosphoric acid
in the soil, supports that view. That
the pear tree, which in wood, leaf and
fruit contains more potash than any
other fruit tree, and the apple tree,
which contains next most of these,
should suHer-the first most, and the
second next less-irom the common
disease blight, would be logical con-
sequence if blight is the result ei de-
ficiency of potash and the phosphates
in the soil Exchange.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-09-28
The W heat Belt.

The american Miller explodes the
theory about there being a wheat belt
in the country, and lays all the blame
for its deterioration in the older states
on the shoulders of the farmers them
selves. 1t may be III the right partly,
and partly not, but here is what II says:
"Ihere is no such thing as the shift
ing of the wheat belt only so far rs
the exhaustion Of the soil renders such
shifting necessity. Any acre of
land will raise wheat throughout eter-
nifty, if It's capabilities are not taxed t1o
much. Look at Egypt. Even in Jo-
seph's time 1t was a wheat-growing
country. 1t is such to-day. So also
would be almost every state in the
union if the silly twaddle about shift
ing was disresarded, and the land
treated to rest or to fertilizers. The
farmers i'll southern Minnesota, be-
coming convinced that they can no
longer raise a large crop of spring
wheat, are trying their luck on winter
wheat To speak in a slangy but ex-
pressive way, they will certainly get
| left. What their land needs is rest.
Let the farmers Of that section put in
corn, oats, or almost anything, and af-
ter a year or so they will find that the
trouble is not in any climate or mystic
rious change, but in the TACT that, by
successive crops of wheat, trey have
simply exhausted the soil. The idea,
as commonly entertained, that there is
a wheat belt is first class fraud. Al
most every acre of land from Mexico
to Manitoba viii raise good crops of
wheat if its energies are not taxed too
much. Scientific farming will dispel
any such vagaries rs that of the wheat
belt; and in proof of this we have
only to cite the fact that in 1879 the
old states had much larger yield Of
wheat per acre than the new states
whose soils have been prematurely
worn out by succession Of wheat
crops"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-09-28
Eat Your Breakfast First.

DIR. Hall is authority for the follow.
ing thoughts upon breakfastlng before
much exercising IN the open air, par
ticularly in districts where fever and
ague are abundant.
Breakfast should be eaten in the
morning before leaving the house for
exercise, or labor Of any description;
those who do it will be able to perform
more work, and with greater alacrlty,
than those who work an hour or two
before breakfast. Besides this, the
average duration of life of those who
take breakfast before exercise or work
will be number of years greater than
those who do otherwise.
Most persons begin to feel weak after
having been en-, lged five or six hours in
their ordinary avocatioDs, n good meal
relnvigorates, but from the last III cal of
the day until the next morning, there
is an interval of some twelve hours;
hence the body, in n sense, is weak
and in proportion can not resist dele
FERROUS agencies, whether of the fierce
cold o. mldwlnter or of The poisonous
mIasm which rests upon the surface
Of the earth wherever the sun shines
on a blade of vegetation or a heap OF
otfal. This mlasm Is more solid, more
concentrated, and hence more maIig-
nant, about sunrise and sunset than
any other hour of the twenty-four, be.
cause the cold of the night condenses
| it, and it is on the first few inches
above the soil in It's most solid form
| but as the sun rises it warns and ex-
pands, and ascends to point high
enough to be breatheC, and being
taken into the lungs with the air and
swallowed with the saliva into the
stomach, all weak and empty as it is,
it is greedily drunk in, thrown imme-
0iately into the circulation of the
blood, and carried to every part Of the
body, deposltlng It's poisonous intlu-
ence ut the very tOuntanhead of life.
Il early breakfast was taken in re-
gions where chills and fever and ague
prevail, and if, in addition, brisk fire
were kindlei IN the family room for
an hour, iIciuding sunrise and sunset,
these troublesome malaGies would d.
minisA in any one year, not ten-fOld,
but thousand-fold, because the heat
Of the fire would rarity the miasma'ic
air instantly. and send it above breath
irg point. But it is Troublesome" to
be building fires nignt and morning all
summer 1t being no trouble, rquiring
no effort, to shiver and shake by the
hour, weeks and months together.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-09-28
Moptana's Bovine Wealth.

Uncle Dan Feury Of Helena, Mont
one of the best known cattle men IN
the country, and especially familiar
with Montana grazing, WAS in 81. Paul
recently supervising the arrival OF a
couple Of trains loaded with $40 fat
beeves consigned TO the Chicago mar
ket, most of them, but stopped at the
stock yards here for q snort rest. A
number Of persons visited the yards,
and one butcher was so enthusiastically
pleased with the looks Of one of the
steers that he said, "FIeury, III give
YOU humdred dollars for that fellow,
vhereupon Uncle Dan said, Take hlm
right along" and he did at the price
named. A Exporter seized an oppor.
tunity for little cattle talk with Mr..
Fleury, and the gentlemen confirmed
the statement that the last year had
been the best Montana bad ever known
for grazing interests, and the winter
and spring couldn't have been
better If the weather had been made to
the order Of the beet owners. In con
sequence, the animals were fat before
the grass turned green, md have
been gaming IN sOHulty ever
since, so that the two and three
year olds are abnormally heavy. Owing
to the mild weather, also, the precent-
age of saved calves has been very large,
and the increase consequent has been
pleasingly great Mr.. Fleury also said
that the increase in Montana was not
as great as further south, by several
per cent, and explained by saying
that whereas in Colorado eighty Of the
calves dropped from the herd of one
hundred cows were saved, and in Texas
even more, reaching eighty-iiye or
ninety in Montana seventy was a good
saving, ana if the weather CHANGED
TO be severe, smaller perc ntage was
noted Last year the saving was
seventy, in some. instances more, but
it was not to be expected that in so
northern a latitude the yield would
ever be "a good as further south. But
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-09-28
OF Two Orchards.

| Colonel Curtis expresses surprise
that II is not a more frequent custCm
among farmers to keep pigs in the or
chard, especially during the fruiting
season. The plan, whether practiced
sufficiently or not to establish 1t rs a
custom, is nevertheless an admirable
one. particularly where hogs enough
are kept to consume al the fallen fruit.
The mode of pruning, also, think
has much to do with the life OF lac
trees rs well as Of their regular bearing.
In small orchard of about 1i0 trees
on farm once mine, in the southern
part of this state, | lost but one tree
from the time of planting until the day
OF selling the farm nearly twenty-lour
years. These trees were planted two
rods apart each way, ard were pruned
by myself very low, SO low that as they
attained full size the lower branches of
one nearly touched thoee of it's neigh
Dor, and when loaded with fruit reach
esi nearly TO the ground.
The result of this InethoG of pruning
was that the land under the trees was
always more or less damp and that the
the blasting effects Of the summer sun,
one of the most destructive causes of
the death of fruit trees. These trees
were also opened out at the top where
necessary, to allow the sun to reach the
fruit as 1t is his rays that give such
color to apples as well as to peaches.
This orchard connected by slip-gap
with wood lot OF some thirty or forty
acres, through the whole of which the
hogs were allowed to roam-consuming
such nuts, etc, as they desired, and all
the fallen fruit | have seen them
when the supply became little short
rear up and Selling bow between their
teeth give it little shake and bring
down enough to supply temporary de-
iiciencies. The fruit of the orchard
was always engaged long before ripen-
ing to privaue parties of the neighbor-
ing city at the highest market price. 1t
was picked in baskets, and then care
fully piaced-not poured-in spring
wagon, the bottom of which was well
covered With straw, each kind by itself,
and then delivered with list of the
kinds, indicating their order of ripeniDg,
the time running from November ] to
about the last OF May of the following
year. Ga the contrary, in my present
orchard of some 200 trees in this coun-
ty, purchased two years since, where
the cattle have been allowed to Craze
and trim up the lower branches, and
where no hos have been kept to root
up the land and eat the fallen fruit, we
cut down twelve dead trees last spring,
and snail be obliged to cut fully as
many next spring. The trunks of the
trees are exposed to the blasting rays
of the summer sun, and many of them
are blistered. ! should also add that
not few OF them have been injured
by the plowman when blowing when
the trees were small, II very frequent
cause of death. A. Is. S., ~ n. y
7f70t1e.