The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1885-01-17


ma is furnished by the Indians.
ARIZONA furnishes Southern Cali
fornia with all the beef consumed.
r. B. PHrLLIps, the inde-fat .igable s..
F. Chronicle agent, was in Yuma this
week.
THE Tucson "Daily Citizen" says that
Purdy seems to be in the way even as a
temporary nan.
A Mexican convict by the name OF
Tomas Alvardes died at the Penitentisry
last Wednesday morning.
BULLION to the amount of $500 from
Silver District, passed through this place
for San Francisco last Tuesday,
TIE duty of 9 newspaper is to evolve
order out Of chaos, and therein lies jour-
nalism In a nutshell,
HON. C. Il. BRINLEI is trying the eff
cacy of mercurial ointment on trees af-
fected with the scale bug
JUDGE LEVY, is expected In Yuma on
the 20lh instant and will begin session
of Court ON the 21st, at 10 O'Clock, m.
GEORGE Bowers, of Prescott, went up to
the Clip mine via this place last Saturday,
He is one of the principal owners of the
mine.
COUNTY Treasurer Althee Lorette. sent
$4,44a,6 S to the Teri itorial Treasurer by
YESTERDAYS Wells, Fargo & Co.'s Ex-
press.
J. G.. EsruDILLo, ex-state Treasurer Of
California, passed through Yuma Tues
day with five carloads of cattle for the
Los Angeles market.
]. II. MARION, editor OF the Prescott
Courier, boasts Of having the only lady
printer ia Prescott on his ''staff." Lucky
Marion! Wish we could say as much.
Asplendsd local article on the recent
horse race near town at the Mesa, fur
nished By the SENTISEL's especial repor-
ter for the occasion, Is unavoidably crow
ded out this week.
"A detachment of 90 men, U. s. Cav
airy troops, arrived in Yuma this morn
ing. Their sbjeot here is to protect our
borders from Mexican depredations. The
troopers are from Fort Mcdowell.
JOSE REDoNDo has returned to Yuma,
after an absence Of several months IN
Prescott, to make this place his future
home. His many friends are glad to see
him back to his former haunts.
In obedience to a mandate OF Sheriff
TyneF, no Indians are allowed within the
town limits of Yuma after night. This
rule ought to be adopted III all communi-
ties where Indians reside in the neighbor-
hood.
WOOD is cheap in Yuma. We bought
City poles the other day, each averaging
about 20 feet in length aud six inches in
diameter, for So. When cut up this num-
Der OF poles will make about two cords Of
stove wood.
THE "COchise Record" says that Ari-
zona should have Bureau of Immigra-
tion. We think SO too, and Yuma should
be its headquarters with Charles b.
Brinley, or some other old settler, in
charge Of it.
The total value of property in Arizona
Territory as taken from the assessment
rolls of the several counties OF Arizona
Tor 1888 is s21,O0O,O0O. Divide this
among the population of $4,000 and it
lesves $685. for each man, woman and
child In the Territory.
E. NJ. COOPER, General Superintendent
OF Wells, Fargo d Co., has instructed o.
F. Townsend, agent for the Company at
this place, to deliver all consignnents in
the way of books etc., donated by the
charitable for the improvements of the
inmates of the Territorial Prison, free of
charge.
The San Diego Sun resents the Los An
geles assertion that it "has no back coun.
try" Il says: Our back country in one
direction reaches to the Colorado at
Yuma, distance of 200 miles. Toward Los
Angeles, We have back country for over
eighty miles and northward nesr 100.
The fact is, we have back country here
for sale cheap-more than we want.
COMPLAINT is made that locators of
mines in this Territory are permitted to
hold claims for long periods without
much prospecting or labor. and thus re-
tard the material prosperity of Arizona.
It is evident that the mining laws of this
Territory are defective in many particu
lars, and now, while the Legislature is in