The Arizona sentinel., 1885-05-30
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 X"cooln summer is predicted.
 There is dearth of local news.
 The sOth of May-Memorial Day.
 Prof. Ray has been quite i'll for several days.
 The SENTINEL always remembers it's friends.
 Hon. Samuel Purdy and wife are visit ing at Tucson.
 Postmaster Townsend is back from his San Diego trip.
 The mining interests ot Yuma county are picking up.
 The citizens of Yuma propose celebrat- Ing the 4th of July,
 The mooted question-What shall we do with the mosquitoes3
 There are 77 school census children at the Clip School District.
 The mosquitoes are presenting their annual bills for collection"
 The people of Yuma county are not troubled with grasshoppers.
 The Board of Supervise for this county, will meet next Monday.
 John B. Fitch will practice law before the Justices Courts of this county.
 The thermometer indicated 1O1 degrees Tn the shade yesterday at 80 D. m.
 The pepper trees around the Court House are growing spleodidly and need propplng up.
 The body of the Chinaman. Cheow CheoW has not yet been recovered from Its watery grave.
 The Ogilby group of mines were bonded for 80 ,OOO for 60 days, and not sold as prevlously reported.
 A grand fandango is going on at the Msricopa Rancheria. Many of the Yumas from this place are in attendance.
 Judge Levy and wife came down from Clip last Thursday on business. They expect to spend some days in Yuma.
 Territorial Prison Commissioner A. c. 1 Hubbard made the trip to Yuma last Sat- urday from Clip in small boat, alone.
 The public school at Clip has closed for the term. The teacher, Miss Dickerson, will spend her vacation at her home in Wisconsin. Judge De Forest Porter, of Phenix, dropped in upon us this morning, looking as happy and As jolly as ever. He is here on legal business,
 ]. L. Smith, we are glad to state, is recovering slowly from his late attack of paralysis. He is under the skillful treat ment of Dr. J. H. Taggart.
 A lizard, of the thick, scaly order, twenty inches long and one and half inches wide. in alcohol, is one among the specimens in Dr. Baldwin's cabinet.
 The Sheriff of this county is made by law ex-of1ce Assessor, for which service he is allowed $500 or $I0 day for thirty days, iu which time he has to do the work. The sum of s524.2s, the amount of cash in the Sinking Fund of this county, paid of s771.6S in warrants in the hands of Isaac Lyons last Monday. The rate being oS cents on the dollar.
 To keep mosquitoes out Of your house at night, burn some Persian insect powder within doors sufficient to fill the apart ments with its smoke. This remedy is eficacious and "sure cure."
 Lower California claims to have three mountains of alum and one of alum and sulphur mixed. The alum and sulphur are almost chemically pure. The amount of alum is estimated at 1O0,O00,0OO tons and of sulphur 100000 tons. Chief Paslual. of the Yumas, complains of the Indian school at the Fort. Some how the Indians are not satisfied and they keep their children from attending 1t, We { will look into the matter and have some thing more to say hereafter. Is Complaint has been made to Sheriff Tyner ofthe rudeness of some of the young Mexican hoodlums in Yuma. They are charged with insulting ladies upon the streets and abusing young children. The Sheriff has taken steps to stop she ( nuieance. At last Yuma is supplied with splendid spring water. Along the railroad track, between the depot and the round house , several springs of pure limpid water have