The Arizona sentinel., 1885-02-07
PENCIL POINTS.

ply superb.
 ACurio hunter has put in an appear ance in town.
 Charles Baker is back from hasty trir to his cattle range.
 The industrious Papago Indian keeps bringing gold dust to Yuma.
 A tannery has just been established at Nogales, the first in Arizona.
 The mooted question is "Who supplied Bismarck with "bean-poker stake"
 Mrs, L. s. F. Jaeger returned home
 Bismarck has been supplied with "bsan-poker stake" and has hied himself to Prescott.
 JOHN B. FITCH has been appointed Notary Public for Arizona Territory by the Governor.
 All kinds of legal papers carefully drawn by John B. Fitch at the Arizona SENTINEL office.
 The merry laugh of the Yums squaw is the only noise heard upon our public streets at times.
 A burning fiue caused au alarm of fire to be sounded from the Rincon about midnight Wednesday.
 Bulletins of the Pacific coast weather indications will be new feature at the Signal Station of this place soon.
 LovI is blind, and young man is color-blind when he thinks his redhead- ed sweetheart has auburn hair.
 Dr. Reeder of Casa Grande, reports a yerItable Chinese leper in that locality. The fellow is kept in quarantine.
 William Brodie was appointed Justice ot the Peace for Clip, (3d Township at the last meeting of the Board of Super visors.
 Messrs. Smith & Horner's immense hat-boat was launched last Sunday, and she "rode the waters of the Colorado like feather"
 THOSE whe claim to know say that if cattle are fully supplied with salt upon the range they will not eat of the poison ous lace weed. TER influx of cattlemen into the San Simon valley is making that section of Arizona q conf plete to barrier to Apache raids into Sonora. The report reached here one day this week that the nine Mexican mutineers and the woman captured by Sub-Prefecto l Villagraua and his party, of Lower Call fornIa, were all shot very soon after reaching Encenada.
 "THB Revolution of 'S4" (B. and O. Red | Book has been placed upon our table by the publisher, J, G. Pangborn. It is full of election statistics and is splendid book of reference. The publishers will please accept the thanks of this office.
 THE Penitentiary employs fourteen guards-eight are on duty during the day. and six at night, and are composed of persons who stand well in the con- munitY. The Turnkey Is Capt. White and A. O. Green is tbe Captain of the yard. The County Treasurer has made the following opportionmeut of the Yuma county school funds as follows: District No. 1, s7O7,S2; No. 2. $221,47 No. g, $197,55. To the library funds the ap. pointments were as fellows: District No. l, s7S.64; No. 9, $24.6O; No. s, $21.95, It is not generally known that Arizona contains within her borders nearly, If not quite, SS,00o square miles of coal forma- tion, which is computed to be almost one- half of the coal areas of the United Sta tes. The beds vary in size from two in ches to twenty feet. The Arizona Mine- ral Belt Railroad will give Globe access to many of these deposits which are adjacent to the Atlantic & Pacific, of which the Globe road will be T feeder. In referring to an item in the SENTINEL two weeks ago, where we spoke of a string ot beads around ones neck being too much clothing in the Summer time for the climate of Yuma. friend at our left says that he even found a piece of cotton twine around his neck too much for the climate here. No wonder, then, that the soldier who had become acclima- ted to Yuma, and who died and went to hell, sent for his blankets which he had left at the Fort saying that he was "freez- ing to death" down there.
 John II. Goldsmith, an old-time journ- alistic friend, gentleman of more than ordinary ability and observation, and a thoroughly competent newspaper man, visited Yuma this week and spent two days among us. He was much pleased