The Arizona sentinel., 1885-04-04
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All Fools Day-last Wednesday.

Tomorrow will be Easter Sunday.
 The Boari of Supervisors next Monday,
 The SENTINEL never forgets its friends,
 J.L. Smith has recovered from his late indisposition.
 The Board of Prison Commissioners meet at this place Monday.
 A civic military company and brass band are talked of in town.
 Duck shooting is still good along the river and adjacent sloughs.
 Louis Esselburn says that he has been treated A. 1, by the soldiers.
 The Mohawk Valley Canal Cumpany's stock is going like hot cakes.
 A Masonic lodge, it is said. will be the next thing on the :apis in Yuma.
 Tie Grand Encanpment of the K. of P. will be held in Los Angeles this month.
 The Colorado river is gradually creep ing towards high water mark. So is the Gila.
 Yuma is not at present enjoying re- iigious revival as other places are at this lime.
 The S KNFINEL will wager cigar that Apache county will get away with the us. Marshalship.
 On the first page of this paper we pub fish interesting extracts from the new Prison Law,
 Report says that there is more travel towards the east. than towards the west, just now. The cause is obvious.
 A girl having two tongues was recent ly born in New York. This accounts for so many immigrants coming west.
 G. Ginocchio of San Francisco, of the nrm of Ginocchio & Co.,, merchants in Yuma, is spending few days here.
 Yuma has not yet been afflicted with the roller-skating mania, and no one therefore, has died from the effects of it.
 q scream" calculated a passenger at the depot Monday, when he saw chunk of ice put into the water tank of passen- ger car.
 Mrs. William Meeden is recovering, but slowly, from her serious Illness. This will be good news to the many friends of Mrs. Mceden.
 A. W. Hopkins, of Texas, arrived in Yuma Wednesday. He is a friend of G. W. Norton, with whom he visited, ard then proceeded west.
 Co away from home to get home news. And now comes the "San Fran cisco Ex- aminer" and says that Arizona streams are being stocked with carp."
 Col. John R. Farrell, of Tombstone, and Hon. R. H. Leatherwood, of Tucson, passed through this place on their return from Prescott, on Monday last.
 J. H. Godfrey has, lately, made several substantial improvements about his home aud premises. MT. Godfrey is bound to have comfortable place for a home.
 Two of the old barges belonging to the Colorado Steam Navigation Company, are partly sunk below the bridge. They will probably float of at the present rise of the river.
 A man by the name of August Krager has been arrested in San Francisco for beating his son until the blood ran from the boys back in stream 8, and then bath ing him in brine
 The Nogales Frontier says that the Plomosa mine will start up again in a few days, having settled all their indebt- edness. This is one of the best carbon ate mines in Arizona.
 In the elegant language Of a level headed contemporary, "You might as well try to shampoo an elephant with thimbleful of soapsuds as to attempt to do business and ignore advertising"
 A Yuma Indian exhibited a Gila mon> ster on the streets last Tuesday. The reptile was fully twenty-four inches long and was hideous to behold. It was ca2- tured and killed on the bank of the Gila, near town.
 A writer, arguing in favor Of elderly women for wives, says: Sweet 16 is in sipid; fascinating IS is tame" He must be lunatic. Who ever knew of a six teen.year-old girl being insipid or an eighteen-year-o one tame
 The Indians are burning the weeds of their several patches of ground along the Colorado and the Gila before the over flow comes As soon aS the water