The Arizona sentinel., 1885-03-21
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The Gila is on the rise.

John Hicks and J. B. Fiske, of Silent were town this week.
 The thermometer is gradually craw- ling upwards in Yuma.
 The Tucson Tailings" is now news paper-in dimensions.
 Hon. J. M. Murphy has been confirmed Judge of Mohave county.
 Charles Baker went up today on fly ing trip to his ranch at Tacna,
 The Fish Commission law has been stricken from the Statute books.
 The several improvements going on in Yuma will receive our attention in due time.
 The Tombstone Epitaph" is again on Its feet, and is being run by James J. Nash.
 Yuma enjoyed few days of hay weather this week-a regular Indian Summer.
 But F Indian children attend the Gov ernment school at the Fort-eight girls and niue boys.
 The new school law passed by the re. cent Legislature, will take effect on the 1st day of May.
 Rich discoveries of gold bearing quarts, and silver bearing rock are reported from Saddle Mountal District.
 But one individual in Yuma wore green ribbon on the 17th instant, in com- msmoration of Ireland's Patron Saint.
 House bill to erect school house in Yuma, was upon motion of Hon. J. W. Darlington, indefinitely postponed.
 Judge PinHey, Of this Judicial District, has been quite i'll of late. Latest reports however, say that he is convelescing.
 There is some prospect that the Lerdo Colony lands VIII soon be settled by a large number of thrifty German families.
 The law which creates County Courts does not apply to this county. It, also, exempts, Gila, Mohave and Apache coun- ties,
 Yuma county is exempted from the law which offers bounty of SIS for the scalp of wolf, bear panther or wild cat.
 In the future all births occurring in Ari- zona will have to be recorded with the county recorder, together with the names of the parents,
 Henry Goldwater, late Clerk of. the Council Committee on Territorial Affairs, st the recent sesslon of the Legislature, is, at present, in Yuma. The University of Arizona bill as pas sed the Legislature, approprlates slOO,- 600 for that purpose. The University is to be located at Tucson. We have our opinion of that party of three gentlemen, wko, one day this week, drank three dozen bottles of ale, and who then said they were not "tight." The insane asylum is to be located within three miles of PheniI, on 16O acres of land, to be purchased by Maricopa county at 6 cost not to exceed s 500. Hon. E. B. Gage and wife, of Tombs- tone, passed through this place for San Francisco, last Thursday, MT. Gage is one of the Board of Prison Commissioners. J. H. Godfrey is quite a domestic bird ] fancier. He has some of the best buff cochins, bantams and brahma chickens in the Territory. Visit his place and he will take pleasure to show them to you. A Chinaman raises all the vegetables necessary to supply Yuma on e plot of ground less than half an acre, near the | round house. This is an evidence of the l richness of Yuma soil when properly cul- | tlvated and irrigated. Sheriff A. Tyne- received an invi- tation from George E. Gard, Sheriff of Los Angeles, to attend the "official ex- ecution" of Francisco Martinez and Adol. ie silvas which took place in that city yesterday at 9 o'clock, P. NJ.
 Hon. George B. Brown, member of the Lower House of the late Territorial Legislature from Pima, passed through this place Thursday on his way home, to Tucson. Also, on the same day John Beahn, of Tombstone, went through to- wards home. The sum of $7s, ,569,96 was paid into the Territorial School Fund during the years 1883 and 1884. Amount disbursed during the same period of time, S5S, ,247,- Dol