The Arizona sentinel., 1886-06-26
PERSONAL.

fgMr. S. Cererro returned last night iron
 San Francisco.
 EsWalter and Sherman Douglas were il
 town last week.
 fEMrs. Dr. Rosson is confined to hel
 home by sickness.
 ngMiss Ella Burton is acting as clerk oi
 of the election to-day.
 sgAgent Waggy, of the S. P. Road, has
 returned from Santa Monica.
 sJMr. Henry Koshland is expected to re- turn soon from his valuable mines. EgRev. H. J. Ehlers has arrived from
 Phenix and has located permanently among us.
 tgMrs. Waters, of Arkansas, mother of
 Mrs. James Menasco, is here visiting her daughter.
 sSMr. Will Smith, Yuma's eficent con- stable, has gone toSonoro after San Diego horse thief.
 E3'Mrs. Curtis, Matron at the Colorado River Reservation, came down on Sunday and has gone to Phenix.
 fgMr. O'Rourk, formerly guard at the prison, but now in San Diego, where he talks some of going into stock raising.
 ETCol. Jerome, special agent of the U. $. Treasury, was in town last Tuesday on business connected with our custom house.
 EgMr. Ira West came down from Ehren- berg last Sunday and returned Thursday. MT. West is always welcome visitor in Yuma.
 sEDeputy Collector of Customs W. F. Smith, accompanied by Will Smith, has gone to Sonoita on business visit to the Mexican custom house.
 G9-Mr. A. Frank returned from his so- iourn to the seaside, looking much refresh ed. While absent he secured the services of a irst-class baker who will manipulate the new oven he has just erected.
 sSMiss Maud Dickenson came down from the Reservation last Sunday and left Tues day night for the Coast, to spend the sum- mer. Miss Maud has many friend in Yuma whose best wishes go with her.
 f8-Frank P. Sargent, Grand Master of Locomotive Bremen passed through Yuma on Wednesday last. MT. Sargent has many friends here who would have been pleased to see him ''stop over' for visit.
 Juan Duarte, the Mexican who was ar rested here last April by Deputy Sheriff Wm. Werninger for the murder of man in Los Angeles county California in 1883, and who was turned over to Sheriff Gard of Los Angeles, plead guilty in the Superior Court of that county last week. May 27th, 1883, DuGrte went to the house of Doroteo Higu- gro, near Silverado, below Santa Ana, Los Angeles county, to see Higuero's son, with whom had quarrel The son was absent from home, but Higuero and a daughter were at home. The old man told | Duarte to go away. At this point the | daughter went around the house on an er- rand. When she came back she found her father dead on the ground and Duarte giv- ing him the parting blows with an ax. There is nothing therefore for the murder itself but Duartes own story. He says he refus- ed to go away, whereupon Higuero struck him with stick. He took the stick away and Higuero struck him with an ax, cutting hIm in the right arm. He then wrested the ax from the old man and killed him with it. He then escaped and nothing was heard from him until he was arrested here in Yuma last 1 April by Deputy Werninger.
 Judging from the statistics so far, the mum | Der of meion-stealers disabled from shot, l guns and salt, or even more dangerous miss | les, is almost equal to the melon crop itself | The moral standard in regard to fruit is very ow. A mans right to property of that kind | is not yet fairly conceded, so that retribution | with shotgun is unpopular in most con- nunities. The despoiling of grape trellis | )r melonpatch is still looked upon in the l fight of a joke. Yet in many instances it is ! very serious affair in more than one sense. It means-not unfrequently the loss of all pro- it to the grower, and Encouragement to hoE- ,st labor