The Arizona sentinel., 1886-02-13

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 TIE ARIZONA SENTINEL,
 Yama, Arizona.
 SATURDAY, FEB. l3, 1886.
 TOWN AND COUNTY.
 A large number of strangers have been in town this week.
 The thermometer has ranged at about s5 degrees this month.
 Yuma doctors are doing smart business, Selling musturd plasters.
 A house to rent near the railroad round house. Fnqire at this office.
 Ms train came in from the east last night. It is expected in some time to-day.
 Postmaster O. F. Townsend has purchased the building he now occupies for the post office.
 Five tramps were arrested yesterday. They demanded jury trial which comes of today.
 There arc several applicants for the posi- tion of teacher of the primary department of our pnblic school.
 
 The candidates have not arrived at the ''take somth'n" point yet, and the ''dear people" are still dry.
 It is said that pear is the best poker fruit. If you have plenty of "beans" you can knock the wind out of any pair.
 The delinquent tax list of Yuma county, amounts to but S2lS.l9. The county jail of Yuma has but one inmate. All this speaks well for our neighboring county.-Tucson Index.
 A geological survey of the Gila valley, from Phenix to Yuma, under the supervision of Major ]. ". Powell, chief of the geolog- ical department of the United States, will shortly be made.
 Sixteen people for the Lerdo Colony ar rived from the west Thursday morning and together, with the dozen families that were already here, proceeded on the steamer Fri day, to the colony lands, 65 miles south of Yuma
 The latest thing we have heard of in the way of new enterprises has been inaugurated by the Phenix Asylum Insane Commission CTS who intend to utilize the inmates to raise chickens from egg plants, and calves from sow-cstchers.
 AYuma father in correcting his little five year old recently, said, "What makes you ask so many foolish questions, wasn't so big donkey at your age.'' ''No pa," an- swered the little one, ''but you have grown R heep since"
 A Yuma widow says that the reason why 20 many men have family troubles is that they marry miss. We suppose that if they married a widow or an old maid that there would be no ''family troubles" nor could they put on many heirs.
 One of our subscribers wants logical ex- planation as to how it comes that little pig will eat whole bucket of slop, and if you put the pig in the same bucket it won't half fill it. We refer the problem to the professor of mathematics of the Territorial University.
 A can of baked beans exploded in Patter- son, N. J., few days ago, demolishing a range and frescOing the walls.-Ex.
 A man that will eat whole can of baked beans and then stand around the range. is hog, and we are not surprised at the catastrophy.
 . A very pleasant surprise party was ten dered Miss Sarah Martinez, on Tuesday evening, at the residence of Mir. Joseph Godfrey, by her many friends in Yuma A sumptuous repast was served and the lovers of the terpischorian art, enjoyed themselves till the wee small hours.
 The School Trustees met on Monday and accepted the resignation of Prof. Mcdonald as Principal of our school, and appointed Miss M. E. Post to the vacancy The ap- pointment is good one, as Miss Posts long connection with the Yuma schools has ably fitted her for the responsibility. Mir. Me Donald, who is an excellent instructor, will return to Los Angeles and take charge of his old school With the Gila bend, Mohawk valley, and the grand canal in Pinal-co., together with smaller enterprises of similar nature, it is believed that nearly 100 miles of irrigating ways will be constructed in Arizona the present year. The progress agriculture is making in this territory is even more sur prising than the growth of stock raising in- terests. The argonauts would not believe that California was destined to assume any importance as an agriculture section, and the incredulity with which Arizona has been viewed in the same respect, promises to be dispelled just as emphatically- that, too, before many years.-Phenix Ga zette.
 Advertised Lettsr List. List of letters remaining unclaimed in the postoffice at Yuma, Yuma-co., Arizona, February 7th, 1886:
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