The Arizona sentinel., 1886-12-04
GRAND JURY REPORT.

To the Hon. Wm. H. Barnes, Judge presiding at the Second Judicial District Court, in and for the coun
 ty of Yuma, Territory of Arizona:
 The Grand Jury called, sworn and impanneled for the county of Yuma, at the October term, of the District Court of the Second Judicial District, in and for the county of Yuma, beg leave to submit the following report:
 We have found one true bill for murder.
 We have found one true bill for as sault with attempt to commit murder
 We have found one true bill for burglary.
 We have found one true bill for petit larceny.
 We have found one true bill for as sault with & deadly weapon.
 We would most respectfully recom- mend that the attention of the county Board of Supervisors, be directed to the necessity of supplying and furnish ing the office of Public Administrator with suitable blanks and books, so that the records of sad office may be properly kept.
 Our attention was directed to the matter of the dumping of the sewerage of the Territorial Penitentiary. into the river directly above the point, from whence is drawn the supply of water for the uses of the village of Yuma. The accompanying report of our committee, appointed for the pur- pose of investigating this matter, we beg leave to submit as a portion of this our report to your Honor.
 We do not deem the usual custom of examining the offices of the county officials, by means of subcommittee of any practable benefit to the tax payers of the county, and would most respectfully suggest, that the court, at at its next term, make some provisions whe: eby the Grand Jury, then to be empannelsd, may be enabled to engage the services of experts to make exa- minations of said offices, and the books and records appertaining thereto.
 Nothing further being before our body for consideration we must res pectfully ask to be discharged.
 Respectfully Submitted,
 J. W. DORRINGTON,
 Foreman. To the Honorable Grand Jury.
 Your committee appointed to inves- tigate the sewerage from the Terri torial Penitentiary as relates to the water supply of Yuma, beg leave to make the following report:
 We find that the sewerage discharge pips from the Penitentiary empties into tank, from which 1t is dischar- ged into the Gila river every night.
 A small cove of slack water receives this slack matter, holding the more dangerous substances in solution, the more buoyant particles gradually drifting off and into the Colorado four or five hundred feet below.
 A chip dropped into the Gila river where the current was preceptible ard and just below the cove, resulted in recording the fact that this foul, pes tiential matter, slowly drifting into the more rapid waters of the Colorado was met ny a counter current, that drove it back onto the Arizona shore, where it passed directly beneath where the cart supply of water is taken from and so on down from whence the re- servoir supply is pumped. Hence there IS every cause to believe and 1t is beyond intelligent dispute that this more subtitle, dangerous and loathsome substance, clinging to the rocky shore, is ever and always being gradually loosenel, and drifting down is taken up and distributed into the households of Yuma
 And in view of these startling facts, we would most earnestly recommend that the Honorable Grand Jury, do respectfully, though positively request the Honorable Board of Prison Com missioncrs to take immediate steps that this crying evil and dangerous nuisance be 2bated, by the construc- n