The Arizona sentinel., 1891-04-04
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is eligible as delegate to the con- stitutional convention.
 All machinery used in the man ufacture of sugar from beets raised in Arizona is to be exempt from I taxation for ten years. That is the right kind of a spirit to induce capital to come to Arizona.
 The Boston Herald perpetrated this joke at the expense of Yuma: 'The penitentiary is about the only building that hasn't been washed away by the flood at Yuma, and it is feared that the inmates of even this structure will have to be bailed out"
 The Chronicle thinks that the little town of Yuma will not be re- built, We think our western neigh Dor is in error. Yuma is. one of the oldest towns in Arizona and 1t will take more than a summers rain to put it out of existence Phoenix Gazette.
 The work of rebuilding Yuma has been commenced. The South ern Pacific trains are now running and material for new buildings is being brought in as rapidly as pos sible. Resurrected Yuma will be a much handsomer village than the old town could ever have been made.
 The hopes of Arizona lie in water storage. Every years delay is so much lost from the volume Of prosperity, that would pour in on every hand. Hen now worth hun dreds of dollars would under 6 proper system of irrigation be worth their thousands; and those of thousands would count their. possessions by tens.-Citizen.
 In the eastern number of the New York Ledger, issued March 21, Mrs. Amelia Barr starts "A Sister to Esau," 8 Scotch serial, Mrs Frances Hodgson Burnett con tributes Eight Little Princes" George Bancroft, Dr. Felix Oswald, Wilson de Mega, Amy Randolph, Jean Kate Ludlum, Anna Sheilds and Helen N. North also contrib ute.
 A press dispatch from Salt Lake states that colony of sixty fam flies of Mormons will leave there for Mexico early in April, and that about 2,000 will follow during the summer. AS most of these people will naturally pass through Dem ing on their way into Mexico, this exodus will contribute materially to the activity which other causes will combine to establish there.-I Deming Headlight.
 The case of John Markle leads to the remark that the uncertainties of this life are great. We set type with him upwards of thirty years ago, in California; he was always considered level-headed, but he lost his eyesight at Yuma and breeding over ths great loss i'm paired his reasoning faculties and forced his friends to place him in the Asylum at Phoenix, where, we sincerely hope, the lot of the old pioneer Californian and Arizonian vii net be hard.-Prescott-C
 The stock purchased by Mir. Holt, the Montana buyer, in the San Pedro valley, week since are as follows: San Pedro Cattle Company, 1900 head; Columbia Cattle Company, 900 head; Ii. c. Hooker, 2,50Q head. Of others, principally D. Markham and the Inter-Ocean Company, he has pur- chased the balance of about 5000 head. The price paid was $11 per head for two year old and $I5 for 3 year old. They are to be deliv- cred in Tucson for shipment in May.=-Citizen.
 Agricultural Agent Poston to- day forwarded to Secretary Rusk, at Washington, samples of wild | hemp received at Phocnix through the courtesy of Assemblyman Brinley. The latter is also much | interested with Col. Poston and others in discovering a profitable means of utilizing the 5o,O0O,o0O bounds of hemp now annually eo-