Arizona weekly citizen., 1891-02-07

ure of the region gives a very fair idea of its condition-Saline Valley, Dome
 Mountains, Salt Wells, Alkali Flats and many others. Death valley lies in the extreme eastern portion of California, between the Sierras and Rocky noun tains. Imagine trackless waste of sand and rock shimmerining under the rays of more than tropical sun, without a vestige of vegetation or trace of life, hemmed in on all sides by titanic rocks. granite peaks and mountains, which bear the impress of eternal desola.ion. and you can form fair idea of Death valley.
 Geographically it is the sink of the Amargosa river. which rises in the west ern Sierra Nevadas, a few miles from the California line, flows some ninety miles, when it disappears from sight in the bed of an ancient lake at the foot of the Resting Spring mountains. A little further south it again appears and flows southward another hundred miles, when 1t again takes to its subterranean bed. Still again 1t reappears, flows another hundered miles, when it finally sinks forever in the famous Platt valley Such IS true delIneatiOn of the course of this remarkable river.
 Death valley is about 8 miles long by 9 broad and comprises some 800 square miles of country whose barren ness and desolation is beyond the power of pen to pecture. It looks as if suffering from some terrible curse such as we read of in the Scriptures. At noon day the sun blazes down o1 the shifting sand and granite peaks with an intolera- able heat; at night the heat radlates rapidly into space and before morning 1t is cool. In the morning the sun rises like ball of fire, and at s o'clock it is unbearable. The sky is a dull leaden hue, infinitely different from the bright blue of California this side of the Sierras The thermometer registers week after week 120 degrees ln the shade; no clouds appear to intercept the scorchiDg heat, no moisture falls to cool the burning sand. Bright steel may be exposed night after night and never be tarnished.
 Nothing will decay. A dead animal will simply dry up like parchment, and remain so seemingly forever, No sound is ever heard here. The silence of an eternal desolation regins supreme. The greater part lies below the sea level, in some places as much as 16O feet. In this respect 1t is only paralleled in one other instance l believe-that of the Dead sea.
 The wLole country is decidedly Tol- canic, lava, granit and basaltic rock It is said that polsonOus gases-carbolic acid, etc,-are emitted from the rocks, but this connot vOuch for. Certain it is that through the work lngs of some mysterious cause the D ace is hostile to animal life. Even the horned toad, that inhabitant of the jes- ert, fails to put in an appearance here. Major PowelPs scheme for retaining the western desert will never apply to this part of it. By it's location, geologi- cal formation and topography it is des- tined to remain forever in it's state of primeval barreness-a type, geolcgists tell us, of the condition of the whole earth at early geological epoch.
 CLARKsBURG, W. Va, Jan. 31.-What promises to be a serious mountain war began Wednesday night in Doddridge county. A man was arrested charged with seduction. A mob headed by Nose Smith liberated the prisoner. The off, cers summoned posse and fatally shot Smith and his son-in-law Cotrell. The fire was returned killing Chief Deputy Goskins, and Deputy Ramsay was cut severely. Smith was finally captured and taken to prison. Perkins was not captured. Fifteen warrants have been ssued and the sheriff accompanied by many assistants have gone to execute them. It is reported that the noun .aineers are gathering, and all are heavily med.
 KANSAS CITY. Jan. 3O-The Live Stock Indicator of this city has special -sports from the principal cattle feeding districts of Missouri, Kansas and Ne )rask. whic show that few cattle are being fed as compared with last year md that 1t is the intention of the feed ITS to ship those which are being fed to market before June. The number is 'stimated at less than half of last year.
 FoRT WORTH, Tex, Jan. 31.-The city vas greatly excited yesterday over the eport that the town of Wellington was burned by thousand Kiowa Indians, md thirty people scalped. Troops gath red here from the neighboring towns nd were about to start when word was eceived that it was a conspiracy on,the part of few men to get the peo- 'le to leave for Wellington when the ountyi seat would be moved to the cen CT of he county. The governor has. or 1ered investigated.
 Los Angeles, Jan. 31.-RecsntIy L.. Il. Wagner lost twelve thousand dol srs worth of diamonds and ether jewels. Today detectives learned Chinamsu Dund 8 sack of jewels in St. James Park. The latter has bsen traced and nost of the jewels recovered.
 Nsps, Cal, Jan. 3I I.-Alexander V. )veiu mentioned in New York dis ,atches as millionaire resident of Iapa. who had arrived from Italy in g estitute condition, owing to his having ,esn robbed while on pleasure tour, s unknown here and his story is discredif- d.
 San Francisco. Jan. 31-The Stock Exchange closed today on Ecco1nt of he funeral of Chas. W. Shaw, formerly
 member of the firm of Jones & Shaw, nd sou-in- law of Vice President 'ovne, of the Southern Pacific con- any, who died few days ago, as Los IDgeles. The remains were inferred in View cemetery, Oakland. It. Louis, January. 31.-Tha American 'iseuis Go filed s mortgage amounting 545,000 On all its holdings in Wiscou- in, Nebraska, Missouri and Illinois. he Company IS fig hting New York bis ut company, and mortgage is placed Q pay for new mill received. The lew York comyeny has a capital of 10,000,000.
 Warshaw, January 31-Startline ru-