The Arizona sentinel. [volume] (Arizona City [Yuma], Yuma County, A.T. [Ariz.]) 1872-1911, 1892-07-23
LOCAL NOTES.

Mining notices for sale at the
SENTINEL Office.
A fourroom house for rent. En-
quire at the SENTINEL Office.
The steamer Mohave reached the
Needles Saturday neon, 81 days from
Yuma.
Our Board of Equalization was light
ming striker on real estate and gold
watches.
Mrs. Frank Burke and Miss Sara Mar
tinsz went out to Cargo Muchacho Mon
day on a visit TO friends.
Ed. B. Baker is down from his ranch at
Antelope; attending to his fathers business
during the lattet's vacation at the seashore.
]. d. Dunbar, Editor of the Phoenix
Gazette, was a passenger on Tuesday even.
tng's express on his return from his trip into
California.
The flag on the Courthouse has been al
half mast ever since the Board of Super
visors adjourned. 1t was among the
things that they did not raise.
Prison Superintendent McInernay is
able to be about his duties again, having
recovered from the effects of the surgical
operation which he had performed.
Our county Supervisors sitting as a
Board of Equalization have done more to
create an interest in the reading of our local
newspapers this week than anything that
has been done since the food of '9l. They
Just raised the interest.
S s. Gillespie, proprietor of the popular
s. P. Hotel, informs us that there is not g
word of truth in the report that he has sold
the hotel, nor the least foundation for any
such rumor, that it is not for sale and that
he proposes to run it and make it better
house than ever.
Last week we mentioned having received
8 letter from Harrisburg to the effect that
there was no officer at that place for the
re-registra ton of voters. Upon further
investigation of the matter we find that
the writer was mistaken, that o. B.
Bloomer, ESQ.,, is Justice of the Peace
whose duty it is to attend to the re-regis.
tration of voters, and that he is very
capable and efficient officer.
The Board of Supervisors have reduced
the salaries Of our county officials for the
next two years from Jan. LIST, 1892, as fol
lows: Sheriff from $500 to 500, Treasurer
from $500 to SIP, Recorder from 500 &c
$l2, District Attorney from $500 to $500,
Assessor from $500 to $500. Tax Collector
from 800 to 0, Clerk of the Court from
5000 to o, Probate Judge from $40o to $12
The county will save $l764 by this action
Of the Board.
Dan Devore and Robert Cant shipped &
carload of barley to Yuma, Tuesday, from
their fine ranch in the Mohawk valley
The berry is very plump and of ricl
golden hue and tree from the leaden colo
and dark stains of that raised where tn
fields are subject to the ruinous effects o
heavy dews and fogs. The favor of tn
meal, and the malt made from our Arizon
barley is far superior to that made from tn
barley raised in any other section on tn
coast. This IN why it is in such deman
by the brewers and MASTERS in the east.
Mrs. Captain Ingalls, received yesterda'
from Guatamala most beautiful present i
the shape of a morey purse. 1t was mad
from the skin of that dreaded snake, tn
cobra. The skin was fastened to SOLE
silver frame, which is divided into tw
parts, one for small and the other for larg
coins. The top is made of solid silver GOV
cred with rare specimens of silver coins
The cover is in two parts which open sep
arately and are held closed by silver clasps
TWAS gift from an old resident of Contra
America, who formerly lived in Arizona.