Arizona republican., 1892-08-07
FROM YUMA. The RepubliCan's' Vigi- lant Correspondent Notes the Happenings of Another Week, The Prospective Profits from
 Hemp Cultivation. A Lesson to Be Learned by Pres pector and Others from the
 sreedlove Affair.

YUMA, ArlZ,, Aug. O.-l -lSpecldl'l lhe local political pot io iust beginning to boil. It is strange how many parties there are who are willing to serve their country for revenue only, and how many there are of them who are per fectly willing to hold three or four offices at the same time, provided they are good fat ones, with liberal salaries.
 The board of supervisors has knocked the bottom out of nearly all of the sal aries except their own. These they did not reduce, nor even offer to do so. They cut the sheriff down from $500 to S20O, recorder $lO0 to SIP, treasurer $500 to SIP, district attorney from S6OO to s4OO, assessor $500 to $500, tax collector SlOO to no salary, clerk of the court S2OO to no salary. probate judge S4OO to Sl2.
 This Is outside of office fees. It saves the county nearly Sl,S0O per year. Some of the officials interested in the cuts say that they would not grumble or complain if the board had cut it's members pay from $5 per day to $2.5O.
 While there are two good country newspapers printed here, the board sends part oi it's printing away to be done, because they can save few cents or perhaps dollars, in the year on the county's printing bill. Two of tine board arc merchants, and now tAe peo- pie, the heaviest purchasers, buy every thing they consume in Los Angeles and nave it shipped to Yuma.
 We have two parties even in our local political atfairs-the Old PeOple's Re form party and the New Corners or ln- terloper's party. The former have Sl- ways held the reins uf government and do yet. About all the opposition has done thus lar is to kick, growl aud threaten. Here is the lasl kick.
 ''Hhe political slates are in process Of being fixed up. The would-be bosses should bear in mind that the general public will have to be consulted some what. There are quite number ol people who will not follow the dictates of a one-man convention"
 Now the above is right. Everyone of the old timers believe in the above doctrine For many years all of the old heads have got together, consulted the public good, the wishes of the peo- pie and have nominated the best and leading citizens for office, and this is why some of our leading men hold five or SIX good offices. They are go honest that our people insist on electing them and they are not willing that any inter lOper, any new one man. power, no mat matter it he does or does not live in stick house shall come in and run our own town and county. A new ticket is in the field just born of necessity. Here it is:
 For member of the council, II. W. BlaIsdeli, for member oi assembly, Robert H0rnbaUE; for sheriff, Frank Blaisdell for county treasurer, Dr. r. q. Cutter for county recorder, C. C. Stowe; for county surveyor, 0. F. Townsend; tor district attorney, W. C. Davis for assessor, John Gandoliis for clerk of the court, l.. A. Hicks; for probate judge, F. l.. Ewing. It's sup the peoples" ticket, while the out siders claim that it is the "kickers" one man ticket that no one only office seekers, growlers, the 400 and the "none- such" will support 1t. This Is the beauty of politics in Yuma, every man thinks and does as he likes. lie can take his choice. The old politicians sit back and laugh and even while the op- position have their great charts all out and each mans name down as he will vote, or as they think he will, the old timers are not worried for they know Q little about politics themselves and es- pecially in Yuma county. Time alone will tell. The plot thickens. The wire pullers are in the field. How glad they are to see you. How they smile when they shake hands with you.
 It does any one good to go into E. J. Andrade's fine garder and see his date trees now only thirty months old, and Yet four of the ten trees are bearing fruit, having blossomed last year, and two others have blossomed this year and will bear fruit next season. This fact settles two things, or two very strongly contested points: First, the extreme cold weather of last Decemb Der and later on which injured all kinds of fruit in other portions of the coast, did not harm tender dates but only eighteen months growth, and second, that we will not have to wait ten or twelve years as related by some of our over wise fruit raisers before we can eat dates of our own growing, and under our own palm trees.
 In Captain Joe Godirey's yard there ia a date palm tree, a beauty, well laden with fruit, great punches of dates that will weigh from thirty Co forty pounds. The tree is fifteen years old, about ten feet high and would have borne fruit In abundance years ago had it not been pruned too closely.
 In Eoptain Itanr.,o frbprlt,r there is a date palm tree twenty feet high which mas one bunch of dates on it. lt also had several punches of flowers. Experts have always called this male tree.
 At Hall Hanlon's five or six miles below Yuma, there are twenty trees, one of which is thirty leet high. Col Joe Carter says that he counted one bunch that hal 2,50O dates on il and that lt weighed forty pounds and that there are other punches tiI3t contain many more date, that will weigh from fifty to sixty pounds. Yuma is the natural home of the date palm.
 The utter folly of trying to cross or explore desert country without an abundant supply of water is fully ex- hibited in the death ui S. J. and W. C. BresdioYe and c. W. Fish, who left San Diego in June to look at silver mine m the Cocopah range of mountains. From the account given by those who went in search of them they had only one small cauteen and a keg or two of supply water for the three men in country where they knew that if they followed the wagon road they would lind no water for iifty-tive miles. Their bodies were found almost under the Cantilles, at the foot of which runs hne stream of water. The body of MT. Fish was not two miles from water in wo directions. That of the elder Rreed.