The weekly Republican., 1892-07-28


 will the so-called receivers divide tn, pot.
 On to Satton Sea rushes the mighty
 waters of the great Colorado river.
 One day during the flood Char
 lie Theison, an old trapper and
 prospector from Yuma, was seen, by
 the aid of glass, with his boat stuck
 fast in the mud, as the water in the
 lake was only two inches deep. Charlie
 worked and tugged but no use. He
 stopped to take a drink of water and
 found it salter than the sea. At once
 he knew that he must make for the
 railroad, which he found was eight
 miles away. On he went through the
 soft mud and alkali soil in which he
 sank at every step nearly to his knees,
 until he reached friends near the rail
 road nearly exhausted. After resting a little he made his way to Salton.
 Theison left Yuma two months ago
 for the Lower Colorado. The middle of June he started for Yuma via New River, Lake Julullu, the Padrones. Carter and Colorado rivers, coming m
 Reno river. He took the west branch of that stream and passed up to Black Butte, where the water instead of run ming southeast to the gulf turns and runs northwest across the great level
 valley towards Salton.
 The great overflow of last year cut two channels, as found by Engineers
 Hawgood and Swaine of the Southern Pacific company during their investi- gations of the Salton flood. J. $. Carter, who was out to Indian Wells only few days ago, says that great basin was rapidly filling with water and that the wafer had been run ming over the divide for two months, and also that on the 8th and 9th inst. the water fell three feet all over the overiiowed country near his ranch, which IS at the divide. Col. D. K. Allen who spent many months in careful examination and survey of ali the coun- try from Hali Hanton's west to the Sierre Madre above the divide and the National boundary line, which crosses it, is of the same opinion.
 What the future will Do no one can tell. All depends upon the depth of the channel at the divide. 1 am told by Col. Allen that the top of the divide is more than a hundred feet lower than the surface of the river at the creyice in the Colorado river, which gives the water more than two feet fall to the mile. If the channel cuts out deep enough It can drain all the water off from the basins from Alamo and Indian Wells, besides what the Colorado sup plies daily, which is estimated to be more thae one-half of it's entire volume.
 The Colorado will take it's old channel and the water will all run off to the west until the great basins are all filled, then as before it will seek it's way to the gulf by the way of New river and gradually the bar will again form across the north ern portion of the valley and shut Sal ton off as before. The water will evap- crate ond it will again become a salt marsh as 1t was betore the channel was cut through the narrow divide last year. But should a bar, which is possible, form across the Caster river and turn the bulk of the water into the Colorado, then Salton will only get well soaked and the water will soon be gone. This i will probably be the result of the pres ent overflow into the ancient sea at Salton.
 Last Sunday the stars and stripes on the flagstaff at the territorial prison 1 was placed at half mast on account of i the death of an Apache Indian, while | serving a sentence of seven years. It | is probably the first time the old ban ner was ever lowered to do honor to one | of those blOodthirsty wretches, whose ! trailG are darkened with the stains of | blood of The hundreds of white men, and children whom they have in cold blood. Would the Kid not laugh to see the flag thus thrown to ths breeze in honor of one of his kind?
 Ice cream festivals, tomales, feasts, and moonlight boat rides on the little steamer Electric, on the beautiful lake adjoining town, are the pastimes of ,ur people, old and young, these sum- ner evenings.
 Superintendent of Prison McInernsy 8 so as to be out on the streets.
 Dr. F. G. Cotter is holding things hings down generally. He has charge ,f the territorial prison sick, those of he Indian school, during Dr. w. T. Heffernan's absence at the sea-cosst. He also has charge of the county's sick, md it is said will have charge of the new Catholic hospital.
 Dr. J. N. Taggart has been very much better during the week.
 The board of supervisors have been yery busy since the lst inst. raising the values of property in the county.
 Judge Ira Mabbett has gone to the eashore for few days.
 Rev. J. A. Crouch has done most ex- client work in building a new NJ. k. hurch, and is taking rest.