The Arizona sentinel., 1893-10-07
NUMBER 46..

1 W. w. Vanderbilt has located Ithe Vandetta, H. N. Palmer, the Palmetto, and Mrs. E, E. Palmer, Ithe Gold Queen mine, in the gold. Iplacers of the Plomosa mining dis Itrict.
 l Deputy U. $. Marshalls Neus- ltetter and Slankard came down Efrom Tucson Sunday with Dave
 Pogue, convicted of adultery and
 sentenced to three years in the
 penitentiary.
 A lighted cigarette stub care
 lessly thrown in a corner, started
 a fire which destroyed the greater part of the business portion of St..
 Joseph, Mo-, last week. Loss S1O,- 100000. So much for the cigarette. { The mother and sister of Louis
 Jaeger were passengers on Sundays
 east-bound express. on their way,
 to Magdelena, Sonora, on a visit to. friends. They will stop on their
 way at Tucson and Nogales, and
 will be gone about three weeks. Public statistics show that Ari-
 zona has 151 public schools, with 6,617 pupils. while the state of
 Wyoming has only 124 schools, with 5,622 pupils, and Nevada 138 schools, with 7,511 pupils, showing that Arizona has an average at tendance of 43.82 pupils to each. school; Wyoming, 45.34, and Ne yada 54.42.
 Sister Catharine of the Academy of Our Lady of Peace, at Third and A streets, has been transferred to the sisters Indian school at Yuma, and left for that place yesterday She is one of the most accomplished
 teachers in the Sisters of St. Jo-. seph, and her many pupils and friends will hope for her return.- San Diego Sun.
 The Yuma, Diegueno, and Co., copah Indians are bringing in large quantities of their small white beans, for their own use and for sale. They are the sweetest and richest bean ever put on the table. They are also bringing into town large numbers of water and musk melons, both of which are of a small variety.
 ". J. Lyons, an old friend of the editor of the SENTINEL, has se-i cured concession and the control of the San Marcial Anthracite coal. mines in Sonora, Mexico They are 70 miles from Guaymas, 40 miles from the gulf, and the same distance from the railroaI. The coal is excellent, being 5 per cent richer in carbon than the best coal found in Pennsylvania They are in seams from 8 to Is feet in thickness and cover 8 large area of country.
 From private letter to the writer, we learn that Hon. D. c. Reed has resigned as president of the San Diego, (Yuma) & Phoenix railroad, and that Mayor W. H.. Carlson was elected to fill the vacancy. Mir. Reed resigned be- cause he felt that the interests of the road could be better promoted by Mayor Carlson. He will still give the enterprise his best efforts. Arrangements have bsen made for the right of way, and work has been commenced on the grade. The pigwsed of the east is known, in this section by it's Spanish name, calite, pronounced (kaleet). In the valley of the Colorado and New river sections 1t grows to be from i've to 10 feet high, and so thick on the ground that in places it is impossible to drive a. team it. W. s. Austin last fall found a stalk of 1t near Indian Wells, on New river, that measured Is feet high and 19 inches in cir conference foot above the ground. When ripe and very dry. live stock lo not like it, owing to the sharp edges of the covering to the seeds, out it is one of the fat-producings 'eeds that are found in our wild pastures.