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The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1896-11-12
Total ..1,425.SO4
I'lu'ity S92.3O4
and senate.

I To 10y : N'-,'Vt
House and senate.
The following table shows the compost
ton If the Fifty-tifth Congress, political
IL and in reference to the currency Ques-
ton. The figures are based on returns
received up to Thursday afternoon:
Rep. Dem. Pop. Gold. Silver.
Senate -. x Is > A 46
House ..21S 134 > 2l9 1873
The Arizona sentinel., 1896-09-12
WHY CAPITAL SHOULD SEEK YUMA COUNTY
it's mines are the richest.

Because it's mines are the richest.
 Because its grazing lands are the best.
 Because its farming lands are valuable and productive.
 Because it gives assurance of the largest returns on money invested.
 Because its grand resources are yet to be developed.
 Because it is young, growing county with an assured future.
 Because the opportunities for engaging in manufacturing enterprises are better than in any other region of the West.
 Because good mining properties can be had at reasonable figures.
 Because there is demand for additional facilities for ore reduction.
 Because there are vast stretches of rich soil to be reclaimed by the construction of irrigating canals.
 Because there are large tracts of grass lands that can be utilized by the sinking ot artesian wells.
 Because there are many openings in new country which cannot exist i'll older com munities.
 Because the opportunities for engaging in the successful cultivation of semi-tropic fruits are better than in any other part of the United States.
 Because property values are rapidly ad- vancing.
 Because Arizona's boom is yet to come Because 1t is a virgin field, ready for the seed which will produce a golden harvest.
The Arizona sentinel., 1896-09-12

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 Mean au.uaI "a yt.F.--5 as,a, 3 .iehea; EUcsor, i5 i-scaeS; .i.,c,s.,1v rte, Ia. 55 nches; New Orlca4 g, l;., e2 lcte.-; Ncah Bay, Wash, lC2 i4c.es
 Average a'luri;si 4.Ur;1cr of rainy Gays.-- Yuma, II; Iacz1a i3; St. Louis, .ll5; ,NashirA tDf, b. C, ;2|; New Icrk, l26; 3alt m ,re, l15; Ch-e2go, l2C; Cinc. .nrati, Al; Atlanta, Ga., Al; Royhester, x. Y, Fl; Tato5sh isiaId, wash, l3e
 Average a:u,uai LuInLsr oI cloudy days.-- Yuma, IT; 5acr:s,eentJ, Cal, 45; Cswego, N. r., l73.
 Average annual number of partly cloudy days.--Yum @; Sacramento, Cal, 76; Oswego, N. Y, l24.
 Average annual lunSer of clear days.- Yuma, 279; Portland, Ore, 92; Cswego, N.
 Average hou'y wind velocity 6 1 miles; Dodge City, Kan, I2 miles; San- dusky, O., l3 miles.
 Highest wind velocity recorded.--Yuma, 54 miles; San Francisco, Cal. 50 miles.
 Mean actual harometer.-Yuma, 29.76 inches; Denver, Col, 24.73 inches. ] Mean annual mperature.-Yuma, 73'; Jupiter, Fla, 73'.
 Mean maximum temperature during month of July.-Yuma, lG6.6'; Phoenix, l07.3'.
 Mean minimum temperature during month of July.-Yuma, 77'; Galveston, Tex, 790.
 Mean minimum temperature during month of January Yuma, 420; Tucson, 35'; Phoenix, 320.
 Highest temperature recorded Yuma, ll80; Phoenix. ll9'; Fort Lapwai, Idaho, Il5o.
 Lowest temperature recorded.-Yuma, 22'; Riverside, Cal. Voluntary observers record.), 2l'; Jacksonville, Fla, I5o; Gal weston, Tex, ll0.
 Mean relative humidity-Yuma, Az. San Diego, Cal, 75S; Chicago, 74&; Pen saeola, Fla, 762; Port Angeles, Wash. S3%-
The Arizona sentinel., 1896-09-12
Notice of Forfeiture.

To Geo. T. Martin: You are hereby notiled that we have expended enc hundred dollars Tn labor and improvements upon the Radiant Mine, locat- ed in Castle Dome Mining District and now known as the Moffatt Mining District, County oi Yuma Territory of Arizona, during the year 1896 as will appear by certificate filed on the 26th day of Feb. 1896, at 10 a. m, in the office of the Recorder of said county, in or der to hold said claim, under the provisions of sec tion 2324, Revised Statutes of the United States being the amount required to hold the same for the year ending Dec. 31st, 1896. And if within ninety days after the publication of this notice, you fai or refuse to contribute your proportion of sucL expenditure as co-ownei, your interest ln ,. sac claim will become the property of the subscribers under said section .-,.,,,,o,-
 CHRIS HOPNER.
The Arizona sentinel., 1896-09-12
@N 4 SsOurcGS
 of Yuma County.
YUMA COUNTY.

white man Grst set foot on what is low Yuma County in 177l. It IS the southwest division of the Territory, and Sue of the four original counties of she Ter titSry. Many great reclamation projects are however on foot, and in few years ex- pect to see Yuma County rated as the richest in the Territory.
 The first glimpse the traveller from Cali ornia catches of Arizona is that ot the picturesque town of Yuma, which IS snugly situated in the embrace of gentle rolling hills, upon whose crests and sides the modern homes of our superior civilization are crowding the adobe dwellings into eternal oblivion. Yuma is the gateway to Arizona. the new empire of the West, upon whose undeveloped riches the eyes ot the country are at present turned, and as such' she is bound to grow and prosper with fapidity that at present can hardly be re- alized. But coupled with her geographl cal position we find that she is the center of country whose agricultural possl9ul ties are practically unlimited, being sur rounded by a soil the fertility of which axcecds that of the delta of the Nile, and wanting oaly water to become paradise 0i bloom. Billions of gallons of that precious fluid have annually gone to waste al Yuma's very doors, but already reaction is taking place aad many enterprises arc on foot to supply the life giving waters O. fhe yellow Colorado to the thirsty earth.
The Arizona sentinel., 1896-09-12

acres now prolteas. can be male productive by the construction of irrigating ditches, and 'aeFc is no investment which assures larger or more permanent returns" !"
 The foregoing statements are not exaggerated in fact they fall short of doing justice to this won derful land. Pneapples, dates, almoAds and wal nuts will do we'll Strawberries, raspberries, black berries. currants goosebcrries and all varieties o small fruits can be successfully cultivated indeed Yuma County is not only the natural home of tho citrus and semi-tropical fruits, as almost every fruit nut plant grain, grass vegetable whicf eau be produced in either tropic or temperate zone will thrive in its rich and fertile soils.
The Arizona sentinel., 1896-09-12
| aGH0OL N0TaCE: |.

Notice is hereby given that the regular quarterly meeting of the Board of County School Examiners for the purpose of exam ming applicants for teachers certificates will be held at the Public School House on Monday, Sept. :, 1896, at 9 o'clock m.
 A. FRANK, Probate Judge and Ex-Oficio Superintend- ent of Public Schools, Yuma County Arizona.
The Arizona sentinel., 1896-09-12
COUNTY.

COON1l'
 Because the climate is perfect.
 Because the soil is fertile and prolific. Because land is abundant and cheap. Because home can be made with little labor.
 Because so great variety of products can be grown.
 Because the yield is large and the prices always remunerative.
 Because life is a luxury in land where the sun shines every day.
 Because there are chances for poor man which he can never hope to find in older countries.
 Because the country is advancing and property values are increasing.
 Because, unlike Southern California it does not require small fortune to secure a piece of land.
 Because capital does not block all the av- enues to wealth, nor crowd the poor man to the wall.
 Because Uncle Sam has yet many farms in Yuma county waiting for occupants. Because churches, schools, newspapers and railroads are fast developing the ImoraI and material elements of the Territory Because good land is becoming scarce, and if you don't catch on now, your last chance will soon be gone.
 Because the country is one of the few regions of the Uuited States that yields the products of the temperate and semi-tropic zones.
 Because the worker receives a fair com pensation for his labor, and the hustler hal a field for the display of his energy and en terprise.
 Because there are neither blizzards O tornadoes, earthquakes nor inundations snow-storms nor cyclones.
 Because the vast and varied resources 0 the country are yet to be developed.
 Because the wealth of its mines, it's farm ing valleys, and grazing lands, will yet builC up great and prosperous county.
 Because a man can make livelihood her with less labor than in any other part of th United States.
 Because there is health in every breeze and strength and vigor under its cloudles skies.
 Because the settler need not spend a life time in felling trees and grubbing ou stumps.
 Because vegetation is so rapid that in tw years the home is surrounded by @ growt of trees and shrubs which would requir five years to develop in a colder cline
 Because fortunes here await the venture some, and health welcomes the afflicted.
 Because the country has brilliant fut1u and you want to be in the "swim."
 Because in it's pure, dry invigorating ail epidemic diseases cannot live or germinate Because its people are generous, liberal hospitable and progressive.
The Arizona sentinel., 1896-09-12
LANDS AND SOILS.

The lands Of Yuma County comprise the river bottoms and valleys and the uplands or mesas. The 5otso-. a1Gs holster and slightly mere fertile, :, :.Cesd, :t is possible to make Comparisons where ~ .e so wonderfully productive and prolific. The uplands cr mesas are warmer and, perhaps,
 htIy fer better cultivation of the citrus fruits
 y3snea contains vsyIety of soil The vaHes land
The Arizona sentinel., 1896-09-12
ARIZONA.

Arizona stands at the threshold of an era of wonderful social and industrial de velopment. There can't be doubt about the fact The dawn for which she has waited so long is breaking at last There is every promise of day of great pros perity and permanent upbuilding just be- fore her. The impulse of a new and ener- gizing hope is visible everywhere among her people. while the cumulative effect of many things, which made but small im- pression as they transpired singly, is now commanding for her full share of atten- tion and interest abroad among home seekers and capitalists.
 4 lively competition has sprung up for | the possession of things which have hereto fore gone a-begging for ownership. There | is scramble for franchises. Nothing more surely indicates great industrial awaken | ing than this. The rates of interest are falling to moderate figures. Nothing more surely indicates confidence and competition among the money lenders than this. Arizona has reached that climacticer period which every western state has ex- perienced sometime in its history when, after long and weary struggle and doubt, with each side of the balance first up and then down, the clouds of despondency have suddenly rolled away, and sunhurst of energizing hope has thrilled the droop, ing spirits of the people to greater and braver endeavor than before.
 For the last twelve years the subsistence of the great Tombstone boom and the com pletion of two transcontinental lines oI railroad across her territory Arizona has rather dropped out of public attention but in that time she has been quietly ac cumulating fund of substantial wealtE and force of moral character which qualify her now to rise up and take hel destiny in her own hands.
 The population of Arizona is Mexican This is mistake of great importance iron the moral point of view. There is but ono considerable center of Mexican population in the territory, the city of Tucson, anC even there it is not by any means at pres ent the predominating element. It think it is certain that Arizona has not to-day nearly so large a Mexican population a' Colorado and not above one-tcnth as muci as New Mexico. ~"Fitz- Mac" in Denver ! News.
 WHY IMMIGRANTS SHOULD COME TO YUM
The herald., 1896-02-21
LICENSE OR NO LICENSE
Still Agitates People Of the City Of
Redlands
A Rather Unanimous Consensus Of Opiulon
That the Matter Ought to Be Submits
ted to Popular Vote

RIVERSIDE, Feb. 20.-The following
question has been propounded to a
number of people of this place:
"Do you, or do you not, think that
the question of licensing saloons
should bs submitted to direct vote.
leaving the men to be chosen without
regard to this question, but to be gov
erned by the vote OF the majority of
the people?"
The answer pretty thoroughly set
ties the question, so far as the will Of
the people is concerned, license and
anti-license men being indiscriminate-
ly consulted. The following twenty
one citizens placed themselves on
record as in favor of submitting the
question by signing the petition pre-
sented to the city trustees last Tues
day: M. j. Daniels, s. G. Evans, Judge
Noyes, DIR. w. A. Wright, A. j. Con
dee, l.. G. Waite, J. S. Castleman, E.
W. Holmes, d. G. Mitchell, G. W.
Garcelon, j. e. Coulter, p. s. Castle
man, L. P. Clarke. Oscar Ford, j. G.
Woodard, l. w. Allenn, A. A. Adair,
Vim. Coulter.
j. j. Hewitt thought that the people
ought to bs allowed to express them
selves on such questions, and he was
too good an American to object to the
way the majority voted.
George ID. Cunningham thought the
question should be submitted to take
it out of politics, and that any honora-
BILE man elected as trustee would act in
a., ko - l,o
s. Squire had faith in the people and
thought they should be given an op-
portunity to express themselves on the
question.
M. S. Bowman WAS always in favor of
anything that would allow the people
to be heard.
George j.. Bittenger says it is the
only way to settle the question fairly.
James Mills said of course the way
was to let tie people vote on the ques-
ton
w. L. Peters, w. G. Fraser, A. 9.
Fredrick, w. A. burlington, Postmaster
Abbott, District-Attorney Gill, w. w.
Wilson, w. w. Peck and FL. w. Hawes,
w. ]. Mills. D. L. Night, M. L. Law
renee, I'll. ID. Noland, A. l.. Duly and
William Starr all expressed themselves
in favor of submitting the question to
the direct vote of the people.
A case against P. d. Weber of Hemet
for $279 board bill, against whom
judgment was given by the justice
court at Hemet, has been appealed to
the superior court. Collier & Evans
are defendants attorneys.
Brayton d. Gardner, through his at
torneys. Caldwell & Duncan, has sp-
plied for letters of administration on
the estate of Moses McCarty, deceased.
The value of the estate is placed at
$6400, of which $2400 is in real estate in
Riverside county.
Hy Palmer of Los Angeles was in the
city today.
II. j. Bush has paid his $125 fine into
the city treasurer.
The merchants have all agreed to
close their places of business on the
22d inst.
The herald., 1896-02-21
ALAMIT0S

ALAMlTos, Feb. 20.-The duck season
closed at the rate of about sixty shots
minute. Geese are very plentiful
hereabouts.
The American fishermen continue
business at the old stand with reason
ably good success.
The York river variety of oysters
planted here three years ago by the
Alamitos Oyster company are are look
ing fine.
DR.. George S. Dickinson of Erie, Pa,
has been roughlng it here at intervals
during the winter recuperating his
health. He is getting quite rugged.
Today Captain McGarvin of the sloop
Alamitos took jolly crowd out on the
high seas for an outing. The party
WAS composed of Farmer Dillon, ex-
district attorney, and young daughter;
General Batterworth and two grand
sons, DR.. George S. Dickinson and
Ferd Alvarez, postmaster. They went
for fish and they got them-117 ia num-
ber-97 of which were barracuda, 20
were yellowtail and bonitas.
The herald., 1896-02-21
SANTA ANA EXCURSIONISTS
Are Royalty Entertained by Citizens of
the Town
The Farmers Club Concludes to Eschew Poli-
tics and Devote More Attention to Ditch
ing-Personai Notes

SANTA ANA, Feb. 20.-The second ex-
cursion from Los Angeles yesterday,
although not 80 large as the previous
one, was success in every particular.
The day was perfect one, and when
the trains pulled in there we're $50 joy
GUS tourists aboard who desired to see
old ocean from Orange county's bar
bor and ride through its famed orange
groves and fruit orchards. The New
port bay train having made the run
to the bay and returned, there was an
abundance of carriages provided for
all comers to make the drive via
Orange, Mcpherson, Eel Modena and
Tustin, back to Santa Ana, with stops
at Orange and Tustin of fifteen min
utes each. The procession was led by
five lady riders-Missey Rose Wilson,
Addie Thomas, Myrta Edwards, Kate
Greenleaf and Lacy.
At Orange and Tustin, where the
party halted, oranges and lemonade
were supplied in liberal quantities to
all, and the excursionists expressed
themselves as having been royalty
treated.
Miss Rose Wilson chaperoned Misses
Ethel Howe, Lulu Edgar, Lillian Mon
ahan, Xerfa Tonner and Susie Halli-
day to meet tourists on Southern Pa
cific and distribute souvenir badges at
Downey. Miss Grace Spurgeon, ac-
companied by Misses Marion Lyons,
Marcella Madden, Clara Ronkin, Liz
zie Turner and Susie Yock met the
Santa Fe tourists at Rivera on simi-
lar mission, and dischal ged their du-
ties gracefully.
Calvin Hale, aged 50, died at Orange
Tuesday night. The remains will be
embalmed and shipped to Eaton Rap
ids. Mich, by Smith & Son, under
takers.
The Farmers club Of Garden Grove
has eschewed politics, the rock on
which its predecessors foundered, and
will on Friday night discuss the drain.
age question. In that section it is not
a question of ge tting the water on to
the land, but getting it off.
p. ID. Merriam and family went to
Los Angeles today to attend the funeral
OF Mr.. Merriam's nephew, P. ID. Mer-
RAM
The herald., 1896-02-21

the people. To him Mr.. Lincoln
intrusted the delicate duty of
negotiating the urchase of
sufficient territory in Central
America for the colonization of the
oolored people of the border states. OF
course, he had nothing to do with the
colored people of the southern states,
for thuse states were then arrayed
against the Union. DIR. Lsas went upon
his mission, but the plan was a failure
because the war assumed more serious
phases at that time, and because every
dollar that could be raised had to be
expended in eqlipping and maintaining
the army then in the field.
"Just think Of the possibilities of the
success of DR.. Leas' mission" contin-
ued DR.. Morris. "Had it turned out
successfully we might not now have
among us here in MARYLAND a single
native colored man, woman or child.
1t is true, they might have come to us
from the south, after the war, but if
Mr.. Lincoins ideas had been caraied to
a successful issue, as would have been
the case but for the pressure of more
momentous events at the time, the tide
of negro emigration to the Central
Americ an states would have been fully
established, and there 10 no doubt that
the colored people OF states in arms
against the Union would have followed
those OF their race from the border
states."
After the war DR.. Leas was for a
time health officer of Baltimore and
superintendent of the House of Refuge.
He married Miss Freusch. lie died ten
years ago at his home at Glyndon Bal
timore county. Baltimore Sun.
The herald., 1896-02-21
ONTARIO

ONTARIO. Feb 20.--A meeting of COM
mittees of arrangement for the Los
Angeles and Pasadena excursion to
this place on the 18th of March is called
for tomorrow afternoon at 2 O'clock.
The Rev. NJ. I'll. Macleod has re-
ceived an offer of an appointment as
professor Of mathematics in an eastern
college, but is not thought likely that
he will give no the pastorate OF the
Westminster Presbyterian church to
accept the Office which has been ten
dered him.
The Rav. l.. +. Tobias, who recently
sold his property here, returned to Hi
no!s this week.
The Rev. Or. Frost of San Bernar-
dino will occupy the pulpit of the Bap-
tist church here next Sunday.
Thirty-tive or forty members of the
Ontario lodge of L. and A. Masons will
attend the laying OF the foundation
stone of the Masonic Temple in Los
Angeles on Saturday.
The Raw M. B. Shaw has received a
call from the Baptist church at Fall
brook,
The herald., 1896-02-21
REMINISCENCH OF LINCOLN

The address OF Mr.. John V. L. Find
lay at the emancipation proclamation
celebration held at the monumental
rooms, recently, recalled reminis-
cence of DR.. John Morris which has
never been published before. It was
proposition of President Lincoln to
colonize in Central America the col
ored people of the border states, Mis-
souri,, Kentucky, West Virginia, Mary
land and Delaware-3tates which did
not secede.
president Lincoln" said DR.. Morris
few days ago, "was native of Ken
tucky. and while resident of Illinois
during his mature manhood, he had a
good conception of the needs of the
negro. Originally he was opposed to
the Wholesale emancipation of the col
ored race-to placing these untutored
people upon their own resources to
gain livelihood. He was opposed to
their return to Liberia or any African
country, because they had been thrown
in contact with Anglo-Saxon civiliza-
tion, and ii the same methods of civil
ization should be used by them in
Africa they would starve.
"Mr. Lincoln proposed to colonize
them in Central America, where the
Anglo-SaXon civilization existed where
fruit and cereals G uld be raised in
abundance and without much labor,
and where the climate suited a race
which for thousands of years had lived
under the piercing rays of the SUI at
the equator. Mr.. Lincoln was distrust-
full of the border states, because many
of their most prominent residents, in
cluding members Of congress, we're op-
posed to the emancipation OF slaves.
That WAS the situation in 1861 and
1862.
"When the war broke out DR.. Charles
A. Lsas of Baltimore was consul at
Cronstadt, and sent to the state de-
partment much valuable information
bearing upon the fitting out of priva-
teers in European ports for oonfeder-
ate service. These reports ultimately
reached Mr.. Lincoln, who was much
impressed with them. In 1862 DR.
Lsas returned to America, and was
summoned to Washington by Mr.. Lin
coin. The doctor, during the admins
tration Of Mr.. Pierce, had been sta
toned as consul at one of the princi-
pal ports in Central America, and was
thoroughly familiar with that territory
and the character and habits Of
The herald., 1896-02-21
ANAHEIM
Notes Of Residents and Of People Visiting
Friends

| Notes Of Residents and Of People Visiting
Friends
ANAHEIM, Feb. 20.-The new brick
building erected by II. Dsutsch of Los
Angeles is just completed.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. E. Turck, on
Tuesday. February 18th, son.
Editor Bourland of the Independent
has been in Los Angeles two days this
week.
Mr.. L. G. Mcknight, formerly of Or
ange, later of Buena Park. has disposed
of his realty in this section, and will
make Los Angeles his home.
Mr.. Hache, field superintendent for
the Chino Beet Sugar company, was in
town on Wednesday.
A man giving his name as John Ray
mond was brought before Justice
Pierce Tuesday by Officer Bittner,
charged with having converted box
car into bed chamber. The accused
was acquitted by a jury.
Mrs. Shepard of Sioux City, Ia, is a
guest in the home of her uncle, Mr.. III.
A. McWilliams.
Mrs. G. s. Rogers and sister, Rys-
trum, of this place have been guests Of
friends in Los Angeles several days.
Sergeant j. S. Hatfield has been quite
seriously i'll with pneumonia. He was
booked to go to Sacramento to shoot
! for the N. G. @. prize. He has record
of SO out of a possible 100. He is able
to be up today, but far from we'll.
MIR. and Mrs. E. B. Moore Of Austin,
ILL.,, we're recent guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
A. W. Whitaker of Buena Park.
w. A. Julian visited with his parents
in Long Beach last Sunday.
Lloyd Bailey's new cottage is nearing
completion.
Simeon Tucker is reported to have
exchanged his ranch near Anaheim for
a stock ranch in the Antelope valley.
Mrs. j. J. Everlarty Of Los Angeles
was visiting friends in this place the
first of the week.
Attorney Ohynowith was called to
Orange yesterday on legal business.