The Arizona sentinel., 1898-05-21

The flag on prison hill was at half mast yesterday, in honor of the late Ex-Governor Franklin.
 Mrs. Bell left last Monday for Northern California, in response to Q telegram stating that her aged father is dangerously ill.
 Capt. A. D. Yocum has secured a section of chice land in the Colorado River valley and will at once begin the work of putting it under cultiva- tion
 Gandolfo & sanguinetti have sold their branch store at Gila Bend to Cartuhers, and will hereafter confine their business to Yuma county.
 Assistant |. s. Attorney Bennett arrived yesterday from Phoenix to prosecute five Chinamen, who were taken in custody the first of the week by Deputy Wilder.
 W. 4. Hart, chief engineer of the Mexican Sulphur Company, and his asz's. 0t Iam,-r, T. Smith. came up from the mine the first of tae week and sill start back tomorrow with supplies for th5 camp.
 Miss Jennie PoIhsmus left Wednes day on an extended visit to her brother and sister at Santa Monica, and her brother at Redlands, Cali fornia. She was accompanied as far as Los Angeles by her father, Capt Polhamus.
 Good cigars can always be found at Cotter's drugstore.
 The sale of the $1OO,0O0 Capitol bonds was completed at Phoenix last Monday, Chas. R. Mayer, cashier ot the First National Bank, of Columbus Ohio, being the purchaser. The bonds sold at par, allowing 2! per cent con- mission and is considered good bar gain. The next step will be the ad- vertisement of the board for plan: which will be done at once, and build ing will begin as soon as practicable le
 Hon. E. s. Ives, of Yuma, was 2 visitor in Phoenix yesterday. Senator . Ives is do1ng much to aid in the d. velopment and upbuilding of Yuma county, and has thoroughly demon strated what a grand productive country that is. Mir. Ives has severa hundred acres of alfalfa and many additional acres in fruits, vines anC vegetables and he is doing much tC lift Yuma county into notice anC ! prosperity.-GGsette.
 Ex-Governor H. H. Markham, O Pasadena, California, was in Yum' Monday on business connected wltl the American Girl mine,in the Colder Cross district. Mr. Markham is
 mining man of wide experience an. expressed himself as highly please. with the future outlook for thi . scctsa of the country At present h . is erecting a new process twenty. .staml , mill on the American Girl mine 0
 which a great deal of deyelopmen work has been done. He proposes
 crush the ore dry and treatit with th cyanide process first, then if the tail
 ings still carry gold the plates will | , utilized, thus making an absolut
 saving of all the gold the ore carrie
 The governor, however, intends
 make the proposition 8 success, l
 is erecting q modern twenty-stam
 mill and in case his first intentic does not pan out, the mill can u easily changed to the wet process. A private letter from San AntOni
 states that County Recorder c.
 Cronin is still in the hospital, but
 rapidly recovering and will soon sta = for home. The post physician h }, recommended his discharge for c ability to stand the hardships u > regiment is liable to encounter, al $ the only thing left for him to do
 come home and assume his ofici
 duties. When apprised of the ia of that his discharge had been recon n mended MT. Cronin begged to be I Ie tained and endeavored to convince t Ie physician that he was physically t in superior of any other man in u C. command, but it was no go. E
 many Genls here admire his patrio
 ism. which is certainly of the f
 quality, but all will join in weIcomh .. him home again. There are plr..y
 men more able to fight for che Lo .- Of Cuba. but none possess more Fa of or honorable intentions.
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