The Arizona sentinel., 1899-07-08


 tain district to look after mining in
 terests. They expect to be gene abou
 a week.
 Stephen Gandolfo, son of John Gan
 dolfo, had the misfortune on Thursday
 to break his arm while playing around
 the house. Dr. Cotter was called anc
 attended tc the little fellow.
 The Elks Fourth of July ball given
 at the Southern Pacific hotel was 3
 grand affair there being about forty
 tickets sold for the occasion. The
 Elks expect to give ball every month
 Col. T. W. Brooks is prospecting in
 the Potholee district this week. The
 Colonel is interested in 8 mining pro feet at that locality and believes it is a
 rich locality. The Colonel returned yesterday.
 Thomas Johnson was in town yes terday and today from the American Girl mine near Hedges. MT. Johnson reports his camp as prosperous, there being about twenty men at work in the American Girl.
 O. w Williams well-kROwn to the printing fraternity throughout Ari- zona, is in Yuma this week on his way to points in California. MT. Williams, like others says he's going to quit the art preservative of all arts.
 City Marshal Wilder on the Fourth appointed the following deputy mar shals: Geo. Duke, Frank Prothero and Frank Redondo. They served during the day and with the passing of the Fourth passed their commis- sions.
 Supervisor T. w. UDderhill came down from Palomas Wednesday to be in attendance upon the present session of the board of supervisors. Mir. Un- derhill reports the Palomas country in a fourishing condition and the in- habitants prosperous.
 The Star says that it is an interest ing fact that Arizona's arid lands which were formerly considered worth less, will produce the highest degree of saccharine matter in the sugar beet. Beet sugar will sometime be an i'm portant product of the territory.
 The board of supervisors are in ses sion this week and will be for about twenty days. The board met as the board of equalization last Saturday and took up their labors of equalizing the original assessment roll. The proceedings of the board will be found from time to time in the SENTINEL.
 Frank Avila returned Thursday evening from a visit to his brother Henry at Fresno. Frank says he is glad to get back into cool weather again The mean average of the thermometer in Fresno last week was I1O. MT. Avila is now at his desk performing the duties of deputy county recorder.
 Constable Jones on Thursday ar rested Antonio Romerio for drunk ness and disurderly conduct, and yesterday Judge Thurlow gave him a of SEQ or 20 days. Senor Romerio was released from jail last 1 Sunday on a similar charge, but 1t seems that the incarceration had no terrors for him.
 Miss NJ. E. Post, school census mar shal has completed her report and 1 filed the same with Superintendent A. Frank. The total number of children of school age is $50, there being 325 boys and 225 girls. Two new districts have been formed during the year, viz i Somerton and Crane, which are locat- ed in the Colorado River Valley below town
 C.O McCarroll, president of the Ci- i bola canal company, and Eph. Morris, 1 secretary. were in Yuma this week MT. McCarroll reports the Cibola val ley as fourjshing and is very en- thusia'ic believer in the future great ness of that locality. The canal has stood the test of the high water. MT. left Thursday for Los An geles on business.
 Fourth of July scraps were very few, a though there was one just to keep things interesting The combatants chased each other around the beer tables a few times, and there was nc damage done only small bloody place on each face, and it must have been . an accident that even that much dam age was done as the scrarpers SC, med cent on not running together.
 Secretary Chas. fl Akers was in Yuma Tuesday and Wednesday of this week. The Secretary accompanied his amily as far as Yuma, the family go- ng inside to spend the summer. Mir. Akers is a pleasant, genial, accomodat-