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The Arizona sentinel., 1899-01-14
VALLEYS OF THE COLORADO AND
 GILA,

In the valleys of the Col~rado and the Gila rivers there is roem for thousands. It is not too much to say that nowhere within the limits of this broad Union can be found more desirable region for the making of home. No laborious clearing of the land is rec aired; it lies almost ready for the blow. Trees and shrubbery have so rapid a growth that within eighteen months the immig ant can surround his abode with attract;C1s which would require years to mature ill less favored climates. Fruits ripen and are ready for market full month before the California products. The bright sunshine makes life luxury, and the pure dry atmos- phere brings health to all wbo inhalc it. For the establishments of colonies, such as are made in southern California, Arizona pre- sents unrivaled opportunities. Thousands of acres now pro6tless can be made produc- i tive by the construction of irrigating ditches, and there is no investment which assures larger or more permanent returns,
 The statement in this article on Yuma county are not exaggerated; in fact they fall short of doing justice in this wonderful bit of country. Pineapples dates, almonds and waluuts will do well. Strawberries, rasp- berries, blackberries, entrants, gocseberries, and all varieties of small fruits can be suc- cessfully cultivated. Indeed. Yuma County is not only the natural home of the citrus and semitropical fruits, as almost every fruit, nut, plant, grain, grass, or vegetable which caa be produced in either tropic oi temperate zones will thrive in the rich and fertile soils.
 With the bright prospects ahead of the town Of YHna and Yuma County there can be no better investment for capital seeking large and renumerative returns than is af forded here With matchloss climate where all forms of disease known to the damp and rigorous regions of the east and north are unknown, where the bright sun shine kisses into bloom and fragrance every form of vegetation, and where the clear days and cool and balry nights are one long-con tinued poem of happiness and delight, VIC can offer to capitalists an ideal field for in vestment and to home seekers veritable paradise ill which to settle
The Arizona sentinel., 1899-01-14
WHICH TOWN IS Tue BEST?

Primarily that is question for the phy- sician, if there is physician in the case if not, try them all. If a mountain region, considerable altitude and comparatively low temperature is desired, Prescott is in picturesque region, near a great mining districts, and has the social advantage of an army post, whipple Barracks. az staff IS still higher, is in a region of ase pine forests, and is within Q, hard .y's journey of one of the wonders of the Id, the Colorado CanyoH Oracle is a ps ,tty mountain nook, powered ill splendid live oaks, like lse of California, and is also near an Aportant mining district
 If lower altitude and distinctly semi tropical climate are desired, the three places most likely to De considered are Yuma, Tucson and Phoenix. The first is near the sea level; is the warmost and probably the driest of the three, has the least population, and the smallest provision for visitors. Tucson is the oldest town in the Territory and, after Santa Fe, perhaps the oldest ill the Southwest. Its adobe houses give it a Mexican look, and are thoroughly comfort able. Its newer houses are of a handsome building stone, found in the vicinity. The Tcr-itc~inl University is lere, and 1t ras
The Arizona sentinel., 1899-01-14
STATE OF Ono, CITY OF ToLEDo,)

STATE OF OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDo,)
 LUCAS COUNTY. 'O@ FRANK J. CHENEY makes oath that he is the senior partner of the firm of F. J. CHENEY & Co.,, doing business in the City of Toledo, County and State aforesaid, and that said firm will psy the sum of ONE HUNDRED DOL LARS for each and every case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by tho use of HALLS CATARRH CURE.
 FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence, this 9th day of Deeem- Der. A. D. 1886.
 A. W. GLEASON, [sEALl
 Notary Public. Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internal ly and acts directly on the blood aud mucous surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free.
 F. J. CHENEY & CD, Toledo. O. Sold by druggists. 75c.
 Halls Family Pills art the best.
The Arizona sentinel., 1899-01-14
ARIZONA.
Its Attractions and Advantages as a
 Place of Residence in Winter.

Whitelaw Reid. owner aad editor of the New York Tribune, who has spent the last two winters in Arizona for the benefit of his health, writes entertainingly and in atructivoly concerning that part of the country. Mir. Reid says:
 So many questions are asked about Ari- zona as place for winter residence, and there appears to be such dearth of pre- else information among many who are vitaIly interested, that it seems almost q public duty, to set down, in the simplest form, few facts of personal observation.
 WEATHER,
 During a five months residence in Southern Arizona in winter there was but one day when the weather made it actually unpleasant for me to take exercise in the open air at some time or other during the day Of course there were good many days which 6 weather observer would de scribe as cloudy" and some that were "shoyery; but during these five months Cfrom No' ember, 1895, to May, lS9G, there were only four days when we did not have brilliant sunshine at some time dur ing tho day. Even more than Egypt, any where north of Luxor, Arizona is the laud of sunshine. As to details:
 TEMPERATURE.
 have seen tine thermometer mark 92 degrees in the shade on my north piazza IT March. On the other hand, we had frostS l which killed young orange trees, and there we're several nights when thin ice formed The government reports show a near oemperature for fourtee years at the pres ut territorial capital of 57a degrees il November, s degrees in December, 49 de ;rae5 n January. J degrees in February, : T Js>lccs III Naroh aud 6G ao@reoe ':
The Arizona sentinel., 1899-01-14

cury is ranging from S0' to 9O'. The air is
 so dry that precipitation is absorbed as soon
 as it reaches the surface of the body, and 1 at no time in the sumn1er does the heat produce any discomfort.
The Arizona sentinel., 1899-01-14
THE ECLIMATE 0F YUMA.

The climate of Yuma for nine months of Enc year has no equah as we believe: in the world, and during the remaining three 1onths of the year, comprising June, July
 and August, the heat IS not oppressive.
 R,en though the thermometer in mld-sum- rner may al times rise above i0O', and oc- asionally e> en reach ll00, yet, owing to t3,e absence Of moisture in the air, 1t IS not epprcssivc. The atmosphere is pucc, light snd balmy. When the mercury marks Ohe Tghsst extre''le of heat, person docs not @.-l iass oppression or debility wh;cl. k .--. .,.t. 5-..e-..., -t.f... s+.rn .I.. ..-
The Arizona sentinel., 1899-01-14
RIVERS OF YUMA COUNTY.

RIVERS OF YUMA COUNTY.
 In regard to climate, healthiulness, fer tility and productiveness of soil, facilities gor cultivation, irrigation and abundance of water supply, variety of resources an" sbeap transportation by rail and by water' MO part of Arizona can surpass Yuma county, which is destined to become one or richest and most prosperous counties Ill Arizona.
 It lies betw cen 320 OO' and 340 20' north ,titnde and ll3o 2O' and ll40 4O' west longitude. It contains 6.4SS, ,32O acres It w about as large as the States or Rhode Island, Connecticut and Delaware com bised, or as large as either New Hampshire Vermont or Massachusetts.
 The western boundary of Yuma County Is formed by the Colorado river, which zsnarates Arizona from California. The county is bounded on the north by Williams perk and tue Santa Maria rIver, whose waters flow into the Colorado; on the east bv the counties of Pima, Maricopa and Tavapai, and on the south by sonora Mexico. Its county seat is the town oi Yuma.
 The Colorado river drains the entire ter ritorv of Arizona, and every drop CT water which falls on its mountains and plains snds its way to this mighty river. It IS formed by the union of the Green and Grand rivers, fed by the streams which rise in the Rocky Mountains, and the melt i.g SHOWS cause a greater depth of water ;o this riv T in summer than Tn winter. thus furnishing the most water at the season when it $ most required for the purposes firrigation and agriculture.
 if will be seen that for the entire distance ,eng its western boundary, Yuma County posss .ses the great advantage ot cheap water transportation.
 The Gila river rises ill the western part of New Mexico and is fed by numerous streams, among the most prominent ol which are the San Pedro, Agua Fria, Has agyamra and Salt rivers. It flows west through Yuma County and emptics into the Colorado at the town of Yuma.
 Yuma county, traversed by these great rivers from its northern to its southern and from its eastern to its western bound aries, possesses far greater water supply than any other county in the Territory and for more than can be found in all Cali fernia.
 This water is now being diverted from 1t. natural channels by means of numerou! large irigating canals, and utilized tor tue uurpose of retaining and irrigating th' immense tracts of lands which lie in thl favored country, and which arc as fertile as any in the world.
 The Southern Pacific Railroad crosses tn Colorado river at the town of Yuma an( runs through the county, following tn neperol course, and at an average distance of about four miles south, of the Gila river rendering all the lands susceptible of irri aat;on and cultivation, can lind an eas. cutlet in this way and can be transpol te' osll the markets and eenters Of population in the East or West.
 Another competing railroad is projected fiom San Diego. California, to tie tow os Yuma, and thence along the north sid of the Gia river. Thus Yuma County VII rave exceptional railroad advantages.
The Arizona sentinel., 1899-01-14

Don't go to the Klondike-yeu don t have to. Stop at Iaeger's and set & big beer; cool and refreshing. ?
The Arizona sentinel., 1899-01-14
AIR:

The atmosphere is singularly clear, tonic and dry. 1 have never seen 1t clearer anywhere in the world. It seems to have about the same bracing and exhilarating qualities as the air of the Great Sahara in Northern Africa, or of the deserts about Mount Sinai, in Arabia Petraea. It is much drier than Tn the parts of Morocco, Algiers or Tunis usually visited, and drier than any part of the Valley of the Nile north of the First Cataract. It seems to mo about the same in quality as the air on the Nile between Assouan and Wady- Halfa, but somewhat cooler.
The Arizona sentinel., 1899-01-14
REsSg0EJD gEs5 QN
 YTJTvYA GyG0TJ ES ayaYg Y Y The Soil, Climate, Rivers, and Many
 and Varied Offerings of FAIR Ag.Z0NA's BANNER COUNTY,
and Varied Offerings of
FAIR AR.zoNA's BANNER COUNT

Brief Setting Forth be Many Advantages and Inducements b Ccnnty Place of Residence.
The Arizona sentinel., 1899-01-14
IS ITAPLACE FIT TO LIVE IN?

This depends on what one expects in a fhuge, parsely settled Territory of mount aims and deserts. The man who looks for either the beauty or the seductive excite ment of Monte Carlo will not find it. As little will he find the historic remains or the cosmopolitan attractions of Egypt; nor could he reasonable expect the amusements and luxuries of our own Eastern cities. The people of Arizona are still chiefly busy in the pioneer work of subduing it to the residence and uses of civilized man. But it has two transcontinental lines of railway with numerous feeders; it has fast mails, and rival telegraph lines, and is throbbine with the intense life of the splendid West.
 The two principal towns in the south ern portion, chiefly sought for their climatic advantages, are Phoenix and Tucson. Each of them has ten thousand inhabitants or more. They have the electric light, tele- phones, trolley cars, plenty of hotels, banks, bookstores, good schools, churches, l all OCCtoIOudl LuOdUIlCoi PCA oOhAS- times lecture or 6 circus, often horse race, and, in the spring. a thoroughly curious and interesting "iesta." For the cest, people must take their amusements with them. Good horses are abundant and cheap, and there are plenty of cow boys-the genuine article-to show what horses can do. The driving for fifteen ol t,v enty miles in almost any direction trom Phoenix, is nearly always easy. The roads are apt to be dusty; but there IS one we'll sprinkled drive of six or eight miles; and since the winds are quite regular in theii direction. it is rarely difficult to choose a route or which the dust will be largely carried away frora you. The unbroker desert itself ie often as easy to drive over as an Eastern highway, and the whole valley is paradise for bicyclers, or eques trians.
The Arizona sentinel., 1899-01-14
ACTUAL HUMIDITY.

This is extren ely slight, everywhere in Arizona, as compared with any eastern climate in the United States. The air is driest on the high mesas, remote from snowclad mountains or forests, and in the desert valleys, where no considerable irri- gation has been begun. Wherever irriga- tion is carried on on large scale, the percentage of humidity in the atmosphere must be somewhat increased, although to an eastern visitor it is scarcely perceptible. The same Government observations al ready cited show relative humidity, at Phoenix or Tucson, averaged for weeks, from morning and evening readings, at less than half the usual humidity on dry days in New York. General Greedy, in a pub lication from the Weather Bureau, gave the normal weight of aqueous vapor in the Arizona air at from l 1a to 4 grains per cubic foot.
The Arizona sentinel., 1899-01-14

April. The same reports show the highest and lowest temperatures, averaged for eight years, at the same place, az follows For November 7S11 degrees and 42 degrees, December 731a degrees and 361a degrees, January 651l degrees and g degrees, Feb ruary 7lH degrees and 35H de rees, March Sl11a degrees and Il degrees and April Se% degrees and 46 degrees, The nights throughout the winter are apt to be cool enough for open wood fires, and for blankets. Half the time an overcoat IS not needed during the day, but it is never prudent for stranger to be without one at hand.
The Arizona sentinel., 1899-01-14

Showers, and indeed heavy rains are liable to occur in every month of the year; but the actual number of rains seems to all eastern visitor strangely small. The average rainfall in Southern Arizona, as shown by the Government observations, is but S11I inches per year.
The Arizona sentinel., 1899-01-14
Wanted Idea $4s s,: $: :e; .ss!: ;sss:

Protect your ideas; they may bring you wealth. Write JOHN WEDDERBURN & CO.,. Patent Ateor- nsys, Washington, D. C., for their 800 prize oner and list Of two hundred inventions wanted.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-09

Leadville, March 8. p. m.-The
cave in at the mine has not yet been
attended with loss of life. The super
intendent, seeing signs of break,
called the men rup, Charles Reuss
and Bert Fryer remained below the
four buudred foot level and are en-
tombed. F. Shepherd reached the
surface just as the cave in started and
WAS badly burt.
The entombed men have pleEty of
air and it is thought they can live q
couple of days or until relief reaches
them.
Every effort is being made to get
through the mass of debris.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-09
HIS ACCOUNTS SHORT.
The Unfortunate Story of a Young
Mans Error.

A young man, who held q position OF
trust in Juarez and who is connected
by marriage with persons of the high.
est social position il this city, is mis-
sing from his usual place of business
and his accounts checked up more than
$500 short.
The story of the shortage il ono full
of pathos and tinged with sadness. The
reckless young man was not the only
sufferer from his own misdeeda. AS
Is not uncommon in such cases, he had
q devoted wife and two small chill
dren to whom the affair brought dis
grace and who, though innocent. suf-
fered more severely than the wrong
doer himself.
The man left Jaurez as soon as his
shortage was discovered. He commu-
nicated with his employer by telephone
from this side of the river, asking If he
would be allowed to come back and
work out the amount of the shortage
and was told that such compromise
would be impossible as the position
was one of great trust and the company
would not feel safe in having a man to
fill it who had once got behind In his
accounts.
The ex-employe then applied to doz-
ems OF persons in FL PasO asking for
the requisite sum of money to make
ROOQ QlS SQOrL8So.
Not one would advance him a dollar,
for his reputation was we'll known to
them and they had long mistrusted
him.
Utterly failing in his endeavors to
get money to cover his shortage to
avoid being blscklisted by the gusran-
tee company, which was on his bond,
the young man was at his wits end.
His devoted young wife came to the
rescue bravely. She offered for sale a
number of jewels and finger rings
which she was confident would bring
the requisite sum of money to save her
husband and children from disgrace
and exposure. One person offered her
$25 for the lot. That was the highest
price.
Disappointed in that direction the
woman was not ready to give up hope.
She applied to relatives for relief, but
was refused.
The mans shortage amounted to
exactly 1896 Mexican money. He had
formed the habit of gambling. often
staying out all night; telling, his wife
it is said, that he was compelled to
work overtime.
His books became entangled and his
desk week behind in routine work
One Sunday his employer decided to
Investigate. The accounts were check
ed up and found to be $64S short.
About two months salary was due him
leaving balance of 1885 due the Of
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-09
MANY SETTLERS
of the Dunkard Sect Moving West
ward.

ST. PAUL, March 9.-Trsnsports-
tion arrangements made with til 9
Great Northern road this week give
evidence that the colonization move
ment of Dunksrds to the Red river
valley will this year be even greater
than that of last year. when the total
number OF settlers of this sect passing
through ST. Paul westward bound
reached into thousands. The most of
them came last year from Ohio, In
diana and Illinois.
The first large party of the present t
year passes through here next week,
coming from Kansas, Missouri and
Iowa. The largest colony will start
west from here on the 2Sth., being
made up of between 5000 and 1000
Dunkards from Pennsylvania, Virgil
mia, Ohio and Indiana.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-09
MUST PAY
PENALTY
"A Woman to Be Hanged in
Canada For the First Time
In History.
COLD BL0ODED MURDER
Was Committed, And the
People Do Not Feel Dis
posed to Modify the
Sentence.

OTTAWA, Ont, March 9.-Counse
for Cordelia PORTER and Sam Parslow
| her partner in crime, are strenuously
| endeavoring to induce the minister o
justice. Hon. David Mill, to grant {
Communication for the prisoners, but al
public opinion is altogether against
them the indications are
that the murderer and murderess
will pay the penalty for their crime in
ST. Scholastipue tomorrow.
Interest in the case has spread far
beyond the limits of Quebec, in which
province the crime was committed, ow-
ing to the fact that Mrs PORTER is the
The crime for which she and her COM
panion have been sentenced to death
was the murder of her husband in the
fall of 1897. The murder was cold
blooded and diabolical in all its feat
ures.
The Sunday afternoon when the
murder occurred Parslow was visiting
the PORTER house, and they drank con-
wbiskey. The husband be-
came drowsy and when he was sleep
his wife got a butcher knife and put
ting it into Parslow's hands, said:
"Now is the time TO kill him." Per
slow hesitated, and Mrs. PORTER, call
ing him a coward, took the knife from
him and slashed Portier's throat. She
then left Parslow to finish him which
the latter did. During the long period
OF her confinement in Jail the woman
is said not to have sho xn the slightest
or remorse, and seems pre-
pared to met death stoically.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-09
AN Ell pASO BOY
With the Engineers Writes From
Cuba.

Pinar Del Rio, Cuba, Feb. 24th, 1899.
To the Ell Paso HERALD: The frs
battalion of the Third U. s. volunteer
engineers arrived at this place on the
22d OF this month. We left Macon,
Ca. on the 14th; we had lovely trip
and no one was sick,
We stopped at Havana three days
and saw everything worth seeing. We
went out on the Maine; it is total
wreck.
We are now encamped about mile
from Pinar Del Rio city and about half
a mile from the river, twelve miles
from the mountains and fifteen miles
from the coast. There is lots of fruit
and the water is fine. It looks to be q
healthy place. There are about 1000
soldiers here. The town has about
10000 people, most of them are negroes.
They are hard looking set.
There are 5000 Cuban soldiers en-
camped twelve miles from u.s. They
pass though our camp with thier pack
trains every day. We are in large
tents at present but we expect to 60
into quarters soon, big buildings in the
city. 1t is hot and damp,
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-09
MAYDWELL DAMAGE SUIT.
Petitioners Grounds for Damages.
He Alleges That the Injuries In
fllCted BY }. }. Crawford Will
Hasten His Death.

The grounds for the Maydwell
damage suit, the fling of which in the
district court WAS mentioned briefly in
yesterday's HERALD, are as follows:
"Petitioner alleges that on March
7th he WAS weak, feeble man, ema-
ciated by long continued sickness and
distressed by pain and cough. proceed
ing from lung disease and only by
struggle ag ainst nature able to attend
to his bust ess when the defendant, q
man of great strength and powerful
build, committed an aggravated and
murderous assault on the plaintiff etrik-
ing him repeatedly, causing him ipJu-
ries that will probsbly be permanent
and the means of Fastening his death"
The plaintiff charges that the assault
was deliberate and premeditated and
done for the purpose of uniting him
for performing his work as supervising
architecJ on the building which they
were engaged in erecting. May
dwell in his petition, chsrges
that Crawford avowed his in
tention of killing him and would have
done SO but for the interference of 9th
ers.
Seven thousand dollars is claimed as
actual damages and ten thousand dol
lars as exemplary damages.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-09
POST OFFICE HELD UP.
Three Members OF BronCho Bills
Gang Got In Their Work At San
C1rnnn

News reached here YESTERDAY that on
the previous night three desperadoes,
supposed to be members of the Motor
ious BrOnchO Bills gang, had sur
rounded and held up the post office at
San Simon, Arizona, looting il.
The robbers we're mounted and heav-
lily armed. They rode into town at
dusk and surrounded the store where
the post Office is located. One of them
entered and leveling his winchester
compelled the postmaster and cowboy,
who were inside, to throw up their
hands. Another member of the gang
then gathered up such money and post
age stamps as could be found.
The robbers then withdrew and
mounting their horses rode away.
Only small sum of money was
procured by the outlaws and they may
be expected to make another strike
shortly
San Simon is village about 100
miles distant from this city.
El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1899-03-09
ERICSSON DAY
Generally Observed BY SWedes.

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, March O.
Among the Swedish citizens of Mime
sofa, March 9, has of late years come to
be almost as generally observed as any
national holiday on the calendar. 1t
is John Ericsson Day, the. anniversary
of the battle of the Monitor and the
Merrimac, in which, the lit
tie Yankee craft designed and
built by Ericsson, the great Swedish
American engineer, put to rout the
ponderous confederate gunboat.
In Minneapolis the anniversary of
the battle will be observed tonight by
big banquet under the auspices of
the John Ericsson Memorial associa-
tiop