The Arizona sentinel., 1900-02-14
The A. O. U. W. entertainment

which was to have taken place las
 night, has been indefinitely postponed
 owing to the serious illness of Charles
 Baker, an old and respected membe -of the lodge.
 Col. T. W. Books and Wm. Hesky
 returned last Thursday from Ehren
 berg where they went on mining busi
 ness. Their journey was not strewr with roses, inasmuch as rain fell upor them during most of the time con stunned in the trip.
 The Mardi Gras carnival will be held at New Orleans February 27 Round trip tickets to New Orleans will be on sale at the Southern Paci- l fic ticket office at Yuma from Febru- ary Is to 26, good to return until March 12. Fare round trip $7O2O.
 The Enterprise says the new capitol building is now beginning to attract much attention. Three stories have practically been completed. The cornice work is going on rapidly and those visiting the grounds can form some idea regarding the future looks of the building.
 pr. w. B. Pike, a dentist from Los Angeles registered at Hotel Gandolfo yesterday. The Doctor has been here several days looking over the valley below Yuma. He made some invest ment Tn lands. He left for Los An geles on the morning train, but ex- poets to return soon.
 Judge John A. Rush died at San Francisco on the Eth of this month at the advanced age of eighty-one years. Judge Rush was one of Ari- zona's best known clti ems in the old pioneer days and had many friends in all parts of the territory. His latest residence in the territory was at Pres colt, where he held various positions of trust and honor.
 The members of A. Bienkowski's athletic club are talking of forming a a stock company. It is proposed to place shares on the market at Sl per share in order to raise money to pur chase all the paraphernalia necessary and to maiuta the organization in frst-class quarters. There are now about eighty members and under the plans now formulating much good will result.
 Ira P Smith returned last Thursday from Parker, where he went to get one of tLe captured Apache Indians that escaped from the prison lately. Be fore his arrival at Parker Mr. Smith ,earped that the more or less noble red man had urreptltiously taken his departure, leaving not hIs future ad- dress with his hosts at that famous agency, consequently Mr Indian still breathes the air ol freedom.
 Deputy United States Marshal U. G. Wilder escorted one Lucero Mar tirez, a man with wheels, to the in- sane asylum Sunday. Lucero insisted that MT. Wilder was the playhouse, and that he (Wilder) had swiped Lu- cero's papers. Superintendent Miller was rather inclined to believe the Mexican, but the handsome Anglo Saxon caste of countenance Cf Mir. Wilder and the Castilian cognomen dId not appear well together, there fore the marshal won the day. MT. Wilder re turned from Phoenix Mon day morning.
 John G. Capron, proprietor of the overland stage line from Fort Worth, Texas, to San Diego in the early sixties and we'll known to all old-timers of Yuma, has filed petition of bank ruptcy i'll the United States district court at Los Angeles. Liabilities con- sisting of notes and judgments amount ing to $49, 9,0OS60, together with ac- crued interest, are admitted, and the resources are stated to consist of $200 in irrigation company stock and per sonal clothing. Capron was at one time worth barrels of money but like many western pioneers did not know the value of it.