The Arizona sentinel., 1901-02-20
News From Kofa.
KOfa. AriZ.. Feb. IS. 1901.

1 our section last week, the stage left at 11:3O a. m. instead of 12:30 D. m. as usual, Monday, thus leaving the weekly news letter from our much besOaked camp resting peacefully at it's place of origin. As there was very little to tell. except how SO-and-SO's residence prov ed intellectual in sl lding rain: and the happy possessor thereof had very hard time in finding place whereon to lay the weary head of the family as well as the minor heads, and how the walls of several adobe buildings mel e l like sugar in hot water before the in cessant drizzle. the readers of the SEN TINED missed very little.
 E. l.. Low and NIr. Foley drove ten head of fine young beef cattle for our local market in from the formers ranch near PalOmas.
 Hens are doing a booming business here just now, and yet so scarce are they that fifty cents per dozen is gladly paid for all eggs that can be bought.
 Died, in KOfa, February 10, of ty- phoid pneumonia, Reyes Garcea, aged 24 years. Deceased was an exemplary young man, of splendid physique, whose final illness was of such shCrt duration that his many friends and relatives can scarcely realize their sad loss.
 During the recent rain storm the mill crowded the wood haulers to such an extent that it was found necessary to work one S-horse team all night Sunday in Crder to feed the furnaces.
 Mrs. Frank Price returned from a two months visit to relatives in Cali fornia, Thursday. We are all glad to welcome her home and do not marvel that Frank" seems so happy.
 Over D miners are on the present payroll.
 F. J. Martin and MT. Rodgers, super intendent and amalgamator from La Fortuna, were in camp the latter part LII lCiSU NCOhs MI 4f1CJl IIII II6Io OOIIIC claims near here, we understand.
 NJ. J. Nugent returned from short trip to Fl Paso Thursday.
 Will the democratic 2lst, the friend and advocate of the poor laboring man, pass the bullion tax law? With Sena- tor Ives, bullion producer on no small scale, as president of the council and H. J. Allen, the business manager Oi the greatest bullion-producer iu the territory, in Phoenix and his sack not left at home, WILL it pass? We wait, but won't hold our breath.
 One of our most respected citizens got mixed up with considerable nOtori- ety and had a hearing before Judge Mahew Saturday. It tappears that said citizen, party of the first part, admin istered sound thrashing to party of the second part, who resented and re- taliated by having the said citizen ar rested. Just which party had his quarrel just, or how much the penalty is for thrashing fellow man we do not know, but it's good thing that every body who gets punished don't take to the law for satisfaction else there would be little time for aught else save preliminary hearings in our camp court.
 W. L. Tileston, the genial represent ative of GOldschmidt Bros., of Los An geles, did business in camp Saturday and leaves today for Phoenix.
 Jose Gotta, who has aspan of innocent looking Mexican cayuses and hauls wood to families here, enlivened the quiet mOnOtOny of the Sabbath by a runaway. No damage was done, how ever, the lusty lungs of some OnloOkers did their best, but as the animals only speak Spanish' they didn't under stand, and stopped before anyone, save the excited driver, wished.
 A picnic party scaled the heights of Fort Sumpter, as the lofty dome east of camp has been named, Sunday. AS the party was extra select and did not in clude reporters or newspaper scrib- blers or penny-a-liners or any of the unfOrtunates of life, we cannot give as glowing and minute an account of the picnic as we otherwise might. We understand that MT. Shaw developed wonderful muscular power, and will even again attempt to guide others up the steep and rocky path-weight no objection; that Mrs. Tate and Strif are fine walkers and can put up an A No. lunch: that Miss Lewis was first to scale the dizzy heights and that Miss Martinez and Redwood didn't get th;re at all, but were good ''camp" people-and they all need shoes.
 What is the matter with Alexander? Our Alexander, we mean, as we have no comment to offer on the coward who shot Mrs. Burns. But something got wrong with the usually smOoth-running cOgs in the head of our D. m., and in an irresponsible moment he had removed the beautiful mustache which for years has been the envy of all the men: but alas. Alex can no longer roar as lion among the gentler sex: he is shorn of his chiefest beauty and they will have no more of him. And the Doctor and Redwood followed sutton was it all owing to some nOisome drug that the Doctor influenced the others to take2