The Arizona sentinel., 1902-08-20

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 It is not generally known that thu
 Santa Fe railroad has about loo inde
 pendent telephone lines on its system
 which it owns and controls exclusively These private lines are under the su
 pervison of the telegraph department President Roosevelt has issued a
 proclamation creating the Mt. Graham
 Forest Reserve in Graham county
 setting apart nearly the whole of the
 mountain not already appropriated by
 the Fort Grant military reservation.
 The Elks grand lodge made provis
 ions for home for aged and indigent
 Elks, to be located at Bedford City, Va. and prohibited street fairs or car.
 nivals held under the auspices of the order. The next reunion of Elks will
 be held at Baltimore July 21, 1903.
 Mrs. A. Frank, Miss Lesa Frank and young Abe Frank, all returned Thurs. day night from Los Angeles, where they had very enjoyable visit ot about thirty days duration. Of course they all had an enjoyable time, and Miss Lesa didn't want to come back at all.
 Alex. Mcintyre has been in Yuma the past week on visit to his brother, Donald Mcintyre, boss car repairer for the Southern Pacific at Yuma. Aleck holds the same kind of position at Glla Bend that Donald holds here. This is his first visit to Yuma in eleven years, or since the big flood in '92
 An Arkansas man had some trees to cut last spring, but cyclone came and leveled them and saved him the trouble. He had brush pile to burn, but light hing struck it and burned it for him, and now he is waiting for an earth quake to come and dig his potatoes and break his land for wheat sowing.
 A carload of accoutrements and ma chinery for the new steam laundry ar rived last week and Capt. Donaldson and his daughter Mrs. Baird, who will operate the laundry, are now negotiat- ing for ground upon which they pro- pose to erect suitable building. The laundry will probably be ready for business in about thirty days.
 Another horse race took place on Gila street last Sunday. This race was between the grey" which has been beating all the other nags in the past, and an unknown black" from the val ley west of town, and was won easily by the latter. A well-known citizen offered to bet $500 that the black could beat the other and give him forty yards the start in a quarter of a mile run. and it would be safe bet for him.
 Another steamboat excursion was billed for last Sunday, but the steamer St. Vallier did not arrive from PicachO until nearly dark, and the excursion trip was postponed week longer. The beautiful moonlight nights we are having now would be a great deal pleasanter for river excursions than the days, but it seems the steamboat people are unable to arrange it that way on account of the regular trips the St. Valliers is making to and from Picacho.
 United States Senator Clark of Mon tana was in Jerome last week for the purpose of Investigating the fire which has been raging for some time in his big copper mine, the United Verde, and if possible decide upon some plan to extinguish it. It is thought by those with the conditions that un- less the fire is put cut soon it will grad ually spread to all parts of the copper deposit and do millions of dollars worth of damage, and possibly force an aban- 1onment of the great copper producer 
 Coming as it does, in the busiest sea- son. when man can least afford to lose time, sure and quick cure for diarrhea IS very desirable. Anyone who has given it trial will tell you that the quickest, surest and most pleasant rem edy in use for this disease is Chamber aims Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. There is no loss of time when t is used, as one or two doses of 1t will | ,ure any ordinary attack. It never ails, not even in the most severe and dangerous cases. For sale at COtter's | Drug Store.
 A reported discovery of oil some where up the Colorado river was cur ent last week, having it's origin in tatements made by California parties, vho claimed they had found oil in dig ing well. A boring outfit was said o be on the way from Los Angeles to his point, from whence it would be hipped by steamer to the point of the lleged discovery. but at this writing has not arrived. Harry -McPhaul vent up and made some oil locations or himself and other parties here and 7ill be in on the ground floor if oil is eveloped.
 Samuel Booth died of consumption t his home in the valley on Sunday, August 10th, and was buried the fol- owing day. Deceased came to Yuma ounty nearly two years ago from Ok lhoma, where he had practiced law nd edited d newspaper. He came ere for his health, and by doing so