The Arizona sentinel., 1902-04-30

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 The cottages being erected by Ex Mayor Duncan on Orange avenue ar' nearly completed. Each will contain six rooms and be strictly modern throughout.
 H. c. Davis last week purchased {; ranch of 132 acres in Bear valley, Sar Diego county. Cal, for $4000. Tn, Judge and his family intend to spend the summer there.
 Father Durand has returned from al extended visit to California. The man! friends of the father will be pleased tt learn that his health has been greatly benefited by his trip.
 Imperial has Q pretty young lady d: express agent, Miss Margaret Clark having received the appointment a' Wells Fargo express agent at tha fourishing young city.
 The many friends of Prof. and Mrs L. J. Bardet regret to learn of the i'll ness of this estimable lady. Mrs. Bar det has been confined to her bed fOl the past two weeks and is still quite i'll
 w. A. Bowles, assistant cashier o1 the Bank of Yuma, left this morning for Los Angeles to visit his uncle, whom he has not seen for years, and at the same time take in the festivities Of the Fiesta
 R. F. Rawlins has returned to his old place Of business, having re-pur- chased the fruit stand corner Main and Second streets, and is doing thriving business. See change in advertise ment.
 l.. Monie, who has until recently had the contract for sprinkling the streets in Yuma. died in Agua Calientc today of apoplexy. Deceased was a membe' of the Spanish-American Alliance, and a good citizen.
 The Darlington cottage on Madison avenue is completed, and will be occu- pied from the first Of May by Geo. M. Williams. w. H. Dresser, the popular $. P. agent, will take the cottage now occupied by Mr. Williams as soon as vacated.
 The new city council will meet On the first Tuesday in May and complete organization by appointing officers to fill all vacancies, such as recorder, m ar shal. treasurer, assessor, etc. R. $. Patterson, the new mayor, will preside.
 J. B. Landfeld, whose recent affiic- tion, in the death of his father. has called him away from Arizona, will re- turn next week and close up his busi- ness relations with the Picacho mining enterprise in which he was largely in terested.
 Thomas Johnson, superintendent of the American Girl mine near Hedges, Cal, and H. L. Ross, an attache of tile same company, were at the Hotel Gan dolfo Saturday and made this office a social call. They returned to the mine by Sunday mornings train.
 J. 4. Barray and c. o. Hamilton, deputy United States surveyors from Ventura, Cal, called on the Sentinel yesterday. These gentlemen have been for the past two months engaged in sectionizing three townships in the Cibola valley, this county. They left this morning for their Ventura home.
 Misses Lillian Sherman and Agnes Balsz returned from Phoenix Monday morning where they went as delegates from the Yuma court of lady Foresters to the institution of a High Court of the order for Arizona. The ladies speak very highly of Phoenix hospitality and report very entertaining experience in the capital city.
 The street railway strike in San Francisco has terminated. concessions having been made by both sides, prin- pally, however, by the company. Such strikes in cities like San Francisco al- ways inconvenience the poor more than they do the rich. Perhaps this had something to do with the strike ending so soon in this instance.
 The board of supervisors has not yet advertised for bids for printing elec- tion blanks, ballots, great register and other supplies, although the law re- quires that this must be done-and it means election blanks of all kinds. When the clerk of the board makes out the list he should not fail to include ALL election blanks.
 The postal receipts for March from the fifty largest offices in the country show a net increase of 10 per cent over the corresponding time last year, which indicates that there may be no postal deficit this year. The removal of many fake" periodicals from the second class privilege, together with an in- crease of frst-class mail. has augment ed the net revenues: