The Arizona sentinel., 1900-09-26

at variance with the facts con- corning our town and country. People who have lived here long will read the islander with min gled feelings of amusement and indignation. Nobody likes to be lied about, and it is 8 strange sort of individual who will not defend the good name of his town and home when it is attacked and so grossly misrepresented.
 In all probability the writer's figures regarding the tempera- ture in Yuma were compiled from imagination while "under the infiuence," of a kind of liquor sold in Kansas which is said to cause the imbiber of it to "see things" that he enever saw before. At any rate his statements are ridiculously out of joint with the truth.
 For instance he states that the every day temperature in Yuma for four or five months in the year is from 105 to 125 degrees in the shade.
 The hottest day in the hottest month this year was August 1, when the mercury reached 107, but the mean daily record for the month was only 85.6 degres. In July the highest mark reached was 105, and the mean daily rec ord was lower than in August. There has been hardly a night that was not comfortably cool, and generally one needed quilts before morning. During September the weather has been delightful and the nights cold enough for blankets.
 It is true that most people in this country sleep out of doors during the summer-not ten months in the year, but just as long as the weather will permit and are always sorry when the nights get too cold to enjoy the luxury, for it is a pleasure to sleep in this pure, dry atmos- phere with nothing between you and the starry dome, & sky bluer and clearer and more beau tiful than can be seen anywhere else on earth; to breathe the life giving, health-restoring air, and thank your stars, or whatever is responsible, that you are not in the north, where on summer nights you roll and tumble in unrest and sleeplessness on ac- count of the sweltering heat and an atmosphere filled with mois- ture and mosquitoes, malaria and many other deadly things un- known here. While the winter nights-well, language fails.
 It is unnecessary to dwell on the weather. It is sufficient to say that building and all neces- sary out of door labor goes right on all summer here the same as elsewhere, and such thing as genuine case of sunstroke is un- known. People drop dead on the streets of the eastern and northern cities under a tempera- ture of less than 90 degrees, yet here in Yuma men work at their usual avocations out of doors in safety and even comfort at a temperature of over hundred. Why this can be requires no ex- planatiOn here.
 The writer's ridiculous state ments of Yuma's general make up and in business way are in the same vein of stupid exagger- ation as his weather observa- tionS.
 Yuma is a city of 3, 800 people, prosperous and contented with their lot.
 Yuma has electric lights, water works and telephone service, and is a railroad point of some i'm portanoe, being the end of a di- vision on the Southern Pacific, and that company is now expend- ing $50,000 in extending their traffic handling facilities here.
 Yuma's larger merchants carry stocks of goods estimated in values as follows
 B. F. Sanguinetti, $100,000.