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Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-12-21
ELEPHANT mike" DEAD.

Bridgeport. Conn, Dec go Mike"
the largest African elephant IN Amer
lea, died In the circus winter quarters
here yesterday. The cause OF his
death is unknown. Mike" was severely
burned In train wreck last spring
while travelling with the now disbandea
Forepaugh-Sells show There are few
African large cared elephants In Amer
Sea and Mike" was the largest. meas
uring 10 feet 4 inches In height and
weighing six tons.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-12-21
BRYAN CLUTCHES ROOSEVELT.

Wichita. Kan. Dec. 20.-Wnliam J.
Bryan spoke here tonight, devoting the
greater part of his speech TO criticism
OF President Roosevelrs policies. He
was accorded a non-political reception.
and the auditorium where he spoke
was crowded TO overlooking. He evaded
placing himself on record as TO ma
tional prohibition, saying: Il am not
discussing this issue"
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-12-21
KILLED WITH uNLoADED Gun.

Chico. Cal, Dec. 2O-Arthur Roberts.
"a 9-year-od boy, was shot IN the head
and killed today during "a military drill
by the school children OF Dayton school
district The children, armed with old
guns supposedly uuloaded aimed and
pulled the triggers. Instantly the Rob
erta boy who had just emerged from
the high school building. threw his
hnnds Do his bond ana crIod. I'm shotn
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-12-21
WOMAN DIED DEFIANT,

Mosoow, Dec. 20,~rho woman, VINO
on Dec 4. made an unsuccessful at
tempt 10 kil Lieut. Iuerschelmann
Governor general ~ MOSCOW, BY means
N a bomb. was executed here today
on The soaffold she said 20 the eAecu-
eve viii soon stop your hanging~'
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-12-21
INV ROAD NO BUTrI5

Helena Mont. Dec l9.-Articles ~
incorporation of the Bitter Root flail-
road company were filed with the secro-
tary OF state today by G.. q, Suther.
The purpose Of the company ia 40 con-
struct a railroad from L.apwal Junction,
on the Clearwater, in Idaho, 90 Butte,
an estimated distance OF 800 miles.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-12-21
NEGROES FOR FORAKER.

Montgomery, Ala. Dec. 20.-In
calling "A meeting for Jan. "a, local
negroes are covering the city with
placards calling for effort for For
aker for president. The cards carry
his plctue with "Our choice for 1908
under H. The cards are signed by the
most prominent negroes of the south.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-12-21
CHARITY GIVING
Joseph n. Choate Advocates Adher-
ence To Mosaic Law ON Subject.

New York Dec. 20-Joseph II Choate
in an address al the annual meeting OF
the State Charities Aid association yes
terday advocated adherence 20 the old
Mosaic law that Onc-teuth OF an prop
erty be given TO charity. He said he
did not believe many of the rich wom-
en- and men who composed his audi
ence had lived up 60 the law, and that
10 all the people Of the country HAD
done so there would not have been
any financial troubles like those
through which the country has just
passed.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-12-21
BUTTE TELEPHONE TROUBLE.
senator Clark Announces Ills Inability
To settle Dinernccs,

Butte. Mont. Dec. G.-Formsr United
states senator W. A. CLARK Left Butte
last night for New York. eftor ounouuc-
Ing bis inability TO mediate che differ
enccs botwccn the labor unions of
Butte ana the Rocky Mountain Bell
Telephone company. The refusal of
the company to dismiss restraining
order directed against tha unions was
the rock upon which th. Cotauous
srllt.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-12-21
WHOLESALE INDICTMENTS.
Nine Hundred and Thirty Eight In
Kansas City for Sunday Violations.


Kansas city Dec. 2O.--Nine hum
dred and thirty-eight Indictments we're
returned here today by the county
grand jury, principally for violation Of
the Sunday closing law. OF this NUM-
Der Go indictments were against the
managers and employees Of thcaters,
for specific violations Of the first Sum
day, several hundred We're against
pool and cigar store owners, and 90
against negroes for selling. or boot
Logging whiskey on Sunday.
In the two months this grand jury
has been I'm session It has returned a
total Of 2.O39 indictmans. over 600 OF
which have been against actors, ac-
tresses, and theatrical managers and
attaches. This an Is a result of the
Sunday closing crusade started by
Judge William II. Wallace OF the
criminal court.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-12-21
MRS. THEODORE BIRNEY DEAD

Washington. Dec. 20.-Mrs. Theo-
lore Weld Birney. founder and honor
ary president OF the National Congress
ot Mothers. died at her home IN Chevy
Chase near here. today The funeral
VIII be held Monday.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-12-21

Who likes sweets. Our beautiful
Christmas baskets filled with Lowneys
delicious Chocolates are nay displayed.
Artistic packages from one-half 10
ave pounds
n. HAL nDuG CO,
"Ihe Never SUbsltutoTs"
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-12-21
MONTANA PIONEER DEAD.

Butte. Mont. Dec. H.-Joseph Smith.
pioneer. aged a. is dead no Virginia
city. Mont, He was one OF the char
acters OF the famous gold placer mine
ing days OF Alder gulch
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-12-21
This Meek,s RcmarI.abIe

Reductions mean exceptional and
timely savings TO hundreds Of women
who have deferred tha buying Of fus
until the present time. All furs 90
at half price. Mehesy. Knutsford Hoo
tel.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-12-21
LlNDENAU SENTENCED.
Gets Three Years for Idbeling Olga
MolltoF.

Karlsruhe, Germany Dec. 20--Karl
lIndcnau. who was prosecuted an "A
charge OF completely in the llbellng of
Olga M0lltor and of having attempted
a. hlackmail her. today WAS sentenced
~ three years imprisonment and "a
i've wears loss Of civil rights. The
TRIAL of Llndonau is "a sequel to the re-
cent trial of Kari Hau. who was cons
1icicd of numbering his mother-in-
law. Llndouau testified that olga
Nolitor ana not IIau shot ana killed
her mother. Lindenau is 90 years OF
age
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-12-21
OKLAHOMA UNIVERSITY.
Fire Damages il to the Extent of Hun
drcd and Fifty Thousand Dollars.

Norman, Okla, Dec. 20.-Shortly
after o'clock this afternoon painters
at work on the dome OF the main build
ing OF Oklahoma university accident
ally set fire TO the structure. The
flames quickly spread and for "A time
there seemed no chance Of saving any
of the college halls. Vigorous work on
the part Of the students confined the
flames TO the main building. The col
lege records. which were i'm vaults, are
thought to have been uuinjured The
loss is estimated at from $125.000 TO
$4,000, partially covered by insur-
ancc.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-12-21
AHEARN'S ELECTION.
Mayor Mcclellan Says It's Illegal and
Refuses to Recognize Him.

New York, Dec 20-At the meeting
Of the boadr Of estimates today. Mayor
Mcclellan refused officially 90 recog-
nize John r. Ahearn, recently removed
from the presidency Of the borough OF
Manhattan by Gov Hughes The
mayor said the election OF yesterday
was contrary to law, and that the Office
Of borough president was still legally
vacant
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-12-21

Continues until Xmas Be sure YOU
take advantage of DO before if is too
late. Mehesy the Furrior. Kuutsford
Hotel.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-12-21

A. the Flower Shop. under National
RRnk OF Republic.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-12-21
CHRISTMAS SALE.

Florence shafer Art Studio, 30i
Brooks Arcade Water-color studies
Art novelties. etc. Prices 76c 90 $50 90.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-12-21

Everything In leather goods FOR
Christmas at schramma Where the
cars stop.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-12-21
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The Arizona sentinel., 1907-03-06
OFFICIAL MINUTES
Of the Proceedings of the Board of Supervisors of Yuma
 County, Arizona.

Office of the Board of Supervis-
 ors of Yuma County, A. T. Yuma, Arizona, Feb. 9, 1907. Board of Supervisors of Yuma county, consisting of H. H. Donk- ersley, A. H. Kent and J. H. Shanssey, district attorney and clerk present, met at 10 a. m. pursuant to adjournment.
 Minutes of February 1, 1907, were read and approved.
 On motion the chairman is in- structed to procure linoleum for all county offices.
 The clerk is hereby instructed to advertise for bids as follows:
 Printing and advertising.
 County supplies.
 Feeding county prisoners.
 Furnishing copy of all plats of subdivisions filed in the record er's office and making all the changes of the name or names, owner or owners, on each lot or block or parcel of patented land, on the plots now in use by the county assessor, including all lots and blocks in the town of Yuma, said county and territory.
 On motion, duly seconded and carried, the contract of Thomas D. Molloy with Geo. D. Michel sen, tax collector, for the collec- tion of delinquent taxes was ap- proved and confirmed by the board, ali members voting aye. Same was ordered filed.
 Moved, seconded that J. H. Geodfrey be and he is hereby granted a leave of absence for thirty days, commencing Febru ary 9th, 1907.
 On motion board adjourned to meet at 10 a. m. March 1, |
The Arizona sentinel., 1907-03-06

ern Illinois or Missouri so adapted to the pro- ducticn of corn as this valley along the Colorado
 River. With alfalfa and corn, the butter, cheese, eggs, poultry and pork to be raised on a
 twenty-acre farm will amaze those who have
 the largest experience in American agricultural
 affairs.
 The winter climate around Yuma Is thing so intoxicatlngy salubrious that words can describe it. These desefts of America, as we have regarded them heretofore, seem to defy the ills that human nature elsewhere is so prone
 to contract and suffer from. The atmosphere is as dry as punk, the skies cl0udlesSly clear the air mild as possible, and every breath seems to be an inspiration Of new life. The United States has an experiment farm on the mesa just on the outskirts of Yuma. Here results even more marvellous than in the valley are produced
 Down Oh the lower levels there are little nips of frosty mornings occasionally during December and January, but on the mesa the breath of frcst never touches the most delicate vegeta- tion. Oranges grown at the Federal expert mcnt station are unsurpassed in their delicious quality.
 Yuma is busy, up-to-date town. The more modern improvements consist Of several blocks Of attractive brick buildings, three-story post office building also of brick and many other nice structures. Among some of the greater improvements which are being made are 2 S3J. .0Go school building S75,000 ice plant, fine clubhouse for the railroad employees, larger passenger depot and the probability of a new courthouse to cost s75OOO. There is consider able business done there, but the people have not begun to awaken to the vast possibilities Of the place. They should at once erect an up-to- date tourist hotel. It should have ample grounds around it and be planted with all kinds of tropical vegetation. If atmosphere were only transportabl3 like mineral waters and one could send consignmentS of this Yuma winter air to the East, the inspiration of it's health giving qualities would bring 9 OOO tourists every winter to the banks of the Colorado River.
 Yuma needs only to make known it's climatic attractions in the parts of the East swept every year by bllZZardS and snowStorms to attract Q city full every winter. The fertility of the val ley below will almost make itself known with out effort on the part of the people. But with a valley full of an intelligent and industrious rural population, producing fruits and vegc tables, poultry, eggs, fresh milk and fragrant butter, Yuma should be one of the most de- lightful winter resorts in all America. There is everything there to furnish tourists with the most healthful and delicious food, and if the air in that region does not drive doctors to seek a living elsewhere, it will be because the people do not know how to live properly.
 It will take about three years more to con- plete the Laguna dam, and in ten years from today the attractions of Yuma as a health resort and the fertility of these bottom lands will be | so well known that it will require Sl0)0 in cash | to buy single acre of it.
The Arizona sentinel., 1907-03-06
J. M. Polhamus,
 Clerk.

Mir. Carnegie denies the story that he will purchase Bannock- burn. He says he has no use for battle fields. Mir. Carnegie is essentially a man of peace. It will be remembered that he of fered to repay the United States, out of his own pocket, the S20, 000.000 paid Spain for the Phil ippines, in order to pevent the loss of American soldiers and the bereavement of American wives and children aS a result of the effort to subdue the Filipinos.
The Arizona sentinel., 1907-03-06

A few days ago 8 rather bash ful young woman went into a store carrying three chickens She inquired the price of chick ems and at the same time put them on the counter. The clerk didn't know the chiohens' feet were tied, and asked if they would lay there. She bit her handkerchief and said: No, sir; they are roOsters.
The Arizona sentinel., 1907-03-06

Work is a great blessing. You cannot see now, but some day you will say you were fortunate in your boyhood days because you were compelled to work. Because you cannot get power to do things save by doing them. Look over the successful men you know. Get their history. Nearly everyone was compelled to work in boyhood. They tough ened their muscles by hard work and sharpened their brains by looking out for themselves.
The Arizona sentinel., 1907-03-06
POSSIBILITIES 0F YUMA
 REGION UNEMPLOYED. The Soil Simply Marvellous in Its
 PrOdECtiyeneSS. And the Climate is lnt0xiCdtingly
 SalubriOuS.
BY GEORGE w. BURTON. In Los Angeles Times.

It is very far from a semi-mellenium since three little open boats under the flag of Spain first touched the waters of the western hemi- sphere and revealed the New World to the eyes of Europeans 1t is only little over century since the United States of America sprang, so to speak like Pallas Athene from the brain of love, a completely armed addition to thefamiy of nations. It is but little over half century since California became a part cf these United States of America, and less than a generation since the settlement of the Great Southwest began.
 In all the 125 years since the Republic was founded, also in the half-certury since California became-en of the States of the Union, and dur ing every year of the last thirty, q realization of the vast riches of the American continent, Of the territory of the United States and of this Grcat Southwest has been more and more as- tonishing the minds of men. One would SUD- pose that by today we knew pretty thoroughly what the undevcloped resources of the Great Southwest might reasonably be expected to be- como. We have not reached the depths of this great ocean of wealth with our plummet line yet
 In residence of forty years on the Coast, the writer thought he knew Q little about what there is on the Coast, and as most of these years have been spent in and around Los An geles he naturally had little conceit that he was pretty well acquainted with the Great Southwest. Last week q trip to the Colorado River bottoms, below Yuma, made him feel as tenderfCot who had come m on the last train. New to him, this wonderful region and it's possi- bilitics are pretty well known to a great many readers of The Times by the stories published, if not by the demonstration of their own eyes.
 Yuma lies on the map just twelve miles from where the government is putting in the great Laguna dam. at the confluence of the Gila and Colorado Rivers. It is twelve miles from Yuma down the river to the Mexican boundary line on the! Arizona side of the river. At one point, just below Yuma, the international boundary line runs up along the river, which there takes Q westerly trend and from Yuma to Mexico is only a few miles.
The Arizona sentinel., 1907-03-06
CUT TEN CROPS YEARLY.

Arizona has established an experiment Statio2 in the heart of this big valley, which is some twenty four miles long, and in spots ten to twelve miles wide, down on the lower level The results arc wonderful. Last week they were cutting crop of alfalfa on this expert mental farm, and for ten consecutive months they will cut succeeding crops. The only months when the crop is not cut here are December and January.
 Cotton and tobacco grow with the greatest luxuriance, and this rich Slluvial soil will be noted in very few years aS the ideal spot in the whole country for dairying, hog raising, the production of poultry and vegetables, which one hesitates to call early or late, as they will be perennial. New potatoes will be produced in the middle of January tomatoes will be ripe by the first of March, ripe grapes will be gath cred in the early days of May, and apricots by the middle of the same month. Chickens and turkeys flourish there in the winter time beyond all experience anywhere else.
 The rainfall is exceedingly light and comes only three or four times in a whole winter With an abundance of green alfalfa and vege- tables in the dry and not overheated climate prevailing in the winter months, chickens are free from the diseases that make their raising difficult elsewhere, There is 10 Spot isl South
The Arizona sentinel., 1907-03-06
1907
H. H. Donkersley,
 Chairman.
J. M. Polhamus,
 Clerk.

Office of the Board of Supervis- ors of Yuma County, A. T. Yuma, Arizona, March 1, 1907. Board met at 10a. m. pursuant to adjournment, all members, district attorney and clerk pres ent.
 Reading of the minutes of February 9, 1907, was postponed. On motion board adjourned to meet at 10 q. m. March 4, 1907.
 H. H. DOnkerSley,
 Chairman. J. M. Polhamus,
 Clerk.
The Arizona sentinel., 1907-03-06
RICHES OF SOIL WONDERFUL

But the object of this story is to call attention once more, and for perhaps the thousandth time to the riches of the soil along the Colorado On both sides, incident to the deposfting of this mass of debris during all the past ages Going through the country on the Arizona side of the river, for several miles below Yuma one en- counters the same type of country and soil that is found in the Imperial Valley country around Brawley, Calexico and other points west of the river. The fertility of the black prairie soils of Illinois has astonished people engaged in agri- culture for nearly years. The fertility of the valley of the Nile has been q matter Of history for at least 09 years. Those who are familiar with Illinois prairie soil, and those who know what the valley of the Nile is for agriculture, know that this lower Colorado River region sur passes both Of them.
 If you ask farmer along this stretch of country if the soil is six feet, his eyes will open with aStonishrlent at your ignorance. He will tell you no one knows whether it is @ feet, 600 or 6009 feet deep. It is practically without bot tom. It is so thoroughly well mixed with sand, diSintegrated granite and other rocks that it never balIeS. It is as easily worked a heap of ashes, and responds to cultivation in way that is marvellous
The Arizona sentinel., 1907-03-06
ONCE A MIGHTY STREAM.

Ages ago, when the mountain ranges of Ari- zona and California lowered toward the stars, at least twice as high as they do now, rains were very frequent and came down in torrcntial volumes all along these mountain ridges. The Colorado River in these past ages was mighty stream, sweeping down debris in tons every second Of it's flow. The Colorado sink was at that time great inland sea, which spread over the country on both sides of where the river now runs As the erosion of winds and storms, landslides and glaciers wore down the mountain ridges year by year, the great river carried down q vast amount or silt, eroslon from the rocks full of phospnateS, lines and dfsintegrated granites, as well the vegetation along it's banks, and this was all deposited in what are now the sinks of the Colorado.
 As the mountain tops were worn down, the rains became less frequent and less in volume, but the erosion of rocks and river banks, the trees and vegetable mould torn from the banks still came down and settled into the bottom of the great inland lake. This geological process went on from age to age to our time, leaving the Colorado at Yuma stream about half a mile wide and being at the present time. about twenty feet deep in the deepest portion.
 It is not necessary to remind Californfans that tho Spanish missionaries and explorers called this river the Colorado because of the reddish color of it's waters. It is the Colorado up in the Grand Canyon in Arizona and down past The Needles. But as this time of the year. after passing the mouth of the Gila. instead of the red river it becomes the brown river. It act uGly looks today as if 10 per cent of it's flow was silt and only % per cent water The great weight of this mass of liuuid imDreguated by so much solid makes the cutting off of the flow of the river where the railroad is trying to close the break mulch more difficult. Once chol1ed of, however, the silt will settle around the rocks and make solid dam for all time to come.
The Arizona sentinel., 1907-03-06
keallf'S Boarding House.

Vanted-Lady 10 advertise our oods locally. Several weeks home york Salary Sl2.00 per week, Sl.00 d day for expenses. Saunders O., Dept. w.. 4G-43 Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Ill.