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The Arizona sentinel., 1907-03-20

ern Illinois or Missouri so adapted to the pro-
 duetion of corn this valley along the Colorado
 River. With alfalfa and corn, the butter, l cheese, eggs, poultry and pork to be raised on twenty y-acre farm will amaze those who have
 the largest experience in American agricultural affairs.
 The winter climate around Yuma is a thing so intoxicatingly salubrious that no words can describe it. These deserts 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 cloudlessly 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 arc produced Down on the lower levels there are little nips of frosty mornings occasionally during December frost meyer touches the most delicate vegeta- tion. Oranges grown at the Federal experi- ment station are unsurpassed in their delicious quality.
 Yuma is a busy, upto.date town. The more modern Improvements consist of several blocks of attractive brick buildings, three-story post OllCc DullUlHS, utSO Ot UFlCk, Ludny OIucE nice structures. Among some of the greater Improvements which are being made arc q s55.00o school building $75,O0o ice plant a fine clubhouse for the railroad employees. larger passenger depot, and the probability of a new courthouse to cost s75000. 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 transportabl2 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 D 900 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 bliZzaTlS and Snowstorms to attract 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 valley full of an intelligent and industrious rural population, producing fruits and vege- 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 living elsewhere, it will be because the people do not know how to live properly.
 It will take about three years more to com pletc the Laguna dam, and in ten years from today the attractions of Yuma ds a health resort and the fertility of these bottom lands will be so well known that it will require 5000 in cash to buy single acre of it..
The Arizona sentinel., 1907-03-20
ABSOLUTELY PURE

your death, said Want, and you have the remainder of your life to decide upon the Story, but I warn you in advance that you are perpetrating crime that will bring unutterable woe upon mankind-such a crime as the world has, until now, never known.
 ''K knew that to be a fact, but 1 wished to repay my debt to the world with compound inter est, and now that-I am about to end my life, pass to humanity this afflictiOn:
 ''I hereby condemn every man, every woman, every babe, living now or to live in any of the cen- turies to come, to hear thous- and times this swfully funny story:
 "A soldier once died at Yuma and went to hades. He suffered there with the cold and was obliged to send back for his blankets.
 ''Now 1 am content to die. Let this pestilence of wit sweep on and on throughout the centuries, and I hereby designate the half witted mortals of earth as my dispensers of woe. Let no sane man tell it, for there are enough idiots to carry on the work.
 ''JEROME FORSYTHE."
The Arizona sentinel., 1907-03-20
PUNISHED MANKIND
Archaeological Discovery Near Inn perial Explains Cause of Greatest
 Human AfflictiOn.

One of the strangest finds yet made in our valley was brought to this office yesterday by Q. R. Story, says Imperial Standard. He found it on his farm five miles from town. It is an an cient parchment, and it was found inclosed in a rusty old steel box, buried in the ground. The manuscript is as follows.
 ''Near Yuma, March 1, 1858.
 "This witnesseth that l, Jer- ome Forsythe, being in my right mind, though about to die, do bequeath to humanity the herit- age of woe permitted me in a revelation by the dire fate Want. 1 have occasion to hate humanity with all the accumulated malig- nifty engendered by years of wilfull and continuous neglect and abuse, and when personified Want appeared before me in a trance and gave to me the right to condemn all humanity for all time by one dire affiiction l was not slow in making up my mind what the affiiction should be. The fate suggested that 1 desig- nate some new physical pestil ence, but I cried out for some thing worse. l was determined that the agony to be inflicted should be so long drawn out and so penetrating that all men should tremble at thought of it and dread and suffer by it all their lives.
 "Let it be, 1 said to Want, that every man on earth shall be con- demned to hear the same funny story a thousand times.
 ''It is granted, beginning with
The Arizona sentinel., 1907-03-20
DAT COST A VAST SUIT
Hartman Will Have Spent $2, 500, ,0OO Below Yuma Before Work
 Is Done.

F. H. Hartman will have ex-
 pended a total of S2, 500O,OO0 at the big dam below Yuma by the time the Colorado river has been returned to it's former channel, in the next few months. The task is completed with the ex- ception of a few incidental trim mings that must be added by Epes Randolph and his corps of associates who have had charge of the work.
 Colonel Randolph, who is in Los Angeles. says that to this time an aggregate expenditure of $2, 900, GOO has been paid out under his direction since the work began. The money has been practically turned into the Colorado in a golden stream for weeks at the rate of $50,000 a week, and this will have to con- tinue for some time yet.
 : While an attempt will be made again when the sixtieth congress convenes in December to pass a bill that shall reimburse the Southern Pacific for it's outlay, it is not known that the measure will meet with more success than was the result in the recent session. This in spite of the fact that President Roosevelt sent in a special message requesting the two houses to assist the Southern Pacific in bearing the big eX- pense attached to the efforts made in behalf of the Imperial valley section. The task accom- plished has attracted the atten, tion of the engineering world everywhere. Los Angeles Ev- ening News.
The Arizona sentinel., 1907-03-20

At the recent election in Phil adelpbia twenty women were elected on ward school boards. Many women serve on school boards throughout the state and they are elected by mems votes for VOmen have not even the school vote in Pennsylvania.
The Arizona sentinel., 1907-03-20

Most of the employees of the pail bag repair shop in the Washington postoffice seem to have gotten the sack.
The Arizona sentinel., 1907-03-20

John D. Rockefeller has stood for good many things, but he rebels at being called a billion aire.
The Arizona sentinel., 1907-03-20
POSSIBILITIES OF YUMA
 REGION UNFATHOMED. The Soil Simply Marvellous in Its
 PrOdaCtiveneSS. And the Climate IS IntoxiCdtingIy
 SaIubriOuS.
BY GEORGE W. BURTON. In Los Angeles Times.

It is vcry far from semi i-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. It is only a little over century since the United States of America sprang, so to speak like Pallas Atliene from the brain of Jove completely armed addition to the family of nations. It is but little over half century since California became part of these United States of America, and less than generation since the settlement of the Great Southwest began.
 In all the 125 years since the Republic was founded, also in the haf-centurt since California became one of the States of the Union, and dur ing every year of the last thirty, realization of the vast riches of the American continent, of the territory of the United States and of this Great Southwest has been more and more as- toniSi1ing the minds of men. One would sup pose that by today we knew pretty thoroughly what the undeveloped resources of the Great Southwest might reasonably be expected to be- come. We have not reached the depths of this great ocean of wealth with our plumnet line yet.
 In q residence of forty years on the Coast, the writer thought he knew 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 Eonceit that he was pretty well acquainted with the Great Southwest. Last week a trip to the Colorado River bottoms, below Yuma, made him feel as tenderfoot who had come Tn on the last train. New to him, this wonderful region and it's possi. bilftieS 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 fs 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 tho Mexican boundary line on the Arizona side of the river. At ono point, just below Yuma the international boundary line runs up along the river, which there takes a westerly trend ard from Yuma to Mexico is only few miles.
The Arizona sentinel., 1907-03-20

Those numerous sun spots will come in handy to explain any thing unusual that may happen next summer.
The Arizona sentinel., 1907-03-20

The ship subsidy bill promises to beat the Shoot case for the long distance record.
The Arizona sentinel., 1907-03-20

OUMA LODGE NO. : 4. O. T.. w. MEETS every Tuesday evening at o'clock. Visit ing brsthren in good standing are Invited to attend. Yours in C. H. and P.
 r. l.. EWING. NJ. W.
 ED. NAMES. k.
The Arizona sentinel., 1907-03-20

INIRST BAPTIST tCHURCH.-SERVICES lN on the fourth Sunday in each month at 2:30 p. m. Prayer ting on Friday night of each week. Eugene Keen. pastor in charge. Sunday School every Sunday morning at 10.
The Arizona sentinel., 1907-03-20

4 LLIANCIA HISPANO. AMERICANO NO. A ld. meets every Sunday at E1ks' hall, G D. m. MANUEL MoNRoY, Pres. J. l.. REDoNDo, Secretary.
The Arizona sentinel., 1907-03-20

nETER T. ROBERTSON, ATTORNEY AT -t Law, Office in Cotter Bldg, Yuma, AriZ.
The Arizona sentinel., 1907-03-20

TT II. ELLIOTT. CIVIL ENGINEER AND
 Surveyor; U. $. Deputy Mineral Sur syor. Yuma, Arizona.
The Arizona sentinel., 1907-03-20

H. WUPPERMAN. MARY 4. WUPPERMAN NyUPPERMAN & WUPPERMAN. ATTOR- w ncyS at law. Notary Public. Court Re- porting. Offices in Wupperman Building, Yuma, Arizona Telephone No. 20G.
The Arizona sentinel., 1907-03-20
PROFESSIONAL CARDS:

TNRANK BAXTER, Attorney at Law and 1N Notary Public. Will practice in all the courts or the Territory. Special attention to Mining and Land Laws. F. Q. Box i0l. First Street, South Side, Yuma, Arizona.
The Arizona sentinel., 1907-03-20

c tellmans Nrecl1le Cream, Lhe only reliable O face bleach. MRS. 4. J. HEYL. Special Agent Cor. Jones and Madison Ave. Phone 75.
The Arizona sentinel., 1907-03-20

Wanted Lady to advertise our goods locally. Several weeks home work. Salary $l2.00 per week, Sl.0O a day for expenses. Saunders Co.,, Dept w.. 46-46 Jackson Boulevard Chicago, III,
The Arizona sentinel., 1907-03-20
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 depositing of this mass of debrls during all the past ages. Going through the country the Arizona side of the river, for several miles below Yuma, one en- counters the same type of country and soil that is found fin 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 agrf- culture for nearly 100 years Tho fertility of the valley of the Nile has been a 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 loNFcTColorado River region sur passes both of then.
 If you ask q farmer along this stretch of country if the soil is six feet his eyes will open with aStoniShment at your ignorance He will tell you no ono knows whether it is 50 feet. 600 or 6OOO feet deep, It is practically without bot. tom. It is so thoroughly we'll mixed with sand, granite and other rocks that it never bakeS. IL is as easily worked as q heap of ashes and responds to cultivation in a way that iS marvellous
The Arizona sentinel., 1907-03-20

COME TO THE SENTINEL OFFICE O for Job Work Satisfaction assured.
The Arizona sentinel., 1907-03-20
CIT TEN CHOPS YEARLY.

Arizona has established an experiment statio,s in tlfc heart of this biz valley, which is some twenty four miles long, and in spots ten to twelve miles wide down the lower level. The results arc wonderful. Last week they were cutting a crop of alfalfa on this expert. mental farm and for ten consecutive months they will cut succeeding crops. Tho only months when the crop is not cut here are December and January.
 Cotton and tobacco grow with the greatest luXuriancc and this rich alluvial soil will be noted in a 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 aprfcots 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 whole winter With an abundance of green alfalfa and vege- tables in the dry and not overkeated climate prevailing in the winter months, chickens are free from the diseases that make their raising diftcult elsewhere, Thsre is 10 spot in South
The Arizona sentinel., 1907-03-20
ONCE X MIGHTY STREAM.

Ages ago, when the mountain ranges of Ari- zona and California lowered toward tho stars, at least twIcc as high as they do now, rains were very frequent and came down in torrentfal volumes all along these mountain ridges. The Colorado River in these past ages was a mighty stream, sweeping down debris in tons every second of its flow. The Colorado sink was at that time grent 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 tho mountain ridges year by year, tie great river carrie down q vast amount of silt, erosion from the rocks full of pirosphates, lines and disintegrated graniteS, as well as 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 q stream about half mile wide and being at the present time about twenty feet deep in the deept $; portion.
 It is not necessary to remind CalifornfanS that the 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 at this time of the year. after passing the mouth of the Gila. instead of the red river it becomes tfIe brown river. It act ualy looks today if 10 per cent of it's flow was silt and only 90 per cent water. The great weight of this mass of liquid impregnated by SO much solid makes the cutting on of the flow of the river where tho railroad is trying to close the break much more difficult. Once ctoked of, however. the silt will settle around the rocks and make a solid dam for all time ty come
The Arizona sentinel., 1907-03-20

Yuma, The City of the Great Southwest
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1907-12-03
CHANGE IN FIRM
M. E. Shoulder Buys Harry tiibbard's
Interest in Adams & Com
pany's Store.

Harry Hibbard, OF the firm Of
Adams & Company, has sold his
interest in the furniture business to
M. E. Shoulder, of Superior, Wis
consin. The firm will henceforth be
known under the name Of the Dallas
Furniture Company.
Mr.. Shoulder is a man of long
experience along mercantile lines,
having been for a long time pro-
prietor Of large department store in
the city from which he came.
The building on the Riley corner
was finished last week, and Mr.. Adams
moved all of the stock that remained
In his former establishment into the
new establishmentyesterd morning.
In addition to the trade in second
hand furniture, with which the busi-
ness in this city was begun, the new
company is carrying large line Of
implements, and complete stock of
the finest up-to-date furniture. Mr..
Adams says it is their purpose to
carry stock so complete and salts
factory, that no customer will ever
find it necessary to send away from
Dallas to get anything in the furni-
ture line.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1907-12-03

City Marshal @. L. Hubbard has
declared his intention to put every
hobo that drifts into Dallas in future
at work keeping the cross walks
clean from mud, instead of merely
sending them out of town or confining
them in the city jail for a short time,
This policy should have the effect of
1essening the number Of hobos and
buns that have been passing through
our city for some time, since the holi-
day tie-up in the larger cities has
made it improbable for them to re-
main at those places, and has driven
them to the road once more.
County Clerk issued license to wed
this week to Oscar McCollum and
Cassie Bennett; H. A. Hanson and
Bertha A. Roscoe; Frank Bond and
Laura Fearn.
Legal blanks at this office.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1907-12-03
Welded TWENTY YEARS
DIR. and Mrs. Mark Hayter Celebrate
Twentieth Anniversary En-
tertainlng Friends.

DR.. and Mrs. Mark Hayter cele-
brated the twentieth anniversary of
their wedding day in delightfully."-
informal way at their home in this
city Saturday evening. About fifty
relatives and friends were present to
share in the pleasures of the happy
occasion. The house was decorated
with chrysanthemums, the popular
Winter flower being used with lavish
abundance and charming effect in the
various rooms.
The evening was spent in an
informal social way and in recalling
past events and associations, many of
the guests having been schoolmates
of DR.. and hrs. Hayter. Misses Una
Campbell and frankie Hayter pre-
sided at the punch bowl, and Miss
Olive Smith favored the company with
several piano selections. Light re-
freshments were served during the
evening. In Difference to the wishes
Of the host and hostess, no presents
were given. The guests departed
few minutes before midnight, wishing
DR.. and Mrs. Hayter many more
happy anniversaries.
Those present were: Mr.. and Mrs.
M. M. Ellis, Mr.. and Mrs. w. L.
Soehren, Mr.. and Mrs. E. w. Fuller,
Mr.. and Mrs. d. P. Stouffer, Mr.. and
Mrs. U. s. Grant, Mr.. and Mrs. Conrad
Stafrin. Mr.. and Mrs. H. G. Campbell,
Mr.. and Mrs. J. @. Uglow, Mr.. and
Mrs. Fl. @. Eakin, Mr.. and Mrs. H. B.
Cosper, Mr.. and Mrs. @. G. Coad, Mr..
and Mrs. @. L. Barnes, Mr.. and Mrs.
o. S. Loughary, Mr.. and Mrs. W. G..
Campbell, Mr.. and Mrs. G.. L. Haw-
kins, Mr.. and Mrs. Willis Simonton,
Mr.. and Mrs. T. J. Hayter, Mr.. and
Mrs. F. S. Ramsey, Mr.. and Mrs. J. Il.
Hollister, Mr.. and Mrs. E. Hayter,
Mr.. and Mrs. H. D. Mcdonald, Mr..
and Mrs. Oscar Hayter, Mr.. and Mrs.
Carl Wagner, Of Portland; Mrs. B.
Casey, Misses Olive Smith, Fannie
Dempsey, Emma Dempsey. frankie
Hayter, Lydia Campbell. Una Camp
bell, Ruth Campbell, May Mcdonald;
Messrs. E. BiddIe, ]. @. Hayter, R. E.
Williams.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1907-12-03
Dimes THE WIDOWS
Uncle Bill Brown Celebrates Eighty
Third Birthday in Usual
Enjoyable Manner.

Hon. W. G. Brown celebrated his
eighty-third birthday Saturday,
November 80, by entertaining the wild
ows of Dallas with sumptuous ban
quet at the Dallas Hotel.
The ladies assembled in the hotel
parlor at half past twelve. AT one
O'Clock it was announced that the
birthday dinner was served, and
"Uncle Bill" proudly escorted his
throng of guests to the dining room.
The host seated himself at the head of
the first table and Grandma Emmons
was given the seat Of honor at his
right hand, as the Oldest woman in
the party. The remainder of the guests,
Al in number, arranged themselves
about the three tables in the order of
their coming.
The hotel chef had spared no pains
in the preparation of the dinner, and
exercising the delicate wizardy of his
art, had conjured up succession of
rich and delicate dishes that would
have gladdened the heart of an
epicure. AS the courses of the banquet
changed rapidly, and the mattresses
hurried hither and thither, assidu-
ously supplying the needs of the
guests, the room resounded with the
hum of low-voiced conversation and
quick bursts Of gentle laughter, while
the host at the head Of the table,
smiled benignantly upon all alike
with face as radiant as a harvest
moon.
At the close of the dinner, Mr.. Brown
gave short address, thanking his
friends for being present, and speak
ing earnestly of the pleasure he felt at
being able to have them with him in
the celebration of his birthday.
Mr.. Browns custom of entertaining
his friends has become widely known
throughout Oregon and the Pacific
States, and flood of letters had poured
in upon him this year, from widows
and bachelors living in cities hun
dreds of-miles away. Several of these
were read before the guests Saturday
afternoon.
Those present were: Mrs. Eliza
Emmons, Mrs. Lucy Robbins, Mrs.
Mary Savage, Mrs. Susan Clarkson,
Mrs. Mary Graham, Mrs. Lydia
D'Lashmutt, Mrs. V. Spencer, Mrs.
s. J. Woods, Mrs. Mary Martin, Mrs.
A. L. Wood, Mrs. Mary Guy, Mrs. Mary
Hubbard, Mrs. E. B. Vanskike, Mrs.
Mary Bricker, Mrs. Amanda Harris,
Mrs. Martha Burns, Mrs. Harriet
Hlbbard, Mrs. Julia Brown, Mrs. Eva
Palm, Mrs. Charlotte Armstrong,
Mrs. M. E. Hallock, Mrs. Anna Coad,
Mrs. Myrtle Rife, Mrs. Dollie Byerley,
Mrs. Martha Chambers, Mrs. Ollie
Cook, Mrs. Julia O'Donnell, Mrs.
Martha Cosper, Mrs. F. @. Nye, Mrs.
Nancy Kelley, Mrs. @. E. Snyder,
Mrs. Ollie McCarter, Mrs. A. J.
Hastings, Mrs. M. G. Govro, Mrs.
Edith Roland, Mrs. Ida Chorpening,
Mrs. Nancy Brown, Mrs. Alice Demp-
sey, Mrs. L. Kelly, Mrs. Jennie Gay
nor, Mrs. Sarah Richmond and Mrs.
M. J. Powell.