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The Arizona sentinel., 1908-01-08

The amount of labor expended upon this crop was large for the area, especially at the transplant ting time. One days team work in preparing the land and about 32 days, mems time, were required to bring it through, al- though the work was not heavy and could have been largely performed by boys. The yield was low owing to the desert and unfer- large amounts of organic matter In the soil to give good results.
 Early Rose potatoes; .Si acres: Seed pota- toes planted Feb. l6-l9, 1906 Beginning to bloom April l3 Crop all harvested June l3. Yield, 26I5 pounds. Highest price, May 2, 3hc. Bulk of crop, 24c. All marketed in Yuma.
The Arizona sentinel., 1908-01-08
In the District Court
Of the First Judicial District. Territory of Arizona, in and
 for Yuma County.

Joseph R. Henry, Plaintiff, l Mary C. Goodwin, Victoria B. Kinsler. a minor child, James H. Kinsler and the unknown heirs of John Cos tello. deceased, Defendants
 No. 1479.
 Action brought in the District Court of the First Judicial District of the Territory of Arizona, in and for the County of Ycma, and the complaint filed in said County of Yuma in the of flee of the Clerk of said District Court.
 In the name of the Territory of Ari- zona, to Mary c. Goodwin, Victoria B. Kinsler, minor child, James H. Kins- Ter and the unknown heirs of John Costello, deceased, defendants, greet ing:
 You arc hereby summoned and re- quired to appear in an action brought against you by the above named plain tiff in the District Court of the First Judicial District of the Territory of Arizona, in and for Yuma county, and answer the complaint therein filed with the clerk of this said court, at Yuma, in said county, within twenty days after the service upon you of this sum- mons, if served in this said county, or in all other cases within thirty days thereafter, the times above mentioned being exclusive of the day of service, or judgment by default will be taken against you.
 Given under my hand and the seal of the District Court of the First Judicial District, Territory of Arizona, in and for the County of Yuma, this 23rd day of December, 1907.
 CHARLES H. UTTING,
 Seal Clerk of said District Dec25-4t Court.
The Arizona sentinel., 1908-01-08

DUMA LODGE NO. : A. O. U. w. MEETS I every Tuesday evening at o'clock. Visit fnR brethren in good standing are invited to attend. Yours in c. II. and P.
 F. l.. EWING, M w.
 ED. NAMES, R.
The Arizona sentinel., 1908-01-08
TIMELY HINTS
 FOR FARMERS.
A Lesson in Intensive Farming by R. ii. Forbes, Director and Chemist of Agricultural
 Experiment Station.
University of Arizona,
 Tl1,Iarv I5 1M.7


 Just west of Yuma, Arizona, in the alluvial f1oOd-plain of the Colorado, lies little farm Of 7.2 acres which on May l, 1905, was virgin bOttomland, covered with Saltweed, arrow brush and creOsote bushes. The original purpose of the tract was for planting selected varieties Of date palms imported by the U. <. department of Agriculture from the Old World. The Experiment station, May ?, be- gan preparing the ground, and on May 20 the work Of levelling, bordering and irrigating the tract and the planting of l52 palms, was completed.
 THE PLAN OF WORK.
 Recognizing however, that a farmer with his living to make meantime, cannot afford to wait for an orchard to come into bearing, it was planned to plant crops for quick re- turns between the tree-rOwS, thus putting the work on a feasible basis from the small farm er'S point of view. In order to econOmiZe ground the irrigating borders were so placed as to coincide with the rows of palms, thus utilizing space otherwise usually wasted. The tract was divided by the borders into lands, fer the most part one-half an acre in size. lrrigating water from the Colorado Valley P. x l. Canal was obtained in the cus- tomary manner, and k. l.. Crane, himself Yuma Valley farmer, undertook the care of what was nicknamed our play farm."
 In size, as well as in the intensive character Of the work planned, this farm" is the op- poSite of the average holdings of this locality The prevailing crops of the region are alfalfa, corn, barley, and forages in general, compara- lively little attention being given to vege- tables and fruits. Withal, the cost of levelling land in this region is high, rarely falling be- low twenty dollars an acre at current prices for labor and teams. Moreover, the cost, eX- elusive of maintenance, of the Government irrigating system now under construction will be about S3.50 an acre annually for ten years. To meet these and other heavy items of expense in connection with the establish ment of a farm in this region, intensive crops of more remunerative character than those now in vogue, are essential. It was partly, therefore, as an object lesson bearing upon these financial aspects of the general situa- tion, that this cultural work was planned.
The Arizona sentinel., 1908-01-08

q LLIANCIA HISPANO- -AMERICANO NO. A To- meets every Sunday at ElkS' hall, p. n. MANUEL MoNKoY, Pres. j. L.. REDoNDo, Secretary.
The Arizona sentinel., 1908-01-08

METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH MI Preaching every other Sunday morning at 1T o'clock and Sunday night at 7:30 by the pastor, J. M. Ocheltree. Sunday School every Sunday morning at 10 o'clock, P. T. Robertson, Superintendent.
The Arizona sentinel., 1908-01-08

TNRST BAPTIST CHURCH.-SERVICE IN on the fourth Sunday in each month at f:90 D. n. Prayer meeting on Friday night of each week. Eugene Keen, pastor in charge.
 unday Scheel every Sunday morning at 10.
The Arizona sentinel., 1908-01-08

CATHOLIC CHURCH DIRECTORY: SUN days. Mass at a n. Rosary and Bcne- diction at p. m. Week days, Mass at n. m
 Christian doctrine taught daily by the pastor tn English at S:S0a m.; In Spanish at 3:3O p. m.
The Arizona sentinel., 1908-01-08
ARIZONA SENTINEL.

PUBLISHED EVERY. WEDNESDAY YUMA, ARIZONA
 J.W. DoRRINGTON, Proprietor.
The Arizona sentinel., 1908-01-08

The labor on this crop was light but in this case time consuming. because eOfinconvenient arrangements for marketing. There were em- ployed on the crop 3l days mcn'S time; s days women and boys; and days team, not other wise included.
 The crop was fertliZed with barnyard man. urc in about three-fCurths of the hills, and, as stated above, the stand was poor The results of this acre are therefore conservative.
 Watermelons and sundry small items of produce were sold locally to the amount off, ...................... Slj. .65 Seed and irrigating water, about 200 Leaving a cash return of about. 1865
The Arizona sentinel., 1908-01-08

SV-t.OU SOZf.0
 *Not including S14.6O, failed to collect
 Until the last of June this crop eouired but little labor. During the shipping season. however, four persons were employed on about half time in picking, packing and ship ing the crop. The entire labor requirements for the crop were, mems time, S5 days; women and boys, 3S days; and team 10 days, the heaviest demand upon labor being during July Dwarf Champion and Burpees Quarter
The Arizona sentinel., 1908-01-08

The amount of labor required for the crop itself was about l5 working days. with team lH days The SeSb mia used as green manur- ing on the west half of the potato ground was given I7 irrigations. Bermuda grass, more- over, fiouriShed beneath the sesbania to such an extent as subsequently, to require 2 days, labor for cleaning up the .l5 acres so fcrtilized. Although the larger part Of the crop came. from the Sesbania fertilized portion of the pO- tatoeS, this method of cnriching the soil proved very costly, 2 days mans time and 2 days teamwork being required to put the ses- bania under and afterwards get rid of the Bermuda grass Nevertheless, the labor en- tailed could easily have been managed by a careful farmer, as the Bermuda digging was done in January when other work was not urgent.
 Tomatoes, Dwarf Champion and Burpee's. Quarter Century; .52 acres: Seed planted in cold-frame, Feb l. l9O6. Transplanted to field, March l2-lj. First ripe tomatoes, June 10. Last of marketable crop, Sept. S. Yield, first class, ll2S2 pounds; second class, salable, 2249 pounds; waste, most of which could have been canned, lSl0 pounds. Total crop of 33OO vines, l5S41 pounds or 4.6 pounds, gross, to the vine. Highest price received, 30c for a single pound on June TO- Bulk of first-c!ass crop sold during July in Tucson and BiSbee markets at 6H to 41ac f. 0. D. Yuma. Second class crop sold locally down to %.
The Arizona sentinel., 1908-01-08
RECLAMATION OF THE GROUND.


 The soil of our tract, warm, sandy loam well adapted to gardening operations, was levelled ditched and bOIdered at a contract price of $l72U an acre, considerably less than the average for the locality, reckoning the labor of men and teams at current rates. In addition, barbed wire and posts for fencing cost S60l0; lumber for headgates cost S39.57; drive well point and pipe, a pitcher-spout pump and a barrel, Sl3.45; small lumber two-room house, including five and one. half days carpenter hirc $l52.75; and bruSh-roOf shelter for horses, about $500. Only skilled labor employed in levelling, bordering and ditching the ground, and for part construc- ton of the house, is included in the above estimates, as the common labor required or dinarily would be- and in this case was, fur nshed by the farmer himself.
 To bring this ground under cultivation and make it habitable for small farmer and his family, as stated above, therefore required a cash outlay of about S400.O0. In addition, in the average instance must be included a team, wagon. blow, harrow, having equip ment, shovelS hoes and other small tools.
 CROPS AND MARKETS.
 The crops selected for the season of 1906 were Early Rose potatoes, White Bermuda onions. Rock yford cantaioupes, Dwarf Cham pion and Burpee' Quarter Century tomatoes and alfalfa, besides a few hills of watermclons and sundry vegetables.
 The produce was marketed in Yuma with the exception of tomatoes, which, for the largest part, were expressed to Tucson and BSbec. The following statements for the various crops are on the basis of net cash re- turns to the small farmer, who with aL aver age family of five and a team of horses is as- stunned to do the work required. as explained below. Items neceSSitating cash outlay, as seed. irrigating water. and crates are deducted from gross returns. Water costs an average of 10 cents for irrigation per acre for the crops grown. The yields in certain instances are low, Gue to the unimproved condition of the soil, which, like desert soils in geEor.tl, was low in nitrogen and organic matter. Some small salty areas also affected yields locally.
 White Bermuda onions; .47 acres; Seed planted Sept. 27-Oct. 3, 1905. Young onions transplanted, Feb. 59, l90G. Crop matured about June l. Yield 1916 pounds of dry on ions. Highest price received, 21@c pound; lowest price received, l.Sc pound. Entire crop marketed in Yuma
 Cash Cash
The Arizona sentinel., 1908-01-08
ARIZONA WEDNESDAY, g.,

Century yielded about equally well, both be- ing of the dwarf bushy sorts best adapted to this climate. Barnyard manure was used un- der the double rows. otherwise the ground was unfertll1zed save by the muddy irrigating water used.
 RockyfOrd cantalOupes; acre: Seed planted March 7-9, 1906. Cold, backward saason re- sulting in thin stand equal to about three fourths of an acre. Crop picked July to Sept.7. Yield 7aO dozen, sold locally at from 35c to l5c a dozen.
The Arizona sentinel., 1908-01-08
PROFESSIONAL CARDS:

nETER T. ROBERTSON, ATTORNEY AT I Law, Office in Cotter Bldg, Yuma, AriZ.
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1908-05-28
PROHIBITION IN KNOXVILLE
Eastern Tennessee City Cuts Down Drunk
enness One Half and Ruins Old
Clothes Business

KNOXVILLE, TENN, May 15-(Special CORE
spondence)-In spite of the vocferous asser-
tions that are being made all the country
in the columns of the liquor papers and of the
dailies which are under alcoholic control, con-
corning the failure of Prohibition in Knoxville,
it is manifest to every intelligent resident of the
city and highly satisfactory to all decent people,
that Prohibition in spite of the handicaps under
which it is administered here, is magnificent
success
If needs =, be remembered that Knoxville has
had Prohibition but short time, and that
large number of the former saloonkeepers
still on the ground, desperately hoping that some
miracle of the devil will be wrought in their
behalf so that their business may be resumed,
and watching every chance to violate the law. 1t
needs to be remembered also that Knoxville is
in railroad communication with the license states
and with Chattanooga only few miles away
in our own state and that all the tricks and sub
terfuges to which the express companies lend
themselves and which the federal interstate
commerce laws protect are practiced for bringing
liquor into this city
clearly as a mountain in a landscape.
First, Prohibition has reduced drunkenness in
Knoxziile substantially fifty percent
Second, The Prohibition regime is accom-
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1908-05-28

Prohibition has not only not hurt Birming-
ham, but it has helped it. There is great deal
less crime there now than has been known in
years, and the working classes are in much bet
ter condition. They are spending their money on
their families for clothing and food, instead of
in the saloons, and the families of working peo-
pie are better clothed than they were before
The price of real estate has not dropped. 1t
is as firm as ever. | presume | ought to know
something about this, as | am the second largest
holder of real estate in the district
When the saloons went out of Birmingham
few months ago, 1875 business buildings became
vacant. They are now all occupied, with posi-
bly, three or four exceptions in the suburbs.
They are filled with various lines of legitimate
business and the owners are doing well. A few
saloonkeepers may have suffered to some extent
in being deprived of their particular VOCATION
but the average business man and workingman
have been helped. I don't know of single bust
ness building in the center of the city that is
idle.
Negro labor is much more satisfactory and
profitable both to those employing it and itself
Where heretofore the negroes have worked two
or three days in week and then lain around
the negro dives the remaining four days, they
are now working steadily, and making more
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1908-05-28

But one does not have to inspect the recorders
docket to see whether or not the moral tone of
the city has been raised by the temperance laws
By simply walking through the city he may OBJ
serve the fruits of the reform movement. Not
drunkard does he meet or see, while the loafers
are few and far between since they have
hanging out place. During license times this
condition did not exist
But while the moral effect is easy to see, the
physical effect is harder to discern. This is bee
cause the recent furry appeared on the financial
horizon the very week that Knoxville became
dry town. And therefore it is impossible to prove
whether or not the few vacant store buildings
in the business district were made so from the
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1908-05-28

money and spending more. They are much
more law abiding, and the beneficent change
Prohibition has wrought among them is remark
able.
SO far as "bootlegging" is concerned, l don't
know of place in Birmingham where
can go and buy whisky There may be few
such, but there is SO much secrecy connected
with their operation that the average working
man has not time to look them up. The abol-
ton of the saloon has destroyed four-ffths Of
the whisky drinking in the district, and Birming-
ham is more orderly today than it has been in
years.
The police arrests have fallen off, l should say,
forty percent.
The panic last fall hurt Birmingham and threw
good many men out of work. just it did al
most everywhere, but Prohibition has not hurt
us 1t has helped in many ways
l was an advocate of Prohibition, and | am
entirely satisfied with what it has accomplished.
I would strongly oppose going back to the saloon,
as would every man who voted to put the saloon
out. Many who were doubtful about it have
already been converted by the good results of
Prohibition
The talk that Birmingham is sorry she drove
the saloons out and wants them back is abso->
lutely without foundation.
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1908-05-28
ATTACKING THE SUNDAY SCHOOL
Oft-Beaten Plotters Appear in Another Gum
Shoe Scheme to Get Rid of
Obnoxious Lessons

Editor of THE NATIONAL PRoHIBITIoNIsT =
The Editorial Association of Sunday School Les
son Writers adopted resolution last October,
which was not made public, so far as we have
heard until May, with the international Sunday
school convention close at hand, for June 1928,
in which they most suavely request the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union to join them in
asking the Sunday school convention to drop
all the quarterly temperance lessons, except that
for worlds temperance Sunday in November, and
substitute a conventional exhortation that teach
ers shall introduce in the regular lessons, fire.
ouent references to temperance to be suggested
by the w. C. T. U.
Those who have been many years hght1ng
to get the temperance lesson dropped and have
complained of the Women's Christian Temperance
Union and other temperance organizations for
"neddling' in this matter the very people
who would not teach temperance unless it were
most positively prescribed in the lesson schedule.
The quarterly temperance lesson is the only
general official recognition of moral reform by
the Christian Church at large, and this important
position should never be surrendered tor the
supreme reform is to enlist the church IN reform.
1t is amazing that proposition which has been
defeated in convention after convention after
thorough discussion, should be renewed, OF all
times, in this unprecedented wave of reform"
which is mostly sentiment and needs to be sup
ported by an educational campaign, if only to
offset the unparalleled educational campaign of
the liquor dealers.
Every Sunday school teacher who appreciates
the Importance of the church giving attention to.
the second great commandment, Get right with
men, as we'll as to the first great commandment,
Get right with God" and every parent of like
views should hasten to write or telegraph pro-
test against this proposal, addressed to the In
ternationa Sunday School Temperance Depart
ment. care of the International Sunday School
Convention Louisville, KY to which the proposal
of the Editorial Association should in due cour-
tesy have been sent WILBUR r. CRAFTS,
Washington D. c.
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1908-05-28

panied BY marked Improvement in municipal
finances.
Knoxville voted Prohibition March II,
1907. The policy went into effect in November
of the same year, and has, therefore, been in
force six months
The number Of arrests for drunkenness dur
ing the first week of November, 1907, fell off
thirty five percent, while the second week they
fell off fifty percent, and so on until Christmas
when that day there were seven incarcera-
tons for intoxieaton. The year previous there
had been thirty During the present year
this low average has been maintained, the follow
ing tabulated record from Recorder Nelson's
docket proving the assertion.
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1908-05-28
SALOONS AND MUNICIPAL FINANCE
How a Mississippi City Has Managed to
Exist Without Gin Mill Revenue

An interesting comparative study along the
lines that were followed in the investigation con-
corning the municipal prosperity of Illinois cities
which appeared in The National Prohibitiontst
last week, can be made in the case of the three
leading cities of the state of Mississippi Dur
ing the saloon regime which has just concluded
in that state, Meridian, Mississippi's largest city,
has for considerable time been no-license town,
while Natchez and Vicksburg, the only other
cities of the state of considerable size, have fos-
tered the saloon. The table which follows shows
clearly that while Meridian has only enjoyed
Prohibition with half chance" it has not sui
fered in its municipal finances from the absence
of saloon revenue. The figures of the table are
taken from the United States Census Bulletin As
and refer to the year 1908.
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1908-05-28
May %, 1908.
BY ERSKINE RAMSEY.

sNom Mr. Ramsey in
nof etndm % o is
holder Of BiTmmgham
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1908-05-28
PROHIBITION IN BIRMINGHAM

Second Largest Real Estate Owner in Big Southern
What No Saloon Policy Has Accomplished
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-09-05
REVIEW OF TRADE.
Less Idle Machinery and Fewer Idle
Freight Cars are Noted.

New York, Sept. 5.-R. G. Dun a
Co.'S Review of Trade says:
The steady decrease in percentage
of idle machinery and number of idle
freight cars swells the amount Of
money distributed among wage earn.
ers and gradually increases the vol
ume of retail trade. AS stocks of
merchandise in the stores of retailers
become depleted there is more con-
fidence regarding the future and con-
tracts are made covering deliveries
up TO the end of the year, but con-
seryatism still dominates the situation
and many plans will not materialize
into anything tangible until the eiec-
ton uncertainty is removed.
Cotto. mills still curtail output. but
other leading manufacturing indus
tries are gradually increasing output
and the fortnightly statement of idle
freight cars shows a decrease. LA
bilities OF commercial failures in Aug
ust would have compared favorably
with those OF the same month last
year but for three large suspensions.
one of which was speculative and had
no effect on legitimate business.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-09-05
Her superb pisdsIn.

But there was one young woman in
the box party at the theater who took
no part in the noisy chatter and
giggle.
With her gaze fixed upon the stage
she watched tn progress OF the play,
Indifferent to the gayeiy around her,
except that her delicate, aristocratic,
finely chisled features bore look of
woariness, and a scronful smile curved
her lips.
At last, however, she turned her
head slowly and looked at the other
members OF the party.
Then she spoke to the elderly ma
tron sitting by her side.
THAT girl in the blue kimona," she
said, thinks she's the whole custard!"
Chicago Tribune.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-09-05
Holy Synod Shows RIaotrx.

81. Petersburg. Sept. 5.-The holy
synod has addressed an appeal to all
believers not to participate in the
celebrations next Wednesday in honor
of Count Leo Tolstois S0th birthday,
on the ground that honor rendered an
opponent of the church would be a
mighty stumbling block to youth. The
encyclical is marked for it's bitter Ian
guage: "Tolstoi denied the Savior
and backslid from the church." It says.
Since 1901 he has ranked among the
pagans. Believers must abstain from
honoring such man in order to save
their souls from the judgment OF
God"