Arizona republican., 1910-01-29

largest tribe, numbering from 16,00,
 to 10000 for whom. at the time W,
 commenced. no religious work hat been done. Their reservation is ir
 northeastern Arizona and northwest.
 ern New Mexico. It was decided tc
 establish hospital for the sake of q
 mission. Care of their bodies would
 give us an opportunity to care for
 their souls. The hospital would be
 an object lesson to the Indians of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. They would
 see that We came to them for their
 good. not for our greed. The In- dians gave the land. well situated
 fiance. the Navajo Indian agency,
 and thirty miles from Gallup. the
 nearest railroad town. Miss Eliza w. Thackara was appointed superintend-
 ent and everything was given into her hands. And she has done every
 thing. The whole care and responsi- bility have rested on her. Others have helped. but she has managed. i The work has grown in extent and
 usefulness from year to year. Build 1 ings have been added as they have
 been needed and as funds were found
 Always on the verge of nervous col lapse, Miss Thackara has gone
 through with all wonderfully well.
 The present bishop of New Mexico and Arizona, on his way to his field.
 received plenty Of -advice not to go into the school business. The east,
 he was told. would build no more
 schools for the west. He has fol-
 lowed this advice. But it was nec-
 essary to go into the hospital busi-
 ness. Many of our towns are health
 resorts. Sick people come to us from
 all parts of the country. The church
 must do its share of the work of caring for them. The Rev. Julius w.
 Atwood. rector of Trinity church.
 Phoenix. has done this for Arizona. He has established at Phoenix. St Lulie's home for the treatment of tu- berculosis. It is intended for persons of small means. and for persons of no means at all. as far q. contribu- tons permit. Funds have been raised outside the territory and district. which was proper. as these> sick peo- CReprinted in Part From the January
 Number Of the Churchman)
 Something should be said by way
  covery of Arizona and the early Jes- uit and Franciscan missionaries.
 The first European who saw Ari- zona-if we may believe the story. | and there is no other story to be- ! lieve-was Alvar NuneZ 1CabaZa de 1 Vaca), who came in 1340. or there abouts. all the way from Florida. He had been given mp as lost by his companions. who were Spaniards from 1 Cuba in search of the Fountain of Life. He travelled a long way. and | had hard time. He saw New Mex ico. probably. and the pueblos of Zuni and Moqui. and the San Fran cisco mountains. and the Gila river. near where Phoenix now is. and after a most romantic journey made his way to Mexico And Coronado must | be mentioned. who led the first mili- tary expedition. and passed through in the neighbOrhood of Tucson. An able soldier he must have been. but very greedy of gold, as the rest of them were except the priests. After Coronado. the Span iards seem to have chosen the Rio Grande route. where there was plenty of water Padre Marco de Niza was the pioneer of the cross in Arizona. He came after Alvar NuneZ and be- fore Coronado. He reached the Moqui Indians. who through no fault of his. received him with hostility. For more than century. then. nothing was attempted by anyone in Arizona In 1886. two Jesuit missionaries came. md this was the beginning of some thing permanent The mission of San Xavier del Bac was founded. near what is now Tucson. In 1720 there were nine prosperous missions. These mainly of Pima Indians. who .ook the name of Papagos when they were converted. and so they are called to this day. belonging to the Roman church, as their ancestors did. In l165, the Jesuits were expelled rom Spain and her colonies, and the came to Arizona. It is : 1ot necessary to follow further the history of the Roman occupation. These Jesuits and F'ranciscans deserve ,ur praise It is doubtful if anyone ' ,lse could have done more than they ( lid with the material that they had. ( n New Mexico. they endured martyr Iom rather than abandon their mis-
 lDnS. We, WHO tTt lllillSttflut, III olerable comfort and perfect security l where these early missionaries were {; eady to die for their faith, should ( ,e sympathetic and charitable.
 By the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, | n lS47, at the close of the Mexican a rar, Arizona north of the Gila river c yas ceded by the republic of Mexico T Q the United States. The name by ! 1hich it was then known was Pi- l. neria Alta There was not single t rhite man from the Gila to the Utah | and from the Colorado to he present eastern boundary. In S54, the United States acquired from II lexico by the Gadsden purchase that h art of Arizona that is to the south s f the Gila river. We hoped to ac- c uire by this purchase the control of he Gulf of California. but failed. h ither by the indifference of congress