Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1912-11-21
A BOOST FROM THE LOS ANGELES
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 Yuma awoke early this morning with } bang, for the siphon celebration. By ery engine that could whistle ana hose that could only shriek started blowing at dawn and kept at it untl he day blew up. Yuma was glad and lid nots care who knew it. After shrieking sirens, changing bells and throbbing drums had frazzled the ele- nents beyond recognition, shotguns md loaded anvils fired long salute lf bowling joy. AS a result the dim horizon was rolled back another thOll sand leagues against the portals of the stars, to give Yuma room in which tc elebrate and grow. They are to have our days of this, providing anybody urvives. All the carnival amusements
 re in the center of Main street, strung
 long like the tents of an Arab army Traffic may be blocked and be blowed
 ity Marshal Levy has run away witt he lid, and Sheriff Greenleaf wont )ring him back as long as the picnlt asts.'
 Plenty of water flows through 2 .ich and grateful valley, but the healtf )f siphon is not to be drunk ill wa ,er and nobody is breaking the rule. \ siphon, however, with perfect propri- ,ty. may be drowned in eloquence, and Governor George w. P. Hunt of Ari- zona and Lieutenant Governor Wallace of California certainly turned the men al spigot and let the language cloud burst through. For all the spirit ot car lival and boundless good cheer per heating the atmosphere, dignity, so- lemnity and depth on depth of feeling marked the beautiful ceremony. The cheering thousands greeted the band IS it entered the picturesque Reclama- tion Service grounds playing "The Star Spangled Banner" and immediately preceding the auto occupied by Gov. ernor Hunt, Lieutenant Governor Wal lace, Dr. J. A. Ketcherside, Dr. H. V. Clymer, and others of the local commit tee.
 Attorney c. E. Lindemann presided with every grace of the chair and in troduced Earl B. Smith to welcome he thousands of visitors, in behalf of he valley, following a grateful and uplifting invocation by the Right Rev. J. w. Atwood, bishop of the Episcopal diocese of Arizona, who accompanied Gov. Hunt, Secretary Mulford Win son and other state dignitaries from Phoenix. In behalf of California the greeting extended by Lieutenant Gov ernor Wallace was gracious and pro- phetic. He foreshadowed that day when Yuma will have direct railroad and a dredged river or a deep canal to the Gulf of California and urged the farmers to keep their land because it is wealth.
 The influx of Slays and of Italians certain to arrive when the tide of immigration set in by way of the Pan- anna Canal, he described as something to be welcomed since the ideal of each of them is to own and cultivate few good acres. Governor Hunt said that the government, through this project, has entered into close partnership with the people subscribing the power of the state to the brawn of the communi- ty and in return has added a thousand rich farms to the bulwark of it's struc- ture and protection.
 In behalf of the members of the Yuma Commercial Club and the peO- pie of Bard and of the Yuma and Gila valleys, J. H. Westover, editor of the Morning Sun, with the eloquence of the old Kentucky school of oratory, presented Francis l.. Sellew, chief en- gineer of the project since it's incep- tion, with an elaborate silver service in a rosewood chest.
 Sellew's seven-year fight with the Colorado river has required the genius