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Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1913-04-24
ONLY GIRLS

There was a fire the other day ir Pearl street, New York-the Pear street that lines New York's water front where ancient buildings now serve as emigrant houses. German Italian and Irish girls, just landed watched with silent terror their first view of strange land. Across the narrow lane an old six-story perfume factory burned like torch, the tre mendous heat generated from flaming fats blistering the opposite house walls Strangling fumes and clouds of acrid saffron smoke belched from the win. dows as drugs exploded with heavy detonations.
 "They say it is one or the most dangerous factories in ail New York Hannah told Gretzel. The girl strangers drew together in their fright and loneliness.
 And they say more than a hundred work in that awful place and they are there now," Yetta moaned to Han nah. Poor men, poor men," The fire roared on. Three alarms had summoned all the apparatus south of Fourteenth street. A giant water tower vibrated beside the Maritime building. A squadron of fire boats lying at the Battery hurled ami hilating streams of salt water across an eighth of mile The boom of a rending ammonia tank summoned the Red Cross corps with their pulmotor. Horses, stung to madness by the over towering vapors. struggled and trampled to escape. Bremen worked in relays, held off by an invisible bar rier of odors. N
 High up in the doomed building, above the ether reek and the belching smoke, patrolmen from Old Ship sta ton guided imprisoned workers to safety. In the haze their dim figures could be discerned, creeping, creeping along the giddy ramparts.
 "The Lord protect them Oh, the poor men, the poor men," sobbed Han nah and Yetta and Gretzel.
 A panting fireman turned. Them ain't men," he gasped No men work ed in that fire trap-only girls
 A loud roar of exploding chemicals cracked the walls of the gutted build ing. But Hannah and Yetta and Gret gel stared, wild-eyed and unhearing, into the face of fear For they had learned in a word the heart-gripping fact that the workers in the most dan gerous factories of their land-of-prom- ise are ONLY GIRLS.
Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1913-04-24
MINERAL LANDS WITH
 DRAWN

Under authority of the withdrawal act of June 25, 1910, the United States Geological Survey during the fiscal year 1912 recommended the ex- ecutive withdrawal of more than one and one-third million acres of oil re- serves and almost one and one-fifth million acres of phosphate reserves, based on geologic data; of more than one-third million acres of water-power sites and 60,000 acres of irrigation, reservoir sites, based on Photographic and topographic surveys; and of S6,- 900 acres of public-water reserves es- sential to the control of public graz ing lands.
 The areas of these outstanding with drawals are approximately four and threefourths million acres of public lands, chiefly valuable for oil and gas, three and one-third million acres of phosphate lands, more than one ana four-fifths million acres of lands es sential to water-power development, nearly one hundred thousand acres primarily valuable for irrigation stor- age, and S6,000 acres of lands, includ- ing springs or other watering places, unrestricted access to which, by the public, is essential in connection with the free use of the public range. The areas thus described as withdrawn, however, include tracts of privately owned land, which are in reality unaf- fected by the orders of withdrawal, al though located in the larger legal sub- divisions enumerated in those orders From 33d Annual Report, Director Geological Survey.
Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1913-04-24
A WIDE-oPEN TREASURY

A bill appropriating $1S,000 for the salaries of the land commissioners, S4,800 for their chief clerk AND AS MUCH MORE AS IS NECESSARY FOR OFFICE AND TRAVELLING FIX PENSES is being considered by the legislature. This bill throws the state treasury wide open to the commission. Under such law, they could take junketing trips without end at the ex- pense of the taxpayers. The capacity of the present state officials to take advantage of such a golden Opportuni- ty is shown by the recent junketing trips by members of the corporation, tax and land commissions.
 The legislature could cut down to a great extent the salary and expense> of the land commission by making it consist of one land commissioner, the governor and the auditor or attorney general. At the rate the commission has been selecting lands, the expense of the selection will be too large a percentage of the value of the lands Tucson Citizen.
Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1913-04-24
JAMES KIRK LEAVES CANANEA FOR THE
 COAST
HE HAS BROUGHT MINING COM. PANY TO A HIGH STATE OF
 EFFICIENCY

TUCSON, April 20.-James Kirk, who has occupied the position of mine superintendent for the Greene com pany and later for the Greene-Cananea company, practically ever since there was a Cananea, has left the Mexican camp, having resigned his position. MT. Kirk left Tuesday, with his fam fly, for California, where he will re- side in the future, having extensive interests in the coast state.
 MT. Kirk, who was largely responsi- ble for bringing the mining operations of his company to the high state of efficiency which has marked it, under the management of Dr. l.. D. RicKetrs, recently resigned his position, being succeeded by George Kingdom, of Globe.
 While MT. Kirk will reside on the coast, he is still largely interested in the mining districts of northern Sonora, and will make frequent trips to Arizona and Cananea The knowl edge that even though lost as a res ident, his well-liked personality will not be entirely lost, is pleasing to his many friends.
Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1913-04-24
JEWS OBSERVE PASSOVER

The celebration ofthe Hebrew Feast of Pesach, of the Passover, was begun at sunset Monday evening by the Jew ish people of Yuma and elsewhere The celebration continues for eight days, though only the first two days and the last two are of special inter- est and import to the orthodox Jews, while with those who have accepted the modern, or reform dispensation, the first and the last day are the only observed.
 The passover, which is also known as the Feast of the Unleaven Bread, was instituted to commemorate the departure of the Children of Israel from Egypt, under the leadership of Moses, where they had been held in bondage for upward of 400 years. There are many ancient customs ob- served by the Jewish people in con- nection with the Passover.
 The chief feature of the celebra- ton, however, is the substitution of matzos, or unleaven cakes, prepared for the purpose, for bread, in the household of the orthodox Jews.
Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1913-04-24
HAVE NARROW ESCAPE FROM INJURIES ON
 ELEVATOR
ELEVATOR FELL FROM TOP TO CELLAR, sPLINTERINo
 THE WOODWORK

DOUGLAS, April 20.-When the elevator in the shipping department of the Phelps-Dodge store was dashed ] from the ceiling to the bottom of the celler, Earl Hansen, elevator boy and Mexican named Simon, had an al most miraculous escape from death.
 Hansen was taking the elevator from the shipping room up stairs, hav- ing it loaded with about 1000 pounds of lard Simon, the Mexican, had a truck loaded with merchandise, and was also in the elevator. When Han sen was within several inches of thu top floor, the Mexican started to push the truck out, thinking the elevator had stopped. When he discovered his mistake he endeavored to pull the truck back in and in doing so pushed Hansen off. The young man fell to the floor, several feet below, but sus- tained no injuries.
 The elevator, with no one to guide it, kept creeping upward and when it reached the top the electricity gave out, sending it dashing toward the eel lar with terrific force, knocking Simon out and splintering the wood work and bending the iron rods on it. That the two men were not killed or severely injured was miracle, but as it is they are merely suffering a few bruises and scratches.
Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1913-04-24
REGISTER! REGISTER!

The women of Yuma must register if they expect to vote. The registration books will be open until May 1, and then will be closed for a year. The women must go to the office of the county recorder. on Second avenue, and have their names entered on the great register. They must have lived in the state one year and in the pre- cinct t,srty days. They must be able to read and write.
 It is the duty of the women to reg ister and they do so in order to show that they appreciate the right of fran chise conferred on them.
 Talk about there being nothing to vote for is not true. There is certain to be a special election, and possibly two, before the next general election. The women want to be prepare vote at any election and they can net vote if they are not registered. Reg istering now will make it unnecessary for them to register again unless they move into new precinct.
 About 200 have registered thus far out of possible 1000 in Yuma county
Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1913-04-24
MOTION PICTURES AND UPLIF7

| No surprise is justified because of the fact that friendly pressure is be ing brought to bear upon influential
 makers of films for motion pictures. When a vast and far-reaching educa- tiOnal agency comes into being, as it
 were like a gourd springing up at night, and begins to inform, influence
 and amuse millions of spectators,
 adult and juvenile, educated and ig-
 norant, rich and poor, it is natural that people with sense of social re- sponsibility and civic duty should make it their business to insist upon appli cation of standards of conscience to
 the new form of business. In nations and in cities where this vigilance has
 been shown, good results have follow
 ed. Where vigilance has been lack ing, new evidence has accumulated showing the need of parity of growth of conscience with mans inventive genius and exploiting of recreation.
 Censorship of motion-picture films has gone on in the United States to degree that is creditable compared with the record of other lands; but some thing still needs to be done. Even local managers who have discretionary control over their films, and who care fully exclude the immoral and immoral, often fail to see that they lend them selves to undue concentration of the spectators thoughts on crime or violence of one kind or another. In
 stances might be multiplied of the idea involved, namely, that for ends that are ethical and educational it is far better to emphasize the con- structive than the destructive, the normal rather than the abnormal, the abiding than the passing concerns of contemporary experience. Where managers realize this, they win a patronage that is constant, that is quite prepared to pay any reasonable cost of instruction and entertainment and that is likely to leave the theatre in mood to advertise the favors re ceived.-Christian Science Monitor.
Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1913-04-24
TOMBSTONE MAN WHO FLED WITH
 BABE EFROM COAST, RELATESEP|s0DE

TOMBSTONE, April 22-Ray Swain, former Tombstoner, arrived here from Los Angeles, bringing with him his S-month-old boy-a chubby and happy youngster-the little fellow be- ing entirely oblivious to the fact that his presence in Arizona has caused quite a'stir and storm of objection from Los Angeles.
 The Los Angeles papers are printing sensational accounts of the so-called Kidnapping of the Swain baby by it's father, and while the officials of that city are trying to locate his where abouts, Papa Swain and his chubby baby are snugly located in Tombstone at the home of his mother, and the baby receiving every care and atten- ton.
Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1913-04-24

I'm not trying to hide from any one," said Mr. Swain. "I feel the statements printed in the Los Angeles papers do me great injustice, but l will not complain and must bear it. was not permitted to see my son, and any rights I might have, or those vouchsafed by court orders, were ig- nored. 1 was obliged to resort to some means of relief and I took my son with me. If I am assured that I can see my son at any reasonable time, will bring him back; otherwise, I will re- main here and fight to the end"
 MT. and Mrs. Swain have been sep arated for some time, and the present continuation grew out of a domestic misunderstanding that found it's way into the courts. Friends in Los An geles and Tombstone are hopeful that reconciliation may be effected.
Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1913-04-24
BATTLE BETWEEN STATE AND
 FEDERAL TROOPS AT GUAYMAS
BULLETS STRIKE NEAR RAILRoA EMPALME, NO AMERICANS ARE REPORTED WOUNDED FORCES ARE WELL ENTRENcHED AND GUARD APPROACH STATE TROOPS EXPECT IMPROVEMENTS

GUAYMAS, Son., Mex, April 20.- Fighting is in progress between the state troops and the federal garrison at Guaymas. The federal garrison numbers 600, the state troops 1000 or more. The battle began Friday evening. lasted all night and slacken- ed Saturday morning, though inter mittent firing is progress all day. The state troops are looking for large re- Inducements from Hermosillo before nightfall.
 Friday nights battle was fought across the narrow part of the bay at a range of about 250 yards. Machine guns and rifles were used. The fed erals lost eight and an unknown num- Der wounded. The casualty list of the state troops is not known. Bullets
Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1913-04-24

struck freely about the Southern Pa cific of Mexico hospital and at other places in Empalme, but no Americans are reported injured
 The fighting Saturday occurred in two places. One was at the bridge known as "A. between Guaymas and Empalme. Federals held one end of the bridge and the state troops the other. The other center of conflict was at local point known as Plea mas. Casualties are not stated. Wires are down south of Empalme.
 Both forces are we'll entrenched and all avenues of approach are carefully guarded.
 Guaymas is under martial law, and none are permitted to leave or entor the city.
Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1913-04-24
ANOTHER GOLD-M|N|NG FAKE
 HAS BEEN EXPLODED

Special to The Yuma Daily Examiner
 WASHINGTON, D. O., April 21.- During the past winter there have been persistent reports of the discov- cry of gold and other valuable ores in the vicinity of Albion, Pushmataha county, Oklahoma, some finds being reported as exceeding $60 a ton and some even as approaching value of $500 a ton. It has been known in the Interior Department that several min ing companies" have been, or are being, organized on the basis of these as- sertions and that many persons have been induced to invest in this stock. The excitement produced by the al legged rich values has resulted in re- quests for an authoritative examina- tion of the lands and the temporary suspension of the Sales of the tracts of Indian lands on or near which the supposed finds were located. Although from its general knowledge of the geol- ogy of the region the Geological Sur vey reported that there is no likelihood that the area contains commercial quantities of gold, the reports and the demands were so persistent that by direction of the Secretary of the In
 terior a field examination was made last month by Henry G. Ferguson, as- sociate geologist of the Survey. Mr.
Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1913-04-24
MARKS OF CARNAGE
 ERASED FROM NACO

WACO, Arizona, April 20.-Nearly all the traces of carnage and war have been cleared away from this place The last of the dead bodies and car casses of animals were burned today The entrenchments are being torn down, the pits filled up, and within a few days school will be reopened There is also general cooperation in repairing the damages on the homes of people who suffered by the re cent battle.
Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1913-04-24
UP TO THE GOVERNOR

Secretary Alexander of the Commer- cial Club received a telegram this afternoon from Representative Moore house of the California legislature, verifying the news that Yuma's bridge bill now only needs the signature of Governor Johnson. Little by little, the obstacles are removed and Yuma will soon have a highway bridge to cost not less than $75,OOO-this amount to be divided equally between the states of Arizona and California and the national government.
Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1913-04-24
SALE OF BABIES


 supervision and inspection of private maternity institutions and founding homes are among the remedial meas. ureS planned by the Curran legislative Investigating committee for the pro- tection of the hundreds of mothers yearly deprived of their babies in the institutions in Chicago and vicinity, says the Chicago Examiner. Appalling conditions have been found to exist in the maternity hos fpitals and foundling homes by the leg islative committee. Infants are put up for sale and sometimes even bought before they are born in order to pay for the mothers meoical attention dur ing confinement.
 The mothers are powerless to inter fere in the transaction. No record is kept of the children and it is seldom that the mother sees her child after it's birth. The transaction is often carried on in contract form, and if the child is crippled at birth, and therefore unstable, the mother contracts to pay the hospital authorities for her care and for the care of the child. Representative Thomas Curran, chairman of the Investigating commit tee, has already started the work of drawing a bill which will provide for state maternity hospital, where both mothers and children can receive the proper care.
 "The conditions in Chicago are even worse than people generally think, Jaid MT. Curran last night. "There are scores of institutions in this city where helpless women sell their children be fore they are born. The infants are born. The infants are disposed of at a profit by the hospital authorities and in many cases no record of where the children are placed is kept"
 One contract was secured yesterday afternoon at the Anna Ross Sanitarium, 1900 South Kedzie avenue, conducted by w. F. Briney, NJ. D., who is also the superintendent of the Sunday School of the Douglas Park Christian church. The contract provides for a certain sum to be paid to Dr. Briney; that the mother is to stay with the child as long as desired, and that '1n case my child is born cripple, pre- maturely born or suffering from the results of disease, that will reimburse Dr. w. F. Briney for all actual eX- pense for caring for said child"
 Our results will show for them selves when we are through" said Rep resentative Curran. Several witnesses are to be called before the committee to tell what they know concerning the birth of children in these institutions, and of their disposal"
 At the Union Park Maternity Hos pital-visited by the committee-five young women were found. At the Ger trude Plenz institution, 3155 South Hal sted street, it was declared that no business had been transacted for the last six months.
 At the Union Park Maternity Hos pital there was one case of a girl from Indiana, only eighteen years old, who was about to become the mother of a child. She told the investigators that she knew the name of the father of the child, and that he lived in a small Indiana town.
 When speaking of the National Ma ternity Hospital, 1426 Wells street, of which Dr. S. D. Rogers is the head MT. Curran said: We found condi- tions such that Dr. Rogers has been summoned to appear before the con- mission Friday"
Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1913-04-24
OPINIONS RENDERED

County Attorney F. L. Ingraham has received from Attorney General George Purdy Bullard, in the Hess recall matter, from which he deducts the following conclusions:
 1. It is not necessary that each signer be registered; it is enough if he is a qualified voter.
 ?. If the signer fails to give the date of his signing or the place of residence this does not make his sig nature invalid.
 3. Variations between the sigma. ture on the petition and the signature upon the county register do not in- validate the signature.
 4. It is not necessary to be exact in naming the title of the office; it is sufficient if made clear to ordinary intelligence which officer is referred to.
 5. Even if the signer's name ap- pears upon the county register, he may be rejected if it is shown that he is not a qualified elector The Board should hear evidence on this question.
 6. The signers may use ditto marks to indicate dates and places of resi- dence.
 '. The proponents of a recall peti- tion may continue to file further sheets of such petition even after the Board of Supervisors has begun the ehecking up of names on the petition.
Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1913-04-24
TELEGRAMS EXCHANGED
 ON SUBJECT

and that least of all do they desire to do anything that might impair the treaty obligations or cast a doubt upon the honor and good faith of the nation and it's government.
 q, therefore, appeal with the utmost confidence to the people, the governor and the legislature of California to act in the matter now under consideration in a manner that can not from any point of view be fairly challenged or called in question:.
 May Follow Previous Laws
 "If they deem it necessary to ex- clude all aliens who have not declared their intentions to become citizens from the privilege of land ownership, they can do so along lines already followed in the laws of many of the other states and of many foreign coun- tries, including Japan herself.
 'Insidious discrimination will inev- itably draw in question the treaty ob- legations of the United States. reg ister my very earnest and very re- spectful protest against the discrim- ination in this case, not only because I deem it my duty to do so as the chief executive of the nation, but also, and the more readily, because I be lieye the people and the legislature of California will generously respond the moment the matter is presented to them as a question of national policy and national honor. If they have ignored this principle of view, it is, am sure, because they did not realize what and how much was in volved."
 The California Democratic con- gressional delegation, consisting of Representative Kittner, Raker and Church, called on the president about appointments today, but MT. Wilson deferred that subject and immediately took up the alien land situation.
 ImpeIIed by Duty
 He told his visitors that he had no desire to seem to be in any way encroaching upon the sovereign right of California to legislate as she pleased but that he felt it was his duty to call the attention of the lead CTS in the state to the international question involved.
 Congressman Raker told the presi- dent that if his course in appealing to the legislature proved futile, it's in fluence might be to cause the sub of any law passed to a refer endum. Tn president is said to be confident that the people of California if they had an opportunity to vote on the measure would not approve a law which the federal government pointed out was in violation of the treaty obligations.
 Today's telegram to Governor John son, which was duplicated to the president of the senate and the speak CT of the house of assembly, was care fully considered by Secretary Bryan and members of the cabinet yester day The whole question was debated again today at the cabinet meeting. l
Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1913-04-24
INK SLINGS

A lot of men get credit for firmness when they are entitled to no more than reputation for pigheadedness.
 Don't forget that the man who can but doesn't must give place to the man who can't but tries.
 If you don't believe in luck, how do people?
 Some men are like typewriter rib bons They give out only what is pounded into them.-Printer's Ink.
Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1913-04-24
MAIL MATTER WILL BE
 RECEIVED THROUGH PORTS
The Mexican Herald says:

The Mexican Herald says:
 Mails from Europe are now being received via Salina Cruz, due to the railway communication from the north having been cut by the rebels, thus retarding the regular running of the trains The administrator of the post office hopes shortly to receive large consignment of mail matter through Vera Cruz, or one of the other Mexican ports."