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Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1914-05-07
PROSPECTS BRIGHT AT
 THE FORTUNA MINE

Todd c. Woodworth spent Tuesday in Yuma, on business, from the For. tuna mine, of which he is the man. ager.
 He brought with him a handsome looking $750 bar of gold from the mine. The outlook, he reports, is splendid. and he is very enthusiastic over the development of the famous property. Five stamps are now work ing, though the capacity of the new mill is twenty stamps, and it is proba- ble that before long the mine will be working to it's full capacity.
Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1914-05-07
MAX Is WELCOMED
 BACK ID MAIN STREET

This morning marked the new open ing of the Peoples Store on Main street, reconstructed after the fire which swept it several weeks ago. A great many improvements have been inaugurated and the interior is now a beautiful shining white; everything is new and a general air of pleasant "settledness" prevails.
 The opening was quite an event and the well-known merchant, Mr. Czucz- ka, was again welcomed back to Main street by his hosts of patrons.
Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1914-05-07

our minds incredibly slack. At small battle in the state of Morelos the federals, by use of machine guns, forced the rebels to retire. The na- ture of the country made it easy for their retreat to be cut off. But the federal colonel looked at his watch.
 'It is time for dinner" he said, and told his bugler to sound Cease fire" The rebels leisurely went away.
 That kind of incident, which hap pens daily, helps to keep current the belief that federal officers do not wish to bring the war to an end. They do not take soldering seriously. At some gun trials near the capital the gener. al's daughter came forward to fire a charge; then his wife was urged to show her courage; then his son must do likewise. It was more of an after noon tea party than serious piece of military business. Naturally when guns go into action they are handled very often without any effect. At Tuxpam, in the oil district, a barge load of women and children left sud- denly one afternoon for safer spot As the the barge went down the river the federal artillery opened fire across it. Shells could be seen ex- ploding over federal positions. If the gunners did any harm at all, it was to their own side.
 The Mexican army has no army ser vice corps, no medical department to speak of. It carries no camp equip.
 ment, Do supplies. Watch a field force break camp at dawn. First there go pattering off horde of wom- en laden with pots and pans, blankets sometimes babies. These are the sol. daderas, the camp followers, the com missariat of the force That they move as quickly as they do is mir, acle. Whatever the days march may be. they are always on the camping ground before the men arrive. They rig up shelters, they cook tortillas and frijoles, they make coffee. You see them mending their husbands coats, washing their shirts, roughly tending flesh wounds. Without these soldaA deras the army could not move. While President Huerta was siezing hun dreds of men by night in the City of Mexico and other cities in order to swell his forces to 100000, he also had women pressed to go with the new soldiers and take care of them Criadas (maidesrvants) were positive " afraid to go out after dark.
 The stratagems of an active general like Villa, who is the best soldier the rebels have, are resented. He is not considered to be playing the game. In a club one day a Mexican com plained to me of the trick by which Juarez was taken as shameful" Villa seized the railway, piled his men into trains, forced the telegraph operators to announce these as frieght trains | and turned his troops out in the city | before the authorities had any suspi | cion that they were on the wa, | Shameful" my Mexican acquaintance declared. Another day I asked a Mexi | can war correspondent who had been at a small fight whether the federal loss was heavy.
 Very" he said, and then, in horri- fled tone, added: "They killed
Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1914-05-07
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4 NATURALIZATION COM
 MISSION
THE PLEDGE

Q We denounce the fatal policy
 o of indifference and neglect whic.I (
 Q has left our enormous immigrant (
 o population to become the prey ( o of chance and cupidity. ( o "We favor governmental ac- C o tion to encourage the distribu- ( o tion of immigrants away from C o the congested cities, to rigidly ( o supervise all private agencies C o dealing with them and to promote c o their assimilation, education and ( O advancement" = Progressive Ma c o tional Platform. (
Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1914-05-07
AMENDMENTS ID
 THE CONSTITUTION

WASHINGTON, D. C., May GA joint resolution, proposing amend. ments to the federal constitution to extend the right of suffrage to women and nationwide prohibition, were or dered reported today without recom- mendation by the house Judiciary committee.
Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1914-05-07

GALVESTON, May 6.-The water front here is humming with prepara- tions to embark more troops for Mexico.
 Just when the order will come is not known, but instructions have been given to the quartermaster depart ment to have the transports loaded with supplies and ready for sailing by Friday.
 The Fourth and Sixth brigades are ready at the sound of the bugle. call to break camp for Vera Cruz. The army aeroplanes have been boxed and are ready to be sent to Vera Cruz on the transports.
Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1914-05-07

WASHINGTON, D. O., May G. information came from Vera Cruz to the war department today that the Mexican federals have mined the rail. way tracks from Vera Cruz to Mexico City in preparation for the utter de struction of the road in sile event that the American forces attempt march on the capital
 No confirmation has been received of the report that the San Francisco bridge on the inter-Oceanic, railway was damaged.
 The mines are reported to be set half a mile apart and it is stated that Mexican soldiers have been detailed to touch off the fuses should hostilities eventually occur.
 These preparations, and the throw ing up of defenses which are daily making the position of the Mexican federals stronger are known to be a cource of worry to General Funston It is understood that he would welcome orders to start for the Mexican cap- ital at once
Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1914-05-07
WHERE |S HE?

Since the consumption of alcoholic liquors for the year 1913 was 23 gallons per capita, and the Editor of the Examiner drank but one bottle Of whisky, some other fellow must have consumed nearly 23 gallons for us, ol about 46 gallons in all We'd like to see that other somebody.
Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1914-05-07
FEDERALS MINE RAILROAD NEAR
 VERA CRUZ; FUNSTON WORRIED
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 O TORREON, May 6.-(Via El o o Paso)-The answer of General o O Villa to a request from Federal Q o General Maas, ycommandfhg at Q o Saltillo, that Villa join with the o O federals in averaging the Ameri- o 0 can occupation of Vera Cruz, was O O delivered to the federal messen- c o gers today Villa refused, abso- 9 o lutely to allow himself or his ( O men to become in any way associ- Q o ated with the federals. declaring Q o that the Huertatists had provok- Q o ed foreign intervention for their o o own ends. D
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Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1914-05-07
EIGHT-HOUR DAY FOR THE WOMEN IN THE DISTRICT
 OF COLUMBIA
THE PLEDGE

..."The supreme duty of the na-.
 c tion is the conservation of hu- O man resources through an en- o frightened measure of social and O industrial justice. We pledge o ourselves to work increasingly in O state and nation for the establish c ment of an eight-hour day for o women and young persons. ''- o Progressive National Platform.
Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1914-05-07
ID EXHIBIT
 AT THE FRISCO FAIR

LONDON, May 6.-The British gov. ernment will reconsider its decision not to participate in the Panama-Pa. c1fic exposition and will probably ar range to be officially represented. al though in distinctly modified form.
Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1914-05-07
SETTLE OLD DISPUTE

BOGOTA, May 6.-The treaty De tween Colombia and the United States settling the long-standing dispute over Panama, passed it's first reading in the Colombian senate today.
Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1914-05-07

WASHINGTON, D. C., May G. Instructions to the militia organiza, tions throughout the country, cover ing possible mobilization of the Ma titnal guard, was mailed to all militia officers of the war department today.
Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1914-05-07
TO MEET WITH MRS. sTILsoN
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(From Wednesdays Examiner)
 The Ladies Guild of St. PauI's church meets tomorrow afternoon at 2:30, with Mrs. J. R. Stilson, on Orange avenue.
Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1914-05-07
THE FULFILMENT

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Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1914-05-07

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 o the introduction of the Progress o sive bill, a similar measure was c passed by Congress and approved o by the President. 0 OOOOO OOOCO OOOt
Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1914-05-07

Mrs. J. c. Dunne arrived in Yuma Tuesday from Compton, California and will spend several days here.
Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1914-05-07
THE FULFILMENT

O H. R. 6210. Introduced by o Representative John I. Nolan of o California, June 20, 1913. Refer 0 red to the Committee on the Dis
 o trict of Columbia.
Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1914-05-07
From the War Zone

Dr. John W. Butler gives some inter esting news of the missionary work in Mexico in the midst of the troube there he says:
 Everywhere are seen the dreadful ef fects of the revolution. Fields are un- cultivated for lack of workers. Min ing activities are paralyzed. Articles of prime necessity have reached SC high price that our people are sui
 fering untold miseries for lack Oi money.
 ''In the state of Puebla, an old ma tive minister, Pascual Espinoza, while on his way to church one Sunday morning, was captured by a band of insurgents who demanded from him a thousand dollars. The poor preacher truthfully declared that he had not in his possession the sum named, nor the power to realize it.
 A death threat followed his announ- cement, and he was straightway marched to the edge of the town to be shot. Fortunately, some of his own church members met the procession and when the matter was explained to them, they begged the rebels to give them time to take up a collection Twentv-three dollars (Mexican silver) was the utmost that could be gathered in their poor parish. But the insur- gents accepted it, in lieu of the thous- and dollares at first demanded, and re. leased the preacher. The episode, to say the least, was a novel preparation for Sunday services.
 "On another Sunday morning, the made an attack on Atlautla, state of Mexico. Among the many vic tims were a native pastor and his family who lost everything except the clothes on their backs. They were lucky to escape with their lives.
 "Marauding bands here and there, under the guise of revolutionists, have repeatedly terrified our workers in some of the smaller towns and vii. ages, thus putting a ban on aggres- sive missionary activity.
 The resolution which resulted in he separation of church and state and the adoption of the constitution in 1857, opened wide the door of oppor. unity in Mexico. But unfortunately we were not ready to enter it. The movement which resulted in the pro- mitigation of the reform laws in the early seventies gave us still broader opportunities. But again we were ont ready to enter in a worthy manner Had we seized the chance at either ,ime, I believe there would have been such an ingathering here as the church las rarely seen
 It seems clear that another superb opportunity will soon come. Shall we 1e ready?
Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1914-05-07

Special to the Yuma Daily Examiner) '(By Southern Missionary News Bureau
 Ida Clyde Carke, Editor.)
 NASHVILLE, Tenn, May Eff l were a graduate in Medicine or destis- try or any of the professions" said a welLknown missionary leader recently q should go immediately to China 0 Japan, for the the opportunities in the Orient for western professional men are wonderful. One cannot keep abreast with the missionary move ments in those countries and not feel this need for western professional men,"
 Strange to say, the demand in the Orient for physicians, dentists and other educated men from the west has not attracted any appreciate number of our graduates to those countries as yet, but it is only a question of a short time before American students from our universities and colleges will real ize that a fortune awaits them in the awakening of the eastern world.
Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1914-05-07
Godspeed in Africa

After remaining at Luebo one week enjoying the hospitality of our Pres byterian brethren, studying the prop CT methods of mission work among the African tribes of this section of the country, drawing on the kindness of our friends to supply our lack of essentials for. opening our work, we left for Wembo-Niama on the second day of January. The parting was dramatic.
 Before we left there had gathered on the banks of the river the Presbyter ian missionaries, and a crowd of two or three hundred native Christians who had promised the Sunday before to follow us in our mission work with prayers. The fog lifted slowly from the river. The captain sounded the bell for slow, ahead" The 'Lapsley" moved away carefully. On the bank the school children of the mission be- gan to sing, Onward, Christian Sol diers," in their own language, and we in ours. Handkerchiefs. hats. caps
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1914-05-15
EARTH SHOCKS DESOLATE SICILY
WHOLE VILLAGES DESTROYED
RECALL HORRORS OF 1908.
Mount Etna 5eIches Forth Volumes Of
Lava, Claiming Nearly 200 Lives,
and Injuring Scores of People.

Catania, Sicily.-A great earthquake
Saturday night brought death and de-
struction to many villages near Mount
Etna. The number of dead is placed
at 1873, with about $50 injured. A
large part of the devastated territory
has not been inspected The affected
zone extends from Zaffarana, the
highest village on Mount Etna, to the
sea between Aci Reale on the south.
and Giarre on the north. 1t includes
Linera, the center Of the disturbance;
Pisano and Santa Nenerina. In Linera
alone 10 persons were killed and 300
injured In Bongairdo Is dead and
81 injured have been taken from the
ruins. At Consentini 10 were killed
and many injured.
These villages and many smaller
places were leveled. At Passopomo
u persons were killed, at Malati II, at
Santa Venerina 6, at Santa Tecla 2,
at Santa Maria Vergine s and at Gar
bait 4.
The entire district now represents
spectacle of desolation, ruin and
death. All train service has been
abandoned, owing to the collapse Of
bridges, broken tracks and INSTRUCTED
tunnels.
For centuries this region has suf,
tered from earthquakes owing to the
activity of Mount Etna. Yet it is thick,
| ly populated, as the land is fertile,
vineyards growing with little atten-
ton Near the central point of the
disturbance dozens OF bodies are lying
along the roads. Many were unrecog'
uizable, as they were badly crushed.
The injured lay in the open awaiting
assistance which has been sent to
| them.
The vicinity of Catania has probably
suffered more than any other section
In the world from volcanic eruptions
and earthquakes. Catania itself is
built on a bed of lava at the foot OF
the volcano of Etna, and most of its
streets are paved with lava.
Catania has a population of 100000
and is the largest city in Sicily 1t
lies to the south of Messina, on the
east coast. Ever since it's foundation
In B. c. 729 it has been visited fire.
quently by earthquakes. In 121 A. D
it was partly destroyed by an erup
ton of Mount Etna In 1859 it suffer
ed severely from an earthquake. In
1869, during an eruption of Etna, q
great stream of lava flowed toward
Catania, but in the nick of time its
course was diverted and the town was
saved In 1893, when the whole islanC
of Sicily was affected by an earth
quake, Catania was destroyed.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1914-05-15
CHAPTER XVIII.

Gloria had not been reared without
an understanding OF the various lay
ers Of society. OF those close to her
own station in life she had an intimate
and intelligent knowledge, but as she
went down the scale her acquaintance
ship grew slighter and her understand
ing more vague. The poor creatures
whom as a class Little Ella now rep
resented to her we're almost as foreign
and as misunderstood as would be a
lama OF Thibet. Having no knowledge,
she could have no real pity
Gloria had never dreamed, even
when she tried to put the worst pos
sible construction on what few things
she knew, that the world could be so
cruel, Never for an instant had she
thought that it was possible for men
whom she regarded as upright and
honorable to be engaged directly Or in
directly in exploiting vice and igno-
rance. 1t had never occurred to her
that men whom she might know, some
of them owned dreary blocks of novels
and tenements from which high rents
were secured only because the people
who lived in them were not respect
able. Poor and honest tenants could
have paid but poor and precarious
rents.
AS little Ella told her story OF the
system" at Glorias request, her voice
grew shriller and shriller as the in
diCtment grew graVer. She talked
rapidly, sometimes turning aside from
the direct channel of her revelation,
to explore some little eddy of a spe-
cific instance which made her account
a reality Gloria could have credited
something to exaggeration had it not
been that just at the moment she
thought the girl was beginning to
draw on her imagination some Incl
dent would be introduced suddenly to
make the whole thing CHASTITY real
For the first time the daughter OF
David Kerr learned Of the peddlers Of
SNOWY dresses, the vendors of cheal
perfumery, the steaIthy disseminators
of cocaine, and the many other leeches
that fattan on the unfortunate of the
underworld. She learned that all the
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1914-05-15

misery was but monument to human
greed. Nothing was exploited in
which there was not a profit of three
or four hundred per cent. Nothing
was exploited which did not tend to
kill the finer feelings, reducing the
poor victims in time to the level Of
brutes.
and the men down here Little
Ella cried, the memory of the good,
wholesome men whom she had known
in her earlier life coming back to
smite her, poor ignorant excuses fer
men. most OF email they're good fer
is to steal an lie an live off US wom-
en-. an vote the way the boss tells EN-
on lection day An who's RESPONSE
BILE fer that? say" Gloria could
make no reply, and Ella, whose pause
had been rhetorical uncouth as she
was. made answer herself Il know
The fine gentlemen what buys the
votes. An when they needs more
money fer more votes they send the
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1914-05-15
Elan Is Presented to Texas.

New York--In the presence Of about
fifty women of the Texas Club of New
York City and the officers of the bat
tleship Texas, an immense silk taft
rail flag was presented to the great
superdreadnought Wednesday The
flag, which now flies from the stern
of the Texas, was purchased by the
women of the club, and is gift from
them to the battleship which bears
the name of their home State.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1914-05-15
THE GAEATEST WHEAT CROP EVER GROWN
Yield of Winter Planting Given at
630,000,000 BusheIs-Texas Acre.
age Estimated at 100000.

Observation-Disclosures of agri-
cultures May crop report was an
nounced Friday:
The greatest crop of winter wheat
ever grown, one-fifth again as large
as the record crop grown last year
and more than half again as large as
that harvested in 1912, was indicated
by the statistics.
Winter wheat: Condition 95.9. Area
remaining to be harvested, 95,96IO0O
acres, or 1,119,000 acres less than
planted last autumn, but 3,6SS,0OO
acres more than harvested last year.
Indicated yield per acre 17.S bushels;
indicated production, 630,0O0,OO0 bush
els. Rye-Condition 93.4. Hay lands,
condition 9O.9; hay on farms, 100000
tons; pasture condition, 1873. Spring
blowing 7O.9 per cent completed;
spring planting 56.4 per cent COM
pleted.
Acreage remaining on May 1 to be
harvested, condition on May and es'
timated production by states included:
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1914-05-15
Customs Officers Take Arms.

Brownsville, TeX.-Customs Officers
Everett Arglin, Jim Batzell and Ed
Dubooe, with the assistance of Deputy
Sheriff Jesse Perez and the federal
cavalry troops stationed at Browns
vile, captured at Tabasco, ranch
about ten miles west of Mission, Is
rifles and 200 rounds of ammunition,
and 500 goats which are said to have
been struggled from Mexico
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1914-05-15

engraved card. Il am DR. Leo Brew
ster and am unable to find house on
this street from which / received
telephone call to attend an urgent
case Could ask you to direct me-"
The detectives replied that they
were sorry not to oblige. but we're too
busy hunting burglars to look for sick
people. The doctor walked briskly
on his way. Before he got far the
detectives saw man look out OF his
front door as If he might have been
expecting a doctor. They shouted al
ter Doctor Brewster. Instead OF stop
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1914-05-15
Ere Without Flame

An engineer has invented away
to have fire without fame His ap.
partus consists of porous plate or
mass of fire resisting fragments. with
in which he mixes infiammable gas
and air in the right proportions
When the gas is first turned on and
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1914-05-15

lighted it burns with flame at the
surface of the plate When the flame
is turned on the flame disappears,
but the heat increases, A tempera-
ture of $500 degrees is claimed Just
of what use this invention can be
made is yet question.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1914-05-15
potato Crop viii Be Good One.

Eagle Lake, Tex.-Potato buyers
are arriving daily and with few more
days of sunshine the potato, farmers
Will begin to dig. Everything prom
Uses bumper crop at this time.
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1914-05-15
prince Alexander to Govern Canada

London Prince Alexander of Teck,
third son of the late Duke of Teck,
will succeed the Duke of Connaught
as governor general of Canada. Of
fetal announcement was made Thurs
day
The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1914-05-15
Annarei,tiu Mot

You cannot legislate for all the ills
man is heir to-" declares an observer
OF current tendencies Blu shall we
be denied the fun Of trying to?-Prop
idence Journal.