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Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1915-02-04
CALEX|CO CUSTOMS IN I9I4
 BEATS SAN DIEGO BY MILLION
The Calexico Chronicle

The Calexico Chronicle says:
 For the twelve months end ing December 31, 1914, $1,- 662, ,865 in exports and i'm ports passed through the local customs house, exceeding San Diego'S office by $1, ,109,- All, and being exceeded only by Los Angeles, that port have $4, 43O, ,117 credited, and the importance of the CaleXi- co office is accentuated when Los Angeles steamship con- nections with the west coast of Mexico are considered. Imports from Mexica during 1914 amounted to $1, ,592, ,791; S1,239,865 of this passed thorugh the port of Calexico, the bulk of which was cot ton, amounting to $631,994 and cattle, $237,651.
 San Diegos customs business for
Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1915-02-04
; . . . O O . O O O O O O O v O y ADVERTISING TO ) CREATE SENTIMENT ) o 0 0 o o 0 o 0 o o o O o o

A certain municipal rapid transit company enjoyed that generous posi- tion of unpopularity usually falling to the lot of the American street aril. way.
 The most popular thing politician could do was to attack this railway.
 It was hammered on all sides, and as a result many unjust burdens were imposed on it.
 The managers of the railway de cided to take the public into it's con- fidence.
 It began a newspaper campaign showing up the unfair taxes it was compelled to bear and how these bur dens were impairing service.
 The result has been a better public sentiment, the relieving of the com pany from many of it's difficulties, and improved transit services for the peo- pie.
 Advertising in the newspapers was one of the best investments this com pany ever made.
Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1915-02-04
GOOD RECORD MADE
 AT JORDAN SCHOOL

Following is a report of the Jordan school for the month ending February ?, 1915: Number of days taught, 13; whole number of days attendance 2S; whole number of days absence p; whole number of days tardiness 12; number of boys enrolled, 12; number of girls enrolled, 12.
 Those awarded the prize cards were: First grade, Gordon McInnis ,ow second, Ted Kent; high second Willie Bishop; third grade, Johnny Sturges; fifth grade, Bernard Bishop; sixth grade, Georgia Kent and Bryan McInnis; low eighth grade, Frank J Elliott; high eighth, Edward Sturges
 MRS. A. D. HANSBERGER,
 Teacher
Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1915-02-04
HOW ID LIVE
 ONE HUNDRED YEARS
THIS IS THE NAME OF A NEW BOOK BY EUGENE CHRIS
 THAN, F. s. D.

Eugene Christian, F. s. D., the worlds greatest Food Scientist, has just published a new book called How to Live 100 Years"
 This book tells you what to eat according to your age, your work and the time of the year. It teaches you how to select, how to combine and so as to establish perfect digestion and assimilation of food and perfect elimination of waste. In other words, 1t teaches you how to cure all stomach and intestinal disorders by removing their causes, which is wrong eating.
 If you have indigestion, gas, fermen- tation, sour stomach or any such dis orders after meal, this book tells you how to put the remedy on your table at the next meal.
 Dr. Christian shows that all animals bow to proportion your food at meals except man live about eight times as ,ong as it takes them to get their growth. If man should do this he would live nearly 200 years; but civi- lized man dies at the average age of 39. He begins to lose his teeth, his eyes and his hair, and drops into his grave only few years after he is grown.
 Dr. Christian shows that g per cent of all the human beings born into the world die before they are one year old. Twenty-Five per cent more die before their fifth birthday, and more than half of the human race die before they are twenty-five.
 All other animals on the globe live eight times as long as it takes them to get their growth. Man breathes the same air, drinks the same water, lives under the same sunshine, but differs from his brother animals only in his eating, therefore Dr. Christian shows conclusively that this appalling discrepancy must be on account oi his eating habits and he has proved that his theory is true by curing over 23000 people within the past ten years by teaching them what to eat and how to eat How to Live 100 Years, gives the secret of his methods.
 This book does not disarrange ol upset the family table. It teaches the housewife what foods the meal should be composed of, so as to make them chemically harmonious and perfectly digestible and healthy.
 This book is beautifully bound in velum, and gold lettered. Send one dollar to Dr. Eugene Christian, 213 West 79th Street, New York City, and you will receive this life-saving book by return mail, and if it ia not worth it's weight in gold your money will be promptly refunded to you.
Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1915-02-04
CHICAGO MAYORAuTY FIGHT |S
 GETTING GHOT; POLITICIANS DIVIDED

is looked upon as the leading candi- date for the head of the Republican ticket. He has been indorSed by many of the leaders of the Progress sive party and several of the Repub- lican and independent candidates have withdrawn in his favor. Unless pres ent signs are misleading, Judge Olson stands the best chance of opposing the Democratic candidate for the mayoralty at the April election.
 Opposing Judge Olson for the Re publican nomination is William Hale Thompson, who for several years has been a more or less conspicuous figure in Chicago politics. Thompson is a former famed football player and an eX-member of the board of aldermen. He is known as a fighter and can pc counted upon to add spice to the mayOralty campaign. The two chief blanks in his personal platform are, Drive the crooks out of town and Improve the street car service"
 According to political history, Chi cago is a Democratic city, and un- doubtedly would follow it's precedents this year were it not for the nany different factions created by the bosses in their wild scramble for the nominations. AS the matter now stands, however, guessing on the re suits of the election is as uncertain as the turn of a coin.
 The conditions that have created this uncertainty is a usually loyal Democratic city are due to acrimoni- ous disputes among both the Republi- can and Democratic bosses, in which the national and state party Organi- zations are involved to some extent, as well as tie city machines. !
 The political enmity existing be- tween the so-called Harrison crowd and the Democratic opposition is of the bitterest kind. The opposition charges the Harrison administration of being guilty of the grossest extrav- agance and inefticiency. The mayor in addition is accused of being disloyal to the Democratic party in the state and nation Mr. Harrison has retalia- ted with bitter personalities anu charges against those opposed to him
 This bitter party warfare in th, Democratic ranks has resulted in 6 split that might reasonably be ex pected to give victory to the Repub iicans, were it not for the fact that the latter are themselves divided. With a full realization of the situation the old wheel-horses of the Republican party are eXerting themselves to the utmost to bring about harmony in the ranks and to conci.iate those who joined the Progressive party severai years ago and lately have manifested a disposition to return to the Reput lican fold.
Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1915-02-04

1914 totaled $553,394, and this togeth- CT with the business of Andrade Campo and Tia Juana, would not equal that transacted at the Calexi co port in fact the difference in favor of Calexico amounts to more than the amount of imports and exports passing through San Diego.
 San Diego and Los Angeles are both seaport cities and have trans Pacific and coastal connections with many foreign countries while Calexico merely handles the vast Mexican trade which is rapidly growing each year One hundred and eighty-four ships entered the port of San Diego in 1914 and 374 cleared from the port of Los Angeles, and while an accurate record has not been kept, something like 13,578 six-horse teams travelled from Ba5a California into United States, coming by way of CaleXico, and in addition to this traffic, the Inter-Cali ornia railroad worked 365 days in 1914 hauling produce back and forth from United States into Mexico, all of this business being handled at the local customs office.
Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1915-02-04

 The commercial clubs of the state are passing reSolu- tions asking the legislature to Confine it's session to the shortest passible time, also to reduce appropriations to the lowest figures consistent with good government. These clubs are composed of the business men of the state and they all feel the effects of the money shortage and high taxes.
Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1915-02-04
Special to the Yuma Daily Examiner)

Special to the Yuma Daily Examiner)
 CHICAGO, H., Feb. A. The bittereSt political cam paign in Chicago in recent years has entered upon it's final stage. Two weeks from next Tuesday the voters of all parties will engage in a gen. eral primaryfor the nomina- ton of candidates for mayor, a majority of the members of the board of aldermen, and other city officials to be vot- ed for at the April election.
 The great fight is for the mayoralty nomination, which carries with it the largest salary of any office of it's kind in the country, together with thousands in annual patronage. The fight is en- listing the best talent in both principal political parties, the feeling being that the result of the election will have a considerable bearing on .na- tional affairs. Also the queS- ton of the integrity of the leading political organiza- tionS is involved. The Dem ocrats are split as between the Harrison-Hearst crowd and the Roger Sullivan fol- lowing, while the Republic ans are still feeling the re- suits of the Progressive Se- ceSSion.
 On the Democratic side of the fence ldCllOndl llSuIlllEo 10 ILC llOIbOob' @NO'' Mayor Carter H. Harrison is out for a sixth term and has the backing of the strong city organization which has eZ- isted for years. The choice of the anti-Harrison faction for the mayor alty nomination is Robert M. Sweitzer, the present county clerk. Sweitzer is an able campaigner and appears to have built up strong following, but whether he can overcome the prestige that attaches to the Harrison name in Chicago is a question. Two other aspirants in the field for the Dem ocratic mayoralty nomination, but it is not believed they will cut much figure in the primary results.
 The outlook for Republican success in the election has been frightened to some extent by the success of the efforts being made to conciliate the Progressives. Judge Harry Olson, chief justice of the municipal court,
Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1915-02-04
GOVERNMENT STATISTICS SHOW
 INCREASE IN LIVESTOCK IN I9I4
Special to the Yuma Daily Examiner)

Special to the Yuma Daily Examiner
 WASHINGTON, Feb. f. For the first time in many years, information collected by the U. S.. Department of Agriculture shows that all classes of live stock in the United States are increasing in numbers. Thus the real facts contradict absolutely, sensational reports that the prices for meat and shoes would rise to unprecedented figures in the immediate future. It has ever been said that a government Statistician predicted meat at 50 cents a pound and shoes at 5000 a pair within the next ? years. Such a prediction, the real government StatiSticianS say, is quite unWarranted.
 On January 1, for example, the number of beef cattle showed an increase of 3.4 per cent over the number a year ago, and an actual increase of 1,212,OOO. Hitherto the number of beef cattle in the United States has declined steadily since 1910. There are also more milch COWS in the country than last year, the increase being 2.5 per cent, or in numbers 525,0O0. Swine, however, showed the greatest increase of all classes -9.6 per cent. On January 1, 1914, there were only 58,- .933, ,000 swine in the country; on January 1, 1915, there were 64,618,0O0. This is ac- counted for by the fact that the production of swine can be increased more rapidly than that of other classes Of live stock and consequently an enlarged demand can be met more rapidly.
 The prediction of 5O-cent meat and $10- shoes was accompanied by the declaration that France alone has taken from America nearly 300,000 horses within the last five months and that the other countries at war have drawn upon our resources in the same proportion. The facts are that more horses were on the farms of the United States on January 1, 1915, than there were a year before, the increase being 233,OOO head or II per cent. So far from France alone hay ing taken 100000 horses from us, the total exports since the war began have certainly been much less than 100000, and very likely not over 75,000. Since there are approximately 25,O00,000
Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1915-02-04

horses altogether in the United States the drain on account of the war is scarcely alarming.
 It is in fact pointed out by gov ernment statisticians that the market value of farm horses has actually de clined to such an extent that the av- craze is now about $6 a head less than a year ago. This decline is most noticeable in the cotton states and in those states which make busi- ness of breeding horses for sale in other sections.
 Mules Lave declined even more than horses, their value being now $11.5O per head less than a year ago. The explanation is to be found in the de- pression on account of the cotton situation in the South, which is the great market for mules. An improve ment in this respect will do much to restore the demand for horses, so that government specialists whiie ridiculing the notion of horse famine gre convinced that farmers will find it profitable to use good work mares for Breeding more stock.
 As for hides, the situation $ not quite clear, but even hore there has been much gross exaggeration. Form tWo-fiftns to less than one-l:aIf cf the leatler used in this country is in. ported, about 9 per cent of the for eign hides coming from frGentjGa 13 per cent from Canada, T. per cent from Mexico, 81a per cent from Flu ropean Russia, and 71a per cent from France Since the outbreak of the war, impoitations have shown a cer- tain falling off. those for September 1914, for example, being only 34,000,- 900 pounds, instead of 45,O00,0OC pounds the year previous. There is. however, little reason to suppose that this decrease will be permanent or of sufficient import tance to create any real scarcity. Since the great bulk of the imported hides come from the countries that are not at war, ship, ments are not interfered with in any way, and the only new factor to be considered is the possibility of an in creased demand by the warning na- tions.
 It is believed, however, that the United States is now in a better con dition to face such 6 situation than for years past The tide, it seems, has turned. Instead of livestock steadily decreasing year after year, this year for the first time, as has been said, all classes show an appre- ciable increase. Including horses mules, milch cows, beef cattle, sheep and swine, there were on January | 1915, 7,712,OOO more farm animals in the United States than on January 1, 1914. The increase in the total value was $7S,024,000, or 1.3 per cent. It is quite true that this increase is not yet proportional to the increase in population, which is approximately ? per cent; but the fact that there is an increase, that the tide seems definitely to have turned, is regarded as a sufficient answer to alarming congregations and misleading figures
Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1915-02-04
BIG CADILLAC TO ARRIVE

The new S-cylinder Cadillac automo- bile, recently ordered for E. F. San guinetti by Riley's Garage, is expect ed to arrive tonight. The cost of this magnificent machine is $2225.OO, and there are but like it in Arizona. Bob Byrns, of Tucson, is the state Cadillac agent.
Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1915-02-04
U. s. LEADS IN PAPER

Today the United States leads the world in the produc- tion of paper. According to the census of 1909, we pro- duced 4,216,7O8 tons, valued at $232, ,741,O49, an amount which exceeds in tonnage the combined production of Eng land, Germany, France, Aus tria and Italy.
Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1915-02-04
REAL ESTATE PRICE INCREASED 22,O00 TIMES

TUCSON, Feb. 4.-Estimating the value of the northeast corner of Con g. ess street and Stone avenue, which was sold by the town of Tucson in 1872 at $9O4, at $2OO,OOO or more, it is shown to have increased in value more than 22,000 times the original price.
Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1915-02-04
MuLTI,hILLIONARE
 IN NEW PHOENIX BANK

PHOENIX, Feb. 4-With the open ing of the Central Bank of Phoenix today, Arizona adds another strong fi- nancial institution to her list of banks.
 Three of it's individual stockhold- CTS are multi-millionaires, while its aggregate wealth of all of them con- bined amounts to over $1O,000,O00.
Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1915-02-04

So far the Turkish govern ment has not asked the United States to apologize or salute for having a launch around where they were fir ing off guns.
Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1915-02-04
FOR CRANE SCHOOL
 ARBOR DAY EXERCISES

The following program will be given by the pupils of the Crane school or 'Arbor Day, February ,, at 10 o'clock in the morning:
 Song, "The Whippoorwill,' =. School Recitation, "A Comparison, ....
 Ralph Kneppe1 Exercise, Trees I'll Plant" ...
 Three Children Recitation, How Flowers Grow,".. Essay, ''The Secret Garden, "......
 .......... Addalissa Morton Recitation, How Arbor Day Be
 gan,' ........... George Hobart Song, Good News" ........ School Recitation, "Baby's Rose," ...
 ............... Sybil Jacobs Recitation, "Tubal Cain," Glenn Hill Reading, How Birds Protect the
 Trees" " Lola Nunnaley Recitation, How to Love Work,"..
 ............. Lena Power Essay, Beef and Dairy CattIe,". ....
 ................ Bert Power Recitation, "The Open Country.
 Willie Crowder Song, Planting of the Tree" School
 A basket dinner will be served on the grounds after the program. Trees will also be planted during the after noon. Patrons and friends are cordi- ally invited to be present. The schol garden and school exhibit will be in- teresting features for all to sec
Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1915-02-04
ADoLPH GROSS SELLS OUT

AdoIph Gross, the well known res taurant man, whose son has conduct ed his North Main street restaurant for some time, has sold the business, and will return to Long Beach, where he has another business.
Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1915-02-04

When last heard from the Prince of Wales was on his way to the front. Perhaps he picked up a nail en route.
Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1915-02-04

Bill Reedy says it is com ing to pass that when one says Britannia rules the wave" the natural response is: Co tell that to the sub marines.
Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1915-02-04

The purpose of this jour- nal is to disseminate infor- nation. If you skip any part of it, you may miss something that would have been of ben eft to you.
Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1915-02-04

Born, to the wife of A. J. Medcraft, Wednesday afternoon at 3:3O o'clock, a girl baby. Mother and child doing we'll
Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1915-02-04

New magazines at Shorey's,
Evening star., 1915-03-07

stitution, and the boys and girls we're in fair
measure paired off in congenial fashion.
With the restoration OF the light the presi-
dent of the college stepped to the front of
the platform and presented me to the audi
ence, after which rose and approached the
footlights to begin. But never word was
permitted to speak; for as started in the
in its fury and intensity. There came a sud-
den loud grinding and ripping sound and a
huge part of the roof was lifted bodily up
ward, and then dropped back with crash.
One heavy beam fell squarely in one of the
aisles without injury to anyone, though two
feet off on either side it would have killed
the occupants of the aisle seats, and from
all parts of the great room big chunks of
plaster and lathing fell in upon the audience.
There was present every element of a
tragedy of fearful proportions; but from
that assembled multitude of young people
came not even scream, and on every side
| saw stalwart young Texans of Today and
Tomorrow rise up from their seats, and lean
oser the girls sitting cronched in The chairs be-
side them, taking all the 7veigM and 7voe Of that
falling ceiling upon tbei IN manly shoulders!
1t was magnificent exhibition of readiness
of resource, self control, and unselfish chiv
airy. Almost instantly with the first shock
the president of the college, with calmness
at which still marvel, rose from the chair
behind me and confronted the gathering.
SHOW my young friends" said he, speak
ing with amazing rapidity, each word enun-
ciated as incisively as though spoken with
lips of chilled steel, "remember-thi is one
of the emergencies you are supposed to be
trained to meet. There is no telling how
serious this situation is; but let us have no
panic. Rise and walk out quietly, and with
out too much haste"
The youngsters rose and marched CIT of
the hall in fashion tat would have de-
lighted the soul of martinez among drill
Evening star., 1915-03-07
SUNDAY MAGAZINE FOR MARCH z. 1918

masters, down three flights of stairs to the
campus, silently, and without the slightest
outward manifestation of the fear that
must have been in the hearts of everyone of
them.
There had appeared in one of Americas
best magazines only few months previ-
ously scathing arraignment of the young
American of Today, in which the girls were
indicted as being frivolous, lacking in self
control, and full of selfshness, and the
American boy was held up to public scorn
and wholly deficient in the quality OF chiv-
airy for which the youth of other times had
been noted. wished then and | wish now
that the good lady who spoke so witheringly
on that subject could have witnessed what
looked upon that night in Texas. think
she would have modified her utterance at
least, if indeed she would not have changed
her point of view completely. She would
have made her assertions less sweeping, |
am convinced; for she would have learned
from that episode, as l have learned from
my contact with the youth of this land, not
only in Texas but elsewhere, that save for
large, the American youth of today, boy or
girl, is in the main strong -fibered, self
controlled, unselfsh, chivalrous product
which would be credit to any nation, any
where, at any time, past, present, or future.
In conclusion let me say that when | re-
turned to Georgetown the following season
to deliver my undelivered lecture l was in
troduced to practically the same audience
as "the man who brought down the house
without even opening his mouth"
Which shows that not only are youthful
chivalry and self-control not dead in Texas,
but that American humor likewise is in
fourishing condition in that truly imperial
State of our Union.
'Emergeneies. the last of M Bangs "leapes,"
alW abpear in an early issue.