davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Arizona sentinel Yuma southwest., 1916-01-06
J. $. R. s. RAILROAD
 RUNS SUCCESSFULLY
Associated Press)

| WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.-Successful operation of a government-owned road which private interests could not be persuaded to build, is causing much satisfaction to Interior Department of. ficials. The line, extending 25 miles | from Yuma, Arizona, to the Mexican valley, has been in operation daily since February and has carried 3O0,- 900 tons of rock besides frequent ship ments of other freight which are in creasing.
 Passenger traffic has been light, ow- ing to the unpopulated region through which the road runs, but considerable progress has been made in the settle ment of the country and a townsite IS mics from Yuma has been opened.
 Construction of the railroad, the sec ond government-owned line, was deem ed a necessity by officials of the Un s. Reclamation Service. There had been unsuccessful efforts to interest private capital which considered the prospect doubtful for the payment even of it's expenses. As a system of rock reVetment was required by the Yuma Ealiey reclamation project, the engl. neers decided the material could be placed economically only by the use of track laid upon the levee which
 rotects the Yuma valley from the overflow of the Colorado river. Work vas begun April g, 1914, and the first spike driven May 1, of that year. The annual summer rise of 1914 delayed the construction work, but it was con- pleted to the Mexican boundary in February, 1915. The line is 251s miles -ong, including sidings.
 Equipment of the road consists of gasoline motor car bearing in bold -etters the inscription: United States Reclamation Service, Yuma Valle-. llne." The car carries 70 passengers ana makes regular trips daily to the boundary and return from Yuma. A contract has been made with a trans continental railroad for joint use of tracks at Yuma. Carload shipments destined for the Yuma valley are taken over by the Reclamation Service and carried on it's line, charges being regu- lated by the Interstate Commerce Commission.
Arizona sentinel Yuma southwest., 1916-01-06
CHINESE PROTEST
 UNDESIRABLE JAF
Associated Press)

PEKING, Jan. 6.-Chinese news papers are bitter in their criticism of the constant stream of Japanese who are pouring into Harbin. The Rus sians deny the Japanese residents in the Russian concession; consequently. they live in the Chinese section of the city. The Hsui Chung Kuo Pao, a Chinese paper published in Peking. gives the following list of the occupa- tions of Japanese now residents in Harbin: Bank, 1; general importers, I1; factories, g; hospital, 1; drug stores, 21; hotels, 3; tailor shops, z: laundr1es, s; barber shops, II; bath parlors, 6; restaurants, 10; builders, 4; disorderly houses, P.
 This paper charges that practically all the Japanese drug stores deal very largely in morphine and opium and openly violate Chinese laws prohibit ing the sale of these drugs.
Arizona sentinel Yuma southwest., 1916-01-06
BRITISH FOOD PRICES
 ADVANCE A PER GENT
Associated Press)

LONDON, Jan. 6.-Food prices in England show general increase of IA per cent since the war began, ac- cording to statistics by the Board of commanded in July, 1914, tea is about 50 per cent dearer, British meat has increased 40 and imported meat 50 per cent, flour 45 per cent, bread 40 per cent, and bacon, milk, butter and cheese about 30 per cent. Taking the country as a whole, and considering the relative importance of the various foods, the difference in the cost of maintaining the table in a home of moderate circumstances is A per cent higher than before the war.
 Between November 1 and December l, 1915, the retail prices of food rose less than per cent. The average in- crease between the prices of December l, 1915, and the same date of 1914, show an average rise of A per cent.
 Figures compiled by the Berlin mu- nicipal statistical bureau show that in Berlin between Nov l, 1914, and Nov. l, 1915, the cost of ordinary foods advanced 61 per cent, while the diff ference between the past September and October prices came to 8.3 per cent
Arizona sentinel Yuma southwest., 1916-01-06
SENATE CALLS WILSON
 10 EXPLAIN ACTIONS
Associated Press)

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.-The sen ate today unanimously agreed to re quest President Wilson to give out all the information on which he based Als recognition of Carranza as the de facto government of Mexico, in pur- suance to the resolution introduced by Senator Fall, Republican, of New Mexico, who is the leader of an at tack on the Administration Mexican policy.
Arizona sentinel Yuma southwest., 1916-01-06
WARNS WATER USERS AGAINST SALARY GRAB.

s. P. Huss, Yuma. Third Precinct: w. I. Harmon, R. F. D., Yuma.
 J. w. Hanna, Yuma Fourth Precinct:
 w. N. Branstetter, R. F. D., Yuma.
 A. P. Behan, Yuma. Fifth Precinct:
 w. J. Trevarrow, Somerton.
 R. H. Thielmann, Somerton. / Sixth Precinct:
 J. F. Grower, Somerton.
 J. B. Brazee, Somerton You water users who are not in fa- vor of the salary grab had better get busy, and try to knock down the pins that have been set, unless you want to have this additional burden saddled upon you.
Arizona sentinel Yuma southwest., 1916-01-06
HORT|CULTUR|ST GIVES POINTERS ON BUYING YOUR NURSERY STOCK

At this season of the year there is considerable activity in the nursery business. The farmers are receiving the uSu- al string of tree agents and catalogs.
 These all have their place in the. plant business, but if a man has a nurSeryman near by, he is infinitely better off if he secures his stock right at home.
 A man can well afford to make a one or two-day trip to a nursery and get the stock fresh from the ground, take it home and plant it, without the usual amount of wetting and drying that it gets when shipped from a distance. The least drying or frost injureS tree roots.
 The advantages of buying from a nearby nurseryman are several:
 l. You can pick out the best trees in the row. Medium-sized trees, branched law or with strong buds on the lower two feet of the trunk, are best. The largest trees are apt to grow too much wood, especially pears, cherries and apples, thus taking them a long time to come into bearing The small trees are not vigorous.
 2. Trees are not subjected to rough treatment when secured direct from the nursery. Theroots or tops are not broken. The roots are neither frozen no left in the sun fo several hours.
 3. There is not the danger of intro ducing insect pests or diseases that there is when the stock is imported.
 4. The trees are better acclimated and the varieties offered by the local man are better than foreign varieties, provided, of course, that the nursery man knows his business, and he gen. orally does.
 5. You get the benefit of the nur- seryman's experience
 6. Your nurseryman is a fellow farmer, and money spent with him may return to you in the course of time.
 2. Whether or not it is necessary to buy stock from distance, by all means cooperate with the nursery in- spector. He is working for your in- terests, and diseased stock which is brought in may cost you and your neighbors thousands of dollars a little later on. Inspection may inconveni- ence you a little, but dead trees or a wormy fruit is worse. Nurserymen should give the inspector their support because the future of the fruit indus try in every locality, and consequently the nq8ery business, depecds upon the control of pests.
 So says s. B. Johnson, assistant horticulturist, U. of A. agricultural ex- pertinent station.
Arizona sentinel Yuma southwest., 1916-01-06
CAPTAIN AND PASSENGERS ARE PICKED OUT OF RIVER
 
Associated Press)

PARKERSBURG, Jan. 6.-Captain Berry and 62 passengers and crew of the river packet Kanawha, arrived here today on the special train of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, which had been sent out to pick up the survivors scattered along about four miles of the Ohio river. Capt. Berry said he be- lieved that several passengers were ost
Arizona sentinel Yuma southwest., 1916-01-06
HOSPITAL SANITATION DOES NOT c0hTAM|AATE
Continued from Page One)

This I found upon personal and careful examination. But I found more than that. There is small drain pipe from the hospital, running from the pipe from which the hospi- tai derives it's drinking water, that empties on the outside of the septic tank and trickles down the back to- ward the river-but it is nothing but clear, pure water from the drinking
 faucet. This certainly can do no harm, as any one who will take the trouble to make an investigation will find.
 But I found something else, and here is what it was:
 The city has it's livery stable next door to the city hospital I saw manure enough there in one pile, on the very brink of the river bank, to fertilize a good sized truck garden. Not only that; but I found a wooden box drain running from the wash house of the city stables, through which dirty water was flowing, wend- ing it's way through a pile of manure and then, further down the bank, joining the clear waste-water from the city hospital, leaving nasty-looking, greenish, unhealthy looking streak as it found it's way to the river.
 This nauseous looking thing is very plainly visible from the Ocean-to- Ocean Highway Bridge, naturally leading people who had not made an investigation to believe that the hos pital sewage was being emptied into the river %
 That this city stable has long since been a menace to the health of the city, because of the breeding pen for flies that it is known to be, was the common talk all last summer. Dr. ApJohn himself says it is one of the worst nuisances in the city, and he intends to make every effort possible to make the city mend it's ways otherwise it will be next to impossible for him to enforce the sanitary laws in the case of individuals violating them.
 The doctor also declares that he intends to at once force everybody in the city to connect their closets with sewers, where sewers are avail able, as well as provide themselves with fly-proof garbage boxes, ana boxes for manure, covered with good screens.
 Now that this subject has been brought up, and while everybody yet has chance, in the interests of the city, every precaution should be taken by our citizens to see that the city is kept in a healthy condition during the entire year.
 Dr. ApJohn has served notice on all real estate dealers that they must cease renting houses and tent-grounds in the city limits to consumptives, declaring that he intends to literally enforce this law, regarding this as one of the greatest dangers to the !. city.
 As the Yuma Daily Examiner re- marked few days ago: Let's enforce the law all along the line, beginning first with the city itself on this im- . portant question of placing it's city stable in a sanitary condition.
Arizona sentinel Yuma southwest., 1916-01-06
DIR. MUERMAN LEAVES
 FOR THE CAPITAL CITY

Dr. J. c. Muerman, of the United States Bureau of Education at Wash ington, D. C., whose addresses before the Yuma County Teachers Institute were the feature of the gathering, wound up his work here by a lecture to the students of the Union high school this afternoon. The doctor will leave this evening for the nation al capital.
Arizona sentinel Yuma southwest., 1916-01-06

Mrs. A. C.. Ralston, of Butte. Mont. sister of Mrs. Mark Dunbar. of Yuma, and her two children. have ar. rived hee and will spend the winter enjoying Yuma's salubrious climate. MT. Ralston is business man of Butte.
Arizona sentinel Yuma southwest., 1916-01-06

WANTED-Young man or lady, to meet each of the overland trains. Must be neat and reliable. State age, give references, etc. Address Pacific Travellers Aid Information Service, 523 Chamber of Commerce Building, Los Angeles. Cal.
Arizona sentinel Yuma southwest., 1916-01-06
BOUND FOR THE WEST INDIES
Associated Press

NEW YORK, Jan. 6.-Roosevelt and wife will start on a trip to the West Indies about February 15, and will not return until April 1.
Arizona sentinel Yuma southwest., 1916-01-06
co COOOO OOOOOC COOO o YESTERDAYS NEWS o
 c o 0 o co 900 o co 900 o
TWELVE DROWNED WHEN
 RIVER PACKET SINKS IN OH
Associated Press)

Associated PreSS)
 GALLIPODS, Ohio, Jan 6-It is re- ported that 12 persons were drowned, including 4 women and one child, who were passengers on the river packet Kanawha, which sunk last night, 12 miles below Parkersburg, w. Va. Eighteen others are missing.
Arizona sentinel Yuma southwest., 1916-01-06
Truth" what is truth9

Truth IS a never-satisfying answer to things we do not understand
 Truth is what we believe by faith that Is faith led by hope, and faith covered with mantle of charity.
Arizona sentinel Yuma southwest., 1916-01-06

It only takes one man to give an inn petus to the world of thought When God wishes to move the world he has only to move one man.
Arizona sentinel Yuma southwest., 1916-01-06
FRENCH ATTACK REFUSED
Associated Press

BERLIN, Jan. GA French grenade attack northeast of Le Mesnil was re- pulsed. The allied artillery is fiercely bombarding Lens.
Arizona sentinel Yuma southwest., 1916-01-06

R. T. Sharpensteen, of Amarillo. lexas, brother of Mrs. c. B. Glass cock, is visiting Yuma. with a view to locating here.
Arizona sentinel Yuma southwest., 1916-01-06

Seth Adams, the negro alleged boot legger who was caught at Somerton. was bound over to the Superior Court by Judge Jones today.
Arizona sentinel Yuma southwest., 1916-01-06
STAR PITCHER DIES
Associated Press)

BAY CITY, Wis, Jan. 6.-Leonard King Cole, one of Chances star pitch CTS for the Chicago Cubs, died today.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1916-12-14
XMAS TRADING
IN FULL SWING
Much Money Being Spent for Holiday
G0ods-Greenwo0d Is Thriving
:. from Every Angle.

Greenwood is being made the cen.
trsi trading point for . large territory
inhabited by large number Of people.
The Christmas offerings of the local
merchants are drawing buyers from
far and near. The city's streets are
thronged with people from the early
hours Of the morning until late at
night and the merchants and their
clerks are kept busy every hour of
the day.
Greenwood is the natural trading
point for a large territory and every
year sees the territory enlarged. Bus
mess here has been good all the year.
80 good in fact that those who are
not very observsnt have failed to note
the increase in the crowds on the
streets. There are always plenty OF
Out-of-town people in Greenwood
shopping and the people here are so
accustomed to seeing visltors that an
Increase il not noticeable. Where the
increase in the crowds occurs mostly
Is among the negroes For the past
two weeks these people have been
spending money freely in Greenwood
and are coming here in increasing
numbers daily.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1916-12-14
CITY LANDING
2 JOB CUhtPLETE
Paving With CObble Stones Adds
Much to Property-Done With
Convict Labor.

Paving of the City Landing north
of the river bridge with cobble
stones, which has been underway fol
some time, is completed and the work
is another feather in the cap of the
present administration. The job cost
the city approximately $1,000 and was
done with convict labor entirely.
Sand for work was dredged from the
bottom of the Yazoo River. City En-
gineer F. I. Walker had the work in
charge, with Street Commissioner L.
0. Corbin working the convicts.
Had free day labor been used in
paving the landing and gravel pit
sand utilized the job would have cost
not less than $1,000. The City saved
fully $500 on the sand alone by dredg-
ing it from the river.
The paving Of the landing is some-
thing that has been needed for 4 long
time and shippers who use it are much
gratiiied at the action of the city.
Prior to its paving the landing prac-
ticaliy became useless at certain times
OF the year because Of mud. It can
now be used without fear and much
larger loads can be hauled out.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1916-12-14
PEACE OFFER IS
AT WASHINGTON
Note from Germany Addressed to En-.
tente Powers Being Made Ready
for Wilson.
(By Associated Press)

\Oy ASSOclateO FreaS)
Washington, Dec. 14-The note con-
veying the proposals for peace by
the Teutonic powers which the United
States is to transmit to the Entente
belligerents arrived during the night
and is being prepared for President
Wilson today.
The document said substantially
the same as published in unofficial dis
patches from Berlin in the report Of
the Overseas News Agency. Accom-
panying it is a confidential report
from the American Charge Grew, un-
derstood to outline affairs which led
up to Chancellor Won Bethmann-Holl-
weg's speech and the sending of the
peace proposals.
AS soon as the President has seen
the note it will Immediately be for
warded to Minister Whitlock, in Bel
gium, Ambassadors Sharp, Page,
Guthrie and Francis, in France, Eng
land Japan, and Russia and to the
Legations with the Serbian and Ru-
maniain governments.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1916-12-14
PETERS SPEECH.
(By Associated Press)

NORFOLK, Va, Dec. 14.-Predict-
ing that the American manufacturer
would be able to compete on equal
terms with the European lnanufact.
urers, in the foreign field after the
war, Andrew J. Peters, Assistant Sec.
retary of the Treasury, spoke today
before the Southern Commercial Con.
gresss. sour foreign trade has reach
ed heights hitherto undreamed Of"
he said. "To hold it is the paramount
idea Of the hour"
The cost of production in Europe by
reason Of the war taxes would be
great deal higher than in the past
he said, offsetting the advantages in
the nature of commercial agreements,
gigantic combinations and government
al assistance, which European manu-
facturers would have.
Mr.. Peters declared that the Amer
lean manufacturer would be further
encouraged to make a bold fight
against his competitors by the attitude
of the United States government,
which is eager to cooperate with him
in the expansion of his foreign trade
by providing the necessary legisla-
tive machenery to enable him to COM
pete on equal terms.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1916-12-14
CITY AND COUNTY
IN FULL ACCORD
Police Forces Of Both Working Hand
in Hand Against the Reckless
Driving Mania.

Every automobile driver who vio-
lates the speed laws henceforth both
in the city and county will Be dealt
with as the law directs. The county
and city governments are in full &C.
cord in the matter and are thoroughly
determined to break up the practice.
Mayor q. L. Ray and Chief Of Police
G. L. Bonner this morning fully en-
dorsed the war that has declared By
the Sheriff and his deputies. The city
government has always exerted every
effort to restrain the law violators
and many have been arrested and
have paid fines. A number have also
paid fines in the county courts.
The general public is not aware Of
the number who have been srrested
for speeding, nor the identity Of those
brought before the Bar Of Justice.
1t has been suggested that II the
names of all those fined for speeding
were published it would do more good
than the fine.
There are number Of speed man
iacs in Greenwood who seem 10 take
pride in violating the state laws and
city ordinances, according to infofma-
tion secured at the City Hall. The
number Of fines paid in court for
speeding may be record 70 b boast.
ed Of but ?, pepitentiary sentsnos fQr.,
the deathgof an Innocent child kiil61
as resut Ut reckless driving would
not make, . driver feel Quits VI gocd.
Mr.FJ. C.f Harris, viii bseens "
member Of the city police force within
the next few days. This increase II
the force win enable the city govern
mei,t TO apprehend morn ot IT, viejA-
tors Of ths speed hwJ. Il
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1916-12-14
REDFIELD's SPEECH.
(By Associated Press)

Norfolk, Va, Dec. 13-The United
States will enter competition for the
world trade after the war with every
advantage, said Secretary Of Com
merce Redfield, speaking today before
the Southern Commercial Congress.
There is the best reason for know
ing that in At least four important
respects the end Of the war will mean
calls on US for supplies which now
We are prevented from furnishing"
said Mr.. Redfeld. "These demands
will be for foodstuffs of many kinds,
for agricultural machinery, for lum-
Der in many forms and for credits in
the way Of loans and investments"
Americas advantage will lie, said
the secretary, in the fact that her ad-
justments from war to peace condi-
tons will not be so severe % in the
fighting countries.
1T is reasonable to suppose that
foreign industries as WHOLE" he
said, will have to make q sharper
readjustment of product from war
goods to peace goods than is to be
the case with us. Consider what q
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1916-12-14
UNION STATION
PETITIONS OUT
Placed in Circulation Today-Copies
at The Crumont and The Handy
Kitchen.

A petition addressed to Mr.. 7. J
Foley, General Manager Of the Lii
nols central and Y. T. NJ. V. railroads.
at Chicago, and to Mr.. Z. v. Taylor
General Manager Of the Mobile snc
Ohio, at Moblie, Ala, asking that the
roads immediately take up the matter
tof giving Greenwood . Union Station
was put in circulation this morning
and mas already been signed by many
of the citizens Of the city. copies OF
the petition can % found at Inc Cru.
mont and The Handy Kitchen. Every
citizen OF the city y urged TO place
their name to thus petition.
Inc demsnd tor = union station here
has been growing fast and at : meet
ing he'd recently the Greenwood Tray
eiers Association adopted resolution
ASKING tnst . union depot 10 ouiit
mere. The Petition was drswu up by
= committee appointed at the same
meeting and VIII be IN clrculation th,s
week only.
GREENWOOD is sorely in need Of .
union uspot. Inc situation ss 1t STANDS
needs to be changed The stations OF
the \. u M. '. and the Southern IN
TINS city are botn inadsQuste. New
statlons must sooa be bullr Dy botn It
the passengers are to b given proper
Combine the sums
necessary " erect the two stations
anu y nice UNION station could be butt,
one tnat would be . credit to Tue roads
and to the town. AZ
Greenwood 10 entitled to . union
station and while the people OF Green.
wood reallze that the roads are always
~ = neavy expense and that many Of
ilkc nature are always before tuSIn
they believe the demands Of Green
wood are just and will insist upon
them belnx complied with.
II you nave not signed one Of the
copies OF tnls petition do not ds.&y
longer but vlslt Uns Of the two places
gwen above and Do your dusy by
Giyivsa~Ssd
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1916-12-14
ARMIES OF Won MACKEllSEll 8
CONTINUE THEIR ADVANCE
Bad Roads in Rumania Do More to Hender IA.
vance Than Armies of the Rumanians -Pess-
imism Regarding Peace Negotiations.
(By Associated Press)

Interest in military developments
today is still centered upon Rumania
where the armies Of Won Mackensen
are fighting their way forward despite
difficulties Of transportation caused
by bad roads. HI
1t appears that the Rmanian svacu-
ton Of Southern Wallachia 10 virtually
complete.
There II little Of interest In other
war news beyond. the German, report
Of the repulss Of the French attack
at Argentine and Of tho Serbian as
saults on Bulgarian positions in Ma
cedonia.
The daily commonwealth. (Greenwood, Leflore Co., Miss.) 1916-1919, 1916-12-14
COLD WAVE IN GREENWOOD.
Just before the break of day thii


just before the break Of day this
morning early risers in Greenwood
were surprised to find that it was
sleeting and those who were still abed
pulled the cover about their ears at
the sound Of the pattering particles
Of ice against the window pane.
Greenwood is at last in the midst
Of winter after one Of the most de-
lightful Autumns ever known in these
parts. Sleet began falling here early
this morning and continued for about
an hour. The ground was not cold
enough for it to stay however and
thirty minutes after it's fall the only
evidence Of it was small accumula-
tions in roof cutters and protected
corners.
Trains coming into Greenwood from
every direction this morning were ice
covered as were the few automobiles
which braved the elements. Overcoats
were strictly the style and smoke
poured from every chimney.