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Arizona Sentinel
Yuma, Aoriacomet
THUI13DAY, DEC. 23, 1909.
Christmas in the Desert
Christmas, by the inheritance
of tradition and the record of
literature, holds for most minds
the association of snowy fields
and green trees, of frosty air and
tingling breezes, of fur coats and
-woolen mufflers, of jingling
sleigh-bells and pealing church
bells, of warm-wrapped and rosy
faced, laughing youths and maid
ens. For Chnstmas is by birth,
establishment and crystalization
a' festival of the frozen northl
the incarnately wintry holiday.
The Christ mass of the Latin
church was a movable fast day,
disassociated from date, incident
almost from function. There
was no concrete commemoration
of the birth of the Savior. When
the barbaric hordes of the north
of Europe gave submissive heed
to the tenets of the gentle teach
er out of Nazareth, the Catholic
missionaries found established as
the chief festival of pagan rites
the December day set apart
as homage to the rude
deity Wodin Yule-tide. With
the sage and politic adaptation
and ignoring of superficialities
characteristic and constructive of
"the early spread of the Catholic
faith, the supplanters of the
heathen worship gave to the
established date the name Christ
mas, thus immediately assuring
its popularity and zealous ob
servance. So Christmas became
inherently a festival of the snows,
with appropriate attendants,
down through succeeding ages.
Here in the dun, grey land of
no snow, little rain, perpetual
sunshine and faint-clouded skies,
the century-encrusted and history-enshrined
customs are vi
tiated, the climatic and elemental
conditions are wanting, the
memories dim, the transplanted
traditions flaccid.; the vigor and
spirit of the festival of its birth -soil
bofc faintly echoed. Yet
tbere remains, besides the fonn
al and established identical cere
monial, the real, true essence of
Christmas, the precious, world
wide and boundless joy of giving
and receiving, of heart-reaching
extension of good-will and fellow
ship to all men that is the vital
izing spirit of the holiday. So,
though we move throughout the
day set apart to Him crucified
with wonted placidity and seem
ing indifference, we afe still
swayed by its eternal dominance
and moved to cast aside, for this
one day if on no other, all self
ishness, disdain and heart-locked
egoism.
Yuma Valley
The surface soils in Yuma val
ley vary in texture from a nearly
pure sand to a very fine loam or
adobe. The whole valley is
underlaid at varying depths by
sand which affords excellent
drainage for the surface soils.
No hardpan exists to prevent
the free movement of the soil
moistures. The whole valley is
of sedimentary origin, being an
accumulation of deposits by the
Gila and Colorado rivers during
periods of overflow. In this re
spect its origin is similar to the
. iamous valley of the Nile, which
has been cropped for centuries
without depleting its soil fertil
ity. The mesa, a broad coastal
plateau 75 feet above the level of
the valley, is composed almost
entirely of one type of soil, or
rather coarse sand, containing
at intervals a small amount of
3ime. Seventy per cent of the
soil in Yuma valley is free from
alkali; 20 per cent contains some
alkali, but not injurious quanti
ties; about 10 per cent is suffi
ciently alkaline to prevent the
normal growth of the staple
crops. Most of the alkali, how-
, ever, is purely a surface accu
mulation, often being confined to
the surface one or two feet of
soil. With an open subsoil, such
accumulations are readily leach-
ed out by heavy flooding of the
land.
The father of Frank Butts,
who was wounded Saturday by
Frank wheeler, came to Yuma
Sunday and with Butts' sister,
Mrs. JPhillips, took the wounded
man to his home in Phoenix
Tuesday night. Tr. Houf ac
companied them.
an man
Outside cleanliness is less than half the battle. A man may
scrub himself a dden times a day, and still be unclean. Good
health means cleanliness not only outside, but inside. It means
ft clean stomach, clean bowels, clean blood, a clean liver, and
new, clean, healthy tissues. The man who is clean in this way
will look it and 0t it. He will work with energy and think
clean, clear, healthy thoughts.
He will never be troubled with liver, lung, stomach or blood
disorders. Dyspepsia and indigestion originatein unclean stom
achs. Blood diseases are found where there is unclean blood.
Consumption and bronchitis mean unclean lungs.
Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
prevents these diseases. It makes a man's insides clean
and healthy. It cleans the digestive organs, makes pure,
clean blood, and eleen, healthy ficsh.
It restores tone to the nervous system, and cures nervous exhaustion and
prostration. It contains no alcohol or habit-forming drugs.
Constipation is the most unclean uncleenliness. Dr. Pierce'6 Pleasant Pel
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SECOND STREET,
Uterine System
F. G-. Blaisdell, manager of
the Yuma Electric and Water
Company, is having the complet
ing work done on three large
filtering basins for the Yuma
water svstem that are of ample
capacity, he estimates, to supply
the needs of the city for at least
fifteen years to come. These
are located in front of the com
pany's power plant at the corner
of Main and Jones streets, and
are constructed of reinforced
concrete,strongly interlaced with
twisted steel. The work was
done by Contractor Charles 01
cester in, two weeks' time. There
are two settling basins, with
sloping walls, 9 feet deep, 26
feet wide and 100 feet long at
the bottom, and 45 feet wide and
118 feet long at the top, holding
250.000 gallons each. The filter
ing basin with perpendicular
walls is 9 feet deep, 25 feet wide.
and 92 ieet long, with a capacity
approximately.-the-same as Ihe
others.
The settling basins front -on
Jones street, paralleled by Main
street, and the water is first
turned from the muddy flow of
the Colorado river into the basin
adjoining Main street. By grav
ity flow it is carried into the ad
joining basin and then, diverted
into the final filtering and stor
age basin, clear and cleansed of
the yellow sediment of the river.
This addition to the water sys
tem will be ready for use within
two weeks, upon the arrival of
piping to supply the connections.
It is a most valuable adjunct to
municipal needs and equipment
and the company and Mr. Blais
dell are to be strongly commend
ed upon the enterprise thus
shown. With such a large force
of'Water as is. thus supplied the
mains and made an increase to
the adequacy of the fire depart
ment, it should result, among
other benefits, in a reduction of
insurance rates.
Lemoned Again,
The Yuma baseball team jour
neyed to El Centro Sunday and
were handily taken into camp by
the huskies there to the math
ematical tune of 9 to 4, shoying
them down a little bit more. The
club will play at Holtville Satur
day (Christmas) and at Imperial
Sunday. It might be advisable
for the members of the team to
do a little practicing on days
when there is no game scheduled
as well as during games. There
are other proficiencies required
in the game besides reaching
after high balls.
The first prize a 8500 Rem.
brandt piano offered by the
Yuma Examiner in its popular
ity contest was won by Miss
Ruby Livingston. The second
and third prizes trips and ex
penses to the coast were won
respectively by Georgia Clark
and Gracie Riley.
Christmas Ball Game
The Grammar and High school
teams will play ball on Christ
mas day at Athletic park. Go
see the game.
YUflA, ARIZONA
Killed In Wreck
Tb.e Golden State Limited,
train No. 4, which left Yuma at
6:15 Saturday evening, was
wrecked three miles west of
Benson at 4 o'clock last Monday
morning, Engineer Tom Walker
and Fireman P. W. Bauer being
killed and thirteen passengers
and members of the train crew
seriously injured, thirty-nine
others being slightly injured.
The most seriously injured were
brought to St. Mary's hospital,
Tucson. x
The wreck is ascribed by S.
P. officials to striking a curve at
too high speed, .the train run
ning at thirty miles an hour
when the disaster occurred.
P. W. Bauer was a son-in-law
of Justice of the Peace J. C.
Jones of Yuma, husband of his
daughter, Elizabeth. John Jones,
his brother-in-law, left for Tuc
son at once to take charge of the
funeral arrangements and to
bring Mrs. Bauer and children
to the home of her father.
Bauer was well known hereas
an estimable and industrious
man, and his untimely death is
regretted by many friends. The
afflicted family have the .deepest
sympathy of all in their great
bereavement.
Charter of the Yuma
National Bank
No. 9608.
Treasury Department, Office
of the Comptroller of the Cur
rency, Washington, D. C, De
cember 14th, 1909. Whereas, by
satisfactory evidence presented
to the undersigned, it has been
made to appear that "The Yuma
National Bank" in the town of
Yuma, in the county of Yuma
and Territory of Arizona, has
complied with all the provisions
of the .Statutes of the United
States required to be complied
with before an association shall
be authorized to commence the
business of banking:
Now, Therefore, I, Lawrence
O. Murray, Comptroller of the
Currency, do hereby certify that
"The Yuma National Bank" in
the town of Yuma, in the county
of Yuma and Territory of Ari
zona, is authorized to commence
the business of Banking, as pro
vided in Section Fifty-one hun
dred and sixty-nine of the Re
vised Statutes of the United
States.
In Testimony Whereof,, wit
ness my hand and seal of . office
this fourteenth day of December,
1909.
LAWRENCE 6. MURRAY,
Seal Comptroller of the
Currency.
A Beautiful Calendar
John Stoffela, one of Yuma's
successful and enterprising mer
chants, is the first to come to the
front with 1910 calendars. The
picture heading represents a
"Honeymoon in Venice," a typ
ical scene in the heart of that
beautiful city. The Sentinel re
turns thanks for one of the
pretty calendars.
Mrs. Fred Wessel has been
appointed deputy county school
superintendent. The appoint
ment was confirmed by the board
of supervisors on Monday.
IRRIGATION OF ALFALFA.
The importance of alfalfa to
western farmers cannot well be
overestimated. A single ton of
alfalfa may save the lives of
many head of stock by providing
feed during short periods of cold
or stormy weather. Alfalfa can
not be excelled as a preparatory
crop on soils that have long been
unproductive. Likewise it main
tains the fertility-of soils natu
rally rich in plant food, and if
used as a base of rotation makes
possible abundant crop yields of
various kinds.
Notwithstanding its present
importance and great value in
irrigation farming, the profits on
the area now in alfalfa can be
greatly increased if more care
and skill are exercised in grow
ing it.
Perhaps the most essential
conditions for the production of
alfalfa are abundant sunshine, a
high summer temperature, suffi
cient moisture, and atrich, deep,
well-drained soil. All of these
essentials, save moisture, exist
naturally in the arid region of
the United States, and when
water is supplied it makes the
conditions ideal. Although al
falfa can be successfully grown
under a wide range of soil condi
tions, yet all western lands are
not equally well adapted to its
growth.
How to determine the suita
bility of land, for growing alfalfa
under irrigation,, as well as ho.w
to prepare the land, is told in
Farmers' Bulletin 373, "Irriga
tion of Alfalfa," recently issued
by the U. S. 'department of agri
culture. The bulletin discusses
the various methods of irrigat
ing the crop and gives much
useful information in connection
therewith.
MORRISON U. S. ATTORNEY
. Joe Morrison of Bisbee has
been appointed United States
attorney for' the district of Ari
zona, to succeed Jde Alexander.
Joseph E. Morrison is a . very
able attorney and quite popular
throughout the territory. He
was formerly a resident of Pres
cojtt but now lives at Bisbee.
Morrison is 'an ardent republi
can and gave'. loyal support- to.
the republican ticket at the elec
tion which placed Ralph Camer
on in congress. He is a brother
of Robert E. Morrison of Pres
cott, formerly United States at
torney. His appointment is very
satisfactory to both republicans
and democrats. x
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Under Peace Bond
Frank Wheeler was arraigned
in Justice Jones' court yesterday
charged by M. T. Phillips with
threatening his life, and placed
under $500 bonds to keep the
peace.
- Will Resign
It is reported that Supervisor
Shanssey will resign and receive
the appointment of county road
commissioner. Jack Dunne, of
The Ruby, is slated for Shans
sey's place as supervisor.
Williams Wood Yard.
Hay, Grain and Wood for sale.
Prompt delivery. Prices reasonable.
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Christmas Tree.
Tomorrow evening at 7:30
o'clock there will be a big Christ
rras tree, with the usual accom
paniments of music, mirth and
festivities, at the Methodist
church.
Proposed New Sewer Outfall.
The city council, by Newt
Parks, committeeman, and the
Southern Pacific Company are
engaged in a mutual endeavor
to side-step placing a figure up
on the cost of the proposed new
sewer outfall below the South
ern Pacific hridge, which they
are to jointly pay for. As the
railroad has firmly declined to
make the preliminary estimate,
the council will, it seems, have
to do it, and the figures are be
ing prepared accordingly.
Baseball, in Cuba
Baseball, the most popular of
American-games, was recently in
troduced in Cuba. At Havana,
where the first game was played,
twenty thousand people watched
the sport and enjoyed it. This
large number seems all the more
remarkable because a bullfight
had been advertised to" take
place simultaneously with the
ball game but had to be aban
doned for lack of patronage.
Let ris hope that the disrepu
table and degrading, bullfight
may find its permanent succes
sor in American baseball.
The gin at El Centro has turn
ed out upwards of 100 bales of
cotton and the growers have
shipped about 50 bales to Oak
land; three to Los Angeles. The
mills are still offering 13 cents.
First pickings are running close
to a bale to the acre. ,
The board of supervisors has
granted the cod nty 'officers leave
to go outside the limits of the
county at any time during the
next sixty days so. that they may
take their turkey where they
please. ' ;
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