Alva Hickey
March 8, 1902
Arizona Republican Newspaper

Alva Hickey, about 12 years of age, died in Yuma 
yesterday as the result of a peculair accident 
which happened at the Rockland canal heading.  
Two or three days ago he was whittling a post, 
when the knife slipped from the wood, the blade 
struck his leg near the knee and the artery was 
severed.  The wound was bandaged, but continued 
to bleed and the boy grew weaker until yesterday 
he was brought down the river to Yuma in a skiff 
for medical attention.  Dr. Cotter was called to 
see the boy but he was beyond human skill and 
died in a few hours from blood poisoning.  His 
parents live in Yuma Valley.  The remains were 
buried at 2 p.m. today.