The Imperial press., 1905-09-02

A. $. Fell was home coming passen- ger on the Wednesday, evening train.
 Mrs. J. o. Cooper and children leave for their summer outing next Sunday.
 Mrs. Gross and Miss Dossie Gross of Hotville were Imperial visitors this week.
 Charles Fernald and wife are expected home Saturday night from their months outing at Santa Barbara.
 Miss Lizzie Smith of HoItville left Friday morning for a months vacation at Los Angeles and the beaches.
 H. J. Ravens is nursing very sore hand this week caused by felon, and his harness shop is closed for repairs on "Hank"
 Ed Varney is in the town for few days trip. He came down to escape the intense heat prevailing on the coast but don't know whether he bettered the matter much.
 G. E. Irwin this week finished the carpenter work on the Water Company No. building, and all it needs now is little painting and few finishing touches to make it about the most hand some building in the town.
 Quite number of Valley people re- turned from their vacations this week and the rush can now be said 10 have set in Most of them are driven home by the insufferably hot weather that has blistered the coast for the past week. ''ImperiaI'' Baby
 On August II Mrs. Mary Deed, daugh- ter of MT. and Mrs G. NJ. Konkle, was made happy by the birth of daughter. Baby Deed has the proud distinction of being the only child that has been named after Imperial Valley. She is named Imperial Hazel Deed.
 The immense focks of ducks and water fowls that have been coming into the Valley the last few weeks presages great sport in duck shooting here next winter. It seems strange to have such great numbers of these birds come in now while the weather is still hot, but perhaps the ducks know Imperial Val ley is the choicest place of all and come here ahead of time in order to be sure and not get left.
 William McClendOn, who formerly lived near Heber, but who sold his ranch and went to Idaho last winter, was back in the Valley this week. He says Idaho is nice summer climate but I,. ,I ,.,,fl loK. than a winter there. Their land is not nearly so productive as ours, and in short Mir. McCIendon summed it up by saying he simply had to have another piece of our Imperial Valley land.
 The weather the past week seemed to be pretty trying here on the desert but we haven't lad anything that would hurt LIS like a temperature of l05 did the people of Los Angeles. That must have been something fierce and we are poor sizzling AngeIenos. W hile it has been too warm for comfort at Imperial we haven't had any sunstrOkes or heat prostratiOns, and all kinds of work has been prosecuted without cessation throughout the summer.
 l.. c. Vickery returned Friday from a two months vacation at Los Angeles. Mir. Vickery is one of the parties who made bid on the resurvey of the lands in Impel ial Valley and he endeavored to keep up with the matter. From him we learn that the bids were all forwarded to Washington and the work of award ing the contract and unWinding the red tape preliminary to getting to work will be done from that end of the line Mr. Vickery states that he has heard that the contract was let but could not tell to whom or fol what sum or any of the particulars, as he was not informed in regard to them. We sincerely hope the contract has been let and that the work will soon be begun and pushed to com peton. This Valley needs no one thing more than it does this resurvey, Davis in the Tolls
 NJ. B. Davis, otherwise known as Bob" was arraigned before Judge Banta Tuesday morning and plead uuiItv tO the charpe of disturhinu tLa