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Imperial Valley press., 1908-02-15
INCREDULITY OF IGNORANCE.

The Agricultural Department at Washington IS Wenean- no otft and useful in some ways needs shaking that may get eyes wide enough to see what is going
 th country It appears that agent of the Department has made report results of irrigation farming in Imperial Valley and because the report shows that Tn th
 vastly more and abundant than in the nlggard soils of some other regions the old Fuddyduddes at the heads of breaus refuse believe it. though made out ana
 h an authorized representative of the government sent o the mpea Valley the purpose of making
 Department hestaes to print the report ana "a I dobng Thomases permit the public to know the facts
 There was no such hesancy about publishing the report of the preposterous expert who soemny de ared that the soil Imperial Valley would not sprout seed
 Kind Perhaps the Department that it's latest nvest aor as ignorant incompetent and ridiculous as the otner fellow It may be necessary ship exhibit of Imperial products Washington in order to convince the W Agriculture that anything grows here
Imperial Valley press., 1908-02-15

laws by San Francisco merchants followed by instant and condgn punishment and Stubbs the execuoner Subbs would cody tell merchant: "You getting consignment from New York by ship around the Horn The rate your next shipment by rail will be doubled Don't let occur again." ".
 Fe recently fined for violating the anrebate and it's president Ripley who cannot the monsrous the superior railroad roared and assaed the intelligence and integrity of the court and the Pres dent of the United States
 Subbs his sympathe with Ripley but he does not need to tell anyone that He also says:
 T given rebates but it would do good to publish the people would believe it. They would believe that official of the Union Pacific stated that he had given rebates" -
 Subbs merry wag he will have his little joke He is funny stamp mill But he had better not get too with the Interstate Commerce law
Imperial Valley press., 1908-02-15
NO MENACE TO IMPERIAL VALLEY TITLES

the beginning of the attempt to work up about titles Imperial Valley the Press conended that the law protecting the bona de settler had not been set aside and could not be set aside by Land Office ruling that the effect of the rule was either misunderstood msrepresened by aarmists and that persons having sinister motives trying stampede the settlers into movement intended to serve the ends
 Just when bowling loudes the Commissioner of the General Land Office and the officials in the Los Angeles Land Standard reduced w. Geasons mission to futly and put the boh F. G. Havens and his plans make money by nst gatng technical contests.
 Commssoner Bainger notified Representative Smith that sgnees of two desert claims not exceeding total o 320 acres protected whatever practice might be prescribed the future wired the Land Office in Los Angeles:
 Suspend all deertand entries held for cancea enymen assgnees had previously taken land by assignment under the desert laws Question being considered by the Interior Department
 At time Register Prescott and Receiver Robinson notified that they had rejected all contests filed the ground that than assignment was held by one person and that there was no occasion Tor enaona caor aDo the
 So ended the worked up by pessmstic paper an apprehense specuator assignments and promoter o profit The disposition of the Land Office protect the settler from unjust operation of rule intended to grating made manifest but no comfort was given to seeking than 32O o desert land by assignment otherwise evasion of the true intent o the law The claim jumper and the speculatng nstgaor ot vex technical grounds squeched with word
 There never any such excitement in Imperial Valley the question of the effect of the Land Office ruling as was reported The settlers refused to be sampeded by Mir Gleason rush to to repe jumpers at his suggestion They declined to descend into the gu1 or oack despair with the woebegone Standard - ,
 These people easily scared They did not lose their when the Colorado river ragged through the valley threatened to their canals and he farms They kept their headand their money in the banks through the panic And most of them refused to De worked o
 Standard into mysteries over the danger to Illegal traffckers in desert land assignments.
 Company Mo- T. majority of the settlers and the Imperial Va ley down Gleason and his war talk and asked only that practice of the Land Office be made to conform
 the law in spirit equity that specuaors and meretrous discouraged and that the course nov taken b the Office be adopted Their knowledge or conotons per epon of the situation and confidence in the purpose o the Lana Office protect honestly acquired claims and dea Justy Wn the actual recamers of the deserC lnaoe 'he u " ' teria and GeaSOnitlS.
Imperial Valley press., 1908-02-15
COUNTY NOTES

c. L. Brown, formerly of Yuma, has moved to El Centro and entered into partnership with M. w. Conkling. The law firm is now Conkling & Brown.
 At Imperial last Tuesday, Mrs. c. w. Collins was thrown from a buggy in runaway and badly cut about the face.
 There will be fast baseball game between Fl Centro and Imperial at El Centro Sunday.
 A. c. Moore, deputy supreme presi- dent of the Fraternal Brotherhood, is in El Centro assisting the local lodge to increase it's membership.
 w. B. Johnson was run over by a heavy wagon, while handling a team for Arakelian Bros, last Monday, and seriously injured in the back. He was taken to the hospital at Imperial.
 Fakirs are going about town telling tales of woe and selling their moth CTS wedding rings" for anything they can get. The wedding rings cost the fakirs 75 cents dozen, inscriptions thrown in, and are worth less than nothing.
 The new town of Coral Reef, es- tablished last Sunday with elaborate ceremonies in Coachella Valley. was stolen bodily by hoboes on Tuesday during the temporary absence of the population. Even the town map was taken, and now there is nothing to show where Coral Reef was located.
 Articles of incorporation have been filed by the El Centro Fruit and Pro duce Company. Principal place of business, Long Beach, Calf. Term of corporation, 50 years. Seven direct ors, as follows: I. P. Silliman, of Holtville, Calif.; J. H. Herring, c. H. HogeaJ. B. Heartwell, I. B. Coon, G. J. Sprague and s. B. Edwards, all of Long Beach, Calf. Capital stock $6O,OOO. Amount actually subscribed, $22,OOO.
Imperial Valley press., 1908-02-15

The Governor of Sonora has given, or sold, a concession to Douglas gamblers to run a gam ing joint just over the boundary line. Everything goes but rou- lette. A number of the Cover nor's staff did, and probably do yet, hold the exclusive privilege of skinning the people of Sonora with the roulette wheel.
Imperial Valley press., 1908-02-15

Reno's city council refuses to stop licensed gambling because the city needs the money paid by gamblers in fees. Licensing predatory occupations, like gam bling and saloon-keeping, is a wasteful form of taxation. To get one dollar into the public treasury, the community hands over a hundred to social para site, an economic pirate. In theory and practice the system is pernicious from a business standpoint, to say nothing of the moral evils involved. It does not pay.
Imperial Valley press., 1908-02-15

When the Press first told how a farmer near Mesquite lake killed four ducks with a shovel, the Hearst paper in Los Ange- les jeered and said the Press had Munchausen and Ananias beaten down to the "also ran" class. A month later the yellow freak takes the same story, null tiplies the number of ducks bagged, and plays it up with big head lines and a picture, with the added feature of 600 ducks killed at one spot by two hunt CTS. That is characteristic. If the Hearst paper suspected the story to be true, it would not print it.
Imperial Valley press., 1908-02-15
A BLIND PIG ALIBI.

James Heatley and Patrick Fitzger- aid, indicted for perjury in an Imper- ial blind pig case, in which they swore to an alibi for Heatley and failed to make the jury believe it, were ar ranged in the Superior Court this week. HeatleyNwas held in $500 bail for trial on Feb. 27, and Fitzgerald in $75O for trial Mar. 2.
Imperial Valley press., 1908-02-15
LAND CASES DECIDED.

Three land-jumping cases were de-. cided in the Superior Court this week. Paul Roman recovered Judgment against H. H. Arman for possession of the land in dispute. The case of Sheets vs. McKinnon was decided in favor of the plaintiff. In the case of Edmund B. Moore against Nelson Groftholdt, complicated transaction in land, judgment was given for Grof- tholdt for possession of cattle, $1O0' damages, $15O due on contract, and costs
Imperial Valley press., 1908-02-15
TEMPERANCE ADDRESS.

Miss Emma Stickley of Los Ange- les, State president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, will de- liver a temperance address at the Presbyterian church, El Centro, Mon day evening, Feb. 17th, at 7:3O o'clock. Good music has been prepared. All. are cordially inivted to be present.
Imperial Valley press., 1908-02-15

"One of the country's most valuable business concerns" is John D. Archbold's description of Standard Oil. Literally true. Henry Morgan, after footing the cities of the Spanish Main, had under his matches one of the most valuable cargoes ever car ried by a ship.
Imperial Valley press., 1908-02-15

According to a synopsis of the Southern Pacific's annual report telegraphed from New York, the break of the Colorado was closed by MT. Hartman "in fif- teen days at a cost of $3,152,- 920," or a little more than $210,- 900 a day. A good tale for the marines.
Imperial Valley press., 1908-02-15

The worst thing yet said about Taft is John D. Archbold's dec laration that he is unobjection- able to Standard Oil. In the same breath Archbold lauds Rockefeller as lone of the great est philanthropists of his day" Taft may be all right, but he is in mighty bad company.
Imperial Valley press., 1908-02-15

So all the indignant eloquence of Heney, the furious quarrels of attorneys in court, the spec tacular appearance of Ruef to plead guilty were nothing but play-acting staged by the great Graft Prosecutor to fool the pub- lie.
Imperial Valley press., 1908-02-15
COUNTY HAS FUNDS.
Railroad Taxes Relieve StrIngency
 In Treasurer's Office.

County Treasurer Roman received this week from, the Southern Pacific Company $12,70O in payment of taxes on property wholly within the county, and Is now able to pay all warrants registered up to Dec. 6, 1907. He has received notice from the State Con- troller that the first installment of the State railroad tax on property in Imperial County, amounting to $36,76O, has been paid and is available under section 366S of the Political Code.
Imperial Valley press., 1908-02-15

President Roosevelt refuses to invite King Leopold, of Bel gium, to visit the United States. The Belgian monarch would be an undesirable citizen of any country and an unwelcome guest in a decent family.
Imperial Valley press., 1908-02-15

Fashions in women's dress have not changed in Japan for 2500 years. That may account for the growing habit of foreign CTS in that land of taking Japa- nese wives.
Imperial Valley press., 1908-02-15
STUBBS; HIS JOKE.

Every man in California whohas had business with the Southern in the of paying a the rahc VIII
 bear knows J. C. Stubbs traffic director of the Hartman lines business machine unemotona cold as wedge relentless as bzz saw and efficient turbine When the Southern Pacific sembance of competition and held te inhabitants California in any ransgresson or US
Imperial Valley press., 1908-02-15

New York's most conspicuous need, shown by the outcome of the Thaw trial, is reformatory for the Criminal Rich.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1908-05-28
MISSOURI G. A. r.
The 9th Annual Eneampment Held NJ
TrentOns

Last week, the Department Of Mis-
souri,, G. A. r.. held its Encampment
at Trenton, with the Sons of Veterans.
Ladies of the G. A. r. and W. r. G.
meeting with them. The annual per
capita tax was raised from 25 cents to
80 cents. and Joplin was selected for
the place for holding the Encampment
next year. The following officers were
elected:
Commander. b. v. Martin, Brook
field: S. v. c., Hubert Unchurch, St.
Louis; J. " c.. John Hack, Trenton;
Medical Examiner. DR.. H. NJ. Keener,
st. Joseph; Chaplain, E. w. Flowers, St.
Joseph; Council of Administration, j.
w. Lucas. Kidder; Lewis Koop, st.
Louis; j. Hayes, Kansas City; Francis
P. Brecker, ST. Louis; Martin Krell,
Chillicothe; Delegates, S. d. Webster,
ST. Louis; H. H. Spence, Chillicothe;
Schroyer, Bethany; c. w. RUGBY, Leba-
non; Noble 8. Rogers, Sedalia: Ewing
Roberts. Bonneville; D. w. Pollock, st.
John; ID. e. Rippinger Clarence; Will
nam b. Mullins, Miami; L. T.. Maher,
Brookfield; Daniel Kern, Kansas City;
j. A. Demuth, st. Joseph; A. H. Burke
holder, Trenton; H. S. Beary, Cameron;
Alternates, Cornelius Yost, Coffeyburg;
John Supp, st. Louis; Phillips, Riech-
w. Mason, Lemonville; L. d. Middleton,
Joplin; W. P. Leedom, Lancaster; d.
III. Hudson, Novelty: Eli d. Hopkins,
Pennington; s. C. Heckaborn,. Carthage;
5. A. Hartley, Dunlap; S. c. Francer,
Kansas City; H. j. Button. Springfield;
x. b. Bodge, Webb City; William Con-
roy, st. Louis; A. j. Bennett, Union
vile.
The Ladies of the G. A. r. elected
the following officers
President, Mrs. Katherine Fairbach,
ST. Louis: S. v. p, Mrs. A Warner,
Kansas City; j. ". p, Lena Wagner;
Secretary. Mrs Christine Albeitz st.
Louis; Treasurer, Mrs. Fannie Dobs-
worth, st. Louis; Chaplain, Mrs. Mary
Belle Evans, Kansas City; Counselor,
Mrs. Olive d. HOfmaster, Kansas City;
Council of Administration. Chairman,
Anna P. Fiefer, st. LOUIS Mrs. Sarah
Morris, Kansas City; Mrs. Sarah ]. Lu-
cas-, Kidder.
The w. r. c. elected the following:
President, Mary Bodkin, Joplin; s.
': p, Irene Young: j. V.!P., Bertha NJ.
Buzzell, Kansas City; Treasurer, Mrs.
Mary Klenm. st. Louis; Chaplain, Mrs.
Hanna Martin, Moberly; Executive
Board, Mrs. Beach, St. Joseph. Chair
man: Mrs. Fuellmas, ST. Louis; Mrs.
Miller, Maryville; Mrs. Holland, Green
vine, MIS-. fretz, 81. LOUIS. delegates,
Mrs. Meter, Brookfield; Mrs. Dixon,
Springfield; Delegates at large, Mrs.
Anna r. Miller. st. Louis; Mrs. Rather
inc Mueller, st. Louis.
The Sons Of Veterans elected the fol-
lowing: ,.a.. r.,-.
Commander. Vim. Schneider, St Lou
is; reelected S. VIC, A. Hunnivis, st.
Louis; j. v. c., w. H. Blatner, Trenton;
Division Council. Fred Uthof, B. r.
Groffman and Mic /. Wig, all of st.
Louis; L. B. Philo. st. Joseph, Delegate
to the acknowledgements and Rev.
b. Jones. Trenton, Division Chaplain.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1908-05-28
Lighthouse Keeper Retired.

Comrade Robert A. Sisson, vino was
principal keeper of the lighthouse sta
lions at Hilton Head and Bloody Point,
on Dawfuskie Island, at the mouth of
the Savannah River, for 20 years and
five months, has been retired at his
own request. Comrade Sisson served
in the 157th N. Y. and 54th n. Y, and
draws pension of s12 a month under
the McCumber act. He went South
Immediately after the war, and was
Reading Clerk of the South Carolina
Senate during six years of Republican
rule and two years under Hampton's
administration. He was Postmaster of
his County town, and is now one of
the Game Wardens of South Carolina
and a notary public. He will continue
to live on Dawfuskie Island, where he
owns small tract on a bluff. Comrade
Sisson was the first Union soldier to pin
a Confederate cross on a Confederate
soldier, and he has many friends among
the business men and citizens of Sa-
vannah. He is now Ga years old, hale
and hearty, and belongs to Maj. Robert
Anderson Post, Department of Georgia.
He recently declined to run for Magis-
trate of his district.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1908-05-28
FOR CoMNfANDER-IN.CHIEF.
Minnesota Presents the Name of ex-Go,
8. II. Van Saut.

Minnesota Presents the Name Of ex-Gov.
s. II. Van SAINT.
Headquarters Department Of Mime
sofa, Grand Army OF the Republic,
March 81, 1908.
Comrade: The Department of Mime
sofa will, at the National Encampment
of the Grand Army Of the Republic. to
be held at Toledo, o., next August,
present the name of Comrade Samuel r.
Van SAINT, of Minneapolis, Mimi. as
candidate for the position of Command
er-in-Chief Of the Grand Army Of the
Republic.
Comrade Van SAINT was born at Rock
Island, Ill, May IL, 1914, and entered
the military service of the United States
in August. 1861, as a private in Co. A.
9Th Ill. Cav, and was discharged Sept.
%, 1864, with the rank of Corporal.
He was good soldier, and belonged
to q regiment that has to it's credit u
long and honorable record of efficient
service, with which service he was I'M
interruptedly and actively identified
from muster-in until muster-out.
He has served the State of Minnesota
as member of the Legislature. Speak
er of the House of Representatives and
as Governor for two terms. He Is and
always has been the best of Grand
Army men; was twice Commander of
his Post, Senior Vice Department Com
mander and Commander of the Depart
ment of Minnesota. His record as a
soldier, man and citizen meets every
requirement based on personal worth,
character and achievement With many
years of a successful business and pub
lie life to his credit and in the enjoy
ment of perfect health, he is eminently
qualified to discharge the duties of
Commander-in-Ch Chief, and IL chosen to
that high Office will make record that
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1908-05-28

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The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1908-05-28
A Real Centennrian.

The Tooth birthday of Grandma Cady
was celebrated5at AlIegan, Mich, Fri
day. May: T. by aiarge gathering of
relatives and friends. Mrs. Cady's hair
is white and her face wrinkled. but she
is just as young at heart as a girl, hears
well. talks freely, and has her physical
powers to an exceptional degree, except
that her sight is failing. She was born
in Portage County, o.. April 20, 1908,
and in 1882 married Peter Cady, with
whom she went to Michigan as pioneers
in Allegan County. Her husband died
in 1892, at the age of 81. She had two
sons in the Union army, George in the
Sd Mich. Cav, and L. Y, in the 18th
Mich. William White, her son-if-law,
served in the 18th Mdae Mrs. Cady is a
great favorite with Allegan Post and
w. r. c., which gave her a grand din
ner in G. A. r. Hall, followed by a
public reception.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1908-05-28

Editor National Tribune: 1 write to
make an urgent appeal to your journal
to protest against the illegal use of the
Pension Building of this city as a ware
house for the Patent Office models. at
the present time there is a surplus of
$1,000, 900 to the credit of the Patent
Office, and last year there was a sur
plus of s275,000. The cost of the mod
els to the Patent Office amounts to
about is cents model per year, and
all OF the expenses are willingly paid
by the inventors of this country and
foreign countries.
The Patent Office models are an in
tegral part of the patent system Of this
country, numbering $4,000 and cover
ing three large floors of the Union
Building of this city To remove them
confuse, injure, complicate and ulti-
mately destroy the models, which are
vital public records. 1t would mean
that there would be no accommodations
for the inaugural ball, and that the
Government would be the defendant in
endless litigation, growing out of the
destruction, confusion and injury of the
patent records. To place the Patent
Office models in the Pension Building
would be to fix an unnecessary and
heavy burden on the inventors of the
country and to fix needless and illegal
incumbrance on the Pension Bureau n
The inventors do not wish the models
removed. Why should the old soldiers,
the veterans of this country, be willing
to allow their National Headquarters
be made a waste basket and warehouse
for other Departments? Kindly for
ward a Geographic protest to e;Pen-
sions Committees; Of Congress, to the
Vice President, to Speaker Cannon and
to the President. re-.
This matter requires urgent treat
ment-Joseph ]. O'Brien. Secretary,
Society of American Patentees and In
ventors, Washington, D. c.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1908-05-28
Whose God Is the Lord.

r. F, Vaughan, S7th ILL.,, Pasadena,
Cal, was much struck with The Ma
tional Tribune's cartoon on the widows
pensions. He says, "Blesse5 is the Ma
ton whose God is the Lord and he
supports this quotation with reference
to the care of the widows and orphans
He was born in 1910, left good salary
as school teacher in 1862, when he
was % years old, and enlisted in Co. +,
S7th ILL.,, with which regiment he was
every day of its service. He married
the girl he left behind him, who became
the mother of three bright children be-
fore she passed away. After some
years he married, in 1891, woman
only two years younger than himself,
who has now nursed and cared for him
for almost 20 years, and has brought
up his children with the affection and
kindness of their own mother She
deserves a pension if any woman ever
did. '+-+'''-.-'
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1908-05-28
Information wanted.

Editor National Tribune: Your paper
has a wide experience in all things per-
tanning to the war for the preservation
of the Union, and probably you can
answer in your columns how long, using
muzzleloading rifles, would 60 rounds
of ammunition last regiment of infan-
try continuously engaged on the firing
line, as was the case at the first days
battle at Gettysburg. Also, can any
comrade give the greatest number OF
paroled prisoners in Camp Parole, near
Annapolis, at one time, and when?-
John D. Vautier, SSth Pa, 1912 S. 18th
St, Philadelphia.