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Imperial Valley press., 1908-12-05

The formal opening of the Imperial Valley Collegiate Institute will be held at Heber, Thursday, December 10th. The ceremonies will begin at 2:00 o'clock. In view of the possi- bilities of such an institution, the event will be significant in the his tory of Imperial Valley.
 The occasion will be made memor- able by the participation of speakers of prominence. Dean B. J. Wickson, of the University of California, will give one of the principal addresses. As chief of the agricultural depart meat of the University, he is ren- dering significant service in the con- mercial development of the West
 President Gates, of Pomona Col lege, will give an address on Educa- tion and Citizenship. Mir. Gates has been closely allied with educational progress in all parts of the United States; his energy and experience are now building for Southern California, an institution of unQuestionable mer- it.
 Another of the forceful speakers of the day will be Rev. Charles Fl. Sec conlbe of Ontario. The Collegiate h. stitute has been fortunate in having Mir Seccolnbe as one of its trustees. His effective educational training and his business judgement have contri- buted largely to the start of the school. Mir. Seccombe is one of the strong public speakers of Southern California.
 Dr. R. P. Shepherd, who will also be on the program, needs no introduc- tion to Imperial Valley. From the start he has felt that the Collegiate Institute merited his strongest coop eration and therefore has kept close ly in touch with its beginning.
 The program vii be interesting be- cause of its significance, for it marks a qistsSsS advance in the educational of &pertal Valley; it will also be premind worth while itself. including af does some of the most prominent educators in California.
 The program in full is as follows:
 Dr. J. W. Campbell-Presiding.
 Opening Prayer-Rev. Waite.
 The Institate-1ts Past and Future Rev. c. H. Seccombe.
 The Educational Possibilities of the Institute-Dr. Shepherd.
 Christian Education and Citizenship President Gates of Pomona.
 Agricultural Bdacation-Prof E. J. Wickson. of the University of Cali fornia
 Ceremony of Formal Opening-Dr James M. OGmDbeu.
Imperial Valley press., 1908-12-05
WORKING ON CREDITS.

Imperial Valley Business Mems Pro- tectiye Association is planning to com pile and issue a new rating book early in January based on business trans acted and payments made up to De- cember 31, 1908,
 Desiring to give every one the ben eft of the best rating warranted by individual circumstances and habits of payment, the association respect fully suggests to the customers of all merchants the advisability of making special efforts to reduce debit balan- ces to the lowest point practicable be- fore the close of the year, If
Imperial Valley press., 1908-12-05

FRANCIS L. SELIlEW,
 Project Engineer.
Imperial Valley press., 1908-12-05

Wanted to buy 5 shares Nf, 1 stock bargain for cash. nql B. Putnam, El Centre Cal
Imperial Valley press., 1908-12-05
SETTLED DOWN TO BUSINESS

Imperial county has settled down to do business in a staid and regular way and develop it's great agricul- turaI resources An effort was made at one time to upset the results of the election making the county seat at El Centro. This suit has been called off and all have agreed to get busy to develop and boost-Cultivato
Imperial Valley press., 1908-12-05

Norwalk rancher, apparently demen' ted, makes dlabolical attempt to hold woman on track in path of approach ing car; little girl companion of vic tim and members of train crew pre- vent tragedy; man in custody, but woman and child disappear.
Imperial Valley press., 1908-12-05
Take a Seat

It is Reserved for You-at the Grand Concert and Reading at the Opera House. Saturday evening, by the fin est talent to be had. RUTH lNEZ DEARDoRFF, Pianist. IRENE ELIZABETH BALCOM, so- prano.
 ERNEST CRozlsR PHILLIPS, Reader.
 Benefit of Free Reading Room
 Help Yourself, Reserved Seats 35c-50c.-at Ouna- ways.
Imperial Valley press., 1908-12-05
WATER IN THE RIVER.

Mean daily gage heights and dis charges of the Colorado River at Yuma, Arizona, for the week ending Saturday, November 2S, 1908.
Imperial Valley press., 1908-12-05
Mean TAP 5O7 17.7
 Greatest daily range, 3l degrees Least daily range, 4 degrees Mean daily range, 23 degrees

Comparison with the records of Red. lands is interesting. The highest temperature for November in Red, lands was 87 degrees, the lowest 9l degrees, the mean maximum 70 de- grees and the mean minimum AZ de- grees. The greatest daily EAhge was 41 degrees, the least z deg kes and the average 28 degrees Ttf greatest humidity was 82 per cent lowest l8 per cent and the meap 1a br cent
Imperial Valley press., 1908-12-05
HEBER INSTITUTES
 FORMAL OPENING
An Important Event in EduCa- tiOOaI History of Imperial
 Valley

Distinguished Educators win Assist gn Inauguration of Good Work of / the Collegiate Institute Next Thurs day--Prosrsm of Addresses and Ger emonies.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-26
REDHOT TRUTH ABOUT SOME
SENATOR'S UP FOR REELECTION

though not so bright. He is already
marked for defeat by the Idaho peo-
pie.
Hansbrough began by serving the
Jim Hill railroads, and is part of
the railroad machine in North Da-
kota He has been a railroad and
trust vote whenever needed in the
senate, but is very smooth withal
Gallinger is the instrument OF
the Boston & Maine railroad, but
serves also as the tool, in Washing
ton, d. c., of the local traction and
gas companies.
There are some others in the 80
senators who might be listed in the
class of not-to-be-desired. George G
Perkins is not so much the senator
from California as he is senator Of
the Southern Pacific railway. Levi
Ankeny, of Washington, is futile
where he is not bad. VIM. billing.
ham is the gentlemanly representa-
tive of the Boston & Maine rail
road. Frank Brandegee is a New
York, New Haven & Hartford man.
A. B. Kittridge was the political
representative of Tie Chicago, Mil
waukee & ST. Paul before he was
of South Dakota voters.
So there you are.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-26
HOSPITAL FIRES
SMELL BAD

Complaint was made to the board
of health this morning that the
st. Luke's hospital management
has piled garbage up in the open
all winter and Is now burning it,,
with frightful results to neighbor-
ing noses.
The complainant was convinced
that the hospital was making bon
fires of human remnants separated
from patients, making sort of
public holocaust of what the doc
tors had deducted with knife and
saw.
The hospital management de-
nounces this as a vile SANDER and
gives an assurance that bits of
flesh and bone no longer of prac-
tical use are consigned to the
earth from whence they came. Only
rags and bandages are burned, and
that not In an offensive or public
manner, they say.
DR.. Grieve dictated reformatory
order to the hospital management
and sent a man to investigate. Re
ports of bad conditions in the
neighborhood of the hospital have
been frequent this winter.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-26
Union and Nonunion Men Will Stand
Together Against Railways.

One of the arguments of the rail
ways against the new law is that
they will be unable to obtain opera
tors enough to man offices with the
extra men required under the nine
hour rule. Operators have sudden
ly become a scarce article, although
there is no symptom of increased
pay on this account. Instead the
companies figure on cutting wages
and that event they expect to be
able to find enough operators to
fill the places of the men who quit.
Operators are scarce for the pur-
pose of fighting labor protection
law; but they are numerous enough
for the purpose of beating down an
man can live on only by marvel
Gus system of mathematics that no
railroad magnate has ever had to
try to solve.
In Spokane at the present time
200 idle operators could be collect
ed to supply the company with ex-
ira men. There are plenty of them
all over the country.
Today's advices from Butte are
that the operators are voting on the
strike proposition, having also re-
ceived notice of the reduction. 1t
is considered certain that they will
vote against acceptance. The same
rule will undoubtedly apply all
over the country. If men are too
scarce to permit less than II hours
work per day per man the opera
tors can't see why they are not also
too scarce to encourage a strike.
At the present scale of prices it
is hard enough for workingman
to live comfortably on 500 per
month. The railroads evidently
conceive their operator to be a pc
culiar species of humanity that can
thrive under the same conditions
for half the amount. Whether they
live or die at it is probably a mat
ter of small consequence, so that
enough others can be found to do
the work and the dividends are not
interfered with.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-26
BREADS TO MEET HIS
BROTHERS TINY ORPHANS

81 dread to meet those two or
phaned children" said McClammy
this afternoon. Il am not accus-
toned to children. What will | say
to them when they ask for papa
and mama?'
McClammy is strapping fellow
who has put in the most of his life
as a cowboy. He says he will find
some good woman to take care OF
his brothers orphans, as he is UNI
married.
So far as is known the only
property left by Mark McClammy
Is a house and lot at Occur d'Alene,
Idaho, and lot and foundation OF
lodging house he was erecting at
St. Joe, Idaho, and two thorough
bred bloodhounds that are at Sand
point, Idaho.
Coroner Witter stated that after
the funerals tomorrow the suicides
brother will be given the money
which was left. also the children.
McClammy will later go to Idaho
and have his brothers estate pro-
bated.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-26
BALLED UP As WELL
AS HELD UP

Casey is worse mixed up than
ever and he thinks now he'll get
out of town quick. Yesterday he
discovered that a man who held
him up had been released from
custody without trial on a charge
of robbery, because Casey wasn't
there to testify. Casey wasn't
there because the prosecuting at
torney didn't notify him as agreed.
The board had been cleaned off
even to the extent of Casey's 1895,
which was taken from the bandit
that assailed him.
According to Casey 1t was
Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Web
ster who forgot to prosecute the
case But when Casey went to ask
Webster about it this morning he
had another revelation. Webster
wasn't the man at all, at all, and
everybody involved, including The
Press, owe Webster an apology.
Webster wasn't even in town when
ii all happened, and there was no
earthly chance of his having that
1895.
All Casey is now certain about is
that a tall, thin man with glasses
comforted him with promise of le-
gal redress. He is suspicious that
instead Of being prosecutor the
tall, thin man was interested in the
defense, but the dazzling possible
ties of a metropolitan holdup have
about discouraged any further in
vestigation on his part.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-26
ROB FORAKER
OF THUNDER

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.-By a
majority vote the senate investiga-
ton committee blamed negro sol
diers of the Twenty-fifth infantry
for the shooting outbreak at
Brownsville Tex, in 1906. The re-
port upholds Roosevelt's action in
dishonorably discharging the three
companies involved in the trouble.
Foraker, assisted by Scott and Du-
pont, tried to sidetrack the report
and will continue the fight in the
senate when the findings are for
mally fled
The Brownsville affair affords
Foraker his only presidential cam
paign issue. He has been depend
ing on that to carry the negro vote
of the south.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-26
MEET TO Make UP
STOTKO reward

Attorney Del Cary Smith this
morning said that he does not anti
cipate that Detectives Macdonald
and Thompson, who captured and
worked up the evidence against
James Dalton, convicted and sen,
fenced to life Imprisonment for the
murder of Patrolman Henry Stotko,
will have any trouble in collecting
the reward money, which amounts
to $2,566, $1,000 of which was sub.
scribed by the city and $1,566 by
citizens. He said that he has had
some inquiries but that those peo,
pie he has talked to express will.
ingness to pay up. A meeting OF
some of the subscribers, the attor
ney says. will probably be called
for this evening.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-26
BOARD OF HEALTH TO
CLEAN UP BAKE. SHOPS

Sanitary Inspector Bittrick is
visiting bakeries today and will or
der that the rules and regulations
of the health department be COM
piled with. The board Of health
will in the near future ask the city
council to allow the appointment OF
an extra inspector to look after the
inspection Of bakeries and restaur-
ants, which are said to now be in
unsanitary condition because the
force of inspectors is too busy with
other work to make regular inspec-
tions of those places.
Inspector Bittrick stated to
Health Officer Grieve that he re-
Gently found bakery and restaur-
ant where holes were cut in the
floor to run off the scrub water and
slop.
The state law governing bakeries
Is very plain as to the manner of
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-26
COMING TO A
COUNTRY WHERE
PANIC Is SCARCE

Despite the financial stringency
of the past few months the great
number of inquiries about the
Northwest which have been made
to headquarters Of transcontinental
railroad lines leads to the belief
that travel to the Northwest next
spring will be the greatest in the
history of the country. At the
Great Northern and Northern Pa
cific city Offices it is said that plans
are being made to run trains in as
many as six sections when the
colonist rates are put into effect in
March.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-26
HUGHES TAKES SLIGHT
SLAM AT TEDDY

NEW YORK, Feb. 26.--In adj
dressing the City club last night
Gov. Hughes made the significant
declaration that while he was a
party man he did not believe in
blindly following any leadership. An
effort to protect the party against
itself. he argued, would result in
despotism. which might be con-
strued as a slam at Roosevelt.
Gov. Folk. of Missouri, also spoke,
endorsing Hughes fight against
race track gambling. Although a
democrat he threw a few bouquets
at Hughes as presidential posi-
bility.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-26
FIGHT FOR UNION
LABOR FUNERAL

JUNEAU, Alaska, Feb. 26.-The
first recorded labor trouble over a
union label funeral has occurred
here. 1t almost resulted in a riot
at the funerals of two Servians.
One of them was union man and
he was buried without trouble, but
the spectators seized the hearse of
the nonunion corpse after trying in
vain 10 persuade the priest to re-
fuse 1t burial service. Another dis
turbance occurred at the cemetery
before the authorities succeeded in
restoring order.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-26
@. p. MccLAMM ARRIVES TO
TAKE CHARGE OF CHILDREN
LEFT HOMELESS BY MURDER
AND SUICIDE.

The separate funerals of Mr.. and
Mrs. Mark McClammy will be held
from Buchanan's undertaking par
lors tomorrow morning. lnterment
will be in Paramount cemetery. The
funeral of Mark McClammy will be
held under the auspices of the
Eagles lodge, as the suicide be
longed to the Standpoint, Idaho,
aerle. Billy Abbott and John Muir
ray, of the Standpoint aerie, arrived
this morning to consult with the
members of the local lodge
Q. p. McClammy, brother of tho
suicide, arrived this morning from
Oswego, Mont. He could give no
explanation of what caused his
brother to shoot his wife and then
blow out his own brains. He knows
nothing of Mrs MeClammy's ante
cedents and never met her alive.
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-26
LEVI ANkENY NUMBERED IN
THE LIST AS A MAN WHO
is FUTILE WHERE HE is NOT
BAD.
BY gibson GARDNER.
Special Correspondence to The Press

WASHINGTON, d. c., Feb. 90
Every year the people have a
chance to do little toward regen
Grating the United States senate
and making it a little more re-
sponsive to the demands of the peo
pie. This year there are some star
rascals who seek reelection, and
who might just as well be retired
or the 80 senators whose terms
expire in 1909, and who are there
fore now campaigning for their re
election, the worst are:
Albert J. Hopkins of Illinois.
Jas. A. Hemenway of Indiana.
Boies Penrose of Pennsylvania.
Jos. B. Foraker Of Ohio.
Chas. w. Fulton of Oregon.
Jacob II. Gallinger of New Hamp
shire.
Henry c. Hansbrough of North
Dakota.
Thos. c. Plat of New York.
All the above named senators are
drag upon popular government
They are the men who help special
interests to thrive; who kill OFF
parcels posts in the interest of the
express companies: who fight forest
preservation in the interest of the
lumber trust; who oppose rate reg
ulation in the interest of railroads
who kill Philippine tariff revision
to aid the sugar trust-who, In
short. are opposed to things honest
and helpful, and who do all In their
power to help on the designs OF
those people who belong in Jail but
are still wearing broadcloth and
presenting our principal cities with
art galleries.
Take a man like Hopkins for ex.
ample. His record is bad. He is
tricky, but in spite of all his in
genuity 1t is perfectly evident to
anybody who takes the trouble to
study his record, that he has served
the interests and not the people
He pretended to be for rate legisla-
ton, but he tried to get the bin sent
back to committee at the critical
stage of it's consideration. The com
mittee was hostile, and such re
quest betrayed Hopkins hostily
Hopkins has become rich while he
has been a congressman. He was
many years in the house OF repre-
sentatives, and has reared large
family; he started as a barefoot
newsboy. He now has plenty of this
worlds goods. He practices law
His firm has had many cases before
the departments. He practices pol
itics in the interest of guaranty
company he is mixed up with out in
Illinois. He works with a corrupt
political machine in Chicago. He
has had his relatives and family on
the federal payrolls, in Washington
and in Chicago. He has thriven or
receiverships.
The story of the unfitness o.
Thos. Collier Plat IL stale one
Every schoolboy ought to know b,
this time who Is the greatest dis
grace to the senate. Added to the
fact that he represents the Van
derbilts, the Observation-Disclosures
riman-Rogers stock-jobbing outfit
together with the Western Unioi
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-26
CLARK HIDES TO
H. BLOCK TRIAL

Attorney John Kleber, legal rep
resentative of Mrs. George H..
Clark, who was arrested for taking
two shots at her husband because
she found him visiting Mrs. Minnie
Carrico, desires to learn of Mr..
Clark's whereabouts, as he Is want
ed at the trial which yesterday was
postponed on account of Clarks
absence. 1t Is said that recon-
ciliation has been effected, but,
nevertheless, the case will be tried,
and If possible, Attorney Kleber de-
sires Mr.. Clark's testimony intro
duced. The shooting on Feb. II
was the second time Mrs. Clark
shot at her husband. Several
months before she took two shots
from the window Of their apart
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-26

, Telegraph Co. and the United
States Express Co., he is a man of
VIGOROUSLY degraded life.
James A. Hemenway is the man
who inaugurated his senatorial ca
reer by becoming the special repre-
sentative of the patent medicine
trust, and fighting pure food legis-
lation. He, too, has carried men,
bers of his family on the govern,
ment payrolls and has practiced
similar small gratis. He is opposed
to the Roosevelt administration and
policies, and is chief political
manager for the reactionary COM
blnatiou which exists between Fair
banks and Cannon. He is the tool
of the Indiana railroads and was
elected by railroad influence and
money.
Second only to Plat in the dis
grace he brings upon the United
States senate is Boies Penrose of
Pennsylvania. He is the open ana
insolent representative of special
interests, the confidante of corrup-
tionists who have sought and are
seeking to debauch the republican
party and to steal the republican
nomination. He is a man whose
personal habits make him of little
use even to his Philadelphia con-
stituents-habits which, on at least
one occasion, have made it neces-
sary for the senate to clear the gal
leries and go into executive SEES
sion. Penrose is the acknowledged
head of the most VIGOROUSLY rotten
political organization in America
the old Quay republican machine of
Pennsylvania. He is responsible as
much as anybody for such outrages
as the footing OF the new state
house and the colossal scandals
which are now being aired in the
courts in consequence of that
crime. He is the tool OF the Raer
coal trust, the Pennsylvania rail
road and of Standard Oil
And yet Boies Penrose will prob.
ably be reelected. Pennsylvania
has a political conscience like the
smallest integral grain in a driedXp
puffball.
Joseph B. Foraker is not the kind
of man typified by either Hemen-
way, Penrose, Plat or Hopkins.
Foraker is more like the angels of
Paradise who revolted against the
Almighty and fell. He used to be
night fighting for the oppressed;
he used TO have following of con-
scientious, valiant young men; he
used to be arrayed against Ohio's
corrupt machine: he used to be the
fiery champion of the veteran-the
heroic figure of man who was
brave under bullets, hardy in cam
paigns and never fiinching when he
heard the call of duty. That is
what Foraker used to be. Then
came the day when trolley fran
chises were put on the block in
| Ohio. and Foraker sold out himself
and his constituents to the special
interests and became their hired
brain. That is the Foraker of to-
day: a polished, brilliant, eloquent
man--but gone wrong. a man with
out scruple and without a thought
| of LOYALTY to the Office or the peo-
pie who have put him there.
As to some of the others
| Fulton represents the land fraud
| interests which Francis Heney
| fought in the Northwest.
Hepburn is Of the same type,
The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1908-02-26
JURY EX0NERATES
PORTLAND MAYOR

PORTLAND, Feb 26.-After a
short session the jury In the case of
Mrs. Belle Waymire and e. E. Rad
ding, accused of conspiracy to
blackmail Mayor Lane. returned a
verdict of guilty. The woman pre-
ferred serious charges against the
mayor on the occasion of visit to
his office. The two are believed to
have represented plotters deter
mined to ruin Lanes character,
and a further investigation is be-
ing conducted.