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Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-03-26
WILL VOTE BY DISTRICTS
Such is the Decision of the Indian
apolis Convention of Miners.

indianapolis, Ind-With a few
changes the convention of United
Mine Workers of America Thursday
adopted its scale committees report.
The policy is that the separate dis
tricts may adopt wage contracts with
their operators; that such contracts
shall be for one year and that the
scale shall provide for mot less than
the present wage rates"
The feature of the session was the
speech of President Mitchell in sup
port of the scale committees report.
He said: Your president-elect and
myself, about to retire, represent so
far as possible the fundamentals of
trade unionism. We have brought
you what everybody said we would
not dove brought an unanimous re-
port to this convention. We have
gone almost so far as to beg the
operators to meet us-four times we
asked them. They have refused. In
view of their attitude the best course
to pursue is to adopt the plan of dis
trict contracts.
81 want you who nave long regard
ed my advice in good and bad times
to follow me now and adopt this re-
port. If you make changes you will
ruin the document.
Let us go out of here united. If
we have to make fights by districts,
we can do it, and the operators know
what kind of a fight we can put up.
We will win if you adopt this report.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-03-26
Baltimore Again Visited by Fire.

Baltimore, Md.-A destructive fire
broke out at 1920 Thursday afternoon
on the sixth floor of the immense
building of Henry Keidel & Co.,
wholesale dealers in hardware. guns
and ammunition, 4O5-4O7 w. German
street. Six alarms were sounded, call
ing all the big fire companies to the
scene. The store is in the wholesale
district and adjoining buildings house
ing great quantities Of merchandise and
hundreds of workmen. The police re-
serves were called out and streets
near the fire cleared of people. 1t is
feared that if the fire gains headway
it will be unsafe and impossible for
firemen to work, because of the prob
able igniting of the ammunition and
explosives. The greatest alarm pre-
vailed in the district.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-03-26
WAS TIRED CT THIS LIFE
A Handsome Brooklyn, N. ", Woman
Shoots Herself.

New York. - Miss Helen Daen.
ger, who conducted school of
instruction in embroidery and other
fine needle work in Brooklyn, shot
herself to death Wednesday night in
telephone booth after summoning
an acquaintance to care for her body.
The report of the revolver and the
dying groans of the suicide carried
over the wire to the man who answer.
ed her call, but before he could reach
the address given the woman was
dead. Across writing pad in the
telephone booth she had written
Somebody will come to identify me.
Excuse me for making all this trou.
BILE"
Miss DaenZer was a handsome
woman of 80 years and had a profit
able business. She made her home
with her mother and a brother She
was married a year ago, but three
months after the wedding she separat-
ed from her husband. She lately com
planned of severe headaches to her
mother and only on the ground of ill
health can she account for the suicide.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-03-26
To Remit Orchards Sentence.

Caldwell, Idaho. Stating that
he believed Harry Orchard, in his
Testimony in the trials of William d..
Haywood and George A. Pettibone of
the Western Federation of Miners for
the murder of eX-Gov. Steunenberg,
told the exact truth, attempting to con-
ceal nothing, Judge Fremont Wood,
who presided at both trials, Wednes.
day recommended that the state board
of pardons remit Orchards sentence of
death. This does not necessarily
mean Imprisonment for life. The
sentence of death was pronounced in
accordance with Orchards plea of
guilty
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-03-26
Three Men Killed.

Indianapolis, Ind. - Three men
were killed here Tuesday afternoon by
the falling of heavy steel beam that
was being placed in position for rail.
road elevation. The men were in the
employ of the Kelly-Atkinson Con.
.struction Co of Chicago.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-03-26
perrauded Life Insurance Co.

Los Angeles, Cal. - Sheriff A.
B. Adams of Cohoes, n. Y, arrived in
this city having in custody Ira J. Bay
liss, who is said to be wanted in New
York on a charge of defrauding the
Prudential Life Insurance Co. out of
many thousands of dollars.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-03-26
Sailed for Mandalena Rau-

San Diego, Cal.-With about $780,
900 worth of provisions and be-
tween 400 and 500 sacks of mail for
the battleship fleet the supply ship
Culgea sailed for Magdalena Bay
Thursday.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-03-26
Entered a Plea of Guilty.

Logan, lathe Illinois Central
Railroad Co. on Thursday enter
ed plea of guilty to the Indictment
returned at the last term of the dis
trict court in this city, charging the
road with illegal sales of liquor on a
buffet car A fine of $500 was i'm
nOSed.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-03-26
Grover cIeveland's Birthday.

Lakewood, n. J. - After quiet
family celebration of his list
birthday anniversary, Grover Cieve-
land, for eight years president of the
United States, was able to say We'd
nesday night that he was in better
health than for some time past.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-03-26
Boy Puqilist Killed,

Philadelphia, Pa. - In an ANA
sttur boxing tournament following the
regular performance at the Bijou the
atre here Tuesday night Willie Robin
son, aged Is years, was killed while
boxing with Charles Wolf of the same
age.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-03-26
FACTS FOR SICK WOMEN.

For thirty years Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound, made
from roots and herbs, has been the
standard remedy for female ills,
andhas positively cured thousands of
women who have been troubled with
displacements, inflammation, ulcera-
tion, tibroid tumors, Irregularities,
periodic pains, backache, that bear
ing-down feeling, fiatulency, indiges-
tion, dizziness or nervous prostration.
Why don't you try it?
Mrs. Pinkham invites all sick
women to write her for advice.
She has guided thousands to
health. Address, Lynn, Mass.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-03-26

Proof is inexhaustible that
Lydia l.. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound carries women safely
through the Change of Life.
Read the letter Mrs. E. Hanson,
304 K. Long ST., Columbus, Ohio,
writes to Mrs. Pinkham:
az was passing through the Change
of Life, and suffered from nervous
ness, headaches, and other annoying
symptoms. My doctor told me that
Lydia f. Pinkhams Vegetable Com
pound was good for me, and since tax
ing it 1 feel so much better, and can
again do my own work. 1 never forget
to tell my friends what Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound did for me
during this trying period"
Imperial Valley press., 1908-07-11
ROADS, CITY PARK AND TREES
 URGED BY TEN THOUSAND CLUB
Fl CentroS Active Civic Organization Takes the Lead In Movements for County and City Improvements --CaIIS for Public Discussion at Open Meeting Next Monday Nght---Panning for an ArbOr Day.

The Ten Thousand Club, of El Cen tro puts it's shoulder to the wheel of progress last Monday night and helped along three projects of public improve ment: The construction of good county roads, the establishment of a park at the gateway of the city, and the systematic planting of shade trees ,on the streets of Fl Centro.
 Members of the club assembled in the Palm roof garden and sat down to a light dinner at 7:30 D. m. The hour set for meetings is ' o'clock, but the El Centro habit of assuming that evening affairs never begin at the time fixed is hard to eradicate. Later in the season, the meeting hour will be o'clock, but in midsummer it is not comfortable to sit under a roof until the sun has gone down. The committee responsible for dinner ar engagements desires to remind mem ,bers that when they say they will be present, preparations are made for them and have to be paid for and that their failure to put in appearance causes inconvenience. 'I forgot" may explain, but it is a poor excuse for breaking engagements. Forgetting will not go far toward accomplishing the purposes for which the club was orga- ,1,i1
 Road Campaign.
 Good roads" was the first subject submitted to the club for considera- -tion and discussion. The president eX- plained that the supervisors would ap- point, on presentation of the petition required by law, a highway commits sion to investigate the needs of the county in the matter of highways and to submit to the board a report in cluding estimates of cost of construc- 7tion of such roads as the commission may recommend, and if the board should approve the report it would be it's duty to call an election on the question of issuing county bonds. The law requires that such petition be signed by a number of freeholder cleo tors equal to ten per cent of the vote last cast for Governor. While the proposed highway to San Diego had started the discussion of the advisa- bility of appointing a commission, it did not follow that the San Diego road would be the especial care of the com mission, nor that the commission would even be bound to make any re- port on that project It would be the duty of the commission to consider the road needs of the county gener- ally, and to advise the supervisors concerning the desirability and cost of such highways as might seem to the commission to be of chief importance. There was no doubt that three citizens 1of Imperial county, competent and efficient, could be found to serve without pay
 Highway Commission.
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Imperial Valley press., 1908-07-11
Expert Growers Views.

Cantaloupe growers from Rocky Ford, who operated in Imperial Val ley this season, are at no loss to ac- count for the failure of the campaign financially. MT. Sloan, who has had years of experience as a grower and shipper and knows melons thoroughly, says the cause of failure was bad handling of the crop.
 The first melons shipped out of the valley, he asserts, were unfit for the market, and although they sold at high prices because they were early, the shipment injured the business. The second lot consisted of green fruit, and the price dropped at once. Dealers refused to handle green stuff, and the market was ruined before the big shipments began. Inspectors at the sheds, says MT. Sloan, are mex perienced men, many of them never having handled cs.ntaloupes before, and they have accepted fruit utterly unfit for shipment instead of rejecting vigorously every defective lot offered by growers.
 Inexperienced growers, lacking pro- per instruction in selecting melons, picked all sorts and rushed their crop to the sheds, anxious only to get their stuff over the platform, and the badly selected assortment of green and ripe fruit completed the demoralization of the market.
 The conclusion of the Rocky Ford men is that Imperial Valley can grow cantaloupes all right but has not learned yet how to get them to mar ket The cut-throat system of distri- button, resulting from competition of associations and commission mer- chants, will have to be reformed.
Imperial Valley press., 1908-07-11

assistance to citizens in. selecting trees and arranging for symetrical and harmonious ornamentation of the city. The directors were requested by the club to carry out the scheme.
 It is proposed to consult an expert in the selection and planting of trees, designate an Arbor Day early in the fall, and engage the expert to come to El Centro and talk to the people at a public meeting. The success of the movement all depends upon the degree of interest shown by citizens, and in order to ascertain how much interest is taken in the subject and to get sug- gestions that may be useful, the Ten Thousand Club invites the public to attend it's next meeting in the Palm roof garden on Monday night.
 All who wish to join the club are re- quested to be present at z o'clock. The business meeting will be held at S:30
Imperial Valley press., 1908-07-11
Georgia Crop Suffers.

A dispatch to The Times from New York, dated July ,, said of the canta- loupe market:
 "Twenty-three cars of California cantaloupes were offered today. Con- dition was poor to fair, being held over the holiday; they were generally overripe. Standards, S125 to $1.75: ponies, $1.OO to $1.25; Californias suf- fered greatly oil account of liberal Georgia supplies. As rule, the trade prefers Californias, because of better flavor. Twenty-siX cars of Georgias were offered; condition very poor, and generally overripe. The season is now closing as a result of unusually dry weather in Southern Georgia the last ten days. The crop is rapidly going to pieces under adverse conditions. Mel ons are now being gathered, as per feet as ever grown, but weather con- ditions are such that fruit gathered at morning in a green state is fully ripe by night and almost unmarketable by time it reaches it's destination. Also, unusually dry June weather has prac- tically cut off the later yield Many growers who expected to ship carloads this week are now shipping small quantities, many combining shipments to make up carlots. These small ship ments will cause losses and many will close the season without profits, as these later shipments represent the average growers profit
Imperial Valley press., 1908-07-11
MELONS MOVING SHIPMENTS THIS WEEK BRING TOTAL OF SEASON UP TO
 16oo CARLOADS.
PRICES NOT ENCOURAGING
Distributors say Market Would not Stand Big Crop While Growers Be. ieve Method of Distribution can be Improved.

Including this weeks shipments more than 1900 carloads of canta- loupes have been shipped from Impe- rial Valley this year. Most of the associations have shipped a few cars each this week and Lyons Bros. Co.,. sent out thirty cars in three days from Brawley.
 Returns from eastern markets are not encouraging, but many of the growers are still hoping that condl- tions will improve toward the end of the season. The distributors say that the market could not in any year take care of 1900 carloads of melons and that the generally poor conditions in the East this year made it impossible to take care of anything like the 2500 carloads which were undoubtedly raised and which could have been shipped if they could have been sold at a fair price. The growers, on the other hand, are by no means satisfied with the way in which the crop has been handled and plans for changing the system of distribution are being discussed.
 Many workmen are going out on every train and it is estimated that now less than one-fourth of the tran sient laborers remain here.
Imperial Valley press., 1908-07-11
THE WEATHER
Steady Summer Heat and PerceptibIe
 Increase of Relative Humidity.

In New York the heat and humidity are killing people at the average rate of one every hour and prostrating ten times as many more. Philadelphia's record of deaths due directly to excess sive heat is twelve in a day. Boston reports a few deaths and many pros trations. And yet the temperature has not been above 90 in any of those places.
 In Imperial Valley the temperature has ranged from 10S to 113 during the week. Some thermometers, placed in the shade but exposed to radiated heat from brick walls or reflected heat from glaring surfaces, have reg istered as high as 121, but that record is not indicative of the weather ac- tually experienced by dwellers in the valley. The Press thermometer is tested instrument of the type used by the Weather Bureau; it is exposed. on the wall of the building without spe- cial protection, and indicates the de- gree of heat to which people on the street are exposed.
 The record for the week in El Gen. fro is as fOlOIWS.
Imperial Valley press., 1908-07-11
CupidltY of Dealers.

One of the causes of trouble in the cantaloupe market is indicated by the Boston Globe of July 1 as follows;
 "Cantaloupes are higher than they ought to be and there is no good req son for the advance. The wholesale dealers of Boston are complaining bit terly over the way the retail trade as a whole is handicapping the sale of the luscious melon by putting the price so high that the consumer does not care to purchase. Melons which cost the retailer little less than cents each are being sold in some places two for quarter and in most places three for a quarter,
 "The push-cart vendors are offering their cantaloupes at very high prices,
Imperial Valley press., 1908-07-11
UNION HIGH SCHOOL.
Directors Make Provision for Hiring
 Male Principal and Two Assistants.

The directors of the Union High School district, which includes the school districts of Eucalyptus, Deal, Adair, Heber, Silsbee, Ell Centro and Elder, met last week to discuss plans for the new school
 Messrs. Van Horn, Forester and Conkling were appointed committee to secure furniture for the school and engage teachers.
 It was decided that three teachers shall be employed and that the prin cipal shall be man. Several applica tions have been received from teach CTS who have held important positions in the schools of Southern California; and the committee feels certain of hay ing no lack of candidates from which to select.
 Another meeting of the board will be held the latter part of July
 Indications are that the new high school will have at least twenty-five pupils at the start and doubtless this number will be largely increased by arrivals of families in the fall immigra- tion.
Imperial Valley press., 1908-07-11
GROWING SOME
Imperial Valley Corn Sprouts Forty
 Eight Hours After Planting.

Imperial Valleys combination of delta soil, silt-ladeh water and intense summer heat produces amazing results in the germination of seed and growth of plants. For instance: On Friday July 3, Harold Bell Wright planted corn in land that had been thoroughly prepared and flooded, the planter going over the ground as soon as the sur face was dry enough to make the work possible. Under the surface the ground was moist and hot to the touch. It was the purpose of the ranch foreman to harrow the field after planting, but Saturday being holiday he thought it advisable to postpone that job to Monday On Sunday he examined the field and found the seeds sprouted, and on Monday the corn plants were be- ginning to show at the surface, and therefore the field was not narrowed.
 Corn that comes up forty-eight hours after planting is growing some.
Imperial Valley press., 1908-07-11
tro is as fololWs:

The relative humidity increased steadily, as shown by the wet bulb readings and consequently the "sensi- ble" temperature was higher than it was last week. On dry days the diff ference between the wet and dry is twenty degrees. On the hottest day of the week, and of the season up to date, the difference was only fifteen degrees. In such weather as they have in the East, there is but slight difference between the two bulb read ings.
 The cause of increased humidity probably is the opening of the season of showers in Arizona and Sonora. On Wednesday night banks of clouds on the eastern horizon of the valley were luminous with "heat lightning" the visible signs of thunder storms too far away to be audible.
Imperial Valley press., 1908-07-11
YOUNG MAN BECOMES INSANE.

Roy Shelburn, aged 29 years, who came from Arizona to work in the cantaloupe fields near El Centro, be- came insane while working in the sheds last week. He was committed to the State Hospital, and because of the quarantine at Patton. due to diph- theria cases among the patients, Shel- burn was taken to Agnews Asylum, near San Jose.
Imperial Valley press., 1908-07-11

when, as matter of fact, they never bought them at less figures than at present. With almost all food products selling at an advance which cannot be helped, the wholesalers think that the public ought to know that the extra prices which they are asked for canta- loupes represent the cupidity of the retailer, who isn't willing to accept a fair return, but wants an enormous profit"
Imperial Valley press., 1908-07-11
NEW CONSTABLE FOR cALExIco

Maury H. McAlmond has been ap pointed constable for the township of Calexico by the Board of Supervisors. The former constable removed froln the valley. Mr. McAlmond is also city marshal for Calexico, and is deputy sheriff for Imperial county.
Imperial Valley press., 1908-07-11
Gateway Park.

Director Pearson brought before the club the matter of the proposed park at the railroad gateway of the city, which was recently advocated by the Press. MT. Pearson said he had good assurance that the Southern Pacific would plant. the park if the city would undertake to maintain it, and he thought it would be feasible for the people of the city to secure for the purpose most if not all of the block bounded by the railroad, Main street, Fourth street and Broadway. It would be advisable to go about the business at once, while the railroad people are improving their depot site and while the land can be obtained on moderate terms.
 Dr. Shepherd and MT. Carter SUD- ported MT. Pearson and advised that there be no delay in getting the pro- ject started. A committee consisting of Carter, Pearson and Shepherd was appointed to confer with the South ern Pacific and owners of the land and report at the next meeting, if possible, the terms on which park may be es- tablished
Imperial Valley press., 1908-07-11
Tree Planting.

MT. Hayden suggested that it is the right time to start in El Centro a movement for the systematic planting of shade trees, and a general discus sion of the subject ensued. MT. Pear son, who is president of the board of city trustees, was asked if the city engagements for conducting water through the streets and taking charge of irrigation and care of the trees. He replied that he believed the board would take up matters in which they were assured of the support of citi- zens, and if the people should plant trees the board would feel obliged to provide for irrigation and care.
 MT. Carter suggested that city street superintendent, acting under direction of the street commissioner could do all the street work, including irrigation of trees and grass plots and sprinkling of streets. Dr. Shepherd said the right man in that place could make himself the most useful citizen of El Centro. No other opportunity for great public service equalled that open to a superintendent of streets. El Centro could be made one of the most beautiful towns in California if its citizens would appreciate their op- portunity and earnestly determine to do their part.
 The president suggested that the club have prepared by competent per sons a general plan of tree planting, showing the varieties advised for the different streets, and give that plan publicity in report that would be of
Imperial Valley press., 1908-07-11

board of supervisors. Imperial Holt vile, Calexico and Heber sent in pc titions bearing an aggregate of 103 names, making the total number 1S5. It is necessary that 110 freeholder cleo tors sign the petitions, and as some of the signers probably are not qualified by the ownership of iand in free hold, additional petitions will be circulated as a precaution.
 Discussion of the possible personnel of the commission followed. The sec retary read letter in which H. J. Messenger, of Holtville, who is deeply interested in the good roads move ment, declared himself candidate for appointment, to serve without pay. Geo. A. Carter, of El Centro, also of fered his services on the same terms, and the club resolved to recommend Messrs. Messenger and Carter to the favorable consideration of the super visors ill case the board acts upon petitions and decides to create a high way commission.