Imperial Valley press., 1908-04-18
UNHAPPY CONTESTANTS THINK OF BRILLIANT MOVE IN
 THE GAME.
MAY FLOCK ALL ALONE
Wireless Interview That Might Have Occurred IT Anyone Had Owned Up to Paternity of the Great Scheme of Division.

 strategic move, devised by the incon- solable county seat losers of Imperial for the realization of their vanished dream, and the everlasting humilia- ton of the outcasts of El Centro. A Press reporter went up to Imperial yesterday to find out what was in the wind, but nobody in town would admit that he had anything to do with the new scheme. Several citizens had heard some talk of new county di- vision project, but had given no at tention to the details, and the moving spirits in the county seat contest were out of town.
 The reporter failed to get into wire less communication with l.. F. Earns worth, but had he succeeded, he might have had the following highly import ant interview with that gentleman:
 Reporter-"It is rumored, MT. Earns worth, that you have new plan to down El Centro. Is there anything in the story?"
 MT. F.-"Most certainly there is. l don't mind telling you that we, the people of Imperial county-you under stand of course that that means me and possibly, one or two others-have hit upon the ideal solution of our prob lem. The main thing is to get rid of Fl Centro, which is a nefarious place, infested by objectionable per sons who do not recognize my genius for regulating the affairs of the county. You may remember that l ordered those outlaws, the County Supervisors, to reduce the county to the forty third class and cut down everybody's salary, and that they paid no attention to the command. Very well, then. l have decided to let those deplorable people go to blazes by their own route, and to have a county of my own.'
 Reporter-"You don't think of nov ing to Alaska or the Philippines, do you?"
 MT. F.-"No sir. While disapprove some of the inhabitants of this county those in Fl Centro--my heart beats warmly for this fair land and l would infiict no needless anu Irreparable in jury upon it. I shall not leave it. You may reassure the people on that point. My plan is to have another county division. We will cut Imperial county in two sir, and the great city of I'm perial shall be it's seat. If we cant be a county seat one ~'ay, we can in another"
 Reporter-"What is your proposed . line of division, may l ask?"
 MT. F.-"Anything, sir, that will leave El Centro on the other side. The main thing is to get rid of that irritating and extensively business-like outfit. My plan, however, is to start at the south line of Imperial townsite, take in the town, and then run north along the railroad, say ten feet on each side of the right of way, to Old Beach"
 Reporter-"But Brawley is north of you and probably would not go in on your scheme. Those XJrawley folks are notorious for having good sense"
 MT. F.-"Very well. If that is so, of course we don't want anything to do with them. We shall make jog and cut 'em out Then from Old Beach we shall run both ways along the rail road to Dos Palmas and Pilot Knob, ten feet each side of the track. That, sir, would make an ideal county ac- cording to my notions. It would have no rival town to Imperial and we would have the county seat. You will observe that the county seat would be accessible by rail from every other point in the county, which is a tre- mendous advantage"
 Reporter-"It also would give you all the railroad taxes, and l suppose that Is important"
 MT. F.-"W -"Well-er-we had not in- tended to emphasize that point, but as a minor detail I may say that it had