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Imperial Valley press., 1908-10-17

Notice is hereby given that Mabel E. McKusick. of Los Angeles, California. who on October IS. 1904. made Desert Land Entry, No 2SO5. for NE. quarter. Section SS. Township 16 S., Range lS F.. B. M. has filed notice of intention to make Final Proof to establish claim 10 the land above described. before Clerk of the Superior Court of Imperial County. at Fl centro. California. on the 1lth day of November. 1908.
 Claimant names as witnesses: Milton A. Vanalstine, William MOores, both Of Imperial. California. Huntington McKu- sick, of Calexico, California. Flora Nc Kusick of El Centro. California.
 FRANK c. PRESCOTT. 27-5t Register,
Imperial Valley press., 1908-10-17
Lame Back.

This ailment is usually caused by rheumatism of the muscles of the small of the back, and is quickly cured by applying Chamberlain's Lini- ment two or three times day and massaging the parts at each applica- ton. For sale by Sam w Dunaway, Druggist.
Imperial Valley press., 1908-10-17
POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENT.

I wish to announce myself an in dependent candidate for reelection at the next general election to a full term as Judge of the Superior Court.
 FRANKLIN J. COLE.
Imperial Valley press., 1908-10-17
NEW MACHINE SHOPS
Holton Power Company essIns Free
 ton of Enlarged Plant.

Work Is in progress on the new ma chiAe shops of the Holton Power Com pany. They are to occupy the site of the shops which were burned last spriag, but will be much more ex-
Imperial Valley press., 1908-10-17

Car of Rcd Gums and Sugar Gums just arrived; see Cortner Bros, for prices and quality. 27-2t
Imperial Valley press., 1908-10-17

FOR EXCHANGE-Good dairy COWS.
 Want four good work animals or a saddle horse. Crawford 6. Davis, El CentrO. 23-tf
Imperial Valley press., 1908-10-17

FOR SALE-Fresh dairy COWS from $2O to $45 each. One Durham bull
 two years old, $17. One mile west and one mile south of El Centro
 Frank Sokol's ranch. 28-4t"
Imperial Valley press., 1908-10-17
STOCK AT AUCTION.

If you are in need of live stock of any kind, wait for the big c. M. Ranch auction sale. Oct. 2S, 1908. 27-St.
Imperial Valley press., 1908-10-17

FOR SALE-My 32O acres of land, in cluding water stock, northwest of Fl Centro Want to sell to reduce my holdings. Price reasonable. Will pay commission to agents. For par ticulars, address Nathan Landsberg
 CaleXico. 28-4t
Imperial Valley press., 1908-10-17
FOR EXCHANGE.

WANTED-To exchange two light mules and harness for hay. Box
 113 postoffice. 26-tf
Imperial Valley press., 1908-10-17

FOR SALE-Plump seed barley for sale, $1.50 per cwt; at Husseys ranch, two miles west of Silsbee. Address G. G. Hussey, Silsbee. 2S-4t* FOR SALE-Work horses and mules. F. J. Eddy, Fl Centro. 23-1t*
Imperial Valley press., 1908-10-17

FOR SALE-Team of extra fine work mares and one fine COT bination sad dle and driving mare. Also wagon
 and harness. In charge of b. A.
 Perkiss, 1 mile north of El Cen trO. 23-tt
Imperial Valley press., 1908-10-17
WANTED

WANTED-Land to level. No. pre-. ferred. Drue c. Harrington, Impe
 rial, Cal. 12-u
Imperial Valley press., 1908-10-17

FOR LEASE-Alfalfa land on Wilsie
 Ranch, two miles west of El Cen tro. Cash rent w. B. Wilsie, Fl
 Centro. 20-tf
Imperial Valley press., 1908-10-17

FOR SALE-Team of work mares, a good heavy wagon with rack, heavy harness, two fine COWS, few
 sows with pigs and some baled bar ley hay. Ranch for rent; 80 acres, forty in alfalfa. Enquire of P. E.
 Blockert, 21a miles northwest of Silsbee, on Elder ditch. 2S-1t
Imperial Valley press., 1908-10-17

WANTED-To buy a good horse and buggy. Irving Jaquay El Centro.
 28-1t$
Imperial Valley press., 1908-10-17
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.

Department Of the Interior. U. 6. Land
 Office at Los Angeles, California, Sept.
 22, 1908.
Imperial Valley press., 1908-10-17

We want to buy good single driv- ing horse. Call at our office. Sprouse Real Estate Agency. 2S-tf
 We have a buyer for 160 acres, well improved, close to town. Sprouse Real Estate Agency. 28-tf
Imperial Valley press., 1908-10-17

Does your p.ale need tuning? See or write the Imperial Valley Music HOuRe, mperal.
Imperial Valley press., 1908-10-17

FOR SALE-Young brood sows and Jersey heifers lots to suit purchaser
 Porter N. Ferguson, Holtville. 23-tf
Imperial Valley press., 1908-10-17
FOR RENT

FOR RENT-A SNAP-55 acres new land, three miles north of Imrerial:
 has been leveled; will rent FREE, party taking it to put it in barley and pay for the water. Address Barden, Press office, Fl Centro. 25-tf
Imperial Valley press., 1908-10-17

FOR SALE-Baled and loose hay, de- livered if desired; $10 per ton,
 baled; $S per ton loose l.. l.. For rester Fl Centro. 25-tf
Imperial Valley press., 1908-10-17

FOR SALE OR TRADEl-Good dairy
 COWS; one team good mares, also 20 shares of No. 1 water stock.
 Johnson-Duman & Co 24-tf
Imperial Valley press., 1908-10-17

FOR RENT-My farm of 92O acres of land ready to put into crop. Will rent cheap to right party. Agents
 take notice. Located northwest of Fl Centro. Write or inquire of Ma than Landsberg, Calexico. 2S-4t
Imperial Valley press., 1908-10-17

FOR SALE-Alfalfa hay, in the field
 or delivered. E. A. Perkiss, one
 mile north of Fl CeDtro. 14-tf
Imperial Valley press., 1908-10-17
FOR SALE

FOR .SALE-Team, wagon and har-
 ness. Enquire at Press Office. 27-2t%
Imperial Valley press., 1908-10-17

FOR RENT-40 acres, miles from
 Imperial; one half in alfalfa; one half for garden. See J. K. Thomas, 3 miles north of Imperial. 22-tf.
Imperial Valley press., 1908-10-17
Classified Liners

Advertisements published under this heading at the rate of five cents
 line per issue.
Imperial Valley press., 1908-10-17

IF YOU WANT ALFALFA HAY IN
 car lots, drop a card or see B. F. Klippell. Helper or El Centro. 10-tf
Imperial Valley press., 1908-10-17

WILL FAY $500 PER TON FOR
 30 tons of good baled alfalfa hay at my ranch, one mile southeast of Heber. Jacob Stoner. 24-tf
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-03-26
Calls Two Cents Maximum.

According to an opinion rendered by
Attorney General Gilbert to the
railroad commission, the railroad
companies operating in Wiscon,
sin have no authority to charge more
than two cents per mile for carrying
passengers unless they make proper
provision for refunding the excess
charged. The attorney general says
II am in receipt of your communica
ton requesting my opinion on the
right of railroad companies to pro.
mulgate the rule or regulation requir
ing passengers who have an oppor
tunity to purchase tickets, but fail tc
do so before boarding trains, To pay
something in addition to the schedule
fare In reply I respectfully submit
the following: The general rule is
that a railroad company furnishing
facilities for the purchasing of tickets.
may establish a rate of fare for pas
sengers failing to provide themselves
with tickets before entering the train
higher than the ticket rate, the extra
charge being regarded as a compensa
ton to the company for the inconven
fence to which it is subjected by be
ing compelled to receive the fare by
the hands of the conductor"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-03-26
Prove Dou Was Not Mad.

After Health Commissioner w. D.
Merritt of GAINESVILLE had worked a
ruse on the state hygienic laboratory
here by sending the head of what ap.
peared to be a healthy and harmless
dog for examination, and had received
a reply to the effect that the dog was
rabid, he was severely criticised by
Dean H. L. Russell in public letter
to the GAINESVILLE mayor. The findings
with relation to this particular canine
were emphatically reaffirmed. DR..
Merritt and the police went to the
GAINESVILLE dump and exhumed the re-
mains of the decapitated dog and dis
sected some sections of the spinal
cord. These were sent to the Column
bus laboratories at Chicago, of which
Health Commissioner Evans is the
head, and which are recognized as au-
thority by the American Medical asso-
citation. The report received states
that no negri bodies or Inflammation
which would indicate rabies are pres
ent.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-03-26

friend, unless, perhaps, in his hon
esty of avowal. / think there are
mighty few people who keep the rec
ord of their personal expenses In ship
shape fashion. Lots of us start out
with the best of intentions, say at the
beginning of a year, but it's a good
deal like keeping up diary. And just
where nine out of ten fall down is in
this matter of totaling. It takes but
an inf1nitesimal portion of time to run
up column, but somehow we don't
like the operation; it's too much like
bringing a charge against ourselves.
So we salve our consciences by jotting
down items-when we think of them
and let them go at that Pretty soon
the account or memorandum book be-
comes hopelessly IN arrears and it is
put away where it will not be an irri-
tation. The next January another be-
ginning may be made, but unless the
conscience is in very good working
order there will be the same result"
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-03-26
Prosper Durinu the Year.

State Banking Commissioner Bergl
filed his annual report on the building
and loan associations of Wisconsin with
the governor. There are So of these
associations in the state, and during
the last year they have experienced 6
steady growth. One new association
the Balm Fret Mutual of Milwaukee
was organized during the year anG
three old ones at Beloit, Eau Claire
and Menomonie went out of existence
The total resources and liabilities Of
the associations aggregate $4,490,486
an increase of $319,008 during the
year. The total operating expenses
amounted to $50,821, which is 1.13 pei
cent. of total assets. Commissioner
Bergh~.also announced that the totai
resources and liabilities of the II
trust companies of the state OF
February IA, the date of their last re
port, were $10,286, 1928 OF this amount
$5,233,3 is deposits. The loans ag
gregate $5,051 ,524. These companies
hold $1,901, 208 in railroad bonds.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-03-26
EXPLOSIVES IN DAILY USE.
Danger in Many Things That Are Con-
stantly Handled.

Among the many things in almost
constant use are some that are more
or less dangerous from their explosive
properties, properties often entirely
unknown to their users.
For examples, chloride of potash
lozenges if accidentally brought in
contact with an unlighted phosphorus
match are dangerous. Bicarbonate of
potash if mixed with subnitrate of bis
muth, the latter remedy for indiges-
ton, will explode.
Iodide of nitrogen is highly explo-
sive and is often combined with other
drugs. Its use by those ignorant of
it's danger is menace.
Salvolatile and choral hydrate are,
under certain conditions, as dangerous
as dynamite.
Tincture Of iron and dilute aqua
regia when mixed, as they often are in
medicine, throw off a highly explosive
gas, which has frequently shattered
the bottle in which the mixture was
kept.
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WESTERN CANADA CROPS
CANNOT Be CHECKED.
OATS YIELDED 90 BUSHELS TO
THE ACRE.

The following letter written the Do
minion Government Commissioner OF
Emigration speaks for itself. 1t proves
the story of the Agents of the Gov
eminent that on the free homesteads
offered by the Government it is pos
sible to become comfortably well OF
in few years:
Regina, Sask., 2Srd Nov, 1907.
Commissioner of immigration,
Winnipeg.
Dear Sir:
1t is with pleasure that reply to
your request. Some years ago took
up a homestead for myself and also
one for my son. The half section
which we own is situated between
Rouleau and Drinkwater, adjoining
the Moose Jaw creek, is a low level
and heavy land. We put in 20 acres of
wheat in stubble, which went 20 bush
els to the acre. and so acres of sum-
mer fallow, which went 25 bushels to-
the acre. All the wheat we harvested
this year is No. hard. That means
the best wheat that can be raised ON
theearth. We didnot sell any wheat yet
as we intend to keep one part for
our own seed, and sell the other part
to people who want firSt-claSs seed,
for there is no doubt If you SOW good
wheat you will harvest good wheat.
We also threshed 5000 bushels OF
first-class oats out of 100 acres. so
acres has been fall blowing which
yielded 80 bushels per acre, and so
acres stubble, which went 80 bushels
to the acre. These oats are
the best kind that can be
raised. We have shipped three car
loads of them, and got SO cents per
bushel clear. All our grain was cut
in the last week of the month OF
August before any frost could touch
1t.
Notwithstanding the fact that we
have had late spring, and that the
weather conditions this year were
very adverse and unfavorable, we will
make more money out of our crop
this year than last.
For myself feel compelled to say
that Western Canada crops cannot be
checked, even by unusual conditions
am, dear sir,
Yours truly,
(Signed) A. Kaltenbrunner.
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-03-26
Oriuin of the Elevator.

The elevator originated in Central
Europe. The earliest mention of the
elevator is made in letter of Ma.
poleon l. addressed to his wife. Arch.
duchess Maria Louise. He writes to
her that when in Schoenbrunn, then
the summer residence of the Austrian
emperor, near Vienna, he used the
"chaise volante" (fiying chair) in that
castle which had been constructed for
Empress Maria Theresa. 1t consisted
of a small, square room, sumptuously
furnished with hangings of red silk
and suspended by strong ropes with
counter weights, so that it could be
pulled up or let down with great ease
in a shaft built for the purpose
about 1850.
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State Capital Notes
Weekly Budget Gathered by Our
Special Correspondent at Madison.

MadiSon.-County clerks can place
the names of the candidates for mem
Der of the state supreme court upon
the official ballot in any order they
want to. This is the ruling of Attor-
ney General Gilbert in an opinion rem
dered to Secretary of State Frear. Mr.
Frear asked if the law required him
to certify the names of the candidates
nominated to the county clerks in any
particular order. The attorney general
replied that he can certify them in al
phabetical order or in any order he
may desire. The law officer also says
that the county clerks may place the
names on the official ballot in the or
der in which they are certified or in
any other order they want to. The
law does not require them to place
the names on the ballot in any partic-
1lar order. The matter rests entirely in
The hands of the county clerks. There
is no law requiring that the names
Of candidates for judicial offices shall
be placed upon the ballot in alpha
betical ORDER" says Attorney General
Gilbert. "The law prescribes no rule
relating to the relative positions of
such names upon the ballot If the
form of notice sent by the secretary
Of state to county clerks should con-
tain the names of candidates NOM
mated for judicial offices, arranged in
alphabetical order or otherwise, it
would, in my opinion, meet every re-
luirement of the law" Three more
Taft candidates FOR district delegates
filed their nominating petitions in the
office of the secretary of state. They
are: Alexander A. Arnold of Gales
vile, and Dewitt C. Clark of Eau
Claire, candidates in the Seventh con-
gressional district, and George M.
Paine of Oshkosh, one of the two can
didates in the Eighth congressional
district. The petitions contained
names largely in excess of the num-
Der required by law.
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FEAR TO TOTAL UP PAGES.
Men Make Memoranda of Expenses
But That Is All.

Speaking of starting things and not
finishing them" said business man.
did l ever tell you Of the curious
habit that an uncle of mine had? He
used to carry memorandum book
around with him and whenever he
spent any money he would jot down
the figures. We always looked upon
him as a model in keeping accounts.
One day 1 got to talking to him about
it, and he pulled his book out of his
pocket to show me. What was my
amazement on looking at it to dis
cover that not one of the pages was
totaled up. l asked him, naturally,
whether he never added the columns
to find out how much he was spend
ing. He told me that he did not and
never had; the practice was too dis
couraging. A sense of duty impelled
him to put down the items. but there
he stopped. An interesting man, my
uncle, although trif1e eccentric"
mot so very unlike the majority of
humankind" said the business mans
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Taft Men File Petitions.

7 aft Men File Petitions.
The Taft candidates for delegates
from the state at large and from
eight of the IL congressional districts
to the national Republican convention
filed their nomination petitions lii the
office of the secretary of state. The
petitions of the candidates for dele
gates-at-large contain about 1000 sig
natures, and those of the candidates
for district delegates some less. The
candidates for delegates-at-large are
Gen. Frederick G. Winkler of Milwau-
kee, Hiram o. Fairchild of Green Bay,
Capt. John M. Estes of Stoughton, and
Adolph e. Holmstad of Black River
Falls. The Taft candidates for district
delegates who filed papers were as fol-
lows: First district, Peter B. Nelson
of Racine and Henry d. Barnes of Elk
horn; Second district, Miles 7. AL
version of Portage and Charles E..
Barker of Madison; Third district,
Evan M. Davies of Spring Green and
Norman L. James of Richland Center;
Fourth district, Edward A. Wadhams
of Milwaukee and Alexander e. Mar
tin of Milwaukee; Fifth district, G. w.
Augustyn of Milwaukee and B. M.
Caples of Waukegan; Sixth district,
Thomas M. Blackstock of Sheboygan
and John M Barney of West Bend;
Ninth district, w. A. Holt of Oconto
and Henry F. Hagemeister of Green
Bay; Tenth district, Senator Theodore
w. Brazeau of Grand Rapids and Wal
ter Alexander of Wausau.
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their own prejudice have heard
them say with tears that it was the
truth and that the truth must be told.
81 have never known but one case
Of deliberate perjury by a woman.
and that was exceedingly curious.
The girls lover was under trial for
burglary. The testimony was vaguely
circumstantial. The girl produced a
diary which she had kept for the en-
tire year, including the time of the
alleged burglary. That diary showed
that the alleged burglar had been in
her company at time when it would
have been impossible for him to have
been on the scene of the burglary.
The diary seemed genuine and the
court, jury and prosecuting attorney
accepted it as such. Just as the jury
was about to retire, however, the at
torney for the commonwealth hap
pened to glance 1T an obscure imprint
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the least, no less truthful than those
of the other sex. 1t is a well-known
fact that all witnesses are to some
extent swayed by sentiment in favor
of the person in whose interests they
are testifying. Allowance must be
made for that, but that women are
more powerfully Influenced by such
considerations than men 1 do not be-
lieve. 1 have known women to testify
the truth in great stress of circum-
stances, when to conceal the truth
would have been much to their adj
vantage, and when cautioned by the
Judge that their testimony was to
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after birth could so warp and distOrt
the natural tendencies. These gentle
men who have been so widely quoted
evidently know little of the world of
women. They have placed themselves
on record after a very superficial and
perfunctory analysis of the sex. The
very fact that they have been quoted
at all indicates that their views are al
together bizarre. II this had been
an established fact in all the thou
sands of years of the history of the
human race their belligerent procla-
nations would not have been noticed.
Has it been left for them to make d
discovery of a new world of unmor
atty?
while the fact that the matter has
been so widely bruited about gives it
measure of Importance, it is rather
that sort of Importance which adds
to the amusing and diverting phases
of social life than to those activities
which make for development and
progress, and the Dispatch deserves
thanks for contributing to the 'gayety
of nations by giving us chance to
say a word in answer to even the
most obscure of dialecticians who
have presumed to air their oratory
upon a theme which was certain to
attract some attention and excite
curiosity if not respect
Equivocate in Little Things.
'"This matter of evading the truth
is even far older than the remark
made by an eminent historic person
age that he had said in his haste that
all men were liars" was the remark
of Mrs Samuel A. Ammon, we'll
known for her great activities in civic
affairs, when the caustic assertions of
Dr. Taylor were preached to her. "It
is quite possible and defendable," con-
tinued Mrs. Ammon, that in what we
may call the little things of life
women evade the truth more often
than men do, because they are
brought into contact with those lit
tie things, chiefly domestic, more than
men are.
THE question of answering truth
telling is one which has agitated the
deepest of analytical minds, but the
greatest of these has not been led to
assert that unmoGality of prevarica-
ton was most highly developed in
River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1908-03-26
One often finds bottles of medicine

One often finds bottles of medicine
in which the cork has not been tightly
pushed minus the latter, or has had a
cork pop out of a bottle while held In
ones hands without any attempt to re-
move it on the part Of the holder.
This always shows that gas is forcing
the cork out.
Danger in combs.
Every now and then one reads CT
ce1luloid articles, from fancy hair Golf
rure combs down, catching fire and
serious burns or accidents resulting.
It would seem that every one should
by this time know that celluloid con.
tains in its composition guncotton and
also camphor, both highly inhammable.
No woman wearing celiuloid combs or
hair ornaments should place her head
near an uncovered gas Jet or other un-
protected light, as celluloid catches
fire so quickly and burns so rapidly
that it would hardly be possible to
avoid serious burns.
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Asserted HE Riuhts.

John Hunter was a negro given to
chastising his wife
"You, John" said a neighbor one
day, Susanna say, eff you don't quit
beatin' her she gwine to de Freedman
bureau"
"She do, do she?" he replied with
scorn. NOW, femme tell YER wunst
an fer all! Susanna am my wife! An
SO long as she go bout her bizness I
gwine left her lone. But wen she git
ter cuttin' up 1 gwine ter beat her, an
Their amt no bureau nor no sidebode
nor no chist Of drors what kin hoP me
backi"
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into the world one sex more addicted
than another to the telling of I'M
truths under any circumstances. Take
the great question of heredity for in
stance. 1t is the testimony of some of
the greatest physicians of this and
other times that the sons unusually in
herit the traits of the mothers and
the daughters those of their fathers.
Now how shall we assimilate this I'M
questioned dictum of science with the
assertions of these gentlemen that
women are more prone than men to
evade the truth? You see that the
whole proposition falls to the ground.
1t is not possible that environment