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Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-10-01
Cross-Eyed, Wants $4,000.

Suit has been started in the Nor
Hampton county court by J. +. Rush
more, of Scranton. against the State
Belt Electric Railway. company to re-
cover S25, 600 for injuries sustained by
his jumping from runaway car on
steep grade between Pen Argyll and
Bangor in June of 1907. Rushmore re-
mained on the car until the conductor
and motorman had jumped. After the
accide' he became cross-eyed.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-10-01
CHARGED WITH
DRAWING KNIFE

Gordon b. Rainier was arrested by
Officer Mincemoyer yesterday after
noon on warrant sworn out by S. G.
Mortimer charging the accused with
drawing knife and making threats.
Rainier was arraigned before Just
ice of the Peace Oglesby. who held
him for court. In default of $500 bail
he was committed to jail.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-10-01
Struck by Locomotive.

While Mrs. Patrick Kane, OF No &,
a hamlet near Tamaqua. was crossing
the tracks of the Lehigh Coal and
Navigation company, on Monday, car
rying water from spring, she was
struck by locomotive and injured so
severely that she died soon afterwards
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-10-01
Lamp Exploded.

Mrs J. +. Walters, Of Mechanics
vile, venango county, fell down stairs
on Sunday evening and lamp which
she was carrying exploded and set fire
to the house. Mrs. Walters was severe
ly bruised and seriously burned. Loss
on house 81 200.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-10-01

Harry Knowles, of Philadelphia,
aged 8 years. was thrown from an ice
wagon on Callowhill street, on Mon.
day and was run over by heavy truck
of the American Metre company, crush
ing him so badly that he died on the
way to the hospital.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-10-01

y cave-in at Welsh Hill. near Wilkes
Barre, on Monday, over old workings
of a colllery, damaged beyond repair
seven houses, which were twisted into
various shapes. The inmates all escap-
ed without injury.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-10-01

The Yellow House., a noted old Berks
county hostelry which has always been
in the possession of the Guldin family
running through several generations,
has been sold to John Scherer.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-10-01
Struck Funeral Cab.

a trolley car struck funeral cab on
Monday afternoon near Chester, at the
entrance to the Chester Rural ceme-
terry, ,overturntng it and injuring three
of the occupants severely.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-10-01

An independent telephone company
to operate in Juniata, Perry and sny-
der counties, was chartered at Harris
burg on Monday.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-10-01

A high school pupil in Pottstown
was dismissed from school by a mem
Der of the!faculty, for excessive cough
ing, and now the school board and
community are agitated over the ques-
tion whether the "offense" was vic.
lation of school discipline.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-10-01
Auto PARTY.

An auto party from Hazleton took
dinner at Heddens' restaurant yester-
day. In the party we're Mr.. andiMrs.
I. p Pardee, Miss Helen Pardee and
Miss Alicson.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-10-01

Mr.. and Mrs. Chauucy Hollister,
North Mill street, left::yesterday::for n
visit with friends In Lewistown.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-10-01
Another One.

Joseph Yesger recently shot a black
snake measuring,6 feet and 3 inches
near his residence in Catawissa town
ship. While engaged in cutting buck
wheat he killed two large copperhead
snakes, and few days later.while en-
gagged in cleaning out a fence row
killed nine oopperhead snakes and a
rattlesnake with eleven rattles.
1t is pretty safe to judge a man by
his conduct rather than his words.
Montour American. (Danville, Pa.) 1866-1920, 1908-10-01

Continued on End Page.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1908-01-09
The Demag0gne and the Panic.

The DemagOgne and the Panic.
All the world knows that the panic was
caused by the demagogue.
The Coca-Cola man, Asa Gambler, has
this to say about that reprehensible and
undesirable person:
The demagOgue whose radical meas
ures threaten the stability of the CONNER
cial system and create more evils than
they cure, is political parasite sprung
from the feculent accumulations of pop
ular ignorance and fattened upon the pur-
uient secretlons of popular prejudice. He
perishes when the sunlike rays of popular
enlightenment fall on him. Let us do
what we can to cleanse the areas that
breed him and cut off the sources of his
nourishment."
Asa has recently been appointed Receiv-
er Of the Neal bank wherein 5000 deposit
ors, including the Jefersonian, put some
money which they will probably never
see again. Evidently, the demagogues
wrecked this bank, as we'll as the Sea-
board Airline Railway.
Clark Howell was so delighted with the
NOCd-OOld remuneration OF the QenndgOgue
that he printed Asa's blistering denun.
citation on the editorial page, using brave,
big letters which made the welkin ring.
Then Clark himself yielded to his most
virtuous mood, and wrote editorials on
SANITY, CONSERVATION, JUSTICE
and other good things, sadly pointing to
the Seaboard Railroad as a mournful ex-
ample of what the denagogue would do
when he had not been properly brought
up on Coca-Cola.
Between Asa, and Clark, and Joe
Brown and ]. T. Merton, we are having
doleful time indeed, figuring the cost of
reform in Georgia"
What nonsense, all this sort of talk is
Did the demagogue rob the big Life
Insurance Companies?
Did the demagogue loot the Chicago
and Alton Railroad?
Did the demagogue use the Pacific Rail
road securities to buy up other roads,
whose securities in turn were used to buy
UP others, until bewildering number of
millions of available cash were sucked up
in the Hartman sponge?
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1908-01-09
Gold Standard P1znics.


the infamy of national bank domination?
In 1873, we had panic-due to the
manipulation of gold.
In 1893, we had a panic-due to the
manipulation of gold.
In 1oo7-o8, we have panic-due to the
manipulation of gold.
How many more must we have before
we can wake up to the wickedness of
those who manipulate the gold, and the
folly of the victims who tanaely submit?
In 1873, Jay Gould and Jim Fisk
brought on the panic by cornering the
actual supply Of gold.
In 1893, the national bankers brought
on the panic to compel congress to close
the minis to an increase of silver money
and to make gold the money of final re-
demption.
In 1907, the same bondholding class
brought on the panic to compel Congress
to pass the prohigate asset currency"
bill.
Have we got another Andrew Jackson
in the White House? If SO, now is the
time to make another historic fight against
the money-power.
The situation is simply unbeatable. No
other people on earth would submit to
what we now endure. No king would
dare to do what is now being done by
the money-hoarding class, through the
instrumentality of the two old parties.
Who does not remember how the ora
tors and the editors Of the Gold Stand
ard bankers howled about "cheap money"
and ''rag-baby money" and pumpkin
vine currency" few years ago? It would
never, never do to let the Government is
sue paper money. The patriots wanted
Sound Money The patriots wanted
Honest Dollars" The patriots feared
that if the Government issued its own
notes as money, Europe will get all our
gold" The patriots labored SO faithfully
that thousands of good Democrats and
good Republicans who had never had a
surplus ten dollars in their lives passion
ately declared that they must have cur
rency that was good in Europe"
Well, they've got it.
If this soap-wrapper stuff that is being
issued in violation of law would not be
good in Europe, pray tell us why
Isn't it guaranteed" by sundry bank
ers?
Isn't it plainly printed, on plain paper?
Isn't it stamped?
Could Europe ask anything better than
the soap-wrapper dollars issued by the
banks Of Hawkinsvil1e, Georgia?
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1908-01-09
THE JEFFERSONIAN.

system of New York and throw it into
the hands of Receivers, or was it Totn
Ryan-the same man who has Quilted the
Seaboard Air Line Railroad?
Why not tell the people the truth?
Every man who understands the situa-
ton knows what is the matter with the
Country, and he knows that our troubles
originate with laws which favor a few
at the expense of the many, and with the
criminal methods of High Finance.
The Railroads, vested with the tremen-
dous power to tax shipper and traveller,
are plundering the public to get dividends
on eight billion dollars of fictitious capt.
talization.
The Manufacturers, protected by law
from foreign competition, have got the
American public in gigantic trap, and
are t1eec1ng us of more than two billion
dollars every year, over and above eight
per cent clear profit on their investment.
The national bankers have seized upon
the sovereign prerogative of creating
money, and are using that vast advantage
for their own private gains-tyrannizin
over the country by concentrating the
currency in few big cities and keeping
it out of circulation.
The limbs Of the human body, denied
the blood which should flow into the
veins, suffer and PERISH so the "prov-
inces" are suffering and perishing because
the national bankers of the big cities have
been allowed to longest the currency.
They not only hoard the money which
belongs to the banks, and to the people
who patronize the banks, but all of the
money which the Government taxes out
of the people is turned over to these op-
pressors. THE GOVERNMENT CAN
HARDLY GET ENOUGH OF ITS
OWN MONEY OUT OF THE
CLUTCHES OF THESE MARAUD-
ERS TO KEEP THE MACHINE CO.
ING!
Yet the Coca-Cola man declares that
the demagogue is running the country.
The most amazing thing about the pres
ent situation is that so many editors, pol
itlcians, preachers, bankers, and 'the most
principallist," generally, should be so very
anxious to keep the cat from getting out
of the bag.
In the meanwhile the Jeffersonian begs
to assure Asa and Clark and Toe Brown
and J. T. Merton that if they will just 10
cate the demagogue who made Hartman
do what he has done, and made Ryan do
what he has DONE and made Rockefeller,
Rogers, Morgan, Belmont and Company
Imperial Valley press., 1908-05-30
FRUIT EXPRESS AND WELLS FAR
 co COMPETE FOR SHIPMENTS.
Five Cars a Week to Carry PerishabIe Products Safely to Coast Points Pacific Companys Cars Iced at Fl Centro-New Service Proves Sue cessful.

Shippers of perishable products from Imperial Valley will have better service this year than ever before Two companies are offering their re- frigerator car services to the public and the first runs, made during the present week, indicate that the ser vice is appreciated.
 On Tuesdays and Fridays of each week the Pacific Fruit Express Com pany will send one of it's standard re- frigeratOr cars from CaleXico north ward to Los Angeles and other coast points. The car will be iced in Fl Centro the preceding afternoon by the Holton Power Company and will start out from CaleXico on the early morn ing train. The first run was made last Tuesday, and the volume of business from the various valley towns was gratifying to the company's agents here.
 The Wells Fargo Express Company has installed a tri-weekly service from El Centro to Los Angeles, running it's refrigerator cars on Mondays, Wednes- days and Saturdays. The first run on this schedule was made this week.
 This company will carry out of the valley on each of these runs fully carload of butter and cream and it is expected that the cantaloupe and veg etable shipments will fill the car each trip. A similar service has been in- stalled for the Coachella Valley. These cars are iced in Los Angeles and brought down the day previous to their loading.
Imperial Valley press., 1908-05-30

in excess of $3O,OOO. Since Septem- Der 14 over $22O,OOO worth of property has been sold
 Crop reports on the Beaumont dis trict show that the oats will average about $30 per acre and that the bar ley will be up to the standard of last year, while most of the hay has cut from a ton and a half to two tons to the acre. The peach crop will be larger than usual, apricots show about one-half of a normal crop, prunes are above the average of last year and the almonds are J0 per cent better than the past season. Over $90,OOO worth of grain is expected to be harvested this year, and the total crop of apples is estimated at $70000.
Imperial Valley press., 1908-05-30

The past week has been one of much advantage to the melon growers The steady heat has been of benefit in rapidly ripening the cantaloupes, and reports from all portions of the El Centro district indicate that this seasons crop will be of uniformly fine quality and that it will exceed the es- inmates made two weeks ago.
 At the packing sheds all is in readi- ness for the rush which is expected within the ensuing week. At present small express shipments are going out. It is said that half-carload lot could be gathered up by either association, but it is thought advisable to contin- ue the small shipments at present. Be fore another issue of the Press, how ever. the first carloads will have been sent out from El Centro, and from that time onward there will be rush in the shipping business.
 Monday. evening a party of 100 stu dents from the Los Angeles Polytech- nic and high schools will arrive in El Centro to start in as cantaloupe pick
Imperial Valley press., 1908-05-30
FATE STRUCK HARD.
EmbezzIer Gets News of Brothers Death Just as Court Sentences
 Him.

Sitting in the court room with a telegram twisted in his clenched hand, announcing the death of an only and a greatly beloved brother, John l.. Nc powell, recently a bookkeeper for the McCollum Hardware Store at Calexico, was called upon to arise for sentence. He was sentenced to four years in the Arizona penitentiary at Yuma by Chief Justice Edward Kent, and this week was taken to Yuma to begin his term as a prisoner
 Mcdowell had been receiving teller of the Union Bank & Trust Company, of Phoenix. and his peculations ex- tended through period of two years. Finally he fled, and came to Calexico, where he soon obtained a position in one of the business houses, and where he won numerous friends He is a man of education and refinement, and proved a highly capable employe. His arrest was a great surprise to Calexi- co residents.
 He was taken by Arizona officers to Phoenix, where he was convicted of embezzlement. His only brother had spent much time and a great deal of money in endeavoring to get Mcdowell out of his troubles, and the news of his death, coming just at the time of the sentence, was a bitter blow to the man. McDowell says that for two years he has lived in torment, and that he was actually relieved when the officers of the law captured him,
Imperial Valley press., 1908-05-30
SPINELESS CACTUS.
Burbank's Forage Plant Making Fine
 Growth in Fl Centro.

Luther Burbank has made a hit with El Centro residents on his spine less cactus. When he begins to talk about his forage plant bringing crop of from eighty to two hundred tons to the acre, Fl Centro folk will nod their heads affirmatively. They judge by the sights to be seen in Paul Bo- mans cactus patch.
 A few weeks ago Roman received from Luther Burbank a shipment of 300 pounds of spineless cactus of sev- eral varieties. The selection was left entirely to Burbank as he knew the general conditions here. He notified Roman that the kinds sent he consid cred the best yet propagated
 They were planted on the lots at Seventh and State streets, and now these leaves, every one of them, have large new shoots, some of them as large as a mans hand. In several cases the growth already attained is much greater than the original plant.
Imperial Valley press., 1908-05-30
VETERANS LIVING IN THE VAL
 LEY HONOR THE DEAD.
ment to the Unknown Heroes Will be Decorated With Flags and Flow ers-Program of Observance of the Day at the Opera House.

Today, Memorial Day, the veterans of the Civil War throughout Imperial Valley will join with Ell Centro and Imperial in an observance of the day with proper memorial services in this city. It is expected that every town in the valley will be represented here today.
 The program will be given in Holt S Opera House, and the exercises will begin at 10:30 o'clock, with William Kelly as chairman.
 School children of El Centro will march to the stage, singing patriotic songs, and there they will decorate with flags and flowers a monument raised to the honor of the unknown dead.
 Invocation will be given by Rev. s. 1. Ward, and R. M. Clark will give as solo The Flag Without a Stain" This will be followed by a recitation given by Mrs. Morrison.
 Rev. Mott Mitchell of Imperial will give a solo, and this will be followed by the reading of Lincoln's Address at Gettysburg" by Rev. R. P. Shep- herd. Comrade Rice will sing a solo, followed by selections from the Inn perial Quartette, and the Memorial Day address will be given by V. Rapp, Esq, Rev. Mott Mitchell will sing "The Old Flag Never Touched The Grounds;" c. H. Bradshaw, Spanish War veteran, will speak, and there may be other short addresses. The program will close by the audience singing America"
Imperial Valley press., 1908-05-30
LAND IN DEMAND.
More Buyers Than Sellers in Imperial VaIIey-Owners Waiting for
 Higher Prices.

Imperial Valley real estate men say that it is more difficult now to get land to sell than it is to sell the land. The demand for good farm property is as brisk as at any time this year and a large number of sales are being made, but many would-be buyers are pre- vented from doing business because of the small acreage on the market.
 Owners of Imperial property are holding on, either for still better prices or because they have decided to remain here permanently.
 A number of El Centro business lots were sold this week at slightly ad- vanced prices.
 Beaumont Acres.
 Transactions at Beaumont this week include the sale of forty-two acres of grape and fruit lands and fifteen resi- dence and business lots for a total of $535O, making the total sales for May
Imperial Valley press., 1908-05-30

Shortly before noon yesterday fire broke out in the machine shops of the Holton Power Company, on Broad way, near the Southern Pacific Rail- road tracks, and within a half hours time the plant was destroyed. The loss is estimated at $10,000 to $15O00.
 It is believed that the fire origin ated from sparks from the emory wheel flying into gasoline cans. With in few moments after the first blaze was discovered, the entire interior of the building was a flaming furnace. The foreman tried to throw out can of blazing oil and was burned severely on both arms.
 Whistles at the other industrial plants gave the general alarm, and soon large crowd gathered; but their efforts were eXerted to save the build ings nearby, as it was recognized at once that the machine shop itself was doomed.
 Immediately to the west of the shops is situated the Garren House, a long frame structure; and to the north stand the extensive sheds and packing house of the El Centro Fancy Melon Growers Association, in which are stored carloads of dry and highly inflamable box shook. For time it appeared that both of these buildings would be certain to suffer from the flames, if they were not entirely de- stroyed.
 One of the bravest acts of the whole affair was that of w. D. Wilsie and John McClave, who rushed to the corrugated iron storage house imme- ated from sparks from the emory which the flames were shooting, roll ed from the place a siXty-gallon tank of gasoline, and worked it out of range of the flames, although there was dan ger every moment of an explosion.
 Other men mounted the nearby roofs, and with wet blankets, carpets and sacks and playing streams from hose kept these roofs from catching fire Numerous hand fire extinguish- CTS were brought into use and did much towards saving the shed adjoin- ing the shops on the east
 A locomotive of the Holton Inter urban Railroad Company was in the shops for repairs when the flames were discovered, and as it was dead" a half a hundred men started the heavy machine and ran it out of the shop by main force, propelling it sev- eral hundred feet from the flames.
Imperial Valley press., 1908-05-30

The Imperial Valley Collegiate h. sttute is the name by which the new school to be opened at Heber in the fall will be known. It is to have the endorsement and support of the Con- gregational Association of Southern California, and it is possible that it's claims to support will be presented in each of the Congregational pulpits of this part of the State.
 The board of trustees has organized by the election of Rev. James M. Campbell, DID. of Sierra Madre, as President and H. w. Moorehouse of Heber, as Secretary Committees were appointed at last weeks meeting of the board, as follows:
 EXecutive-J. B. Hoffman, J. l.. Maile H. w. Moorehouse.
 Building-J. l.. Maile, J. F. Giles, J. R. Loftus.
 Finance-C. H. Seccombe, R. l.. Glas- by, Fritz Kloke.
 Educational-J. M. Campbell c. H. SeccOmbe, R. P. Shepherd.
 The statement was made that the sum of $2500 is now available for col lege purposes from sales of Heber real estate by Loftus & Burnham, and it is possible that temporary building will be erected, in order to give shel- ter to the school when it is opened in the fall, and that during the winter the permanent building will be erect ed. It is proposed to expend at least $25,OOO in college building and equip ment during the first year.
Imperial Valley press., 1908-05-30
MlSTRlAL OF MAN WHO USED
 GUN TO QUIET TITLE.
Old-tmer's Explanation of lrreconciI- able Attitude of Two Members of the Jury-Animosities of Politics Keep Them Apart on Any and All Subjects of Debate.

Most of the present week has been occupied in the Superior Court witt. the trial of the case of the people against J. L. Mcbride, charged with Harry Hagerman and George T. Pea cock, on lands near Holtville, the pos session of which was in dispute. The shooting took place March 22.
 District Attorney Eshleman and Deputy District Attorney Phil D.. Swing conducted the prosecution and Shaw & Brewer. Hearing of the evi- dence occupied the major portion of two days, and the case went to the jury Wednesday evening at 6 o'clock.
 Thursday forenoon the jury again appeared in court, stating that it stood six to six and asking that DOT tions of the evidence be read. About two hours were taken to represent this evidence, pertaining to state ments as to McBride's being armed when he first appeared and his subse- quent actions
 The jury again retired, but about 6 o'clock Thursday evening the body was discharged by Judge Cole as it's members declared there was no pos sibility of reaching a verdict.
 An old-timer-been here more than year-who looked the jury over, said it was a cinch that it couldn't and wouldn't agree on any proposition put up to it. Two of the members were furious partisans in the county seat election, and they developed in that fight such profound disesteem for each others opinion that if one should say it was noon the other would swear it was midnight. When one asked for reading of parts of the testimony, the other ostentatiously pretended to go to sleep, and when the foreman tried to get instructions on obscure points, they prompted him from opposite sides until he didn't know what he was asking for or what he was saying.