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Imperial Valley press., 1908-09-19

Central Union High School will open in El Centro on September 2S.
 The Board of Directors is using every effort to provide an institution that will be equal to any high school in the State in thOroughness of in- struction and in scholarship, and 1t wants to have the doors open to every young man or young woman in lm- perial county who may be ambitious to properly fit themselves for a life of usefulness.
 To this end, the board has decided that no tuition shall be charged stu dents residing outside of the districts that are supporting the Central High School. They win be made welcome, and are urged to enroll for the open ing of the first term.
 Principal E. C. Nichols will be at his hOme on Broadway, near the Date canal, I'll CeutrO, every day next week from 2 to o'clock, to meet students, parents and friends of the school who may wish to consult with Llm Those from other high schools desiring to enter the Central Union High School should immediately write for state ment of the studies pursued, and how many periods a week, and for how many weeks, and degree of proficiency attained in each. Such studies will be given credit towards graduation.
 Those who have successfully com pleted the eighth grade work in ap- proved grammar schools will be en- tered without examinations. Others, who desire to enter upon examination, should present themselves at the res iderce of Principal Nichols on Friday morning, September 25, at 9 o'clock. Examinations will be given Friday and Saturday, governing arithmetic, gram mar and composition, United States history, geography, physiology, read ing writing and spelling.
 The trustees of the Central Union High School are M. W. Conkhng, president, El Centro3 H. W. Moore house, clerk, Adair; w. A. Van Horn, 'Heber; G. w. Nichols, Adair; D. E. Forester, Eucalyptus; J. R. Ravens, Silsbee, ard Harry Vanderheuval FL der.
 This board held an important meet ing in El Centro last Thursday in which provision was made for the opening of the school A contract was awarded for forty school desks
Imperial Valley press., 1908-09-19
srocKYARD TRACKS.
Southern Pacific Providing Better
 Loading Facilities.

El Centro's importance as stock shipping center is indicated by the fact that this week work has begun on grading for a new track to the stock yards for loading purposes.
 Heretofore it has been necessary to load cars as they stood on the main line; but with the new track, cars may be set and loaded in advance of the incoming trains, thus greatly fla cilitating the handling of stock trains.
 D. J. Townsend, of the El Centre Transfer Company has the contract for grading, and yesterday he set eight men and teams at work on the job.
 The new track, which will be an extension of the house-track, will be 300 yards in length,
Imperial Valley press., 1908-09-19
TWO MORE SCHOOL ROOMS.

Two more school rooms are to be ad- ded to the El Centro school building for use until the new $25,000 struC- ture is erected The directors have decided to cut off into rooms spaces ten by thirty feet at the north ends of the east and west porches, and to fit them up for school purposes Sixty new desks have been ordered. These changes will give five new school rooms in the present building, and provide accommodations for 175 pu- pills
Imperial Valley press., 1908-09-19
sTUNG BY A SCORPION.

s. w. Stockton, a rancher living be- tween El CentrO and Silsbee, was stung on the hand by a scorpion of unusual size, last Tuesday. He brought the scorpion to town, and it was exhibited at Dunaway's drug store While the sting was a painful one, treatment with baking soda prevented t greatly inconveniencing MT. Stock ton. Soda, Ammonia, or any other al- kaloid neutralizes the acid poison of scorpions, tarantulas and venomous in Sects.
Imperial Valley press., 1908-09-19
PosToFFlcE PROMOTION.

A petition to the Postmaster Gen eral has been in circulation this week, and has been freely signed, asking that Ire El Centro postofIice be raised from the fourth to the third class. This petition sets forth the fact that for the past year this office has far exceeded the requirements for third class office. It shows that for the quar- ter ending September 30, 1907 the stamp sale amounted to $479S6; for
Imperial Valley press., 1908-09-19
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 DRILLING FOR WATER

Actual Drilling on El Centro's test well was begun at 2 o'clock yesterday afternoon. The "spud- ding in" was witnessed by sev. eral citizens who willingly re- ceived a bsepatterment of mud in order that they might watch operations at close range.
 Manager A. c. Cook stated yesterday that the outfit was in fine condition, end that he ex- poets to make at least twenty feet per day Only a day shift will be run for the present A 4 w 4 A ,s 4 ,t ,S t u s 4 s IL A N A v r |.
Imperial Valley press., 1908-09-19
ANOTHER BEE RANCH.

John Nippert, an expert bee man from Phoenix, Arizona, has spent the past few months in the vicinity of Fl CenrO, and has decided to enter the ranks of bee-keepers here He has leased a tract of land on the Van Horn ranch, and installed his first col onies of bees this week He is in the market for further stands.
Imperial Valley press., 1908-09-19
MIDDAY TRAIN RESTORED.

The Holton lnterurban Railway has restored the midday train service be- tween El Centro and Holtville, which was discontinued while repairs were in progress on the bridge across the Alamo river This is a motor-car ser vice, leaving Holtyille at 12:3O D. m, and leaving El Centro at 1:30 D. m
Imperial Valley press., 1908-09-19

the quarter ending December 31, 1907 they reached $838.88, and for the quar- ter ending March 31, 1908, the sales were $1 ,3338S, and for the quarter ending June 30 1908, they were $1,542- 01, while the newspaper postage for the year amounted to $43, making a total volume of stamp sales reaching S4.237.99.
Imperial Valley press., 1908-09-19
COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

The Executive Committee of the Imperial County Chamber of Com merce will meet in El Centro at 10 o'clock on Monday, September 21, to complete plans for the proposed pro- motion work in Los Angeles and home seekers excursions to the Imperial Valley for the coming season.
Imperial Valley press., 1908-09-19
Very truly, JOHN M. ESHLEMAN.

Central Committee will meet in Braw- ley today The Democrats cherish hopes that something may happen in the Republican Convention to make an opening for them to get busy with the judgeship.
Imperial Valley press., 1908-09-19
BAND WILL ORGANIZE.

F. D. Boyer and J, Colby as a com mitte from the old band organization, have issued call for a meeting of all band men in this vicinity to meet at The Palm ice cream parlor next Mon day night at 7;30 o'clock to form a reorganization, and plan for the win, ter's work.
Imperial Valley press., 1908-09-19
FL cENTRo's BUSINESS BARoME
 TER.

In compiling material for new ad vertising matter for the El Centro Ten Thousand Club, it's officers this week figures. It appears that for the month of June the Southern Pacific Rail roads outgoing freight for El Centro amounted to S1S4,000, while the in coming freight amounted to S80,000. During that month 7500 tickets were sold at the El Centro station.
Imperial Valley press., 1908-09-19

L. E. Srack of Heber brought to the Ten Thousand Club exhibit this week stalk of $ndian corn having a fortyfour days growth, to a height of seven feet
Imperial Valley press., 1908-09-19

S. B. Hoard contributes to the Ten Thousand Club exhibit this week sev- eral bolls of genuine Egyptian cotton. The seed was planted in April and the plant is now eight feet high,
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-03-25
THE HOLY LAND.

Jerusalem, upon thy hill,
A golden charm is on thee still,
Tho, on thy streets, has swept In
flood,
Mid strife of combat, hero's blood.
Thy walls which prophets hands
have blessed,
Thy streets the Masters feet have
pressed,
Something must hold Of purity,
Thro all the years that follow thee
And blessings in thy shadow dwell,
Nor war, nor conflict can expel.
Oh, village white, of Bethany,
The gentle Christ once bode in thee.
To humble dwellers of thine own
Was boundless might or mercy
shown.
His hand was raised; His comfort
said.
To hear whose word the shrouded
dead
Awoke! And walls that grief's en-
ploy
Were turned by Thee to speechless
joy
AS friends beheld returning breath
Where late was set the seal of death.
That blessed lowly ministry
Was in thy gates, oh Bethany
Could flight of years or times decay
Remove that holy touch away?
Ruth Bryan Leavitt.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-03-25
ALL FOR EQUAL SUFFRAGE.

The North American Review, the
publication of the Harper Brothers
and Golfers Weekly have all lined
up" in favor of extending the suf-
frage to women; and now comes the
Saturday Evening Post with the fol-
lowing pertinent editorial, under the
heading, "The Plea of the Clinging
Vine"
We are well disposed toward fe-
male suffrage, perhaps not so much
for the sake of the thing itself as be-
cause of the hoary arguments that
are brought against it.
Man is not a sturdy oak. He is a
scrub, insecurely rooted in sandy soil,
somewhat worm eaten, in peril from
every high wind Nor is woman a
clinging vine except those who are
also blockheads. Home is not the
woman's sole and proper sphere. One
female in seven. of all ages, at the last
census, was engaged in a gainful oc-
cupation. There were twenty-four
million females above the age of 20
and 25, and quarter million were
earning a livelihood or trying to.
Here, If womans business is to
cling. Is a problem in reforesting,
more startling and vital than any yet
propounded by Mr.. Pinchot Where
are the oaks for these vines? 1t is
a fair assumption that they have fail
ed as clingers only as a corresponding
male has failed as a clingee.
The political and economic organ
izatlon under which five million wo-
men work for living is exclusively
male creation. 1t seems to US rea-
sonable that, in proportion as women
have to make a livelihood, they are
entitled to have a say about the gem
eral conditions under which liveli-
hoods are made.
We are impervious to any fear that
voting would coarsen women and rob
them Of that virgin dellcacy which Is
their chief charm. Many, many
thousands Of them we pack daily in.
street cars, subways and elevated
trains, where they are bumped, tram
pied and squeezed by strange men.
BY the hundred thousand they work
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-03-25
THE WANDER TRAIL.

Up across the mountains, downward
through the vale
out upon the foaming seas runs tho
wander trail;
Pack your bundle, comrade, and take
your staff in hand;
We're off to seek cOntentment, which
dwells in No Mans Land.
The skies are blue above us, the
roaming wind is sweet,
The roads are warm and springy be-
meath our faring feet;
on. leave the home-kept people to
work and play and breed
We must be off, fulfilling the rovers'
easy creed.
For lands we've never Travelled, for
seas we've never crossed,
Our hearts are all a-hunger, we never
count the cost;
The sun in all his glory OF rising at
the dawn
But calls to us to follow where he Is
leading on,
And when in sheen and splendor he
sings beneath the sea,
He seems to send a message, Come,
comrades, follow me-"
The end of all our journey-who
knows what it may bring?
But, friend. the wander fever has
wakened with the spring.
--Berton Braley in McClure's.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-03-25
MIR. GEER's REASONS.

t. T. Geer has been openly chal-
Ienged to give one good reason why
he should be elected to congress in
the second district in place of w. R.
Ellis. but so far has failed TO even
attempt TO give a reason.
Mr.. Geer has been in the district
but a short time, and 1t is said among
his friends that he will probably re-
turn to Portland to reside soon after
the election If he does not win in the
congressional race. This is not defi-
nitely stated, but such rumors are in
circulation.
So why, it is asked in all sincerity,
should Mr.. Geer be elected to con-
Kress from this district? What are
the reasons? The people will be glad
70 hear them.
The following little incident from
apill iulhbtl VI Niit -NouAAAuo AAtS
Mr.. Geer's case so aptly that the
temptation to use it in this connection
cannot be resisted. The Nautilus
says:
A candidate for congress visited an
old farmer one day to make sure OF
his support You believe in rotation
Of crops, don't you. Mr.. Smith," said
the candidate. why shouldn't the
same principle apply to congressman?
Ny opponent has had the job long
enough" WAL" said the old farm
er scratching his head thoughtfully,
81 amt goin' to plant last years
pertater field with skunk cabbage jest
fer the sake Of rotatin,' ye know"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-03-25

The Umatilla county candidates for
the legislature who have refused to
sign statement No. for the peoples
choice for United States senator, can
not afford to occupy this attitude OF
hostility toward the people. They
cannot afford to say that they will not
trust the people. They cannot afford
to say that their neighbors are not as
intelligent as they and fully as capable
of voting for senator. This Is mat
ter of utmost seriousness in the pro-
gress of the state and no good citizen
can afford to go on record as being
opposed to the peoples rule.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-03-25
WALLA WALLA,

Where golden hills caress verdant
vale,
And countless streamlets dance on
silvered trail;
Where to the gardeners care, the
plowman's toll
With untold wealth responds the vir-
gin soil
There lies, protected 'gainst the win
ter's blast,
The Walla Walla valley unsurpassed.
Yet o'er this peaceful dale what
storms have swept,
When red-skinned warriors through
its foliage crept,
And scattered settlers fought with
failing breath
For home and freedom, loyal unto
death!
Above their unknown graves and
widows tears
Progress its myriad-towered temple
rears.
The college stands where once the
cedar cot
OF toil-grimmed settlers marked a
humble spot,
And where the dreaded foe in am
bush lay
Gigantic engines mark the white
mans way;
Aye, where the wigwam's smoke war;
boding rose
The never firing stream of commerce
Homes, bought at such a price are
doubly dear!
The golden grain grows richer every
year,
And men and women, so sublimely
sired,
With dreams of future greatness are
inspired.
For hearts and homes, for health
and wealth and air
Give me this verdant valley, rich and
fair!
Rev. Andreas Bard in Coast Mag
aZine.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-03-25
NOT AFRAID OF THE PEOPLE.

Two significant statements on state
ment No. / and the popular election
of United States senator come from
La Grande this week. Slowly but
surely the sentiment of the entire state
is swinging to the peoples choice.
Prominent politicians, newspapers
and organizations are changing to the
peoples side and there is every pros
pect that the next legislature will be
even stronger for statement No.
than the last.
The La Grande Observer which, two
weeks ago, was strongly anti-state-
ment No. /. is now in favor of 1t and
in yesterdays issue says:
Chamberlain will come nearer be-
ing elected If the republicans oppose
statement No /, than II they enthusi-
astically support it. At least s5 per
cent of the voters Of Oregon are in
favor Of an amendment to our con-
stitutfon providing for the privilege
of voting direct for United States sem
ators. Statement No. makes this
possible, and that is all there is to It,"
]. B. Stoddard, former mayor Of La
Grande, and now republican candidate
for the legislature, who was opposed
to the peoples choice and in favor
of the party choice, but a short time
ago, is now emphatically in favor of
statement No. l and is supporting that
principle with all his ability. In a
communication to the La Grande Star
on the subject, he says:
1T is a fatal error to attempt to
refuse the people the right to nomi-
nate United States senator and to in
struct the representatives to vote for
the peoples choice. The very fact
that you fear Chamberlain will be the
peoples choice will be the means of
making him so, because you are de-
stroying the faith of the people in
your sincerity. The republicans en-
acted the primary law, why should
they seek to repudate it?
"A party can make no more seri-
Gus blunder than to assume an atti-
tude which expresses plainly that the
people are not to be trusted in max
ing choice of United States senator at
the polls. On the other hand we have
the governor making his plea that he
has unbounded faith in the people.
THE republicans again show their
weakness when they express the fear
that a democrat may be elected in a
state with nearly 10000 republican
majority. There is some reason for
this fear, and it is well founded. The
republican party can regain the con-
fidence and support of the people, but
not so long as the party appears to
be unwilling to trust to the peoples
choice for United States senator"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-03-25
AS 1 GO SPEEDING WEST.

As go speeding to the Western Gate
Let me not murmur at unwelcome
Fate,
But rather life's unnumbered joys re-
late
As I go speeding west.
Beyond the sunset lies effulgent dawn.
would not make men sad while
journeying on.
Nor give them food for tears, when
am gone,
would not make men sad,
Too much we talk OF gloom, and
grief, and shade,
Forgetting, that kind law a just God
made.
Whereby small woes with mighty joys
are paid.
Too much we talk Of gloom.
Yea, there are vast delights on this
good earth.
And he who counts them from his
hour of birth.
Shall find this life thing of precious
worth.
Yea, there are vast delights.
As l go speeding west, l look for
light,
A million stars shine through one
single night,
And all the sunset promises are
bright
As l go speeding west.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-03-25

The largest class in the history OF
Pendleton high school will be gradu-
ated this spring. And 1t is a good
class, too. Bright, well equipped, in
telligent young men and women,
qualified to make their way in any
business sphere. And next winter the
high school will exceed any previous
record for attendance and results.
People from all over the inland em-
pire are looking toward Pendleton.
Better secure a home here now, be-
fore the rush. This is THE school
town OF the inland empire.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-03-25
OVERSIGHT OF COLoNIsTs.

The hundreds of colonists and
hOmeseekers who are passing through
Pendleton daily, to the westward, are
overlooking some of the best oppor-
tunities OF their lives, in Umatilla
and other eastern Oregon counties.
But the fact remains that after a
colonist has purchased a ticket
through TO Portland it is impossible
10 induce him to teave the train be-
fore riding to the end Of his ticket.
You might show him dollars growing
Cpon trees, or bank notes used for
handkerchiefs, or gold coin used for
matchmaking the streets, and still he
would hug his measly colonist ticket
in his pocket and ride to the bitter
end.
It seems so utterly inconsistent for
actual homeseekers TO pass through
the only country in the west offering
them homes-the reclaimed desert,
the newly irrigated sections of eastern
Oregon, the seml-ard farming coun-
Try where land is reasonabley cheap!
II seems ludicrous to see them riding
through to Portland, Seattle, Tacoma,
Spokane, where a man must have a
fortune to secure foothold, with all
this rich section Of the inland empire
beckoning to the blind and deluded
creatures, with a thousand fruitful
promises
They viii ride to the end OF their
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-03-25
THE PUBLIC AND PLAYS

There are few of the established
playwrights who have not had fall
ure this season. Nine out of ten OF
the plays produced have sunk into
oblivion-and that because Of their
own dull weight.
Yet the sheer poor quality of the
plays is an insufficient explanation.
One must take into consideration al
so the fact that the General-Publlc-
That-Pays has developed, or has alb
sorbed, ideas as to the real value Of
plays. "Sure-fire hokum." as the old
time managers used to call certain
situations and dialogue that never
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-03-25

ticket, though, and nothing win stop
them. No use to spend money ad-
vertising or talking to them. If they
have through ticket to Portland or
Seattle, no emergency could stay
them go. Many will walk back to the
inland empire and become good cit-
zens. The experience will do them
good.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-03-25

failed to rouse the gallery. seems to
have lost It's appeal. The demand,
evidently. is for something new, eitn-
er in ideas or treatment; and for a
higher standard.-"The Players" in
the April Everybody's.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-03-25

= Let me look always forward, 7
. never back. I
. Was not formed for progress? I
= otherwise, I
= With onward pointing feet and !
. searching eyes, =
. Would God have set me square !
= ly on the track I
y Up which we all must labor, !
= with life's pack? I
= Yonder the goal of all this !
. travel lies; I
. What matter it, If yesterday the Z
. skies
2 With light were gilded, or with I
. clouds were black? !
. would not lose tomorrow's I
. glow OF dawn !
. BY gazing backward, after suns I
. long set.
2 New hope is fairer than an old I
. regret. !
= Let me pursue my journey and !
, press on =
. Not fearful eyed, stand ever in I
. one spot
. A briny statue, like the wife Of Z
3 Lott =
. Ella Wheeler Wilcox in =
. The Nautilus for April. =
. &++%s+%+++T+++ = + = = + = =
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-03-25

in stores. offices and mills whore their
experiences must be at least as So
phlstIcating as any that would come
to them from walking to a polling
place once a year.
1t is undoubtedly true that the
great majority of women do not wish
to vote; but they wouldn't have to.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-03-25

Charles Mcdonald and George
Frankhauser, the daring train BAN
dts captured at Spokane recently and
confined in the Helena, Mont. Jail,
made their escape by saving four sets
of bars.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-03-25

An English minister says that Lon
doners are developing into a race of
dwarfs, owing to smoking and riding
in tramways.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-03-25
ROOMS: $l.00 and $l.SO
Block and Half from Depot.
See the big electric sign.
HOTEL PORTLAND

PORTLAND. OREGON.
American plan, 50 per day and up
wards Headquarters for tourists and
commercial travellers. Special rates
made to families and single gentle-
men. The management will be pleas
ed at all times to show rooms and
give prices. A modern Turkish bath
establishment In the hotel.
H. c. BOWERS. Manager.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-03-25
HOSTETTER'S
STOMACH BITTERS

is unequalled in cases OF Spring Fe-
yer, General Weakness, Colds, Grippe,
Indigestion, Dyspepsia, COstiveness
and Malaria. Refuse all substitutes.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1908-03-25
STOMACH ILLS
WILL DISAPPEAR

WILL DISAPPEAR
Very quickly If you will only resort to
the Bitters as soon as you notice the
first symptoms Of distress. Thous-
ands of persons, similarly afflicted,
can tell you of its wonderful merit.
But try 1t yourself and save lot Of
unnecessary suffering.