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Imperial Valley press., 1909-04-10
IMPERIAL

Imperial has about 500 volumes In it's school library
 The Imperial ball team will play the Brawley team OF the latter towns saOunds tomorrow
 < N < The Imperial Valley Ministerial wnion held its monthly meeting in imperial last Monday.
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 H. w. Brewer has been elected to succeed himself as a member of the board of trustees of the Imperial school district.
 Mrs. T. w. Stevenson, and son, Denald, have come to Imperial, from Chicago, to join Mr. Stevenson, who has been here for several weeks. Dr. F, l.. Wallace ana family have gone from Imperial to their former home in Ponca, Oklahoma, where Dr. Wallace will resume the practice of his profession.
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 Edgar A. Cooke, recently connected with the CalexieO Chronicle In the work of getting up the special edi- tiOn of that paper. has become busi- ness manager of the Imperial Daily Standard.
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 Prof Mott II, Arnold. Rev A. E wright and 8. D. 1inmer have been visiting various cities on the coast tsF the purpose of Inspecting their Aish school buildings and equipments. vESth the view of making reoommeda- ooAA for tAs nnpesAEa Valley High
Imperial Valley press., 1909-04-10
cALExico.

Frank T. Thing has resigned as a member of the board Of City Trus- tees of Calexico.
 Calexico's municipal headquarters hereafter will be in the rear room of the new Thing block
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 Today is the time set for the ball game between Calexico players and team made up from employees of the California Development Company
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 J. J. Kennedy was taken to the Central Hospital at Fl Centro, last week, to hasten his recovery from q severe attack of pleurisy.
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 The election for school bonds in the new Mount iSgnal school district carried and building will be in readiness for next falls school open ing.
 Thousands of acres of barley will soon be harvested in the vicinity of Calexico. The grain is well headed out and gives promise of heavy yield
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 The beautiful new home of Mir, and Mrs. FrttS Kloke was opened last week for a benefit for the Women's Improvement Club of Calexico. and q musicale aAd reception was given which wsa oAe of the most notable
The Tupelo journal., 1909-08-27
SUTTON KILLED SELF
BY ACCIDENT OR PURPOSE, SAYS
NAVAL COURT.
Officers Mildly Characterization Di
rectly and Solely Responsible
for His Death.

Washington.-With the publication
Wednesday of Acting Secretary of the
Navy Winthorp's approval of the find
ings of the court of inquiry that Lieut..
Jas. N. Sutton, Jr., of the United States
Marine Corps, was directly and solely
responsible for his own death at An
napolis, nearly two years ago." the IA
nous Sutton case became a closed Incl
dent as far as the navy department is
concerned.
Counsel for the Suttons intimated,
however, after the courts decision had
become definitely known, that they were
far from satisfied with it, and that they
would probably take the issues involved
before Congress, with a view of having
a full hearing of the case by a committee
of that body.
Too much time has elapsed since the
%ficials, to undertake any proceedings
against the persons whose conduct in the
case has been made the subject of criti-
cism by the court. They, however, will
be made acquainted in an official, but in
formal way, of these criticisms, which
will both serve the purpose of an adj
monition to them, and if presented to
them, the view taken by the department
of their conduct.
Lieut.. Sutton is directly and solely
responsible for his own death, which was
self-inficted, either Intentionally or in
an effort to shoot one of the persons re-
straining him, and his death was not
caused by any other injury whatever"
The Tupelo journal., 1909-08-27
TAFT URGES REFORMS
PREVENTION OF ovERCAPITAL.
IZATION OF CORPORATIONS.
National Corporation Act Allow
Traffic Agreements, What Next
Message Will Contain.

Beverly, Mass.-A national corpora.
ton act, legislative approval of railroad
tariff agreements and prevention of the
over-capitalization of corporations en-
gagged in interstate commerce, are three
of the reforms that will be urged upon
Congress by President Taft next Decem-
Der. To these may be added a fourth
Introduction against any interstate rail-
way acquiring stock in a competing line.
These reforms, all of them part of the
general legislative program of the presi-
dent, will be taken up early next week
at a conference to be held in New York
between Attorney General Wickersham,
Solicitor General Bowers, Interstate Com
merce Commissioners Prouty and Knapp,
Secretary Nagel of the Department of
Commerce and Labor, and Representative
Townsend of Michigan.
One of the reforms which the attorney
general will urge upon the president and
which is altogether likely to be the sub
iect of further recommendations to Con-
gress is a law providing for a national
Incorporation to carry interstate COM
merce. Mr.. Wickersham has made a
study of State control of foreign corpo-
r%ations. He believes that a national IN
corporation law is the natural result of
economic conditions.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-08-27
AIRsHIP RACES AT STATE FAIR.
First Real Speed Contests With Two
Flying Machines in Air at
Same Time.

Nashville-At the Tennessee State
Fair the first real airship races ever at
tempted will be clown" by two of the
worlds most famous aeronauts, Roy
Knabenshue and Lincoln Beachy.
This is in accordance with a contract
made Monday, August 16, for the whole
of the week of September 20.
These two famous masters of aerial
cruising will bring two great dirigibles
to the fair, and rising from the field
in front of the grandstand at the same
time, will fly real races over a prescribed
course, finishing just where they start.
Besides the one race each day, these
flyers will give exhibition flights every
few hours, and will also make ascensions
in the glare of the searchlights each
night.
The State Fair management had al
ready spent nearly $4,000 for tree
amusement features, but when the OPP
p~ortunity was offered to get these air.
ship masters right at this time, when
there is such an interest in the con-
quest of tie clouds, the executive COM
mittee took a chance and contracted for
an expenditure of $4,000 additional.
This is the browning feature In one
of the greatest free amusement programs
ever offered at any fair.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-08-27
THE extra session just closed is re-

THE extra session just closed is re-
l garded in the eyes of the law as
the first session of the Sixty-first con-
gress, so unless a court ruling is made
which reverses the treasury depart
ment the lawmakers will get no mile
age when they come together next De-
cember. The senators and congress
men, however, have not given up hope
of securing their mileage for the
Dingley law session, for they carried
the case to the court of claims. Gen.
Grosvenor, until recently a repre-
sentative from Ohio, and one of the
leaders of the Cannon machine in the
house, Is the attorney in charge of
the Ease for the mileage claimants.
The mere fact that most of the sena-
tors and congressman did not return
to their homes between adjournment
on March 4 and the beginning of the
extra session on March Is does not
lessen their desire to get the mile
age. 1t is so much velvet" if they
can get it, and the majority of the
gentlemen who go to Washington to
serve their country have the reputa-
ton of getting all they "a
The statesmen get Is cents a mile
over the longest possible route to
their homes. Some of the New York
members get more than $100 for a
trip.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-08-27

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. the thou
w sand things that Influenced the
making of the tariff bill in congress,
there has been overlooked m ele-
ment that had indirect but important
effect on the raising or lowering OF
schedules. Three times a day this
influence got to work on the sena-
tors and congressman perspiring in
the midsummer heat of the capitol.
1t al their daily diet.
The menus of Washington are a
culinary tumble, a gastronomic hash,
a geographical mixture of tropical and
temperate zone cookery. They must
serve the pie eaters of New England,
the Frenchified palates of New York
ers, the ~beefeaters of the north, the
iron-clad stomachs of the west, and
the uneasy livers of the south.
The city has not completely ac-
quired the art Of hot weather dining
that you can find best exemplified in
Egypt, India, and the far east where
Englishmen and Americans live in ex-
lie. 1t struggles between carnivorous
appetites and tropical temperature.
What sort of a tariff decision would
you expect from a nan who eats beef.
steak for breakfast, yet this is what
you can find on Washington bills of
fare. Then there are II different
KINDS of cereal foods that leave a
sawdust nourishment in your stomach,
The Tupelo journal., 1909-08-27
HAD MILLION IN COUNTERFEIT
Uncle Sam Gets Buccaneering Broth
ers in Louisville.

Louisville, Ky.-Dreams of wealth
which reflected their gaudy hues from a
brass bound trunk containing a million
dollars in counterfeit Mexican pesos,
were shattered for John c. and Marion
Roberts Thursday when Deputy United
States Marshal William Blaydes arrested
John Roberts in Shelby county with the
money in his possession. Since the hour
of the arrest there has been unraveled in
the custom house of Louisville and in
central police station a tale of attempted
financial buccaneering that puts into
shadow some of the boldest exploits in
the history of counterfeiting. Roberts,
sitting in the office of the secret service
bureau here, coolly said that he would
plead guilty at the October term of the
Federal court, and seemed philosophfc
about spending a majority of his years
in the United States prison at Atlanta.
He had played a bold game and failed,
he said, and he would have been rich
beyond his dreams had it succeeded.
Now he was poor and in the hands of
the sternest law on earth, but laid
rather fattering JUNCTION to his soul that
the scheme had been daring and roman
tic.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-08-27
HE SHOT INTO WRONG CROWD
Turned Weapon on Himself When
Cutlery Arose.

Paducah, Ky.-Plunged into depths of
remorse upon the immediate discovery of
his mistake, DR.. H. W. Kiedel of Muir
ray, Galloway county, blew his brains
out after firing into a crowd of young
society men, m~istaking. them for mali
cious boys who, he claimed, had been
worrying him. Death was i~nstantane-
Gus.
The tragedy occurred early Wednesday
morning. DR.. Kiedel was awakened by
a passing crowd of merry-makers re-
turning home, and selling his revolver
threw open the door and fired into the
midst of the crowd. F. F. Acres, a
prominent young attorney, received a
bullet, and his cry of pain was the first
intimation to the physician of his mis-
take.
Before the Mortified crowd could stop
him he had committed suicide.
He was one Of the most prominent
professional men in this end of the State,
but is alleged to have been unbalanced
bv his addiction to the drug habit.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-08-27

THERE is none of the imputed Latin
! ~indisposition to work in those who
conduct the International Bureau of
American Republics here.
The bureau, which, by the way, is
putting up a spick and span new build
ing. acts as a sort of press agent for
the Latin-American countries. A Pc
rusal of one of its monthly bulletins
is a liberal education in what the
"Other Americans" are doing and in
the of their countries.
The July number was the annual
review number. John Barrett is d1-
rector of the bureau and Francisco ].
Yanes is secretary. These two are
busy as bees, keeping the countries
in which they are interested in the
public eye. The July issue covers
the activities of the 20 Latin-Ameri-
a Republics of the International
union for the year 1908.
THE spirit of internationalism in
its broadcast application was the per
!, aiding characteristic of relations be-
tween the various countries of Amer
lea during 1908.n the bulletin says.
aThe year was marked by numerous
gatherings of the representative ele-
The Tupelo journal., 1909-08-27
CADETS ARE DISMISSED
CHARGED WITH HAZING OR
LANDO SUTTON.
Sutton Was Badly Beaten-Assaulted
While on Guard Duty By
Masked Men.

West Point. N. Y.-By the order of
President Taft, the military career of
seven young cadets abruptly came to an
end Thursday, due to their implication
in the recent hazing of Cadet Sutton.
The report and recommendation of the
board were taken before Secretary of
War Dickinson, who after considering all
points in the case, concurred in the rec
o~mmendation of the board. Cadet SUIT
ton was more seriously injured than at
first supposed, and has been in the hos
pital until this week, when he reported
tor duty, limping badly. Sutton is a
brother of Lieut.. Jas. N. Sutton, of the
naval academy, whose death was inves-
tigated at Annapolis recently, and who
was declared by the court of inquiry to
have either committed suicide or shot
himself accidentally in a fight with other
officers. Charges were made several
weeks ago that Sutton was assaulted
while ON guard duty, walking a lonely
post, and beaten down by men wrapped
in sheets and masked with pillow cases.
He was dazed. and sent to the hospital
suffering from severe injuries.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-08-27
Your Picture Taken With Mr.. Taft

the Capitol, an obscure little photo
grapher's shop floats on it's frontal a
drapery of white cloth bearing blat-
antly the black legend: Come in
and have your picture taken with
President Taft"
The trick is turned, of course, by
the simple method of improving the
customers figure beside the stock
plates of President Taft with out
stretched hand, as if in greeting, or
in a friendly arm-and-arm pose. The
illusion, however, is very good, and
the perpetrator has been making
money ever since the Inauguration,
when postcard takers filled the street
with similar enticements. The Cap
itol or White House looms convincing
ly in the background, and in the fore
front there you are in the presidential
grip and under the radiance of the
presidential smile. OF course, your
friends in Wayback believe they have
ocular demonstration that you are the
whole show when you come to Wash
ington.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-08-27
BANKER PROTECTED RELATIVE
Took Mortgage for Sister-in-Law Be-
fore Bank Closed.

Asheville, N. C.-Joseph E. Dickerson,
co-defendant with Breese and Penland,
charged with conspiracy to wreck the
First National Bank of Asheville, testi-
fed Friday on cross-examination IN his
own behalf. He declared that certain
~overdrafts appearing against him on the
books of the bank were erroneous, and
that the overdrafts were on account OF
interest and principal on a certain paper
which he had secured for Breese. He
declared he had gotten no benefit from
the notes.
Dickerson also ADMITTED that he took
a mortgage for Mrs. Alvey, his sisterin-
law, from Penland for $4,000 shortly
before the bank failed, and in reply to a
question he said he thought he should
take care of Mrs. Alvey's interest be-
fore he did the bank.
The witness stated that there was
practically no business done by the bank
during the last three years of its ex-
~istence save the renewal of old notes.
Many of these "old notes." he said in
reply to a question by counsel, were
held by himself, Penland and Breese.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-08-27
WALTON FOUND GUILTY
GOES TO PEN FOR LIFE YER.
DICT QUICKLY REACHED.
Judge Buckley overrules Motion for
New Trial, Passes Sentence
and Moves On.

Meridian, Miss.-After being out two
hours, the jury in the case of J.. G
Walton, charged with the murder OF
Will 7. O'Flynn, in this city, June 2, re
turned a verdict of guilty as charged.
and recommended hat he be sentenced
to the penitentiary for life.
A member of the jury seen directly
after the verdict had been accepted and
the jury discharged said the members
reached this verdict in less than twenty
minutes after they had retired for delib
Grafton.
The verdict was unanimous.
After the ballot the members ate din
ner, they enjoyed a big watermelon, and
while out two hours, were quick OF
reaching a verdict.
A motion for a new trial was argued
but vas overruled by Judge Buckley
and court adjourned for the term.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-08-27
Members of Congress Hot After Mileage

AS an evidence of the receptive dis
position on the part of the members
of congress it might be mentioned
that the representatives voted them
selves each $125 eatra Stationery al
lowance" soon after the beginning of
the extra session. A great many
of them do not spend more than SIS
or $40 a year OF their stationery.
There are 391 members, four delegates
and three commissioners who may
draw this comfortable little additional
$125 allowance, making 39S all told.
The sum of this item, therefore, is
$21,45O. Every employee of the cap
itol working force was granted an
extra months pay, and as the salaries
run all the way from $4,000 a year,
experts, to $50 a month for messen-
gers, and $3.50 a day for pages, the
sum total is a tidy one. The extra
pay of the senate pages amounts to
$4,000 for the extra session. These
youngsters, of whom there are 16,
are given $3.50 a day, reckoning 80
days a month.
The urgent deficiency bill carries a
number of the items due to the extra
session. Among them is one for
miscellaneous items, exclusive of la
Dor. $25,000." Who gets it is not d.
vulged in the bill. Another line in
the bill reads: ITO reimburse the Off
cial reporters of the proceedings and
debates of the senate for expenses
incurred during the first session of the
Sixty-first congress for clerk hire and
other clerical services, $3,240." The
official reporters of debates get $4,000
a year apiece and extra compensation
for additional copies of their tran
scriptiOnS.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-08-27
LIQUOR LOSES IN S. CAROLINA
Five Counties Keep Dispensary-Fif-
teen Seen to Be Dry.

Columbia, S. C.-The unofficial re-
turns from the elections held in the
twenty-one so-called wet" counties of
South Carolina Tuesday, for the pur-
pose of allowing the voters of each coun-
ty to choose between prohibition and the
county dispensary systems, indicate that
the prohibitionists have won victories in
fifteen of these counties. Complete re-
turns from some precincts not reported
may change the result in two or three
counties, but the probabilities are that
prohibition has carried in Abbeville, Bam-
berg, Barnwell, Berkeley, Calhoun, Cole
ton, Dorchester, Fairfield, Hampton, Ker-
shaw, Lee, Lexington, Orangeburg Sum
ter and Williamsburg counties.
The dispensary has won in Aiken,
Charleston and Richland counties, and
is leading in Georgetown and Beaufort.
In Florence the vote is tied, with five
precincts to hear from, claimed by the
pro~bibitiOnists.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-08-27
A Billion Matches a DAY.

A careful estimate results in the
conclusion that the United States
manages to strike just about one bill
lion matches per day, in spite of the
electricity, gas and cigar lighters in
use. The actual number seems to be
100000, 900. This would give every
man, and child in the country
IL of the little fre-sticks during the
"a hours. These matches, used in a
single day, represent about two car
loads Of the best pine timber and
would weigh about $4,000 pounds.
Twenty tall trees must be cut and
split to produce the huge pile Of little
~splinters required each day, so that
in the curse of a yea a considerable
area of forest would be consumed. If
n days consumption of matches
could be placed end to end they would
extend for a distance Of about 10000
milestone and one-fourth times the
distance round the earth.-Harper's
Weekly.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-08-27
INSURANCE COMPANIES SUED
Antitrust Law Violations Charge
Made by Prosecuting Attorney.

Little Rock, Ark.-The greatest in
surance war undertaken in Arkansas
since the original crusade ten years
ago. when all the foreign companies
were driven from tn estate. was in
augurated at Newport at 4 pm. Au-
gust 10. At that hour Prosecuting At
torney R. E. Jeffrey of the third judicial
circuit, with G. l.. Grant as %co-counsel,
filed a suit in the jackson Circuit Court
against sixty-ive fire insurance COM
panies doing business in the State, ask
ing the assessment of penalties in the
amount of 100000 each, the cancella-
ton and revocation of their licenses, and
their ousting from the State. 1t is al
legged that the companies are acting in
violation of the antitrust law. There
are very few companies in the State
that are not included in the wholesale
suit that has been instituted at Newport,
which appears to have become the storm
center of trust busting in the State,
since the suit against the so-called book
trust was instituted here several days
ago for a total of $4,000, 900.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-08-27

F you want your picture taken with
President Taft, come to Washington.
It's a sure-thing proposition. Wheth-
er the biggest man of the nation is
at Beverly or B~ullymahoo, it's all the
same thing. For the nominal price
of half a dollar or a bagatelle of that
sort you can go laundering down to
posterity on a piece of p~asteboard
clasping hands with the king Of Amer
lea or costly locking arms with His
Honorable Greatness. OF course, as
far as the president goes, it is absent
treatment. pictorially speaking. All
you've got to be particular about is
to be on hand your own self.
Way down "the Avenue" close to
The Tupelo journal., 1909-08-27
What the Lawmakers Eat in Summertime

and a dozen different acidy fruits that
Carlsbad doctors tell you to avoid.
There is nothing In the world that lies
heavier on a tired, flaccid, midsummer
stomach than an Iced melon the first
thing in the morning, yet a majority
of the tariffmakers ate them daily.
The internal chill their digestive or
gans get is a rapid cooler for tariff
reduction enthusiasm.
The capitol restaurant serves more
| dairy dishes and pie than at any
other time of the year. The average
lawmaker eats at noon-a good habit
in this country, if only he would eat
| digestible food. But he turns his
liver with ~overdoses of milk, pours
| down quantities of iced drinks amid
layers of pie and devitaliZing food.
| The one salvation Is that roast beef
generally cold-still remains the
principal blood making, brain sustain
ing, muscle giving meat dish of the
capital.
But 1t is the night diners that fur
nish the most amazing specimens Of
menus. The bills of fare of the lead
ing hotels follow closely parallel lines.
Their principal dishes can be CLASH
fed as follows:
Twenty-four different kinds of ices.
Fifteen cold salads.
Fifteen different way of cooking
| potatoes.
Twenty-Five vegetables. hot and
cold.
Eight fish cooked in 15 different
ways.
Thirteen fresh fruits.
Eight varieties of cheese.
Seventeen hot roasts and entrees,
of which eight were chicken and
! birds.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-08-27
Burdette will Not Recover.

Los Angeles.-The trustees of the
Temple Baptist Church have accepted
the resignation Of Rev. Robert J. Bur
dette, the preacher, humorist and jour-
nalist. When the question Of his resigs
nation came up there was strong oppo-
sition to it, many of the trustees pre-
ferring to give their pastor an unlimited
vacation in the hope that his health
would recover sufficiently to permit him
to return to the pulpit. It is known
among his friends that Dr.. Burdette will
never recover.
The Tupelo journal., 1909-08-27
HARTMAN IS COMING HOME
Hopes to Complete Cure Here Begun
in Europe.


Cherbourg.-"Now | am better. My
cure is finishing, and | am very glad
am going to see the soil of America
again. My only hope is that the voyage
back will be as good as that coming
over"
These words were spoken tonight by
E. II. Hartman, the American %financier,
in reply to a question about his health,
just after he was boarding a tender
which had been especially assigned to
convey him and his party from Cher
bourg to the anchorage in the roadstead
of the steamer Kaiser Wilhelm H., which
will convey him to New York.
A crowd of curious persons had con-
gregated at the maritime station when
the special arrived. A rolling chair had
been provided and was placed beside the
car as soon as the train came to a stop.
Soon Mr.. Hartman appeared en- the
step. DR.. Lyle, Mr.. Harriman's physi-
clan, offered the ~financier his arm, but,
although he was pale and appeared
feeble, he declined assistance and slowly
descended to the platform of the sta
ton.