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Imperial Valley press., 1909-07-31
CONQUEST OF THE AIR

French aeroplane crossed the English channel flight of twentyone miles, although that by the longest flight made by machine the feat demonstrates to public the progress of aviation conspcuos than do the longer flights The performer of the spectacular feat wins an English prize for showing that is possible for an enemy to England moce of her and ing the English people into mysteries.
 aeropane only scout of the The real y formidable aerial great Zeppelin flying ship sustain by ga capable making flights of hundreds of miles at great speed heights beyond the reach of rifle fire carrying artillery orpedoes Germany has warps of the air as large as ocean steamships and building great flying navy that absolute mistress of Europe Aerial battle ships nearly long already in commission and flying twice long projected craft of that size could of ammunition and supplies of such arshps could easily destroy on the ground.
 Germany ahead of France and the United States in air navigation England absurdy behind Conquest of the accomplished fact and will not be long until ships shall sail safely and surely the waters and much swiftly
Imperial Valley press., 1909-07-31

What the Interior Department and the General Land Office appear to need more than anything else is a competent instructor in the writing of plain English. The decisions, com munications and rulings of the of- ficials of those departments are the worst samples of muddled compost tion to be found in print. It is i'm possible sometimes to discover any meaning whatever in the snoring sen tences.
Imperial Valley press., 1909-07-31

In the August Success appears a biographical sketch of Br'er Boil Wee vii that pictures him as an insuffer- able pest and an enemy to the cotton industry. Quarantine precautions against the invasion of Imperial Valley by the pestiferous bug have not been entirely effective. Br'er Boil Weevil is editing the Daily Howl at Imperial and trying to sting the cotton crop of the El Centro district
Imperial Valley press., 1909-07-31

Because the fifteen hundred acres of cotton fields in Imperial Valley are nearly all contiguous to El Centro, the Imperial Standard sees nothing good in the effort to establish the cotton industry in this region and proceeds to knock" and predict failure.
Imperial Valley press., 1909-07-31
NEWS IN BRIEF

NEWS IN BRIEF Spanish troops defeated by Moors in battle near Melilla. %-N-* French aeronaut succeeds in sailing across British Channel in aeroplane. %-%-% Denver & Rio Grande railroad places order for $5OOO,OOO worth of new equipment.
 3-%-% Senator Aldrich and Congressman Payne ,come to bitter words over tar if on hides.
 %-%-* Indians in British Columbia guard graves of chieftains from railroad and threaten bloody uprising.
 %-%-%
 Thundershower saves lives of six San Bernardino prospectors, who get relief from thirst torture.
 %-%-% Chicago wheat market demoralized by liberal receipts of new crop. Rain in corn belt depresses prices.
 %-%-*
 Flight of Louis Bleriot across Chan nel jars England, and British press unites in cry, "We are no longer an island"
 %-%-*
 Harry c. Pulliam, president of Ma tional Baseball League, attempts sui eide at New York Athletic Club, and will die.
 %-%-%
 Utah Fuel Company is forced by Un- cle Sam to relinquish illegally ob- tained coal land and to pay for coal it had stolen.
 %-%-%
 Orville Wright makes record aero plane flight in presence of President Taft, Speaker, Cannon and other notables.
 %-%-%
 Hides will be put on free list if rates on boots and shoes and other leather goods are reduced below House rates in tariff bill
 X-%-k
 Orville Wright, with Lieut.. Lahm as passenger, makes record breaking flight, lasting more than one hour and twelve minutes at Fort Meyer. . %-%-% Big bronze bust of James J. Hill fails to arrive at Seattle exposition grouds in time for unveiling, and no one seems to know where it is.
 %-%-%
 'Lotta" famous early California ac- tress, wins seven-year suit to regain possession of stock appropriated by her broker, and is awarded $96,695.
 %-%-x Alphonso proclaims martial law . throughout Spain; revolutionists fight - bloody battle with troops in Barcelo- iio, ihdhy OPeliiioh officers and men.
 %-%-% San Pedro Trustees give 5O-yeal lease to each of hundred squatters on 7 government jetty; prior grant to Salt , Lake Railroad by Long Beach may cause complications %-%-x
 House wins fight for free hides by ? surrendering to Senate rate on lum' a ber Tariff bill conferees reach un. derstanding on all schedules subject oi President Tafts attention ] %-k-% l Riotous demonstration against Dlal and Corral in Guadalajara by adher' | ents of Gen. Reyes. Troops dispers' mob killing and wounding many per sons. several Americans injured by rioters.
Imperial Valley press., 1909-07-31

Ideal summer home, surrounded by exten., sive gardens; no equal in Los Angeles; prices moderate Every apartment complete with private bath. Magnificent view. Phones, 52168; Main 3593. Crown Hill car to Lucas Ave-; walk south one block. Persons ar- irving by the Southern Pacific, take Eden dale car and ask for transfer to Grown Hill line, going west, at Sixth and Olive streets Reference, The Press.
Graham guardian., 1909-08-20
e. a. Fowler
Elected President

With the election of officers and
the selection of Pueblo as the next
meeting place, the adoption OF reso,
lutions commencing the administra'
ton of Pinchot and Newell in the
forestry and reclamation bureaus, q
demand for ten million dollar If.
rigation fund from congress, and
commencing the Mississippi deep
waterway project, the Seventeenth
National Irrigation Congress prac-
tically ended Friday evening, Aug.
ust 18th, in Spokane, Wash. The
southwest was largely represented
by officers, for besides B. A. Fowler,
of Phoenix, who was elected presi-
dent; Ralph Twitchell and F. w.
Fleming, of New Mexico, were
chosen vice-presidents.
A short fight was made on the
Mississippi deep waterways project,
but it was overcome when Col. |.
Martin made an address, declaring
it of national Importance. Cover
nor Brady of Idaho, commended
both Pinchot and Ballinger and
urged that oil be poured on the
troubled waters,
Graham guardian., 1909-08-20
Gov. Sloan viii Be
Present at Meefing

Before leaving Prescott to attend
meeting of the Territorial Board
of Equalization at Phoenix, in
August 18th, Gov. Sloan stated to
reporters of the press that while in
the capital city he would consider
the preparing of an itinerary
through Arizona for President Taft
when he leaves Los Angeles, and
believes it will be approved of.
In speaking of the program out
lined for the observance of the day
when President Taft and President
Diaz of Mexico greet each other on
the international bridge that crosses
the Rio Grand, and some of the
unique features attending that i'm
portant event, Governor Sloan says
that he will be present to observe
that significant meeting of the two
rulers of the two republics. 1t is
the intention of the committee to
have attending on the President of
the United States the three COVER
nors of the three commonwealths
that border on Mexico, Governor
Campbell, of Texas; Governor Curry,
of New Mexico, and Governor Sloan,
of Arizona. With President Diaz
there will be the three governors OF
his three states bordering likewise
on the Territory of the United
States.
This event will be one of the most
noteworthy and novel meetings that
has ever taken place in this country
or Mexico.
Graham guardian., 1909-08-20
Death of Nor
mon Patriarch

Alexander Smith, patriarch of the
Re-organized Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter Day Saints, died Thursday
evening, August 18th, in Nauvoo,
ILL.,, where he was attending re.
union of the membership of his
faith. Appoplexy caused his death
The deceased resided at Lamont, la,
He died in the city of Nauvoo,
where his father figured prominent
ly in the early days of the church
Alexander Smith was seventy-one
years of age at the time of his
death. For the past fifteen years
he has been patriarch of his church,
and prior to holding this office held
the office of apostle.
He was born at Far West, Mo-,
and is survived by wife and family
of grown children. His children
are F. A. Smith, of Seattle; Arthur
and Joseph Smith, of Wray, COL,
Mrs. Kennedy and Mrs. Horner, Of
Lamont, la. He also has daught.
er in Australia.
Alexander Smith was brother OF
Joseph Smith, present head of the
Latter Day Saints Church at indie
pendence. He was an earnest work
er in the cause Of his religion, and
through his travels had an extensive
acquaintance in the membership OF
his church.
Graham guardian., 1909-08-20
BUSINESS MEN AND THE
INCOME TAX

The income tax has been urged
as relief to men of small means
and to the overburdened poor.
But there is as much good to be
said of it from the point of view OF
men of large means engaged in
great enterprises.
A properly graduated income tax,
embracing all incomes above the
living wage, is of all taxes the least
burdensome to business men.
This is true, because there is no
other kind of taxation that offers a
man remission and relief in the
time when his business is bad, and
exacts its toll only in the good times
when one is able to bear it.
1t spares him in his adversely and
asks only to participate in his pros
perity.
Like the ancient tithes of Scrip.
ture and of the immemorial relig-
ious tradition, it lays its weighty
burdens only upon years of plenty.
Graham guardian., 1909-08-20

proves what l thought, that it is
the best. Goodness! l don't know
what in the world to do"
You'll have to do something.
What did you tell him."
Il told him to go ahead with the
light. What else could | tell him?'
Tibbs heaved a sigh of relief and
picked up his paper.
Now just one more question
John, and | won't bother you any
more: How would you have the
skirt made, pleated or plain?
They're making them both ways.
Now auntie thinks"
Gee whizz!" interrupted Tibbs,
rising and jerking out his watch.
Il almost forgot an important en-
gagement. Pm half an hour late
as it is. I'll be out late. Don't
wake up"
Graham guardian., 1909-08-20
COPPER IN DEMAND

Given large supply of any indus
trial commodity, coupled with an
assurance that ample quantities of
it may at all times be depended
upon and the chances are more than
good that new uses for such article
will, from time to time, be discov-
cred. 1t will be so with copper.
The amount of that metal which
can be produced is so great as to be
indeterminable; yet, it by no means
follows that because of such pro-
fusion, it will become drug on
the market. In view of the many
uses to which it is, even in the pres
ent day, profitably applied, copper
is the most valuable of all metals.
Miners who have large deposits of
copper ore need have no fear re-
specting the value of them, and-if
the mining and reduction of them
be economically conducted-a mar
ket at good prices for the product.
On this subject the American Metal
Market of New York prints an in
teresting contribution on New
Uses for Copper" from the repre-
sentative of a leading copper COM
pany, which is here reproduced:
Few people realize the many
new uses to which copper is being
put. The opinion seems to be gen.
eral that nearly all of our copper
goes into electrical apparatus. The
fact of the matter is that the favor
able showing in the matter of con-
sumption, over the last several
years, has been the result of the
enormous amount of copper going
into buildings, the arts, etc. Cop
per for roofing purposes is becom-
ing more and more general. Take
the new buildings going up, the
amount of copper used is enormous.
Copper is being substituted for
sheet iron and steel for protecting
wood work. | could name thou
sand different articles now made
from copper that several years ago
were made from steel, wood, etc.
This country today is consuming
close to 60O,OO0,000 pounds of cop
per year, or not far below normal
consumption. We all know that
the electrical companies have not
been active. They have been con-
suming about so per cent. of the
normal amount of copper used by
them. The good showing in the
matter of consumption in a depress
period, therefore, must be due to
sources of consumption other than
electricity. 1t is my belief that
when the railroads and other cor
porations become active in construc-
tions work, there will be a scramble
for copper. Next year the stocks
on hand in this country as well as
Europe will have been wiped out if
general business continues on the
mend"
Graham guardian., 1909-08-20

On the other hand, it is the vice
of the more familiar methods of
taxation that they grind their heels
upon defeat.
A tax upon personal property
levies its toll upon a stock of mer-
chandise, whether it can be sold or
not.
A land tax is charged in the rent
of stores or factories, whether the
business succeeds or fails.
A license tax must be paid before
a trial can be made of ones under
taking.
A poll tax confounds the weak
with the strong.
And an impost or excise raises the
prices of commodities without re-
spect of fortune.
1t is only the income tax that will
stand and wait upon the issues of
enterprise, asking to be paid only
when it is easy to pay.
The industrial and mercantile
classes of every degree will ex-
perience a marked relief when the
income tax shall draw these privi-
legged people into participation in
the public burdens.
And, finally, business men will
reap an immense advantage through
the introduction of system of tax
alton that will not disturb but will
tend to establish and standardize
the price of commodities.
For a large proportion of bust
ness failures are due to incalculable
fluctuations in prices caused by
tariff f-tinkering and the ever chang
ing incidence of our complex
schemes of indirect taxation.
A storm of objections has been
raised against the taxation of in
comes, but they are leveled not
against the principle, but against
the supposed difficulties of its ap-
plications.
Thus it is said that the admins.
tration of the tax is difficult be-
cause it is too direct and downright
in it's operation or that it presup,
poses too much honesty in the peo.
pie.
But no statesman, economist or
journalist of reputation dares, OF
ever has dared, to risk that reputa.
tion in an assault upon the principle
that men should share with the
State the prosperity of their bust
ness and should be relieved from
public burdens in the times of their
private adversely. Los Angeles
Examiner.
Graham guardian., 1909-08-20
RATES OF LEGAL ADVERTISING
AUGUST 20. 1909.
THE TRANs-TERRIT0RIAL ROAD

The Territorial Board of Control
which has under it's jurisdiction the
proposed trans-Territorial roads,
has decided what counties these
highways will traverse.
According to the published report
of the board in which the tax levy
has been made, the east and west
road will run from Yuma, east
through that county and Maricopa,
thence swinging in a southerly direc-
ton through Graham and Cochise
counties to Douglas, where the road
ends.
We would suggest to the board
that instead of laying out the road
through Rice to the Blue, that the
road come up the Gila Valley to
Solomonville, thence in an easterly
direction to Coronado, and from
there through Clifton to the Blue,
from which point the road would
continue into New Mexico.
By coming up the Gila Valley the
highway would be on the Graham
county road to Solomonville, dis
tance of over twenty miles. From
Solomonville a natural road, the
present stage road to Coronado,
could be utilized. The county road
from Rice is in fine condition and
can be made into a first-class road
for travel of all kinds at a small ex-
pense. The road from Solomonville
to Coronado could also be made in
to one of the best roads in the Ter
ritory at small cost for repairs.
There is no doubt that the people
of the Territory are in favor of the
projected highways, and also that
they believe in good roads as the
very best thing for the quick devel-
opment of the country, and to carry
out the wishes of the people of
Graham County, we believe that
our suggestion to have the road
come up the valley, utilizing the
county road, and thence across to
Clifton to the Blue and into New
Mexico, is in the line of economy
and also would be to the best in
terest of our people.
BY coming this way, it will save
great expense, and would not in
terfere with the road projected to
run south to Douglas.
Graham guardian., 1909-08-20

Harry Thaw. lost out in the recent
habeas corpus proceeding before
Justice Mills in White Plains. N. Y,
under which he sought release from
Matteawan Asylum for the criminal
insane. Justice Mills decided that
Thaw was insane when he killed
Stanford White and that he is still
insane and is still suffering from
persistent delusions, and is as much
of a paranoiac as on the day he
shot White. Thaw now goes back
to the asylum.
Graham guardian., 1909-08-20


The Joe Corder alfalfa
ranch. consisting of III
acres, all under cultivation.
Good water rights. Will be
sold at bargain. Part cash,
balance on long time at 8 per
cent.
The Z. c. Prina ranch. 100
acres, all under cultivation.
Plenty of water for irrigation.
Terms, $ISo per acre; part
cash, balance at 8 per cent.
Fine 4S-acre alfalfa ranch.
Two shares of San Jose
water. Price, $1,000.
Graham guardian., 1909-08-20
GRANULArED SORE EYES CURED

For twenty years suffered from
a bad case of granulated sore eyes, "
says Martin Boyd, of Henrietta, Ky.
I'm February, 1908, gentleman
asked me to try Chamberlain S Salve.
| bought one box and used about
two-thirds of it and my eyes have
not given me any trouble since. y
This salve is for sale by Stafford
Drug Co.
Graham guardian., 1909-08-20

Occasionally man finds his wife
looking in certain Queer Way, and
asks, What is the matter?" She
looks at him moment, bursts into
tears, and says, Nothing"
Graham guardian., 1909-08-20

Don't coax your friends to do
what they do not want to do. If
there is anything in this world peo-
pie particularly love, it is liberty; if
there is anything they particularly
hate, it is nagging.
Graham guardian., 1909-08-20

less woman, should submit to them
the privacy of
your own home. Favorie Prescription has cured
hundreds of them the of
the only kind the product of regularly graduated
its
ton found in it, Some
substitute Don
Worlds Dpery Medical Association Dr. H.
NJ received be
Graham guardian., 1909-08-20
WELCOME WORDS TO Women

Women who suffer with disorders peculiar to their
sex should write to DR.. Pierce and receive free the
advice Of a physician Of over 40 years experience
"a skilled and successful specialist in the diseases
of women Every letter of this sort has the most
careful consideration and is regarded as sacredy
confidential. Many sensitively modest women write
fully to DR.. Pierce what they would shrink from
telling to their local physician. The local physician
is pretty sure to say that he cannot do anything
without "an examination DR.. Pierce holds that
these dstasteful examinations are generally need
The Florida star., 1909-12-03
The American Automobile

The American automobile industry
is now firmly established. 1t has pas
sed through its period of infantile dis
eases, and is ready to take its proper
place in the world and lead the way
as American industries should. al
ready its lesson of cheap and medium
priced cars has been learned abroad
and the foreign manufacturers are
falling into line.
There is little more to be said as to
where the automobile stands in Amer
lea. 1t has become more a part of
national life than in any other coun-
try. IthaSbuilt roads and broadened
whole communities. 1t has proved
itself of inestimable value in the huge
The Florida star., 1909-12-03
Sends Four Messages

Mr.. Stephen d. Field, a nephew of
Cyrus West Field, who laid the first
Atlantic cable, has perfected an in
strument in his laboratory at stock
bridge, Mass, by the use of which
four messages can be sent over a
single cable simultaneously. The de-
vice is now being used successfully in
Key West, Fla, and Havana, Cuba,
and proved serviceable during the
recent severe storm. Heretofore it
has been possible to send only one
message at a time over a cable. Mr..
Field has obtained patents on his in
vention. 1t was Mr.. Field who invent
ed and operated successfully in Stock
bridge early in the eighties the first
trolley car.
The Florida star., 1909-12-03
Examination Text Books

The following is a list of text books
to be used as the basis of the June ex-
animation, 1909:
Orthography-H Hunts Speller (20c)
American Book Company, Atlanta, Ga.
Composition-Eleme o f English
Composition, by Gardiner, Kittredge &
Arnold ($l), CHM & Co., Atlanta, Ga.
Reading-Any standard author will
answer.
Arithmetic Mines Standard (65c),
American Book Company.
English Grammar -Lawton B. Evan s
(40c), American Book Company.
Florida History Brevard & Bennett s
(60c), American Book Company, and
Fairbank s, H. &. w. B. Drew Co.,
Jacksonville, Fla.
u. S. History - Fields Grammar
School (SD, American Book Co.
Geography-Re Redway's Natural Ad-
vanced ($l.25), American Book Co.
Physiology Coleman's Elements of
(9Oc), The Macmillan Co., Atlanta, Ga.
Civil GOvernment-Yocum's Civil
Government of Florida and the United
States ($D, K. o. Painter Co., DeLand,
Fla, and BOynton's School Civics ($D.
CHM & Co.
Algebra-Milne's High School (SD,
American Book Co.
Physical Geography -Maury -Simond's
(Sl.2O), American Book Co.
Agriculture - John Frederick Dug
gers for Southern Schools (75c), The
Macmillan Company.
The Florida star., 1909-12-03

fields of the west, where farm is as
large as a whole English domain. it
is a great force in the life of the
whole country, and the industry to
which it has given birth is safely es-
tablished upon a firm foundation of
prosperity that is bound to endure.
Once the automobile was looked
upon as toy and the rich mans lux
ury, but that is in the past, and there
is none so blind now that he cannot
see the true worth of the motor car.
The Florida star., 1909-12-03

The most remarkable thing in Flor
ida, says the DeLand News, is perhaps
the wonderful increase in the value
of real estate all over the State dur
ing the past three or four years.
Timber land that went begging at
S1.0O an acre a few years ago is
worth from So to $50 an acre today.
Truck and gardening land for which
there was no call at all five years ago
is today bringing from $40 to$500 an
acre. The earnings of $50 to $500
per acre actually made year after year
from truck land has attracted the at
tention of the world to the wonder
full resources of the State and these
returns are bringing thousands Of
people to Florida. The season of
19O9-l0 will witness the greatest in
flux of prospectors we have ever seen.
The Florida star., 1909-12-03

1t is said that the whiskey men
have engaged Pleasant H. Holt, the
Jacksonville politician, to manage
the anti-prohibitiOn campaign for
them next year. They have secured
the keenest politician in the state to
work to defeat the proposed amend
ment to the constitution for state
wide prohibition, but the gentleman
has the biggest kind of a job on his
hands. There is no question, says
the DeLand Record, but he will have
plenty of funds to prosecute his cam
paign.
The Florida star., 1909-12-03

There are still a few pessimiSts
loafing arOundKissimmee that should
either be muzzled or shipped out of
the state. There is no room in this
or any other Florida town for crOak-
ers and knockers. 1t is true it takes
all kinds of people to make acom-
munity, but men who are working
to build up and make prosperous this
state should not be hampered with
that class who oppose every progress
sive move and never gives a cent to-
wards advertising this town and
county, though they are becoming
rich on the work of the boosters.
Florida is a pretty big state, but it
is not big enough to furnish house
room to such a class. .-Kissimmee
Gazette.
The Florida star., 1909-12-03

The rivalry between the Citrus Ex-
change and the big fruit brokers is
already producing good results. Each
is trying to see which can get the
best prices for fruit sent to market
and the producers are reapiHg the
benefit. it.-Punta Gorda Herald.