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La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1909-12-31
cARTAS DEL PUEBLO
Solidaridad en- Gurabo.

EStlmado compatrl0ta:-
Cumpliendo instrucci6nes de los
Comitks Locales de la Union de Puer
to Rico y del partido Republican,,
me complazco en- enviar q Vd. CO.
pia de una ACTA levantada hoy
en- mi casa, para que Sc sirva or
denar su publication en- el periodi-
co de su digna direction 81 10 estima
pertinente,
De Vd, con la mayor considera-
ci6n,-Demetrio Riuera.
En- ell pueblo de Gurabo, Puerto
Rico, a veinte y siete de Diciembre
de mil novecientos nueve, Sc reu-
nieron en- la casa de Don Demetrio
Rivera los Sres. Santiago Morales,
Zen6n Vazquez, Severiano Candle
lario y Gabriel Garcia que forman
parte de Ia junta local de Ia Union
de Puerto Rico, y los Sres. Gerardo
Guma, Antonio Carrasquillo, Fran
cisco Arestigueta y Gustavo Rieder
que forman parte del comite local
de Partido Republican,.
Sc di6 lectura q un MAN1FIES-
TO que dirigen AL PUEBLO PUER
TORRIQUENO los distinguidos
hombres publicos Jose de Elzaburu,
Mariana Abril, Manuel M. Ginorio
y Ramon Negron Flores; Sc cam
biaron impresiones entire los con-
currentes acerca del alcance de dl-
cho documento, cuya oportunldad
y patriotismo son aplaudidos, adop-
tandose por unanimidad las siguien-
tes resoluclones:-
Significar la satisfaction y la ale
gria con que ha sido visto por ell
pueblo de Gurabo el acto de recon-
ciliaci6n entire los ilustres puertorri-
quehos Sres. Luis Muhoz Rivera y
Jose Celso Barbosa; y aplaudir con
efusi6n la gran obra realizada por
las Logias aurora" y "San Juan
Bautista"
Sc convene en- que es de necesi-
dad notoria establecer sinceras re-
laciones de cordialidad entire los
politicos de bandos opuestos, en-
tendiendose que esa cordialidad de-
be ser mantenida aun en- los dias de
mayor lucha en- las .campafas poll
ticas.
Sc acuerda solicitar la modifica-
cion de la LEY FORAKER en- el
sentido de que el senado puertorri-
queno sea de election popular y de
que por el Congreso de los Estados
Cnidos Sc reconozca a Puerto Rico
el derecho a la ciudadania america
ma.
Y Sc acuerda, por iltimo, trans
mitir un telegrama al Sr. secretario
de la guerra, en- los siguientes ter
minos:
Honorable j. NJ. Dickinson, Sc
cretario de la Guerra. Mansion Ele
cutiva. San Juan.
Representatives. partidos politl-
cos Union de Puerto Rico Y Repu-
i blicanos en- Asamblea eelebrada
hoy acuerda solicitar del Congreso
de Estados Unidos por conducto Gle
+ Y. H. reforma Ley Foraker en- SEN
lido Senado Puerto-Riqueho sea
elective V Sc reconozca derecho
puertorriqueho a ciudadania anne
ricana. Santiago Morales,-Presi-
dente Junta Local Union Puerto
Rico.
Gerardo Gumd. .-Prcsidente CO.
mite local Partido Republicano
Sc acord6 remitir copia de esta
/ ACTA 4 los Jefes de los PartidoS
Republican, V Union de Puerto
Rico V a los peri6dicos LA DEMO
| CRACIA, Ell TEMPO, HERAL-
| DO ESPANOL V LA CORRESPON
DENCIA de PUERTO RICO.
Firmado. Santiago Morales. &c
rardo Gumd. lemon Fo,qaez, An
tonic CarGsqmllo, .SercriGno Can
delario, FrGncirco ircstiquetd, Ga
brid Garcia V Gustaro Rieder.
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1909-12-31

Los mosquitoes llevan la infection
del Paludismo. La Pam ala cura el
Paludismo, haga Vd. la prueba.
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1909-12-31

En- esta Imprenta Sc vende papel
de peri6dicos viejos a 81 quintal.
Imperial Valley press., 1909-03-13
OLD TIME MINISTRIES
Excellent Entertainment Given at Op- era House By Nashville
 Students.

The old-tlme negro minstrel show, given by the Nashville Students at Holt Opera House last Monday night, was a blessed relief from the stupid vulgarities of vaudeville and so.called musical comedy" infesting the stage in these days. The company Is com posed of negroes, who have good voices and are funny in a simple, fortnight way. There are end men, with bones and tambos, who crack jokes with a ludicrous exquisite in the center, tell absurd stories and sing ridiculous songs, and there Is 2 burlesque exhorter, who pounds n table with his umbrella and makes preposterous speeches.
 One can sit through the perform ance without pitying the people on the stage for being obliged to make hood lums and idiots of themselves, and can laugh wholesomely with them, and enjoy tuneful singing. The Nashville Students gave the best entertainment that has been presented by any travel ing troupe in the valley. There was fairly good attendance but not such a house as the show deserved.
Imperial Valley press., 1909-03-13
CARE OF INDIGENTS
Satisfactory Solution Reached by su- pervisors of Imperial and Yuma Counties in Joint Confer.
 ence.

The difficulties which have arisen heretofore in the equitable settlement of costs in cases where indigents have been taken to Yuma for hospital care or treatment from this side of the Colorado River, will now cease, as a satisfactory adjustment has been reached in a recent conference be- tween the Supervisors of Imperial County and Yuma County. This ap- pears on the minutes of the Yuma County Supervisors as follows:
 Whereas, there have been several cases in the past where indigents have been injured in one of said coun- ties and transported to other of said counties for care and treatment which said indigents for the time being were a county charge on the county where such indigents were transport ed, now, therefore, be 1t resolved by the board (the supervisors from Imperial county concurring), that the care and keeping of such indigents shall be paid for by the county into which they were transported, and the cost of the care and keeping of such indigents charged to the other of said counties, and the clerk of the board of supervisors of such county shall render a statement quarterly to the county to which 1t Is charged, and said county will they pay the county that has been caring for such indi- gents the amount of money 1t has paid out on account of same"
Imperial Valley press., 1909-03-13
WoMENS CULTURE CLUB
Takes up Discussion of Current Events, and Papers on contem porary Characters Are
 Presented.

The Literary Section of the Woman's Culture Club met in the Methodist Church Thursday afternoon and the first ten minutes was spent In discussion of current events, in response to roll call under the leader ship of Mrs. W. c. Whitescarver.
 Henry VIII, Edward III, and Queen Mary were the main topics from Eng lands story, followed by fve.minute papers on the contemporary charac- ters-Cardinal Woolsey, by Mrs. Rapp; William Caxton, by Mrs. Campbell; Sir Thomas Moore, by Mrs. Blackin. ton.
 On account of the Teachers Insti- ute, no meeting of the section will be held next week, but the week follow ing the meeting will be in the Metho. dist Church at 3:30 o'clock on Thurs. day afternoon, and the programme will consist of main facts from cur rent events, the finishing of a study of the Tudor soverigns and a descrip- tion of Stratford-on.Avon from the Shakespeare number of the Magazine. Mrs. Whitescarver will be the leader.
Imperial Valley press., 1909-03-13
PLACE BAN ON TAXES"
Business Men of Valley Wlll Patron. lze Established Advertising Me. dums to Exclusion of Tran.
 sitory Schemes.

Hereafter members of the Imperial Valley Business Mems Protective As sociation will be relieved of the tax of patronizing mediums of doubtful advantage. No advertising Is to be placed in any but established medi, ums of this valley from this time forward by any member of the asso. ciation without the new medium car crying with 1t the endorsement of the secretary of the association, who Is made special committee on investi- gation.
 This sensible action was taken at a meeting of directors of the assocIa- ton held in Brawley Tuesday after. noon, and at which representative of every town in Imperial Valley were present.
 Those present were J. H. Edgar. president of the association, Imper. ial; w. R. Stevenson, secretary, Inn perial; c. w. Anderson. Holtv1lle; Roy Rumsey. El Centro; Peter Barnes, Calexico; MessTs. Potter. Stahl and Edgar, Bpawley.
Imperial Valley press., 1909-03-13
GUN PLAY IN COURT
Sam Packwood Becomes lneensed at Remarks of Attorney Klein, and as Result Must Answer
 Serious Charge.

During the trial of the case of T. P. Banta vs. Sam Redwood, of Braw. ley, before the court of Justice Brad shaw, at Imperial, over matter of collecting note signed by Redwood, the latter is alleged to have made a gun play that has got him into more serious trouble than the civil suit. He must now answer to the charge of assault with deadly weapon.
 The validity of the note signed by Redwood was in question when At torney Klein, who was appearing for Banta, indicated that he might wish to show that certain statements of Redwood were not true.
 Redwood at once sprang up from his chair and cried out that he would not permit his word to be attacked in this manner, and, 1t Is alleged pointed his pistol at Klein while hold ing it in his coat pocket.
 Justice Bradshaw saw the move ments of Packwood and running his hand into Packwood's pocket, released the mans hold on his weapon and took it from him. Bradshaw adjourned the hearing of the civil suit and at once ordered Packwoods arrest on the charge of assault with a deadly weapon. The hearing will take place this morning at 10 o'clock, probably before Recorder H. " Thompson, at Imperial.
Imperial Valley press., 1909-03-13
SUCCESSFUL SKIN GRAPHING
Mexican at Central Hospital Will Re cover From Burns With Help
 of Borrowed Cutieie.

Porfllio Hernandez, @ young Mexi- can who fell into a fire at Calexico four weeks ago, and whose back was horribly burned from his shoulders to his hips, will recover because of skin grating performed by Dr. Virgil McCombs, at the Central Hospital at El Centro.
 Hernandez was in such a condition when first brought to the Central Hos pital that his recovery was considered doubtful. His vigorous constitution, however, came to his aid, and as soon as the burned skin sloughed off the physicians made preparations for skin grating on an extensive scale.
 Other patients at the hospital made contributions of cuticle. The grafts were made in small sections about one-eighth of an inch square, and about sixty of these gratis were placed on the sufferers back, where they were treated with a normal salt solu- tion. The latest reports indicate that nearly all of these gratis have taken" and that from them new skin growth will spread out until the great sur face is covered. This will require many weeks.
 If further gratis are found neces- sary, the skin will be taken from the legs and arms of Hernandez.
Imperial Valley press., 1909-03-13
TENNIS GAMES TODAY
InterScholastic Athletic League Rep. resentatlves to Play on Local Courts in Singles and
 Doubles.

On account of the high wind pre- vailing all day last Saturday, 1t was impossible to play the tennis games scheduled for that time by the Imper- ial Valley Interscholastic Athletic League.
 If the weather is suitable these games will be played today. The whole schedule for the two Saturdays, as given in last weeks issue of The Press, will be played today, the first sets being called at o'clock this morning.
 On account of doubling up these games, both the club and high school courts will be- used for these games,
Imperial Valley press., 1909-03-13
Hotel Oregon MaylNOt Serve Wine or Beer to
 Guests
Unsuccessful Effort to Ameliorate the
 Aridity of El centro's Policy-No
 More Booze Cases For McNamara. Prefers to Prosecute in the Future.

As attorney for Helms & Pellett, owners of the Oregon Hotel, Attorney McNamara presented to the Board of Trustees of El Centro, last Tuesday night, verbal petition for a license to sell wine and beer to guests at the hotel tables, and presented reasons why 1t should be granted. He said his clients had spent $70,000 on the hotel and were losing money in conG dcting the business, and they thought the privilege of serving wine and beer to guests with their meals might improve the financial outlook. They did not want to open bar, nor did they ask for a license to sell distilled liquors. They would abide by such rules as the trustees might make, and if they violated the conditions in the least de- gree, the license could and should be revoked. Incidentally MT. McNamara declared that he would never defend another liquor case in Fl Centro but on the contrary would offer his servi- ces without charge to assist the city attorney in prosecuting violators of the liquor license. He also said that all the witnesses for the prosecution, in the recent trial of druggist for selling whiskey, told the truth.
 At the conclusion of MT. McNamara's appeal, a motion was made that the petition be laid on the table, A large number of interested citizens had gathered at the meeting and as some of them wanted to express their opin- ions on the liquor question, chairman Pearson deferred putting the ques- tion and recognized those who desired to address the board.
 w. E. Wilsie, who was one of the jurors in the Hell case, protested against granting license. He said he was not resident of the city, but having been compelled recently to act as if he were, he felt that he had an interest in the affairs of the city. He represented fifty farmers, who had helped to build up the county and the county seat, and they regarded the question of liquor license in Fl Centro as one affecting the county as we'll as the city. Helms and Pel. lett knew what the policy of the coun. ty was when they came here, and there was no reason why it should be changed at their request and for their business advantage. MT. Wilsie urged the board to consider the farm CTS behind the town, and closed with the remark that Helms and Pellet did not make El Centro.
 This brought Mir. Helms forward with the retort that he brought more money than MT. Wilsie brought into the county. We are eighty thousand dollars in the hole," said MT. Helms, and If MT Wilsie and his farmers think they don't need a hotel here, we can get out"
 J. w. Colson said a hotel license would be worse than saloon. Young men would take young women to the hotel and indulge in liquor, and very bad things would follow.
 Several others spoke, and when all had relieved their minds the board laid the petition on the table by unan. imous vote.
Imperial Valley press., 1909-03-13
sPINELEss cAcTI Ar PALA.

Phillip T. Lonergan, superintendent of the Pala Indian Reservation, has undertaken the introduction of spine less cactus on the Indian lands there, in order to provide more forage for the stock. Cuttings have been sup piled from the Experimental Station at Chico, and have been set in a corner of the old mission olive orchard at Pala. The ground will not be irrigat- ed, the plants depending only on tho natural rainfall; but the soil will be constantly cultivated.
Imperial Valley press., 1909-03-13
Recorder Fails to Fix AIterna- tive In Case of Fl Centro
 Druggist
Superior Court Refuses to Interfere by Mandamus For Correction of AL legged Error of Recorder in Taking Jurors From Outside City.

Immediately after the announcement of the verdict In the case of the peo- pie vs. E. s. Hell, El Centro druggist convicted of selling whiskey illegally, his attorney, T. M. McNamara, ap- piled to the Superior Court of Imper- ial County for a writ of prohibition. This was denied and the attorney then made application for a writ of man. date. Judge Cole issued a stay in proceedings of the Recorders Court un- til further order from the Superior Court, and on Thursday forenoon gave his decision, finding that no sufficient cause had ever been shown for the issuing of writ of mandate prayed for in the petition.
 Attorney McNamara, in his applica. tion, set forth in the trial of Hell, after seven jurors had been sworn to try the cause, 1t was ascertained that it would be impossible to complete the jury from men who were residents of the city, and that thereupon the City Recorder, against the objections of the petitioner, filled the jury box with at least three men who are non- residents of Fl Centro, and that one of the jurors was unable to produce his naturalization papers in proof that 10 of ha TYnt
 The petition asked that the Superior Court in its writ of mandate set aside the verdict of this jury and compel the Recorders Court to try the case with jury of residents of Fl Centro.
 Judge Cole, in his opinion of Thurs day morning, indicates that writ of mandate Is not the remedy at law for the errors alleged by attorney for the defendant but that an appeal from the decision of the Recorders Court is the proper procedure if the matter is to be taken further.
 This brings the case back to Re corder Tout, for the imposing of sen tence on Hell; and 1t is understood that as soon as this is done an ap- peal will be made to the Court of Appeals.
 Hell was brought before Recorder Tout for sentence yesterday afternoon Attorney McNamara presented a mo- tion for new trial, the motion was denied and the Recorder pronounced sentence, imposing a fine of $200. AS the Recorder omitted the alternative of Imprisonment there was no occa- sion for the habeas corpus proceed ings that had been contemplated. If the defendant sees fit to pay the fine, that ends the case. If he doesn't pay, 1t Is up to the court to discover a method of compelling him to dig up.
Imperial Valley press., 1909-03-13
TEACHERS INSTITUTE
Annual Sessions to Open in EI centro Next Monday Morning-Pro-
 gramme for Next Week.

The second annual teachers Insti- tute of Imperial county will conven> in El Centro next Monday morning at 9 o'clock and will continue until Friday afternoon.
 Tuesday Is the day set for the trip to thu top of Signal Mountain. Tue Wom'n's Section of the Ten Thous and Club will provide reception for tue teachers And their friends one ve, 'nP turing their soiourn iR Fl '" r ' vn otcd that about If, .,reoo be attracted to this
 ,@ inE tltu,t,
Imperial Valley press., 1909-03-13
Man Who Forgot Finds Dlffi- cuIty in Believing What
 His Friends Tell Him
Had Wound on His Head When He Came to Fl centro, But Does Not Know How He Was lnjured-Not Inclined to be Subject of Expert ment.

D. B. Wyandt, the man who has for gotten more than some people know, the lapse covering the events of pos sibly ten years, says his Stockton friends have "got him guessing" and he is still unable to adjust himself to the situation.
 To the question:: How far back does the blank in your memory reach?" MT. Wyandt replied: They are trying to make me believe that it goes back about ten years"
 Do you believe that?"
 Wyandt had a puzzled, wistful look in his eyes, and he hesitated a mom- ent before answering. Then in a phasis, he said: No; don't. There are things l don't understand about this affair. There are several people in El Centro who now say they knew me in Stockton, but all the time I have been here they never have men- toned Stockton to me, until this mat ter came out. I'm puzzled. Apparent ly there is blank of at least three years, for l can remember San Fran cisco only as 1t was before the earth quake. When I came here had . long. wound on the side of my head and a badly bruised shoulder, but do not know how was intssreA-s 2. es has been intimated to my that was in some affair ia~,Sas/ Francisco in which several were hurt and that one man was killed. What 1t was I don't know"
 A dispatch from Stockton says Dr. Hersholt, an expert on mental trou- bles, Is greatly interested in Wyandt's case and proposes to investigate 1t and perhaps perform an operation. Wyandt is not at all sure that Dr. Hersholt or any other scientific iA- vestigator will experiment. upon his head. He expects to lave something to say about that for himself
 Mrs. Wyandt has returned to Stock ton. Wyandt says he was willing ts SO IAClO anu uclp oIIdA6ACCu udtJoEnV but for some reason his friends thought 1t best for him to wait His surmise Is that someone took advaA- tage of his disappearance to do things with his business affairs that wero not right, and that hls friends fear he would be incensed if he learned of them and might get into personal diff f1culty.
 Wyandt Is not unwilling to be COZ vinced that everything Is just as his Stockton friends represent, but he can not find any clue in his memory to aid him in getting his bearings. He remembers Mrs. Wyandt only as . girl he once knew. If he was mar ried ten years ago, he does not know 1t. He is said to have been a dry goods merchant, but he says drygoods stores have not seemed familiar or ev- en interesting to him since he came here and he knows no more about that line of business than any other person not engaged in 1t. Singularly he has not lost his knowledge of ms chinery and the use of tools, and since his arrival in El Centro he has shown expert skill in setting up engines.
Imperial Valley press., 1909-03-13
GRADING SOON COMPLETED

L. E. Karr, of the firm of Karr & Kester, who have grading contract on the Inter-Callfornia Railroad. was in El Centro last week. on his way to Yuma, where his family Is located MT. Karr says that the grading for the connecting link between the Yuma and Calexico ends of this railroad will be completed by the last of March, hnd believe that trains vii be run hing from El Centro to Yuma within |sixty days.
Imperial Valley press., 1909-03-13
JAP GROWERS ORGANIZE

The Japanese melon growers in the vicinity of Keystone have filed arti. cles of incorporation for the Keystone Cantaioupe Growers Association. with a capital stock of $5O00. The entire boara of directors is composed of Jap anSse. they being eighteen in nS~Ner ,TBey will rNise ard rarh(t csa', N2uDes at Kcvstelp
Imperial Valley press., 1909-03-13
ARRAlNaMeNr OF RIVERS.

Victor Rios, or Rivers. as Is declares his true name s will be arrainged before the Imperial County Superior Court thls forenoon 'IHNe charge of murderinE DcmnS ouu bz at Pot holes last month. ', M McNaman appears as couuselSioC The accused
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1909-05-26

The Monitor prints this week the ar.
ticle referred to in it's last issue from
the Randolph Herald on the recent Ii
quor law, which is admittedly fall
ure. In commenting on this article the
Enosburg Standard says:
In actual operation at the present
time in this state, law that is not
wanted by four fifths of Vermont, is
maintained to enable Burlington. st.
Adams, Bennington. and occasionally
Rutland, to enjoy the license system,
and give sundry other smaller places
the opportunity to maintain nuisances
to the injury of their neighbors. who
are greatly in the majority but are
powerless to protect themselves.
Such conditions are unbearable and
will not long be tolerated. The system
under which such evils exist will have
to give way to the county option sys
tenn, or better still to the state option
plan.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1909-05-26

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