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Imperial Valley press., 1911-11-24
RODGERS. IS ANXIOUS .:,. a.: ~. ii.
VI *. to COMPLETE h T. HIs TRIP

= PASADENA; Nov: 24.-f'1f the boys
can get that machine rebuilt in time
l, am going to f1ylto Long Beach next
Saturday." said Aviator Calbraith P
Rodgers from his wheel chair in the
lobby of the Hotel Maryland last
night, electrifying the members of his
party and causing many headshakes &c
be exchanged. j '.7n;''. ,.. r,s"
Il was measured for some elastic
anklets today" continued Rodgers, re-
garding with a rueful air the injured
ankles which prevent his walking land
can handle the machine all right
I've telegraphed east for the missing
parts of the biplane. hope the boys
can finish it before Saturday"
DIR. F. C. e. Mattison, who has been
attending Rodgers since his injury
said last night: Il do not want him
to fly Saturday. While his general
condition is very good, his ankles are
not in condition to. warrant the at
tempt. But he does not mind any
thing j tell him" - $50
Imperial Valley press., 1911-11-24
TEACHERS INSTITUTE WILL
BE EARLY IN DECEMBER
TWO Days. Session to Take Place at
. ~
Imperial Valley Union High School
.. - T.'H -; .i'''' i'"..- .-''t t,' 80 :
Building in, Imperial, .,,e, ..

December s and 8 are the dates de-
cided upon by County Superintendent
of Scvho0Is Cooley for the first of the
series of teacbers' institutes to be
held during the ensuing winter and
spring. This institute will be held in
the Imperial Valley Union High School
building at Imperial.
Superintendent Cooley expects to
have present State Superintendent
Hyatt Mark Keppel. superintendent of
schols of Los Angeles. and Prof. Edw.
L. Hardy. head of the State Normal
School at San Diego. Details of the
program will be published later. One
night session will be held, and 1t is
hoped that school patrons generally
will interest themselves in this iinsti-
tutet by attending its sessions. ,.G .
Imperial Valley press., 1911-11-24
TELEPHONE LINE IS DONE !.
FROM ATLANTIC TO PACIFIC

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 24.--The coast
to coast telephone line is an accom-
plished fact. With the stringing of
the last stretch of wire yesterday be-
tween Benson and Tucson, Ariz., the
last gap in the 1000 miles Of telephone
line was closed and within the space
of few months the line will be in
commercial use. , 49,, il.
: San Francisco to Los Angeles, Los
Angeles to Tucson, Tucson to Denver,
Denver to Omaha, Omaha to Chicago,
Chicago to Cleveland, Cleveland to
Buffalo, Buffalo to Albany, Albany to
New York. is the route, Over that
route it is possible at present for ex-
lperts to hold a conversation. but while
the long stretches of copper wire con-
Meeting the Pacific with the Atlantic
are in place, not until the pupin coils
are installed can the line be opened
to the public. -. .y.r.-. n. ...., :.
't,. Yesterday Manager ,Gilbeson. of Los
Imperial Valley press., 1911-11-24
OUR FRUITS AND COTTON
At THE GREAT LAND SHOW
Imperial Valley Products Help to
Amaze Crowds in Atte endance at
Coliseum in Chicago.

CHICAGO, Nov 23.-Thousands of
Chicagoans stepped yesterday from
their snowy and icy streets into the
sunny cline, of California. 1t was Cal
ifornia day at the great land show at
| the Coliseum, and the event was a
great success.
Under orange trees and cedars they
were able to eat California fruit, Cali
fornia nuts and drink California wines.
They were told of the California of
today and the California of the past
and were given Aboutonnieres of Cali
fornia redwood foliage and violets
raised in the Golden State. . :cfa =
In the seven carloads of fruit re-
ceived were 5000 boxes of raisins from
the Fresno district. 10000 northern
California oranges from the Sacra-
mento valley-Fair Oaks, Orangeville,
Oroville, Colusa and Corning; 200
boxes of dried fruit from Suisun; 20,-
l000 cartons of prunes from the Santa
Clara valley, sent by the San Jose
Chamber of Commerce; 1000 bottles
Eof sauterne wine from Livermore; );
500 pounds of English walnuts and
almonds from the Sacramento valley
and Southern California; SO crates of
| fresh grapes from Lodi and citrus
fruits and grapes and cotton from the
Imperial Valley. go :, ,.:'.l:.. ~
Fifty thousand buttonhole bouquets
of California redwood foliage have
been made up, and with California VIC.
let's are being distributed to visitors
at the booths of the various California
exhibits
Imperial Valley press., 1911-11-24
SCRAMBLE FOR CREAM
AS IN THE OLD TIMES

Butter fat is in great demand these
days by the creameries of the valley
a period of active competition having
come up once more, with the result
that the dairymen are making big
profits, not simply getting the Los An
geles quotations, but a good premium
besides. = ~" So
The price of butter fat brought con-
siderable encouragement to the dairy
men for a number of months, but now
all that is changed, the quotation it.
self being 31h cents pound, to
which the premium is added.
This mortgage-lifting figure will
prove a great stimulus to the dairy
business in the valley.
Imperial Valley press., 1911-11-24
MEXICAN insurgents CHARGED
WITH Assembling MANY
FIRE ARMS At TECARTE

SAN DIEGO, Nov. 24.-That ene-
mics of the Madero government have
been actively engaged in shipping
arms across the line in the vicinity of
Tecate, and that seizures amounting
to $50 rifles and 250, 900 rounds of am
munition have recently been made by
agents of the Mexican government, is
the assertion of p. w. Carey, head
of the Mexican secret service in this
region. CAREY also says that six au-
tomobiles, plying out of San Diego
are engaged in this law-defying prac-
tice, plainly in controvention of the
neutrality statutes of this country, and
liable to be visited with heavy penal
ties lin case of detection.
The two most notable points for the
smuggling of contraband of war, west
of Ell Paso, are, according to Carey
in the vicinity of CalexicO and Noga-
les. The number engaged in the vi
cinity of Calexico include six Caucas-
ians and one Indian. Employed in the
Mexican secret service in this vicinity
for the detection and frurctration OF
such attempts at smuggling, and for
the capture of the perpetrators. are
from twenty-five to thirty men.
The activity of those opposed to the
Madero regime may be imagined when
it is known that, while the rebels in
this part of the country received their
last defeat at Tia Juana on June o.
the smuggling of arms acros the bor-
der in this vicinity began as early as
July. and has been in progress ever
since - .;ir1.'. - I''''t' - u ',i4.c..
During most of this time Mexico
has been in the throes of a national
political camgain, and the provision
al government was busy with prob.
lens of internal administration. All
its attention was engrossed with the
readju stment of administrative condi.
tionS under new conditions, and prac-
tically until the election of Madero lit
tie could be done to check the SNUG
Cling of arms and ammunition across
the line That Madero has taken, hold
with q firm grasp is evidenced by the
presence of his trusted agents here.
According to CAREY no fear is felt
with regard to the Vaccinations OF
the new revolutionists, but at the same
time no chances are to be taken. The
force now at work along the border,
engaged in the detection of attempts
to. smuggle arms and ammunition
Imperial Valley press., 1911-11-24
". WISH MORSE OUT

l(BY UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATIONS
WASHINGTON, Nov. .24.--Another
attempt to secure the release of Char
les w. Morse, banker. imprisoned at
Atlanta, was made today when the re-
quest for pardon from the President
was presented by bankers, lawyers and
Attorneys Daughty and Folder. Fed
eral. Attorney Wise of New York was
present when the petition was pre-
sented. Attorney General Wickersham
stated the President may make state,
meint later.
Imperial Valley press., 1911-11-24

across the line are men experienced
in their work, and the large seizures
thus far made by them are evidence
of the difficulties facing those who
had hoped to consummate revolution
ary designs.
Particularly active in the measures
of precaution taken to foil the designs
of the smugglers is Alcalde Jose
Morales, of Tecate, who fought the
Diaz regime, but who stands well with
the present administration.
The leader of the movement in this
part of the country is said to be Ri
cardo Flores Magon, who, with Viii
lareal and Riviera, directed TIE move
ment OF the junta which financed the
operations of Berthold, Williams,
Pryce and Mosby during the rebellion
in the northern part of Baja California.
Magon was arrested several days ago
on charge of violating the neutrali-
ity laws, and is now awaiting trial, un-
der a $4,000 bail bond
General Bernardo Reyes, suspected
of being the eastern leader, is also
awaiting trial on similar charge, un-
der a $4,000 bond.
I CAREY, who has charge of the Mex
ican governments secret service op-
erations in this vicinity, is one of Ma
dero's most trusted men. He is one
of those who stole the celebrated Nc
Ginty cannon from the city hall of
Jaurez last March, and used it in the
attack on El Paso. He, Dr. Bush, now
chief surgeon in Madero's army, and
Tom Lee, city recorder OF Ell Paso
took the cannon to pieces, loaded it in.
to a wagon and smuggled it across the
Mexican line at San Ygnacio, two
miles from where a force of federals
were encamped. D., IT.,
The cannon was an old one, having
been used during the civil war, and
received its name from having been
presented to the city of Ell Paso by
the McGinty Club: 1t was returned to
the city after the war, together with
a long Tom," manufactured by the
Maderists out of the axles of wagons,
and also used in the attack on Juarez
Garry, who got his first military ex-
perience ais a soldier in the service of
the United States during the Spanish
war, has since stood high in the esteem
of MaderD, and his present detail is a
fitting evidence of the confidence re-
posed in him by the head of the Mex
ican government.
Imperial Valley press., 1911-11-24
ROSE INTRODUCTION; ..' :.
[...:. =. then STRANGERS WE'D

SAN BERNARDINO, Nov. 24.-The
exclamation, "Is that you. Hans?'
cause ed a curious crowd at the Santa
Fe to witness the closing chapter of a
little romance in which Hans Rosen-
quest of Redlands and Clara A. NC
Cabe of Neodosha, Kan. figured.
j The! couple had never seen each
other before; but prior to her leaving
the east I'd marry Rosenquest it had
been arranged that he would meet
her at the Santa Fe here. the identifi-
cation to be- established by pink roses
which each would wear. n''' r"-1!' -
when the bride:to-be stepped from
the train Hans was there to meet her.
Those roses had done their duty. A
moment0ry hesitation to gaze upon
each other and the couple hied for the
county clerks Office. The license gave
their ages as IS years each. and they
were married BY Justice Of the Peace
O.: M. PittmaI. i4'9'i;t :, ..~'' 49, -
7 In the eoxy little home in Redlands,
where the genial Hans is employed by
a, transfer company. two large roses
stand I'd a vase The pair Of lovers
viii watch the petals fan until the last
vestige of the instrument that brought
thstk together 'ig' gone: S>s;H.,T' t.;f5;
Imperial Valley press., 1911-11-24
BUYS LOTS IN Ell CENTRIC
AND WILL BUILD RESIDENCE
e. s. StrickIer viii Erect Handsome
House at Southwest Corner of Sixth
Street and Orange Avenue.

r. S. Strickler has purchased two
residence lots at the southwest cor
ner of Sixth street and Orange avenue
from d. S. Elder of Brawley. Mr.
Strickler intends to erect a handsome
residence on this property and will
move from his ranch south of Ell Cen
tro to make his home in this city.
G. w. Collins has purchased the lot
at the southeast corner Of Sixth
street and Brighton avenue, adjoining
his own residence, from j. r. Duke.
Both those sales were made through
the agency of the Colson Land Com
Imperial Valley press., 1911-11-24
". 7. BILL WILL REMODEL
PORTION OF HOTEL BLOCK
Davis Drug Store TO Have Enlarged
-.Gl '.r...' -'''lti' t .... g.
Quarters and FL Centre Hotel to -.
Gain Entrance on Main street w.

A general transformation is to take
Centre Hotel block at the northwest
corner of Fifth and Main streets. Con-
tractor j.. L. Travers has, been placed
in charge of the work of remodeling.
John e. Davis is to gain an addi-
tional depth of forty feet for his drug
store thorugh the changes to be made.
He will take the space formerly oc-
cupied by the Colson Land Agency
and that now occupied by the Fifth
street entrance to the hotel.
The room occupied by Oldham &
Dixon's barber shop and baths will be
used for a Main street entrance to the
hotel and for small Office room. This
will be occupied. by A. l. .Morgan's
real estate Office, and, the room now oc-
cupied by Morgan will be taken by the
barber shop. ri =, ~, .e @y
!. Plate glass frontage on Main street
and Fifth, street will be. placed in the
Davis drug store. The. fixtures now
in this store will be moved to the new
Davis drug store at Seeley and hand
some modern fixtures will be placed in
the Ell Centro, store. q, s...-,. (. \.
This is another indication OF the
growing Importance. of Ell Centre az
the commercial metropolis Of Imperial
Valley and the growing, demand for
more room, by merchants for display
ing them estecks Of goods. y r,o q,,s =,
Imperial Valley press., 1911-11-24
FORFEIT THEIR LICENSES

SACRAMENTO, Nov. 23.-On No
vember 30. four thousand California
corporations will forfeit their state Ii
censes and will out of existence as
corporations owing to their license tax
becoming delinquent. A special act OF
the legislature will be necessary to re.
vive them and as this matter was in
cluded in Governor Johnson's call FOR
the special session, no such act can be
passed until the 1912 session. ~
Imperial Valley press., 1911-11-24
MORE TIME GRANTED

IBY UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATIONS
; CHICAGO, Nov. 24.-Acquescing in
the plea of j. Ogden Armour and nine
other beef kings, indicted for Grim
inal conspiracy in violation of the
Sherman law, Federal District Judge
Carpenter today postponed the pack
ers' trial until December 6.
Imperial Valley press., 1911-11-24
.CALEx|CO GIN IS
TOTALLY DESTROYED
BY FIRE TODAY

The cotton gin at Calexico was to-
tally destroyed by fire this afternoon
The Ell Centro gin also caught fire, but
the flames were extinguished.
This is the second gin burned al
CalexicO, and the fire will entail long
haul on cotton growers in the south
end of the valley, besides doing much
damage to the owners.
Imperial Valley press., 1911-11-24
HISTORY OF THE CRIME

On the night Of July 19 last Henry
Clay Beattie, Jr., twenty-six years old
and a scion of one of the most promi-
nent families in the Old Dominion,
took his young and beautiful wife, Lou
ise Owen Dorm Beattie, for an automo-
bile ride on the Midlothian turnpike,
just outside Richmond. The young
woman had recently become a mother
and was still weak and ill, At q lone
ly spot in the road she was murdered,
her head being almost blown off with 9
shotgun. .4. :...... -. j.. ...,.. +
Beattie returned to the residence of
his wife's uncle. Ben Owen, about
two miles from the scene Of the crime,
with his wife's dead body in the. motor
car. He said he had almost run over
a stranger in the turnpike. In re-
venge, he declared, the man raised a
shotgun and fired at him, the charge
striking his wife in the face and kill
ing her instantly. Beattie said he
leaped from the car and struggled with
the murderer, wrenching the gun from
him, when the man fed into the BUSH
es at the side of the road.
Suspicion Immediately was directed
toward Beattie, and two days after
the crime he was arrested, charged
with the murder of his wife. His
cousin, Paul Beattie, poor relation,
testified that the Saturday preceding
the murder he had purchased for
Beattie, at his request, a second hand
shotgun in a Richmond pawnshop.
The shotgun Henry Beattief claimed
to have wrested from the assassin was
found by the roadside, and was identi-
fed by Paul Beattie and by the pawn
broker as the one purchased the Sat
urday preceding the murder.
At the trial of Beattie he was de-
Tended BY some OF the ablest lawyers
in the south, and no expense was
spared in the conduct of, the defense
by the aged and broken hearted faith
er of the accused wife, murderer.
Young Beattie's infatuation for Beulah
Binford,' a young but wildly dissolute
girl with whom he had long been in? ?
innate. was described as the motive
for the terrible crime:' Il $50 .. "'''' -
On September the trial was con-
cluded and The j,iry quickly brought
in a verdict Of murder in the firstsde.
gree. the penalty for which in Virginia
Is death by eiectrtcutioh. ! On the
fourth 'of this month counsel for the
condemned man filed a petition for
appeal and writ Of error with the vir-
ginia supreme re'nirt Of appeals: on
November '1S the 'coL.rt denied TIE sp-
peal. Governor MANN was then asked
to exercise executive eTemehcy' and to
commute ID tqite imprisonment or at
least to- ofgrAht a 'reprieve. an lhf't}>1H
On November 'f5Sai I" "gSvernor Is
sued stStsnentlnaNN.ah he give his
reasons .forNnot interfering withatns
Imperial Valley press., 1911-11-24
FOUR MEN CHALLENGED :
tBY UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATIONS

CBY UNITED PRESS AaSOCIATIONSl
Los ANGELES, Nov. 24.--What is
claimed as one of the most tense stu
ations in the noted criminal case de
veloped when four men were peremp-
torily challenged by the defense of
McNamara today, while District At
'tofney Fredericks with a broad smile
stood pat" on all men in the box. He
reserved all his five remaining per-
iemptory challenges. The men elimi-
'rs ted were p. A. McBurney, architect;
a. S. Stevens. 'cattlemans 8. r.. Elliott
and j Fl Marshall, a. hardMare olesk.
Imperial Valley press., 1911-11-24

execution of the death sentence, and
Beattir's last hope was .lasted.
"That Beattie is guilty of the wilful,
deliberate aud cruel murder .of his
young wife have not the slightest
doubt" declared Governor Mann.
Imperial Valley press., 1911-11-24
BAD PLUMBING CAUSES DEATH

IBY UNITED PRESS AssOCIATIONs1
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 24-Mrs.
l.. H. Ware and her two boys, aged 6
and years, were found dead at the
ARP home here today. Faulty plumb
ing is believed to have caused the IA
tIlity.
Imperial Valley press., 1911-11-24
DESTROYER DESTROYED

[BY UNITED PRESS CABLE sERvIcEl
TOXIC, Nov. 24.-Forty-f five mem
bers of the crew OF sixty were drowned
when the Japanese torpedo boat de-
stroyer Harusameh sank today OF
Cape Simaa The craft was driven on
reef last night during terrific gale
Imperial Valley press., 1911-11-24
JURY GOES OUT

[BY UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATIONS
SAN BERNARDINO, Nov. 24.-Dis-
trict Attorney Goodcell closed his ar
gument in the trial of DR.. A. w. Nc
Davitt at noon and the jury went to
lunch after receiving Instructions from
Superior Judge Bledsoe, 1t will be-
gin deliberations at this afternoon.
Imperial Valley press., 1911-11-24
Cannot Agree in Tar Case.

Cannot Agree in Tar Case.
tBY UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATIONs1
LINCOLN CENTER Kan, Nov. "a.
AT II this morning no decision had
been reached by the jury in whose
hands rests the fate of N. S. Simms,
Sheriff. Clark and John Schmidt,
charged with tarring and feathering
Miss Mary Chamberlain When it was
formally reported to him that the jury
was unagreed, the court announced
that he would probably keep them to-
gether until tomorrow
Imperial Valley press., 1911-11-24
BEATTIE CONFESSES HIS GUILT
IBY UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATIONS

[BY UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATIONS
RICHMOND, Va, Nov. 24.-Rev. j.
j. Fix today announced the following
confession by Henry Clay Beattie, Jr.:
II, Henry Clay Beattie, Jr., desirous
Of standing right before God and man
do this November "a, 1911, confess my
guilt of the crime charged against
me. Much has been published con.
cerning details which is untrue, but
the awful fact without narrowing cir
Amstances, remains. For this action
/ am duly sorry.
Believing that / am at peace with
God and will soon pass into His pres
ence, this statement is made.
(Signed)
HENRY CLAY BEATTIE, JR."
Imperial Valley press., 1911-11-24
ARRESTED FORMER POSTMASTER

[BY UNITED PRESS AssOCIATIONsJ
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 24.-Postofice
inspectors today arrested George s.
Loudin, former postmaster at Elk
River, Idaho, on a charge of en-
bezzling $4,5so of the postal receipts.
Imperial Valley press., 1911-11-24
yArAN's FOREIGN MINISTER DIES

s[BY O9~ITED PRESS CABLE sERvICE1
/. TOXIC, Japan, Nov 24.-Coupt Ko-
mura, the foreign minister Of Japan
and for many years one of the fore
most men, In the nation, died this
morning of consumption.
Imperial Valley press., 1911-11-24
TAR AND FEATHERS
CASE SENDS MEN
TO PEN|TENT|ARY

lBY UNITED PRESS AssoC1ATIoNs]
LINCOLN CENTER, Kan, Nov. "a.
One year each in the penitentiary
was the sentence meted out today to
Everett G. Clark, A. Miller, Watson
Scranton and ]. Fitzwater, farmers, all
of Shady Bend, who pleaded guilty
last week to 'tarring and feathering
Miss Mary Chamberlain. '"s }
Imperial Valley press., 1911-11-24
HENRY CLAY BATTLE
DIES IN THE ELECTRIC
CHAIR At RICHMOND

tBY UNITED PRD6S AssOCIAT1ONsl
RICHMOND, Va, Nov. 24.-Henfy
Clay Beattie, Jr., convicted of the
murder of his young wife, will dide in
the electric chair at the state prison
today.
lBT UNITED PRESS AsEOC1AT1orssl
RICHMOND, Va, Nov. A.-Calnly
smilings almost indifferently 4, Henry
Clay Beattie, Jr., walked to his death
in the electric chair at the state pris-
on this morning, and paid the penalty
for wife murder. He confessed his
guilt before his death. The execution
required just three minutes from the
time Beattie stepped into the death
chamber. Throughout the ordeal Bat
tie remained with nerve unshaken.
Beattie slept last night like child
Beattie's father, bowed with sorrow, is
being attended by physicians.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1911-04-14

One federal officer on top OF the
commissario headquarters remained
and directed the movements OF the
federal troops. The felerals fired from
doorways aud from any barrlcade that
could be used. Two groups of rebels
advanced until they we're in the shadow
Of the Anne rican custom-house, where
thew continued to fire. The federals
few minutes late. essayeG q rush from
the center Of the town and took po-
session Of an adobe building almost
within the rebel ranks. The rebels re-
treated before this sortie, running with
bent backs TO shorten their height.
One dropped within the shadows ofthe
custom house and is still lying there.
The rebels, cheered on by cries Of
viva Maderoi from athousand Mexi-
cans lined up at the American Gus
toms house, repulsed the sortie after
few minutes firing.
Soon thin line OF :ederals began
pouring out Of Aqua Prieta straight for
the American boundary. At this
iuucture the First United States Cavalry
troops, under command OF Captain
Guajot charged down the line from the
headquarters, and the fleeing federals
stopped. Some took refuge in the
adobe buildings. of the guardhouse on
the line, while others dropped into
trenches partly filled up some time ago
by order Of Major Gardner, then com
mandng in Douglas. Later third
American was shot in Douglas.
In an adobe building, near Fourth
street, a man was killed.
Many bullets fed into Douglas, as
the rebel force of the southwest fired
i'rto northeast Douglas, where the
Mexicans live. Cries of Viva Ma
deros' were stopped by the Americans,
as it was feared that the federals might
fire on he American customs-house.
Twenty minutes after the fight began
squad OF rebels took their station at
the American customs-house and fired
from a distance of 10 feet from the
siehtsecrs.
The rebel com nander claims 900 re.
Inducements are coming.