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The Monte Vista journal., 1912-07-13

Thomas Prater a merchant of
Blanca spent the day Thursday
transacting business in this place.
The Monte Vista journal., 1912-07-13

Our summer stock of Kodak GOOD
will arrive in a few days.
Fuller Drug Co.
The Monte Vista journal., 1912-07-13

Mr.. and Mrs. Will Pridmore re-
turned Wednesday from Creede.
The Monte Vista journal., 1912-07-13
MEETING OF TOWN BOARD

At the regular meeting of the
Board of Trustees of The Town of
Monte Vista, held Wednesday,
July 3, 1912, at 7:3O p. M, at the
Town Hall, the following bills were
presented and allowed:
r. j. Hawkins and Son, 6 days work
with team. Observation-Disclosures 24OO
j. G. Connel. 1872 hours labor at 2Oc per
hour ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 3640
John Kramer, salary for June 5000
L. S. Reager, salary for June............ $500
San Luis Valley Beet Sugar Co.. one
finch Globe valve. 800
w. IL. Woodward, 1863 hrs. labor at 20c.
per hr Observation-Disclosures. $3.50
l.. l.. Fassett, mdse Observation-Disclosures. l.60
j. +. Blackburn, salary for June. ...... 5000
Monte Vista Light, Heat and Power Co.
3-H. p. motor, light for Town Hall
and street lights for June............ 26S.2O
j. A. Elliott, M hrs. work with team. $50
a. j. Parker, assisting survey Ball park $50
Stlas McCord. 20 hrs. labor at 20c per hr. 400
Quiram 4 Son, blacksmith work ...... 80
James w. White, Justice fees ........... 3.65
G.. q. Bechtel, street sprinlSllng for June 1000
Thos. l.. Boden, labor Observation-Disclosures. 2.6O
Jonathan ii. Smith, salary for quarter
endlng June D....... ..-............... 10000
| w. G.. Fletcher, 40 hrs. labor at 20c per
mr. ................. .............. S.OO
| Rio Grande Hdwe. Co., mdse ............ 800
Schall Iron Works, blacksmith work. so
| Il. T. Chandler, salary for June.......... 800
| ID. c. Cole, assisting survey Ball park. LOO
| Mrs. +. C. Spencer, plants for park ..... 1l.S5
| f. c. Spencer survey work ............ 1880
| j. +. Blackburn, team work. ............ $500
| w. ID. Heilman. hauling manure....... 400
| Abbott Morgan Drug Co., supplies 2.75
| French & Kellar. blacksmith work.. 14.25
| Total. Observation-Disclosures. .sl024.l 10
T h g following appointments
were made for the month of July:
Day Marshal, j. F. Blackburn;
Night Marshal, II. f. Mitchell;
Water Commissioner, L. s. Reager.
At an adjourned meeting of the
Board held at the Town Hall Tues
day, July 9, at 7:3O p. M, bill
from The Monte Vista Light, Heat
and Power Co., for $11O.25 for one
Type A American pump was pre-
sented and allowed.
JONATHAN 81. SMITH,
Town Recorder.
The Monte Vista journal., 1912-07-13

All the new stunts in Kodakery at
Fullers.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-09-21
TO SELL CHANCELLORSVILLE

NEW YORK. Sept. 21-Wall street
has never speculated in battlefelds
Probably it never thought of 1t, but
one man has. The Chancellorsville
Va. battlefield. where one of the bit
terest struggles of the Civil war was
fought, is now owned by A. ]. Rowley
who bought ii with the view of sell
ing it TO the government as a national
park. And he undoubtedly will De
able to do so. Nine years ago he
purchased $50 acres of the famous
farm where the lighting took place,
and has since added $50 acres to in
clude the entire battlefield.
When RoWley purchased the land
everything was in ruin. and there was
not 4 whole pane of glass in the noted
end. destroyed by fire. but the west
ern end remains unaltered. The great
north wing lies in the cellar amid
grass. On the steps are several can
non balls and shells. but all the balls
have been removed from the brick
wall, to be replaced, Rowley says, as
they were shot In there.
The wasting roads that made the
district a wilderness are better now
A good gravel road now leads from
Fredericksburg TO the battlefield. Sa-
lem church, the scene Of terrible hours
is still in good condition, with some
markers and small graveyard in
the rear. Leading to Marye's Heights,
New Jersey has a monument on the
south and one on the north side of
the highway. To keep off relic hun
ters, most of the monuments have high
iron fences around them.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-09-21
METHODIST CHURCH GROWS

PASlFIC GROVE, Sept. 2l.-That the
Methodist Episcopal Church is pros
pering in this state, despite the declin-
ing of the mining towns, the incOmin 6
of foreigners who are not of that
faith and the increasing of city slums,
was the report made to the Califor-
MIA conference, which is in session
here.
This condition of prosperity was
noted especially in San Francisco, Oak
land, Sacramento, the San Joaquin Val
ley and the larger towns of the state.
The reports further stated that sew
eral new churches had been erected
that thousands Of dollars had been
expended in improving church prop
erty; that the salaries of pastors had
been increased; that there had been
more than 1000 conversions; that 46
supervisoral districts had voted dry
and that 511S saloons had been closed.
Thus was summarized the review
of the last year.
Rev. w. A. Head of Chicago gave a
dramatic Interpretation of the Book
of Job" during the day.
1t was decided that Saturday the
city ministers would play a game Of
baseball with the ministers of the
country, the proceeds of the game to
be given to the conference for the re-
tired ministers emergency fund.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-09-21
RUSH TO BEAT UNCLE SAM
IN USE OF PANAMA CANAL

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21.-That for
eign nations are making such prepa-
rations to increase their commerce W
the use of the Panama canal that the
United States will be left far behind
unless this nation redoubles its eff
forts was the assertion of John Bar
ret, director general of the Pan
American Union, in an official report
issued today and based on the inves-
tigation he made abroad.
Every nation in Europe. says Bar
rett is improving its harbor for the
purpose of increasing its shipping ia
cilities. Five of the South America,
republics are spending $225, 900, 600
more than half the cost of the canal
in order to derive the maximum of
of that great waterway.
European governments, says Bar
rett, are investigating the commercial
possibilities of the canal and are bent
on corraling the commerce of the
Latin American republics. Even Japan
and China, he says, are planning to
get the business that will follow the
opening of the canal.
In IS months a vessel will go from
through the Panama canal, according
to new revised estimates made public
today by the canal commission. Oc-
tober 10, 1913, is the tentative date
set for the passage of the first vessel
through the canal The christening"
will be done by naval vessel.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-09-21
HOT IN Los ANGELES

Los Angeles Times: How does 100
degrees in the shade strike you? That's
what the weather bureau thermom ct er
on the Central building registered yes
terday afternoon at 2:30. At 10 in
the morning the temperature was 81
degrees. at noon the same, and then
it continued to rise for two and a
half hours. At in the evening it
warm as at noon. The days mini
mum was 62 degrees. 1t was the hot
test day for four years. July 4, 1908,
the mercury went to 1O3. The record
high temperature was registered Sep
tember 81, 1885, 1Os degrees. 1t was
warm throughout the whole country,
but particularly in the Southwest.
OF course, it was warmer on the
down town streets than at the wealth er
bureaus elevated station. The average
citizen went around feeling a little
limp, his collar wilted, and saying to
the other fellow, Il wonder how hot
it is
Tourists and other visitors were in
much the same condition, but were
grinning from the corners Of their
mouths and sarcastically remarking
Thought you said it never got hot
in Los Angeles,"
However, the Oaks and Tigers played
a stiff game of ball, men pursued all
kinds of outsftfe work, everybody ran
about the streets as usual. and nc
such thing as a sunstroke was thought
of. So the sun wasn't very severe,
even if the therm ometer did climb
Ford A. Carpenter, local forecaster
says therell be no need Of overcoats
today, either.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-09-21
HOW WE SLEEP

. Evening Wisconsin,: The American
or the European in order to get a
good nights rest ordinarily requires I.
soft pillow under his head, but the
Japanese, stretching himself on a rush
mat on the floor, puts a hard, square
block of wood under his head and
does not sleep well if he does no.
have it.
II China they make a great to do
with reference 10 their beds. These
are very low. scarcely rising from the
floor. but are often carved equisiteiy
of wood Like the Japanese. the Chi.
nese never makes his bed any softer
than is possible by The use Of rush
mats
1t is curious fact with reference
to the sleeping habits OF the various
people that. while those in northern
countries do not appear TO be able to
sleep well unless they have lots of
room in which to stretch their legs,
the inhabitants of the tropics often
curl themselves up like monkeys 1T
the lower angle of a suspended ham
mock and sleep very soundly that way
The robust American will cover him
self with a pair of blankets and throw
his window open to the air even in the
dead of winter and sometimes he Will
not complain if there is bit Of snow
on the window sill in the morning. But
the Russian. on the contrary. like
no sleeping place so well as the top
of the big soapstone stove in his dwell =
ing. Crawling out of this blistering
he'd In the mnrDiuP he deli ghfS in a
ing a plunge in a cold stream, even
if he has to break through the ice
to do II.
In Lapland the native crawIs. head
and all, into a bag made of reindeer
skin and sleeps warm and comforta-
BILE within It, The East Indian, at
the other end Of the world, also has
o. sleeping bag, but il is more porous
than the Laplander's. Its purpose is
to keep out the mosquitoes rather than
to keep its occupants warm.
The German not only sleeps on 1,
feather bed, but underneath one as
we'll. The feather covering used in
Germany, however, is not so large or
thick as the one used as a mattress
and the foreigner who undertakes to
sleep beneath it often finds his feet
suffering from cold, while his should
ers are suffering from heat.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-09-21
NATIONAL COMMISSION TO
CONTROL WORLDS SERIES

NEW YORK, Sept. 21.-All doubt
as to the arrangements and conducting g
of this years worlds baseball series
was settled by the announcement that
the national commission was in full
charge of this years event and that
until such time as the baseball body
so ordained no arrangements could be
made either for the big inter-league
play-off or the sale of tickets for same.
Profiting by last years lesson, both
the Boston club of the American
League and the New York champions
of the National organization have been
quick to avail themselves of the shell
ter afforded by the ruling that the
commission Is to conduct the series this
year.
In the meantime both clubs are con :
fident. In Boston odds are being Of
fered on the Red Sox. Here in New
York the home rooters are willing to
go a shade on New York-showing
that it Is about an even bet, with re-
suits hinging on the pitchers.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-09-21
nent of the motive of Los Ange

judgment of the motive of Los Ange-
les.
Every person who has studied the
situation knows that a road built al
most due west from Yuma to Holtville
and Ell Centre is the best in every
way, and would have the great ad
vantage Of taking the traveller for fifty
miles through a well developed agri-
cultural country, taking in Brawley
and Imperial as well as Holtville and
FL Centro
This would be of immense value TO
the valley from the advertising il
would give. but il would be of still
greater advantage to the traveller.
But Los Angeles has bitterly op-
posed this sane route, apparently for
no other reason than that if the road
was laid out the sane route San
Diego would have a chance, as well
as Los Angeles, of getting the benefit
and apparently the highway promoters
of Los Angeles do not wish to recog-
nize that San Diego has place or
the map.
When this road is built in some way
it will have to be maintained. If II
to the valley, the people Of the valley
very naturally will do their part tC
maintain it. But if the road is tC
be built simply to sidetrack San Diego
and if in doing so the interests OF
this valley are ignored, then Los Ang
eles will of course have to look else
where for means to maintain the road
1t is noted that Stoddard Jess figure'
in the proceedings in. Los Angeles, and
if this valley knew that the mappfny
of the road lay with him there woult
be confidence in his good judgment
but the people are not sure that Mr.
Jess or men of his liberality will have
the say in this matter.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-09-21
Meeting Of Mem b e rshtp

A special meeting of the me embers OF
the Imperial Valley Cotton Growers
Exchange Is hereby called to meet in
the headquarters of the Exchange in
the Cantaloupe Growers building at F.!
Centro, Imperial county. California, on
saturday. September %, 1912. at 1890
o'clock in the forenoon. The purpose
of said meeting Is TO consider and act
upon the following amendments to the
constitution and bylaws OF the Ex-
change:
Article " Of the bylaws Is hereby
amended by adding a new paragraph
TO be known as paragraph six, as fol-
lows.
9Th. To buy out Of the funds of the
association not to exceed fifty bales Of
cotton at any one time; the associa-
tion may own such cotton, hold for
future sale or may sell the same at
the discretion of the board of direc-
tors. The directors are empowered to
borrow not to exceed three thousand
dollars for the purpose of making such
purchases for the association. Any
profit gained from such purchase of
cotton and the resale thereof shall be
added to the general fund of the asso
citation, and any loss sustained shall be
paid out of the general fund.
b. F. MCDONALD, President.
c. w. BARTON, Secretary. Sept &c
Imperial Valley press., 1912-09-21
QUANDARY Of THE AIR

(BT UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATIONSl
LONDON, Sept, 21.-The British arm.
a aeroplane trials recently finished on
the government flying grounds a,
Salisbury Plain have proven a fiascO
as regards indicating the best pattern
machine for military use. for the most
successful aerOplane Is voted useless
except in the hands OF the American
inventor. S. +. Cody.
The machine is the Cody biplane
and the American has easily proved
his superiority over the other compel
itors but owing to its huge size an,
queer construction, no other pilots are
anxious to risk their necks on it
The war Office drew up a perfectly
hopeless set of rules and conditions
and the only machine to comply with
them was the one which is voted use
less for warfare-the Cody biplane, an /
that only when steered by the inventor
himself.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-09-21

growth insofar. as II Is protected by
the tariff. II you are interested in
beet sugar raising, remember that
that's a malignant growth, If Mr.. will
son Is correct, and that the Democratic
party in the house has passed a bill
taking all protection from 1t. The
Republican platform proposes protec-
tion as a policy Of privilege. Mr.. will
son opposes protection as a policy Of
democracy. The Progressive platform
proposes protection as a policy for the
benefit Of the wage Garner and the
farmer.
And our proposal isn't accompanied
with any weasel phrase. And now
want to ask you to keep just this in
mind. At this very moment the re-
sources of western ingenuity have
been put into Asia at the disposal
of those men who are preparing to
build up with limitless supply of
underfed,> underpaid Oriental labor in
India and China combined with many
hundred millions of souls and all these
resources have been put at the dis
posal of those who have just begun to
use that labor to build up great fac
tories in Asia.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-09-21
NOTICE OF SALE OF PERSONAt.
PROPERTY

Whereas. on the 7th day or July, 1912
I Ihe Undersigned received from C. q.
Reynolds flfty-three (53) head OF
horses for pasture and the said C. B.
ReyholdS agreed to pay two ($2) dol
and,
Whereas. there became due and pay
able on the 9th day of August, 1912.
s9re s9T Paasturing said horses the sum OF
Sl16.b6 under said agreement and no
part OF said sum has been paid,
Notlce is therefore hereby given that
the undersigned will sell at public
auction to the highest and best bidder
LOT cash, on Monday, the Goth day OF
September. at the hour of 10 o'clock a.
NJ, at the e. E. Forester Home Ranch.
situate about four miles northwest
from the city of Ell Centre. in
the County of Imperial. State OF
California, said horses or so many
thereof as may be necessary to
pay said Indebtedness, together
with the cost of pasturing and Reepine
said horses since the said 27th dafy OF
August, 1912. to the time of said sale
and the costs of said sale
Dated September Is, 1912.
Sept 2S. w.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-09-21
LEARNING "ENGLIsH"

LONDON, Sept. 21.-"English taught
to foreigners, Americans, and English
people. Accurate speech, perfect ac-
cent, and an elegant style of writing.
English guaranteed in a few weeks.
This advertisement appeared recent
ly in the London newspapers. The "Ly-
ceum School of Languages" is respon-
sible for it.
During the summer said the man-
ager. I'VE practically live by teaching
English to American visitors. We finu
here that every American in his heart
wants to speak English with a British
accent"
Imperial Valley press., 1912-09-21
TRANSFERS OF VALLEY REALTY
Compiled by Peoples Abstract and
Trust Company

I. p. Sullivan, J. b. Heartwell, II. p
Queen, Fl. L. Brown, G. T. Butterfield
Henry Biggin and Ada A. Stilliman
directors and trustees of FL Centrc
Fruit & Produce Co. A, real and per
sonal property wheresoever situated
including notes, mortgages, contracts
cases in action and bills receivable
owned by the Ell Centro Fruit &. Pro
duce Co. at the time of the forfeiture
Of its charter.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-09-21
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
mot Coal Lands-Oo811O

INot Coal Lands-Ug81D
Department of the Interior, u. s.
Land Office at Los Angeles, Cal. Aug
%, 1912.-Notice is hereby given that
Joel n. Campbell Of Seeley. Cal, who.
on March 49, 1912. made homestead en- :
township is s., range IL b., 5. B. ne. Us.
ridian, has filed notice Of intention TO
make final communication proof, TO estab-
lish claim to the land above described
before the Clerk of the Superior Court
of Imperial County. at FL Centro, Cali
fornia. on the 4th day of October, 1912.
at 10 O'Clock n. IN.
Claimant names as witnesses: Alex
ander Ferrall, Benjamin Stafford Les
ter C. Salisbury. Marshall Salisbury, all
of Seeley. Cal. FRANK BUREN,
sepzi Register
Imperial Valley press., 1912-09-21
TRUITS-THE OLIVE

Continuing the discussion of fruits
as related to Imperial valley it is well
that we give thought to the olive, for
there seems to be a tendency on the
part of some persons to plant this
fruit extensively
The fact is that the Young olive
trees in Imperial valley are apparently
doing 6rely, and this being the case
there is all the more reason for study
ing the history of the olive in Cali
fornia.
The olive was first brought to this
country by the missionary fathers. and
the Mission olives in parts of the state
bore well and do so up to the present
time in sections to which they are
adapted.
In due time the Americans arrived
and attempted to start the olive or
commercial scale. There were three
points at which the olive was planted
on a large scale, at Elwood, Santa
Barbara county, on Elwood Cooper's
famous ranch; at San Diego, and at
Pomona. It must here be noted that
in each of these three places the olive
proved failure, and more money was
LOST on this fruit in twenty five years
than Southern California is apt 10
make out of olives in the next fifty
years.
This was because the olive IS the
most treacherous or fruits, having a
faculty for bearing we'll when young
and then quitting when six or eight
years old
The result Of the three experiments
al Ind cd
of experimentation. during which the
world was ransacked for the best va
rieties, importations being made es-
pecially from France. Spain and Italy,
thousands of acres of old orchards
were grubbed out.
The olive, therefore, has brought to
Southern California the greatest dis
aster il ever experienced in horticuY-
ture.
At last, however. an olive was found
that did well at San Diego. in the San
Fernando valley, and at other points
near the coast, and the olive industry
was substantially planted.
But no success has yet been achieved
with the olive in any of the dry in
terror valleys OF Southern California
d
comm ercial industry at Pomona. Riv-
erside, Redlands. or any locality cf
similar climatic conditions in Southern
California.
Taking the history OF the olive in
Southern California, the indications are
that it requires more humidity than
is to be found in the air of the in
terror valleys, and if we turn to the
old home of the olive, we find that II
thrives on the more humid northern
coast of the Mediterranean, rather than
on the dry African coast
And we learn from the history
Of the fruit, the fact that il bears
well in it's youth is without significance
f1r the long future.
The Press would not attempt to say
that the olive will be failure in I'm
perial valley, but it suggests that for
a dozen years yet there should be but
few trees planted for home use. and
let those trees serve to tell the fate
of the fruit so far as this valley is
concerned.
There are many other lines of horti
culture that are far more inviting.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-09-21
WYE ARE WAITING TO SEE


w The people of Imperial valley
are waiting patiently to see just what
the purport of its pledge of 100000
for road building implies, whether 1t
is. appears on the surface, designed
in great part to bring the city into
close relationship with this great val
ley which is feeding the city and draw
ing its chief supplies through the val
ley, whether the road is to be
used to divert transcontinental auto
mobile traffic north of the valley,
through uninhabited desert.
Thus far, there is nothing in the
declarations of the Los Angeles auto
mobile promoters to indicate intention
to abandon their all-desert route III
favor of the valley route, and unit
there is some such declaration the
people of this valley must reserve their
Imperial Valley press., 1912-09-21
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You can now lay in a years supply
Of Stationery at Big Saving. At
these rates cash on delivery is re-
quired in all cases.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-09-21

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El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-10-15
DEMANDS OF BALKAN STATES
LNCLLDES DIVISION OF RRnNIMrEs

Paris France, Oct 15-Turkeyss
promises Of reforms have remained a
dead letter, say the Balkan allies. ac-
cord1ng to a synopsis Of their reply to
the representations OF the powers.
therefore the Balkan states believe it
Is their duty TO ask the Ottoman gov
eminent directly to make the solemn
engagements contained in the note at
tached by the allies They ask Turkey
to grant without delay the following
reforms and to promise to apply them
within six months with the assistance
Of the great powers and the Balkan
states:
The division Of the provinces of Fu-
ropean Turkey into ethical circum-
sCripdOns.
The naming OF Belgian or Swiss
Christian governors
The equality Of schools Of whatever
faith
The equality Of representation in the
Turkish parliament
The admission Of Christians into
every branch of administration OF en-
pire.
The formation Of Christian military
divisions
The reforms to be put into execution
by a commission Of Christians and
Mussulmen under the auspices Of rep
reSentattves Of the powers.
The enumeration of the reforms is
preceded by a demand that Turkey de-
mobilize the army