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Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-04-11
Taft Does Things.


According to the opinion of Repro.
sentative Roberts of Massachusetts,,
the New England states are solid for
President Taft, because, as he puts 1t,
She does things" In few sentences
Mr. Roberts gives his views as fol-
lows:
when the administration Of Presi-
dent Taft is reviewed in the calm
light of history, it will be found to
have been one Of the great periods OF
accomplishment of the history Of this
country. Not only has he inaugu'
rated and carried through many valu'
able principles, but. he has seen to II
that promises and hopes held out By
MS predecessor have been accomplish
ed facts"
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-04-11
Taft's Efforts for Peace.

Honesty Of intention, stability OF
purpose and a firm faith in the princi-
pies of the party of Lincoln, Grant
md Mckinley are some Of the charac-
seristics of President Taft. Famil-
ar with the horrors of war, as we'll
IS the enormous expense that 1t al
ways entails, independent Of the vast
expenditures required to keep q great
nation upon constant war footing,
the president has persistently sought
TO promote a worldwide peace Of ma
tons by international agreement Any
failure of accomplishment In further
ing this worthy. cause cannot be
charged to the president.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-04-11

President Taft's administration has
broken all records for prosecutions
brought and won under the Sherman
antitrust law without fear or favor
II has brought to the bar OF justice
corporations and persons engaging IN
Illegal combinations In restraint OF
trade. the ultimate purpose OF eacn
combination being to create monop-
DIV and to raise the prices on Its
nroducts. In two years and eleven
months Of his administration Presl-
dent Taft has caused to be Drougnt
four more civil suits and fifteen more
criminal prosecutions than Mr.. Roose-
Welt brought IN the seven and one
half years Of his. administration.
Until Mr.. Taft became the president
the administration Of Mr.. Roosevelt
held the record in both particulars
Thus has President Taft who was
Mr. Roosevelt's right arm during his
last administration, kept his pledge 10
the American people to uphold ana
maintain the policies Of his predeces-
sor in furnishing the criminals and
undesirable element in the big busi-
ness of the country.
Tn the Republican national platform
of 1908 reference was made to the
prosecution of evil trusts and monop-
olies as one of the great accomplish
ments of the Roosevelt administra-
ton, and the platform declared that
the Sherman antitrust law had peen
a wholesome instrument for good In
the hands Of a wise and fearless
executive. In his speech OF accept
ance Mr.. Taft pledged himself to the
enforcement Of this law. How faith
fully he has kept this promise the rec
ord of his administration shows.
Problems Confronting Taft.
Stripped of controversy as to the
exact meaning of certain language oil
the sherman antitrust act, the ques
tions that had to be determined by
those in administrative authority and
those who judicially determine tnell
acts. were, first, how effective the Ia"
was to reach the great aggregations o.
formerly competitive producers ant
dealers. Individual and corporate
who. through inter-corporate stock
holding mergers, consultations ane
otherwise, had acquired so great
control over a particular line OF indus
try as to enable them to dominate II
and to exclude or admit competition
as they might choose upon their owl
terms
Secondly, TO determine whethe
that construction Of the law was col
rect which had been given to 1t b,
some Of the judges Of the circui
court in New York In the Tobacco
case. and in the opinions Of some
the Justices of the Supreme Court i
other cases to the effect that an
combination, which in any respec
operates to restrain to any degree
pre-existing competition in interstat
commerce, was necessarily condemne
by law.
In the three years Of the Taft az
ministration all Of the sixteen case
left pending by the previous admini
tration have been disposed of exceI
two. which have been argued and SUI
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-04-11
PROMISE AND PERFORMANCE
What the Republican Platform of 1908 Pledged and What Pesi
f} dent Taft and His Party Have Performed
PROMISE PERFORMANCE


Payne bill, Reduction Downward,
Tariff Board, Maximum and Mini
mum; Veto of Bills that Violated
Principle of Protection.
Embodied In Payne Tariff Act
Report OF Currency Commission
submitted and pending.
Postal Banks In operation. Mil
Lions already deposited.
Federal Incorporation Act recon-
mended; Antitrust Law Strictly
Enfo1 ced; Corporation Excise Tax;
providing for Publicity Imposed by
Payne Tariff Act.
Stocks and Bonds Commission
created; exhaustive report on sub
ject submitted
Employers Act submitted; Law
Limiting Hours Of Employment En-
forced; Compulsory Compensation
Act Pending; Bureau of Mines Is
tablished.
Measure based on Presidents
recommendation pending; Arizona
recall provision vetoed.
Rural Free Delivery extended.
Operations of Agricultural Depart
ment vastly enlarged.
Strictly enforced Sixteenth adopt
ed by Congress submitting Income
Tax Amendment to the States.
Bond issue for Irrigation Projects;
"pork barrer' method Of River and
Harbor Appropriations Abolished
Comprehensive Conservation Polio.
Adopted.
Army recognized; Vancouver
that gave it Mobility; Two Battle
ship program submitted.
China opened to American
finance; Increased Commerce wit
all the world.
Pension roll literally maintained
= Russian treaty Abrogated be
cause of Discrimination agains
American citizens.
Laws Obeyed to the Letter an
Enforced; Extensions put In Effec
and Others Recommended
Bureau of Health Recommended
Pure Food Laws Enforced.
+ New Mexico and Arizona Admi
ted.
Arbitration Treaties with Gre;
Britain and France negotiated
Ratified with Amendments.
Measure Pending.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-04-11


Tariff revision along protective
lines, with a maximum and mini
mum provision.
Free interchange Of products with
Philippines. M
Development of Permanent Cur
rency System.
Establishment of Postal Savings
Banks.
To increase power Of Government
to control trusts and secure greater
publicity of corporation methods.
National supervision Of railroad
stocks and bond issues.
Enactment Of employers liability
law and other laws further advan-
cling interests Of American working
men.
To define authority Of courts with
regard to writ Of Injunction and up
hold integrity of courts.
Extension of rural free delivery.
More Federal aid in agricultural
experiments.
Enforcement of 18th, 18th and
18th amendments to the Constitu-
ton.
/ Conservation of Natural resources
and improvement Of waterways.
To maintain and promote Amer
lean Army and Navy.
Expansion of foreign commerce.
r.
Liberal pensions for war veterN
ans.
| Protection Of American citizens
abroad.
Obedience to and maintenance OF
civil service laws.
Greater efficiency In public health
agencies.
Statehood for New Mexico and
Arizona.
Extension of principle Of arbitra-
ton.
! Citizenship for Porto Ricans.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-04-11

mitted to the Supreme Court OF the
United States and are now awaiting
decision. Of the remaining cases, the
Standard Oil case was argued early
during the present administration.
and. after an appeal, decided entirely
IN favor of the government. The same
was also true of the tobacco cases
with the ultimate result of the disinte-
grafton of that big trust into fourteen
separate and distinct corporations
This. It is believed, will effectively
prevent a continuance of the monopo-
listic conditions complained OF.
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-04-11
TAF7s RECORD
AGAINST TRUSTS
Sherman Law Enforced Without
Fear or Favor
ExCELS HIS PREDECESSORS
Both In Civil and Criminal Prosecu-
lions Taft Administration Breaks
All Reoords-LegaI Accom-
piIshments of Five PresL
dents Compared.
ExcELs HIS PREDECESSORS
TAFT'S ANTITRUST REC
ORD

Under the last five admins
trations prosecutions under the
Sherman antitrust act have
been brought as follows:
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-04-11

+One property seizure.
The ratio of prosecutions, al
lowing for length of time in Of
fee, Of the Taft administration
as compared with the records OF
its four immediate predecessors,
is approximately as follows:
Taft over Harrison. So. to
Taft over Cleveland. ....12 to
Taft over Mckinley. 80 to
Taft over Roosevelt. 49,. 4 to
Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1912-04-11
laEOllette's<
WIkLY MACHINE

This magazine was established to help
bring about real representative govern
ment and equality of opportunity IN the
United States.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-06-21
BULLDOG EDITION BRINGS
LATEST CITY DAILY

The Los Angeles Tribune has be-
gun the publication of bull dog"
edition which brings to the valley by
far the best city news service it has
ever had
The Morning Tribune and Evening
Express are published by f. T. Earl,
and i'll this edition of the Tribune he
brings the Express news up to 9
O'Clock at night and sends it out to
the interior on the 1915 train, the
paper being here for distribution
early in the morning.
From its founding the Tribune has
led the morning newspapers of Los
Angeles, and now it Is setting them a
hotter pace than ever.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-06-21
ORDERS GIVEN TO MOVE
ON THE MEXICAN REBELS

AT GEN. HUERTA'S FEDERAL
HEADQUARTERS, SANTA ROSALIA,
Mexico, June 2.-The order to move
north on the Mexican rebel stronghold
at Bachimba was given by General
Huerta, the federal commander. The
vanguard of 1900 cavalry, under Gen
eral Rabago, is expected to be in fire.
quent skirmishes with the enemy. The
entire division commanded by General
Huerta, probably was encamped a:
Lacruz or Concho last night
The outpost fighting has resulted in
a loss of seven federal dead, 16 wound
ed and go horses killed.
The rebel losses are estimated at
much greater figures because the gov
ernment outposts claim to have occu-
pied advantageous positions in the
hills north of here. General Rabagd
reported he had routed the enemy in
every instance.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-06-21
WATER SOON TO Be READY
FOR new DESERT TRACT

The Imperial Northside Water COM
pany, which is building bitches to
10000 acres of desert land, announces
that it will be ready to begin serving
water by July Is. The company has
arranged to take from the Alamo
river such water as the Northend com
pany does not need, and expects to
buy further water from the California
Development company.
Members of the company have let
ter from Director Newell of the recIa-
nation service saying there will be
no obligation to canceling the with
drawal of the land from entry so soon
as it is shown that arrangements are
made to irrigate the land.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-06-21
FIRE IN CAPITOL DOME

SACRAMENTO. June 21.-The dome
of the state capitol was on fire for
20 minutes. The fire did not assume
serious proportions, being caused bv
lighted cigarette tossed by a tourist
from the cupOla which fell into an old
straw hat lying in the cement covered
ledge enclrcling the base of the dome.
But the ledge was covered with an
accumulation of dead beetles of the
electric light genus, providing fuel and
making clouds of smoke curl over the
dome. BY means of a rope Electrician
Sutton was lowered 30 feet to the
ledge. Buckets of water were hauled
mp from below, and the fire extin-
guished.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-06-21

DEMAND FOR HIGHWAY
GRoW|MG IMPERATIVE

The announcement that San Diego
will see to the building of their high
way through to Coyote Wells, far into
this county, has awakened an interest
in this county building to Coyote Wells
to meet the San Diego people.
After going over the magnificent
highway that now reaches out from
San Diego to the Imperial county line,
Leroy Holt made the statement:
IF Imperial county does not now
meet San Diego l will be ashamed to
ever look a San Diego man in the
face"
Some such feeling as that is felt by
every person who goes over the San
Diego county highway, and now that
that highway is 10 be extended far
into this county by the citizens of San
Diego, making private contributions to
that end. the call on this county is
more imperative than ever
The San Diego construction crew is
not to be withdrawn from it's work,
but will continue right on into this
county and it will b a matter of but
a few months until the highway to
Coyote is finished
The Imperial county supervisors are
responding TO the advances made by
San Diego, and they will outline a pro-
ject for this county to do its part in
the work
This highway will put this county
i'll shape TO send out large amount
of its produce by auto truck There
are six trucks now operating from
San Diego into remote sections of that
county, making daily trips, and the
plans are now in hand for a truck
line to this valley. 1t is expected to
charge rate of S1.25 per hundred
pounds, which, considering the saving
In drayage at both ends of the line,
will be about an even break with
freight rates to Los Angeles.
San Diego is now bringing dairy pro
ducts from north of San Francisco,
and many of the products of the valley
would find fine market there.
San Diego now claims a population
of 10000, which is a large enough
population to be an important addi-
tlon 10 those in large part fed BY this
county
Imperial Valley press., 1912-06-21

cided He said: Il have sent for the
report so we can resume business. We
can't delay forever
After agreeing to report on certain
states, the committee disagreed re.
garding what the report should con
tam. After a majority report was al
ready. another delay was undergone
because the minority report was not
ready The Coliseum was packed to
the roof. where there were exchanged
partisan shouts, California and Penn
sylvania delegations cheering for
Roosevelt
The convention was finally called to
order at 1926.
The credentials committee submit.
ted a report on the Ninth Alabama
contest at 12:31.
In addition to seating two Taft dele
satCs from the Eighth Kentucky dur
ing the early hearings this morning,
the credentials committee voted to
confirm the seats OF the following :
A. c. Lee and ]. P. Breda, Tafters,
from the Fourth Louisiana; w. T. ms
ley, f. H. Cook. Tafters, from the
Fifth Louisiana; d. c. Edwards, Taft
or, and o. II. Waddle, Roosevelter,
from the Eleventh Kentucky
Hadley and Watson renewed their
floor fight when Root held i'll order
Hadley's motion to permit a vote on
whether the contested delegates could
vote on their own contests. Watson
Immediately moved 10 table Hadley's
resolution. This occurred after the
majority report from the credentials
committee was presented by Dovell of
Colorado, and Hadley had moved the
substitution of the minority report
presented by Mccormick of illinois,
Hadley was loudly cheered when he
read the resolution. the contents Of
which included - delegates whose
credentials had been matter of con
test since the convention began. Root
ordered roll call Immediately, when
Watson moved to table the resolution
The resolution was taDIed by vote
of 500 to 499, not voting 10. Califor-
mia voted , yes, II no. Governor
Johnson was ruled out of order when
he protested against the two Tafters
seated from the Fourth district being
permitted to vote.
The usual minority report was pre-
sented when the Fifth Arkansas con.
test was called and Watson moved
that the minority report be tabled.
viva vOce
Ii carried viva voce vote. The maiori-
Imperial Valley press., 1912-06-21
COLORADO's DAMAGES WERE
LESS THAN REPORTED

Yuma Sun: The Colorado river has
been up to some Of its old time tricks
near the town Of Bard, adjoining the
San Pascual valley The levee which
protects this valley from the river is
high and strong and on its top the
railroad tracks are laid. The levee is
some distance from the river in most
places and a heavy growth of timber
covers the ground from the foot of the
levee to the rivers edge. For several
days the river has been cutting toward
this levee and it seems to be in dan
ger. The ground water has been COM
ing into the valley in many places.
Yesterday big gang of men from the
reclamation service was rushed to that
point and all the men about town who
could be secured. More than 100 men
IN all were put TO work, cutting brush
and wiring it together and sinking it
along the bank where the threatened
break menaced. The brush and tim
Der was tied into bales and sunk az
the rivers margin. Then more brush
followed it. The Southern Pacific had
train load of heavy rock handy and
il was used. The cutting had come
within 40 yards of the levee when it
was checked. Last evening the situa-
ton was well in hand and from indica-
tions there will be no more cutting at
this point and the beautiful San Pas
cual valley will be saved from the
overflow.
night shift of men was kept on the
work last night to watch as well as
work. The ground water with the
Imperial Valley press., 1912-06-21

river SO high in the San Pascual valley
is very troublesome. The drainage sys-
TEN has not yet been completed and
if the water remains high for any
length of time good portion of the
crops in the valley will be drowned
out.
A number of parties from Yuma Wis
tied the threatened break yesterday,
among whom was E. F. Sanguinetti,
who assisted in gathering the force
Of men put on the work.
The Colorado at Yuma last evening
was 20 feet four inches on the gage
at the Southern Pacific bridge and still
rising at the rate of half an inch an
hour The river is now only one and
a half feet below the crest of the high
est flood ever known in the Colorado.
that of three years ago.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-06-21
GIRL BURNS TO DEATH

SAN BERNARDINO, June 21.-Miss
Lucile Reynolds. aged is. was burned
to death beneath an overturned auto,
mobile at an early hour yesterday
morning, short time after she started
nome from the farewell outing of the
senior class of the high school, She
graduated two weeks ago. Milton
Standish, her escort, a newspaper man,
was badly injured. Three others es.
capped without injury. Miss Reynolds
died as efforts were being made by
occupants of other vehicles to rescue
her The car plunged over an en-
bankment
Imperial Valley press., 1912-06-21

TON ORGANIZATION UNTIL THE
CONVENTION ITSELF HAD PASSED
UPON THEIR QUALIFICATION
AS DELEGATES. HE WAS DEFEAT
ED AFTER A BITTER FIGHT. THE
WELL-OILED TAFT MACHINE
THEN PROCEEDED TO MAKE
SHORT WORK OF THE MINORITY
REPORTS PRESENTED BY THE
RooSEvELTERS
Imperial Valley press., 1912-06-21
Next Door foI
| Court House |

Our Hair Dressing and
Manicure ParlorS are
fully equipped. Ex-
pert operator In at
tendance. Prices most
moderate.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-06-21
NATIONAL COMMITTEE SUSTA|NS
THEFT FROM THE PEOPLE

IRY UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATIONS
CHICAGO. JUNE 2t.-CoNTiNuED
VICTORIES FOR TAFT BEFORE
THE CONVENTION ON REPORTS
OF THE CREDENTIALS COMMIT.
TEE MARKED THE FOURTH DAY
OF THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN
CONVENTION.
FIGHTING AGAINST THE PERMA.
NENT SEATING OF CONTESTED
TAFT DELEGATES, AS RECON-
MENDED BY THE CREDENTIALS
COMMITTEE, THE ROoSEVELTERS
RECEIVED BLOW AFTER BLOW,
AS A PRELIMINARY, HADLEY
AGAIN ATTEMPTED TO PREVENT
THE 7s CONTESTED TAFT DELE
GATES TO VOTE ON QUESTIONS
Imperial Valley press., 1912-06-21
HANFORD IGNORES ORDERS

TACOMA, Wash, June 2l.-Disre-
sardlng orders from Attorney General
Wickersham, u. S. Judge c. H. Han
lord here Thursday has denied the mo-
lion for a rehearing in the case of
Leonard Olsson, the Socialist, whose
naturalization papers were revoked on
the ground that they had been oh
tained by fraud
Imperial Valley press., 1912-06-21
New Auto Headquarters

Fritz kloke of CalexicO, who is val
ley agent for the Maxwell automobile.
has opened an Office at the Court
garage, where he has the machine on
exhibition. He believes Ell Centro the
most central place in the valley to
locate the automobile agency.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-06-21

IRY UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATIONSl
CHICAGO. June 21.-Following Gre
dentials Committee Chairman Dcvine's
refusal to act in his own initiative or
the steering committees request.
Chairman Root sent messenger and
demanded that the committee render
a report on the contests already de-
Imperial Valley press., 1912-06-21
Big Battle Looked For

AT THE REBEL FRONT, ORTIZ.
Mexico, June 21-Federal scouting
parties have approached to point
eight miles below this place and a.
sharp engagement is looked for during
the day.
Chariton courier., 1912-05-24

in the form Of an increasing
dependent class typifed in the
feeble-minded. II is to be ex-
pected that this load can be rails
ed by some movement to control
life. This is work for the social
hygiene Of the future.
Regarding the proposed plan
Of requiring certificates Of health
before marriage, The Journal of
the American Medical Associa-
ton says that while il is easy to
pick out q few extreme cases Of
degenerates on the one hand and
of exceptionally sound and
healthy young people on the
other. no one Is at present COM
petent to divide the mass Of pos
sible candidates for marriage
into the fit and the unfit. II
would, however, have a good
effect IL men and women con-
templating marriage were COM
PEELED. before taking that step.
to consider seriously their fitness
for parenthood. Private initia-
tive. like that Of the Chicago
clergyman who refuses to marry
any couple not provided with
medical certificates Of heflth.
might In time create a force Of
public opinion which would make
disease n mark Of fsocial bad form
"a thing TO be ashamed Of in
oneself and certainly not TO be
tolerated in ones children. This
may seem utopian: yet within n
few generations social ideals have
undergone greater transmnta-
tons than this would involve.
One thing Is certain: the creation
Of public sentiment may seem n
slower method Of racial improve
ment than the enactment Of
laws. but II Is q far surer and
Eore thorough one; and Il avoids
the dangers involved in hasty
sweeping legislation based on
crude generalizations from in
sufficient data.
Chariton courier., 1912-05-24
Last of the Noted Younger
Brothers Will Lecture at
Courthouse Wednesday
May % at Sis p. m.

The lecture What Life Has
Taught me" by Cole Younger,
the last Of the noted Younger
Brothers, contains the experience
of a gentleman, q confederate
soldier, an outlaw and a convict
who has spent Is years Of his
life in a penitentiary.
II any man in this country has
had a more thrilling. varied and
enervating experience from boy
hood until pardoned from the
pen, than Cole Younger. not ex-
cepting Jesse James himself, we
cannot call him to mind. That
the lecture. more interesting
than fiction and lasting than
sycophantic theories and more
beneficial as a moral lesson than
close confinement Of natural i'm
pulse, cannot be questioned nor
can even the most prudish or
prejudced man or woman question
Mr.. Youngers great desire for
the remainder Of his life being
for the betterment Of mankind.
by himself portraying the futility
OF life spent in pursuit Of even
just revenge for wrong or under
taking TO succeed without CON-
mendable labor.
Mr.. Younger is here at the
instance Of the ID. o. c. and a
good proportion Of the proceeds
from Che lecture will 20 TO the
General Price monument and for
all reasons We urge all who pos
sibly can to attend.