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Imperial Valley press., 1912-10-09
TRUST KEEPS PRICES DOWN

PITTSBURG, Oct 9.-Had it not
been for meetings of representatives of
certain large steel interests held in
1867, for the purpose of maintaining
stability of prices, they would have
advanced 81 to SO a ton, said Willis
L. King, vice president of the Jones &
Loughlin Steel company, testifying in
the governments antitrust suit
against the United States Steel cor,
poration.
At other times he said meetings were
held to keep prices from going down.
Mr.. King testified that he had been
treasurer of the Structural and Plate
ass ociation, made up of six or eight
companies controlling 90 per cent of
the production which, he declared, ap-
portioned the business of the country
on percentage basis. The Carnegie
Steel company's allotment was about
Az or so per cent, said Mr.. King.
Charles NJ. Schwab, he testified, took
the leadership in the formation of the
association. It's formal meetings were
discontinued in the fall of 1904, he de-
clared, but every so days thereafter
meetings had been held by those in
the steel trade to maintain the "sta-
bility of prices"
Imperial Valley press., 1912-10-09
THINK HOTELS QUEER

NEW YORK, Oct. 9.-Fritz Willett.
who registers from Pittsburg, and
which is said at the ST. Regis to be d
destination and not a home address,
thinks the ways of a New York hotel
are past finding out.
For instance, night before last Herr
Willett did not quite turn off the spigot
OF the hot water faucet in his bathro ON
when he went out. When he got back
and opened his door he was met by
a cloud of steam that drove him back
to the elevator. Something had burst
and everything in the bedroom hal
taken a Turkish bath.
Then yesterday Herr Willett came
solemnly down to the desk.
For why" he asked, without crack
ing a smile, should 1 a baby carriage
find alongside my bed? Is it the Gus
tom in New York? 1 am a bachelor
and 1 do not understand
1t turned out that the people on the
floor below had ordered a-go-cart sent
to their room, and the porter had
simply made mistake in the floor.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-10-09
SHERIDAN TAKES NEW JOB

WASHINGTON, Oct. 9.-James w
Sheridan has resigned as chief of the
field service of the general land office
TO become special assistant to the at
torney- y-Seneral to prosecute num-
Der of public land cases in Arizona
and southern California. There is said
to be congestion of litigation in
that territory.
Mr.. sheridan, who is native of Col
orado, succeeded Louis r. CLAWS when
the latter was dismissed by authority
OF President Taft as special agent of
the interior department in charge of
the investigation of the famous Cum
ningham coal claims in Alaska.
Secretary Fisher, it is said, does not
intend to appoint a successor to Mr.
Sheridan as chief of the field service.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-10-09
GOULD BAGGAGE RELEASED

NEW YORK, Oct. 9-Frank j. Gould
has obtained release of all of the
100000 baggage which the customs
authorities seized when he and Mrs
Gould and her sisters arrived last Fri
day from their home in Paris. Under
protest, Mr.. Gould paid $2S44 on the
dutiable articles, but the greater part
of the valuable jewelry was shown to
have been of American purchase or to
have been assessed before by the Gus
toms authorities.
Mr.. Gould will carry to the courts
his fight against paying any duty, de-
claring that he is now exempt as n
nonresident and that he intended only
TO pay visit to this country.
Collector Loeb, however, believed the
millionaire had not given UP his resi-
dence here. He said he heard that Mr..
Could intended 10 reopen his Fifth ave
nue. home ana to this end had equipped
his house with servsnts.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-10-09
SUED FOR FATAL KISS

HARTFORD, Conn, Oct. 9-Papers
were served this afternoon in a suit
for $4,000 damages against Warran S
Hastings and III. p. Halsey of Windsor
for resp possibility for the death of Miss
Anna Carelli, who was killed in an
automobile accident in East Haven
early in August. The suit is brought
by the dead girls stepfather Pasquale
Grangrande. who says that the acci
dent was caused by Halsey, the chauf-
feur, losing control of the car while
trying to kiss the dead girls sister
Miss Rhae Carelli. During the wal
maneuvers in August Hastings, who is
a justice of Windsor and a heretofore
highly respected citizen, took the Ca
relli sisters and a friend, who is a
physician, riding along the shore road
leading to Savin Rock, a New Haven
amusement resort. The girls were
corset models in a New Haven manu-.
factory.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-10-09
MARKET REPORTS
Los ANGELES PRODUCE

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 9-California
creamery butter was marked higher al
the produce market yesterday to Soc q
nound for extras and S2Ac pound for
firsts. 1t took the butter committee OF
the exchange but a few seconds ia
decide that the price should be higher
although the receipts were 50,595
changed. Cheese and poultry were
steady.
The receipts Of tomatoes did not
vanced to 5o@65c lug box for fancy
and 500 45c a box for ordinary toma-
toes Sweet potatoes. after being
dealers raised their prices to $i.4o@
LIS cwt. Northern stock brought the
highest price.
Some excellent strawberries for Sc
late in the season arrived and were
market was active; Bellefieurs and
Jonathans being the most plentiful
varieties. Dealers say that steady
condition will prevail in the fruit mar
ket all week and not many prices will
change.
Receipts of produce in Los Angeles
yesterday were: Eggs, AZ cases; but
ter, 5O,595 pounds; cheese, 245 pounds
potatoes, 921 sacks; onions, 800 sacks;
beans, 33 sacks; apples, 1881 boxes.
Following are quotations:
Butter-Prices to the trade Sc above
quotations: California creamery, ex-
Eggs-Local ranch, dozen, candled
42c; case county, 3se; seconds, 23c; pull
let's, 27c; eastern, 28@32c.
;, Beans-No. ! pink, SAFE :wt.; No /
lima, $5.75M6.00; Lady Washing gton, No
/ $5;1O@525; small white. No. /, s5 25
@5:5o; blackeye, -$4.25 4.50; Garvanza
$3.50; bayous, $4.50@5.0O; Mexican reds,
$3.50; lentils, $6.5O@7.OO.
Onions-Australian Reds, soc box;
Northern Yellow Danvers 9Oc a ST OG
per cwt; Silverskin, 35@4Oc box;
White Wax, crate, $1.50; young onions
zoe dozen punches.
Potatoes-New potatoes, 6O@9Oc cwt.,
30@S5c lug box for large, 20@25c tor
small; sweet potatoes, $1.40@1.75 cwt
Poultry--Buying prices Qive)-Broil-
ers. lb., 17@19c; roasters, 19c; young
cocks, Sc; old cocks, sec; light hens,
15e: heavy, hens, lie; young turkeys,
$50 25c; old DUCKS, 12c; geese, 12c;
squab pigeons, $3.50 dozen.
Honey-EXtracted, water white go
10c lb.; white, Sc; light amber, 8@9c;
combs, water white, Ice; white, 15c;
light amber, 15c; beesewax, 3Oc.
Hay-New crop: Tame oats, $21 @ %;
alfalfa, $14@17; barley, 1920; wheat,
$50 20; straw, S12.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-10-09
RAILROADS ARE GIVEN TWO
YEARS TO MAKE SEPARATION

| WASHINGTON, Oct. 9.-The inter-
gun to prepare ways and means for
the performance of one of the most
important duties intrusted to it by con-
gress during the last session-the di-
vorce Of all railroads from steamship
lines.
The policy the commission will
adopt in this matter is of especial
concern to the people of the middle
West. If the commission shall order
the railroads operating vessels on the
Great lakes to divest themselves of
their water line ownership, it will
and, in all probability, lower rates.
| The interstate commerce law pro-
vides that if any water carrier reduces
a rate to meet water competition it
shall not thereafter increase the rate
was withdrawn. So that if the rail :
roads are compelled to separate from
their lake holdings it will assure wa
ter competition, with a consequent Ell
feet on the price charged for the trars
portation of grain, coal and other
freight.
1t is of prime Importance to the mid
die West, therefore, what action the
commission shall take under the law
The law does not call for drastic ac-
ton at once. 1t gives the railroads
two years to place themselves within
its provisio ons, and if they fail to do so,
then authorizes the interstate COM
merce commission to initiate proceed
ings against them.
Carriers owning steamship lines are
authorized to apply to the commission
for permission to retain such lines
and the commission will give them
such permission provided it finds that
water service is being operated in the
interest of the public and for the con-
venience and commerce of the people.
The law specifically prohibits railroads
from owning ships operating through
the Panama canal. But it does not
apply this prohibition sweepingly
to the United States. It is expected
the railways will contest the constitu-
tionality of the law. They do not in
tend to surrender properties worth mil
lions without a fight. But the lawyers
supreme court will uphold the law.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-10-09
TO TRY LEASING SYSTEM

WASHINGTON, oct. 9.--Yielding 10
the demands of conservationists that
coal lands hereafter be leased by the
government to private concerns instead
of allotted or sold, the interior depart
ment has announced that the plan
would be tried. AS a result Van H.
Manning, assistant director of the
bureau of mines, left for Wyoming,
where he will complete the details of
leasing 24S0 acres of government coal
lands in that state to a local corpora
tion. The leasing experiment will be
carefully watched and, if successful.
probably will mark a revolution in the
policy of the government in dealing
with public lands. The land to be
leased is located near Lander, Wyo.
The corporation desirous of mining the
coal is to pay 81 for each acre in the
tract and a royalty of 61a cents a ton
for each ton mined during the first
five years, and s cents for the follow
ing five years. After that the royalty
will be fixed by the secretary of the
interior the leasing corporation having
the right to renew the lease up to 80
years in all.
The government proposes to main
tain rigid supervision of the manner
in which the coal is taken from the
ground. 1t also will prohibit subleas-
ing, traffic in intoXicants on the prem
ises and destruction or mutilation of
the property and will reserve the right
to revoke the lease at any time for
violation of the rules.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-10-09
wARsHIPs FOR REVIEW

NEW YORK, Oct. 9.-Rear-Admira
Hugo Osterhaus, commanding tht
fleet of American battleships assem-
bling here for review next week, the
president and the secretary of the
navy exchanged official visits with
Mayor Gaynor and Police Commission.
er Waldo.
In the morning the admiral and his
staff called upon Mayor Gaynor at the
and Commissioner Waldo boarded Z
harbor police boat and were taken to
the flagship Connecticut.
Headed by the flagship Connecticut
bearing the pennant of Rear-Admiral
New York bay yesterday, the back
bone of the battleship division in the
will be the scene for the next ten
days.
The arrivals, besides the hagShlp
were the battleships Ohio, New Jer-
sey, Rhode Island, Nebraska, Kansas
Louisiana, Delaware, Utah and Flor
ida. No sooner had they dropped an
chor than the mayors committee and
the reception committee headed by
Herman Ridder and DR.. John H. Fin
ley put off to the flagship and gave
the city's formal welcome to Rear-Ad-
miral Osterhaus and his men.
By the last of the week the ex-
pected total of 127 ships with $4,000
officers and men will be in line for the
three big days of the review, begin
ming Saturday and eliminating Tues
day, October Is, with a presidential re-
view.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-10-09
Peoples Rights Withheld

We furnish the greatest market in
the world. AS citizens our laws, our
civilization, our customs, our habits
of men and families, give us rights in
the profits of the commerce which we
rights. Commerce is interstate State
regulation of commerce-the railroads,
the trusts, labor, and all the forces
that keep commerce alive, the conser-
walton of our natural resources, the
control of currency, and the control
Of monopolies in patents and in trade
marshall these things, under state
control, evade justice
Poverty may not be checked by the
state. That eliminates the Democratic
party a constructive agency in the
new order. 1t will persist as a critical
conservative party; but as a force in
the actual doing of things the democ-
racy is useless.
The Republican party is in the hands
OF the bosses, the jobbers of prosper
ity, who believe that the rich should
be permitted to thrive because they
are big, so that the little poor NAV
get the crumbs from the feast
Imperial Valley press., 1912-10-09
ADMIRAL YOUNG BURIED

WASHINGTON, Oct. with mill
tary honors due his rank, Rear Admiral
Lucien Young, who died in New York
Wednesday, was buried today in Ar
lington national cemetery. When the
body arrived from New York it was
met at the station by the pallbearers,
Rear Admirals Howard, Mason and
Beatty and Captains Winteralter
Fechteler and Boush. Four companies
of coast artillery formed the escort.
Rev. Father O'Hern of the Catholic
university pronounced the last rites.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-10-09
Justice Now the Issue

The Republican party represents an
idea as outworn as the doctrine Of
states rights. The Republican party,
er, tried to be honest and fair with
the people-was named by a reaction
airy organization that levied tribute on
promised them an immunity from le-
gal restriction that Roosevelt had 20
repudiate as president.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-10-09
CHICAGO LIVESTOCK

CHICAGO, oct. 9.-Cattle-Receipts
eOOO market slow, generally steady
beeves, $500 100; Texas steers, $45t
q 500 western steers, $5.75 a s. 80;
stockers and feeders, S4.35m7.75: cows
and heifers, $2.S5 a 500; calves, 5000
1915.
Hogs-Receipts. 10000; market slow
1880; heavy, SS.4O@9.25; rough. $50
q S,65; pigs, $1,000 500; bulk of sales
SSS5 1915.
Sheep-Receipts, $1,000 mark et
So. a 4.20; yearlings, S425m535
lambs, native, $4.50@6.75; western
S4.75 q $50.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-10-09
MRS. SMILEY IMPROVING

REDLANDS, Oct. 9.-Mrs. A. X.
Smiley, who is seriously ill at Lake
Mohank hotel, their summer home, is
slightly improved, according to a mes
Mrs. Smiley has been an invalid for
several years, and while her condition
is serious, it is believed that there is
hope for her recovery.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-10-09
Honesty Must Prevail

The Progressives do not believe the
states can regulate commerce. The
Progressives believe commerce must
not be destroyed or promoted because
some corporations in commerce are
big; the Progfessives hold that COM
merce must be promoted by making
all corporations honest that fill the
trade channels of America.
The Republicans have made the
trusts profitable to those who control
the trusts and manipulate their capi-
tai and their products. The Demo-
for the lawyers who heckle the trusts
with useless litigation.
The Progressives believe the trust
may be profitable for those who con-
troll the trusts and that when the peo-
control the national banks, the trusts
may be made profitable for the people
The Progressives feel that we have
come to the place where the people
must either control the trusts, or the
trusts, under the Republican ideals of
the late nineties, will control the peo-
pie. To make prosperity a fetish leads
to a plutocraey; to make justice an
ideal leads to democracy.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-10-09

party is prosperity It's face is turned
, back to the days of the plutocracy of
the '90s. The Republican believes in
the full dinner pail as an incident to
the full automobile.
But the fundamental idea of the new
party is not prosperity; it is justice.
The Progressives believe in the full
dinner pail, but not as an incident to
anything. Their solution of the labor
problem is not dependent upon good
at all times to the men who do the
worlds work,
Imperial Valley press., 1912-10-09

TOPEKA, Kan, Oct. civilian A.
Pfeffer, ex-United States senator from
Kansas, and a man well known in this
state, is dead. A complication of
troubles and old age caused his death.
He was recovering from a stroke of
apoplexy and the amputation of a leg
recently.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-10-09
BARLEY MARKET

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. Sin the 10.
were in better demand and firmer. De.
cember sold up to S1.42ls and Sl44 was
bid and S1.443 asked for May. In Chi.
cago spot barley closed at Asa 73c pei
bushel. Local cash prices for barley
continued steady and about as previ.
ously quoted. Receipts of barley here
were 1926 centals. Wheat was quiet
and unchanged in the spot market r &c
seed oats were firm for recleaned. Brar
was steadier; corn was nominal
Imperial Valley press., 1912-10-09
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION

Not Coal Lands.-SeriaI No. O13j7G)
Department of the Interior, United
States Land Office at Los Angeles, Cal,
September 26, 1912. NOTICE is here
by given that ETHEL l.. MELLOR of
Seeley,. Cal, who, on April "a, 1912,
made desert land entry No. 013576, for
ract 1O3, Townships Is and 16, Rrange
E., s. b. Meridian has filed notice of
Intention to make final proof, to estab-
lish claim to the land above described,
before the Clerk of the Superior Court
on the 7th day of November, 1912, at
10 o'clock a. m
Claimant names as witnesses: c. A.
Mellor, Richard Rundell. George T.
Mellor, John w. Mellor, all of Ell Gen.
FRANK BUREN, Register.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-10-09
WOOL MARKET

ST. LOUIS, Oct. 9.-Wool steady; ter.
ritory and western mediums, 21 a 26c
fine mediums, 1SM zoe; fine, 13M17c
BOSTON, Oct. "a gradual decrease
in the movement of domestic wool is
reported, with values fairly steady A
slight falling off in values in territory
stock in original bags is reported
quotations ranging from "a for Mon
tana to 10 for Wyoming. Graded ter
for Montana quarter blood. Choice
northern California wool brings 5;
clean
Imperial Valley press., 1912-10-09
Los ANGELES LIVESTOCK

Los ANGELES, Oct. 9-Prices of
livestock in Los Angeles are quoted as
Cattle-Fat steers, 6kc; fat COWS,
and heifers, 3M c; fat calves, 7c.
Hogs-1S0 to 200 lbs, 71ac
,sheep-Wethers .S4.75 head: ewes,
s2.75 per head; lambs, s4.0o each.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-10-09

If you are fixed to buy the personal
property l can rent you the incest
little ranch in the valley-25 acres,
all alfalfa. Fine house; modern; all
fenced; personal property will
amount to S25O0. Has paid pres
ent owner S2500 this year Near new
high schoo Address BOX 50, Press
office. X1S6
Imperial Valley press., 1912-10-09
NOTICE INVITING BIDS FOR SALE
OF WORK HORSE TO THE CITY
OF EI CENTRO

Notice is hereby given that the
Board of Trustees of the City of Ell
Centro, California, desires to purchase,
for the use of said city, good, sound,
reliable young work horse, weight not
less than fifteen hundred pounds, and
that sealed bids will be received at
the City Hall of said city, by the under
signed City Clerk, up to o'clock p. m,
October II, 1912, for furnishing of such
horse to said Board of Trustees. All
horses offered pursuant to this notice
must, on or before the date above
mentioned, be exhibited to A. w
Swanson, Street Commissioner of said
city.
Said Board of Trustees reserves the
right to reject any and all bids.
aid City of Ell Centre.
LAVINIA NORTHCOTT,
City Clerk.
By z. w. BURGER, Deputy.
Sent 2S 80: Oct g A. T. @ II
Imperial Valley press., 1912-10-09
For Sale-A Bargain

Two 10-acre tracts one-half mile
north of the business center of Ell Gen.
tro on the Date canal Address Box
112, Imperial, Cal, or Mrs. J. G. New
ton, city. 140
Imperial Valley press., 1912-10-09
AUTOS AND ACCESSORIES

FOR SALE-Hudson roadster, model
20, in first class mechanical condi-
tion; cost originally $1400; 6 new
tires, in use less than months. Own
er having ordered new car will sell
reasonably or trade for first class
mules. J. p. DAILY, 514 Main st.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-10-09
WATER STOCK

WATER STOCK-See A. NANCE, Ell
Centre, for No. water stock.
FOR SALE-142 shares No. water
stock. GEO. L. MELTON, irrigation
district office.
FOR SALE-1OO shares No. l water
stock JOHN F. WATERMAN, Ell
Centre r. f. D. 1. X14O
FOR SALE-No. 1 water stock, S15 a
share; terms to suit. Address 1MPE-
RIAL SOUTH SIDE WATER CO., p.
W. Brooks, secretary. Holtville, Cal.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-10-09
NEW YORK rOTroN MARKET

NEW YORK, Oct 9-Of the size OF
the crop we have heard much of con-
sumption nothing. Trade is good the
world over and consumption is limite ID
only. by the capacity of the spindles.
At the commencement of the season of
19O5-O6 the visible supply of American
cotton was 100000 bales. The crop
that season was 11,400,000 bales, a to-
tai supply of 100000 bales. In 1905
there were 107, 100000 spindles in the
world. Today there are 14O 0OO, 900 in
the United States and Europe, increase
since 1905 of 30 z per cent. The visible
ber /. this year, was 100000 bales,
and if the crop should be 14,5OO, 900
bales the total would be 1890, 900
bales, an increase in supply of 1905 of
only about is per cent, compared with
an increase in spindles of 90 Y per cent
In 1905 the lowest prices on the move
ment of the crop were recorded during
the week ending October 2, with July
futures in New York then selling at
101Oc, and subsequently advancing to
1261c before the 18th of October
Measured by the history of 1905 and
the worlds increased consuming ca
what can the short seller promise him
self when selling now, after break of
$50 points since August. Following is
range of quotations today:
January, 1074M75c February 1913
a Sic; March, 10.SSM soc; May, 1O9SM
99c; June, 11.00M 02c; July, 11O4mO5c:
August, 11O0M 03c; October, 1856 a 58c;
November, 10.62M 64c; December, 1O.Si
q S2c.
Spot closed quiet; middling uplands,
111Oc; do gulf, 11.35c. No sales.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-10-09
NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS
STATE AND COUNTY TAXES FOR
19I2-1913. IMPERIAL COUNTY, CALL


IFORNIA.
Notice is hereby given that the taxes
on all personal property secured by
real property, and one-half of the taxes
on all real property will be due and
payable on the second Monday in Oc-
tober, and will be delinquent on the
last Monday in November next there
after, at six o'clock p. M, and that un-
less paid prior thereto, Is per cent will
be added to the amount thereof, and
that if said one-half be not paid before
the last Monday in April next, at SIN
o'clock p. m. an additional five per
cent will be added thereto. That the
remaining one-half of the taxes on all
real property will be payable on and
after the first Monday in January next,
and will be delinquent on the last Mon
day in April next thereafter at six
o'clock p. m. and that unless paid prior
thereto, five per cent will be added to
the amount thereof
Both installments of taxes may be
paid at the time the first installment is
due and payable.
j. v. WACHTEL,
Tax Collector, Imperial County.
Imperial Valley press., 1912-10-09
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION

(Not Coal Lands.-Serial No. O63S0.)
States Land Office at Los Angeles, Cal,
October 3, 1912. NOTICE is hereby
given that JOHN F. WATERWAY Of
Ell Centre, Cal, who on June 10, 1910,
made homestead entry No. O63S9, for
lots 7 and s, SEA SWA, SWA SEh,
S B. Meridian, has filed notice of in
tention to make final three year proof,
to establish claim to the land above
described, before the Clerk of the Su-
perior Court of Imperial County, at FL
Centro, California, on the 14th day of
November, 1912, at 10 o'clock a. m.
Claimant names as witnesses: James
r. Garren, Charles F. Meyer, Wilburn
n. Sipple, Wilhelm L. Mcclure, all of
El Centre, Cal.
FRANK BUREN, Register.
Nov. 6