davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Imperial Valley press., 1913-02-10
BRIN0INo IN THoRouoHDReDs
TO RAISE STOCK sTANpARr
Many importations from Distant States
Are Promising Brighter Future for
Valley Dairymen

One OF the common sights at The
depots of the valley these days is a
crate. containing young bull imported
from some far-distant state. For three
years this line Of importations has been
noted. but the arrivals grow more nu-
merous each year. and this testifies to
The fact that the valley dairymen have
the intention Of steadily raising. the
standard of their live stock.
Many cows have been imported to
The valley, and of these there were
good, bad and Indifferent, and many
Of the poorer have been weeded out
and seni to The block. As between the
processes of breeding up the stock and
eliminating the poorer ones, there is
in process great Improvement which
works for the good of the entire i'll
dustry.
Imperial Valley press., 1913-02-10
Perfect Weather

The clouds have broken away and
we have got back to Imperial valley
weather-typical winter weather in the
valley, with mercury at IL at sunrise
and II in mid-afternOOn. And if any
person can invent more perfect climatic
conditions he should present his sam
Piles in advance and not otherwise eX-
pect orders. \ Transformation is taking
place in the appearance Of the valley
because Of the perfect weather. The
shortage Of feed is near an end as
the grain crop comes on, and in a
few days more the annual talk Of
feed shortage will have become a thing
OF the past.
Imperial Valley press., 1913-02-10
NOTICE TO CREDITORS

Estate OF HARRIET NJ, CRAIG, de-
ceased.
Notice is hereby given py the under
signed C. c. Craig, administrator of the
estate of Harriet NJ Craig deceased, to
the creditors of, and all persons having
claims against the said deceased 10
exhibit the same with the necessary
Vouchers, within four months after he
first publication of this notice to the
said c. c. Craig, administrator, at Ell
Centro, California, that being the place
for the transaction of the business of
said estate in the County of Imperial.
Dated this 18th day of January, A.
d. 1913.
c. c. CRAIG
Administrator of the Estate of Harriet
NJ. Craig. Deceased.
wed-feb5
Imperial Valley press., 1913-02-10
COMING EVENTS

At the L. and : tonight this will he
vaudeville night. in addition to The
presentation Of 1000 feet OF new photo
plays 1.-The Four AndersUns" will ap-
pear in the miniature musical comery.
'-NischievouS Bob" and THE Great
La Fleur." the muscular marvel, will
give an exhibition.
MasonS of the valley guests of In
periai lodge February %.
Imperial Valley press., 1913-02-10
In Justice Court

Dan Vaughn and E. R. Ross We're
arraigned this morning on a charge of
unlawful trespassing and destruction
of property. The time for entering
plea was set by Justice Mayfeld for
Q o'clock tomorrow morning. During
the proceedings Dick Barbarick criti-
cised the justice and was fined so for
contempt of court.
Imperial Valley press., 1913-02-10
After the undesirabIes

County and city police officers are
doing their best to get rid of the riff
raft that has flOated into the valley as
usual at rnis season Of the year, with
the result that Justice Maytield has
his time pretty we'll occupied these
days in disposing of the cases
Imperial Valley press., 1913-02-10
Raided piamorio Pool Hall

Undersheriff Applestill and Deputy
Sheriff kilgore raided the pool hall al
Alamorio last night. captured two bar
rels of beer. fifty bottles Of whisky and
caught party playing poker. AleXan-
der Wagner was arrested for running
the poker game and Arthur Dinges5
for running a blind pig.
Imperial Valley press., 1913-02-10
CITY AND VALLEY
Two Good Sales

W. J. Purcell reports The sale Of the
W. G. Crane ranch. three and half
miles northeast of Holtville, to John
Pinney for S2i, 600: also the George
Jenifer ranch of $50 acres eight miles
southwest Of Ell CentrO to Clarence
Gage for $4,000.
Imperial Valley press., 1913-02-10
Boom In Lots

The great building boom that is on
has affected the demand for town lots
greatly in the last few days, and the
transfers of this nature are running
high. As result of the activity in
both business and residence property,
prices are advancing and owners are
turning over their former investments
with good margins of profit.
Imperial Valley press., 1913-02-10
MUSIC TEACHERS AND STUDENTS
TAKE NOTICE

4FREE SCHOLARSHIPS, endowed and val
ued at 81 900 each will be awarded by the Los
Angeles Musical College. Scholarships good in all
departments; Voice. Violin. Piano, Drama. Com
petition open to anyone under 25 years Of age;
particulars address. Los Angeles Musical Col
lege. 7tb floor. Majestic Theatre Bldg. Los
Angeles.
Imperial Valley press., 1913-02-10

Ed Royce BUS and Transfer
We can move anything anywhere
with care and safety. What have you
got? Get our figures. Office 522 Main
Phone 82.-Advertisement.
Imperial Valley press., 1913-02-10
SIGNS

We paint anything in the line of signs
on glass, wood, iron, etc Show cards
worked up with air brush from CSC up.
+. TENCH.
BlackintOn Building. Eel Ceutro
Evening star., 1913-02-09

Culed, misunderstood ana In some cases
criticised TO a degree little less than
tlumny was 10 be expected. This is a
'"orld movement and the parade which is
- occur on Pennsylvania avenue on the
day before Woodrow Wilson's inaugura-
ti"E is intended To cou1cy that impress
eou. il j. 4 world movement and not
t..e agitation OF the few.
In that parade there will he repre-
sented every country in which women
are organized for the purpose OF claiming
voice IN the administration of affairs
" nich 50 vitality concern their happiness
and that OF their children and all the
generations after them. Even so close
10 the time when the pageant will be
held, il is impossible now to compute,
except i'm q tentative way, the numbers
of those who will march OF the coIn-
tries which will he represented. We have
organized carefully and matured our
plans without haste or partisan zeal II
will bc a [iSntied spectacle Iackini; all
the elements which are now predicted.
American women among the best
equeStrienneS i'll the world. so those
gloomy prognostications about injury and
accidents to the riders may be attributed
Evening star., 1913-02-09

Berber and the Arab. These races are
represented not by groups but by single
figures. At the feet of the Berber man
Is card saying that the Bcrbers belong
to the Hamitic stock OF the white race.
that they are bronze in color we'll FORM
cd, tall and more muscular than the
Arabs The .irab is a tall. straight and
lean fellow whose skin shows the blood
of a pure white race. but whici, has been
tanned by desert sun and wind. The
eyes of this man are especially large and
fine, clear. bright and intelligent. Like
the Berber man lie carries one OF those
curious guns that have long outlived their
day as effective weapons.
Nearby stands a. Wolof man. a negro of
the western Sudan. blue-black in color.
powerful In stature and showing his
races fondness for personal adornment
by wearing a heavily if not handsomely
embroidered dress. BY his side is a
Maori man of the south seas. wonder
fully muscular fellow OF slightly reddish
yellow. Near these fellows there used to
stand a monster Zulu, whose dress was a
delicate brcech clout and a spear. He
was removed to he OItfitted with raw
hide shield. Later he was more elabo-
rately fitted up and today he wears a
cloak Of animal skin This fellow has
the finest set of muscles. the biggest
Jaws feet and hands. arms and legs in
the chronological exhibit.
Evening star., 1913-02-09
! 49, aztk WITH THE RAMBLLzEE$BlA2di1lf
81 RI cM MMZ]hakc GmmGc%lnmMs ZNE&aHkM ZN@694

Woodland stream that has been I'M
poussded i'm a glen and has broadened
out, covering all the adjacent land up
to the level Of the spillway. The banks
are overhanging and they give glimpses
of snatted tree roots veiied under ferns
anG vines. Big trees. OF all the native
kin&s-sycamore and gum. oak and pop
lar fox-tail pine. jack pine and rcd cedar
cast their shadows far out over the
gre:el and placid water. The pond was
forfeed by one OF tho numerous branches
or rsvuletS that flow into Maddox creek
Out of one end OF the pond runs deep
dit,is fringed with ferns, moss and dog
wood. This is the mill race. 4 few
yards further along the water enters a
f1uiTaa boxed with old cedar. and at the
end Of this the water falls down on the
bucbets or the paddles Of the slowly turn
ing. noisy great wheel of the ancient mill.
Inszte the mill stones are grinding.
slleited corn is being fed into them
ptna hopper and through little chute of
woni. worn to satin polish. the white
and creamy meal pours out in a soft and
sileGs stream. falling into a troughlike
Din The miller. a mealy looking old geu-
tlertsn. is watching the flow OF meal and
see% that the hopper is kept full, or at
lease that it does not get empty. Ever
and anon he is lifting up a sack of
shei.ed corn and pouring some of the
grs.ss into the wooden hopper.
This mill can grind nine bushels of
CORE. an hour the miller is saying,
"that is, if the corn is hard and dry,
but this winter the corn is wet, and the
mil! is pretty we'll gummed up, so that
Evening star., 1913-02-09

of the clerks naturally took fond in
terest in the organization. These ladies
at a meeting determined to present to the
regiment a stand of colors. The regiment
al flag Of the guard is I'm the office of the
captain Of the watch of the Treasury,
but it is the national flag with which this
account deals.
On the night of April II. 1867. the
Treasury Guard gave a ball at Ford 5
Theater The theater was transformed
into Il large ballroom by the erection OF
seats in the lower part of the house. The
decorations were elaborate. and the flags
Of the guard were drapcd on tho boxes.
The guest Of honor at that ball was Com
modore WinSiow of the kcarsarge. 1t
was the first visit of that officer to Wash
ington after the sinking of the Alabama.
r. Ford requested the officer of the
Treasury Guard to allow the flags to re-
main on the boxes as the President was
expected to attend a performance at the
theater the night of April IA. How Booth
shot the President. how he leaped from
the box. how his spur caught how his
leg was broken or fractured by the fall.
and how his injury proved an impeachment
in his flight arc matters of common
knowledge.
The day after Lincelns death, when
the whole city was practically under
martial law and Andrew Johnson had
taken the oath of office as President in
Evening star., 1913-02-09

her father, Judge John CafferE Walk
er. is a revered jurist or the SOUTH coiIi-
ing of the same family OF LOUISIANA 10
which the late Senator Gallery pelonseo.
Mrs B,Irleson was educated in private
school of her home city and later went 10
New Orleans, where she graduated IN d
we'll known seminary. Developing tdi-
ent for art, she gained her fathers per-
mission to take up art as profession
and she entered the New York Scnooi OIL
Art and Design, where she was graduated
with high honorS after taxing the lu!i
four-year course. 1t was during her resi-
dence in New York that she met RicEard
Burleson, also Texan. who was a cauet
at West Point. The marriage occurred
in Judge Walkers home soon a1ter Mr.
Burleson's graduation and tne art career
became incident rather than a life mus
sion Though married little more thaii
four wears. Lieut.. and Mrs. Burleson have
had five different homes ana theE CAME
directly here from the Philippines:
'I can fold my tent and depart ior the
ends of the earth with a days notice
now" said Mrs Burleson. though IL was
quite dishea rtening at first Ny longest
stay at any post was In Mania "ntfe
settling nv domestic affairs in Manila !
found so much time on my hahds tnat
presented my diploma from the Ne"
York School of Art and asked perhls-
sion TO teach in the public schools. on-
tanned the position after complying with
the usual requirements and during my
entire residence ! had the honor and
great pleasure of being the supervisor OF
art in all the public schools of Manila
and the adjacent rural districts.
my work was delightful taking me
from school to school and filling my day
with congenal duties. / cannot speak
too highly OF the Filipino children. They
are gentle and tractable, full of artistic
fire and have the material in them for
great things. But like all the orientais.
they have at present little originality.
Their training hitherto has not been Of
the sort to bring out original thoughts.
am afraid our American eagle screams
so loudly among aliens that they begin
to fear that nothing they possess is of
value and they must at once initiate all
they see in us. found this fercibly inn
pressed in teaching art In Manila. There
was SO often latent talent of the highest
order. but one had to guide and to direct
and to encourage and applaud constantly
in order to keep them heartened for the
effort,
No one who has seen the exquisite
necdlework which comes from the South
sea islands, and especially from the more
ancient civilization about Luzon and the
larger islands, need be told that the
women do not lack artistic sense. Little
girls learn to use their needles almost as
Evening star., 1913-02-09

that room OF the Treasury building long
occupied as the office Of the director OF
the mint. but which was then the ofi1ce
Of the Secretary OF the Treasury. the
guard flag was brought up from the
theater and taken into this room. Tho
rent made in it by the assassin'S spur
was exhibited to all those present. The
Treasury Guard soon after disbanded.
the flag was stored away and forgot
ten. and it was not brought to light
again until 1872. when Capt Cobaugh
Of the Treasury watch found 1t in the
machinists' shop in the basement OF the
building. The flag was loaned to the
Lincoln Museum by Secretary Gage. but
1t was recalled not SO long ago
The pistol used by Booth in the as
sassination Of Lincoln Is In safe in
the Office of the Judge advocate general
Of the army, having been in the Gus
tody OF that officer since the trial Of
the conspirators. This fact was Brought
out few years ago by the sale in
Philadelphia of pistol with which the
crime was said to have been commit
ted The purchaser wrote to the War
Department and learned that he had
been victimized.
Booths spur. the one which tripped
him, and which was removed from his
injured leg by DR.. Mudd, is in possess
sion of Capt. Oldroyd.
Evening star., 1913-02-09

strong sentiment favoring the building of
another church edifice two miles further
up She road. which would be nearer the
center Of the population Of the parish.
George Washington favored this removal
and George Mason opposed it, 1t would
brinE the new church two miles nearer
Mount Vernon and take il two miles
furcaer away from Gunston Hall Work
men began the erection of the new church
in .s6S. When it was completed Is not
pla>:s, but the contractor, Daniel French.
received his final payment in 1172, and
the earliest recorded occupancy Of the
new church by the Pohick congregation
was in 117e.
x
\ number of years ago there was
brought to light a letter dated August
Is. i144, written by william Fairfax to
Lawrence Washington, who was then in
Lorsion. This letter was carried by
Col. Philip Lee, and among it's contents
is :n account of vestry election of
Pohsck Church-the old church. The sue
cessful candidates for the vestry were
Hush West. Jera Bronaugh. sheriff;
James Hamilton. Charles Broadwater.
George Mason, William Payne, Thomas
WrHnn, John Furley. Daniel McCarty.
Absam Barnes and Robert Boggess. The
candidates not elected We're John Minor,
john West. Henry Gunnell, Thomas Ford,
Wiiiam ElZey. Benjamin Sebastian,
James Donaldson. Sampson Furley, Jo-
sepsl Stevens and Col. Colville.
Among some of the early preachers at
Poisick were the Rev. Charles Green. who
was also a practitioner of medicine, and
was the family physician of the Wash
inetons before they employed DR.. Crail1
OF Alexandria in that position: the Rev.
Les Massey and the Rev. Mr.. Weems.
who was reputed to be the author of the
George Washington cherry tree story, the
wild colt story and the story of the sill
veI dollar that Washington threw across
the Rappahannock river. After the build
ing of Christ Church and the growing i'm
poF.ance of Alexandria the congregation
of Pohick dwindled. and in 1885 it was
nearly a ruin. 1t was restored and used
as a house of worship till the outbreak of
the civil war. Being on high land COM
manding broad view OF the country, A.
federal picket post was esta blished there
and most of the interior woodwork was
used as fuel. and the soldiers horses were
STABBED in the church. After the war il
was repaired. but the congregat ton was
poor and the church languished. Within
the last few years it has been restored
ana beautifully fitted up in the style of
the olden time. the improvements being
due IN a measure TO the growth of num-
bess and prosperity of the congregation.
and also to the munificence of patriotic
hereditary societies.
ou may continue your walk to Gunsfon
Hail. but YOU will probably feel like walk
ing 10 Pohick station, a mile away. and
waiting for a railroad train back TO
Washington.
Evening star., 1913-02-09
A Picturesque Walk.
THERE is an untraveled sectio,

THERE is an untraveled section Of the
Pierce Mill road which invites to a.
picturesque walk. This ancient road
rambles along through an interesting
country from Wisconsin avenue to Con-
necticut avenue. but east of the latter
splendid highway the traveller who would
enter Rock Creek Park will turn south.
east along Connecticut avenue till com-
ing to Tilden street. which leads to the
park edge Then. by passing tho more
than century-oId spring house, q gray
stone structure rooted by green and messy
shingles, which was erected by Isaac
Pierce in 1901. you enter Rock Creek
Park at Pierces mill by way Of the
Pierce Mill road
On the east side OF Connecticut avenue
grading and building have effaced the
Pierce Mil road, but strike eastward
and opposite the south front OF HOLY
Cross Academy look to the right and
you will find an untraveled and sban-
doned road. The stony way Is nearly
covered with brown turf. and where it
is not SO covered the white quartz with
which the roadbed was once repaired is
grown with moss and gray and
green gray lichen. Low banks on the
sides show how the road WAS worn
down.
Pines-poor, stunted specimens-bor-
der the road. and on the right hand the
traveller looks across Tilden street, which
lies below, and southwark and east
ward over a considerable extent OF the
city. You are led on through thickets
of small pines, whose green is grateful
at this season, and through copse OF
oaks dismally bare and with q few
brown, shriveled leaves still holding fast
to the sapless branches.
The eastward course of tae road is
broken by a sharp turn which leads
down the hill through which Tilden
street was cut and into the ravine or
vale through which many OF the Older
travellers passed on their way TO and
from the mill. On the left there is a.
high bank and a steep hill closely
grown with a tangle of vines. On the
right hillside slopes gently upward, ana
this slope is covered with open oak
woods and thickly strewn with dead
red brown oak leaves. A little distance
farther and this road merges into Tilden
street.
Evening star., 1913-02-09

they went to the Philippines
| naturally renounced art as a mis-
sion when / made up my mind to marry. -
said Mrs. Burleson, but l can never
renounce the idea Of using my training
wherever can find opportunity for what
is only more love Of beauty and order
than talent of any great promise My
Joi in Manila was principally that the
natives love everything beautiful, and
their eastern daintineSS to which a Latin
civilization is added gives even the poor
es1 picturesque touch which the western
wGrld lacks. i am a firm believer in a
Evening star., 1913-02-09

Vernon. Chalkley Gillingham. who was
born in 1907. died in 1881. and lies under
a green mound in the little Friends cem-
etery on the right of the road leading
from Woodlawn Mansion to Accotink.
Thomas Wright lies buried there, and SO
do other of the Virginia Quaker pioneers
David Walton. keza Dillingham;, Hill
man Troth, Dillworth Buchanan Edward
Gibbs, Levi Stiles and John Ballinger.
Jacob NJ. Troth returned to New Jersey.
but his son. also Jacob NJ. Troth. moved
down to Woodlawn, and established a
home on the ridge not far from Wood
lawn Mansion. which he called Belle
View.
These Woodla wn Friends constructed a
substantial and plea sing meeting house in
1854 and in connection with it they opened
a public cemetery, an innovation in that
part of Virginia at that time, the landed
gentry having their private burial grounds
and the poor people, if they happened to
he members of a religious congregation.
finding a gravesite in the church yard or
perhaps on the little piece of land they
titled.
Your road will carry you by the site of
WaShington'S mill on Dogue run. Part
of the foundation is visible and on hill
Immediately above the mill site stood the
miller's house. The house has been re-
paired SO Often that perhaps little OF the
original timber remains in 1t. but 1t rests
on the same foundation. David Walton,
one of the pioneer Friends, bought that
part of Mount Vernon on which the mill
stood That was about 1857, and, desir-
ing to build a large house and the mill
being ruinous, he used the stone of the
mill az the founda ton for his house. Da-
vid Walton's grandson, Edward Walton,
fell heir to this farm. and although he
has moved to another farm, he retains
the mill stones of the Washington mill
and the heavy oak mill steps. WOodlawn
mansion itself has changed owners sew
eral times since the civil war and has
been restored and preserved and is now
as beautiful as it must have been when
Nellie Custis lived there.
Soon after passing the Friends meet
ing house you will observe road that
strikes off to the left and seems quickly
to lose itself in woodland. This is the
Belvoir tract, bought by the District as
the place for refOrmatory institution,
but the use of it for this purpose was pro-
hibited by Congress because of it's proX-
unity to Mount Vernon. At this point on
the road you are about three miles from
the west gate of Mount Vernon. and the
woodland road to the left leads on for
three more miles to the river landing long
known as Belvoir or White House.
Though six miles by road. it is only
about two miles by river below the land
ing place at Mount Vernon.
Belvoir was the home of one branch of
the Fairfax family, one of the daugh-
ters of which, Anne Fairfax. became the
wife of Lawrence Washington. half