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the locks will be by electricity, and
they are now putting up buildings in
the top of the centre walls from where
the current will be controlled.
In each of these buildings one man
can sit and direct every operation, I'm
the taking of IA vessel through from
the ocean to Gatun Lake or from the
lake down to the sea. He can open
the gates or close them by throwing :,
switch and can cause the water 10 rise
or fall by the press OF n button
The machinery of the locks is now
almost all In shape and it will take
but n short time to polish the whole
and leave II complete. The men will
coon be removing the debris. and with {.
In half year these mammoth con-
structions of concrete will look like
monuments OF marble cut out with n
chisel To-day one can walk along the
tops of the locks through an avenue
lined with concrete columns OF Won
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track, made especially for the return
OF the cars after tho towing
shall not attempt TO describe the
locks nor the methods by which the
ships arc taken through the canal The
most interesting thing just now is the
work going on at the terminals. I
have written som thing OF that on the
Pacific side. One of the striking fea-
lures there la the red skeleton OF tho
administration building that is now GO
Ing up. This stands high up. on the
slope of Ancon hin. looking out over
the Pacific Ocean. Tho canal Is In
plain view at the right. AT present. the
structure is only n framework of steel.
but this Will be clothed In concrete
blocks and plastered with stucco. The
roof VIII be Of dark. red tiles, and the
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Miss Alberta Read.

which treats OF crustnceans, such as
crabs Holsters. etc. Miss Rathbun ia
a native OF Bunalo, and started upon her
scientific career witt, Il high school
education. Having the wisdom to So
lect Il branch of zoology concerning
which there was "A denrth OF knowi,
edge. She steadily forged her way to
the front and established a reputation
ns the hiPhest American authority on
her speciality. This honor she attained
= n e &c wing as scientific as-
sistant In what is now the United
S'aeo., Btir. an o.. Fisher es After being
transferred to the National Museum
she WAS placed in cha ge of the divi-
sion OF marine invertebrates. For her
w"'k In classifying crabs, Holsters and
such species. and in describing their
! is ~ he world she draws com
Portable salary from the government
She ls a fellow OF the American Asso-
cation for the Advancement of Science.
member of n number of societies OF
naturalists and the author of various
scientific works on her specialize.
Her collaboration in this research is
another Washington woman. DIR. Har-
rict Richardson, sister OF Professor
charles Williamson Richardson, of the
Geo! pe Washington University medical
school MICS Richardson is n Vassnr
a. NJ. Phi. p. OF Columbian and n
member OF most OF tho learned societies
TO which Miss Rathbun belongs.
Another woman scientist who con-
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which VIII be sent by cables 20 tho
locks, TO tho range towers and to the
other electric light plants.
The current Will be strong enough
TO furnish all the power needed for
operating the canal. for lighting the
owns at either end and also for the
great machine shops, foundries and
other works connected with the canal
Tho electric cranes of the docks and
piers Will be moved by II and there
Will be enough electricity left to keep
all the rolling stock of the Panama
Railroad in action. Tho transmission
line to which / have referred runs
above the tracks and 1t is so con
structed that n trolley could easily be
connected with the bridges that join
the steel posts. If an extensive trans
portation business should develop,
which is not expected, the road will be
electrically equipped.
The movement of the vessels through
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one is transported from America into
foreign land. Thus the American
writer or artist dwelling In Washing
ton can gain Impressions OF exotic lifa
not to be absorbed Tia our other great
cities.
Here Is also Americas centre Of
learning
James Sni,hson anticipated mis-
when he located In Washington his in
stitution FOR the diffusion OF knowi-
edge among mankind" and Andrew
Carnegie saw that Embellishments dream
realized before he selected the capitnl
city as the nest for his mother hen Of
science and education. Washington
has more laboratories for the pursuit
OF pure science than can be found in
any other OF our urban centres 1t also
possesses more learned societies Tho
National Academy has selected il nv
It's meeting place. There is no line
( Of research In which the writer or siu
dent cannot here ind specialist o, re-
nown eager to share his learning
Specialists on Crabs and Lubstcr.
] In the catalogue or the capitals
scientists you will lind many interest
4 Ing women.
When DR.. Richard Rathbun was
placed at the head OF the National
Museum IN 1897 he became the oniciai
superior OF his sister. Mary Jane Rath.
of that institution Tor ten years Car.
c'noiogy Is that branch OF zoolog,
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tributes to the learned reports OF the
National Museum is Miss Evelyn Groes-
beck Mitchell, who has established
reputation as an entomologist. or Insect
specialist. From her home III Orange,
y. j.. she went to Cornell, and after
graduating. she was appointed instruc-
tor at the universlty's summer ZOO
logical camp. Having developed talent
for drawing insects as well as class
flying them, she now obtained n COM
mission as artist and field and labora-
tory assistant to tho late Dr. j. w. Du-
pree, surgeon general of Louisiana.
under which precepter she gained
much valuable knowledge. Realizing
now that Washington was the most
and scientist OF her speciality. she be-
came assistant in zoology at George
Washington University and assistant
in histology and physiological chemis-
try at the Howard University Medical
school Hef colored Illustrations OF
insect life are wonderfully lifelike and
are in demand by tho various entomolo-
gists of the government She has out
n book on tho mosquito and has con
tributed many articles on Insect life
to the popular magazines.
You arc thinking that lobstors; crabs
| hornets, centipeds and such pinohing
! and crawling things offer odd attrac-
lions to the feminine mind-but how
| about wild Indians2
The Federal bureaus dealing with our
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derful architectural beauty. They up
hold the lights Of the locks. which will
make tho whole structure as bright at
midnight as It Ia at midday. On each
side OF these columns are the cog-rail
road tracks upon which tho towing
locomotive will run; and between them
is another railroad for moving machin-
cry back and forth. Each vessel will
have four locomotives TO move it
from one lock TO another. Two will
go ahead to pull and two behind to
hold back, so that the vessel may be
steady. while moving. These towing
locomotives will run on level. except
when passing from lock to lock- at
which time they climb heavy grades.
In coming back they take another
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Mrs. Harriet Chalmers Adams.

aboriginos have on their stafs several
fearless women who have gone right
out among our redskins-have camped
with them, lived with them and eaten
with them in order to study their Gus
toms and ceremonials.
One of these is Mrs. Matilda Coke
Stevenson, an ethnologist and anthro-
pologist on the scientific staff of the
Bureau OF TIthnology. a daughter of
Texas. she began life with all the vigor
and fearlessness of the far Southwest
After graduating ut Il private school
In Philadelphia, she married James
Stevenson, q government Archaeological,
ethnologlst and explorer. and with him
she spent thirteen years exploring the
Rockies. They led the expedition which
discovered the great pueblo Of Zuni
thirty-nve years ago. and later she was
with him In various other expeditions
among tho Indians. During these years
Mrs. stevenson received special instruc-
tion In ethnology, the study of the hu-
man races. In the field she co opera I ed
In the collection Of ceramics archaic
implements and ceremonial objects for
the Nation al Museum. After her distin-
euished husbands death. more than n
quarter century ago. she continued his
life work. She has written IL voca bu :
larry Of the zuni language, and has ex-
mythology OF that tribe, rs we'll MS
those OF tho Pueblo, Tusayan, Navajo
and Mission Indians. Aftor spending
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ny FRANK G. CARPENTER.


TT HE Panama Canal is practically
completed. The waist Of the
New World has been sliced in
two nj the middle. and North America
and South America have been changed
from peninsulas to islands. With the
exception OF the gate of the locks
there is now a clear stretch of water
from ocean to ocean and within a
month or so after this letter is pub
ished the mighty steamers Of the At
lantic and the Pacific will be climbing
up and down this waterway from one
great ocean to the other
Ii is difficult 10 realize that tho
great job Is almost done. Still, this
conviction fills the air, and with it
= comes the thorght tina; the people OF
the future will never appreciate tho
enormous labor and cost Of the work.
That for which we have spent hun
dreds Of millions OF dollars is now UNI
der the water The Culcbra cut looks
der the water The Culcbra cut looks
much like an ordinary river lowing
between the banks Of living green and
Lake Gatuu seems to have been there
since the subsiding OF the waters of
Noahs flood. The only real work GO
ing on in the canal just now is the
+ dredging of the channel at Culebra
and the putting on the frills ut the
locks. The centres of industry have been
transferred from the canal itself to the
terminals. where docks. machine shops
and warehouses OF enormous dlmcn-
sions are being constructed
About the busiest part of the 18TH
mus, compared TO that OF the past. is
Balloon. tho new port on the Pacific,
Here they are eXcavatinE the mighty
dry dock which will hold the largest
ships that float the seas. They are
constructing foundrics and machine
shops. covering acres. and arc putting
up mammoth planning mills that are
already filed with lumber from TuTct
Sound and our eastern coast. At this
point there are tens of thousands of
men working. Trains OF cars 20 fly
ing along loaded with spoil they
did in the days of the active eNcava-
ton OF Culebra. \ large force is
erecting the framework of structural
steel and glass and farther out near
the ocean they are building the piers
and docks at which the steamers Will
lie. These piers will he Loco feet long,
and have slips 800 feet wide in which
ships can anchor
The new railroad across the lsthmus
has been completed 1t winds It's way
around the enlarged Lake of Gatun and
takes the passenger far away from
the line of the canal IT is now run
by oil burning engines, and in passing
from one side Il the Isthmus to the
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missioner of Education. and after her
return she was made q special agent
to tho Winnebagos. Now and them
she reads paper before the AnthrO-
biological Society OF Washington, OF
which she is a member. She has also
written treaties on her studies among
the tribes.
STUDIED Borneo's wild MIN.
The wild man OF Borneo hae long
been among spociments Of aboriginal
man, the arch terror of the small boy
But he offered few terrors to ono oc
these courageous members Of. Wash
ington's colony of scientific women
Mrs Alice sterne Gittcrman. She made
"a careful study of him and described
1t In an chronological. treatise. She is
well equipped educationally to make
most any kind of study. for she has
taken degrees at Smith, Columbia, the
Washington College Of Law and Yale
which last gave her q graduate
scholarship---and has peen elected q.
member OF tho College Of Preceptors.
England. She Is a daughter Of Simon
Sterne, the Philadelphia lawyer, his
torian and reformer, largely through
whose efforts our interstate commerco
law was framed.
: There is no better authority In wash
ington on Latin American affairs than
Continued On Sixth Page)
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garden without cinders or dust. From
the Pacific end of the railroad. about
halfway across. the structural steel
ars OF n great transmission line have
been put up on both sides of the track.
These arms are, ] judge, thirty feet
high. They are bolted to cement col
umns, and are joined by bridges rum
ming across the track from post to
post far overhead. On each end OF
these bridges arc appliances for
carrying the cables of copper wire that
will convey the current of electricity
generated by the overflow of the Gatun
dam. The electric plant for this cur
rent is now being installed. and the
buindings arc almost completed. They
are made OF concrete and steel.
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CONTINUED on Sixth Page.)
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BY JOHN 1LFRETn WATKINS.

- OR women IN the arts. sciences
and literature. Washington is
fast becoming the nations
Mecca There ia every reason
why this should be. The capital city
Possesses one of tho worlds greatest
libraries. II rs the national hub OF
science IN It's salons one rubs elbows
with more distinguished foreigners
than can be met in any other American
city. They give 10 social gatherings
and Official coremoniais richness OF
color that cannot be seen elsewhere
upon this aide Of the great pond. Every
great sovereign OF the world has his
diplomatic home is D foreign colony.
Visiting at one OF these establishment
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The Mighty Terminal Shops and
Supply Depots Now Going Up.
The New Administration Build
ing, and Uncle Sans Govern
ment Town--How the Locks
Look in Action-The Coaling
Stations Where 100000 Tons
of Fuel Will Be Kept Under
Wharf.-The Fortifications Now
Rapidly Building-Big Guns
Which Will Shoot Projectiles
Weighing Ton and Send
Them Twenty Miles at Shot.
Electric Searchlights With Re
Electors as Big as Cart Wheels.
No Danger From Dynamite
and Flying Machines-Arrange-
nents for 10000 Troops in
Case Of War.
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Many Distinguished in the Arts,
Sciences and Literature
Others Are Doing Excellent
Work in the Learned Bureaus
of the Cover men t-Why
Washington Is Becoming the
Paris of the New World.
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At this electric plant there will be
developed by the water falling on
turbines force of 5000 kilowatts
Imperial Valley press., 1914-10-21
No. 2044
NOTICE or SALE or REAL ESTATE
TtNnER EXECUTION.

Dyer Law and Collection Co, Inc,
a corporation, VS.. G. w. Macarthur.
BY virtue of an execution issued out
of the Superior court of the County
of Los Angeles, State of California,
wherein Dyer Law and Collection Co.,
Inc, q corporation, plaintiff, and c..
w. Macarthur, defendant, upon judg-
ment rendered the gath day Of Febru-
ary, A. d. 1910. for the. sum of $317.45,
United States gold coin, besides cost
and interest, / have this day levied
upon all the right, title, claim and in
terest of said defendant, c. w. Nc
Arthur, Of in and to the following
described real estate, to wit: Lot one
"a IN Block thirty -four A (34A), Park
addition to the City of Ell Centro, Coun-
ty Of Imperial, state of California.
Public notice is hereby given that 1
will, on Monday the 18th day of No
vember, A. ID. 1914, at 10 o'clock a. m.
of said day, in front of the court house
door Of the County Of Imperial, sell
at public auction for United States gold
coin, all the right, title, claim and in
terest of said defendant, c. w. Nc
Arthur. of, in and to the above
described property, or so much thereof
as may be necessary to raise sufficient
money to satisfy said judgment, with
interest and costs, etc, to the highest
and best bidder.
MoBLEY MEADOWS, Sheriff.
By H. w. ANDERSON,
Under Sheriff.
Dated october 21st, 1914.
WedNov11
Imperial Valley press., 1914-10-21
No. 148
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE ON PETI-
TION TO LEASE REAL pROpERtCy

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE ON PETI-
TION TO LEASE REAL PROPERTY.
of Imperial.
In the matter of the estate of John
Strunk, deceased.
estate of John Strunk, deceased, hav-
ing this day filed his verified petition
ai dor authority to lease the real prop
after described, for the period of one
year, at the rental hereinafter state l.
and it appearing that the giving of
said lease would be advanta geous to
the estate:
1t is ordered that all persons inter
ested in said estate be and they are
nerepy required to appear before this
court on the 9Th day of November,
court room of said court, in the City
of Ell Centre, County of Imperial, State
OF CALIFORNIA, then and there to show
should not be made authorizing and
directing said John F. Strunk, as such
administrator, to execute a lease of the
real property belonging to said estate
minating the Goth day of September,
1915, at the. annual rental of $500. 90,
as mentioned in said petition.
SAID real property desired to be
leased is described as follows, to wit:
Tract 81 in Township 16 south, Range
fornia.
For further particulars reference is
hereby made to the above-mentione d
petition on file. herein.
1t is further ordered that a COPY of
this order be published once week fer
two successive weeks, in the Impe-
rial Valley Press, a newspaper of gen
eral circulation in said county.
Dated this 18th @ day Of October, 1914.
WedOct21 ''i oo'i'
Imperial Valley press., 1914-10-21
NOTICE TO CREnIEORS

In the Superior court of the County
of Imperial, State of California.
In the matter of the estate of Sol
omon ID. Yokem, deceased.
Estate of Solomon ID. Yokem, de-
ceased.
Notice is hereby given by the un-
dersigned, Administrative of the estate
of solomon d. Yokem, deceased, to the
claims AGAINST the said deceased, to ex-
hibit them, with the necessary vouch-
ers, within ten months after the first
publication of this notice. to the said
Amanda B. Mcbride. the administra-
trix. at the office of III. w. Brewer, in
the K. p. building, Ell Centre, Califor-
mia, the same being the place for the
transaction of the business of said es-
tate in the County of Imperial.
Dated September 5th, 1914.
AMANDA B. M'BRIDE,
IL. ". BREWER, Administrators.
Attorney for Estate. WedNoy4
Imperial Valley press., 1914-10-21
NOTICE OF ADMINISTRATORS SALE
OE REAL ESTATE.

In the Superior court of the State
OF California, in and for the County
In the matter of the estate of Jere
T. Burke, deceased. No. 1876. De-
partment 4.
Notice is hereby given that, pursu-
ant to an order of the Superior court
of the State of California, in and for
the County of Alameda, duly made and
1914, in the matter of the Estate of
Jere T. Burke, deceased, the under
signed administrator of said estate
will sell, at private sale, in one par
Gel, on the terms and conditions here
matter mentioned, and subject to con-
firmation by said Superior court, all
the right, title, interest and estate of
the time, of his. death, and all of the
right, title and interest which the said
estate has, by operation of law, or
or in addition to, that of said deceased
at the time of his death, of, in and to
al that certain tract of land, situate,
lg llylng and being in Imperial county,
and described as Section Sc, Township
II South, Range Is East, San Bernar-
dino meridian, containing $40 acres of
Said sale will be made on or after
the, 9Th day of November. A. D. 1914
and all bids or offers must be in writ
istrator. at Room $26, Bank of San
Jose building, San Jose, California, or
delivered to the said administrator per-
sonally, or. filed in the office of the
clerk of the above entitled court al
any time after the first publication of
this notice, and before the making OF
said sale.
Terms and conditions of sale: Ten
per cent of purchase money in cash in
United states gold coin, to be paid al
the time of the sale; forty per cent of
the purchase price to be paid on con
hrmation of sale; balance of fifty per
cent of purchase price on credit, pay
able one year after confirmati ton OF
sale, to be evidenced by promissory
note. of purchaser in the usual form
bearing net interest at the rate of six
per cent per annum. and secured by
mortgage on said tract; conveyance
and abstract at the expense of the pur.
chaser.
Dated this 14th day of October, A
d. 1914. F. f. CHAPLIN.
Administrator of the Estate of Jere
T. Burke. deceased.
LOUIS ONEAL,
s Attorney for Administrator. 1s'
Imperial Valley press., 1914-10-21
NOTICE TO CREDITORS

In the Superior court of the County
of Imperial, State of California
In the matter of the estate of j. NJ
Whitley, deceased
Estate of ]. M. whitley deceased.
NOTICE is hereby given by the under
signed, the administrators of the es-
tate of j. M. Whitley, deceased, to the
creditors of and all persons having
claims against the said deceased to
exhibit them, with the necessary
vouchers, within ten months after the
hrst publication of this notice, to the
said ADMINISTRATIVE, at No. 10 Beach
Ross, one of her attorneys, the same
being the place for the transaction OF
the business of said estate, in the
County of Imperial
Dated September 80, A. d. 1914.
ELLA IRENE WHITLEY,
Administrators of the Estate of j. M
Whitley, Deceased
j. STEWART ROSS and
r. B. WHITELAW
Attorneys for the Estate WedOct2S
Imperial Valley press., 1914-10-21
066S1
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION
m NJ
Department OF the L

U. $, Land office at Los Angeles cal''
Notice is hereby given that Siegel
e. Skinner of Holtville, California, who,
on April 2s, 1918, made, desert land
entry No, 066s1 for Lots 1, 5, and SE
u Sc u Section 5, Township 16 s.,
Range Is E.. s. B. meridian, has filed
notice of intention to make final des-
ert proof, to establish claim to the
land above described. before the reg
lister and receiver, u. S. land office,
Los Angeles, California, at 900 a. m,
on the Goth day of November, 1914.
Claimant names as Witnesses: Car
Vogt, all of Holtville, California, and
Samuel M. Smyser, of Los Angeles. CAL
ifornia. JOHN ID. ROCHE,
Non -eoal Register.
Pressat tElCentro, Calf Nov1O
Imperial Valley press., 1914-10-21
013661
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.
Ssr
Department of the Int

U. s. Land office at Los Angeles, Cal,
Oct. 8. 1914.
Notice is hereby given that George
c.. Hornbeck, of FL Cent:o, California,
land entry No. O13661. for -ract 1a4
Township 16 s, Range 1s f.. S. p me
rldian. has filed notice of intention 10
make final desert proof. to ests blls h
claim to the land above described
before the Clerk Of the Superior Court
at lei Centre. California, AT 300 o. IN.
on the 27th day of November, 1914
Claimant names as witnesses, Saul
rorestor. Arthur Edgar. Jack Kissel
". l.. Forester, all cf El Centro, Cali
fornia. JOHN ID. ROCHE.
Non-eoal Register.
Pressat observation-disclosures
Imperial Valley press., 1914-10-21
07296
NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION.

U. S. Land office at Los Angeles, Cal,
Oct. 16. 1914.
Notice is hereby given that Charles
O. Hampton of Silsbee, California, who,
on January Z, 1910, made homestead
ontry No, 0I296, for Sc u Section 20,
Township 16 s., Range 10 E. 5. h.
meridian, has filed notice of intention
to make final five-year proof, to es-
tablish claim to the land above de-
scribed, before the clerk of the Su-
perior court, at El Centre, California,
at 900 a. M, on the End day of De-
cember 1914.
Claimant names as witnesses: :
George l.. Campbell, Of Seelc-', Cal.
Henry Il. Walker, John Bodendick,
George w. Hulse, all Of Dixielaud Cal.
Non-eoa JOHN ID. ROCHE.
Nov y Register.
PressatElCentro,Ca