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Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1914-01-09

L. & S. Change-The feature for
tonight's change at the l.. & S. theat-
er will be two part special, "The
End of the Road" Another pleasing
part of the program as announced, is
THE Animated Weekly of Current
Events" "The Shop Girls Big Day.
lively comedy will supply the
laughs.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1914-01-09

q Agents for Steinway, Weber, Steck,
Sohmer, Kurtzmann, Foster and other pianos,
and the entire Pianola Player Piano line,
Victor Talking Machines and Records,
Violins, Guitars, Mandolins and other small
instruments and Sheet Music :: ::
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1914-01-09

Supplemental Complaint-Through
Attorneys Valentine & Newly, of Los
Angeles, The Imperial Land Company
ct al, today filed with the county clerk,
supplemental complaint in the mat
ter of the land company VS.. the I'M
perial Irrigation district, regarding
the payment of certain taxes prior to
an election to decide the issue.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1914-01-09
CITY AND VALLEY

Story Hour TomOrrOw-There will
be a story hour for the children at the
public library tomorrow beginning at
10 o'clock.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1914-01-09

Judgment for Plaintiff-Judge Cole
in superior court yesterday rendered
Judgment for the plaintiff in the case
of w. F. Tennison VS.. A. l.. Smith,
a suit for the payment of money for
the board of laborers.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1914-01-09

Socialist Lecture-N. A. Richard
son will give an address tomorrow
night at the X. of P hall in the Davis
block on socialism. Local Socialists
and others are asked to attend.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1914-01-09

Law and Motion Day-Today is law
and motion day in superior court and
many matters were brought to the at
tention of Judge Franklin ]. Cole.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1914-01-09

Ordered Out of COunty-Robert
Taylor, colored, arrested on battery
charge and who is considered as an
undesirable by the police was yester-
day fined $500 and sentenced to c
months in Jail by Police Judge Walter
Sprague. The Judge suspended the
fine and sentence on the Negroes
promise to leave the county and not
return.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1914-01-09

At the Theater Tulane-The usual
good line of pictures will be seen to-
night at Theater Tulane. Two good
comedies are included in the program.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1914-01-09

New Realty Office--D. c. Collier &
Co. of San Diego, are fitting up fine
real estate office in the new building
of George D. Armsteau, opposite the
Oregon hotel.
Imperial Valley press. (El Centro, Calif.) 1907-current, 1914-01-09

Curb Work Completed-Work on
putting in the concrete curbing along
the streets to be paved with hard
surface material is about finished and
it is estimated that the last section
will be put in before the new week
starts in. The Barber Asphalt Com
pany have material and men all ready
to start in paving work just as soon
as all water and gas pipes have been
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1914-04-03
BABY SEES THROUGH PICS EYE
Surgeons Perform Wonderful
Operation at Gettysburg, Pa.

Baltimore, Md, March S0.-Sight
has been given to the left eye Of David
Kane, 9-month-old child of Mr.. and
Mrs. Herman Kane of Gettysburg, Pa,
through the grating of the cornea Of
a pigs eye to the child's eyeball, &C
cording to a statement OF physicians
at a hospital here. Certain tests, they
declare, have brought out this fact
without a doubt.
When the bandage was removed
from the eye, 1t was declared the child
followed the course Of a lighted can
die which was moved in front of him.
Another test that brings out the fact
more clearly is that the child now
winks his eyelid if a finger or a small
object is waved close to the eye. The
movement of the eyelid is the natural
one.
The operation was performed last
Monday, and the cornea of the pigs
eye was used because it is said il
more closely resembles the human cor
nea than that of any other animal. The
child's eye today is said to be per
fectly clear and free from inhamma
ton.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1914-04-03

Salina, Kan, March 30.-Hail q foot
deep on the wheat fields Of this county
was the spectacle that greeted train
men twelve hours after the storm.
Parts Of the railroad tracks we're
washed away, with much delay to all
trains, and 200 men are at work re-
pairing the track
At Ellsworth the two was flooded
with the water two feet deep on the
main streets and all Easements filed
IN the city.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1914-04-03
FEDERAL BANK COMMITTEE
ABOUT READY TO REPORT
No Hint Has Leaked Out as to
Location Of Big In
StitutiOnS.

Washington, March Slater three
months of consideration the reserve
bank organization committee-Secre-
taries McAdoo and Houston and
Comptroller of the Currency Williams
charged with laying the ground
work for the new currency system, is
about ready to define geographically
the limits of the federal reserve dis
tricts into which continental United
States is to be divided for banking
purposes, and at the anne time name
the cities in each district where re-
serve banks are to be located.
Opinion is not unanimous as to the
number of banks to be established.
The law permits the establishment OF
not less than eight, and not more than
twelve banks. There is apparently
little ground for believing the com.
mittee will name only eight cities, and
many persons are confident that they
will select the full number allowed.
Expectation seems to be quite gen
eral that there will be at least four
cities on the Atlantic seaboard. In
this section Boston, New York and
Philadelphia have been named many
times and Richmond and Atlanta, Bal
timore and Washington have been
put down on many Of the unofficial
lists. Between the Allegheny Noun
tains and the Rockies the prophets
are not so definite, but most of them
agree that Chicago, Kansas City and
st. Louis are practically certain to be
chosen. Minneapolis, Cincinnati and
New Orleans or Dallas, Tex, are
named also.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1914-04-03
TO SETTLE ANTITRUST SUIT
Department of Justice Promises
Quick Work Unless Some Un-
expected Hitch Occurs.

Washington, March 31.-Unless
there is some unexpected hitch in the
plans of the department of justice
this promises to be a record week for
activities under the Sherman anti.
trust act. According to present plans,
work on a complaint against the so
called smelling trust will begin; set
Element will be reached with the
Metropolitan Tobacco Company of
New York, or that company will be
an object of an antitrust action; the
Elgin Board Of Trade will cease to
defend the antitrust action brought
against 1t late in 1912, and a de.
cree will be recorded at Chicago
and a final report on the facts in con
nection with the charge Of violation
Of the Sherman act in the case of the
United Gas Improvement Company o.
Philadelphia, is expected.
It is regarded as probable also tina
inal disposition will be made Of tn,
report Of the Investigation into the al
legged Wanamaker customs unde.
valuations.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1914-04-03
SENATORS PLAN FIuBUSTER
Prolonged Delay Predicted When Toll
Exemption Repeal Bill Reaches
Upper House.

Washington, March S0.-Reports
that organized effort would be made
in the senate to delay passage Of the
bill repeating Panama toll exemption
aroused administration leaders today
while general debate Of the Issue in
the house continued to hold the public
interest.
The intlmation that a prolonged hlli-
buster in the senate had been deter
mined upon, now that the first deci-
siVe battle had been won by the presl
dent, was reported to several senator
ial supporters Of the administration
and 1t was suggested that Senator
o'Gorman, chairman of the committee
on lnter1oceanic canals, already was
delaying consideration Of the measure
by his committee.
How long the issue would be held II
committee, Senator O'Gorman woulC
not predict, declaring there were othel
important matters or legislation Il
keep the senate busy, such as anti
trust and appropriation bills.
81 heard several Democratic sena
tors, who probably viii vote to repea
the toll exemption, declare that the
did not look for 4 vote IN the Benatl
within six weeks" the New York sen
atOr added.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1914-04-03
POSTAL CLERK CHARGED
WITH Theft OF $4,000
Extravaganza of W. R. Baum
First Aroused Suspicious
of Secret Service Men,

Harrisburg, Pa, April William
R. Baum, aged 80, a mail clerk in the
railway mail service, was arrested
today charged with having stolen
$4,000 from the mails. 1t is alleged
that two packages, each containing
$4,000 in currency, we're taken from
the mails on July 5, 1912, The money
was being sent from st. Paul to a
bank in New York.
Baum was arrested as he was leav
ing his home today to go to work
He is held under $4,000 bail. 1t is
said the government has expended
more than the amount Of the stoler
money in the effort to uncover the
robbery. At times, there have beer
as many as twenty postal Inspectors
at work on the case. Every posta
clerk working between st. Paul anC
New York has been under surveil
lance for nearly two years.
Attention is said to have been at
tracted to Baum by the fact that h,
was indulging in expenditures appaT
emily not in accord with his salar,
Of $1,000 a year. Detectives Learned
that he was dealing in real estate
had money in the bank, rented a SAT
deposit vault and owned an automC
bile.
In January Of this year, Baum wa
married, and he took a honeymoon
trip to Palm Beach, where he was re
ported to have been a liberal spende1
1t is about twelve months sine
Baum began buying real estate an,
making investments in securities il
New York, Philadelphia and Pitts
burgh, to which points his runs Of
mail trains took him. He is said t,
have told friends he had made none.
in speculation.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1914-04-03
CHILD KILLED WHILE ATPLAY
Revolver Found in Old Trunk Ends
Life Of 6.Year-old lndepen-
dence, Mo-, Boy.

independence, Mo-, March 81
Three little boys were left alone in
the house to play when their mother,
Mrs. Lucinda Wyatt, 710 Spring
street, independence, went to call on
a n%eighbor.
The boys found an old trunk in the
attic. They opened IT. and Virgil, 6
years old, found a revolver in the
bottom. They played robber and pO-
liceman, and then Virgil played sui
eide" He pulled the trigger with the
muzzle Of the revolver against his
right side.
He died before DR.. Charles Edward
Crimminger could arrive. Mrs. Wyatt
is a widow with five children.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1914-04-03
REPEALS
TOLL EXEMPTION
Measure Carries by Vote OF
247 to 161 After Hard
Fight.
GREAT VICT0..Y FOR WILSON
Administration Won In Spite Of Ae'
tive Opposition Of Leaders OF
All Prtles-Champ Clark
Makes Great speech.

Washington, April 1.-The most
notable victory OF President Wilson's
administration came with the rollcall
on the bill repeating the Panama Ca
nal tolls exemption for American
vessels.
The house by a vote Of 247 to 16l
sustained the position Of the Presi-
dent.
The opposition of Speaker Champ
Clark to the Wilson administration
proved ineffective.
Administration leaders in the house
expressed surprise at the strong fol
lowing Of Mr.. Wilson. Before the roll
was called, representative Palmer OF
Pennsylvania, who, in the debate, had
been recognized as a Democratic floor
leader, stated that the vote would
show a majority of about seyenty-hve
for the bill. The antiadministration
leaders had predicted many assertions
from the Wilson forces. The roll call
showed that there had been no basis
for this prediction.
The announcement Of the vote OIL
the final passage of the bill was fol
lowed by wild cheering from the FOL
lowers Of President Wilson in the
house and a wave Of applause from
the galleries.
The bill now viii go to the senate
where its fate is uncertain. Admins
tration leaders declared that 1t would
be passed by that body by a decisive
majority.
Speaker Clark, closing debate
against the repeal of toll exemption
disappointed those who expected hin
to attack President Wilson. He dis
claimed any personal issue with the
President, said he believed Mr.. VIII
son was actuated by the highest patri
otto motives, and that there was NJ
break in the Democratic party.
He disclaimed any personal ISSUE
between the President and himsel
and added that If the President hat
reasons which are not utterly unten
, able and which compel him to max
/. this request" he had not given then
, to the house.
/, He differed with the President
statement that toll exemption was "
. mistaken economic policy but at
. hitting dispute on that point, pre-
posed that the exemption be suspend
g ed two years.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1914-04-03
suea SUNDAY for sIander.

New York, April 1-charging that
Evangelist Billy Sunday called him .
fool whose brain was on the melt"
At wnkes-Barre, Charles H Bell aled
suit here for Q2G.Ooo In the supreme
court here.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1914-04-03
Hooters Convicted.

Chicago. April John B. Hooters
was found guilty OF numbering Mrs.
Emma Kraft Of Cincinnati and his
punishment fixed at life Imprisonment
IN q verdict rendered by q jury here.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1914-04-03
TWISTERS HIT KANSAS TOWN
Two Storms, Fifteen Minutes
Apart, Damage Frederick.

Lyons, KAN March 29.-The tor
nadoes struck Frederick, a town Of
$50 population, about ten miles north
of here, in Rice county. They came
fifteen minutes apart.
The first twister struck Frederick
at 5:15 o'clock, destroying the south
end Of the town. Mrs. Charles Van
Buskirk and her baby, living a half
mile south OF the town, were injured.
These two r the only ones reported
injured. The homes Of Charles Van
Buskirk, F. H. Monroe, ". H. Kitch-
en-, Philip Kinkel and several others
Were wrecked. The Baptist church
was demolished. Many cattle and
horses were killed by the wind, miles
Of wire and fences were torn down.
telegraph and telephone poles were
broken of, barns and outbuildingi
were swept away.
This storm proceeded northeast Ant
struck again a mile north Of Geneseo
Not much damage was done there ex
cept to wires.
The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1914-04-03
Irlnh pairLof nlna.

Dublin. ireland, April Timothy
Daniel Sullivan, Irish patriot and au-
thor Of God Save Ireland" IL dead.
He was 81 years old.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-01-15
COMMENT AND SUGGESTIONS
IN THE WORLD OF FINANCE
BY HENRY cLEWs.

After pointing out the reasons why
the American and European world is
|about to enter upon new era, pas
|sing briefly over the tariff and cur
reney measures, Henry Clewss takes
|up in his annual financial review, just
reaching here, the excellent crop: har-
vested and shows the reasons why the
market should strengthen and bus
illness over the country become normal
again. $500 .|.s-
The nation enjoyed one great bles-
Sing, land that was a good harvest
which proved better than earlier re-
Iports indicated. The total value Of
agricultural products of the year has
been estimated at $1,000 ,000, 600, which
about equalled the previoHe-Season !,
The value of twelve leading crops
was given at nearly 100000, 900, or
more than $180,000, zoe ahead of year
Iago-a very satisfactory result when
we consider that the comparison is
made with a bumper corn crop of 1912.
Our corn, cotton and wheat crops all
proved to. be large, and brought good
Iprices. This indicates that the agfi-
cultural classes, the backbone of the
West and South, are enjoying prosper
lily. There was no disastrous defiei-
Iency in any important crop, except the
animal industries. Meats continue
scarce and high, and as yet there has
been, no decrease of importantance in
the high cost of food. which is the
largest item in the family expenses of
the bulk of our population. The dear
food problem is one that can only be
solved by wise study of economic
methods. Legislation can do little
|, High prices are somewhat due to pop
ulation increasing more rapidly than
production. They will eventually
work out their own cure by turning
attention back to the soil
In one other respect the nation has
been particularly Fortunate Our for
|eign trade is growing at tremendous
rate. Our exports for ten months Of
the calendar year were $2,005, 000, 900.
an increase of about $3.50. 900. 900 over:
last year Larger shipments Of agri-.
Eeultural products were the main rea-
son for this expansion, but a promf-s
|nent feature is the growing export
movement in American manufactured
products, particularly those of iron
and steel. Imports during the ten
months aggregated s1,469. 100000, q
decrease of $50,000. 900. largely owing
to delayed purchases resulting from
tariff changes. Our excess Of imports
for the ten months amounted to $544
800, 900, which Is $185, OO0, 900 ahead of
the same time last year This i'm
mensefy strengthens our credit
abroad. SO will the new currency
bill, because Europe sets higher
value upon sound banking than the
United States.
: The financial situation Is not en-
tifely free az difficulty Confidence
las been badly shaken and tine viii
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-01-15
STATES WITH AND WITHOUT WOMAN
SUFFRAGE ARE COMPARED BY union

! age is Is. In the three states in
which the age is Is and Il, the wom-
en- have won the vote within the last
year, and have scarcely had time TO
change IT.. . So 49,.
Ii We compare the age Of consent
with the age at which the child can
legally marry without the consent OF
its parents or guardians, We find that
the suffrage states are rapidly wax
ing up to the fact that these ages
should be the same. In five suffrage
states they are the same, and the
average difference is only Ia years.
Child Labor Laws
+ In the partiaEsuffrage states the
ages are the same in FIVE cases, and
the average difference is &c years
In the non-suffrage states the ages
are the same in only one case. the
average difference being Al years
Thus q child can actually consent to
her ruin over four years before by
law she can consent to marriage.
Apparently the male voter, when
acting unaided, considers that he is
doing his full duty when he makes
the age Of consent the SAME as the
legal age of marriage with the con.
sent OF guardians or parents. The
mother voter sees that there should
be a great difference.
In examining the child labor laws
we find that the suffrage states show
up we'll in comparison with the 9TH
er groups, in spite OF the fact that
the older equal suffrage states have
few large towns and few factories.
and thus have little need Of such leg
islatioR. One state in each OF the
three groups has no child labor laws.
Comparing the average ages below
which children cannot be employed
in factories, we find that in the equal
suffrage states 1t is 14.3 years, in the
partial suffrage states 14.1 years. and
in the non-suffrage states 1873 years,
whereas the age Of the child permit
tied to work decreases as you move
outside the territory of the mother
vote, the hours the child may work
increase. In the equal suffrage
states a child may work Sc hours
per day, in the partial suffrage states
8 hours per day; in the noTl.suffrage
states Is hours per day The moth
er voice i'm politics has thus reduced
the active working day of the child
81 minutes.
Sixty per; cent of the suffrage
states and So per cent of the other
two groups regulate the hours Of
womanss work in factories. In the
suffrage states the woman voter has.
decided that she will work no more
than 9 hours and IL minutes. In the
other states she has been told to
work 10, hours II. her employer re-
duires it. Let us bear in mind that
the little girl of Mississippi can con-
sent to her ruin at 10. and can start
to work when she Is u The most
unfortunate little girl in the woman
suffrage states can 60 to work when
she is IA and can give her consent
at is. + A. ~rt9a @ s.E;a. z
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-01-15

The complete digest and classified
ton made by Elinor Byrns and Helen
A. Ranlett Of the National American
Woman Suffrage Association, Of all
the laws enacted in the suffrage states
since women had the ballot, is fol-
lowed by statement from the Wo-
mems Political Union along similar
lines. 1t is as follows:
The Womens Political Union has in.
vestigated the statutes of the IS states
Of the Union to. find out whether the
contention of the ants is correct. The
Information was gathered, for. the
most part, directly from the seere.
tries Of state. r.
For the purpose of this investigation
the IS states Of the Union are divided
into three groups: the equal suffrage
states, the partial suffrage states, and
the non-suffrage states. There are 10
of the first group and 10 in. each of
the others. Illinois is concluded with
the equal suffrage states, although the
results show that IL Is not to our ad.
vantage to do so. 1t was included for
the reason that the voting rights of
the women of Illinois are more like
the voting rights in the full suffrage
states than in the school and bond sui
frage states. -s5s5, 50. -
Benefits of Suffrage ss.5
In the third group OF non.suffrage
states is included Kentucky and Mis-
sissippf Practically no suffrage exists
in these states, the fact being that
widows with children and spinsters
with wards can vote for school trus-
tees, and that is ALL By tabulating
the various laws affecting women and
children in the different states the
consensus OF equal suffrage opinion, OF
partial suffrage opinion, and of male
suffrage opinion can be arrived at. In
the non-suffrage states the women
have been particularly inactive and
the men have turned their faces
against any interference on the part
of women. 81 W. s. + No. - ~
The partial-suffrage states include
all those where the keenest agitation
for full suffrage is going on. In many
Of these states women we're working
for reforms while the suffrage states
were stfll territories TheSfaet that
they compare unfaporably with the
equal suffrage-states is clearly due to
the failure of indirect influence, and
not to lack of interest on the part OF
women. ~ &@ -
Let us first examine the age Of con-
sent. The average for the full-suf-
frage states is 1715 years; for par
tial suffrage, 1876 years, and for non
suffrage Is years. Moreover, the
states having the lowest age, namely.
Kentucky with Il years and Missis-
sippi with 10 years, are both in the
latter group Where women do not
vote, little girl can give consent
to her own ruin. at the. tender age OF
10 and the man. goes free. Where
women vote tho minimum age is 16,
while in seven of the 10 states the