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Imperial Valley press., 1914-02-27
Frank Menke's
Sporting Letter

New York, Feb. 27.-The raiding
Federal leaguers already have cost
organized baseball more than $1,000.
600, according to the best estimates at
hand. And the playing season still is
six weeks away.
This loss has been occasioned to
organized baseball through being
forced to pay increased salaries, under
long contracts, to all players who re-
NAMED loyal and through the fact
that every major or minor Lacquer
who jumped to the Feds meant a
monetary loss.
If Otto Knabe, the second sacker,
had remained with the Phillies they
could have sold him at any time for
something like $4,000. Brennan, the
Phillie pitcher, would have brought
at least $4,000. Russell Ford, the Yam
kee twirler, could have been sold by
Frank Farrell to the Cleveland Maps,
or to any one of several other clubs,
for about $1,000. Cy Falkenberg, the
elongated Nap tWirler, would have
brought around $7OOO-perhaps more
had he been placed on sale. Bland
ing and Kohler, the other Nap twirl-
ers who jumped to the Feds, would
have brought at least $4,000 each.
Tinker's value was fixed at $4,000.
George Stovall, Mordecai Brown
Pitcher Hendrix, Catcher Simon and
the others who jumped from the ma
jor league ranks, were valued at
amounts ranging from $4,000 to $4,000
or $1,000. More than 40 players from
the class A organizations have jumped
TO the Feds, and each of these, at a
conservative estimate, has a cash
value around $4,000.
Included in the ranks of the Feds
hre some players from the class A
End class B teams, many of them dia,
monds in the rough, that some day
may have value of $2500 or more.
President Gilmore of the Feds states
that his organization already has cor
raled 142 players and that before tht
session opens he will have at least 200
players lined up. OF this number
nbout $50 will be players that have
been taken away from organized base
ball. Placing the average value of eacl
of these players at $2000-a low es
timate-it will be seen that organized
baseball has lost something like
$4,000 worth of players during the
two months of Federal activity.
The other great loss suffered by the
organized baseball magnates is in the
high salaries they have had to pay
their men, not only for the coming sea
son, but for the next two or three sea
sons. The Brooklyn club furnishes al
excellent example of this.
Charles H. Ebbets, the Dodger'g
owner, was in Porto Rico when the
news of Tinker's desertion and tn;
raids of the Federals came to him. H.
jumped the first boat for the Unitec
Etates and Immediately upon landing
set out to lasso his players and tie
Imperial Valley press., 1914-02-27

Mitchell of the United iron workers
and Prof Charles r Henderson, sec
retary of the Chicago unemployment
commission. The president of the as
bociation is Leon Bourgeois, formerly
president Of the French council of min
listers. The association was organized
in 1912.
Imperial Valley press., 1914-02-27

Take your watch to +. II. Hansen
a Co., jewellers, and have new crys.
tai fitted free Of charge 257
Imperial Valley press., 1914-02-27

The United Press and Hearst News
services combine to make of the Press
a live newspaper, not wad of junk.
Imperial Valley press., 1914-02-27

Wood for sale. Ed Royce, Phone
123-W. tt
Imperial Valley press., 1914-02-27

but that there is still trouble at the
Did Southern Pacific tunnel at Santa
Monica.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1914-12-30
"Are you her?'' he asked soberIy.

Are you herr" he asked soberly.
whats the new little boys name?''
asked Tab. 1
Nobody knew. That would be some
thing to find out.
We'll. Tab said. tomorrow morn
ing. right after breakfast. I'm going
TO bring Theophilus Thistledown down
and lend him to him"
"Ain't we going to bury Sandy Claus
right after breakfast?" demanded Gus
Sic
And all the children. even little EN-
uy, answered.:
mo: let's not
They all went on together and enter
ed Mary's gate. Those within. hearing
the singing. had opened the door, and
they brought them through that deep
arch Of warmth and light. Afterward
no one could remember whether or not
the greeting had been merry Christ
mas but there could have been no
installing what everybody meant
At his gate in the street wall lined
with snow bowed lilacs and mulber-
ries Ebenezer Rule waited in the dark
for his two friends to come back. He
had found Kate Kerr in his kitchen
methodically making a jar of Christ
mas cookies. C'You've got to eat. If
it is Christmas" she had defended
herself in whisperD And to her
stupefaction he had dispatched her to
Mary Chavahs with her entire Christ
mas baking in basket.
II don't believe they've got near
enough for all the folks see going"
he explained it.
While he went within doors he had
left the hObbyhOrse in the snow close
to the wall, and he came back there
to wait. The street had emptied. By
now every one had gone to Mary
Chavah's. Once he caught the CLEAN
of lanterns down the road and heard
children's voices singing. For some
time he heard the singing. and after
it had stopped be fancied that he
heard it. Startled. he looked, up into
Lie "AoS AA5AI iyAA5 SCl Sue dUOte the
town and not yet become vexed BY
the towns shadows and interrupted by
their lights. 1t was as if the singing
came from up there. But the night
kept its way Of looking steadily be-
yond him.
1t came to Ebenezer that the night
had not always been so unconscious
of his presence. The one long ago. for
example, when he had slept beneath
this wall and dreamed that be had a
Kingdom: those other nights when he
had wandered abroad with his star
glass. Then the night used to be
something else. 1t had seemed to meet
him. to admit him. Now he knew.
and for long time had known. that
when he was abroad in the night he
was there. so to say, without his per-.
mission. AS for mon. he could not
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1914-12-30

trary shutting out Vt that for. which
Christmas stands. AS its spirit was Ia
the village. so its spirit Is in the world
denied. indeed. put upon. crowned
with mockery. dragged in the dirt.
bearing alien burdens. but through it
aIl immaculate. waiting for men to
cross the threshold Mt which it never
ceases to beckOn to II common heri-
tage. Home OF the world. with thou
sand towers shining with amounted
lights. lying very near-above the vii
lage. at the end Of the Old Trail road.
upon the earth ut the end Of a yet I'M
beaten path-where men face the SOW
ereign fact of humanhood.
But all this lay within Mary's dumb
thanksgiving that the child was run
ming at her side. And the vision that
she saw streamed down from Capella.
Of the brightness of a hundred Of our
suns. the star that stood In the east
above the village where she lived.
Lanterns glowed through the road
side shrubbery. little kindly lights. like
answers. and at bend in the road
voices burst about them. and Buff
Miles and the children. Gussie and
Bennett and Tab and Pep and little
Emily. ran. singing. and closed about
Mary and the child and went on with
them. slipping into the church choir
Christmas carols" and more. that Buff
had been fain to teach them. The
music filed the ,Guiet night. rose in the
children's voices like an invocation to
all time.
One for the way it all begun.
Two for the way it all has run,
What three'll be for l do forget,
But what will be has not been yet
So holly and mistletoe.
So holly and mistletoe.
So holly and mistletoe.
Over and over and over oh!
Between songs the children whisper.
ed together for q minute.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1914-12-30
CHAPTER XIV.
Merry Christmas.

T seemed quite credible and even
fitting that the mighty. rushing,
l. lighted express. which seldom
stopped at Old Trail Town,
should that night come laundering
across the marsh and slow down at the
drawbridge for her sake and the little
boys. Several coaches length from
where she stood she saw a lantern
shine where they were lifting him
down. She ran ankle deep through
the thinly crusted snow.
That's it. said the conductor. "All
the way from Idaho" And swung
his lantern from the step. Merry
Christmas!"' be called back.
The little thing clasping Mary's hand
suddenly leaped up and down beside
her.
Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas" he shouted with all
his might.
Mary Chavah stood silent. and as
the train drew away held out her hand.
still in silence, for the boy to take.
AS the noise of the train lessened he
looked up.
Are you her?'' he asked soberly.
yes" she cried joyously. I'm her!.'
Their way led east between high
banks of snow. At the end of the road
was the village. looking like something
lying on the great white plate Of the
meadows and being offered to one who
needed it. At the far end of the road
which was Old Trail road hung the
blue arc light of the town hall. center
to the constellation of the home lights
and the shop lights and the street
lights There, in her house. were her
neighbors gathered to do no violence
to that Christmas paper of theirs. since
there was to be no present trading"
10 money spending Nevertheless
they had drawn together by common
consent. and it was Christmas eve.
She knew it now. There is no arbi-
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1914-12-30
nvu ana on rne walk footsteps.

oen ana on tne walk footsteps. I,ne
three men stepped into the rectangle
Of lamplight-Ab Ames and Simeon.
who had left the party little before
the others and. hurrying buck with
the gifts that they planned. had met
Ebenezer at his gate, getting home
from Jenny's house. In AbeI's arms
was something giobed. ike little
world; in Simeon's. the tail, gray
gowned st. Nicholas taken from the
Exchange window. the lettered sign
absent. but the little flag still in his
hand, and Ebenezer was carrying the
hobbyhorse.
Has the boy gone to bed?' Abel
asked without preface.
Yes" Mary answered. I'm sorry.
Never mind" Simeon whispered.
You can give him these in the morn
ing"
Mary. her shawl half hiding her face.
stopped to take what tho three lifted
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1914-12-30

The Danish steamer Mary Of Esb-
jerg was sunk by mine in the North
sea. Her crew Of fourteen took to
two boats. one OF which was picked
up by the steamer Juno and landed at
Grimsby. Eng, on the night of Dec.
!, according to London dispatches.
The other boat, containing the Mary's
chief ofiicer and elk men, is missing.
MARION 8. NORELIUs.
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1914-12-30

The Norwegian steamer sanefjord,
which sailed from New York for Co.
penhagen with cargo of cotton, was
brought into Halifax, N. S., Nov. 30
as prize of war. It is suspected of
having cortraband of war on board
and the report that it has balloon silk
and also copper stored beneath the
cotton will be investigated
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1914-12-30

I. DENMARK. !.
j. j. !. !. + i ]: + !. !. +
An effort is being made by the
United States government to ascertain
officially who is responsible for the.
placing of mines in the North sea.
This is one result of representations
made to the state department by the
governments of Denmark, Holland.
Sweden and Norway that their mari
time commerce with the United
States has been paralyzed by the
placing of mines outside of territorial
waters in violation of The Hague
treaties. The United States was ask
ed to join with these governments in
an effort to have the warning Euro
pean powers abate this danger to
navigation. Whether it will do so is
under consideration, but meantime the
inquiry is being made to determine
the responsibility for the mine laying
and to what government any repre-
sensations on the subject should be
addressed.
Peter Hansen-Spandet, a Danish
American farmer, has, according to the
Chicago Daily News correspondent in
Copenhagen. arrived in that city after
being imprisoned seventeen days In
Schleswig. Hansen-Spandet is a resi-
dent of Iowa and citizen of the Unit
ed States. He attempted to return to
America at the beginning of Novem-
Der after visit to his parents at
Cranky, on the schleswig- Denmark
frontier. but was stopped by German
soldiers and in spite of his documents
az an American citizen was arrested,
taken to Flensberg and shut up in q
military prison without any examina-
ton. Finally he was liberated without
apology.
The Danish steamer Mary Of Esb-
jerg was sunk by mine in the North
New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1914-12-30

T seemed quite credible and even
fitting that the mighty. rushing,
lighted express. which seldom
The state herald., 1914-06-12
DICTATOR BACKS DOWN
HuERTA CALLS OFF BLOCKADE
OF TAMPIco's PORT.
Secretary Of State Bryan Given Off.
eIaI Notice BY spain's Am
bassador.
Western Newspaper Union New. s.rv,ce.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Niagara Falls, Ont. - Mediation
passed safely over the shoals OF
threatened disruption. General Huer.
ia came to the rescue. resembling the
order which he had issued for a block
ade at Tampico, circumstance that
had imperiled mediation and produced
the gravest apprehension since the
conference began.
The blockade incident has been
satisfactorily adjusted" was the an
nouncement Of Justice Lamar. as the
American delegates entered their con-
ference with the mediators. I'VE
have received word from Secretary
Bryan that the Spanish ambassador
has been advised by General Huerta
OF the raising OF the blockade.
Justice Lamar said he was unin-
formed as to the reasons which had
actuated Huerta. The mediators said
they had taken no action with refer.
ence to the movements of the Cuban
ship Antilla. carrying arms for the
Constitutionalists at Tampico. the in
cident which brought up the question
OF blockade. The Mexican delegates
however, announced they would issue
n statement of explanation.
The position OF the American gov
ernment was said to be that II would
be tantamount to partial recognition
of the Huerta government to permit
the latter to engage in the act OF
blockade which is provided for by in
ternational law, and sanctioned by the
comfy OF nations.
It was rumored that the Spanish
ambassador In Washington. who is
caring for Mexico's interests in the
United States had been able TO make
some arrangements whereby the An
tilla voluntarily would withhold her
cargo of arms from the Constitutional.
lists.
The state herald., 1914-06-12
MINERAL OUTPUT GAINS
ORES MINED IN BOULDER AVER
AGE s42 PER TON.
Despite Excess Of Surface Water.
Sampler Makes Gain Over Last
Years Record.
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Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Boulder.-That the mining output OF
the county is increasing, despite the
unusual amount of surface water in
the mountains for this season of the
year. which has materially retarded
mining, is evidenced by the fact that
the Chamberlain sampler treated 1S0
tons during the first three days Of
June and 1896 tons during the month
of May, as compared with 314 tons
during the same period in 1918 and
$40 tons for the previous month.
The ores mined last month carried
an average value of sac a ton. as COM
pared with s32 for the previous year.
This is the largest amount of ore
which the local sampler has handled
in several years, and Indications point
toward much larger tonnage during
this and the succeeding months Of the
year, as the White Raven and Yellow
Pine mines now are shipping on an
a, erage of 100 tons each week. The
395 tons carried values as follows:
One hundred and forty-three ounces
gold, 25732 ounces silver, 33.670
pounds of lead and 1873 pounds cop
per.
The state herald., 1914-06-12
HOG PRICES GO LOWER.

Washington.-Farm prices for beef
cattle advanced more than 3 per cent.
but average quotations for hogs and
sheep were lower on April Is than on
that date in 1913, according to figures
prepared by the Department Of Agri-
culture. Cattle prices for April, 1914.
were 1929 hundred. an advance of
21c. In Michigan. Iowa. Missouri and
Kansas there was no change In cat
tie prices from 1918 quotations. and in
Wisconsin there was decrease Of
soc hundred pounds.
State averages OF prices for beef
cattle showed greater variation than
hog quotations. April's lowest aver
ages were in Alabama. Georgia and
Mississippi. $3.50. $3.50 and $40. re-
spectively. compared with $3.50 in
Rhode Island. $3.50 in New Hamp-
shire and $3.50 In New Jersey. the
highest.
Other state averages were: Penn
sylvania and Iowa, $40: Maryland.
1920: Ohio and Kansas, $710; Maine.
Indiana, Illinois and Nebraska, $500;
Massachusetts,. Missouri. Wyoming
and Colorado. $500: Nevada. Wash.
ington and California, $3.50; Oregon.
36.70: Connecticut. West Virginia and
South Dakota. $3.50: New Mexico and
Idaho. $3.50: Delaware. Michigan and
Kentucky, S6.4o: Virginia and Mon
tana. $3.50: Arizona. 1920: Okla
homa and Utah. 3s.10. and Minnesota.
$500. In other states the prices aver.
aged below $500.
The average hog price to producers
on April Is was $3.50 hundred. 40
less than that on that date last year.
In all the important hog.producing
states from Ohio to Kansas the do
cline was from soc to 40c. but In some
Of the New England states and In
practically all the South except Texas
and Oklahoma. tho prices were higher
than year ago.
The state herald., 1914-06-12
REBEL CHIEFS REFUSAL TO
MAKE PROMPT REPLY Anglers
THE PEAcEMAkERs.
us. ENJOYS OFFER PLAN
HuERTA's DECISION TO REFRAIN
FROM BLocKADlNG TAMPlco
is APPROVED.
western Newspaper Union News Service.

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Niagara Falls-The mediators say
they have allowed long enough time
to General Carranza to make reply to
the note which they dispatched to
Rafael Zubaran, Constitutionalist rep
resentative in Washington. They are
said to be of the opinion that week
has been sufficient time efor an an
swer.
With the making public of the cor
respondence which has passed be-
tween the mediators and General Car
rama, including part of that from
Washington before the opening of the
conference, it is declared that the
South American diplomatists person
ally are inclined to look on their eff
forts to have the constitutionalists
send delegates as at an end. They
will consider the incident closed un-
less General Carranza in his answer
should agree to an armistice.
The state herald., 1914-06-12

Western Newspaper Union News Service.
Durango, Mexico.-Three decisive
engagements with federal troops be-
tween Zacateccs and San Luis Potosi
were won by the constitutionalists
according to reports received by Gen
eral Carranza
Colonel Fernando Reyes with 600
men of the command of General Car
rera Torrea. who Is investing San
Luis Potosi, administered a decisive
defeat to large federal force at
Salinas, and later also defeated a
force sent from San Luis to reinforce
the Salinas garrison.
The fighting at Salinas lasted rs
hours. the federal loss in the battle
being 46 privates and 4 officers: IA
federal officers who were captured
were executed and 81 privates cap
tured were liberated
The federals telegraphed San Luis
Potosi for reinforcements, which did
not arrive until after the first battle.
They were met outside the town and
driven back
Among the officers executed was
Colonel Carlos Chaves, two lieutenant
colonels. one major. four captains and
six lIeutenants. Colonel Reyes cap
tured two machine guns. $4,000 car
ridges. 200 rifles. 1913 horses. and other
munitions.
Colonel Catoca Of the command un-
der General Panfilo Natera. investing
Zacatecas, captured federal troop
train at Pines on May 81. killing go
Of the federals. capturing a consider
able supply of ammunition and provis-
ions. The escaping federals fled to
Zacatecas.
Constitutionalist forces operating
against Zacatecas and San Luis Potosi
are in close touch by wire. and coop
Grating. General Carranza announced
that he would give statue Of Fran
cisco Madero to the City of Durango.
The state herald., 1914-06-12
oRsoN ADAMS PLEADS GUILTY.
Sentenced to Six Years in Prison for
Wreekine Grand Junction Bank.


Denyer-orson Adams, former pres
ident OF the Mesa County National
bank at Grand Junction. an institution
now in the hands OF receiver be-
cause Of his misappropriation OF its
funds to tho extent Of $4,000. for
years q power In politics in Colorado
a pioneer OF the Grand Valley anG It's
builder. was sentenced TO serve term
OF six years In tho penitontiary at
Lcayenworth by United States Dis
trict Judge II. e. LOWS and was takon
there TO begin sentence.
Adams, accompanied by his wife. at-
torneys and half dozen leading cii.
zezns OF Grand Junction. appeared be.
fore Judge Lewis and entered n plea
OF guilty TO forty.nine OF the eighty.
three counts returned In the indict
mont against him by the federal grand
jury Mt Pueblo The remaining counts
were nolled.
The state herald., 1914-06-12
WOMAN AND THREE CHILDREN
SERIOUSLY INJURED AND A
WORKER is MISSING.
SWELTER IN HEAT WAVE
DISASTROUS STORM IN WEST
ERN AND SOUTHERN JAPAN
CAUSES HEAVY LOSS.
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western Newspaper Union News Service
Hospers. Ia. June GA cyclone
swooped down on Iowa farms. The
farmhouse OF James Allen was hit, the
twister seriously injuring Mrs. Meth
and her three children. A farmland
by the name OF Sorenson is missing.
A Chicago & Northwestern passenger
train missed the cyclone by few
minutes. 1t was stopped by wreckage
along the track. The storm followed
day OF intense heat and came up
suddenly.
Report 100 Houses Blown Down.
Tokio.-A disastrous storm swept
over western and southern Japan.
Several hundred boats have been
wrecked and hundreds OF people are
believed TO have been drowned. The
steamer Mongolia rescued many sea-
men. A hundred houses In Nagasaki
have been blown down.
Nebraska Town Deluged.
Lincoln.-Between the hours OF 8
O'Clock and midnight Lincoln had
what is believed to have been the
heaviest rainfall since early in July
six years ago. when several people
were drowned In the low-lying section
of the city. There were no fatalities.
Nlnety-seven Recorded In Kansas.
Kansas City, Mo.-Kansas. Okla
homa and western Missouri sweltered
Friday under the heat wave. Sedalia,
Mo-. reported 94e and st. Joseph
93'. In Kansas City the maximum
was 90'. In Kansas. records for the
year were set at Manhattan with 97'.
Black River on Rampage.
Neilsville. Wis.-Fear OF repeti.
tion OF the Black river falls disaster
OF three years ago has alarmed resi-.
dents OF towns along the Black river.
which Friday night was a raging tor
rent Reports OF damage show that
several bridges have been washed
away. small buildings razcd and dams
destroyed. Heaviest damage was
caused Mt Greenwood. thirty miles
north OF here. where the municipal
light and power company's dam was
swept trOu ilb iOuHuuNiuh anu huihii
buildings wrecked. The water In the
streets ia several feet deep.
Report -Four Dead In Ohio Town.
Cleveland, O.-Four known dead.
many injured, extremely heavy dam.
age to growing crops and other prop
erty and dcmoralizcd wiro communi-
cation was the result OF the heaviest
electric. wind and hail storm In north.
ern Ohio In many years. according to
reports here. Early reports that the
town OF Helena, Sandusky county.
was demolished by II tornado. wcro
discredited.
Ninsty.four Degrees at ST. Louis.
ST. Louis.-Thcro was no rcliof
for 81. Louisans Friday from the heat
wave. tho government thermometer
reaching u maximum OF si'. Several
prostrations were reported and tho
schools were closed.
Lightning Wrecks Church.
Evansville, ind.-A thunderstorm
caused damage amounting to more
than $4,000. The rain was tho first
In four weeks and greatly benefited
crops. The First Avenue Presbyterian
church WAS wrecked at Ions OF sio.'
| 900.
The state herald., 1914-06-12
Arbitration for Operator. and Miners.

Washington.-Wh the Kanawha
valley coal operators OF West Virginia.
accompanied by the West Virginia
congressional delegation. visited Sec
rotary of Labor Wilson and begged
for arbitration to settle the strike in
West Virginia. where 1900 men are
out, they set an example which. ac-
cording to Secretary Wilson and other
administration leaders. the Colorado
operators should follow.