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The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-19
HAWAIIAN DEFENSES BEING
 UNUSUALLY STRENGTHENED

That the United States is spending millions of dollars in strengthening fortlhcations. enlarging Pearl harbor, near Honolulu, and in other military operations in the Hawaiian Islands, is the statement of H. A. Auerbach. who has returned from a trip to the is lands, says a Topeka, Kan, special to the St. Louis Globe Democrat The ob- Ject of the activity is being kept quiet. according to MT. Auerbach. but 1t is the bel1ef that the extensive operations are being carried on so that the United states would be prepared in case of war with Japan.
 The harbor mentioned is five miles above Honolulu, and it is being deep- ened so that it will be possible to shel- ter all of the American war vessels at one time, says the Topeka merchant. There Is large contingent of the United States army stationed on the islands-just how many men no one seems to know.
 MT Auerbach said he was given to understand that at least 90 per cent Of the Japanese on the Hawaiian Is- lands are trained soldiers although supposedly they have no arms. and they are not allowed to carry on any military maneuvers. The white people are greatly in the minority, as the cheap labor is performed by the Jap anese, Chinese and Portugese The a1ority of the people are Japanese
 The business enterprises are con ducted largely by the Americans, Ger. mans and English. The original nai tlves are becoming extinct They are being swallowed up by the Japanese and other races through intermarriage. according to Mir. Auerbach
 A big shipping business is done. and the people believe that the opening of the Panama canal will mean an in crease in business. The Hawaiian Is lands are noted for their sugar rice and pineapple plantations
 In speaking of the things he saw m the three weeks he was in the Flaw allan Islands MT. Auerbach said:
 The buildings in Honolulu are very beautiful. There is one hotel which cost over $1.500, ,000, and which takes in a whole block. The population of the city is between 10000 and s0,OO0. The electric street car system is ab- solutely perfect. Everything is mod ern. The people who live there are in love with the country, climate and gen eral conditions. The climate is the long suit. While we were there the temperature rose at noon to about 80, degrees and in the evening fell to from so to 64 degrees. Tbis is caused by the trade winds that come down from the mountains
 "The American government Is spend ing immense sums of money in macad- amizing the roads all over the islands. There seems to be an automobile for about every 800 persons on this island"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-19
RumOrS Thick and East

The body was hastily exhumed and the clothing when submitted to the mother and friends of the deceased was pro- nounced the same as that Marie had worn on the Sunday she had left home for the last time
 The excitement increased hourly now. At first St. Eustache fell under suspicion and the hysterical youth failed at first to give any coherent account of his whereabouts on the Sunday Marie left home.
 Subsequently, however, he submitted to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-19
A CL A 5 SIC
 IN A P A C F
Copyright, 1914. by Irving King. All
 riohts rnserNe1

Copyright. 1914. by Irving King. All
 rights reserved.)
 This story of Poes is the most remark able detective story ever written-without exception. For this reason:
 " hen Mary Cecilia Roger a beautiful gil employed in a tobacconists shop ia Nassau street. New York. was found murdered and all the city became excited over the matter Poe gathered together all the newspapers he could which had articles upon the matter-and all the papers of that day did-and from a mere reading of these clippings evolved the orv of the murder.
 The story was published in a maga- zine called Snowden's I.4dys Companion New York weekly paper. The police paid little attention to it. II was only that drunken Poe writing a story of the murder of Paris shDp girl.
 Eut long subsequent to the publica- ton Of this story the confession of two persons-on the Mme. DeIuc Of the mar rative-confirmed in full, not only the general hypothesis of Poe. but absolutely all of it's chief details
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-19
American Girl in English Society


 The ordinary American girl especial ly of the class that marries into the English aristocracy, has been brought up to look upon politics as a vulgar lncomprehensib1e, masculine concern With which she need only trouble her self when she happens to be visiting in Washington, says a writer in Harpers Magazine. But in England politics and society are inextricable. Practically all the leaders of the great world are either themselves prominent in the House of Commons or the House of Lords, or are intimately related to the men who are. Their wives and daugh-s : ters are thus committed from the be- ginning to a personal interest in the topics and intrigues of the day How ever high their position in society, it Is not, and never can be, so high as to re- move them above the sphere of politics Their male belongings are sure to be players in the game and they taem- selves are sure to be something more than spectators. Practically all Eng fish woman of title are born into poli- tics, hear politics discussed at their dinner table intermittently, and meet day by day the men to whom politics are life. The tradition of playing a part in the government of their country runs through all that Is best in Eng fish society, and a woman who is born. or has married into it and has the in tel1igence to realize its possibilities soon finds herself in possession of a hobby infinitely more expressing than any ordinary social diversion. To form a salon and to become known as a political hostess: to follow with com prehension the ins and outs of the great game; to mingle freely and on equal terms with the men in whose hands lie the destinies of the British empire: to be their confidante. their advIser, an fIntp fro fn ssr,1ov aeyarf them with the kind of deftness that only feminine diplomacy can achievN to bring all her mental and social re. sources to the task of forwarding the political fortunes of the man in whom she is interested: to take part in great decisions and the formation or guild ance of momentous policies; to help in disentangling the personal clashes and antagonisms that die at the root of most political crises-all this furnishes a clever Englishwoman with an absorbing. per manent and many-sided avocation. But all this is absolutely remote from the experience of the ordinary American bride. She is unacquainted even with the first moves of the game into which she is so suddenly thrust. She comes over to England and settles down on her husbands estate with no more than tho haziest notion of what English politics really are. of what the principal parties 4 stand for, and of the enormous opportuni-s z ties that lie open to woman of tact, as- siduity and knowledge
 Here. then, are some pretty severe tests for her adaptability. She meets them with her usual high and triumphant spir- it's Within an incredibly brief time after her debut you will find her putting pos CTS to the prime minister, facing a stew ard of the Jockey club with paralyzing assurance. and discussing all the min utiae of sport with an air of finished knowipSnAss.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-19
Waving Minor Details

'Le Commercial wishes to intimate that Marie was seized by 8 gang of ruff fans not far from her mothers door, It is impossible, it urges. that a person so we'll known to thousands as this young woman was should have passed three blocks without someone recogniz- ing her
 Now this is the idea of public man long resident in Paris. He Is aware
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-19

the prefect affidayits accounting satisfac- torily for every hour of that day.
 The newspapers were busy now with the mystery and rumors flew fast and thick. This was the result of the evidence col leeted by the Chevaliers friend at the prefecture.
 Go" said Dupin when he had received this report, Ito all the newspaper of- fees and get copies of all the papers pub lished in Paris since the press first took up the mystery of Marie Roget"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-19
Hinting at Scandal

In one of the evening papers Dupin found a paragraph which said: We have received several forcibiy written letters, apparently from the same source, and which go far to make 1t certain that the unfortunate Marie Roget was the victim of a gang of blackguards. Sev- eral of these gangs infest the suburbs of the city on Sundays
 In an edition of a rather sporty" pa- per, given to the chronicling of scandals, Dupin found the following:
 An evening journal yesterday refers to the former mysterious disappearance of Marie Roget It is well known that during the week of her absence from the shops of M. Le Blanc she was in the company of a naval officer noted for his debaucheries.
 We have the name of the Lothario In question, who is at present stationed in l aris, but, for obvious reasons, forbear to make it public'
 The gang theory had been taken up by the papers with avidity and much stress had been laid upon the fact that Q gang of rufffans had committed a crime which corresponded-in everything except murder-with the crime committed upon Marie Roget.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-19
Even After Drowning

Duplin then went on to state how va rious other things-such as water taken into the lungs-would so upset the balance that the body would sink. and added:
 But in the case of very fleshy people with small bones, such individuals float even after drowning
 But let os suppose the corpse at the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-19
Baffled Police

For several weeks the murder of Ma rie Roget was the absorbing topic of con varsation in the cabarets, on the boule- wards. and in even the most exclusive
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-19
Obscure Paragraphs

From LEtoile Dupin passed to the other papers, reading them through for the smallest items which might have a bearing upon the mystery.
 In one he found an obscure para graph saying that the rudder of boat had been picked up on the shore of the Seine near the place where the body of Mariet Roget had been lowed ashore.
 It was a simple, haphazard para graph which would never have seen the light of a newspaper had the artful country correspondent not con- nected the unimportant fact of the find ing of the rudder with the location of the landing of the body.
 Also, in another paper, Dupin found a paragraph which said that. on certain morning, rudderless boat had been found moored beneath the barge office and had disappeared sometime in the following night.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-19
Ordinary, Although Atrocious

Humph,' said Dupin, my friend the prefect and his aids have pictured to themselves many modes in which this murder could have been committed-and many motives for it.
 And because it was not impossible that any one of the many methods or the many motives could not have been the actual one they take 1t for granted that one of them must have been the actual one.
 But the very ease with which these fancies were entertained and the very plausibility which they assume indicates the difficulty, rather than the facility, of the discovery of the facts.
 This is an ordinary, though atrocious, instance of crime. There is nothing outre about it. At first one might think that this rendered the solution of the mystery simple-as matter of fact it renders 1t most difficult.
 We will now proceed to arrive at con clusions In respect to the insinuations leveled at Beauvais we will dismiss them in a breath. You have already fathomed his characteristic of busybody with much of romance and of little of wit
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-19
The CheYalier Dupin

| HE CHEvALIER C. AUGUSTA
 DUPIN was seated in the libary G of that ancient, haunted and 9 rather tumble6-down house in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-19
Mime. DeLuc's Story

About o'clock on the Sunday in ques- tion (that of the supposed murder Of Marie RogeD, young girl, arrived at my place accompanied by a young man of dark complexion. The two remained for some time. On their departure they took the road to some thick woods in the vicinity.
 My attention was called to the dress worn by the girl on account of its resem- blance to one which l remembered to have been worn by deceased relative scarf I particularly noticed.
 Soon after the departure of the couple gang of mscreants made their appear ance. They behaved most boisterously, ate and drank without making payment, and then followed in the wake of the young girl and her escort. They returned to the inn. about dusk and recrossed ths river in great haste.
 Soon after dark upon this same even- ing l. as well as my eldest son, heard the screams of woman-violent but brief-from the neighborhood of the inn"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-19
the name of Marie Roget.

Fragments of dress were discovered on the brambles. The earth was trampled and the bushes broken and there seemed every evidence of a struggle.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-19
St. Eustache's Suicide

Mime. DeLuc identified the scarf found in the thicket as the one worn by the young woman who had come to her Inn under the escort of a dark-complexioned young man.
 Now came forward an omnibus driver. one valence, who testified that upon the fatal Sunday he had seen Marie Roget cross the river on a ferryboat-and she was accompanied by young man of dark complexion. Valence knew Marie and could not have been mistaken in her identity.
 Quickly following the new evidence came a new sensation, which served 10 keep the mystery of Margaret Roget alive.
 The lifeless-or nearly lifeless-body of St. Eustache, who, 1t will be remem- bered, was Marie's accepted suitor, was found lying upon the ground in the thicket where the articles belonging to the un- fortunate girl had been discovered by the sons of Mime DeLuc.
 By his side was a vial labeled "I.aud;,- num- and his f1eeting breath gave evil dence of the poison. He died without speaking.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-19
Placed for a Purpose

Now those articles were placed thcre for the purpose of diverting suspicion from the real site of the murder. You will find that the discovery of the ar ticles corresponds with the arrival il the office of an evening newspaper of a great number of anonymous letters, all of which, while designed to appear from different sources, were apparently from the same hand.
 And the object of these letters turned to the same end--to throw suspicion upon a gang
 And observe the highly artificial ar engagement of the articles. On the upper was a white petticoat-on the lover a silk scarf Scattered around were the parasol and the gloves and the hand kerchief bearing the name of Marie Roget
 Dupin went on to show how the pieces torn off of the clothing and found hang ing to the branches must have been torn off by hand. Then he asked why the articles should have been left in the thicl1et by any murderers who had enough precaution to think of removing the corpse.
 No Gang Concerned
 "I do not deny that the thicket may have been the scene of the outrage, mind you" said he, but more probably an accident happened at Mime. DeLuc's. But our attempt Is to discover the mur- derer and not the scene of the murder
 "As to the traces of a struggle--why does not that really dispose of the gang theory? Imagine a struggle be- tween a weak and defenseless girl and a gang which should have been so fierce that the ground was trampled- or, in fact, to have left any traces ap- parent.
 "In short we can only imagine the murder as the act of an individual. Let us see The accident has happened. He is alone with the ghost of the de- parted He is appalled, by what lies motionless before him. He is alone with the dead
 "Yet there Is the necessity of dispos- ing of the corpse. He drags it to the river and leaves behind him the evil dence of his guilt.
 "But it is a toilsome journey to the water-the sounds of life encompass him on all sides. Yet in time-and in deep agony-after many pauses-he reaches the rivers brink and disposes of his ghastly charge
Imperial Valley press., 1914-11-30
PLAYS by Innings.

First Inning Wilhoit flied out to
Baerwald. Foster got a two-base hit.
Bayless out, Bancroft to Gardner.
Williams walked. DOwney hit and
Foster came in; Williams out by in
reference. One run, two hits.
McMullen flied out to Bayless. Ban
croft walked. Bassler flied out to
Hit. Muesel flied out to Bayless.
Second Inning-Litschi out, Ban
croft to Gardner. Hosp flied out to
Muesel. Schmidt out, Bancroft to
Gardner. Baerwald famed. Flick out,
Downey to Williams. Gardner fouled
out to Schmidt.
Third Inning-Hitt out, Flick to
Gardner. Wilhoit out, Bancroft to
Gardner. Foster made another two
Dagger. Bayless walked. Williams
flied out to Muesel.
Alexander struck out. Coucannon
famed. McMullen out, Hosp to Will
liams.
Fourth Inning-Downey flied out
to Baerwald. Litschi out, McMullen
to Gardner. Hosp flied out to Ban
croft.
Bancroft doubled and came home by
asslers sacrifice hit, Williams fumb-
ling it. Bassler sacrificed to second
by Muesel. Baerwald flied out to
Litschi. Flick out, Williams to Hit.
Fifth Inning-Schmidt walked and
was sacrificed to second by Hit, who
went out at first. Wilhoit out, Flick
to Gardner, Schmidt going to third.
Foster fouled out to Alexander.
Gardner singled and was advanced
to third by Alexander's double and
came home on Concannon's infield hit
McMullen walked, filling the sacks
bancroft doubled, bringing home
Alexander and Concannon. Bassler hit
to infield and Bancroft was doubled al
second, McMullen coming home. Niue
sci out, Hit to Williams. -Four runs
four hits.
Sixth Inning-Bayless out, McMuller
to Gardner. Williams flied to Niue
sci, who muffed the ball, Williams GO
ing to second. Downey knicked a sin
gle, sending Williams to third. Litsch
flied out to Muesel and Williams was
out on the inthrow for not waiting t.
touch the base.
Baerwald beat out bunt. Flic|
flied out to Foster. Gardner sacri
feed Baerwald to second and was safe
at first. Alexander forced Gardner
at second. Concannon flied to vii
holt, who muffed the ball and Baer
wald came home, Alexander stealing
third. Concannon out stealing second
One run.
Seventh Inning-Hosp out trying tc
stretch a single into a two-bagger
Imperial Valley press., 1914-11-30
Three Teams Are Tied
For the League Honors

Schmidt singled and was sent to sec
ond by Hits infeld hit, Hit going
out. Wilhoit out, Flick to Gardner.
McMullen out, Hosp to Williams
Bancroft flied out to Wilhoit. Bassler
out, Downey to Williams.
Eighth sFnning-Foster flied out to
Bassler. 'Bayless flied out to aer-
wald. Williams single to right. Dow
.ney out, Concannon to Gardner. Niue
sci walked and stole second, going
to third by Baerwald's sacrifice. Baer-
wald out. Muesel brought home by
Flick's single. Gardner flied out to
Hosp. Alexander struck out.
Ninth Inning-Litschi flied out to
Muesel. Hosp doubled and went to
third on Schmidt's single. Hit hit
safe to the infield, filling the bases.
Wilhoit hit to Flick and was called
safe, Hosp coming home. Foster
knocked double, bringing home
Schmidt and Hit. Bayless out, Flick
to Gardner, Wilhoit coming home
Foster came home on passed ball. Will
liams singled and died on first, Dow
ney striking out.
Imperial Valley press., 1914-11-30
Notice: County Warrants Payable.

Courty wcrrants drawn on the Gen
eral Fund, and registered prior to No
vember IL, 1914, Noc. l to 326, inclu-
sive; drawn on the Salary Fund and
registered prior to Novembcr l, 1914,
Nos. / 20 81, inclusive; drawn on Road
District No. 1 and registered prior
to November Is, 1914, Nos. 12S to
143, inclusive; drawn on RoaG Dis
trict No. 2 and registered prior 20
November "a, 1914, Nos. / to 81, in
elusive; drawn on Road District No. 3
and registered prior to November IL,
1914, Nos. 1 to 6, inclusive; drawn on
road District No. and registered
prior to October 13, 1914, Nos. 81 to
100, inclusive; drawn on Road Dietrict
no. 5 and registered prior to October
N, 1914, Nos. / to 10, inclucive, are
now payable.
ADVISE J. STANLEY BROWN,
Nov28'14 County Trcacurcr.
Imperial Valley press., 1914-11-30
Additional Service on HoIton Interurbal

Commencing Tuesday, Dec. l, mo-
tor car will leave Ell Centre daily at
/ p. M; Holtville at 1870 p. M; El
Centro at 6:30 p. M, and Holtville
at 7:15 p. m. The evening car will
not run on Sundays.
Passenger rates between FL Centro
and Holtville will be reduced as soon
as the necessary schedules can be
filed. Fare one way will then be 35c;
round trip, G0c.--Adv. 185
Imperial Valley press., 1914-11-30
CaleXicO.
Totals -. .38 6 II "a ]
fOut for interference.
Sum mary.

Earned runs-El Centre, 2; Calex
leo, 3 Base on balls-Off Concannon
8; off Hit, 8. Left on bases-El Cen
tro, A; Calexico, 8. First base on er
rors-El Centre, 3; Calexico, 2. Two
base hits-Bancroft, Foster (3), Hosp
Struck out-By Kantlehner, l; by
Hit, 3. Double plays-Hitt to Will
liams to Downey. Passed ball-AleX
ander Hits-Off Concannon, II; of
Kantlehner, /. Stolen bases-El Cen
tro, 2. Sacrifice hits-El Centre, 2
Calexico, /. Umpire-Phyle.
Imperial Valley press., 1914-11-30

We have moved 100 pianos in sixty
days. Ed Royce Transfer Co.--Adv.
Imperial Valley press., 1914-11-30
Standing of the Clubs.

FL Centre battal out victory over
Cclexico at the Fair Grounds yost':@-
day, the score being to 6.
El Ccntro had the game on ice up
tc tho ninth inning, when Concaanon,
pitching a good game up TO this time,
blew up Sand was replaced by Kan
tlehner, who stopped their rally when
they were one run from tying the
score.
The game was repletc with thrills,
lots of free hitting and men on bases
almost every inning.
Imperial won from Brawley ycster-
day, 6 to 5, using both of their pitch
ers, Tanning and Ryan.
Brawley goes a bit further in the
cellar and the other three teams are
tied
Following is the Ell Centre CaleXico
game:
Imperial Valley press., 1914-11-30

DIR. f. f. Osenburg, Dentist,
GAG Main St., El Cantro
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1914-09-03
BROUGHT DOWN
THE HIGH PRICE
Action Of the President in Going After
Those Who Ran Up Food Prices.

The administration crusade to
prevent extortionate overcharges
for foods in this country, on the
pretext that the European war
has caused a scarcity, is being
supported in all the great cities.
The administrations action had
the immediate effect of reducing
prices all over the county.
The day following the announce
ment of President Wilson, s order
to Attorney General McReynols,
under which a thorough invest :
igation is being made with a view
to the criminal prosecution of the
participants in combinations to in
crease food prices. a local news
article in the Chicago Herald
lind said:
"Chicago's time food mar
ket weakened slightly yesterday,
when the investigators for the
Federal Department of Justice
began compiling statistics on the
sudden rise in the prices of food
stuffs. Sugar and imported COM
modities were about the only
foods showing airship tenden-
cies. !"
The Governments inquiries
are to be particularly directed a.
gainst the producers of flour and
grain products. In view of the
huge wheat crop. it is contended
that there can be no legitimate
excuse for unusually high prices
of wheat products; including
flour and bread. The st. Louis
Republic (Dem. points out that
"the evidences Of cold blooded
greed appear writ large on the
movement of -four prices since
July "a. ("