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Imperial Valley press., 1916-08-26
Fire MenaceS Reserve.

Nevada City, Aug. 26.-Determined
to stamp out the forest fire which
Sunday destroyed the old mining town
O.. You Bet, and is threatening the
Tahoe national forest. officials of the
forest service today dispatched many
additional men to reinforce the fire
fighters. This is the largest fire that
has yet menaced the reserve, and ef-
fcrtS to check it have thus far been
unavailing. Back firing stopped the
advance Of the fire toward Grass Val
ley, saving the town.
The fire fighting force is being
strengthened by forest service men
who have been engaged in fighting a
forest fire near Placerville, which was
today brought under control after
sweeping several thousand acres.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-08-26

mitted to the president, using our own
wires for this. Might be we'll to have
some of the most prominent signers
send messages to their congressman
and senators in Washington in addi
tfcn to those sent to President Wilson.
This is very important and must be
given preference over normal bust
ness today
The pressure from their members
for prompt disposal of the issue with
the railroads is becoming strong, the
bi otherhood men told the president.
w. G.. Lee, president Of the trainmen's
union, showed the following telegram
from brotherhood members at White
fish, Mont:
"National conference committee of
b!anagers requesting business men of
United States wire President Wilson
insisting that he change attitude re-
C:rding eight-hour controversy and
insist arbitration. Brotherhood mem
lfrs Whitefish insist prompt action
BE taken to dispose of this controversy
o" force issue as authorized by strike.
Refuse arbitration proposition for g.
hour day"
The brotherhood men denied speci-
f::ally that they had been asked by
the president to consider possible
legislation by the present congress.
"The situation is just rocking
;iong," said A. B. Garretson of the
conductors union. There will be no
compromise
A meeting of the railway presi
dents lasting from II a. m. to l p. m.
resulted only in the announcement
that they had agreed on no proposal
to make to the president and would
convene again at 3 o'clock
Imperial Valley press., 1916-08-26
VALLEY BOOKLET
FOR STATE FAIR

County Development Agent A. NJ.
Nc'son is preparing booklet setting
forth Imperial valleys agricultural
advantages which will be distributed
at the state fair in Sacramento from
September to 9.
The valley literature will be dis
trbuted through the cooperation of
the California Development board,
which will maintain the official infor-
nation bureau at the fair.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-08-26

Inished for the job, so that bond is
sue would not be necessary.
Further, it was Stoddard Jess and
his friends who guaranteed the $780,
900 bond demanded by Yuma before
the injunction against the trestle con-
srruction would be lifted.
"These are the men who, the Press
says, have cut off the valleys credit!
"And to make the statement more
ridiculous than ever, it is a fact that
Engineer lockwood is the man that
the Los Angeles bankers always con-
suit before they make decision about
valley affairs.
"'Rockwood can get anything the
district needs is the way Director
Brockman put it yesterday"
Inspection Refused.
. Attorney Seymour and Secretary
Hill of the recall committee. accom-
panied by stenographer, late yester-
day afternoon called at the district OF :
flee and demanded to see the petition
that had been rejected, as they wished
to make list of the names that had
betn stricken out and those that had
been allowed.
Secretary Graham was about to
show the petition when President
Hamilton interfered, saying that they
could ssee nothing in the office of the
district-that he did not intend to fur
nlsh ammunition against himself. The
trio then left, and it was planned to
get an order from the court this morn
ing to compel the district officials to
give access to the public documents
on file, which the president evidently
looks on as his personal property.
This step was rendered unnecessary
this morning when Secretary Graham
notified Seymour that he could see the
ctition at any time.
While Graham has been appointed
secretary to carry out the Will of the
,najority of the board, and while he
used his office for the most technical
4 ossible Interpretation of the law
against the petitioners, he claims that
he has no intention of denying the
rights of any person
Imperial Valley press., 1916-08-26
L. S. Steel Jumps.

New York, Aug. 26.-After keeping
4 nervous eye on the railway confer
ence at Washington during the morn
ing, during which time prices moved
irregularly, traders on the stock ex-
up to 80, only "a under its high record
price, early this afternoon.
Bethlehem steel, the most spectac-
rlar of the "war Brides" awakened
about the same time and jumped to
492, up 10 points from its opening
price. Marine preferred was another
leader in the advance movement, sell
ing 3 points above its morning level.
The market closed firm.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-08-26
Poor Little Rich BOy.

Nyack, N. Y, Aug. 26.-Willie
Clossmsn Lee, the poor little rich
boy who cried and said he was "tireC
of being dragged around the country
Il. relatives interested in the S2,000,-
coo estate he inherits from the late
William Crossman, coffee king, will
shift guardians again here today.
Supreme Court Justice Thompson
decided that Dewitt H. Kenyon, Port
Chester lawyer, must return the boy
to Mrs. Emma Kenyon Lee, mother of
Frederick T. Lee of White Plains
stepfather Of the boy.
The battle for possession Of the $2,-
100000 boy has waged hotly for more
Il an a year in the New York courts
between William Mills, Jr., of Cali
fcrnia, father of the boy, and Lee,
his stepfather. His father started sew
en- separate actions to get the boy
and the management Of his estate, but
lest every one.
The boys mother, who divorced
Mills and married Lee, died in New
York two years ago. Testimony at
the hearing said that Mills never had
taken any interest in his son until
he inherited the estate of the coffee
king. The boy testified that his moth
ell had impressed on him the desirable
ity of remaining with his stepfather,
Imperial Valley press., 1916-08-26
TRACTOR COURSE
NOVEMBER 1924

The state university agricultural
IN tractor use at the farm from No
vember 13 to "a. Various styles of
up-to-date tractors will be used and
expert mechanics will be in charge of
the classes.
The enrolment cost is 81 and blanks
may be secured from County Farm Ad-
wiser Paul /. Dougherty at his offices
ir the court house annex in Ell Centric.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-08-26
New Aero Squadron.

San Antonio, Texas, Aug. 26.-For-
nation of an aero squadron TO replace
the first squadron, which was ordered
to join General Pershing when the
pursuit of Villa was begun, has been
ordered at Fort Sam Houston. The
new unit will be known as the third
squadron and will be commanded by
Major Foulois.
The squadron is intended for serv-
ice in this country and will be
equipped with six planes with 90
horsepower motors. The six planes
have been ordered, but only one has
leen received by the government and
given practice trials. The other five
are expected in few days.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-08-26
Office Captures
Two Holtville Burglars

J. Mcdonald and Frank Miller,
Identified as |. w. w. men, are held
a. the county Jail charged with bur-
Clarizing the Holton Power Companys
warehouse at Holtville Wednesday
night and making away with guam
tity of valuable copper wire, which
they shipped from Ell Centric to Los
Angeles over the Southern Pacific the
following day.
Through the description furnished by
Imperial Valley press., 1916-08-26
Exports Show Record.

Washington, Aug. 26.-Exports dur
ing July totaled SAG, 900, ,00O-a record
for July-though the figures are sl9,-
100000 below the June exports. I'M
ports were S183 100000, falling off
Of S63 100000 compared with June.
Exports for the year ending with
July totaled $4,511 100000, compared
With 50 1888 100000 the preceding year.
the bureau of foreign and domestic
commerce announced today
Imperial Valley press., 1916-08-26
Paul |. Dougherty to Attend
Federal Farm Loan Session

County Farm Adviser Paul |. Daugh-
erty will attend on September and
8 gathering of the county farm ad-
visers of the state at Sacramento to
confer with the Federal Farm Loan
Board which will meet there on the
morning of September 9.
This is one of a series of sessions of
the Federal Farm Loan Board which
are being held throughout the coun-
try to determine the location Of the
twelve districts in the country which
will have federal land banks. The Pa
c;fic coast will in all probability form
one of the districts and this session of
Imperial Valley press., 1916-08-26
Deny Everything
Is New Policy

"Deny everything" That is the or
der handed out to the spokesman for
the Mexican interests in the irrigation
district
"No matter if we did claim that we
had been promised $750,O00 for the
settling basin, the opposition has got
the goods on US now, and we deny that
We ever said anything of the kind"
"No matter if we did claim that Los
Angeles bankers had picked Engineer
Anderson for the consulting board,
deny now that we ever said anything
of the kind"
"No matter if Conkling did say that
the district would throw any further
recall petitions in the wastebasket,
deny it."
Here is clipping from the Progress
CT this morning:
Exhibit No. 1899.
zone of the wild screeds of the Press
joined last night by Hon. Joseph F..
Seymour, Jr., asserted that Stoddard
Jess the Los Angeles banker, did not
say that he would be glad to dig up
$75O,000 for settling basin at head
irg.
"Mr. Jess, in a conversation with Di-
rector Brockman said that IF THE
rNrCJNrrEpC EOTiNYn TIrAT A GIFT
Thing BASIN WAS THE THING
FOR THE VALLEY HE HAD NO
DOUBT ABOUT THE MONEY FOR
TT BEING SECURED.
Nobody claimed or said that Jess
was ready or anxious to donate, give
Or raise any amount of money for any
purpose and Joe Seymour knows the
truth as well as any man living.
when attorneys join in with degeu-
crate newspapers to twist the truth in
q campaign of villification it is a sign
that either the lure for publicity is
getting somebody's common sense and
getting it badly.
"This is exhibit No. 1909 in the
course of the Destroyers VS.. Imperial
Irrigation District There may be lO,-
900 more of 'em."
And here is what the Progress said
August 9:
'Bankers Ready to Back the District
ALLEGATION of Recallers that District
Is Without Credit Shown Up
Money Can Be Secured for Any
Plan of Betterment That the Irriga-
ton District Says Is O. k.-Bankers
Guarantee 100000 Bond Demanded
BY Yuma.
"One by one the so-called 'argu-
Ments' of the recal!ers and opponents
Of the irrigation district are falling
before the facts as they are developed.
zone of the chief statements, made
time and again by the Press, was to
the effect that the district was without
further credit and could not get any
more money from Los Angeles banks
until a change was made in engineers.
"Now comes the news that Stoddard
Jess informed members Of the board
Monday in Los Angeles that if the
district decided to build the lockwood
settling basin the money would be fur
Imperial Valley press., 1916-08-26

San Francisco. Aug. 26.-Sale of
two big steel steamers now under com
struction at the Union Iron Works to
Norwegian concerns was reported to-
day.
The ships are said to have brought
& figure of $1,600,000 each. Names of
the purchasers are withheld.
The steamers are to be completed in
February, it was said, and will be
ready to sail some time in April.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-08-26
To Christen Submarine.

Long Beach, Aug. 26.-Mrs. w. r.
Monroe, S33 West Twenty-eighth
street, Los Angeles, has been approved
by Secretary of the Navy Daniels AS
sponsor of the submarine L-6, which
will be launched here August 81. Her
husband, Lieutenant Monroe, U. S. ~,
has been stationed at the shipyard
here as Inspector of machinery for
tie under-sea boats under construc-
ticn.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-08-26
Strike Discussion
Grows Heated

Washington, Aug. 2G.-President
Wilson communicated "a development
CT importance" to the subcommittee
o. three railway executives composed
Of Holden of the Burlington, Willard
of the B. & O. and Lovett Of the I'm
ion Pacific.
The executives we're in the White
House only five minutes. Coming out,
Holden said:
'The president called us here to
communicate development Of some
Importance 1t has an important bear
ing on the negotiations under way. |
cannot say whether or not it will I'M
prove the situation"
The executives returned to the New
Willard hotel to resume at once the
conference of the committee of eight
Of which they are part
Holden said he had heard of no new
proposition from the employees, and
that the presidents communication this
afternoon was not in regard to legisla-
ticn. He refused to disclose the ma
tire of the presidents talk.
The conference of railroad execu-
tives broke up at 5:55 p. m. with the
question of their course Of action still
undetermined. They will meet again
tonight.
Washington, Aug. 26.-With Presi-
dent Wilson and the railroad presidents
apparently hopelessly at loggerheads
III their efforts to prevent the threat
ened strike, the president today stirred
Up excitement by suddenly calling the
heads of the railroad brotherhoods to
the White House.
The conference with the brother
hoods lasted an hour and a half, adj
Journing just at noon. According to
the workers representatives, however,
j. left the situation unchanged.
They were asked to accept no COM
promise, the brotherhood chiefs said,
and gave the impression as they left
the White House that the president
might be expected to stand firmly by
the proposal which they have accepted,
but which the railway presidents re-
fuse.
I The brotherhood men, while at the
White House, placed before the presi-
dent the charge that nationwide
lobby is being conducted to influence
sentiment in favor of the railroads.
TEey presented telegrams to show
II at the Northern Pacific road is pay
ing for favorable messages forwarded
20 Washington.
The following message, the brother
hood heads said was sent by Super
,ntendent j. l.. Derorce of the North
cln Pacific to all agents Of his road:
at is highly important to get train
lien questions discussed by farmers,
stock raisers, dairymen and mer-
chants. Please get as many Of these
classes as possible in your town and
vicinity to send kilograms rush to
President Wilson at Washington, ul-
gently requesting him to settle the
controversy by arbitration. kilograms
should show business Of the sender.
These kilograms are to be paid for
from station funds and statement
sent me for voucher your credit. |
want YOU to send copies of these tele
grams to me by wire as soon as trans
Imperial Valley press., 1916-08-26

local railroad men Sheriff Applestill
and Deputy Sheriff Kemp Thursday
night arrested Mcdonald and last
night were able to pick up Frank Mil
Ter.
1t is believed that the prompt ac-
ton of the officers has broken up
gang that for weeks has been causing
rublic service corporations damage and
Inconvenience through the theft OF
wire and ether materials.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-08-26

the board will also determine the loca-
ticn of the bank to be organized in
this district.
Each bank will have an original cap
ital of $750,OO0, to which at least ten
farmers must subscribe to the value
OF 5 per cent of their farm holdings,
the federal treasury to subscribe for
any part of the $750,000 unsubscribed
when the public subscription lists have
been closed. The act of congress un-
der which the banks will be organized
specifies that no more than 6 per cent
may be charged on loans by the Fed
eral Land Bank.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-08-26
Cotton Still Advancing
On Adverse Conditions

Once more cotton advanced today,
c'osing about 6 points above yesterday
and making total gain for the week
o. cent and third. In other words,
the present quotations represent an
Increase in value of the cotton on the
American side of the line in this val
ley of probably 100000 in week.
Yet the yield in this valley is good
deal of problem, and no one can place
an estimate on it with any accuracy,
for if frost holds off late there will be
a good yield in spite of the drought,
while early frost would hould produc-
ton down to a comparatively low level.
Quotations today to the Long Staple
Cotton Growers association follow:
Imperial Valley press., 1916-08-26
Modesto is Selected.

Modesto, Aug. 26.--The Borden Con-
densed Milk company has definitely
decided to establish large factory in
Modesto for the purpose of manufac-
turing their products. The land for
the factory has been purchased and
the work of erecting the buildings will
scon commence.
The Detroit times., 1916-07-08
Your Money
Investing TO Pay for Insurance.
~ JOHN N. oskisoN

so by following this plan, at the
age OF forty or whereabouts | shall
have $4,000. II continue To feel as
I do now, shall certainly invest
that sum in safe ways.
Il like my plan particularly. be-
cause II l should die during the time
! am paying out on my policy my
people will get the face value oil
my policies as we'll as the $1,000 |
have saved"
This Is happy combination OF
saving and investment and insur.
ance. II Is reasonable TO suppose
that this young man, beginning at
the age OF twenty. could complete
his saving at the age OF %; that
would mean only 5000 year saved
probably less than 20 per cent OF
what he will earn. His plan means
making a very moderate saving over
period OF eight years. and then
having available for investment at
the age OF "A sum amounting TO
$4,000
or course the young man who can
figure out a plan as good as this is
going TO carry the practice OF saving
a percentage OF his earnings beyond
the 2sth year. He is going TO ind
himself at the age OF A master OF
bigger fortune than $4,000.
The Detroit times., 1916-07-08
Deaths

Xavier Bunchak. $50 Antoine. 81
years shronic psrsnShymsiogs b nepsl
tai. Delray. 10 years, cardiac Insult
nciency: Richard Emil Schwartz, 9i5
wilde. four days. commissions. Rose
Muntyan. Medina. about 36 years.
carcinoma: Bronislawa Nowakowski.
t32 Linden. eight years, dlphtheria:
Mildred Buddington, 1872 Chene. %
years. septic peritonitis; James Kim
bail. 3ts Ferry f. four days. pre-
maturity: Hencretta c. Ralph. y
Hartford, ~ years carcinoma OF
breast; Marguerite Remington. oTe
Mcclellan. % years, focal fistula;
Carl Baresh. 425 Antoine. eight
months. broncho pneumonia: Maize
KolperRar. AIS Gilman. ~ years.
pulmonary tuberculosis: James Rule.
soc Lorraine. 81 years acute dilita-
tion OF heart: Cecilia Bareback.
Kellogg-pl.. six months. capillary
bronchitis: Joseph Zaiupski, a0f wes-
son. eight. months, diarrhea cntcritis;
Robert Edwin Bond. 10 Water Front.
one year. bronchial pneumonia:
Charles Taubitz. 1919 Helen. 81
years. pleural pneumonia: Catherine
J. Wallace. Harper hospital. 90 years.
The Detroit times., 1916-07-08

For a young man OF 20 the FOL
lowing letters is a masterpiece OF
clear thinking and sound logic. l
commend II to every youngster:
Dear Sir-My plan for saving for
old age Ia this:
IL have taken out a twenty-year
endowment policy for a thousand
dollars In an old-llne insurance COM
pany. My premiums amount TO S4s
a year.
Il have saved up $500. and have
invested $500 OF this In per cent
bonds. My plan is to save: another
$500 and invest II In these bonds;
and then my return from the invest
ed $500 will meet my insurance pre-
miums.
when l have the $500 invested l
mean to take out another endowment
policy for a thousand. and begin to
save up another $500 to be invested
at per cent.
Now let us see what l will have.
II take only two policies. The
first policy, plus accumulated divi-
dends, will bring me $1,000 at the
age OF forty. Add the $500 invest
ed to earn premiums on 1t and there
is $1,000. A few years later shall
have another like amount available.
The Detroit times., 1916-07-08

DAyIs-July 8; 1918. at her Tssidesnaee'
beloved wife OF John j. Davis and
mother Of Josephine 4. Siare F,e
neral Saturday from residence AZ
$50. to Holy Redeemer church AT
10 o'clock. Burial at Mt. Eihot'
cemetery. Member OF Branch NO.
DU CHENE-Eiien M. July 8. iels.
at residence OF her daughter, Mrs'
Louise Rouleau. Maplewood-aVe.,
~. p. beloved wife OF the late
Mrs. Louise Roulesu. Frank NJ Du
Chene and Ella Du Chene. Burial
at ST. Clair, Mich. Saturday morn
ing.
HAy-July :. 1916, at Harpe: hospi.,
tai. Lula, aged 26. beloved wire OF
Charles Hay shipment from Hal,
ey's undertaking parlors for burial
at OVID. Michigan.
BURBANk-July 8, 1915. at her resi-
dence. i4i3 Fourteenth ave. Eliza
18th nsl9 ,Ss y wite .n Of Ren and s @rl-
liam z. Burbank and sister OF Mrs
Charles BenoiJ, AIRS. +. X, Rendt
and James Forsyth. Notice OF fu-
neral later.
JACk July 4. 1918. Rhu EN- ma
loved mother OF Ralph c.. Ioiine
G.. Grace T. and u. Pearl lack.
Intcrment at Apollo. Pa. SATURDAY
July s.
Ross-WesIey James. aged 10 years,
only son and child OF Viola Il. ana
the late George Ross. Funerai
from the residence OF his uncle, j.
D. Houston, AS seventeenth-st.'
Saturday, July s, at 230 y. m.
Burial at Woodnnere.
sXELNIE-Passod away THURSDAY
morning, July 8. 1916. Leah b.. be,
loved wife OF Chauncey NJ. ana
dear mother OF Leah. Iunerai
Saturday at p. IN. from residence
20 Locust-st
The Detroit times., 1916-07-08
MANY GOING
ON PIKE TOUR

More than % automobiles, n band
of 20 pieces from the Ford Motor
Co., and many prominent Detroiters,
good roads boosters and workers,
will leave Detroit. Monday morning,
for ta..e arst annual tour over the
East Michigan pike, extending from
Toledo 10 Mackinaw City. Al the
latter place the second annual
Northern Michigan Agriculture and
Good Roads Congress viii be held
July Ia.
Among the Detroiters who will
make the trip are Oscar b. Marx,
James Couzens,, Frank +. Rogers.
state highway commissioner; r. T.
Colgrove. president Michigan Good
Roads association; Horatio s. Earle.
father OF Michigan's good roads .
Hon. A. c. Carton, secretary. public
domain and state immigration com
missioner; John w. Boardman. OF
Jackson: w. 8. Gllbreath, field sec
rotary. Dixie highway association
and Edward y. Hines, chairman OF
Wayne County Road commission
The Good Roads committee OF the
Detroit Board OF Commerce Is con-
Quoting the tour.
The itinerary includes stops al
Pontiac. Flint, Saginaw and Bay
City on the frst day. On Tuesday
Ftops are ia be made at Pinconning
and Standinsh where the party
splits, a portion OF them going by
way OF Sterling. Maple Ridge. Pres
colt, where a large picnic lunch will
be served. The other party will go
by way OF Dinner, Tvining and Whit
temore, both TO meet at Whittemore.
Tawas City and East Tawas Is the
destination for thed ay. "wednesday
stops will be mad eat WILDER own.
ship. ApSable, where the party splits
portion going by way OF Mikado.
Gustin and Lincoln, where lunch
will be taken. and the other party
going by way OF Greenville and Har-
risville. arriving In time for lunch
az Lincoln. Spruce Is the next stop
and Alpena ia the days destination.
At Alpena big entertainment is
planned at the Pine Lake Country
club. Thursday, stops will be made
at Posen. Hagensville, Rogers City,
Koltke, Millersburg and Onaway..
where lunch will be taken. The
next stop will be at Legrand. Aloah
and Cheboygan as the days destina-
ton. Mackinaw will be reached on
the following morning In time for a
large combined meeting under the
auspices OF the Wa.wa-tam Beach as.
ISOLATION and II will be participated
In by the East Michigan Pike tour
lists and West Michigan Pike associ-
alton. which is conducting it's tour
at this time. the Northeastern Mich
igan Development bureau, Western
Michigan Development bureau, Up
per Peninsula Development bureau
and several other similar organiza-
tions. Some OF the features Of the