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The Cordova daily times., 1916-09-07
ARIZONA PLANS 4 VERY DRASTIC
 MEASURE

Arizona, climatically and prohibit tionally speaking is said to be the "dryest" state in the union. In addi- tion to their efforts to prevent the shipment of liquor into Arizona the prohibitionists are trying to put bill through the legislature, making it an imprisonable offense to drink liquor.
 The result of the dry" law adopted by Arizona in 1914, is told in this story from Tombstone, Arizona, to the Douglas (Arizona) Daily Interna- tional:
 The county jail at the present time contains more prisoners than it has for a number Of years. There are 52 now on the register at that institu- ton. Of that number eighteen are serving sentences of from thirty to sixty days, five for violation of the ITOHlDltlOn amendment, two TOT slfn- pie assault, and one for gambling; eight for petty larceny; one for carry ing a deadly weapon, and one alleged insane Of those held to await the ac- tion of the superior court there are three for highway robbery; three for burglary, two for statutory rape; six teen for violation of the prohibition amendment; two for resisting an of ficer; one for grand larceny one for assault with a deadly weapon, and one for passing bogus checks.
 The other five are held under charges of murder. With the addi- tion of ten cases held to await the action from Douglas and Bisbee 1t looks as though the term would be continued well into next month.
The Cordova daily times., 1916-09-07

lore the convention of the w. c. T. U. at Juneau recently predicted that the work of the organization in Alaska would be crowned with success.
 It is reported that the Wells Fargo Express Company is planning for the establishment of an express service between Seward and Anchorage dur ing the winter by means of dog teams
 The Alaska road commission is now working a large crew of men under Foreman Ross Kenney on the Knik- Willow creek road and will also put q crew of men on the Cache creek road.
The Cordova daily times., 1916-09-07
NOlFI M T ITIl LOyola Social Club.

Word has been received by the gov. ernors office that Michael Reise, an inmate of the Morningside Sanitorium died there on August 12 from cere beral hemorrhage. Reise was commit ted to the sanitarium in 1904, and has been constantly under the care of the sanitarium management since that time.
The Cordova daily times., 1916-09-07
CARD PARTY TO BE HELD
 LOYOLA CLUB TONIGHT

We wish to announce to the mem bers and friends of the Loyola Social Club that the little card party to be given this evening, is to be a very in. formal affair. We wish you to come to meet and mingle with our friends in true social fashion.
 We request, too, that you come early. The new folks have to get up early. Cards begin at 9 D. m. Lunch 10:30. Dancing to follow.
 COMMITTEE,
 Loyola Social Club.
The Cordova daily times., 1916-09-07
INSURANCE
FIRE, MARINE, LIFE and ACCIDENT

Insure your property against fire in reliable Insurance Companies.
 We represent the Niagara, London, Phoenix, Hartford, Northern, Globe and Rutgers, and others; all strong Board Companies.
 We also represent the Maryland Casualty Company, and issue Fidelity and Surety Bonds.
 Northwestern Realty & Trust Co.
The Cordova daily times., 1916-09-07

The tension members of a truss frame that supports a flat car and un- usual capacity on a European railroad are formed of steel wire cables instead Of the usual rods or bars
The Cordova daily times., 1916-09-07

Van X Graves have received an dry cleaning plant, which Is now installed in their tailor shop, and is the only one of the kind in this section of Alaska.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-09-21
WEST SIDE LEAGUE
CHAMPIONS GET
EMbLEMS

The boys of the Silshee team. cham
pions of the West Side Base Ball
League, are proudly sporting new
watch fobs, as a reward for their play
ing ability last fall
The championship emblems were do
mated by A. G. Spalding & Sons, the
worlds greatest sporting goods house.
The emblem is small gold baseball
attached to neat silk ribbon. Upon
the miniature baseball is engraved,
West Side Base Ball League, Season
1915-1916, Championship, Silsbee."
AS mark of ther esteem the Silsbee
team presented one of the fobs to the
leagues president, E. ]. Parke.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-09-21
CITY TO EXTEND A
GLAD HAND TO
ASSESSORS

Personal invitations will in few
days be sent out by Commercial Sec
retary d. c. Bitler, of the Ell Centre
Chamber of Commerce, to the 100 or
more members of the County Asses
sors Association of California, to hold
a convention in Ell Centre, Noveber Is.
The convention is to be held here as
the result of an urgent invitation ex-
tended by County Assessor Wiley M.
Weaver, who attended the last session
of the association.
It is planned by the secretary also
to send second invitation, stronger
than the first, requesting the asses
sors from every county in California
not to fail to visit Imperial valley in
November.
A program of entertainment will be
provided for the visitors. The program
will include a sightseeing trip in the
valley, banquet and possibly ball.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-09-21
FL PASANS SEE
GREAT MILITIA
PARADE
uncle same Boys In Dieosst 0ivlo-
ion Review Ever Held IN This
Country, March in Solid Columns
III Iwerty Miles in Lenoth-Twsnty-
sstx Thopsandd9 Etpe..e:: II !!
BY United Press

Ell PASO. Sept. 21.-A column. TWEEN
ty smiles in length Of guatdsmen and
regular soldiers, marched through the
city today, past the reviewing stand at
Fort Bliss in seven hours, the biggest
division review ever held in this coun.,
try. Twenty-six thousand men. march.
ing four abreast, composed the col
umns.
Every regiment has been recru Jed to
full war strength by combining every
branch Of infantry into one division.
In the reviewing stand were Major
Genera! Charles M. Clement, General
George Bell Jr., and their staffs.
From early morning unit this after
noon the lines swung through the
streets to six miles beyond, to the re.
viewing stand at Fort Bliss to MUSIC
of thirteen bands. For hours a solid
mass of artillery umbered through
the streets, then followed the engin.
GERS, sanitary and signal corps. all
with full divisions.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-09-21
RUSHING WATERS
ROLLS. FORD down
STREAM

Supervisor Shepard tells of the
work of young cloudburst in the
mountains. The water was running a
foot deep in the creek near the Indian
reservation Tuesday. A man with a
Ford loaded with merchandise killed
his engine in the creek water. He got
out to crank and before he could get
back in the water came up and tumbl-
ed the car, load.s passengers and all
hundred feet down the creek bot
tom.
A rescue party was formed Of
stranded stage passengers and the oc-
cupants of the Ford were pulled out
Of the water much bedraggled.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-09-21
CHI SOCIETY
BREATH EASY
NOW
Expose Of elackmaiiing Syndicate
and Arrest Of Alleged Members Of
Gang and Assurance that Names Of
Victims will not be Given out
Brings Relief to Prominent Windy
City Folks.
(By United Press.)

CHICAGO, Sept. 21.-Many prom.
inent Chicago men and women are
breathing easier today than for some
weeks following the expose of the card
index system, used by the blackmail
ers syndicate, some of whom are sup
posed to be under arrest here At
least twenty names listed on the cards,
bore some new misconduct opposite
each, said a detective.
"All those on the lst are prominent
socially and financially here, but the
names will not be given out" the de.
tective said.
Evidences of the syndicates' activi.
ties continue to pile up here. A wealthy
machinery merchant is known to have
become infatuated with woman in a
cafe. AS the romance waned, the wO.
man told him she was i'll and suggest.
ed that he give her one hundred thou
sand dollars and send her to the noun
tains. IF you do not see the justice
of this, perhaps your wife WILL" she
wrote answering his objections. He
had the woman shadowed to New York
and forced her to sign a statement
that she had lied, absolving him from
further payments.
Another woman hired out as his stem.
ographer and, after several rounds of
cafes and road houses, demanded
twenty-five thousand, but didn't get it,
when the detective exposed her game.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-09-21
BALL 10SSERS
TO form
LEAGUE
Fans Of Valley Cities Will Get To.
qether and Organize for Fall
Schedule-Six, Towns Will be Rep
resented-Only Amateurs to Play

Baseball fans are arranging to call
meeting of al players in the bailey for
the purpose of forming a league. Six
cities of the valley will be represented,
FL Centre, Calexico, Imperial, Brawley,
Holtville and either Seeley or Calipa-
tria. Seeley will more than likely be
the sixth team as transportation ia
cilities in that direction are better.
Organization will be perfected along
the same lines as the big leagues, play
ing under the same rules. Officers
will be chosen who will be able to
keep the teams at full strength and
the schedule played in full.
1t is expected that A. G. Spaulding
& Son will offer championship cup
to the winner of the league.
Preliminary to the organization, the
field has been thoroughly canvassed
and it is the opinion that valley people
want a winter league and will support
the home boys. (El Centro, Imperial,
Calexico and Holtville have aready or
ganized srong teams, each capable Of
playing fast ball.
Practice has started and the boys
send in word that they are H5oue ready
to start the ball rolling. 1t s expected
that the first of the schedule will begin
about the second week of October. The
season will run into March.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-09-21
VERMM MAKE FEAST OF SLAIN SOLDIERS
BY NIGHT and VUlTURES BY day
bULCARS still HANG ON
Ienav shtns Increase . by bulgarian.

night and thousands of crows and vul-
lures in the day time. The dead Bull
garans we're moved down by machine
gun fire between the Serb-Bulgarian
line. When the Serbs advanced they
found only skeletons and bits of cloth
which was once uniforms.
Cooler weather is aiding operations
along the line, which is partly account
able for the fierceness in fighting be.
tween the Serbs and the Bulgarians.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-09-21
j. S. MEXICAN
PARLEYS NEAR
COMPLETE /.
Tentative Program for Border pa-
troll PROVIDES That Pershine Re-
main in Mexico for PreseMt NO
Withdrawal Until carransa Qsoves
BY United Press

NEW LONDON, Sept. 21.-MexicaR
American mediation commission has
just about finished its first task of
settling the problem Of border patrol.
The entative program for the border
is practically completed, provides that
Pershing remain in Mexico for the
present. There is an additional pro
vision that Carranza soldiers take care
of liberal portion of the patrol work.
The United States was positively
assured that the Plans contain no
withdrawal of U. s. Ttrops. Villa &C.
tivities at Chihuahua have not vially
effected the situation.
The entire plan is to be submitted to
General Bliss for his approval. Some
revisioning for military reasons may
suggest itself to Bliss. 1t is possible
that the whole plan will be completed
by Saturday, but more probably 1t will
require another week before 1t is sub
mitted to Mexico City for approval.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-09-21
BRADFORDS SECURE
License; SECOND
MARRIAGE

When Mr.. Harry Bradford, of Los
Angeles, and Mrs. Mary Bradford, al
so of Los Angeles, applied yesterday
for marriage license there was an
air of mystery on account of the same
names being borne by each party.
The mystery was soon solved. how
ever, for it proved to be the case that
this was the second marriage o. the
same people.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-09-21
land DREADN AUCHT
Prize THEY ARE
FIGHTING FOR
BY United Press

LONDON, Sept. 21.-One new Brit
ish "tanks" toppled over on it's side
in the Bouleaux Wood, northwest of
Vombles has become a prize for which
the Germans and British are engaged
in spirited fighting. The Germans are
attempting to capture this new mon
ster and learn the secrets of it's con-
struction, planning to put tanks of
their own in operation. The British
have repelled every German attack.
The disabled tank lies midway be-
tween the German and British lines.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-09-21
BETTING DON'T WORRY
BY United Press

BY United Press
NEW YORK. Sept. 21.-The alleged
betting at odds among Wall Street
gamblers does not disturb me, said a
received today from Con
gressman Frank Doremus. chairman
of the Democratic congressional com
mittee to Secretary Mccormick. Con
tinuing it said, "Three months age
they were betting that Roosevelt
would get the Republican nomina
ton"
Imperial Valley press., 1916-09-21
WILSON'S ADDRESS TO GRAIN
MEN EXPECTED CLEAR 3
HOUR Law QUESTION

most famous shippers of the country
who will have to pay advance freighs
to railroads as the result of President
Wilson forcing the eight-hour legisla-
ton before Congress.
Appreciating the importance of the
address the President has to make
already has begun to work. 1t is like.
ly that he will show what the admins
tration has already done and what 1t
proposes to do for business also what
1t has done for the farmer.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-09-21
COMMERCE CHAMBER
ISSUES BULLETIN
ACTIVITIES

The first issue of the Chamber
of Commerce Record" was yes
terday mailed to all members by
Secretary d. G. Bitter. 1t is
four page, three column publica'
ton that gives much information
about the activities and members
of the chamber.
1t was compiled by Secretary
Ritler who insists on being called
editor" of the new paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-09-21

During late August, when the allies
first began their advances the heat in
the daytime became so intense that
even the British and French, hardened
at Gallipoli, suffered, so a large part
of the fighting was Zone at night.
The Bulgarans are still clinging to
stretches of Greek territory on the left
wing Of the allies, though they have
evacuated ViglitZe.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-09-21
BY United Press

BY United Press
ASHBURG PARK, Sept. 21.-The
greatest importance IS attached by
Democrats to President Wilson's ad'
dress to be given Monday at Balti-
more. What the President has to say
on that occasion, and the reception
afforded his speech by the National
Grain Dealers Association will have a
strong influence intwo of the voting
strongholds of the country. Grain
dealers and farmers are among the
Imperial Valley press., 1916-09-21
A NATIONAL ISSUE

While prohibition as federal
amendment is not subject of contrO-
versy between the two dominant parties,
as is woman suffrage, it is neverthe-
less leading issue. 1t will loom large
in the campaigns of thirty-two United
States Senators and 435 Congressman
to be elected in November.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-09-21
SOLDIERS WRECK NEGRO
SALOON-BEAT SEVERAL
BY United Press

SACRAMENTO, Sept. 21.-Stern
measures are being considered by the
police and military authorities follow
ing the wrecking of negro saloon
end beating up several negroes by
soldiers of the Fifth Infantry. Col.
Burt, commanding, stated that he
would take steps necessary to check
the soldiers.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-09-21
CHANGE IN NO. 6

At a meeting of the directors OF No.
6 in Calexico Tuesday the Office of su-
perintendent was declared vacant. 1t
was held by Frank L. Weed who had
contemplated resigning for some time.
James Price was appointed to fill the
place.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-09-21
(By United Press.)

Vby OIIICU ICoo'I
LONDON, SEPT. 21.-Jackals and hy-
meas are creeping down from the
mountain crags at the dead of night
and feast on the bodies of the slain
Bulgarians and Serbians. The advanc-
ing allies found only skeletons.
Three hundred Bulgarian corpses in
a heap in one ravine, slain during the
at Lake Ostrovo, were stripped
of flesh by the jackals, hyenas by
Imperial Valley press., 1916-09-21
lRY United PresS.l

BERLIN, Sept. 21.-Austro-Germans
are in a new invasion of ROumania
from the northwest it is officially in
dicated. The Roumanians who have
advanced ten miles into Transylvania
have been thrown back on their own
frontier. In the Bodrudja battle there
Is a deadlock.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-09-21
THOUSANDS CHEER HUGHES
BY United Press

by Uulteu TIcSS
LAYFETTE, Nd, Sept. 2l.-Seyen
thousand people cheered and packed
the streets here TODAY to hear Repub-
lican Nominee Hughes expound the
doctrines of protection, tariff and Ia
bOr
Imperial Valley press., 1916-09-21
DEFENSE RESTS

BY United Press
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 21.-The
defense rested today in the case OF
Warren X. Billings, charged with con-
spiracy by dynamiting and killing ten
persons.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-09-21
ON HUGHES TOUR
BY United Press

BY United Press
CHICAGO, Sept. Ex-senator Cum
Minis at Republican headquarters here
today announced that he would soon
start on tour, speakin gfor Hughes.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-09-21
KANSAS LYNCHiNG BEE
BY United Press

q OLATHE, Kans., Sept. 21.-Af- =
. ter storming the Jail here today =
q fifty armer men lynched Bert =
q Dudley, avening murder of Mrs. .
= Henry Muller, for which he was .
q convicted Tuesday. .
Imperial Valley press., 1916-09-21
Rv limited Press

PETROGRAD, Sept. 21.-Russians
have captured nearly seven hundred
Germans in the region of Korytnitza
and took more than four hundred pris-
oners, east of Pautherml, also six ma
chine buns.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-09-21
Low Rates ON
R. R. COTTON
P|CKERS
EFFORTS OF Ell cHNTRo BRANCH
Of LABOR oFFIcE sRINes
QUICK RESULTs
II Twenty Laborers Trave! in 4
Bunch They Will Be Given Rate
Of $40 Round Trip from Los Ange-
les to any Point in Imperial VAL
Iey-Thousands Expected

For the first time in the history of
Imperial Valley it has secured sea-
sonal rate from the railways for bring
ing in needed workmen in harvesting
crops. The rate was granted yester-
day by the Southern Pacific Railway
to facilitate the importing of cotton
pickers.
The rate granted is $40 for the
round trip from Los Angeles to valley
points and is available to pickers who
desire to come here, on two days
week.
The days ON which the men can
leave Los Angeles on the reduced
fare are Mondays and Wednesdays,
and the points to which the rates are
good, are Brawley, Imperial, Ell Cen
tro and Calexico.
The securing of this reduced rate
is due in the main to the efforts of r.
H. Hancock of the State Employment
Department.
Mr.. Hancock arrived in Ell Centre
On September 18th to open a branch
Office to assist the planter in getting
cotton pickers. The next morning he
snd A. M. Nelson, County Develop
ment Agent, and A. w. Palmer of the
Imperial Valley Long Staple Cotton
Association, conferred on the subject
of transportation rates, and immedi-
ately there began a telegraphic bonn
bardment of railway officials and state
employment authorities in Los Ange-
les. Later when word was received
that there would be no rate made, an
other procession of kilograms began
moving toward these officials Offices,
This was kept up by Hancoc|tn
yesterday when he was MOTIF
H. Wilson of the Southern
Ell Centre, that rate goi
days week had been gr
cock still had few tell
left when the rate was
note from the passena
to Mr.. Wilson says:
Tariff has beel
bOrers, Los Ana
trip tickets to
" ednesdays
twenty peoI
ties. Publ
figures on
laborers."
While
Imperial Valley press., 1916-09-21
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COMPLETES HIKE
BY FREIGHT
By United Press

. AUSTIN, Sept. 21.-Eleven en-
. LISTED men of the Tive fifth Pro-
= yisional Regiment, who deserted
. lin the hike from San Antonio to 4
. Austin, came to this city today
. by freight trains.
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Imperial Valley press., 1916-09-21
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. CONSUMPTION FOR =
q AUSTRALIA .
BY United Press

q BY United Press .
= MELBOURNE, Australia, Sept. =
q 21-The Australian house of rep .
. resentatives today adopted con- .
. scription, forty-seven to twelve =
= votes. =
Imperial Valley press., 1916-09-21
WEATHER REPORT

Cloudy, coasts tonight fair Friday
Gay westerly.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-09-21
ROUNA|NS ARE
DRIVEN BACK
TO BORDER
German Attack Shifted In Drive
Into oumanla-Teutons Claim
Victories On Both Sides Of Vut'
can Mountains and On Roumanian
Frontier

(By Ed. Keen United Press Staff
Correspondent
LONDON, Sept. 21.-Halted in his
invasion of Eastern Roumania, Field
Marshal Won Mackenzen has shifted
his attack and is attempting to carry
the war into King Ferdinand's coun-
try b va stroke from the northwest.
The German war Office announced this
afternoon that the Austro-Germans
have won victories on both sides OF
the Vulcan mountains and at one OF
the Roumanian frontier gateways,
driving the Roumanians ten miles
back from the Pennsylvania to their
own border.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-09-21
Ry United Press

PARIS Sept. 21.-The French sue
cessfully' attacked the Gerans at Ver-
dun last night it is officially reported.
The captured two trenches south of
Ihiaumont and one hundred prisoners,
they also advanced one hundred yards
into the Xaux Chapille Wood.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-09-21

PARIS, Sept. 21.-French on the
Allied left have advanced three miles
southwest of Monastir. near the from
tier.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-09-21

LONDON, Sept. 21.-British have
advanced south of the Ancre. The Ger
mans lost heavily in counter-attack-
ing against the New Zealanders.
The Cordova daily times., 1916-05-03
PETITION TO THE
 PRESIDENT SENT ' TO THE SENATE

WASHINGTON, May 2.-The petition of the Cordova Chamber of Commerce. President Wilson, praying the government construct branch line from Mile 39 the Copper River Northwestern railway to the Berng river coal fields today submitted to the United States Senate and referred to the committee territories, which will hold hearing the matter May }.
 The brief elaborate one and insists that the has practically prohibited the construction of railroads in Alaska by private individuals pointing out that is unjust for Uncle Sam build up community at the expense of another.
 The truth is says the petition, 'te Boring coal field has long been the subject of political controversy The most astounding been invented about 1t and retaed to the public for political purposes. The Balnger-inchot quarrel freely weapon of attack in the Cunningham coal cases and the Controller Bay incident It's for such purposes ought have passed The time to have come when 1t should be put to its natural uses"
 The petition points that the Boring river feld n which t coal is said to just good that any other feId is the markets of the Pacific Coast and that this coal we'll the oil from the district be made available by the construction of fifty miles of road The coal from this field is absolutely essential to the proper development of the copper mining region, it is urged
 The has to great expense Tn making pro vision for the leasing of coal lands in the Berng river field but
 As made provision for hauling the coal The distance frAl the Boring river field to CorOva is sixyegh miles, while from the Maanuska field, to which the government is building its road to Seward is S5 miles, and the distance from the Nenana field to Fairbanks is 1O4 miles.
 The the first road estimated at $OOOOOO the the Matanuska line is estimated at $ OOOO0O and he Fairbanks road $3 0000OO These estimates are based the suppOon that the government will not delbe parallel the tracks of already existing roadthe Cop her River Norhwesem-or distance of twentynne miles, bat would into traffic arrangement with 1t under the interstate commerce The connection could be built in from months while three will be consumed in building either of the roads which the is now working Boring river coal according to government engi- be landed at CoOva for $ 42 tOn while the Mata nuska coal will cost $3y38 ton. @-.
The Cordova daily times., 1916-05-03
BILL DEFEATED IN
 HOUSE

WASHINGTON. May 2, - The house of representatives today de feated the senate Philippine bill with the Clark amendment. which provided for the independence of the islands at the end of four years. Instead, the Jones bill. which allows the Filipinos a greater measure of self government, was substituted.
 Speakers in opposition to the bill asserted that if the Filipinos were granted independence in four years from now, it would mean that civil war would be raging on the islands in less than one year later. and that un- less we wished to see them fall into the hands of Japan, it would be up to us to wage another war to again pacify them.