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Imperial Valley press., 1916-08-24
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE ON Pc
TITION TO MORTGAGE.

In the Superior Court of the State
OF California, in and for the County Of
Imperial.
In the matter of the estate of Fer
dinand +. Leja, deceased.
Tyler W. Seal. administrator of the
estate of Ferdinand +. Leja, deceased,
having filed herein his petition, duly
verified by affidavit, praying for an
order of this court authorizing, en-
powering and directing him, as such
administrator, to mortgage the real
property of said deceased therein and
hereinafter described, and to pledge
| certain shares of the capital stock of
certain water companies, also therein
and hereinafter described, for the pur-
pose set forth in said petition; and
it appearing that it will be of advan-
tage to said estate that said mort
gage and said pledge be made,
1t Is Ordered by the Court, That all
persons interested in the estate of
Ferdinand f. Leja, deceased, do APP
pear before this court On the 25th
day of August, 1916, at o'clock
in the afternoon, of said day, then
and there to show cause, if any they
have, why the real property of said
estate and the water stock, described
below or some part thereof, should
not be mortgaged or pledged for the
sum of three thousand seven hundred
fifty dollars ($3, ,75O.OO), as prayed for
in the petition of Tyler w. Seal, ad-
ministrator, this day filed, or for such
lesser amount as to the court shall
seem meet. Reference is made to said
petition for further particulars. Said
real estate, the property to be mort
gagged, is situated in the County of :,
Imperial, State of California, and is
more particularly described as fol-
lows, to wit:
Parcel one: Tracts fifty-three (53)
and flfty-four (5Q, Township fifteen
(15) South, Range fifteen (15) East,
S. b. NJ, excepting therefrom one (1)
acre heretofore decided to Rose school
district for school purposes.
Parcel two: An undivided one-half
(k) interest in and to the west one
half (WA) of the Northeast one
fourth (NEh) and the East one-half
(Eh) of the Northwest one-fourth
(NWA), Section six co., Township
sixteen 16) South, Range fifteen
(15). East, S. B. M.
Said water stock, the property to
be pledged, is more particularly de-
scribed as follows, to wit:
1. Ninety-five (95) shares of the
capital stock of Imperial Water Com
pany No. 1, a corporation, now To-
Gated upon the first above described
parcel of land.
2. Sixty shares of the capital stock
of Imperial Southside Water Com
pany, a corporation, now located upon
said last above described parcel Of
land.
1t is further ordered that this order
to show cause be. published daiIv for
four successive weeks before the dav
of hearing in the Imnerial Valley
Press, a daily newspaper of general
circulation, published in said County
of Imperial.
Dated this 28th dav of July. 1916.
FRANKLIN J. COLE,
AugN Judge Of Supe-ior Court.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-08-24
u,HE CHRONICLE WORRIED.

i The Calexico Chronicle is greatly annoyed because
the Press endorsed the appointment of commission OF
engineers and then didn't enhuse Now might be per
fect frank with the Chronicle and the other spokesman
for the Mexican interests, and explain attitude fully.
Everybody of course morally certain when the en-
gineers named that they appointed purely for
political effect to save off until after the recall
election.
Feeling morally sure of this, everybody did, the
Press decided not to hint at the truth until the Mex
lean organs themselves proved it. The Press therefore
endorsed the appointments providing the engineers were
given free hand but the Mexican organs could not hide
their hands for day. Instantly in chorus they began to
;el that the appointment proved that the majority % men,
bers should be recalled By this procedure they at
once advertised the political trick that being played
just as the Press expected them to advertise It,
And when these spokesmen for the Mexican organs
had thus announced that Messrs Mcclure and Grunsky
and Anderson had simply been appointed to save the hide
of certain director, certain engineer and one
certain attorney in the opinion Of the Press they mad
it impossible for any of these men or any reputable
engineers to serve.
The Press was willing to take these men in good
faith until it shown they were appointed IN bad faith
Imperial Valley press., 1916-08-24
NALIFORNIA NEEDS JOHNSON.

~ California needs Hiram w. johnson in the United
States senate"
SO declares the Sacramento Bee one of the most in
fuentia journals in northern California and newspaper
of national fame
The Bee goes on to inquire
will any citizen kindly point to anything even at
tempted not to say accomplished behalf of the people
by either or both of Hiram w. Johnsons contestans?"
The Bee then recOunts of the things that Gov
ernor Johnson has accomplished for the state:
l. Humanitarian laws that safeguard the lives Of the
people in occupations and in their homes
(a) Efficient Child Labor Laws
(b) Eight-hour Law for Women
(c) WOrkman's Compensation Law
CD immigration and Housing Act
(e) Industrial Welfare Law.
G) Pure Food Laws, including the Milk Law
2 Laws regulating business and protecting the in.
yestments Of the people, ~
(a) Blue Sky Law which protects the citizen
from being fleeced by getrich-quick pro-
moters.
(b) Market Commission to induce CO.
operation between producer and consun-
er in order to reduce the cost Of living
(c) Rural Credits Commission, to tighten the
financial burden of the farmer.
(d) Water Conservation Law, to protect ma
tura resources.
(e) Flood Control Law
d) Weights and Measures Law to secure to
purchasers full and honest weight for
money paid.
I'D Civil Service Law, which secures efficiency
Imperial Valley press., 1916-08-24

amount as chief of the land office for
the expense Of trip to confer with
President Taft and Clifford Pinchot in
behalf of the latter, just before Bal
linger' resigned as secretary of the
interior. The government asserts the
transcontinental trip was unauthorized
Meet me at the dance at the Wood.
land Country Club, Saturday evening
August 2G.-Adv.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-08-24
HOTEL VENDOME

231 South Hill ST., Los Angeles
Clean and homelike. Right in shop
ping district. Half-block from Y. w
c. A.
Per day. soc and up.
Per week, $3.50 and up.
Private baths.
Phones: Main SCOT HomeA66O1
Imperial Valley press., 1916-08-24
HOTEL SHERMAN
31i West Fourth street. near broadway,
Los Angeles.

$50 rooms. unexcelled in situation,
comfort. cleanliness; 81 per week up,
81 day and up. Main 1887, 1851. Take
any bus to this hotel; fare refunded.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-08-24
SUMMONS.

In the Justices Court of Ell Centre
Township, County Of Imperial, State
Of California.
Chas. Darrough, plaintiff, VS.. A. P.
Phillips, defendant.
The People of the State of Califor-
ria send greeting to A. P. Phillips,
defendant.
You are hereby directed to appear
in an action brought against you by
the above named plaintiff in the JUS
tice's court of Ell Centre township,
Imperial county, State of California,
and to answer before the justice at
his office, Court House, in said
township. the complaint filed therein,
within five days Exclusive of the day
Of service) after the service on you
of this summons, if served within the
township in which the action is
brought; or, if served out of said
township but within said county, with
in ten days; or within twenty days
if served elsewhere. And you are
hereby notified that unless you so ap-
above required, said plaintiff will
cause you default to be entered and
take judgment for any money or dam
ages demanded in the complaint as
arising upon contract, or will apply to
the court for the relief demanded in
the complaint, together with the costs
of suit.
Given under my hand this 18th day
of June, 1916.
I. MAYFIELD,
Justice of the Peace, El Centre Town
ship, County of Imperial, State of
California. ThursSept21
Imperial Valley press., 1916-08-24
Would Recover S240.

San Francisco, Aug. 24.-As an af-
termath of the Ballinger-P con-
troversy, the federal district court is
today considering an action filed by
the United States against Louis K.
CLAWS, former chief of the Pacific
coast land office bureau, to recover
$240.
1t is alleged that CLAWS, as special
disbursing agent, paid himself that
Imperial Valley press., 1916-08-24
Hotel Sutter, San Francisco,
Popular Under New Management

George Warren Hooper, who merly
greeted the patrons of the historic old
Occidental Hotel, is now smiling the
same genial welcome to old friends and
new at Hotel Sutter.
Quite as popular as the new service,
however, are the reasonable rates.
which attractively read: Room with
out bath, S1.00 per day. Room with
bath, $3.50 per day"
Sutter St. cars from Ferry. Third St.
ears from Third and Townsend depot,
pass the door.-Adv.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-08-24

in state employments.
(h) State Highway System, which has attract
ed national attention.
Cd Regenerated Railroad Commission, that has
saved the people of the state S6O0O0O0
in reducing excessive railroad, gas, tele-
phone, express and other rates.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-08-24
Hotel MelrOse

12O -13O So. Grand Ave. Los Angeles
Summer rates now on. Rooms with
out bath, $3.50 week up, $40 month up
Rooms with bath. $3.50 week up, SIS
month up. Cafe in connection.
Phones: Home 1924; Main 1906.
JOSEPH o. ROE. Proprietor. :.
Imperial Valley press., 1916-08-24
PR|NCON:

dinners twice week. Most
stage leaves Azusa daily at
Manager, Azusa. Cal. +. r.,
Imperial Valley press., 1916-08-24
HOTEL JOVITA
s2G South Spring Street,
Los Angeles

Quiet. Cleanly. Close In.
RATES-75c per day up; $1.OO per
day up with private shower bath.
Take l.. A. Transfer Bus. We refund
your fare.
New Britain herald., 1916-08-11
Searching For Causes.
(New Haven UniOn.)

The world is beginning to open it's eyes to the fact long known to the thinkers that much of our lawlessness is resultant, the effect of causes often possible to determine with ac- curacy. Sometimes it is the result of environment, sometimes of disease, sometimes of ignorance, sometimes the result of that dangerous thing called "a little knowledge" Often if the cause or causes are removed the result, crime, is prevented. Warden Osborne of Sing Sing has carried this knowledge, with the addition of much more insight, into the administration of one of our greatest prisons. He has revolutionized the institution. He has established there an office for the study of the causes which led every man there to commit his lawless act. He expects to remove the causes in many cases and return the men in question to society with assurance that afterward they will lead law-abiding lives Already he has made notable achievements in this work. He has proved many times that it is practical. Mr. Osborne is the pioneer In this field of work in our great civil prisons. However, along comes Major Sedg- wick Rice, commandant of the army disciplinary barra cks at Lort Leaven- worth reporting to the ad1utant general:
 1T think it just that 1t should be brought to your attention and. With your approval to the attention of the public" says Major Rice, 'that Sing Sing Is not the first institution to have establish ed an office for the study of each prisoner admitted.
 we have had since August, 1914, a departm ent of this institution capaple of doing and actually doing the Worh outlined as intended at the New 1orh Oner admitted here has been caretuliy studied The knowledge thus galned has been applied in a practical mah- ner in re-arranging work of prisoners in their groupings within the 1nst1tu- ton and in determining their fitness for return to society by clemency, py parole. by restoration to the colors, or otherwise"
 The country will be happy to learn these facts. The more this Work spreads, the more rapidly 1t is taken LID. the better MT. Osborn and the major can settle between them which was the first in the field while the people conf1ne their thoughts to the satisfac ction that both are succeeding at it and are so sure that it is prac- +ical that they want the honor of be- ing the first to put it in actual opera tion on a large scale.
New Britain herald., 1916-08-11
That "FoOI's Paradise"
(Boston POst).

There have been many notable eX- ing proved a telling factor for either success or failure in a presidential campaign. Don't swap horses while crossing a stream" was very effective in helping Lincoln to a second term, just as a certain unfortunate phrase proved Blaine's undoing. Candidate Hughes recent statement that we are living in a fools paradise" has al ready begun to dog him at every turn, and bids fair between now and elec- ton to keep him vainly beating the air on the defensive.
 This unfortunate statement of MT. Hughes is proving a two-edged sword against him. First, because 1t is ab solutely removed from any basis of fact; and second, even if 1t were true, it would-as every banker and busi- ness man knows-be a very foolish thing to say; for about the surest way to terminate period of prosperity is to make such statements as will tend to destroy confidence in the perma- hence of that prosperity.
 AS a matter of fact, the one thing that has made the present wonder fully prosperous condition essentially sound beyond all comparison with the business booms which ended in disas- trous panic in 1904 and 1907 during republican administrations, is that there has been 8 wholesome restraint upon wild speculation for many months. Fully eight months before Hughes uttered his belated warning, bankers and businessmen throughout tho country put the brakes on specu- lation in securities, and war stocks have never since been so high as they were last fall. In the commercial world the mills and factories have for months been turning from the tenn
New Britain herald., 1916-08-11

the advance notices anent his won derful abilities as a campaigner. He is laundering away at his best; but his voice is not producing the echoes. There are no reverberations through out the countryside. And if MT. Hughes totally loses his voice, Pres ident Wilson might just as well post pone his speech of acceptance until two or three days before the election
 It will be all over but the shouting
 MT. Hughes has started his attack on the administration and he must keep it up. Otherwise the country will forget all about him. And if he keeps it up and engages too much attention he will be irreparably damaged for the simple reason that the American public hates a ''knocker," and that is all MT. Hughes has shown himself to be. He has cast aside the soft cloak that clothed him on the bench of the United States Supreme Court and has put on the garments of a soap box orator and small town poli- tician. And the change i'll becomes him. Possibly that is the reason for the lack of response in this campaign.
New Britain herald., 1916-08-11

porary war business to their own heavy domestic demands.
 Meanwhile every index of business has been mounting up to the highest figures in our history. Bank clear ings, new building, iron and steel and copper production, textile manufac- turing, every basic industry which gives life to every other line, has con- tinued to swell in ever increasing vol tune. And despite all this legitimate expansion money, which alone makes 1t all possible, remains practically as cheap and abundant as ever.
 MT. Hughes, as a lawyer, has nat urally had very limited experience with business. Such loose state ments, If made by him as president, would cause a tremendous shock to business; and a little more along the same line will tend to make the busi- ness men of the country feel anything but favorable toward him.
 It is not very effective argument for the republicans to say that by all the rules of their party and platforms the people ought not to be having such prosperity. The answer is that they have it.
New Britain herald., 1916-08-11

have bitterly reproached The World for it's assertion that the Hughes can didacy is the one hope of the hy- phenated elements that are deter mined to punish the president for throttling Germany's campaign of submarine manslaughter. Facts are facts Every important German news paper in Germany, and every import ant German newspaper in the United States is supporting MT. Hughes and dominant Americanism."
 MT. Hughes election would be Ger many's revenge on President Wilson, and nobody can make anything else out of it.
New Britain herald., 1916-08-11
TELEPHONE CALLs
HELPING THE FARMERS.

will not be long now before the looked for rural credit banks are Holished in all parts of the United
 es. The newly created Federal sn Loan board has set about it's sz of permanent organization, and linen appointed to this task are busiastic in their endeavors. Far
 s who have been sorely in need of Fey for cons and cons will soon be # position to derive the benefits of system of finance. They will be bled to obtain working capital at @onable rates. Also, they are not ' y to forget the administration # loosened the financial shackles bound them for many, many $.
 Tall street, naturally, frowns upon attempt to help the farmers in this ]. The journals which express the Fs of the former money center of
 country denounce the farmers
 king system as an experiment.. So ! sharks who formerly thrtved farmers. The same sources waxed uent against the Federal Reserve lem when that was in it's infancy. |y could see nothing but the dark of it all, the side that suited them }. It is safe to wager that as the |eral reserve plan worked out to the sfaction of the country at large
 farmers loan system will revo- on1ze agricultural conditions in
 country. It is time the farmers e helped with their burden.
New Britain herald., 1916-08-11
Government Jobs.
(Meriden JournalD

James Hay, jr., says that govern ment jobs in Washington have no future and yet thousands of persons want them.
 "One day near the close of this session of congress-" he says q asked thirty members of the house of rep resentatives how many applications they had received that day, either per sonally or by letter or telegram, for government jobs. Each of these rep resentatives, purposely picked to cover all sections of the country, had on his desk from two to twenty-one re- quests for federal employment The average was five.
 "A twelve hundred dollar man. whose family consists of his wife. his ffteen-years-old daughter and him. self, told me this:
 I don't mind confding to you that we are able to have a roast of beef in our apartment only once a year. I haven't been to a theater for five years. Nor has my wife. We cant afford to go to moving picturea-< more than once or twice a month and sometimes, when bills are bling up, doubt If we ought to go at all.' :"
New Britain herald., 1916-08-11
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The Way of the U. s.
(New York Tribune).

The American newspaper and the Am meriCan newspaper correspondent are institutions quite peculiar to our selves. But they are institutions, and not in the least @ mere side issue. We expect our public men to explain their purposes and policies to us, not in public speeches, not on official OcCa- sions, but day by day and in our news papers. The president of the United States fixes hours each week in which he receives the Washington corre- spondents and answers their questions. He is not quoted, but every newspa- per reader in the country knows the source of those statements that fol- low these conferences. But every other public official speaks in his own person and without the cover of an- nymity.
New Britain herald., 1916-08-11
Gerlnany'S Revenge on Wilson.

MT. Hughes doctrine of dominant Americanism' and "a dominant sense of national unity has stirred the Ger man-language newspapers to a high pitch of enthusiasm.
 The Newly Yorker Herold finds that the Hughes speech met the expecta- ton of every real American"
 To the Westliche Post of St. Louis even a nasty examination of the Hughes policies "convinces every non- partisan reader that we have to do with document of truly statesman like force and comprehensiveness"
 The Cincinnati Volksblatt is con- vinced that MT. Hughes has a good argument when he says that the Lusi- tania catastrophe should have been avoided by Wilson's immediately and definitely coming out against Eng lands illegal actions which forced Germany to take the law into it's own hands,
 To the Illinois Staats-zeitung MT. Hughes doctrine is the beautiful the true.' Whoever reads this speech can not doubt for moment that every word is a fact, that America under the leadership of such a man would win back every iOta of lost rights"
 The NeW-Yorker Staats-Zeitung calls the speech "a forceful enuncia- tion of American principles"
 The Deutscher correspondent inter- prets MT Hughes criticism of Presi- dent Wilson as proof that MT. Hughes is incensed chiefly by the presidents attitude toward France and Great Britain, and that "in order to protect our rights, MT. Hughes would have threatened with embargo on arms and ammunition.''
 Since MT. Hughes made his speech of acceptance every republican news paper in the country has assured us that the speech was a clear and un- eQuivocal definition of MT. Hughes foreign policies. Just what those pol icies are no republican newspaper has undertaken to explain, but the Ger man-language newspapers, represent ing the German vote, without which MT Hughes has no chance of electiOn are under no seal of silence. They frankly interpret MT. Hughes as a svmpathizer with the 102 republican members of the house of representa- lives, under the leadership of James F.. Mann and Joseph G. Cannon, who voted for the kaiser and against the president on the McLemore resolu- ton.
 Many of MT. Hughes supporters
New Britain herald., 1916-08-11
The Better Way.

It is better to lose with a conscience
 clean
 Than win by trick unfair; It is better to fall and to know you've
 been,
 Whatever the prize was, square, Than to claim the joy of a far-Of goal And the cheers of the standers-by. And to know down deep in your in
 most soul
 A cheat you must live and die. Who wins by trick may take the prize And at first he may think 1t sweet, But many a day in the future lies When he'll wish he had met defeat For the man who lost shall be glad at
 heart
 And walk with his head up high, While his conqueror knows he must
 play the part
 Of a cheat and a living lie The prize seems fair when the fight But save 1t is truly won You will hate the thing when the
 crowds are gone, For it stands for false deed done, And it's better you never should reach
 your goal
 Than ever success to buy At the price of knowing down in your That your glory is all lie.
 Detroit Free Press.