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Imperial Valley press., 1918-01-07
SEND HOME ALL SOL
DIERS WHO DO NOT
WANT TO FIGHT, is
PLAN OF M. RADEK,
PEACE DELEGATE.
Says Germany Will Show
Herself in True Light to
Her Own People if She
Invades the Russian Prov
inceS.
(By Associated Press)

London, Jan. 1.-THE Bolsheviki
have definitely begun strengthening
the east front, according to the Pet
rograd correspondent of the Daily
News. The dispatch said M. Radek,
one of the Russian peace delegates,
announced that the Bolsheviki intend
ed to send home from the front all
who did not wish to fight, and so
have an army willing to fight for
Russian ideals.
Radek said the Russian strength
lay in it's weakness. eff we accept
help from the Allies, the significance
of our position will lbe destroyed. The
Germans can drive US back, but what
good will it do them with the coun-
try behind the front stripped bare.
There is not enough to feed single
horse. The Germans will not wish
millions of starving people on their
hands. We stand for a democratic
peace. So do the German workers.
eff Germany attacks us she will
display herself to her own people in
the true light" he added.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-01-07
TRACTOR COURSE
ENL|STS PUPILS
Farm Workers Are Attracted to the
Short Course for Gas Tractors
Which Will Be Given at Riverside,
Beginning Feb. 11-One Dollar Is
Only Charge for This Course.

Registrations are coming in rap
idly for the Gas Tractor Short Course,
to be held at the Citrus Experiment
Station, Riverside, February 11-16,
1918. Not only men, but women as
we'll, are signifying their intention
of availing themselves of the instruc-
ton offered. The fact that men and
boys are so generally leaving the
farms for direct war service has made
it desirable for women to do those
things in agriculture which they can
do well. Women are already past
masters at autmbiles driving. Why
sould they not also drive the iron
horse with it's automatic lift imple-
ments.
The course begins on Monday
morning, February II, and continues
throughout the week until Saturday
noon. A registration fee of $1.00,
payable any time prior to entering the
course, constitutes the only charge
ANY one may register.
Applications should be sent to the
Dean, Citrus Experiment Sation, Riv-
erside, California.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-01-07
CITY MARKET IS
INCUBAT|NG TODAY

Eel CentrO is to have a munich
pal market.
This is the promise of the
market committee of the Ten
Thousand Club, which is meeting
today with the president, Mrs.
Fawcett, to help solve the aggra-
waiting problem of cheaper food
stuffs for Imperial Valley When
the club gets behind anything it
generally makes time.
Now that the gardens which
were planted under the direction
of the club are well up, and scores
more going in, the market is
greatly needed. Also the local
housewives are getting stirred up
over the long distance Valley
products travel before they reach
local kitchens.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-01-07
CENTRAL SEXES
BASKET BANNER
Ell CentrO Boys Down CalexicO Team
by One Point, Thereby Coping the
Valley Championship, as They Did
in FOOtball-WOrk of Gary Was
Brilliant.

In the closest and one of the hard
est fought contests of the season,
the Calexico five, 10 to Is, on the
the Calexico five, 10 ta Is, on the
local grounds, and incidentally copped
the Valley championship-the second
consecutive atahletic championship
this season.
The team was badly handicapped
by the loss of their star guard, Lau-
der, but their hard fighting eventu-
alyy won for them. Calexico led by
one point at the end of the first
quarter, the score being 5 to A. Cen
trail Ter by one point at the end 0
the first half Calexico led again at
the end of the third quarter, the
score being 16 to 13. CaleXico scored
another field goal and the score was
1s to 13. With about four minutes
of play left, the locals spurted, threw
several baskets and just before the
final whistle blew threw the winning
basket.
Valley basketball is over this sea-
son and track is now holding the
entire attention of the Vallsy ath-
letes. With but few weeks of prac-
tice before the big Valley meet on
January 81, the track men are tear
ing up the cinders in preparation.
Central won by an overwhelming
score last season, but the going will
undoubtedly be much harder this year,
for Central has lost several of her
track stars of last year. With the
big meet scheduled to take place on
Ell Centre High field, the great cen
ter point of Valley, record crowd
is expected to gather from I'll Centre
and from the surrounding towns.
Monday night win be the occasion for
the first big turnout of the loca.
tracksters.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-01-07
FORTY
REDMEN TONIGHT

All good Indians meet tonight!
By the sacred blanket of the Most
High Sachem the word has gone forth
of tonight's campfire and initiation OF
the worthy Red Men, the salt OF the
high timbers and the open spaces.
Around the smoking embers at the n.
of p. hall in the Davis building Will
assemble forty brawny-chested war
Iiors, the first order of Improved Red
Men in the valley to smoke the pipe
of peace, but not peace with the kals-
er. The saber- -toother ram, fresh
from the wilds of Timbuctoo, awaits
the hour when the fearsome Red Men
prepare to ride him or succumb IN
the dust at his prancing feet. CHIEF
Organizer May has already sharpened
his tomahawk. Among those to be
initiated are:
Mcfarland, Charles
Baker, John
Agnes, S. j.
Baker, Omie
Meadows, John
Davies, B. w.
Banta, Garland
Perkiss, r.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-01-07

Probably the financial institu-
tiOns of no city of its size in Cal
ifOrnia can show as great in in
crease in business as that eXpe-
rienced by the Ell CentrO banks
in the past year.
Responding to the call of the
federal controller of the cur
rency today to make statement
Of the condition of the banks on
December 81, the three banks OF
Ell Centre totaled figures of de-
posits and resources showing
gain of more than half a million
dollars in deposits and almost
Imperial Valley press., 1918-01-07
WORST BLIZZARD
STRIKES CENTRAL
WESTERN STATES
IN GRIP OF A RAGING
SNOWSTORM THAT TIES UP
STREET TRAFFIC AND EN-
TAILS UNTOLD SUFFERING IN
THE CITY.
Entire Northern Half of United States
Covered by the Storm, While South
ern Half Suffers From DrOuth-
Wires Down in Many Cities-Fuel
and Provisions Short.
(By Associated Press)


Chicago, Jan. THE northern
tier of Middle Western states is
in the grip of the worst storm in
a decade. Wires are down in all
directions, while fuel and food
trains are stalled, entailing great
suffering in many cities.
Chicago is wrestling with snow
drifts piled high by sixty-mile
gale during the worst blizzard in
it's history.
1t is predicted that days will
elapse before the streets are in
normal conditions. South Water
street, one of the most cOngest-
ed thOr0ughfares, is practically
deserted. The delay in hauling
fuel to factories is the only Sc
rious ascept of the situation.
There were two deaths and many
injured in collision.
A meeting of pacifists to dis
cuss terms of peace was aban-
d0ned because only one delegate
braved the storm.
No milk trains arrived today.
Rails promised deliveries tonight.
Milk drivers, attempting to dis
tribute Saturdays left over sup
ply, confined their routes to paths
made by street cars, owing to the
snOwdrifts.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-01-07
CHAS, HOWARD, WHITE,
DIES FROM GAPING
WOUND IN SHOUI-
DE R-NEGRO is I'M
PLICATED.
COnfesse BOOtlegger
Brings Alleged Victim to
the Hospital After Quar-
rel Over Black Woman in
Camp.

Ed Johnson, cOlOred, confessed
bOotlegger, will probably be
charged today with murder as a
resul of an inquest over the body
of Charles Howard, aged. 33,
white, who died in the Brawley
hospital yesterday the result of
a gaping shOtgpn wound in the
left shoulder, inflicted Saturday
night on the Nelles ranch north
east of Brawley.
Johnson brought Howard, al
most dead from loss of blood, to
the hospital. He told the nurses
that Howard accidentally shot
himself. Howard, however, in a
death statement, implicated John
son, who, he said, shot him in a
fit of jealousy because he (How-
ard) spoke to a young negro
woman. The dying statement
may bring Johnson to the moose.
Johnson posed as cotton
picker. He has been arrested by
the Brawley police on the charge
of bOOtlegging. He was arrest
ed Saturday night OH this charge,
made explanations, and was re-
leased. AS he, Howard and sew
eral other men and women sat
around a camp fire, the shotgun
was discharged.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-01-07

six million in resources during
the past year.
This is gain of more than
25 per cent in one year, rec
ord to be envied by every bank
in the country. The condition of
the banks reflects the general
prosperity of Imperial Valley
despite the call of the Liberty
loans, the Red Cross and other
war activities.
The deposits in the First Ma
ti0nal bank have almost doubled
in two years. On January l, 1916,
Imperial Valley press., 1918-01-07
HUGE NECRESS IS
HELD TO ANSWER

Rita Owens, weight 100 pounds,
denizen of the East Side, was held
to answer to the Superior court this
morning by the city recorder on a
charge of grand larceny.
1t is stated that it required the the
combined services of three members
of the city police force to effect her
arrest on the charge of abstracting
$45 from the pockets of Felix Gomez.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-01-07
CARR CHAIRMAN
BD. SUPERVISORS
Calexico Man Gets Chief Seat of
County Board by Unanimous Vote
of His FellOws-SupervisOrs Fa-
vOr Wantland's Land Show Pro-
ject.

Philip E. Carr of Calexico was
elected chairman of the Imperial
County Board of Supervisors by unan-
imous vote of the other members this
morning.
In assuming the helm of the coun-
ty ship of state, Mr. Carr used box
of cigars in christening the vessel
The box was of unusual depth, and
those who called to congratulate him
kept their eyes on the perfectos while
talking.
The supervisors favor the San Die
go land show project Of c. E. Want
land, but have not decided just how
much he couny will spend. They are
inclined to keep the cost down to $500
Mr.. Wantland's talk found favor
with them tod;y.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-01-07
Bank Call Shows Half A
Million Gain In Deposites
Resources
Jan. l, 1917.
S1,193,595.22
455,15O.66
246,9SS.51
Jan. /, 1918.
S1,414,O65.02
639,305.05
411,S4O.S9
S2,465,210.96
1,S95,734.39
S1,S95,734.39
S 569,476.57

they were $663. 3.693.03. On Janu-
airy l, 1918, they were $1,2i4,-
O96.41.
The deposits in the Ell Centric
National bank increased 35 per
cent during the last year, and the
resources jumped accordingly.
The loans of the Security Com
mercial and Savings bank in
creased from $l51,9S2.62 a year
ago to $24l,775.12 on January /
of this year. The increase in the
total resources of this bank was
$164,S52.3S.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-01-07
MAY ESTABLISH A
CANNERY IN CITY

F. J. Weir, of Los Angeles, who has
the backing of Coast capitalists, is
here in the interest of establishing
a tomato cannery in Ell Centro.
He called at the office of the Farm
Bureau, in quiring what were the
prospects of crop if he and his as
sociates should decide to build.
He was encouraged by Farm Ad-
wiser Sullivan, who is of the opinion
that the farmers having vegetable land
would support such an institution.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-01-07
ENGINEER COMES
FOR CONFERENCE
ON LAGUNA DAM
C. E. GRUNSKY ARRIVES TO
TAKE PART IN LAGUNA DAM
CONTRACT MEETING AT OF
FICE OF THE IRRIGATION DIS
TRlCT TOMORROW.
Directors of the Various Water Com
panies Hold Heetings and Give In
structiOns to Delegates as to the
Policies of the Sections of the Val
lev Affected.

C. E. Grunsky, consulting engineer
for the Imperial Irrigation District,
arrived in this city today for the
purpose of attending the meeting to
be held tomorrow to frame a contract
for a Laguna Dam connection.
Meetings of the directors of the
various water companies were held
last week, at which the policies of the
various districts as to the proposed
contract were outlined, and the dele
gates to the meeting instructed.
Secretary McIver was notified to-
day that L. R. Bonesteel, son-in-law
of Mark Rose, had been appointed
delegate from the East Side Water
Company, and that the Farm Bureau
had chosen Mike riebert to represent
that body. He has yet to hear from
No. 6, No. Z, the North End and North
Side water companies.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-01-07
ROCK EFELLER HANDS OUT
FIVE MILLIONS FOR WORK
(By Associated Press)

New York, Jan. THE presi-
dent of the Rockefeller Founda-
ton, George Vincent, announces
the receipt of a check of So,50O,-
coo from John ID. Rockefeller, to
enable the foundation to meet in
creasing demands upon its war
work without having to make
further inroads on its principal
funds. 1t is said Mr.. Rockefeller
is feeding $4,000 Belgians.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-01-07
AFFECTS HEMP INDUSTRY
IN IMPERIAL VALLEY
(ByAssociated Press)

Washington, Jan. 1.-THE Food
Administration has arranged to
control the supply and prices of
all fibre grown and manufactured
in this country, including the sup
ply of binder twine. The prices
will be reasonable, though not as
low as in former years, it is ex-
pected. The large makers of
binder twine, etc, will be called
in for a conference.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-01-07
LIST Of {. OF {.
MEMBERS VOTING
FOR DIRECTORS
CANDIDATES FOR DIRECTORS,
HERE is LIST OF THOSE WHO
WILL SEAL YOUR FATE ON FRI
DAY AFTERNOON - THIRD
TICKET FILED TOO LATE.
No Members Can Vote Who Are More
Than Half a Year Behind in Their
Dues. and No Director Can BE
Seated Who Has Not Paid Up With
in Four Months.

A third list of candidates for di-
rectors of the Chamber of Com
merce, backed by strong business in
terests in the city, was submitted to
the secretary OF the Chamber OF
Commerce today, but it was found that
the time for placing nominees had ex-
pired. The bylaws state that noml-
nations shall not be made during the
five days preceding the election.
Following is list of members Of
the Chamber of Commerce who are
eligible to vote. (No member over
six months in arrears can vote, and
no director can serve if he is more
than four months in arrears in men,
beship dues.)
Applestill, c. M.
Auto Tire Co.
Brydon Bros.
Bill, w. T.
Barbara Worth Hotel
Beeman, Thomas
Blinn Lumber Company
Barton, c. w.
Bowen G. Ettelson
Brooks, Phil w.
Bowles Garage
California Central Creameries
Childers, c. l..
Conley, w. G.
Crerar, James
Crescent Jewelry Company
Conklin, M. w.
Conant, Clarence E.
Coggins, Clifford
Delta Mercantile Company
Durham, Albert
Douglass, t. j.
Davis, John E.
Ell Centre National Bank
Elliott, A. E.
Edgar Bros.
Egerer, William
Enterprise Grocery
Edgar, Ray
Fox & Williamson
First National aBnk
Fites, H. P. Co.
CONTINUED on Page Fou0
Imperial Valley press., 1918-01-07
SUPREME COURT HOLDS
DRAFT Law ALL RIGHT
(By Associated Press)

Washington, JAM THE Supreme
court has held the draft act consti-
tutional. The decision was unanimous
ion and sustained the government con-
tention that power given Congress to
declare war includes power to compel
citizens to render military service at
home and abroad.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-01-07
,ANTU WANTS
SUPPORT Of
AME RIGA Ms.
HEAD OF NORTHERN DISTRICT
OF Low ER CALIFORNIA,
THROUGH BILLY SILVER, DE-
NOUNCFS FALSE RUMORS RE-
GARDING HIS INTENTIONS.
Says He Has Aided the United Au-
thorities in Getting Slackers Across
the Line and in Other Ways and
Would Like a Little ReciprocatiOn
in Squeezing Wild Alarms.

Billy Silver, editor of the official
Cantu paper, La Vanguardia, who is
close to the Cantu government, in a
letter to the editor of The Press to-
day denies, for Colonel Cantu, the
rumors which have been circulated re-
garding the alleged plan for the set
ting up of an Independent republic
in Lower California. Mr.. Silver's let
ter is as follows:
editor Press: In justice to Cover
nor Esteban Cantu of Lower Cali
fornia regarding the secession of his
domain from the Mexican govern
ment, l wish to state that these ma
licious rumors regarding secession
from Mexico were founded by a man
whose name was never known nor ever
heard by the governor, Fielding j.
Stilton, a Los Angeles broker, who
sought world of sensational noto-
riety by coming out in the open claim
representation, which, in the
eyes of the governor and his staff
of officials, is considered to be Sc
rious imposition and an insult to the
people of he Northern District of
Lower California.
Governor Cantu is a patriot and
Ioccro ,lJour;y,or b;,,o ocolf +o baoor,oa n
traitor to his native land he would
choose death instead. The governor
has received, in the past few weeks,
some very unfair treatment at the
hands of the American people. Only
month or so ago he issued an or
der to clean out German spies, desert
ers from the United States army and
disgraceful "slackers" who were seek
ing refuge in his territory.
There were several "slackers" hid
ing in Mexicali, and the governor
ordered his secret service men to work
and within two days time over ten
"slackers" were turned over to Lieu
tenant Farmer at CaleXico, who is the
intelligence officer in charge.
"a large number Of 'slackers' were
reported tat Ensenada and the gov
ernor ordered a roundup Seventy
four Americans were gathered in and
tuned over to the American consul,
to be sent back to the United States.
The consul claimed he had no au-
thoity nor funds to export the men
to San Diego and that he would wire
Washington as to what disposition
he should make of the deserters.' The
Continued on Page Four)
Imperial Valley press., 1918-01-07
FOUND GAS LEAK;
LOSES HIS HOTEL
(By Associated Press)

(By Associated Press)
San Francisco, Jan. Peter
Cluness, proprietor of the Cen
trail hotel, a frame structure in
the wholesale district, was sure
there was gas leak in the base
ment this morning. He started
hunting for it with lighted
matches. Peter was right about
the leak. In the explosion which
followed he was blown through a
brick wall and the hotel was de-
strOyed by fire. Loss, $4,000.
Imperial Valley press., 1918-01-07

Press Liners are read by those who
want work. Do you need help for the
ranch?
Imperial Valley press., 1918-01-07

Phone your wants to The Press
get quick results.
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Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1918-12-28
RECOVER RICH TA|uNCS
 FROM THE CARSON RIVER

A company has been organized to recover quicksilver and tailings from the Carson river, carried into that stream from the big mills operating on the Comstock ores. For many years men have worked the tailings and recovered quicksilver to the am ount of thousands of dollars, but the new company proposes to operate on a big scale and take up the bed of the river to get at the values believed to be there. Many hundreds of thous- ands of tons of ore was milled on the banks of the Carson river and floods took the big tailings pits down the stream. Quicksilver was the me- thod of gathering the gold and silver values by pan amalgamation and the run off while the quick was rather warm is accountable for big loss of that metal.
Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1918-12-28
PIONEER ARIZONA
 PROSPECTOR DIES

Ward Priest, one of the men who blazed the trails into Mohave county in the early seventies, died in Yuma December 9th, at the age of 70 years.
 Priest was wonderful man physi- cally, as we'll as being above the av- craze of the standard of men in the west mentally. He was born in Ohio and went to the Pacific coast shortly after the end of the civil war. After mining in California a few years the silver mines of Arizona attracted him and he came to Mohave county, mak- ing his home in Cerbat. Here he was a companion of the late J. H. John son, William Yancy Malone and other miners and prospectors of that time. In all his prospecting trips he always carried all his camp equipment and supplies on his back, at times going into the hills with as much as 250 pounds of pack. With this big load he would travel from 15 to 20 miles a day. When Tombstone was discover ed, he with Ben Maynard and many other Mohaveites, went to that camp and remained there until the boom days were over, when he removed to Yuma and took up his residence.
 Ward Priest was a splendid fellow, one of that old time class of from tiersmen that made the great west habitable for the present generation, and one who will be greatly missed by all the old friends and acquaintences.
Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1918-12-28
STOCKHOLDERS VISIT
 THE CATHERINE MINE

Charles Sutro and PhillipManson, of San Francisco, were in Kingman the latter part of last week looking after their interests in the Catherine mine, near Pyramid. They went out to the property Saturday last in company with w. c. Howard and Ray L. Dim mick.
 Charles Sutro, who is one of the lar gest shareholders in the mining com pany, is the son of the late Adolph Sutro, who conceived and drove the Sutro tunnel into the great Comstock veins and made possible the operation of that mine from the deep level. MT. Sutro believes in the operation of the mines and their development to such an extent that a big milling plant will soon be necessary to handle the tonnage.
 The Catherine mine is situated about 30 miles west of Kingman and within a mile of the Colorado river. A milling plant of about 50 tons ca- pacity had been erected there, but a vandal blew the plant up, totally wrecking the machinery. The mill will have to be rebuilt and it is pos sible that it will be erected at the mines. The main shaft on the mine was sunk to a depth of 400 feet in a fault and it is the tracing out of the fault that has occupied the attention of the company the past year. This has been done on the 100 level, where the vein has been found to be 30 feet wide. Samples across this vein show values of about SIS. The drift has been carried along the ore body con- siderable distance and drills have en- tered the vein every ten feet to a depth of about seven feet, showing same high grade of ore all the way. The ore along the drift is of higher grade than the crosscut averages.
 Mining men who have looked thru the property believe it to be one of the big gold mines of the country. Lateral work mapped out ought to put it in shape for large output of ore within the next six months,
Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1918-12-28
Edited By=
HANDSOME SPECIMEN
 FROM M'CRACKEN MINE

Leonard Hoffman this week brought in from the McCracken Silver Lead Mines company property and placed on exhibition in the window of Tarr, McComb & Ware Commercial com- pany one of the handsomest specimens of lead ore that has been brought to Kingman in many years. The ore was taken from 40-ton car that was shipped to the shelter, the lead con- tent of which is expected to reach 72 per cent. It is only once in a great while that lead ore has been found anywhere that will run that high, al- though ores from the old Tennessee mine at Chloride have averaged 68 per cent and some of the lead ores of Ger bat have gone equally as high. Some of the lead ore in the De La Fantaine mine ran over. 80 per cent in lead, which is abnormally high. The ores of the McCracken are free from other bases and are the most desirable of all the ores of the county for the lead smelters. ,.
Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1918-12-28
GUGGENHEIM SUED
 BY THE GOVERNMENT

Suit has been brought against the American Smelling and Refining com- pany by the U. s. Government to re- cover about $2O,OO0,OOO which is said to be the amount Uncle Sam has been defrauded of by this company. The American Smelling and Refining com pany has imported millions of tons of lead ores into the United States from Mexico for the purpose of smelling and refining and failed to pay the du- ties on same, because it was represen- ted that all the ores would be smelt- ed and the product would go back in- to Mexico, and not be put in competi- tion with the ores mined in the United States, where high rate of wage was paid to the miners.
 The smelting concern, because of be- able to mine with peon labor, was able to compete and beat down the price of lead ores in the United States, and we hope they will have to pay the price of their chicanery.