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Imperial Valley press., 1919-04-02
TWELVE YEAR
OLD BOY TAKEN
As CHECK K|TER

The youngest "check-kiter' ever
arrested in Imperial county was ap
pretended this afternoon by Chief
Deputy Sheriff Cummings and Dep
uty Sheriff Devore after a chase OF
four miles which terminated just
within the city limits of Imperial
The youthful prisoner is Emil Kes-
tenholz of Brawley, II years old.
Writing out in childish scrawl a
fictitious check from $25 on the
First National Bank of this city, he
presented the paper for cashing at
Varney Brothers store.
The check was presented in pay
ment for a dollars worth of sugar,
which he admitted he bought as
camOuflage, He says he intended
spending the remainder of the mon
ey for wrist watch, trinket of jew
eiry on which his kid heart was set
Suspicious of the youthful custom
err, the management of the store
called the officers. The boy was
placed under arrest, but begged to
be allowed to get his bicycle, which
was standing at the curb in front
of the store. The minute his move
ments were hidden by the parked au-
tomobiles he jumped aboard his
wheel and fled.
The officers followed in an auto
mobile and captured the youth at
Imperial.
Kestenholz is the son of ranch
hand living in Brawley. He had
come to Ell Centre to visit his moth
err, who is i'll and is a patient at
the hospital.
When searched he was found to
be carrying wrist watch which he
claimed had been loaned him by a
boy friend.
His case is being handled by Pro-
baton Officer Swanson.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-04-02
STRIKE ARTESIAN
WATER IN CITY
OF HOLTVILLE

The sixteen lot owners in the new
building tract in the west part of
Holtville, which has been designated
by them as Artesia Square, were re-
joiced late yesterday evening with
the gladstone news that the water
level in the artesian well that was
being drilled in the square had been
reached, and today, pure, sparkling
water As gushing forth as though
glad to be relieved from its long con
finement in the bowels of the earth.
This is the fourth artesian well to
be brought into Holtville, and judg
ing from the present flow. which has
not been completely developed, it is
the strongest and best one that has
been produced, and will furnish more
water than the residents of the square
will ever be able to use for domestic
and other purposes.
During the drilling of the well a
deposit of sandstone or similar sub
stance was encountered for more than
100 feet, which made drilling very
laborious, as the drill had to be pulled
out and sharpened many times often
er than on any other well in the city
or the country surrounding it.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-04-02
VICE PROBLEM
SUBJECT
A I CITY HALL

the town is loose. Sporting women
are plving their trade on our down
town streets, and have become so
bold that they have actually gone
into stores to solicit men, according
to reports made to me in the past
few days.
"Gambling is running noIe or less
wide open. To my certain knowledge
there are several games in operation
have the names and addresses of
places in question covering the whole
gamut Of vice from bad women to
gambling houses
Something must be done that is
certain, and | shall insist at tonight's
meeting that some plan be adopted for
a relentless war against vice and the
parasites of society who fatten on
vice Ell Centre is nearly 'wde
open" town, in my opinion, and
think nv judgment is good in such
things, Tor | have lived in frontier
towns OF the Northwest in the wild
and woolly days"
Eve have laws on the statute
books against vice I'VE have a city of
homes that must be protected; the
majority of cur citizenry will not toll
crate such conditions, and public
opinion insists that things must be
remedied, and that Immediately
1--WE need an energetic, fearless and
constant campaign against violatOrs,
or we will soon awaken to find our
city helpless in the hands of vice
machine | do not think that these
people are paying tribute for protec-
ton, for | know the members Of the
police department to be absolutely
honest and square, but certainly
know that they have been unable to
cope with the underworld forces OPP
Grating here
Involved in the questions to be
taken up at the conference are pos
sible changes in the personnel of the
police department, possible change in
the police commissionership, and a
possible increased police force.
The mayor, however, declined to
discuss these matters, stating that
they were but details of the broad
general campaign to squelch vice and
to rid the city of all undesirables.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-04-02
PR0C[ AIM
REPUBLIC.
IN SERBIA
IS REPORT
(By Associated Press)

London, April 2.--The newspaper
Vetchernilisty of Agram, Jugo- -Slav-
ia, according to wireless dispatch
from Rome, today announced that the
dynasty of Karageorgevitch had been
deposed and a republic proclaimed,
with Belgrade as the capital of Ser
hia and Jugo- -Slavia.
Agram is the capital of Croatia,
which forms one of three parts of
Jugo-Slavia or the kingdom Of the
Serbs, Greats and Slovenes. Crown
Prince Alexander has been acting as
regent of Serbia for several years for
his father King Peter l. Recent
reports have been that King Peter is
in very. poor health. The Croat
prince left Paris, March 2, for Bel
grade. There have been no recent
reports of disorders in Belgrade.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-04-02

Startling allegations that FL Centro
is wide open" town and that the
police department has failed to keep
the lid nailed down tight, or at least
been unsuccessful in coping with the
situation, will be aired tonight at an
important meeting to be held at the
city hall.
Those invited to be present for a
are said to exist here are: Members
S. Larew, Chief of Police c. G.. Toney
and members of his force.
Mayor GEORGE Watkins is taking the
initiative in the matter and is prepar-
ing to submit to the conference a
mass of data which he and volunteer
workers cooperating with his office
have Lnearthed
Mayor Watkins declares that he
is in a position to prove that gambling
is prevalent, many of the games be
ing operated in public places; that a
score or more of protitutes are ply
ing their trade rather openly and
have become bolder through failure
of the police authorities to act, and
that large quantities of liquor are
being sold
The mayor charges the police de
partment with failure to handle the
situation, laying it's lack of activity
to several things. He is reported to
have made this charge without malice
or unfriendliness to any individual on
the fierce.
At tonight's meeting he declares
he will explain conditions as he has
found them and will insist upon the
cooperation of every branch of the
city government toward running out
all undesirables, arresting owners or
patrons of gaming houses and clos
ing up the places that harpor loose
women even to the extent of prose
cutting the owners under the red light
abatement act.
II knew what the conditions were
two months ago when there was
change in the office of city marshal"
said the mayor in the presence Of
witnesses. "They were bad. | have
just completed a re-canvaSs Of the
situation and have found no i'm
provement.
'The arrests on vice charges have
been few and far between although
Imperial Valley press., 1919-04-02
(By Associated Press)

Milwaukee, April 2.-Milwaukee
Socialism, on an issue of loyal Amer
icanism, was Yesterday gwen the
most severe beating that the party
has received since it became real
political factor in the state, With
one-half of the citys' votes counted,
every Socialist candidate for school
and judicial offices has been beaten
two to one or better
The proportion was the same
whether en- the judicial campaign,
where men only could vote, or in the
school election, where the women vot-
ed with the men. The clear-cut is
rue of loyalty to America was drawn
with the Socialist pledge to reinstate
German in the schools. Milwaukee
repudiated Germanism and Socialism
with the heaviest vote ever cast.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-04-02
THOMPSON IS
REELECTED AS
CHICAGO MAYOR
(By Associated Press)

Chicago April 2.-Mayor William
Hale Thompson, Republican, was re-
elected today in one of the most eX-
citing struggles the city ever wit
messed the incomplete unofficial re-
turns indicating that his plurality
would be in the neighborhood of 49,
600.
His nearest opponent was Robert
w. Sweitzer, Democrat, county clerk,
whom the mayor defeated four years
ago by plurality of more than l41,-
900.
The city voted "wet" by a sweeping
majority, the first time the question
had been voted on in Chicago. The
liquor adherents made a campaign
based on the slogan, LET Congress
Hear Your Protest" The vote was
three to one, or better, in favor of
saloons.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-04-02
MEXICAN DENIES
JAP SETTLEMENT
(By Associated Press)

Mexico City, April 2.-Salvador
Gomez, chief of staff of the Depart
ment of Agriculture, officially denied
tonight reports that Japanese sub
jects had bought lands in Lower Cali
fornia. His statement was issued on
behalf of the department in the alb
sence of Pastor Roguaix, secretary
of agriculture.
Baron Gugitaro Otorf, Japanese
minister to Mexico, said:
"A tempest IN a teapot has been
created and | think the prominence
the American press has given to this
question is due to political maneu-
yer caused by the nearness of the
next presidential campaign. 1t may
be declared that there are no CON
cessions in Lower California that ia
vor the interests of my people"
Imperial Valley press., 1919-04-02
RED REV0LTS
CRUSHED IN
HU!N-AUSTR|A
(By Associated Press)

Paris, April 2.-Reports to the
French foreign office are to the eff
feet that the Bolshevik movement in
German Austria has been unsuccess-
full.
The railroad strike at Vienna end
ed after a few hours and the insur-
rection at Gratz was soon put down.
Reassuring reports from Hungary
have also been received by the French
authorities and officials believe it
will be possible to resume diplomatic
relations with Hungary soon.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-04-02
GRASP AT A STRAW.

Chicago, April 2.-The pronounced
wet vote in the election here yester-
day was said by personal liberty
leaders to mark the beginnin" of a
campaign to repudiate national pro-
hibition.
Four out of every five men voted
wet and three out of every five wom-
en- did the same.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-04-02
(By Associated Press)

Berlin, April 2.-Almost all the Ia
Dor forces in Germany are striking
or threatening to strike as the result
of agitation by Independent Socialists
and Spartacans, who succeeded in
their efforts to induce the workers
to make increasingly impossible de-
mands.
The situation everywhere is con-
sidered serious.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-04-02
EXPEDITE PLANS
FOR !. s. AID
ON HIGHWAYS
(By Associated Press)

Washington, April 2-The adoption
of plans to expedite highway con-
struction under the enlarged pro-
gram recently authorized by Con
g1ess, it is expected, will result in
more miles of road being constructed
this year than in any previous year
in the nations history
Secretary Houston announced today
that If all the states take advantage
of the opportunity offered for federal
aid total of $343 100000 will be ex-
pended
Imperial Valley press., 1919-04-02
(By Associated Press)

Paris, April "A Zurich dispatch
states that in riots at Frankfort,
Monday, eleven were killed and twen-
ty-five wounded.
The police made 40 arrests in con-
nection with the disorder.
In the Ruhr basin the number of
strikers is estimated at 10000.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-04-02

Milwaukee, April 2.-Socialists in
Milwaukee county were defeated in
judicial contests yesterday by major
tiles ranging from 1000 to $4,000
In the state a number of cities
voted from dry to wet, including Be
lot, Madison and Superior.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-04-02
s(Ry Associated Press)

Paris, April Reconsideration of
the question of reparations and dis
position Of the Rhine valley was con-
tinued today by the council of four,
comprising President Wilson and the
premiers of Britain, rFance and It.
ally, whe nthe sessions of the council
were resumed today.
1t is understood that probably at
occupied by these subjects.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-04-02
MARINE ELECTED
TO OFFICE.
BY Associated Press)

(Ry Associated Press)
Topeka-Sergeant Robert Gif-
ford, a marine who lost leg in
the Battle of Chateau Thierry,
has been elected park commits
sioner here.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-04-02
CITY VICE RIDDEN, SAYS MAYOR
Patrol Ocean
Aerial Route
(By Associated Press }

Washington, April British de-
stroyers will cooperate with the
American navy in patroling the course
to be followed by American seaplanes
in their projected flight across the
Atlantic ocean next month. Fifty
or sixty craft will be used and they
will be stationed at intervals of less
than 200 miles.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-04-02
(By Associated Press)

Stuttgart, April 2.-The govern
ment has proclaimed a state of siege
in the city of Stuttgart and it's en-
virons. All shops, theatres and pum-
lie places must close from in the
evening until 9 in the morning and
all street traffic is forbidden after
9 at night.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-04-02
(By Associated press)

Paris, April 2.-Germany will not
persist in her opposition to the use
of Danzig by Polish troops on their
way from France to Poland, accord
ing to advices reachin" the Paris
newspapers.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-04-02
lBY Associated Pressl

st. Louis, April 2-The entire Re-
publican ticket was victorious in yes
terdays' municipal election, according
to complete unofficial returns.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-04-02

London, April 2.-Serious rioting
occurred Monday at Frankfort-ont 1.-the
Main, according to an Amsterdam dis
patch.
Crowds attacked the police stations
and released prisoners
Imperial Valley press., 1919-04-02

Fred l.. Bradley, brother of James
G. Bradley, arrived in El Centre this
came in answer to a telegram saying
that his mother was very low
Imperial Valley press., 1919-04-02
SHIP ALBERT
is AGROUND.

San Francisco-The vessel AL
bert is reported to be ashore off
Point Reyes. Captain Uuburg,
in command, has met his death,
according to meagre reports re-
ceived here.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-04-02

Archangel, April 2.-Bolshevik
forces again attacked Allied positions
along the railway near Odozerskai
and also made an assault on the lines
east of Bolshoiaozera, yesterday, but
at both places they were repulsed.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-04-02

London, April 2.-It is reported
from Bucharest that Entente troops
are being landed at COnstanza on the
Black Sea coast on their way to Hun
quarry, according to Copenhagen
dispatch to the Central News.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-04-02

Help the Red Cross in
Its Used Clothes Drive
for the Sufferers of Eu-
rope.
The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1919-12-27

To incur debt and to issue serial ne
gotiable coupon bonds of said
Fourth Road District, Fourth Po-
lice Jury Ward of the Parish of
st. Landry, La, to the amount
of seventy-five thousand dollars
($75,000.00), to run for periods
of from one ID to thirty 800
years, and to bear interest at the
rate of five per cent (5) per an
nun from said date until paid;
interest on all bonds to be paid
semi-annually and said bonds or
funds derived from the sale
thereof to be used and expended
under the direction and control
of the Police Jury of the Parish
of st. Landry, La, as the govern
The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1919-12-27

Emma Goldman's Mother Earth. !"
The boy said he had no sympathy
for bolshevism because it represent
ed form Of government or author
ity for both Of which he professed
that few weeks ago he participated
in q parade of Russian radicals up
Fifth avenue which was broke up by
the police amid scenes of wild disor-
der. The paraders either refused to
take out or did not possess a neces-
sary police permit.
When told that statistics showed
that more than 183,000,OOO Rus
slams could neither read nor write,
Buhkanob said he wanted to go back
o Russia just the same, ito help
them" He said he had no use for
any government even though it pro-
tected his life and property, enabled
him to earn a good living and to
dwell in peace and comfort. He said
police or fire department, street
cleaning system, water works, light
ing system or any other public serv-
ice would be acceptable to him if
they all did not involve the exercise
of authority" And yet Buhkanob
was reputed to have been. an orderly
boy in school.
E. H. Anderson, director of the
New York public library, in state
ment regarding Burkanob's charges
that he had obtained anarchistic lit
eraturc from one of the library
branches, said he had been unable to
find the books Buhkanob mentioned
listed in the catalogue. Certain
works by Kropotkin and other SINH
lar writer's, he said, printed in Rus
sian, were undoubtedly on the
shelves, but they were not 'incendi-
airy or seditious' and were books of
high literary value.
The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1919-12-27
signature of Voter.
ATTORNEY in Fact.


Notice to Voters-To vote in favor
of the proposition submitted on this
ballot, place a cross (X) mark in the
square after the word EYES" oppo-
site the proposition voted on; to vote
against said proposition, place a SIM
liar mark after the word mo" oppo-
site the proposition voted on.
Section 4-That said election shall
be held at the following places and
by the following named officers, each
of whom is registered voter:
At Palmetto-At Ganson's Store ;
Commissioners Meyer, M. L.
Clark, VIM. Fitzmaurice; clerk.
Isaacson.
At Bayou Current-At Nat Cam
pisi's observation-disclosures, R. A.
Gordon, Morgan Gordon, Ira Nc
Adams; clerk-Holmes Berger.
At Melville City Hall-Com-
missioners- ]. Deloach, F. B. Ca
son, c. A. Goudchaux; Clerk-P. w.
Lafleur.
The compensation of said election
officers shall be the same as that pro-
vided by law for holding state cleo
tons.
Section 5-That notice of the cleo
ton containing the proposition herein
submitted to the property taxpayers
of said road district shall be prepared
and signed by the president of this
The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1919-12-27
BOY ANARCHIST
SCHOOLED IN NY.
Tells of Learning Red Greed
From Books in the Pub
lie Library

New York, Dec. 20.-Thomas
Buhkanob, 17-year-old self confessed
schoolboy anarchist, now on Ellis Is
land awaiting deportation to Russia
as a dangerous alien, who says he OBJ
tanned his education" in radicalism
from books obtained at the New York
public library, in an interview with a
representative of the Associated
Press, indicated that a real menace
to American institutions rests upon
many a free bookshelf.
"Some rich men have unwittingLy
aided the spread of revolutionary
doctrines" he said, referring to the
millions invested in libraries all over
the English-speaking world. 81 had
no trouble in obtaining the radical
books l desired, printed in Russian,
from the Goth street and Lexington
avenue branch of the New York pub
lie library"
His Teachers Preach Socialism
The yolth, who, shortly after
graduating from a New York public
school, became the secretary Of the
Union of Russian Workers Local, an
anarchist organization in Brooklyn,
with a membership of $50, discussed
with perfect franlness the causes
which had led him to his impending
Punishment from the United States.
The first step, he said, had been So
cialism, a theory favored by some Of
the teachers in his school. 1t was not
radical enough, he said, and so he
took up anarchy.
Buhkanob would prove a study for
the psychologist. He is more than or
dinarily intelligent and quick-witted
A pair of light blue eyes peer from
beneath shock of very light brown
hair and when he smiles he shows a
fine set of well-kept teeth.
Well dressed and supplied with an
abundance of cigarettes, he express
ed contentment with his lot and
hoped he would soon be sent to
Kronstadt or Nijni-Novgorod, in
Russia, where, he said, there were an
archistis communes.
Does Not Regret Leaving Mother
The necessity Of leaving his moth
err and two sisters, one Of whom is a
student in a Brooklyn high school,
The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1919-12-27

and none of whom share his views,
cause zone must be willing to sacri-
flee himself for a cause"
The prisoner came to the United
States from Volhynia, in the Ukraine,
or Little Russia" with his mother
in 1912, when ten years old. His
father, a Russian mujik, is dead. For
five years he attended New York
public school, graduating in 1917. He
had been taught the usual branches,
including a knowledge of the United
States constitution. He said he hal
10 use for governments of any kind,
because they were all dishonest. !"
Upon leaving school Buhkanob OBJ
tanned employment at what he said
was fair wages. His home life, he
declared, was happy.
Evil World Puzzles Him
was working in machine shop
for S21.6O a week and would have re-
ceived good raise" said Buhkanob,
laughingly, as he discussed his
plight.
The boys manner was earnest, al
most eager, to answer questions.
His parents, he said, had been mem
bers of the Greek Catholic Church,
but he had never been very religious.
He could not understand, he said, if
there was God why there was so
much evil in the world.
81 slept last night" he went on,
with q lot of murderers and rob-
bers, but I am able to take care of
myself"
Here Buhkanob recounted with
some evidence of pride an experience
he had had when he was chief mon
itor in school. 81 knocked out two Of
them," he chuckled, "and the others
beat it."
Buhkanob said few Of the boys and
girls in school entertained the views
he did. Most of them preferred to
spend their leisure time at the NOV
les. l liked to read history, philos-
ophy, sociology and economics.
Finds Tolstoi is Dreamer
"My first book of this kind was
one by Tolstoi. A mild, good man,
but a dreamer, he offered no solu-
ton except Christianity and that l do
not accept. Then 1 read, at other
times, Kropotkin's Bread and Free
DOM Bakunin's God and State No
vimirsky's What is Anarchism?' AL
exander Berkman's Prison Mem
oirs of an Anarchist and Max Stir
ner's The Individual and His Prop
erty.' They gave me my first de-
sire to help emancipate the working
class by educating it to realize its
own interests. l also read the works
Of an Italian anarchist as well as
The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1919-12-27
OFFICIAL PROCEEDINGS
OF THE POLICE JURY
Opelousas, La, Dec. 1, 1919.

Opelousas, La, Dec. 1, 1919.
The Police Jury met in regular ses-
sion this first day of December, 1919,
with the following members present ::
DR.. F. o. Pavy, president, presid-
ing; Messrs. st. Cyr, Larcade, Mills,
Rushing, Martin, Sylvestre, Dejean,
Mccoy, Cattlett, Cummings.
Motion by Mr.. St. Cyr-
Resolved, first, that the president
of this body be and he is hereby di-
rected and instructed to appoint from
among the members of this body a
committee of three to advertise for
sealed bids. from the banks located in
this parish to act as fiscal agent of
this parish for the two years begin
ming on the first day of February,
1920; and,
Second, that all bidders must make
their bids in conformity with the pro-
visions of Act No. 205 of 1912 of the
Acts of the General Assembly of the
State of Louisiana, and be required
to state separately and distinctly,
first, what rate Of interest they are
willing to allow to the parish for such
sums as it may have on deposit during
the existence of the contract; and,
secondly, what rate of interest they
propose to charge the parish for such
loans or advances as may be required
to meet its annual budget appropri-
ations in anticipation and in advance
of the collection of its annual reve-
nues; and,
Third, that all bids must be ad-
dressed to the "Police Jury of the
Parish of st. Landry" and must have
legibly written or typewriter on the
outside of the envelope and on the
same side as the address, the words
Fiscal Agency Bid" and that all bids
must be delivered at Opelousas, La,
to the clerk of the Police Jury, or
The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1919-12-27

j. j. IILNIL , DISLN'
Chair appointed Messrs. St.Cyr,
Larcade and Mills.
Mr.. W. c. Deiean offered the fol
lowing license ordinance, duly sec