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ADDRESS: Imnikim. Pmkss. Imper
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llturrrii at the Imperial. California ISwtoflW* j
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Saturday. July 6. !<*>!.
4 JOB Of PBIMINO
"May I print a kit* on your check?" I
aj&ed.
She nodded her *wect permission.
So urc went to pre*.». and I rather uxic*»,
\W printed a larce edition.
v It is not often that a President
docs a thing that pleases every
body, but Mr. McKtnlev didn't
miss 1 1 far when he announced
that he would not be a candidate
for a third term. The sum and
substance of the sentiments ex
pressed by men of all poli tical
parties is that the country owes
President McKinley a debt of
gratitude for saving it from such
a three-year third-term discussion
as that which the people went
through in the late seventies,
when General Grant was being
pushed for a third term, and
when enmities were aroused
which lasted for years. Of the
two. McKinley would certainly
be more preferrable than would
Ihnna. still there is not the
slightest doubt that the sentiment
of the country is now, as always
has been, overwhelmingly op
posed to a third term for any
President.
The labor organizations are
already at work preparing peti
tions to congress for the re-enact
ment of the Chinese exclusion
law, which will lapse next year,
at the coming session of con tjress.
and their leaders are anticipating
a hard fight. Assistant Secretary
Taylor, of the Treasury, who has
charge of immigration affairs.
expresses the opinion that con
gress will re-enact the exclusion
law. The Knights of Labor, the
Federation of Labor and the In
ternational Association of Ma
chinists are all actively in the
fight for re-enactment.
Thk .delegation of Indians
which arrived in Washington on
June 14 to protest against the
carrying out of the treaty for the
opening of the Kiowa, Comanche
and Apache lands, in Oklahoma,
will have ao effect upon the plans
for the opening of the land for
settlement.
The Pvrss is the only paper publish
ed on the Colorado desert.— f 1.50.
W. F. HOLT RETURNS
Alter an Absence ol a Week la
San Diego
Pc onlr of That Place art Running
Our With t nthosiasm of
The Railroad Project
\V. K. Holt returned tt» Impe
rial Monday, from San Diego,
where he had been the past week,
attending meetings of the execu
tive committee of the San Diego
Eastern railway, of which he is
a member. Mr. Holt reports a
good trip, but says people over
there are complaining with the
heat. What a pity they cannot
close up their houses and cross
the mountains for a breath of Im
perial's pure air.
Regarding the railroad move
ment Mr. Holt says San Dicgans
are certainly very enthusiastic,
and are making every effort in
their power to secure an early
connection with the country this
side of the mountains. He said
that the people of that place pro
pose to raise SoO.OOO to be used
by the executive committee for
preliminary purposes, and then
propose to give a subsidy «1f
$500,000 to the road when ar
rangements are completed for its
construction. This, with thY
$300,000 offered by the Imj>crisl
Land company, constitutes "a
nice little fund alone, and there
should be no trouble to induce
some railroad capitalists to take
bold of the matter ami put it
through.
The committee will employ a
railroad engineer at once and
consider the route best suited for
the road, secure rights of way.
subsidies, franchises etc. In
fact the committee is now consid
ering, in a general way, the ad
vantages of the different routes
from San Diego to the Colorado
river. Nothing short of a com
petent engineer, however, can
decide this question, as there are
many advantages and disadvan
tages to be considered.
It will doubtless surprise many
to l>e told that the value of the
coal produced by the United
States in 1900—$297,920,000—ex
ceed that of any other mineral
and was one-third of the total of
all minerals. But the fact is at
tested by official figures just
completed and made public by
the U. S. Geological Survey.
Our coal product was 14,000,000
tons greater, or 1 <>'/,, than in the
previous year, and leaves Eng
land far behind as the greatest
coal producer, a position she held
previous to 1899. We will prob
ably fall short a few tons this
year, however, because of the
damage sustained by the coal re
gion of West Virginia by recent
floods.
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PRESS NOTES
Blslnorc I*re*»: A claim is made by
French scientist that beans, when too
libcrallv partaken of, produce a mild
form of intoxication. We have often
wondered if there was not something
like that in the wind.
A Richmond man found two gold
watches under a setting hen. Hither
some one wan tripling with the holiest
I feelings of" that hen in a way which
even hi* lavishness doesn't excuse, or
el*e nhe belongs t»» a breed worth im
porting to XI !*.iho; the goo*c that laid
the golden egj» wasn't in it for a min
ute alongside a hen that in capable of
gold watches.- XI I*a»o Herald.
Rochester Union: Mi** AljrsAe
O'Learjr, grandaughter «»f the Mr*.
O'Leary whose cow kicked over the
lamp that burned Chicago, ha* just
paid a vi*it to that city. She i* very
proud of being the descendant «»f the
proprietor of the animal that dealt that
fam«>u» kick. "Look at Chicago an it
i»," she says, "and then think what it
would have been if Grandmother
O'Leary's cow had been of the breed
that does not kick." Vet they sajr that
Mi*» O'Leary is not haughty at all.
but bears her honors quite modestly,
often speaking to common |>eople.
Sacramento Record Union: The
prey* of Southern California ban long
thought that soutli counties need a
State prison. We of the north and
center think *o too. We are perfectly
willing that they shall have the Fol
som concern. The sooner we are rid
of it. the better pleased we will be.
It is a model prison and all that, but
we are taking medicine now bitter to
the taste that we do not need. We
cried for the prison like a silly child
for a denied toy. After long endeavor
we are gratified to the point of en
thtihianm by the State presenting us
with that we so much longed for.
Now that we have it, will some one
please take it away?
'XI Paso Herald: Nine arctic rxjn
dition* will go a-poling this year, the
Ziegler-Baldwin headed by Baldwin
from Brooklyn; Admiral MakarofT with
the Kussian ice breaking steamer
(plans of which were kleptomauiaciscd
from an American engineer); a Cana
dian outfit, headed by a man named
Bcrnie and going over the ice; a <»cr»
man (tarty of which no details arc
known; Peary's which will try to ar
rive via Greenland; a joint affair head*
cd by an Italian duke and Nanscn, the
Swede; a party led by Robert Stein
which will try to break across Riles*
mere Land; a party under M. Stokkcu
which i* going °. v wa . v of Kraiix Josef
Land, and tinally a KiiHHiati explorer
iv ho is uoinj; up into the Kara sea.
Philadelphia Times: The McKee*
port man who resigned from the com
mon council because, he found that,
to W useful to hi* constituents, he
must *tiHe hi* conscience, might con*
ceivably have been of more use to them
had he stuck to his post. This would
have required courage and persistence,
which he evidently did not possess;
but with these qualities a man with a
conscience may often accomplish a
great deal. It is discouraging wurk.
He will n«»t cuter into logrolling com
bination* and *o he get* nothing for
hi* ward and his constituents think
him iuecicnt. Hut if he has the
courage and backbone to stay by his
)Mi*t and carry out his convictions, it
is no telling the wonderful amount of
good he might have accomplished.
Riverside Pre**: Mayor Snyder of
I#o* Angeles may pray to l>c delivered
from hi* friend* !>cforc he progrcH*c»
very far on hi* gtibcrnatorial cam
paign. Chris Buckley, "the blind
white devil," ha* come out for Snyder,
and if anything will lummloo a man in
California politic*! it i* Buckley'* »ii|>
port for any office. The fact that
Suyder it acceptable to so notoriotiH
and whamelcsA a political bo»Ji a*
Buckley, in one very good evidence
that we (In not want him for Governor.
We fthould think that in the al*»ve
the Press taken a very peculiar stand.
Of course we are not acquainted with
the hi*torv of Buckley, but no doubt
an bad men a ■* he voted for (tcncral
Grant and the fact that they did failed
to render Grant unloyal to bin country,
and the Maine might be true in the cane
of Snyder.
Texan Farm and Ranch: The Boer
war has astonished the world. History
given no account of a people fighting
for liberty against nuch odd*, and
manifesting mtch self-sacrificing he
rointn. Unquestionably, the people of
the civilized world, by a large majori
ty. *y input hi *c with these hardy heroes,
but the government* of the earth will
not take any step to thwart the inten
tion! of Great Britain. The Boers arc
now looking to the Hague Peace trib
unal, but in vain, for England only
consented to the tribunal on condition
that no question concerning the South
African KepublicM fthould be consider
ed by it, thus showing that England
at thin time made no secret of her in*
tcntion to subjugate those people
whenever she i» ready to undertake
the tank. The Boer war will be the
blackest spot on the pages of history.
I*. 0. Meredith, who for several
months has boon driving the stage be
tween this place and Flowiugwcll, left
for his home in Kwi Diego Wednesday.
