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Southern Pacific Consents The Only Valley Newspaper Classified Advertisements Read by the Farmers UiLViiir Is ii&Uz)&)kv Offer Business Methods Of All Parts .N To the Business Farmers of the Valley ij, IXPEPENPKXT politics T 1... VOLUME XIV VALLEY PRESS FOUNDED MAY, 1901 EL CENTRO, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 28, 1914 DAILY STANDARD FOUNDED AUGUST, 190 G NUMBER 75 to move his entire army toward Mex- ico City, leaving' only local garrisons Reported That Contract in the territory he dominates. Southern ft previously had been understood Pacific Consents that the constitutional lead- Has Been Entered Into northern er would participate in the mobiliza- tion above the national capital with For Railroad Building only 5000 men. Reports reaching Chihuahua City, While no liar, bids in hand for the work and that to Proposal of the Press, where Villa is quartered, say eastern announcement been and western divisions are mobilizing made, it i ; currently reported in San the contract would be let in the near large numbers of men to the south. Diego that the San Diego & Arizona future. | Railroad has entered into a contract The stretch of road under this con- to Greatest Cotton with the Utah Construction Company, tract covers the mountain section of According : W. K. Bowker big contracting firm, for the build- the road, on which there is a good Begins Ong of the remaining forty-two and deal of very heavy work to be done, There was submitted last night to the directors of on this question, the company Harvest it was stated that would ja fraction miles of the road, which but it is believed the gap will be tl i; difficult to realize that the new the Imperial Valley Chamber of Commerce an unexpected continue to serve water at 50 cents an acre-foot, and it was lis required to connect this city with closed up rapidly and that within cotton harvest is already at hand and proposal seems be a San Diego. about a year or a little more it will that to direct outgrowth of telegrams thought no one would ask better than that. I that hundreds of men are being set It has been known for some time be possible to operate trains between sent out by Press, June 14, in regard to work over the valley in picking cot- the to the control Basis of Suspicion. that the company had number of Centro and San Diego. ton. a iEI of the Colorado river, but the channel through which the Friends of the irrigation district who were present, ! The gins are being gotten into message came aroused the suspicion that might have it recognizing the fact that the interests represented by Mr | working order, and are mostly ready Barracks of Borderers at been designed to impede the purchase of the irrigation Bragg are antagonistic to the district, thought they saw for actual work, while they will all j be busy in the course of a few days. system by the irrigation district in this proposal an effort to concentrate the irrigation The actual harvest of the crop on Dublin Battered Down The question submitted by telegraph by the Press on system in the control of the Mexican land interests, and a big scale is thus started sixty days S Dublin, July 28. —The city of Dub- pal stjeets and their demonstration, was sent | ahead of previous years, the occasion the date stated to railroad officials, congress- were opposed to any step being ‘.aken in endorsement of lin and the greater part of Catholic the boldest exhibition of Orange j of this being the large amount of cot- men and senators and representatives of large proposal until that ] Ireland were in a state of the great- strength yet attempted in the home interests the assured it did not conflict with the ton which was volunteered and which I j cst excitement today over yesterday’s rule struggle, aroused great enthusi- in the valley, and it asked whether the person addressed proposed purchase of the system. | is now ready for the pickers. conflict between the regular troops asm. an appropriation by congress The first picking is bringing in from would favor to control the President Hamilton at once wired President William jof the British army and the Irish a third to a half a bale per acre, U. S. Blood Offered in Irish Cause. Colorado river, such appropriation to be construed by Sproule the Company telling of the | nationalists, which resulted in the of Southern Pacific white tne acreage ready for picking Philadelphia, July 28.—Cablegrams Ituns high ; killingof four persons and the wound- the Southern Pacific Company as settlement of its claim. proposal submitted and asking for assurance that the pro- into the thousands. have been sent from this city to Dub- It is estimated by those who I ing of many others, forty of whom are Epes Randolph are lin asking for details of the killing At that time Colonel took the ground posal would not conflict with negotiations to purchase the : thoroughly familiar with the situation j in hospitals in a serious condition. there hy British of four per- | that during the next sixty days fully j troops that the railroad could not contribute its claim, but hoped system, while the Press telegraphed in similar way to ! Dawn came before the police suc- a half-million dollars’ worth of cott</: | sons and pledging “Irish-American 1 'ceeded in dispersing the crowds some time to collect it from the government. Colonel Epes Randolph. j will be picked, and most of this early J blood, as well as gold, to the cause of picking will be marketed promptly, j : marching through the streets singing Irish- freedom.” It was believed that on that line the last word had I As the proposal appears on its face, it commends it- thus lringing ready cash into the j | patriotic songs and looking for sol- val- The request was made by Eon Mac- been spoken, but on request the directors of the Valley self to everybody, and only the fact that it came through ley in a good -stream from this time i diers of the Second battalion of the on. As a very large Neill, chairman of the volunteers in part of this ; King'; Own Scottish Borderers, on Chamber of Commerce met last night at the Oregon ho- a channel antagonistic to the district aroused distrust. will be used in financing the harvest j , Dublin. whom to inflict vengeance for the of the year’s crop, this money is ex- tel, to whom Eldon Bragg, representing W. K. Bow- Work Is Imperative. Asks Removal of Troops. pected to go into wide circulation very fatal events of yesterday, when the ker, presented in rather indefinite form a proposal The one greatest need of the valley is control of the i lapidly. Borderers were ordered out to pre- London, ,July 28.—The lord mayor from SoucheFn Company to j The volunteer cotton to be thus har- sent the landing of arms and ammu- of Dublin in the inter- the Pacific this effect: Colorado river, and this journal accepts as final the opin- vested | is owned by a large number ir.ition for the Irish Nationalist vol- ests ->f the peace of Chcpjty that the The Chamber of Commerce to assist in getting from ef p2r scattered over -l:he ion of all the engineers, that the work of -e.-nlrol should ~- - liatf&i'¦+*, &i cue Scuiusn Barti .el s i.r ! valley, and the result will be that fuhteers. »ongress an appropriation in payment of the of the removed. Movements ir. the barracks claim start early in the fall. It was with this imperative need j everybody will be benefited. The crowd, finding the soldiers had indicated that preparations were be- Southern Pacific Company, in which event the railroad in view that the Press first suggested the proposal that This will furnish employment for been ordered to remain in barracks, every available man in the fields and ing made to send the regiment else- j attacked the federal barracks where company would agree to put the Colorado river in its now comes from the railroad, but it is certain the people | in the gins and mills, and of a sudden | where. The gates of the barracks the will find the the Borderers are stationed, and old channel and hold it there, to clear up the claims of valley will not endorse it if it valley itself center were guarded by a strong force of the implies making the ;of the greatest industrial activity to : clamored for the soldiers to come out. police. against the California Development Company and to op- land on the American side of the line a dependency of the be seen in oSuthern California. Finally the nrob kicked down a gate of the barracks and fired several shots, WILL SOON RAISE erate the irrigation system indefinitely. owners of the Mexican land, and before action can be tak- $34,000,000 IN U. S. COIN when bugles were sounded. Police PRICE OF BOOKS President W. O. Hamilton of the irrigation district en favorable to the proposal this matter must be cleared READY TO MOVE CROPS came upon the scene and the crowd As announced several times during was present, and feared that this proposal implied an an- up and the people of the district be assured that no ob- Washington, July 28. —Preparations was dispersed. the last few wc"ks, we will be un- for the distribution of approximately Nationalist leaders take the most nulment of the plans for the purchase of the system by stacle is to be placed in the way of securing possession of able to get another edition of the $84,000,000 of government funds to serious view of the affair apd will the irrigation district, and when further light was sought Panama book, and the great distribu- the irrigation system.
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