The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 26, 1898, Page 22

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JUNE 26, 1898, &) [+ 83!232898283228359282322583283§ The crops of +the- Sacra- mento Valley were threat- e £ 3 2 5 inclosed by the levees Is fower than the B L e ] encd it desienction thl; water of the river the engineer of the ¥ 2 7 _//”riy\\} season on account of *he lac island applied the principle of the ; \}% 7/ W?fi of rain last winter. In the siphon, and it worked like a charm. L ; ‘\\u,//// 77 lower valley and along the While the flow of water from the river 4 2 - big stretches of river bottom to the land has not the volume which the crops have been saved by ¢ is attained by the pump working in the bi; pumpin plants on opposite direction, 25,000 gallons. per . : 2 . . bas‘ges that f'agx‘ced the water minute are, nevertheless, conveyed plan was fourd on the premises of A. gallons per minute capacity each, has g 7 it T. J. Reynolds, who resides on the is- been put to the same service on the over the levees on to the sur- g, throush the siphon, Wwith no force Mt jand and who has a pearorchard of upper Fae i rounding lowlands. In many i iR s eret i the S R bt 200 ivx'vrws”tlmt. was “so badly ‘in need While these extensive operations are places the pumps that had raviven ARA Bl sl rov his heeh of water, A:;nd he to The Call corre- heing carried on by those who can af- been used in past seasons to guaranteed. ;\‘)};“’)‘&L“"'-“'mfll I have DUme\ed_ in]”lv- ford them those of smaller possessions. drain the flooded lowlands Operations by this system commenc- -000 gallons of water for six days put with just as much at stake, have into the river were reversed ed i‘n the month of April, the time when 2Dd Was unable to discover a single contrivances proportioned to their and made to pump the water they usually begin to work the pumps “;"“"‘ “f meisture except in one or two means, and from the sprinkling barrel from the river on to the for:the purpose of drainage. The ex- 1“:_""»“- used to spray infected trees to wind parched soil. The cut above pense is small and the result will be Ah": ‘f“mp, used M_'. -‘ft Rf".\"nnllis has mills and horse power, are the waters shows the system that has most satisfacto; Without it not one 2 Buaranteed capacity of 5000 gallons of the Sacramento River being raised . d acre would have been harvested; as it Pe€r minute, is run by a twenty-four-. to the lands along its border. It may ot el GEldle o is 12,000 acres will produce a splendid horse power (ngine and a continuous well be said that the drought along the dx;nll;ute tdhe watgf‘. crop. run of twenty-four hours coz's him: Sacramento has been conquered. alf a dozen big pumps and scores of smaller ma- The other farmers on the island and about $20. e, i A S > chines that distribute hun- it must be remembered that un- they did a single glance told them that river at that point. Leading to this at other points along the river whose Twenty-five thousand gallons per FElephants in the Indian army are fed lands are too remote from the gigantic Minute will fill a ditch three feet deep twice a day. When mealtime arrives normal conditions no irrigation something must be done and done point of discharge is a large 'canal ge d";‘is o th°:ff’;‘dst‘l’f %“““_‘; tever is needed. In fact. the gen- The first to move against the which connects with other cana & Oay-are Sl tard at wor siphon to be benefited by it have taken bY two wide and when it has been so re drawn up in line before a row and: co nnual trouble has been too much ithering forces of nature were those small ditches, until 12,000 acres of land the same advaitage offered by the filled for a distance of one mile not a §f PUS orx‘vfidrfl’d{m P};}::;g:nmalr:‘y-ifi» ¢ trying to relieve the dry soil. river's contin but have Elppl‘iad it .smglleudrup \\. Tm f.o‘u‘ndlx_n ;he d:(»ch_ S done up in five two-pound packagesf and r big ranches have residing on Grand Island, in what is has been placed under this sSystem, By this simple process hun- in a different way. Instead of a siphon ih ¢ ln‘?h]::‘r:‘:l:“‘s“g by ol e e Heedsippial Iy ang o mous pumping plants for the pur- known as Reclamation District No. 3, which ordinarily drains the entire area. dreds of thousands of dollars they use pumps, which in .some in- b SET Ry 5 plons ted witt pose of removing this surplus. But this one of the largest, wealthiest and old- To reverse this and turn the waters 3 have been saved to the farm- year things were reversed. est in the State. Twelve thousand back into the canal and its tributaries. g rass. At the command “At- stances are operated by portable en- island and this is the first ex:perience of tention!” ch elephant raises its trunk. i fver be ‘hi the kind he has ever had. ers of this section. gines’ on. tHe ivor tanky Jile oibiers There are 300 persons in Great Britain Never before in the history of recla- acres on Grand Island in this county was the problem to be solved, and the mation along the banks of the Sz have been saved in one single instance. forces of nature solved it. As the land HE Sacramento Vallev has been mento has such a contingency arisen. The novelty of the situation can be Bi d from drought. Never before in the month of April did best judged when it is known that the But the work has not been eas- the settlers in the Yolo Basin se ch very means by which the present dry i{ly done. It has cost tens of tiou- an expanse of dry land; never before and thirsty lands are watered were, in sands of dollars and called for in the history of the State has there the first instance, intended and design- all the ingenuity that engineers and been one single drop of water conveyed ed to carry water away. The original the farmers themselves were capable of. to the river bottom lands of the Sacra- purpose of the great pumping plants Six weeks ago it was feared that the mento for the purposes of irrigation; on Grand Island has been completely crops of 200,000 acres would prove a to- yet to-day there are millions upon mil- reversed,"and instead of pumping the tal loss. hree weeks ago, after cer- lions of gallons being poured into the water out to drain the usually flooded tain irr g work had been started, absorbing s from Colusa to Contra district they are pumping the water in gs there was hope and now success is as- Costa. The great fertile v of the to moisten the land that is now parched sured, although the work is still go- Sacramento is thirsty'for the f time and hard. ing on. in the memory of man. _ At a steamboat landing known as In order to fully comprehend the dan- ~ Not. until the present dry spell had “Ryde” the district has a large pump- at threatened mu of the big continued well into the month of April ing plant capable of discharging 50,000 farmers in the Sacramento Valley as a was it that the river farmers began to gallons of water per minute through sult of our last extraordinary dry look about with apprehension. When the line of pipe which empties into the are run by engines stationed on river The barge L G. Merritt from San wng pay tax on an income of more than barges. An illustration of the latter Francisco, with two pumps of 20,000 £10,000 a year. e T L L o o E R R Ror-Roa- 0o R R o= -8 -2 R R -2 =3 - £-3 S -E- -3 =R fod=d Lt S Lttt S R S e e S i ettt GAMBLERS-—THEIR WILES, THEIR TOOLS AND THEIR TRADE. on a card with a needle point and be pack with a microscope, but I could dis- fascination for my gambler eye. The T was the night after the Brooklyn sessed by my partner, he had one well, thank you, by keeping away from very carefully to prevent marking, v z vac 3 4 L cou . - e Handicap had been won by Orna- mMmania— that wa ‘cheating box.’ the heavy losers, who were playing the scratching or slplnling_ A ln\-qnl di':m- ul{!(\-[f\(:] ;1;(\1‘:3 1\):::-‘ U i "r(l‘::l:-u:xlfi[n](-lgfi;s gmllmglt.\(‘nlfl;;;‘lal;l@?l?. :n:; c;:ll % : ::ixll_i(i!(_‘an”:‘“ ‘n&untgi}& e o av e ski imi e 5 j ati 2d s at i aves a mark is a dan- Many rich clubs buy cards by ) 3 slig m- 3 ma 3 He did not have the skill or the limit. There was frequent objurgation aged so that it leav T it d cpert manip- seven ought to come out winmer. i ment. A group of men, all “good gerous proposition for a bank dealer. gross and use a new deck for every caved on the edges. An nerve to work one, but he bought every of wrath from the big players, but ) ¢ 3 Addodate i e o fellows,” were gossiping 1n the cor- skinning device that came gions. It s\\'earin‘p‘;‘ at & queen doos not make her You have no idea of the complaints game. Cards to be serviceable and ulator could tell them by touch or had located the ragged edge, and of ridor of a New York hotel. he is living he probably has'a cord of do her duty to a faro fiend. that come to manufacturers about safe should be seasoned just like tim- glance. How had this outsider man- course it came out I had ~ carelessly Running along on such things stored away like junk, for «“Ajong came a fellow who shuffied cards which are susceptible of marking ber. This is not generally known, l')ut aged to fix up my friend’s cards? Idid put $10 on it, and took cash ms(?ad of ith atorias of 3 1 would never use one, and know he hig' ohips with the abandon and ease OF accidents which disclose their iden- if you are a constant card player you: a little detective work on my own ac- chips. T kept my eye on that seven as with storie ; 4 B G PR It e st o e iy, Not long ago a rich man came to should buy a big lot of cards and Put count, and by asking about town who it was shuffled up, and in the next deal N never had the courage to Work a that marked him a professional gam- 5 o ; ; ing: od o) Bver: v 3 3 : g 1 id he was losing at poker them away for three months to dry, was blowing money in the resorts, it came ambling along to win. Another crooked bos self. Every mow and 4 : ; me and sa e hree mos : of cards and gambling. One man Was {hon e smath Bay would sppear with Ller- He played high and lost B With (i 'nien priced cards. He was a busi- and they become like ivory. = Tound that my friend’s barkeeper had hundred went down, and I was given a noted manufacturer of playing cards, ,a slick device, and my partner would JoeECet BreC o A s ot §21 Dess man and plaved & stiff game with “Talking of marked cards,” said the hecome very much of a good thing ot the cash. Two old birds with eyes as et T Tan neve el e ot L neiiE) alho by b he raised up, yawned and put $31 ipor husiness men two or three nights turf patron, “reminds me Of an eXperi- jate and was going quite a lively #pin £00d as mine. looked up, looked at me S e UMl e o A : on a card, saying ‘That's my last bet. ; \eek. He had bought the cards and ence I once had in Cincinnatl. A friend jn certain localities. and then at the dealer. He was so poker in his life. Another was a re- “One day in Chicago I was shown a I've walked fty-three miles to-day, Loptiom locked up n his safe, but in of mine had a saloon and cardroom not "SUrt eougn. this same bartendar had happy in self-admiration that tired gambler, now a turf patron of new cheating box. It had a hidden fell down and hurt myself and © BUESS an outer compartment. In three months a thousand miles from Eaghth and Vine cqcaked the cards out, giv=a them to d nothing. They did. prominence—and he all his sporting spring lock which would loosen the I'll qui 18 Imoney was 108t ar he had lost about $11,000, and was very streets. He was fond ¢t ‘twenty-one, he crooked player to mark, and, of aw me put another hundred career had never taken a drink! side plate and push out two cards at got up. But he did notleave. Hesaun- ipeq, 1 looked over his cards, dealing playing for goodly stakes, and made cource’ stood iIn with the play. There O Seven Fand down ' they. s went B e ot sresent, but they & time if necessary. 1 took one of tered about the room and in a few min- (yem out face down. I threw out card g very comfortable rake-off. One day \rio2”o tai mixer looking for a job With me. It came up smiling every e S 1ot Y€V these boxes to Cincinnati and gave it s the proprietor asked him to step aprer card which my practiced eve he came to me, and was full of woe. s a co il m : e, and the chéckirack ston lookiia as G t for this stor They were v side. o 1 at the table said » in a very short time. 5 D gl ¥ Were to my partner to please him. He was outside. Then a loser at the table Sald showed me had been ‘fixed.’ EVerY :“There is a man down at my place Who T 2dsn Hard luck once in Chicago,” ke a dismantled Spanish fort. Evod listeners. and this 18 What ey I e e O e O T i iy oh s, is wipning all my money,’ was the DUr- ¢,iq the turf patron, “and sat around “I had about $1300 to the good, all on heard: IhE g e e g B i 4 “But how had they been marked? den of his tale. My friend was con- ; gampling house one night to see the account of that seven spot, but played 0 sald the turf ;Re, 50t use it, and he was afraid That was what puzzled us both. An vinced that the fellow was crooked, but and curse the fact that I couldn’t a few small bets on other cards to avert patron, “ partner in a famous i, . confidential with any one around . investigation developed that a megro couldn’t prove it. He wanted me to in. I had but $200, and needed it suspicion. The smart guys did the gambling house located in Cincinnatl. (he game. So in a week that DoX *‘What of it? Why, the game is Servant had access to the safe at times. look on and discover the tr I asked iq live on. A son of the boss was deal- same, but never failed to follow my No matter now where it was. Perhaps joined the half ton of similar cheating crooked. When he said that he had He had been bribed by two other so- What motions the fellow xmfil‘e,ta_‘nd the ing, and was stuck on himselt. He play on the seven. Then in came the rou can guess its locatio e ell . devices whic z ke 3 b A alled gentlemen who sat in the game description convinced me that he did had an alry, dudish way of waving his partner. He saw the big pile of checks R o = e :11.1;1!['{;1\:1::'(\}\3151'-.6;1(1‘ his :v‘::xle\t?fi:]rp;uvlg :‘y{“rkxu\l\-ffe”nf'nlz-r-e&r";.ilpcirdfisr":‘:illn; Ity steal the | cards out.at night. and . no holding out with the old Sleeve or hamds about the table in handing out In front of us and was red-headed. We prasLarnanen (hings, that the old man ever turned a Yoo uh. anainst it The bhoss has they had adroitly fixed them. They vest game, then dangerously in VOEUe. checks and gathering them in, ~and had another deal, with the same pleas- “One of my partners was a famous ¢nafo it 250" He simply did talken him Sownstairs to settle '8 yere quietly threatened with exposure, My friend insisted that all his employes seemed very vain of his graceful mo- ant returns from the ragged card, and character in his He had made big not have the nerve. You can never tell *There was a rapid change of deal- and made good. In the cheaper grade aight. He would not listen to tions. It was a chear vanity, but dear then the partner provokingly said to money in the good old days when the when dealing bank just how smart the ers and cards, and that house was soon Of cards you can often tell the ace of cion that they were standing in to the house, as he did not wateh other the dudish dealer: “Aremt you tired? tiger was festive. There is plenty of fellows may be on the other side of the in bad favo spades from the back. This is because with the winner, who was driving my details. I noticed when the cards Let me deal A\\;{‘AHP. h'r at ;ettled it. profit in faro. It is a fair game when table. “You know,” sald the card manu- it IS so big and black and the impres friend to Longview. I took a few looks came out that the seven spot of clubs The partner took up the cards, looked ‘square,’ and the percentage, small “One night in Chicago a couple of facturer, “that faro cards are the most i‘;’:‘l’(f;f'al*‘lg*n!:;m‘“ it takes a trained gt tl}):le fe)lo’l\}i in alcuon. but c<;uldddett:ac: “-aseihb':: r)?‘g;,;;de on u:% eer(l;.;e ‘}1‘)\5; ;};‘edm 3)‘(5: ine?rfmha M:; imngfn-é;: sur unts | ibly fo business men were playing in hard expensive made. They are not only of ©V' - nothing. Then I was convinced somewhat ¢ agg Ve : a fres - ou g:fi;ur{k 1hu2§i fl]\r: p;mr(‘! ‘trg f r pfv}l? lu‘vl!:‘.‘ 5Thee'p £ l\\era doing quite tlnr:J best material, but must be printed “A slick card marker will put a mark the cards werc marked. I examined a that night, and that card had a fine drawer. It was time to quit. fifiDQOQOOOOOOOOODOOOO’OOOQUQDQC‘QCzCUJGfififififibfifififlfifiEECUJDDQ3)3:(32(fifififi):U:iCifi)}fifii{dJ}fifi'fifi33“:\0%)!:2fiQQQQQTQDQi’.‘éfifiQDfiCéQQCEO'QDOQDQDfiDfififlmfifififififififififibfifififififi THE CHAMPION BAG-PUNCHING DOG IS RIGHT HERE IN SAN FRANCISCO. THESE PICTURES ARE FROM INSTANTANEOUS PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN ESPECIALLY FOR THE SUNDAY CALL. ly slipped into stories “Many “I'M_READY" Se waTcg“%-ms PUNCH" “BANG,WOW! HOW'S THAT?" WATCH THIS KNOCK OUT: “UUDGMENT?" (D you ever see a dog fight a punching bag? It may have been Mr. Gibbs’ efforts to check this_trait But one day Tip wandered into Woodward’s Pavilion, uses the regular bag and platform close to the ring in the catching the punching bag midway and knocking it as The most marvelous dog of that kind in the of Tip's character that led him to take to bag-punching Whore one,of our pusilistic celebritics Was 1 UANGE middle of the Payilion, and makes as much nolse uver his “hard 'as it struck by the fist of & strong man. ; ; Work as a prize-fighter. ; vorld is right here in San Francisco, as a means of relieving his pent up feeling of combative- punching the bag. Tioi the championship agatnst an comerar > 'C ness. Bt * &nd in 4 moment was changed dog. The world was T o Ars b e et Pk Ui, dbg AHabiA ) ARMIEE ity To describe the actions of the dog is almost fmpossible. His name is “Tip,” and he belongs to S. M. Out in the Mission, where Mr. Gibbs lives,' Tip, soon brighter to him again. an amusement, the marvelous part of it afl {s that he is Ile Seems to be on the ground and in the air at the same Gibbs of this city. Of course his owner is very after his arrival there over a year ago, took & contract ‘Watching his chance, when the prize-fighter stopped & able to punch the bag at all. Such strength and quic] time—up smt31 down, with the rapidity of ligntning, so the proud of him and tries to keep him at home, but with himself to exterminate the entire canine population moment to rest, Tip went for the bag with all his strength. ness and accuracy of eye seem almost incomprehensible. gye ?ubhu ‘ly k%ep t,rnclk of him. And all the time the neverthieless Tip manages to spend a goodly portion f his of the nelghborhood. He very nearly succeeded and une He jumped, he bit and he Funched, and when he became Tip needs no coaching in order to induce him to fight 28 1S bumplng the platform, first on one side and then time a Q\"ol?d\vard's Pavilion, where he gets a chance to duubted]]y w:mld %n;e ‘mtadte 3 gnuk ott 1t tt!:nd ngt his ;L’:;},pg“; ;‘,‘!}’. gm}rg to rest satisfied, and once more life ;]helbug‘fl Iélls ?nly nev‘:esufirl'y g; puthhhzx \{x u;ehroom, annd S unch the bag. owner almost reached a state o ankrupte: rou ay- 2 3 e invarial jumps for e bag the instan e catches - P er all 1t 1s not very nnnfe that Tip should like ing for the victims. i i Since that time Tip has made aregularbusinessof bag sight of it. ¥ i . punc:]engl]e:gn f,fi;‘,fié;&{,’f’ 1?‘;},“%]95;33 al;ef h‘é"wé&’a b;,% to punch the bag, for he comes of a fighting family. He -~ This, of course, made it necessary to call a halt, and unching. In fact he is at it every chance he can get. On the first jump he bunts it with his nose and knocks tired in a few moments, but he doesn’t. He has been s a full-blooded Irish bull-dog and for generations the Tip was in consequence made acquainted with the re- is fame is rngkll{ spreading, and whenevr he i3 seen i against the platform with a loud whack, Back the ba, known to punch the bag for five minutes at a stretch and Eobiern i B g Bave ol suegnilibin et sttt et G Rk Sone sl mia il gahay o e Pavfo S Srow iy gelhere o ceethe it byt Slolt b el Yrkone 1 SR et Yot o 0 T R 20 Bkt e ed a vietim. 0 8 Y = that the; pnmcuuflg esired gl.:e earth for their own a mo‘l’tnsl-scour ng effect on him and for weeks he wan- It is a most unusual sight to see this dog fight a E?:kn:fiain flgel:sazé‘o‘{?}mfl %‘d'fifi’v‘v‘;‘h‘wfihmh'x:m vov':.' m;')l;l: ::fi?!om ve yl’lfic%':rt:{: !ld:‘: ttrgm ‘a‘?p'lhofuph‘;&i.; use, but simply objected to having oth: ound. dered about fecling that life was not worth living. ~ ~ punching bag, and it can be scen almost any day. He He will Teave the ground and deseribe a halr.circiy jump, golng through his strange performance. . o * ~