The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 12, 1902, Page 6

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GEORGE KROGNESS, Menage: Foreign Advertis ng, Marquette Building, Chicage. (Long Distance Telephone “Central 2619.") +++.1118 Broadway THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1902 IRRIGATION, R. ELWOOD MEAD, chief oi the Irriga- M tion Bureau of the Agricultural Department, has issued a statement of the work of that department in applying the new irrigation. law. This seems to haye been made necessary by an attack on the Agricuitural Department made at the last session of the National Irrigation Congress by Mr. George Maxwell, who appears to be the head of a rival asso- ciation. In his answer to that attack Mr. Mead declares that in its initial stages Mr. Maxwell was opposed to ! ! came impossible to defeat the measure. - In the oppo- sition appears an element with which the country will have but little patience. This is an apparent effort to secure control of the millions to be spent by a private organization. The zountry will have no sympathy with any such scheme and will insist, with Mr. Mead, that the application of that vast sum to its purpose { shall be in the hands of the proper departments of the Government. | There will be a co-ordination of departments and | bureaus in this work. The extent of the water sup- ip')’ in the arid regions will be ascertained by the ydrographic division of the Geological Survey. It { will measure the respective watersheds and cempute | their annual yield by 2n estimate based upon the as- | certained 2nnual rainfall. The run-off of streams wiil | be measured and the hydrographics of the problem the irrigation law, and surrendered only when it be- | the fruit season absolutely unknown in any similar area elsewhere on the planet. The orange harvest, beginning in Northern Cali- fornia in November and ending in Southern Califor- nia in April, gives a harvest of that fruit covering nearly six months, something uncommon in Florida, | Mexico, Brazil or Sicily. At the coming fair the olive products of San Diego and Shasta, nearly seven hundred miles apart, will be shown to be of equal excellence and the crop of equal reliability. The grape products, wine, brandy and raisins of Northern California are without supe- riors anywhere, and will be present in 2ll their excel- lence. .\ The exben correspondents of Eastern and Euro- pean journals who want a subject of interest to their distant readers will find it in this fair. They will find ern Califcrnia, in the Sacramento and San Joaquin, Vaca, Napa and Sonoma valleys, and their mountain rim. They will find this show framed and embowered in the November flora of Caliiornia, in the ferns, roses, lilies, chrysanthemums and other rich | bloom of our perfect autumn, and it ought to inspire | their pens to descriptive writing that \\'i,II charm | their readers in lands and latitudes less favored than | ours. ¥ ! Indians on the reservations oi Western New York | have held a peaceable and apparently honest election there the various products of the Old World, front ! France to Persia, all produced in perfection in North- ' LATEST WAR TERROR IS THE TWIN CANNON L E e 2 ! THE NEW ENGINE OF WAR WHICH GERMAN GUNMAKERS HAVE JUST TURNED OUT, AND WHICH IS MOST HIGHLY PRAISED BY EUROPEAN MILITARY EXPERTS. 1 UROPEAN military experts speak has just been constructed in Germany. The two pieces can be fired from in high praise of the twin cannon which DISCUSS PLANS FOR WELFARE OF CALIFORNIA The State Board of Trade held its reg- ular monthly meeting in the Ferry build- ing yesterday afterncon. All the officers, with the exception of President Chipman, were present. A large number of mem- bers of the board from the interior of the State were also in attendance. President Chipman telegraphed from Red Bluff that owing to a train wreck he weuld be unable to attend. A letter was read from Governor-elect Pardee in reply to a communication which the Board of Trade sent to him during the recent campaign. The board communicated with Pardee in regard to a State appropriation and also the matter of sending delegates to the World's Fair at St. Louis to give an exhibition of Cal- ifornia products. Dr. Pardee wrote in reply that he hear:- ily approved the plan and further stated that he would do all in his power to see toat it is carried out. He added that he would leave the selection of the dele- gates to the State Board of Trade. A communication was received from the California Miners’ Association asking that five delegates be selected by the Board of Trade to attend the miners’ convention te be held in this city on the 1Sth inst. N. P. Chipman, George C. Perkins, John P. Irish, W. H. Mills and E. W. Maslin were appointed to represent the board. A communication was sent to the Bankers’ National Association, now in session at B - S B 2 single carriage and-thus they occupy far less space than two separate | New Orleans, urging its delegates to hoid .30 Tribune Buflding ! will be definitely known. The proper bureau of the | for president of their tribes. The only excuse thus far STEPHEN B. SMITH....... ! y . . el " ; e [ pieces, would qccupy. Moreover, they can be fired With extreme rapidity | et “TRn% PRERE (0 el ™" san — | Agricultural Department will study the various irri- | offered for their action is that it was a rebuke to Tam- | and either singly or at the same time, as may be desirad. | Franciseo. NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: i . . s 1 Lieutenant Colonel Delauney, a French authority on modern uns, thinks Ci 1 dered sent to the mem- ; | ga ws States concerned, and the decisions | many. T guns, rculars were orde C. C. CARLTON.... £ <....Herald Square | £3tion laws of the State Iy very highly of the new weapon. “It combines, he says, “great efficiency as re- |bers throughout the State requestis In some | of their ccurts as to the ownership of water. | Secretary J. A. Filcher of the board pre- A i e —— . vei; * the citrus fair NEW YORE NEWS STANDS: | ? # AR5 Ji = & gards firing, with notable economy as regards weight, and though the preserdt | lAhemv to attend Lo - g Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentamo, 31 Unmion Square; | Of them riparian rights are strictly recognized. In | DIFLOMATIC mVASIONS. model is not of very large caliber, it Is to be presumed that the same principle | FerTy bullding on November 24 and act 43 Murray Hill Hotel | others the right to water depends upon its use. In | | will very soon be applied to the largest guns.” } b i CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: House; P. O. News Co.; Auditorium Hotel. Sherman mont House: Great Northern Hotel; ™ WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE...1406 G St., N. W. MORTON E. CRANE, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES—327 Montgomery, corner of Clay, opes until 9:30 o'clock. 300 Hayes, open until 9:30 o"clock. of bis arrival McAllister, < pen until $:30 o'clock. 815 Larkin, open w 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission, open until 10 o'clock xteenth, opes until 9 o'clock. 1096 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh, open until 9 corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open 2200 Fiilmore, open until 9 p. m. HOW PELEE DID IT R. JAGGER of Harvard, who has made a care- D ui study of the recent eruptions of Mont Pelee, presented some of the re: his investigations in a public address a few days ago, and in doing so offered an interesting explanation of the wiarvel phenomena that so startled the world at the time of their occurrence. It should be stated that Dr. Jagger made his investigations on the spot. He went to the scene of the disaster immediately aiter the t ex sion, interviewed many of the itnessed the later explosions that occusred after He had therefore ample opportunity to s of the disaster, and out of them has d what may be accepted as the best explana- give for the wonderful zs well occurrences the time. acts of the explosion as gathered from the ors ure that there came first from the volcano a hot blast and a heavy black smoke, next came a esh of wind like 2 tornado, which was almost imme- ely ijollowed by 2 tremendous explosion. came 2 frorh ti ea, which after a brief space gave place to a cool sea breeze that revived all who had survived the | hot blasts, the tornado and the explosion. In accounting for this series of phenomena Dr. Jagger says the so-called “smoke” filled the air with exceedingly hot dust and by its heat consumed in- stantly large gquantities of vegetation. From the burning there accumulated great quantities of carbon ! monoxide, which, when mixed with certain propor- | The mass was also a big electrical storage battery, under constant spark- tion of air, is very explosive. ing, and as soon as the correct mixture of air and carbon monoxide was reached the ex- | plosion ensued,- robbing the atmosphere mo- mentarily of its oxygen, which accounted for | the prostrating effect. reached the exploding value was about at the shore fine, so that its immediate effects as distinct from the tornado would seem to any one on land to be toward the land. The order of events in the destruction of human life was then: The initial tornado with the hot dust and rocks; than the secondary explosion of the carbon monoxide mixture with air, and then an- other hot and this time suffocating blast, by reason of the absence of oxygen. There followed as a conse- quence of this second explosion an inrush of air | from the sea laden with the revivifying oxygen.” Such, then, is a clear scientific statement of how Pelee did its fearful work. The mighty explosion of which we heard so much did not come from the vol- cano at all. So, too, the great destmcli\'enesé of the hot blasts was due not to volcanic force nor even to heat so much as to the absence of oxygen. Pelee, in fact, was merely the originator of the trouble. She set in motion forces far more terrible than herseli, and were she gifted with consciousness would doubt- less have been as much astonished by what happened as is the proverbial fool who didn’t know it was loaded. Now that Senator Elkins has so narrowly escaped from being crushed by the fall of a ten ton iron girder, he would better reflect on Carnegie’s statement that he who dies rich dies disgraced, and proceed to dis- tribute his wealth or else keep out of reach of acci- dents. It is announced tha: the exhibit of the German Goy- ernment at the St. Louis Exposition will be limited to art and education; and yet it has always been sup- | posed that the Kaiser prefers to pose as a war-lord, or a preacher. It is getting to be so that no family in New England can be regarded as cultured and highly respectable un- less at least one of its members has developed some 4 of “perversion” and killed a2 woman. i It is now .said that Schwab’s illness and nervous prostration were caused by newspaper notoriety. He could stand a great deal, but soon sickened of yellow journalism, and has sought relief abroad. Experiments with government in the Philippines are being directed in the right direction; a newspaper man has been appointed Govgrnor of one of the prov- inces. A Massachusetts man has been arrested for attempt- ing to kill a plumber, but he will doubtiess escape on the ground of insanity. ¥ survivors | Then"| second hot, prostrating blast, but this time | The point where the mixture | | others appropriation rights are recognized, and may be held against later comers regardless of present use. In promoting a system of Federal irrigation the Na- tional Government cannot invade State law. It will be seen. then. that there must be an approximation of State laws to a common purpose, since interstate | questions affecting the use of water will surely arise. When the average water supply is known, and State codes are reduced to a common purpose, the stidy of soils on each zone to be served by storage recessary. WOrks | by the kind of soil to which it is served by the vary- | ng rate of absorption and evaporation. porous scils lacking :n a tenacious subsoil as a water- holder require a greate: service than soils of the oppo- site characteristics. This will make it impossible to zllot the water equally to all owners according to their zcreage, since some zcres will require two or three imes as much water as others in order to make them fruitful. This work will be done by the bureau of soils in the Agricultural Department. After all this work is dene another issue of the most vexatious na- ture will arise. In many places in-the region to be served by the application of this law the water that falls upon a given watershed finds underground storage far from the point of precipitation. It reaches such points by first flowing in an overground channel, whence it Some very | i able until it is w | which it is distributed by pumping and irrigates large areas. To arrest this flow at its initial will pre- vent this remote underground storage and will de- | stroy all the irrigation which is supplied from that | source. This applies to many river valleys in the arid regions. Of course the question of compensation will | find them arid and iruitless when the supply is cut off. Another issue will arise when the flow of streams | is diverted above the headgates of many irrigation | canals that have been built by private capital and oW St large tracts of agricultural land. In the valley of the Snake River, notably, there are canal | systems built by associated ranchers, who bought or , and in association own great sys- tems. In many places only a slight depletion of the river flow will destroy these extensive systems, and | much acreage will be thrown out of use to bring fresh | Iand under the water of a Government system. Here | gave rights of wa; { the question of compensation will again appear, and | equity will be on the side of those who raise it. This brief review of the work to be done, and of the compensative accommodzations that will be necessary, | negatives at once the ambitious aspiration that Mr. | Maxwell’s or any other private associations may have | to take to itseli the expenditure of the twenty mil- iion dollars or more that will be devoted to irriga- tion under the law. It must be a Government con- icern. The compensation of those whose lands will | be disused and whose irrigation systems will be de- | stroyed must of necessity come out of the irrigation | fund, and in that aspect alone it is evident that only { | the Government can be permitted to deal with that | phase of the problem. A glance at the rest of the only the Government has the competent facilities to | deal with the whole question. e e e e An enterprising Spaniard has brought upon himself the wrath of his Government for sending President | Roosevelt a telegram expressing great glee at the in- dependence of Cuba. It would seem that we have i just cause to protest to Spain at this unwarranted gloating over our troubles. ¥ | products and foral fair arranged by the State Board of Trade, to be given in the grand nave of the ferry building, is to be a notable exposition, which promises to achieve national prominence. It THE THANKSGIVING FAIR. HE Northern California citrus, olive, wine will for the first time broadly exploit the thermal belt | of Northern California, over three hundred miles leng, upon every tillable acre of which the orange | and other citrus fruits will grow in perfection. | The great orchards at Porterville at the southern | and Oroville at the northern extremity of this citrus belt are being gradually connected and the golden streamer of Northern California made continuous by the orange orchards of Yuba, Placer, Sacramento, Madera and Fresno counties. . Lying west of this belt are the orange-growing regions in Yolo, Solano, Napa and Sonoma counties, which show the most gratifying results. The marked feature of the Northern California cit- rus belt is its precocity. The orange there ripens in November, and supplies the Thanksgiving and holi- day market. When this peculiar and profitable fea-- ture is fixed in the public mind it will carry also the associated fact that Northern California deciduous fruits of all kinds are the earliest in the State. When these two great facts are known. the productive im- portance of the State achieves its proper recognition. With the earliest citrus and deciduous fruits in North- ern California are associated the much later fruits of both kinds in Southern California, giving a length to The service of water is affected | | penetrates the soil and raises the underground water | hin reach from surface wells, from | arise, as the owners of lands now made fertile will i | work “suffices to convince any reasonable man that | RIME MINISTER BALFOUR, speaking at P the Lord Mayor’s banquet, referred gracefully ! to the presence of the Kaiser in England as a visit of “a great and friendly sovereign to his nearest | relatives,” and went on to assert that he knows noth- ing about “the fantastic bargains” invented by the | press to explain the visit. The words zre those of a Printe Minister speaking under the responsibilities of office and fully aware of the commotion that would be made were it to be offi- cially announced that the Kaiser is in Londoun not to y make a visit of state to his dearly beloved uncle but to do business. Having been spoken under such cir- cumstances they will not be accepted with absolute | confidence. Much is permitted to a diplomatist, and while no one will question the veracity of Mr. Bal- | four, most people wili continue to believe that this | it of the Kaiser, like the last one, is going to have | big results in the near future. The Call has already directed attention to the re- | port that the visit of the Kaiser is for the purpose of arranging a treaty with Great Britain for the redis- tribution of the South African territory lying be- tween the ‘Transvaal ard the sea. tory belongs to Portugal, but there is a tract of Ger- man South Africa jutting in between the Portuguese and the British possessions. seaboard by a foreign power gravely handicapped the British in the war with the Boers, and it was an- ! nounced at the time that as soon as the war was over Great Britain would make an effort to purchase | the Portuguese holdings. Tt is now believed the time has come, and that after Great Britain has ac- quired the Portuguese ferritory there will then be an | arrangement with Germany for redistributing the dis- :lrict to the advantage of beth Governments. ! Such is the report of the trade which Baliour has | described as “fantastic bargains invented by the | press.” The invention comes from pretty high quar- ters. Some time ago. before the visit of the Kaiser {to Londen had been announced, it was made known | that Chamberlain was to make a visit to South Af- | rica and that the King had expressed a wish that one of the vessels of the navy be placed at Chamberlain’s | service. Accordingly the Secretary for the Colonies will go to South Africa not in an ordinary steamer | but in one of the largest and fleetest armored cruis- | ers of the empire. As soon as the statement of the | Chamberlain visit to S_outh Africa was officially made | reports were received from Berlin saying the an- ';nouncement caused no surprise in that capital, and that the Kaiser had expressed to a member of the lain would find time to visit German as well as Brit- ish South Africa. | The Westminster Gazette not long ago quoted a i London authority as sayin, “It may be added, in regard to the whole question, that whatever may come in the way of official or officious denials I am in a position to state that important developments in re- | gard to both South and Southeast Africa will follow next month’s visit of the King of Portugal to this ! country. Since the return to London a week ago ;the Court of St. James, his Excellency has been in continuous correspondence with the Foreign Office. He has also had private meetings with Count Metter- | nich, the German Embassador, and it is said in dip- | lomatic circles to be beyond doubt that this corre- | spondence and these meetings have a special signifi- cance.” | public refuse to accept Balfour's denial of fantastic ing more than a diplomatic evasion. Census experts figure out that it cost just 1514 cents classify them as to race and nativity. The cost does not end there, however, by a long shot, as the experts have a good deal more juggling to do with the returns and every juggle costs coin. Sarzh Bernhardt’s reception in Berlin is reported to | have been the most demonstrative ever given to any stage favorite in the history of the city, and is taken as | an evidence that the Berliners would like to conciliate | Paris and put an end to the talk of revenge. The recent announcement of a volcanic outbreak in the province of Tobasco, with floods of red hot lava flowing down the mountainsides, is interesting, but it may turn out after all to be nothing more than an ex- plosion ina Tobasco sauce factory. The long expected has happened, an automobile has collided with a trolley car. The car was upset and 22 persons injured. The occu- pants of the automobile escaped unhurt. Score one for the auto. A Colorado woman has been charged with voting twice at the late elections, and doubtless her explana- tion will be that she changed her mind after the first ballot and thought she had a right to say so. Having lambasted the public schools, President Eliot has now turned his energies toward roasting the Sunday school. In his judgment, there is nothing ®ood save Harvard. Most of that terri- | The possession of the | | British embassy at his court a hop® that Chamber- ' | of the Marquis de Soveral, the Portuguese Minister to | Under such circumstances it is not strange that the | bargains, and look upon his banquet speech as noth- | a head to cdunt the people of the United States and | It occurred in New York. | 'SOME ANSWERS TO QUERIES BY CALL READERS | BARBED WIRE FENCES—M. A. T., | Petaluma, Cal. There is no certainty ' when barbed wire was first used for fenc- ing, but there is a record that a fence of | such material was used at Schuylkill Falls, Pa., by the manufacturers, White & Hazard, in 1816. The first patent for a barbed wire fonce was issued in 1575. SHOOTING STARS—Subscriber, City. The great display of shooting stars in the thirties was in three successive years, | 1831, 1832, 1833, about November 13 of each of those years. The most imposing was { on November 13, 1833. It extended chief- ly over the limits comprised between longitude 61 degrees in the Atlantic and 100 degrees in Central Mexico and from the latitude of the Great Lakes of North America to the West Indies. THE TIDES—Subscriber, Oakland. Cal. ! The tides are an alternate rising and fall- intervals. They have a maximum and twice a year. Of the daily tides the max- | imum is called high tide and the mini- ymum low tide. The maximum for | month is called spring tide and the mini- mum neap tide. the unequai attraction of the sun and the . moon upon the earth. 1 WOMAN'S RELIEF CORPS—G. A. M., | City. The nucleus of the organization | | known as the Woman's Relief Corps was formed in 1862 1n connection with Bos- worth Post of the Grand Army of the | Republic of Portland, siamne. This soci- | ety was supplemented with others in dif- ferent parts of the State and finally grew into a State organization, which was State of Maine. many State departments and corps. In lJune. 1901, there were 3106 corps of this | organization with an aggregate member- | | ship of 144,357 E ADOBE HOUSES—S. T. U., City. Adobe | | houses, such as were erected in the Mis- | sion Dolores in 1776, were built of what | were known as unburnea bricks. They were made of loamy earth containing about two-thirds of fine sand and one- | third of clay dust. This was mixed with water and then pressed into molds of the required size. Taken from the molds tie adobes were placed on edge on the ground ‘and left to harden in the sun. In a few days they became hard, compact bricks. They were laid with mud mortar, and at the completion of every two feet of the structure an interval of one week was al- | lowed for drying and a similar space of | time between the completion of the walls nd the putting on of the roof, which was cf burned tiles. At the Mission Dolores | there remains but one of these buildings aside from the old church. SQUINTING — Subscriber, City. It is well known that in infancy there is often | a tendency to squint. This frequently asses away as the child advances in age; but it sometimes becomes a fixed habit, equiring a surgical operation for a per- manent cure. The following has been suggested as a means to render such an | operation unnecessary: “Take a spec- | tacle frame and In the orifice opposite the | eye that squints put in a piece of horn with a small hole in the center. To see with the squinting eye it becomes neces- sary for the child to look through the | hole in the center of the horn. The child will acquire the habit of looking forward toward an object instead of looking to the right or left of it.” It is said that a slight squint, which in infancy is ap- parently only a habit, may be remedied by this means. PLASTER OF PARIS CASTS—A. A. Alameda, Cal. In making plaster of paris casts the finest and purest plaster is used. The operator in filling the mold has to know by test the requisite thickness or consistency of the ‘“cream’” used, for it ; must not be too thick nor too thin. In pouring it into the mold a good camel | hair brush is used to dispel air bubbles. A mere surface of the thin cream is ap- plied, then a thicker plaster of the con- sistency of light syrup is used to fill up {the mold. In twenty minutes the mold pure and properly mixed and too much oil was not used on the object to be | molded there is a clear-cut, sharp mold. Tlaster of paris casts are thoroughly dried, covered with the best linseed oii, just warm, and allowed to remain twelve hours, after which they are taken out and allowed to dry in a place free from dust. The casts then look just like wax and when dry may be washed without in- jury. 7 e NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. CONSPICUOUS IN A IALLROOM. Flakes of Dandruff on the Collar and Shoulders of a Gentleman in ’ H Full Dress. This 1s the thing you quite frequently seeé in the ballroom—a man's black dress coat literally covered with dandruff. It must be annoying to the wearer, and certainly not a pleasant thing to observe. But dandruff can be eradicated. It is a disease that will day cause timula a rich, abundant wth; it does more— km the hair fit‘::d ‘flllni. bo 16 erpicide is a most pleas- ant toilet accessory: scalp. e P ! @ oot e ing of the waters of the ocean at regular | minimym twice a day, twice a month and | the | The cause of the tides is | named the Woman's Relief Corps of the | From this grew the can be opened and if the plaster used was | -:;X-X-H‘H‘H%-H-i-i'i'!’fl‘-l'l‘. CHARGES FRAUD IN A CASE OF INSOLVENCY A deposition was read in the United | States Circuit Court yesterday morning jIn the matter of the involuntary insol- | veney of Cox Brothers Company, milk dealers, alieging that the firm had fraud- | ulently transferred a number of shares | of stock of the Millbrae California Milk | Company to certain persons with the in- | tent to prefer them as creditors. The deposition is sworn to by Frederick B. Haight, who alleges that on November | 1 1902, the Cox company acknowledged | in a letter to Halght that it was insolv- | {ent and unable to pay its debts: that | | on October 33 the company, while insolv- ent, transferred to A. D. Cox 130 shares | | of the capital stock of the Millbrae Cali- | | fernia Milk Company, to Ernest Siem 109 | | shages and to F. V. Meyers 3 shares, | taese three persons being creditors, and | that by making such transfers the com- | pany created a preference in favor of | those creditors, with the purpose and in- | | tent of hindering and delaying the other | creditors. It is alleged further in the'| deposition that the assets of the bank- Tupt, in addition to the 300 shares of stock, | consist of about $2000 worth of bills coi- | lectable from customers for milk. The al- | legation is also made that F. V. M. Cox, | j president, and John H. Cox. secretary of the bankrupt company, have collected | some of these bills and have paid out of | the proceeds certain sums to preferred creditors to the exclusion of the other creditors, and that they will appropriate the proceeds of such collections in such a way that the money will be lost to the creditors. The deponent therefore asks that the United States Marshal be given warrant to take into custody the books and accounts and money of the bankrupt pending the determination of the matter | in the court. Afflant deposes that unless this be done the books and accounts may be lost, destroyed or mutilated and the | assets n‘:lpidly dissipated. Judge de Haven granted the motion for the issuance of the warrant. The Cox Brothers Company is alleged to be in- debted to the petitioning creditdrs in the sum of about $2000. —————— Death of Alfred C. Kipps. Alfred C. Kipps, a well-known portrait | painter of this city, died late last Monday | night of Bright's disease. He is survived by nis wife, who has been blind for the past fifteen vears. She was with rim at the time he passed away, but was not | {aware of his death until a friend, Mrs. | L. J. Wheelock, who called to see him, | | Informed her. Kipps was a member of | the Odd Fellows and of the Ancient Or- | | der of United Workmen. At the time of his death he was financier of Sts. Johns | Lodge, a position he filled for many years. | Interment will be under the auspices of the Odd Fellows. | —_————— Whenever a widow begins to make in- quiries as to a bachelor's financial con- dition she means business. sented his menthly report. He estimated that more than 15,000 visitors viewed the board’s exhibits during the past month. More than 1400 pleces of literature teiling of the advantages of California were mailed during the month. Speecial circu lars prepared by Fiicher setiing forth the climatic advantages of the State were unanimously indorsed by the members and ordered mailed to the East. RALLY OF LADIES OF GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC Gather to Give Welcome to Depart- ment President of the Order. Seven Pines Circle No. 3, Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic, met Monday night at Ploneer Hall to give a welcome to Mrs. Cordella H. Spence of Los An- geles, who is the department president of the order. Mrs. Spence came to the city for the ex- | press purpose of inspecting the circle's work. During the evening Mrs. Spence gave a review of her visits to various circles and her report of the progress and pros- perity attending the order everywhere evoked loud applause. The announce- ment of the unprecedented success of their convention at Washington last month was hailed with delight. While congratulating San Francisco circle on its growth and admirable condition Mrs. Spence said that she had to admit that San Jose circle was in the lead in mem- bership. After the formalities of the gathering had been dispensed with the whole of the company repaired to one of the large rooms of the buillding, where a banquet was enjoyed. The following officers had charge of the reception: Mis, Lilly Dunn, president; Mrs. Ella Tair, senior vice president; Mrs. Laura Tully. junior vice president: Mrs. Annie Phillips, secretary: Mrs. Lena Schoiten, treasurer: Mrs. Martha ress: Mrs. Allle Balfley, guard: Mrs. Murilla Jafiries, assistant guard, and Miss Lena Swit- zer, planist. Mrs. A. Buttner and Mrs. J. E. Harvey, past presidents, also rendered assistance in entertaining the visitor. —_——— Government Orders the Wyoming. WASHINGTON, Nov. 11.—Orders wers issued to-day that the monitor Wyoming be delivered to the Government at Mare Island Navy Yard, San Francisco, No- vember 29. ——— ) Prunes stuffed with apricots. Townsend's.® ¢ ‘ i N M- ity Townsend's California glace fruit and candies, 50c a pound, in artistic fire-etched boxes. A nice present for Eastern friends. 639 Market st., Palace Hotel building. * ———————— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 330 Cali- fornia street. Telephone Main 1042. - —_———— Fountain Pens. We are selling agents for several foun- tain pens, inciuding the “Waterman.” the “Swan” and the “Marshall,” the best $§1 fountain pen ever made. Sanborn, Vail & Co., 741 Market street. - The Trail of the Juggernaut I8! N explaining why the leading novelist,” it has been pointed out Frank Norris’ great masterpiec.—a | All his chasecters s<e of such book might be written round any road juggernaut. perat: wheat growers passing on i l l,nu—dyluthhuldtfllmt , popularity than ever before. 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