The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 14, 1903, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCI PLENTIFUL RAIN FRESHENS FIELDS FERTILE OF CROPS . 17 i Another storm | ! plece of wood several inches in thickness t showers have | | was torn out and tossed across the sireet. afternoon and | A half inch of rain fell this morning and throughout | | this evening, making the total for the Sl far nk season 9 inches, Grain will be immensely s et e | benefited by the rain. A heavy hailstorm et e DA fell this afternoon -which, it is feared, did wers and o:d r'-s:]denls as- | considerable damage to early fruit. the count, It is rather RAINFALL RECORDS AT STATE STATIONS | all ontin The following are the seasonal rain- | | falls to date as compared with those of ] | the same date last season, and rainfalls in the last twenty-four hours Stations— 24 Eureka Red Bluft San Diego County. SAN DIEGO, March 13.—A low barom- weeks have given | & | | eter and threatening sky promise rain £ an impetus that! i e nf‘;" Sazias in San Diego before morning, though s S none had fallen at 9 o'clock to-night. N DR Independence .0. Though not neede in w past twenty-four S. L. Obispo.0.04 . ged ISLIaLE will I be unwelcome, for the crops of San Diego County have progressed so far and the ground is already o moist that there is every assurance that this county willhave | the largest crops, particularly in grain and hay, that it has ever had. Fruit, both citrus and deciduous, will also be more than an average crop, because there was no damage by froft in this > abou The storm ugh the fall has th no extremely light and fndications ar Southern Call- | section during the late cold sngps. ; for will feel further effects of the peBr R 5 ST e here are st has been preva t santities of e that has boon pravalentyin’ he Kern County. h The rains of the past week have had a BAKERSFIELD, March 13.—During the a0st beneficial effect on crops. coming | forenoon to-day a slight shower fell. thaly GOl At when the groung | DUring the afternoon it was clear, but s most parched, and vegetatio about 6 6'clock the sky became clouded » has advanced wonderful and by 9 o’clock the rain came in a hard, 3d wheat are well sprouted s teady shower, that now bids fair to con- nting of es has a | tinue all night. Coming as it does imme- a ¥ ¢ from the timely coming of the | dlately following the hard rains that have s From he agricultural | fallen during the ecntire season up to Py o8 cts of this section come reports that ! date, the showers will be of great benefit ence. the precipitation has been abundant and | 10 the stockmen, sheepmen and farmers —_— ) d somewhat ahead of that of | Benerally. At this time everything is fa- Monterey County. t season ‘\'nram; for a good year in these line: SA g Ao 1 P SIS SR | better,” in fact, than for several years Ventura County. pApL el L NTURA, March - ell for | 5 of an inch. The total for | SAN JOSE, March 13.—The rain is fall- ) s <t 11.65 | N8 gently, prospects of a satisfac- e, e “Fainst 1163 | tory continuance. Last night .2 of an rondition. Thinning of beets |/Ch fell, making a totai of 13.01 inches s o of beets | for the season. The farmers and orchard- ists are delighted with the condition of | affairs. The prospects for fine crops were 4 | er better. will have a ng run. The usual l“m s acreage will be devoted to'lima beans. | Bean ranchers have their land in condi- | tion for planting. Feed on the ranges has | the sugar Ry S : Solano County. VALLEJO, March 13—The heavy rain been during the past few weeks, | of last night and to-day has swelled the owing to cold weather. With showers | precipitation for the season to nearly 11 and warm weather there will be an |inches. Reservoirs in this section are feed for stockmen. Or- especially apricot growers, ex- pect good crops. Orange and lemon pick- ing is on. There has been practically no damage by frost this season. brimfull and farmers, fruit raisers and livestock men are in excellent spirits. T Marin County. SAN RAFAEL, March 13.—Marin Coun- TR, ty has had a coplous rain in the last _Sen Luis Obispo County. forty-eight hours. The precipitation for SAN LUIS OBISPO, March 13.—The | the past twenty-four hours is 136 inches weather during the last twenty-four |and 30.10 inches for the season. At the has been unsettled and a number | same time last year the rainfall for this showers have fallen. At present it is | yicinity was 29.8 raining, with every prosvect for its con- e b NS tinuance through the night. Crop pros- this section are particularly Orange County. and from present indications | SANTA ANA, March 12—Rain began is uld be one of the banner vears | falling here in light showers at 2 o'clock n the coast side of the county. A large | this afternoon. Thé sky has been over- N amage In | grea has been sown, and gr of all | cast all day and considerable moisture X0 in retard- | kinds is looking excellent. Reports from | fell in the hills vesterday. Prospects are d about Grain on e | many sections on the eastern side of the Chico mountains are satisfactory. Farmers and business men throughout the whole coun- ty are anticipating & most prosperous | sea Wnpour. it Sl i good for a do Colusa County. COLUSA, March 13.—The farmers and fruit men are greatly pleased with the storm for the past two days. The rainfall | for the storm is 1.73 and the total for the | season 12.44 inche: 1 ek San Joaquin County. STOCKTON, March 13—An electric storm that disabled the telephone service and alarmed residents occurred early this rain doing as the lack | wing grain | he gr Calaveras County. S et s G | evening. It was accompanied by an un- 3 | usually heavy downpour. A tfee on Cali- MILTON, March 18.—A light rain has Los Angeles County. | fornia street, opposite the State Insane | been falling here to-day at intervals and LOS A ES, March 13.—On | Asylum, was struck by lightning. The |a southeast wind blowing briskly indi- runk was splintered and scorched and a | cates a continuation of the storm. SCO CALL, SATURDAY MARCH 14, 1903. BLOCKADE 0F ORINOGD 15 RAISED Fresh With Castro Averts Complications England. it Act Prevents United States Being Drawn Into the Dispute. WASHINGTON, March 13.—President Castro of Venezuela has raised the block- | ade of the Orinoco River. News of this action was recelved Dere to-day with great relief, for although there were no outward symptoms of trouble it is now known that the enforcement of the decres probably would have resuited in serious section, the British Embassador here was | the first to move after the announcement of the blockade decree. The United States Government practically had de- cided to recognize the blockade if Vene- znela stationed a sufficient number of | ships at the mouth of the Orinoco to | rake it effective and if these ships were | supplemented tn their work by certain | shore batteries in command of positions. | But the British Government was not | disposed to reccgnize the blockade, as it | would work particular hardship to the British colonies in Trinidad and Guiana, which are already in straitened finan- cial circumstances. The Venezuelan Gov- ernment was given to understand that if | the blockade were persisted in Great Brit- | ain would recognize the belligerency of | the rebels in Venezuela, and, moreover, | applying the laws of neutrality with strictness, that she would close all Brit- ish ports to Venezuelan warships, allow- | ing them only the small privilege of put- | ting in in time of stress for a very ihm- | | ited period. - | Even during the enforcement of the blockade last March the British Govern- | | ment never went to this length, and the | | threat dismayed President Castro. If tae | rebels were to be recognized as bellige: - ents their cause would be strengthened | immensely, for they might charter pri-| | vate ships and be put in a position to | borrow money and conduct war on a {larger and, it may be, successful scale. Incidentally, the revocation of the order | has relieved the naval authorities here, | who had decided that if the blockade were | | to be re-established it would be the duty | of the navy to watch developments at che | mouth of the Orinoco and that we should | send three naval vessels to that locality. | i i Storm Is Extensive. The rain fell generally over Central and Northern California yesterday. The storm was quite widespread. but only of mod- erate severity. Weather Bureau Official McAdie states that the rainfall for the | twenty-four hours preceding 5 o’clock last | night amounted to 1.20 inches. The fore- cast for to-day is more showers. —_— e . LONDON, March 13.—The Geographical So- clety has awarded the Gill memorial medal to Ellsworth Huntingdon, the Amdrican explorer of the Euphrates region. 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Nearly every one you know has “now and then” an aching back—some suffer severely from back- ache pains, others have mild attacks that only harass, annoy Many grievous mistakes are'made Ever stop to think that there is reason cold—every exertion to bring backache pains? There will be less pain—less back trouble when ’tis understood the kidneys are to blame for it all nine times out of ten. their proper functions; then it is the back warns you to assist nature and right the wrong that is going on in the systém, causing impure blood-to circulate and breed disease. Cure all kidncy complications from common backache to dangerous diabetes. Not an ill in the kidney and Too Frequent Urination, Excessive Urinary Discharges, Painivl Urinary Passages, Dropsical Swellings, San Francisco Proof. Wm. Blackwell of 14 Jackson street street, says: “For six or seven ys: ‘ | T e g | Backs! of the back—every The kidneys’ back—kidneys are unable to perform the Bladder, Infrequent JACKSON STREET. “If all troubled with pain in | Continued From Page 1, Column 6. | ment expenses have been charged against | penses in bonds to distribute the cost| o | | expendes or an erroneous system of book- | | count, | months ending December, 1902, the Union | $3,013,929. ADVERTISEMENTS. THE MEN AND WOMEN Who Enjoy the Choicest Products of the World’s Commerce. - Knowledge of What Is Best More Im= portant Than Wealth With- out It. It must be apparent to every one that qualities of the highest order are neces- sary to enable the best of the products of modern commerce to attain permanently to universal acceptance. However loudly heralded, they may not hope for worl@-wide preeminence unless they meet with the general approval, not of individuals only, but of the many who have the happy faculty of selecting, enjoying and learn- ing the real worth of the cholcest prod- ucts. Their commendation, consequently, becomes important to others, since to meet the requirements of the well in- formed of all countries the method of manufacture must be of the most per- fect order and the combination the most excellent of its kind. The above is true not of food products only, but Is espe- cially applicable to medicinal agents and after nearly a quarter of a century of growth and general use the excellent friction, perhaps involving a renewal of | remedy. Syrup of Figs, is everywhere | hostilities. British Interests next to our | accepted, throughout the world, as the }oun being predominant in the Orinoco | best of family laxatives. Its quality is due not only to the excellence of the combination of the laxative and carmin- ative principles of plants known to act most beneficially on the system and pre- sented In the form of a pleasant and re- freshing liquid, but also to the method manufacture of the California Fig Syrup Co., which ensures that uniformi ty and purity essential In a remedy in- tended for family use. Ask any physi- cian who Is well informed and he will answer at once that it is an excellent laxative. If at ali eminent in his pro- fession and has made a special study of laxatives and their effects upon the tem he will tell you that it is the best of family laxatives, because it is sim- ple and wholesome and cleanses and sweetens the system effectually, when a laxative is needed, without any un- pleasant after-effects. Every well-in- formed druggist of reputable standing knows that Syrup of Figs is an excel- lent laxative and is glad to sell it, at the regular price of fifty cents per bot- tle, because it gives general esatisfac- tion, but one should remember that in order to get the beneficial effects of Syrup of Figs it is necessary to buy the genuine, which is sold in original pack- ages only; the name of the remedy— Syrup of Figs and also the full name of the Company—California Fig Syrup Co. —printed on the front of every package. of Universallp Accepted The Best Family Laxative e — ¢ 1 & SYRUP OF FIGS Recommended by Many Millions of The Well-Informed Throughout the World— Manufactured by San Francisco, Cal. Louisville, Ky. FOR SALE BY ALL LEADING DRUGGISTS. New York, N. Y. ) PRICE FIFTY CENTS PER BOTTLR FIGHT FOR CONTROL OF S, P. R. Union Pacific Company, whereby the in- terests of the Southern Pacific are endan- in favor of the Union Pacific,” adopting policies also “that tended and tend to direct traffic from the Southern Paclfic Company which would, without the adop- tion of such policles, have come to that road.” EXCESSIVE FREIGHT RATES. Among other things it is charged in the bill that the Southern Pacific Company was required to charge so excessive a pro rata on through tariffs that it was virtually excluded from large volumes of business. It is declared that large better- the Southern Pacific operating expenses, whereas the custom is to fund such ex- over a serles of years, thus avoiding a burden on the part of the stockholders. The bill declares also that the operating expenses accounts of the road elther show a true state of excessive operating keeping, and that immense lmprovemcnls: have been undertaken for the Central I'a- cific, which affords the Union Pacific an outlet from Ogden, Utah, into California, and erroneously charged against (he| Southern Pacific operating expenses ac- | with the ultimate purpose of | greatly improving the Central Pacific at | the expense of the parent system buying | it and then purchasing the greatly imi- | | | paired Southern Pacific system itself. It is declared that during the eighteen Pacific had made Improvements amount- ing to nearly $22,000,000 on the Central Pa~ cific, charging the amount against the operating expenses of the Southern Pa- cific system and creating a deficit of The bill asks for an order restraining and enjoining the Union Pacific Company from voting its 750,000 shares in the an- nual election to be held on April 8 and a decree requiring both companies to come into court to make answer to the par- ticulars of the complaint. JUDGE LURTON’S ORDER. Judge Lurton issued the following re- straining order: “I express no opinion upon the merits of the prima facie case made by this bill and its exhibits, further than to say that it seems to me that the complain- ants are entitled to have the status pre- served until they can give notice and be heard upon an application for a prelimi- nary injunction. “It is therefore ordered that the de- fendants show cause on April 1, 1903, be- fore. me in my chantbers at Nashville, Tenn., at 10 o'clock a. m. of sald day, why an injunction pendente lite shall not be issued as prayed, and in the mean- time let the defendant, the Southern Pa- cific Company, be restrained from in any manner transferring or disposing of the lease of the Central Pagific road hereto- fore made to the Southern Pacific’Com- pany, or of any of the rights of the said Southern Pacific Company thereunder, and from disposing by transfer or sale of shares of the capital stock of said Cen- tral Pacific Company, owned or held by the sald Southern Pacific Company, and that the said Southern Pacific Company, its officers, agents and attorneys be re- strained from permitting the defendant Union Pacific Railway Company, its officers, directors, agents or at- torneys or by proxy to vote upon any capital stock of said Southern Pacific Company standing in the name of the Unlon Pacific Company, or in the name or names of any person or corpora- tion for its use and benefit or in the name of said Mercantile Trust Company, months pain in the small of my back just over the kidneys plainly told me there was something wrong with those organs. Naturally a man in this condition is on the out- look for som.thing to radically dis- ose of the trouble or at Jeast check it, and one evening while reading my paper I came across an advertisement which stated that Pills could be depended upon. . Next day I went to a drug store on Mar- ket street for a box. It performed its work quickly and faithfully. After 2 course of the treatment back- ache ceased, and up to date there has not been a symptom of a recurrence.” Doan’s Kidney * Street and Number..........ccoieeoeenscesncansss their back and annoyed from the ac- tion of tHe kidney secretions could have these ended as quickly as the use of Doan’s Kidney Pills ended mine, backache and its accompanying ills need have no terrors for suffer- ers from kidney complaint. I had considerable annoyance from pain in my back, and I knew from the condi- tion of the kidney secretions that the kidneys were at fault. Doan’s Kid- ney Pills procured at a drug store on Market street stopped the last attack.” its officers, directors, agents or proxy, or to in any way participate as a stock- holder in any meeting of the stockhold- ers of said Southern Pacific Company or any election of officers of said Southern Pacific Company, and that the said South- ern Pacific Company, #ts directors, of- ficers, agents, etc., be restrained from in any way altering, changing or amending the bylaws of the said company so as to change the time or place for the election of a new board of directors or from in any way changing existing regulations in respect of the annual stockholders’ meet- ing for the election of directors, and that this restraining order stand until the rule to show cause shall be heard and dis- posed of. “Let a copy of the bill and its exhibits LIMB OF A TREE BEARS PROFILE OF WASHINGTON Members of the Connecticut Histori- cal Society Are Deeply Inter- ested in the Marvel. | the “Washington Elm, cause of the story that Washington stop- ped under it when he visited Captain | Jeremiah Wadsworth, on the occasion of the conference with Rochambeau, must come down, and many persons went to get pieces of the eim. When ed if he believed the story which gave the tree its name, Superintendent of Streets Haus- | ling replied: “Why if that tree could speak it would | prove it A moment later he picked up a limb some inches through and at the cross sec- tion was a perfect profile of Washington like a miniature in sepla. It was made by the brown heart of the limb. Officers of the Connecticut Historical Sociey pro- nounce it a marvel. NOTED PARISIAN PIANIST CAPTURES NEW YORK CITY Madame Roger-Miclos Achieves Ex- traordinary Success at Philhar- monic Concert at Carnegie Hall. EW YORK, March 13.—Madame Roge: Miclos, the Parisian planist, achieved an extraordinary success at the seventh phil- harmonic concert at Carnegie Hall (his afternoon. The audience insisted upon recalling her until the attendants came forward and closed the piano, which end- ed the incident. Walter Damrosch con- ducted. e By S DELINQUENT OFFICIAL TRIES TO KILL HIMSELF Swallows Poison When Informed That the Government Intends Prosecuting Him. MANILA, March 13.—Bartlett Sinclair, treasurer of Rizal Province, attempted to commit suicide to-day by taking poison when informed that the Government In- tended to prosecute him for neglecting his office and permitting the peculation of funds. Sinclair's books were found to be in a muddled state. The authorities have been investigating for months a shortage of several thousand dollars, but it is not be- lieved that Sinclalr embezzled money. Four of his subordinates have been ar- rested on the charge of embezzlement. HARTFORD, Conn., March 13.—It was | & | gered, and prejudiced by discriminations | recently decided that what was left of | Keene party | The only WALL STREET'S VIEW OF S. P..FIGHT — . — Continued From Page 1, Column 7. in conference with the Keene counsel for last ten days. According to the Senator Foraker expresse: known be-| the opinion that the suit was m clearer cut than the Government's case against the Northern S rities Company and the | Northern Pacific T. J. Taylor said to-day that the pub- lication of the text of the pool agreement, exclusively printed in the Herald and The | Call, did not Interfere with any arrange- ments which had been made In carrying on the contest “On the contrary, the text of the agree- ment,” sald Taylor, “must have shown Wall street and the financial world what confidence the members of the pool pos- sessed in Mr, Keene's judgment in agree- ing to extend the duration of the agree- ment. Every ome who has been ap- proached signified his willingness to ex- tend the life of the agreement until April | 10. The support extended to us has been very flattering and If we can tie up the 390,000,000 of stock I am confident we can win out.” "RIERA MEETS A REVERSE. | Revolutionist Force Sustains Heavy Loss in Battle. CARACAS, March 13.—The Consul -at Coro reports that American tionists, commanded by Gen Riera, who were occupying a little port called Cumarebo, have been defeated with heavy loss after a fight lasting thirty-_ eight hour! With General Riera was Ceneral Panaloza. Riera’s command was made up of stragglers who formerly be- longed to the army of General Matos. revolutionary army now is a force of 2000 men under General Rolardo. This force is now encamped near Guatire. Trunks, valises, dress suit cases, trav- eling rolls, pocket-books and wrist bag: that are good and look good_ and are cheap. Sanborm, Vail & Co., Til Market street. . —_—e—e————— Changes in the Postal Service. WASHINGTON, March Postoffice estab- lished: California—Atchison, Contra Costa County, Lillian Blake, postmaster. Postmasters comrhissioned: California—Feilx L. Grauss Calistoga; C. Fisher, Coyote; John T Bearss, Daunt; Martin P. Arense, Emigrast Gap. Washington—Simon J. Breck, Lexington Catharine Cro' Newland. Postoffices at Bishop, Point Richmond and Redondo, Cal will become _Presidential April 1 tha salaries of the postmasters fixed at $1100, $1200 and $1100 respectively. and this order be served on the defend- ants on or before March 15 1303, at 12 o’clock noon.” s PARIS, March 13.—The imports of France for January and February increased $13,325,- 800, and t{!. ‘exports increased $8,553,200, 245to on .t CREDIT IS 00D ordes furni 2 B re Go. St ... e