The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 25, 1903, Page 9

MAKE A DEMAND 10 GLOSE DUMPS Board of Health Is Re- quested to Take Action. Calls Special Meeting to Con- sider Petition of West Oaklanders. . “Oakland Office S 1118 Bro: The Board of Hea clal meeting for Thu n Francisco Call dway, Aug. 24. day even action upon the garbage question Since t last meeting of the board a large petition has been prepared and slgned by West Oakianders urging the ing grounds on 2 street closing of depos . s refuse be declared a | Pcard for a continuance. | 3 To this end a strong _ The fight against the resort has been e nted to the Board WAaged by residents of upper Fruitvale, ng of the city" ce. The at $80. e that ufficiently ) sig > was investigate. yor Olney $62 the water sug rdinance to pay Ex d $1000 for his the Auditing and RETURNS WITH BODY OF CAPITALIST LLOYD Wife of Berkeley Promoter, Who Died at Sea, Brings Home the Remains. g. 24.—The E ast January Boxall body rkeley vd cap! n Berkeley. th has called’a spe- g to take the A reso- | »s has been intro- board for consid- ose coneerned in | garbage at a demand that the scavengers for | to close the owner of s have been o get rid of up before the City punication re- | 10 of Healih, stat| Citigens Call a Mass Meeting That | claring the present| They May Organize a Vigl- | Com- s was dele- fes of extra the the Fruitvale an- ar but it was n were gen- oF at San was m China to- WILL CLOSE UP THE HERMITAGE Application for License Denied by Board of Supervisors. Bitter Fight Against Old Fruitvale Roadhouse Is Ended. PR | ©Oakland Office San Francisco Call, i 1118 Broadway, August 24. Efforts to reopen the Hermitage, one of the old time roadhouses of Alameda Coun- | ty, which flourished in Upper Fruitvale | before the advent of the electric roads in | that district, have failed. The applica- | tion of F. C. Schnarr for a license to con- duct a saloon at that place was denied by | the Board of Supervisors this morning, | as Schnarr was unable to prove that | he had the proper signatures to his ap- | plication. Attorney Max Marcuse, who has been representing Schnarr, said that he had not heard from his client during the last week, and therefore would not ask the | | Jed by several clergymen, ever since the place was closed by Leon Faure two years | ago. The protestants have carried on a protracted fight in an effort to perma- nently close the old resort. | —————— FIREBUG SUFPOSED TO BE AT WORK IN ELMHURST lance Committee. | OAKLAND, Aug. 24—Frequent fires of supposed incendiary origin have led the citizens of Elmhurst to call a meeting for | Thursday night to organize a vigilance | committee. A week ago Saturday the residence of J. Littlefield on Kinsell ave- nue was damaged by a mysteriously started fi The same night a pasture fire threat- ened E. P. Herrier's residence, Exactly ! a week later two tons of hay stacked on Bayview avenue, owned by H. C. Clay- were burned. The following night C. = a’s barn on Moss avenue was fired and a large stack of hay at A. 8. Ma- | 1! loon’s place near by went up in smoke. e townspeople have been unable to | explain the succession of fires except on | | the theory that an ine is at work. S S PROPOSE NEW HIGHWAY TO STANISLAUS MINES | Supervisors Imnstruct County Sur- veyor to Report Feasibility of | Road Along Arroyo Mocho. OAK ND, Aug. 24.—Instructions were given County Surveyor Prather by the ard of Supervisors to-day to make a | of & proposed road from Liver- vey 1 i on the Korea ng the Arroyo Mocho to mines in ‘\' h u’z health, nislaus County. A report is expected her hus-| . o him by next Monday's meeting of The ma. Thieves Cartrright Miss - ried t am et the F h. They stole 4 been prepared g guests the for and the Invited ones had something else Catches Fleet-Footed Fugitive. Washington clerks urned over to the police. Tt Wives Given Divorces. LANT AU—A ree of the grou d D. eme cruelty. Unitarian Club Programme. ALAMEDA, Aug the artist, w * before the 1 evening. F son, Ar s to the Pohelm ered ice- the AKLAND, Aug. 4—After pursuit for e blocks, R. P. § 2 candy dealer street, captured a ernoon who had tried to pass “heck for $10 on one of Sel- | The check and prisoner were ai- | Amelia M. Stevens this | dge Melvin from Thaddeus nd of habitual in- tings was granted a separatioff S Hasungs, Judge Melvin arles P. Neil- 1 @eliver his “Talk on an Club Wednes- ‘ lecture here will be specialties by Lioyd Spencer, | ologist, end violin numbers by Hugo | b d, when, if it is thought to be e, the board will view the proposed route and let bids for the work to be done, An informal report made to the board by Superintendent Spinks of the mangan- ese mines in Stanislaus County is to the effect that a roadway can be constructed about ten feet above the creek and fal- lowing its course would do away with the extreme grade of the old highway and | | reduce the distance about a mile and a | half. | @ it e @ OPPOSE A RAISE OF ASSESSMENTS ’ County Officials Appear Before the Board of Equalization. SACRAMENTO, Aug. 24.—The State Board of Equalization took up the as- sessments of various countles in the State to-day and will probably be in session 1 week, making inquiries as to why as- sessments should not be raised. i Marin County’s assessment was taken | up first this morning, R. H. Parks, As- sessor of thal county, appearing before | { the board to oppose a raise. In 1902 the total valuation of property in the county | was $11,521,110, while thie year the valua- tion is returned at $11,831,355, an increase of $410,275. | Assessor Parks declared he had assessed ADVERTISEMENTS. Heart Beat So Violently, Its Movement Could Be Seen Through Clothing. Dr. Miles’ Heart Cure Cured Me. matter what's the matter with (on ot it wili pay you to try Dr. Miles’ Heart ure. If is a great heart an tonic that cures by removing the cause. 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Al druggists sell and tle Dr. Miles Remedies. gnnn(:e first bot- nd for iree book ®u Nervous and Heart Discases. Address Medical Dr. Miles Co., Elkhart, Ind. the property as high as its actual value | | would warrant. | | “Napa County was represented by Dis-| ! trict Attorney Ray Benjamin, the Asses: £or being confined to his home by illnes: Napa County shows an increase of $49, 32 over the valuation returned for 1%02. Benjamin said the Assessor had assured he had properly assessed all prop- the afternoon session of the board the assessment roll of Solano County was taken up. George Lamont, an attorney, | represented the Assessor. He stated that during the last ten years the value of | grain Jands had dcreased materially, and cited the fact that land which was sold | in 1893 for $125 an acre was subsequently £0ld for 360 an acre after & number of | vears spent in looking for a purchaser. WITH CRIME OF MURDER Los Angeles Suspect Must Answer for the Alleged Killing of Eva Drouin. LOS ANGELES, Aug. 24—A formal | charge of murder was preferred to-day | against B4 Pennington, colored, 'who has | been in jail nearly a week as a suspect | for the alleged murder Eva ‘Drouin, | | alias Eva de la Craye. woman was | killed with a paving stone In a resort in | | the heart of the red light district last | | Monday night, her horribly mutilated body | | being found two hours after the erime had | been committed. .The next day Penning- | ton was arrested on suspicion that he was | the murderer. The clotaes which he had | worn on the night of the murder werc | found, and on them were numerous spots /| of human blood. It is positively known that he was in the district at the time of the murder and there are other suspicious circumstances connecting him with the case which the detectives are not ready 1o make public. Pennington made dam- aging admissions while being questioned | by the officers. He was arraigned to-day ‘ 4nd his preliminary examination set for Wednesday. He will endeavor to estab- iish an slibl. e General Black Visits Daughter. BERKELEY., Aug. 2i.—General John C. Black, the newly elected commander in chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, s the guest of his daughter, Mrs. F. B. Vrooman of 2507 Ridge road. He will re- main in Berkeley a fortnight. PENNINGTON IS CHARGED | { I | partner a short time. | Captat | dorf, Clarence Lee, | Winchester, | the motorman to stop and started to eject .THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1903. EXECUTORS FILE RAILAOAD WINS WL OF . o Late Shipbuilder Leaves Estate to Sister and Children. His Interest in the Fl'rm of Hay & Wright Exceeds $100,000. Oakland Office San Franeisco Call, 1118 Broadway, August 24. By a will of the late Alexarer Hay, filed to-day, his estate, supposed to be worth anywhere from $100,000 to $250,000, is left in eoual shares to his sister Jane MacDonald, and his two children, Warren B. Hay and Florence A. Hay. A. legacy of $1500 is bequeathed his granddaughter, Muriel Brick. The property consists of his interest in the corporation of Hay & Wright, ship- buflders. In the will Elijah B. Wright, Joseph Hutchinson and Jane MacDonald | are named as executors of his will, but owing to the death of Wright, not long since, Hutchinson and Jane MacDonald will act es executor and executrix of the testament. Hay dled on August 16, surviving his He makes provision in his will that his interest in the firm, which he worked years to build up, should not be sold out unless it was deemed ab- solutely necessary by the executors, and cven then it should not be done at a loss. —_— e ——— YACHTING PARTY RESCUES SKIPPER FROM DROWNING Crew of Occident Arrives Just in Time to Save Captain of Kitty. BERKELEY, Aug. 2¢.—The members of a party in the yacht Occident had a share in saving an amateur skipper from drowning yesterday in the bay. While cruising off Alcatraz Island they saw a man struggling in the ~water. They rushed to his rescue and pulled him out of the water just as he was about to go down for the third time. The skipper was Captain W, F. Plerce of the yacht Kitty of the California Yacht Club fleet, who had been knocked overboard by the boom of his boat. The crew of the Kitty tried to save him, but { could not manage their boat and were far away when the Occident arrived, The crew of the Occident was composed of Will Samuels, Miss Bertha Bat- Frank Bray, A. L. Edwin Conrvy and Alexan- der Potter. —_———————— NAMES COMMISSION TO ST. Board of Supe_n;‘i»st;u Designates the Men Who Will Represent Alameda County. OAKLAND, Aug. 2.—The Supervisors to-day appolnted \ Board of Edwin Stearns, secretary of the Board of Trade; Wilbur Walker, secretary of the Mer- chants’ Exchange, and J. C. Shinn, a prominent horticulturist of Niles, as com- miesioners for Alameda County to the St. Louis Exposition. The commission will serve without compensation, but will be allowed actual traveling expenses in- curred in the work. The members will prepare an exhibit of the resources of the county and maintain it at the exposition. They will also take charge of the prepa- ration and distribution of literature. It is intended that the commission shall lend assistance toward the arrangement of an exhibit at the Lewis and Clark Ex- position, which will be held at Portland, Ore., in 19805 —_— e SAN RAFAEL BARTENDER IS DRUGGED AND ROBBED Two Men Are Arrested on Suspicion of Having Committed the Crime. SAN RAFAEL; Aug. 24.—Drugged and robbed in broad daylight, dragged behind a bar and his head placed in a water bucket, was the experience of Ernest Fuents, a bartender in one of San Ra- fael's principal saloons, to-day. Fuents is employed in his brother's galoon near the California Northwestern depot on Fourth street. A customer en- tered the place this afternoon, and not finding the mixologist at his post, made a gearch and found him lying behind the bar unconscious. cured and an effort was made to resusci- | tate Fuents, but to no avail. A purse containing a large amount of gold was | missing and other valuables belonging to Fuents were gone. Sheriff Taylor was notified and late this | evening he arrested two men upon sus- | picion and will hold them until Fuents regains consclousness. It is believed that some one engaged the bartender in a game of cards and | then drugged and robbed hifn. Sailors Attack Conductor. Julian Besnog and Julian Labaux, two French sallors from the ship Duplex, now Iving in the stream, were arrested last evening on Kearny street by Patrolmen Haines and O'Connor and booked at the City Prison on charges of battery. The two men, who were passengers on Kearny and Mission street car No. 1131, persisted in smoking in the inside of the car, much 1o the annoyance of several ladies. When the conductor, M. C. Ferguson, remon- | strated with them they indulged in much profane and abusive language. When the car reached Pine street Ferguson signaled the two drunken men. They immediately commenced to assault the street-car man, and in the melee both of the sallors re- ceived superficial wounds on the head from a transfer punch in the hands of Ferguson. The officers arrived on the scene at this juncture and the arrest fol- lowed. —_—et——— . Sweeney Confirms the Story. SPOKANE, Wash, Aug. 2.—Charles Sweeney and John D. Rockefeller Jr. ar- rived here from the Coeur d’Alene mines | to-night, and Sweeney confirmed previous reports concerning the organization of the Federal company in New York with $30,- 000,000 capital. *“The properties of the Fed- eral Mining ahd Smelting Company,” he said, %include the Mammoth, the Stand- ard and the Empire State properties in the Coeur d'Altnes; the Puget Sound Re- duction Company’s smelter at Everett and | the Monte Cristo mining propertles, hith- erto owned by the Rockefeller interests.” ————— s Late Shipping Intelligence. ARRIVED. Monday, August 24. Schr Nokomis, .Nielsen, 9 days from Grays Harbor. Schr Mary C, Campbell, 10 hours from Bo- S hr C A Kiose, Gruggel, § days from Sius- law. g DOMESTIC PORTS. PORT TOWNEEND-—Salled Aug 1 —Arr! ug from Manila e —_———— At a“shooting match in the Canton of Grisons, Switzerland, a young waltress laughed at onc of the competitors, who challenged her to do better if she could. LOUIS FAIR| Assistance was pro- | FREIAT YARDS Berkeley Trustees Give Company South Berke- ley Rights. Recipient of Privileges Will Plant Trees and Beautity Site. BERKELEY, Aug. 24—By a vote of 4 to 3 the Town Trustees to-night passed to print the ordinance granting the Southern Pacific Company the right to establish freight yards in South Berkeley on the Gore tract of land bounded by Shattuck avenue, Adeline and Russell streets. Those voting for the franchise were Town | Trustees Staats, Connor, Rickard and Ryder. Opposed were Dowd, Ferrier and Hoft. Division Superintendent W. S. Palmer | of the Southern Pacific appeared for the | raflroad, and in his argument displayed ! a map which showed but thirty-two bouses in the tract for the yards, which contains forty acres. Palmer sald that] his company did not intend to block the | lines of the Oakland Transit Company; ihat all switching would be done ‘during the middle of the day; that the corpora- tion would inclose and beautify the grounds with trees. Residents of South Berkeley opposed to having the yards in their section of the city cams fortifled with a map bearing the inscription, “Will you destroy the front door of Beau- tiful Berkeley?’ On the map the houses of the protestants were designated in black and the residents of those who were not opposed to the yards were indi- cated by red spaces. Stacey W. Gibbs for the protestants gave three reasons for opposing the irelght yards. First, because their establishment would perpetuate the steam service, which he considered out of date; secondly, the yards would practically close streets in the vicinity, and, third, they would depre- ciate the value of adjacent realty. J. L. Robinson sald that the site was a natural and logical one for freight yards and would become a business center. Dr. F. J. Blehl remarked that he did not believe that the Southern Pacific peo- ple were acting in good faith when they said they would not block the lines of the: Oakland Transit Company. Trustee Staats spoke for the franchise and Trus- tees Dowd and Hoff were heard in oppo- | sition before it was put to a vote. L o e e R e e ] ] S ISSESSMENT 5 HIGH ENOUGH Supervisors Will Argue Before State Board of Equalization. Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 1118 Broadway, Aug. 24. Objection was urged to-day in the Board | of Bupervisors against any raise by the | State Board of Equalization in the total | | assessment of Alameéda County. The mat- | | ter was presented to the board in the shape of a notice from the State Board ' | requiring a showing of cause to be made | on Wednesday at Sacramento why the as- sessment should not be raised. Supervisor Rowe declared that in his opinfon the assessment was sufficiently | | high and that the board and County As- | sessor Dalton should appear before the | State Board of Equalization and make " proper argument and representations. In accordance with Rowe's suggestion Chairman John Mitchell announced that Assessor Dalton and himself would go to Sacramento on Wednesday and appear before the State board. Mitchell said the | | Supervisors should all be present and take part in the argpment. UNIVERSITY EVENTS BERKFLEY, Aug. 24.—Professor Kendric C. Babcock, who was recently elected president of the University of Arizona, will address the | women of the university at a meeting to be held | at Stiles Hall to-morrow afternoon at 4:15 o'clock. The subject will be *Th@Mmportance of Bible Study.” The university orchestra is about to be or- ganized for the fall term. The arrangements are in the hands of Paul Thelen. Rehearsals will begin a_week from to-morrow, Professor W. L.'Jepson will deliver a lecture on the timber trees of California and the Pa- cific Coast before the students in civil engineer- | ing to-morrow and Thursday mornings at 10 o’'clock. The lectures will be illustrated. Professor E. N. Henderson, a former student of the university, was marri¢d recently to Miss | Margaret Wallace of Woodland. After his | graduation he was principal of the High School and subsequently took a uate course in education at Columbla Uni sity. He 18 now vice principal of Adelphi lege, Brooklyn ——— e Marriage Licenses. OAKLAND, Aug. 24.—The following marriage licenses were issued by the County Clerk to-day: Lewis E. Campbell, over 21, and Jean M. Martin, over 18, both of Oakland; Manuel dc B. Mathias, 26, and Mary Abreu, 18, both of Oakland; Al- bert Benson, over 5, and Eliza Hamilton, over i, both of Oakland; Frank C. Howe, over 21, and Harriet E. Worden, over 18, both of Oakland; James W. Seawell, 2, Mendocino, and Jessie H. Smith, 23, Ala- meda. e Kills His Friend by Mistake. SANTA ROSA, Aug. 2.—Coroner Frank Blackburn to-day held an inquest over the body of Frederick J. Billet, the Ocel- dental man who was killed near Cas: dero yesterday while deer hunting, and a verdict of accidental death was returned. Billet and James Patterson, a friend, were hunting and separated, both'going up op- posite sldes of a ravine. Seeing something in the brush and believing it to be a deer, Patterson fired. The bullet entered Bil- let's back, tearing away part of the heart. This is the fourth death under similar circumstances reported in this vicinity during the past few months. e TG S PR Canada 1s about to become the chief source of the world's supply of arsenic. The arsenic which for many years baf- fled the gold miners of Hastings County, Ontario, in their efforts to extract the precious metal from its matrix, has be- come the more profitable of the two min- erals. This strange turn of the wheel of fortune has been caused by the virtual exhaustion of the former chief sources of supply of arsenic in Germany and Eng- land, together with the superfor quality and purity of the Canadian product. —_— 4 “JUST GATHERLED,” The beautiful fruit study to be given away FREE with next SUNDAY’S CALL, will make a handsome dining-room picture if framed closely in ebony and ornamented burnished gold, size | | iver- Col- Accepting, she thereupon took up a rifle and succeeded In winning a prize. 1014x15%. B EEEE——— Y | outbreak. | by changes of temperature, and is the PLAYS HEROINE AT SGHOOL FIRE Miss Anna Head Saves Berkeley Building From Flames, Clegrs Apartments of One Hundred Students and Extinguishes Blaze. FTRTPFINES, Berkeley Office San Francisco Call, 2148 Center Street, Aug. 24. Miss Anna Head, principal of the fash- lonable boarding school for young women that bears her name, played the star role of heroine this evening in a fire epi- sode which occurred at the large school building, 2588 Channing Way. By cool direction Miss Head saved the structure from burning, and with careful presence of mind emptied the large apartments of the one hundred or more student oc- cupants who had become alarmed by the After assuring herself that every one of her puplis had left the place, Miss Head attacked the flames with hand grenades and garden hose, leading the gardener and a Chinese cook to the front. The flames broke out in the kitchen at 7:30 o'clock. In short time they were climbing the woodwork rapidly. . They started from an overheated stovepipe con- necting with a basement range where washing was done this afternoon. As soon as the alarm was given, Miss Head took personai charge of the fight. So well did she accomplish the task that there was nothing for the fire department to do when the apparatus arrived. The damage was not heavy. — NATIVE PLATINUM AND OTHER RARE METALS ‘Where They Are Found, Their Prep- aration, Cost and Use. On the slopes of the Ural Mountains and in Brazil, California, Australia, Ca ada and many other countries, say Chambers’ Journal, a pecullar substance known as native platinum is found. This i$ an alloy of the metals platinum, palla- | dium, ididium, osmium, rhodium and ru- thenium, together with a little gold and from. All of these except the last men- tioned are the ‘‘noble” metals. They do not tarnish in the air and are not coluble in any single acid. Their values per ounce are: Platinum, %s; palladium, 190s; os- | mium,_ 220s; iridfum, 250s; rhodlum, 400s; | and ruthenium, 450s. The most plentiful ! metal occurring is native platinum s that | from which it takes its name. This metal is of a grayish color and, with one ex-| ception, is the heaviest substance known. | Its fusing point is extremely high, and | this property, together with its freedom from tarnishing, causes it to be largely used for the manufacture of crucibles and other vessels required by sclentists to] stand a very high temperature. It is also | sometimes used as a substitute for gold in photography, and when deposited in a thin film on t.e interfor of the.tubes of telescopes it forms a dead black sur- face, which prevents the light from be- | ing reflected by the polished sides. The | demand for platinum largely exceeds the supply; hence the metal is yearly advarc. ing in price. Palladium is of the lustrous white color. It is the most easily fused of the metals found in platinum ore and can even be | votallized. A curious quality which this | metal possesses is that when heated to red- ness it is porous to hydrogen gas, allow- ing it to pass through somewhat in the same maner that blotting paper per the passage of water. The silvery w color of palladium and its freedom from tarnishing renders it useful for making scales and division marks on scientific in- struments. A mixture of this metal with mercury is sometimes used for stopping teeth. Osmium is a metal which pos- sesses two remarkable properties— it is the most refractory of the metals, resist- ing fusion at the most intense heat, and | it is also the heaviest substance known, being almost twenty-two and a half times heavier than water. Together with iridium, it occurs principally in a peculiar varfety of native platinum called asmiri- dium. This mineral differs from ordinary platinum ore in that it contains a larger proportion of osmium and iridium than platinum. Osmiridium is found in small particles, varying in weight from one- sixth to one-third of a grain. These par- ticles are extremely hard and are uded for pointing non-wearing pens. For this purpose as much as thirty ounces of osmi- ridium are us:d annually in the United States. This mineral is a source of much trouble to the officials of ths Russian mint, who find it extremely difficuit to separate small particles of it from the gold used for coinage Metallic irldium possesses a white steel-like appearance. The knife edges of delicate balances and other bearings which require extreme hardress are often made of it. An alloy of 10 per cent irid- fum and 9 per cent platinum has been found to be very little affected in volume | i | & substance of which the standard meter, kept in the international metric bureau at Parig, i1s made. Rhodium and ruthentum are metals of little practical use. The former occurs in platinum ore to the ex- tent of 5 to 6 per cent. The latter is found only In osmirmium, and averages | about § per cent of that mineral. Thess | #ix metals have been treated together be- cause of their resemblance to each other, but the metal which ranks next to plati- num in price is zirconium, which occurs in hyacinth and some other rare minetals, and is Worth about £6 per ounce. Tita. nium and uranium, whose ores are found in Cornwall and some other places, ara | each worth £6 10s per ounce. Uranium js remarkable for its high atomic weight, the heaviest known.—Baltimore Herald. ————————————— Four Brothers in Pulpits. Four brothers in the Presbyterian min- istry is the record of the Lee family, which is permanently represented in Philadelphia by the pastor of tte Cham- bers-Wylle Memorial Presbyterian Church, Broad street, below Spruce. There are six brothers in all and one sister, and all are members of the Pres- byterian church. The four preachers hold important pastorates, with the exception of one, who I8 a college president. All of them are graduates of Willlams College, but of only three theological seminaries. The oldest is the Rev. E. Trumbull Lee, D. D., LL.D., of New York city. Although a recent addition to the list of Philadel- phia pastors, having gone there from Cin- cinnati, Dr. Lee has itaken a front rank as befits the pastor of one of the leading churches of the city. He is a graduate of ‘Williams College in the class of 1879, and of Union Seminary, 1882. During July and August Dr. Lee will be aseisted by his brother, the Rev. Wallace Howe Lee, LL. D., who for twelve years has been president of Albany College, Albany, Or. Cincinnati claims two of the brothers as pastors, the Rev. George Hewitt Lee, pastor of College Hill Presbyterian Church, and the Rev. Lewis Farle Lee, pastor of the Northside Presbyterian Church. The former graduated from Wil- liams in 1879, and from Hartford Theo= logical Seminary in 88 The last, who is the youngest of the four, signs himself ‘Williams 94, Lane Theological Seminary. New York Commercial. —_———————— The Kaiser's army is served regularly h bread and porridge made largely 1rém the peanut. | veys and examin: | show 1t to be reclal | fortunate condition, which apparently can- RECLANATION REPORT READY Chief Engineer Newell Will Outline Survey ‘Work Done. Says Buccess of Scheme De- pends on Method of Ad- ministration. ——y WASHINGTON, Aug. 24.—The first an- nual report of the reclamation service, by F. H. Newell, chief engineer, which will be published as a Uongressional doc- | ument, is about to be issued by the United States Geological Survey. In his letter of transmittal the Direc- tor of the Survey notes that the recla- mation law of June 17, 1%2, Which is quoted in full, is so general in its terms that its success or failure may be said to rest almost wholly upon its adminis- tration, innumerable details not being touched upon in the law. The work of examination and survey is described by- States. In most instances the fleld work is still in progress and in nearly every locality there are alterna- tive methods of reaching the desired end, the relative merits of which cannot be determined until careful estimates have been made. In brief, it may be stated that work has been carried on in the following localities Inf the various States and Territorles: On Salt and Gila rivers in Arizona: on Colorado” River in Cali- fornia; on North Platte, Gunnison and Grand rivers in Colorado; on Snake River in Idaho; on the deep well problems of Western Kansas: on Milk River in Mon- tana; on the artesian well probabilities of ‘Western Nebraska; on Carson and Truc- kee rivers in Nevada; on the artesian probabilities of Central Oregon; on Bear River in Utah; on Yakima River in Wash- ington; around Lake de Smet, and also on Sweetwater River in Wyoming. At each of the places where systematic work has been carriéd on preliminary temporary withdrawals of public lands have been made, but the areas which may be reclalmed are indicated only in a gen- eral way by these temporary segrega- tions. The final determination of the re- clamable area rests upon a summation of all the facts of feasibility and cost, so | that it can be stated only as the last of a series of estimates. The impossibility of stating in advance what lands will ultimately be recommend- ed for reclamation will result in great disappointment to many persons. The fact that lands have been temporarily set aside is, in the eves of many, an indica- tion that these lands will be reclaimed, and, although every attempt has been { made to warn individuals of the futility of filing upon these lands under the home- stead law, they persist in taking up the land on the bare possibility that the sur- jons will ultimately able. It is an un- not be corrected at present. WILL CONTEST PROBATING OF J. A. SIRRENE'S WILL [ " Cousins in Illinois Reach Out for a Part of Supposed Wealthy Estate. OAKLAND, Aug. 24.—From Iilinois comes a contest of the will of the late James A. Sirrene, who is supposed to have left a rich estate to a few friends who were about him when he died. Congressman Bell of Napa states that he will institute a contest in the courts to-morrow in behalf of two cousins of Sir- rene in _Illinois, who state that the prop- erty he has given away Is valued at fully $150,000. The estate consists largely of mines and mining stock of unknown value. @it @ RESENTS THREAT WITH REVOLVER Yosemite Valley Hotel Man Badly Wounds a Driver. oL e YOSEMITE VALLEY, Aug. 24.—A shooting aftray occurred at Raymond last night that may cost the driver of the ambulance belonging to the Ninth United States Cavalry, located at Wawona, his life. A crowd of colored troopers doing range duty in the national park congre- gated at the saloon of the California Ho- tel and after drinking considerable liquor indulged in rough talk. Some of the re- marks were directed toward the proprie- tor of the hotel, Willlam Duncan, who resented them. Ben Bane, the ambulance drive, then threatened to cut Duncan’s heart out, whereupon Duncan stepped to the end of the counter, where his revolver lay, and before the crowd could realize what had happened had shot Bane through the stomach. Bane dropped to the floor in- sensible and an exciting scene followed. The soldiers threatened to kill Duncan, but he held his ground and, with his re- volver in his hand, sald he would shoot the first man who approached him. The onfusion gradually gave place to order and the wounded man was taken to a room in .the hotel and a doctor sum- oned. M 'he hotel was the scene of a similar affair last year, when the proprietor, Ben Ducker, was shot and killed by drunken roughs. iyt iy NERVE AND REVOLVER SAVE SAN JOSE WOMAN $300 Plucky Mrs. McLeod Forces Thief to Return Gold Stolen m Her Buggy. SAN JOSE, Aug. 24.—Nerve and a revol- ver in the hands of Mrs. E. McLeod, a woman orchardist, saved her $300 this aft- ernoon and landed Frank Young behind prison bars. Mrs. McLeod conducts an orchard on the Stevens Creek road, seven miles southwest of San Jose. This after- noon she came to San Jose and hired Young andd another man. On the way home she stopped at a bank and drew $300 in gold. She put this money in a purse and the purse in a satchel at the bottom of the bugsgy. > ‘When Mrs. McLeod arrived home Dud- ley Dinsmore, a fruit buyer, was at the house. She instructed Young and the other man to put up the horse and buggy and engaged in business negotiations with Dinsmore. After the latter left, she went to the buggy to get the money and found the purse missing. She went to the house, secured a revolver, confronted the men and told them she wanted the money. By the actions of Young it was plain he was guilty and the woman told him un- less he gave up the money she would kill him. Young at once showed her where the cash was. He had hidden the purse in one place and the money In another. Mrs. McLeod held Young a prisoner un- til the arrival of Deputy Bache, who ar- rested Young. - At the jail he confessed his gullt, THADE WITH NEW -~ TERRITORY BlG Interesting Report Is- sued by Department of Commerc\e. Shows $100,000,000 Busis ness With Non-Contigu- ous Possessions. S WASHINGTON, Aug. 24.—Commerce between the United States and its nom- contiguous territory amounted to more than $100,000,00 in the fiscal year just ‘ended. This figure of $100,000,000 includes about $,000,000 worth of goid bullion pro- duced in Alaska and brought into the !Unlted States. Even excluding this, | however, and including only merchandise | in the calculation, the total amounts to $95,518,000. This is the first opportunity which has been offered for an accurate measure- ment and analysis of the commerce be- tween the United States and its non="" contiguous territory since the annexation of the Hawailan Islands and Porto Rico. The Hawalian Islands were made a cus- toms district of the United States when they were annexed, and as the law did lnm require the collection of statistics of | commerce between the customs districts, | & part of the people engaged in that com- merce refused to supply such information to the Bureau of Statistics. When Porto Rico became a customs district of the United States a similar condition devel- oped, except that the information was voluntarily suppiied for publication by the steamship companies engaged In that trade. As a result a special law was enacted which applied to the commerce between the various ports of the United States and the non-contiguous territory, the regulations which were applled to foreign commerce, as far as relates to statistics of such commerce. This law” went into effect at the beginning of the last fiscal year, and therefore the result of the flscal year's operation is just { avallable. The law, when enacted, was made broad enough to include all non- contiguous territory belonging to the United States. As a result it gives the | statistics of the commerce between Alas- ka and the ports of the United States, as well as that of Hawail, Porto Rico, | Philippines, Guam, the Samoan Islands, etc. This record has been completed | for the fiscal year, under the new law, and the result is indicated by the Depart- ment of Commerce and Labor through its Bureau of Statistics, as follows: Shipments from the United States .722.040 Receipts of merchandise from non- contiguous territory. 1908......... 38,804,717 | Gold bullion received from Alask (domestic production) ....... <o 4T19,579 Total .ovvnee ‘While these an figures are the first of any official nature which the country nual commerce with Porto | Rico and the Hawallan Islands since their annexation, it is practicable to compare these with the figures of the commerce with these Islands in any year prior to annexation because of the fact that commerce with them was always measured and reported when they were foreign territory. This is true also with the Philippines. In regard to Alaska no accurate statistics of the commerce wers gathered prior to the last year, but esti- mates were made for former years, which give a fair basis for comparison. It is practicable, then, to compare the com- merce of 1303 with that of 1593, for all of this territory which has now become a part of the United States. This comparie son shows that the imports from these various territories aggregated, in round numbers, $29,000,000 in 1593, and $59,000,000 in 1903, and that exports to that territory amounted to less than $5,000,000 in 1893, and more than $36,000,000 in 1903 The following table shows the value of merchandise passing between the ports of the United States and its non-contigu- ous territory in the fiscal year 1903, com- pared with that of 1803: has had of the Imports from— 1893, 1908, Porto Rico . « $4,008, $11,061,198 Hawalian Islands . 9,146, 71 26,242,869 Philippine Islands 9,150,857 11,372,584 Alaska 6,860,000 10,228,089 Totals Exports to— Porto Rico $12,248,225 Hawallan Is 10,840,472 Philippine 18, 000 Alaska Guam and Samoa. Totals . ... $7,809,6: $36,722,041 RCHsANI)lSE gt Total imports from...$29.1 ,804. 7 Total ex;:nl t0eeenen 36,722,941 $36.984,805 $05,617.658 1,107,000 4,719,579 Gold bullion .coveees Total comm'ce with.$38,001,505 $100,337,237 —_—————————— The Protector differs chlefly from the Holland and otner types of submarine boats in being able to run along on wheels upon the floor of the ocean. Traveling on the bottom is declared to be the most simple, safe and reliable method known to under-water navigation. There are two wheels fitted to the keel—one in advance of the otner. They are three feet in diam- eter, with nine-inch face. ADVERTISEMENTS. TOMACH ITTERS Try a bottle of the Bitters the next time your stomach is disor- dered or your liver inactive. You'll be pleased with the result. It positively cures Sour Stomach, Sick Headache, Poor Appetite, Constipction, Dyspepsia and Indi- gestion. g TEETH WITHOUT P!.!TES. ‘Why wear a bulky plate when can have bridgework for the cost of material? 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