The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 5, 1903, Page 2

Yy THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1903. GREATNAVY WAL COMBAT STHEWISH @ LABOR UNIONS | Citizens’ Industrial As- uF M HUUY | sociation Opposes Eight Hour Law. Secretary Believes Ser-|National Employers = Are| vice Can Be Greatly Requested to Give . Improved. Assistance. ! AT 282 | DAYTON, O., Dec. 4—At a meeting : Proposxtlon of a Generaljm-day of the executive committee of Staff Is Considered Important. A OO ) the recently organized Citizens’ Indus- | trial Association of America, which in- cludes in its basic principles an open ishop, no sympathetic strikes, no re- Cabinet Officer Expresses Great Dis- | striction in the number of apprentices satisfaction at the Delay in the |and output, enforcement of the law and Completion of the Mare strong objection to the ;\'alki:g ci(elle- gaté, a resolution was adopted asking G i T ?‘nngress not to indorse the eight-hour bill when that document comes up for action. it S WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.—The annual SPEAKER CANNON [ATTAGHES OF WAR |DUKE MAY HAVE BECOMES WRKTHY OFFICE WORRIED, BRIGHT'S DSEASE ‘Orders a Labor Leader Ejected From the House. John H. J. Schulteis Makes Insulting Remarks Con- cerning Committee. B8 AL WASHINGTON, Dec. 4. — Speaker Cannon, resenting what he comsidered an insult from John Herman J. Schul- tels, chairman of the mnational execu- tive committee of the Knights of Labor, summarily ordered Schulteis from the Speaker's room at the Capitol to-day, with the parting injunction to the la- bor leader to never darkem his door, again. Schulteis made his first call upon the Speaker several days ago with the de- ! mand that Representative Livernash of | rep of Secretary of the Navy Moody, | > to-day, calls attention to ations of the several bu- of the department contained ual reports which have al- published. The most im- these reports, that of the ireau of Navigatien, is especially re- ferred to and the recommendations of the as to the consolidation of the rps with the line, earlier re- | promoted officers, de- tion, commissioning of and establishment of | at Subig Bay, Philip-| pine Islands, are approved. The Secre- | tary s taken to cxpedile‘ der construction and rejoices that the percentage of Ameri- | chief tells of s work on vessels u can citizens among the enlisted men increases steadily. Ve to the reorganization of the Navy epartment, Secretary Moody both within vice, that al- w governing aval affairs n an increased efficiency itation for a m so many and such s that it cannot be The propos ified as fol- nside nges ma First—Alterati he organi rds which will in sibility there over - e of the bu- GENERAL STAFF FAVORED. ird—The creation of n ff, which shall be resy general ble for the of th rity except such as may be con- 1 time to time by the d be understood that not entirely 1 vould be rer d by a general staff. The war college at Coaster Harbor Island, the inte the boa vey and the bur: in nt general of inspection and sur. vigation work m with the ated by of experi- board, which my predecessor as th ence in the war w The admiral of perience J i able, have imable wvalue, is the president of this board and the chief of the bu of navigation is.the chairman of its executive committee, Through these two officers the deliber- ations and o s of the board, based not only upon their experience as of- ficers, but on the work of the bodies above enumerated, are brought to the attention of the Secretary. Together the admiral of the navy and the chief of the bureau of navigation are in a | considerable measure performing the | duties of a chief of general staff. The | board has no existence except by wvir- | tue of the departmental regulation, | which may at any moment be modified | or repealed. It is not my purpose to | recommend specifically at this time any | of these proposals, but only to bring them forward for the earnest discus- sion and consideration which their im- portance deserves. Mere change is not | reform and none should be attempted | until it appears, that the conditions were bettered thereby. “I wventure, however, to expres the hope that Congress may give to the whole subject of the organization of | our naval establishment its best| thought and attention. The cost of our | naval establishment, as well as the ef-| ficlency of our navy, would amply war- | rant all the study which can be given.” PROPOSES COURTS-MARTIAL. It is recommended by the Secretary that for the better government of per- | sons subject to the laws and discipline | of the navy the President, whenever | he shall deem such power necessary, | may authorize commandants at remote naval stations to convene general courts-martial; that some simple sys- tem of civil government be provided for the islands of Guam and Tutuila, with appeal in proper cases to courts of the United States, and that like pro- vision be made for the satisfactory government on the civil side of the naval stations at Guantanamo, within which concession it is understood a considerable number of persons, -citi- zens of Cuba and others, will remain as permanent or temporary residents, It is suggested that this station and the Midway Islands might appropriately for certain purposes be attached to judicial districts of the United States in substantially the manner adopted in the case of guano islands. Relative to the usefulness of the navy the Sacretary says: “The expenditures for the support of the navy have increased considerably, were during the last fiscal year larger than in any year of our history except the years 1864 and 1865, and are certain to increase still further. It is interest- ing to compare the expenditures of the present with those of the past, though no standard of comparison exists which is in all respects satisfactory. As a nation we are able to possess a navy of such size and cost as our national interests and duties require. On the other hand we should not be tempted by the abundance of revenue to in- Another resolution requests all em- ployers’ associations throughout the country to affiliate with the national body. The determined stand to be taken by the association is indicated in the passing of a resolution instructing all members of employers’ associations af- filiated with the natjonal, body not.to place the union label on any of their output. It is proposed to establish a labor information bureau where will be kept a tabulated record of all law- breakers and undesirable workmen. The present boycott methods of unions were bitterly denounced. e Bl A RESTAURANT KEEPERS TAKE A FIRM STAND Decide to Close Places of Business if ‘Waiters’ Alliance Does Not Come to Terms. The action of the Waiters’ Alliance in calling out the men employed by the Central Dining-room Company has aroused the ire of the Restaurant- keepers’ Association. The latter organ- ization has sent an ultimatum to the In forcible terms the secre- tary has infotmed the union that if it does not order the return of the men this morning, every member of the as- sociation will close its doors to-morrow night and’ remain closed until the mat- ter is settled. This may mean a big strike in San Francisco and the clos- ing of the leading restaurants. The alliance desires J. Bertsz, prietor of the place, ment z joyed next ace pro- to sign an agree- to special privileges to be en- by the waiters, to be in force vear. Mr. Bertz has declined to to the demands of the union, hence the withdrawal of the men by the alliance. The sent to the union “December 4, 1903.—Waiters’ Alliance 30, Cit Gentlemen—At a meet- ing of this association, held this after- noon, the action of your union in' call- ing out the employes of the Central Dining-room, 24 Ellis street, was dis- cussed, and it was resolved to notify vou that, unless by 10 o’clock to-mor-' row morning (Saturday, the 5th inst.) you order back the said employes and that each and every one of them report for duty by that time, cach and every member of this association will close his restaurant Sunday night, December 6, not to reopen Monday morning. Yours truly, “F. A. SWAIN, Secretary.” it (2 Butchers Resent Charge. The slaughter-house butchers now on strike resent the accusation made against them by Miller & Lux to the effect that they killed several lambs in the corral and yesterday they were granted permission to investigate the matter. The investigation brought out the fact that the lambs had been trampled to death by a band of sheep in the same corral. —_———— BARONET'S SON WORKS WAY TO MEET BRIDE Young Englishman Is Anxious to Marry One of Buffalo Bill's Actresses. CHICAGO, Dec. 4—Henry G. ‘Wright, son of Sir Henry Wright, Bart.,reached this city to-day, broke, and is looking | for a job. Young Wright—he is barely 21—is trying to reaeh San Diegc, where lives the girl whom he intends to marry. He has managed to get this far from New York, and says he will reach San Diego all right, despite the | distance. Wright went to see the Buffalo Bill | show in London and tell in love with | Susie Amerine, a California girl who | was playing Amazon in “Bison Wil- | yum's” enterprise. came to this country, and Wright had just enough money to buy Susie a tick- et to San Diego. Then he proceeded to work his way west after her. L e e e S T ) crease the navy beyond our needs or to expend a dollar unnecessarily. CONCERNING MARE ISLAND. “The cost of military protection has frequently been compared with that of Insurance upon property. The com- parison is not inappropriate, and haa a specisl significance in considering naval expenditures, I have caused a com- parison to be made between the naticn- al valuation and naval expenditure: A table computed in this manner, show- ing the percentage of the total prip- erty of the United States devoted to the support of the navy, by ten-year perfods in the last century, shows an average annual expenditure of $0.00123 for each dollar of the valuation. The; expenditures for the fiscal year 1903 ‘were $82,618,034. By reasonable approx- imation, the valuation for that year was $106,229,266. Thus there was ex- pended for this year for each dollar of national valuation $0.00077. If the average of the last century had been reached, the expenditures would have been $130,674,298.” Concerning the Mare Island dock, th report gays: ““The accumulated delays in con- struction of the Mare Island dock are deplorable. A private firm has com- pleted and has in operation in San Francisco a concrete dock which was begun after the Mare Island dock was contracted for, while even the excava- tion for our own dock is yet uncom- pleted. Radical measures to hasten the following communication was| The young couple | San Francisco be made chairman of the Committee on Labor, and that Repre- sentative Wynn of the same city be made a member of that committee. As both these men are members of the mi- nority, Cannon explained to Schulteis that their assignments would depend | cn the recommendation of Representa- | tive Williams, the minority floor leader, but it would be impossible to make | Livernash chairman of the committee, | as the chairmanship would go to the! majority. When Schulteis appeared before the | Speaker to-day he announced in_what | | was taken by that official to bé.an of- fensive manner that the labor.commit- tee had been ‘“‘packed.” He renewed hig demand that Liver- rash be assigned to this committee, an nouncing that he had defeated Cannon | | for election to the Fifty-second (,'on-i gress and that unless his request in| this instance was accorded he was| | going into the Speaker’s district in the | next campaign. Schulteis did not have| time to finish telling the Speaker what | he would do to him, as Cannon at this| point gave his peremptory order for | the man’s ejection from-the room, stat- ing as he did so that there was n"n; chance of the committee’s being| “packed” by Schulteis. Just as Schul- | teis went out Sidney Bieber, the fire marshal of the District of Columbia, entered bearing a miniature brass can- | I non. As he placed the cannon on the| Speaker's. desk he remarked: “M | Speaker, it i sometimes takes a little { cannon to protect a big cannon.” t - ALL ARE ANXIOUS | ABOUT ADJOURNMENT | If Extra Session of Congress Ends | | by Limitation All Nominations Must Fail. WASHINGTON, Dec. 4. — Unless | there s an agreement by both houses | of Congress to adjourn the present sesston before noon Monday, when the | regular session begins, all nominations must fail, and if the present special session ends by limitation, thus pre- venting the President from sending recess appointments to the Senate, all pending recess appointments must ter- minate with the convening of Con- gress in its regular session. These con- siderations to-day furnished the incen- tive for a number of conferences look- ing to an agreement to adjourn on | | Monday, or even to-morrow. Friends | | of General Wood are vitally interested | jand will try to bring about adjourn- | { ment by concurrent action. Failure | of such action would mean General Wood's reversion to the rank of a brigadier general and have similar ef- | fect on the appointment of 167 army | officers by reason of General Wood's; i promotion, all of whom have assumed the rank and pay of their new ap- pointments in the same manner as though their nominations had been confirmed by the Senate. { WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.—The first | | witness to be heard on Monday by the | Senate Military Affairs Committee, | which is investigating the riomination | of General Leonard Wood to be a ma- Jor general, will be Colonel Charles S. | Diehl, assistant general manager of the Associated Press. Major Runcie | will be here Monday. He will be ex- | amined concerning the contradiction of some of his testimony by Ray Stan- nard Baker, the magazine writer. The committee has under consideration the questioning of summoning witnesses to testify as to the condition of General Wood's Santiago accounts for 1898. —_————— SOUTHERN PACIFIC MAY ACQUIRE ANOTHER ROAD President Harriman Is Reported to Have the California North- | western in View. _ SAN RAFAEL, Dec. 4—E. H. Harri- man, gresident of the Southern Pacific | Railroad, is the guest of President A. ‘W. Foster of the California Northwest- | ern road. The two officials are in Fos- | ter's private car en route to Willits, the northern terminus of the system. Fos- ! ter and his guest came over from San | Francisco this afternoon by special i boat. At Tiburon they boarded a spe- | clal train, consisting of engine No. 1 and Foster’s private car “Donahue.” Nothing could be learned fromr the officials. It was learned, however, from emi-official source to-night.that the Tl object of the trip is for the pur-- pose of perfecting detalls for the final transfer “of tHe entire Northwestern system to the Southern Pacific Com- pany. ——— e Railway Wins a Legal Victory, SAN JOSE, Dec. 4. — The San Jose-Los Gatos Interurban Electric Railway has scored a victory over the property owners on South Market street who objected to the line on that thoroughfare. Judge Rhodes to-day re- fused the injunction asked by the City Store, a corporation, The City Store alleged that the raflway in front of its premises would injure its prop- erty by blocking the ingress and egress of teams from its place of business, A week ago the court sustained the de- murrer of the railroad company, hold- ing that the property had not been damaged by ‘the railway. The plain- tiff failed to amend its complaint and judgment was given to-day for ‘the raflway. A 1 completion of this dock should and will ' i e SO be taken.” " Qo Thlls (5 e o 1o $0'1% diya S0 General Chaffee Causes Consternation on In- spection Day. Next Chief of Staff Is Un- sparing in His Criticisms. et ‘pecial ‘Dispatch to The Call. ‘WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.—General Ad- na R. Chaffee, who will succeed Gen- erda{ S. B. M. Young as chief of staff.of the drmy next month, inspected the ‘clerlcgl force of the adjutant general’s office this afternoon. He started with the object of obtdining more desk room, and found much dirt and many bottles. The: investigation was continued, and | consequently many clerks stayed after office hours 'and will be on hand early in {the morning to.clean their desks, for General Chaffee loves cleanliness and-hates empty bottles. The tour of inspection came without warning. Ma- Jjor.Swift of the adjutant general's of- fice marched at General Chaffee's el- bow. The general paused before a desk behind which sat a woman. It was piled high with papers. “What are these?’ he asked, picking them up. “Away with them to the file room." A negro messenger next fell in his way. “Pull that desk out from the wall. Look at that dust. ¥ou have so much sickness here,” were the general’s comments. More papers were sighted and sen- tenced to the file room. Hereafter only such documents as are required for im- mediate use will be allowed to remain on the desks of the clerks. General Ch&ffee says they breed dis- | ease. He wants desks spick and span. His troops in the Philippines were al- ways as well as could be expected, be- cause their quarters were as sanitary as they could be made. ‘Where work was in progress when General Chaffee appeared he looked in- to its character. He pulled open draw- ers in desks and showed satisfaction ‘when contents were stacked in orderly fashion and anger when they were found in disarray. From one office to another the inspec- tion party went. Fleetfooted messen- gers dashed ahead with the news. Con- | sternaticn spread everywhere except to those whose own ideas of orderliness were the same as General Chaffee’s. They gloated over the discomfort of their fellows. In one office General Chaffee pulled | open a desk drawer and found on its dusty bottom three bottles, “‘What are those bottles,” he demand- ed, liquor?"” *'Oh, no sir; we bring our coffee for lunch in 'em,” interposed the anxious clerk. DEATH CLOSES THE CAREER OF W. M. SPRINGER WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.—Former Representative Willlam M. Springer of Tllinois, a Democratic leader conspicu- ous in the House of Representatives during the Forty-fourth and Forty- third Houses, and once chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, died gt his residence in this city, aged 64 years. His death was due to pneumonia con- tracted in Chicago Thanksgiving. He was attending a dinner there and was suddenly taken with a violent chill. He left Chicago and arrivéd here last Sun- day afternoon very ill. His family phy- sician, Dr. J. B. Gregg Curtis, was im- mediately summoned, but Mr. Springer grew steadily worse. - He passed away at 3:25 o'clock this morning. His wife and son, Chaplain R. W. Springer, U. S.°A., who has been statfoned at Fort Washington, were at the bedside dur- | ing the distinguished patiert’s dying hours. Mr. Springer has been a resident of this city during the past few years fol- lowing his retirement from Congress and followed the practice of law, be- gun at Springfield, IIl., before his Con- gressional career began. He has rep- resented many of the Indian claims be- fore the Interior Department and be- fore the Federal and local courts here. BRECKENRIDGE, Minn., Déc. 4.— Captain D. E. Brownson of this place died to-day. He served as a captain during the Indian wars in the West during the early- ’60's. He fought many battles and was noted for his bravery. NAPA, Dec. 4—Thomas McLaugh- lin, who had resided in Napa County for more than'a quarter of a century, died at his home in Monticello Thurs- day night. He was 76 years of age. MUNCIE, Ind., Dec. #—Thad A. Nee- ley, inventor of the adjustable roller skate, died to-night. e DARING HIGHWAYMAN ' SHOOTS AT HIS VICTIM Thomas Lahan, Clerk of a San Jose Court, Has a Rather Exciting Experience. SAN JOSE, Dec. 4—Thomas Lahan, clerk of Justice Benson’s court, had an exciting experience with a highwayman early this morning. While on his way home he was stopped at Third and Margaret streets by a man with a re- volver, who demanded his money or his life. Lahan struck at the robber, who then shot at him, the bullet just graz- ing his head. Lahan then succeeded in getting away, although the robber f a second shot at him and pnri sued him for some distance. The per- sistence of the man in following Lahan leads some of the latter’s friends to be- lieve that assassination instead of rob- bery prompted the holdup. Lahan is quite popular and is not known to have an enemy. = ' L ERLE A R Farmers’ Institute Adjourns. SAN DIEGO, Dec. 4—The Farmers’ deciding to meet next year in Ventura. sin is not the same as re- No wonder | Manchester Is O:rdered - Home From Hunt- ing Trip. Physicians Fear Result, and Operation May Be ' Performed. Pl LPalaths ) Special ‘Dispatch to The Gall. LONDON, Dec. 4—The statement that the Duke of Manchester, who married Miss Zimmerman of Ohio, Is seriously ill and confined to his bed by No means overstates the fact. It 4s given out to-night by a well- informed news agency that the Duke’'s condition has been pronounced grave, that he is suffering from an advanced form of Bright's disease and that an operation may be necessary. i' For some reason the reports of Man- chester’s illness have been met by | fiercely worded contradictions on the part of his relatives, who persist in saying that he is only suffering from a | slight ‘eold caught while hunting at Tanderagee Castle, Ireland. | .The fact is, the Duke Is in a private | | sanitarium in London, where he Iis | Jealously guarded against any possible | | Intrusion. Doctors at Tanderagee when | | they were called over a fortnight ago | pronounced the case a grave one and counseled him to go to London to con- sult a specialist. The Duke came here, accompanied by the Duchéss, and the specialists found that the disease had | involved the liver, but are unable to| | say yet whether the complication has | assumed a. malignant form. | @ teltedeiefete el el @) | GHILD PERISHES IN BURNING HOME Sister Nearly Loses Her Own Life Trying to Save Him WHATCOM, Wash., Dec. 4.—The de- struction of the home of George Wright by fire this morning caused the death | of ‘one child and the perhaps fatal in- | jury of another. Eariy this morning | fires were started in the lower part of | the house by one of the sons. The heat generated in one of the stoves became | 80 intense as to set fire to the wallpaper | | and in a few minutes the flames spread | to the upper portion of the house, where the family was sleeping. Reuben, aged 8 vears, was burned to death. In try- ing to save his life his sister Maggie, aged 17 years, nearly lost her own, be- | ing compelled finally to jump from an | upstairs window after she had - been | | terribly burned. In jumping her back | was injured and the physicians are un- { able to tell whether or not she will re- | | cover. { There were twelve children in the family of George Wright, all sleeping | upstairs. All the others, with the moth. | er, escaped by jumping from the upper |'windows. All were more or less blis- tered and burned. STATE’'S PROGRESS SOME LEADING PROJECTS. i i Plans Reported by Papers of Cities and of Country, Among the projects which have been recorded in the papers of California recently as indicative of progreas are the building of a fashionable winter and summer hotel by Los An- geles capitalists on the Cummings place, north of Geyserville, Sonoma. { County, the reported cost of the pro- posed structure being $500,000; a rail- ' way from San Jose to Los Gatos by way of Campbell, an auxiliary steam plant for the California Central Gas and Electric Company of 500 horsepow-. er at Petaluma, a new cannery plant for the Pacific Coast Packing Company in Oakland, a large stone plant at the | Jjunction of the Oakland branch of the Santa Fe and the Southern Pacific at Point- Richmond, a packing-house for | the Co-operative king Association at Reedley, and the extension of the wharf of the Standard Oil Company at Point Richmond so-that vesels of deep draught may lie at it. The Martinez Press reports that Charles E. Ertz has secured the Bulls- head Point property as the site fo an oil refinery and that his company will occupy the entire point. The people concerned In the enterprise are from Ohio. The Humboldt Times reports that the Golden State Creamery Company of San cisco has leased one creamery plant-and has secured options on five others in Humboldt County, and has also secured contracts with several in- dividuals to furnish cream. The Times says: “The proposition is to have the cream sterilized at the various creameries and shipped to San Francisco, where It will be manufactured -daily into butter, thus putting the fresh Humboldt pro- duct on the market every day instead of manufacturing it here and having it arrive in the city several days after its manufacture.” The Palo Alto Timed gives evidence of local prosperity. It says: ate a stir in realty matters.” ——— BUILDING A RAILWAY. Santa Olara Towns See Improvements Coming Fast. The Los Gatos Mail reports concern- rogress on the Interurban road within the limits of Los Gatos as fol- ‘Work on the Interurban line has been jAgain commenced. and will | women and girls are facing the shiny | fruit for shi i mense deposits of gypsum, which is MYSTERY VEILS GUT HAR CAGE Salinas Officials Believe Kidnaped Girl . Is Dead. Indications Point to Her Hav- ing Been Murdered at San Juan. Saa gt SALINAS, Dec. 4.—Reports received by Sheriff Nesbitt this evening point !'to murder as the sequel to the abduc- |tion of 12-year-old Gut Har, a Chi- nese girl, by J. I. Tanaka, a Japanese, | |two weeks ago. Sheriff Croxton of San Benito County notifled the officers { here that he had started to investigate the finding of a lot of Chinese clothes |and hair in a Japanese camp at San | Juan, near which are large traces of | | blood. After this report came another | that after having been traced to San! Francisco the Japanese retraced his steps and with the little girl went to | San Juan. Fearful that his ruse of | trying to pass her off as a boy might | be detected, he went afoot southward, f finally reaching Metz. Near that| place Tanaka, who is well known, ap- | plied to A. R. Hebbron for food for himself and brother. This was given | him, but when the brother appeared in response to his call Mrs. Hebbron | [ | | réemarked, “That is a woman,” where- | The upon the couple ran off. They were | tracked to the depot, where tickets | were purchased for Hollister, and from | there to a Japanese camp near San | Miguel, where all trace of the younger | person, supposed to be the disguised | girl, has been lost. Posses are out)| from both counties searching for the | body. or some clew to what has been | done with it. | SR W SRR Search for Abducted Girl. 1 The police have been informed that | Gut Har, a Chinese girl, 13 years of | age, who was abducted from her home | in Salinas by Joe I. Tanaka, a Japanese | contractor, on November 20, had been | seen in the Japanese quarter here and an active search is being made for her. It is said that Tanaka has had the | girl's hair cut and has dressed her in | American clothes, representing that | she is a boy. 1 @ i b @ | progressing ‘during the last week, not- ' | withstanding the two or three stormy | SPreading rapidly. days. The rains, however, have delayed the work to the extent that the expected commmencement of construction within | our city limits has not.yet begun, but if further hindrances do not occur we may expect Some beginning to have been made before Saturday night. Three car- loads of ties arrived yesterday morning | and were unloaded near the piles of rails. } The grading up to the city limits is | now nearly completed. and everything for track laying. from the big trestle to this end of the line, is complete. The laying of the track will be rapid when not again need to be delayed. It is the purpose of the builders to begin laying ralls at this end of the lihe and meet the other army of tracklayers at some intermediate | | point. Mr. Granger hopes to have the line ready. for operation within the city of { San_Jose next week, and the entire line i by December 15. The Mail does not anticipate the ope- rating of the line at so early a date, but | will grant an extra thirty or sixty days, | as this Is our “rainy season” and delays are likely to occur often. | gt v o R PACKING THEIR PRUNES. Splendid Fruit Raised at Beddsburgf Goes to Its Market. i “he Healdsburg Tribune says of the progress of prune shipping: Miller & Hotchkiss sent out four cars of prunes Monday. consigned to New York and France. Sixty deft-fingered shipment to market in all parts of the United States. K Secarcity of cars hampers the work consfderably, this con- dition being more noticeable this season than in any year heretofore, according to Manager E. B. Snook. The packing- | house has the appearance of a veritable hive of industry. It is working on an order for 15,000 boxes of prunes. The co-operative cannery sent out four cars of canned goods Monday. bound for |. the markets of New York, Wisconsin and Indiana. A splendid pack was the result of the initial year of this co-operative company, and the success of the move- | ment seems certain. At Sherriffs Bros.’ packing-house Mon- day morning a long line of prune-laden | wagons waited their turn to deliver the | splendid fruit raised in this section. The | young firm is handling a big lot of fruit, | o iaon s PROGRESS IN SOUTH. New Irrigation System—Discovery | of Valuable Mineral Deposits. i The San Bernardino Times-Index has the following relating to the discovery of large gypsum deposits: “The mountain of acids in Whitewa- ter, which was discovered some months ago, has proved to be a richer prop- osition than they had first supposed. From a revort received from the Gov- ernment chemists at Washington. the analysis of the specimens shows a large percentage of borax. There are im- used in the manufacture of cement, and the Portland-Colton eement people have offered to pay them $6000 in gold for an interest in the property. This offer the locators have turned down, and there are now New York capitalists in- specting the property.” The Riverside Enterprise records the progress of a new irrigation system at San Jacinto, saying: “N. M. Ball of the Concrete Construc- tion Company of Riverside has com- pleted within less than two months nearly ten miles of cement ditch for the San Jacinto Irrigation Company. With the completion of this ditch a new era of prosperity should dawn on San Jacinto.” ADVERTISEMENTS. Catarrh ‘Whether it is of the nose, throat, stomach, " 1t is a dlscharge from the mucous mem- brane when kept in a state of inflammation FOREST FIRE BET BEYOND ALL CONTROL Flames Are Spreading Through San Bernar- dino Range. Twenty Cottages and Several Million Feet of Lumber Are Destroyed. LR Fredalba Park, a Summer Resort, Is Swept Away and a Big Milling Plant Is Threatened With Destruction. ——— Speclal Dispatch to The Call. SAN BERNARDINO, Dec. 4 —Fanne By by a terrific north wind, the largest and most destructive forest fire ever known In this vicinity is raging In the ‘ San Bernardino range, twenty miles northeast of this place. An immense area of forest land has been swept by the flames, while twenty summer cot- tages at Fredalba Park, a summer re- sort, have been burned to the ground. yards of the Brookings Lumber Company at Fredalba have been destroyed by fire as a result of the spread of the flames. One hundred men were sent up from this place and Redldnds this morning and a second call for help has been sent down from the mountains. The latest report is that the flames have not reached the Brookings mill, but it ‘wnl require tremendous work to keep it from being destroyed. All of the lumber in the yards is burned. Brook- ings & Son, the proprietors of the plant, are in Redlands, but would not give out any statement except that there were several million feet of lum- ber stacked up in yards, all of which is lost. The fire has spread down City Creek Canyon to within a miie of its mouth. Another forest fire started this morn- ing at Brown Creek, about a mile from the mouth of the Mill Creek Canyon. It was got under control by . Forest Ranger Allen, but later was freshened up by the wind and is now said to be It is believed that the fire was ignited yesterday about noon. At that time a strong wind sprang up from the north and in a few seconds it was blowing a gale and carried the fire with remarkable speed up the slope from the desert. A spark from a donkey logging engine started the fire. At 10 o'clock to-night the fire was sti!l raging and it is expected that. the mil! will go before morning The fire can be seen plainly from this city, through a dense cloud of smoke, which envelcpes the eastern end of the valley and partly covers Redlands. peb o) Fire Sweeps Through Gum Grove. LONG BEACH, Cal, Dec. 4—A fire swept through the southern portion of Bixby's gum grove on the Alamilos to- day, destroying thousands of dollars’ worth of standing trees, and on ac- count of the density of the underbrush 4 | it is feared the roots are so injured that the growth of the trees has been perm- | anently destroyed. Several houses that stood close to the grove had a narrow escape from destruction and were saved with difficulty. —————————— The filing of articles of incorvoration of the Empire Lumber Company, the successor of the Gualala Mill Com- pany, having authorized capital of §1,- 000,000, is recorded by the Santa Rosa Press-Democrat. The new company is reported by the journal mentioned to | have paid $600,000 for land and hold- ings. AIll the directors except one are from Los Angeles. B T | ADVERTISEMENTS. “TASTE IS THE FEMININE OF GENIUS™ SILVER, JEWELRY, CUT-GLASS, OBJECTS OF ART, HAVE ARTISTIC M E RV T WHEN FROM SHREVE & CO 4 1 POST & MARKET STREETS OPEN EVENINGS DEC. 12th TO 24th DEWEY,STRONG 320 MARKET ST. SF DIRECTORY