The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 23, 1904, Page 4

T HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL,” PRIL ATURDAY 1904. 'ENTHUSIASM AT MODESTO MARKS OPENING OF IRRIGATION JUBILEE City of the Plains in Garland Attire Gives Hearty Welcome to the| Hundreds of Strangers Who Go to See the Results of Irriga-|4 tion---Addresses Are Given by Governor and Local Orators —— . % . 1 des i REF G HOW 10N OF T KIND IN AMERICA BEEN IRRI- THE THOROUGHF GREAT MODES HAVE )-TURLOCK | ] - MODESTO, Subilee thousand Hou Thir begar Par he th cen bef: The cit garb and the dec- has h to the general ificent display of fireworks, & reception to the Governor addresses local ora- tors, Hon. T. C. Hocking being the chief speaker bet f the districts The town was brilliantly lighted by some 2000 electric lights, arranged on the four principal business blocks of the city and in the Court House Park. | The Third Artillery Band gave an: open air concert in the park and a chorus of desto singers, under the able leadership of Professor J. 1 Me- Auliffe, were the music features of the | opening night Dances were held at two halls in the | city and between the there was something several events to entertain all DR. PIERCE'S REMEDIES. Baby Costs Too Much When the price paid is the mother's health and happiness. The father doesp’t realize as he romps with the child what years of wifely suffering must be set against the baby's laughter. Chronic invalidism is a high price to pay for the painfui joy of maternity, yet | mett | through the avenue of the sea. it is at such a cost that many a woman | i { Ing from the beginning of things when bécomes & mother. Such a pri Doctor Pierce's pnfc‘imllz painless, and a quick convales- ence is assured in almost ev- ery case. By the use of | | in the afternoon P. J. an of the reception com- hort address, followed L. Dennett, who gave, people of the two ir- the address of wel- Governr Pardee re- mittee, gave a by Attorney L. on behalf of th rigation districts, come, to which sponded. Hazen stated that something ¢ filled | over a year ago the matter of holding y | @ Fourth of July ceiebration was taken up among the people of Modesto, but a canvass among them revealed a strong sentiment against holding any celebration. The citizens wanted a demonstration of gome kind following the completion of the work of con- struction upon the irrigation systems of the Modesto and Turlock districts. The projected Fourth of July cele- bration was abandoned and a com- mittee composed of representative men of the two Aistricts began arrange- ments for this celebration. 't was first proposed to hold the jubilee in the fall of last year, but it was postponed until this spring. Upward of $5000 had been raised to defray the cost of the undertaking and the money had been spent by forty or | fifty of the leading people of the com- munity. The Governor of the State of California had kindly -consented to be our honored guest at this meeting. Hazen then announced some features of the programme of the afternoon and closed by introducing L. L. Den- of the general committee. Den- °tt said it was a custom of ancient Venice to annually celebrate the espousals or wedding of the sea signifi- cant of the wealth brought to Venice carnivels were of great moment and elaborate in charactér, and emphasized the appreciation of the peopie of the chief source and means of their pros- perity. To-day we celebrated the wed- ding of the water and the land. It may be said, indeed, that all periods reach- the Tuolumne first burst through its mountain barriers and found its way to the sea have been tending to these espousals. The wheat grower was the logical successor of the miner. And yet the wheat grower never felt that his condition was permanent. He was always contemplating a larger house and .a different status of operations: He has been followed by the irrigator, the user of the water wedded to the land, and we have now a state of per- manence of settlement. Homes may now be built which will remain in families through successive gener- ations — always producing, always yielding crops, the soil never tiring in its output when properly treated, the communities experiencing the rise of continuous wealth. Governor Pardee replied as follows: “Ladies and Gentlemen—The pleasure you have to-day In celebrating this union of land and water is shared by every person in California. It is shared by them because your prosperity will be shared by every man, woman and child in California. Not only this but the success you have achieved will be taken up farther north, and your ex- ample will be followed, and your suc- cess will find. reflection in the future successes and prosperit=’ which will be realized by those who extend the great work into other localities of the State. It is therefore, as chief executive of the State, that I can give a hearty ‘God bless you' from all of the people I am heye to represent.” The speech of the Governor closed the ceremontes @t the platform. but These | the band continued with the concert during the balance of the afternoon. e EXCURSIONISTS FOR MODESTO. Trade Will Help Celebrate. State Board of Trade and the Califor- | nia Promotion Committee started | from this city for Modesto yesterday { for the purpose of taking part in the Modesto-Turiock jubilee to commemo- | rate the completion of the great irri- gation system that will bring greater { prosperity to the country it will serve, | In the State Board of Trade party, which journeyed by special car, were | P. Chipman, president of the 1 board; Harbor Commissioners Kirk- | patrick, Spear and Mackenzie, Lot D. | Norton, John P. Irish, E. W. Maslin, | |C. M. Wooster, Washington Dodge, | Marshall Hale, Foster Cole, A. H. | Vail, L. W. White, Elwood Mead, | Charles Brown, G. F. O. Folte, A. L. | | Lundy, J. S. Emery and wife, David Bush, Secretary L. M. Fletcher, W. Chillingworth and wife and George McDonald. The Promotion Committee's party | included J. W. Kerr, Miss C. Hunting- ton, Mr. and Mrs. Scott, John Wood- | lock, Maurice Block, C. P. Rixford, David Sachs, Ellis R. Wales, C. D. ‘White, Dwight Edwards, S. C. Schee- ! line, George Uhl Jr., Mr. and Mrs. Nathan, Emile Reise, Ned Galland, . W. Ehman, Ira Wood, Fred A. Gar- rick, Charies D. Steiger, Mrs. Gerald- | ine Frisbie, James A. Waymire, R. L] Toplitz, Mr. Peacock, Mrs. Peacock, | Hamilton Wright, Thomas S. Williams, | H. C. Meyer, Frank J. Symmes and Dr. Benjamin Ide Wheeler. A great time at Modesto is antici- | rated. To-day there will be an ex-! cursion to Turiock and Ceres, leaving Modesto at 8:30 4. m. The irrigatic: works will be ylewed. After the re- | turn to Modesto the excursiomsts will be taken to the Stanislaus River. This afternoon a barbecue and spesches by Governor George C. Pardee, President Benjamin Ide Wheeler, General N. P.( and many others will engage atten. tion. The State Board of Trade party will arrive in this city early to-morrov morning; taking the Owl train for Mo- desta. T e S e FREE FREE TO WANT ADVERTISERS In next SUNDAY’'S CALL. WALKER’'S SELF-PULLING CORKSCREW. (Patented.) You get one of these useful articles free by bringing your “Want Ads” to The Call for in- sertion in NEXT SUNDAY'S is- sue of Greater San Francisco's Greatest Paper. Printing Delinguent Tax List. The Supervisors’ Printing Commit- tee recommendeéd yesterday that the contract for printing the delinquent tax list be awarded to the Jurnal of Commerce at 2.9 cents per assessment. Other publicatigns protested against the decision without avail. FOREST LOVERS |P! HOLD MEETING ssociation for the Preserva- tion of Timber and Water Discuss Their Protection MANY PAPERS ARE READ —_—— Admits He Owned Against His Henry P. Dimond, one of the defend- ants in the land frauds case, was yes- terday driven by Government cross- i‘Ca]ifornia Club Women Urge examination to contradict important Co—opera tiOll ill A Resel'ving testimony given by'him the day before. i It is agreed by experts and con d i Calaveras Bxg Tree Grove |by Dimond that these anonymous let- | ters were writtgn on a Blickensderfer typewriter. On Thursday Dimond as- The annual meeting of the California | gerted that the last machine of this i Forest and Water Assoclation was held | make he ever owned had been sold—he | yesterday in the rooms of the Cham- could not recall to whom—prior to his ber of Commerce. Dejegates from all 89Ing to Wachington for Hyde in the sections of the State w. ssent and | Summer of 1901. Yesterday this state- SN0 AP0 PRaEOR ment gave place to the admission that a large amount of busi was trans- ¥ O !he had owned, kept in his office and acted relating to the preservation and | reforesting of the timber sections of A USed such a machine during the very the State and the conservation of the | {ime the anonymous letters were sent Parties Organized by State Board of | Parties organized by the California | and stock raising. | deeply into the defective methods of | ers must be taught its proper use, so | W, | ensuing year and they were selected: | President, Chipman of the State Board of Trade | pohrmann. ! Leighton was selected. waters that flow from the mountains !and make California great agricultur- ally. { Chief Justice William H. Beatty of the Supreme Court, who is president ,of the associaticn, called the meeting | to order, and read an address review- ing the work of the association and | the legislation which had been enacted through its efforts. He suggested that a commission be named to prepare a bill to be submitted to the Legisia- ture, making provisicn for the better protection of forest and watersheds. The draft of this bill is to be submitted to the semi-annual meeting of the as- sociation in December, and after it has been considered fully every effort will be made to pass it through the Legis- lature in January. - Secretary T. Carey Friedlander tead a short report of his oifice, and Treas- urer Frederick W. Dohrmann made a statement of the finances of the asso- ciatign, showing a balance of $633 07 in the treasury, with no debts. Miss Marion Walcott acted as assistant sec- retary. i1 PLEADS FOR BIG TREES. W. H. Mills introduced to the meet- ing a .delegation of women frcm the California Club, headed by Mrs. Lovell White. As spokeswoman Mrs, White told the delegates what the California Club had done toward trying to i duce the Federal Government to make a reservation .of that section ¢f Cala- veras County wherein are Situated the grove of Sequoja gigantea known as the Calaveras big trees. She said it | would be necessary to exercise the right | ! of eminent domain and condemn the land for purchase, as one of the own- ers demanded an exorbitant price for his holdings. | She asked the association for aid in this matter, ready action. Before the close of the afternoon session a resolution was in- troduced by Judge Works of Los An- geles and carried providing for com- petent cruisers to be appointed by the association to value the lands in ques- tion and report’ back the amount it would be proper to pay. The resolu- tion also pledged the .assoclation to use all its influence teo;secure the pas- sage by Congress of & bill appropriat- |ing the necessary momey and setting | aside the big tree grove as a Govern- | ment reserve. | PAPERS ARE READ, E. T. Perkins of the Agricultural De- | partment read an interesting paper on the Irrigation systems-of the Colorado, dwelling especially on the operations at Imperial, a reclaimed ditrict of great productive capacity in the east- | ern end of San Diego County. | J. A. Clausen of Los Angeles followed | with a paper on Owen Lake, in Inye | County, its capacity, evaporation, seep- | age and waste. He showed that with | proper use this lake would be able to | | make productive thousands of acres that are now practically desert. H. E. Green read a paper on the Sacramento River and valley, and Professor Sam- uel Fortried of the University of Cali- fornia spoke on agriculture, viticulture | Professor E. Mead, representative in California of the forestry department of the Federal Bureau of Agriculture, | told of the necessity of forests ro. the | preservation of water sources, ana went irrigation in use in many parts of the State. He urged that not only must the water be saved, but that the farm- that it shall not be wasted. His re- marks met with warm responses from H. Mills and Judge Works, who | pointed out instances where vast sums | had been spent ignorantly and from | which no profitable results had been obtainel. 5 OFFICERS CHOSEN. 8. G. Bennett, assistant to J. B. Lip- pincott, the Government watershed ex- pert, read a paper on the storage of | water, and a general discussion fol- lowed. Several resolutions relating to" forest and water preservation were read and adopted. The nominating committee recom- mended the following officers for the William H. Beatty; vice presidents—William Thomas, Arthur R. Briggs and J. B. Lippincott; secretary, T. C. Friedlander; treasurer, F. W. The advisory committee | i was continued the same as last year with the exception of J. M. Wilson of Berkeley, who died since the last | | meeting. In his stead Charles A.| After happy | speeches by W. H. Mills, Judge Works and others the meeting adjourned. ——— 7/ Want Executor Removed. John M. Donnelly, Mary A. Skerrett and Bridget Watson, each of whom in the will of Patpick Donnelly, who died on the 4th inst., is bequeathed $250, petitioned the court yesterday in-'} and her piea met with | [ to rest for the day. | through the mails, namely, between | August, 1908, and January, 1904. | The question, ‘“Who wrote the { anonymous letters?” now overshadows {all others raised ir the preliminary ex- amination of Hyde and Dimond. The atmosphere of the case has be- . come so laden with electricity that a storm is liablé at any moment to break out openly between Dimond and Hyde. Persons in the courtrcom yestérday after the session closed had a sugges- | tion of what might occur when they |saw Dimond attempt a conversation with the millionaire land speculator. | With clenched fist Hyde waved the lawyer away and refused to hear a word from him. The anonymous letters occupied | much of yesterday's session. The sec- {ond communication sent to Government | Detective Burns was read in evidence, {and its authorship duly denied by Di- | mond. Besides canvassing this preg- ! nant subject thoroughly Heney took up |once more the witness’ attempts to | shield Hyde from Government investi- | gation, even after he had refused long- er to act as Hyde's attorney. The aim | of the prosecution was to force admis- | sions that Dimond then knew Hyde | was guilty of unlawful practices. To | this end Dimond’s letter of January 22, 11903, one of the most important docu- | ments in the Government case, was used as the basis of an extended exam- {ination, ‘under which the witness mani- | fested great dlstress. { DIMOND'S ENTANGLEMENT. | 'The main achievement of the day | was, of course, the forcing of Dimond’'s | admission that he owned a typewriter ;uf the styvle used in writing the anonymous letters. The witness battled long-and stubbornly with Heney over | this subject and changed his declara- | tions several times. When first interro- gated upon the matter, on Thursday 1morn‘ing. the following testimony had | been given: Question by Mr. Heney—What make of type- writer have you? A.—Remington. | Hew long have you had a Remington? Ever since I opened my office. | Have you only one typewriting machine? One. Have you nome at your home? None. I used an Oliver in Washington. My girl used an Oliver and Mr. Browne's cierk | used & Blickensderfer, Do you mean to say, | Mr. Heney, that those letters emanated from my office? Heney sald he certainly did, and Di- | mond passionately repudiated the pos- sibility of such a thing. For a time the watchful Government lawyer per- mitted Dimond to forget the uncom- fortable topic, but later in the day he brought him back to it with an in- nocent-looking question about his stay in Washington, where he had desk- room in the office of Britton & Gray. Here i& what was said: Mr, Heney—What kind of a machine did you have when you were in Britton & Gray's of- fice? ‘I had an Oliver and the clerk had a Blick- ensderfer. 1 think the last time I was on there they had a Blickensderfer in the offlce that T personally used once or twice and dic- tated to. When was that? December, 1902, JUST A LITTLE ONE. Did you purchase a machine while you were in_ Washinzton? 1 got one down on F street. I rented it first and then they sald they would let the rent go toward payment of the machine and 1 took it. What make Was that? That was a Blickensderfer, a little one: one of the little small ones that can be used in_traveling Did you bring that machine back with you? No: T left it in Washington. * * * Why d4id you want a Blickensderfer? rely because it was light and convenient in case I wanted to take it to and from the office to my home. You have no Blickensderfer here at all? Mr. Wheeler (Dimond’s counsel)—Have you ever had? Two or three at various times, before, when they first came out. Any within the past year or iwo? No. I do not think I have had one here within the past vear or two. Mr. Heney—You do not think you have had. Do you not know? 1 was trying to.think whether I have had or not. I did have one packed up that I sold. 1 do wot recall now who I sold it to. ‘When did you sell the Blickensderfer? 1 think I sold it before 1 went away. Mr., Wheeler—Before you went to Washing- ton_at all? Yes. Before 1 went to Washington at aj I sold it from my other office in the MUls building. With these declarations that he had not owned a Blickensderfer since the summer of 1901, Dimond was allowed Yesterday Heney came back to the disagreeable subject, but long | MOND CONTRADICTS HIS FORMER TESTIMONY Typewfiter of Style Used in Writing Anonymous Letters Former Client, F. A. Hyde and the inquisition was long and re- lentiess. After repeating his former statement that the anonymous letters were evidently the product of a Blick- ensderfer machine, Dimond testified as follows: Mr. Heney—Did you have a typewriter when you entered Hyde's office in June, 18017 Yes. 1 took a small typewriter from my office in the Mills bullding to Hyde's office. What kind of a typewriter? A small Blickensderfer. When, I left for ‘Washington I packed it and left it there until my return in 1902. the summer of 1002 T used it occasionally. It was still at Hyde's office when I got back from Washing- ton early in 1903, During my absence it had been locked up in my desk at Hyde's office, What became of it? 1 sold it. When? & When I took my present offices. I then bought a Remington and turned the other, ma- callge in as part payment, This was in March, DIMOND OWNS UP. (After a pause.) So you have never had a Blickensderfer typewriter in your office since March. 19082 Well, Mr. Tait. who rents office room from me and has a desk in my office, had a No. 6 Blickensderfer there. When did Mr. Tait get this machine? I don't know just when he got it Do you know where or from whom he sot {t? 1™ e bought 1t from me. He bought it from you? Yes, 1 got it at the same time I got the Remington But you just now sald you exchanged your smail Blickensderfer for a Remington, Well, but I didn’t say I did not aiso get & Blickensderter. How long and where did you keep this last Biickensderfer ? Tait. This was several months ago. I canmot say just exactly when, What became of it then? 4 It remained in my office for a time—Tait kept it there for a little while, but finally togk it over to his home in Alameda. When did he do) that? A month or six weeks ago. Did you not say yesterday that you had not had a Blickensderfer since before you went to_Washington in 19012 No. I don't think I did, You know that I was the firsh person to suggest that these let. ters were written on a Blickensderfer, | You think that you were the first person to aiscover that? Yes. Well, don’t fool yburselr. PLAN TO TRAP HYDE. Then came the other anonymous let- | ter—one that Detective Burns had re- ceived in answer to a second advertise- ment in the Chronicle on January 10, 1904. The detective had asked his un- | known correspondent for ‘‘the names of all the parties you think have been tampered with at the land office.” In | reply to this advertisement Burns got | the following letter, postmarked “San | Francisco, January 24, 1504": | I have at last found out the name of the man wko can convict Hyde. -J. J. Barnes of | the General Land Office has been in _his | monthly vay since 1807. He has given Hyde | advance information on all the State indem- | nity selections, has followed Hyde's instruc- tions and taken up such clear lists as he wented. He has written him the “news’ reg- ularly for years. You can force a confession frem him if you press him Ask him where the money came from that paid for his house. Tell him that you have one of his letters dated J. He will confess, Aznd so will Hyde if you send a ‘‘special” to §him and tell him Barnes has made a clean | confesston of _the whole thing. Hyde is | nearly crazy with fedr. If you strike now you have him. 1 will have the mames of the local TRE soon. An hour or more was spent in ques- tions about Dimond's efforts to shield Hygde from the investigation started by the Imterior Department.. These tc the defendant, Schneider, at Tucson; | his letters to Hyde from Washington denouncing the latter’s admissions that he had used irresponsible persons in acquiring school lands and his alleged retirement from Hyde's service on March 1, 1903 Most of all, the witness was grilled ington, January 22, 1903, which, Heney | contended, showed a full knowledge of Hyde's speculative methods. The cress-examinataion of Dimond will continue on Monday morning. ———————— Lumber Company Incorporates. The California Sugar and White Pine Agency was incorporated yester- day with a capital stock of $1,000,000. | The directors, who are well known in | the lumber world and who have each of stock, are: G. W. Scott, W. W. Van Arsdale, E. H. Cox, J. F. Condon, G. X. Wendling, O. C. Haslett, F. W. Sis- son, E. K. Smart, C. E. Tinkham, Clif- ford Coggins, M. A. Leach, F. F. Sayre, H. P. Martin, Z. S. Cather, L. Y. Cog- gins, C. T. Lindsey, F. W. Walden, M. V. Geagans, E. J. Hummel and F. D Madison. B e —— Child Burned to Death. Little Albert Rouquett, the eight and a half months oid child of Mrs. | Velere Rouquett, who keeps a lodging- | house at 192 Seventh street, was burn- ed to death yesterday. Albert and his three-year-old sister, Alice, were play- ing with matches yesterday morning about 8 o'clock. The smaller child’s clothing became ignited. His screams brought his mother, who extinguished the flames. The child was badly burned and died at 5:30 o’clock last night. —_————— Dr. John 1. King, only survivor of the White River massacre of October 28, 1855, lives at Martel, Ohlo. pastry. to revoke the afipolntment of executor of the will given to Bernard Donnelly. They aver that the executor has vio- lated his trust in that he has willfully concealed the true value of the es- tate and that he, in conjunction with | Mary Donnelly, widow of the deceased, | has kept from the knowledge of the | court the fact that Donnelly had on deposit funds in wvarious banks amounting to 100. » —————— Lighting of Exit Lamps. The Board of Works yesterday ad- vised the Supervisors that the lighting | of exit lamps in theaters by an inde- pendent circuit of electricity is pref- “‘Have something’’ is good, have a little “Old erable to lighting by oil_and equally Lea & ADLVERTISEMENTS. MareriaLs: — One quart diced cooked meat, one pint boiled diced potatoes, two sliced minced bacon, brown gravy, salt, pepper, plain Perrins’ ‘Sauce THE ORICINAL WORCESTERSHIRE + - finishing touch is given by —Beafsteak pic often scems lacking in piquancy. The "mixing with the brown gravy two mfuls of Lea @& Perrins’ Sauce. 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