The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 6, 1904, Page 7

THE SAN FRANCISCO. CALL, ARE T0 TEST LAW ON HACKS Sao Zag I Carriage Owners’ Associa- tion Intends to Start All Velicles Without License ARRESTS MAY FOLLOW Claim Is Made That Taxes Should Guarantee Protee- tion for Every —— e — Stable and ca the dels iage owners have had y will stand regarding « their cks on the siree That decision was reached t y and there will be no v - delay about putting the ha the streets if men Just what the ci do is conjecture. The law drivers must have licenses, owners have concluded that withholding of licenses on the pre- 1at the applicants do not know enough about the city was going too far they are ready to test the says hack i the and take re pa roperty they are e otection of their busir the position that as st the Hack g taxes o titled to ti The on Citizen | HYDROGRAPHY OF THE SACRAMENTO 'Problem of Drainage | Is Related to Im- pounding. { | ' Troublesome Waters | May All Become E Beneficial. The catchme area of the San | Joagquin and Sacramento rivers em- | braces approximately 48° per cent of | the entire area of the State, or re- gion comprising_about 70,000 square miles These two valleys of the Sacramento and San Joaquin may be termed the interior basin of Califory From ! the highest point of watershed on the south to the source of the Sacramento | the ! River, near Mount Shasta on north, the distance in a st is about 525 miles. Of this 2 belongs to the San Joaquin and miles to the Sacramento. Both rivers | constitute the central drainage of region lyving between two ranges of | mountaing. The Sacramento River, the age of the northern portion asin, lows south; the San Joa- : AND W al ks EXPERT WOULD SUBDUE GREAT FLOODS TO USE H. MILLS has writ- ten for The Call the accompanying article on the hydrography of the Sac- ramento Valley. The theme is intimately related to the drain- age and consequently to the full development of the great Sacra- mento Valley. Mr. Mills makes several notewortl points. He says that the catchment aveas | of the Sacramento and San Joa- | auin rivers constitute 48 per | cent of the arca of the entire | State of California. The para- ount factor, when drainage is considered, is the relation of the sea level to the high and low water in a system of bays. Ocean tides obstruct the outflow of the waters of the rivers to a distance of more than 125 miles from the Golden Gate. The only remedy to effectually dispose of menacing floods is declared to be the storage of the flood wa- ters by a series of great dams. As subsequently devoted to irri- gation, these waters will become beneficial instead of being an an- I with { as Stockton. VALLEY DISCUSSED PRACTICALLY ITH DETAIL. BY W. H. MILLS PO S Outflow Is Greatly Blocked by the Sea Tides. Force of Torrential Streams Is Now Resistless. S - = it destroyed the engineering theories that such reclamation is not ! an obstruction to the outflow of the | floods. The recurrence of great floods | is just as certain as the recurrence | of the rainy season. Uplifted areas like those which constitute more than half the interior basin, must necessarily suffer erosion when the surface of their escarpment is broken by the pasturage of domestic animals and the general occupation of man. This ero- sion was accelerated by hydraulic and other mining, but it had been in pro- cess centuries before California was inhabited and will continue in all the centuries to come. In a comparatively recent period the system of bays ex- tended to the mouth of the Feather River and up the San Joaquin as far In the process of time ! at the St. Louis Exposition. Every fa- | by Acting Chief Dougherty assembled s Dougherty and Battalion Chiefs Wills AMUSEMENTS. FIRE PICTURES FOR ST. LOLIS Department Makes Record- Breaking Run in Front of a Biograph Machine FOR USE AT EXPOSITION At Request of Merchants' THE LITTLE MINISTER Association Apparatus Is Beginning NEXT MONDAY, Furnished for the Views Biograph pictures of the San Fran-;E- f cisco fire department responding to a| ! first alarm of fire were taken yeaterday; H. | afternoon at Fifth and Market streets. i The films will be used by the Mer- chants’ Association in connectioh with the San Francisco lecture department | COLUMBIA i:=" HDRRA oo T LAST SIX NIGHTS. Matinee Satyrday—Charles Frohman Presents | MAUDE ADAMS In Her Greatest Triumph, In the Miracle Play, THE PROUD PRINCE. By Justin Huntly McCarthy, cility was afforded the operator to se- | Author of “IF I WERE KING.” cure good views and the nine pleces | of apparatus that will appear in the run went at break-neck speed, showing the department in the best of prelim- inary action. About 1 o’clock the section of depart- | ment apparatus that had been selected | | SEAT SALE THURSDAY, TIVOLI OPERA | ONLY MATINEE SATURDAY. ‘ BEGINNING TO-NIGHT. i FIRST PRODUCTION IN THIS CITY Of the Military Comic Opera Triumph, on Fourth street, near Market. Truck 1, engine 17 and wagon, battery 1,/ chemical 1 and the water tower and light wagons, driven by Acting Chief and Shaughnessy, were in line. The GRAND:w' HOIUSE MATINEE SATURDAY—LAST WEEK MELBOURNE MacDOWELL In the New and Successful Romantic Drams A CAPTAIN OF NAVARRE PRICES: 15¢, 25¢c, S0c, ide DAVID RELASCO RESENTS MRS LESLIE CARTER In His New Play DU BARRY For a Limited Engagement, Commencing NEXT MONDAY NIGHT Regular Mat. Sat. Special Mat. Wed. SALE OF SEATS COMMENCES THURSDAY MORN 3 Prices: $2.00, $1.50, $1.00, T3¢, 50c —_—— MISCELLANTO STATEMENT OF THE CONDITION AND AFFAIRS. OF THE Northwestern Mutual LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY F MILWAUKEE, IN THE STATE OF ‘Wisconsin, on the 3lst day of December, A. D., 1908, and for the year ending on that day; made to the Insurance Commissioner of the 'State of California, pursuant to the re- 2o & i Bt S River, the drainage e south- | horses were white and the apparatus 3 10 8o, they say, is to start men | I TIHer, 0 g O e South | | nual mennce as at present. Sulsun Bay will be filled and the Sac- | was of the latest {mprovement. The irements” of “Section 613 o€ the. Poitica expect arrests | Until they find their confiuence on the | ;. i _4 | zamento and San Joaquin rivers will| pattery and the water tower are both CAPITAL. y who go out €astern margin of Suisun Bay. From | flow thruugh one well-qmned channel Jocal inventions and will attract inter- | uch ac- | this point to their outlet to the sea, | American River will be given in detail | into the Straits of Carquinez and|est when shown abroad. | Amount of Capital Stack paid up tion into At the west end of the straits of the |as peculiarly illustrative of the situa-| thence to the sea. Captain Spillane and a squad of po-/ | ST B gt b 5 G e WY = aged by | Golden Gate, they are one river. | The American River has its con- CHAPTERS OF FAILURES. licemen kept the south side of Market :m.’:c ASSETS. . NSE OOMBINED . BIVERS. |fustos with the Bacraméuts Biver 8t/ imiis. nistory of enginesring experi- | Sooof TSOW Faurt (o St olger of Saawin i Mot valne of Real Watats Oweed .. ov o = ¢ Commis-| This single river, which flows | o 0¥ N e UEN O ehip 3| ment and theory presents merely chap- | nien¢ T Ge cVery effort to keep the | Sloane i Amount of lLoane secured by - S icnses. Formal | roueh Suisun Bay, the lower portion | norp “range 4 cast. It has three well- | ters of failures. Engineers were found | event a secret, that too many people bt e oy e oA vt onerer et ee cesoese ORTIRGT O application will be made for the grant- | of Sun Fre ,')NI:‘;)B*,“!("“:_ it “;]d[ defined river ehannels in township 13| to approve of the drainage act under | would not assemble to see the run,| Premium notes and icans in any ing of permits to several men who | of ;nx]-l\l'l‘l):"l’k dr:a‘:x’m:{:' 1;|.\!‘;‘h.)“;e:‘ | north. range 15 east. The surveys of “’hit‘g 4;“ 3‘]‘?'“1’;;‘:: m:demm im- | thereby causing accidents or impeding LILLIAN SEFTON, Prima Donna SIBI'llfl | :‘:::m‘""‘:‘_"‘n e plied for work. 1If the board | js without name, being overshadowed | the Government show that the distance | Poun lI e f? n';n‘fm d us YThP (‘f’l" the way of the horses, and just a suffi- Usual Tivoli Prices—25c, §0c, T7Sc ;g 312,311 84 B s the aj ons, the men wil: be | by geographical designations in the | between the mouth and the well-de- S:rum! ?1“«1“ :‘ Jnms. o e §; | cient crowd appeared to contribute in- LOOK OUT FOR “ROBIN HOOD.” Cash n;m;zd. oA ¥ work, provided they are Willing | way of names of base. but the law of | ined =ources of this river is but fifty- | tinguished engineer James B. Eads cidents and add detail to the picture. | = nde owne O i & K s with the thugs. tsudbve Fe oy A AW O |four miles and these sources are 6000 | Was brought to the State for the pur-| The chemical passed Fifth street,| e - el s it has had nothing | of the names of the lakes or basins | fect above the mouth of the river. pose of bearing testimony in favor of | where the picture machine was placed. | T s Qe o:roeseaze . SN cases of assault, though | through which a river flows. In very | It is difficult to realize, but it is| the pfa('t}r"fxblli‘])' f’lf l:m! scheme. He first, at a record-breaking gait. Then ! | Amount_of Cashaeposited in o0 o0 s at union men have made ' truth the west end of the straits of | Mathematically true, that a horizontal | Bave a very reluctant assent, saying|came Acting Chief Dougherty and the| e s it i It is the intention of the | the Golden Gate is the mouth of the |line fifty-four miles long dr_m\u from | that the experiment was worthy the | engines and other equipment dashed by | unpaid . s i 91,202 39 ook out for every man placed combined rive Mo o Into- The “ the head waters of the American down trial, but the experiment merely dem- | at intervals of a few seconds. Harry A Tremendous Personal Intereat accrued but rot due 2,495,469 40 « ks and if he cannot produce his | Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers | 0 mouth would stand 6000 feet|onstrated the utter fallacy of all the|J. Miles, representing the American Trinmph for AMELIA GARDNER Net amount of premiums i pro- 1 from the Police Commissioners n Pablo and San | @8bove the city of Sacramento, and the | theories concerning it. Two hundred | Mutoscope and Bilograph Company, The Stirring War Play of the South e premtnms T 2202755 53 1 against him and ask for and when all these | Fiver channel must take up all of this|and fifty thousand dollars of State|took the piftures and will put them in i 1] Loans made to policy holders as- his [are taken into account, that Is, when | fall In its course of legs than seventy- | money was expended to make this one | shape for the exhibition. Although the HE A A |E signed as collateral -+ 13731353 0 3 more than 100 hacks | the streams that flow into the bays, | ive miles, even by way of the channel experiment. The channel of the Yuba, | ilms have not yet been developed, Rents due and ac X \ ssociation and thus far |including the Napa River, Petaluma |itself. Here is an important wributary | a high altitude tributary of the Feather | Miles says there is no reason why they aiittgos TP AGD oo eivaend $178,.200,625 20 en but twenty-five appli- | Creek and the drainage of the Santa |Of the Sacramento River, having an| River, was selected for the experiment. i should not excel —anything of their | S s for p Of that number Clara, San Ramon and other valleys | 8verage fall of eighty feet to the mile, | The first flood destroyed the works|kind ever shown. The Oliver Morosco flumnan, LIABILITIES « me was granted a permit by the | tribut to the bay system are con- | delivering its rainfall and its snow | that had been erected for jts control, _ e a - o " B Clatms for death losses and ma- t joners sidered, they form one single river |Melt into a channel which, from that| with an imperious disregard for engi- S Colohs The Greatest Stock Company in Ex- Tured endowments, due and he union will be on | having a catehment area equal o |point to the sea, has less than three| neering theories. 5 Mo Oobstawe. ! tstence. 2 ol e S R to watch the pro- 000 square miles, which reaches sea | Inches of fall to the mile. The Sierra-Nevada tributaries of the| The annual festival in commemora- | | BARGAIN MATINEE THURSDAY, W %0 07 00 i \n process commission and also | jevel through the Golden Gate. The upper courses of the American | Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers|tion of the anniversary of the conces- | of adjustment, o adjusted o | those who are granted The paramount factor, when drain- | River have more than double the an-| have a velocity of current which makes |sion of the Italian constitution was a“bul :'0’:(:1“!" i U 40,900 00 n the union. Bae Ib nbder E . = 1 precipitation of that recorded at| it impossible to check, arrest or im- | held at Shell Mound Park yesterday o e the oo x age is under consideration, is the re- | nual preciy Net present value e having trouble over | lation of this sea level to the high and | the city of Sacramento. Graphically | pound their waters in their channels. | under the auspices of the Mutual Aid | | 7" standing policies, computed dues and assessments. | low water in the system of bays and | presented, then, draw two straight| The force of ten thousand cannon balls | Society of the Garibaldi Guards. The according to the Combined e that are working have to ad- | the direct influence which this sea |lines, pne running north 275 miles and | would be feeble in comparison with the | affair was participated in by all the R 2 given amount every week in|jevel has upon the lower courses of | the other south 250 miles to a point of [ torrents which sweep with destructive|local Itallan organizations, which met B - I 145,035,354 09 order 1o remain in good standing with the Sacramento and San Joagquin |junction, where they turn at right an- | velocity down these streams. A stone|at Garibaldi Hall, and, preceded by a | | Amount of all unpaid dividends he union. Some of the men are be- | rivers. gles west to the sea through a single| dam anchored to the bedrock might|band, marched to the ferry. At the Eas ‘t':epzl‘:cymh-olpa:;:b ey . 2,502,823 09 g € to complain and there are In- As the American pioneers found this | combined channel; then from the high| be constructed to stand, but the res- | grounds the day was pleasantly spent b e S > 25,079,300 8 ons of trouble in the organiza- | primitive condition, the tide rose and | summits of two mountain rafiges draw | ervoir area would fill up the first sea- | in dancing and other amusements. | All other Lial 711,697 73 No hacks went out last night with nsed drivers. The intention of wners 1o put men on the vehicles r arried out for the reason that d not be secured who were take the chance of being d and after that treatment even though the owners were ling to defend them in the courts. — TO SUPERSEDE STRIKERS. Southern Pacific Secures Men to Handle Freight on West Side. Men were supplied by Murray & the employment agents, last the Southern Pacific to for ts freight at the West Side took 150 men to the yards Union pickets patrolled the »ut offered no inducements to ike-breakers, who could not be d. The new men were guarded. re expected to handle all of the rouble is predicted. ion claim for an increase of based on been an increase in the cost They want cents per he as against 20 cents and in some cents paid certain workers. e company holds that such de- | The men say | are unreasonable. nds are reasonable and must nted or they will tie up the en- e system. The officials say there will be no for arbitration. The men have their demands and the company | has refused to grant them. Efforts are being made to bring about a further consideration of the dtfferences, but it is not likely that such result can be reached. Both eides are determined and the strike is on in earnest. —_— PERSONAL. F. U. Bowers of Sonora is'at the Lick J. L. Gillis, an attorney of Sacra- mento, is at the Lick C. M. Lynch, a merchant of Grass Valley, at t Lick. Melihan, a business man of Pet- J. D. E ed at the Grand yester- R. Kackley, a capitalist of Indian- and his wife are at the St p C. C. MeCabe of the Methodist chiurch of Philadelphia, and wife, are registered at the St. Francis. John C. Underhill of Kentucky, one of the supreme officials of the Inde- perdent Order of Odd Fellows, arrived &t the Palace yesterday. Judge James E. Fenton of Nome, and his brother, Dr. T. D. Fenton of Port- lund, arrived from the north yesterday and are staying at the Occidental. J. W. Raphael, the well-known mer- chant, has returned from the East and intends to open up an extensive ad- vertiging campaign under his personal direction. To Visit Del Monte. The gardens, drives, sports and general at- tractions of Del Monte have made it one of the show places of the worid. First-class tickets between Sgn Francisco and Los Angeles, either way, with two daye’ entertainment at this fa- movs botel, only $22; children’s rate, $14 50 Privilege _of _thirty days' stop-over. Ask Southern Pacific agents 0 —_—— LOOKING FOR TROUBLE.—Four union stublemen were parading in front of stables on Drumm street_early yesterday morning and Fergeant Ellls was informed that Robert Tuite, one of them, had a revolver. The men walked along toward Market street and were followed by Elis wnd Policeman Bean. Tuite was ob- werved to run into 20 Drumm street and come out quickly agin. The men were overtaken and placed under arrest. At 20 Dsumm street Ellis found @ piece of rubber hose loaded with #hot, which Tuifte had evidently dropped. Tuite was Jocked up in “the tanks” at the City Prison und the others were discharged. ————————— Notice to Passengers. Baggage transterred to and from all trains, stemmers, etc, at Jow rates. One trunk (sin- je trip) 35 cent 50 cents. Morton pecial Delivery, 308 round trip Taylor, 660 Market, Oak- lard Ferry Depot. Phone Exchange 46 ¢ the ground that! fell every day at Knights Landing, thirty-five miles by the channel of the river above Sacramento, and the tide influenced the drainage capacity of the San Joaquin as far inland as Stockton. When the Central Pacific Railroad was built, in pursuance of an act of Congre! granting aid for the construction of a railroad from the | Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean, Sacramento was accepted as the Pa- ](ifiv Ocean terminus because Pacific point | The tides of the | struct the outflow waters of the San Joaquin and Sacramento rivers to a distance of over 125 miles from the mouth of the combined rivers at the western outlet of the Golden Gate. The Sacramento River, opposite the city of Sacramento, h: an eleva- tion of 30 feet above sea level, or less than 3 inches to the mile of its-course to the sea. The ebb tide through the | Golden Gate vastly exceeds the flood | tide which flows inward, because it carries outward the water which the tide has delivered to the tidal reservoir composing the bay system and the ac- cumulated and obstructed waters of the vast catchment area already dis- closed. TOPOGRAPHY OF AREA. To this point, we have but one side | of the story. We have brought to view | a river 125 miles in length with an aver- @ge fall of less than three inches to the | mile. We must now consider the to- | pography of the catchment area and rainfall which feeds this river. The two rivers which flow to the north and to the south and which, turn- |ing abruptly west at right angles to | their general course, drkin two great | valleys having the Slerra Nevada | Mountains for their eastern and the Coast Range for their western wall, drain these two ranges of mountains tc their very summits, and fully 60 per cent, or 42,000 square miles, of their ‘c:nchmem area has an inclfnation of | from 10 degrees to 60 degrees. Upon this uplifted area two-thirds of the entire precipitation of both fall. While this statement is sufficient- ly comprehensive to those familiar with the facts, for the sake of perspicuity it will be illustrated in detail. The Sacramento River rises at the north line of Township 40 north, in a then, ob- straight line, 250 miles by . math- ematical demonstration from the top of Mount Diablo. From its source to the head of the Sacramento Valley, in a straight line a distance of 48 miles, it has over 3000 feet fall. It receives Fall River, McCloud River and Pitt River as its eastern tributa- ries, and these rise at an altitude of between 3000 and 4000 feet. They have an average fall of nearly 100 feet to the mile in their entire course. The annual precipitation in the mcuntain district, which constitutes the catchment area of the upper end of the Sacramento system, is more than twice the annual rainfall at Chico, and | in addition to this the area is subject | to phenomenal precipltation, as for in- | stance, five or six inches in from six to ten hours at Delta. Following the Sacramento on both sides the same condition is maintained. Cow Creek, Deer Creek, Antelope Creek, Mill Creek, Rock Creek, Pine Creek and Butte Creek on the east and | Elder Creek, Red Bank Creek Cotton- wood Creek, Toms Creek and Stoney Creek on the west, all in the high al- titudes, receive nearly double the an- nual precipitation of rainfall in their upper courses of that which visits the immediate area of the Sacramento River, and delivers this precipitation, by reason of the inclination of the mountainous district, down channels which make their currents necessarily torrential. Then the Feather River, two-thirds of whose drainage area stands at an angle of from 15 to 60 degrees, is en- countered, and the Yuba and Bear rivers, branghes of the Feather River, are practicaily mountain torrents. ' THE AMERICAN RIVER. Topographical facts relating to the valleys' the confluents at right angles with the central drainage and with the central axis of the mountains; give these trib- utaries a declivity of from sixty to one hundred feet fall to the mile and give their catchment areas double the an- nual precipitation of the lower courses of the main drainage and we have a series of torrential streams delivering flood volumes in a comparatively few hours into channels which possess the | very meager and limited drainage ca- | Ocean tides were encountered at that | pacity of less than three inches fall to the mile. TIDE STOPS CURRENT. ‘When a tide moves eastward through the Straits of Carquinez drainage of the great basin is entirely suspended and, as already shown, there is an ob- structing tidal influence for at least one hundred .miles up the channels of | | both rivers. Thus the low stage of Suisun Bay affords all the drainage these rivi can by any possibility But the elevation of Suisun Bay is determined by the relation of the gea to the bay system and the lower courses of the rivers cannot be changed or modified except by a change of the sea level itself. Owing to the greater rainfall upon the catchment area of the Sacra- mento, its flood stages are often higher than those of the San Joaquin. The observation of this phenomenon has led to the fallacy of supposing that the Sacramento might be relieved by turning its waters into the channel of the San Joaquin by an artificial canal; that. is, invoking the aid of the San Joaquin in the drainage of the Sacramento. But the sea level status of Suisun Bay 1is the controlling factor when drainage is considered. When the waters of these rivers reach Suisun Bay they are subject to the same law; therefore, the proposition to empty the waters of one into the channel of the other is attended by the absurdity of supposing that a river may empty itself by delivering a part of its current into its own chan- nel. Both rivers find a common and paramount obstruction in the ocean tides of Suisun Bay. Professor McAdie stated to the recent River Convention that if the great storm of last winter had con- tinued three.days the flood waters of the river would have extended from the foothills of one range of mountains to those of the other, submerging the entire valley. This, indeed, is just what did happen in the flood of Feb- ruary, 1861. The meteorological conditions to which the recurrence of great floods in the interior basin are referable are familiar to all the residents of the valleys. One foot of newly-fallen snow is equal to one inch of rainfall, bat when ten feet of snov is found it equals fifteen or eighteen inches of rainfall, because the snow has com- racted by its weight. When the up- have. per courses of the tributaries of the Sacramento lyihg from 5000 to 6000 feet above the central drainage of the valley contain from five to ten feet of snow and receive a precipitation of fiom ten to fifteen inches of rainfa'i within three days that carries off the snow, the water is dellvered to the drainage channels of those tributaries as rain runs off the steep roofs of houses. RECEIVE THE FLOODS. The Sacramento and San Joaquin are tidal rivers for nearly 100 miles of their Jower courses and must receive these torrential floods and deliver them to the ocean through channcls which have but thirty feet fall in 125 miles. .Thus it is that, after an American occupancy of fifty-five years, the prob- lem of drainage remains unsolved. But little has been learned and ab- solutely nothing has been done to meet the exigencies of the situation. The great flood of the early 50's, the greater flood of February, 1861, and the recurrent great flood of 1904 mani- fested the same destructive tendencies that would have attended them 100 years ago. They destroyed the island reclamation at the mouths of the Sac- ramento and San Joaquin rivers, and son and the detritus which results from | the perpetual erosion of the mountain declivities would simply fall over the| top of the dam and pOSSess no ec nomical value unless for creating elec- trical power. REMEDY IS PROPOSED. It woyld be merely quoting the opin- ion of engineers to say that the onlyT remedy for this is the storage of the flood waters of these streams. All of | the tributaries of the two drainage channels of the valleys might be eco- nomically stored when they reach the general level of the plain below, while up the mountain courses of many of thes~ streams there Is ample opportuni- | ty for holding back the flood waters | and feeding them into the main chan- | nels at a rate consistent with their| drainage capacity. In, the course of| timé this will be done. In the natural course of events the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys will be irrigated and irrigation uniformly destroys rivers. The Government of the United States has entered upon a scheme of arid land reclamation by irrigation, as relates to the Colorado River, which will destroy the navigability of that| stream. It has already assumed the position that the superior public uses of the Colorado River is irrigation and not navigation. Water sufficient to irrigate the great interior basin of this State must necessarily be stored. The summer stages of all the streams, which when combined create the Sac- ramento and San Joaquin rivers, are not equal to the demand for the irri- gation of these great valleys. When the aggregate precipitation of com- mon years is accumulated by storage | and devoted to the fertilization of the Sacramento and San Joaquin plains, | the flood stages of the Sacramento and San Joaquin will disappear. Combination of meteorological con- ditions will create floods at wide in- tervals of time, which will be more or less destructive, but the usual con- dition will be full channels all the year round attended by navigable condi- tions of the highest economic value. That this result will be achieved is in- evitable and the force that will bring it into being is the obvious values to be developed by the undertaking. The task of impounding the flood waters of the streams supplying the great interior water ways appears stupendous only to those who are un- familiar with precedent. We stand ap- palled before the vast sums of money required for its accomplishment, but the magnitude of these sums sink into comparative insignificance when measured by the stupendous aggregate of values to be created and the vast populations hereafter to be sharers in the incalculable benefits. " | Opening of “New” Santa Cruz. '6..B|G NEW ACTS"6 A great entertainment will mark the open- ing of the cottage lnd: tent 1;"}'0;[ -'.\'...;"' | Truly Shattuck; Aven Comedy Four: 5 z Saturday, June 11. One of the B T theevent will be o Erand bail witn| Jeah Russell; Brandow and Wiley music by a Government band | Burke, La Rue and ‘he Inky Boys Round trip excursion tickets from San Fran- | Gaston and Stone; Powers Brothers: cisco to Santa Cruz, good from Saturday 0| @rohenm Mot o = e il W] séi’.me’;'.?"?:’lff the Brooklyn HMandicap, and | ol saentt e | Marcel's Living Art Studies | SAYS WOMAN ROBBED HIM.—Louis Ve- rorl, who lives at Broadway and Montgomery avenue, reported to Policeman Ring early yes- terday morning that Grace Reed, a colored wo- mna at 14 Pinckney alley, had stolen $120 from his pockets. Ring placed the woman un- der arrest and locked her up pending develop- ments. She was searched by the matron, but no trace of the money was found. Regular Matinee Every Wednesday, Thurs- | | day, Saturday and Sunday. Prices, 10c, 25c | | and’ 50c. | ——COME TO-NIGET— See the Sensational Novelty, Lionel Lawrence's “EIGHT RADIUM GIRLS.” The big hit last night, And the funniest of all burlesques, | T S.= 1000 actual laughs in three acts. | This *‘All Star” burlesque cast: EDNA AUG, GARRITY SISTERS, YORKE AND ADAMS, AL FIELDS, EDWIN CLARK, BEN DILLON, ROY ALTON. Bewitching chorus of forty. Matinees Saturday and Sunday. Same popular prices, ‘THE MORMONS." The North Western- Union Pacific Excursions ALCAZA Belasco & Mayer, Proprietors. afford unusual opportunities for, an | E. D. Price, economical aad satisfactery journey to General Manager. STARTING TO-NIGHT—One WEEK. L] MATINEES THURSDAY AND SATURDAY. and ouina’'s ROMANCE | i : Excursions Every Day | Personally conducted parties leave §| FTReT ALCAZAR PRRFORMANCE STOCK MAGNIFICENT PRODUCTION. MARVELOUS SAND STORM SCENE. CIGARETTE'S RIDE FOR LIFE. Eve., 25¢ to 75c. Mats. Thurs. & Sat., 25c to 50c ! NEXT WEEK—LAUGH LONG AND LOUD! | ——CHARLEY'S AUNT—— THE COMEDY OF COMEDIES. To Follow—Clyde Fitch's LOVERS' LANE. Coming—WHITE WHITTLESEY. GENTRAL":: Market street, near Eighth. Phone South 533. TO-NIGHT—ALL THIS WEEK. MATINEES SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. Hal Reid's Phenomenal Fastern Success, THE PEDDLER| A Fascinating Heart Interest Drama with a ‘Wealth of Comedy and the Greatest of all He- brew Characters. PRICES Ecnives. . San Francisco every Wednesday, Thursday, Friday ¢ Leave Los Angeles cne day earlier. Choice of routes. For full information apply to or address R. R. RITCHIE, General No. | Montgomery St. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. .10c to 50c [10e, 1%¢, 28c HOTELS AND RESORTS. ———e— MONEY IN CHERRIES. Fine prices have been received for early California‘cherries, so reports the Newcastle News, which says: The California deciduous frult season opened April 30 with the shipment of a single box of Cherries, closely followed by other single box shipme; There has been a good deal of discussion over the question of who made the initial shipment, but It seems to be conceded that the honor is due to the Frank H. Buck Company_of Vacaville, Solano County, and that the first box of cherries to leave the State was grown in the Robinson Brothers' orchard of that place. This box was closely followed by one from the orchard of J. H. Smith, Vacaville, shipped through the Barl Fruit Co., and another from the orchard of D. D. Gammon, Sacramento County, shipped through the Ploneer Fruit Company, Sacramento city. These three boxes brought fancy prices, as the first California cherries always do. The Sacramento box was the first to be sold_and brought, at private sule. in the city of Chicago, §: This sale took place Thursday, May 5, and on the following day the other two boxes were sold—one in New York, the other in Phila- delphia. The box shipped by the Buck Com- pany sold in New York for $21, or a trifle over, hipped by the Earl Fruit Company Just broke previous records by bringing, at public auction in the city of Philadelphia, the heretofore unheard of price of $70. These shipments were closely followed by shipments | from Placer County and other early distriots, and fancy prices have been the rule, notwith- standing the fact that these early cherroes dflnnmmwtymmmnn. oties. Matinee: Next week—Mammoth Revival of —THE OCTOROON"- (New)HOTEL BUTLER SEATTLE. REMODELED AND REBUILT at 2 §200.000—New Management— ENTIRELY IR R ", LOCATION—Very acceseible to street car uagh S S Toaomiovs patms—| S KT T PLIEES | THE GREAT ALFONS, et ‘.}“m%"%"'k GF Waldort Astoria e g Europe's Forzmm"n:n’mmg, & and Evening in the Theater. TAKE A RIDE ON THE MINIATURE ELECTRIC RAILROAD. Esmeralda and Her :;BY MONKEY in the INSPECT CABARE;P DE LA MORT. AMATEUR NIGHT THURSDAY. Admission, 10c; Children, Sc. 320 MARKFT 3T. SF Weekly Cal- $1.00 per Year. Total Liabilities INCOME. Cash received for premiums on new polictes during the ““for remewal of premiums during the vear.. Cash received for interest . Cash received for ren Cash from -.$172,585,361 30 allother . BXPENDITURES. Cash paid for losses and ma- tured endowments ... $3,133.547 20 Cash paid to annuitants ....... 45,385 30 Cash _paid for surrendered POMOEE s -ooa-taasoannasnas 2,460,634 63 Cash paid for dividends to polic holders . L. 4458,172 04 Commissions paid to agents ... 2,927,743 60 Salaries and other compensation of officers and employes, ex- cept agents and medical ex- 481,882 42 penses of managers of agencies 11,191 51 Medical examiners’ fees a arles . 17082 5 Cash 670,507 19 Cash paid for rents .. 41,585 00 Cash paid for commuting com- missions 430 74 other cash payments (speci- fying) Repairs on Real Al vertising, $378,440 33; Premium notes voided by lapse, $9,979 31 all other paymaents, 715 26 Total Expenditures during the year PREMIUM-NOTE ACCOUNT. Premium notes and other prem- ium obligations at beginning of the year ... $292,223 23 Premium notes and other prem- fum obligations received dur- ing the year . 144,691 30 Total ... $436,915 05 Deductions during the year, as follo: Amount of notes and other prem- jum olsigations used in pay- ment of losses and claims. . Amount of notes and other prem- jum obligations used in pur- chase of surrendered ‘policies Amount of notes and other prem- jum obligations used in ment of dividends to policy * holders ... <& hatads Amount of notes and other pre- mium oblieations voided by lapse of policles............ Amount of notes and other prem- fum obligations redeemed by maker in cash Total reduction of Prem fum.Note Account $15,246 T4 8,838 58 35,208 52 9,979 31 88,313 10 WILLARD MERRILL, President. J. W. SKINNER, Secretary. Subscribed and sworn to before me, this 20th day of January, 1904. P. R. SANBORN, Notary Public. CLARENCE M. SMITH, ieneral Agent for California, 114 Phelan Building, BAJA. CALIFQRNIA Damiana Bitters ll A GREAT RESTORATIVE, INVIGORA- tor and Nervine. and Special i atby2 Catalogue and Price Lists Mailed on Application. JAS. BOYES & C0. &00""5. 2 Maim ime Tel. Main 1294, ILS: LE LUBRICATING OILS: LEONARD & Clay. ELLIS, 418 st 1719, K C. B0 .,-"-”-'R S e w4