The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 28, 1904, Page 3

JENNINGS DESCRIBES CALIFORNIA'S RICHNESS Tells Trans-Mississippi Congress of Great River Lands ~ [0 Be Reclaimed in the Golden State. ET LO\'IS Oct of to-day’s session of €ippi Comme 1 Congress was de- scussion of the the papers read during yesterday's session. President Kerens, in a brief address, admonished the delegates that the congress was not accomy all the work in- listening to papers, delegates should discuss subjects placed before the | congress and bring out all the potem points. Necessarily the general view was of papers voted to a gener topics pry esente re- yet to be heard, but was earnest and animated, embracing irri- | zation methods, cultivation of sugar beets, the commercial aspect of the country, labor and capital conditions, government, protection against floods and kindred topics. One of the most interesting addresses of the day was that delivered by Rufus P. Jennings of San Francisco, execu- tive officer of the California Promotion Committee. Jennings spoke on rivers and irrigation. He first reviewed the history of river reclamation as seen &long the Nile and in Italy. Taking up the problems which face the West he epoke as follows There has been much accomplished Test in the 1 improvement trect the attenda: and irrigation. r work are under way n has been accomplished River in Utah. This work early as and has Utah production as any in ake River develop- as 1850, untain region possibilities of Ta v great ment for ldaho. The area drained directly by this river covers thirteen thousand square ovisions of the red miles of preliminary nd reservoirs have been being energetically a er per second from the lands in the Truckee vast drainage b: in the Salt structe supply ,000 acres of land. = work mow well under way provement are being States Government > been made nison Riv posed to dive means of a tus mpaghre Valley COAST STATES. THE I~ s of frult com in the Willamette | benehten Daviga- ave boen de by lumbia and the the the Columbia | nouth of the two_hundred | wuilding a canal a.d ‘ascade rapids of smaitered that to tweive f #58,360 not strange that = os regards water supply peculiar fact about Califor- climatic eonditions from the to the southern parts of the State are very similar, with the exoeption that | in the morthern vart there is at times and in | certain localities more water than the people | less than is desired ronting the people of where there is an oversupply he obtalning of water in suf- ficient quantities in other sections of the State. Jrrigation s taking care of the latter prob- jem. The wonderful results accomplished in the southern part of Caiffornia by irrigation 1 was once a_desert 13 en The work of frri- n, made possible by thé Colorade River, has within four years put sevepty-five thou- eand acres of rren desert under cuitiv tion. River improvements together with frri- gation, will provide for the control and con- servation of surplus water. REGULATING THE RIVERS. A plan is now being perfected to improve and control the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers. whose flood waters have caused great devasiation. This improvement will make available approximately ome million acres of a# rich soll as there is in the world and at the came th cilitate navigation on two im- Portant ways that lead directly into the great seaport of San Francisco. A large por- tion of the country directly tributary to the San Joaquin River has already been reclaimed and the river is under contrel, the principal Ganger st present being that arising from floods from the Sacramento, which waters not ADVERTISEMENTS. Bohm-Bristol Special $502° WATCH FOR WOMEN A Watch which bears our guarntee. Solid 14- karat gold case Bohm-Bristol Co. Jewelers and Silversmiths 104-110 Geary Street wW. T. HESS, imited, owing to the number | reclama- | trol in Wash- | with and in the southern | I and conservation of | THE SAN FRANC! e . | | 1 meap or | N SPE WeALTH 10 oM THE CALIFORNIA PROMOTION H B PO UTHE STATE BY RECLAIMED RIVER LANDS. COMMITIEE, WHO YESTERDAY MISSISSIPPI CONC TOLD OF | only overflow the banks of the Sacramento, | but’ flow to the co e | mento and San Joaquin erc wd the waters the latter stream back. The plans now on foot, however, provide for averting this dan- ger. | t part { along the lower San Joaquin River the Hollan@ of America for the reason tha vast area of land, which Wae formerly covered with tide water, and on whose decper chan nels ocean vessels plied i | of California, has be of dykes and canals following to those employed in Hollan termed methods similar sur canale. fertile the world. ved from pursuits in xms‘ icultural in m o ost incredible. ASSOCIATION FORMED. The river improvement in California now inaugurated is the outcome of & convention | held in San Francisco in May last that was | | prompted by the heavy floods In the San Joa- quin mento valleys during the mont and April preceding—floods that age estimated at several mil- lion his _convention was attended | by mor ar hundred delegates and ad- | dresses were made by many prominent men | upon the subject of reclamation, river improve- ment and drainage. As a result of this con- vention there was formed the River Improve- ment and Drairage Association of California. | A commission of engineers was appointed, made up of gome of the most prominent men in o | a iing with Siver probleme. | This Gonmmtesion has been at work in California for some time, and is now about completing its labors. anticipated that the report of this commission will point out a way to improve and control the rivers of California. from floods will be averted, available for navigation and a vast land reclaimed It is gratifying to know that the people of California, and especially those more directly interested in the improvement of these rivers, area of of the San Joaquin Valley lying | the e professidn, who had had wide experience in | It 1s | so0 that the danger ! the rivers made | N | are fully alive to the situation and are ready 3 ncentrated energles to fol- | 1 | a rehensive pian that will be commission of engineers, laying and local prejudices, as it is fed that in no other way can f rivers and the reclamation arried out ble effort for river im- t be borne In mind that the consequent increased prosperity of this great Western country will benefit not only the peo- but also the genera- even as the people of Holland y of the Po are now sharing of work inaugurated centuries first sion was made by C. | Angeles, Cal., ! the National Irri | “The Responsibi | to the Nation.” address of today's ses- B. Boothe of Los chairman of the Board of ion Association, on of the New West Boothe said In part: | The people of the whole country are only | | just beginning lize the truth that in many of the Western States and Territories | re is a vast amount of arid national domain which, though dry and unproductive, has a sofl of fabulous richness an* if irrigated would become a sourge of untold wealth. In many places it was known to be impossible to re- | claim these lands by bringing water upon them, and the desert land act was passed by | Congress with the avowed object of making | them productive and adapting them to the | | homes of settlers who would go upon them. The fact is now realized by the most intelli- | gent leaders of the nation that this law has proved to be a failure in its ope cught to be repealed without delay. The greatness of the West, of its privileges, made, strong, sturdy, intelligent, hope- | ful and enterprising men. You can find in the reclaimed arld lands communitfes that will _bear favorable comparison witH any of | the Union. 1 ask the leaders and the: peogle | of the West if such an empire, With such po- | tentialities, i= mnot worthy of their high- est endeavor and most patriotic devotion? { and 1 - TRY TO STOP PAYMENT FOR NEW VOTING MACHINES Suit Begun to Enjoin Acceptance of Forty Devices Contracted For by the City. A suit to enjoin the city from ac- cepting the forty Standard voting machines contracted for in July was commenced yesterday afternoon and bears the earmarks of having been in- stigated in the interests of an opposi- tion machine. The plaintiff is E. T. Harvey, member of a firm of manu- facturers’ agents. The attorneys are Reid & Nusbaumer. Harvey puts himself forward as a taxpayer bent upon saving the city from paying $650 each for the forty machines. The de- “fendants are the Election Commis- sioners, the Board of Supervisors, Mayor Schmitz, Registrar of Voters George P. Adams and the United States Standard Voting Machine Com- pany of New York. The attorneys first called upon Judge Lawlor with a request for a temporary restraining order. They were referred to Judge Sloss, who de- nied the application on the ground that a restraining order should not is- sue upon a complaint based upon “in- formation and belief.” The Judge also said that the taxpayer could not be interested in preventing the ac- ceptance of the machines so long as they were not paid for. The complaint not only asked that the acceptance be enjoined, but that the officials be prohibited from paying anything to the manufacturers. It was alleged that the Standard machines do not comply with the contract nor with the State voting machine law in four specified Judge l—ed an ‘order to show cause why the injunction should not be granted. It is returnable on Mon- orning. day m ——————— LONDON, mn—n-mmu ‘fltmd — WILL HOLD IRISH BALL AT MECHANICS’ PAVILION | Many Hundreds of Erin’s Sons and Daughters Will‘Attend the Dance To-Morrow Night. The preparations n.ade by the Gae- lic Dancing Club for the great Irish ball to take place to-morrow night at the Mechanics' Pavilion are complete, and the affair promises to be one of the dancing events of the year. Hundreds of tickets have been dis- posed of and the committees have been working night and day to make the ball a success. Rehearsals of special dances have been held during the last fortnight and the members of Com- pany A, Irish Volunteers, have agreed to act as ushers. Many of the dancers will be attired in Gaelic costume, while an interest- ing feature of the evening will be the attendance of many children. Prizes | for the ladies who sell the greatest number of tickets will be awarded. The following committees have had _charge of the affair: Arrangements—Joseph P. Kelleher (chatr- man), f’ 3. Hu?lnl:.(-mlmm)m Lon- ergan (secre 3 u,“_ym McGlinchey (chllrm:n) B. J. Crowe, Timothy Lucey. J. Hltnnu P. umernn Miss Katie Tobin, Miss Moily Miss M. Cloherty: music—J. J. o'cun- nsl! (:humm M. Deasy, M. Mck floor—Joseph P.’ Kelleher (floor rick J. Crowe mm i (second Eww e e | its stock. W. S. Leake, who was onel { ment, had been relied on as the most | him by a third persom. { wanted a half interest in the show- { house to take hold of the matter. ters connected with the theater. The | manager consented and Duke was again placed on the stand. He said | ISCO CALL, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1904. Witnesses Say Manager Tiffany Told Them He Was Held Up for | Stock, but He Makes a Demal s Continued From Page 1, Column 7. at the meeting of the jury next Thurs- day, and he hopes then to have a ma- jority of the members with him. It looks,” however, as if it will devolve upon the Merchants’ Association to; prosecute the Commissioners if they are to be prosecuted. The association has announced that it would do so if the efforts of the jurors were not success- ful. W. S. LEAKE TESTIFIES. It was in no harmonious mood that | the investigation was resumed of the | charges that Abe Ruef “shock down | the corporation owning the Baldwin | vaudeville showhouse for 798 shares of of the promoters of the place of amuse- important witness, but it developed that he had had no dealings with the intimate friend of the Mayor. Leake could tell nothing of the alleged use of influence by Ruef with the Board of } Public Works that had not been told The witness explined that he went to Los Angeles to negotiate with Baldwin for the leasé of the theater, it having been agreed that he should have a third interest in the business for per- forming this service. His partners were W. Z. Tiffany and Charles Leonhardt Jr. The place was being fitted up when | work was stopped by order of the Board of Public Works. Tiffany, who was manager, complained that he could make no headway toward getting fav- | orable consideration from the Works | Department, the building of the audi- | torilum and stage being stepped three times, and finally the witness advised him to see Ruef about it. The ques- tion of obtaining a permit for the.place also presented difficulties. Tiffany went to see the lawyer lnd| returned with the statement that Ruef Tif- fany saw the attorney a second time to ascertain if he would not accept a cash | consideration. But the manager came back’ to Leake with the explanation that Ruef said he preferred to have the stock and, furthermore, demanded that Leake be forced out of the company. | TIFFANY MADE THE DEAL. The gesult was that Tiffany gave | Ruef 45 per cent of the stock. The | manager had said he was compelled | to yield this up, when he explained | that he could let Leake and Leonhardt | have only small interests. Realizing | that the enterprise would be defeated | | because of Ruef's personal hostility to | the witness, Leake sold his shares and | severed his connection with the com- | pany. In the light of recent dgvelop- ments, he told™the jury, he was giad | to be out of the corporation. One of the jurors asked Leake if he had any charges to make a st Ruef | and the witness answered that he had none. He furthermore denied having | instigated the investigation by the | Grand Jury. - Manager Tiffany was called, but he | ,only reiterated his former statements, i | to the effect that he sought out Ruef ! to sell the stock to him, for the reason | that he thought the attcrney would make a good business partner. . Leon- hardt was also recalled. He admitted that when he did not ‘receive the 666 shares that he expected and got only 146, he made complaint to Tiffany. The manager’s explanation was that that was the best he could do for the wit- ness. Robert D. Duke, who was formerly Tiffany’s attorrney, was subpenaed, but he refused to divulge professional con- fidences. Tiffany was called before the jury and asked to allow the lawyer to give testimony concerning all mat- that Tiffany told him that Ruef had “stood him up” for 50 ver cent of the stock in the theater, and that 45 per cent was a combromise. The witness advised him strongly not to submit to the exaction, but Tiffany's reply was: “Oh, T am satisfled I will have to do something for them, and I may as well do it now.” The manager had further explained that the Board of Public Works was interrupting the | building building, and that he had small hope of obtaining a permit without the as- sistance of Ruef. WANTED LEVY’'S INFLUENCE. This closed the testimony in the Ruef matter and the jury next turned ; its attention to Morris Levy's connec- tion with the saloon adjoining the theater and owned by Tiffany and the estate of his father-in-law, Sroufe. Leake testified that Tiffany had told him he was going to give Levy an interest in the saloon in order to gain the favorable consideration of the Public Works Board, of which Levy is"secretary. Duke corroborated this and added that he had advised Tiffany “‘not to give away his saloon.” Levy admitted to the jurors that Tiffany had offered him a half interest that “was to be paid for out of the re- ceipts of the business.” Asked to ex- plain what could have induced Tif- fany to make so liberal a business proposition the secretary answered that he believed his personal popular- ity was the principal consideration. It | was expected to draw a big trade to the saloon. But the deal fell through, for when the papers were about to be signed John Sroufe died. So at the present { time Levy holds no interest whatever | in the saloon. This was as far as the Grand Jury got with Levy. It was said by one of the jurcers last night that there would be no further investization of either the Ruef or the Levy matter, his reason being that there was no evidence on which to make out a case. Herbert Schmitz, president of the Board of Public Works, was not called vesterday, owing to lack of time. PHELAN BEFORE JURY. The hour of 4 o'clock had been passed and in the anterco.. were ex-Mayor Phelan, Assessor Washington Dodge, Robert McElroy and Charles W. Fay, who some years ago was Phelan's secretary, waiting to be examined in an investigation of charges preferred by Grand Juror James C. Nealon that the former Mayor was enjoying un- warranted advantage in the assess- ment of his properties. Nealon had taken none of his fellow jurors into his confidence and they were some- | what opposed to his proceeding. Nor was the attitude of his colleagues i changed much at the time of adjourn- ment. in fact. the jurors refused to | hear Charles W. Fay, who Nealon in- sisted should be called to testify. Phelan told the jurors that he had never made an application for reduc- tion of his assessment. valuations of the Phelan buildings on the gore of Market and O'Farrell streets for several years back, but Nealon plied him with questions con- cerning other holdings which the former Mayor could not re- ! call figures. Assessor Dodge came before the jury armed with a chart showing the rise and fall of assessment of the Phelan since 1881. He said that twenty-three years ago the building was erected at a cost of $420,000. The present valuation for taxes is $220,000. | When Nealon was Assessor, from 1887 to 1891, he arbitrarfly raised the as- sessment from $265,000 to $350,000. His successor reduced the figure to $300,000, at which Dodge allowed it to stand for several years. He did not disturb the valuation until this year, when he re- duced it to $220,000, which is 52 per cent of the original cost.. The present | basis is to make the valuation for tax purposes on new buildings 50 per cent of the cost of construction. Dodge ex- plained that his policy is to reduce the assessment.on buildings and in- crease it on land, the object being to encourage improvements. The discussion waxed warm between Dodge and Nealon, but the former had much the better of the argument. Where Nealon complained that Phelan had enjoyed a reduction of 40 per cent, Dodge showed that the grand juror's properties had been given like reduc- tions. —_—— SUE FOR REN lice Phelan Sullivan and Mary L. Phelan yesterday sued Armand Coilleau~and Gustave Berson for $2000, they having gone surety for that amount for pay- ment of the rent of Jean Cazeaux of two floors at S50 Market street. The tenant is behind $2400. John | He gave the ! concerning | WN' SUFFERS LOSS BY FIRE Office Building, Hotel and Li- i brary of Highland Burnedl RICH STRIKE MADE IN KERN Fabnlo\us Wealth in Gold e Ore Reported to Have Been i and FKire Flghtors Hurt\ Discovered at Zada Mine iFORM BU LI\hT BRIGADL SE(RECY IS ATTEMPTED — Blaze Threatens Destructmanmd It Is Said, Is on a of Entire Bloek, but Win ll Par With Those Recently | Prevents Spread of Flames Made in Tonopah Distriet —_— —_—— Special Dispatch to The Call. Special Dispatch to The Call, SAN BERNARDINO, Oct. 27.—An eX- | BAKERSFIELD, Oct. 27.—Informa- ploding lamp at Highland last night set | 4o coming through the most trust- | fire to the Gleason Hotel and before | worthy sources, has reached here of the the flames were got under control the | gigclosure of a marvelously rich strike entire building, #s well as the public in the Amalia mining district, about library and the office building of the thirteen miles edst of Coliette, in this Highland Domestic Water Company, | county. It is declared that when the | were totally destroyed. The total 10SS | fy]} extent and import of the strike is “:mifimg?‘zoa’l“w-m- with insurance | made known it will equal or outrival There Is no fire department in High. | '? Fichness anything yet made at Tono- land. The fire was fought by a bucket | PR or Goldfleld. The strike was brigade. Their efforts, aided by a shift | ade at the Zada mine. The owners of the wind, saved the entire business | 3¢cline to give out any statistics and section of the town from destruction, | NaVe endeavored to keep the maftter a. Live wires in the library severely | €cTet, but it leaked out and is now shocked a number of the fire fighters | the talk of the district. The Zada is and they had to be carried out. None, | °%€ 0f the best known mines in the Bowever, Wwere fatally injuged. . The | “UENL 0 1) oo wiil go hundreds of :3‘?:; and piano of the HBrary were |y iarg'to the ton and & great deat of it | **The library and the water company’s | 28537s one thousand dollars to-the ton. building will be rebuilt at once, but it | Loe veins Will average several feet in | has not yet been deterntined whether | ™idth- the hotel will be rebuilt. ———— WATERS OF THE BAY GIVE UP BODIES OF TWO MEN 0 i —— FORMER ASSESSOR OF NOME GIVEN HEAVY PUNISHMENT ntenced to Five Years’ Imprisonment and a Fine of $5000. TACOMA, Oct. 27,—Mort Stevens, SAN RAFAEL, Oct. 27.—The bodies ";:" heje ‘“(‘i"“'" ,‘;" ‘_‘;‘{B‘ar":‘f“;o’;“ ;:: 5 " | Puget Sound as Ea , has of two unknown mien were found to- [ ol ienced at Nome to serve five day flodting off Angel Island, near/yea,. in the Federal prison on Me- Fort McDowell. The bodies were |Neil's Island, near Tacoma, and fined |found at different times of the day | $6000. The sentence and fine amount 2nd both by Italian fishermen. Ad-' to ten years’' imprisonment. Jutant McAllister of Fort McDowell | Stevens or Barrington was convict- notified Coroner Sawyer, who brought | ed of embezzling §2600 while City As- | the bodies to San Rafael. | sessofr at Nome. e is alleged to have | The first body found is that of a |fleeced Puget Sound men out of sums | man about 60 years of age. He was |ranging from $50 to $300 before go- | evidently a seafaring man. His pock- | ing north. It is claimed also that he Iets contained an empty purse, a knife, | has a police record in California. | pipe, match safe, 15 cents in silver and | a e :lipping from the Califormia Demo- e g = krat of Monday telling of the suicide | CONVICTED OF MURDER | of a man named Hoffman at the Ains- | IN THE SECOND DEGREE | s lee Hotel, San Francisco. The body | had been in the water two or three Jory Finds Boulder Creek Farmer days. The second body had been in| Took Life of His Hired the water about 2 month and nothing | Man Last July. | was found upon it to identify it. A| SANTA CRUZ, Oect. —Thomas J. |shirt on the body bears the initials | yaws. a farmer, who was tried for the et A murder of Elizen Wright at Boulder District Attorney Boyd received | Greek om July 30 last, was found guil- word to-day that a boat had been |ty to-day of murder in the second de- found: Srifting . oN Sauslite. gree. November 4 was set as the day A e for sentence. Wright was an employe WATERS OF BLACK SLOUGH of Laws. GULF RIVER TRAVELER | R T AR B === Church Plans Celebration, Unknown Woman Leaps to Her Death | NAPA, Oct. 27.—The Methodist From Deck of a Stock- ! church of Napa will celebrate its fif- ton Steamer. 'Xmlh l;nr&nlvemry Sunda%. oiteo::rvgg. STOCKTON, Oct. 37.—A woman, | AN all-day programte Aas o whose identity has not been disclosed, | Doy Maree ot he T Do former pastcrs of the church, among chose a sénsational method of suicide | whom are: Eli McClish, president of gel Island and Are Taken Charge Remains Are Found Floating Off An- i Of by Marin’s Coroner. | Monday night on the steamer T. C.|the University of the Pacific; Rev. Walker on the way to San Francisco. | John Coyle. presiding elder; Rev. B. | Shortly after passing Black Slough, | K. Willis, head of the Deaconesses’ the woman, who was under the infl Home of San Francisco; Rev. J. H. ence of liquor, went out on the deck | N. Willlams of San Francisco; Rev. W. S. Urmy: Rev. Mr. Gober and Rev. William Clifford. The anniversary ser- mon will be delivered by Dr. McClish. —_————— Veteran Actor Passes Away. BOSTON, Oct. 27.—William Me- Avoy, an old time actor, who played under Edwin Booth for several years, died at_his home in Roxbury to- m aged 67 years. A New Art Gallery. We have converted our picture room into a beautiful art gallery for the exhi- bition and sale of moderate priced paint- ings, water colors, pastels, etchings ana fine’ photographs. Inspection ecordially | invited. Sanborn, Vail & Co. at the stern and after removifig her | shoes jumped directly into the rapidly revolving wheel. The strange woman is said to have been fairly well dressed, but nothing has been learned regarding her iden- tity. The remains have not been re- covered. —— Carries Orders to Fleet. SAN DIEGO, Oct. 27.—With special and urgent orders the torpedo-boat de- stroyer Paul Jones left the harbor be- foere daylight this morning bound for | Magdalena Bay. 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