The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 27, 1905, Page 5

. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1905. JREPUBLICAN FORCES i’gm]fln[;{ WILL ARE VIGILANT Check Fraud at Polls r Will Prospects of Success Growing Brighte ¢ the presentytheir employes who agh voters will be roposition of | notified that they will be excused until 10 a. m. One firm has ordered its em- men | PIOYes not to report until they have 2ll voted. Several large houses will intention Of | ot gpen ‘their places of business until es of the Republi- 1§ 5 m, and some have agreed to re- November. | main closed all day. at it is their | The following firms notified the Mer- Ruef-Schmitz nts Assoclation yesterday that they the Republican would remaf ey will walk up ; Primary elec oppose reve & ticket onvention da Co. lue Works, In- Afe; C. Ford & C | Loan Associa Y. E D an V. E. Dea Banoroft-Whitney Blrthegu, James Graham Manufactur- Van Bergen & Co., Par- Alexander H. Keyes B. Glldden, Walter & Gadner, Gas Consumers’ tion, e Insecticide Company, Levenson Co goo¥, Unien Wood and Tymber Company. G. v eynolds Company, Charles C. Moors & rthern Commercial Company, Yawman > s shaw, Bulkley & Co.; K. A. Lundstrom, Mey s Company, Waterhouse & Lester. ohzngon Company, Rheinstrom Brother | gon Lumber Company, California H. o | Engineering and Supply Company; Eddy Falk end American Trading Company; Biebe Shoe Company, California Rug Company, Interna- tepel Hanking Corporation, J. P. Fraser, . oondi- | E° States Glass Company; Ahrens, Pein ar oond! winkle; H. M. Lavy, Mendeiton Brothers, | ¢ n, Forty- osien Company. Pionéer Automobile Com- ’ stricts. ny vniey Mill and Lumber Company, s District | Gordinell-Vincent Company; Kullman, Sals & ticket | & A Fleishhacker & Co, W. T. Beck & i Charles M. Plum &-Co. Uphojs "ot - C ard, Buckingham & LB SR tact | FINDS FRAUDULENT VOTER. £ and Keane s the McGowan | Election Board Learns T. W. Harring- . ne ticket has been | ton Gave Registrar False Address. < fight is straight | The Board of Election Commission- - he :-Ff;:n ag';ti!t ers last night found evidence of what they take to be a false registration by Thomas Willlam Harrington, who gave his address in his sworn afidavit as the Hotel Higgins, 233 O'Farrell street. The Commissioners learned from the proprietor and the servants of the hotel the following ticket yes- if he cannot properly show a reason for the epparent giving of a false ad- dress it is likely that he will be turned over to the officers of the law for prose- cution. get e sufliclent force of election of- ficers to serve on the day of the pri- mary election. There are at present nearly 100 vacancies which must be filled. Many citizens have not answer- ed their summons and if they do not ‘Begehorn, 157 generously contributed by friends and labor rchant; Rober obey the next one sent them they may organizations, 1 desire to state, In this con- > : B be prosecuted. Last night A. Kreig; | nection, that the city and county of San Thomas Chandler, M. W. Hogan and M. J. Fontana were excused for cause from street, and John C. Kirkpatrick, both named as candldates to be voted on at the primary, asked that their names be stricken from the ballot. The request was allowed. William Lyon, 6531 Bryant street, was cited to appear and show why his name should not be stricken from the register and on his failure to come be- fore the board the action was taken. s in the Forty-second d bear mind that the of the San Frapcisco Republican f from top to bot- is the only regular county com- Thursday, July 27, and on Tuesday, Au- | sust 2, for the purpose of hearing mat- ters concerning naturalization. F. E. Preble, E. R. Faucompre and W. The Commissioners have not yet r ceived a reply from the Standard Vot- ing Machine Company in answer to their telegram that they would accept | dent, was in the ms acted as sec- been slosed until 10 a. m. on | it n Cl 1l & | omane Regtsimr ~coony. jpurnell & lsonal check. McDougald has already 00, Gallowsy Lithographing Company, | raised §10,575 among his friends and by o “ Manufacturing Company, Shields | sible for any 1 the “error 3. Lagtoye wont to Compeny, Dempater & Son. Belfast | of judermenty ot e LonED the erro! e Board of Publio WOrks | Ginger Ale Company. A, H. Greannérs, Hen Of judgment’ of the persons _insured. that Harrington never has lived at | 3 | Treasurer Brooks to release his claim on | that address and that xhe< room desig- | ceveral thousands of dollars similarly nated is occupled by E. F. Gray. The |pa1q out by Brooks. | foan will be cited before the board and | 7ne Treasurer fssued the following | | * 4 The board is having a hard time to | Henry Miller, the cattle king; M. Gavin, | serving. Patrick J. Sheehy, 554 Folsom | Judge Lawlor will sit In his court on | { W. Baueman were appointed deputies | ¢ | In the Registrar's office for thirty days, | o of the Thirty- | PegInning August 1, at a salary of $100 held a meeting | Per month Ma , | NO WORD FROM DEVICE COMPANY. ~ BE NADE GOOD | Treasurer McDougald Issues | Statement in Response to Demand From the Mayor L] LARGE PART PAID IN ‘Bays He Hopes to, Settle by Tuesday and Explains the Inheritance Tax Matter | eSS City Treasurer John E. McDougald sald yesterday that he hopes to turn over to the city treasury by next Tuesday the | money paid by Deputy Devoto to ex- Tax Collector Smith on the latter's per- { contributions from labor organizations. Tris leaves $5015 0S yet to be raised to make good the shortage. The Treasurer has been expecting that the surety company which was on De- voto’'s bond for $7500 wouid consent to | make some of the money good, notwith- standing its claim that it {s not respon- | ! McDougald says that the company would only have about $50 to pay and he will endeavor to induce it to come to his as- sistance, now that the Mayor has notified | | {mm to put the money back in the city | treasury. McDougald says the $9935 70 paid out as attorneys’ fees for the collection ol col- lateral inheritance taxes is a legal charge | under an amendment to an act which em- | powers the Treasurer to employ special | attorneys to secure the payment of taxes | jon collgteral inheritances. McDougald | says that the entire amount did not go to | | Arthur Fisk for fees, some of it having | been patd to John Partridge and one | | Gooding, AWAITING DECISIO! I As to the $5273 15 which the = Mayor | | wants returned to the city treasury as| | being commissions held out by McDoug- | | {ald pending a court decision as to| | whether he is entitled to commissions for | | the collection of inheritance taxes, Mc-| | | Dougald says the money is now in the treasury. The Mayor holds that Mc- | Dougald has no right to the money in | | view of the court decision compeiing ex- statement yesterday: i | I recelved the letter from Mayor Schmits this FIRE CAPTA ‘PROVE A HERD George F. Brown of Engine Number Two Saves Three ———— SWIMS THRICE TO SHORE . ed-After Carrying Helpless Women to Landing Place —_— Friends of Captain George F. Brown of | Engine Company No. 3, who is summer- ing at Camp Meeker, have been sending him congratulatory messages upon the bravery he displayed recentiy in attempt- ing the rescue of Miss Nellie Rohlfs from drowning and.saving three other victims from death. Miss Rohlfs, who is a San Francisco girl, was one of a merry party that em- barked on Lake Sylvania at Camp Meeker and met death in the waters of At the time of the accident Captain Brown, who was staying at his Wash- ington lodge, heard their cries for help {and ran at top speed to the ' rescue. | Hardly stopping to divest himself of superfluous clothing he plunged into the lake and struck out for the excursionists, who were floundering tn the water. The captain is a strong swimmer, ana twice he made the trip from the scene of the ter to the shore, each time bearing one of the unfortunates. For a | third time he essayed the trip, and again | he brought a helpless woman to the land. At the end of his third trip, however, he | had to be lifted from the water, being | exhausted. | Other swimmers and boats were on the | scene, but too late to save Miss Rohifs, | who sauk for @ third time, and repeated | @iving fafled to find her. After being | taken from the water the cadtain was \very weak. but with a few hours’ rest | was able to be up and around to receive | the praises of his admirers at the sum- | mer reso B — HALLOCK LEAVES PACIFIC COAST STEAMSHIP COMPANY Be Succeeded as Agent by Present Chief Clerk Harry Jacobsom. The local | constderably surprised yvesterday when | the announcement was made that G. W. ! Hallock, for the last five years city pas- senger agent of the Pacific Coast | morning and will reply to it forthwith. Con- cerning the charges therein made I wiil state | | that of the shortage caused by the unfortunate | and innocent cashing by former Deputy Treas- | CAPTAIN SON; GEORGE_F. BROWN OF ENGINE NO, 2, NS FROM DROWNING AT CAMP MEBKER. NELLIE ROHLFR WAS THE ONLY ONE OF THE IMPERILED PARTY WHOSE LIFE WAS LOST. | Steamship Company. had resigned. Hal- lock will retire from his position on | August 1 and will engage In a more ucrative and private business. It is WHO SAVED THREE PER- urer Devoto of the check for $15,5%0, presented Tax Collector E. J. Smith, 1 bave repald and never will, lose one of mine or of my Francisco has not, dollar through any deputies. t NEVER TOOK FEES. As regards the collateral inheritance tax | - into the city treasury ithe sum of $10,675. Of | this amount $10,000 was deposited by me In the treasury over a month ago. To meet the | ehortage I have turned over to the city every | dollar I possess and the balance has been | fees, 1 have never taken one dollar of the fees | —— | allowed County Treasurers under the general | [faw e attomers” tees Sistureea by me wre | Agents of the Firm Which |and I thoroughly satisfled myself as to the Iq tO Bllild ]"ao.una Dalll - 'S Are Here From- the East | legality of these payments before making them. —_— | In view of the Mayor's declarations, however, | T shall immediately ask the City Attorney for | a San Francisco merchants will be af- forded an opportunity to furnish the writien opinfon on the subject and will | ransmit it to the Mayor so that he too may material to be used in the construction of the Laguna dam near Yuma, Ariz, | act | be Eatisfied in this regard. | Incidentally the necessity for the employ- ment of attorneys to collect this tax is shown | by reference to recent proceedings in Judge Coffey’s court over the estate of J. M. Douglae, | where over $30,000 would have been lost to the | | State it I had not secured attorneys to act. | | This is but one of many similar instances. ver $780,000 of this tax has been collected and turned into the State school fund during | my incumbency. The balance of fees allowe | the Treasurer after the payment of attorneys | 18 on deposit in the vaults of the city treasury | and always has been there. This balance can- not be turned into the general fund until the case of Brooks vs. the City and County of | San Francisco is finally decided by the Su- | preme Court. That the city should be pro. tected I filed with the Board of Supervisors a pects to have under way very soon. Among the arrivals at the Palace yesterday were several representatives of J. G. White & Co. of New York, one of the largest contracting firms .in the world, to whom has been awarded the contract for constructing the immense dam ten miles north of Yumg. for which the Government has appropri- work upon which the Government ex- | stipulation waiving the statute of limitations. ated $800,000. |announced by General = Passenger Agent C. D. Dunann that Hal- lock's successor is to be Henry Ja- | cobson, who has been chief clerk at the uptown ticket office of the com- pany for ten years. Jacobson's appoint- | ment is a popular one on the street, | for he has a host of friends among the railroad men, who, while regretting to |lose the association of Hallock, are | pleased to hear of Jacobson's advance- { ment. | It is also given out that the company | has decided to create the position of WILL REWVE TRAFFIC ROW Salt Lake Officials Still | district passenger agent. but Dunann Insi | declined to make public his choice for s Y | the place, explaihing that negotiations nsist on Interchange| between himself and the desired party ! have not been satisfactorily completed. | He, however, stated that the man he | has In mind is at present engaged in | s =id 4 - General Manager R. E. Wells and Gen- | ::‘;é::ad e D Sl S eral Frelght and Passenger Agent E. W. | Gillett of the San Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake road are coming here from | Los Angeles at the end of the week for | the purpose of reopening the discussion Agreement With Harriman B Aot R Survevor General of Utah. OYSTER BAY, L. I, July 26.—Thomas Hull of Utah has been appointed by | President Roosevelt as Surveyor Gen- With Freight Traffic Manager Sproule of | €ral of Utah, an office under the Gen- the Southern Pacific Company regarding | eral Land Office. i From Death by Drowning, | | Pulled From Water Exhaust- | e lake by the overturning of the boat. | 2 n transportation world was | | HAS NOT SEEN HER SINCE 1863 Colorado Man Is on His Way to Join Woman He Married During the Civil War WEDS ON HIS FURLOUGH Leaves After Three Days and Until Now Has Lacked the Funds to Pay Fare Home Spectal Dispatch to The Call DURANGO, Colo., July 26.—Henry du Cann, who has not seen his wife In forty-two years, left this evening for Detrait, Mich., where she is living. Du Cann married in 1863 while home from the war on a furlough, having enlisted in the First Michigan Cavalry. After being with his bride three days he rejoined his regiment and at the close of the war’ started out to find work. his search for employment he drifted West until he reached Salt Laks City, where he remained several years He followed mining and various oc- cupations and has been all over the West. During all these years his wife waited for him to return and he com- tinually hoped and expected to efther ‘send for his wife or go back to her, but the fates seemed always against him and he never prospered. During their forty-two years of sep- aration they kept up a regular corre- spondence. Du Cann says she is one of the best women in the world to wait so long for him and that their separation was caused by a disagreement. He has been working on a sheep ranch near Durango for several months and & few daye ago received $1500 back pen- sion money. With this he hopes to establish him< self fn some business by which he can keep himself and wife the remainder of their days. Du Cann is 63 vears old and his wife is about the same age ——————— | GRANEY'S SUIT AGAINST City Ticket THE CITY IS SUBMITTED The Board of Supervisors made ap- | pearance, through Assistant City Attor- | ney Brobeck, before Judge Sloss yes- terday on an order to show cause why it has refused to audit the bills of E. M. Graney against the Fire Commis- sloners for shoeing the horses of the department. The demand involved in the sult amounts to $2171 73 and covers services from August to Decembar, 1904. As Graney has continued to shoe the horses of the department, however, his total claim is In the neighborhood of $8000. Secretary of the Board of Fire Com- missioners McCarthy testified as to the accuracy of the bills. Then the City At- torney raised the point that bids for shoeing were so advertised as to pre- clude every ome except Graney from accepting the contraet. This Attorney Choynski, representing Graney. denied. Then it was asserted that Graney had used machine-made shoes when hand- made shoes were called for In the speci- fications. John F. Kennedy, an employs of Graney, testified that a majority of the shoes were hand-made, and he was corroborated by William J. Tobin, act- ing superintendent of horses, who said the work was satisfactorily done. After argument the case was submitted for decision. — New Bank for Redondo. WASHINGTON, July 26.—The Comp- troller of the Currency has approved the First National Hank of Redondo, California, capitalized at $200,000. Di- rectors: Herman W. Hellman, W. H. Holliday, M. H. Hellman, L. C. Brand and L. F. Wells. 3 the interchange of traffic between the two | roads at their Southern California ter- | minals. _The question has provoked considerable ill-feeling between the officials of the two roads. Sproule, about two months ago, | declined to concede any privileges in this the offer made 1o lend the city of Ban | In conclusion I will state that I have violated Francisco 100 voting machines only on |50 Drovision of the charter or of the statutes Sxbontive In the party that arrived yesterday | direction to the Clark road, and the of- mabite B, P £ N Sat | of this State and have always conducted are H. J. Slifer, business manager of | ficials of the latter later car * : was indorsed by | condition chat the members of tha bosrd | S0k SIR 32 bere v el s S T e S b ter to a conference between Faihigtia® Short order of the |tively responsible for their return and T gineer; C. G. Young, manager of the|and E. H. Harriman in, New York, when | : pher il X By T FOURTH-STREET SEWER | firm's construction department, and | Harriman sustained his Southern Pacific | i have a vic-| Members of the Thirty-ninth District e e 4 George Seymour, who will superintend | freight authority and the traffic repre- | : d all get out and | Improvement Club appeared before the | CONTRACT AWARDED |the work on the dam. e oeLar the CINK road refiitnn use for each | Commissioners and asked that certain The representatives of the firm have|home in anything but the best of spirits. voting booths in that district be moved. As a result of their appeal.the booth in the Sixth and Eleventh precincts at Eighth and Point Lobos avenues was ghbor to do must get out The elec- nues; the booth at Sixth avenue and | | | | | Clement street was moved to Ninth ave- M at length on the |nue and Clement street; the booth at’ e cisco, and stated | 428 Twenty-fourth avenue was ordered - could exist until | moved to Twentleth avenue; the w ministration. | booth in the BSeventy-ninth Precinct ving, “that | was unchanged. There was reason to is rotten to|believe that the board had been duped at its last meeting when it ordered the San Francis an League | booth in the Seventy-ninth Precinct p ¢ rmation that R.|chbanged. It was learned last night that Surfeind precinct elec- | the two men who appeared and advo- L Dis- | cated the change, William F. Maris and ¥ as a | E. F. McMurray, were not living in that capacity | precinct, as they represented them- st prim | selves to be. were @hmmit The following printed Instructions is also in-| Were ordered sent to the inspectors: arters that To the Inspector: During the day of elec- Republican preecinet elec- | tion you will direct the clerks to examine the Seventy-third Primary ¥ tally gheet and see that all the candidates g oo, S e S names are printed correctly therein, and if Wo applications 10 serve | ;o have the clerks write the names that are The applications are in ‘ omitted, b 4 n of the Grand Jury. The attention of the Inspector is called to > 5 fo: { section 1144 of the Political Code. which read: em adopted by the Republican It the Board o watching the vote and lilfl’ of returns will expose perjury |t is practiced. The gang-|% ng of _ % 2 | the election, the electors of the precinct pres- | ount on throwing the entire Alms- (¢ o7 that hour may appoint ‘the boaus o te for the Maestretti ticket of i supply the place of an absent member thereof. By order of the Board of Election Commissio; GEO. P. ADAMS, Reglstrar of Voters, DRIVES OUT MONEY LENDERS. Commissioner Lefingwell introduced the following resolution, which was unanimously carried: th District. There is gossip | of politicians to_the effect r vote will determine the | gation to the Re-, pecial precaution | event the consnmma- in this district. | Democratic inmato; { { ers. brokers to fill the hailways attached to the Registrar's office on the night of elec— tion and to rent back rooms of saloons in the neighborhood of the Registrar's office for the ubiican ticket may be ination of Colonel John ! purpose of advancing money to the election Kirk k .0 the Peter Kslly |offoers. aud - -3 cia ekpatx s # 5 b hereas, erfered with the Ke 1 ty-eighth Assembly | o'y, "ofce and has had & demoralising eaace | ves the fticket in’ a SOITY {upon the election officers who reach thig offics it with official returns of the votes polled at the precincts: therefore be it Resolvi That the Chief of Police be e WILL ALLOW TIME FOR VOTING. quested to detall an officer at the Reglistra: office at 8 p. m. August & 1905, for the pur- pose of k:evl':m r:ult;h Mrm{n-hlrwn plying their business in the hallways of the City Hall; be it further Y el Resolved, That the Chief of Police be re- guested to investigate and forbld the use or back rooms of saloons in proximit: Registrar's office for such use, ik Merchants’ Association Plan to Be Adopted by Many Firms. Interest ng n in the move- the Merchants' ss houses to re- t 8, primary elec- to give employes bunches of replies At the office of the 2 the idea. In some is impracticable 10 a. m., and firms ial ngements for T times during the day oves time to vote. he commis; houses, dealing in and prod e obliged to open 1y in the morning, and a move- Certificate Must Be Issued. City Attorney Long yesterday ren- dered an opinion that ordinances Nos, 267, 787 and 3563 impose a duty on par- ties generating and supplying electri- cal power to refuse to turn on the cur- rent in such installations until a cer- tificate of proper Inspection has been issued by the Department of Elec- tricity. The violation of this duty fs a miSdemeanor which may be punished as the ordinances provide. The opinion oth their e s orelack 1 ines in this line | \yaq gesired in connectlon with supply- Some houses have only a few voters | I8 of current to electric sfgns, among their employes, of them hd . n’'t jump at the conclusion th. being women and girls or men who c.{,’": SHOTo Dy B p"&'“}’l‘;‘; l!ve across the bay. Such houses have thing just yet—read the ads, and notified the association that those of s e out. moved to Sixth and Point Lobes ave- | _ | contract were taken under advisement. | It has been the custom heretofors | Board of Works Takes Steps§ to Carry Out Many | Improvements. The Board of Works yesterday award- |ed the contract for a sewer in Fourth | | street from Howard to Channel to the | City Street Improvement Company for | 873,987 66. The United Raflroads sent a comm\ml-i { cation that it will be unable to join in | “!he proposition to use salt water of- fered to the city by the Merchants' Teo | Company, because it has not the neces- | sary equipment. Four bids were opened for the paving | | of Valencla street from Eighteenth to | Army streets, the City Street Improve- ment Company being the lowest; two | bids for improving H street from Forty- | fitth avenue to the Great Highway, the | | lowest bidder being Owen McHugh, and | | two. bids for oiling Fulton street from 1 | street to Twelfth avenue, ‘the lowest | The awards of | [ being from C. S. Harney. { The contract awarded to J. G. Har- | ney to restore bitumen pavements over | slde sewer trenches at 10 cents a square | foot was rescinded, there being a ques- | tion of its legality, and new bids were In- | vited for next Wednesday, Bids will be received on August 16 for the construction of the Washington Grammar School at an estimated cost | of $115,000. Bids will be received on August 2 for repairs to bituminous pavements, for which $24,000 is available, | The City Engineer was directed to pre- | pare plans for paving Van Ness avenue | from Gearv to Eddy and from McAl- | lister to Fulton streets with bitumen. The board received plans from the City | Engineer for the new Sixth street main | sewer and tributaries atea cost of $60,- 000 and the plans for a sewer in Persia avenue and Mission street, to cost $30,- | | 000. The board asked the Supervisors for | authority to contract for the work, and the Street Committee later took favor-: | able action on the request. | "The board also asked the Supervisors | for $2000 to pay the engineering expenses for a sewer running from McAllister and Jones across Market and along Seventh streets to Howard and for a sewer in California _street, between Twenty- | fourth and Twenty-ninth avenues, the es- timated cost of each sewer being $20,000. The board notified the United Railroads to put Berry street and Kentucky street from Fourth to Twenty-third in passable condition. z SESEC S L e A Serious Forest Fires in Idaho. SPOKANE, Wash.,, July 26.—Forest: fires are reported along the St. Joe River in Idaho, between the towns of St. Marys and St. Joe. Owing to the come to San Francisco to get bids for material. They also want men to per- form the labor. The dam is one of two that the Government proposes to build on the Colorado River'in the carrying { out of its gigantic reclamation project. That the contract awarded to White & Co. is an Important matter can be imagined when it is said that it calls for the excavation of 305,000 cubic yards of solid rock, 282,000 cubic yards of earth and will require the laying of 27,150 yards of cement, 80,000 square yards of paving and the placing in po- sition of 53,000 sheet piling. The dam proper will be about 200 feet in length. The contract calls for the completion of the work within two seasons, but the contracting firm has announced its in- tention to complete the work in one season. Upon this point Manager Slifer said yesterday: The reason we are desirous of completing the work in one season is to avoid the flood waters, which woull necessitate a complete reorganization of our working force at the beginning of the new season and naturally the expenditure of more money Our firm has established temporary quariers here while we are securing our material and laborers. It Tests with the merchants of San Francisco and Los Angeles as to which will sell us . for both cities will be permitted to bid. Among the main supplies we will have to purchase here will be drills, pumps and dredgers. Our firm intends to purchase all its supplies on the coast, it having been decided that we would be one of vou as long as we are with you. It is estimated that 500 men will be necded to perform the work on the hig dam, and these are now belng gathered to- gether here. White & Company have only re- cently completed the construction of the electric railway system in the city of Manila, which they are now operating, and they are also-extensively engaged in steel structural work in London and other parts of the world. _— ENGINEERS DISCUSS COLORADO. River Is Overflowing on to the Demert and Causiug Serious Concern. Plans for the control of the course of the Colorado River to prevent its leaving its present bed and wasting its waters in an almost unapproachable desert, or destroying portions of irri- gated land within its reach, are being discussed by the board of engineers that are part of the United States recla- mation service. The first meeting of the board was held yvesterday morning, and sion of the methods of procedure for the construction of the Laguna dam on the Colorado River above Yuma, Ariz. The contractors for the construction of the dam were before the board, and the entire day was spent in the dis- cussion of the construction, which in- volves the consideration and overcom- ing of various grave engineering problems. The plans have already been prepared for the work, and they have been carefully examined by the engi- neers prior to the discussion of them yesterday. The result of the inquiry extreme dryness of the timber, the fires are reported to be spreading rapidly and serious damage may result. A will be reported to the Government. The members of the board comprise J. B. Lippincott of this district, W. H. \ i the session was confined to a discus- ! Now it is proposed to take the matter up again. Local raflroad men, who have been studying the sltuation, believe that some understanding will be arrived at between the two roads, but they doubt | whether the concessions that will prob- | ably be made by Freight Traffic Manager | Sproule will come within a reasonable | distance of the hopes of the offictals of | the €lark road. Despite the denfals from the officials of | the Clark road that the Montana Sena- tor and Harriman are not getting along well in regard to their railroad interests in the West, it is common talk through- out the railroad world that they are at outs and that Harriman is carrying out | a plan, long ago devised. to eventually | freeze Senator Clark out of the San! Pedro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake road, in which they each now hold an equal interest. According to the gossip in this | city, Los Angeles and Salt Lake, Presi- ' dent Harriman is looking forward to an | early date when he will have secured the | Clark interest In the Salt Lake road, re-| duced its present dignified position in the | rallroad world as a Western competing line to that of an ordinary division of | the Oregon Short Line, and placed his | operating and traffic offlcials in absolute control of its destinies. It is generally understood that Harri- man, when he has realized this ambition, will make W. H. Bancroft its manager, or rather attach it 1o the Oregon Short Line, of which Bancroft Is vice president and general manager, and glve the direc- tion of its traific business to T. M. Schu- macher, trafic manager of the Oregon | Short Line, who has of late been taking | a great deal of interest in the affairs of | the new road. To his most intimate friends Senator Clark has admitted that he is well aware | of the plans of Marriman to get control of the Salt Lake road. Only recently he remarked that he would rather turn his interests in the road over to the Goulds than be tricked by his tailroad rival, and thus afford 'the strongest opponent of Harriman in the West an excellent means of reaching Los Angeles, while the West- ern Pacific is paralleling the Southern Pa- cific by way of Salt Lake. A bitter fight between Harriman and Clark was ex- pected after their meeting in New York, but Senator Clark's recent serious illness is supposed to have caused a cessation of hostilities. « . = Sanders, consulting engineer of the ‘Arizona district; L. H. Taylor, who is in charge in Nevada, and D. C. Henry. The deliberations will last three or four days, and a report of the inquiry and finding will be forwarded to Wash- ington. The consensus of opinion is that there are several grave problems along the river to be overcome, and a day will be devoted to the discussion of each. 3 much as $100. ments. and a half’s payments. One of the largest pictures ever painted has been completed by a French artist | after eight years' labor. The subject is the funeral of M. Carnot, and the canvas measures 150 sauare vards. Any piano can be purchased We will sell you a reliable, guaranteed make for $6 down and $6 a month. If you had bought one of these pianos on easy terms at its regular price over a year ago you would now only have as much paid on Kohler & Chase At this Clearance Sale every piano in the store is reduced in pricce—many instruménts as on easy terms. it as you save all at once in buying at this sale. Just think! Pay $6, have the piano deliv- ered and it is Jflfi: if you had made 16 pay- The $100 you save equals almost a year Where else could you get a reliable piano for $6 a month at $100 less than the regular price? Cor. Post and Kearny Largest Piano House on the Coast