The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 28, 1905, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, N for Use in Deceivin EW GRAFT UNCOVERED [SHIWS T IN INSURANCE INQUIRY| Non-Taxable Stock Passed Out to Some Onelein o g New York's Assessor, ¥t developed im the insurance investization yesterday that large blocks of mew York City Stock were taken from the vaults of the New As the city stoek Is mot taxable, the transfer enabled some one on the outsilie the municipulity. timony thut Edward E. preme Court, partieipated with *Judge” Hamilton, the lobbyist, in so-called legal services. He was not requested to remder any ac- mitted ¢ Mamilton received from the eompasy nbout §50,000 n year. counting of sums expended by him In the interest of the company. owed Hamilton the $56,- 510, and ndicate profits to pay him. The result was that the payment did not appear on the baoks of the com- The reason was that he wanted to n Hamiiton’s expenses. Much evidence was given by both Per- kins and President McCall about the New ork Security and Trust Company’s par- ticipation in the United States Steel Cor- poration syndicate to the extent of $30,- 0, having the depesits of the New k Life Insurance Company for about The New York Life Insur- ped only keep o Y that amount. Company got per cent of the and Perkins contended that it s a safe and prefitable venture. Presi- dent McCall_said the life insurance com- d participated directly instead of pany indirectly Perkins testified to-day that the Hamil- tl ton_account was treated as confidential J. P. Morgan & Co. never had any other seount with Andrew Hamilton than the under inquiry. Hughes asked why York Life did not pay the ‘bills on and E. E. McCall, if it was York Life busines Perkins id aid he felt it was a good way to pay it out of the profits. that way it would not get on the York Life's books,” said Hughes. one ew to the which resulted . sord ns said voluntarily that the plan vndicate participation disclosed: was made by him He added that the New ork Life's profits by it were more than eighteen times his salary as ident. He declared it was not a ;, as described by Hughes, and said he was perfectly willing to stand on his record. Perkins said President McCall had sent tter to Hamilton's address in Europe his Albany office to be forwarded sked him to come and testify. Per- did not know whether McCall asked Hamilton to send an accounting if New York. d not return to PROFITS USED TO PAY NOTES. ghes then read the notes given by McCall and Andrew Hamilton Bank and Trust Company. Per- kins did know whether the amount for legal expenses. He said the Morgan & Co. were liqui- haif of 000 worth ¢ the was debts to J. P dated from th received in tion. Hughes read from a blotter of the New York Life Insurance Company, showing ayment of 310 to Andrew Hamil- Asked if th payment appeared in e report to the State Insurance Depart- Perkins said he did not know, but understood President McCall settled the | matter. Asked w MecCall and Andrew Hamilton got mone the Central National Bank and the New York Security and Trust Company, Per. | kins said he did not know, but could find | ou | Hughes then asked Perkins to explain v e (Perkins) received a profit of a steel syndicate participa- y the States and | Presi- for $50,000 which was paid by Kidder, Pea- Mrs.S.T. RORER, the welbknown authority on cooking, says of Liebig Company’s Extract: “Ordinary stock requires from three to four hours in preparation. The cost of fire added to that of materigls and time far exceeds the cost of a jar of | Life for a loan of $930,000 in 1804.. Perking said-that Robert Winsor of Kidder, Pea- | body & Co. of Boston called at the office of J. P. Morgan & Co. in June, 194, and asked them te take up a Jjoint account h his firm in connection with the Mex- an Central Railway Company. Perkins | told him that J. P. Morgan & Co. could { not do it, but care of it. Perkins sald, further, that he took up the business for the Nylic fund, which is owned by the agents of the New | York Life Insurande Company, of which | Perkins is trustee. Part of the proposition the Mexican Central Raiiroad y should bessupplied with $2,000,000 | The Nylic fund did not have 8o | muc and Perkins did not wish to Extract of Beef and will nct make 5o large a quantity of soup. in fact, all sauces, soups, gravies, and meat stews should be flavored with a littie beef extract. From a cook’s stand- point no kitchen should be without it!™ It is the most concentrated form of beel disturb its Investments, so he arranged with Edmund D. Randolph, treasurer of the New York Life Insurance Company, to take $1,000,000 worth of Mexican Cen- al bonds at 5 per cent interest. The New York Life Insurance Company, said Perkins, paid Kidder, Peabody & Co. 000 and held the bonds until August . 1904, when the Boston firm repaid the loan, interest on $1,000,000 and $40,193 profit on the transaction to the life insurance company. The profit of $40,19 was pald to Perkins as trustee of the Nylic fund. Perkins said-he paid the mnnr—)'*mo the fc fund. The profits were selt to the ew York Life Insurance Company, he said, because the company was the only party known to Kidder, Peabody & Co. in the transaction, and the check was cashed and’ the cash paid to Perkins be- cause if it had been cashed and entered | upon the books of the New York Life In- surance Compang it might have been said Easy fo Gef, Fasy fo Pay Oa that the New York Life recefved the _ 8 | profit ana then gave 1t away. HOUSEHOLD = FURNI- £ 1™ o6 rny wirn THE BOOKS. TURE, PIANOS, 8| perkins said the profits of the Mex- HORSES AND VE- ican Central deal were derived by the sale of $2,000,000 of bonds by Kidder, Peabody & “CO. He said nothing to { Winsor about Nylic or sending the bonds to the New York Life Insurance | Company. He said he probably made | the latter requedt direct to Kidder, Péa- 3 | body & Co. The Nylic fund pald noth- ing on the bonds. The transaction was | not reported to the finance committee of the New York Life Insurance Com- pany. Hughes brought out from Milton M. Mattison, the bookkeeper, that he had put the bonds on the New York Life Insurance Company’s bobks as a pur- chase. Perkins said he did not think HICLES, SALARY, Etc. Household Loan Co. 202-3 GALLAGHAN BLG. Cor. Warket and Woillister PHONE SOUTH $22. fs | CURE SICK HEADACHE. - Kidder, Peabody & Co. gave any docu- GEMMUSQ Bear ment to the New York Life to show Fac-Simile Signature that the transfer of the bonds to the New York Life Insurance Company was made as security for a loan and not a sale. Hughes asked if there was any,other consideration than the loan of '$930,000 THE Los Angeles Times SAN FRANCISCO OFFICE 1S NOwW IN Room 41, Chronicle Bidg. Telephone Maln 1473. Artbur L. Fish, Representativs The Times is the advertising medium of the Southwest HunyadiJanos Taken on arising (balf a glass), frees the Bowels — thor- mfln but gently— ieves Constipation and cl¢anses the sys-, temt. The superiority of “HUNYADI JANOS® over other Laxative Waters is acknowl- Weak fien and Women § HQULD USE DA ANA Bm{ns. THE Great Mexican Remedy: gives health and sirength to sexual orrans. Dept. 323 Market. he | profit the New York Life | on their notes from | body & Co. of Boston to. the New York | he (Perkins) would take | York Life Issurance Company at thx-paying time and checks substituted therefor. (o deceive the Assessor and defraud After the paymeat of taxes the stock wax returned to the vaults. It was brought out in the tes- MeCall, a brother of the New York Life’s president and a former Justice of the State Su- President McCall ad- , for which Kidder, Peabody & Co. paid the $40,193. Perkins replied that that was all, with the exception of the tak- ing of the joint account. In reply to questions, Perkins said the Nylic fund | was held by him as responsible for any loss that might have resulted from the deal “on my word.” 5 “To whom did you give your word?” asked Hughes. “I did net give it to anybody,” said Perkins. “I didn’t need to.” He said the New York Life was not liable for any loss. TREATS NYLIC FUND AS HIS OWN. Hughes then asked several guestions to locate the $40,193, in a statement of the assets of the Nylic. The loan, he said, was never checked over to the Nylic trustees, but was invested. Hughes asked how it was invested. Perkins said the funds of the Nylie were handled as a part of his own in- dividual account. Asked how he dls- criminated, Perkins said he never had any trouble in discriminating. Per- kins said he did not want to say how he invested the $40,193 before such an audience, but it was put into United States Steel common stock at 19%. Did you keep or sell it?” ‘'m chairman of the finance com- mittee of the United States Steel Cor- poration ngd if 1 say what I did with it, it may be misconstrued,” | Hughes did not press the question, | but wanted to know what became of ithe investment. Perkins sald it was | impossible to follow it. Perkins said I he kept no book account of the prop- erty of the Nylic, but reported the holdings of the fund to the other trustees. He kept no rccord of his transactions for the Nylic, but invested its funds along with his own and from time to time gave the best of thc\{rol- | its to the Nylic fund. N | "I have been sole executive manager | of this fynd, and I am responsible for | any loss and appreciate any thanks for success,” he sald. He'could not trace this check or any | other he received from the Nylic fund. | Before he went to Europe recently, Perkins made a memorandum showing what the Nylic fund owed, so that it could be found in. case of his death, and the memorandum was still in ex- istence, = At one time the Nylic fund would be in cash and again it would [ be in securitles. | Hughes read an article of the by-laws exempting the trustees from the neces- sity of accounting for the profits and losses of the Nylic fund, and Perkins sald | if he made any substantial losses he wouldmake them good, though not legal- ly responsible for them. In a concluding | statement he¢ sald he had absolute con- | trol of the investments about which he had been questioned and that they had vielded g profit of nearly $750,000, HAMILTON GOT $580,000 A YEAR. President John A. McCall of the New York Life Insurance Company was next {called and was asked about the notes | given by Andrew Hamilton and why the | New York Life paid them. He said Ham- ilton got $79,000 or $80,000 from the New | York Life in 1%L In six years he got | about $80,000 a year. In a talk with Ham- | fiton as to the cost of the legal bureau of the New York Life, McCall estimated | the ayerage yearly cost at §105,000. McCall | sald he wanted to keep the expenses | down to $2000 for each State and Canada. | At the end of the year Hamilton said | about $35,000 was due Rim on what he had paid out for the company. The New York Life paid the claim. President McCall did not recognize any of the notes shown to-day. He said no ‘s(utemvn( was required of Hamilton of what advances he had made. In 1596 Mc- Call made an arrangement that Hamilton should have 5 per cent of his disburse- ments. Hamilton was limited to $100,000 in disbursements. His retained amount was $10,000. Hamilton never rendered an account of his disbursements. “Why did you not settle this claim di- rectly, instead of through J. P. Morgan, & Co.?" asked Hughes. ““He was getting $18,000,” MeCall replied. “In 1%2 we could not have paidhim di- rectly and kept the expense of the legal department under $100,000 a year. I pre- ferred to keep Mr. Hamilton in control of his expenses. He got only $50,000 the next year.” McCall said he was a trustee of the ' Central Natfonal Bank and had told the bank Hamilton was “good” for $50,000. McCall sald he had no specific knowledge of Hamijlton’s note. 2 Asked about two notes amounting to $13,000, indorsed by John A, McCall; Mc- Call' sald Andrew Hamilton got this money. He told E. E. McCall he would guarantee Hamilton would pay any amount to him up to $10,000. He afd not know anything about the purpose for which Hamiltom wanted the money. DEALS BAFFLE EXPLANATION, Hughes asked why E. E. McCall signed three of ‘the motes taken up by J. P, Mor- gan & Co. McCall said he could not ex- plain “it. ‘Hughes said the aggregate of the..notes was $76,000 in excess of the sum paid Hamilton, and McCall said that was another.matter which he could not explain. McCall said he did not want to be bothered by Hamilton’s notes, and so agreed with Perkins to allow the steel syndicate profits to be used to pay Hamilton. By this plan also the deal was kept out of the ledger of the New { York 'Life Insurance.Company. It was the fault of the bookkeeper that ' the $59,810 .paid to Hamilton did not ap- pear in-the company’'s ledger, It was. from this ledger the report to the State Insurance Department was made . up. He said that when he made to the committee a statement of money-pald by the New York Life Insurance Com- pany to Andrew Hamilton he did not inelude the $59,310, because it was on ‘the books of the Hanover Bank office of the New York Life Insurance Com- pany. The report to the Insurance J rtment was made from the home office books. He did not know whether the payment was recorded on the home office books. AL “I never gave United States Senator Platt a dollar in my life for the New York -Life Insurance Company, de- clared McCall in reply to a question. He did not know of any payment the New York Life Insurance e‘uyq:; tol:clgqi";&‘te campal *-;‘M PR kins-New o;‘l: A T" Central deal, - hes Justified the payment of the Perkins for Nylic wheh Life Insuranc money. He sald I T0 THE DOOR Fifteen = Displays Rare Presence of Mind in a Time of Great Danger MEETS THUG IN HALL Bpecial Dispatch to The vall PORTLALD, Nov. 27.—~With a pres- ence of mipd rarely seen in one so young, 1b-year-old Roma Blalr, who collided with a burglar on taking a lamp and going Into the hallway of her home after hearing a.noise at 4 o'clock this morning, pretended that she be- lieved his mission to be to see her brother and escorting him to the door gracefully howed him out, Then she flew to her father's bedroom and told him that a thief had just left the house and he had better call the police. I was asleep,” says Roma, “when awak- ened by a noise. The burglar was very polite.” SR ; « come here and give an accounting of his expenses or to cable his Albany representative 0 make Such an ac- counting, He did not know whether the letters had been delivered. The Néw York Life had paid John A. Nichols a retainer of §10u0 a year. McCatl did not know how it began, but knew it was given to Nichols with the understanding thet hé pay W. & Man- ning of Albany half of it. THe other hali was to gu to Nichols for making the payment. Manning bad a hign stanaing among Insurance men and was active at albany, Asked about the steel syndicate transaction, McCall said it was aito- gether likely that the New York Se- curities apd Trust Company used New York Life funds to carry an entire sub- scription, He himself had a share in that syndicate. MeCall sald he was insured in the New York Life, but got no commis- sions on his policies. He sald, how- ever, that he thought it was the com- mon practice for the insured to take commussions. MecCall sald one of Ham- ilton's notes might have been a cam- paign contribution. B. E. McCall, he sala, was elected Supreme Court Jus- tice in 1902, but the New York Life never contributed to his campaign ex- penses. “Who has solicited campaign contri- butions frem you?” “I would rataer not tell; I have beef solicited very much, not by State offi- clals,” MmcCall sald he did not designedly omit the Hamilton payment of $29,310 from the statement to the State In- surance Department. He did not have the matter in mipd when the state- ment was made. He knew that certain specific securities owned by the New York Life were not reported to the State Superintendent. of Insurance. The market value of its holding of bonds, amounting to '$5,000,000, wgs not included’ in‘the last report. McCall said he knew Hamilton had an account with an Albany broker. He did not know whether any New Yaerk Life money was used on that account, McCall never had any stock transac- tions with Hamilton, w0 27! o M¢CALL TURNS REFORMER. Senator Cox asked MecCall if he be- lieved the State should allow the in- surance companies to engage in such a syndicate transaction as that of the United Sthtes Steel Company. MeCall replied that he did not believe the in- surance companies should engage in speculations. He thought they were a source of evil “The more you take away the specy- lative character of the insurance com- pany, the better,” sald he. ' Asked, if he believed insirance com- panies should own - trust companies” stock, which could makeé such invest- ments, he said he did not think the New York Life Insurance Company should own the stock of trust compa- nies. Non-ledger assets, he said, were not reported to-the State Superintendent of Insurance. “Why,” asked Hughes, “was not the United States Steel Syndicate partici- pation put frankly on the books of the New York Life Insurance Company?”’ “I think it should have been,” replied McCall. Theodore F. Banta, cashier of the New York Life Insuyrance Company, next testified, Banta said he Kknew *nothing about the check for $40,198 which was paid to George W, Perkins. The eashier's department had no vouchers of money paid out on order from the comptroller or an executive officer. He knew nothing about cam- paign contributions. Banta said that for fifteen years he had not been in a position to discover irregularities in the affairs of the New York Life Insur- ance Company, He recalled an affidavit he had sent to Texas that the New York Life Insurance Company- had not paid campaign expenses. Ashked what he had based that on, he said he did not know of such contributions. The affidavit was brought to him by Stuart Brown, confidential man of President McCall. Banta said that the statement that some years ago he had paid $30,000 to Thomas C. Platt was absolutely false, He had not seen Platt. Once an at- tempt was made to collect §30,000 for the Republican party, but he had re- fused to pay it in the absence of the officers of the company. In reply to other questions by Hughes, Banta said that about January, 1901, $700,000 worth of New York City stock was taken from the vaults of the New York Life Insurance Company and a check on the Central National Bank was substituted. The: stock came back in a few days. The transaction was not recorded on the books of the company to his knowledge. No receipt was given for the stock. The ownership of New York City stock. would have been important for purposes of taxation. The New York City stock is .not taxable, and this transaction would have given some one $700,000 of untaxable property. -Banta said he thought there had been a simi-. lar transaction before, but none sipce. The stock was delivereq on the order of Edmund D. Randolph, treasurer of the New York Life Insurance Company, and, Banta supposed he acted on the or- der of the finance committee. Ran- dolph had since Intimated that he did not approve of such transactions. —_————— McCURDY FAMILY HOLDS ON. NEW YORK, Noy, 27.—Dr. Walter B. Gillette, vice president of the Mutual Life Insurance Cqmpany, to-day denied published reports that Richard A. Mc- RAIN BRINGS JOY TO THE FARMERS. Fears Engendered by Long Dry Spell Relieved by Generous Downpour. Special Dispatch to The Call i From nearly all sections of the State word -comes that the rain storm of the last twenty-four hours has made glad the hearts of the farmers and stock men. generous downpour will bring up fresh feed in the pasture lands and put the soil in fine condition for the plow. - In some parts of the State the rdin alternated 1905. with hail and snow. SAN LUIS OBISPO, Nov. 27.—The long-expected and weicome rain that commenced gently fallihg yesterday 3onunued between the hail storms to- ay. z x The situation, which was becoming serious, has been relieved, and the farmers, dairymen and Stockmen are rejoicing. While the drought up to a fortnight ago helped the farmers to haryest their unusually large crops of beans, which matured late, the lack of rain compelled many an anxious mo- ment over the prospects for the coming scason. Now the farmers have all pre- pared their plows and can commence | tDDeratl'onl at once to plow for the win- 1 er. | The first real hall storm in twelve years struck here this morning and caused wonderment and surprise to the | younger generation. Old men joined in | making the frozen spheroids into snow- | balls and played with them like school- | boys. H The rainfall in San Luis Obispo to- day was .40 of an inch from 8 to. 6/ o’clock, During" the previous twenty | hours it was .70 of an inch. The rain of yesterday continued in all the towns along the Salinas Valley, the precipita- | tion ranging from .39 of an inch at San Miguel tos89 of an inch at Chualar. The rainfall in the other valley towns up to 7 o'clock was: Gongales .78 Soledad .50, Metz .40, King City .46, San Lucas | .22, San-Ardo .24 and Bradley .30. | STOCKTON, Nov. 27.—Stockton was visited by another welcome rain last night, the precipitation amounting to | .28 of an inch. This is the best storm of the season so far, and the farmers are jubilant over the rainfall. The rain | has made a better feeling in business circles and a most prosperous scason seems assured. The rain was general in the county. ™ RED BLUFF, Nov. 27.—The first gen- eral rain for this season fell last night, the precipitation amounting to .4§ of an inch. THIs morning theré was a heavy frost. Stockmen and farmers are pleased, but the dry season has ex- tended so late that ft'is feared that feed on the mountal\,rfinzes will be very short, and prevailing cold weather will make the winter-sown grain crop a failure, AR SALINAS, No 7.—~Copious showers, intermingled with hdll, set in about 10 Fo’clock last nightrand continued all night. Nearly three-quarters of an inch of rain’ has fallen in the last twelve hours. The -Santa Lucia and Gabilan mountain Tanges and the sur- rounding valley are covered deep with snow, which comés nearly to the low foothills. Reports are-to-the effect thet the rain is genéral throughout the Sa- linas Valley. SRErehy MODESTO, Nov. 27~—The first rain of the season fell here last night and to- day. The precipitation ‘amounted te .43 of an inch, HANFORD, Nov. 27.—More than half an inch of rain fell here Saturday night and Sunday morning. It was very welcome. It is still-raining and it is probable the downpour will continue. The immense acreage of sown grain in Tulare Lake regions will be greatly benefited. HOLLISTER, Nov. 27.—Ninety-hun- dredths of an inch of rain fell here last night and to-day and is general throughout the whole county. The farmers will now be busy. A HEAVY STORM IN NORTH. Three Snmow, Hain and H: Fall in Countles. REDDING, Nov. 27.—Snow, rain and hail fell throughout Shasta, Trinity and Siskiyou counties to-day. In Red- ding halilstones as large as small marbles came pelting down for ten minutes shortly after noon. At Sisson four inches of snow fell and there was & covering of white on the ground at Dunsmuir, while south as far as the Shasta-Tehama boundary line rain and hail fell alternatively. At Red Bluff there was no rain to speak of. East of Redding a severe hallstorm. accom- panied by high wind, traversed a sec- tion of the country half a mile wide for nearly six miles, snipping leaves and limbs from the trees in its path and stampeding cattle. In Redding the precipitation was almost half an inch, which brings the season’s preeipitation up to .40 of an inch against thirteen inches at an even date last season. GRASS VALLEY, Nov. 27.—To-night snow fell in this city for the first time in many years. The 'Indications are that there will be snow or rain before morning. i | ——— FARMERS ARE HAPPY. Heavy Downpour in Fresno Makes Land Fit for Plowing. FRESNO, Nov. 27.—The most wel- come rainfall in many months began last night and kept up all night and most of to-day. A slow drizzle had been falling since. 6 o'clock to-night and ghowers are expected befgore morn- ing. Pasture lands wer€ in need of the rain, hecause the first rain of the season hed only startéd the grass and had not watered-it enough to give it growth. ~'Farmers are happy becau early plowing, which has back, may now commence. The rain- fall here was 64 of an inch; at Visalla and Madera .68 of an inch, and at Selma .38. A st SOUTHLAND DRENCHED. Orange Belt Receives Eenefit of Tor- rential Ralns. LOS ANGELES, Nov. 27.—Rain vary- ing In volume from half an inch to nearly three inches and in the moun-= tains amounting to, many inches .of snow has been falling throughout Southerd California since < last night and there is every indication that it will eontinue until -to-morrow. The precipitation in Los Angeles up to 10 o’clock to-night was 1.32. The record at other Southern California points up to dark is as follows: San Bernardino 1.21, Redlands .76, Colton 1.14, River- side 1, San Jacinto 182, Santa Ana 2.4, Escondido .88.. This storm will bring the season’s total in” Los Angeles to far above the thrée-inch mark. Last season’s total to December 1 was 1.14 TASERNE T / WET IN SANTA CLARA. SAN JOSE, Nov. . 27.—Santa Clara County has had a thorough drenching and as soon as the:‘ present storm abates agricultural work will be in full swing. The United States Weather Bureau here reports last night's rain- fall as .67 of an Inch. Up to 5§ p. m, to-day the precipitation amounted to .30 of ap inch. This makes a total of 1.87 inches for the season, agalnst 4.23 inches to the same date last year. To- day the Mount Hamiiton Range and the higher foothills are covered with snow, hich fell last night. The indi- cations_are that rain’ will fall again to-night, P A, Light Showers in Somoma. SANTA ROSA, Nov. 27.—Light show- ers have fallen here for a couple of days, but the precipitation has not been heavy. The total rainfall to date is 69 of an inch, as compared to 11.16 inches to the same date last year. The indications are favorable for mere rain. The farmers are anxiousiy await- ing rain so that they can start plow- ing. Feed is suffering and where last year the ranchers had their stock on | the range at this time they are feed- ing them, ' PR S A Heavy Rain in Bakersfield. BAKERSFIELD, Nov. 27.—Rain has been falling here heavily during the last twénty hours. The gauge has al- ready registered .42 for, the storm. All incoming trains are lat X prolRsiabl > - W EVEN ALASKA IS WET. - TACOMA, Nov. 27.—A dispatch from Valdez says that during the last week there has been a steady downpour of rain in that section which has caused cansiderable damage along the Fair- banks trail. Teikhell River, along which the trail runs for sixty miles, was flooded to a greater extent tham at any time during the summer, several of the bridges put in by the Valdez Transportation Company on the winter trail being washed out. The snow is all gone between Valdez and the delta and at Delta Station there has been a chinook wind for geveral days, which has broken up the river and the ice is now going out. From Fairbanks to Valdez for the last week the tempera- ture had been above freezing point This is phenomenal weather for this time- of the year and will delay trav- elers coming out from Falrbanks for some: time. B TSI FLOOD IN ARIZONA. 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Cave Creek, flowing across the desers north of Pheenix, has inundated Glen- dale. There has been onmly slight dam- age as yet, but more is feared. It has rained nearly two inches hers i the last thirty-six hours, and a total of nearly twenty inches since January 1, more than three times the annual aver- age rainfall here. The first Arizona Territorial Fair, set for December 4 has been postponed until the week commencing December 25. The postponement was made necessary by the disastrous soaking of the railway track and interference with transporta- tion. e BIG RAINFALL IS PROMISED. The city and vicinity was well drenched yesterday by the rain that began to fall early in the morning and continued very steadily throughout the day and evening. According to Weather Forecaster McAdle the storm will surely continue for several days now. 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