The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 1, 1906, Page 31

4 A A THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, APRIL 1, 1908 31 JRTS EVNES | HOTIVE POWER Invention of Englishman Bids Fair to Cause a Big Industrial Revolution D NEW SMELTING PROCESS P s wernment’s Ex- s Show That Elee- Replace . Coal Canadian perime: tricity Can g i Bpe: CHURCH AUTHORITIES LOOKING FOR ERRORS amination 2 on Mat- Vatican Direets of Books Toucl of | and Black. trimmings. creations. Man-Tailored Silk 1 Parisian Effects $25 Chiffon Taffeta Silk Eton Suits in Alice, Receda, Navy Blue" Jackets with self-trimmed tailored bands. vest effectively embellished with Baby Irish applique and Parisian Skirt the latest circular cut with inverted pleat in front and back, bottom of which has two self-trimmed tailored folds. did lines. them ‘as if molded | lined throughout. 42. — = ? Ladies’ Covert Coats Collarless Eton effects, strictly tailor made. These coats are ideal models built on splen- Our expert fitters will make Sizes 34 to $7.50 and $8.50 values = . to your figure. 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PREPARED BY I # G 225 { COAST AFFAIRS - ATTHECAPITAL |Secretary of - the Interior Ratifies Plans for Klam- ath TIrrigation - Project S R CALL BUREAU, POST- BUILDING, WASHINGTON, March 81.—The reclama- tion service, In a bulletin issued today, describes the. condition of the Govern. ment irrigation, works in California. On the Klamath project the Secretary of the Interior has fornfally approved the contract between the gKlamath Water- | users’ Assoclation and the United States. This is a ratification of the plans for conktructing the Klamath project and s the ultimate irrigation of about acres of land. The amount equals al irrigated area in Southern Call- | fornta proper. The construction con- tracts, amounting approximately to $400,- | 000, have been signed, and construction work is now under way by the contract- ors, Ore. 3 The Pacific-Portland Cement Company of San Francisco was the successful bid- der for 10,000 barrels of cement at $1.55 per barrel for use on this work. This firm i= now supplying cement on a 40,000-bar- rel contract for the Yuma project, and Mason, Davis & Co., of Portland, has also furnished all the cement so far | used on the Truckee-Carson project. The board of engineers which met at | Klamath Falls last Wednesday consid- | ered the plans for the new construction work and arranged the details for the building of the engineering proect. | The Secretary of the Interior has au- | thorized the construction of the Gila Val- | ley levees at an expense of $i00,000. These |levees will be the only perfect levees | ever constructed in this country. The work was started March 12 In connection with the levee the Sec- Government is now prepared to purchase these animals. In accordance with the general policy of the service, a number of small contracts, amounting approxi- mately to $1000, have been let to farm- ers of the Yuma Valley for the ex- tension of the Yuma Valley levee toward the Mexican line. On the Laguna dam J, C. Whits & Co., contractors, are employing 450 men at present and have just started dredgers and other machinery on the California side of the river at this dam site. This force will be doubled within the next thirty days. The firm was awarded the contract for the comstruction of large sluice gates and regulator gates for the entrance of the canals #t the dam. There will be three of these steel gates, each 33 feet wide and about 20 feet high. They will cost about $65,900.. They will be of the type known as the “Stoney” gates and are similar to those used on the Chi- cago drainage canal and the great locks at Saulte Ste. Marle. Senator Perkins today recelved through Engineer Grunsky of the reclamation service the memorial of the California Miners’ Association in behalf of exam- inations and surveys for the location of the irrigation works In the Sacramento Valley and urging an appropriation of $200,000 for that purpose. Senator Flint has already offered an amendment to be proposed to the sundry civil bill provid- ing for this appropriation and there is a good prospect of its being accepted by the Senate. Senator Flint today appeared before the Senate committee on appropriations and succeeded In having an item of $35,000 included in the deficlency appropriation bill for filling that part of the naval station at Honolulu known as the “reef.” He algo had an item of $20,000 for resur- veying the lands in Imperial Valley, San Diego County, by metes and bounds in- cluded in the deficiency appropriation bill. ———— Newspaper Man Dies Suddenly. Henry M. Ryder, an old newspaper man, died suddenly in his room at 751 Pine street yesterday morning. He had been sick for some time. His landlady took his breakfast to him yesterday morning about 8 o'clock and when she returned in about an hour he was dead. The body was taken to the Morgue. Death is supposed to have been from retary has authorized the purchase of | natural causes. He was 50 years of 100 mules, with their equipment, and' the sare. y ' tonio Escamello, at one time one of the . largest land holders in the county, died ehan, the wife of a well-known pioneer | Conniff. She was born in San Francisco resident of this city, passed away Fr! in October, 1854, and was educated at day night after a long illness. M Sacred Heart College. She left, besides Melehan was formerly Miss Marle J. ! her husband, the following children: PIONEER WOMAN PASSES AWAY IN ALAMEDA —— ALAMEDA, March 81.—Mrs. Ellen Dean Storey, widow of the late Willlam B. Storey, and mother of Willlam B. Storey Jr., chief engineer of construc- tion for the Santa Fe, passed away this morning at her home on Briggs avenue. She was a native of Malne, 74 years of age, and came to California fifty-five vears ago. Her husband was one of the ploneer agents of for Wells, Fargo & Co. Besides her son, W. B. Storey Jr., Mrs. Storey is survived by another son, A. J. Storey, and a daughter, Mrs. J. F. Nash. of Tacoma and Mra R. B. Ayers, J. Davitt, Ella, Frank and Oci- na Melehan of Petaluma. g CASH OR LITTLE -AT-A- —— VETERAN’S WIDOW DIES. Final Summons Is Answered by Mary A. Roy of Vallejo. VALLEJO, March 31.—As a result of a fall three weeks ago Mrs. Mary A. Roy, an aged and respected resident of this city, passed away at her home last evening. The deccased was a native of Kentucky, aged 74 years, and had re- sided in ValleJo for twenty-flve years. She was the widow of a well-known Civil War veteran who lost his life in a railroad wreck at Benicla about twelve y ago. She leave: one daughter, 8. H. M. Thompson, and three grown grandchildren. R DIES IN POVERTY. Once Great Landholder Passes Away in Santa Crus. i SANTA CRUZ, March 81.—Blas An- HANDSOME DINING ROOM OUTFITS Dining Chairs, can= seat, golden oak finish.....c...... 98¢ (Others from 75c upwards.) ve Cane Seat Carvers, square spindle back and arms, a handsome chair..........coeoceeniiiio....... 88 Solid Oak Extension Table, top 44x44, golden finish, highly polished, handsomely carved legs...............818.78 ; (Others from 39.00 upwards.) Choice large flake quarter sawed Oak Sideboard. The deep linen drawer and divided top drawers have serpentine swell fronts; mirror16x28...........cccccn...... $283.50 | .. Solid Oak China Closet, bent glass sides, oval’ mirror on to - (Others from $12.50 upwards.) 8$27.5 THE QLOEST ANO MOST REL, in poverty in this city last night. He Ortpiudgily UWaed Lue San vicenis rancho, having obtalned it by a grant from the Mexican Government. The rancho contained 140.000 acres. On it are located the towns of Davenports and Bonny Doon and the plants of the Santa Cruz Lime Company and the Portland Cement Company. —————————— DEATH ENDS SUFFERINGS. PETALUMA, March 31.—Mrs, P, Mel- '/