The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 11, 1906, Page 7

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL,.WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11, 1906. 7 'FLOOD WATERS GRADUALLY CREEPING TO THE OLD LAKE TULARE LIMITS. Though there has not been any rain for several days the flood waters are sti 11 pouring into the old Lake Tulare bed. Day by day the great body of water is spreading, fed by the rivers and streams of the valley which were filled to overflowing by the recent storm. within six miles of its original limits. Nearly every acre of the land inundated was under cultivation. The lake is now Result of Many Years of Toil Now Hidden Beneath the Wind-Tossed Waves ELECTION MAY CALSE TROUBLE Ministers of Red Bluff to Criminally Prosecute Men They Say Voted Illegally, CONSULT AN ATTORNEY Claim Is Made That Many Not Entitled to Franchise Cast Ballots for Saloons GAMBLING > THE ISSUE. Republicans and Democrats of Phoenix | Facing Warm Campaign. A PORTERVILL SLECTION. Intense Interest Displayed in Battle for | Municipal Office. ERVILLE oril o- Tulare, for the District, and Kern REFORMERS ARE VICTORS. of Kern City Defeat Three Incumbent Councilmen. ELD, April 10.—As"a re- pal election yesterday three members of the.old stees, who were candi dates for re-election, were defeated by : a reform movement. I Voters as elected City Clerk. al, and J. P. Dugan, arer re re-elected. The new stees W. Snyder, W. J. el Potts. The Trus- ees he Improvement Club e pledged mselves to a number forms — - Many Candidates in Field. "IFIC GROVE, April 10.—The mu- elec held here yesterday ¥ conteste here were nine ates for Trustees. J. P. Prior and D. Welck were elected for the long term and W. H. Hill and W. T. Hearst t term. J. R. Patrick was B. Rich Marshal and reasurer. 71 A Lakeport Elects Trustees. LAKEPORT, April 10.—The munici- pal election held here yesterday result- od as follows: Trustees, C. J. Morro and A. H. Sturr; Clerk, H. D. Churchil! Treasurer, J. G. Crump; Mars! Barry. A total of 210 votes wer. —_——— Marysville Banker Retires. MARYSVILLE, April 10.—After serv- ing as its president since the Northern California Bank of Savings was estab- lighed in in 1889, J. U. Hoffstetter has resigned and has been succeeded by N. D. Rideout of San Francisco. The retiring president has disposed of his entire interest in the bank. polled, Horses and Mules Die in Flames. PENDLETON, April 10.—In a fire which destroyed a large stock sales stable here early today, sixteen horses und several mules were burned to jeath. The total loss will not exceed $6000, it is believed. So far as known 11 the employes of the stable escaped from the fire. o3 | ras rze 723 R /9 HER DALY CHILD While Insane Turns On Gas in Room Occupied by Her- self and Boy of Fourteen e ANGE April 10.—In what is to have been a fit of insanity, P. Raymond, wife of Frank 0gg Raymond, a clerk in the Interior Department at Washington, D, C., early this morning turned on the gas in a room at her home, 651 Selma street, Hollywood, |a suburb of this city, after carefully locking all doors and windows, and as- | phyxiated her 14-year-old son Frank, who luau sleeping in the room, and very nearly ended her own life | The crime was detected today by neigh- | bors, who detected the odor of escaping gas. The police were notified and the | room broken into. The body of the boy |1ay on a small cot, where he had retirea, and with a smile still on his lips. ,The | mother was in a haif-kneeling posture beside the cot with her fingers interlaced as if in prayer. She was unconscious and her breathing scarcely noticeable. It was at first thought that she would not sur- vive, but tonight physicians who are at- tending her have hopes that she will re- cover. The deed had been carefully planned and carried out. The woman left two | letters, one addressed to her mother, Mrs. Martha Cooper, 1429. Elliott street, San Diego, Cal., and the other to a neighbor, | Mrs. Cromblet. In her letter to her moth- | er she hinted at her unhappiness and said she and her son would be better off dead. In neither of the notes did Mrs. Raymond give any additional reason for -her act. | She had but lately returned from a visit \to her husband in the Easf, and after | arriving appeared very much depressed, | Very little is known of Mrs. Raymong's husband here. The family had been in Hollywood several months and Mrs. Ray- mond entertained a great deal. They ! appeared to have abundant resources and | lived in considerable style. While Mrs. Raymond’s actions have been remarked lo or twice as being peculiar, she | showed no other traces of an unbalanced | mind. It developed after the tragedy was discovered today that on a previous | occasion several months ago she had at- tempted the life of her son with chloro- form, but the prompt action of a physi- clan had saved the boy's.life. Mrs. Ray- mond is about 40 years of age, and had but the one child. The husband and father was notified at once of the tragedy today and a dispatch from him states that he has left Wash- ington for Los Angeles. The letter which Mrs. Raymond addressed to her mother foliows: LOS My Dear Mother: To you T leave all in this house. What you care to. give to Mrs. Crombiet. She lives in the little house in the rear and is a warm-hearted woman. This shock will nearly kill you, too, but our separa- LopELACE BARIOIR o000 Acm=s ke 25 CBRIEN grerdcrse 5000 AoRES T22 R2/ Yo AL OF THESLE RECLAN ArroN DISTRICTS ZX- CEPT CONN, BLAKELY, e 72/ R 2a ‘| wind-tossed waves are the green fields. Inland Sea Covers an Area of Monster Levees VISALIA, April 10.—Ruminating upen ’ the smallness of man and the Ilmenessi of his power in the great valley of me! San Joaquin stand hundreds of men. With voices full of awe they discuss ll matter beyond their ken, and with eyes | expressing wonder and even fear they | gaze, Where for years stood greem | flelds, rich with the produet of man’s in- genuity, a monument to labor and toil | and that love to conquer which is ever, uppermost in the breasts of the men who | against great obstacles fight their way to | victory, be the battle agaifist the elements | or their fellow man, is a seething, tur-| bulent mass of water. Far below the| As in a night they disappeared, as almost in a night twenty years ago disappeared Tulare Lake. As the great valley was twenty years ago so it is now. The work of man has been swept aside. Once again there Is a Tulare Lake, a lake greater and grander than the lake of two decades ago. As | far as the eye can see, as of yore — NTAL SHOHATNG RELATIVE | PosrrioN OF ZAKE TULARE: k> — : - - — | MAP SHOWING EXTENT OF TERRITORY IN LAKE TULARE DISTRICT COVERED BY FLOOD WATERS. -lx- MAY BUILD LINE (WILL NOT OBEY IAX IS WIELDED T0SAN DIECO! COMPANY'S RULE Senator Clark Believed to Be Planning Extension of Salt Lake Road to South SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL SAN DIEGO, April 10.—This morning H. 8. Crane, a local attorney and a personal friend of Senator William A. Clark, re- ceived a letter from the head of the Salt Lake Railway asking that he be furnished data on San Diego regarding an exten- sion of the Balt Lake system to San Diego. As a result of this letter a meet- ing of the raillroad committee of the Chamber of Commerce was held this aft- ernoon and the necessary Information was compiled and will be forwarded imme- diately to Senator Clark. i In his letter Senator Clark asked for a description of terminal facilities, together with a concise statement of the popula- tion of the city, its recent progress, re- sources of its back country and the gen- eral keen interest of its people in any pro- ject for getting additional railroad com- munication which would insure hearty co- operation at this end of the line. The let- ter also asked whether the city would fur- nish rights of way and terminal sites, and if San Diegans would undertake to place bonds of the company issued for the con- struction of the extension, The receipt of this Jetter but strengthens the opinion held by many that Senator Clark is seriously considering a plan to extend the Salt Lake road to San Diego. tion will not be for long. In the bette g i T S e e it we did here, when all the mists have rolled away. My request to Charles M. Raymor Ohlo, is that this property be zl% 12:';3: I havesno right to will it, as it is not in my name, but surely this wish wili gran It s the last request-of « woman' who s ™Gy boy, wil be” sate ks My boy wi fe from the tem) of this wicked world. I ask the forbivense of any I ever unintentionally. The world is agalnst me and this is.the only wrong act I have ever been gullty of doing, Your loving daughter, KATIE RAYMOND, Employes of Southern Pa- cific Refuse to Write Their History for Corporation SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL. SACRAMENTO, April 10.—Much _objec- tion is expressed by the employes of the Southern Pacific shops in this city to the “Personal Record” slips which are now being introduced in some of the depart- ments. These slips are printed lists' of questions which the employes are re- quired to fill out. The questions concern the employe's age, nativity, size of fam- ily, employment during the last five years, data concerning litigation with the company if any, and a promise of com- pliance with the company’s regulations now in force and those to be introduced in the future. A physical examination is also required. The employes object to the slips on the ground that they interfere with.the pri- vate affairs of the individual. At a mest- ing of protest held at noon a few days ago between 200 and 300 of them agreed not to file the lists and to resist any in- quiry or interference on the part of the company in their private affairs, —— BEGIN A CRUSADE =~ AGAINST MOSQUITOES Marysville Councilmen Take Steps to Kill Off the Pest. =5 MARYSVILLE, April 10,—Mayor Hall and the Common Council have again de- clared was upon mosquitoes and have or- dered oi] wagons to make the rounds of the city and deposit crude oil in the gut- | ters, sewers and other places where water stands and mosquitoes breed. Property f required to’ do likewise. season proved very mosquitoes made. ville. S5 suc- | BY MURDERER Officer Finds That Slayer of Indian Woman Used Other Weapon Beside Knife BAKERSFIELD, April 10.—Deputy Sher- iff Baker returned tonight from the scene of the killing of the Inalan woman, Marie, in the Tejon Canyon. He brought with him Augustine Lugo, the Indlan being held on suspicion. Officer Baker found that not only was the weman's throat cut, but her head was laid open with an ax and her features crushed out of recog- nition. The officer closely inspected the premises, and as a result brought to light the ax,.which had escaped the observa- tion of the others and with which the deed ‘was done. It was a mass of blood and hair, and the weapon is now in the possession of the deputy. Officer Baker made a thorough exam- ination of the country about the scene of the crime, but found *nothing further to connect Lugo: with the murder. The old man, however, has told the officers many conflicting storiés as to his whereabouts on Sunday night and has contradicted himself many times. There are over thir- ty hours that he cannot account for, and his threats to kill the woman, his prox- imity to the scene of the crime and the blood on his shirt have warranted his be- ing detained, and he is now in jail in this city. Coroner Mullins held an inquest at the Tejon ranch this morning. The jury vis- ited the scene of the murder and in- spected the body, but in the investigation that followed there was little evidence adduced. The jury brought In a verdict that the woman came to her death by wounds made by an ax in the hands of parties unknown to the jury. —————————— Death of Veteran Lawyer. _TACOMA, April 10.—George W. Fogg, a prominent attorney here for twelve years, and formerly of Quincy, IIL, is dead, aged 69 years. He was a major in the Civil War and a member of the stretches a great body of water. The levees, the dykes, the great ditches built 1 to protect the green flelds are not to be seen. The sprouting grain which less than a month ago made glad the heart of the farmer, the rich land upon» which he had toiled, the implements and tools used by him in his fight against nature are no longer his. They lie at the bot- tom of the lake. The heavy rains of the last few. weeks are responsible for the wonderful freak of nature. From all sides streams are running into the big basin. Al the streams which fed the old Tulare Lake are feeding the new one. Tule and Kings rivers are running bank full and have been for weeks. Between Corcoran and Angiola, on the line of the Santa Fe Rall- road, Tule River Has broken over its banks and is running.a solid sheet of water two miles in width, with a deep, strong current, directly into the old lake bed. The whole surrounding country in the neighberhood of this overflow has the appearance of an inland sea. ‘The waters of the lake are steadily a vancing. Every day they creep out far- ther and farther toward their ancient boundaries. At the present time the wa- ters are leaving the-ground within six miles of their eastern limit in 1878, the highest period in the memory of the in- habitants of this valley. Six miles more and the lake will sap the foundations of the business houses of Angiola and Cor- coran on the east. . At the beginning of the season the lake was not. There was an expanse of mud- dy ground covering a section or two, thle covered, showing where.the lake had made its laststand. At the present time it is a solid expanse of water covering between 250 and 300 square miles, practi- cally every foot of which had been planted this season. The water has risen very rapidly, so fast ifi fact that the farmers in the lake bed had scarcely time to realize whac was coming before levees were crushed and broken and yellow, seething floods were rolling everywhere. The entire lake basin had been divided up into reclamation districts and barri- caded, securely it was thought, with mon- ster levees, built as strong and solid as it was possible to make them, with the exception of twenty-one sections in the very center. While this had not been entered in any reclamation district, a mrge part of it was under cultivation, the farmers taking desperate chances against the elements. The work of years js wasted. Be- fore the storm moving villages of farm hands were located on _eaca of the large tracts, thousands of head of horses were doing steady service and | on the inundated lana. | were driven | cause of all actions ceased. Nearly 300 Square Miles. Fail to Check Rush of the Torrents. Thousands of Acres Under Cul- tivation Inundated. great traction engines were dragging hundreds of plows across the lake bed. All this labor has been wasted, togeth- er with the seed sown, and the money used in putting up and maintaining the levees. Plows by the dozens are now At least four combined harvesters are beyond the chance of rescue, and a number of the heavy traction engines have disap- peared from view beneath the water. Cabins have been overturned and float- ed off at the will of the wind and waves. Men who have made a study of con- ditions existing at the lake and closely examined the lake bed tell us there is strong reason for the belief that once before, ere the white man ever reached its shores, the lake had dried up, and its bottom made the homes of human beings. There is more snow in the Sierra Nevadas than has fallen for many a season past, and when the warm summer sun begins to beat down upon the frozen mass it is an absolute certainty that the streams will again fill and that the old lake will stretch still farther toward its old banks. Whether this condition will last de- pends altogether on succeeding sea- sons. If we should have a succession of wet winters the water in the lake would hold its own for years. If the seasons sueceeding this are dry the in- undated territory will be uncovered. A .number of law suits have been temporarily settled by the rising of the lake. The land in the lake bed was the basis of a number of litigations “jumpers” bhaving gone in and taken possession of the land and when they from their homes the The fol- lowing districts have been covered and the crops thereon ruined: Tulare Lake reclamation district, 25,000 acres; Buena Vista reclamation district, 25,000 acres; O reclamation district, = 15,000 acres: acres: Brien Occidental reclamation district, acres; Barbour reclamation distriet, acres! Lovelace reclamation district, 1500 acres: Willlamson reclamation district, 2360 acres; Goldberg reclamation _district, 2000 acres; Johnson reclamation district, 1500 acres; Doherty and Hammond reclamation district. 1280 acres: Perine reclamasion district, 4000 : Richardson reclamation district, 40 Ella reclamation district, 640 acres; Taft reclamation district, 320 acres, and the lake bed proper. 15,000 acres. It is impossible even to estimate the loss caused by the overflow. 3 T PR LIGHTNING IN SHASTA. Severe Electrical Storm Raging In Northern County. REDDING, April 10.—A severe elec- trical storm is raging tonight in all directions from Redding. This city seems the center of the circle. To the east, in the Millvale section, the storm is particularly severe. The vivid Mght- ning flashes, seen plainly from here, form a spectacular display. RS 3 S Falls in San Jose. April 10.—Nearly a quar- ter of an inch of rain fell here last night and this morning. The weather today 1is warm, with occasional showers. With the exception of apri- cots, the fruit outlook is highly satis- factory. NEARLY ELECTROCUTED WHILE IN MIDAIR Santa Rosa Lineman Has a Remarkable Escape From Awful Death. SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL. SANTA ROSA, April 10.—Benjamin Cur- tis, a lineman of the Santa Rosa Light- ing Company, narrowly escaped being electrocuted this aftermgon while at work on top of a high pole. He was using a wrench fastening a cross-arm, when the wrench slipped. His hand flew up and struck a live wire. He received a severe sheck and would have fallen to the ground but for the safety strap. He was burned about the hand, arm and foot quite severely but not fatally. ———— WORK ON MARYSVILLE LINE 1S SOON TO BE COMMENCED Construction of Road to Commect Northern Towns Will Be Begun ‘This Month. MARYSVILLE, April 10.—The an- nouncement. was made today that the construction of the California Midland Railway will commence on April 28 at a point near Marysyille. The road will connect Marysville with Grase Valley, Nevada City and Auburn, and will ‘have more than sixty miles of tracks. Johm Martin, president of the company, expects the road will be oper- ating by the end of the presént year. It will carry both freight and passem- gers and connect here with the South- ern and Western roads. " Sella Tuterest In Glass Factors. STOCKTON, April 10.—C. J. Hurrle, superintendent and ome of the chief stockholders in the Pacific Window Glass factory just south of Stocktom, has sold out his interest to C. I. Royce, t of the company. The figures have not been givea' out. —_——— PETALUMA, April 10.—Postmaster Olmstead of this city has received word from Washington approving the ap- it of one more mall carrier for this eity. The carrier district will be immediately extended. ———— About ten of the men who read the ‘wan! day after day are looking for ed :n_*.. Have you one for 14 B