Washington County News
Issued Each W eek
PREM IER RESIGN:*.
H O PE LE S S S P L IT .
Many Charges in British Cabinet to
Follow as Result.
Interstate Commission Cannot Agree
on Spokane Rate Case.
London, April 7.— Great Britain ia |
in a peculiar poeition, being without
either premier or ministiy. The long
PLAN
W E A TH E R C O N D IT IO N S FAVOR
expected resignation of Sir Henry
Campbell-Bannerman, the prime min G rcw jrs Get Architect’s Drawingt — Fruit in Willamette Valley Promisee to
Soon Start W ork
ister, was officially announced Satur
Do Unusually Well
day night. According to the court cir
Milton— Plans for the new warehouse
Salem— Climatic conditions during
cular, he resigned on the urgent recom and cold storage plant to be erected by the pdBt winter have been exception-
mendation of his medical advisers, and, the Milton Fri i growers’ uuion have ably favorable for all farm crops and
as the constitution provides no auto be-n received from the architect, F. E. the present fair weather ia considered
matic successor, it resting with the king Finkenbiner, of Walla W alla, and pre ideal for fruit.
The cold spring has
A Resume o f the Less Important but to choose a new head of the govern parations arc being made to begin work. kept the fruit trees back, thus protect
ment, and in accordance with the cus The building will iiave 18-loot walls, ing th-m to a large extent froir. danger
Not Less Interesting Events
tom and precedent, the whole cabinet with a full basement. The second ttory of injury from frosts and late rains.
o f the Past Week.
reslg is with the premier, no step to w ill be used as a box factory and for Growers expect lair weather through
appoint a ministry can be taken until storage purposes. H alf of the basement the blossoming period and with such
Herbert H. Asquith, chancellor of the will be used for cold stoisge, the re conditions prevailing a full crop of fruit
The torpedo flotilla has reached Mag exchequer, wh ) has been summoned to mainder for storage of fruits and ber w ill “ set.”
Biarritz for the purpose, has seen the ries awaiting shipment.
dalena bay for practice.
Apples in (tie W illam ette valley v.ere
The plans are now to construct the a short crop last season and with even
King Edward is severely criticised by king.
The position of the country is quite building of concrete.
Large shipping fair conditions thia year the trees should
his people for leaving his post at a
unprecedented, there being no previous platforms w ill surround it on two sides bear an Immense crop.
Cherry, pear
crisis.
example of a change occurring in the and one end. The building w ill be 40 and prune trees are apparently in per
Naval experts say many new records j premiers! ip while the sovereign was feet wide and 100 feet long, with freight fect condition and there seems to he no
were made by the battleships fleet at abroad. On this account the course of elevators at each end.
It w ill have a reason why a bumper crop should not
Magdalena bay.
procedure to fie followed is in some capacity of handling $500,000 worth of be realized. The high prices stoured
in recent years for fruit has encouraged
fruit during a season.
Howard Gould is suing his wife for a doubt.
6ir Henry’s condition remains un
the growers to do more extensive prun
divorce. Drinking is her worst offense,
P
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$
2
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FOR
ORCHARD
changed, according to the physicians’
ing and spraying that ever before, with
according to his story.
bulletin.
The king, [In telegraphing
the result that the quality of fruit har
Dr.
F.
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Medford.
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Oliver C. Dallas, under arrest at Hel his acceptance of the premier’s resigna
vested w ill be exceptionally good. Tne
Acres in Ashland District.
ena, has admitted making many false tion, conveyed an expression of his re
coming of fair weather has set the plows
Ashland
—
The
papers
have
been
reports on mineral surveys.
gret and eeteera, with best wishes for
going in all orchards and cultivation
diawn at Ashland in what it is believed
Harriman denies that he has main Sir Henry’s recovery.
w ill this year be unusually thorough.
Is the biggest orchard sale yet consum
tained a monopoly of the tiansportation
mated In the history of the Rogue
The Dalles to Have Float
business in Oregon and California.
FLE E T A SSU R E S PEACE.
River valley.
The property involved
The Dallee— At a meeting of the com
The Canadian Pacific railway has de
is the orchard and farm of County
cided to build a second line through Evans Says Voyage to Pacific Was Commissioner JoshiiR Patterson, locat mercial club it was decided that this
city shall be represented at the rose
the Rocky mountains to the Pacific
ed in Talent precinct, four miles north
Well Timed
show in Portland by a float to he de
•oast.
of Ashland. Two hundred and fifty-
signed and constructed by J. W . Har
San Francieco, April 7.— Admiral
eight
acres
was
the
acreage
involved
in
The Italian car in the New York to Robley D. Evans, in an interview
per, of Portland.
A committee lias
the
deal,
130
acres
being
young
orchard
Paris automobile race has arrived at printed in the Chronicle today, said:
made a canvass of the business houses
of lour an 1 five-year-old apple trees in
Ban Francisco and w ill take a steamer
and obtained $(300, with the promise of
“ The greater interest cf the United
fine condition, the remainder being
for Alaska.
an additional $ 100. The float w ill be
States today is in tho Pacific. The
farm lands suitable for fruitgrowing,
Representative Hobson, of Alabama, coming of the fleet to this coast has not hut unplanted to trees. The consider decorated with the products of this v i
cinity and w ill he one of the features of
says the navy needs more ships. That only demonstrated to the world that we ation in the deal was $52,000. •
the spirit of the Golden West parade.
Japan could easily whip the United have 16 battleships which can be
Set Out Many Graces.
brought together for a long cruise at a
States at present.
S eek irg Coql Near Dallas.
moment’s notice, but it has called the
Grants Pass— One of the largest ship
On her return from San Diego to attention of the people of our own
ments of Tokay grape enttings was un
Dallas— Hon. W. C. Brown w ill be
Magdalena the Connecticut exceeded country to the fact that we have a Pa
loaded at the depot this week that has gin the work of drilling for coal on his
her trial speed, and that after the long cific coast as well as an Atlantio coast,
ever been received in one lot in South property in the northern part of this
trip from Hampton Roads.
and that it will be defended just as ern Oregon.
One hundred thousand city within a few days. Several good
A bitter prohibition campaign in I lli much as every inch of land around New cuttings were consigned to W. B. Sher specimens of lignite coal have been
York, and that cur interests in the Pa man, who is setting out 80 acres in the found In recent excavations, and the
nois is near an end.
cific today are greater than in the A t foothills just outeide of the city limits contour of the land at that place indi
Philippine Democrats have Indorsed
lantic.
overlooking town. 8everal other con cates the presence of a large deposit.
Bryan for president.
‘ ‘ This is the short road to the coun signments of small amounts have been Mr. Brown is convinced that the pro
Japan is to abolish the stigma of caste tries of the Far East, where the greatest distributed to varioas other fruit grow ject w ill pay, and w ill lose no time in
on the lower classes.
commercial development is to he. W ith ers. Growers feel jubilant over the making the preliminary excavations for
Great Britain is alarmed at the development w ill ooine war, but it will outlook for grapes and are hustling to sinking a ah itt.
be a commercial war, fought with get well rooted vines to plant and in
growth of Socialism.
Big Batch o f tee'head Fggs
brains and dollars and not with 10-inch some instances W illam ette valley nurs
The chief of the Crow Indians defends guns. It will be generaled by such men
Oregon C ity— Superintendent Henry
erymen have been unable to fill more
Indian Agent Reynolds.
as Harriman, and the part of the navy than half the orders.
O ’ Malley, of the United Stater bureau
of fisheries, reports that prospects are
Russia is inclined to the demands on is only to be always ready. We do not
Cuts Freight Rates.
plan nor fight commercial battles.
good for a take of 2,000,000 steelhead
the control of Manchuria.
Salem— The Oregon Railroad com eggs at the Rogue river station, which
"The coming of the fleet was most
Delaware Republicans w ill send un opportunely timed by the president, mission haa rendered its decision in the he has just inspected. Superintendent
instructed delegates to the convention. and its atrival in the Pacific has result O. R. & N. distributive rate case, or O ’ Malley has just recoived 100,000
An entire trainload of oranges has ed in the present assurance of peace. dering a reduction in rates between Rainbow trout eggs from the govern
just been sent from California to Iowa. Not that I ever believed that there was Portland and points east of The Dalles. ment station at Baird, Cal., and these
any actual danger of war. The people The reduction amounts to 3 cents a w ill be hatched and liberated from
Japan la making extroaordinary war
of both countries realised too well what hundred on first-class freight to Biggs, Clackamas station.
preparations to continue the expansion
a dreadful calamity such a war would 7 cents to Arlington, 13 cents to Pen
Baking Powder Plant at Portland
policy.
dleton, 18 cents to La Grande and Ba
have been.”
Portland— Portland is to be made the
ker City, and 19 cents to Huntington,
The old Fifth avenue hotel in New
with proportionate reductions to other manufacturing and distributing point
York has closed and politicians are
PO LICY IS C H AN G ED .
points and on other classes of freight. for the Northwestern territory of the
homeless.
Rates to The Dalle are already low Hunt’s Perfect Baking Powder com
The German diet has forbidden the
Japan Much h fluenced by Coming of enough, owing to water competition. pany, of Minneapolis. The plant w ill
nsa of any language at public meetings
A ll the commissioners concurred in be built during the summer. W illiam
American Fleet.
but German.
C. Rigg, of Minneapolis, vice president
the
decision.
Tokio, April 7.— A few days ago
of the company, is at the Hotel Port
Harriman officials announce that ex
Shear Speep With Machinery.
land, and is making all arrangements
tensive improvements to San Pedro har Count Okuma received a deputation
Arlington— Sheep-shearing w ill begin to locate a branch of the concern here.
bor w ill be made by the Southern Pa from the Japanese residents of Sacra
mento, Cal., and from the Japanese at Smythe A Smith’ s plant, five miles
cific.
newspaper men of San Francisco, who south of here, this week.
Apple Land at $1,600 an Acre.
Sixteen
It is announced that'the coal mine at wished to solicit his views on the em i shearing machines w ill be used, the
Hood River— One of the biggest sales
Hanna, W yo., In which a score of min gration problem. The count is report power lieing furnished by a six horse cf orchard land that has taken place at
ers were killed, w ill probably never lie ed by the vernacular pipers to have power gasoline engine.
Forty thou Hood R iver was reported in the pur
reopened.
said ttiat it wag very difficult to find sand sheep w ill be sheared at this plant chase of 32 acres of bearing orchard
A general strike in Rome lias follow out wherein lay the object of the dis this season, and an average of 2,000 from C. K. Marshall for $30,000. The
patch of the American
battleship head daily is expected. Sheepmen re purchaser was F. W . Angus, of the firm
ed a labor riot.
squadron to the Pacific at thia time. A port that the sheep are in good condi of MaeRae A Angus.
The orchard is
Ruef's last objection to a trial has good deal haa been made of the move tion, but that pasture is getting scarce.
set to young trees that have only been
been overruled.
ment by the European press and it was This has been one of the most success in bearing a year or two, and the price
The Brasilian cruiser Bergamld Con looked upon there as an occurrence of ful lambing seasons known, but few paid is not regarded as high, owing to
unusual significance. Japan, however, lambs being lost from any cause.
stant Is to visit Honolulu.
the standard varieties of apple trees
had received the assurance of the
and its locali in.
A n d few Carnegie has given $5,000,- United States government that it was
$ 2 ,0 0 0 Raised for Diking Fund.
00J more to penoion university profess not intended as a menace to Japan,
Freewater— A largely attended meet
PO R TLA N D M ARKETS.
ors.
but was merely undertaken for the pur ing of ranchers, interested in eontroll-
Wheat— Club, 84c; bluestem, 87i
ng the flooilwaters of the Tum-a-lnm
Hard times have forced Ilelsn Gould pose of training officers and men.
Nevertheless, whatever the real ob i nd W alla Walla rivers, met last week valley, 8oc; red, 82c.
to retrench her charities. Two indus
Barley— Feed, $24 50 per ton; rollei
About $2,000 has
trial schools in which she is interested ject cf the movement might be, it was in Badgero’ s hall.
Indisputable that Japan’a emigration been subscribed for the project, and the $27@28 per ton; brewing. $27.
are to oiose.
Oats— No. 1 white, $26 50 per tot
policy had been considerably affected work of diking the river has already
{«tire d clearing ho me certificates ol thereby and it was not easy to sever en
commenced.
Twenty-three thousand gray, $26.
(icago to the amount of $14,000,000 tirely the dispatch of the fleet from the
Corn — W hole, $33.50;
crackei
a rea of land In this valley sre irriga
ve been sold to a cardboard factory policy Japan Lad lately pursued toward
ble. of which there are 5,000 acres $34 50.
reduced to pulp.
Hay— Valley timothy, No. 1, $17 p
now under cultivation producing excel
the United Slates in this connection.
fCharles Fisher, aged 17, dropper!
ton; Eastern Oregon timothy, $17 51
lent crops.
clover, $14; cheat, $15; grain hay, $1
*>ad In the streets of Bedford, Ind. lie
Collect Money by Autos.
To Exsmine Soils.
@ 15; alfalfa, $12.
Ikas addicted to the cigarette habit and
San Francisco, April 7.— W ith a
Klamath Falls— Through the joint
Fruits— Apples, $1@3 50 per bo:
bad one in his mouth when death came
‘ ‘ flying squadron” of ten big automo
The propoeition to build a new sub biles pressed into service for the occa efforts of the Klamath Water Users’ according to quality; cranberries, $8
way in New York from the Battery to sion and a corpi of volunteeroolllectors, association and the Klamath chamber 11 per barrel.
Vegetables— Artichokes, 75@90c pi
the Bronx, under Broadway and Lex extraordinary efforts will be made by of commerce, and the personal requests
ington avenue, to cost $00,000,000 has the fleet committee to bring the ti tal of of citizens of this section, a soil survey dozen; asparagus, 9e pound; beans, 2(
of the Klamath basin w ill Ire made by ponnd; cahhaae, 1 >^<ai *40 pound; cai
been approver!.
the fleet fund to $70,000, and to cease a corps of soil experts of the United
liflower, 50c(3$l; celery, $4.50@5 pi
For the third time in six weeks the work in that connection by Wednesday States Department of Agriculture. It is crate; parsley, 25c per dozen; peas, It
Before
the
collectors
wind
up
their
Ohio river at Cincinnati is above Hood
very urgently desired by the people pound; peppers, 20c per pound; rai
efforts Tuesday night they will visit
that the survey be made this summer, ishes. I 6 * pe iL’Z m; rhubarb, $2 ? 2.i
■tags.
2,300 saloons and 600 restaurants with
A Chicago jury lias decided that 160 in the boundary of the city and expect and assurances have been received from per crate; spinach, 85c crate; sprout
hats are excluded fr>ni the “ neteseary the to secure pledges of between $15, Secretary Wilson that it will be under 10c per pound, sqna«h, l@ lt £ c potim
taken as soon as possible.
Onions— Oregon.$4.25@4 50 per hui
household expenses” for which a hus 000 and $20,000.
j dred.
band is liable when Incurred by his
The Dalles Makes Good Brick
Potatoes— 45(9 5 >c per hundred, d
w ife without his approval.
Stolen Bust is Found.
The Dalles— Mr. Litherland, a Port
livered Portland
Rome, April 7.— After a diligent land brick expert, whoee opinion was
Indiana Republicans are boosting for
Butter— Fancy creamery, 27i,c pi
search tbe police have found the hronre sought by Ihe architect of the city hall, ponnd.
Fairbanks.
bust of Pope Clement V III, which was now in process of construction, regard
Poultry— Average old hens, 14@ lf
Germany is preparing to float a loan stolen from the V illa Aldobrandini ing brick lately burned here by The
per p onnd; mixed rhiekens,
13*
of $162,600,000.
Dalles
Brick
A
Tile
company,
has
made
The thieves gained access to the villa
spring chickens, 16@20o; turkey«, liv
Diamond workers of Germany are on by breaking open a window. The bust a repart after a careful examinat ion and 15@16c; dressed, choice,
i7(3 18
which weighs fully 500 pounds, was declares the brick equal to any made in
■trike for higher wages.
geese, live,
9.-;
ducks, 16@17i
found buried about half a mile from this state. Some of the casing brick pigeons, 75cf(t$l; squab«, $1.50@2.
Representatives of national banks of the villa . It was the evident intention deliverer! in this city by mistake had
Figs«— Fresh ranch, 16c per dozen.
Chicago condemn the Aldrich currency of the thieves to keep it eoncealed until been rejected by the architect, wtiich
Veal— 75 to 125 pounds, 8@9c; 1!
b II.
an opportunity should oe afforded to led to the examination.
to 150 poun Is, 7c; 150 to 200 pound
A 8t. Louis womtn has committer! ship it abroad.
Seek for Oil,
5@6S,c.
lolde to secure insurance for an in
The Dallee— Article« of ineoropratlon
Pork— Block, 75 to 150 pounds, 7i
Transport Sherman Sails.
by the “ Beavis May Oil company” have 7 ^ 0 ; packers, 5(36^0.
lid sister.
San Francisco, A p ril 7.— The trans been tiled with the county clerk here.
Hops— 1907, prime and choice, 4@i
Another rate war between trans- port Sherman w ill sail st noon tomor The Incorporators are George R. Beavis, per pound; olds, li31J^c per ponnd.
lantic lints is expected. Steerage row for Manila with a large number Anna Mav and Dr. Harry F. McKay.
W on'— Eastern Oregon, a v in g e be*
es are being cut.
if first class passengers besides 100 The capital etock is $30,000. The com 12@18c per pound, according to ahrin
pany purposes to engage in developing age; val'ey, 16 <*18o. according to qua
peaker Cannon has called for an in enlisted men of the Twenty-fifth roset
oil lan le in the vicinity of Defer, Or., lty; m hair, choice, 25c per pound.
into the paper truat in order to artillery, and 130 recruits for the troops
at which place the head office ia to be.
Ceeonra Bark— 3c per pound.
in the Philippines.
tbe tariff law.
FOREST GROVE
OREGON
NEWS OF THE WEEK
| q a Condensed Form for Our
Busy Readers.
L
Waihington, April 6.— After having
i the Spokane rate case under considera
tion for more than one year, the Int r
state Commerce commission is appar
ently hopelessly divided legardiug the
dt cisión which should he retideied.
The case is the m od important upon
the dockets of the commission, and up
on it hinges the entire rate^abiic of the
United States.
If the ccmmission'should decide with
the sh'ppera of Spokane, the theory up
on which the railroads have made rates
from the earliest days w ill be upset and
pa-t decisions on the siiort and long
haul clause of the commerce act w ill be
more or less nullified.
On the other
hand, if the commission refutes tc dis
turb the pieeent adjustment, a long sti p
toward establishing the justice of the
ratemaking methods of the railroads
w ill have been taken. Rec< guiziug the
import of the ease, the commission went
into a most careful and elaborate inves
tigation and hearing of all the facts and
listened to arguments from a large
number of the business, r a .Ira J and
commercial lawyers in the W ist.
Sino« tho arguments were heard the
commission has liad numerous confer
ences regard ng a decision, and it de
velops that there aie at least three dll-
ferent views which thus far have proved
irreconcilable.
The commiesh n has
struggled in vain to get a major ty re-
p irt and apparently is in a deadlock.
The case is one which had been both
ering the-railrna s in the Northwest ior
years prior to the commission’s being
given greater powers.
Owing to water
competition, according to the railroads,
the rates to Spokane from the Flastern
seaboard are tbe rates to the Pacific
coast, plus the local rates from the Pa
cific coast back to Spokane. The latter
ci:y insists that this is unfair.
F IG H T FOR S A L T BEDS.
Deposits o f Enormous Value
ered in Utah.
Discov
Washington, A pril 6.— T itle to lands
in the state of Utah containing salt de
posits of an extent and purity hitherto
not only unknown, hut undreamed of,
is involved in a sensational contest now
being fought out in this city.
About
38,1)1)0 acres of lands lying along the
western border of Utah have been dis
covered to be overtopped with salt, artd
an attempt is being made to acquire
them by the filing of placer mining
claims on the part of individuals. The
vaule of the lands was today estimated
by one of the claimants at $00.000,000.
Deposited by nature on the lands
over which the contest is being made is
a bed of pure salt, which in some places
lies to a depth of six feet. This salt is
of so fine a quality that it has been
lound unnecessary to refine it. It can
be marketed direct from the deposit and
tests have shown it to be 98 per cent
pure.
Elaborate preparations have
been made for the control of the land
by individuals, who have thus far kept
the discovery of the deposit out of the
newspapers.
For two or three months they were
successful, but now the state of Utah
has awakened to the vast possibilities
of this salt deposit and the aid of the
senate of the United States and the
president has been invoked in an effort
to retain the product, which the com
monwealth claims under a section of
the enabling act making it a state.
PAINT AND POLISH
Jackies Preparing Atlantic F leet
for Grand Parade.
INSPECTION IS MADE BY DIVERS
Find Bottoms o f
Many Ships Nearly
As Clean As When They Left
Hampton Roads.
Magdalena, Bay, A pril 7.— (V ia 8an
Diego)— The work of preparing for the
California reception, now hut ten days
distant, ie already in progrefS among
the haul-sliips of the Atlantic fleet.
Every ship not engaged in coaling or
working on the torpedo range is udergo-
ing a thorough scrubbing, scraping and
painting from the water line to the
mastheads. Flvery inch of the surface
of the ships w ill be gone over and
cleaned and polished.
Divers have
been sent over the side of each ship
and Lave made thorough inspections of
the bottoms.
Many of the vessels are nearly az
clean as when they left Hampton
Roads, according to the reports oi the
divots. Tho long time spent at anchor
age in the bay has done more to foul
the bottoms than the trip around the
Horn.
The work of coaling for the final leg
of the long voyage is being pushed with
all speed. Last night the crew of the
Maine worked all night taking coal from
a collier alongside and stowing it away
in the blinkers.
Admiral Thomas has issued a tenta
tive program for the fleet for the dates
April 11 to April 19, which includes
the departure of the fleet from Magda-
lrna at same hour not yet fixed on
April 11 and its arrival at San Diego
at 1 p. m. April 14. The program
qu lies from the official program of the
reception committee in San Diego, giv
ing the details for the four days the
shipi w ill be in port there
Admiral Thomas lias also issued a
lengthy detailed order, on Hie forma
tion of a brigade of sailors and marines,
for parade duty in San Diego, San
Fraticirco and other cities, it provides
for the formation of a fleet naval brig
ade of more than 5,000 men. Ih e total
is made of 64 companies cf bluejackets,
four from each ship, and 16 companies
of marines or one from each ship.
S T R E E T S RUN BLOOD.
Seven Are Killed and IOO Wounded In
Liibon Election Riots.
Lishon, April 7.— Seven persons were
shot to death and 100 others wounded
by soldiers last evening, after the vot
ing in the elections in this city had
ended. The rioting was widespread and
such was the confusion during the vio
lent conflict between the populace and
the municipal government that the
guardsmen, mistaking the infantry who
ha 1 been called out for rioters, fired a
volley into their
ranks,
seriously
wounding three of the soldiers.
The night was one of terror for Lis
bon, which seemed suddenly aflame
with revolt. Bands of men ran wildly
through the streets, brandishing weap
ons, while the sharp crack of rifles was
heard in various sections.
S O O N DECIDE LU M BER RATES
Lisbon remains practically an armed
camp. Large numbers have been ar
Then Commission Will Act on Open rested. The people are now in a state
of feverish unrest and it is feared there
ing Portland Gateway.
may be a recurrence of the bloodshed.
Washington, April 6.— The Portland
gateway case, which was argued last
W OM EN C A R R Y ON W O R K .
fall and which Involves the shipment
of lumber eastward from Puget sound
Chinese Boycott Against Japanese
via Portland, w ill not be decided until
G oose Spreading Rapidly.
the Interstate Commerce commission
O.nton, April 7. — The boycott
lias lendered an opinion on tiie iumber
rate casos which were recently argued against the Japanese arising out of the
hero. The commission w ill this week trouble between Japan and China over
hold its first conference on the lumber the seizure and subsequent release of
rate case and its decision in that case the Tatsu Maru. is spreading rapidly.
Mass meetings have been held with
may not be forthcoming for many
weeks, though there is a disposition to the object of impressing upon the Chi
settle this question with as much ex nese the necessity of making the boy
pedition as possible, as it involves the cott of Japanese products and manufac
lumber industry of the entire North tures as far reaching »s possible.
Deppite a torrential rain today more
west.
than 1X 00 women dressed in white as
an emblem of mourning attended a
Increases Fire Hazard.
San Francisco, April 6.— The present meeting held for this purpose.
unsatisfactory condition of San Fran
cisco’ s water supply, especially from
the point of view of protection against
fire hazard, was forcibly outlined in a
communication sent to the board of
supervisors today by tbe board of fire
underwriters of the Pacific. The report
sets forth that the water system of the
city is a gravity system, with “ pres
sures not standard,” an 1 says that the
distributing reservoirs and tanks within
the city “ do not contain five days' snp-
P l > . " _________________
Trophy for Best Record.
Seattle, April 7 — A special to the
Times from Spokane, rays that when
the Atlantic fleet reaches Seattle next
month, the battleship or first class
cruiser w hich made the highest score at
the recent target practice in Magdalena
bay w ill be awarded a solid silver tro
phy, valued at $1 500, presented by the
people of Spokane. The cup is to be
competed for annually by battleships
and cruisers of the first class of the en
tire American navy. Secretary Metcalf
anm nnced that the trophy would be
Ford Trial Set.
San Francisco, April 6.— Judge Law- acceptable.
lor indicated this morning that he
Nebraska Returns B ow.
would p'ace Tirey L. Ford, general
Lincold. Neb., April 7.— Insurance
counsel of the United railroads, on trial
for the brlb*ry of Supervisor Coleman Auditor Fleece today decided to notify
next Wednesday, if he denied the de agen's of companies organis'd under
fendant’s motion for a change of ver ue the laws of California that they must
when Ford's attorneys tiled their reply cease doing business in Nebraska. This
affidavits tomorrow. AsMstant District action followed a refn«al of Commit-
Attorney John O’ Gara today filed his sioner W olf, of California, to edmit
affidavit in reply to that of Tirey L. Nebraska companies. The action of
Insurance Auditor Pierce affects the
Ford.
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Firemen s Fund, of San Francifco; the
Home Fire A Marine, of San Francisco,
Police Assist Burglar.
Philadelphia, April 6 — An amazing and the Pacific Mutual, of Loe Angeles.
story of alleged d shonesty in the police
department of this city was told today
by Hairy R< thenberger. ag d 19 years,
who was arrested charged with larc-ny.
, The youth mr.de a confession, in which
he says he w«s aided and abetted in a
number of hurglariea in the who! -ale
district of the city by four poliCt-meD.
F ur B'g Colt’ers Arrive.
P: n^FranC'Sco, April 7 — Since Satur
day four British eollier«, carrying 25,-
090 ton« of coU for the big fleet of 16
battierbi^s from the Atlantic, have ar
rived at this port an 1 are now moored
in the stream.