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The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-03-02
THE RA11RoID BRIDGE At YUMA.

at l 80 o'clock in the afternoon, Put the loss
OF life In the valley anywhere from thirty up
10 100. All along the valley for 200 miles
everything is desOlation. Houses and barns,
stocks and fences, have been carried away
by the flood, leaving the country as bare as
n desert. Eighty miles south of here,
where 500 C0c0pah Indians live, the
country is flooded for eighty miles
square, and as there are no hills for refuge,
1t is reported that over 100 of them have
been drowned. The great valley of the
Colorado River is one vast sea OF water.
The loss in this county foots up over 81, co.,
600. Old Yuma will probably never be
rebuilt. The town will go higher up on the
hills.
YUMA, March 1.-The statement made
that great loss of life has occurred here is
untrue and absolutely incorrect. One man
is known to have been drowned, and there
not confirmed. News from Mojave Valley,
Just received. is that many thousands oil
dollars worth of valuable property has been
destroyed, and. although dozens of narrow
tine in,,,oGH Gila of Valley Val , have lost large
are without shelter. The United States
Experimental Farm, which, before the
flood, was one mile from the Gila River, is
now located on the south bank of that
SlItdln, Tue cndnnel DaVlnG changed elIlrely
during the overflow. The Yuma Indians
have lost everything they owned by the
overflow, and horses, camp equipage. pro-
visions and tools have been all swept away.
Unless the Yuma Indians are assisted they
Will suffer for food. Later and fuller news
is expected from the Gila Valley tonight.
The Colorado and Gila Rivers are now iall-
ing. The weather is clear and cool.
The great flood of February, 1891, will be
long remembered by the people of Arizona,
for during the past week one of the most
disastrous storms in the history of the
Territory has occurred destroying two
towns, washing away hundreds of bridges,
and submerging many miles of railroad
track and completely paralyZing traffic.
Many lives have been lost and there is
widespread and dire distress.
Yuma is situated on the Colorado River
just below its confluence with the ella. The
Colorado is one of the principal rivers in
America and rises away up in the Territory
of Wyoming, on the western slope of the
Rocky Mountains. The Snake River flowing
west into the Columbia ana the North Platte
east into the Missouri have their sources in
the same neighborhood; and the Colorado
gathers the streams of Wyoming, Colorado,
Utah, New Mexico and Arizona. and finally
pOurs its great flood into the Gulf Of Cali
fornia.
Yuma is protected by levees from the
waters OF this river, which, during the rainy
season, grows turbulent and destructive,
but on Thursday afternoon a levee to the
east of the town gave way and in few
hours nothing was left of Yuma but tn,
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LAID TO REST.
Ex-state Treasurer Tufy of Carson Followed
to the Grave by Large Procession.

Ex-state Treasurer Tufy of Carson Followed
to the Grave by Large Procession.
CARSON, March 1.-The funeral of ex-
State Treasurer Tufy took place to-day
from the Masonic Hall under the auspices
of the Knights Templar of De Witt Clinton
Commandery The hall was packed to over
flowing with friends of the deceased, many
of whom brought flowers tribute to the
dead A touching address was delivered
over the remains by Rev George r. Davis,
after which the remains were taken TO the
cemetery ollowed by one Of the longest
lines OF carriages ever seen at funeral
in this city. The rain fell in
torrents, but the knights Templar.
Masons, Red Men and Odd Fellows
formed an imposing line in full regalia His
death was not unexpected, as he had been
falling for more than year. He served
two terms as State Treasurer, and was also
Treasurer of nearly every secret society in
the State, an was also for some time cash
Ter of the Bullion Bank and President of the
gas company. In ali these positions of trust
there was never any shortage. He resided
Tor thirty years in this city. He was "a
years old and native of Switzerland. He
leaves two daughters to mourn his loss s.
Mrs. Oliver Roberts. wife of the proprietor
of the Arlington House of this city, and
Mrs. Tibnrcio Parrott wife of the st.
Helena (Cal) capitalist. The Reno Brass
Band headed the line 10 and from the grave,
playing appropriate dirgeS.
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FAIR EXHIHIrs.
Appointment Of Commissioners TO Represent
Cube at the Columbian Expositior


Cuba at the Columbian Exposition
WASHINGTON, March l.--AI Curtis oa
the State Department. who has charge Of
lie atin-American department Of The Co
lumblal EXu15i ION, has elGsL returned
from a visit 10 ti1a West Iud. 5e inter-
est Of tue eXpOsitl on. IL 0rt Curtis
announced the appointment by lna Captain
General Of Cuba Of a board Of thirty eGn-
riiSSieners TO represent the island ut the
exposition and secure a collection IL
iL1 ;rstlnE It's resources. products aud
industries for exhibition there. This
board, MI Curtis sa4 j., Includes the most
prominent enteTpTising and lAflUeAti1 meG
ir INC colony ten of the thirty bearing ths
..nk OF kXceIlentlsSlm0 HE Chairman
the EScellentssino Sr. Don Antonio c.
Ttllerii, Is gentleman Of great wealth
and wide experience In commercial and
political affairs, and has a very high stand
ing in spain. Tine desire of the people Of
. Cuba, report says, especially the sugar
and tobacco manufacturers, to promote
their commercial. relations with the United
States amounts to anxiety; and may
also mention in this connection mat
ter of news Il learned at Havanua,
VIII is that the commercial
Organization Of the Republic Of San DonIin-
60 have raised a purse to pay tho salary ana
expenses of an envoy to be sent by the Gov
ernment TO Washington for the purpose OF
negotiating reciprocity treaty with the
United States. 4 similar spirit pervadeS
the entire group Of West Indian colonies,
and will, l am sure, stimulate their repre-
Sentation at the exposition"
While in Havana Curtis secured for the
historical section of the exposition plaster
casts OF the tomb Of Columbus and the IA
nous statue Of Columbus in Chains.
EX-MnisteT Foster, who has just returned
from Havana. says that city is packed with
Americans. BE says that Cuba is in a bad
way. Her business interests are nearly par
aiyzed. The island represents a loss each
year to the Spanish Government in the form
of deficiency. The taxes collected do not
paY the expenses of the lrcal government.
The greatest falling off has been in the
sugar industry. Tie people in Cuba are
anxious to secure reciprocity under the Me
Kinley bill so that they can get their sugar
into the United States free.
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Arizona Penitentiary, which is situated on
high mesa, shown on the map, and the
Southern Pacific Hotel, which is also on
high ground.
hight was twenty-Six feet six inches above
hgt-mater mark. In less than ain hour
after the levee broke on Thursday afternoon
the water had reached the hight OF thirty
TWO feet and ten: inches or more than five
feet above the highest ever known.
SAN DIEGO, March l. News from Tia
Juana shows that the disaster is greater
than at first reported. People are lodged in
a school-house, almost naked. and the neigh
boring farmers have used up all sur
plus food. and the county now takes
charge of their immediate necessities.
The stream is one hundred feet wide
10y sixteen feet deep In the flood through
swift that row boats cannot be used to ald
the people. Nothing is left in the village.
The debris covers the town to depth OF SIX
or NOR, feet. The people will rebuild on
the high land back of the old site in the
spring. Three lives have been lost.
GHRoY, March 1.-Another heavy rain
fell last night, adding about an inch to tue
already superabundant precipitation, Inc
adjacent creeks, which are under neaVy
pressure from the mountain districts, over
leaped their banks this morning, ana the
water flowed from them through the south
end of the town, reaching to the railway
depot and beyond. To-day has alternated
In sunshine and cloud, with prospects THIS
afternoon of more rain to come. The iarm-
ers are now wishing for cessation Cf the
storm. -
ONTARIO Mont), March 1.-The Feb
ruary rainfall has been 1901 inches. and Tor
the season the total has been 1885 inches.
The weather continues to threaten, and,
while damage has been done here, more
rain now Will be very unwelc0me.. :. -
SONORA (M6nt) March "A very. heavy
rain has fallen since February 18th in .thi
section and all of the mountain streams and
rivers have the highest water experienced
this season. There is a. deep snow on the
mountain. A south wind still continues
with no signs of let-up.
BISHOP, March lit has been raining
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:. CANADIAN LlRERALs.
Government officials Criticized in an Address
=. = BY Sir .Riehard Cartwright.

Government Officials Criticized in an Address
%. =. by Sir Richard Cartwright.
ToR6NTo. March 1.-Speaking at a mass
meeting. of. =. liberals in East York
late last: hight, Sir Richard cartwright
said the. Government appeared to have
adopted a policy of letter-steaiing. and then
be made the following charge:
g g The other day 1 noticed a letter which
our Secretary had addressed to a gentleman
in Hastings; but which, apparently, never
reached that gentleman. The address was
plain, ,butIt had gone to- the D ad Letter
Office. been opened there ana sent, not to the
SecrftaTy,Fs Lthink the law requires. but to
the Government candidate for West Hast
ings>%hO forthwith published it,
Referring t0.Nau HOrne's manifesto, he
al!ud6d:tO v an Horne rs dlctatoT-iu-chi-f
to her. Majesty's Government in Canada.
He CONDEMNED the manifesto as mist Ike,
and. added: All Horne ought to be
careful not by ill-ddViSed and foolish Ian
guage td provoke TetaiatiOn ard animOSity
on the. FaTt..ot. the leople OF the United
States" 1t :Is:.knuwn 10 every person well
informed that. there exists in the United
States avery :ugly feeling, and Van Horne
himself admits il, against our great railway
systems, and uoiaUly against the Canadian
Pacific. it..Is at this moment that Van
Horne chooses: TO. follow the lead of the
E[emieT, Who went cut Of Ills way to in
suit the American people. 1t is a thing
whiGh. ought to have brought down upon
him the censure of his directors if he has di-
rectOfs-.and is not an autOcrlt Of the rail-
way, as:she: seems to be an autOcrat of the
GOVefnueRt: OF Canada" 49,
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SWEPT BY THE FLOOD
Fourteen Hundred People at
Yuma Homeless.
Fears That Hundreds of Lives Have
Been Lost in The Gila Valley.
YaSl Areas Of The Country Swept by The
Raging Torrents = Old Yuma Will
Probably Never Be Rebuilt.
special to THE MORNING CALI

DENVER March 1.-The Rocky Mount
air News Yuma, Ariz.. special says: ''Over
Z5o houses are in ruins from the tlcod and
14Vo people are homeless Not single bus
mess house remains standing, and it is
feared that hundreds of lives have been
lost III the Gila Valley. The river above
town Is seven miles wide, and below town
IN places the water covers the country
IN one grand lake over fifty miles
across The town has provisions sufficient
Tor eight days more, and the Southern Pa
clhc Hotel Is feeding a thousand people a
day. Reports from Jakuno, fifteen miles
ABOVE here are to the effect that the flood
drove the people into the tree-tops, and
that many become exhausted from cold and
hunger and dropped into the water and were
drowned. A report from reliable sources
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THE HEARST oBsEoUIEs.
Brief and Simple Services in Washington and
Burial in California

Brief and Simple Services in Washington and
Burial in California.
WAsuNGToN, March Funeral services
over the remains Of the late Senator Heart
are to be held Thursday at his late resi-
dence, and they will lie brief and simple.
The day of the funeral has been delayed
until Thursday, so as TO enable the mem
bers of the Senate and House who desire to
attend the funeral to do so without inter-
fering with the pressing business that de-
mands their attention during the few re-
naming days of Congress. On Thursday
night or Friday morning, the exact time has
not been determined upon rs yet. the re-
mains will be taken to the railroad station,
deposited in private car attached to the
regular train and started on their way TO
San Francisco. where the interment takes
place. Mrs Hearst ana her son, and pos5i-
bly, some of the intimate friends Of the fam
lily, will accompany the remains.
Many persons called at the house to-day
to express sympathy with the family, and a
number af kilograms OF coincidence were re-
ceiypd. Vice-President Morton was among
those who called. The pall-bearers have
not yet been selected.
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PRINTERS, MOVEMENT.
A Radical Change in the Working System of
Newspapers ;:


SEATTLE, March 1.-Seattle Typographical
Union, No. 2o2, this afternoon decided to
abolish piece work on all of tie daily papers
and established the eight-hour working-day
system, with the minimum scale of S4 a day.
Hereafter work will begin: on morning pa
pers at 80 o'clock in the evening, the COM
posltor not being required to visit the office
duringtle day. Thsadvantage to the men
is that much larger number will be eni-.
ployed, while the system. of subs titnteswill
be revised, Under the new method copy.
will. not :abe furnished, printers: before 9
O'Clock. instead of,at-7:S9> as now, and the
editorial force of; the paper: will also: have
their working. hours changed, greatly to
their advantage. -: -. - =
I The new system was. adopted after con-
ference between the proprieters and the
men, and at. the. union meeting this after
noon the vote was almost unanimous. Sc
attle Is the second city in the United States
to take This action, the New York World
being the originator of the movement. The
scale heretofore has been 90. cents per thou
sand ems, with a long: list of extra-price
matter, and this scale has. been so difficult
of Interpretation that there has been con-
slant trouble. The union has member
shin of about DO.
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!. . GEKMANY AND. FRANcE.
Newspaper Comments on the Strained R,

Newspaper Comments: on the Strained Re
: :. -; ;. : >: lations>at Present Existing.
= Berlin, Ala1ch1:-- -The .acti6n.of the Gov
=: :ernnent:in :rpgaEd 10. passports inAlsace-
!: :LofTaine-is III received .by:some Of the Con-
:seTYatiyes: as %~wen as by. the Freisnnige
party The Kreuz Zeitung> speculqteS upon
the TobaBIlny Of War. with France. and,
after upbrdjdinE :the: Germans for being of
too patient and sluggiSh@a temp perame1t.. eX-
presses doubts of the friendship Of Italy
and England. ltSaES thai Germany having
failed t0:s secure the love Of Europe, ought to
endeaY6r to -qltain*fts- -Eespect..
The .J0irrnaE des:St. Petersbarg, hopes
, effdrts wi Ue<made on both sides to remove
the shadoW on: the relations between France
and@Germally~: 80: -. =.
= :. ], ONION March, 1.-THE Empress Fred
seTiekAT0te a letter. TO tie Kaiser Thursday
night begging .heE.-sOn to keep. COOL She
saw ii reason; she said, for shortening her
stay or ayGlding publicity, as everyone she
met treated .lier in the pOlitest manner and
. she felt grateful, in fact, for the attention
, she had leceiyrd:.: -. :. -. :-@.-- .....
J. The@Iime5' Vienna correspondent says:
The =. German Government, in q dis
patch to Won Muast 3r, the Ger
man = Ambassador at Paris, iustructs
him TO =. refrean from. any initiate
action and merely tQreply, questioned by
.Rib0t,s that Germany has no Ie2r0ach TO
make, but The. contrary is quite satisfied
NIthtte- -planher:in which the French Gov
ernment endeaYored. to maintain the rights
!: Of hospitality: :. -:...-.- :.
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MAX ROTHSCHILD.
Young Man Who Has Been Playing q
Sharp Game.


NEW YORK, March 1.-The police here
have man who says his name is Max
Rothschild, and who is said to have been
doing business with dry-goods merchants
throughout the West. The prisoner, who is
man about 80 years of age, has, it appears,
a little office on Broadway. and has had
drummer travelling about the country offer
Ing to sell cotton goods at a rate 40 per
cent cheaper than the goods could be pur-
chased of other parties. The drummer
announced that he represented the firm of
William Rothschild. who owned big cotton
mills in Maine. The plan was to ask for
money before the goods ordered were de-
livered. Into the trap many firms
have fallen. 1t, however, remained
Campbell &c Co. of Red Bluff, Cal, to give
the needed pointers in the case to the police
in this city. On this information Inspector
Byrnes acted. The reputable cotton firm of
William Rothschld & Co. Of 46 Howard
street has severely suffered through the
prisoners work. On the prisoner was
found check for S234 from Joseph Meyer
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INCREASE OF The ARMY.
Provisions for The Reorganization Of The
Artillery and Infantry Forces.

WASHINGTON, March 1.-One of the most
important of many measures passed by the
Senate yesterday was a bill to provide for
the reorganization of the artillery and In
fantry forces of the army. Senator HaWley
says it is measure to which most
earnest thought has been given by leading
army men and Legislators during a number
OF years, and 10 the form ii passed the Sen
ate it represents the concurrent judgme Mt Of
the most expert and trustworthy au-
thorities. The bill provides for an
increase In the number of en-
listed men of all grades in the army to 80, 900,
exclusive of the hospital corps and genera!
service clerks and messengers. The totel
is 5000 greater than that fixed by the present
law. A novel feature of the measure is
that the increase will include not less than
1000 Indians
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IRISH .PobITICs.
Parnell Pleased With the Proof of Support
- : -. Accorded Him.

Pafnel Pleased With the Proof Of Support
=: Accorded Him.
DUBLIN, March 'I-Rrplying 10 deputa-
tion at Droghala to-day, Parnell said he re-
ioiced at the proof Of support everywhere
accorded him. On arriving at Maven, Par
lell addressed a meeting in the square. He
saif that perhaps some day IN the distant
feiOre sS9neuudy would arise privileged 20
so ulefs. thei-, not as men Of rBysl Meata
hls: mer IT. republican Meath Is was
-l.s.i.- VII 1h hrSt gave him al opportunity,
fEteen TeTArs ago, 10 serve ITel qtn ublc
ia = aty had wUE- . Ltsdred skirlniShes
lJE1t'eer. r.:EuG no,' h. wanted 70 be allowed
O. Q.v.iu= a>. Battlb them. a ready they
had,udt- 2 suatie Ill he mouth II tue land
lords. Ky aRu 6y. - IL . Parliament in
College Green. they uQgld ft these sane
mouths with e bit. IChesrs ana laughter. J
> u conclusion, 4aCneil expressed the hope
t.-si.. .i;: aunf1ants You'd Ike warning OK
e. u .o4. = z. a- j: r. rms iat WAS likely
The :TdtlY Ito .}its .:siili 10. III iT- tf7--
selves from Il kls# Ell taDgleWeHts Of the En-
:glisll party al l.Rii &c ,Wqyea around them by
the: GralL Jill Spf;Ier:3'2:: -. -. -.
-: DUBLIy, March; 1.-Tlie McCarthyite lac
ti0n .0fE'he .lEish party held quiet meeting
at RAtEkeale,~ County Limerick, to-day.
There We Le no :1iTtest$ akt either; the McCar-
thylte>Gr >Eafn6! life meetf . This was due
to.the TACT :lhat BiShjp t0'DTyer had ad-
-Yised ::the:lifiests to- abstain altogether from
attending Political IneetjIigs -
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NATIONAL POLITICS.

Gorham Thinks Legislation Is Controlled by
Personal Likes and Dislikes.
New YORK, March IA Tribune's Wash
iDgton dispatch says: George c. Gorham,
formerly Clerk of the United States Senate,
says that he takes no interest I'm politics
any more. lie thinks national politics is
dying out in Washington. Personal poll
tics" said he, 'has taken its place. 1t is
rare to find man i'll either branch of Con-
gress who engages in legislation with any
thing but personal view" Gorham thinks
that this political degeneracy is most clearly
shown in the Senate. Their personal likes
and dislikes control everything, and per-
sOnal jealousies are most keen and bitter.
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Land-slides Delaying Trains.

SANTA CRUZ. March 1.-The narrow
gauge due here at noon to-day, was pre-
vented from coming by q landslide near
Alma. There is also landslide at Zayante,
rails suspended like telegraph wires. Other
land-slides are reported. but no reliable in
formation can be learned as to their extent.
1t was cloudy here all day, but;no rain fell
until tonight, when it began again. The
San Lorenzo River is fullt the banks, but
no apprehension of an overflow is felt. :
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PENSION CLAIMS.
Appropriation for the Benefit of Veterans VII
Lost Limb

Appropriation for the Benefit Of Veterans Who
Lost Limb.
WASHINGTON, March 1.-The War De-
partmant will pay S525,OO0 this year to pen
sioners who are entitled to an allowance for
loss of limbs. Officers and men who have
lost limb or its use in the service are en-
titled to receive every five years an artificial
limb or an allowance therefor. This
law was passed in 1870. Every
five years since 1871, the allowance
greatly exceeds the usual APPROPRIATION
which last year, for instance, amounted to
only 100000 The Surgeon- General, be-
fore this years appropriations became
available, abolished the attorney system,
after hard fight. 1t meant over $4,000 in
fees to claim ayers this year, ana he was
determined that lids Should be saved TO the
nenSinnprS.
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A PRIEST SURPRISED.
An Insane Woman Claims an Officiating Cler-
pvInan as Her Husband.

CHICAGO. March 1.-Just as Rev. Father
Frederick of st. Joseph's Church was
bringing the vesper service to a close TO-
night neatly dressed woman rushed down
the aisle and up the altar steps and
threw her arms around the priests
neck, exclaiming, " My husband, my
long lost husband" Father Frederick
divining the situation, released himself from
the wonian's embrace with the assistance Of
a parishioner In the front seats. The
woman fought desperately, but slie was
finally removed and taken to the Detention
Hospital. The woman proved TO be Mrs;
Mary White, who was recently released
from the County Insane Asylum.
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THE. LABOR QUESTION.
Interest Manifested in the Selection Of the
:.:,5:.>s; :. PROPOSED Royal Commission.


: :.*a:... Proposed Royal Commission.
!. =. NEW. Y oRKj march, la Tri6une's Lon
don dispatch says :~:@In announcing the in
.tenton:i to. app0int.a a Royal Commission to
deal.wilh, the labor. que stion, tile Govern
: nient las. nrdd e: an: eXcelle lent electieneering
moye< lea lizfS / mat tile. country is getting
WeaTy.:of. tile: Irish question, and that the
splitin the<IfisIf ranks: VIII pafalYze home
rule and kindred demands for some time to
come. Both political parties fully realize
that the wnrkingman has found his power
In the franchise and means to use il. To
what extent party wiTe-pullers will control
the wOTaingman' 5 schemes and aspirations
remains to De seen, but the whole tendency
Of party politics in these latter days has.
been for each side to outbid, if possible. the.
terms OF its opponents. This principle has
been illustrated in Irish politics as well as
In questions connected with labor up to the
present moment. The commission has not
ben constituted. Much. interest is mani
Tested III the selection. il is doubtful
whether the Prince of Wales will undertake
the Chairmauship, FOR it will be heavy; and
. the commission will be required to make
every possible speed to complete its labGfs..
1t may even be necessary to appoint sub
commissions 20 deal with particular branches
of some of the questions under review.