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Weather Reports.

The Weather Bureau report shows
the highest and lowest temperatures
yesterday to have been 73 and 55 de-
grees, with brisk to fresh gentle
southerly winds and cloudy weather
prevailing.
The highest and lowest temperatures
one year ago yesterday We're So and
80 degrees, and one year ago to-day 81
and 90 degrees.
The average temperature was "a, and
the normal "A, showing yesterday 10
have been 10 degrees cooler than usual
for the Sd day of August
River steady at, feet inches.
There were several light showers of
rain during yesterday afternoon from
clouds that were coming from the
mountains. 1t is a we'll demonstrated
fact that in summer when heavy, dense
clouds move from a northeasterly to
a southwesterly point light showers
will follow such. cloud movements. The
amount of precipitation was. inaprre-
cable to the Government gauge.
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Articles Of Incorporation.

Articles of incorporation were yes
terday filed in the Secretary of States
office as follows:
Thirty-Four Fuel and Oil Company.
Principal place of business, Bakers
field. Directors-Milton McWhorter,
McKittrick; T. L. Reed, Reedley; F. r.
Pitney and o. B. Phelps, Bakersfield,
and w. I. Roberts, Selma. Capital
stock, $15OO0O; subscribed, $12O.C00.
The Heaton- Hobson Associated Law
Offices. Principal place of business,
Oakland. Directors-O. G. Heaton, III.
F. Hobson, M. M. Enos, w. T. Hyde
and A. M. McQuarrie, all OF Oakland.
Capital stock, $4,000 all subscribed.
San Joaquin Oil and Development
Company. Principal place of business,
Fresno. Directors-John A. Bunting,
Oakland; E. B. Waterman and j. F.
Davies, Selma: Daniel Wilson, San
Francisco, and o. Scribner, Visalia,
Capital stock, 100000 all subscribed
Santa Maria Water Company. Di-
rectors-W. L. Adam. J. F. Goodwin,
Thomas Boyd, P. o. Tietzen and John
Boyd, all Of Santa Maria. Capital
stock, 100000; subscribed, ST., 900.
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Business Houses Contractors and Public Men
FURNISHED wITH-
NEWSPAPER INFORMATION OF ALL KINDS
by ALIENS
PRESS CLIPPING BUREAU,
$40 Montgomery street. San Francisco.
NEW TO-DAY.

IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE
State of California, in and for the County
of Sacramento.
In the matter of the estate of DAVID
LAWSON, deceased.
1t appearing to the court by the verified
petition this day presented and filed by
Jennie Lawson, the administrators of the
estate of David Lawson, deceased, that
it is necessary to sell the whole or some
portion of the estate of said. decedent to
pay the debts of the decedent and the
expenses and charges of administration.
1t is therefore ordered by this court that
all persons interested in the estate of said
deceased appear before the. said Superior
Court at the hour of 10 o'clock a. M. on
FRIDAY, the Sth day of September, 1S99
at the courtroom of Department Nc Two
of said Superior Court, at the Courthouse,
in the City of Sacramento, County of Sac7
ramento, State of California, to show;
cause why an order should not be granted
to said administrators to sell SO much of
said real estate as shall be necessary. and
that a copy OF this order be published
four successive weeks In the Record
Union,'' newspaper printed and pub
lished in said County of Sacramento.
Dated August 3, 1889
JOSEPH w. HUGHES, 4
Judge of Said Superior Court.
au4-5tF I
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flow and the storage of water for irri-
cation, etc. in California, viz:
The Artesian Flow.-Nothing but
the special conditions mark anything
unusual about artesian flow, which is
but an expression of the common law
of f1owage. The strangeness is seeming
and is due to partial and incomplete
observation. The water enters permea-
BILE strata at distance and at an ele-
walton; following the dip beneath the
surface, it is confined between imper-
vious strata, and in accordance OF
hydraulic equilibrium rises to the sur
face or higher when deep boring at
fords an avenue of escape. Concerning
the artesian water of California one
statement may be positively made. The
water is invariably derived from the
precipitation on the mountains of the
State, and cannot be drawn from any
more distant and possibly more abund-
ant source of supply. This is made
clear by the investigations of the geo
logists, who have found the high ridges
of the Sierra to expose beds of Arch
aean granite. Whatever flow of subter-
ranean water there may be must oc-
cur in strata which in the valleys over
lie the Archaean, and which upon the
mountains present their outcrOppings
at a lower altitude. From this it il
made manifest that the underground
flow is but a varient of the flow of sur
face streams, and that each alike head
ing upon the mountains finds it's source
in the rainfall.
1.-THE State Engineer of California in
a partial report upon the artesian wells
of the State has given the data per-
tanning to 800 wells in the. great valley
Sacramento and San Joaquin), to 400
in the single county of San Bernardino,
and 80 in limited tract of Los An
geles County. Reference to that re-
port (IalPs Physical Data of Califor-
MAJ will show exactly what success
has attended those operations OF deep
drilling. In the present connection it
suffices to note that millions of gallons
of water rises to the surface in every
twenty-four hours for purposes of ir-
rigation and domestic supply. These
are facts for the engineer to discuss
The Signal Service may rest content
with the foregoing presentation of the
amount, character, and distribution OF
the rainfall, which it is evident is not
only ample to maintain the present high
development of works of agriculture.
but may by we'll devised systems of
storage condition an enormous extern
sion of the districts which need but
controllable supply of water to pro-
duce wheat oil and wine, and the or.
chard fruits of the tropics as we'll as
the temperate zones"
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STATE FAIR PLANS.
Progress Reported by Citixens'
Executive Committee.

At a meeting of the Executive Com
mittee of the Citizens State Fair Club
last night number of matters of i'm
portance to the fair were discussed
1t was shown, that the space of the
the committee has much work before
it in the way of cutting down space.
The committee authorized the en-
gagement Of l.. w. Buckley Of San
Francisco to take charge of the en-
tertainments and help in the exhibits.
Mr.. Buckley arrived on late train,
and gave the committee his ideas on
several subjects. He urged the i'm
portance of putting the building Of
booths, etc, in the hands Of prompt
builders, also favored a prize to ex-
hibitors who had the most artistic and
complete display on the first day.
H. c. Fisher stated that the Com
mittee on Entertainment reported that
it would need about 81, 800, and from
that figure it was estimated that the
Financial Committee would have to
raise in all about $500. Mr. Enright
of that committee said there would
soon be a report; his committee had
oilly Ueeu WdltiHS lOT the tuS cure iIlcoS-
uring the needs.
1t was reported that there would be
an attempt to get General Skaters
Santiago horse from Fresno. also the
horse ridden by a Spanish General.
The committee decided to try to ac-
complish this purpose.
An automobile race, ball game be-
tween San Francisco and Sacramento
drummers, ara a relay race Qifty
miles, between the c. c.. w. and the
Olympics, are among the possibilities
at the track.
The committee will spend about $50
to aid the drummers in printing OK
penses. A fight between badger and
bulldog is among the possibilities on
the drummers' program.
1t is the purpose to make the first
Monday night Ladies' Night, to which
end the various ladies' societies will
probably consolidate and work to-
gether.
A resolution was passed inviting A.
Menke to exhibit his ostriches and other
farm products. Messrs Seymour, Hall
and Coleman We're appointed a COM
mittee to wait on him relative to the
exhibit
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subterranean Streams.
Sacramento, Aug. Sd

Sacramento, Aug. Sd.
Eds. Record Union: I see by the
report of the Water Committees meet
ing that Howard Stillman denominates
as nonsense the theory of subterra-
mean streams under the plains to the
east of the city. I do not see by the
report that he assigns any reason for
his dogmatic assertion except that the
geological formation of the area for
bids it. How or why it forbids it, he
does not state and it would be inter
esting to know. He will find it hard,
without advancing some more definite
statement, to convince the farmers who
for more than thirty years have lived
on the. plains between here and Elk
Grove and the Costumes, American and
Sacramento Rivers and have used the
water from hundreds of bored wells of
various depths and temperatures, that
none of them tap underground streams.
Residents east of the city can inform
him that their wells go to and through
from one to three strata of gravel,
showing that old river beds underlie the
plains and that, although the streams
may not be arched like culverts, there
are. nevertheless, underground streams
and boulders. There are wells with
in short distance of each other that
vary several degrees in temperature,
showing that they tap different sources
of supply There are wells in several
sections of this county that have yield
ed mountain trout. which were seen
by too many persons to render denial
successful. Large pumps have been
run day and night for purposes of ir-
rigation, even in the driest seasons,
without perceptibly diminishing the
supply. All the experience of years
of the residents of the plains has given
them a reason for believing in the ex-
istence of subterranean streams that
+ think Mr.. Stillman will find it hard
to shake, whatever he may induce peo-
pie living in this city to believe.
AN OLD RANCHER.
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LAKE TAHOE ROAD.
The Old Appropriation Exhausted
and New One Not Available.

A few weeks ago Governor Gage and
Highway Commissioner Maude made a
trip of inspection over the Lake Tahoe
wagon road from Placeryille to the
lake, to Judge of its condition and
see what was needed for its better
ment
After their return the gang of work.
men that had been at work on the
road was withdrawn, and no work is
now being done on it except such as
is absolutely necessary. The people of
FL Dorado County have been disposed
to criticise the withdrawal of the men
at this time. thinking that the work
should be continued. Inquiry at the
Department Of Highways, however, de,
velops the fact that the stoppage of
the work was a necessity, the old APP
preparation having been exhausted and
there being no money available with
which to pay the men doing the work.
The late Legislature appropriated
$4,000 for the repairing of the road,
but under the terms of the appropria-
ton it is not available until January
1. 1900, and cannot be used till then.
There. is a small fund set aside for
engineering, but the law appropriatirr
it limits it to that use and it cannot
be used for the repairs on the road.
1t looks at present, therefore, as il
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III less, sick, suffering, mis-
cradle woman. Sick be-
cause she doesn't know any better, Sick
because she doesn't really know why.
Sick because the organs that make her a
woman are not properly performing their
functions and so are sending nerve mes
sages with aches and pains and distress all
over her quivering body
Nine-tenths of women's sickness comes
from disorder of these special organs. The
symptoms are various-the cause the same.
Headache, backache, nervousness, wake
fitness, neuralgia and fifty other troubles
of women may nearly always be traced di-
rectly to feminine weakness or disease
When the most important organism of
woman's body is disordered her whole
physical and mental system is upset. The
only way to find comfort is to cure the real
cause of the misery. Local doctors in gen.
eral practice are frequently SO hurried and
rushed that they treat the symptom and
not the disease. They give woman medi-
cine for headache when the headache is
due to the reflex action of the uterine
nerves. They may give her good medicine
but for the wrong disease. Thousands of
women, after years of encouragement,
have written to DR.. R " Pierce, of Buffalo,
N. Y, and now thank, him for their re-
newed health and happiness. For over
sulting physician at the Invalids' Hotel
and Surgical Institute. It was over thirty
years ago that he began to use his Favor
lite Prescription in his pr.Etice.
1t is medicine devised to cure one GER
tain kind of diseases-female diseases. 1t
brings ease and comfort and sleep. 1t re-
stores perfect health It fills out cheek
holiows, brightens the eyes, puts vim and
snap into the whole body. 1t is sold by
most dealers in medicine Don't take any
thing else. Nothing else is the same ~
nothing else is as good" Get what you
ask for. Patronize honest dealers.
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PERSONAL MENTION.

Van Roper and John Hilbert are in
Lake County
James Faris, Jr., of this city, is in
Lake County.
Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Buchanan have
left for Lake County.
Mrs. Stocking of San Jose is staying
at the Golden Eagle.
H J. Norton has returned from
short visit to Santa Cruz.
Mrs. Mae Inflow Dow has gone to
Monterey for few days.
Miss Clara Gruhler has returned from
Stockton after a months visit.
Miss Selma VAIL of Stockton is Wis
iting Miss Clara Gruhler of this city.
William Beckman left for the Upper
Sacramento Valley yesterday morning
Sam Ginsberg and family are enjoy
ing the breezes of the ocean at Pacific
Grove.
Miss Myrtle Lands, Mrs. c. E.
Kleinsorge and daughter, have gone to
Santa Cruz.
Deputy State Controller w. W. Doug
las yesterday left for Bolinas Bay,
where he will spend his vacation.
ing her relatives here for three months,
returned yesterday to San Francisco.
Charles n. Thompson. Assistant City
Auditor, left yesterday for Pacific
Grove to take a two weeks vacation.
Frank Swain of the State Controllers
Office has returned, from an extended
visit to Weaverville, Trinity County.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. G. Black and Miss
Eliza and H. Wittenbrock have re-
turned from an outing at Adams
Springs.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. c. Knauer of this
city, and niece, Miss Witzemann, of
San Francisco, are spending month at
Lake Tahoe.
Judge ]. w. Hughes and wife and Dr.
F. L. Atkinson and wife will leave to-
morrow for a vacation at Campbells
Hot Springs in Sierra County.
S. Zekind, formerly a merchant of
Sacramento was married yesterday
afternoon in San Francisco to Mrs. G.
n. Levy, also former resident of Sac
ramento.
Sumner Starr Wood, who has been
camping with friends at Lake Tahoe
three weeks. left for San Francisco yes
terday to join his parents in their new
home, 635 McAllister street
The many friends of Newton A Har-
ris will be panied to learn that his wife
is dangerously i'll in Albany, Or. He
left on the Oregon express Wednesday
night to be present at her bedside
Mrs T. B. Jackson and daughter Bes-
sic, have gone to San Francisco to
spend some weeks. They We're accom-
panied by Mrs. Jackson's sister, Mrs
]. w. Irvine, late of Pleasant HILL Mo.
W. S. Green, who has been for num-
Der of years an employee of a down
town wholesale firm, was yesterday pre-
scented by his fellow employees with a
fine gold watch and chain, as a testi-
monial of their regard.
Miss Emma Schilling is enjoying a
two weeks vacation at Pacific Grove.
Mrs. r. Watkins and family, accom-
panied by Mrs. M. H. Blue and Miss
Amelia Goldberg have left for a
months visit to Pacific Grove.
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HUMANE SOCIETY.
Monthly Meeting and Report OF
Work Done.

The Sacramento Society for the Pre-
vention of Cruelty to Animals held It's
monthly meeting last night.
Officer ]. n. Payne of the society re-
ported twenty-five cases during the
month, of which two We're at Folsom.
In one of the latter cases horse with
a broken leg was killed, and in the
other a man was arrested by Officer
Donelly for letting his team stand for
hours without food or water, and he
was fined s..
The report shows five arrests and
four convictions. six horses and three
dogs killed, and $2S.5G collected for
fines.
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A PEACE DISTURBER.
''Kid" Warren's Wild Rampage
Brings Him to Grief.

kid" Warren Went on the warpath
yesterday afternoon, and attempted to
tear down and throw out Joe Lewis
saloon at Second and L streets. The
police say that prior to Warren's en-
tering the saloon he knocked down a
woman of the street. He invaded the
saloon armed with a piece of Stag,
which he hurled at the proprietor.
Lewis came back with a beer glass,
and Warren went down and out.
officers Bailey and Fitzgerald APP
peared on the scene about that time
and got handouts on Warren, who was
beginning to recover. He fought all
the waH to the police station, and even
when placed in a cell attacked Ser
geant McManus. 1t is needless to say
that he again came to grief.
Warren will be charged with dis
turbing the peace, and probably with
battery.
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Victoria's Presents.

Before she left Balmoral for Windsor
Queen Victoria gave presents to num-
Der of her servants. One hundred and
fifty were introduced to her majesty
by Mr.. Lawley, clerk of the kitchen.
The upper servants were presented
with umbrellas, jewel cases, glove boxes
and the like, while the lower servants
and the police received each photo
gravure framed in oak of her majesty
taken in her 1887 jubilee dress. Super
intendent Fraser was presented with a
kettle and spirit stand, and Inspector
Quinn Of Scotland Yard a pair of brass
candlesticks.
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INExHAUsTABLE SUPPLY.
Subterranean Flow Of Water From
the Mountains.

The following communication will be
read with interest by those who are
now studying the water supply ques-
ton:
SACRAMENTO (Cal). August 3, 1899
Eds. ''Record-Union": While the
present discussion in this city in ref
erence to artesian water for domestic
and other purposes is being carried on
and throughout the State the discus
sion of the storage of water for irriga-
ton is also being written and talked
about, 1 concluded that a. portion of the
article of Lieutenant Glassford relating
to artesian flow and water storage
would be Interesting and instructive
reading at the present time, that SUBJ
nit it herewith for the consideration
of the we'll water committee of the citi-
zens of Sacramento. Very respectfully,
JAMES A. BARWICK,
Observer Weather Bureau.
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THE SCAFFOLDING FELL.
j. N. Houghton and James A. Poins-
back Seriously Injured.

A scaffolding at the cannery on G
street, between Sixth and Seventh, fell
yesterday afternoon, throwing J. n.
Houghton and James A. Poinsback 70
the ground, twenty feet below
Both men were taken to the Receiv-
ing Hospital where their injuries were
attended to. Mr.. Poinsback was hurt
internally, though how severely could
not be determined He was taken to
his home. Mr.. Houghton, who is so
years old, recently came to this city
from Benicia- His right hip was in
iured and he was otherwise bruised.
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Observer Weather Bureau.

Lieutenant w. A. Glassford of the
United States Signal Corps in an
article prepared by him in December
1890, (under instructions from General
A. W. Greedy, Chief Signal Officer and
the then head of the Weather Bureau
branch of that service), on the climate
of California and Nevada. with particu.
lar reference to the rainfall and temper
Azure and their influence upon the irri
cation problems of the two States, has
this to say in reference to the artesian
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Death Of omcer Talbot.

Officer w. L. Talbot of the police
force died last night after being con-
fined to the house for the past two
weeks. He had been in bad health for
more than a year, and the fatal termi-
nation of his disease has not been un-
expected. Deceased was a brave and
active officer, who has been for a num-
Der of years on the force. and had
many warm friends.
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RUTH KELLY'S CASE.
Officer Dan Hea1y Has Taken
Charge Of Her.

Yesterday morning Dan Healy, Off
Ger Of the Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Children, lodged Ruth
Kelley, a girl of 16 years, in the
City Prison. The arrest was made at
the request of the girls grandmother,
who lives at Oak Park.
Until Tuesday last the girl lived with
her grandmother. On that date she
left home, and Healy, being called in,
located her, he says, in company with
questionable parties. He proposes to
take steps to have the girl sent to
the Magdalen Asylum.
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EVERYBODY,S COLUMN.

Under this heading the Record Union"
will publish short letters from CORE
spondents on topics of interest to the
general public. The matter In these COM
munications will be understood to repre-
sent only the views of the writer's. All
communications must be accompanied by
the name of the writer. not for publica-
ton unless so desired, but as a guarantee
of good faith-Eds
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SUPREME COURT DECISIONS.

SYLLABI.
Il. A. No. 456-DepartrRsnt One-Filed
T July 81 1899
j. M. Asher. administrator respond
emit; Vicente Yorba, ct al, defendants;
liant. Interlocutory decree in parti-
ton. Affirmed.
The statute demands that before the
court appoints guardian the relatives
living in the country, If the court
DEEM proper, must be given such no.
tice as the court deems reasonable.
Held, that the statute clearly implies
that the kind or character Of notice to
be given is matter for the Judge to
determine, and that personal notice
is not absolutely demanded by this
provision of the statute. See Bur-
roughs VS.. De Conts 20 CAL, 1873, where
it is said: 1.-The manner in which the
notice shall be given to the relatives
of the minor residing in the country is
left to the judgment and reasonable
discretion of the Probate Judge"
Where, therefore, the court deemed a
notice for ten days, by posting in three
public places, a reasonable notice to
the relatives. it was within the dis
cretionary power Of the court so to de-
clare.
Held, further, that it is matter of
discretion upon the part of the court
to give any notice whatever to the
relatives residing in the country.
When a party makes a collateral at
tack upon a judgment decreeing sale
of a minors land, all the rules of law
hedging about the validity of such de-
crees are to be invoked against him.
(Crim. No. 511-Department One-Filed
August l, 1899
People; Andreas Castro, appellant.
Grand larceny. Reversed.
When it is sought to introduce in
evidence a confession made by the
defendant to the officer after his ar
rest, the burden is upon the prosecution
to show that the confession was made
voluntarily and without inducement on
the part of the officer. Hence. where
a defendant objected to the admission
and asked leave to introduce testimony
to show that the confession sought to
be ELECTED was made by him under
promises of exemption, the court erred
in admitting the testimony and deny
ing the defendants request.
Is. F. No. 1,573-Department Two
Filed August l, 1899
Pauline Westerfeld, ct al, respond
ents; New York Life Insurance Com
pany. appellant Action to set aside
compromise of insurance policy. Re
versed.
A party who has been led by fraud
into a settlement whereby he accept
ed less than was justly due him in ex-
tinguishment of legal claims may on
discovering the fraud sue for the dam
age he has sustained without taking
steps to rescind the settlement. But
that must be where the plaintiff has
affirmed the contract of compromise.
has abandoned the cause OF action
which it superseded and claims damage
for the fraud which induced the new
contract But where a party repudi-
ates the compromise, he must restore
the amount paid him therein before he
can maintain an action upon the orig
inal claim
In such case the measure of dam
ages is not the extinguished balance.
and cannot be without making the rule
as to rescission an idle aI11 useless for
mality. It's measure is Indemnity for
the real loss sustained. which may
prove to be less than the contract ball
ance.
The compromise is binding contract
until rescinded.