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The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1904-09-16

ton Mills, at 5 o'clock p. m. Sunday,
September II, 1904, Mr.. Burton
Gregory, of Monarch, to Miss B..
White, of Aetna, Rev. John G. Farr
officiating.
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1904-09-16
ADVERTISED LETTERS.

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Remaigihg III the Post Office at Union
s. Cyf9F theweek ending Sept. 16,
The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1904-09-16
Gregory-White.

Married at the residence of j. A.
ate t ,st1,;n & As;,ns Cot,
The San Francisco call., 1904-06-06
PERSONAL.

DR.. F. L. Bowers OF Sonora is at the
Lick
J. L. ellis. an attorney of Sacra-
nento. is at the Lick
q. n. Lynch. a merchant Of Grass
Valley, is at the Lick.
J. D. Melihan, a business man Of Pet
alUma, arrived at the Grand yester-
day.
F. r. Kackley. a capitalist Of Indian
spolis, and his wife are at the ST.
Francis.
Bishop c. G. McCabe OF the Methodist
church Of Philadelphia. and wife, are
registered al the St. Francis.
John c. Underhill Of Kentucky. one
Of the supreme officials Of the Inde-
pendent Order Of odd Fellows. arrived
At the Palace yesterday.
Judge James Z. Fenton Of Nome. and
his brother. Dr. T. D. Fenton OF Port
land. arrived from the north yesterday
and are staying at the Occidental.
J. ". Raphael, the well-known mer-
chant, has returned from the East and
intends TO open up an extensive ad-
vertising campaign under his personal
direction.
The San Francisco call., 1904-06-06
MONEY IN CHERRIES.

Fine prices have been received for
early California cherries, so reports the
Newcastle News, which says:
The California deciduous fruit season opened
cherries closely followed by other single box
Shipments There has been a good deal OF
discussion over the question of who made the
initial shipment but II seems TO be conceded
that the honor is due to the Frank Fl. Buck
Company of Vacaville. Solano County. and that
the first box OF cherries to leave the State was
grown in the Robinson Brothers orchard OF
that place.
This box was closely followed by one from
the orchard of J. II. smith, Vacaville shipped
through the Earl Fruit CO., and another from
the orchard of ID. d. Cannon, Sacramento
County, shipped through the Pioneer Fruit
Company Sacramento city. These three boxes
brought fancy prices, as the first California
cherries always do. The Sacramento box was
the first to be sold and brought at private
sale in the city of Chicago. S25.
This sale took place Thursday, May 5, and
on the following day the other two boxes were
sold-one in New York the other In Phila-
deIphia- The box shipped by the Buck COM
pany sold in New York for $21 or a trihe over
The box shipped by the Earl Fruit Company
lust broke all previous records by bringing
at public auction in the city of Philadelphia
the heretofore unheard of price of $40 These
shipments were closely followed by shipments
from Placer County and other early districts
and fancy prices have been the rule notwith-
standing the fact that these early cherroes
do not compare in quality with later vari-
cites.
The San Francisco call., 1904-06-06
ARE TO TEST
LAW ON HACKS
Carriage Owners AssOcia-
tiOn Intends to Start All
Vehicles Without License
ARRESTS MAY FOLLOW
Claim Is Made That Taxes
Should Guarantee Protec-
tiOn for Every Citizen

stable and carriage owners have had
all the delay they viii stand regarding
the placing Of their hacks on the
streets. That decision was reached
yesterday and there viii be no
more delay about putting the
hacks on the streets If men
can be obtained. Just what the city
officials viii do is conjecture. The law
says hack drivers must have licenses,
but the owners have concluded that
the Withholding Of licenses on the pre-
text that the applicants do not know
enough about the city was going too
far and they are ready TO test the
question.
Owners take the position that as
al the stables allied against the Hack
Drivers Union are paying taxes on
their property they are entitled to the
protection OF their business. The only
Ihing 10 do, they say, is TO start men
out and II arrests are made 70 hght
the cases. The owners expect arrests
10 be made and the men who go out
viii be warned accordingly. Such ac-
ton viii bring the license question into
the courts, but the lawyers engaged by
the owners say they can win.
Tuesday night the Police Commis-
sioners are TO meet and pass upon sew
eral applications for licenses. Formal
application will be made for the grant
ing Of permits TO several men who
have applied for work. II the board
rejects the applications. the men viii be
put 10 work. provided they are willing
10 take chances with the thugs.
The union says ii has had nothing
10 do with the cases Of assault, though
II is known that union men have made
the assaults. II is the intention Of the
union TO look out for every man placed
on hacks and II he cannot produce his
permit from the Police Commissioners
10 complain against him and ask for
his arrest.
There are more than 100 hacks
owned by the association and thus far
there have been but twenty-five appli-
cants for positions. OF that number
only one was granted a permit by the
Police Commissioners.
Members Of the union will be on
hand Tuesday night to watch the pro-
ceedlngs Of the commission and also
10 try 10 get all those who are granted
permits TO join the union.
Hackmen are having trouble over
payment OF dues and assessments.
Those that are working have TO ad-
vance 4 given amount every week in
order TO remain in good standing with
me union. Some OF the men are be-
ginning 10 complain and there are in
dications Of trouble in the organiZa-
ton.
No hacks went out last night with
unlicensed drivers. The intention of
the owners to put men on the vehicles
was not carried out for the reason that
men could not be secured who were
wiling 10 take the chance Of being
pummeled and after that treatment
arrested. even though the owners were
willing 10 defend them in the courts.
The San Francisco call., 1904-06-06
FIRE PICTURES
FOR ST. LOUIS
Department Makes Record
Breaking Run in Front
of a BiOgraph Machine
FOR USE AT EXPOSITION
At Request of Merchants
Association Apparatus Is
Furnished for the Views

Biograph pictures of the San Fran
cisco fire department responding to a
first alarm of fire were taken yesterday
afternoon at Fifth and Market streets.
The films will be used by the Mer-
chants Association in connection with
the San Francisco lecture department
at the ST. Louis Exposition. Every ia
cility was afforded the operator to Sc
cure good views and the nine pieces
of apparatus that will appear in the
run went at break-neck speed, showing
the department in the best Of prelim-
mary action.
About l o'clock the section of depart
ment apparatus that had been selected
by Acting Chief Dougherty assembled
on Fourth street, near Market. Truck
/. engine IL and wagon, battery l,
chemical l and the water tower and
light wagons, driven by Acting Chief
Dougherty and Battalion Chiefs Wills
and Shaughnessy, were in line. The
horses were white and the apparatus
was of the latest Improvement. The
battery and the water tower are both
local inventions and will attract inter-
est when shown abroad.
Captain Spillane and a squad of po-
licemen kept the south side of Market
street, from Fourth to Sixth, clear of
vehicles and pedestrians. The depart
ment made every effort to keep the
event a secret, that too many people
would not assemble TO see the run,
thereby causing accidents or impeding
the way of the horses, and just a suff1
cient crowd appeared to contribute in
cidents and add detail to the picture.
The chemical passed Fifth street,
where the picture machine was placed,
first, at a record breaking gait. Then
came Acting Chief Dougherty and the
engines and other equipment dashed by
at intervals of a few seconds. Harry
J. Miles, representing the American
Mutoscope and Biograph Company.
took the pictures and will put them in
shape for the exhibition. Although the
films have not yet been developed,
Miles says there is no reason why they
should not excel anything of their
kind ever shown
The San Francisco call., 1904-06-06
TO sUPERsEDE STRIKERS.
Southern Pacific Secures Men Il
Handle Freight on West Side.

Southern Pacific Secures Men TO
Handle Freight on West Side.
Men were supplied by Murray &
Ready, the employment agents, last
night for the Southern Pacific to
handle its freight at the West Side
depOts.
Murray took $50 men to the yards
last night. Union pickets patrolIed the
streets. but offered no inducements to
the strike-b breakers, who could not be
reached The new men were guarded.
They are expected to handle all Of the
freight. Trouble is predicted.
The union claim for an increase Of
wages is based on the ground that
there has been an increase in the cost
Of living. They want 25 cents per
hour as against 20 cents and in some
cases 221z cents paid certain workers.
The company holds that such de-
nands are unreasonable. The men say
the demands are reasonable and must
be granted or they viii tie up the en-
tire system.
The officials say there will be no
room for arbitration. The men have
made their demands and the company
has refused TO grant them.
Efforts are being made to bring
about a further consideration of the
differences. but il is not likely that
such q result can be reached. Both
sides are determined and the strike is
on in earnest.
The San Francisco call., 1904-06-06
OF THE SACRAMENTO
VALLEY DISCUSSED PRACTICALLY
AND WITH DETAIL BY w. H. MILLS
EXPERT WOULD
SUBDUE GREAT
FLOODS TO USE

N II. MILLS has writ
NM ten for The Call the
accompanying article
on the hytIrOgraphy of the Sac
ramento Valley. The theme is
intimately related 10 the drain
age and consequently to the full
development of the great Sacra-
mento Valley. Mr.. Mills makes
several noteworthy points. He
says that the catchment areas
of the Sacramento and San Joa-
quin rivers constitute 4S per
cent of the area of the entire
State of California. The para
mount factor. when drainage is
considered, is the relation of the
sea level to the high and low
water in system of bays.
Ocean tides Obstruct the outflow
of the waters of the rivers to a
distance of more than 125 miles
from the Golden Gate. The only
remedy to cffectuaIIy dispose of
menaCing floods is declared to
be the storage of the flood wa
tcrs by "a series of great dams.
As subsequently devoted to irri-
CATION, these waters will become
beneficial instead of being an an
nual menace as at present.
The San Francisco call., 1904-06-06
REMEDY Is PROPOSED.

It would be merely quoting the opin-
ion of engineers to say that the only
remedy for this is the storage of the
food waters of these streams All of
the tributaries of the two drainage
channels of the valleys might be eco
nomically stored when they reach the
general level of the plain below, while
up the mountain courses of many OF
these streams there is ample opportuni-
ty for holding back the flood waters
and feeding them into the main chan
nels at a rate consistent with their
drainage capacity. In. the course OF
time this will be done. In the natural
course of events the Sacramento and
San Joaquin valleys will be irrigated
and irrigation uniformly destroys
rivers.
The Government of the United
States has entered upon a scheme of
arid land reclamation by irrigation, as
relates to the Colorado River, which
will destroy the navigability of that
stream. 1t has already assumed the
position that the superior public uses
of the Colorado River is irrigation and
not navigation. Water sufficient 10
irrigate the great interior basin OF this
State must necessarily be stored. The
summer stages of all the streams,
WnlCn Wnen COulDlnCQ NAAC GeiN
ramento and San Joaquin rivers, are
not equal to the demand for the irri-
CATION of these great valleys. When
the aggregate precipitation of COM
mon years is accumulated by storage
and devoted to the fertilization of the
Sacramento and San Joaquin plains.
the food stages of the Sacramento and
San Joaquin will disappear.
Combination of meteorological con-
ditions will create foods at wide in
tervals of time, which will be more
or less destructive, but the usual con-
dition will be full channels all the year
round attended by navigable condi-
tions of the highest economic value.
That this result will be achieved is in
evitable and the force that will bring
ii into being is the obvious values to
be developed by the undertaking.
The task of impounding the flood
waters of the streams supplying the
great interior water ways appears
stupendous only to those who are un-
familiar with precedent. We stand ap-
palled before the vast sums of money
required for it's accomplishment, but
the magnitude of these sums sink into
comparative insignificance when
measured by the stupendous aggregate
of values to be created and the vast
populations hereafter to be sharers in
the incalculable benefits.
The San Francisco call., 1904-06-06
Italians Celebrate.

The annual festival in commemora-
ton of the anniversary of the conces-
sion of the Italian constitution was
held at Shell Mound Park yesterday
under the auspices of the Mutual Aid
Society of the Garibaldi Guards. The
affair was participated in by all the
local italian organizations. which met
at Garibaldi Hall. and, preceded by a
band marched to the ferry. At the
grounds the day was pleasantly spent
in dancing and other amusements.
The San Francisco call., 1904-06-06
Opening of New Santa Cruz.

great entertainment VIII mark the OPEN
ing OF the cottage and tent city at New
Santa Cruz Saturday, June H. One OF the
features OF the event will be a grand ball with
music by a Government band.
Round trip excursion tickets from San Fran
cisco 10 Santa Cruz. good from Saturday to
sunday sold for SO: Saturday to Monday
round trip tickets. So 75 Ask Southern Pa
cihc agents.
The San Francisco call., 1904-06-06

LOOKING FOR TROUBLE.-Four union
stablernen were psrading IN front OF stables on
Trumm street early yesterday morning and
Sergeant Ellis was informed that Robert TSuite
one Of them. had q revolver. The men walked
along toward Market street and were followed
b. Ellis and Policeman Bean. lutte was OBJ
served % run into 20 Drumm street and come
quickly again. The men were overtaken
AM placed under arrest. Al 20 DEImm street
Ellis found piece q rubber hose loaded with
shot which Tuite had evidently dropped. Tuite
Wa locked UD in the tanks' a. the City
Prison and the others were discharged.
The San Francisco call., 1904-06-06
sAys WOMAN ROBBED HIM

SAYS WOMAN ROBBED HIM.-Louis We
rori who lives at Broadway and Montgomery
avenue reported TO Policeman Ring early yes
terday morning that Grace Reed. a colored wo-
nina at II Pinckney alley. had stolen S120
from his pockets. Ring placed the woman un-
der arrest and locked her up pending develop
ments She was searched by the matron, but
no trace OF the money was found.
The San Francisco call., 1904-06-06
To Visit Del Monte.

The gardens drives sports and general at
fractions Of Del Monte have made IL one OF the
show places of the world. First-clsss tickets
between san Francisco and Los Angeles either
Wsy with two days entertainment at this IA
nous hotel, only SD: childrcn's rate Sl4 50
Privilege Of thirty days Etop-over Ask
Southern Pacific agents.
The San Francisco call., 1904-06-06
Notice to Passengers.

BagEsge transferred 70 and from all trains
Steamer etc. at low rates One trunk tsin-
sc trip 30 cents: round trip so cents. Morton
Special Delivery. 3Os Taylor. $50 Market, Oak
lsEo Ferry Depot Phone Exchange 46
The San Francisco call., 1904-06-06
Outflow Is Greatly
Blocked by the
Sea Tides.
Force of Torrential
Streams Is Now
Resistless.

with it destroyed the engineering
theories that such reclamation is not
an obstruction to the outflow of the
floods. The recurrence of great floods
is just as certain as the recurrence
of the rainy season.
Uplifted areas like those which
constitute more than half the
interior basin, must necessarily
suffer erosion when the surface
of their escarpment is broken by the
pasturage of domestic animals and the
general occupation of man. This ero-
sion was accelerated by hydraulic and
other mining, but it had been in pro-
cess centuries before California was
inhabited and will continue in all the
centuries to come. In a comparatively
recent period the system of bays ex-
tended to the mouth of the Feather
River and up the San joaquin as far
as Stockton. In the process of time
Suisun Bay will be filed and the Sac
ramento and San Joaquin rivers will
flow through one well-def1ned channel
into the Straits Of Carquinez and
thence to the sea.
CHAPTERS OF FAILURES.
The history of engineering expert
ment and theory presents merely chap
ters of failures. Engineers were found
to approve of the drainage act under
which an attempt was made to i'm
pound the mining detritus by the con-
struction of brush dams. The dis
tinguished engineer James B. Eads
was brought to the State for the pur-
pose of bearing testimony in favor of
the practicability Of that scheme. He
gave a very reluctant assent, saying
that the experiment was worthy the
trial. but the experiment merely dem
onstrated the utter fallacy of all the
theories concerning it. Two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars of State
money was expended to make this one
experiment. The channel of the Yuba
a high altitude tributary of the Feather
River was selected for the experiment
The first flood destroyed the works
that had been erected for its control
with an imperious disregard for engi-
neering theories.
The Sierra Nevada tributaries of the
Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers
have a velocity of current which makes
1t impossible to check, arrest or i'm
pound their waters in their channels
The force of ten thousand cannon balls
would be feeble in comparison with the
torrents which sweep with destructive
velocity down these streams. A stone
dam anchored to the bedrock might
be constructed to stand, but the res
ervoir area would fill up the first sea-
son and the detritus which results from
the perpetual erosion of the mountain
declivities would simply fall over the
top of the dam and possess no eco
nomical value unless for creating cleo
trical power.
The San Francisco call., 1904-06-06
(New )HOTEL BUTLER
SEATTLE.

REMoDELED AND REBUILT at expense O,
s2G0 0Oo-New MISUNDERSTANDING FIRE.
PROOF
LOCATION-very accessible to street car
lines theaters, etc. EUROPEAN PLAN.
223 ROOMS with LUXURIOUS BATHS
Several private rooms In antique decorationS
Turkish Baths in Hotel
UNSURPASSED RESTAURANT. De Stei-
ger Chef, formerly OF Waldorf Astoria and
chef TO Prince of Wales.
HOTEL ORCHESTRA: Telephone Connec-
tions in every room; long distance connections
made with any part OF the Coast
Wire for reservations. at our expense.
HOTEL BUTLER. Seattle. Wash.
The San Francisco call., 1904-06-06

ASSETS
Net value Of Real Estate Owned -.
by the Company .-----.---- S5solIseSf -
Amount OF Loans secured by
Bond and Mortgage on Real -
Estate o1ftAosOAt "
Premium notes and loans in any
form taken in payment OF
force ................-....-. s12 81 81
Cash market value OF all Stocks
and BOnds owned by the
Company --------------.--- ofs4oS,oo< -
Amount OF Cash hand In
CompanY's Office 2OS, ,4o6 -
Banks .........-......-... 2.25s, ,3s3 90
unpaid .-.....-....-.. 81 2O2 50
Interest accrued but rot due. ?. 495. 409 40
Net amount OF premiums in pro-
cess OF collection. and Of de-
ferred premiums .......... 2.252. .755 81
Loans made to policy holders as
signed as collateral 13,T51. .253 90
Rents due and accrued ........ 81 936 SO
-. 90 60 a.
The San Francisco call., 1904-06-06
Total Assets
LIABILITIES.

LIABILITIES.
Claims for death losses and ma
tured endowments. due and
unpaid --.---.-..-.-.-
Claims for death losses and ma
tured endowments in process
Of adjustment. or adjusted
but not due .....-........
Claims resisted by the Company
Net present value OF all the out
standing policies, computed
according to the Combined
Experience Tables OF Mortal
ity, with four per cent in
terest .--..--.-.--
Amount Of all unpaid dividends
to policy holders --.-..--.--
Tontine Surplus payable to policy
holders .------.-..- -s--.
All other Liabilities ...--.....-
Total Liabilities .-...-. I
INCOME.
Cash received for premiums on
new policies during the
year .--.-... .--s-.s ..-- e.
Cash received for renewal OF
premiums during the year
Cash received for interest .....
Cash received for rents ....
Cash received from all other
sources .--....--s.-.
The San Francisco call., 1904-06-06
RECEIVE THE FLOODS.

The Sacramento and San joaquin
are tidal rivers for nearly 100 miles of
their lower courses and must receive
these torrential floods and deliver
them to the ocean through channels
which have but thirty feet fall in 125
miles.
Thus it is that, after an American
occupancy of fifty-five years, the prob
lem of drainage remains unsolved.
But little has been learned and alb
solutely nothing has been done TO
meet the exigencies of the situation.
The great flood of the early SOS, the
greater food of February, 1851, and
the recurrent great flood of 1904 mani
tested the same destructive tendencies
that would have attended them 100
years ago. They destroyed the island
reclamation at the mouths of the Sac
ramento and San Joaquin rivers, aud
The San Francisco call., 1904-06-06

Typographical facts relating to the
The San Francisco call., 1904-06-06
Total income .............

EXPENDITURES.
Cash paid for losses and ma
tured endowments ....--
Cash paid to annuitants ...-
Cash paid for surrendered
policies ......--..
Cash paid for dividends to policy
holders .............--...
Commissions paid 10 agents ...
Salaries and other compensation
OF officers and employees. ex-
cept agents and medical ex-
aminerS
Salaries and travelling expenses
OF managers OF agencies 80
Medical examiners fees and sal
aries .-...-..-.- .
Cash paid for taxes .--.........
Cash paid for rents ........-
Cash paid for committing COM
missions
All other cash payments (speci-
fying) Repairs on Real
Estate, Legal Expenses. Ad-
vertising. Printing. etc.
1878. 40 80: Premium notes
voided by lapse. s9,979 81;
all other payments S1,47,-
us 26 ....-....-.....--
The daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1904-1905, 1904-08-13
DARING DAYLIGHT ROBBERY
Gambler Runs Away With Victims
Money at Flora Racetrack.

Money at Flora Racetrack.
Flora, Ind, Aug. ia daring rob-
berry occurred at the Racing Associa-
ton grounds, just before the calling of
the free-for-all trot. James Roach, a
wealthy farmer near Young America,
came here to witness the races. He
became mixed up with gang of gam
blers and was counting his money
preparatory to placing a stake on the
game, when one of the gamblers ques-
toned his count and asked to recount
it for him. The money was in roll
of bills and contained $3.50. The rob-
Der pretended to count and, watching
his opportunity he began running
toward a cornfield in the vicinity ad-
joining the racing track on the east,
still clutching the money in his hand.
The police saw the robbery, and be-
gan using their revolvers, but none of
the shots took effect. He was trailed
through the field toward the railroad
track and was captured after a five
minutes chase. He then gave his
name as John ID. jarrett, with Cleve-
land, OHIO, as his home. Jarrett was
taken to Delphi and placed in Jail in
default of bond to appear for trial in
the circuit court.