Los Angeles herald., 1905-09-03
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
PLANS NEW CAMPAIGN
SAN DIEGO MEMBERSHIP GROW.
ING RAPIDLY
Proposition Well on the Way for the
Establishment Of a Mountain Fish,
Ing Resort by Damnlng the Waters
of Pauma Creek

Special to The Herald.
| SAN DIEGO, Sept. 2.--Next week the
chamber of commerce will begin a new
campaign to increase it's membership.
The campaign that closed few weeks
ago brought nearly $50 new members to
the chamber.
Frank A. Salmons of this city has
just completed the purchase of 400 acres
at the entrance to Doan valley near
Palomar mountain. and with several
others associated with him will es-
tablish a fishing resort there. A COM
pany will probably be formed to carry
out the project. A forty-foot dam will
be built to back up the waters Of Pa
una creek, making lake of 140 acres,
the average depth being between thir-
ty and forty feet. The dam will be at
the valley enterance, which Is so mar
row that its construction will be COM
paratively inexpensive. A hotel Will be
built near the lake for the accommo-
dation of visitors. Pauma creek is we'll
supplied with trout, so the new lake
will probably not have to be stocked.
The Florence Heights Improvement
club last night passed resolution ask
ing the board Of health to get after the
owners of vacant lots and compel them
to keep the lots in a more cleanly con-
dition.
DIR. Frank Conner met with a peculiar
accident last night while driving to
his home in Mission valley. A tele-
phone wire had dropped from its sup
ports nearly opposite the Normal
school, and when DR.. Conner came
along, about 1880, it was too dark to
see the wire. He was driving at quite
a rapid pace and the wire caught him
in the neck just beneath the chin.
tumbling him over backwards and up
setting the seat.
The doctor was stunned and his neck
felt as if it had been broken. For
tunately his team behaved well. stop
ping when the accident occurred, and
Dr. Conner put himself to rights in
short order. He cut the wire so that
no one else would meet with a similar |
accident.
Tomorrow will see the closing of Tent |
CITY, so far as the Tent City band is
concerned. A special program has been
arranged for the closing afternoon con-
cert. The camp will remain open for
some time yet and number of those
who own their own tents will live in
them for month or two yet; but the
band concerts, the theater and the
nightly dances will be adjourned until
next year.
William E. Smythe has returned from
Portland, where he attended the ses-
sions of the national irrigation con-
gress. Mr.. Smythe says that, contrary
to reports, the congress was great
success.
At meeting Of the sewer committee
yesterday it was recommended that in
stead of extending the outfall sewer OF
the Ninth ward sewer system at cost
of $4,000, a septic tank be constructed
of a size sufficient to care for the
amount of sewage.
The California State Spiritualists' as
sociation is holding it's tenth annual
convention at Spiritualist hall in this
city. Vice President ]. L. Dryden pre-
sided today in the absence Of President
J. Shaw Gillespie.
The report of the secretary shows
that four new local societies at San
Francisco, Dunsmuir, San Pedro and
Fresno have been granted charters
during the year. The first day Of the
convention was devoted to q discussion
of means to prevent adverse legislation.
Deputy Sheriff Taylor left this even
ing for San Quentin with Pedro Arcey
in charge. The prisoner will spend a
year in the penitentiary for assault, of
which he was convicted.
Bartolo Estrada, the Ensenada stage
robber for whose extradition the Mex
lean and United States governments
have been unwinding red tape for the
past six months, was taken south this
evening on the steamer Mckinley by
an agent of the Mexican government.
The Brigantine Galilee, after many
troubles on account of her inability to
get a new crew, finally succeeded in
getting away for Honolulu yesterday.
She will spend month or more on the
trip, stopping at various points to make
observations as to the variation and
dip of the magnetic needle in the
compass.
Week at "Hotel del Coronado" $3.50.
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