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The San Francisco call., 1906-08-24
FIXES LOCATIONS
FOR C|STERNs.
Water CommitteeOrders
City Engineer to Esti-
mate Cost of Plan
REPORT is FILED

Chief Engineer Shaughnessy filed
with the Board of Supervisors yester-
day statement showing the proposed
locations of 207 underground street
cisterns in addition to the twenty-four
now in good condition. as measure
for better fire protection. The locations
are as follows:
In the district north of Market street
and east of Stockton cisterns TO be
placed two blocks apart on east and
west streets and four blocks apart on
north and south streets On Market
street a cistern at the intersection of
Drumm street and one opposite each
numbered street from First to Sew
enth, and one at Ninth. Eleventh. Va
lencia, Guerrero. Church and Castro
streets.
South of Market street cisterns to be
placed four blocks apart east of First
street and two blocks apart between
First and Eighth streets on streets
from Mission to Brannan. In the
Western Addition cisterns to be placed
four blocks apart, in the Richmond and
Sunset districts five blocks apart on
east and west streets and three blocks
apart on north and south streets; and
in the Mission district two blocks apart
on east and west streets and three
blochs apart on north and south
streets.
The report was adopted and referred
by the water committee to the City
Engineer to estimate the cost of con-
structing the cisterns, which are to be
of 100000 gallons each where eircum-
stances permit, and TO be of reinforced
concrete.
A. H Payson, president of the Spring
Valley Water Company, said he was
willing to connect the mains with the
cisterns and the company's engineer
ha
matter. Representatives of several
corporations disclaimed having filled
in some of the old cisterns.
Complaints from several improve
ment clubs against the lack of water
facilities in Holly Park, Bernal and
other districts will be taken up next
Wednesday morning, when the Spring
Valley Company's officials will be cited
to appear.
The petition of the Market street and
Eureka Valley Improvement Club that
the City Attorney be directed to estab-
lish a legal title to all property where
the records have been destroyed was
referred to the finance committee.
The board finally passed the amended
ordinance granting the Ocean Shore
Railway Company a franchise for an
electric branch road on certain streets
so that ornamental poles shall be
placed in the center of the roadway on
Potrero avenue.
The amended ordinance requiring the
written consent of owners of property
100 feet on either side of a proposed
stable before a permit for the stable
can be granted by the Board of Works
was finally passed.
The board ordered the width of side
walks on Howard street from East
street to it's southerly termination re-
duced from fifteen to twelve feet.
Action on the proposed ordinance to
do away with any further inspection
of chimneys was postponed one week
on recommendation of the fire COM
mittee.
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-24
POLICEMAN SHOOTS
At MRS. ARMOUR.
SPECIAL DISPATCH 10 THE CALI

SGEClAL DlSBAIGH CALL.
CHICAGO, Aug. 23.-Shot at FIVE
arrested twice and fined $50 the second
time. Mrs. ]. Ogden Armour, wife OF
the wealthy beef packer. today planned
drastic action against the Rogers Park
policeman who riddled her auto with
bullets. AS a result of the shocks
Mrs. Armour is almost Frustrated and
her little daughter, Lolita, is i'll at
Lakeforest.
The adventures of the party with a
policeman were told today by C. H.
Hrck, the chauffeur, who was digging
bullets from the auto at the Armour
garage.
When we entered Rogers Park we
were driving slowly" Huck said. Mrs
Armour had asked that 1 be careful, on
account of Miss Lolita. We had just
turned into the Ridge road when the
policeman appeared. Mrs. Armour sat
on the first seat with me, and in the
rear were Miss Lolita, Miss Biller, her
nurse, and a woman whom l did not
know The policeman ordered us to
stop, calling out that we were vlolat-
ing the speed law. 1 denied it, for we
were going so slowly that we could
keep up a running conversation with
him.
Then he drew a revolver and began
he came up he began to shoot. He fired
and Huck pointed to the riddled tom
neau.
J. Ogden Armour is thoroughly
aroused over the outrage and said to-
day he would push the case TO the
limit
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-24
CUTS THROAT ON STREET
WITH RAZOR AND EXPIRES
Chris Hansen, LongshOreman, Commits
Suicide in Spectacular Manner
After Inviting a Fight.

After provoking fight and having
his nose punched, Chris Hansen, a
longshoreman about 2S years of age
went from the reading-room of the
Phoenix Lodging house. S2S Howard
street, at $40 last evening and cut his
throat on the sidewalk near by. The
man used a razor and with two gashes
nearly severed his head from his body.
The deed was committed in tffa pres
ence of witnesses, who were not quick
enough to stop the suicide. Insanity
from drink is though to have been the
cause
Mike Cunningham, Ed Higgins.
Charles Clark and H. Reilly, fellow
dodgers of the deceased at the rooming-
house. were on the sidewalk and saw
Hansen stagger from the place, pull off
his coat and throw it and his hat to the
pavement and then cut his throat.
Joseph Davis, night clerk at the lodg-
house, says that the man had been
acting queerly for a week. and early
last evening begun to charge about the
readingroom. inviting men to fight
with him. One man accepted the chal-
lenge and struck Hansen on the nose,
and the suicide followed quickly.
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-24
GUINNOCHIO ExONERATED
FROM BLAME By A JURY
Verdict Is Returned That Victor Temple
Met His Death While Attempting
Attack on Coal Dealer.

A Coroner's jury in the case of Victor
Temple. who died after an alteration
with j. Guinnoehio, a coal dealer, at
the Dewey Restaurant, 1924 Point
Lobos avenue, returned a verdict yes
terday that Temples death was caused
by shock from a fall to the ground
while attempting to attack Guinnochlo
with a chair. The jury exonerated
Guinnochio from all blame.
The jury also returned verdicts that
j. A Reid, q contractor, who was killed
by a freight engine in the Southern
Pacific yards. met his death by accident
and that John Doe Mccarthy was ac-
cidentally killed by walking off a train
at Twenty third and Folsom streets
while on the way to San Diego to SIT
work - verdict of accidental death
was rendered in the case of Joseph
Mccarthy. a hod-carrier, who fell from
a building at Twenty sixth and Va
lencia streets a distance of eighty feet
to the ground.
In the case of Fauchon L.abrcode. a
boy. who was killed by Geary-
car near Fillmore street. the jury found
that ne came to his death through the
carelessness of the gripman in charge
of the car. The evidence disclosed that
c. j. Dowen, a student. was handling
the grip at the time Laforcode was run
down and Michael Norton, the regular
gripman, was at Dowen's side.
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-24
Yerr Lnnr RaiI.

Rails 351 feet long were exhibited at
the international exhibition held at
Liege, Belgium, In 1905. These in
cluded an eighty flve-pound grooved
girder rail for street railway track.
Ss1.2S feet long, and seventy-pound
tee rail of the same length: also a light
tee rail 252.5s feet long, of only seven
pounds per yard, for portable railway
track The two large rails were each
made from 5 4 ton ingot, heated al
hour and a half in the soaking pit I.
insure uniform temperature through
out the mass. This was rolled in a
rolling mill having blooming and fin-
ishing mills driven by an engine of
10000 horsepower: the rail was rolled
IN FIVE minutes, and was exactly 35424
feet long. the ends being cropped to
make a irst-class raii of 331.2S feet.
Owing TO the restricted space, the rail,
as It passed through the rolls, Travelled
up steep inclined plane and over the
top of a tWo-story building When the
rolling was finished. and while the rail
was still at bright red heat, it was
attached to a locomotive which hauled
it along the ground about $50 feet to
a place where II could be left TO cool
slowly. These rails. as we'll as two
tires 1874 feet in diameter. were ex-
hibited by the Ougree- -Marihaye Com
pany of Belgium.-Engineeri News.
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-24
HOTEL PROMOTERS
RE|NCORP0RATE.

The Palace Hotel Company. which
will have as primary object the re-
building and management of the ia
articles of incorporation in the State
of Nevada. The incorporators are
Frederick w Sharon, Francis G. New
lands, William H. Crocker. John C.
Kirkpatrick William F. Herrin and
Wellington Gregg Jr. The company is
capitalized for s5.O0o.OOo, which will
be divided between the Sahron Estate
Company consisting of Frederick w.
Sharon, Lady Hesketh and Senator
Newlands and his daughters and 9TH
ers identified with the Sharon Estate
Company, and William H. Crocker. The
largest interest in the capital stock
will be taken by the latter company
which controlled the old Palace
Hotel.
1t was stated yesterday that 1t has
not yet been decided by the original
incorporators of the new hotel COM
pany whether they will hold all the
stock among themselves, but it is prob
able that with a view to fixing local
interest In the new establishment the
company may place a portion OF the
stock with a few persons whose coop
Grafton would be desirable Messrs.
Sharon, Newlands Kirkpatrick and
Herrin are directors of the Sharon Es-
tate Company. The Crocker interest in
the newly incorporated hotel company
will be represented on the board of the
latter concern by w. II. Crocker and
Wellington Gregg Jr., who is connected
with the Crocker- woolworth National
Bank.
Plans for the new Palace Hotel are
already in the hands of architects and
will be submitted shortly to the pro-
moters of the big enterprise who are
at present in consultation with engi-
neers in this city regarding the remov-
ing of the vast amount of debris from
the site of the old hotel and preparing
the ground for the modern structure
John C. Kirkpatrick, who SO success
fully managed the old Palace for so
many years, will retain his responsible
position in the new hotel.
The fact that the Crockers have
joined in the project to rebuild the
Palace Hotel emphasizes their con-
fdence in the future of San Francisco,
for they are one of the largest stock
holders in the ST Francis Hotel, which
is already in the hands of the re-
huilders of the city
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-24
REF EFUCEES RETURN
RAILROAD FARE.
Santa Fe Receives $4,000
From People SentAway
Free During the Fire
MAY CONE BACK

The passenger Office of the Santa Fe
has received more than $4,000 in cash
from refugees it carried East for moth
ing at the time of the fire. Remit
tances and notes of thanks have come
from every part of the United States
and Canada Not the least important
among the senders lis Joe Cans, the
colcred pugilist. who sent S77.50 to
j. j. Duffy of the Santa Fe to pay for
his passage to Baltimore, Md, his
home city.
At the time of the fire the Santa
F'e sent people East without charge,
but took the name of each favored
passenger. From some they took per-
sonal notes and from others merely
L o. Us. Last month the passen-
ger department wrote to all of these
free passengers advising them that the
Santa Fe would accept their passage
money as soon as they felt able to pay.
Many responded with checks for the
money due the railroad
Assistant General Passenger Agent
H K. Gregory said yesterday that
thousands of persons had returned
from temporary places of refuge in
other States and again taken up resi-
dence in San Francisco. Men who sent
their families away are depositing
money for tickets with the railroad
companies and sending for them to re-
turn Eight families arrived over the
santa Fe yesterday, one from Georgia,
two from Maryland, four from Colorado
and the rest from Southern California
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-24
Success In Dentistry.

DIR. -, dentist. is not yet 80. but
has built up an enormous practice.
There are twelve chairs in his Office
and thirty assistants. How did you
manage it?" I asked. Other dentists
struggle for twenty, thirty, forty
years, and never get further than one
chair and a female assistant in 10x12
Office"
lust by a trick" he replied Il, too,
had hard struggle at first. One day
the fool notion entered my head that
! ought to make something out of the
hllings in the teeth Oh patients. so |
made this proposal to each customer
over so years of age: I will fill your
teeth for the cost of the gold with the
understanding that when You are dead
all the gold in your mouth belongs to
me. To my surprise the plan took like
wildfre. OF course, have never taken
a bit of gold out of the teeth of dead
person, but the proposition proved to
besa splendid advertisement, and my
business grew apace. The customers
under so were my fortune. New
York rress
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-24
MRS. CRUMb MIXED
BY PROSECUTION.
Sister of Dora Chipp, In
dian Girl Accused of
Murder, Is on Stand
RETRACTS STORY
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL.

YREKA, Aug. 23.-At the continu-
alton here today of the trial of Dora
Chipp, the Indian girl accused of the
murder of a child of Mrs. Beale, the
prosecution scored a decisive point on
the CROSS examination of Mrs. Cinda
Crumb, a half-sister of the accused
girl. Mrs Crumb, after testifying that
she had not told Dora Chipp of the
intended whereabouts of Mrs. Beale on
the Sunday of the murder, upon being
read her testimony at the inquest ad-
mitted that she had told the accused
girl of the intentions of Mrs Beaie
on that day. The defense objected to
this testimony on the ground that the
prosecution was endeavoring to i'm
peach its own witness. but the objec-
tion was not sustained.
Mrs. Seavers, in whose house Mrs
Beale took refuge from the enraged
Indian girl, was next called. She tes-
titled that on the day of the murder
Mrs. Beale came to her house in an
almost exhausted condition, with her
clothes torn and dusty and her face
covered with blood.
Soon after Mrs. Beale arrived. the
witness testified, she saw Dora Chipp
riding rapidly toward the house. She
and Mrs. Beale entered the house and
secured the windows and doors. The
Chipp girl rode up to the house and
fired at it four or five times.
It is rumored that the prosecution
will call a man by the name of Bare
field, who was in the county pail the
night the girl was there, to prove that
while there she made confession.
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-24
Tin Ores of Alaska.

Frank L. Hess of the United States
Geological Survey has issued an ac-
count of what was done by the survey
in 1906 in regard to the tin deposits of
Alaska. He finds that there are lode
deposits at Lost River, on the Grim.
Randi and OBrien claims and on the
Dolcoath lode. The first three men
toned localities are the places where
deposits of cassiterite were found orig
inally. Several tin-bearing dikes and
veins have since been discovered in
the York district, to which all the mat
ters treated by Hess apply. During
1906, so writes Hess, additional discov-
cries of tin ore were made in the
vicinity of Cape Mountain. Small tin
bearing veins have been found in the
Buck Creek region. but no producing
tin lodes are situated there.
In 1905 prospecting for tin pro-
gressed on Ears Mountain. Cassiterite
has been found on the mountain, but
not to large extent. At Buck Creek is
the only placer deposit of tin that has
made any output, SO reports Hess. The
product has been something less than
100 tons of ore that averaged some
thing like 65 per cent of metallic tin.
There are other placer deposits at
Grouse Creek, Red Fox Creek and the
creeks that run into Dick, Old Glory
and Gold Bottom creeks and Fred
Gulch. The lode deposits have advan-
tages that the placer deposits lack. The
lodes can be operated continuously
throughout the year. The placer de-
posits can be worked only in the short
open seasons, and are subjected to in
terruptions due to storms, floods and
other climatic causes.
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-24
WIN WEALTH FROM
ANCIENT LAKE.
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL.


GOLDFIELD, New, Aug. 23.-The
ancient sink which has lately been
given the name of Miller's Lake is
proving a bonanza for women whose
thoughts dwell more on their pocket
books than on their bonnets-and their
bonnets are not so bad for this desert
frontier either.
1t was discovered as a source of min
eral supply by Mrs. Bessie Miller, who
is something of a prospector herself,
having graduated from keeping a min
ers' boarding g-house. She staked out
the first claim on the dry bed of the
lake May 90, and did not stop the good
work until she had some thousand
acres under location. or course, though
an energetic woman, she had a team,
and a wagon load of stakes, and she
stopped for meals and for sleep.
Then came Mrs. Jennie Enright and
Mrs. George Lewis, and each, by perse-
verance and hard writing, prepared To-
cation notices until they had something
like 10.000 acres to their credit.
others came, but they were men. and
their efforts don't count for as much.
They did the prospecting, however and
it was found that all over the lake bed,
from the surface down. the ground as
sayed from "a cents to sS4 ton, which,
In that particular dirt, means from
s2.52 to $252 cubic yard.
Mrs. Miller and her associates sold
some thousand acres for $4,000. Mrs.
Enright and Mrs. Lewis, not to be
outdone, disposed 5000 acres for
amount to carry in the head. Then.
to get clear of business annoyances,
they closed a deal Tuesday morning
with l.. r. Keough of San Francisco
for 5000 acres for $4,000.
So far as is known it is over 200,
feet In the center of the lake to bed
rock, but the shallow development that
has been done already shows that there
is a series of false bedrock from two
and a half to three feet apart and
that values increase at a rate of 50
for each of these hardpans passed
through.
There is not the water, the fall nor
the dump for sluicing, and it has been
agreed by engineers that the method
of working the ground is by power
shovels and cyanide tanks. It is
claimed that, in this way, it can be
handled for so cents a ton. The plants
for some of the property have already
been ordered
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-24
PHILIPPINE CERTIFICATES
GO TO FISK AND ROBINSON

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2S.-Blds were
opened at the Bureau of Insular Affairs,
War Department, today for $1,000, 900
of Philippine certificates. Numerous
bids were submitted, but it is expected
that the whole amount will be awarded
TO Fisk & Robinson of Boston, whose
bid is LOOPS for all or none of the
amount. One of the bids was as high
as $1.03 for one hundred thousand dol
lars worth.
These certificates are per cents and
are to be redeemed in one year. Two
bids for the whole amount, one at 104
and another at 105.11 were submitted,
but could not be considered because
they We're not accompanied by a certi-
fed check. as required in the PROPOSAL.
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-24
FURTHER FIGURES
ON j. P. REPORT.
Full Statement of Com
pany Will Be Differ
ent From Thursday S
GROSS EARNINGS

NEW YORK, Aug. 29.-The full re-
port of the Union Pacific for 1906 will
be radically different from the report
published last Thursday.
The method followed In making UP
the Union Pacific "other income ac-
count is to include dividends received
prior to the publication of the report.
There will, therefore, be an additional
$2,250,000 at least from the dividends
on Southern Pacific common stock.
The dividends charged against this
income account for 1906 will be about
s15,573,500.
On the day of the dividend declara-
ton statement was issued to the eff
feet that the combined surplus, after
dividends on Union Pacific and South
ern Pacific. will be over S19,0O0.O00.
without allowing for the s4,10o,000 of
betterments. The call would show the
total combined surplus on Union Pacific
and Southern Pacific to be s2b,762.146.
This is quite way from being over
S29,000,000." If the statement issued
from the Union Pacific is correct, the
preliminary statements conceal total
of over $780, 600 of net revenue. In
the above tables s2,250, 600 of this is ac-
counted for in Southern Pacific COM
mon dividend, but the remaining
S4,000,000 is still unexplained.
1t is safe to assume, however, that
this item is really the S4,1o0,0o0 indi-
Gated in the reports as appropriated
for betterments and protection
The full report will also show gross
earnings for transportation at the rate
over $12,500 per mile, the average mile
age being trifie under the average for
1905.
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-24
Canada NAV Bar H,udoos.

VANCOUVER, B. c., Aug. 23.-Owing
to the restriction of Chinese immigra-
ton into Canada during the past few
years, large numbers of Hindoos have
been coming into this port and secur-
ing work as laborers in mills and
mines. Agitation against the Hindoo
immigration has hitherto been unavail-
ing. as the Hindoos are British sub
jects. Now, however, the. Dominion
Government has taken the matter up
with r. G. Macpherson, NJ p, who
announced today on behalf of the Gov
ernment that this immigration will be
checked on the score that such immi-
grants are undesirable.
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-24
seismoIogleaI saelety Planned.

A meeting Of those interested in seis-
mie phenomena has been called for
A .ust so. at p. m. in the headquar-
ters Of the California Promotion Com
mittee for the purpose of organizing a
chronological society of America, sim
ila~ TO the organization Of Japan. The
principal object of the new organiza-
tion will be TO mold public opinion, to
advise wisely and provide funds for re-
search and investigation into matters
relating to earthquakes, and in every
way to work for the general benefit
OF mankind so far as the effects Of
earth movements are concerned Among
those who are taking an active part in
the organization Of the society is
Weather Forecaster A. G. McAdie.
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-24
Sweet Pea FESTIVAL in Montana.

Bozeman, noted for the profusion of
sweet peas. which Chamber over its
latticcs and hedges in the summer,
has decided to hold a sweet pea car
nivnl or festival, and August IL has
been chosen for the opening day.
Merchants will 1sstoon their win
dows. porches of homes will be
draped with them, and wherever in
the city there is room for blossom
it will greet the eye of the visitor or
native.
Plans for the car nival were formu-
lated by the sugar beet committee and
will be carried out by the Civic
League. The affair will be as dainty
and exquisite as possible, and the
tumult usually feature of street
fairs will be eliminated.
There will be music and a floral
parade, with a carnival queen to
typify the spirit of the occasion, and
In the evning the n1askers will hold
high jinls.-Minneap polls Journal.
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-24
TRAFFIC BLOCKED
BY WASHOUTS.

Ten delayed passenger trains, which
had been held up for forty-eight hours
at The Needles because of the wash
outs on the line of the Santa Fe, be-
tween Kleinfelter and Siam, reached
San Francisco early yesterday morning
The trains were consolidated as much
a possible, but il took five painting en-
gines 10 pull them into the Richmond
yards. They made the trip from The
Needles in record time.
Another washout occurred at the
same point last night Eastbound
. trains on both the Southern Pacific
and the Santa Fe are stalled. The di-
vision superintendents of both rail-
roads have sent a large force of men
to repair the damaged roadbeds.
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-24
death of Mining Nan.

W. ". Treat. a prominent mining
man. who lived for many years at the
Palace Hotel, passed away suddenly at
his temporary home, Isl Page street.
on Wednesday afternoon. Mr.. Treat
owned valuable mining property in
this State, Nevada and Alaska His
body viii be shipped to Boston for
burial
The San Francisco call., 1906-08-24
SONS OF VETERANS ELECT
SAN FRANCISCAN TO OFFICE
Organization Closes Session mt Peoria
and Elects j. r. Wolfram Junior
Vice COmsr auder.

PEORIA. Ill, Aug. 2s.-The national
convention of Sons of Veterans closed
Its session today, with the election OF
officers and the selection of Dayton
Ohio as the next meeting place
Edward NJ. Aunes of Altoona Pa,
was elected commander in chief ]. r..
wolfram of San Francisco was elected
Junior vice commander.