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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-06-20

Prizes asgregating $500 for suggest
ing improvements in connection with
railway construction and snrvicc are
offered by the Earein Deutschcr
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS The latest
date for comrnunIca lions is July Il.
1907.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-06-20

Mrs Ernest Seigars of Saco arrived
yesterday for a weeks stay With
friends in Farmingdale.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-06-20

Charles Fl. Gray and n. {. Bars,oy
left yesterday for fishing trip to o.
ter pond.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-06-20

Mrs. Allen and little daughter and
Mrs McMunn Of Bangor are the guests
| Of their brother, Rev. FIR. Iteardon.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-06-20

According to an officer connected
with the Naval Observatory ar Wash
ington. one of the most remarkable
photographs eve mtde ~ On Is
tronomer WAS that obtained, quite Is
acciGentt of an exploding Meteor.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-06-20

Mrs. o. r. Clason and Miss Annie
VI. Merrill went to Lewiston YESTERDAY
to attend Ivy Day exercises.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-06-20

The report Of last nights basabau
meeting will be found on page
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-06-20

Ralph f. McCausland Of Boston re-.
Gently visited his father, Oscar NJ.
CauSland.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-06-20

J. 6. Maxcy and son, Robert, have r.
turned from tour in Europe.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-06-20

Mrs. John II. Wight passed yeetor
day with friends in Portland.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-06-20

Raymond Bartlett arrived from
Washington yesterday morning.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-06-20

Mrs. Bertha Allen and Miss J.ouisa
left yesterday for a visit At Capitol Is
land.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-06-20

A meeting OF the Pukwana club ,Ip
be held next Monday evening.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-06-20

While S"gfried was rolsh;n;; his sword
n 'ovcnt Garden Theater, l.ondon The
other night, 10 cut the anvil in lilf. III"
anvil sioWtJ split Of its own accord.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-06-20

Mr.. and Mrs. w. s. Ames left ves
terday morning for Rangeiey.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-06-20

Leon Lawton has returned from Roa-
ton.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-06-20
GARDINER.

Journals Telephone Call, ST.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-06-20
LIVE POULTRY.

Receipts for the week about 1000
his. Prices unchanged from u week
ago. RroilcrG - Ia - cts, fowl 10 10
l3i. cts. oli ROSTERS 81, 10 5 cts
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-26
BRINGING COLORADO
BACK TO CHANNEL
of Southern Pacific
and California Develope-
ment Company Succeeding
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL.

SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL.
SAN DIEGO, Sept. .25--Water is once
mere floating down the old channel of
the Colorado River below the lower in
take. This cheering news was received
from Calexico this morning. AS yet the
stream that is going down the old
channel is a small one, but it indicates
the success of the fight that is being
made by the Southern Pacific Company.
the California Development Company
and the people of Imperial Valley in
their efforts to control the waters of
the Colorado.
Now that a portion of the water is
being diverted from the new river it
will be only question of short time
before the entire stream will be going
down the old channel. Nature has been
kind in furnishing a rock quarry, a
gravel pit and clay bed, all within
the radius of a quarter of a mile.
The water has been raised three feet
by the work so far and the stream is
lessened to about 500 feet, but rock has
been and is being dumped in that space
and-has found bottom to such an ex
tent that they claim the river will be
under control in ten days and the new
river" will be thing of the past.
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-26
CITIZEN MAKING IN
NEW FORM.
Naturalization Laws Change
Tomorrow and Federal
Government Takes Hand
MUST KNOW ENGLISH

Beginning Thursday citizens will be
made in a new mold in the city and
county of San Francisco. On that day
the new naturalization law passed by
the last Congress and approved on
June 20 goes into effect, and the for
eigner who arrives in the United States
after that date must wait five years
before he can cast off the robe of an
alien. He must then be able to speak
English write his own name and go
through a long course of legal inves-
tigation.
There will probably be a lull in the
citizen making business for a time in
San Francisco, for the new law is a
stringent one There will also be
cessation in the restoration of natur-
alization records and declarations of
intention which have been coming into
the office of the County Clerk at the
rate of from 400 to 500 week for the
past two weeks, for Thursday the
charge for this service-is raised from
gratis to 81 and instead of simply pass
ing through the local office the records
must go through the hands of the Fed
eral Government
The most radical change of the new
law is to take citizen making out of
the hands of the local authorities and
vest 1t in the Federal Government, and
no alien can be made a citizen until he
has lived here five years. There
must be an interim, of at least two
years between the obtaining of the
first and the second papers. When the
time for getting the second papers ar
rives the applicant must produce two
witnesses to swear he has lived in the
country five years and that he has
behaved himself during that time. He
must also obtain certificate from the
Department of Commerce and Labor at
70 cI7i ,er+0 This &C.
him upon the Department of Commerce
and Labor finding that his record is
good With this he goes before the
County Clerk again and files petition
for citizenship. He must answer with
out an interpreter certain questions
about his history and sign his own
name. He must also show familiarity
with the American constitution.
Within thirty days thereafter the
County Clerk sends the papers to
Washington by registered mail and
sixty days must be allowed for an in
vestigation of the records by the I'm
migration Department
Now Uncle Sam gets busy 1t is not
enough that the applicants papers are
all in proper form and correct on their
face. An Inspector is sent out to look
up his history and that of his wit
nesseS and a close examination is made
OF his character. If the report of this
inspector is not as favorable as it
should be, the Government has the
right to appear against the applicant
when he goes before the Superior Court
and there contest his right to become
citizen. If the report is favorable
the papers are returned to the County
Clerk without objections
If all goes we'll the applicant may
go before a Superior Judge and ask to
be admitted to citizenship. He cannot
obtain his final papers within thirty
days preceding an election. however.
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-26

Bourn will not discuss the affairs OF
their clients or even admit that they
are buying for Bourn or his friends,
ii is apparent that they have carte
blanche to buy Spring Valley stock at
almost any reasonable figure.
1t is claimed that Bourn is not, as
some have suspected, acting for East
ern capitalists, but that he has with
him certain large holders of stock in
the water company, including Banker
Borel and his clients, who have been
heavy stockholders in the Spring VAL
ley Company, in which Borel has long
been a director.
Shortly before the close of the Ex-
change yesterday it was reported that
BoIrn had secured a majority of the
stock, but this was denied as was
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-26
At TACkS VALIDITY
OF C|TYs ACTS.

Should the contention on which Hugo
Asher is basing suit for the annull-
ment of the Home Telephone Com
pany's franchise in Judge Kerrigan's s
court be declared valid, every official
act of the city of San Francisco since
April Is would be placed under a ban
of illegality.
Asher appears in the case against
the Board of Supervisors as a taxpayer
seeking to have the franchise awarded
the Home Telephone Company on April
% declared void, but it is understood
that he is acting in the interests of
competitive bidders who failed to Sc
cure the franchise at that time. The
franchise was sold for $4,000 and
later the company donated $4,000 to
the relief fund.
Ashers claim is that the act of the
Board of Supervisors was Illegal be-
cause the days subsequent to April is
were declared legal holidays and be-
cause the meetings of the board were
not held in the City Hall and no ade-
quate notice of change in the meeting
place was ever made as provided by
the charter.
1t was during this period that many
important measures were passed, in
Guiding the permit for the electrifying
of the lines of the United Railroads,
the passing of the chimney inspection
ordinance, the granting of large salary
rolls and mass of minor business All
these would be called into question
should the court sustain Asher's claim
on the grounds stated
The case was argued and submitted
to Judge Kerrigan yesterday.
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-26

and Democrats--if you are going to
lock the doors of California and then
hand the keys to Hartman.
DANGER OF MONOPOLY.
His railroad was built with the
money of the people; built into the
State with the peoples money. En-
joying a monopoly, it would plant in
self in the way of any other trans
continental road. What will these
roads do if the executive and the ju-
dietary of the State are in the hands
of Hartman? Are you going to say
that Hartman. by a nod of his head
at a banquet in Washington, can call
a Governor for California;"
In conclusion Bell spoke on the SUBJ
jects of irrigation and education, say
ing that the one object on which he
would not economize was the public
school system. He stated his belief in
an income tax and drew a picture of
his father paying his taxes yearly on
their ranch at st. Helena and the rail-
road evading its taxes through the
Vaccinations of Herrin. Bell evidently
realized that there were many Repub-
licans in his audience and addressed
much of his speech directly to them.
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-26
CAPITALIST BOURN
HAS BIC SCHEME.

Local financiers are watching closely
Capitalist William Bourn and his as
sociates in their effort to gain control
of the Spring Valley Water Company.
There is no longer any doubt that
Bourn is behind the movement to buy
the stock of the water company. and
that when he has accomplished the
object he will enter upon a well plan
ned project to connect the company's
mains with new source of water sup
ply and then offer the property to the
city at figure that will mean hand
some profit to himself and associates.
through various sources. The broker
age firms of his friends, as well as
his own brokers, are taking all stock
offered. He has also several of his
more intimate friends at work tying
up large blocks of stock.
It became known yesterday that
Bourn has had a well known engi-
neering firm engaged several months
Bourn is buying Spring Valley stock
studying the local water supply situ-
alton in connection with his plans for
developing a valuable water source of
his own in Nevada County. The engi-
neers have advised him that new
water supply project for San Francisco
will be almost impracticable unless
whole or part of the Spring Valley
plant is used in conjunction with it.
In their report to BOurn the engineers
call attention to the fact that the most
valuable acquisition an enterprise of
this character could secure would be
the Spring Valley plant.
The latter corporation is in possess
sion of the most advantageous sites
for reservoirs, which they have been
acquiring successfully for a number
of years. In the possession of these
and the companys street pipe lines a
new concern would save years of time
and necessarily millions of dollars in
the expense of construction.
Bourn was quick to appreciate these
facts, and foreseeing the possible
adoption by the city of some other
water project he set about buying UP
Spring Valley stock. Although it is
conceded that he is still many thou
sand shares away from having in his
control the majority of the company's
2S0,o0o shares, it is the general opin-
ion that he has a good lead over pos
sible competitors in the buying of
stock.
In the furry on the market last
week, Bourn and his friends are sup
posed to have bought and sold their
own stock, and in the end they added
several thousand shares more to their
rapidly increasing block. Yesterday.
through their brokers, they made an
other turn.
Although the brokers who have ap-
parently been acting in behalf of
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-26
INSURANCE CASES DISMISSED.
SsipulatiOns I'm Actions Against vii
iamsburSh Company Filed.

T. c. Van Ness of the firm of Van
Ness & Denman, acting for. the Will
liamsburgh Fire Insurance Company of
Brooklyn, filed a motion yesterday for
the dismissal of forty-four suits which
have been brought against that com
pany by different property owners who
suffered losses in the fire, and accom-
panied his motion with stipulations of
dismissal covering all the cases The
suits included in the list relate TO
property in all parts of the city and
are for various amounts aggregating
many thousands of dollars.
The dismissals were secured on a
compromise basis" said Mr.. Van Ness
last night, part of the claims having
been settled on a so per cent COM
promise and part of them on a rs per
cent compromise, according to the dis
trict in which the property was To-
Gated. No settlements have been made
by this company on any but the COM
promise basis, but the claims are now
rapidly being settled up. Many of
these suits were filed prior to the Of
fering of the compromise agreement
by the company"
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-26
MARK TWAIN STANDS
UNMASKED AT LAST
Massie, Sixty Years
on Mississippi, Says He
Was Worst Pilot on River
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL.


KANSAS CITY, Mo, Sept. 25.-Wil-
liam Massie, the oldest pilot on the
Mississippi river, who has just demon
strated by bringing the steamer Lora.
heavily laden with freight. from St.
Louis to Kansas City. that the Mis-
souri, is also a navigable stream, the
same as it was forty years ago, was
rendered reception today.
Captain Massie has been on the river
continually since he started out sixty
years ago. He has known many char
acters famous in the West, some of
whom have been long dead He was
sitting opposite Wild Bill" Hickok the
day Bill was killed. The bullet that
passed through Hickok's body wounded
Massie in the arm. He did not think
much of Wild Bill" and agrees that he
got his deserts.
Captain Massie remembers Mark
Twain well, having first met him in 40
Clemens was tall, gawky fellow and
stoop-shouldered," said the old pilot.
He was the only man / ever knew
that didn't have enough sense to be-
come a pilot He never was a pilot.
and never would be If he lived to be
100 years old. He was scared to death
in nine feet of water. He never took
a boat out by. himself. Always had an
older pilot with him, though he got a
pilots license.
He used to make out the reports of
the pilot, Horace Bixby. He asked Blk
by once what to sign on the reports.
Bixby told him to just sign them Mark
Twain Clemens used to send abbre-
waited reports to the st. Louis paper
signed Mark Twain. Then the New
York Ledger got to using them. That's
hdw Clemens got that name. 1 have
road a LITTLE of his writings Soma ~
them about the Mississippi River. 1t
don't interest me. It seems foolish I
never had time for monkey business
and dry jokes anyhow"
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-26
PIANOS FOR PRIZES
EiIerS Music Co. Give Finest Pianos Known
to the Trade as Prizes in q
Great Word Contest.

in
$4,000 in Prizes.
$1,000 Piano First Prize.
the
Piano
sEenas the most 0
prize
Thrdpr
Fourth priz
prize
Sixthp prize
furnish words
ade
of
in
eligb efort is contest s
only Of
Union
A Deal.
the MINERS with
eakeo Of
child
is barr e excep
Oakland Francisco
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-26

also a recond report that the directors
of the company had decided to. levy
another assessment Of So Tt is claim
ed that l. W. Hellman Jr. a few days
after the recent assessment was levied,
informed certain of his friends that
the $4,000 derived by the assessment
was sufficient to meet all the COM
pany's expenses in repairing it's pipe
lines and various structures
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-26
NEW CALIFORNIA posrMAsTERs.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.-California
postmasters were appointed today as
follows: Gazelle. Siskiyou County. Os-
car F. Dyer, vice Edison L. Foulke. re-
signed; Daunt, Tulare County, Anna
NJ Harmon, vice Sarah J. Petty. re-
signed; Island, Humboldt County, Mrs.
rison, resigned; Thrall, Siskiyou Conn
ty, E. T. Abbott, vice E. C. Way. re-
signed.
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-26
ANNEXATION WILL BE RESULT.

WHEELING, w. Va, Sept. 25.-'The
ultimate result of the present strife in
Cuba will be the annexation of the
island by the United States. said SEN
ator s. B. Elkins in an interview here
today
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-26
TESTS ARE MADE BY ARMY
WITH A FIRELESS COOKER
One In Use Weighs 120 Pounds and VIII
pounds. 1t will hold twcnty gallons or
Food.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.-Under the
direction of commissary General Sharp
of the army, experiments have been
made at the practice camps this sum-
mer and fall with fireless cooker.
The cooker has been used by the army
for some time in an experimental way.
but this fall it has been tried under
severe service conditions. The results
have been particularly satisfactory.
both to the officers of the Commissary
Department and to the men in the
field
The cooker now in use has four COM
partments and weighs empty about 40
nounls. IT will hold twenty rallons of
food, enough to supply a meal to a
company of infantry or troop of
cavalry.
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-26
BENGA DOESN'T LIKE THE HOSE

NEW YORK, Sept. 25.-oca Benga.
the African pigmy, who has been ex
hibited at the New York Geological
Gardens for some time past. tried to
kill a keeper yesterday with a knife.
He fought furiously before he was dis
armed. Benga's anger was excited be-
cause the keeper in a spirit of fun
turned hose on him. Benga has been
exhibited in the monkey cage. He
has attracted wide attention because Of
the protests of several negro societies
against the exhibition.
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-26
Paso Roble. Hot Springs

The wonderful medicinal springs of America
on the Coast Line of the Southern Pacific m id
way between San Francisco and Los Angeles
Modern 100000 bathEouse for the scientific uses
OF mineral waters. Medical corps in attendance
New and commodious dining facilities. Swim
ming pool delightful drives Just the place
to store up yigor and vim Ask Inforuation
Bureau. Southern Pacific Company.
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-26
Water Color Sets

Water Color Boxes. complete.
with lull set of colors and
brushes, in pretty Japan box;
just the thing to color your py-
Biography work after burning.
Per set. s5c, s5c and 75c.
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-26
CHICAGO BROKER ExpELI,En.

CHICAGO. Sept. 25.--J. w. Cassadav.
president of the Cassaday Commission
Company of Quincy, ILL.,. was expelled
from the Chicago Board of Trade to-
day on charge OF bucket shopping.
The directors voted unanimously for
expulsion.
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-26
Northern Pacific Railway,

Best route to Spokane, Butte, Helena. Fargo.
Winnipeg, Duluth. Minneapolis ST. Paul. Chi
cago and all points East. Travel on the famous
North Coast Limited" Finest scenery. best
service and unsurpassed equipment. For full
information write or call on I. K Stateler
General Agent Temporary office, Ferry nave
foot of Market St, San Francisco, Cal
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-26

A. c. Rulofson Sheet Metal Works
Office. Monadnock building. Factory, Eighth
and Brannan streets. Telephone. Temporary 1918.
Our speciality, four styles hreproof metal win
dows skylights. cornices metal ceilings build
ing fronts. Best work. Estimates furnished. .
The San Francisco call., 1906-09-26


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La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1906-10-30
.EL NAJE DEL PRESI-
dente Roosevelt.
OesemharGaFa en- Ponce ] VendFa a
Sag Juan pOT Ia Garrstera CEN
trail.
Iran rstlblrls all 81 guhsnsdor Winthrop. 81
espOsa v las COmislOnss daslgnadas.

El primer punto de Ia isla en- que toca-
r6 eli Presidente Roosevelt en- su viaje &
Puerto Rico, ser6 la ciudad de Ponce.
Ali desembarcaT6 acompanado de su
hija Ethel y de Ia sonora Roosevelt, sa-
liendo luego en- autom6vil por la caTretrra
central para San Juan.
ri gobernador Winthrop su distin-
guida esposa, representatives del Conseio
Executive, Legislature las otras comisic-
mes que Sc former con objeto de aaludar
8 los ilustres hu6spedes, iran 4 recibirles
& Ponce acompafdndoles luego San
Juan.
En- San Juan volveran embarcar los
viajeros para seguir su viaje & cuyo
efectO sguardar6 aquf 81 buque que ha de
conducirloe.
Siguen en- Ia Mansion Eiecutiva los pre-
parativos para tributar 81 recibimieuto
que corresponds al primer Magistrate de
Ia Rep6blica Norte. americana y su dis.
tinguida sonora E hija.
Un vapor, hetado expresamente para el
obieto, lleva 4 Panama, siguiendo Ia ruta
de visje del Presidente, un buen ntmero
de representatives de Ia .prensa de los Es-
ados Unidos.
La correspondencia de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 1890-1943, 1906-10-30
/. JUZGADO De PAZ.
JUICIOS De AYER.

Rosa Escribano, por prOfsrir frases obs
cenas, So.
Luis Garcia, por causar dafioB en- el
cesped de Ia caleta de San Juan, So.
Antonia Barbosa, por dar gritos y pro-
ferir blasfemias On Ia via pdblica, 10 dias
Juan Trnjillo J Jovita Malave, por
rifa; absnelta Jovita, y Trujillo $5.
Pedro Ayala y Augel Figuerca, por
escandalo, So Figueroa.
Santiago Serrano, por caTgar con 50
quintalea una carFeta con una Bola yunta
de bueyeB, SO.
Gregorio Verdejo Maria Cartagena,
por rifa, So Verdejo.
Narciso Ortiz, por promover escandalo
con gritos y fraseS obscenas, 10 dias
Angela Gonzalez, Gregoria Morales,
Juana Arzuaga, Bartola Colon Agripi-
ma de Jeslis, por promoveF eseandalo, 10
dias SIS cada una.
Manuel Ferrer, por profeTir frases obs.
cenas, So
Felipe Candelario, por tener alberto y
trabajar en- su barberfa en- SantuTce, So.
Felfcita Torres, por esc6ndalo en- el "a.
guam de Ia Corte, SIS.
Narciso Reyes, por banarse desnudo en-
el muelle, 81.
Francisco Cruz, por cargar con 42 quin-
tales una carreta de una yunta de .bueyes,
5 dollars.
AbsueItos diez acusados