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New-York tribune., 1906-11-01
HIS SKULL FRACTURED.
Yet PatrOlman Eller Stayed on Duty
TzCenty-fOur Hours.

With his skull fractured Patrolman John J.
Elle'. of the East 35th street police station. did
his regular police duty for twenty-four hours
not realizing that he was badly injured. He
was hurt Tuesday night in a collision, but
thought nothing of it until last night, when he
tainted In the police station while talking with
Sergeant McAdam. He was hurried to Bellevue
Hospital.
El er on Tuesday night served as emergency
patrol driver. He answered patrol call at
9th street and Lexington avenue where the
patrol wagon was struck by a southbound Lex
ington avenue car. Patrolman Mesick. who was
sitting in the back of the wagon, was thrown
out and received a fracture of the skull and in
ternal injuries. He taken to Bellevue Hos
pital
Filler was thrown out of the wagon when tho
accident occurred. He sprang up and ilImped
into the wagon just as the horses bolted He
ste 1ped the animals a block away and then took
tn patrol wagon back to look for Mesick
Ter told several patrolmen that he had re-
&c ed a bump the head when he was
tn .wn from the wagon. but that ii did not
sn unit to much Eller drove the patrol wagon
on tuesday night and yesterday did his regular
pa ol duty.
Ter is athlete. He won the Canadian
nat al for the 100-yard dash and also has an
ex nent police record. He is married and lives
at %. 1896 Bathgate avenue The Bronx.
e physicians at Bellevue Hospital sav that
st the first time in their experience that man
Wit a fractured skull has worked for mare
rha twenty-four hours without realizing The
SER rIsness of his hurts.
New-York tribune., 1906-11-01
A WAR In PARLIAMENT.
PEERS ANGER COMMONS.
Radical Changes in Education Bill
LIOyd-George's WdnRg.

London. Oct 31.-The House of Lords con-
tinues TO make far reaching changes in the
Education bill. and in Liberal circles the opin-
ion is expressed that if the Opposition
.inues in its present spirit the bill will hardly
be Recognizable when it returns to the House
of Commons
Clause > Of the bill completed tonight,
litter radical alterations, mostly by large OppO-
1ition ma jorities. There is a distinct atnos-
phere of tension in the upper house The sit
tinss present a brilliant and imposing
spectacle, and the House of Lords is so crowded
that members of the Opposition occupy q con-
siderable portion of the government seats.
The peeresses throng their special galleries A
number of peers who have not been seen in
the upper house for many years are now regu-
lar attendants
1t has apparently been determined that the
ministry Will not tamely submit to the Lords
the Board of Trade, David Lloyd-George. who
speaking al Spalding tonight said that the
work of "re-editins' the bill would terminate in
e way probably Ear from agreeable to the House
of Lords, majority of whom We're endeavoring
TO establish the principle Of compulsory religion
TO which the country would not submit 1t was
absolutely intolerable said Mr. Lloyd-George
that the House of Lords should override the de-
cisions of the people the last election and the
government determined to persevere with
the bill. The people had outgrown the old svs-
tenn Of catechsms and the old teachings that
they TO be humble and lowIy before their
betters. They would no longer be content the
president of the Board of Trade said in con-
clusion, with lessons in class humility
New-York tribune., 1906-11-01
TWO BAD FALLS At HUNT.
4llan Pinkerton and Robert l..
.Steuens ThrOzcn from Horses.
GBy Telegraph to The Tribune. ]

Hampstead, Long Island, Oct 3l.-Allan Pink
erton and Robert l.. Stevens received bad falls
to-day while following the Meadowbrook hounds.
Mr. Pinkertons fall caused by his horse,
green. heavy-headed brute. plunging through
snake fence concealed by hedge. Just Mr..
Pinkerton fell Mr.. Stevens came up and his
horse stumbled over his PROSTATE fellow hunts
man Both were picked up unconscious and car
ried to the clubhouse. several miles away.
Except for being badly shaken up, neither was
seriously hurt Yesterday Mr.. PinkertOn unin-
tentionally caused W. Scott Cameron 10 fall.
Mr.. Pnkerton bumped Mr. CameroEs horse
when about to take stiff jump and Mr.. Cam
eron thrown on his head, sustaining con-
cussion of the brain. Despite the series of ac-
cdents dag hunt will be held tomorrow, the
start being at Bulls Head.
New-York tribune., 1906-11-01
FAST TRAIN HITS FREIGHT
Engine Of Federal Erpress, Wash-
iRgton Bound, LeaUes Rails.

Sharon. Mass, oct. 3i.-The federal express
which left Boston at p. m. for Washington
ran into a freight train on the Providence divi-
sion Of the New York, %ew Haven e. Hartford
Railroad Sharon Heights tonight. The ex-
press locomotive, the freight engine and two
freight left the rails
John Keeler, of New Haven, Conn, the
gineer Of the express, was caught in the wreck
age but eXtrcated before he sustained
fatal injuries. None of the passengers on the
cypress were injured and the train crew of tho
freight also escaped
New-York tribune., 1906-11-01
FRENCH P4TROL KILLED.
Sirfy-one Men Surprised By a Sc
nOuSsi Force.

zunguru Nigeria, oct. 31-News was received
here to-day that a French camel patrol con-
sistins of one officer and sixty men. was sur
prisea and annihilated by a senoussi force. al
The end of August, two hundred miles northeast
of Lake Tchad.
New-York tribune., 1906-11-01

Try Gold & Black Label !, q Crown Sherries
sf 4 r. Ruiz & Hermanos. Jerez. Spain-Advt.
New-York tribune., 1906-11-01
GREAT ROBBERY IN FRANCE.
Thieves Loot Castle of Baroness James
Rothschild at Chantilly.

Paris. Oct. Silt is reported to-day that
many objects OF art Of very great value have
been stolen from the chateau at chantilly of
Baroness Games Rothschild.
New-York tribune., 1906-11-01
pEwEY,s RICH OLD PORT WINE,

Taken with Raw Egg Is very engthenlng.
H T. Dewey & Sons Co.. LES Fulton St. New York
-AdVG
New-York tribune., 1906-11-01
NEW OIL SUIT SOON READY.
Action Against National Petroleum Associa-
ton To Be Tried in Missouri.
LI.r relegraph . ~ TIIbane. ]

Cleveland oct 3l-Officlals Of tie National Petro-
leum Association have been advised that Attorney
General Moody is ready 70 proceed against the
Standard OF Company under the Sherman Anti
Trust law in his efforts wipe out the trust.
We are Informed & -. Chamberlain. the sec
Rotary of The association said to-day, that action
will be tiled in the federal courts IN St Louis in
short time The same principles VIII be involved as
in the Northern Securities Company case The
suit is fled in Missouri. probably because the
Waters Pierce OIL Company ana the Standard Oil
companies OF Kentucky and lndiana are all repre-
sented there"
The San Francisco call., 1906-04-11
ELECTION MAY
CAUSE TROUBLE
Ministers of Red Bluff to
Criminally Prosecute Men
They Say Voted Illegally
CONSULT AN ATTORNEY
Claim Is Made That Many
Not Entitled to Franchise
Cast Ballots for Saloons
CONSULT AN ATTORNEY

RED BLUFF. Aug l0.-The result of
the city election in Red Bluff yesterday
bids fair TO become the cause of a great
deal of anxiety on the part of some of
those who cast their votes, as il is pub
licly charged that more than 200 Illegal
votes were cast Tomorrow night the
Red Bluff Ministerial Association will
hold a meeting and discuss the election.
II is known that several Of its members
were in consultation with District Attor-
ney Gill today, and the claim is made
that they have the names of those who
are alleged to have voted illegally.
II is charged that many who were reg
istered and voted At yesterdays election
were not residents of the city for the
necessary length of time. The leading
ministers, who had a candidate for Trus-
tee in the person Of Rev. William Clark.
watched the polling places closely all day
and challenged many voters, but in most
instances the votes were sworn in.
The fight was between the ministers
and the Royal Arch, a saloon mems or
gauization, each having three candidates
for Trustee and candidate for Marshal
in the race. The Royal Arch was success
ful electing all three of its candidates for
Trustee and its candidate for Marshal by
large majOrities. II is not believed that
a contest of the election viii be made,
but that criminal prosecutions will fol-
low.
The Grand Jury meets next month and
il may be that the matter will be taken
before that body. The usual vote for
this city is about $50. while yesterdays
vote reached 726.
The San Francisco call., 1906-04-11
Inland Sea Covers an Area of
Nearly 900 Square Miles
Monster Levees Fail to Check
Rush of the Torrents.
Thousands of Acres Under Cul-
tivation Inundated.

VISALIA, April discriminating upon
the smallness of man and the littleness
of his power in the great valley of the
San Joaquin stand hundreds of men,
With voices full of awe they discuss
matter beyond their ken, and with eyes
expressing wonder and even fear they
gaze. Where for years stood green
fields, rich with the product of mans in
genuity, monument to labor and toll
and that love to conquer which is ever
uppermost in the breasts of the men who
against great obstacles fight their way to
victory, be the battle against the elements
or their fellow man, is a seething, tur-
bulent mass of water. Far below the
wind-tossed waves are the green fields.
As in night they disappeared. as almost
in a night twenty years ago disappeared
Tulare Lake.
AS the great valley was twenty years
ago so it is now. The work Of man has
been swept aside. Once again there Is
Tulare Lake, a lake greater and grander
than the lake of two decades ago. As,
far as the eye can see, as of yore
The San Francisco call., 1906-04-11
Ak IS WELDED
BY MURDERER
Officer Finds That Slayer
of Indian Woman Used
Other Weapon Beside Knife

BAKERSFIELD, April 10.-Deputy Sher-
III Baker returned tonight from the scene
of the killing of the Indian woman, Marie
in the TETON Canyon. He brought with
him Augustine Lugo. the Indian being
held on suspicion. Officer Baker found
that not only was the weman's throat
cut, but her head was laid open with an
ak and her features crushed out of recog-
milton. The officer closely inspected the
premises, and as result brought to light
the ak, which had escaped the observa-
ton of the others and with which the
deed was done. 1t was mass of blood
and hair, and the weapon is now in the
posse ssion of the deputy.
Officer Baker made a thorough exam
ination Of the country about the scene of
the crime but found snothing further to
connect Lugos with the murder. The old
man. however, has told the officers many
conflicting stories as to his whereabouts
on Sunday night and has contradicted
himself many times. There are over thir-
ty hours that he cannot account for, and
his threats to kill the woman, his prox-
imity to the scene of the crime and the
blood on his shirt have warranted his be-
ing de tanned, and he is now in Jail in this
city.
Coroner Mullins held an inquest at the
TETON ranch this morning. The jury Wis
tied the scene of the murder and in
spected the body, but in the investigation
that followed there was little evidence
adduced. The jury brought in a verdict
that the woman came to her death by
wounds made by an ak in the hands of
parties unknown to the jury.
The San Francisco call., 1906-04-11

great traction engines were dragging
hundreds of plOws across the lake bed.
All this labor has been wasted, togeth-
er with the seed sown. and the money
used in putting up and maintaining the
levees. Plows by the dozens are now
on the inundated land. At least four
combined harvesters are beyond the
chance of rescue, and a number of the
heavy traction engines have disap-
peared from view beneath the water.
Cabins have been overturned and float
ed of at the will of the wind and
waves.
Men who have made a study of con-
ditions existing at the lake and closely
examined the lake bed tell us there is
strong reason for the belief that once
before, ere the white man ever reached
its shores. the lake had dried up. and
it's bottom made the homes of human
beings. There is more snow in the
Sierra Nevadas than has fallen for
many a season past, and when the
warm summer sun begins to beat down
upon the frozen mass IL is an absolute
certainty that the streams will again
fill and that the old lake will stretch
still farther toward it's old banks.
Whether this condition will last de-
pendS altogether on succeeding sea-
sons II we should have a succession
Of wet winters the water in the lake
would hold it's own for years. II the
seasons succeeding this are dry the in
undated territory will be uncovered
A number Of law suits have been
temporarily settled by the rising OF
the lake. The land in the lake bed was
the basis of a number of litigations.
jumpers" having gone in and taken
possession of the land and when they
were driven from their homes the
cause of all actions ceased. The fol-
lowing districts have been covered and
the crops thereon ruined:
Tula-e Lake reclamation district. %. 600
acres: Buena Vista reclamation district, q. 600
acres; o. Hrien reclamation district. $4,000
acres: Occidental reclamation district. 10000
acres: Cross Creek reclamation district. 5000
acres; Barbour reclamation district. 1000
acres: Lovelace reclamation district, 1900
acres: Williamson reclamation district, 1850
acres: Goldberg reclamation district. 1000
acres johnson reclamation district. 1900 acres.
Doherty and Hammond reclamation district.
1880 acres: Perine reclamation district. 1000
acres: Richardson reclamation district. $40
acres: Ella reclamation district $40 acres
Taft reclamation district 800 acres and the
lake bed proper 1900 acres.
1t Is impossible even to estimate the
loss caused by the overflow.
The San Francisco call., 1906-04-11
MAY BUILD LINE
To SAN DIEGO.
Senator Clark Believed to
Be Planning Extension of
Salt Lake Road to South
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL

SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL
SAN DIEGO, April 10.-This morning H.
S. Crane, local attorney and a personal
friend of Senator William A Clark, re-
ceived a letter from the head of the Salt
Lake Railway asking that he be furnished
data on San Diego regarding an extern
sion of the Salt Lake system to San
Diego. AS a result of this letter meet
ing of the railroad committee of the
Chamber of Commerce was held this aft
ernoon and the necessary Information was
compiled and will be forwarded imme-
diately to Senator Clark.
In his letter Senator Clark asked for a
description of terminal facilities, together
with a concise statement of the popula-
tion of the city, its recent progress, re-
sources of it's back country and the gem
eral keen interest of its people in any pro-
ject for getting additional railroad COM
munication which would insure hearty CO.
operation at this end of the line The let
ter also asked whether the city would fur
nish rights of way and terminal sites, and
if San Diegans would undertake to place
bonds of the company issued for the con-
struction of the extension.
The receipt of this letter but strengthens
the opinion held by many that Senator
Clark is seriously considering a plan to
extend the Salt Lake road to San Diego.
The San Francisco call., 1906-04-11
MOTHER KILLS
HER ONLY CHILD
While Insane Turns On Gas
i'll Room Occupied by Her
self and Boy of Fourteen

Los ANGELES, April 1O-In what is
supposed to have been fit of insanity,
Mrs. Kate p. Raymond wife of Frank
Kellogg Raymond, clerk In the Interior
department at Washington, D. c., early
this morning turned on the gas in a room
at her home, 651 Selma street, Hollywood.
suburb Of this city, after carefully
locking all doors and windows, and as
phyxiated her H-year-old son Frank, who
was sleeping in the room, and very nearly
ended her own life
The crime was detected today by neigh
bors, who detected the odor of escaping
gas. The police We're notified and the
room broken into. The body of the boy
lay on small cot, where he had retired.
ana with smile still on his lips. The
mother was in a half-kneeling posture
beside the cot with her fingers interlaced
as IL In prayer She was unconscious and
her breathing scarcely noticeable 1t was
at first thought that she would not sur
vive, but tonight physicians who are at
tending her have hopes that she will re-
cover.
The deed had been carefully planned
and carried out. The woman left two
letters. one addressed to her mother. Mrs.
Martha Cooper. 1929 Elliott street. San
Diego, Cal, and the other to a neighbor.
Mrs. Cromblet. In her letter to her moth
er Sne ninleQ al ner unnappineSS and said
she and her son would be better off dead.
In neither of the notes did Mrs RAYMOND
give any additional reason for her act.
She had but lately returned from visit
to her husband in the East, and after
arriving appeared very much depressed.
Very little is known of Mrs Raymond,s 9
husband here. The family had been in
Hollywood several months and Mrs. Raw
mond entertained a great deal They
appeared to have abundant resources and
lived in considerable style. While Mrs.
Raymonds actions have been remarked
once or twice as being peculiar. she
showed no other traces of an unbalanced
mind 1t developed after the tragedy
was discovered today that on q previous
occasion several months ago she had at
tempted the life of her son with chloro-
form, but the prompt action of a physi-
clan had saved the boy's.life. Mrs Ray
mond is about 40 years Of age, and had
but the one child.
The husband and father was notified at
once of the tragedy today and a dispatch
from him states that he has left Wash
ington for Los Angeles. The letter which
Mrs. Raymond addressed to her mother
follows:
Ny Dear Mother: To you I leave all in
this house What you care to. give to Mrs
Crombiet. She lives in the little house in
the rear and Is a warm-hearted woman. This
shock will nearly kill you, too, but our separa-
The San Francisco call., 1906-04-11

stretches a great body of water. The
levees. the dykes. the great bitches built
to protect the green fields are not to be
seen. The sprouting grain which less
than month ago made glad the heart
of the farmer, the rich land upon which
he had toiled, the implements and tools
used by him in his fight against nature
are no longer his. They lie at the bot
tom of the lake.
are responsible for the wonderful freak
of nature. From all sides streams are
running into the big basin. All the
streams which fed the old Tulare Lake
are feeding the new one. Tule and Kings
rivers are running bank full and have
been for weeks. Between Corcoran and
Angola, on the line of the Santa Fe Rail-
road. Tule River HAS broken over it's
banks and is running. solid sheet OF
water two miles in width. with a deep.
strong current directly into the old lake
bed The whole surrounding country In
the neighborhood of this overflow has the
appearance of an inland sea.
The waters Of the lake are steadily adj
vancing. Every day they creep out far
ther and farther toward their ancient
boundaries. At the present time the wa
ters are leaving the ground within six
miles of their eastern limit in 1878, the
highest period in the memory Of the in
habitants of this valley. Six miles more
and the lake Will sap the foundations Of
the business houses of Angola and Cor
coran on the east
At the beginning of the season the lake
was not. There was an expanse of mud
dy ground covering a section or two, thle
covered. showing where the lake had
made its last stand. At the present time
it is a solid expanse of water covering
between $50 and 800 square miles, practi-
cally every foot of which had been
planted this season. The water has risen
very rapidly, so fast in fact that the
farmers in the lake bed had scarcely time
TO realize what was coming before levees
were crushed and broken and yellow.
seething floods were rolling everywhere.
The entire lake basin had been divided
up into reclamation districts and barri-
caded, securely it was thought. with mon
ster levees, built as strong and solid as
1t was possible to make them, with the
exception of twenty-one sections in the
very center While this had not been
entered in any reclamation district, a
srge part of it was under cultivation.
the farmers taking desperate chances
against the elements.
The work of years is wasted Be-
fore the storm moving villages of farm
hands were located on eacn of the
large tracts, thousands of head OF
horses were doing steady service and
The San Francisco call., 1906-04-11
WILL NOT OBEY
COMP PANY'S RULE
Employees of Southern Pa
cific Refuse to Write Their
History for Corporation
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL

SACRAMENTO, April 10-Much objec-
tion is expressed by the employees of the
Southern Pacific shops In this city to the
Personal Record" slips which are now
being introduced in some of the depart
ments. These slips are printed lists of
questions which the employees are re-
quired to fill out. The questions concern
the employees age, nativity, size Of fam
lily, employment during the last five
years, data concerning litigation with the
company If any, and a promise of COM
pliance with the company's regulations
now in force and those to be introduced
in the future.
A physical examination is also required
The employees object to the slips on the
ground that they interfere with. the pri-
vate affairs of the Individual At a meet
ing of protest held at noon few days
ago between 200 and 800 of them agreed
not to file the lists and to resist any in
quiry or interference on the part of the
company in their private affairs.
The San Francisco call., 1906-04-11
GAMBLING THE ISSUE.
Republicans and Democrats of Phoenix
Facing Warm Campaign.

PHOENIX, A. T, April 1O.-The
Democratic and Republican parties
held their municipal conventions to-
night for the nomination of two candi-
dates for the City Council from two
wards and a Mayor. The Republican
nominees were: Henry c. Yaeger for
Mayor, Shirley Christy for Councilman
from the Second ward, Claud W. Cisney
for Councilman from the Fourth ward.
The Democratic nominees are Charles
Goldman for Mayor, W. H. Ward for
Councilman from the Second ward.
Joseph Bush for Councilman from the
Fourth ward
The feature Of the campaign is the
question Of gambling. The Republican
platform pledges candidates, If elected,
TO do all in their power to submit the
question Of licensed gambling to the
popular vote at a special election be-
fore January I, 1907 The Democratic
convention left the matter of a plat
form TO a committee for later consid-
Grafton.
The San Francisco call., 1906-04-11
REFoRMERs ARE vIcToRs.
Voters of Kern City Defeat Three
Incumbent COunciImen.

BAKERSFIELD, April 10.-As a re-
suit Of the municipal election yesterday
in Kern City three members of the old
Board Of Trustees, who were candi-
dates for reelection, were defeated by
advocates of a reform movement I.
o. Bachelor was elected City Clerk
H Farris. Marshal, and J. p. Dugan,
Treasurer. were reelected. The new
Trustees are A w. Snyder. w. j.
Dwyer and Samuel Potts. The Trus-
tees Endorsed by the Improvement Club
have pledged themselves to a number
of reforms
The San Francisco call., 1906-04-11
WORK ON MARYsvILIE LINE
IS SOON TO BE COMMENCED
Construction of Road to Connect
Northern Towns VIII BE Begun
This Month

MARYSVILLE, April 10.-The an
nouncement. was made today that the
construction of the California Midland
Railway will commence on April g
at point near Marysville. The road
will connect Marysville with Grass
Valley, Nevada City and Auburn and
will have more than sixty miles of
tracks. John Martin. president OF the
company, expects the road will be oper-
ating by the end of the present year.
1t will carry both freight and passen-
gers and connect here with the South
ern and Western roads.
The San Francisco call., 1906-04-11
NEARLY ELECTROCUTED
WHILE In MIDAIR
Santa Rosa Lineman Has a
Remarkable Escape From
Awful Death.
SPECIAL DISPATCH TO THE CALL.

SANTA ROSA, April 10.-Benjamin Cur
tis. lineman OF the Santa Rosa Light
ing Company. narrowly escaped being
electrocuted this afternoon while at work
on top of high pole He was using a
wrench fastening cross arm, when the
wrench slipped. His hand flew I'D and
struck live wire. He received a severe
shock and would have fallen to the
ground but for the safety strap. He was
burned about the hand, arm and foot
quite severely but not fatally.