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Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-01
OFFICIAL SAYS
CITY HAS OVER
$4,000 INCHES
Owns More Than Was
Claimed
United States Observer Takes Meas
urements of Owens River at
the Point of Intake at
Charles Butte

Uncle Sam officially reported yester-
day that Los Angeles owns 23,650 min
er's inches of water flowing in the
Owens river at the point of intake.
These figures were given out by the
division of photography, United states
geological survey, of the department OF
interior, as the result of daily meas
urements covering the past 145 days.
The government report of water flow
ing surpasses any claim made by the
aqueduct bureau and is the subject for
jubilant congratulation among the
friends of owens river. The city au-
thorities in charge of the owens river
work have claimed positive city own
ership to only 1000 inches, with possl-
bilities of development to 10000 mean
flow throughout the year.
The official United States government
figures showing $50 inches came yes
terday just as the opposition to the
bond issue was peddling anew the false
claim that the city has but 1000 inches.
This government report, received yes
terlay is the best news on record for
the Owens river aqueduct, and sets
at rest once and for all the false state
ments of the corporation organ that
the city does not possess as much water
as is claimed.
VIII Approach $4,000
If 23b5O 1ncneS mas HOWeu III O"OlLS
river at the point of intake there VIII
be nearer 10000 inches a little later
in the season, for one of the strongest
points in favor of the Owens river
water supply is that its high flow
occurs during the dry summer months,
when this city needs it the most.
The United States government report
received yesterday was from Observer
Ray Bowers, covering the flow at
Charles Butte, the point of intake for
the citys aqueduct, for the months OF
January, February, March, April and
twenty-five days of May of this year.
This government report shows mean
flow during this las days Of 473 second
feet, which is 23,650 miners inches.
The flow rose to a maximum of l4SO
second feet during March, and fell to
as low as 1863 feet in April
The full text of this official report
follows:
Department of the Interior, United States
Geological Survey. Division of Hydro
graphy.
Daily mean gage heights and discharges
for the year 1907 of Owens river at Char-
lies Butte, near Tinemaha postonlce,
state of California. Ray Bowers, opserV-
er.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-01

white pennants before election day.
The mercantile community is cam
paigning vigorously for the bonds.
Reports of STRAW votes" taken among
the employees of several of the larger
establishments show a 81 lendid major
ity in favor of Owens river.
Several of the big restaurants are
joining the business houses in posting
signs as reminders" to the careless
voter of his duty to cast ballot on
the all-important water issue. One
downtown restaurant displays the
sign:
1--WE want to serve Owens river water
the best in the west-so don't fail to
vote yes on the bonds June 12."
Many of the big business houses will
not open until 10 o'clock on election day
morning in order to give their employees
plenty of time to vote.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-01
BOARD OF HEALTH NAMES
SIX MILK INSPECTORS

The board of health held a brief
session yesterday, part of the time
being devoted to a discussion of the
disposition of rubbish, which the Mer-
chants and Manufacturers association
wishes definitely settled, and partly to
appointing milk inspectors
Health Officer L. M. Powers was del
egated to make report to finally dis
pose OF the rubbish problem.
The permanent milk inspectors are
John Mclean, William w. Curl, Edwin
A. Oberschelp, Sydney H. Druce, John
Crowle. and Guy E. Cherry.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-01
PICTURES TO SHOW
HOW RIVER LOOKS
BONDS CAMPAIGN WILL BE
ILLUSTRATED
Speakers Will Be Able to Show Audi
ences What the City Owns in
Owens Valley and What
Is Proposed

"A tourney through the owens river
country" by the medium or moving pic
lures and superb stereopticon views Will
be given the voters at each OF the meet
ings held by the campaign committee OF
the civic bodies between now and elec-
tion day, June II. 81,
Chief Engineer Mulholland, who will
speak at every meeting, will be enabled
to show his hearers just what the great
water country is like.
The first of the illustrated addresses
| will be held in Masonic hall on Plco
Heights tonight
The following week will have a cam
paign meeting every night in various
parts of the city.
The schedule of meetings was com
pleted Yesterday by the perfection of
arrangements for the gathering in the
Seventh ward. Councilman Henry Lyon,
who has charge of this meeting, yester-
day arranged to erect a large tent at the
southeast corner of Seventh ana
Crocker streets. where speeches will be
made to Seventh warders on the even
ing of June 6.
The perfected list of meetings to be
held under the auspices OF the campaign
committee is published in another
column of The Herald this morning.
Use Choice Photographs
The photographs of the Owens river
country which are to be reproduced Ill
the presence of the campaign audiences
are the choicest of all the many that
have been taken by Engineers Mulhol-
land and Lippincott and other officials
during their two years of work in the
field They show the precise character
of the splendid Owens river, which is to
be turned into the water mains under
this city's streets, together with the
desert stretches traversed by the great
cement conduit, the mountain barriers
that must be tunneled, and the snowy
peaks of the Mount Whitney watershed
that rise L, 900 feet above sea level.
Eugene Germain, president of the
Democratic club, has devised one of the
most novel and creditable ways of aid
ing in familiarizing the public with the
detail of the Owens river project. Mr..
Germain will at once construct in the
great front windows of his store at 800
South Main street a complete replica in
miniature of the Owens river aqueduct.
The miniature aqueduct will be faithful
and complete throughout it's representa-
tion of 225 miles of construction. 1t Will
show the conduit from Mount Whitney
to the city limits, with its stretches of
cement conduit, it's tunnels through the
mountains, its reservoirs, it's cataracts
and power plants.
The students of the Polytechnic high
school will hear arguments on the
Owens river bond question on the day
before election, June IL, when a debate
will be held in which L. Irish will argue
the affirmative and 1. Humphries set
forth the negative side of the issue.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-01
ABANDON PLAN TO
IMPROVE HILL STREET

Because of the unwillingness of prop
erty owners to sign waivers of damages
the board of public works has decided
to abandon the proposition for improv-
ing Hill street. between Sunset boule-
ward and Fort Moore place.
The project is an extensive one. in
volving cuts eight and ten feet deep,
but it would have -erved to bind the
important territory to the north and
south more closely and saved much
hauling and walking.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-01

gard to this question.
Many persons hold that contractors
take up too much of their neighbors'
and public space when they put up
new buildings and that the material
should all be moved into the structures
as fast as they are put up.
AT nresent one-half of the sideWalR
and one-fourth of the street front may
be occupied to the exclusion OF the
public,
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-01
MEETING
IS ADDED TO LIST
LIPPTNCOTT WILL SPEAK ON
JUNE 4
Negro Voters Are Unit for Owens
River Bonds and Will Cast
Their Ballots Unani-
mously

Another meeting was added to the list
yesterday, when the campaign commit
tee assigned Assistant Chief Engineer
]. B. Lippincott to the duty of ad-
dressing voters on the night of June
in the Presbyterian church on Euclid
avenue, near stephenson avenue. Mr..
Lippincott's address, like all other
meetings held by the committee, will be
illustrated with stereopticon views Of
the owens river country.
Tonight at o'clock the first of the
series of stated meetings of the cam
paign committee will be held on Pico
Heights, in Masonic hall, at Pico and
Ell Molino streets. Niles Pease will pre-
side, and the speakers will include May
or Harper. Engineers Mulholland and
Lippincott and Stanley wilson.
At the Pico Heights meeting tonight
the moving ictures and stereopticon
views of the Owens river country will
be shown FOR the first time, and Chief
Engineer William Mulholland will ex-
plain the aqueduct project in its entire
ty and answer any questions.
The negro population seems almost
unit for the Owens river bond issue.
The Americans gave a remarkable
demonstration of their interest when, at
the Memorial day meeting in the big
pavilion at the Furlong tract Fifty
fifth street and Holmes avenue, several
of the clergymen and other speakers
took the occasion to tell the vast audi
ence of over 1000 negroes to be sure to
go to the polls and vote for the bonds.
Among the speakers who urged voters
to cast ballot for the bonds were Rev.
Bryant, Rev Peck, Rev. Henderson,
Col. Allen Allensworth, Capt. Crombly,
Messrs. Griffin, Whetby and Edmunds.
Editor J. j. Neimore of the Eagle,
organ of the negro colony, said yester-
day that even the negro women are out
working to secure votes for Owens riv-
er. The deep and widening interest in
the bond election is showing itself in
many ways.
Will Make Great City
Del Vale & Dunn, real estate dealers
at SIG Grant building, are sendirs postal
cards to their mailing list reading:
Here are facts: The Owens river
water will make of Los Angeles a great
city. 1t is question of whether we
have a population of half million in
five years or stand still for the next ten.
Don't forget June 12 Vote early, and
work early and late for the bonds"
Automobile pennants began appearing
upon the streets yesterday, bearing
upon white muslin the legend:
Owens river. Vote for it June 12.'
Auto owners may have these striking
banners free by calling at the chamber
of commerce headquarters of the cam
paign committee. 1t is hoped to have
every auto in the city decked with the
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-01
WILL ABRIDGE SPACE
ALLOTTED CONTRACTORS

AS soon as the board of public works
gets replies to it's inquiries to other
cities concerning laws regulating the
storage of construction material for
new buildings on streets and sidewalks
some legislation will be passed in re-
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-01

gage readings Gage destroyed by flood
on March 81 Gage replaced on March 80.
Discharge estimated on dates March p to
2S. inclusive. This estimate is subject to
revision and is not final.
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-01
BUILDING PERMITS GRANTED

Following are the permits issued
from the office of the chief inspector of
buildings Friday and classified accord
ing to wards;
Los Angeles herald., 1907-06-01

Homeless children received and placed
IN houses for adoption. Apply Rev. o.
society, 1884 Bradbury building. Los An
Geles.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1907-06-20
"Judge Casey"

Paper Read Before the ChaotauQud Circle.
q DO not know just where the
subject of my paper was born,
but his name and brogue would
both suggest that he was Of
Irish origin. 1t is related that at
one time Judge Casey was street.
car conductor in New York City,
but like the present leader of
Tammany Hall he quit the bust
ness when the steeet-car company
introduced the bell punches. You
know it was these punches that
knocked out the knock down. The
Judge always took an active part
in politics, and after he quit the
street-car company he became a
district leader for Tammany and
also engaged in contract work. AS
a contractor, Jeremiah never built
any castles in the air. He was un-
like the colored man who con-
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1907-06-20
Justice Greater Jhaa Charity.

The one divine work, the one
ordered sacrifice, is to do justice,
and it is the last we are ever in
clined to do. Anything rather
than that. AS much charity as
you choose, but no justice. "Nay,"
you will say, "charity is greater
than Justice Yes, it is greater;
it is the summit of justice; it is
the temple of which justice is the
foundation. But you can't have
the top without the bottom; you
cannot build upon charity. You
must build upon justice for this
main reason, that you have not at
first charity to build with. 1t is
the last reward of good work. Do
justice to your brother (you can do
that whether you love him or not)
and you will come to love him. 1t is
all very fine to think you can build
upon charity to begin with, but
you will find all you have to begin
with begins at home and is es-
sentially love of yourself. -Ruskin.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1907-06-20
Muldoon on the Alinl0ny Evil.

/ thimsilves free the mkt day. They
might be caught in the act an
they may plade guilty, but in livery
instance the polace captin, thru
some ticknycality, fixes the crime
on a BARTENDER In the mkt block,
an what is more, he railroads him
In the manetime the offspring
av these incompatible unions are
stored in the homes fer cripples OF
oorphans, as the NECESSITIES av the
case may warrant it, an if they
don't come foorth stunted in
growth, they are defoormed beyanr
recall. :.
The prisydint may holler down
the public rain barrel an see the
icbo in print; he can impose on a
tired populace be tellin' thin that
4 cariboo can't kill wolf be attn
hole in his chist, but whin it
comes to the philosophy av race
sooyside, his rimedy is a narcotic
in its strongest foorm. How he
can handle such a didly solution
av the problim widout putin him
silf an Fairbanks in a trance, is
beyant me intirely.
It has been lately asserted, how
liver, that Sicritary Loeb is in a
simy- mismerized condition which
first manifested itsilf in his joints
eight years ago, but we can't place
much stock in this, fer 1t is very
ivident from the CLASSY ixprission
av his eyes that he is dapely i'm
mished in the ginuine Shape ltsilf.
Rvsenfilt's contintion that large
families incrayse the population is
automatically corrict, but he
seems to fergit that poligamy
fourishes only in Utah, an that
bigamy is the equivalint av siveral
years in the rist av the states.
Kyriologically spakin' large fam
lies are ditrimint to society, be-
cause the ratio is usually fifteen
gurls to wan bye, all av whom go,
more or Hiss, nutty fshin' for jocks
an tin thousand dollar trousseaus.
The nam characteristic av this
class av faymales is their stubborn
belafe in their ability to nail a
prince, an up to the age av thirty
five they read drame books an how
their fortunes tould. At this stage
av the game she takes a notion
that cuttin' coorns wild hoosband' s
razor is better than dublin her
feythef's, so wild the hip av her
mither she sets a snare fer some
poor divil who earns all he gifts.
Courtship, honeymoon an divorce
folly aich other in such rapid sue
cission that her first installmint av
alimony is paid out av the wages
he made the wake befure marriage.
Aw the tragedies av life are bitter
pills!
In conclusion, if ye want to
parylize a vote widout fizzycal
violince; if ye want to make a
man afraid ofthe cares or do amy
thin ilse to his fzzyology widout
LAWN marks on his awnbonpawn,
don't be Crane boog an hand
him Unions, but 500 him fer indim-
ity divorce, the joodge will do
the rist. E. E. II.
",TndQe CaSeV."
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1907-06-20

spend pheasant hour almost every
day in Jeremiah's courthouse.
remember at trial one morning
the court addressed the prisoner
something like this: "You are
charged this morning in Jeremiah
Casey's courthouse with entering
a box car and sleeping therein. II
you plead guilty I will give you
five days. and if you plead not
guilty I will give you fifteen days.
What's your plea?''
"WelI I am willing to plead
guilty, but 1 won't stand for no
five days. Shake the judicial
dicebox and see if you can't throw
an ace or deuce my way The
court then asked the plucky officer
who made the arrest if it was the
prisoners first offense. The officer
replied that it was, and the court
then gave the prisoner three
hour foater, that is, he gave him
three hours to leave the city. The
prisoner then executed graceful
kotow and departed. but instead
of getting out of town he got
gloriously drunk and was up be-
fore his honor again the next
morning and was sent to the pig
gerry for ten days.
Two or three Of Jeremiah's con-
stables were always stationed in
the railroad yards ready to make a
deal with a gang of hoboes. The
officers would give the Weary
Willies the price of one or two
kegs of beer, then place them
under arrest and take them before
his honor who invariably turned
them loose after short lecture.
I do not mean to say that Judge
Casey discharged all the tramps
that were brought before the bar
of justice, because he had to make
bluff, and would occasionally send
a man to the piggery.. The con-
stables received $500 for every
arrest they made, but the tax
payers finally got wise and put a
stop to the graft. Judge Casey
resigned from the bench and
elected himself to the state legis-
lature where the pickings were
still good.
After Mr.. Casey had served
three or four terms as a state law
maker his family moved into a
residence that had sure enough
brown stone front. His daughter
travelled to New York to have her
gowns made, and she sported a
fuzzy.wuzzy little poodle imported
from Paris. Mrs. Casey the
beautiful took her daily drive be-
hind a span of thoroughbreds.
Her neck became stiff and it re-
fused to bend when she met any
of her old neighbors, which in
itself was sure sign that Judge
Jeremiah Casey had made his
wad. F. M.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1907-06-20

Every one can be angry, and
most they who are the weakest;
but to be above it and to have it
under command is the advan-
tage of those who are truly wise.
Robert Leighton.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1907-06-20

tracted to dig we'll for 5000
and then gave white man $1,000
for doing the Job. The son Of
Ham justified his business deal by
saying that the honor of bossing q
white man was worth $50 90.
Now Judge Casey never sought
an elective Office for the honor or
glory that went with it, because he
was patriot whose only object in
seeking public Office was to better
the condition of the people, espe-
cially the Casey family. In the
early eighties Jerry drifted West
for the good of his health, and it is
said that he left New York for the
same reason.
After coming West the judge
settled down in a booming little
city in California that [ will for
obvious reasons call Goldburg.
Here Mr.. Casey again engaged in
the occupation of contractor and
builder. Now even the sunny
climate of California will not cure
man Of the political itch, espe-
cially if he has been inoculated
with the disease in early life.
There is only one remedy that
will cure man who has an Itch
ing for Office and that is to scratch
him on election day.
I will not go into details and
burden you with a long recital of
Mr.. Casey's debut into Goldburg
politics, but suffice it to say that
he was elected to the municipal
bench before he was in the city
three years. The Judge was man
of commanding presence. He was
six feet four inches tall and was
built proportionately. His face
was decorated with what is called
weeping-willow side whiskers, that
is, they grew up straight and
dropped over at the top like the
plumes on a hearse. He wore
spectacles with lenses that were as
large as the headlight of loco
motive and they sat astride his
nose about as gracefully as a
tenderfoot sits on the arched back
Of a bucking broncho. The judges
Office was located in the back of a
saloon, and when>court was not in
session a poker game was. The
court knew a great deal more
about Hoyle than it did about law,
still there were people who believed
that every time Jerry brushed his
hair he wasted more judicial intel
lect than Blackstone ever carried
under his wig.
I lived in Goldburg for several
years and the first time that I was
ever ushered into the august pres
ence of his honor was one night
about eleven o'clock when met
constable friend of mine who had
tramp in tow. I was asked to
accompany them to the judges
house. Now at the time of which
1 speak, constables worked on the
fee system. I received one dollar
for helping to arrest the desperate
tramp. Just what the hobo's rake
off was 1 do not know. but he was
in on the deal all right. In fact
the same tramp was arrested by
the same cop four or five times
every week. When the three of
us arrived at the judges house,
the constable knocked ON a bed
room window and a voice within
asked what was wanted. Judge"
replied the constable, Il have with
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1907-06-20

How always maintained that
amy man, DRAWN salary, can
pay polltax on hissilf an a
licinse fer his dawg, an still
how enough lift to mate the coal
bill All the rint legitimately; not
to mintion an occasional rencontre
wild the luxuries this lopsided
bawl affords. Yis, but whin the
prijudiced decision av wifeliss
joodge compills him to pay alimony
to faymalius upholstorius, whose
Exaggerated ego an resharsha
cookery has scraped all the man.
hood off av his fizzyology, he ought
to recayve the financial commiser-
alton av his Employers instid av
bein' tied on can an labeled
"soospicious" in Bradstreet an
Dun's.
Shure, if there is annythin' that
brings on the infrmities av ould
age quicker or devilopes money
liss man faster than annythin' ilse,
'tiz the garnishayin' av his hard
earned wages. Av'coorse whin a
coort av law gives an ale-yin fay
male the privilege av habeus cor
pusin' all but five dollars an the
invilope, it does so wild the ostin-
tatious rayson av providin' the
necessities av life, intermitintly
soothin' the soors av martial bliss
an incydintly wrickin' vote foor-
liver an liver.
Spakin' in a philosophical tone
av voice, an ix-husband is crimy-
nal ixpiatin' the follies av a youth
full infatuation be supplyin' his
gintle ACCESSORY wild cash that she
might buy nickties an soospinders
fer the correspondent. Aw the
ignominy av it all! Generally,
howiver, the SEPARATION makes the
poor man so happy that he ixuber-
ances all over, an befure he ray
Numbers that the last tin waz spint
fer a mileage book av two-cint
stamps, there's an officer wild
summons at the dure.
This milincholy edition av the
city's parochial artillery opens the
preliminaries be spillin' few tears
on the dure-mat, afther which he
points out the Significance av
siction six in the decray, that says:
"On or befure the first Friday in
aich wake We shall pay to, etc."
an cautionin' the delinquint that
his failure to formally fulfill his
frayquint financial fluctuations on
Fridays in the future will result
in FRACTIONAL fascoes wild ferbific
fenawlies, he departs as solemnly
as he came. Now there are few
min who will let a probation Of
fetal riprimand thin widout re-
taliatin', an in the first stages av
his single bliss the payer av ali
mony is wan av thin. The worst
av it is tho, he don't last long, fer
afther the Joodge an polace foorce
slip on him siveral times, he is a
ginuine imbecility. He loses re-
spict fer himsilf an the nayboors,
an evintually becomes an absint.
minded derilict wanderin' hither
an yonder, unconsciously joompin'
foor or five fate at livery scrap av
paper that flies past, fer they all
LUX like slimony due bills to him.
Me finds, this CONVENTIONAL
crime is film our homes fer ould
min so full that most av thin
slape in the barn; it is causin' min
to Law on the railroad tracks that
they might lose lig an 500 the
company, an to make matters
more complicated, the hotils how
ligis!ated law which makes it a