Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1908-12-25
ON THE PACIFIC COAST.

ON The PAClFlC COAST.
| The longest railway tunnel in Califor-
nia-the Spring Garden tunnel on the
new Western Pacific railroad-has been
| opened after over three years work. 1t
/ is 1906 feet long. or nearly u mile and
| Il quarter, and it serves 10 reduce the
/ grade in the fork of Feather river in
/ Butte county. Cnly the upper part of
! the tunnel is finished The lower core
/ for 100 feet will not he removed for
about five months.
! A jury awarded George NJ. Chenoweth
! of Los Angeles $1,000 damages this week
for an injury to his right arm in a recent
/ accident on the Salt Lake & Pacific
Electric railroad.
Director Legawa of large oil COM
| pany of Japan has arrived at San Fran
| cisco to examine the oil resources Of Cal
! ltornia. His company is operated in
conjunction with the japanese Steam
/ ship company, and it has induced the
/ government to suspend raising the duty
! ON imported oil from 20 to 50 per cent.
/ Legawa believes that Japan should ad-
| INIT California crude oil at a low duty
! to develop the manufactures and steam
| ship business of Japan
! Bids have been received for eighteen
! hre cISterus, to cost StS59O, and the
I board of public works of San Francisco
has asked the supervisors for authority
| to construct fourteen more cisterns. II
was the lack Of these cisterns which en-
abled the big fire to spread through the
residence districts.
| Raphael WE'LL has started movement
! for popular subscription to erect n
! monument 20 the late Denis j. Sullivan
| IRE chief of San Francisco, whose fatal
! injuries on the morning of the earth
! quake lost the city the benefit of his
leadership in the fight against the great
nre. Mr. Well proposes a 100000
fund, made up of haif-dollar subscrip,
tons, with the design open to all Amer
lean artists.
The Downtown Property Owners ms.
ISOLATION of San Francisco is making
great preparations for the celebration of
New Years eve, which before the fire
was one of the most characteristic of
| san francisco street spectacles. Thou
sends OF invitations have been sent out
and a great street parade with many
bands OF music will be IA feature
United States Circuit Judge Van Fleet
has ISSUED a restraining order preventing
the Wells Fargo Express company from
increasing its rates from the east TO San
ranclsco on goods weighing from 500
10 -oOO pounds. The express company
recently announced 4 heavy increase In
rates, and local merchants made pro
| test, which resulted in the circuit court
/ otdef, The express compnnys counsel
announced this week that the New YorS
ONCE mad restored the old rates
The launching Of the big collier
Hrometheus at Mare island Il week ago
VIII be remembered by many of the
guests long after the ship has gone 10
the scrap heap This is because 1000
guests who partook Of the luncheon were
taken III with ptomaiue poisoning ana
the lives of more than score were in
danger. Gov. Gillett was i'll and his life
was threatened. One waiter of the com
/ pany Of fifty men who went from this
city To serve the luncheon has died from
the effects Of the poisoned food. Tho
state board of health has begun an in
vestigatjon. Samples of meats served
were found to be infected with bacteria.
/ one OF the worst features Of the case
was the severe illness Of about sixty lit
| Tie children in au orphanage near Val
! lego who were treated TO the remnants
of the feast.
/ George l.. King, who has been with
| the company for over twenty years. has
/ been made secretary Of the Southern
| racine Railroad company, at salary of
$4,000 year. This place includes the
sccretaryship Of twenty-ninc subsidiary
| railroad companies. He succeeds j. l..
J W lllcutt, who retires after forty years Of
service II. w. Sheridan Of Sacramento
succeeds Mr.. Burkhater as superin-
! tcudent Of the Sacramento division of the
! Southern Pacific, which extends AS far
north as Duusmir and as far east rs