Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-07-16
ON THE PACIFIC COAST.

The suicide in Oakland Of Gen.
George Il. Cosby ended the career Of
a dashing Confederate cavalry leader
For some time Cosby had been de-
ISpondent because of partial paralysis
of his limbs which confined him to the
house. He had lived in California since
the close of the Civil war. He was
ISeYenty-nme years old.
William h. Bradbury, the millionaire.
IapSt serve one year in San Quentin
prison for perjury, according to a de-
ciSion of the California supreme court
Bradbury in the trial of a suit against
! him by James Mckee testified thar he
had not instructed the Marin county
! bank officials were called they Swore
that Bradbury had forbidden them 10
lend any money to Mckee, in order that
he might foreclOse mortgage he held
on Mckee's property.
According to the state controllers re-
, port it cost nearly SlT0O0O0O to carry
on the business of California in the
! last fiscal year, an increase of $1,000
| 900 over the previous year and an in
| crease of S2,6SO,U0O over two years ago.
| This increase is due to the many new
! departments created and the growth of
the population.
san Francisco's great portfolio festi-
val. October 10 to -. is to be further
exploited by the erection on Yerba
Buena island of the largest sign in the
worlG. The letters will be Is feet high
on the sign, which is to be 1900 feet
long. 1t was more than a month ago
that work was commenced on the sign.
A heavy growth of brush and small
trees had TO be cleared from the noun
famous side of the island and then
trenches were dug to serve as outlines
for the letters On the bottom and
| sides of the trenches q heavy coat of
| lime was placed, with the result that
the sign may be seen a great distance
| off.
The oil industry of California has been
| growing rapidly of late, but few are
| aware that in April /, 4S2,0O barrels of
oil We're produced, representing an an
nual output of $24,OOO.0O0. This prod
! uct will increase steadily. as new wells
are opened every month. California oil
wells have paid dividends of nearly 500,
| OO0,OOo, many companies paying regular
monthly dividends that represent n large
! percentage on their investment The oil
| industry has passed out of the specula,
| tive stage. With cheap fuel oil, the only
thing which prevents California from he.
coming one of the greatest manufacture
| ing states in the Union is the high price
! and poor quality of labor. With the com
| Ditllnh VI Tue Il uldiAh Cdudls WHEN Euro
pean labOrers may be brought here for
$25 each, it is predicted that all this will
| be changed and that California will see
! it's population doubled in few years.
The principal topic in San Francisco
of late has been the exposure of curl
Gus device by the Good Government
league to obtain the political opinions Of
voters. Thousands of circulars were
sent out asking opinions on the can
0rlacy of James II. Phelan for mayor
Another circular asked for members
and contributions for a Francis J.
Ileney club, the object of which is to
eject the graft prosecuting district at
torney at The coming election. The cir
culars We're SO worded as to draw re-
sponses from many who dislike Phelan
and tIeney, as we'll as from those who
admire them. All would have gone we'll
had il not been for the carelessness of
a clerk III placing stamp on one of
the addressed return envelopes which
were inclosed with the circulars A
member Of the ConcOrda club noticed
some writing under the stamp, which
was loose, and called attention to the
mysterious markings Other stamps
were removed and under each was
found the voting number of the person
who received the letter with another
number, evidently indicating the page
in the record book of the league By
this device the Good Government lea
que would have been able to keen an
accurate account of the views of league
members. The men who devised this
system are said TO be Rudolph Spreck-
els, Phelan, Heney and Burns Be
sides giving clew to the political
opinions of thousands of local voters,
this is considered invaluable to Spreck-
els and Ieney in obtaining second
jury for the trial Of Patrick Calhoun,
The cost Of the trial of President Pa
trick Calhoun of the United Railroads
San Francisco. for bribery, In which
the jury disagreed, surpasses that of
Thaw. or Molineux, in New York
Thaw's trial cost $4,000, but already
paid for $4,000, and all are not yet in.
The stenographers alone got S14 200. and
the jury's hotel bill was $4,000.
Acting Governor Porter of California
has pardoned DIR. Ralph A. Huntington
Of San Francisco, who was sentenced to
-four years in San Quentin for the muir
der of Jennie McKown. Huntington,
who was then a promising young ply
stefan. was convicted in 1900 Of causing
the girls death. He had two trials,
and strong secret influence was exerted
to save him, but finally, last year. he
was sent to prison. He Is dying from
tuberculosis.
Search has been abandoned for the
body Of +. Z. Shepherd of San Francis
co. who was lost while attempting to
reach the summit of Castle Dome In a
storm. When Shepherd failed to appear
at his hotel a searching party was or
ganized, but neither this party nor
company Of cavalrymen has been able
to find any trace Of him. Doubtless
he fell from some lofty point on the trail
into the deep canyon, whore the body
may never be recovered
Joaquin Miller "the Poet of the Sier-
ras," has given to two of his friends one
acre each of his estate on the heights
back Of Oakland. on which they will
build cottages. These friends are Her
bert BashfOrd. n California poet and
short story writer, and Prof Henry
Mead Bland of the San Jose normal
school AIillcr's idea IS 10 establish
colony of poets and some time in the
future found a school of poetry on the
emncncc which commands the whole
stretch Of San Francisco bay and the
| Golden Gate and which has given him
I irgBiraf i.p for many pf his Moons