Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-06-04
ON THE PACIFIC COAST.

ON THE PACIFIC COAST.
Sewell b. Bogart, we'll known San
| Francisco hardware merchant died from
! heart disease while hurrying to catch
train. lie had been manager of the
hardware department of Britain Il Co
/ of late.
| Joseph ii. Burke a pioneer settler of
! Los Angeles, died recently. He moved
| from San Antonio, Tex, TO Los Angeles
when the latter city had only 100 Ameri-
can residents. He bought the corner
of First and Main streets for $99 and
/ sold it for $500.
Seventy-two loaded freight ears were
| hauled over the summit of the Sierra
| Nevadas in single train. pulled by six
monster locomotives. Fifty of the cars
We're loaded with oranges The making
up of long trains, especially OF fruit,
greatly reduces expenses of tranSporta-
! ton.
Fourteen thousand acres Of fine grain
/ in the San Joaquin valley, Cal, has been
! covered by floods, the result of breaks
| in The leveeS near Stockton. The loss
is the heaviest ever known in this
neighhorhood, although it may be pos
sible to save part of the grain by drain
ing off the water.
About 100000 in gold has been taken
from the SiXteen-to-One mine in Sierra
county in a single month. This is the
richest strike i'll California in several
years. All this gold has been taken
from the 90-foot tunnel and has been
| extracted by ten men. The managers
of the mine say they have ore worth
$500,oO0 i'll sight.
Lieut. Gordon A. Dennis, recently dis
charged from the Twentieth infantry at
| Monterey, Cal, for annoying women
while intoxicated, spent one night in a
police station at San Francisco, having
applied for aid. Dennis was good
soldier in the Philippines and gained
medals for bravery. lie was one of
forty whom Gen. Funston led when he
captured Aguinaldo.
The failure of a jury Mt San Francisco
to convict Luther Brown, chief detective
of the United Railroads, of kidnapping
Fremont Older. editor of The Evening
| Bulletin, shows Il strong public feeling
against the graft prosecution. There
was no question of fact that Brown did
attempt to rush Older down to Los
Angeles for trial there on n charge of
terminal libel. The editor was rescued at
Santa Barbara. The jury, after being
out nineteen hours acquitted Brown.
The United States government and the
power companies using the waters of
Lake Tahoe have come TO an agree
ment to construct a large concrete dam
ut the outlet of the lake this summer.
The government is mainly interested Ia
looking out for the Truckee- Carson irr-
CATION project. the water being taken
from the Truclee and Carson rivers to
irrieate the desert Nevada lands. What
effect the dam will have on the level
of the lake is uncertain. In previous
years the old dam raised the level of
the lake so as to cause much damage to
| summer resorts.
The acquisition of the $1O.O00.000
| Stanisluus electric power plant by the
| United railroads will mean much TO San
| Francisco. This company, which is man
aged by Patrick Calhoun, will take over
the paTkside Electric road, and will III
/ timately absorb the ocean shore road and
! several of the suburban electric lines. 1t
| will also greatly improve local car serr-
ice and build mp a suburban residence
district near Ocean beach.
The savings banks of California report
| gains of over S10,OOO,OOO in deposits in
| the last four months. Since the big fire
| in San Francisco, city and state savings
| banks have shown great decline, as
money was drawn out for rebuilding and
to continue business. san Francisco
banks still lose money because of the
| drain for rebuilding, but they are now
| taking in more than they lose. the gain
for the last four months being over 50
O0OOOO. An abnormal increase of So
100000 i'm Los Angeles savings deposits
indicates a iull in business in that city.
The Chinese Imperial school, in China
town, San Francisco. has been CLOSED
| because of war between two factions
the Chinese Six companies, representing
| the old conservative element, and the
consul general and his adhereuts, repre-
| senting the more liberal element, which
| demands reforms in education. The cri-
sis was reached by the action of the prln-
| cipal of the school in taking ont hls
| iiancee for an automobile ride. This 80
| wrought up the old-fashiOned Chinese
that they Withdrew their children. The
consul general was ampoOncd as It
CRATER in placards on all the dead walls
Of Chinatown. IT was specifically
charged that he had cmbczzled relief
funds for food victims near Canton, but
| he proved 10y the records that every dol
lar entrusted to sim had been forwarded
to China. II is probable that The tr0u-
/ bile will end in the formation Of "a new
governing body in Chinatown to s1ppant
the Sis companies
Well 1910 Feet Deep
The record Of the deepest well in the
world is claimed by France. Situated