Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-08-27
ON THE PACIFIC COAST.

ON The PACIFIC COAST.
The Pasadena Gardeners association
! has gone on record as condemning many
OF the horticultural novelties of Luther
| Burbank as fakes" and this position
has been supported by Hans PIath
| president of the Pacific Coast Horticul-
tural society, and Hugo Lilienthal the
well known San Francisco horticulturist
| They all declare that many of his crea-
| tons are not novelties, and that his
wonderberry is Identical with the berry
| of the deadly nightshade and is poison
/ Gus. Mr.. Burbank has replied briefly
TO these criticisms, showing that this at
tack is largely based on sensational
newspaper or magazine reports of his
work, for which he cannot be held re-
| sponsble. Of the genuine value Of Mr.
| Burbanks work no one here has any
! doubt, and proof of his remarkable hor-
| ticultural skill is afforded by visit to
his experimental farms near Santa Rosa
| The Carnegie institute gives Burbank
subsidy of $4,000 a year, and this
money is well invested. Burbank's inn
proved fruits will be worth millions to
| California horticulturists, while the val
ue of the spineless cactus is inestima bic
as food for animals on desert lands.
\ thorough investigation will be made
of the Children's Home Finding society
of San Francisco. of which Henry w.
Brayton has been manager for years
| Brayton has been brought into the lime
| light by the discovers in a filthy Chi
nese cellar of a little white girl who
had forgotten her own language. 1t was
alleged Brayton sold this cheild to the
| Chinese for $50 and that he accepted
money for other children placed with
Chinese. He says the money was
| voluntary contribution TO the society
and asserts that all children thus placed
| in Chinatown had Monaghan blood. The
! latter statement has been disproved, it
| is alleged. 1t is said that Brayton has
| lived for years on the contributions of
charitable persons without furnishing an
account of his stewardship.
The newspaper zinc etchers of San
| Francisco returned to work this week
after a lockout of five weeks The etch-
ers refused to handle rouse blocks, or
even to furnish zines for mounting on
/ these patent blocks. The whole matter
| has now been referred to arbitration.
Track laying on the San Diego & Ari-
zono railroad has begun The first four
teen miles of road from San Diego to
! the Mexican line are graded, and grad
| ing in lower California viii begin at
once. This road viii connect with the
| Southern Pacific at Yuma, and will
open up a rich cattle raising and agri-
cultural country, going through the
heart Of the new Imperial colony in the
delta of the Colorado river, which has
soil as fertile as that of the lower Nile
| valley.
Because of loud noise and interfer-
ence with telephone wires, the wireless
plant on Russian hill, San Francisco,
viii have to move. Residents of that
hill complained that they could not sleep
| because of the noises made in receiving
and sending messages and that they fire.
quently could not use the telephone be-
cause of electrical disturbances.
| DR.. Taylor of the pathological depart
ment of che University of California,
| will establish a poison squad of twelve
students at the opening of the fall term
He will test on these students the nutri-
| tive qualities of sulphured California
| fruit, which DIR. Wiley tried to suppress
The students will be fed on various kinds
of California dried fruit and other phys
zeal condition will be carefully noted
These tests Will be furnished to the gov
ernment referees, to whom the question
of sulphuring fruit has been submitted
The creditors of the Calkins newspa-
per syndicate have received dividend
f [.
be paid in a second dividend. This is
double the amount which Calkins offered
to pay after he had been forced into
insolvency Calkins was Il Nevada coun-
ty newspaper man with NapOleonic am
billions. He bought a half dozen Cali
fornia newspapers and attempted TO
manage them from San Francisco.
The first celebration of the vintage
festival after the European style will
be held at Aetna Springs. in Napa val
ley, Cal, ON September 8. Prominent
wine men have co-operated in this
scheme. which it is hoped will result in
a regular annual celebration of the be-
ginning of picking and crushing grapes
for wine. The costumes worn by the
girls will be duplicates of those worn
by the German frauleins at Schloss Jo-
hapnesburg.
Charles W. Dood, an alleged mining
swindler wanted in Boston on a charge
of obtaining money on fake mines, was
arrested this week in Oakland Cal.
where he has been making preparations
TO begin operations. There viii be no
difficulty about securing his extradition
1t is charged that his scheme was to ad-
vertise for a partner in a good mining
venture and then disappear after obtain
ing money.
The Mazuma Mountain Climbing club
of Portland, Ore, this week assembled
Mount Baker. one of the most difficult
SUBMITS to scale in this country. Five
out Of the party of thirty succeeded in
reaching the summit after nearly six
hours climb. They found enormous
fields of ice. two active volcanic craters
and great assures not mapped by pre-
viouS climbers. One member, who
knows the Alps well. says they have no
Snowfeld that compares in extent with
the Dening glacier of Mount Baker
Faster Time Across Siberia.
| An imnrovement in the train serrira ON