The San Francisco call., 1909-07-25

Earth. who has exceeded the expecta-
tatlonS OF man in her yield. There are
three causes which have led to the
shortage of cars and all rebound to the
pront of the growers
IN the first place the citrus output
mas exceeded by 5000 cars the esti-
mated crop. This would not have mat
tered if the fruit had ripened in the
same time as in former years. but the
oranges have been late ripening and
cars now are being used in their trans
portator which should have been re-
leased fully six weeks ago.
In addition to this the melon crop of
the Coachella valley has surpassed
All estimates by 400 to 500 cars and
| has to be moved rapidly
| Both the Santa Fe and the Rock ISL
and have come to the rescue of the
situation and the Santa Fe already has
loaned the Southern Pacific a great
number of its refrigerator cars. while
the Rock Island is Fastening west sew
eral of their large refrigerator cars to
move the fruit. 1t is said that the
stringency will be overcome by the first
of the week, and there will be no fur
ther delay in the movement of green
fruit. 1t must be borne in mind also
that the crop of green fruit this season
| is far in excess of all anticipations,
which added to the difficulty of finding
cars for it's movement
Peter F. Dunno. the attorney. has
invented a new drink 1t can not be
said to be great success, and so
far as is known it has not been tried
even by his faithful friend, WAL
cott Durbrow, who. however. has been
advising everybody to try the. decoe-
tion.
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ball" and says it is delicious.
H. A. Jones. who comes from the
land of the mint julep. calls it-weIl.
| 1T is not worth while repea ting what
Fl. A. Jones says it is.
1t happened that one day this week
Dunno complained of feeling -grippy."
The same complaint seized II. A Jones.
Walcott Durbrow and few other
prominent railroadmen.
Il believe" remarked Dunno. that
little milk mixed with little whisky
will cure me-"
Jones objected to the milk, and Dur
brow to any mixture that would de-
stroy the taste of whisky. They were
on their way to lunch at the ST. Fran
! els and communicated the "grippy'
feeling to other raflroadmen. who
promptly joined the distinguished trio.
Dunno called for milk and whisky,
and then, getting engrossed on the Ie-
gal status of the question whether a
man is able to collect refund on a
false weight. poured out a large dose
of milk in his glass and a modicum of
whisky.
You are getting the wrong proper
| tions," observed Jones. you had better
put in a little more whisky
| "Ah, no; this is all right" and Dunno
began to drink
| Jones and Durbrow held their
| brea tbs. Never did small child drink
milk so unctuously. They looked at
each other with awe.
win 1T come up?" whispered Dur
brow to Jones.
"It can't stay down." replied Jones.
"Sour buttermiIF,' answered Dur
brow with shudder.
"It will end in ptomaine poisoning"
remarked Jones.
and 1 can sue the hotel" said Dur
brow eagerly.
Meanwhile Dunno ate on uncon-
cernedly
For heavens sake, don't you feel
badly?" inquired Jones.
Not at ALL" replied the lawyer. de-
termined that his companions should
not have any joke on him. Il always
drink whisky in buttermilk.
And all Jones could say was:
well. Dunno. it is conceded you
have one of the best heads in the
country. but I will extend the cOmpli-
nent. You have also one of the best
stomachs.
mo, thank you Don't order one of
those for me. I have not the diges-
ton of an ostrich"
! With the taking over of the railways
the Mexican government has had to
| face one of the greatest strikes in the
history7 of that country. and it was
feared at one time that every railroad,
with the exception of the Southern Pa
cifie extension in Mexico, would be tied
up. 1t appears that the idea has gone
out that the government is determined
i to use only native MeXicans on its
roads that all Americans are to be dis
charged, and no satisfaction is given
American employees when they seek en-
| llightenment on the matter.
| The dispatchers to man have
walked out. They claimed that they
are held responsible for mistakes COM
mitted by Mexican operators and should
not be subjected to penalties when
blameless. 1t is asserted by them that
no satisfaction was given them, but
the intimation was made that all
native talent"
1
roads in Mexico are bitter at the atti-
tude of the government. They say
they have lived in Mexico for many
years, many of them have marSied Mex
leans, they have become in fact Mexi-
cans in all their tastes and habits. and
they feel that they are rot being
treated fairly and should be given some
assurance>that SO. long as they did their
duty they should be safe in their posi-
/ tions
| At a recent meeting held by the rep
resentatives of the Wells-Fargo, Ma
tionaI and Interoceanic express COM
panies and the officers of the National
railways in the City of Mexico 1t was
decided to call the new merged express
company La Compania de Express
Mexicana.
II. ~ Tierney represented the Ma
tional and Interoceanic companies and
A. Christensen the Wells Fargo in the
negotiations. According to reports in
exchange for something like 40 per
cent of the stock in the Compania Mexi-
cana the Wells-Fargo will turn over to
it all its physical property and business
on lines now in the National railways