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The San Francisco call., 1910-06-11
RIALTO BUILDING
IS Being REBUILT
DR.. Hartland Law Spending
$5OO,OOO to Make Structure
Modern in Every Respect

The reconstruction of the old Rialto
building at the corner of Mission and
New Montgomery streets has begun.
DR.. Hartland Law. the owner. is pre-
pairing to spend about s5OO.OOO in re-
building it on a handsomer plan than
the original structure. The old build
ing was erected in 1901 at a cost OF
ss5O.OOO.
The great fire left it comp1et0
wreck. The walls have stood. but the
steel frame was so bent and twisted
most of il has had to be taken out.
New steel columns have been put in
from basement to roof. All the steel
is being freproofed with cement this
time. instead of with terra Gotta. as
previously. The fireproof flooring is
already In on the two upper stories
All the reconstruction work will be
of class A quality throughout The
outer brick work will be cleaned and
treated in some way to brighten it up
and make 1t look like an entirely new
building.
The corridors will be wainscoted
with marble and will have a flooring OF
mosaic tfling. They will be wider and
brighter than in the old building.
The woodwork Of the building will
be of oak. Metal doors probably viii
be put in.
Special attention is being paid to
the plumbing equipment There will
be vacuum cleaning system and COM
pressed air supplied TO all the Offices.
There will be four high speed elevat-
ors, the contract for putting them in
having already been let The light.
heat and power for the building will
be supplied from a plant being con-
structed on a lot adjoining the main
building. A special feature will be an
equipment for sterilizing water for
drinking purposes. After the heating
process it will be cooled and distrib-
uted to every suite in the building by
a special set of pipes and drinking
faucets In this and other ways Doctor
Low has studiously endeavored to
make the new building thoroughly mod
ern and up to date in every particular.
Mcdonald & Kahn have general en-
gineering charge of the whole recon
struction work and are letting all the
contracts. Bliss & Faville are the ar
! chitects.
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-11

it grows the more valuable it be-
comes.
They viii find a soil rich and deep
and pregnant with opportunity for the
man behind the plow. No grain, vege-
table. nut, fruit or melon that grows
in this zone has ever yet failed at
Modesto. There is none that has not
thriven at a profit when cultivated
there. Even the orange and the lemon,
dainty and delicate though they be,
find their highest, ripest and earliest
development in the soft iron red soil
Of the foothill sections.
ALFALFA AND DIARIES
AS an alfalfa and dairy country they
will be confronted with thousands OF
growing acres that tell their own sue
cessful story of prosperity and profit
backed by the indisputable records OF
the transportation companies. They
will be shown the butter produced from
the butter fats of Modesto, famous in
all the stores of San Francisco and
central California, and always COM
manding a price a little above the rul-
ing market, because of its superiority
Every man and every woman is from
Missouri when 1T comes down to the
question Of buying farming lands. and
these 200 or more home seekers will be
shown" by the people of Modesto. II
is claimed for Modesto that nowhere
else in the San joaquin valley can a
purchaser get so much of real. genuine
value for his money as in that region
Good land. it is said. may be purchased
as low as 500 an acre and better land
at S125.
The excursionists who left San Fran
cisco Thursday, under the auspices OF
the San Francisco Call, have a 10 day
time limit on their tickets, and it is
more than likely many of them will
remain the full time. They will be roy
ally entertained during their stay, and
besides farming country second to
none in the San Joaquin valley they
viii witness a beautiful and progress
sive city of 5000, with some of the
most modern schools, churches and
stores on the coast. 1t is a city that
reflects the progress of the land about
it, and for modernity has no equal, fol
its size, in the San Joaquin valley.
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-11
CAR line UP THE
TWIN PEAKS Hill
Route Suggested for a Scenic
Road That Would Develop
Suburban District
By F. H. DRAKE

If some of San Francisco's outside
districts had more car lines. fewer fam
lilies would be moving to Oakland,
Berkeley, Alameda and Burlingams.
One of the choicest residence sections
in all the bay district is the large tract
of land Immediately south of Twin
peaks, between Glen park and the Sun
set district, and If a car line tapped
this part of the city, San Francisco
could keep her home loving people
within the city limits.
car line can be built to this sec
tion for a very small part Of what it
would cost to dig tunnel under Twin
peaks. Every foot of the line would be
appreciated and patronized by the peo-
pie who live along the proposed route
This new line would be an outlet to
Market street, and at the same time
would be the ideal trip for tourists TO
see the city.
The road should begin at the end
of Market street, which is where Sew
enteenth street crosses Castro, then
run west in Seventeenth street to
Douglas street, where 1t would join
the Corbett road. From here on 1t
should follow Corbett road or Corbett
avenue in gradual rise up around the
side of the Twin peaks to that great
undeveloped country back of the hills.
The grade is not steep at any point.
In fact, there are dozens of streets In
the city where cars climb grades twice
as steep as any place along this line.
This road could join the Parnassus
avenue car line west of the Affiliated
colleges, making a loop around the
peaks. or could be extended in Dewey
boulevard to Ingleside and the Lake
Merced district.
A streetcar line up around Twin
peaks in Corbett avenue would soon
pay for itself from passengers taking
the trip to view the city, not mention
ing the new homes that would be built
in the section this road would open to
the public.
The people who own the land in this
slndeveloped section could we'll afford
TO help build this road for their owr
Neneft and profit.
A man with a black eye is up against
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-11
MODESTO THE LAND
OF THE HOME SEEKER
Over Two Hundred Strangers From Various
States Invade the District
By JOHN ]. WALL

II. ever California city got itself
thrust into the limeught as successfully
as Modesto has within the last few days
History has failed to record it.
If ever a farming district of Califor-
Z MA better deserved the publicity and
prosperity it has attained. history has
: failed TO record that also.
BONA FIDE SETTLERS
There are over 200 actual. bona fide
every prospect that three-fourths of
them at least will conclude TO remain
there, so alluring are the prospects for
farming at q profit.
That seems like a large proportion Of
Factual buyers, but it must be considered
THAT every mothers son Of them is there
Tor business. There are no sight seers,
no mere curiosity seekers, but a body
OF keen sighted home seekers, all good
bJuoges of soil, all wide awake men of
Fanairs, who are quick to judge actual
conditions as they are and TO whom the
hard, cold facts of soil and water, eli
mate and transportation. appeal as
clearly as a simple sum in arithmetic.
There are 125 Of these people, men
and women alike. who went Thursday
from San Francisco under the auspices
u me san FRANCISCO O6ll. 4utLG .dFc
. more than 100 more who came up Fri
day from Los Angeles. all bent on the
same errand, the selection of the best
farming land for their money.
That they viii experience some
pleasing sights at Modesto goes with
out saying.
GREAT WATER SYSTEM
They viii see a great big dam that
cost S55O,OOO to construct and a system
Of canals ana laterals that brought
the total expenditure up to nearly
S3.O0O,oOO.
They viii find a body of irrigable
and almost entirely irrigated land, eX-
panding over nearly 100000 acres.
They VIII find that by enactment OF
the legislature the land and water
. are rendered inseparable forever No
land can be sold without the water,
for the water is a part and parcel of
the land itself by virtue of inalienable
title This is an asset that the older
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-11
- SSdlJOaOin Valley FaHB
Bright EXAMPLE
OF COOPERATION
The Remarkable Achievement
of Modesto People, Who Be-
Iieved ia Their Lands

The greatest and most successful CO.
operative enterprise in the state of Cal
ifornia, perhaps not surpassed in the
world is that presented by the Modesto
irrigation district, of which the city of
Modesto is the center. This enterprise,
which in a few years has converted
100000 acres of land from biennial grain
fields to perennial alfalfa fields, vine
yards and orchards and added $15,0O0,-
900 to $20,000,000 to the market value
of the lands embraced within the dis
trict. is at the same time the most Sig
nificant industrial development of the
state, it's influence far reaching. 1t COM
prises one of the greatest irrigation sys-
TENS in the world, constructed by the
land owners themselves at cost to date
of about $3,000,000, and is owned in per-
petuity by the land. 1t is not owned by
the land owners, for the irrigation right
and use attaches to the land itself and
can not be alienated.
BIG ACREAGE COVERED
This irrigation system consists of a
300 miles of main and lateral canals
Fully 1885, 900 acres of land shares
equally in the ownership of the system.
This land lies in the bed of the San
Joaquin valley. in that political division
known as Stanislaus county, at the
northern end of the valley. The soil is
sedimentary, sandy loam. For 80 years
it was farmed exclusively to cereals,
the average rainfall of about 10 inches
prohibiting other crops. Appreciation
of the possibilities of development un-
der irrigation and the presence of an
unsurpassed water supply at the door
in the Tuolumne river led to an agita-
tion late in the eighties that resulted in
the organization of the Modesto and
Turlock irrigation districts, under a
| law enacted by the legislature to meet
this particular situation. 1t was not
until IA years later, however, that any
| portion of the works were so far COM
pleted that irrigation became possible.
| From that time there has been large
| and steady influx of settlers, loo, 900
acres are now under irrigation, new
| towns have sprung up, old towns have
doubled and trebled their population
and evidences of prosperity and devel-
opment abound.
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-11

recommended that hydrants be set in
Noe street at the junction of Army,
Twenty-seventh, Duncan, Twenty
eighth and Valley streets, as well as in
Twenty ninth street between Noe and
Castro and at the junction Of Twenty
ninth and Castro. At present there are
no hydrants in Noe street between
Twenty and Twenty ninth, al
though Noe street is graded and mac
adamiZed
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-11

man with a black eye is up against
the dark side of life.
The San Francisco call., 1910-06-11

S. F. DE YOE,
Real Estate, Modesto, Cal.
LON j. COFFEE.
Real Estate. Modesto, Cal.
D. C. MATTES0N & SONS,
Real Estate, Modesto, Cal.
GARNER e. PEARSON,
Real Estate. Modesto, Cal.
j. A. EDWARDS & co.
Real Estate, Modesto, Cal.
DRAKE, JOHNSTON & CO.,
Real Estate, Modesto, Cal.
MAZE & WREN,
Real Estate, Modesto, Cal.
MODESTO LAND CO.,
Real Estate. Modesto, Cal.
SMITH & SWEET (Inc.),
Real Estate, Modesto, Cal.
PIONEER LAND CO..
Real Estate, Modesto, Cal.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-09-20
CUT|CURA CURES
STAY CURED
First Father is Cured of an Erup-
ton that Burned and Itched Day
and Night, Then Baby is Cured
Of a Distressing Rash.
i|eighbors Pleased to Find Sure
Cure for Skin Affections.

~ suffered iot eight years with what the
doctors called the seven year Itch This
was like small red pimprs such as form on
the face but th"y burned and itChed day and
night 1he~r pimplrs were from my ankles
up, but mostly on my thighs and arms |
tried doctor after doctor hut their medicines
brought 10 relief But at last struck the
right treatment - this was CutcuTa
bought set ct the Cuticura Remedies - Gu.
ticura Soap, Ointment and Pills - and a few
applications brought relief When had used
about half the set was nearly cured and after
using two full sets was well and best OF all
have stayed cured.
About four months aro. our baby began
TO be covered with a rash and his head with a
spreading sore. Back Of the ears, the fesh
cracked open aud the poor baby would
scratch till IL bled. lie worried, cried and
could not sleep. Then We bought a set OF
Cuticura and with a few applications ths
burning and itching ceased. baby stopped
worrying and could sleep. When this single
set had gone We had no use for any more as
baby was never troubled with the disease
again. The nrigiihOTs who saw the condition
OF the baby all asked what cured him and
when We told them, they were surprised and
pleased 10 find sure cure for these skin
affections. Edward II. Carter. 323 North
37th ST. Camden. y J.. Mar Is. 1910"
single Set Of crgilcurs Soap and Ointment /,
onen suncieni. rendering Il the most economical
treatment Tor affections rf tho skin and scalp sold
Throughout The world. Potter Drug L Chen Corp.
Sole Props. lS5 tOluulbus Ave. Bos'cl. Macs
AShaiied Tree. latest Cuiicura Book on Treat
nent Of SKA aae scalp Aacctions
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-09-20

The Santa Fe railway company dur
ing the past month has transported 20
the oil fields as much oil well casing
as 1t did in the six months past. There
are three car loads of this casing now
on the tracks here ready to be hauled
60 the fields. Bills of lading for other
cars shipped the latter part of the
week from Chicago are in the office
here. The Santa Fe has between fifty
and sixty producing oil wells in the
field west of here. The activity of the
past few weeks means something and
that meaning, whatever 1t Is must be
guessed at by the people for there is
not man employed by the Santa Fe
that will divulge anything concerning
the field. Even the teamsters will tell
you they have no information. The
oil expert stationed here never gives
out any information. All that is ever
stated Is that when oil is found that
will justify the expense an oil pipe
line win be built from the oil fields
into the city. That same statement
has been the talk for many months
but in the mean time the Santa Fe
has kept on drilling night and day in
the field. When oil is found the well
Is capped and the machinery moved 20
a new location and another well is
sunk. Month after month this same
program has been maintained. All the
time the Santa Fe has been buying
more lands and perfecting the titles
TO what 1t controls now in the field.
There was a time when Los Angeles,
Cal, occupied the same position that
Ardmore does now. The same rail.
road company was drining for oil near
that town. Secrecy, the utmost secre-
cy, was maintained No one knew
whether the oil was In great quanu-
ties or in sparing wells and the same
secrecy that is maintained here was
maintained there for many months.
when the railroad company had Sc
cured the number of acres of land that
It needed. when 1t had made the de-
yelopments required it built pipe
line and began the use Of the oil.
The field was so rich that independent
drillers came in, that city became the
distributing point as a great oil center.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-09-20
Turkey Red Seed Wheat.

Many farmers in Southern Oklaho
ma are interested in securing pure
seed wheat and here is some informa
ton and suggestion that may be o
interest 10 them. The suggestion and
information is made by II. NJ. Cottrel
agricultural commissioner OF the Rocl
Island railway company.
The State Millers Association, C.
V. Topping, Oklahoma City, secretary
and the State Grain Dealers Associa'
ton, C. F. Prouty, Oklahoma City,
secretary, will furnish pure seed
wheat at cost. Cost and freight, no
charges for handling will bring you
pure Turkey Red seed what.
The cheapest way to secure the
seed is for several farmers TO COM
bine and make their order together,
but any farmer can get from one
sack to car If he desires. 20tf
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-09-20
UNUSUAL ACTIVITY Of SANTA FE
IN THE ARDMORE OIL FIELDS

1t was the first move toward buildinG
city there and the building of that
city has kept up ever since.
The two cities being counterparts in
the matter of oil developments leads
Ardmore people to believe that when
the field is ripe, when the Santa Fe
has need for the oil, that It means
tremendous growth to Ardmore.
This city is already enjoying the nat
ural gas from the field and there IS no
doubt but that 1t will enjoy the oil
boom that will come later. The un-
usual activity at this time leads close
observers to believe the time is close
at hand when the Santa Fe will show
its hole card and the activity of the
town will equal the results obtained
by Los Angeles.
Land agents who have had lands in
the oil fields listed with them have
suddenly found that these lands have
been taken out of their hands and
have been taken off the market. They
have some kind of information that
things are going to move In the oil
fields. Lands ought 20 be selling there
at one thousand dollars an acre instead
of the agricultural prices that have
prevailed of $25 an acre.
While It is not known, neither can
it be determined, Just what the Santa
Fe intends to do, yet there is every
reason on earth to believe that some
thing OF unusual interest is TO occur
soon. Something that will at once
put Ardmore In the spot light as being
located in one of the great gas and
oil fields of the state,
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-09-20
ART IN THE PRISON CELL.
A Photograph Frame Made Of Bread
and Porridae.

What is perhaps the most remark
able photograph frame in existence is
one made by prisoner, and described
in the October Strand Magazine. 1t
is composed entirely OF bread, porridge
and paper. The prisoner who made it
stored in a cavity in his cell-which he
made by scraping hollow the inter
ior of a brick he had removed-small
portions OF his allowance of porridge,
bits of his "toke' or loaf of bread, and
scraps of paper which he picked up in
the tailor's shop. No miser ever
boarded his gold more assiduously
than this Gagged bird-sentenced, by
the way, for a murderous attack on
his wife-stored up his curious pos
session.
The original of the photograph is
colored red, and this effect was pro-
duced in a strikingly ingenious man
ner. When the man had collected
sufficient bread and porridge for his
purpose, he procured from the tai!ors
shop pieces of red paper which one
invariably finds covered over reels of
cotton in box. BY wetting them he
extracted the color, and then dyed the
frame of bread and porridge which he
had already made. He utilized the
paper by rolling 1t up into little balls
and fixing them on the sticky sub
stance, giving it the appearance of be-
ing artisticaliy beaded.
Weeks and weeks passed until the
masterpiece was nearing completion,
when, owing TO the difficulties of con-
cealing so large an article, the warder
discovered what had been going on.
But, fortunately for the indefatigable
artist, he proved decent fellow, or in
prison parlance, straight screw"
The man was allowed to retain 1t, and
20 his custodian's surprise he produC-
cd torn and tattered photograph of
the wife he had nearly done 10 death.
This he had managed TO keep conceal
ed, despite frequent visits by officials
expert in searching, and now placed in
the frame.
For months this man enjoyed the
unique privilege of gazing at his wife's
likeness in a prison cell. When there
was any danger Of visit from the
searchers the friendly warder gave
him the tip and he concealed the cher
ished frame and photograph or gave /
them into the warder's custody pro-
ceeding he followed when another man .
was on duty or when he was absent !
from his cell.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-09-20
Notice Of Drilling Welt.

Sealed bids will be received by
the Commissioner OF Water. Lights
and Sewers, care of the City Clerk,
until Tuesday, Sept. 20, 1910, at S
p. m, for drilling well at resi-
dence of the City Lake Guard for
resident purposes Well to be of
usual size. drilled to ample flow of
water, cased up, with stand, pulley,
rope and bucket, all complete for
use.
Bond will be required when con-
tract is signed, for the faithful per-
formance OF stipulations therein.
Right is reserved to accept or re-
ject bids
d. II. DAWSON.
Commissioner Water, Lights and
Sewers. 1876
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-09-20
Notice Of Sale of Real Estate.

In the matter of the estate of Allen
w. Speake, deceased.
Notice is hereby given that in pur-
suance of an order of the County
Court of the County of Carter, Safe
of Oklahoma, made on the 10Th day OF
September, 1910, in the matter OF the
estate of Allen w. Speake, deceased !;
the undersigned, as the administrator
of the estate of said deceased, will
sell at private sale to the highest bid.
der for cash, subject to confirmation
by said court, on the 1st day of OctU-
Der, 1910, at 10 O'Clock a. m., at Wood
ford, in said County of Carter, all the
right, title and interest in the estate
OF said Allen w. Speake at the time
of his death, and all the right, tide
and interest that the said estate has
by operation of law or otherwise aC'
quired In and to all that certain lot,
piece or parcel of land, situated, lying
and being in the County of Carter,
State of Oklahoma, described as fol-
lows, and upon the following terms
and conditions, to-wit:
The NEAof SEA OF NEA, and E1a
of NEA of SEA and E1a of SEA of
NWi4, and E1a OF NW1l of NEh, and
SWA of NEH Of Section 10; and the
Sci! of SEA of Section Is; and the
NEh of SW14 OF Section 16; all in
Township South, Range l West.
And the SWh of SEh of SWh of
Section &c; and the SWA of Section
25. and the NJ of NWh OF NWA
OF Section SO; and the SWA of NEh
of SEA; and NWA of SEA Of seq,
and SEA of SEA of SEA, and SEh
of SWA of SEA of Section 26, all in
Township South, Range l West.
And also the NEA of SEA, and
We of SEA of sen of Section 30;
and the NWA OF NWA of NEA, and
NEA of NWA of NEA of Section
2S; and the SwA of SEA of NEA,
and NE1l of NWA of SEA of Sec
tion 30, and the SEh of SEA OF
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-09-20
Notice of Sale at Public Auction.

NotlCe OF odIc dt FupllC RuCtlOn.
To ]. NJ. Gregory, w. Z. Bozell, NJ.
Walcott and all others whom it may
concern:
You are hereby notified that on Sat.
urday, the first day of October, 1910,
at the Frisco freight depot in the city
Of Ardmore, Carter county, state OF
Oklahoma, the undersigned will sell
at public auction, to the highest bid
der for cash, certain railroad car
known as Private Car No. 10, Old
Arms car No. 6307, to satisfy legal
freight, demurrage and other charges
which have accrued upon same; said
car having been held in the possession
OF the undersigned railroad company
at Ardmore, Oklahoma, for period Of
more than six months after its arrival
at that point, and The owners thereof,
upon due notice, having failed and
neglected to receive the same and pay
the legal charges thereon for period
of more than three months.
Dated this 10th day of September
1910.
ST. LOUIS C SAN FRANCISCO
RAILROAD co.
BY II. II. GRAY,
Its Agent. 12-17t
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-09-20
Don't Break Down.

Severe strains on the vital organs
like strains on machinery, cause
break-downs. You can't overtax stom
ach, liver. kidneys, bowels or nerves
without serious danger to yourself. Ii
YOU are weak or rundown, or under
strain OF any kind. take Electric Bit.
ters, the matchless tonic medicine.
Mrs. J. Z. Van de Sande. OF Kirkland,
Ill. writes: THAT l did not break
down, while enduring n most severe
strain. for three months, is due Who'll
ly TO Electric Bitters." Use them and
enjoy health and strength. Satisfac-
tion positively guaranteed. soc at Ard
more pharmacy.