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The San Francisco call., 1910-11-19

close to Dolores. Church and Fillmore.
is admirably located for apartment
houses. stores, fats and residences.
ORGANIZATION OF CLUB
The Market and Church Street i'm
provement club was organized about
two years before the fire. It's 5urisdic-
tion extends along Market street and
adjacent streets from Valencia to Cas-
tro. 1t may be said. however. that the
Eureka Valley Improvement associa-
tion, the Church Street and Upper Mis-,
sion improvement club and the Upper
Market Street improvement club also
include a portion of this territory.
The purpose Of the club was to IN
duce trade TO locate in upper Market
street and to maintain Market street
for it's entire length as the principal
commercial thOrOughfare Of the city.
GulIixson Brothers building and the
Malta, Francisco and Eureka apart
ments are large structures in the dis
trict. which have been erected within
the last six years.
The club has been cooperating Wig
orously with other organizations to get
the Devisadero street crosstown carIine
to tap the upper Market street section
and give direct communication with
the Western addition.
Inc securing or 4dO1LlOnal ugnUSs re-
pairing Of streets and laying of side
walks are details which have occupied
much of the attention OF the club.
The Market, and Church Streets i'm
provement4 club has been one Of the
most enthusiastic and consistent work
eTs for the construction of the Twin
peaks tunnel.
The headquarters OF the club are at
691 Fourteenth street. corner Of Mar
ket. The officers are: Walter S. Pierce.
president; Eugene r. Pfaeffie. vice
president; Albert T. Roche. secretary;
John L, Polito. assistant secretary.
The standing committees are:
Street-John E Hill. Louis Silverna n
Eugene E Pfaef1e; light. n. Gulltxson.
H. G. Barkley; insurance. John L. Po-
Tito and J. w. Hamm; sanitation. J. o.
McCaVett
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FARMS in DEMAND
near SANTA ROSA

Country lands are selling well.
said o. C. stine Of Stine & Kendrick.
That is. when they are of the right
kinds. As an instance of this we have
sold one-fourth Of large ranch near
Santa. Rosa. which we bought and sub
divided about three months ago.
The land was formerly owned by
+he president of one Of the banks of
santa Rosa. and il certainly was a
beautiful piece of ground Real es-
tate men and farmers say il is the
hest farm in the entire valley. The
soil is OF the richest kind and will
grow fruits. vegetables. berries and
Garden stuff. The surroundings are
of ire best. just across the road from
senate -Kearns' ranch-all that could
he asked for. Good schools, good
roads. good transportation, good neigh
bors. etc.
I'VE have been disposing of this in
small farms or country homes of I'VE
acres and less. There aren't very
many pieces and we are selling them
af prices that make them go quickly
and on the easiest kind of terms Peo-
pIe buy when they can get property
Of this kind"
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MERGED COUNTY
ATTRACTS DIARIES

Judging from the influx of settlers
who are taking up alfalfa land in that
vicinity, Merced will soon become a
dairy center of considerable Importance.
Most of the new corners expect to fol-
low that branch of farming, and are
putting their ranches into al ilfa.
William Graves, who purchased so
acres in Merced colony last spring, is
on his way from South Dakota bring
ing with him a carload of high grade
dairy stock.
G. H. Eldred, the owner of 40 acres
in the same tract, recently brought
10 head for his ranch.
The actual settling of the land around
Merced. and the consequent improve
ments going in, are doing much to
stimulate real estate activity.
The Cooperative land and trust COM
pany of San Francisco reports grow
ing demand for small farms I'm Merced
colony. The following sales have been
made in the last two weeks: George
w. Shealey. 20 acres: Francis yassar,
60 acres; George A. Walker, 10 acres;
F. E. Peterson. 10 acres; Oscar Hol-
brook, 10 acres.
Livingston colony-T. T. Ragsdale,
10 acres
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RENTALS AND LEASES
BY MADISON s. BURKE

The renting department of Madison
& Burke reports the following leases:
For L. Barriolet TO Mar Ling Get. the Lot at
the northeast corner of Jackson street and Bart
lett alley for 20 years at total rental of
S4Z. .00c
To A. Retslon. for A. H. Neil and A. NJ.
Ellis street between Franklin street and Van
Ness avenue. on a lease for three years at a
total rental Of So. 800.
For Mary Hoe TO Wing Fat Chang company
the store at 45 Clay street for two years at a
total rental sum OF 81 $50.
For NJ. LacoSt TO X. Nakashima. the two story
and basement building at 1921 Geary street on
a lease Of two years for 81. 040.
For Ashcroft estate to NJ. SpegeI, the four
story and basement brick hotel at the northwest
corner Of Sixth and Jessie streets for five years
at a total rental Of $4,000.
For the Pabst brewing company to c.. o.
Peterson and NJ. Harrison. the store at 45G
kearny street; terms private.
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SUNNYSIDE CLUB GETS
NEW SEWER SYSTEM
Energetic Work Of Organization in Financing Bond
Issue Great Benefit to District

The Sunuvside club has secured a
great boon for that district in getting
. sewer system. This long needed i'm
provement 1aeans much TO this section.
which IS Ne<sz favored by natural con-
ditions. lying in the southern slope
and AT the foot Of the southerly spur
Of the Twin Peaks range, sheltered
thereby from the winds OF the north
and protected from the winds and fogs
Of the west by the Sutro forest and
the elevation upon which it stands
bounded on the south by the 9S acre
tract recently dedicated as Balboa park
and commanding from nearly every
where view Of San Francisco bay
SUCH is the district within which was
orga nized. January %. 1908, the sunny
side Improvement club.
The beauty and advantages of this
district as 4 residence district We're
recognized al early as 1891, but moth
i1g could be done for its development
because Of protracted litigation that
tied I'D the greater portion Of the tract
on this account and for no other
reason Sunnvside is not now a thickly
settled district.
, II was not until 1908 that this Iti-
cation was settled. Since then the
NAEL44AA las Ild'4t ma tA-~ EAcs- ~f'NS-
More than SEQ lots have been sold and
more than 200 new homes erected
NEW SEWER SYSTEM
one great drawback 10 the district
has been the lack Of a sewer system.
Because OF this people have been de-
-erred from making their homes there
and little or no street work has been
done.
For two years the Sunnyside i'm
provement club has worked energetic
ally 70 secure a sewer system and its
efforts are about 20 be crowned with
success a purchaser has been secured
for the 81. 900 non-interest bearing
bonds Of the 1904 issue. These bonds
mature in July, 1911
Il has been necessary for the club
70 raise s2.5O0 TO pay interest TO the
Tt,rcbaser Of the bonds. All but $500
Of this amount has been raised 1t is
expected that this small sum will soon
he secured.
The new main sewer viii traverse
Forester street TO Hearst avenue
thence TO Congo street across the
Southern Pacific tracks to San Jose
avenue and through the Belle Roche
tract 10 Islais creek. AS soon as this
main sewer. is. completed, and II Is eX-
pected that work on II viii commence
soon. SIDE sewers and street work viii
begin Immediately. A large amount Of
this work is already signed for.
OTHER IMPROVEMENTS
Other improvements Of note secured
BY the Sunnyside club are the extern
sion Of thescarline out Sunnyside ave-
rue 10 the Sutro forest. the securing
Of 2 10 minute direct car service TO
me ferry. the securing of water mains
FOR the district. the securing of IS ad-
ditional lights, whereas before there
were only seven in the whole district:
ne construction of q viaduct from
-6ua street across the Southern Pacific
tracks 10 san Jose avenue; the con-
structicr Of TWO culverts; the cOnstrUc-
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GOOD CROPS MADE
ON SMALL RANCHES
Intensive Cultivation Made Pos
sible by irrigation in Terri
tory Near This City

Some of the splendid results of the
work done at the California develop
ment board are apparent to the man
travelling through the agricultural re-
gions of this state. Where 10 or IS
years ago the traveller saw expanses of
thousands of acres of wheat fields
broken here and there by. the ranch
houses or barns there are now numer
Gus families on their farms of 80, 40 or
80 acres. This change has been brought
about by irrigation, which has made
possible the intensive culture of the
soil.
The supervisors of Butte. Tehama,
Yuba, Sutter and Yolo counties main
tain at the California development
boards headquarters a special repre-
sentative to lecture and interest people
in that district &
M. G. Coats, who is now serving in
that capacity, has recently returned
from three days trip through Yuba.
Sutter and Butte counties, including
the towns of Marysville, Yuba City,
Live Oak, Gridley and Biggs, for the
purpose of inspecting the irrigated
lands OF the region.
When seen yesterday in regard to
the conditions in the upper Sacramento
valley he said:
In spite OF the fact that 1 am
familiar with the district 1 could
not help being surprised at the
number of new homes that were to
be seen. 1 counted 102 new homes
during the three days / was away,
and they were the homes of people
who had settled within the last
year.
The orange crop is unusually
good this year, being estimated at
700 carloads. One-half of the crop
has been shipped already, bringing
as high as $2.40 a box f. o. b. 1t
must be remembered that this
region ships oranges earlier than
state.
A large crop of Mission and
Manzanella olives is being gath
cred. most of it being handled by a
local olive and ripe picking con-
Germ, which, by the way, is the
largest in the state.
At the present time there are
10000 acres under the irrigation
supplied by the Butte county canal.
This acreage is supporting about
500 families, while the $4,000 acres
that will be put on the market in
the next three years will support
an additional 1000 families.
s1,750,000, has been harvested from
$4,000 acres in five or six crops.
Many of the new settlers are plant
ing orchards and raising white
beans between the rows. thereby
paying expenses and making
comfortable living.
The people of the Sacramento
toward the colonization of the val
ley. and from the encouraging re-
suits so far obtained this does not
seem to be an idle dream.
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Building Contracts

MartinaIli Inc, with g. B. Baglietto-Altera-
tions and additions in premises occupied by res
taurant at 502 Broadway; $500.
Mary Ellen and Henry James Trowbridge with
A 81 Wallen-AH work except painting, plumb
ing filing shades, mante1s. CRATES and gas FIX
tuTes for two story frame building 1.-TWO datsl
in line of vicksburg. 1s5 Of Twenty second.
s 25 by 117:6; $3.T00
Amelia Octroski with Andrew Nelson and
George C. Bauer-To erect a three story and
bath fat and store building at SW corner of
Pine and Webster streets, " 2I:3 by 100;
$1,000.
4 J. j. Geary with Edwin /: Huffman--To erect
two story frame building in Sixteenth avenue.
Phehe A. Hearst with Pacific manufacturing
company Otis elevator company and Pacific
sash elevators and flooring for II story and
basement class building at f corner of Market
and Kearny streets 69:1 Sc 1854 NE
57:6. Sc 40, NE 10, NV 100, SW to beginning
So 2S5.
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WORKS BOARD HAS
ACCEPTED STREET WORK

Certificates of satisfactory compile
ton of street work have been issued
by the board of public works to the
following contractors:
Rarher asphalt COMMUNICATING and navin,
sanchez street between Twenty ninth and Tav7'
Finn & Treacy -Sewering Masonic avenue be-
tween Golden Gate avenue and Turk street
@ W Mc(,inn & Co.-Paving I.ida place from
sixteenth street to point 100 feet north :
clIrbing and paving portion of Valley street he
tween Church and Sanchez.
Peter Notwithstanding Thirtysix ayenue
between Geary and Clement streets
William HeafeyS Sewering Peru avenue be-
tween Edinburgh and Madrid streets.
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LARGE LIST OFFERED AT
q. II. UMBSENS AUCTION

The properties that will be offered
at G. H Umbsen's auction sale next
Monday at u o'clock noon are as fol
lows;
2Os2- -2064 Pine street, north line. between La
-rna and Buchanan. improvements consist OF
Two fats Of four and Eve rooms each and base
nlent Of three rooms.
Ie0a-Isl1 Derissdero street west line, be
tween Posi- and Sutter. Improvements consist
Of two fats of six rooms and hath each.
2143. 2145 and zl4I Howard stIest, sast 3 me
between Seventeenth and Eighteenth Imprc<e-
uents consist Of three choice fats OF SIX, seven
and nine rooms and bath each; rents, Sot.oO'
lot 24xI22.6.
Iz57 and -1z5e Church street. east line. be
tween Twenty-seventh and Army Improve
ynenfs consist ~ q building containing eteIe
and fat Of four and bafn; lot xoxSo-
Nfortgage Of 50 600 at per cent can remain
ao6 camp street west line between Twenty
fourth and Twenty fifth. Improvements consist
Of two story dwelling Of six rooms and bath.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-12-23

With a powerful effort she steadiea
her voice. Tell Neil that he has
been condemned to death. Tell him
that-if he loves me-he will not re-
turn to the island"
And y"
From the distance ste saw his
arms stretched like shadows toward
her.
and you"
Her voice was low, so low that he
could hardly hear the words she spoke,
but its sweetness thrilled him.
"And you-if you love me-wiIl do
this thing for me. Go to Neil. Save
his life for mel"
She had come to him through the
gloom, and in the luster of the eyes
that were turned up TO him Nathaniel
saw again the power that swayed his
soul.
You will go?"
Il will save your brother-if | cam"
You can-you can" she breathed.
In an ecstasy of gratitude she seized
one of his hands in both OF her own.
You can save him."
For you'll will try"
For me-
She was so close that he could feel
the throbbing of her bosom. Sudden.
ly he lifted his free hand and
brushed back the thick hair from her
brow and turned her face until what
dim light there still remained of the
day glowed in the beauty of her eyes.
/ will keep him from the island if |
can" he said, looking deep into them,
and as there is a God in heaven l
swear that you"
"What?" she urged, as he hesitated.
That you shall not marry Strang!"
he finished
A cry welled up in the girls throat.
Was it of gladness? Was it of hope?
She sprang back a pace from Nathan
lei and with clenched hands waited
breathlessly, as if she expected him
to say more
"No-no-you cannot save me from
Strang. Now-you must go!"
She retreated slowly in the direc-
ton of the path. In an instant Ma
thaniel was at her side.
Il am going to see you safely back
to st. James," he declared. Then
will go to your brother"
She barred his way defantly.
"You cannot go!"
"Why?"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-12-23
Officers Must Wear Mustache.

Some of the cavalry subalterns at
Aldershot are smitten in a tender
place by the enforcement of the Or
der that all officers must wear a mus
tache. The regulation on the subject
is explicit and dates from the time
of Queen Victoria. 1t reads as fol-
lows:
THE hair Of the head will be kept
short. The chin and underlip will be
shaved, but not the upper lip. Whisk'
ers If worn will be of moderate
length"
The fad for shaving the upper lip
is a speciality of cavalry subalterns,
who wish to distinguish themselves
from their comrades of other branches
of the service. Field Marshal Lord
Grenfell had to issue an order calling
attention to the regulation when he
was in command in Ireland.
The regulation aims entirely at main
tanning a smart appearance and
dates from shortly after the Crimean
war. when Queen Victoria objected &c
her soldiers wearing boards. In the
navy the rule is that an officer must
be either clean shaven or wear "a full
set."-London Daily Mail.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-12-23
tCoDyraght 1908 by Bobbs-Merrill CO..
SYNOPSIS.

Capt. Nathaniel Plum, of the sloop
TyphOOn, lands secretly on Beaver island
stronghold OF the Mormons. He is sud
denly confronted by Obadiah Price, an
eccentric Old man and a member of the
Mormon council, who tells him that he is
expected. Price ignores Mats protesta-
tons that he has got the wrong man. and
bargains for the ammunition aboard the
slOOp He binds Nat by solemn oath to
deliver package to Franklin Pierce,
president of the United States Near
Prices cabin Nat sees the frightened face
of young woman who disappears in the
darkness, leaving an odor of lilacs. 1t
develops that Plum's visit to the island
is TO demand settlement from the king,
Strang, for the looting of his ship some
Casey, the mate, has been left in charge
of the sloop with orders to lombard st.
James If Nat does not return within q
certain time. Price takes Nat in the
darkness, to the kings home, and
through window he sees the king and
his wives, among whom is the lady of
the lilacs, whom Price says is the sew
enth wife. Plum calls at the kings of
flee, where he is warned by young
woman that his life is in danger. Strang
receives Plum cordially, processes indig-
nation when he hears the captains grieV-
anCe, and promises to punish the guilty.
Plum again receives warning of his dan
ger. He rescues Neil who is being pub
iicly whipped. The king orders Arbor
Croche, the sheriff and father of Winn-
some, the girl who warned Nat, to pur-
sue and kill the two men. Plum and Neil
plan to escape on the Typhoon. Plum
learns that Marion, the girl of the lilacs,
is Neirs sister. She is not yet married
off on the ship. Neil approves. They
bgree to include Winnsome, with whom
Price is in love, in the enterprise. Nat
discovers that the sloop is gone.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-12-23

her, her head still upon his breast,
her eyes closed, her arms fallen to
her side. And as Nathaniel looked
into her face from which all life
seemed to have fed he forgot every
thing but the joy of this moment
forgot all in life but this woman
against his breast He kissed her soft
mouth and the closed eyes until the
eyes themselves opened again and
gazed at him in startled, half under
standing way, until he drew his head
far back with the shame of what he
had dared to do flaming in his face
And as for another moment he held
her thus, feeling the quivering life re-
turning in her, there came to him
through that vast forest stiffness the
distant deep-toned thunder of a great
gun.
That's Casey" he whispered close
down to the girls face. His voice was
almost sobbing in its happiness.
That's Casey-fring on ST. James,"
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-12-23
Kept Umbrella Thirty Years.

A faithful old umbrella which has
shielded the family of DR.. James A
Mullican of Greenwood avenue from
the storms of 80 years, was stolen on
Sunday. During the rain on that day
the physician lent the umbrella to E
A. Seek, and while the latter was in a
store some one stole it.
THE umbrella belonged to my faith,
er and has been in the family for
more than thirty years." said Doctor
Mullican the other night. 1T has been
covered several times.
"To persons who are unable to keep
the same umbrella for more than thir-
ty days this may seem incredible, but
it Is true" concluded Doctor Mullican
with a smile-Chicago Tribune.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-12-23
Why Doctors Bear Charmed Lives.

Why Doctors Bear Charmed LIVES
The reason doctors do not catch dis
ease is because they never think about
it. They very seldom take any pre-
cautions to secure this amazing I'M
munity, beyond, perhaps, cold sponge
bath regularly, smoking, a pinch of
snuff, gargling the throat with some
well-known disinfectant, or washing
their hands in an anseptic solution be-
fore and after attending to a patient
A doctor may carry disease from one
house to another without contracting
it himself An army surgeon had to
cope single-handed with a terrible out
break of cholera When the rush was
over, the medical man, absolutely ex-
hausted sank onto bed which a short
time previously had been occupied by
a bad cholera case and slept for 43
hours. Yet he did not contract the COM
plant, although he had taken no pre-
ventive measures. He simply didn't
think about it And that is the whole
secret
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-12-23
SKIN BEAUTY PROMOTED

In the treatment of affections of the
skin and scalp which torture, disfig-
ure, itch, burn, scale and destroy the
hair, as well as for preserving, puri-
flying and identifying the complexion,
fallible. Millions of women through
out the world rely on these pure, sweet
and gentle emollients for all pur-
poses of the toilet, bath and nursery,
and for the sanative, antiseptic cleans
ing of liberated, inflamed mucous sur
faces. Potter Drug & Chem. Corp, Bos-
ton, Mass, sole Proprietors OF the Gu
ticura Remedies, will mail free, on re-
quest, their latest 32-page Cuticura
Book on the skin and hair.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-12-23
He Knew.

A certain jurist was an enthusiastic
golfer. Once he had occasion to in
terrogate, in criminal suit, a boy
witness from Bala.
Nov, my lad" he said, "are you
acquainted with the nature and sig
nificance of an OATH"
The boy, raising his brows in sur
prise, answered:
"Of course 1 am, sir. Don't I caddy
for you at the Country ?"-Suc-
cess.
Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1910-12-23
DoIjno Out knowledge.

Mrs. ugwater-Josiah, what is the
origin of the name Milwaukee and
what does it mean?
Mr.. Chugwater-It comes from the
Latin word mile, meaning thousand,
and Wau Kee, a Chinaman; Milwau-
kee, a thousand Cinnamon Think you
can remember that?