anaheim-gazette 1902-01-02

CALIFORNIA STATE VOLUME XXXII. G. S. EDDY, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Telephone, Main 75... OFFICE—Center street, opposite City Hall. 10 A.M. to 11 A.M. 2 P.M. to 4 P.M. 7 P.M. to 8 P.M., evenings. Residence—Corner Center and Palm streets, ANAHEIM CAL. DR. F. H. HOUCK DENTIST. OFFICE NEXT DOOR to P. O. (Federman Block, up stairs.) HOURS 9 to 5. ANAHEIM CAL. jy154f HERBERT JOHNSTON, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office and Residence: Corner of Broadway and Los Angeles St.. Telephone 656... Office Hours 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. 7 p.m. to 8 p.m., evenings. Dr. A. W. Bickford OFFICE OPPOSITE POSTOFFICE. Telephone Central. Residence near Christian Church. Telephone 101. ANAHEIM CAL. Boston Bakery FRESH BREAD, PIES AND CAKES. Ice Cream and Confectionery S. Kistler, Proprietor W. P. Turner, C. A. STREHLE TIN, COPPER and... SHEET IRON WORK Sanitary Plumbing Cor. Los Angeles and Center sts. ANAHEIM, CAL The best and up-to-date Livery turnouts City Livery Stables ZEUS & WARLING, Proprietors. Center street, Anaheim Los Angeles Brewing Company's Beer The Los Angeles Brewing Co. is making a new reputation for Los Angeles—but not all Los Angeles beer is brewed in the big, clean, wholesome brewery of the Los Angeles Brewing Co. Be Sure You Get the Genuine Boston Bakery FRESH BREAD, PIES AND CAKES. Ice Cream and Confectionery S. Kistler, Proprietor W. P. Turner, Pharmacist DRUGS, MEDICINES, Perfumes and Toilet Articles. BEST 5-GENT CIGAR IN TOWN MEDICAL HALL, KOLL BLOCK. PUBLIC TELEPHONE OFFICE. FRITZ RUHMANN'S Germania Halle. BACKS' NEW BUILDING LOS ANGELES STREET Keeps on hand a Large and complete stock of liquors, wines and cigars. Cold beer always on draught GO TO THE Oak Barber Shop FOR A FIRST-CLASS SHAVE OR HAIR CUT. TWO DOORS WEST OF BANK. HUSMANN BROS PALACE MEAT MARKET F. W. Fleischmann, PROPRIETOR. Best Meats the Market Affords Always on Hand. Also keeps on hand Sausages, Bacon, Ham, Lard, Etc. Meats delivered to all parts of the city free of charge. Shop on East Center St. Roman Wisser Favorite Saloon. Finest of Wines, Liquors & Cigars Pool & Billiard Tables Schindler's Building, Center St., Anaheim LOS ANGELES BEER ON DRAUGHT. J.M.Griffith Company A CORPORATION LUMBER DEALERS The Los Angeles Brewing Co. is making a new reputation for Los Angeles—but not all Los Angeles beer is brewed in the big, clean, wholesome brewery of the Los Angeles Brewing Co. Be Sure You Get the Genuine Los Angeles Brewing Co.'s Beer if you want beer that is properly aged—bottled in sterilized bottles, corked with sterilized corks and then sterilized again. The purest, most wholesome beer brewed in America today. If you don't know where you can get it, write to us and we will see that you are supplied. LOS ANGELES BREWING CO., LOS ANGELES, CAL. Garl Upmann's Bouquet Cigar For over Twenty-five Years America's Standard High-grade ten-cent Cigar. HAAS BARUCH CO., Distributors. LOS ANGELES, CAL. SUGAR BEETS... Application for Contracts to grow sugar beets for American Beet Sugar Co., Chino Season of 1902, can be made at any time to the undersigned by or at his house every Saturday. Early Planting is recommended. Therefore select your land, apply, and get contract once. Price to be paid, same as in 1901. Undersigned can "Growers" for owners of beet land, or beet land for "Growers." For further information apply to or address, T. J. Jones, Near Anah Favorite Saloon. Finest of Wines, Liquors & Cigars Pool & Billiard Tables Schindler's Building, Center St., Anaheim LOS ANGELES BEER ON DRAUGHT. J.M. Griffith Company A CORPORATION LUMBER DEALERS Near Railroad Depot, Anaheim, keep constantly on hand Doors, Blinds, Windows Mouldings, Posts, Shakes, Shingles, Lath, Hair Plaster of Paris. F. BACKS, UNDERTAKER And Dealer in FURNITURE. Wall Paper, Cornices, Window Shades, Picture Frames, Upholstery Goods, Paints, Oils and Glass Sewing Machine Supplies, Etc. Cor. Los Angeles & Chartres St. Napoleon Hart. ...DEALER IN THE FINEST BRANDS OF... WINES, LIQUORS AND CIGARS CENTER STREET, ...ANAHEIM. Bottled goods of superior quality for family use WIELAND BEER. Give me a call. RICHARDMELROSE ATTORNEY-AT-LAW And Notary Public. Special attention given to Probate Matters. —Center Street, Anaheim.— Z. B. WEST WILL S. TIPTON West & Tipton ...Attorneys and... Counselors at Law Loans and Abstracts Prompt attention given to your business. Office in Helmsen Block, Center Street Anaheim. RAILWAY TIME TABLE. Time of Arrival and Departure of Trains. SOUTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD. Trains on the Southern Pacific pass Anaheim as follows: To Los Angeles. Daily.....7:52 am Daily.....9:49 am Daily.....4:22 pm Daily.....6:06 pm Pass Loara Station: To Los Angeles. Daily.....7:56 am Daily.....9:45 am Daily.....4:27 pm Daily.....5:59 pm LOS ALAMITOS TRAINS. Leave Anaheim—10:34 am 8:00 am 5:50 pm 3:08 pm Daily except Sunday. TUSTIN BRANCH. Leave Anaheim Arrive Anaheim 9:49 a.m. 4:22 p.m. Daily except Sunday. NEWPORT BEACH RAILWAY. Daily Schedule. Leave Anaheim Arrive Anaheim 9:49 a.m. 7:52 a.m. 6:03 p.m. 4:23 p.m. All trains connect at Santa Ana with Newport trains. Santa Fe Time Table Effective Nov. 24, 1901. Trains on the Santa Fe Route leave Anaheim for points named as follows: To Los Angeles—7:55 am 9:57 am .11:49 am .5:05 pm To San Diego—9:35 am .3:37 pm. To Redlands—11:31 am . To Riverside and San Bernardino—11:31 am .5:54 pm. To San Jacinto, Perris, Temecula and Elsinore—11:31 am. To Santa Ana—7:55 am .3:27 pm .5:54 pm. To Pasadena and Azusa—7:55 am .9:57 am . 11:49 am .5:05 pm. To Esccondido—3:37 pm. To Failbrook—9:35 am . To Redondo—7:55 am .11:49 am. To Chicago-Dearborn-Kansas City and all points East—9:05 pm .5:34 pm. Trains marked with a * are daily except Sunday. All others daily. The Weekly Gazette Established 1881 SUBSCRIPTION. $1.50 Per Month. Six months....Three months....Payable invariably in advance. Transient advertising rates,$1 per month. The GAZETTE is issued every T-morning. Entered at the Anaheim Postoffice on-class matter. F. A. Yungbluth Merchandise Tailor There is nothing more attractive well-made up-to-date TAILOR MAKE. We are in position to make you one in now and let us show you our latest. LONDON NOVELTIES Perfect Fit Guarantee RUHMANN BLOCK Send your LACE CURTAIN THE Santa An Steam Launcher Every facility for doing the best F. W. McCollum, Agent JOSEPH BACK Undertaker and Embroiderer Furniture and Bees Repairing Done. Heim Weekly Gazette ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY. JANUARY 2, 1902. Editorial Note and Comment “Say,” said an Honest Farmer to me the other day, “I see you say that Col. Otis has been mixing up a bit in Orange county politics. But did you hear the result of his conversation with a man living not so very far from here, whose name had been mentioned in connection with a county office? I see you have noted the fact that Otis telephoned this gentleman to come up to his castle and have a little talk the day his name appeared in Otis’ paper as a candidate for—let us say—Supervisor. Now this man makes no pretense to being a candidate for the office with which his name was linked—he is making no effort in that direction. I know that to be a fact. But he went up to see Otis for a talk, and the boys say he put a big flea in the Colonel’s ear in regard to the Governor. “Otis informed this gentleman that Tom Flint would be down this way in a day or so (the conversation was held a month ago), and he wished that Tom might be accorded kindly greeting, ‘for,’ continued the warrior editor, ‘he’s going to be the next Governor of this State, and you Orange county people want to get in line for him, and have front seats reserved for you on the ground floor.’ ‘Flint has been all over Orange county,’ he says, ‘and knows it all from Laguna to Sagua la Grande. I would like very well,’ he says, ‘if we could arrange to have him get for getting the Orange county delegation?” asked a bystander who is close to Tom. “Well, we haven’t been talking any politics down that way yet”, I answered, “and, really, I couldn’t say.” “If Flint expects to get our county’s delegation,” he continued to me on the side, “I don’t see how he is going to do it.” Senator Bard, who has returned for the holidays, in conversation on the subject of Collector Lynch’s removal does not seem hopeful of the removal of that gentleman by the President. He says Lynch’s removal does not seem likely until California’s two Senators can get together on a successor for Lynch, and this does not seem at all probable from present appearance. “When I called on President Roosevelt in company with State Senator Belshaw,” said Bard, “we were informed by the President that Senator Perkins had requested the indefinite continuance in office of Mr. Lynch. I was surprised at this declaration, as Senator Perkins had informed me that while he would not join with me in recommending the removal of Mr. Lynch, he would remain passive and not object to the change I proposed. “Senator Perkins, when told by me of what the President had said relative to the change, declared that Mr. Roosevelt had misconstrued what he (Mr. Perkins) had stated to him. “I do not care to be understood as criticising my colleague, and but PRESIDENT’S KEEN INSIGHT INTO IRRIGATION PROBLEM Subject is of Vast Importance to Pacific Coast and Middle West States—Reservoirs and Water Rights. In his message to Congress the president has called attention to the unneeded protection for the forests serves and the building of a great age waterworks for the benefit of farmer in the arid regions of the W. He says: “The forests are native reservoirs, but they cannot, however fully regulate and conserve the water of the arid regions. Great storage reservoirs are necessary to equalize flow of the streams and to save flood waters.” The problem of artificial irrigation deals with the question of storing surplus of water of one season for deficit of the other. It is said that solution of this problem in its practical application is only begun in the far western region several places, however, the lofty expensive dams have been built as the canyons of mountain streams as the Parley’s creek reservoir Utah. The perfection of such requires the construction of canals fill them, and of outlets for drawwater and transmitting it to land to be irrigated. The system of artificial irrigation with all the perplexities it invokes primarily upon the gravity. The point at which stream, canal or reservoir or be tapped being higher than the filtration sends the water three channels to a ditch in the highest of the farm. When it has been built to a level with the most elevated to be irrigated, it can be made out over the land without anyance from the irrigator beyond manipulation as may be required effect its uniform distribution over was held a month ago), and he wished that Tom might be accorded kindly greeting, 'for,' continued the warrior editor, 'he's going to be the next Governor of this State, and you Orange county people want to get in line for him, and have front seats reserved for you on the ground floor.' "Flint has been all over Orange county," he says, "and knows it all from Laguna to Sagua la Grande. I would like very well," he says, "if we could arrange to have him get your delegation to the State Convention." "Our friend listened attentively, and then he says, in that quiet farmer-like way of his, 'If Flint comes down to our county he will, of course, be treated with all due respect, for we have a reputation of holding out the hand to all visitors, irrespective of their politics. But personally,' he says, 'I am for Gage, and the delegates for our Supervisor district will likely be for him. "I don't know what Jim McFadden will succeed in doing at Santa Ana, but I think the boys over that way are pretty well lined up for Gage, too. Jim won't cut any great quantity of ice this trip—he's too busy editing a paper and bossing the Anti-saloon party to think of doing anything else. "I think on the whole that Gage will have the delegation—all except one, if Jim goes to the convention, and we ain't going to let him go.' "Say, the boys tell me the machete wielder got red in the face, and stamped around worse than when he did when Frank Ey asked to call up at his castle and call him Col. Boyce." "How was that?" I asked, forgetting all about politics. "Well, you see, Frank used to go up to Los Angeles and he invariably called upon Otis to tell him what a great and good man he thought he was. And Frank persisted in calling him 'Col. Boyce.' You know Otis and Boyce never did hitch worth two cents, and after Otis got out that single copy edition of his paper, tendering Boyce an apology for libelous references to him, his cholor raised to boiling point whenever the name of the man he named 'Ladrone de caballos' was mentioned. "Frank went up on his rounds one day, and says, 'Col. Boyce—' "Otis,' interrupted the redoubtable warrior. "Frank made the correction and the next time he went up again he said, 'Col. Boyce—' "Otis,' repeated the editor. Frank apologized, and kept away for along declaration, as Senator Perkins had informed me that while he would not join with me in recommending the removal of Mr. Lynch, he would remain passive and not object to the change I proposed. "Senator Perkins, when told by me of what the President had said relative to the change, declared that Mr. Roosevelt had misconstrued what he (Mr. Perkins) had stated to him. "I do not care to be understood as criticising my colleague, and but for the fact that Senator Belshaw was present at my interview with the President I should not discuss the subject." As matters stand, until the two Senators can agree on a candidate, which seems impossible now. Lynch is likely to retain his position indefinitely. Senator Bard is quoted by an exchange further as follows, concerning his efforts to displace a faithful Republican official: I represented to the President, and am prepared to prove what I allege, that Mr. Lynch is guilty of pernicious activity in politics, entirely unbecoming a Federal office-holder; that he has stooped to the tricks of the lobbyist at Sacramento, and that his political associates are bad. I have made no attack upon his personal character. Representative Needham, in whose district the office is located, is unalterably opposed to Lynch. This is a strong point against him. I made these representations to the President, but I have no means of knowing that there will be any future action in the matter. I hope, however, that a change may yet be made, and that I may secure the appointment of Mr. Kelley of San Bernardino. Mr. Bard must certainly be misquoted here. Needham, who is the only one of the seven California Congressmen who favors installing Steve Kelley in Lynch's place, does not reside in the district in which the office is located—very far from it. His district is the Seventh, and the Collector's office is in San Francisco, in the Fourth and Fifth Congressional districts, represented by Congressmen Kahn and Loud, both of whom are warm supporters of Lynch. So that Needham's antagonism is not such "a strong point against him" after all. "Pernicious activity in politics" has a fishy smell, as well as these other charges. No wonder Senator Perkins has set himself as a flint against the arrant attempt of his colleague to supplant Lynch with the most perniciously active politician in Southern California, whose associates are bad and who stoops all manner of political trickery. The system of artificial irrigation with all the perplexities it invokes primarily upon the gravity. The point at which stream, canal or reservoir or be tapped being higher than the first be watered, sends the water three channels to a ditch in the highest of the farm. When it has been built to a level with the most elevated to be irrigated, it can be made out over the land without any chance from the irrigator beyond manipulation as may be required effect its uniform distribution or minor irregularities of the soil which latter are usually provided before irrigation is attempted. Many natural basins are found form of a great bowl, completely closed on all sides so that no embankment is necessary. In cases there has to be constructed an open cut or a tunnel through surrounding rim, through which or some other form of conduit is for drawing off the water where it is required. Many of these reservoirs are cent in course of construction, raugements are being made for gantic and complete system of supply. Although this will act to agriculturists, prove a great farmers, it will also, it is said, many complications. It will increase the difficulty, now large of dividing the water among the ent claimants to a common supply will make it necessary to have an algitation to define the cliff of the rights of those stored water. The benefits which have altered from the construction of voles have so far, it is said, be gratifying, but their improvement has added largely to their cost of water, and they show a decided preference to wet with an early priority right—theless, the necessity for them and an adequate system of subsurface felt throughout the mountain region, and the almost universal that the extent system will prove an immeiituit to the agricultural interest country. The lack of rainfall in such Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Idaho Montana, naturally resulting of the soil, is in curious contour of moisture of climate and ductiveness of the States of the slope. The reason for this plainly found. The Sierra Nine Rocky mountains act as bushland rain clouds which drift Pacific coast, and prevent reaching the more easterly Western States. The settlers in the latter therefore must depend upon instead of the clouds for their irrigating the land. The under which agriculture is in the Rocky mountain Stradically from those prevail other section of the country no small effect in altering tion of the people, raising new insignificance and place. ANTING and apply, and get contract at 1901. Undersigned can find net land for "Growers." ES, Near Anaheim The Weekly Gazette. Established 1870. DESCRIPTION. - $150 Per Year. months. $100 per month. Payable invariably in advance. Transient advertising rates, $1 per inch month. The GAZETTE is issued every Thursday morning. Entered at the Anaheim Postoffice as sec- class matter. A. Yungbluth Merchant Tailor There is nothing more attractive than a well-made up-to-date TAILOR MADE SUIT. We are in position to make you one. Come now and let us show you our line of the best LONDON NOVELTIES Perfect Fit Guaranteed UHMANN BLOCK - ANAHEIM end your LACE CURTAINS to THE Santa Ana Steam Laundry every facility for doing the best work. F. W. McCollum, Agent, Anaheim JOSEPH BACKS, Undertaker and Embalmer DEALER IN Furniture and Bedding Repairing Done. paper, tendering Boyce an apology for libelous references to him, his cholor raised to boiling point whenever the name of the man he named 'Ladrone de caballos' was mentioned. "Frank went up on his rounds one day, and says, 'Col. Boyce—' "Otis,' interrupted the redoubtable warrior. "Frank made the correction and the next time he went up again he said, 'Col. Boyce—' "Otis,' repeated the editor. Frank apologized, and kept away for a long time. Then one day he went up to see the old man and says, 'Col. Boyce—' "The old man exploded: 'Col. Boyce be dod-gasted to San Pedro and back again! Do I look so much like that psalm-singing dod-gasted son of a sea cook to be continually called by his name? Now, look here—" "But Frank had leaped out of the third story window. "Frank has ever since pronounced the name like it was spelled with two t's. "Oh, yes, about that interview. The Colonel tried mighty hard to extract some cold comfort out of that interview, but I don't think he got much." I said, "I don't think he did." The Honest Farmer walked off chuckling to himself. "Not by a jugful," he said. "I met Tom Flint in San Francisco some days ago," said a man recently returned from San Francisco, "and was introduced to him by a Los Angeles man. He asked very kindly about Orange county, and said he knew Jim McFadden, and added he would soon be down to see him. "I said Jim would be very glad to see him here." "What are Mr. Flint's prospects grasshed Rush and who are warm supporters of Lynch. So that Needham's antagonism is not such "a strong point against him" after all. "Pernicious activity in politics" has a fishy smell, as well as these other charges. No wonder Senator Perkins has set himself as a flint against the arrant attempt of his colleague to supplant Lynch with the most perniciously active politician in Southern California, whose associates are bad and who stoops to all manner of political trickery. PREACHER GETS A DIVORCE. Rev. Phillip Evans of Toledo last week secured an absolute divorce from Laura Evans. They were married in San Diego and went to Alaska to do missionary work. From there they came back to California, and his wife became infatuated with the study of medicine. Without a word she left him, came to Battle Creek, Mich., interested herself in Seventh Day Adventist doctrines, studied medicine and became a demonstrator and purveyor of Battle Creek Sanitarium food. Her husband tried to induce her to return, but she said: "I love my study of medicine, next to my God, better than anything else on earth." There had never been the slightest quarrel between them. Money to Loan. In sums to suit. Apply to F. A. Backs, Jr., Secretary Building and Loan Association. Anaheim, Cal. 10-1f Drying preparations simply develop dry catarrh; they dry up the secretions, which adhere to the membrane and decompose, causing a fugitive or corrosive rash than the ordinary form of catarrh. Avoid all drying infiltrants; finches, snakes and snails and use that which cleanses, soothes and heals. Ely's Crocs do not remedy and will cause sorrow in cold in the head easily and pleasely. A trainee will be trained for 10 courses. All through its sell the 50c size. Ely Booters, 50 Warren SC., N.Y. The Ely cure without pain does not irritate or cause sneezing. It spreads itself over an irritated and angry surface, relieving immediately the painful inflammation. With Ely's Cream Balm you are armed against Nasal Catarrh and Hay Fever. PRESIDENT'S KEEN INSIGHT INTO IRRIGATION PROBLEM It is of Vast Importance to Pacific West and Middle West States—Reservoirs and Water Rights. This message to Congress the President has called attention to the urgent need for protection for the forest reserves and the building of a great stormwaterworks for the benefit of the river in the arid regions of the West. It says: "The forests are natural reservoirs, but they cannot, however, regulate and conserve the waters in arid regions. Great storage reservoirs are necessary to equalize the flow of the streams and to save the waters." The problem of artificial irrigation with the question of storing the excess of water of one season for the rest of the other. It is said that the solution of this problem in its practical universal application is only being used in the far western region. In rural places, however, the lofty and extensive dams have been built across many ores of mountain streams, such as the Parley's creek reservoir, in Utah. The perfection of such works requires the construction of canals to them, and of outlets for drawing off water and transmitting it to the river to be irrigated. The system of artificial irrigation, which all the perplexities it involves, tends primarily upon the law of utility. The point at which the dam, canal or reservoir or basin is used being higher than the field to watered, sends the water through a channel to a ditch in the highest part of the farm. When it has been brought level with the most elevated points it is irrigated, it can be made to flow over the land without any assistance from the irrigator beyond such manipulation as may be required to effect its uniform distribution over the bottom of water commissioners, or water masters as they are called. That this supervision of the distribution of the water may be effective, it has been found necessary to police and patrol the stream from which it is obtained. To this end it becomes the duty of the water master to examine and regulate the head gates of all ditches or other conduits by which the water is diverted from the streams under his charge, for the purpose of determining that each claimant receives the volume of water to which he is entitled under his decreed priority of right. During the spring season, when the streams are in flood and before the work of irrigation is in active progress, these duties are comparatively simple, since at this time there is generally enough water for all claimants, and hence no call for any one to take more than his due share. But when the floods have subsided the streams resume their normal level and the soil is parched for want of moisture. Then the water master's work becomes complicated and his lot is frequently not a happy one. The complicated system of water supply, with the various legal questions involved, together with the vast engineering enterprises which have made it possible, has grown from the small ditch of the pioneer settler. The pioneers, having selected the ground which they intended to occupy, constructed each his own ditch for the irrigation of his farm, and collected there from some neighboring stream the water needed for his purpose. Even at the present time the instinct of the settler leads him to prefer this independent method to the enforced submission to regulations which dependence on partnership ditches or canals involves. The settler of today, however, must seek for such opportunities far from civilization, and the building of individual ditches is said to be largely a thing of the past. RUINOUS SHORTAGE OF RAILROAD CARS Loss Estimated at Five Million Dollars the Present Season. The gigantic loss being sustained by the orange growers of California by the failure of the Santa Fe and Southern Pacific railroad companies to properly care for the fruit while in transit, and to furnish rapid transit, has aroused the growers as never before, and a movement is now on foot looking toward the organization of all the orange orchardists of Southern California, with a view of forcing he railroads to furnish better light services, or, failing in this, to devise so means looking toward securing competing roads. Returns received from oranges shipped to New York, Buffalo and other eastern markets for the Christmas trade, show that a great portion of the fruit, ranging from 3 to 40 percent, has rotted while in transit. The growers give two reasons for this: First, the failure of the trainmen to attend properly to ventilating of the cars; and second, the delay in transmission. In some instances it has taken twenty-five days to ship a car of oranges from Los Angeles to New York, and as high as eighteen days has been consumed by the trip to Chicago. Growers and packers claim the New York trip should be made in ten days and Chicago trip in six days. Fruit boxed tightly in a car for from twenty to twenty-five days is bound to rot, and it is to prevent this that the growers now propose to organize. Seth Marshall, president of Highland Orange Growers' Association, estimates that the loss to the growers this season by delay will exceed $5,000,000. Growers propose to hold a series of meetings in various orange-growing sections. A fight will be made to have the privilege of routing the fruit re- The system of artificial irrigation, which all the perplexities it involves, tends primarily upon the law of gravity. The point at which the dam, canal or reservoir or basin is used being higher than the field to watered, sends the water through a canal to a ditch in the highest part of the farm. When it has been brought level with the most elevated points it is irrigated, it can be made to flow over the land without any assistance from the irrigator beyond such stipulation as may be required to affect its uniform distribution over the poor irregularities of the surface. Such latter are usually provided for more irrigation is attempted. Many natural basins are found in the form of a great bowl, completely inscribed on all sides, so that no dam or bankment is necessary. In such cases there has to be constructed either an open cut or a tunnel through the grounding rim, through which a pipe some other form of conduit is placed and drawing off the water whenever it is required. Many of these reservoirs are at present in course of construction, and arrangements are being made for a glacial and complete system of water supply. Although this will, according agriculturists, prove a great boon to them, it will also, it is said, lead to many complications. It will greatly increase the difficulty, now largely felt, dividing the water among the different claimants to a common supply, and will make it necessary to have addition legislation to define the character of the rights of those stored waters. The benefits which have already acceded from the construction of reservoirs have so far, it is said, been most satisfying, but their improvement and operation has added largely to the annual cost of water, and the settlers now a decided preference to the canal with an early priority right. Nevertheless, the necessity for the reservoir and an adequate system of storage is universally felt throughout the Rocky mountain region, and the opinion is most universal that the extension of the system will prove an immense benefit to the agricultural interests of the country. The lack of rainfall in such States as Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Idaho and Montana, naturally resulting in aridity of the soil, is in curious contrast with the moisture of climate and rich productivity of the States of the Pacific slope. The reason for this is very plainly found. The Sierra Nevada and Rocky mountains act as bulwarks to the rain clouds which drift from the Pacific coast, and prevent the moisture reaching the more easterly of the Western States. The settlers in the latter region, therefore, must depend upon the earth instead of the clouds for the means of irrigating the land. The conditions under which agriculture is carried on in the Rocky mountain States differ radically from those prevailing in any other section of the country, and have no small effect in altering the customs of the people, raising new issues of national importance, and placing a definite system of artificial irrigation. Uncle Sam Refunds Money To China Excess of Payment for Losses Incurred by Boxer Outrages to Be Returned to the Flowery Kingdom. China will be relieved of the payment of $15,000,000 of the $25,000,000 demanded by the United States as indemnity for outrages perpetrated upon American citizens during the Boxer revolt of 1900. The administration, after consideration of all claims filed by Americans who suffered injury or whose property was damaged and the expense incurred by the army and navy, has come to the conclusion that $7,000,000 will cover the American bill. President Roosevelt submitted to Congress a few days ago a recommendation that an appropriation of $2,000,000 be made to enable the satisfaction of claims received from Americans. The naval and military expenses were less than $5,000,000. Mr. Rockhill proposed to power that the claims be cut in half. This proposal was rejected and the powers refused to reduce their claims. The United States, therefore, having submitted an estimate for $25,000,000, was compelled to insist that it should be paid. It is apparent that if this government informs the Peking authorities that the United States will not take more than $7,000,000, the other powers will demand that the balance be turned into a general fund and be distributed among them to satisfy claims which they hold. Such a result would be extremely distasteful to this government, especially as all of the powers, with the single exception of Japan, demanded indemnities greatly in excess of the sum to which they were justly entitled. The matter is further complicated by the method agreed upon by the powers for the payment of bonds issued by the Chinese government in settlement of the indemnity. The payment extends over a period of forty years. It is, of course, inadvisable to wait that time before restoring the $18,000,000 to China, and some other way must be devised to arrange either for the return of the bonds to the Peking government or to relieve it of the necessity of issuing them in favor of the United States. Hi Henry Didn't Come. Ellis G. Kerr, business manager of Hi Henry's Minstrels, was in town on Monday and made announcement of the fact that, owing to the side-tracking of his aggregation on account of wind at Pomona on Christmas day, it would be impossible for them to show they attended to occupy, constructed each his own ditch for the irrigation of his farm, and collected there from some neighboring stream the water needed for his purpose. Even at the present time the instinct of the settler leads him to prefer this independent method to the enforced submission to regulations which dependence on partnership ditches or canals involves. The settler of today, however, must seek for such opportunities far from civilization, and the building of individual ditches is said to be largely a thing of the past. UNCLE SAM REFUNDS MONEY TO CHINA Excess of Payment for Losses Incurred by Boxer Outrages to Be Returned to the Flowery Kingdom. China will be relieved of the payment of $15,000,000 of the $25,000,000 demanded by the United States as indemnity for outrages perpetrated upon American citizens during the Boxer revolt of 1900. The administration, after consideration of all claims filed by Americans who suffered injury or whose property was damaged and the expense incurred by the army and navy, has come to the conclusion that $7,000,000 will cover the American bill. President Roosevelt submitted to Congress a few days ago a recommendation that an appropriation of $2,000,000 be made to enable the satisfaction of claims received from Americans. The naval and military expenses were less than $5,000,000. Mr. Rockhill proposed to power that the claims be cut in half. This proposal was rejected and the powers refused to reduce their claims. The United States therefore having submitted an estimate for $25,000,000 was compelled to insist that it should be paid. It is apparent that if this government informs the Peking authorities that the United States will not take more than $7,000,000,the other powers will demand that the balance be turned into a general fund and be distributed among them to satisfy claims which they hold. Such a result would be extremely distasteful to this government especially as all of the powers with single exception of Japan demanded indemnities greatly in excess of sum to which they were justly entitled. The matter is further complicated by the method agreed upon by the powers for payment of bonds issued by the Chinese government in settlement of indemnity. The payment extends over a period of forty years. It is of course inapplicable to wait that time before restoringthe $18,000,000to China,and some other way must be devised to arrange either forthe returnofthebondstothePekinggovernmentortorelieveitoftheaccessibilityofissuingtheminfavoroftheUnitedStates. Stop the Blight It is a sad thing to see fine fruit trees spoiled bythe blight. You can always tell themfromtherest. Theyneverdoewellafterwardsbutstaysmallandsickly. It is worsetoseeablight Rocky mountains act as bulwarks to the rain clouds which drift from the Pacific coast, and prevent the moisture reaching the more easterly of the Western States. The settlers in the latter region, therefore, must depend upon the earth instead of the clouds for the means of irrigating the land. The conditions under which agriculture is carried on in the Rocky mountain States differ radically from those prevailing in any other section of the country, and have no small effect in altering the customs of the people, raising new issues of national importance, and placing a definite limit to the population which the region will support. The basis of these efforts is the method of irrigation employed. The magnificent rivers throughout the country, with their tributaries, form the source which is relied upon to furnish the farmer with the means necessary for the cultivation of his crops. But with the immense tide of settlers it became some years ago apparent that the natural streams alone would not accomplish this purpose. It then became necessary to foster and preserve the bountiful gifts of nature at one season, in order to provide for the drought which prevails when the rivers are at their lowest ebb, by the building of artificial reservoirs, which placed at convenient locations, receive and distribute their supply by means of the rivers themselves and canals. This artificial water supply is admitted to have its disadvantages. The farmer who locates in the Rocky mountain region has first to establish his water-right claim, and the neglect of this may cause him considerable trouble during his future occupation of the land. The priority of the various water rights and the volume of water of a stream are determined in the Rocky mountain States by court decrees or (in Wyoming and Nebraska) upon the orders of the boards of control. The enforcement of these rights of priority and the distribution of water under them is accomplished by water commissioners, or water masters as they are called. Toat this supervision of the district Hi Henry Didn't Come. Ellis G. Kerr, business manager of Hi Henry's Minstrels, was in town on Monday and made announcement of the fact that, owing to the side-tracking of his aggregation on account of the wind at Pomona on Christmas day, it would be impossible for them to show in this city as advertised on Tuesday evening. The minstrels were on their way from Pasadena to Riverside when the wind at a point near Pomona, blew in such a gale, piling sand upon the track for miles, that it was impossible to proceed. The train was stalled during the entire afternoon and night, the sand blockade remaining unbroken until 7 o'clock the next morning. The show was to perform at Riverside that night, but owing to the delay was unable to keep its appointment. It showed there on Monday night, and at Santa Ana on Tuesday evening, the evening on which it should have been here. Mr. Kerr says the show goes to Santa Barbara after Los Angeles, and on its return for the trip up the San Joaquin may play at Anaheim, in perhaps two weeks. Santa Ana Wind. The worst Santa Ana wind in years blew on Friday, beginning about 10 o'clock, and continuing for 12 hours. The Sanitailam directors ought to have been here. The blow was a daisy. Reports from Santa Ana, Riverside and Redlands and other places are to the effect that the wind blew a gale at each of those places, piling up sand in places 15 and 20 feet high. Signs were blown down, awnings wrecked and plate glass windows broken. Oranges were blown from the trees, telegraph and telephone wires blown down and railroad traffic interfered with. In this locality no great damage was reported, but the wind was the most disagreeable in years. It is a sad thing to see fine fruit trees spoiled by the blight. You can always tell them from the rest. They never do well afterwards but stay small and sickly. 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