Show operations suspended to allow of reforms r new york aug L the executive committee of the canal commission have about decided to suspend ay attempt at digging the canal until bet ter prepared wires the new york heralds correspondent at panama the present sanitation will be ed by vigorous reforms chief engineer stevens will live at Culebra or ancon COLORADO RIVER OVERFLOW water continues to pour into the salton basin san diego cal aug i dewitt B williams until recently a prominent fruit grower of this county and now I 1 a resident of imperial and who has just come from the desert town states that no particular damage has been done in the imperial valley by tha colorado river at calexico Cal exico where 1000 acres were flooded the water has remained in the river bed and canals the water in tho new river has fallen six or eight inches dur ing the last week in the salton basin however the water continues to rise the southern pacific has sacks of earth piled along the track buethe water was coming over the top oi them mr williams said that there Is no immediate danger in imperial valley as it would take perhaps twenty years for the water to rise so high as to flood the valley the higher it gets the greater area it has to spread over it ts estimated that about two thirds 0 the volume of the colorado river la flowing into the breach below the line ESTATE SETTLED adopted son allows tha i new york aug 1 by a payment of to the widow 0 the lata william zeigler the zeigler will contest was settled today justice Gle gelch in the supreme 1 court signed an order authorizing justice gaynor executor 0 the estate to pay S matilda zeigler 1200 in cash and shares ot royal baking powder company stock val aed at william zeigler tho fourteen benr old adopted son 0 the testator consorted conson ted to this set j tl ement which Is a deleasa of all of sirs Zeig lers rights and dower and other claims against the estate 0 william zeigler the will the validity of which tha suit was a test left to mrs zeigler tho use of the city and country houses of her husband and an income p a year the remainder of the estate i was given to th adopted son mr zeigler left real estate valued at 4 and personal property estimated at in new york state and also about in tha states of new jersey and connecticut under the contested will the value of the estate left to tho adopted son amounts to about WILL JOIN WITH MOROCCO tangier aug 1 tho united states government has informed morocco that it will send a representative to the international congress on moroccan reforms STRIKE IS ORDERED denver rio grande Is the object of attack denver aug 1 with of John T dent of the international rother hood of maintenance ot way em aloyes an order was sent out today by the joint protective board of the brotherhood on the denver rio grande railroad to nil track and water service men on that road who are members of the brotherhood to go on on the on auguet and 2nd this Is in consequence of the refusal of the officers to accept tho schedule presented by the brotherhood or to submit the matters in dispute to arbitration more than 2000 em aloyes it is said are affected by the strike order |