SHUEY, LILLIAN H., MRS. Has lived in Calif, practically all her life. _Ed._ public schools and Napa branch of Univ. of Pacific. Taught 16 years in public schools. _Author:_ David of Juniper Gulch. Laird & Lee. 50c. Don Luis' Wife. Lamson & Wolffe. 50c. California Sunshine, The Humboldt Lily. Among the Redwoods (verses.) The Necromancers (a novel, in preparation.) _Address:_ 657 60th St., Oakland, Calif. SIMONDS, WILLIAM DAY, _b._ Rockford, Ill., Mar. 31, 1855. _Grad._ State Normal School, Vt. Spaulding Classical Academy, Barrie, Vt., 1880. Studied Amherst College and Chicago Theological Inst. Pastor First Unitarian Church, Oakland, Calif. _Author:_ Patriotic Addresses. Sermons From Shakespeare. Freedom and Fraternity. _Address:_ 1233 First Ave., Oakland, Calif. SMYTHE, WILLIAM ELLSWORTH, _b._ Worcester, Mass., Dec. 24, 1861. Initiated Nat. Irrigation Congress, 1891. Sec. until 1893, chairman until 1895. Est. _Irrigation Age_, 1891. Edited it until 1896. Lecturer and writer on Irrigation and Economic Problems. _Author:_ The Conquest of Arid America. Constructive Democracy. History of San Diego, 2 vols. _Address:_ 1448 C St., San Diego, Calif. SOSSO, LORENZO, _b._ Mar. 2, 1867, Turin, Italy. Came to Calif. in July, 1875. _Author:_ Poems, 1888. Poems of Humanity, 1891. In Realms of Gold, 1902. Proverbs of the People, 1903. Wisdom of the Wise, 1905. _Address:_ 179 De Long Ave., San Francisco, Calif. STELLMAN, LOUIS J., _b._ Baltimore, Md., Jan. 6, 1877. Came to Calif. July, 1896. Connected S.F. Examiner since 1897. Wrote "Observer" Sketches for L.A. Herald, published in book form 1903. Whitaker & Ray. 75c. _Address:_ Press Club, San Francisco, Calif. STIMSON, JOHN WARD, _b._ Paterson, N.J., Dec. 16, 1850. _Grad._ Yale, 1872. Also Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris. Lecturer and art teacher Princeton Univ. Assoc. editor The Arena. Contributor to various art exhibitions and magazines. _Author:_ The Law of Three Primaries. Principals of Vital Art Education. The Gate Beautiful. Wandering Chords, etc. _Address:_ 14 W. 48th St., New York. STROBRIDGE, IDAH MEACHAM, _b._ Contra Costa Co., June 9, 1855. _Ed._ Mills Seminary. Contributor to newspapers and magazines. _Author:_ In Miner's Mirage Land, 1904. DeLuxe, $6.00. The Loom of the Desert, 1907. $1.75. DeLuxe $6.00. The Land of the Purple Shadows, 1909. $1.75. DeLuxe $6.00. All pub. by Artemisia Bindery. _Address:_ Artemisia Bindery. 231 E. Ave. 41, Los Angeles, Calif. SUTHERLAND, HOWARD V., _b._ Cape Town, South Africa, _Ed._ England and Germany. _Author:_ The Legend of Love. The Old, Old Story. Jacinta, a Californian Idyll. Bigg's Bar, and Other Klondike Ballads. Songs of a City. Idylls of Greece. $1.00. Ditto second series. $1.00. _Address:_ 314 Seventeenth St., Denver, Colo.