The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 8, 1895, Page 6

N THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, MARCH 8, 1895. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. " SUBSCRIPTION RATES: oflice of the SAN FRANCISCO | ckly), c States Adver- | er building, Rose and Wake up, Supervi ‘Why not bond the city ? We must have strect improvements. ne to get in good work. Now is the Sunshine and flowers are always with us. When you find a good thing push it along. Where get abos nd when does Tulare intend to Third street is not an attractive picture it is an impressive one. It is about ti Napa to come for- ward with a s a good chance to veto. stone in town that mprovement. in all progress except slature. There is econor in the progress of the I The only right place for silver menisin | the ranks of the Republican party. It would not be premature to begin get- ting out railway ties for the new road. n fights will continue as y with the statesmen. Cc at pre nty divi nt to d ¢ organizing a third party the bimetal- would simply sidetrack themselves, Idaho might at least abstain from any further Senatorial ballots until after Lent. The silurian makes more noise in snoring than the wide-awake man in blowing his trumpet. Asphalt pavements with concrete foun- are what we need and what we have. mu The Republican party will not forget the men who have broken its platform and be- trayed its pledge: ature is ready to sacrifice itself on 1n counter. vement is one of the things ct from the next Congress ht for it. will solve every problem of the country in the interests of the people. > prosperity under Republican rule in st is a guarantee of prosperity under Republican rule in the future. It is not the howlers against the octopus but the shouters for the competing road that have the ears of the people. In the politics of a free country there must be parties, and no man can be a non- partisan without being a nobody. The evangelists who are denouncing Congress for meeting on Sunday have strangely overlooked the fact that it did no It wonld be profitable for the Republican statesman at Sacramento to look around a little and see what the people desire and the party demands. There is a seeming possibility that Japan and China may make peace on terms that will bring about a fight between Russia and England for a change. George Gould says the Count de Castel- lane is to receive no cash from the bride, but neglected to add that the bride will re- ceive no credit from the husband. European nations that undertake to ex- de American products should be tanght hat this country can play a good game either at reciprocity or retaliation. Get the WeEKLY CALL that appeared yes- terday morning, and see what a good thing it would be to send to your Eastern friends by way of advertising California. c The rapid development of Cleveland’s skill as a fisherman since his election to the Presidency isa proof that every man can learn something by being a states- man. The thoroughifares between the depot and the center of the city should be cleaned up so that visitors will not feel as if ona slumming expedition every time they come to town. San Jose and Oakland are showing one another how to attend to a city election without losing sight of the competing road or permitting the fight to interrupt the barmony. Legislators who fondly imagine their records will be forgotten before the next campaign, overlook the fact that they will be in the files of the CaLx and handy for reference. While there is much discussion as to the western terminus of the competing road, it would be more interesting to consider whether the other terminus is to be fixed 8t Fresno or will keep moving East until it strikes the Atlanti California foundries, mills and factories should be ready to furnish for the com- peting road everything that is needed to do the work or equip the service from the furnishing.of shovels for the trackhands to the construction of palace cars for the passengers. Silver is as truly a natural money as wheat is 2 natural food, and if the men who have deprived the people of the one have not deprived them of the other, it is simply because the goldbugs, while they may have as much greed as avarice, are unable tc eat as much as they can steal. One of the few things done by the late Congress that can be counted to its credit was the appropriation which permits the Navy Department to put five more ships into commission, and thus make some effective use of them. We are continually finding new ngeds for the navy in the Pacific Ocean, and could well employ on various stations between Bering Sea and Bamoa every warship we now have on both oceans, 5 s A WORD T0 THE STATESMEN. The Republican members of the Legisla- ture have evidently forgotten three things. In the course of their legislation they have considered neither the platform to which they were pledged, the party that elected them nor the people to whom they are re- sponsible. There have been a few note- worthy and noble exceptions to the rule, but most of them have ignored their pledges, defied the party and mocked at | the people with a degree of insolence that argues an extraordinary misconception of their position. If the gentlemen who enjoy the high honor of representing the Republican party in the legislative council of the commonwealth will look around them, they will see that the great mass of the party dissatisfied with their conauct, and, if they reflect at all, they will discern the further facts that they are to be states- men for only a little while, but the party is going to live a long time. These things being true, it would be profitable for the distingnished temporary statesmen to pay some attention to what the party demands through its platform, its press and its leaders. They have a little brief authority which they are using in such a fantastic way as to make the angels laugh, but the party, through its press and its leaders, is going to have authority later on to pro- nounce judgment on these capers and deal with the caperers. There may be some of the statesmen who are indulging the belief that in the two years that intervene before the next cam- paign the people will either forget their ac- tions or arrive at a mood sufficiently for- giving to accept their apologies, excuses or explanations. That belief is vain. The Republican party keeps faith with the peo- ple, for it is itself the better part of the peo- ple. It has madea record in the Nation for honor and fidelity to every pledge, and it does not propose to forfeit that record for the sake of the Sacramento statesmen. The press has told the story of each day’s proceedings of the Legislature and that story will never be blotted out. It is | printed for keeps and will be ready for rei- erence by the party when the time comes to choose candidates for the great campaign of 1896. It is high time in fact for the statesmen at Sacramento to be looking after their fences and to give a little attention to what the party wants. There has been too much consideration shown heretofore to useless attaches, non-partisans, bloviators and every sort of people except the people. There are, for example, a whole lot of bills providing for primary elections before the Legislature and among them isone that has been approved by the Republican State Central Committee. That is the bill to be adopted. The people have no time to fool away with non-partisans. In a repre- sentative government parties must rule. There is no other way to carry ona popu- lar government, and if the statesmen at Sacramento think otherwise they will have a good chance to see how they can get along without the party atthe next elec- tion, BUILDING THE NEW ROAD. Having incorporated and organized, the directors of the valley railroad now come to the consideration of practical details of building and stocking the road. Of course there will be a lively competition among eastern rail-makers, car-builders, etc. ‘What, if anything, has been heard from local manufacturers? As a matter both of business and senti- ment the road should be ironed and equipped, if possible, by California in- dustry. The feeling of the management of the road is to that effect. It rests with our shops to come forward with proposals to do the work. No doubt they will be offered a liberal margin over Eastern figures in the competition. The cost of transportation from Eastern manufactur- ing points to this coast will cover a con- siderable part of that margin. Rails would naturally make the long trip round the Horn unless they can be furnished here. Rolling stock would come over the trans- continental roads. We can make locomo- tives and cars here and our manufacturers and the directors of the road should get promptly together in an effort at co-opera- tion. Not a dotlar should go out of California that can be kept here in puiting this en- terprise in operation. The rails should be rolled at the Potrero. There are half a dozen plants in this city and vicinity cap- able of turning out locomotives. Let our car-builders and other woodworkers put in their bids for freight, baggage, express and passenger cars. If they have the originality and ingenuity to devise any features that will be an improvement on the output of Eastern shops, so much the better. This popular railrosd enterprise should be a stimulus to both head and hand work. But our shops and foundries are not alone to profit by this work. A million ties will be wanted and our woodsmen should be making their preparations to get them out ready for delivery. Trestles and bridge timbers must be provided. Stations must be built. All these things will call for a great deal of labor skilled and un- skilled. It isthe business of our captains of industry to have their forces in hand ready for the emergency. There is also the work of grading. It is very likely that the farmers along the line of the road will have the opportunity to do a large share of that. They have the teams and the tools. If any arrangements can be made between them and the directors so that they can do the work at such times as they are not confined to their farm labors it will be to the conven- ience and interest of both parties. It is time now to be making preparations and organizing the industry that is to go to the building and equipping of this road. The coming season should see the work well advanced OUR ECONOMIC POLICY. The scheme now afoot in German official circles for a customs union of Europe against the United Statesis no new idea. It has been a favorite plan with statesmen of Germany, France, Anstria and some other Continental states ever since Ameri- can breadstuffs and provisions>began to compete with their home products. Eng- land has taken little stock in such a move- ment because she depends too largely upon importations to feed her people, nor has Russia becanse she is a large exporter of such products. The other countries men- tioned occupy middle ground. In seasons of plenty they can nearly or quite feed themselves or each other. Under less favorable circumstances most of them be- come food importers. They probably expect by a customs union against us to so stimulate their own agricultural and pas- toral industries as to become independent of us. There is very little probability that they will get this scheme into operation for several reasons. Agricultural production cannot, like the manufacturing industry, be expanded at will. It is governed by necessities of soil, climate and density of population. Furthermore, these nations are competing with each other and with Great Britain in supplying the markets of the world with manufactured goods. In that competition they need cheap food. But even if they could bring about such a union we need care but little if we will be guided by sound, business-like viewsin our domestic policy. The longer we go on ex=- porting foods and raw material and taking our pay in European manufactured goods the longer we delay our own industrial in- dependence and prosperity. The more we pay for foreign freights, both ways, the less profit we have in our trade. A man’s best customer is his neighbor engaged in some other business. The factory is the best neighbor for the farm. The buik of the crops of the great West would rot in the fields but for the demands of our manu- facturing population. The surplus only is exported. On the other hand we of Cali- fornia export the bulk of our breadstuffs because we have not the manufacturing population to consume it. When we have an urban industrial population to take up the surplus of Eastern and the bulk of Cali- fornian farm products what shall we care if Burope combines to shut them out? The Republican party by its tariff policy was in a fair way to bring about this required development of our manufac- turing industries when the disaster of November, 1892, literally threw the country on its beam ends. Since then we have been struggling to right ship, with but little success. Buat now the skies are clear- ing, and the prospects are better. Repub- licanism will again be at the helm in a short time. The day of economic experi- ment is about over. We are going to get back to the sound doctrine of protection and encouragement of American in- dustries. Republicanism will also revive the prin- ciple and practice of reciprocity, originated by James G. Blaine, and made a cardinal doctrine of the party. So long as that pre- vailed we had no trouble about European markets. All ports were opened to our trade. It was the simple proposition of ‘““give our goods a chance and we will do the same by y ” Triumphant Democ- racy threw aside that policy. and in trying to win the markets of the world lost those we had. Republicanism will get them back. With reciprocity re-established we shall hear no more of European combina- tion against us, THE LIOK TRUST. The Lick trust, after twenty years of most successful management, is in a con- dition to be closed and its remaining as- sets delivered to the residuary legatees. It is no flattery to speak in terms of the highest praise of the trustees in whose hands James Lick placed his vast prop- erty, charged with the many benefactions to which he had devoted it. The manner in which this trust has been administered merits for the men who are about to be re- lieved, an immortality of remembrance on the part of the people of California equal to that accorded him who conceived the philanthropy and created the trust. An examination of the instrpment by which the eccentric millionaire made tinal disposition of his wealth will show the ex- traordinary difficulties which surrounded the trustees of the Lick trustin their effort to execute its terms. The property itself was mainly in the form of real estate scat- tered all over California. A considerable portion of it was involved in litigation with the State about certain mortgage taxes which it required an act of the Legis- lature to adjust. The son of James Lick also invited the trustees into court in an attempt to set aside hisdeed. This matter required the most delicate attention to bring about the compromise which was finally effected. The next difficulty arose out of the nature of the trust itself in the variety and novelty of the objects to which its funds were to be applied. An observatory, the most extensive ever yet conceived, was to be constructed upon a mountain top, and within it was to be swung the largest tele- scope in the world. Baths were to be builded, statuary designed and made, asy- lums and educational institutions of va- rious sorts to be endowed or erected, and all with property which had yet to be turned into money, and not only into money but into enough of it over and above. these expenditures to satisfy the claims and expectations of several residu- ary legatees. It has taken twenty years of constant and faithful service to execute this trust, and that the work of the trustees has been done nobly and well is matter of history. During the first decade of their service there was occasional cavil at the policy of hastening slowly which the trustees adopted. These murmurs, however, died away as the vastness of the undertaking and the excellence of its performance be- came impressed upon the minds of men. The great Lick Observatory excited world- wide admiration. The lesser benefactions gave increasing blessing. The funds de- voted to the School of Mechanical Arts, the Free Baths, the Key Monument and the City Hall statuary were well and wisely expended. To these pur- poses the trustees have devoted almost two million dollars, and yet, so prudently have they managed and conserved their trust properties that there remains abouta million dollars for the Academy of Sciences and the Society of California Pioneers, who are the residuary legatees. Such a record of success in the manage- ment and application of a great trust prop- erty devoted to the public weal is some- thing of which the State of California has good reason to be proud. When, there- iore, the eulogist of James Lick shall speak or write of his practical wisdom as dis- played in the selection of his beneficiaries it will be none the less fitting and just to add as a conclusive evidence of that wis- dom, the most fortunate choice which he made in his trustees. NO THIRD PARTY. Itisnot likely that the proposed silver party will find much favor among the truest friends of bimetallism, or cut much of a figure in politics when the next cam- paign begins and party lines are strongly drawn. A few Populists, wearied of the cranks who have forced a way to the lead- ership in that party, may join it as a means of escaping from an association they ab- hor; some Democrats, disgusted with the Cleveland administration and seeing no hope for Democracy in the near future, may ally themselves with the new move- ment; and perhaps some silver men who can see no other issue in the country may give support toa party devoted ex- clusively to silver; but all these even in the aggregate will amount to little. The people are Republicans, the future belongs to Republicans, and certainly every intelli- gent man can see if bimetallism is to be restored in this country, it must look for that restoration through the medium of Republican statesmanship. ‘What Republican can hope for any suc- cess for silver outside the ranks of his party, or what Republican who takes a broad view of politics would leave his party to seek for such success elsewhere even if he could hope to find it? A great party is in a certain sense a great National institution. It is charged with the respon- sible duty of organizing those citizens who think alike concerning the fundamental principles of government in order that those principles ma‘y be applied in practi- cal statesmanship to the upbuilding of the Nation and the advancementof the wel- fare of the Ppeople. The Republican party is such an insti- tution. It has a history, a philosophy of government, a well-understood code of statecraft, an established organization and a clearly defined duty to perform in the making of the destiny of the Nation. Around it cluster a thousand associations of noble leaders and National achieve- ments that render it heroic and sublime. It appeals both to the business and the bosoms of men, and affeets at once the sense and the sentiment of the people. It is the party of Lincoln, and the party that ended slavery; the party of Grant, and the party that saved the Union; the party of Blaine, and the party of protection, recip- rocity and prosperity. From such names and from such deeds the Republican party has inherited a spirit that is almost vital enough to be called a soul. It hasa magnetic charm for patriotic hLearts, an inspiration for youth, a sacred memory for the old, and within the limits of National destiny, it is immortal. What old Republican who has fought its battles and shared in its triumphs for the last thirty years will forsake it? What young Republican who has been kindled to en- thusiasm by its history and who with ardor looks forward to an honorable career in its service, will abandon it? What earnest citizen who remembers its past ac- complishments and realizes the pressing need of equal accomplishments at this juncture, will oppose it? Such questions answer themselves. The hope of silver, like the hope of every other interest and industry of the country, is inseparably bound up with Republicanism. The dead statesmen who solved with such comsummate wisdom all the complex problems of the past have transmitted to living statesmen a lore of patriotic policy that will solve all the problems of the present. To talk of division in Republi- can ranks at this time is folly, and to at- tempt to put it into effect would be a poli ical crime. We are confronted by a cond tion which is rapidly becoming a crisis. At this time more than at any other since the close of the war, is it necessary to close up the ranks and standing together for the Union and for the people, fight the good fight and keep the faith. SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. Have the legislators considered the advisa- bility of passing an anti-cookbook law to take its place on the proud pinnacle of fame along- side the death-to-big-hats statute? Every mar- ried man knows what & home-destroyer and pulveriser is the modern cookbook. This great, broad land of ours, kissed by sunbeams and bathed in life-giving showers, is dotted with homes ruined and desolated by the de- vastating cookbook. Out of this grows much of the divorce crop, although we suspect it not. An_ anti-cookbook law would naturally be a little twin sister to the anti-big-hat statute.— Fresno Republican. One of the great evils of the day is excessive legislation. A few simple laws, rigidly en- forced, would be far better than an inchoate mass of crude legislation, more than half of which isa dead letter on the statute-books. One of the reasons for the growing disrespect for law is undoubtedly the large number of laws passed which are scarcely worthy of re- spect.—Los Angeles Tim: The Senate has passed Mr. Withington’s pure-food bill, and the Assembiy should hasten to do likewise with Mr. Keene's bill. The measure is & simple, just and honest one, Whet man can possibly object to a law secnr- ing us unadulterated food and still claim that Le is in favor of fair dealing and common jus- tice 7—Sacramento Record-Union. Tt will take Southern California ten years to recover from the coyote scalp steal. The rab- bits have increased 5o rapidly that they are a serious menace to farmers. During the past year over 400 have been killed on one ranch alone near Pasadena: In previous yearsthe coyotes did the killing.—Pasadena News. The San Francisco CALL says: “There are some men so sclfish that they will not help themselves for fear of helping some one else.” Yes, we regret to say that we have just such men in every community, and Merced is not an exception. Such men are in the way of the car of progress.—Merced Express. Perhaps it is not generally known, but it is true, nevertheless, that the State pays $1,710,- 000 annually on its roads, and that thisex- pense is mainiy to keep bad roads in good re- peir. Itis well, however, that the taxpayers of the State should be informed of such matters.— Los Angeles Herald. The people of California seem to be waking up to the fact that the Stateisin its infancy and has a future far greater than they ever drenmed of. When they begin tosact on the realization the development ot the State will be very rapid.—Stockton Independent. Oakland nas taken hold of the new railroad project in good earnest. It may well do so, for it means & great deal for that city, provided the terminus should happen not o be in Alameda, —Alameda Argus. All of the people who want office cannot be satisfied by the organization of new counties. The State is not large enough and there are too many people to the square mile.—Santa Cruz Sentinel. _— FPEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. Berry, lately the hangman in England, wes summoned recently for not paying a very small debt. He cxplained that his lectures on hanging had not proved attractive, that he had ' unsuccessfully tried to get work as a commer- cial traveler, and that none of his six children could find employment on account of his former calling. Rudyard Kipling is not as prolific a writer as he was some years ago. His success early in life has made him conservative with his pen. He polishes his work with much more care than he used to expend upon it, and regrets that he cannot call back certain rather crude productions that bear his name. Henry Labouchere recently received a letter from Barcelona, Spain, written by & merchant in that city, who asks that, as an opportunity of testifying to his admiration of the public career of the member for Northampton, he may be permitted to pay Mr. Labouchere’s expenses at the next election. There has been more lying by the reporters of some of our contemporaries about the Gonld- Castellane wedding than on eny other recent subject, incredible as it may seem.—New York Sun, James Tyson is the richest man in Australia. He commenced his working life as & farm laborer, und his wages were $150 & year. Japan can count up 122 Mikados previous to the present one, and she has the records to prove it. SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS. ‘Weazer—I lost a lot of time courting my wife. Beazer—How was that? Weazer—Well, I monkeyed around about & year before I popped and then found out I could have had her about the second weelk after we got acquainted.—Philadelphia Inquirer. Miss Taffeta—Our sofa broke down last night and we had to send for a carpenter. Miss Swansdown—Why didn’t you send fora minister?—New York Herald. New Yorker—You ought to have faster trains between New York and Boston. Bostonian—There should certainly be faster trains from New York to Boston.—South Boston News. Dentist—Will you have gas? Ole 8i Tuttle—Wa'al, I swow. We don’ know much erbout gas t* hum. I guess you'd better give me ker'sene. “I can stand a good deal,” plaintively said Mrs. Hasheroft. “Any one who runs a board- ing-house has to. But when they get to flip- pantly alluding to my house as the Suicide Club I think they are going & little too far.” Indianapolis Journal. @ AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Although Senator Seymour is said to be in a way to succeed Warden Hale as the chief executive of San Quentin, the latter gentleman does not think any less of the Governor on ac- count of the report that he will favor his pos- sible successor. “I believe,” said Mr. Hale to 8 CALL reporter in the Palace Hotel yesterday, nodding to Jacob Neff, who sat next to him, *“that Governor Budd will do just about what he thinks best in the matter. In fact, I think Budd has set out to be a very capable official, and means to do what he thinks right. When he comes to make his inspection of the prison I will be there to re- ceive him.” “You bet Hale will,” ventured Mr. Neff; “and they’ll ind things straight as & string. Am I right, Hale?” “I hope so, Jake. Ihave been Warden of the penitentiary four years, and find that the essential feature is to understand your men and treat them with humanity, which I have tried to do. All those men are susceptible toatleast a little reformation, but I think it would be a good idea to separate the younger criminals from the older ones. Sy, for instance, send all | the prisoners under 22 to the Preston Reform | School, and the others to the State prisons. | Above all things, however, treat them as kindly | COMEDY IN COURT. BY L. B. STOCKWELL, ACTOR. I have seen comical scenes on the stage, but never anything so funny as the late Corbett- Mitchell trial was. At that time I was playlng’ through the South with Brady's “Aiter Dark’ company, and we got to Florida just when the trial came on. Corbett and Mitchell were then with their managers, and Richerd K. Fox, the proprietor of the Police Gazette, invited the whole of us tostay at the best hotel as l:fls guests. 1 never knew and appreciated Jim Corbett till I got thrown with him so much during those precious legal proceedings. The whole State was in a ferment over the trial, and the best advocates in Florida were represented on one side or the other. The Attorney-General led the prosecution and the Governor presided. I forget the name of the man who defended Corbett, but, like all the rest of them, he was a highly educated gentle- man, although he spoke with a rich Southern accent—called a ‘door’ & ‘d0’.’ I suppose it was the heat of the climate that made them too lazy to pronounce the whole of their words. It seems there was no law egainst prize-fight- ing in Florida, but there was a statute against agreeing beforehand to mect at any place for a duel, or a fight, and to get the last word on this N 7 S NS NEFF RESTRAINS HALE'S REMARKS ABOUT FOLITICS, | Sketched from life for the “Call” by Nankivell.] as possible, and they are more easily handled.” “That's right,” chimed in Mr. Neff again. “You wouldn’t treat a horse unkindly and why should you treat men so? Kindness isa great thing, Hale, a great thing.” “That’s my belief, Neff, and I have always tried to practice it. I never let myself give any marked attention to any of the convicts, as it of necessity breeds jealousy, a very bad thing in such cases. I have no doubt that Sen- ator Seymour ought to make a very excellent official and will be—" “But he ain’t appointed yet, Hale, so what is the use of talking about it? The papersdon’t always know just what the Governor proposes to do any more than the Governor does.” At this point the two gentlemen smiled and Mr. Neff looked as if he was very tired of the conversation. Mr. Hale was on the point of opening up the patronage discussion again when Mr. Neff turned to mining. “What we want is a mining boom to help this country along and the appointments amount to nothing. They aren’t worth talking about, o what's the use?”” Mr. Neff was becoming impatient, and when Mr. Hale tried to recur to politics again Mr. Neff took the conversation into his own hands and talked mining statistics till his auditors threw up their hands as if they had been staga passgngers and Black Bart was in front of them with a cut-off shotgun. 0. F. McCord, a resident of Fall River, Mass., who was at the Baldwin yesterday, says the celebrated Borden case recently again came into public notice through a report that Lizzie Borden was about to marry the foreman of the jury who found her guiltless of the terrible crime of which she was accused. “It appears that the fascination which this case possesses for the people of Fall River will never die out,” said Mr. McCord. “Some new rumor about the case is constantly springing up, and the com- ings and goings of the Borden sisters are always sources of curiosity to the people of the place, Beyond a few stanch friends who have stood by her through all her troubles, Lizzie Borden | receives no visitors, and her life is spent in | almost complete isolation. She drives quietly through the streets at times and is a regular attendant at church, those being about the only occasions in which she appears in public, Itisasource of wonder to nearly every one why she still continues to make Fall River her home. She has but few defenders or friends and the fact that the case refuses to die must Le a source of terrible annoyance to both the women. There is some circumstance con- stantly arising which has the effect of keeping the case fresh in the minds of the public.” “Is Los Angeles improving? Well, I simply never witnessed anything like it,” said J. T. Rader, & brother of the Mayor of that city, at the Palace yesterdey. “In the two years which ended in March there were issued in the city 3348 building permits, or an average of over four structures each day. In the year just past 1925 permits were issued, oran average of over five houses & day. The records show that the most of these new edifices are solid business blocks and small dwellings, and that the latter will average $2500 each in cost. In a conver- sation recently the manager of a leading ab- stract company in the city stated that they handled’ an average of fifty abstracts a day, while I am informed that herein San Francisco the firm which does the heaviest business in their line looks upon twenty-five abstracts a day as being pretty good work.” L. A. Hosmer, an old, prospector of this city, has just returned from a trip to the Panamint district, in Inyo County, and brought speci- mens of ore, which he was showing to friends at the New Western yesterday. Some of them Jvere quite rich in gold, copper and silver. He \xu ‘been working a property in the Argus range of mountains, between the Panamint and State ranges. The location is about eighty miles to the northeast of Mojave, and an easy ‘wagon road reaches the property. J. D. Phelps of Stockton, who is in the city, says a movement is on foot in that city to raise a fund for the purpose of entertaining some of the Eastern excursions which are now coming to this coast, if these parties can be induced to stop off at Stockton and view the city and sur- rounding country. —_— Stationary Enginecers’ Protest. H At a meeting of the Stationary Engineers last evening a resolution condemning the Twigg bill, now before the Assembly, was unani- mously adopted. It was the sense of the meet- ing that the bill would seriously affect the in- terests of stationary engineers and the users of the engines. subject, Corbett’s lawyer had agreed to call no witnesses for the defense. The trial took place in a little bit of a place, no bigger then an ordinary room. There were only six men on the jury, and two of them were colored citizens. Witness after witness was called to prove how fiercely Corbett and Mitchell had fought. Then the Attorney-General’s assistant got up, a little bit of a man with red hair bristling all over his head, and when he became excited he spoke in the vernacular of the colored population. “Gentlemen obde jury,” he said,"just look at dose two men, one from Californy and de other from England, comin’ here and disgracin’ our peaceful community. Der's no other State war prize-fightin’s tolerated, so dey agreed to | meet and fight here and brought a rabble with dem that’s overrun our quiet town. Youse habe heard what de witnesses hab said. Dey wore five-ounce gloves—and in de Northern States therc’s laws against five-ounce gloves. You have heard from the witness that Mr. Cor- Dett gave Mr. Mitchell one blow that knocked him senseless—an’ then they say they warn't fightin’. Warn't fightin’, indeed. At this the advocate grew very sarcastic: “If they'd shot at each other with rifles loaded with slugs, I suppose they would have come here and said they warn’t fightin’. But you know better, you know dey war fightin’.” After that the lawyer for the defense, a de- fiant-looking fellow, who reminded one of Phil Sheridan, got up, with the contract for the fight in his hand. “Gentlemen,” he began, with & sarcastic drawl, “we have heard a lot of nonsense about slugs an’ rifles an’ five - ounce gloves. If they’d fought with steel gloves it wouldn’t have been to the point. Here's the contract by which Mr. Corbett and Mr. Mitchell agreed to have a scientific contest—and remember, there’s no law in Florida against havin’ a scientific contest.” Then he read the contract, in which a purse was offered for a scientific contest at a place agreed upon, and, looking hard at the jury, said impressively: “If they got into a fight when they went there, that's another matter. They did not agree to fight, and I leave it to the intelligent gentlemen of the jury to rendera verdict of not guilty.” Which they did, - LR Sttt s ——— PERSONAL. Governor Sheakley of Alaska is at the Palace. F. A. Briggs, a San Jose merchant, is registered at the California. L. A. Magee, chief engineer, U. S. N., is now at the California. Melvin G. Winstock, City Attorney of Seattle, Wash., is at the Grand. J.D. Grant, a merchant of Healdsburg, is a guest at the California. J. N. Besse, a fnerchant of Watsonville, is registered at the Grand. Colonel J. L. Coles of Sonora was a guest at the Occidental yesterday. 8. N. Knight, the owner of « iarge foundry at Sutter Creek, is at the Grand. G. W. Trahern, an old-time resident of Stock- ton, was in the city yesterday. A. C. Bassett, a wealthy resident of Menlo Park, is registered at the Lick. Supervisor Thomas McEllgott of Mariposa County is staying at the Lick House. Thomas D. Lane, the wealthy mine owner of Angels Camp, is a guest at the Palace. D. D. Fairbanks of Petaluma, colonel of the Fiith Regiment, N. G. C., is at the Lick. J. W. Cass, well-known newspape: Marysville, is in the city for a fev‘v) dx;yr!.mun o Chief of Police Samuel Henry of Stockton registered late last night at the Baldwin. Hugh Murchie of Nevada City is in the city for a few days prior to his departure for Mexico, R. 8. Cary, the builder of Sacramento’s 8ys- tem of trolley-cars, is registered at the Grand, Mark L. McDonald, president of the Santa Rosa Water Works Company, is registered at the Occidental. Hugh McDonnel, the mining man, has Just returned from a visit to the Rawhide mine, and is at the Palace. Colonel J. L. Coles, the Sonora ‘mining mag- nate, is in the city, and makes his headquar- ters at the Occidental Hotel. THEY WILL VISIT YOSEMITE, GOVERNOR BUDD AND THE Con- MJSSIONERS TO MAKE AN INSPECTION TOUR. A CHANGE IN THE MANNER op RUNNING VALLEY AFF: CONTEMPLATED. The Yosemite Commissioners were par- tially successful in their attempt to keep the appropriation at the old figure. A committee, accompanied by Professor George Davidson of the Sierra Club, went to Sacramento, and the result of their vi was that the appropriation was reduced only a few hundred dollars. Emboldened by their success the Com- missioners are now asking that a number of petty restrictions in regard to matters gcrminmg to the government of the valley e done away with. They want to lease the various buildings there, and thus place the responsibility of keeping them in re- pair on somebody else. ‘With this end In view a meeting was held a few days ago at which Commissioners Kidder, Sperry, Church, O’Brien, Field and Lowe were present and the matter was fully discussed. A letter to Governor Budd, setting forth all the facts in the case, was written and sent. A reply was received yesterday stating that the chief executive ad given the matter due consideration, and that in company with the Commis- sioners he would visit the valley next month and see what was necessary to be done in order to secure a thorough and economical administration of the valley, The {mrtv will Jeave here the latter part of April and expects to be gone about two week: “It is ridiculous the way things are at present,” said one of the Commissioners vesterday. “We have to keep all the houses in the valley in repair. If a ke lost. or a hinge on a door is broken a quisition has to be sent to San Fran and passed upon by us before that be replaced or a new hinge put on the d; It is the same with everything else, and in consequence the commission is keptin a constant state of annoyance over petty trifles that ought to be séttled on the spot I think the Governor will agree with and if he does we will lease the buildi nd not from month to mon we would escape the respo bility of having to keep the places in re- pair. With our present appropriation I think that next year we will be able to carry out the sugeestion of the Sierra Clul and send out a landscape-gardener to re- port upon the best method of beautifying the valley.” e Stockholder and Secretary. T. A. Hays, 913 Fillmore street, is a traveling salesman and stockholder of the Sunset Manu- facturing Company and F. W. Franklin is th secretary and treasurer. 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