The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 9, 1895, Page 6

e . . THE SAN FRANCISOD CALL, SATUEDAY, MARCH o 1896, . - . THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 1895. : CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: DAILY CALL—3$6 per year by mail; by carrler, 15¢ er week. PSON DAY CALL—#1.50 per year. g A + SU WEEKL 50 per year. N FRANCISCO 1y), Pacific States Adver- nder” building, Rose and ARCH 9, 1895 Vetoes are in demand. The people watch the Governor. Fireman Budd, turn on the cold water. Brace up, Mr. Mayor, and make the beggars go. The ty girls are gone, but the girls that remain are g aville cheers the lenten diet with the of fresh fruit. ars and more flower-stands ve the strees never move e: it has to move over cobble: It is pity that Gresham hasn’t some of s sense of whole: gnation. ss left Democ d on, but it ¢ cy with nothing sit down on Grover. defend ¢ the representativi and high taxes make a good g for tax-eaters, but are death to tax- tepublicanism when we de- who disgrace it. is a public nuisance that ected energy would soon -tinkers is virtually ith to support the industries of ke in Pennsylvania is ing to be as much of an annual racket leaning. are organized to support ples, but what do non-par- her for? men princi »asts of representative gov- few are proud of what their representatives do. It matters little which route the San If there was even a single bubble of repu- tation left to the fiasco Congress, the re- port of Cannon exploded it. Whether we are to have an extra session of Congress or not depends very largely on how Grover likes the fishing. ience, practice and perseverance will vthing; they have even succeeded in ng a Senator from Idaho. ban revolution always seems to be made of some kind of stuff that endsin smoke, but is never up to snuff. Breaking the Republican campaign pledge on the part of a legislator is equiva- lent to breaking with the party. Mud roads in the country and cobble- ston n the city have long been out of date and ought to be out of sight. If Grover should manage to get his hook sht in his coat-tails he could boast of ing the biggest sucker on record. cate! 1f the Fresno raisin men will stick to it, they will find as much profit in cultivat- ing co-operation as in growing raisins. extravagance in Congress is or Republican extravagance at Sacramento, but it is a very strong warn- ing. It is altogether probable that Tariff Re- form Wilson will give us free trade in foreign stamps and a deficiency in the postal revenues. It appears bad to have so many frauds in various parts of the country exposed every day, but it would be worse if they ‘were not exposed. There is no good reason why the city should not issue bonds, pay its creditors, improve the streets and proceed to be an up to date metropolis. Although the late Congress did nothing in the way of statesmanship, it managed to get away with more money than any other Congress on record. Since the legislators were so generous in aividing the spoils with the attaches, it is probable the attaches will now declare dividends for the legislators. Li Hung Chang once more bobs up as the greatest man in China and points with pride to the fact that though his country fell he saved his peacock feather. Perhaps the Mayor and the Chief of FPolice were not aware that there were any beggars on the streets, or any ordinance against them, until they read the CALL. The prompt conviction of Hayward for the murder of Miss Ging scores a good point for the law of Minnesota, and the next thingis to see how promptly it can be enforced. The proposed plans for beautifying the water front are good and when carried out will form an attractive feature of that newer and better San Francisco that every good citizen desires to see. Let us hope that the first step toward peace in the Orient will be a cessation of the verbosity of the war correspondents and a reduction of the reports from that country to the limits of fegitimate news. ‘When the idle attaches shall have com- pieted the work of sucking sparrows’ eggs and jerking foreign blankets off California beds, they might be set to work to take up the cobblestones and pelt the silurians out of town. The reappearance of the Conlin claim at Sacramento is another evidence of how hard it is to killa bad measure so long as there is boodle behind it. Conlin has no —~¢laim against the city that can be cnforced in equity or law, and the Supreme Court has already decided that to pay his de- mand would be to give away the money of the people in violation of thg constitution, His claim is not large, but if paid would open the way for others of a like nature that would cost the city millions of dollars to satisfy. It should be promptly squelched by the Governor. OLEVELAND'S . COLLAPSE. The industry of the country has been paralyzed, the revenues have been re- duced below the needs of government, the expenditures have been raised to above a billion dollars, a spying income tax has been imposed upon the people, the pensions of honorable veterans have been diminished, the bonded debt cf the Nation increased by $150,000,000, Congress has ad- journed and Cleveland has gone fishing— behold the results of two years of Demo- cratic supremacy. For much of the evil of these two dis- astrous years Congress may be justly blamed, but the greater portion of the evil has been due to Grover Cleveland. This stupid, sullen, stolid man, vast of neck, vaster of stomach and vastest of all in his egotism, has been the destroyer of his party, the scourge of the people and the disgrace of the Nation. His rise to office was accidental and his course has been the inevitable consequence of electing a man with a bare capacity for a Sheriff’s office, to the august position of President of the United States. Cleveland went into office for his first term as the result of a monumental lie backed by a party that demanded a right to see the books of the National Government and investigate the course of Republican administrations. The books revealed no errors, the investigation dis- closed only facts that added to the honor of the long list of Republican Presidents from Lincoln to Arthur. Cleveland there- fore had nothing to do but to sit back in his chair and pose for dignity. Asthe Sen- ate was Republican he could do nothing to expose the full extent of his incapacity, but he managed to reveal enough of his demineering spirit to disgust the people, and at the next campaign he was beaten for re-election. Four years out of office enabled him to make Mugwump alliences and he was re-elected. This time he was borne to power by a tidal wave of popular folly, and a Democratic Congress went into office with him. Then began the greatest ex- hibition of political imbecility, ignorance, partisanship and factious folly ever made in a representative government. The story of the two miserable years that have fo lowed needs no reviewing. Qur great Re- public has been depressed at home and shamed abroad. From the management of the finances to the management of for- eign affairs. everything has displayed an impotence that has awakened mockery all round the world. The abler leaders of the Democratic party have endeavored in vain to check the foll of their President or to gnide his obstinacy, but they have argued, cajoled and threat- enedinvain. Some of the more independ- ent representatives of the Democratic press sought to save the party by fearless criticisms of the worst errors of the ad- ministration. Even so stanch a Democratic paper as the Ezaminer, the grest organ of the party on the Pacific Coast, found it impossible to defend him and grew in- dignant in criticising him. Nothing availed, however. The Democrats bad to take the consequences of their folly in accepting such a leader, and they have now abundant chance to study out how they like him. e by side with the fat prophet of the White House has been the lean Mugwump of the State Department. Between Clev land and Gresham the dishonors are eas They have made the complications thatin- volved Democracy in hopeless confusion, They have cheered one another in mutual blunders by mutual praise and have gone together deeper and deeper into the mire. Now they stand in the mud and stand alone. The Democratic Congress is gone. Their power is stripped from them. The people watch them with an amused con- tempt as they fish for suckers, apparently unconscious that in catching one another they have each caught a sucker beyond all measurement or rivalry even in the pools of politics or the rivers of corruption. The mining revival which now promises to become a feature of California’s pros- perity will be on different lines from the methods recently pursued. Min- ing has become mainly a business re- quiring large capital and the application of scientific processes. The gold must be sought in quartz ledges and deep gravel leads. It is probable that the revival will stimulate the invention of new processes in the treatment of the refractory ores, which, however abundant, have defeated previous efforts at reduction as a business proposition. Possibly electricity may have a part to play in this connection. All this requires money and time. If capital from home or distant sources is to take hold of the work it will lock for sub- stantial investment. Mining operation is one of the most legitimate of pursuits. Mining-stock operation is apt to be some- thing very different. It is desirable for the credit and success of our new deal that the one should not degenerate into the other. We have had enough mining-stock booms; enough of Pine-street exploitation of the community. There have been, and are yet, substantial mining properties listed on the Stock Exchange and handled by honorable dealers in ac- cordance with legitimate speculative methods. But every old San Francis- can also knows that Pine street and Pauper alley have repeatedly been the scene of wild inflation of non-existent values, in which speculative manipulation, “inside points” and curbstone rumor have combined to boost up some airy structures until the kick of a porphyry horse has shat- tered the unsubstantial fabric and buried the hopes and fortunes of hundreds be- neath its ruins.” ‘We want no revival of that kind. Neither dowe want a mining development that will resolve itself into great operating com- binations of stock companies and “milling propositions.” We want California, Bast- ern or foreign capitalists to go to the mines in person, or by their trustworthy experts and agents, to examine the ground, to in- vestigate prospects, to go into shafts and tunnels with their eyes open, and to in- vest their money with a view of working a mine and not the speculative community. The best bullion-producing mines of Cali- fornia have not been listed at the Stock Exchange. They have been turning out gold year after year and enriching their owners as legitimate business propositions. There are opportunities for the develop- ment of hundreds more of the same kind, and that is what our prospectors, mining experts and capitalists should have in view in our new auriferdus era. ;i —_— PARTY DUTY, The business of condemning Republican legislators who ignore their obligationsand violate their pledges to the party and the public is the proper function of a Republi- can newspaper. It is the duty of the press to voice the demand of the party for fidelity on the part of its representatives. The Republican party is clean and high- minded. It expects like qualities in its representatives, and will be satisfied with nothing less. The CaLL would be recreant to its party if it failed to denounce any member or Tep- resentative of that party who violates ( { plighted faith and willfully disappoints public expectation. It is only from within that the party can be purified. It is to the eternal credif of the Republican party that it has never lacked the virtue to discipline itself. It was founded on moral principle and it has never departed from that foun- dation. It has been betrayed by individual representatives, but it has never failed to call them to account for their conduct. There are two ways of dealing with party traitors; one at the polls, the other through the medium of the press. The former is effective for the future, but it is shutting the stable door after the horse is stolen. The CALL proposes to attend to the case of those Republican législators at Sacra- mento who are now ignoring and defying the wishes of the party while there is yet time to bring them to book. If there be any possibility of turning them to the path of duty and decency, it shall not slip for want of effort on our part. ~ If there are any timid or weak-kneed Re- publicans who fear that we are doing the party injury or injustice by attacking its recreant representatives, let them possess their souls in peace. No party was ever the worse for the counsel of a faithful friend. The CALL has full faith and confi- dence in the Republican party, and loves it too well to see it abused and betrayed in its own house. The worst enemy of the party is he who fails to act up to its prin- ciples, and its best friend is the man or spaper that shows that enemy up in its true colors. STREET BEGGARS. hin him a spark of the virtue of humanity can consider the hard fortunes of the poor without a feeling of sympathy, and if the poverty isasso- ciated with physical misfortune or deform- ity the sympathy in generous minds is always prompted to immediate helpful- nes Out of this virtue there has grown an evil. Tts generosity has prompted fraud to prey upon it and many a deserving un- fortunate goes unhelped because there are 0 many undeserving begears to rob charity of its alms before it reaches those who need it most. The wide recognition of these truths has prompted enlightened communities to make suitable provisions for the deserving poor and to restrain impudent and unworthy gars by the strong arm of the law. In spect San Francisco has permitted her practice to fall below the level of her enlightenment. Having prescribed by law for the care of the poor and the sup- pression of street begging, her officials have enforced neither the one nor the other. We have not many street beggars, when compared with the cities of Southern Turope or of Oriental countries, but we have many more than should be tolerated in an American community, and the CALL has undertaken an exposure of them in the conviction that it is high time to rid ourselves of the stigma which their pres- ence upon the streets aftixes upon the com- munity, its law and its officers. 1f the street beggars are deserving of care and support, it is shameful that we do not provide it in the proper way and to the proper extent. If they do not deserve help,it is shameful that we permit them to practice fraud upon the generosity of the charitable. In either case their presence in conspicuous places on the streetsis a disgrace to the City, and our laws are con- demned. Why should the unfortunate who needs the help of his fellow men, be forced to seek it by daily begging upon the streets? Why should the man abundantly able to provide for himself, be permitted to gain his living by whining for charity instead of by work? These questions admit of but one rightful answer. Street begging, under any cir- cumstances, should not be tolerated. Citi- zens should refuse to make it profitable, and city officials should be resolute in en- deavoring to make it impossible. Our whole street policy in San Francisco is bad. It is the blot upon the metropolis that mars its excellence and defaces its at- tractions, Itistime the policy should be changed and the streets made commen- surate with the true dignity of the City. Let us clear away all the street nuisances from cobblestones to beggars. Let us pro- vide comfortable homes and generous care for all upon whom the misfortunes of the world have fallen; ana for the persistent, insolent, able-bodied street beggar let us provide a good wholesome cure in the form of work or punishment. ‘What are b ggnr; and cobblestones doing on the streets of an enlightened com- munity in this age of the world anyhow? SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. Elsewhere in this paper appears an article published in a late issue of the CALL on the subject of bonding San Francisco for the pur- pose of making municipal improvements. The article is so general, so applicable to small in- terior cities as well as to San Francisco, that we reprint it in the hopé that our own people can be awakened to the importance of muniei- pal improvement to such an extent as to be willing to bond the city of Merced for that pur- pose. The time has come now when Merced must go ahead or else be distanced in the race for population and importance by her less favored but more progressive neighbors.— Merced Sun. We hear no reasonable objections made to the idea of granting the use of Goat Island for terminal facilities to any and all transporta- tion companies. In fact nature seems to have raised that bump in the bay for just that sort of occupation. There isa question, however, whether it is wise for the General Government to cede the island to the State and thus relin- quish & title Uncle Sam should have and hold in time of war. Let the General Government instead of the @fite be the landlordin the leasing of the island to railroad and steamship companies.—Napa Register. The high price ($501,000) brought by the gore lot at Stocktonr and Market streets, San Francisco, at the auction in Judge Slack’s. court last Monday is attributed to the valley railroad enterprise and the faith it has inspired in the future prosperity of that city. The prop- erty, though extremely valuable, would have realized much less, real-estate men say, if it had been sold six months ago.—Alameda Encinal. The railroad company seems to be getting in its work at Sacramento very effectually now. The Legislature will adjourn in a few days. The statesmen will have to get home and the railroad lobby knows it. On Monday the anti- scalpers’ bill passed, and other railroad meas- ures are expected togo through before adjourn- ment.—Santa Cruz Ree In our opinion a good newspaper should be more likea Judge than a lawyer—that is, it should be feirand judicial rather than one- sided and partisan. It should comserve the best interests of society, ehould never inflame amob, incite to riot, or lessen the security of life and property.—Los Angeles Record. The present lot of the average Chinese gen- eral is indeed a hard one. If he stands up and fights the Japanese he is eure to get licked, if he runs his own Government causes him to be put to death, and if he suppresses insubordina- tion or a desire to pillage among his own sol- diers they behead him.—Vallejo Times. Should San Francisco capture the Republican National Convention this year it would bea recoguition of the growing importance of this State and that ¢ity and would be of great benefit to the Pacific Coast. Thetthe delegates would be royally entertalned goes without say- ing.—Redlands Facts. 1i you cannot say anything good of your town either move or keep still. The man who always runs down his own town and yet stays in it is a living example of silurian incon- sistency.—Santa Clara Journal. UP-TO-DATE IDEAS. According to a cablegram received from London last week the Pope has received from the President of the Transvaal Republic a dia- mond weighing 971 carats. The stone was found in the Jagersfontein mines and is de- clared to be the largest known. : The cablegram states that the monster dia- mond is of a bluish-white cast and practically perfect, its only blemish being a tiny spotin the center, invisible to the naked eye. A Why the President of the Transvaal Republic has sent it to the Pope is not made clear. It is 1ot to be supposed that he has made & present to his Holiness of a stone vaiued at $1,000,000. Probably his object was to get & free advertise- ment for hislittle republic and the big diamond found there. The Jewelers’ Circular this week prints a picture of the diamond, showing its actual size. This was received from & correspondent in South Africa. The Circular presumes that the diamond referred to is the one known as the Jagersfontein Excelsior. 1t was picked up by a native while he was loading a truck. Although a white overseer was standing near him, he managed to hide A\ B p N\ THE LARGEST DIAMOND IN THE WORLD, [Reproduced at its exact size.] 4t and keep it on his person for some time. It turned out, however, that he did not wish to steal it, for he delivered it personally to the manager. Asareward he received $750 and a horse and saddle. The exect weight of the diamond is 9713{ carats, or about seven and one-quarter ounces avoirdupois. It therefore weighs uncut nearly half & pound. A diamond of fair size for aring weighs one carat. In its present cond n it measures three inches in length, one and a half inches in thickness, two and a hali inches at its greatest breadth, and one and a third inches at its least breadth. Itisof a beautiful bluish color, and is shaped like the broken-off end of an icicle. The flaw in it is believed to be more serious than is stated in the cable dispatch. It is 2 black £pot near the middle. It could be cut in two, however, so as to leave out the blemish. It would then make two of the largest diamonds in existence. At the time of its discovery it was valued at $1,000,000. It is at last positively known that the new cup defender, now building by the Herreshoffs, isnot to be a centerboard, as will be seen by the following from the Providence Journal: At the Herreshoff Works, in Bristol, the lead keel that was run nearly a week agoin the south shop is in plein sight, as the wooden mold has been removed and & good view can be had ofit. Itis of a peculiar shape, and differ- ent from any lead keel that has been cast at the shops heretojors. For such 2 large amount of lead the company had good suceess in run- ning it, as there is not a fiaw, seam or mar to be found anywhere on its surface, which goes to show the pains that were taken in making the cast. The surface of the leadisstillina rough state from the impression of the mold, but that will disappear in a short time, as preparations are being made now to smooth it off and finish it. It hasbeen given out recently in some newspapers that the deck or ipper part of the lead keel was about 35 feetin length, but it is now known that it is consider- ably shorter. Asstated before, the mass of lead stands nearly 5 feet in height, with the heft of the lead just forward of the center, where it is 2 feet 9 inches in thickness. The breadth of the keel acrosson top is 14 inches, and at the bottom it is four inches less. The keel tapers from just forward of the cen- ter to all points, the breadth of the forward and after ends being six inches. In shape it resem- bles somewhat a Cape Ann dory, only the for- ward end is rounded off, while the after part takes & diagonal form, and the lower part of the keel hasa very slight curve downward. The big chunk of lead is solid. There is no hole in it to admit the passage of a centerboard, and all hope that the new cup defender will be what has come to be accepted as the American type—a centerboard—must therefore be aban- doned. PERSONAL. J. M. Pickerell of the navy is at the Occl. dental. Dr. Thomas Flint of San Juan is registered at the Grand. P. A. Buell, e lumberman of Stockton, is at the Grand. J. H. Martin, a stockman from Woodland, is at the Russ, €. C. Wellace of Eureka, Nev., arrived at the Palace yesterday. R. C. Sargent, the capitalist, of Stoekton, is staying at the Russ, W. R. Burt, a banker of Saginaw, Mich., is stopping at the Palace. J. M. Fulton, a railroad man of Reno, Nev., is stopping at the California. George W. Mapes, the cattleman, of Reno, Nev., is registered at the Russ. Frank M. Buck of Vacaville came down yes- terday and put up at the Palace. J. R. Tregloan, a mining man of Amador, is in town and stopping at the Grand. Dr. J. Hunter Wells of Portland is in the city and has registered at the Occidental. State Prison Director Robert T. Devlin of Sacramento arrived at the Grand yesterday. E. R. Hutchins, president of the California Fruit Transportation Company of Chicago, isat the Palace. F. B. McGovern, a New York dealer in Cali- fornia products, formerly of this city, is regis- tered at the California. John Coplice, merchant, of Butte, and Senator Edward Cardwell of the same city are at the Occidental. Both are pioneers of Montana, PEOPLE TALEED ABOUT. The late Moses Kimball of Boston, who made his money as a theatrical manager in that city, ‘was an interesting character. For many years his ambition was to be Mayor, but the politi- cians never took kindly to hisaspiration. When he was au Alderman, before the war, he voted and spoke against allowing Daniel Webster the use of Faneuil Hall to refute the abolition ar- guments of Wendell Phillips. Webster never forgave Kimball for this, and the' incident practically ruined Kimball politically, though he was sent to the Legislature after the occur- rence. He made many public bequests in his will. . Some years ago Frederick Douglass addressed & convention of negroes in Louisville. He said in the course of his remarks that he did not think an amalgamation of the white and black races desirable, the pure negro being, in his opinion, the best of the race. While speaking his eyeglasses continued to slide from their perch. “But I wish,” interpolated the speaker. “I wish we could get up some sort of an alloy for the negro which would insure a nose capa- ble of holding spectacles.” Miss Anna Gould was once a pupil at Ogontz, and was so lively and full of fun that she came near being rusticated as a warning to the other pupils. The words, “Reserve the cots for the two most uninteresting babies,” always accom- pany the check Miss Gould sends each year for the support of two beds in the babies’ shel- ter connected with the Church of the Holy Communion in New York. Mrs. Henrietta M. King, a widow of Corpus Christi, Tex., own 1875 square miles, or about 1,250,000 acres, of land in that State. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. George T. Arnold, an express messenger who runs on the Union Pacific between Denver and Kansas City, is at present visiting his brother, a Southern Paciflc employe who resides in Oak- land. Mr. Arnold has been in the express ser- vice for a number of years, and in that time has had several exciting experiences with train-robbers, of which he gave several gentle- men some particulars while loitering about the Palace yesterday afternoon. The discussion of train robberies led up to a statement by Mr. Arnold regarding the invention of what is called a distance lock, which was recently tried on his car. “The contrivance makes it impo_s- sible to open the express-car safe, to which it is attached, until the train has traveled a certain number of mjles,” said he, “and the messenger simply locks his safe, sets the lock to travel the number of miles to the next station, and it cannot be opened until the train has gone the designated distance. A peculiar mechanism connects the lock of the safe with one of the axles of the car in such a way that the safe, after being locked, can only be opened aiter the axle has revolved a certain number of times. The model that wasexperimented with was not thoroughly perfected, but even in its conditicn it was found that we could set the lock so that it would open within a few rods of the desired distance. The train-robber’s most effective foe in the future, it seems to me, will be the in- ventor.” T. D. Draper, who is connected with the pro- posed carriage factory to be establishod at Merced, was in the city yesterday. Mr. Draper has had quite an eventful career and many years ago took & prominent partin one of the most sensational cases which ever disturbed Central Indiena. Along in 1877 & young man named Ernest Whitehouse, who had made Terre Haute his home, suddenly blossomed out as a desperado of the worst stripe and in a few weeks succeeded in terrorizing the inhabitants of that section of the State, eluding the efforts of the police to capture him, holding up a number of people and killing two or three men during his mad career. Large rewards were offered for the arrest of Whitehouse and these attracted the attention of Mr. Draper, who at that time was but & plebeian porter in 2 whole- sale house. He armed himseli with an old- fashioned five-barrel pistol, started on the trail of the desperado and succeeded in running him to earth near St. Louis. Mr. Draper made quite & sum of money by his fortunate capture and this he put to & good use. Roller skates were just coming into favor atthat time and he had an opportunity to buy an interestin the patent. A large manufactory soon grew up at Richmond, in that State, which gave its owners great wealth before this pleasant means of recreation fell from popular favor. M. de Fernat, a wealthy plantation-owner of Cuba, is in the city and is making a tour of the world with a party of friends in a private car. In conversation yesterday he said that the trade of Cuba was simply astonishing when compared with that of other nations snd was only to be explained on the ground that every- thing raised on the island was for export and all are articles of the first commercial import- ance. “The exports of Great Britain, which are larger than those of any foreign country,” said he, “are $32 70 per capita, while those of Cuba are §50. It is not intended to convey the impression thet Cuba is richer than Englend, but it is simply an illustration of how the ex- actions of the Spanish Government rake the island over and gether up every item of value in order to raise a revenue out of all proportion to the number of people subject thereto. The United States futnishes almost the exclusive market for Cuban products, but in return gets only & small proportion of the trade of the island. Out of a total importation into Cuba of some $35,000,000, the United States gets less than one-third, while England, which buys only a half million dollars’ worth of Cuban products, sells that country almost as much as the United States.” F.C. Hubbard, who is connected with one of the large locomotive works in the East, was at the Baldwin yesterday. He says that the ten- dency in engine-building at presentis in the direction of larger and more speedy machines. “It has long been considered that a milea minute was the limit of railway travel,” said he, “but several railroads are now having great engines constructed which will run heavy trains at the rate of eighty miles an hour. There is a short stretch of track on the New Jersey Central rodd over which trains are now being run at the rate of 112 miles an hour, but with the engines now in use the road must be nearly straight to accomplish such a speed. But with the enormous engines now in course of construction one and a third miles an hour can be easily accomplished over curves and grades, there being only one requisite, and that is a solid and well-ballasted roadbed. Such a speed, however, will proba- bly only be attained by special trains on the larger roads.” Alexander McDougall, the inventor of the “whaleback” boat, who was at the Palace sey- eral days during this week, 1s also largely in- terested in mining. He is said to be connected with John D. Rockefeller, the Standard oil magnate, in several ventures up in Washing- ton, and also has interests in the new Rainey Lake fields in the Northwest. “A large num- ber of horses are now engaged in freighting goods from Tower, the northern terminus of the Duluth and Iron Renge road, to both the Rainey Lake and Seine River goldfields,” said he, when discussing the development of those regions, the other day. “The distance from the railroad to the flelds is 100 miles and the freight rate is $1 per 100 pounds, when s year ago it was $2 50 a hundred. The district has shown such remarkable richness that a strong effort will be made to induce the State to build a wagon-road to it.” J. F. Millar, representative of Leonard & Ellis, oil refiners of New York City, returned from Honolulu on the steamer Australia. Since his arrival he has been very ill at_the Califor- nia Hotel. Mr. Millar knows nearly every ciy- ilized country on the globe and is particularly well acquainted down on the islands. In con- versation yesterday he said that the feeling there toward the United States is of the kindest nd that in fact the white population consider themselves as almost belonging to the Ameri- can Union. He also stated that the pulse of Dbusiness is greatly quickening and in his expe- rience of an annual call at the little republic for eleven years he had never found things looking brighter from a financial point of view. Pound Limits Unmolested. The Fire and Police Committee of the Board of Supervisors took the question of the exten- sion of the pound limits under consideration yesterday and read numerous &)etillnns pro and con. It was finally decided to indefinitely postpone the matter, a proceeding which is equivalent to refusing to change the limits from their present boundaries, The committee also decided not to indorse or approve any biil of the Coroner for chemical analysis for more than $25. In the past $350 was allowed for such operations. ——————— PLAIN mixed candies, 10¢ Ib. Townsend's.* e e Bacox Printing Company, 508 Clay street. * —————— TOWNSEND'S Cal. Glace Fruits,‘our make,” 50¢ 1b. in Japanese baskets. 627 Market street. * —————— CUR-IT-UP; heals wounds, burns and sores as if by magic; one u‘{zpucation cures poison oak; it relieves pain and abates infiammation. * ————————— THOSE WHO CONTEMPLATE BUILDING can do so uiv:ntafieousl{mto themselves by entrusting their building improvements to Jas. E. Wolfe, architect, Flood building. Specialties in flats.* ————— . A woman who was about to be baptized in the Campbellite Church at Jamestown, Kan., fainted away, but the preacher, never losing his_presence of mind for a second, prom{:tly dipped her under and she came to all right. ——————— IMPURE blood is a_foe to health. It cadses many forms oi suifering. Hence the importance of pure Diood. Here, alst, is the reason for the wonderfal cures by Hood’s Sarsaparilla. Get only Hood's. ————— LADIRS take Dr. Siegert’s Angostura Bitters gen- erally when they feel low spirited. It brightens them up immediately. ————————— “BROWN'S BRONCHIAL TROCHES” are the sim- plest, quickest and most effectual remedy for Bronchilis, Asthma and Throat Diseases. SAMDEL SIMON'S HEIRS CRY FRAUD. THE EXECUTORS CHARGED WITH FEATHERING THEIR OWN NESTS. A GREAT ESTATE VANISHES. APPRAISED AT LEss THAN ITs As- SESSED VALUE AND BOUGHT BY THE ACCUSED. One of the biggest land suits that was ever filed in this State is now under the hand of W.S. Barnes, the local District Attorney. 1f prosecuted to a successful conclusion several commercial heads that heretofore have been high will be lowered to the dust. The suit involves land in Kern, Tulare, Fresno, Merced, Mariposa and Santa Cruz counties, and a large amount of city prop- erty in the heart of the county seat, Tulare. The allegations of the complaint, if established, will prove a system of fraud which was as bold as it was ingenious, and as nearly successful as was possible. The suit involves the estate of Samuel Simon, who died March 3, 1885. It was supposed that Simon left an estate of great value, principally in lands, situated in many of the counties of the State Under his will, beyond a few legacies of comparatively little importance, the prop- ertv was bequeathed to his widow and his stepson, Jefferson Martin. The executors were his brothers, 8. I. and Ephraim Simon, and they appointed as appraisers Adolph Zirker and James Manasse. Zirker was a relative of the Simons and Manasse was an employe of the firm of Simon & Jacobs, of which Samuel Simon was senior member. Upon the distribution of the estate the claim of each legatee was paid in cash, al- though the bulk of the testator’s estate had ieen composed of real estate. The executors had turned everything into h The estate distributed was worth $111,€00. Some time after the death of Samuel Si- mon his_stepson, Jefferson Martin, mar- ried. Jeiferson died a_few months after the union and to his widow a posthumous child, Jeffreys Martin, was born. The child and the widow were made legatees of his estate, which consisted of his legacy from his stepfather. i Soon after Jefferson Martin’s death his mother, Mrs. Simon, died, leaving all her roperty, consisting of her interest in her ate husband’s estate, to Mrs. Martin, her son’s widow, and to his child. This made Julia Martin and her daughter Jef- freys the direct legatees of old Samuel Si- mon. Their estate amounted to about $25,000. In the meantime Adolph Simon, brother of Samuel Simon, and a legatee under his will, had become insane, and a guardian had been appointed for him and for his es- tate. The guardian found that notwith- standing his substantial claim upon his brother’s estate, Adolph Simon had not enough property to pay his expenses at the asylum, and being surprised at this he investigated. It was then that the facts upon which the big complaints are based were discovered. According to the complaint Adolph Simon’s guardian found that Samuel Simon’s estate had been appraised at nearly $200,000 less than the assessed value of the property, and the assessed valuation, as is always the case, was far below the actual value. He found land in Fresno County which according to the complaint wi - sessed at $60,000 and appraised at $7 More land in the same county, asse: $50,000, was appraised at $13,243 77. in Tulare County in one instance assessed at $10,000 was appraised at $3201 40; in an- other instance a piece worth $10,000 was valued at $5240. In each instance it was was only the interestof the deceased which had been assessed aed appraised. He found, too, as the complaint states, that the executors of Samuel Simon’s will bought in every bit of the testator’s in est in all the lands and the price paid was according to the appraisers’ figures. Batore i guardian’s investigations were completed Adolph Simon died, and his widow then brought suit in the Fresno courts to set aside the purchase of the ex- ecutors of land in that county, on the ground of fraud. Mr. Barnes’ suitis an intervention in this case. » Barnes’ suit is_brought in the interests of Mrs. Jefferson Martin and her daughter, Jeffreys Martin, who, as was explained, are practically the only legatees of Samuel Simon, through his descendants. In the complaint it is charged that the executors procured fraudulent Bp?rsisements, and then, upon the basis of these appraise- ments, fraudulently purchased all the real property of the testator for something like $200,000 less than its assessed valuation. The entire estate is assessed at $300,000, which it is claimed is, as is usual with as- sessed valuations, 60 per cent less than its market value. The appraisers valued it at $111,000, and the allegation is made that the heirs of Samue? Simon have been defrauded of the difference between $111,- 000 and about $425,000. _Samuel Simon was well known in this city as a real-estate man and dealer in §eneml merchandise. His firm of Simon, acobs & Co. had stores in all parts of the State, and wherever they had a store they had plenty of the best real property in the vicinity. His brothers, Ephraim and S. I. Simon, are well known fierc in business circles, and the widow of his stepson and her daughter are well known in society. It was only last Thursday that little Jeffreys Martin, one of the plaintiffs in the case; made her first bow to the social world as hostess at a children’s reception. The suit which Mr. Barnes is now pre- paring will be filed in Fresno, as an off- shoot to the suit of Mrs. Adolph Simon, to set the alleged fraudulent purchases of land in that county aside. Ordinarily the statute of limitations would long since have stepped in to_bar any claim, but the fact that little Jeffreys Martin is still a minor suspends that rule and allows the suit to be brought even at this late day. Besides, it is only within the last three or four months that Adolph Simon's guardian has discovered the peculiar status of Samuel Simon’s big estate. It is probable that several local suits with the executors as defendants will be filed at an early date. about SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS. ““Yes,” said the Rev. Dr. Goodman, “I always endeavor to write my sermons so that they can be understood and appreciated even by the dullest intellect. Before delivering them in 'public 1 invariably recite them to myself.’— New York Herald. Excitement in Boston—Friend: This must be bargain day. Inever saw such acrowd in your store before. Dry-goods man—I should say it is bargain day. We are selling “Homer’s Iiiad” in the original Greek at 98 cents.—Puck. “Have you boarded long at this house?” in- quired the new boarder of the sour, dejected man sitting next to him. ‘“About ten years.” “I don’t see how you can sta haven’t you left long igo!" My ‘“No other place to go,” said the other dis- mally. The landlady’s ife.”< e ¥'s my wife.”<Boston Dora—Does Mr. Clinker believein th tocracy of the intellect? i Cora—No. fe told me he was tryi in the Four Hundred —Life. i Customer (in cheap restaurant)—Give me beefsteak with mushrooms. Waiter (loudly to cook)—Slaughter in ds with fumigated toadstools!—Exchange, © Theatrical manager—You say you want an - engagement to star in my theater? Your name is not familiar to me. Have you ever starred? Would-be actress—Never. “Where have you played?” 5 “I never played on the stage.”” Have you received any dramatic instrue. tion?” “None whatever.” “But you have, at least, studied the art? Yoy ere familiar with the works of the great dramatists, are you not?” “Never read a play in my life.”” “Good heavens, madam! What prep have you, then, for going on the ste; star?” “I have had my photograph taken in 140 different poses.”—Florida Times-Union. “‘Aren’t you ashamed,” asked the philan. thropic lady s“to let your little girls go abong barefooted, as you do?” “Sho,’ lady,” replied Aunt Mirandy, ain’ no ’casion foh indignification. Dis fa: is doneZcotch de Trilby fad.”—Washin Star. On a lonely rock In the ocean wide, All bathed in the sparkling sy Sat a mermaid fair, Who toved with her hair And sighed through the livelong Now, the plaint that she utt rand o'er, As she wept the b Was, “Oh, for tw Trilby, 50 sw , I'm not built that way —New Yo! rld. THE WHALEBACK'S TRIP, Merchants’ Exchange Records and the Captain’s Report Disagree. The whaleback steamer City of Everett returned from Port Costa last evening after discharging her cargo of 3800 tons of coal in remarkably short order. When the whaleback ar) ain Bucknam reported hav made the trip in 62 hours from Port Townsend. The rds of the Merchants’ B e differ from the cap- tain's report. The records say that ett left Port Tow hursday_morning. As she arrived in port on Monday morning, this would make her trip from 92 to 94 hours. ——————— Seeking Her Lost Son. Mrs. J. C. Moore, 820 Grand avenue, Lot A geles, writes as follows: “My son leit Valp raiso, Chile, aboard the Esmeralda and I havs not heard from him for ten ye: He thinks that I still live in Wisconsin'and I am i > distress about him. I you will kindly u Ican let him know that I am in Los Ang: or how I can get word to him I will be thankfnl and anxious mothe In Zante, one of the Tonian isles, there is spring that is mentior It has been known for nearly 3000 years. FOR THOMAS MAGEE & SOKS, Real Estate Agents And Publishers of Real Estate Circular. SALE BY REMOVED TO 4 Montgomery Street, Union Trust Building, Cor. Market. INVESTMENTS. Rents $268: price $28,000; Clay st., near San- some. buildi; Yol 0: Main st., below ith 2-story build- AND LOTS, $3800 TO 810,000, Only $2000 cash; balance easy payments: new residences iences; ‘and house of Sheap, $5500: Pine s ; and 2-story house near Stockton; 34:6x 12 rooms and modern sille, bet. 3d and 4th: 33:9x80 and ; rents 854: $6000. . Golden Gate ave. and Turk; vill be very fine nearly new house; 8 rooms, bath, etc.; 2 Collingwood. st., bet. 19th and -story modern x1257 W. side th: a short block .. 'W. of Castro-st. cable-cars; street work done; $1800 cash, balance $: '3 a month. ADDITION LOTS, TO $3500. lots, 25x137:6; north side Sacra. scoty and Devisadero; cable-cars 81600 only §8250 each; lots 25x100; Waller st., north side; half a block from Market; flats hers Tent steady. Geary st., north side, near Cook, west of Central ave.; 3lots; 25x100: only $1600 each. derick st., bet. Grove and Fulton; lot 25x100; $3000; cable-cars pass. “heap: $2000 only, each north side Sacramento st cable-cars pa Green st.; fine vie and Scott; any size work done x12 Jackson st., ne ave.; lot 27:6x100 3 1r 8 deep; strect al 000. Walnut; 1 block west of Cen: 00; street work done. B — S ————— That California has for s0 many years and iseven now obliged to import goods that might as well « be manufactured right here is worse than bad —it's simply awful! But there is at least one product of home industry that has satisfied caretul dressers as well as care- ful buyers: / STANDARD SHIRTS. NEUSTADTER BROS., SAN FRANCISCO, Prop’rs Standard Shirt Factorw GEP. H. FULLER DESK Co0, 38 and 640 Mission Street.