The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 29, 1895, Page 2

2 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1895. SAN MATEQ'S SCHEME Approval of Its Plan to Begin Building the Boulevard. THE PEOPLE FAVOR IT. Indorsement Comes Even From the Coast Side of the County. WILLING TO ISSUE BONDS. The Committee of Five Preparing to Secure Plans and Outline Meth- ods of Procedure. R SAN MATEO, March 28.—The boulevard project approaches nearer to success every day. Through this region public enthusi- asm and confidence has been stimulated by the definite organized and determined efforts to carry out the plan which have been begun by a number of leading men, as described in the CaLy this morning. The operations of the committee of five, who are to gather information, formulate plans and select a general committee of thirty prominent citizens from all parts of the county, in whose hands the project ‘will be placed, will be watched with much terest, not only thronghout this county, San Francisco and San Jose, where interest in the scheme is already great. At the beginning of the agitation for the boulevard it was thought by many that if the project ever got beyond the stage of in- ception it would have to.be first taken up in San Francisco and San Jose and then San Mateo County might fall into line. But now San Mateo County has taken it up independently and started right ahead with it. No one is discussing what San Francisco and Santa Clara County may or may not do. The proposition here is for San Mateo County to go ahead, secure plans for a grand driveway thirty miles long from the San Francisco line to the boundary of Santa Clara County, near Menlo Park, issiie bonds in some amount ranging from $100,000. to $250,000, and build the boule- vard. There is no doubt in anybody’s mind that the two end sections will be built. The enterprise in this county will greatly stimulate that of its neighbors. There is now no question that a propo- sition to bond the county for the boule- vard will be put before the voters, and that before long. San Mateo County will be stirred up from end to end and from bay to ocean. At this time the prospects of two-thirds of the voters favoring the bond issue can only'be guessed at; but along the bay side of the county, where three-fourths of the population is located, the senti- ment in favor of it seems so far to be unanimous and enthusiastic. The county papers and the active ana leading men of all classes who guide pub- lic opinion strongly indorse it. Among its stanch supporters are a great number of wealthy and well-known San Francisco people who reside hereabouts or have prop- erty here, including all the well-known members of the Burlingame colony and such men as W. H. Howard, Nat C. Brit- tan, the Spreckelses, Captain A.H. Payson, Alvinza Hayward, Timothy Guy Phelps and other large property-owners along this stretch of bay shore, who are equally well known. Everybody who does business or owns a lot along the proposed route of the boulevard knows that it would greatly in- crease the population, wealth, business, property values and fame of the county. If there are any silurians along the route who will oppose the bond issue, they have not yet been heard from. The preliminary anticipations of opposi- tion from the big but sparsely settled sec- tion of the county over the range toward the ocean are already disappearing from the minds of the present active promoters. More rumors of favor than opposition have floated over the hills. The idea has taken shape that the districts of which Spanishtown and Pescadero are the centers should receive their proportion of the money raised, based on assessment ‘values, for their own roads. They need roads over there badly, and that portion of the county would be voting on bonds for its own direct benefit. Supervisor J. J. Brown of San Mateo, who is strongly in favor of the boulevard, “The people over there have many rea sons for favoring the bond issue. Now, most of the road money is spent on the county road. But little would be needed to maintain the boulevard and there would be more for other roads. The boulevard would help the entire county. When a good driveway brings people from the city and elsewhere easily into this region a good many more will go in that direction for both business and pleasure. The side drives into the mountains would take pleasure seekers up into the redwoods and among the lakes and camping places, and on to Halfmoon Bay and that country.” One of the influential backers of the boplevard is ex-Senator J. D. Byrnes. He said: “Everybody from all over the county that T have spoken to is in favor of it. They even favored it over at Halfmoon Bay, where I was last Sunday. My idea of the boulevard is that it would open the county and its resources, hring in people, develop the country and increase property values. We probably ought to spend $200,- 000 on it. I think that it would hardly increase the tax rate. The boulevard ought to be built and now is the time. The people will never be so willing or rights of way so cheaply secured.” Arguments in favor of the boulevard multiply and many considerations appeal- ing to public pride, public spirit, love of the beautiful, desire for pleasure and the individual and selfish interests of the people generally are urged in its favor. One must pass along the route of the boulevard, through this park—the handi- work of nature—to appreciate those afgu- ments. The same trip would give an idea of what the boulevard would be to the life and pleasure of San Francisco. From a few miles south of the city, where the western shore of the bay in its sweep southward begins to find shelter be- hind the Santa Morena Mountains, the plain that extends back from the bay and the foothills that rise in disorder toward the mountain range, presents a panorama of exceeding loveliness. Creeks that run to the bay through tangles of green come out of wild canyons above, and the great old live oaks, fantastic and majestic, that dot the entire landscape for many miles, hanging over the roadway below and the edges of hills above, are worth a day’s journey to see. The mountains, too, are icturesque. x & Thereu}s little or no farming to be seen Ifor many miles. Rich men own it allin | immense tracts, most of them refusing to sell any of it at $1000 an acre. On the big green fields, with its lush grass and begutiful flowers, are pastured here and there a few blooded horses and occasionally a few deer. This region for its natural beauty was early claimed by rich men and it mainly remains what it will always be— the finest suburban region about San Francisco. One constantly passes magnificent estates which wealth and cultured taste have made beautiful. So many trees have been set out, especially near the line of the railroad, which runs close to the bay and near the towns along it, that from the trains one sees little or nothing of the rich- ness and beauty of the region which lies back of it. The region but awaits easier and quicker communication with San Francisco to undergo development, and the city but awaits easy communication by the boulevard to enjoy it. North of San Mateo for a considerable distance the foothills sweep backward for two or three miles from the bay, and at Belmont they swing out nearly to the shore, sweeping deeply in again southward. Because the foothills are comparatively in- accessible they are unimproved, except for a few magnificent country homes, but they will some day be dotted with the prettiest homes about the bay. The boulevard would open this region to San Francisco and afford one of the most famous drives in the world. As was pointed out by Ed- ward McD. Johnstone, such a driveway down the bay would offer in addition some side drives of tireless interest. Roads lead up the canyons, over the crest of the inner range, on to the lakes that nestle there, through redwood forests over the main range and on to the ocean. From a slight elevation in the foothills one sees the bay spread out below, and a little higher up one catches a glimpse of San Francisco and the whole bay region for fifty miles. Many people want the boulevard laid out by a new route along the foothills. This would offer a much finer way for a pleasure drive and present more scenic beauty. Others say that it would cost so enor- mously much more than to widen and im- prove the present county road that runs along the plain that it would be imprac- ticable. Ed McD. Johnstone, artist, writer and editor of the Traveler, Las explored every nook of this region during a fifteen years’ residence at San Mateo, and yesterday he gave his idea of the boulevard. ““There is only one thing to say about the boulevard, and that is that it ought to be built,” he said. ‘Few San Francisco peaple have any idea of the beauty of this region. The contrast in climate with the city is exceedingly marked. The region is attractive every way to visitors and resi- dents. But, as I say, few people know it. There is no way through this county that one can take and see so little of the pic- turesque corners as by the railroad. People have often expressed to me their astonishment at the number of beautiful drives about San Mateo that they had no idea of. “There would be some magnificent side drives leading off the boulevard. One would be to Pilarcitos and San Andreas, passing over the inner coast range, from which there is a superb pancramic view of the region of Ban Francisco and this side of the bay clear to Mount Hamilton. The oak knolls, the magnificent madrones and the redwood country beyond are features of the trip. ‘‘Another picturesque ride is up San Mateo Creek Canyon, by the Pescadero stage road, past groves of oaks, madrones, alders and buckeyes to the redwoods near the summit. Passing Crystal Springs lakes to the summit there isa grand view of the ocean on one side and the bay and its surroundings on the other. From the summit one can swing along the lake and return down Belmont Canyon, the pret- tiest one on the peninsula and the old stamping-ground of Ralston and Sharon. Another fine drive is from Redwood City to Searsville, over the mountains to La Honda and San Gregorio, where there are as fine redwood forests as I have seen. These side trips would be enjoyed by many if the boulevard made this region popular and accessible.” —_———— THROUGH THE CITY. ProPosAL. To CONNECT GOLDEN GATE PARK WITH SaN JosE. The proposition to establish a boulevard between San Francisco and San-Jose is growing. It is growing more in San Fran- cisco than in any other direction, and the result will be a hali-dozen boulevards built within the limits of San Francisco that will connect with the main artery that will lead toward the foothills of San Mateo and the orchards and vineyards of Santa Clara. One has already been suggested, that of a connecting driveway from Golden Gate Park southward to the southern limits of the city at whatever point the main boule- vard shall start. Such a road would form a practical southern outlet from the park and pass through that section of the city which presents some grand views of the ocean and other scenery. Some of the property-owners along the route suggested have signified their willing- ness to grade and macadamize their por- tion of such a driveway as shall pass through their property. The owners of the jands through which the boulevard would run, in the order of their holdings, are: Mayor Sutro, the Spring Valley Wa- ter Company, J. P. McCarthy, W. M. Fitz- hugh, Sunnyside Land Company and va- rious property-owners at both ends of the line. The owners of property along the line who have already promised to build their share include the land from Laguna Honda on the north to Mayor Sutro’s land on the south. The proposition is to construct a boule- vard or driveway, beginning 2t the junc- tion of Seventh avenue with the park, to extend south on Seventh avenue to La- guna Honda, the 1ower lake of the Spring Valley water works. The line would then run, according to the surveys that have been made. along the west bank of the lake in a southerly course across the Market- street extension, continuing in that direc- tion along the Almshouse road through the Almshouse tract to a point where the Sar Miguel road reaches Stanford Heights. Thence the line runs east to Stanford continues south for half, a mile when it bears off to the east, forming an irregular semicircle for nearly a quarter of a mile, then proceeds south for another quarter mile, and again making an angle runs west nearly a quarter mile to the lands of Mayor Sutro. The survey indicates about a half mile, running directly west through Mayor Sutro’s lands and then a quarter mile south to Arlington_street, thence along that street to Ocean View. This route, of course, may be subjected to changes. but it has been selected witn the idea of combining certain economical advantages with superior scenic attrac- tions. The Almhouse road is now a beautiful driveway which only needs widening. Heights avenue, and turning a right angle [ Stanford Heights and Sunnyside avenues are broad streets, and the semicircle men- tioned will avoid an undesirable grade. 1f Mayor Sutro’s offer some two years ago to give the city a way through his land shall be accepted along this proposed boulevard that will leave only about a mile and a half of the entire five miles which the survey will measure to be built through the property owngd by individuals at each end of the line. As to scenic attractions and directness of connection of Golden Gate Park with the terminus of the proposed San Jose boule- vard there can be no question as to the superiority of this or a similar route. In fact if this proposition shall be accepted there will be no more beautiful driveway in the city, not excepting the Presidio. The views along this route are of the most varied. Shortly after leaving the park an elevation is reached that gives an extended view of the entire park, CLif House and the ocean beach on one side and a part of the city on the other. Furth'et along the driveway is secluded in a series of little ravines and dells as it runs through the Almshouse tract. Thence, passing through Stanford Heights avenue, a view of the Golden Gate, the ocean and the San Mateo hills on one side and the whole sweep of Oakland, Alameda and Berkeley is given. The next section is similar in its seclu- sion to the Almshouse road. Reaching a point a iittie northeast of the proposed new o o £ [ E u - o The heavy black line indicates the route of the proposed boulevard run- ning south. [From a photograph.] racetrack, the view broadens out, including a beautiful stretch from Lakeview to the ocean, over Lake Merced. If this route is not selected, then another to the west and ina more direct course may be selected. In either the object will be accomplished—the building of a drive- way from Golden Gate Park southward to meet theSan Jose boulevard. SANTA ROSA LAND SUIT AN OLD CITIZEN ACCUSED OF DEFRAUDING AN AGED BODEGA RANCHER. THE PLAINTIFF ALLEGES THAT AD- VANTAGE Was TAKEN oF His INFIRMITIES. SANTA ROSA, Car., March 28.—Suit has been brought by John M. Chenoweth, an old citizen of Bodega, against Eben Skaggs, an old citizen of this city, charging Skaggs with having defrauded Chenoweth of an 80-acre farm near Bodega and $500 worth of personal property in a trade recently made between them. Chenoweth claims that Skaggs traded him a Lake County farm and real estate at Windsor and Santa Rosa, which he rep- resented as very valuable, but which Chen- oweth saysproves not to be worth a quarter as much as represented. Chenoweth asks the court to declare the contract void, to cancel the deeds which passed between them, and to restore him his property. He is an old man, nearly 80 years old, and claims Skaggs took ad- vantage of his infirmities. SANTA ROSA WATER BONDS CASE. Long Litigation in Prospect Over the New Water-Works Proposition. SANTA ROSA, Can., March 28.—The city of Santa Rosa has filed its answer in the matter of the suit of J. M. Jones against the city, bronght to test the valid- ity of the new bonds for the construction of new water works and the contract entered into with Robert Effey of Santa Cruz to constract the same. The case will be tried before Judge Buckles of Solano County, as Sonoma County Judges refused to try it, on the ground that, as taxpay- ers, they are interested parties to the suit. A bill was passed in the Legislature which was designed to help the city in this litigation, but the Governor vetoed the bill. There is a bitter feeling here over the litigation involying the new water-works roposition, and it will cost thousands of oll‘;ars before the matter is ended. et Rain Needed in Arizona. TUCSON, Awrrz., March 28.—Rain is badly needed throughout Southern Ari- zona. The ranges are dry and in some “places the cattle are suffering greatly. TWO-FARE BILL DIES, Governor Budd Puts It in His Official Pocket. SOUTHERN PACIFICPLEAS Strong'Efforts by the Officers of the Company to Save the Measure. THE FPXECUTIVE REMAINS FIRM Resists Strong Pressure Brought to Bear to Induce Him to Sign the Document. SACRAMENTOQ, Car., March 28.—As- sembly bill 702 is dead. Despite the argu- ments brought to bear Governor Budd failed to recognize that the bill would ben- efit the people. W. H. Mills of the land department of the Southern Pacific Company and W. F. Herrin, who engineers the law business of the same corpOration, were closeted with the executive the major portion of the forenoon and endeavored to impress upon the Governor that it was his duty to sign the bill, and this afternoon he announced that the measure had been shoved down to the uttermost depths of the official pocket, | where resurrection is impossible. Under the old law it was possible for any competing road to run for five consecutive blocks on any street with an opposition line, and by making a circuit of a block return to the same street for five more con- secutive blocks, but bill 702 eliminates the | word ‘“consecutive’’ and opposition lines are allowed to run only five blocks in any street occupied by any existing street-car company’s line. MAYOR SUTRO HEARS THE NEWS. Approves Governor Budd’s Action in Pocketing the Bill. Early last evening Mayor Sutro called up the Carn by telephone, to learn what he might concerning the disposition of Assembly bill 702, the ‘‘double-fare bill,” as it has been called, so anxious was he to know its fate. The CaLL promised to let him know as soon as any news was re- ceived, and when .the message came from Sacramento, saying that the Governor had pocketed the bill, the message was re- peated over the telephone to Sutro Heights. “Is it absolutely certain?’ inquired the Mayor. “The Governor has said it,”” was the an- swer. “Then bully for the Governor,” came back over the wire. “This one act,” continued the Mayor, ‘‘is enough to signalize the administration of Governor Budd. Nobody knows the pressure he has had to resist to do this thing. All the power of the Southern Pa- cific has been brought to bear upon him. The Governor’s signature to that bill would have been worth millions of dollars to the company. “Mr. Mills and Mr. Herrin, the rail- road’s agenp and-atterney, are in Sacra- mento now, and have been for some time, using every argument and bringing every influence that they could call up to induce the Governor to sign the bill, and the fact that the Governor has turned his back upon them should call for cheers from every good citizen of the State to know that we have a Governor for the people. Bully for the Governor! I shall sleep sounder for knowing this.” THE WORK IS DONE. Governor Rudd Signs the Last Bill and Pockets Many Others. SACRAMENTO, March 28.—Senate bill 100, which authorized the payment of J. J. Conlin’s claim by the city of San Fran- cisco, had the honor of being the last bill signed by Governor Budd to-night. It was a close call for that particular measure, and it took the unanimous voted request of the Board of Supervisors of the Bay City to procure the bill’s signature. After signing the measure the Governor turned to Senator Mahoney and said: *‘Senator, I signed that bill, but it had the closest shave of any that has received my signature.” At this moment Attorney Herrin of the Southern Pacific Company stepped to the Governor’s side and said: “Now, Gov- ernor, about that bill”— “Presumably Assembly bill 702?” inter- rupted the Governor. “T shall not sign it. No, sir; I shall not sign it. I don’t con- sider it constitutional.” Mayor Steinman of Sacramento also at- tempted to enlist his Excellency’s atten- tion to a claim bill, but without success, for the Governor, placing his hands on the Mayor’s shoulders, said: *‘See here, Ben, visit me when you please, but don’t ask me to sign another bill, for I will not do it. The last one is signed.” Following are the Assembly bills signed to-day: A. B. 617—The general appropriation bill. A. B.G81—To establish the fees of county, township and other offices, of jurors and wit- nesses. A. B. 682—Authorizing the Capitol Commis- sloners to improve the streets around the Cap- itol park, and appropriating $33,007 40. A. B. 575—T0 repeal the act relating to the collection of personal taxes in San Francisco and requiring counties, cities, etc., to conform to the Political Code. A. B.592—Relating to high schools. A. B. 889—Relating to elections. A. B.982—Relating to revenue and taxation. A. B.1026—Aljowing the Board of Examiners toreduce the claims allowed by the Legisla- ture. A.B. 335—Empowering the Mayor of San Francisco to appoint Election Commissioners. A. B.1013—Creating a Code Revision Com- mission and appropriating $31,200. The following Senate bills were signed: S. B. 100—Allowing claim of John Conlin of San Francisco, C. 8. 8. B. 2—Appropriating $1100 for the ar- rest of the murderers of A. H. Montgomery. 8. B. 806—Appropriating $30,000 for a rock- crushing plant at Folsom prison. 8. B. 213—Appropriating $20,000 for repairs and improvements at the Folsom State prison. 8.B. 798—To pay the claim of Cornelius Lyneh for $2500, : S. B. 417—Appropriating $6000 for tiling the first floor of the Capitol. 8. B. 544—To amend the penal code relating to alternate jurors. The following bills have died through lack of the Governor’s signature: 8. B. 587—Completion of compilation of State schoolbooks, £10,000. . A. B. 131 —For land adjacent to Folsom Prison, $4500. \ A. B. 418—Julius A. Hult, injured during the strike, $5000. A.B.262—Electricity for the San Jose Normal School, $300. _A. B. 19 — Heating Los Angeles Normal School, $6500. 4. B. 120—Completion of improvements at the Deaf, Dumb and Blind Asylum, $25,000. A. B. 930—John C. Pelton, $5000. A. B.954—Ventilation system for State Capi- tol, $25,000. A. B. 58—Establishing a Normal School at San Jose, $25,000. A. B. 540—To light the State Normal 8chool grounds at San Jose, $900. A. B. 861—Louizi Rienzi, $1377. A. B. 176—To quiet title. A. B. 280—Amending section 461, Code. A.B.959—To establish uniform system of county and municipal governments. A. B. 529—Watchman for State treasury. A. B. 152—Prevent short weight in butter. A. B. 930—John C. Pelton, §5000. A. B. 132—County fire insurance companies. A. B. 714—Drainage districts. A. B. 399—Building far the Woman’s Relief Corps Home Association. A. B. 627—Amending Political Code relating to quarantine. A. B. 461—Amending Code relating to Napa. A. B. 187—Additional building for the Southern Insane Asylum. A. B. 702—Fixing rate of fares on street railways. A. B. 710—Deficiency for transportation of insane. A. B.120—Equip the Deaf, Dumb and Blind Asylum, §$35,000. A.B. 114—To prevent display of foreign flags on public buildings. A."B. 937—Authorizing State agricultural societies to sell property. A. B. 335—Adding a new chapter to the Code relative to Boards of Election Commissioners. A. B. 271—Admitting Lloyd’s insurance asso- | ciations to do business in the State. A. B. 609—Amending section 16 as to sani- tary districts. A. B. 539—Substitute prevention cruelty to animals, A. B. 449—Substitute wagon road in El Dorado County. Following are the Senate bills pigeon- holed: : 8. B.762—Amending the code, adding section 60. 8. B. 328—Legal holidays. S. B. 763—Drainage districts. 8. B. 596—Prohibit poisoning of domestic an- imals in towns, 8. B. 223—Repealing section 13 of the code. S. B. 70—Sarah J. Wing, $5000. S. B. 424—Determine bond of Superintendent Dredges, 8. B. 329—Legal holiday. { .S B.707—Adopting the golden poppy as the | State flower. | 8.B.511—Amending code. S. B. 460—Amending code. 8. B. 566—Regulating sale of liquor. S. B. 752—Cruelty to animals. 8. B. 391—Amending Code relative to em- ployes of Legislature. 8. B. 653—Philip Bauer, $5,000. S. B. 330—Legal holiday. 8. B, 147—Amending code. S. B. 235—Cruelty to animals. §. B. 402—Recording maps. B. 780—Agnews Insane Asylum £5000. . B. 758—To secure freedom of speech in rts of justice. . B. 95—Secure employment for ex-Union diers. . B. 199—TIrrigation aistricts. . B. 129—To erect an administration build- 159,280. . 162—To pay Edwin I. Cord. . 86—Women’s rights. . 42—Street-improvement honds. —Amending Penal Code. . 152—State Normal Sehool at Chico. [ wSmn £ wm 5 R S Hw ) S, 8. 8. | S.B.184—Amending code. S. B.20—Conditional sale of railway stock. S. B. 89—County insurance compenies, 8. B. 36—To pay elaim of D. Jordan. 8. B. 270—Defrauding innkeepers. 8. B. 338—Amending section 241 of the code. 8. B. 208—Uniformity of legislation in the United States. S. B. 233—Sale of personal property. 8. B. 504—Coyote scalps unpaid for. 8. B. 550—To pay George H. Tay Co. 8. B. 194—Additional buildings for school at Ione. S.B. 843 igable streams. S. B. 888, 862, 846, 893 and 890—Amending the code. FOLSOM ROCK-CRUSHING PLANT. The Bill That Provides for It Signed by the Governor. SACRAMENTO, Car., March 28.—Senate bill 806 also escaped the Governor’s veto and has become a law. It provides for the establishing of a rock-crushing plant at Folsom Prison to be operated by convict labor and the power that is controlled by the prison directors. The rock crushed by the plant is to be used for road-building purposes and sold for that purpose at an advance of 10 per cent on the actual cost of manufacture. It is hoped that by furnish- ing good road material at the low price of the cost of production by convict labor it will tend to promote the building of good roads throughout the State. The bill is the outgrowth of the good roads convention that met in this city prior to convening of the Legislature. There is a proviso in the measure which states that when the Governor, State Prison Directors and Bureaun of Highways are satisfied that highway material to the amount of 50,000 cubic yards shall be taken for road purposes, the plant shall be estab- lished. Arrangements are being made by the City Trustees of Sacramento to order at least 30,000 cubic yards of this material for the purpose of macadamizing certain streets within the city limits, and it is rumored that the city of Stockton will re- quire a like amount. Should such be the fact the plant will shortly be established. The signing of Assembly bill 682, appro- priating $33,007 40 for the improvement of the streets surrounding the State capitol building, has met with the approbation of the main portion of the residents of Sacra- mento city. The citizens are proud of the State capitol building. They boast of its beantifully kept surroundings and are delighted with the measure that will add to those attractions. Folsom prison also fared well in the ap- propriations that were favorably considered by Governor Budd to-day. Senate bill 213 provides that $20,000 shall be apportioned for the completion of the convicts’ dining- room, officers’ and guards’ quarters and the furnishing of the same. This appro- priation was necessary. The bill also pro- vides that all bills of supplies for the work, after being audited by the prison directors, must be passed upon hy the State Board of Examiners. This is also necessary. THE JORDAN CLAIM POCKETED. There Were Too Many Frills on the Bill to Suit the Gavernor. SACRAMENTO, Car., March 28.—The Jordan claim as embodied in Senate bill 36 has been treated by Governor Budd in the same manner it has been treated by his predecessors. It has been pocketed. The bill was not signed for the reason that there was a certain amount attached which he did not favor, and also for the reason that it contained a ‘‘whereas” clause, making any bill passed by the Board of Examiners in the future a law. However, both the Governor and Attorney- General promise to re-examine the bill at any time upon application, . It is stated that Jordan offered to give a certified bond in the sum of $100,000 to have the bill placed before the Board of Examiners for examination and curtail- ment, accept the amount they would grant and give a receipt in full to the State if the bill was signed and liquidated.. This prop- osition was also submitted to the Attorney- General, but he was compelled to report adversely on that proposition also, for ac- cording to the statutes if the bill was signed the entire amount must be paid. Tfia' Governor expressed much reeret be- cause he wag compelled to pocket the measure. He terms it a just claim killed by too many attachments,” The amount of the claim is §75,000. Langley’s Directory has 2594 more names than the opposition. Out Monday. - THE COLMA GARDENS, Enormous Production of the Fertile Subur- ban Hills. JUST OVER THE LINE Where Cabbages and Potatoes That Are Sold in Chicago Are Grown. NEAR THE NEW BOULEVARD. Something About the Promising Little Town From Which Big Wagons Go Forth. COLMA, March 28.—Few San Francisco | people eat their vegetables with much knowledge of where they come from. To | see vegetables, carload after carload of them, one four-horse wagon after another creaking under tons of them and hundreds | of acres of rolling hillsides presentinga | vegetable mosaic, one must go to Colma. | This little suburb of San Francisco, a | little south of the county line, is the center of the city’s chief vegetable supply. The village lies a mile or more from the ocean, | nestling in a valley two miles wide, which ‘r runs from the beach at Lake Merced sasterly between the beginnings of the | Santa Morena Mountains and the San f R. S. Thornton, one of Colma’s enter- | prising citizens. i [From a photograph.) | | Bruno Mountains. Then the valley opens out on the bay and the plain that skirts the bay shore southward. Colma liesin | the pathway of nearly all the travel and traffic between the city and the rest of the peninsula. The town looks on ocean and | bay, and its pretty and convenient location is rapidly increasing its population. At the base of the San Bruno Mountains, a mile away,a great number of white gravestones cluster. At the base of the low Santa Morena hills, a little south of the town, the vegetable gardens begin. The 1500 acres of vegetables roll clear to the summit of the range. Just beyond the vegetables begin again and are strung clear down the San Pedro Valley. They are Italians who do all this garden- ing. Two or a dozen club together and lease ten to sixty acres at $10 an acre and work and live on a communistic plan. Macaroni is plenty in the frugal little homes, and they haul home in their empty wagons from the city quantities of cheap grapes in season and make their own wine. About thirty great wagons carrying two or three tons of vegetables come into Colma daily. From the San Pedro Valley six horses are used to Colma and most of the big wagons reach the city market in the small hours of the morning and in- crease the babel there before daybreak. But Colma feeds Chicago and Kansas City people too. During the winter and spring months 150 carloads of potatoes, J. Bryan of Colma, chairman of the San Mateo Board of SBupervisors. [From & photograph.] cabbages, turnips, etc., are shipped east from Colma monthly. Cheaper transpor- tation to Eastern markets would boom the Colma vegetable business. The father of the Colma vegetable busi- ness is R. C. Thornton, a large land- holder who for many years has leased to the gardeners their land. Mr. Thornton is one of Colma’s oldest and most enter- prising citizens, and he has lived there since 1852. He is now especially active in the plan to build the big boulevard which would vastly increase public acquaintance with the place and help-its progress. The better highway right down the coast from San Francisco to Halfmoon Bay, which the future will bring, will place Colma on the main route of travel in that direction too, and the place will grow with San Francisco. Jacob Bryan of Colma, one of the County Supervisors, has reeently been doing much to improve the roads near Colma. The town has a number of prem" houses and last year showed its en- terprise by issuing bonds for $15,000 and putting up a fine school building. —_— The Carson Mint Scandal. CARSON, NEv., March 28.—There are no new developments in the matter of the disappearance of $65,000 worth of gold bul- lion from the mint. Inspector Mason, who has been investigating the matter, said to- day that United States Attorney Jones had been consulted regarding the case. Jones declines 1o discuss the métter, saying tha the public would become acquainted wit) the facts in a short time. e AUBURN CLAIM-JUMPER SHOT. Placer Miner Glover Narrowly Escape, Death at an Unknown Person’s Hands. AUBURN, Can., March. 28.—A mayx named - Glover attempted to mine on 4 claim on the American River to-day, when he was frightened away after receivings scalp wound from a rifle ball fired by an unknown person. The wound is only slight, and when seen by the officers Glover refused to talk much | about the affair and claimed that he was | struck with a piece of quartz. | The affair occurred on the ground of one | Gomez, a Mexican. Grace, another Mex- ican, afriend of Gomez, is reported as say- | ing that a certain man was liable to get hurt if he attempted to mine in a certain locality. There seems to be a little mining excitement here and locations-are being filled thick and fast, every miner thinking he has a ‘bonanza and, of course, being watchful of it. e NEAR MARYSVILLE. ROBBERY Two Highwaymen Hold Up a San Fran- cisco Drummer in Daylight. MARYSVILLE, CaL.,, March 28.—Twa | highwaymen held up and robbed George Seekind, a well-known San Francisco trav- eler for a cigar-dealers’ firm, near this city this afternoon. The place where the robbery occurred is in the foothills on the Downieville road, about fifteen miles from this. eity. The two men, who were unarmed and un- masked, made a sudden attack on Seekind and had rifled his pockets of 0, when the rumbling of the Dowrieville ‘stage frightened them and they ran into the brush before having completed the loot of their victim's pockets. The constables in the neighborhood were notified and they are making efforts to capture the robbers. e STAGG'S MURDERERS. The Governor Offers a Reward of $500 for Their Capture. SACRAMENTO, CAL., March 28.—Gov= ernor Budd has offered a reward of $500 for the arrest and conviction of the murderers of Cornelius Stagg, who killed the latter on March 16 at his home, “The Ingleside,” near Lake Merced, San Francisco. T g S Foundered Off Guaymas. SAN DIEGO, Car., March 28:—Advices from Mazatlan are to the effect that the steamer Diego, formerly the Manuel Dub» lan, is believed to have foundered on the from Guaymas to La Paz. A steamer has left Guaymas to search for the Diego. The missing steamer was purchased here by Joaquin Redo Jr. and refitied. Captain H. C. Nelson was placed in command, and she took a cargo from San Frapcisco to Mazatlan, then entering the gulf trade. It is said here that the machinery of the Diego was weak. _— Debs Given a Cordial Reception. LOS ANGELES, Car., March 28.—Presi dent Debs of the A. R. U. arrived at 1:50 o’clock to-day and was given an enthusias- tic reception. He made an address to- night. He says he is not worried about matters in court at Washington. Truly Marvelous A Cure Seldom Equaled in Medical History All Other Treatment Failed—Hood’s Sarsaparilla Cured. “My wife sprained her ankle ten years ago. Itapparently got well to all outward appearance, it being a little larger than the other ankle, but in a few months three sores broke out on her knee, her ankle and foot. They became Large Running Ulcers And the doctor could not do anything to help. I then took my wife to the hospital and the surgeons scraped all the flesh round the sores, and said they would get well. They almost healed up, but soon two little specks came, one on each side.of the first sore. The doctors said they would not amount to anything, but in a few days they turned out to be more ulcers,-and in a short time they had eaten into the origi- nal sore and made a large wound. The surgeon next decided that an Operation Must Be Performed. My wife would not consent to this. I was about discouraged and decided to have her try a bottle of Hood’s Sarsaparilla. Be- sides giving her this medicine we bandaged her foot in steeped leaves and roots and continued this treatment for five months. At the end of that time she had taken eleven bottles of Hood’s Sarsaparilla, the sores were all healed and she is perfectly well. My wife is 52 years old and is in the best of health.” Josern C. Freesy, Long Beach, Cal. Postmaster Holman Of Long Beach, Cal., says he knows Mr., Freeby to be a man of his w_ord.nnd he believes his statement to be strictly true. Hood’s Sarsaparilla Is the Only True Blood Purifier And Spring Medicine. 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