The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 15, 1895, Page 11

Ry A A THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 1895. 11 ———— SILVER FORCES AT WA, Sibley’s Presidential Boom Not Favored by the State League. HOT FIGHT IN CONSEQUENCE. The Result Is Rebellion and Seces- sion in General Warner’s National Party. Instead of the great results for free coin- age almed at, the visit to California of Gen- eral A. J. Warzer of Ohio, head of the American Bimetallic party, and Congress- man Joseph C. Sibley of Pennsylvania, named by that organization for President 896, h: re been productive of National organization. The State Silver League had its inception 1 convention at Los Angeles Two months later a cau- t in Washington and ibley as the Presidential e silver movement for the The Btate League did not hod of choosing a candidate, was understood that General Mr. Sibley were to make a Pacific Coast, local bimetal- 2d their feelings until after the Metropolitan Temple last the preparations for that meet- was a not le coolness on the men identified with the league, the v member of ng any active part George P. one of the State Keeney then of his s n accepting an as- ip for the National e was given the alterna- ing nothing to do with ship or resigning his place on Mr. Keeney chose tne ns of antagonism toward s booming of Mr. Sibl d that e executive committee was es last Saturday after- e mafter was submitted upon whose recommenda rom and H. I. Willey were tive committee to repre- co, was one of the sub- It was a hard task for Mr. the ex an Franc ttee. commwittee, and after a struggle ed until 2 o’clock next 1mnorning ous rey ort was prepared by Mr, m which two of the five dissented. sport a lopted is very ecandid, ts out the entire plah by which Mr. y was to secure general indorsement ites all over the country. he committee had ‘‘examined requesting Joseph C. Sibley to te for President in 1896, ona tiorm of the American Bimet- C party. t seems that Mr. Sibley was to be put ward as the standard-bearer of the free- e ment in a man tein Ame poli- z Jacksonian revolt er ring methods r the caucus had , namer- gnatures t of each being ey to accept the ed to succeed da of General Warn League. General Warner ree and un- s in it, 1 plat it included eenbacks and nst the National i the issuance of any ds. goes further, nent of principles for free coinage he consent of any and, accordingly, the report upon issues which are stated in the following of the league's regular plat- e restoration of business to a cash a Nationsl currency equsl to 15 per c commerce of the gold and silver coins h shail be unlim- , public and_pri- laws forbidding the making of pri- s discriminefing against any part medium. ance of interest-bearing eace and no National banks uance of money in any man- ssue, nor the iss except by the National Governm me of the allusioi’s of the report to It characterizes the members of caucus as “‘persons claiming the ctate the party nomination” for t of the United States,” and ‘‘seek- a ision of the bimetallic party by a wrongful use of party machinery to force indorsement of the said candidate, regard- less of the wishes of others in the party as to what the issues should be when appeal- ing from the money power to the intelli- ence of the American people.” It plainly uates that the Warner-Sibley plan of er is dishonest, and says adherents are “‘evading a vital n of its tone: hey straddle the National bank question by ding to give the General Government the ve control over the issue and voiume aper money, when in truth their platiorm be fully complied with by ltn\'m% the ly e i and volume of paper money wholly in hands of the Netional banks, They at- 1pt to lead the peopie into the belief that se who are urging Mr. Sibley for the Presi- v are opposed 10 Government partnership d with Netional banking institutions that con- trol the eirculating medium at the pleasurc of their foreign stockholders. The committee therefore recommended the adoption of some plainly worded reso- lations condemning General Warner and Mr. Si nle;’; appealing to sister States to organize fike the California leagv: and to protest against the caucus method, and calling for a National convention of State leagues to meet at St. Louis March 16, 1896, to nominate candicates for President and % President. The resoiutions charge General Warner, as chairman of a “self- st National executive committee,” with “establishing rival organizations in this and other States to force the favorite of the condemned caucus upon the Ameri- can people.” i It all means that the California organi- zation Droposes to move from henceforth ndependently of General Warner and the National party, and that it will do its ut- most to bring about a National convention of its own in St. Louis next March, which, it hopes, will adopt a platiorm and nomi- nate candidates upon the lines it lays down. The resolutions are half apologized for by the statement of the committee just preceding them: that for the silver move- ment to succeed “it must be supported not only by our independent citizens through- ut the Union, but that many of our statesmen who may aspire to the Presi- dency must be enlisted in the cause, whereas if they unite against one man his case becomes hopeless and then, if he forces himself witl‘z’B the power of party ma- chinery, the whole movement sinks to a combination of office-seeking politicians, who, insulting the intelligence of Ameri- can citizenship, urge the election of their candidates regardless of the interests most dear to the people.”’ The report and its resolutions are to be ittee of five to report upon. | which was | \ersl Warner and Mr. Sibley are pretty | he following excerpt is an indi- | made the manifesto of the State league, and will bear the signatures of the execu- tive committee as follows: Enoch Pepper (chairman), Asa H. Tru- man, Willoughby Cole, Alva Udell, John A. Farnsworth, Cornelius Cole, George w. Knox, L. A. Sheldon, I. E. Messmore, L. W. French, H. 1. Willey, CharlesT. Pex- per, Thomas D. Poole, H. H. Savage, J. A. Cowell, John Robson and P. 0. Chilstrom. Cornelius Cole is the present National committeeman from Los Angeles. A BLOOK GUTTED. Destructive Fire on Turk Street, Near Leavenworth. A fire started in 316 Turk street yester- day shortly after 4 p. M. and an alarm was rung in from box 96. Painters were burn- ing the old paint off the walls preparatory to repainting the building, and it is sup- posed the fire was started through their carelessness. The flames ran along the walls and roofs of the adjoining building and the firemen had literally to flood them before al! danger was past. The buildings were occupied 316, Mrs. O'Keefe; 318 and 3 or; 320, Mrs. Buckley; Frances Olmsted; 314 is vacant. The oc- cupants were able to save-a portion of their personal effects, buttheir furniture was ruined. The buildings belong to the M. Heller estate. The loss will reach $7000. During the exciteraent a thief sneaked into Mrs. Buckley's house and stole a box containing diamonds and other jewelry belonging to Mrs. Wright, a dressmaker, who roomed there. A gasoline stove in 316 exploded during the fire, breaking the glass in the windows, and the noise scared the spectators. Rob- ert Langan of engine 17 fell off one of the buildings and sprained hisleft ankle, which was attended to at the Receiving Hospital. STATE BOARD OF TRADE, To Make an Exhibit at the Cotton Exposition in Georgia. The Board Will Try to Obtaln $7500 From the State for Expenses. The State Board of Trade met yesterday | afternoon, General Chipman presiding. Jolonel Irish, chairman of the immigra- | tion committeg, submitted a long report | showing the increase of population in this | State during the four years subsequent to | the United States census of 1590. He esti- mated the number of residents of the | State from the number of votes cast at the last election, allowing five residents for | each vote cast. The net increase was placed { by him at 214,610, making the totai popu- | lation of the State 1,422,240. The increase was divided among groups of counties as follows: Southern California group, 54,303 or 23.59 an*Joaquin_group, 39,498 or 34.90 ramento Valley group, 5 or ies, 27,605 or 12.12 Coast grou 494 or Foothills group, 26,587 or | | per _cent; : 19.08 per cen 87.5 percent. Colonel Irish estimated that with the | present rate of increase the population of | the State in 1900 would be 1,744,655. He | argued, however, that the era of renewed | prosperity which has just opened would | raise the total fig to 2,500,000. | The board ordere¢ the report to be | printed and insiructed the committee to make further investigations to_ascertain if possible to what particular industries the increase in population is due. ‘The board desires to send theé entire ex- hibit now at the board rooms to the Cotton Exhibition at Atlanta, Ga., and keep lec- turers there with it. | balance of the $25,000 appropriation made | by the Legislature for advertising the ate at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The board desires to use this balance, but is doubtful it it can lawfully {do so, and General Chipman was ap- pointed a committee of one to confer with the Attorney-General and the Secretary of State on that point. A plan for securing the money was pro- posed yesterday. Members of the board compiled a book which was printed for | iree distribution at the World’s Fair. | They charged nothing for their work, and it is now proposed that they present bills for the unused batance, and if the bills be allowed, turn the money over to the board for the purpose stated. The plan was | crystallized in a resolution, which was adyo ted withouta dissemin% voice. On motion of W.H. Mills it was re- solved that the Manufacturers’ Associa- | tion, the Chamber of Commerce, the | Produce Exchange, the Chamber of Com- | merce of Los Angeles, the Half-million | Club, the State Board of Horticulture, the | county Boards of Trade and the State | Agricultural Society be invited to co- | operate with the State Board of-Trade in | securing the exhibit of the State of Califor- | nia in Atlanta. | ™It ‘the exhibit be sent the railroad has | agreed to furnish transportation for it to | Atlanta and back free of charge. | G. W. Snyder of the Manufacturers’ | Association addressed the board, suggest- | ing that encouragement be given the culti- vation of tobacco in this State. The mat- | ter was referred to the commitiee on | industrial resources. | The deterrent effect on the investment of | foreign unyiml which has been caused b} | the alien land law constitutional amend- ment was discussed. The committee to ‘wh;ch the matter had been referred re- ported that there was no cause for aliens to i be alarmed, as no change had been made | in the laws. It was stated that the alarm was a fact, however, and the committee was requested to devise waysand means by | which the true status of alien land-owners | might be generally understood and thedis- tinction between merely alien owners and non-resident alien owners emphasized. Fay Butler, a theatrical man, submitted | a plan whereby California might be ad- vertised in the Eastern cities b{ means of a dramétic company. The plan was re- ferred to the proper committee. | Messrs. Emery, Maslin and McAfee were | appointed a committee to co-operate with the committee of the Mechanics’ Institute and the State Board of Trade to insure the success of the exhibitions of these or- ganizations. Secretary J. A. Filcher had telegraphed to the Secretary of Agriculture to inquire as to what damage had resulted to crops from the recent severe frosts in the East. The reply he received read: Michigen fruits slightly damaged in the cen- tral, lower and upper peninsula; Wisconsin fruits kil:ed in northern, injured severely in central Kuniom and strawberries slightly in- jured; Kansas fruits injured in central and western counties; Minnesota fruits consider- ably dsmaged; Nebraska {ruit siightly in- jured; Colorado crops dameged slightly, fruit uninjured; Wyoming fruits and vegetables damaged slightly. J.STERLING MORTON, Secretary. The secretary was instructed to make similar inquiries of the department fre- quently and to communicate all replies at once to each member of the board. The board adjourned to meet the second Tuesday in June. NEW SUITS FILED. Litigation Commenced by Parties Hav- ing Grievances. The A. Andrews Company has asked the Superior Court to declare its organization dissoived. Frederick Casse and his wife are suing Colombe M. Berger for $10,000 damages for personal injuries received by Mrs. Casse falling into a hole in the sidewalk opposite the premises at 713 McAllister street owned by defendant, whereby was occa- sioned the premature birth of a child, which was born dead. Samuel W. Latz has sued Louisa Green- hood for $380 for services performed by his wife for Leopold B. Gostorf, of whose will Louisa Greenhood is executrix. here is in the State | treasury the sum of $7500, being an unused | HOT AFTER LEVINGSTON, His Official Acts Reviewed by a Civic Federation Com- mittee. DEEDS OF BEASTLY DEPUTIES. Dr. C. C. O’'Donnell Tells What He Knows of the Management of the Morgue. The vigorous protest of R. Porter Ashe against the harsh language used by the Civic Federation in their struggle against the appointment by Governor Budd of a Board of Health that would choose Dr. Marc Levingston as Health Officer and Mr. Ashe’s demand for specific proof against his client and friend brought forth yester- day the following specifications of miscon- duct in office from the sgecm committee of the federation which has the matter in charge: Hon. J. H. Budd, Governor—DEAR Sie: The committee of the Civic Federation who pre- sented to you a respectful protest against the appointment of Dr. Marc Levingston to the position of Health Officer of this City, beg leave 1o submit the following facts in support of the protest: Dr. Levingston’s first official act as Coroner was the appointment of Sprecht and Simmons, two notorious Buckley lambs, as his chief depu- ties. His nexiact was to remove the Morgue trom Sacramento street, near police headquar- ters, to Mission street, adjoining to and connect- ing with W.J. Mallady’s undertaking establish- ment. Mallady hasbeen proved tohave given a note for $150 to “Long John” Wilkins to withdraw the name of Dr. Davis from the nomination for Coromer in favor of Dr. McAllister ina former campaign, who was togive the Morgue business to Mellady. After these acts Levingston went to Bacra- mento and remained for two months trying to lobby through the Legislature a bill giving him £20 for every autopsy, during all which time deputies Sprechtand Simmons signed certifi- cates of death and usurped the Coroner's functions, although without having the slight- est legal right in the matter. Dr. Meares, the Henlth Officer, and the Board of Health finally put an end to these unlawful practices, as can P& shown by the records of the proceedings of the Board of Health and the accounts in the newspepers of that time. We find it stated in ail the papers contem- poraneous to that date that Patrick Dunnigan, who committed suicide March 4,1883, was buried without an inquest, and about the same time a boy, who cut’ his throat, was buried without inquest; in the latter case Coro- ner Levingston's certificate stated that the boy died of hemorrhage of the lungs. The Board of Health compeiled_the Coroner, against his protest, to exhume the body and hold an in- uest. & 9% May, 1883, Chief Deputy Sprecht went to E. D. Knight, the superintendent of the Unjon- sireet Cable Railway Company, and now chief | engineer of the United States Mint in this city, and offered for the sum of $300 to pack a Coro- ner's jury. The case was thatof Charles Heusch, who | had been killed by the Union-street cable-cars, | and Levingston’s deputy agreed.in the pres- | ence of officers whom Knight had seereted in | his office, to fix & jury who would bringinsa verdict of exoneration. We refer for evidence of the last transaction to Mr. Knight, to Chil to the Chronicle of May 17, . About May 12, 1883, Lottie Hunsinger took | poison in the bachelor apartments of amillion- |aire in this city. Her body wes unlawfully | taken from the Morgue to a private undertak- 1 ment and every effort made on | part to smother the scandel and | sesist the millionaire. The girl's mother and { friends b done of our members that | much mon 1sed by the millionaire, and this was openly charged at the time and it be- | came a matter of common notoriety. | “A ‘man was accidentally killed and his body, | after being handled by the Coroner, was given to Undertaker Mallady and by the latter buried. | The man’s widow charged that Mallady was robbing her in his charges for burial, and on her statement & meeting of the San Francisco Undertakera® Associntion was called. Mailady appeared before that bodyand openly and pub- licly stated that he could notreturn the money to the widow as he had been obliged to pay it to Coroner Levingston. The court records in the case of Millionaire | McLaughlin, who committed suicide, show that Mallady charged $1000 for embalming the body. Objection was made to this and Mal- | lady appeared_in Judge Murphy’s court and testified that he was only permitted to retain | £200; the remainder was given to Coroner Ley- | ingston. H. B. McAvoy, & respectable under- | taker of this city, whose place of business is on | Fifth, near Market, {s authority for the state- | ment. | As for the statements of vile and indecent treatment of the bodies of unfortunates itwas of common notoriety and was so treated by the | press, newspaper men declaring that the de- | tails of the Morgue orgies were oo hideous for publication. Otto tum Suden, & grncmlng attorney of this City, was present when Levingston's depu- ties kicked dead bodies about the Morgue. A Chronicle resoner says that & body was bru- | tally sthipped in the presence of a gang of | Buckley roughs, one of them remarking: “If the —— —— —— knew what would happen to him he would not have killed himself,” and | Mallady responded, “Yes, he's in purgatory now.” The Morgne was in such a filthy eondition during Levingston’s administration that Dr. Bloch refused to make an autopsy until the Morgue was cleaned. | Finally: The committee desires to call your attention to the fact that Dr. Levingston’s reputation is and was a matter of common notoriety. General bad reputation cannot be established by specific acts, even in a court of ice. That Dr. Levingston's general reputa- ion is and was bad nobody can deny. Hisad- ministration was & stench in the nostrils of the whole community. He attained the bad emi: nence of notoriety as & corrupt politician and as an ineflicient and careless public officer. The specific acts that we have recited could not of the: 1ves hi given Dr. Levingston nis unenviable reputation. Others beyond the reach of this committee are also the foundation upon which his character for badness rests, he absolute belief of San Francisco in Dr. Levingston’s generzl unfitness for public office is the most severe charge that can be brought against him, and should be an insuperable obstacle to his appointment by you. Christopher A. Buckley has been charged with felonies too numerous to mention, yet no Grand Jury has ever been able to bring him to trial. Nevertheless this committee holds that that fact would be no good reason for appoint- ing him & Harbor Commissioner. the fact that Dr. Levingston has not been convicted of crimes laid at his doorisnota reason why they should appoint him to office. The wishes of San Frencisco and her citizens should be considered in this matter, as the Board of Health and its officers constitute & part of the government under which they live and which so nearly affects their interests. It would be an outrage upon them to eppoint either Buckley or Leviugston to office. Each belongs to the same class, and therefore it was that the Civic Federation protested against the appointment of Levingston end declared that such an act would be s p‘ibbic lamity. MAN, GEORGE T. GADEN, E. R. DILLE, 5 . GILBERT DEXTER. Governor Budd and Mr. Ashe will each receive a copy of the letter, and it is ex- pected thatthe Governor's decision con- cerning the question whether or not his aPpointees shall be those who will proba- bly tender Dr. Levingston the position of Health Officer will be made public within a very few dl%!. Dr. C. C. 0'Donnell expresses himself as highly indignant to think that Dr. Leving- ston should aspire to the position of Healt Officer. He also objects to having that gentleman compared to himself. Dr. 0'Don- nell said : “Levingston talks about turning over $61,000 of money found on the ies of subjects. He doesn’t say, though, that that sum consisted almost entirely of certified checks for large sums found on the bodies of McLaughlin_and Blythe. Why, his former deputy will tell how even the cloth- ing of the unknown dead was sold to deal- ers in old clothes. “Malladv,the undertaker tojwhose estab- lishment Dr. Levingston moved the morgue, told me he bad to give Levin, ston $5000 for that privilege. He bragge: to me, too, that when he buried a pn:rr in the potter’s field, he used a coffin with afalse bottom so that the same coffin conld be used again and again, being low- ered; relieved of its bottem plank and then raised and carried back to the morgue. Then, too, everybodg will remember my finding a great number of bodies off Long Bridge where they had been dumped by anlady 10 avoid the expense of burial.” Dr. O’Donnell spoke of his election. He said that though all the men voting for him had to write his name on their tickets, he had received 29,000 votes. Dr. Leving- ston, who was Coroner at the time,receive only a few over 3000. ed, in- dicated the estimation in ) Levingston was held at the end of his first term. “Just the same,” concluded Dr. O’Don- nell, I think Dr. Levingston will be ap- pointed. Soon aiter the Governor's elec- tion Dr. Levingston told me he was to be Health Officer. 1 asked him how he knew. He said that he had received the promise of it from Governor-Budd, who was his personal friend. I am afraid the Governor will keep his word.” Dr. O'Donnell referred to J.J. Groom, who was formerly Dr. Levingston’s deputy and his own, for proof of his statements. Mr. Groom last night said that he had not known Dr. Levingston to do anything for which he could be held accountable. The indignities offered to the dead and the hols ms of bodies, he said, was the work of the undertakers alone. In speaking of Dr. Levingston’s political affiliations, Max Popper “seemed to be amused at Mr. Levingston’s declaration of enmity for ex-boss Buckley. Mr. Popper echoed the remark of another Democrat that, “‘Levingston was one of Buckley’s sins,” and said: “I was chairman of the convention thavnominated Dr. Levineston. 1 assure you that I had notl:nn%1 more to do with the nomination than the man in the moon. Buckley put up a slate and it went through and Dr. Levingston was part of the slate. We almost succeeded in breaking it once, but did not succeed. As 1 remember it, in their disgust over thirty delegates in the convention voted for 0’Donnell on the final ballot.” e NOT A VERY FLUSH YEAR, The Southern Pacific Com- pany’s System Went Be-~ hind in Earnings. Yet the Shrinkage Was Only 5.61 Per Cent Upon the Income of 1894. The annual report of the Southern Pa- cific Company, its proprietary companies and leased lines for the year ending De- cember 31, 1894, was issued yesterday. It makes a large volume of 130 pages, replete with statistics on finances and important transactions of the various lines during the year. The proprietary lines are the Southern Pacific Railroad companies of California, Arizona, New Mexico, South Pacific Coast Company, Northern California Railway Company, Northern Railway Company, Morgan’s Louisiana and Texas Railroad and Steamship Company, Galveston, Har- risburg and San Antonio, Louisiana West- ern, Texas and New Orleans, Gulf, Western Texas and Pacific and New York, Texas and Mexican Railway Company. The leased lines are the Central Pacific, Oregon and California Railroad and California Pacific. The total length of lines ogeuted isas follows: Proprietary, 4488 miles; leased, 2175.49; total, 6664.01. This shows an in- crease of 50.33 miles during the past year. The miles of road owned by the affiliated companies aggregate 1268.31, making a grand total of 7932.52 miles. From the voluminous reports a concise summary is given under the head of “General re- marks,” which show the earnings and ex- penses for 1894 of all lines constituting the Southern Pacific Company’s system, as follows: Average miles of road operated. 7,810.69 $50,91! 83,831,278 41 586,879 03 684,682 61 Gross transportation earnings Operating expense Earnings over operating expenses. $17,! Rentals and other receipts.... Total receipts over penses Taxes.. Trackage and other rentals $1,242,114 80 1,357,688 09 Interest on bonded debl 260,596 96 Other payments. 4,736,888 46 ... $16,595,968 41 Earnings......... $1,676,508 23 Income from investments owned by 8. P. Co..... 371,081 40 Due from O. & C. 541,355 71 Balance earnings......... . $2,587,985 34 Betterments and additions charged £0 CADIA] ACCOUNL. ...vevveeveesns $1,258,017 86 The earnings over all expenditures amount to $1,474,783 45. The shrinkage in gross earnings averaged 5.61 per cent, and balance earnings shrunk $147,572 17, PACIFIC - COAST - FARM, News of the Orchards and the Vineyards of the State. What Is Being Done in Preparation for the Approaching Harvest. Noah Coblentz of Lodi has cleared as much as $600 a year off one acre of straw- berries. o The Los Angeles Times says: This is a great year for beemen. The last rains will keep the white sage. blooming, the bloom of which bees love so much, and which makes such excellent honey. Just now the honey-makers are as busy as bees. In the tunnel of the Grapeland irriga- tion district a flow of 600 inches of water has been developed and it is believed that the volume can be increased to 1500 inches. The system is formedjunder the Wright law and when completed will cost $200, —Moreno Indicator. Bee-keeping causes but little hindrance to the work of the main crops, and itis not sufficientl; ’Auxagreciawd. America pro- duces about 25,000,000 pounds of honey and 1,000,000 of wax, all worth $6,000,000. Most of this is from clusters of but a few hives, and is scattered over many States. A.M. Aldrich of Riverside has planted out a young orange orchard, and in order to derive revenue from his land while the trees are coming to bearing age, he has forty-one rows of strawberry plants run- ning the full length of his forty-rod field, and he expects to sell over 500 bushels of berries this season. The recent rains in the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys have caused great re- joicing among the farmers. Good crops are assured now, says the Eureka Standard. The recent frost nearl{ destroyed the apricot crop, but did little damage to other fruits. California can now look for- ward to a bountiful harvest. R. J. Hipwell and G. 8. Wood, of On- eonta, are harvesting forty acres of barley in the exact southwest corner of the United States, and it goes about two tons of ha; to the acre—which is not much, but more barley than can be produced on the same number of acres in any of the other three corners of the United States.—San Diegan-Sun. A large ugly-looking destroyer of vegeta- tion resembling the tobacco worm has showed up in some of the unpruned and neglected vineyards east of Dinuba and is devouring the foliage of the vines at a rapid rate, says the Traver Advocate. So far it has only been seen where the vine- yards were not gmnld. but they will bear watching lest they take in others also. Probably a few days of hot sunshine would be a blessing just now. The canneries of Oalifornia annually pack 1,500,000 cases of all kinds of fruit and \ A Fine Trade For You— AUCTION SALES. S HiMNC, REAL ESTATE AGENTS RUCTIONEERS 1\ MONIORIR 57 . S F We have some lots to sell at Auction TO-MORROW (Thursday, the 16th inst.). the Trustees of the Baird Estate. The sale is by order of The terms are 25 per cent cash and the balance in one, two and three : years. The lots front on Haight, Waller,. Lott streets and Masonic avenue. We will trade you one or all of these lots for any sum you name if you will drop into our salesroom, 10 Montgomery street, at I2 o’clock to-morrow. BALDWIN & HAMMOND, Auctioneers. from 300,000 to 500,000 cases of vegetables, | certain lines of seed raising, floriculture | chief among which are tomatoes, peas and asparagus. The total value of the pack is | about $5,000,000. Of the fruits, 200,000 cases are annually shipped to England and | other foreign countries, and the balance is | consumed in the home market, great quan- tities going East by rail and water. Much progress is being made with olive culture in Southern California, and the fruit is being planted as far north as Mer- d. The olive thrives in many parts of the San Joaquin Valley, and there are a number of small orchards in the vicinity of Fresno. It is a valuable crop and though it takes somewhat longer to mature than others, the grower is well repaid for his time, trouble and money when the trees | come into bearing. The olive industry is one that should be diligently fostered in California, for it will aid materially in building up the State.—Stockton Mail. By the way, how many farmers have secured sacks? asks the Colusa Sun. Itis not prudent to let the date of sack ship- ment go by without having secured half the number judged by the present out- look. Prison sacks can now be secured for about 4 cents, nor is all the money for the engagement necessary to be paid. It is now high time to begin to secure sacks. After the time has passed when shipments of sacks can be made, it will be easy to form a combine if it becomes known thata large percenué;e of what will be needed remains unsold. In reply to the query, “When should bees begin to breed in the spring?” asked in the American Bee Journal, Mrs. L. Harrison said: *The bees are the best judges of the time. Keep your bees strong. ive them food if they are short of stores and leave the rest to them.” Professor A. J. Cook says: ‘‘As soon as the pollen isin the flowers. In some seasons this is | too early. On the average I find bees should be out and rearing brood as soon as they begin to collect.” Mr. Mahon an- swered : That would depend upon climate and circumstances. I would not care to have them breed before the spring is sufficiently advanced for them to have frequent flights.” The immediate remedy for hard times in the San Joaquin Valley is diversity of crops, less attention to specialties, more to productions that will supply the family or find a local market. There is more profit to the producer in two dozen egfs or in a spring chicken than in a bushel of wheat. hatis wanted is less wheat, less wool more butter and cheese, more eggs md chickens and more hogs. bn.li(ormn should supply its own people with everythin needed in the way of farm products, an yet milllions of dollars are taken annually irom the State in payment for hams, bacon, salt pork, cheese. eggs and poultry, {for the production of which no special skill or exceptionally favorable conditions are uired.—Lovell White in Bakersfield ifornian. Some valuable, sound advice is given by Professor Charles H. Shinn of the Uni- versity of California with reference to the horticultural prospects of Kern Valley in the Bakersfleld Californian. The sugges- tions of that eminent expert will be read with profit by horticulturists of every part of the State. Professor 8hinn says: “We are slowly learning, after many mistakes, that every portion of California has its own fitness for some industry, and that no portion of our loved common- wealth is without immense resources. “The horticulturist in Kern Valley must deal with very rich, very rapid growth, very warm summers and considerable frost in the winter, at least over large areas. These elements point_plainly to certain classes of products, and, as markets widen, especially indicate vegetables, fiber plants, deciduous fruits, grapes, certain berries— whatever, in brief,-can rest in winter and responds quickly to extraordinary stimuli in summer. hy not peanuts and pea- nut oil? Why not concentrated vegetable roducts for armies and city dwellers? hy not whole rivers of sugar? And, with a population in California, not rice, cotton and tobacco? A hun- wh dns other horticultural products will s:fii themselves; one aiter another receive attention and prove more or profitable. Nevertheless, the great devel- opment of Kern Valley will long progress on the lines of the more useful staples of horticulture. I should expect the Santa Clara, Napa and Sonoma valleys and a thousand lovely nooksof the Coast Bu.nf; to surpass Kern Valley for many years ana specialized fruit products. But in many deciduous fruits, vegetables, ete., I should not be surprised to see that the vast bulk of the supply before very long was from Kern Valley and similar districts. “My advice to the horticulturists of Kern | would be to aim at producing the food | supply of the United States in those lines to which the valley is best adapted by na- ture. Produce middle-class sup%lies in unlimited quantities, at less price than any other district can produce them. Carry manufacture as far as practical within your own district, but do not forget the single aim of supplying the American midale-class man and _the American laborer with cheap food. Make Bakersfield a terminal point. Put Bakersfield dried peaches, prunes, blackberries, okra, toma- toes in every cabin three times a day. Send them to distant frontiers, to the railroad-builders of Southern Siberia and the prospectors along old Phenician trails in Africa. In the long run the world pays tribute to those who feed it. Temporary depressions pass and wealth pours in upon the productive districts. The lands of Egypt, or Assyria, or Asia Minor, are no more fertile than Kern Valley. “‘No horticultural industry is really over- dore in America to any greater extent than are other industries. There always seems to be a surplus of doctors and law- yers and yet the active, capable ones man- age to hold on and grm'iua ly better them- selves. In every line of business the care- less observer sees no gaps, but other men come along and make places. It is the same in horticulture, excepting that for many years to come the prospects for in- telligent horticulturists will not lessen, but rather increase. In every district, how- ever, horticulture must most painstakingly adapt itself fo local conditions, and so in the course of time California will become an epitome of the horticulture of almost the entire North Temperate Zone. The law of the growth of cities, which has held good elsewhere in America, will hold 500(1 here also, and we_shall have to feed cities like New York, Phila- delphia and Boston within the limits of this imperial California.” Over 1800 carloads of oranges have been shipped East from Riverside to date this season. Orange orchards in bearing in this valley will give their owners from $100 to $500 per acre. We hear of many yielding from $150 up.—Pomona Times. Experienced prune-growers contemplate discarding low-grade fruit, claiming there is no profit in it, and that the sale of the better grades is injured by placing it on the market. The Rhizobius ventralis, the parasite which was introduced from Australia b the State Board of Horticulture at muc! expense to work the destruction of the black scale in our orchards, has apparently | not fulfilled the expectations, as from the | e e ac 2 3 LAVANA CICARS CLEAN. In no other product of to- bacco is such scrupulous at- tention given to cleanliness in manufacture. No dirt, no dross, no drugs. A pure, natural-flavor Ha- vana. 10c, 2 for 25¢, 3 for 25c—according to size. horticulture ! southern counties of the State comes a de- mand_ for something better than the Rhizobius to destroy the scale. Perhaps the parasite is being judged too speedily. Orchards hayve become so foul from the | ravages of the black scale that in many places oranges must be cleaned with brush and water before they can be shipped and {Sncked. Experiments in San Bernardino ounty show that the purssite has no ap- preciable effect upon the scalc. There is a native bug in this State, called the twice-stabbed ladybug, that i. <0 fond of the black scale, but which is of but little use, as the scale will breed the faster and overrun an orchard in spite of the ladybug. This ladybug is about twice the size of the Rhizobius ventralis and has a red spot on each wing, while the Rhizobius is small and entirely black. From the ap- pearance of the two red spots the ladybug has received the name of the twice-stabbed ladybug. Emile Zola the Eminent Writer says of THE IDEAL TONIC: « It is the Elixir of Life which combats human debility and gives Vigor, Health and Energy”’ Mailed Fl'eel Descriptive Beok with Testimony and Portraits OF NOTED CELEBRITIES. ble. 'roves Reputation. Benejicial and A, Every Test Avold Substitutions, Ask for¢Vin Mariaal® At Druggists and Fancy Grocers. MARIANI & CO., Jams: 1 B¢ Hemmmons, B2 W. 1682 58, Now Tork, DELINQUENT SALE NOTICES. ELINQUENT SALE NOTICE — GOLDEN Eagle Mining Company—Location of principal place of business, Ban Francisco, California; loca~ tion of works, Devils Gate Mining District, Lyon County, Nevada. Notice—There are delinquent upon the following gescribed stock, oz account of assessment (No. 1y levied on the 'Sth day of January, 1895, the several amounts set_opposite the names of the re- spective sharekolders, as follows: ount. $1,500 00 3,000 00 150 00 1560 00 150 00 150 00 75 00 3,000 00 1,185 00 3 149 25 And in accordance with law, and an order from the Board of Directors. made on the eighth day of Janoary, 1895, s0 many shares of Sach patel of such stock as may be necessary, will be sold at pub- lic suction at the office of the company, room 50, N street, San evada Block, No. 339’ Montgome Francisco, Caiifornia, on MONDAY, the fourth day of March, 1895, at the hour of 2 0'Clock P. M of sald day, o pay seid delinguent asscasment hervon, (ogsther \with costa of advertising aud ex- o cees E. B. HOLMES, Secretary. Office—Room 50, Nevada Blook. No. 309 Monts gomezy street, San Francisco, California. POSTPON Y =NT, Notice is hereby given that by order of the Board of Directors the data of the salé of delingnent scock for assessment No. 1 is hereby 0 MON- DAY, the S5tk iy of March, 4. D. 1895, i the ‘same'time and place. PIAC® g B. HOLMES, Secretary. GOLDEN EAGLE MINING COMPANY. FURTHER POSTPONEMENT. Notice is hereby given that by order of the Board of the sale of delinquent stock for assessment No. 1 is hereby further postponed to WEDNESDAY, the 24th day of April, A. D. 1885, at the same time lndfihl:e. E. B. HOLMES. Secretary. FURTHER POSTPONEMENT. Notice Is hereby given that by order of the Board of Directors the date of sale of delinquent stock for assessment No. 1 s hereby turther postponed # TUESDA‘\I';‘QQ 14th day of May, A. D. 1895 at e th place. e E. B. HOLMES, Secretary. FURTHER POSTPONEMENT. Notice I3 herel of Directors the nt No. 1 is hereby furthe assessme; er pos:poned to MONDAY, the third day of June, A. D. 1895, at the same time and place. E. B. HOLMES, Secretary.