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4 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, AUGUST 19, 1895. FAMED CARSON HILL, ¥The Great Storehouse for ‘the “Mother of Gold.” ITS FABULOUS RICHES. All Quartz Veins Pour Their Treasures Into Its Bosom. FAIR'S LIFELONG VENDETTA Mountains of Ore and Limitless Power Invite the Cupldity of Man. [Special Correspondence of THE CALL.] ANGELS, Cari, Aug. 7.—Carson Hill is sbout four miles southeast of Angels. All wiens 1n this-district lead to it as all roads léd to Rome. From its apex one can trace the croppings converging to its common center as.the spokes to a hub. Beyond, a| snile or so as the bird flies, and 600 to 800 | feet below, the Stanislaus is working along | dts narrow The scene is pleasing | as a landsi iring to the min- ing ent Great ridgesand bowlders - of guartz protrude on every hand. East, svest, north and south, parallel, agona_l- 1y and at right angles, are the plain evi- t this is the great storehouse for tk mother of gold. | Hill proper is about three- of amile long and one-quarter of e, and the elevation above the laus I shoald judge to be from 500 800feet. It is practically all vein mat- ing composed of veins, bunches and sers of quartz of all shapes and sizes, slate and‘talc intermixed. It is tlaimed the whole mass would pay to mill, gnd from the history of its superficial workings the claim seems well founded. From ‘Angels to Carson Hill, along all the parallel veins, every foot is covered by & location or patent. The hill is covered with claims three or four deep, reaching from the apex to the base on either side. Beyond it to the Stanislaus there is no unoccupied ground. The most important mines on the| hill, commencing at the north end, either through 'their location or be ca; of their development and pro- duction in early days, are the Re- iief, California-Ophir, Iron Rock, Union- Kentuck, Morgan, Reserve, Enterprise and Finnigan. The Point of Rock and Last Chance are on the slope of the hill to the west of the Reserve and Enterprise, and beyond them, reaching to the Stanislaus, | are the South Carolina, Adelaide, Maloney, | Stanislaus, Calaveras Consolidated, etc. | The South Carolina is an important claim of 2700 feet, from which a large amount of rich ore has been mined and niitled. The Calaveras Consolidated be- Jongs to an English company, which has spent enough’ (some $600,000) to develop two or three mines,-and has practically absndoned its claim. This company made the common mistake of capital without brains, and put too much money on the gurface. Their assay office, superinten- dent’s residence, blacksmith-shop, etec., ‘were models of their kind, but before they bad occasion to use them the stockholders became discouraged and one more wreck was added ‘to the many which discredit California abroad and retard its develop- ment at home, L'have not been down to examine their tunnel, some 1400 feet long, which was to bring the ore from Carson Hill to the Stan- islaus, but it is described as a work of art, with an entrance of stone like the arched gateway of a baronial castle, and the whole | tunnel commodious enough for a broad- gauge railway. They had got about half tway to-their destination when the funds gaveout. The idea was all rigcht and with & man like Sutro directing the enterprise the Calaveras Consolidated might to-day Ye rivaling the Utica in its output. The Morgan mine is so well known and the others so seldom spoken of that it has become common to call it the “Carson Hill” mi as though- it included the whole "I On the contrary, it is com- paratively a small claim. Its importance, however, cannot be measured by its size, here are few. claims- in the world from which more money has been taken in the pame time and with the same amount'of development. The yield is put at between three and four millions by old residents best qualified to judge. The Iron Rock is a claim of 1200 feet, oecupying a commanding position at the nerthern extremity of the hill. It is owned by the law_firm of Redick & Solinsky, Raggio Brothers of Angels, and John J. Bnyder. The Union-Kentuck and Morgan belong to the Fair estate. The Morgan has been in litigation for twenty-five years. Its bistory is a romance of Golconda and the clashing of stubborn wills. It was owned by James G. Fair and William Irvine. Right in the croppings there were ribbons of gold. " As depth was attained these rib- bons became "cables. There were leaves and threads of pure gold running through the rocks for days at a time. .A hundred thousand dollars was thrown out in a gingle blast. Every miner was searched as be came out of the mines as the men are gearched in the diamond mines of South Africa. Finally the partners quarreled. Accusa- tions of dishonesty were made, and even- tually Fair, who owned a controlling inter- est, shut down the mine and swore that his - partner should never set foot in it again while he lived. That oath waas religiously kept. The entrance to the mine was barred by an iron door, a heavy padlock ‘attached and a watch set. That watch has been kept through all these | completion and man said to be flecked with gold like starsin the milky way. There isa legend current that two boys one dark night picked the lock leading to one of the carefully guarded tunuels and with the point of a miner’s candlestick filled a sack with gold, which they have been drawing upon at in- tervals ever since. Some are so bold as to plainly indicate a couple of staid and prosperous citizens as the heroes of the midnight raid. However this may be, the Morgan mine is undoubtedly the key to Carson Hill, and whenever that key turns in its rusty lock other storehousesas well will open wide their treasure-doors. Close to the Morgan and east of the Re- serve and Enterprise is the Finnigan mine, owned by Mrs.J. C. Tarbot and - others, from which also rich treasure has been taken. But it isneedless to particularize. Wherever work has been done paying rock has been found, and millions are there in reserve. If a consolidation of the dozen most important claims could be effected and the illimitable power of the Stanislaus set to the music of a thousand stamps Car- son Hill might easily become the peer of any gold mine in the world. Nature has been lavish in her work; all the conditions are perfect for development on the grand- est scale, and it only remains for man to do his part. A. J. Brooks. LUCK OF ARIZONA CONVICTS. A ZLarge Number Paroled and Given Employment. PH IX, Ar1z,, Aug. 18.—It has been decided by the Territorial Board of Con- trol to parole a large number of the more | deserving prisoners in the Territorial Pen- itentiary and to employ the men so p: roled in work on the other Territs in- stitutions. A half-dozen were liberated esterday under assurance of future good ehavior and will be set to work in the construction of a sewer from the Territor- ial Insane Asylum, near Pheenix, to the channel of the riv NEWS OF MARE [SLAND, Extensive Repairs to the Mon- terey to Be Made Upon Its Arrival. The Boston Fast Nearing Comple- tion—Work on the Hartford Progressing. VALLEJO, Carn., Aug. 18.—It was ex- pected that all of the men in the construc- tion department at the navy yard who are at work on the new tug would be laid off yesterday, owing to lack of funds for this object. However, about noon word was received from the department at Washing- ton that $4000 more was available, saved from purchases of material. This will go a little way toward the construction of the hull, but will not be enough to complete the craft. There is plenty of money still available for building the engines by the steam engineering department. yard within a few d considerable repairs to her Ward boile: | Many of the tubes are said to be in a | leaky condition. The flagship Philadelphia is lying at the coal dock and about ready for sea, though no orders have yet been received for her. The Boston is nearing’ f the short-time ing-ship Indepen- dence will be sent to it as soon as she goes into commission. This would indicate that she will not be sent at present to any other station. Quite & large force of men is still em- ployed on the Adams and Hartford. As there seems to be plenty of money for the old flassbin it is not at all likely that much of a reduction of the working force on it will be made for some time to come. The annual dockage of the monitor Comanche is being made. It is being scraped of barnacles and receiving a coat of paint. After this process it will be taken out of dock and again hauled up to her buoy in Rotten Row. The steam launch formerly used on the Hartford is to be commissioned for duty in connection with the receiving-ship. The Philadelphia’s band, through the courtesy of Admiral Beardsley, plays each Tuesday evening under a canopy, near the. Bernard House, for the edification of Vallejo people, and attracts much favor- able comment. The Independence band occupies the same place each Friday even- ing. —_— JUDGE MILLER DEAD. The Noted Jurist Passed Away at His Home in Hudson. ALBANY, N. Y., Aug. 18.—Hon. Theo- dore Miller, late Associate Judge of the Court of Appeals, died to-day at his resi- dence in Hudson. Theodore Miller was born in Hudson, N.Y., in May, 1816. He was educated in the public schools and admitted to the bar in 1837, and was elected District Attorney for Columbia County, N. Y., in 1843, and remained in that position until 1845. Dur- ing his term in office he successfully con- ducted the prosecutions against the lead- ers of the anti-rant faction, his energy in maintaining the law resulting in the sup- pression of that movement. He was elected a Judge of the Supreme Court of New York State in 1861 and during the last four years of his service was Presiding Justice of the Third Department. He was made Associate Justice of the Court of Appeals in 1874 and held that office till 1886, when he was retired on ac- count of age. e S A OVERTURNED BY A GALE. One Death Resulted From the Capsizing of a Towboat. PITTSBURG, PA., Ang. 18.—A violent wind and rain storm struck this city this evening, coming from the east. The tow- boat Lud Kiefer, lying at her wharf on the The monitor Monterey is expected at the | ays and will undergo | Monongahela River, was overturned and Millie Limbaugh, a chambermaid, was drowned. The crew and others escaped. Trees were blown down, many houses unroofed, cellars flooded, and although the storm lasted only fifteen minutes, the loss throughout the city will be quite heavy. P AR FIRE AT LOS ANGELES. A $10,000 Blaze, Presumably of Incen- diary Origin. LOS ANGELES, CaL.,, Aug. 18.—A fire broke out in the unfinished house of Arthur N. Davidson, on_Ingraham street, early this morning. Before the flames were checked they entirely Gestroyed the house, gutted the residence of Frank Graham ad- joining and slightly damaged the dwelling years. The watchman died, but the widow end his children still keep sleepless vigil and draw the watchman’s pay. James G. Fair never wavered in his purpose nor wearied in the conflict which it imposed. With millions seemingly but awaiting the *open sesame” of his decree, he deliber- ately chose instead the harrowing and in- terminable agency of the law, and by its high and low decrees dragged the equities Involved with him to his grave. Death has removed oneof the contest- ants. The Supreme Court will soon make . & final adjudication of the case. Already sfforts are making to secure control of the reat mine by parties conversant with its rly history, andif it falls to the Fair pstate it is understood it will be trans- ferred as soon as the legal requirements tan be complied with. Three millions is teported to be the price agreed upon. Fabulous stories are told of the riches jtill visible.in the mine. Its walls are of F. W. King. The loss is about $10,000. The origin of the fire is supposed to be in- cendiary. Lt A Dog to Tour the World. TACOMA, WasH., Aug. 18.—Owney, the postal clerks’ dog that has been traveling about the country with Albany, N. Y., as headquarters for several years, leaves to- morrow on the Northern Pacific steamshi; Victoria, for a_ trip around the world. Owney returned three weeks ago from Alaska. Captain Parton of the Victoria will take charge of him to Hongkong. There he will be placed on a mail steamer to Calcutta, and from there on a liner to London, whence he will leave for New York, and from there back to Tacoma. Owney will try to beat Nellie Bly’s record. P S A Fire at Chico. CHICO, CsL., Aug. 18.—Fire at 2 o’clock this morning totally destroyed the house and contents belonging to a man named Cook. The property was fully insured. PALD ALTO'S NEW STATION To Be Erected at Once, and After Moorish Style of Stanford Buildings. WATER WORKS FOR THE TOWN. Arteslan System Feasible. Mountain Water Expensive. Bonds to Be Voted. An The Southern Pacific Railroad will soon begin work on a new station building for Palo Alto, which has become, with the ex- ception of San Jose, the most important passenger station on the road. Although the income from Palo Alto nets the railroad on the average $5000 a month, and the sale of tickets from that station alone in some months exceeds $2000, the company has been averse to put- ting any money into a new building. The railroad has acknowledged to the people of Palo Alto that the station paid, and some- times a greater profit than Redwood City, but Superintendent Fillmore has said that such profits were necessary in order to maintain other stations that did not pay. The original plans called for a stone neer to make estimates of the cost of the works, such estimates being necessary be- fore a vote can be taken on bonds. As an outside estimate $40.000 will more than cover all the cost of a complete water system for the town, and for present pur- Pposes probably $20,000 will be sufficient. Should the idea of an artesian system meet with fayor the works will be com- pleted early in the spring. From a population of scarcely twenty and no signs of a town when Stanford Uni- versity first opened four years ago Palo Alto has grown to a very respectable vil- lage of nearly fifteen hundred people. SIMPSON SPILLED THE SOUP. ‘Why a St. Nicholas Hotel Waiter Be- came a Wreck. When the waiter spills the soup some- body generally gets mad and the waiter feels sorry. In one case of that common sort yesterday it was Manager Smith of the 8t. Nicholas Hotel who got mad and guilty Arthur Simpson at least looked sorry as he gathered his false teeth out of his mouth and hair, pinned up a gap in his coat and started for the Receiving Hospital to have an arm dressed. * The early diners at the hotel were yet nibbling celery when Simpson pranced in from the kitchen with hot rice-tomato in each hand. He had been out since lunch time, and had returned to duty exhilarated and joyous. His work was a pleasure. He can’t tell how it happened, but the red gobs and the pearly grains made a sorry mess with a splash and a crash. Manager Smith didn’t care so much for the soup, but he flushed with rage, nevertheless, as he faced the unlucky waiter in the kitchen. The charge of drunk was made and denied, and then war occurred somehow. g “They didn’t do a thing to me,” said DURRANT TAKES T EASY. The Prisoner Chatted With Several Callers at the County Jail. MRS. LEAK GOES TO CHURCH. Great Crowds Attend Services at the Bartlett-Street House of Worship. THE DURRANT CASE IN A MINUTE-THE MAIN WITNESS AT CHURCH. Prosecution and defense in the Durrant case | rested alike yesterday, gaining that strength | which will be necessary for the great struggle | in Juage Murphys courtroom, to be renewed this morning. The prisoner spent she day quietly in his cell, receiving a few callers, be- traying none of that anxiety which is supposed to be the burden of persons accused of grave crimes. Considerable interest was manifested at morning and evening services at Emmanuel Baptist Church, where great crowds gathered to see ‘and hear the Rev. J. George Gibson. Mrs. Caroline 8. Leak, the main witness for the prosecution, attended the services in the forenoon and was the center of much interest. Judge Murphy, who has recovered from the recent severe attack of asthma and cold, will b 5 - s building to cost $12,000. | acres of land on the south side of the track | were deeded to the railroad by Senator Stanford for station purposes, but since Senator Stanford’s death there has been little assurance that the stone station would be built. About_a year and a half ago matters promised well for the speedy erection of the building, but the strike put a stop to all negotiations. A year ago the railroad company offered to pay $2500 toward a station, the plans for which then sub- mitted called for a building to cost $5500. At that_time the company said it would plant a little garden in front of the station, thus adding to its attractiveness, but when a committee of citizens called upon Timo- thy Hopkins to consult with him, and mentioned this offer by the railroad, he laaghed and said the company had to do that any way or lose the ground given them by Senator Stanford. The deed to the property calls for two ittle parks, one on each side of the sta- tion, both of which must be planted with flowers and shrubs, and properly main- tained in that condition or the land is for- feited. The railroad is now ready to put up such a building as plans were made for last year, nnd%ms increased its offer of a year ago by $2000. With the addition the sum will be sufficient to pay the complete cost of the new station. The Town Trustees have assented to the railroad’s pro%osition, and_Timothy Hopkins and Mrs. Stanford are in favor of it. The Palo Alto people are not satisfied, but they think that they are getting about all the railroad is likely to give for some time. A citizen of Palo Alto offered gratis from his quarry sufficient undressed yellow sandstone similar to that in the university buildings to build a stone sta- tion, but for some reason his offer was not accepted. The new building will be 100 feet long by forty feet wide, including a porch iourgeen feet wide the whole length of the front. There will be two waiting-rooms twenty by twenty-six feet, a ticket office and a bag- gage-room. Upstairs there will be a half- story containing a large living-room for the agent. At the rear of the building there will be a covered driveway as a_pro- tection in rainy weather to the bus loads of university students. In appearance the station will represent in architectural eifect the low Moorish arches and pillars and red tiled roof of the quadrangie buildings of the university, but the material will be painted wood and of patent shingles in imitation of tiles. Before the rainy season shall have begun Palo Alto’s new station will be completed, and the short avenue from the tracks to the county road will have been made twice as wide as it is at present. But these are not all the improvements for Palo Alto. Yesterday a committee of citizens consisting of J. S. Butler, Pro- fessor E. E. 8mith and B. Parkinson visited the Alvarado Water Works that supply Oakland from artesian wells and made a thorough inspection of the works with a view to obtaining information to be used at home. Five different residents who have sunk wells on their property in the lower land on the eastern part of town have struck artesian water. Some of the wells will flow from six to fifteen feet above the sur- face. The water is cool and agreeable to the taste; it is free from vegetable and mineral impurities, but it contains a good deal of lime. Over two-thirds of the voters have al- ready pledged themselves in writing to vote bonds for the much-needed water works, and the proposition will be sub- mitted to vote within the next ninety days. After making a thorough examination into the neichboring water sources, the committee has decided that artesian water will be the cheapest and the most easily obtained. La Honda Creek, on the other side of the mountain, contains plenty of water, but it would require nearly a mile of tunnel and six miles of pipe before it could be brought to the university town. Bear Gulch, as at present developed, would not furnish enough water, and it would cost nearly $100,000 to build a dam to make the supply adequate. The Squealer Gulch would necessitate the purchase of land valued at $9000, and the construction of a canal nine miles long. Redwood City is supplied with water en- tirely from artesian wells, which more than pay expenses. The profit on the water works helps to pay the city taxes. The town of Santa Clara, hnvinNg recently placed its bonds voted for last November, 1s putting in artesian water works. t Palo Alto artesian water is struck at depths of 60, 100 and 200 feet, most of the we. bexqsm feet deep. In consideration of these facts the com- mittee will report to the Board of Trustees at Palo Alto this evening that at present they do not consider the development of the mountain water sources feasible, and they will recommend the establishment of an artesian water system. J. S. Butler, as chairman of the committee, will probabl; also recommend the name of some engi- A little over six | Simpson at the Receiving Hospital a few “Smith only smashed me | | in the mouth and broke all my false teeth minutes later. out, and I think I got this on the arm when he was jumping on me when I was down—either then or when they was kick- ing me downstairs.” %hnt is about all 8lmpson knows about the Sunday dinner at the St. Nicholas, but he says that Mr. Smith will be arrested for battery to-d: AI]VANII[I]flL_PIT [DEAS, The Rev. Leslie W. Sprague Discusses Beauty and Duty. He Also Advocates Evolution as the Basis for the New Theology. “Beauty and Duty’’ was the theme of the discourse at the Second Unitarian Church, yesterday morning, by the Rev. Leslie W. Sprague. The sermon was di- vided into two parts, the second part to be given next Sunday morning. The burden of the sermon fitted into the words of Longfellow, ‘“Hadst thou stayed I must have fled,” which sentiment, together with the poem from which it is taken, served as illustration for the theme. Mr. Sprague said in part: I slept and dreamed that life was beauty; 1 woke and found that life was beauty, Is the plaintive eigh of many a sad heart which has not yet learned that there is not so much difference between beauty and duty after all. The young look upon their visions of what life may be. The old look back with mournful dreams upon the past. And this suggests the real problem of life: to keep the visions and enthusissms of youth througn the changing years of life. When & man comes to say that {ife is one grinding round of duty, crushing out the higher instinots of the heart, that man is in a bad way mentally and spiritually, and his lot will be a hard one. For he who sees only life’s trials suffers more with the easiest lot than that soul can be made to suffer which accepts whatever comes and sees the silver lining to the darkest clouds, or trusts where it cannot see. All should realize that at last beauty and duty are only different sides of the same life; thatone is necessary to the other, and both play their part and are gladly witnessed by the true soul living a triumphant life. Withont dreams of the unattainable attainment would be very low; without atteinment dreams of the unsattainable would not rise very high. Dreams inspire and direct deeds; deeds lay the foundations of the castles men build in_ air. Deeds modify creeds and creeds dictate deeds, for there is a subtle cord that binds man’s hands to his head and his will to his heart. Mr. Sprague then gave an abstract of Longfellow’s poem, ‘““The Vision Beatific,” and drew a parallel between its scenes and those of every human life, showing that whoever proves untrue to his highest thought or ideal must soon suffer, because the thought or ideal will vanish. “The fact that man can keep the beauti- ful only by being dutiful,’” Mr. Sprague urged as a strong comfort to those who call the rounds oqut drudgery and sigh because this is a humdrum world. His sermon in the evening on “Drum- mond’s Ascent-of Man” was listened to by a large number of persons. He urged his hearers to take the doctrine of evolution, as demonstrated by the author under re- view, as the basis of the new theology. Advanced thinkers, he said, had long since discovered that Genesis was incom- patible with the theory of evolution, and that, while others would like to maintain their faith in that portion, as well as others, of the Great Book, reason is against it. It was elso urged that by adopting or admitting the truth of evolution one gained a grander conception of God—the author of all laws, natural and spiritual— and that it strengthened one’s spiritual as well as mental powers. It was an able sermon intellectually and was not de- ficient in spiritual inspiration. ——————— The Ethics Not Fractured. A physu:in_n in France recently secured some effective publicity without making himself amenable to the medical rule for- bidding advertising, He hired a man to announce through the town that he had lounvn!ublo og and that any one re- turning it would receive a reward of 1000 francs. The lost dog was only a figment of his imagination, but the public did not know that, and arguing that he must be a skillful physician to have made so much m°"°¥f fanents flocked to his office.—New York Tribune. ————— Retired colonels and majors were among the more than 1000 applicants for the place of hallkeeper to the Armorers’ and Bra- el vacunt.” The saasy l 1060 nd 550 cant, e an for extra services, ey sit on the bench this morning and the search for four more jurors will be resumed. There was just enough of a calm yester- day in the tide of eventscarrying Theodere Durrant to the end of the days of his im- prisonment—one way or the other—to por- tend the great legal struggle that will take place in Judge Murphy’s court the present week. The prisoner spent the day quietly in the County Jail, reading most of the time, re- ceiving a few intimate friends in the after- noon. He betrayed none of that anxiety which is supposed to weigh so heavily on the minds of accused persons, guilty or innocent. He chatted with his friends in an offhand, easy manner; laughed when the laugh appeared to come in and smiled as the occasion demanded. He dimed as heartily as usual and bore no trace at any time of any ill effect the knowledge of what Mrs. Leak would testify might have upon him. Altogether his general de- meanor, in any light it might be consid- ered, is puzzling. It is, as it has been for weeks, a_study for thousands, and no one has yet been found who could even par- tially explain it upon any grounds. Durrant maintains, as he stated on the day the discovery of Mrs. Leak was made public, that he “will be able to provea satisfactory alibi. His attorneys maintain the same and state their readiness to go to that proof. Mr. Deuprey was taking things easy at his home on Clay street during the afternoon, so little did the testimony of Mrs. Leak seem to worry him, and General Dickinson was still out in the hills about Ukiah resting up for the struggle which reopens this morning. The prosecution was absolutely at rest as far as the public eye could see, feelin; secure in the strength of the chain of evi- dence that has been linked around the young prisoner. To the minds of the offi- cers of the law nothing could be more con- clusive than the testimony at their ser- vice and theg scout entirely the idea that Durrant is able to prove the suspicion of an alibi. To the church on Bartlett street, within whose four walls the awiul murders were committed, morning and evening services drew great crowds of people, many being merely sightseers drawn thither by the desire to see Pastor Gibson and other members of the.congregation whose names have appeared so prominently in the prints since the grewsome discoveries, Mrs. Caroline S. Leak, the all-important witness for the prosecution, the gray-haired lady who will testify that she saw Durrant enter the church with Blanche Lamont on the fateful afternoon, came out from her seclusion and, as has been he wont for six- teen years, attended the morning services. Many well acquainted with the old lady looked at her with renewed interest in the pauses in the service, while she escaped the notice of mere curiosity seekers from the fact that she was unknown to them and no one could gather from her quiet manner that she was the possessor of in- formation which might turn the scale be- tween life and death for any one. Mrs. Leak entered quietly and as soon as the services were concluded as quietly left to cross the street to her residence secure from the intrusion of prying eyes. Judge Murphy kept «fione in doors yesterday, somewhat weakened but nearly recovered from the effectsof his recent asthmatic attack, and this morning will resume his seat on the bench ready to go on with the trial. At the convening of court this morning the fifth week of the trial will have been entered upon with eight jurors sworn to try the case to show for the labor of the past four weeks. The deeper, too, the clerks reach into the trial jury box the harder it seems to be to get the necessary good men and true to make up the neces- sary twelve. As is well known to every- body not a bit of progress was made in the case last week. Venireman after venire- man was examined as to his qualifications to sit as a juror in the case, but the coveted jurors were not secured. Attor- neys of both sides worked diligently ana carefully to protect the interests entrusted to their care and so close was their scru- tiny that during the week’s proceedings but two peremptory challenges were ex- ercised. ‘When court adjourned on Friday a num- ber of citizens on the first half of the venire of 250 had neither been examined nor ex- cused, and 125 on the last half are return- able by the Sheriff this morning. With these there will be enough to keep the at- tention of the court busy for that portion of the day remaining after the time taken up pmuntinfg to his Honor all the time- worn excuses of gentlemen desirous of es- clnux(f jury duty. And ‘these excuses—at least the omes poured into Judge Murphy’s ears durin, the days that have passed since the tria commenced—are something fearful, fantas- tic and wonderful in their various ways. They show that, if their owners are not actuated by a keen sense of duty, they are imbued with a spirit of ingenuousness «orthy of a better cause. Anything from “hop and toss o0 manslaughter,” as they say on the race track, suits their purpose, 5o facile are their brains in weaving for bis honor tales that hold the necessary amount of water. Sick men are developed who were never sick before, deaf men and rheumatics, men with wives with .sore eyes, and man: men who had just obtained jobs who ha been out of work for months.” To thislatter class his Honor, who has a very keen eye in the study of faces, is very lenient, and many a poor fellow to whom detention for exam- ination even would mean the loss of along- sought situation, has reason to thank ihe kindliness and keen discernment of the Judge upon the bench. To this class of excuses his Honor lends a sympathetic ear, but to others, to one other in particu- lar ke hasthe most open aversion. This other is the claim of exemption advanced by what the court calls ‘‘purchase” mem- bers of the National Guard—gentlemen who produce certificates of honorary mem- bership in the military organization of the State, for which they have paid, and for which exemption is gnaranteed them under a law now on the statute books. “Such a law,” said his Honor, fn passing on one of these certificates last week, ‘“is an outrage. It allows the man who has $50 to gain _exemption irom a duty which be owes and allows the burden to rest on the man who has not that amount. It should be wiped off the statute books, and if I am alive at the next session of the Legislature I shall use what efforts I can in that direction.”” Several times during the progress of the trial when certificates of this character were presented his Honor expressed him- self as being on the point of refusing ex- cnses on that ground, so that the matter might be settled once for all, but rather than take the chance of making a tangle in the case he refrained. For this reason itis to be expected that the certificates of honorary membership in the National Guard will bob up as usual to-day and till the end to delay the arrival of that end as far as possible. OR, KUBLMAN UPON FEES, A Plea For the Struggling Phy- sicians Whose Families Are in Want. Other Medicos Who Fall to Perceive the Evils Lashed by the Doctor. “It is time that the people were en- lightened on the quackery extantin this City,” said Dr. Kuhlman yesterday. ‘“The system now in vogue among hospital and fraternal societies for providing medical and surgical treatment is a horrible one. “Fifty or sixty physicians by political pull and you-tickle-me-and-I'll-tickle-you methods become hospital or lodge physi- cians and monopolize nearly the entire ractice of this City, while the families of gundreds of others of the profession are actually starving. This does not exist outside of California. The Sacramento Meaical Society sat down upon it long ago. “The hospitals make no discrimination in receiving patients. Even millionaires go there to receive treatment. A hospital physician receives $125 for 400 visits. This averages 20 cents per visit. What outside physician could compete with that? Hos- pitals, though ostensibly for the poor, in order to increase their patronage even make inducements to the rich. I havehad several lgoocl patients coaxed away by these hospital practitioners. People are roped in on false pretenses, and the majority of atients in both the German and French ospitals have incomes from $5000 to $100,- 000 & year. % “In fraternities physicians neglect their duty. You cannot expect a man to do much_for 5 cents. Fraternity members cry, ‘I would rather have you to prescribe for me, but I can’t; I must take the lodge hysician.’ iz F"These hysicians violate the fee bill, almedicsr law, and every law, human and divine, and they are a disgrace to their profession. Doctors who will not join these organizations from principle are stigmatized as fools. It is a system of medical slavery for the patient. It is a ring E)ure and simple, and made up of worthless men, but these systems we pro- ose to regulate, for it is nothing more nor ess than quackery, or an advertising scheme for a few men. A physician should judge himself when his services are to_be gratis, not be governed by an organization which lowers the dignity of himself and his profession.” 3 Several other physicians of the opposite ersuasion were interviewed, among whom r. Fitch was inclined to ridicule the idea. “Combination is the spirit of the age,” said he. *“Why should 1t not express itself in the medical profession? I believe the community has rights as well as the dosc- tors. “] have been the physician of several lodges of Foresters and in hospiials, and have found that they pay nearly as well as professional fees. Thousands of homeless young men find a place to go when the; are sick who could not afford other medi- cal treatment. It is the old maxim of Dumas, this system: ‘One for all and all for one.” There are idle workmen in every rofession, and these often exclaim at their Puckier brothers.” Dr. J. F. Morse, speaking of the German Hospital, said: “Any Ehysicmn, no mat- ter who he is, has a right to take any pa- tient of his to the hospital, and may treat that patient there without any interfer- ence whatever. It is the endeavor of the hospital to provide treatment only for those who can afford’ no other, but some- times people who can pay leak m. Itis not the case that no discrimination is shown.” Dr. Gross considered the matter entirely too delicate to deal with until he bad seen some of his confreres. He, however, an- ticipated warm measures at the next meet- ing of the medical society. ADVOCATED SOCIALISM, Point of View Taken by A. H. Sanborn, Who Is a Strong Disciple of Henry George. In the opinion of A. H. Sanborn, who was the principal speaker at the American section of the Socialist Labor party in Pythian Castle last night, Socialism is “both desirable and practicable.” Mr, Sanborn is a single-taxer. He_took occasion to score the present udicial system pretty severely, in the fol- owing: It isa fact that to-day we bow down to our dead ancestors who are now the dust of the earth, as we would to any deity. Why is it that we allowQurselves to be controlled by men long dead? Why be dominated by the laws of the past? Why go back twenty or thirty cen- turies to the legal enactments of the ancients to govern our conduct of to-day? Why not mysL o shoul ‘we hesitaf exism’nea with one trace the wn&'!”i,‘,’.&‘x‘,f g{ barbarity, monarchy and slavery we have stupidly” retamned in our blind allegiance to the dead past, and substitute an equitable one in place thereof? Yet, bound as we are by the fetters of our laws and customs, it is almost impossible to change our constitution so as to admit of anything like real equity in our B o — ur jue day. It has &een said “we now ?in lv’::d:’; Tel '3: injunctions.” The power of the Federal Judges is almost unlimited, and simply serves to sweep aside the will of the people. It ought not to be long before we break down this idol He thought the Socialistic method was the scientific one of human government in contrast with what he called the present savage methods, and he argued that it was the extension of the Democratic idea, an evolution of self-organization, a natural step in advance of present conditions. As in politics the idea is to remove ‘kings, aristocracies and slaves,” said he, ‘so_in mdnsug the idea is to do awa with rents, proiis and interest—the land- lord, middleman and banker.” —————— §10f the 109,000 flowering plants now llm;wntohohnim.so per cent are odor- e: = — = = = [—] = oo = o == ™ —— — = =] Rev. J. George Gibson Dis- - courses at the Emmanuel Baptist Church. SARCASM AND EXHORTATION. He Says That Those Who Watch to Expose the Sins of Others Will Be the First to Suffer. The sermon delivered last evening at the Emmanuel Baptist Church by the pastor, Rev. J. George Gibson; was a mixture of sarcasm and fervid exhortation. Through it all there was a vein of weird- ness, emphasized perhaps, by the voice® and attitude of the speaker as he rapidly flitted from sarcastic drawl to the deep base of passionate condemnation. “Nice people, clean people, pure people, virtuous people, such people as Jesus would love,” he fairly hissed, referring to the class which he was pleased to term “religious watchers”’—and then in another moment changing his. voice and stalking excitedly up and down the platform with arms extended—‘‘cowards, why do they go back to our childhood days to rake up the rotten things, and rattle the dry bones of our broken vows?”’ - Before commencing his discourse the pastor sang a baritone solo, “The Master Stood in His Garden,” and after a prayer Mrs. M. Gallahorn rendered “The Heav- enly Gate.” 3 Dr. Gibson then announced his subject, “Broken Vows.” The speaker began by assuring his hearers that he had seen the worst side of life, as revealed by mission work in the slums of London, and knew the dangers of divers temptations. He knew, also, that there was much opular prejudice against such subjects as e'”had chosen to handle. “I know, also,”’ he continued, “that I am being watched. A lady told me recently that my sermons are being watched to see what message I had for the young. The young do not need these lessons of religion half as much as those of middle age. The stains upon the ages of history have not been left there by {’he young. In speaking of youth we must remember the influences of the previous generations. “There is a large family of watchers around us all the time. There is the relig- joas class. How good and pure they are; How meek and beautiful their lives! How many of us have seen our fellow-creatures going down to destruction without putting out a hand to save. How wise we all are after the act, and how glad to repeat that trite eaying ‘I told you so.” Those who watch us will be themselves first exposed. You have heard about a man makinga rope to hang himself. This is exactly what a man does when he watches others. When those men brought the woman to Jesus they did not think to see their own sins exposed. Let the watchers take warning. “We are too prone to condemn one class in the community. Men get rich at trickery and fraud and women live lives of meanness, yet nobody thinks of calling them lost or fallen creatures. It seems that you can do anything and be consid- ered respectable, so long as the seventh commandment is observed. Steal and lie and malign your fellows all through life and you may be considered eminently re- spectable.” In concluding, Dr. Gibson besought his hearers to cultivate a broader charity and cease holding up the sins of others for con- demnation, while nursing greater sins - upon by society. THE OLYMPICS - WON A Baseball Game at Golden Gate Park ‘Which Was Only Decided by a Close Score. The sixth game of baseball of the series. of the season between the Olympics and Pacifics was played on the new recreation - grounds at Golden Gate Park yesterday afternoon. close score of 11 to 10. Each club has now won three games. Within the month the State amateur championship will be decided by a final game. ok The great crowd that witnessed the fiame gave evidence of the factthat the ational-game had still many staunch ad- herents in the City. With the presence of the Middle West professional teams in this City during the fall and winter months a revival of the old league is ex- pected to follow. Yesterday’s game was replete with ex- citing plays from start to finish, and the big assemblage was kept guessing as to the outcome until the last man was re- tired. Monahan of the Olympics and Krn§ of the Pacifics hit with great effect. The former scored a single, a two and three base hit. Under the eflicient management of Frank O’Kane, a candidate for the club directory, the Olympic nine has es- tablished an envied prestige in ball circles. The nine plays in Santa Cruzon Sunday next. Following is the score: wlorcorrooc? k| ©co cnrrron OLYMPICS. A.B. E. B.H. 5.8 P.0. A BCGEHECLE 8@ DR e e e T % 1. 00 6 & QUSRS s 0SS g BALEiNS ST 8 o1 e AU P T e 42007510 8 ey e ol R 5 99.0 0.5 Totals. 88 11 11 6 27 16 PAcCIFICS. A.B. R. B.H. 8B. P.O0. A. Smith, s. 3 (0 O e T T 220, 0270 SR WS TR DRI S R R @ X80 ST 0 , ighe A BN T SN e TN s SRR S (Ot S e G| A habr Wi SR AR Totals 40 10 9 1 27 12 Earned vmpics 4, Pacifics 2. Three- base hits — Monahan, Smith, Two-base hits— Monahan, Gimmel, Wilson, Bliss, Cooney 2, Mur- phy. Hit by pitcher—E. Beckett. Base on balls— Olympics 7, Pacifics 9, Struck out — Cooney 5, Tourg 3. Passed balls—Kiley 2, O'Kare 1. Time gfrlmo—? hours and 15 minutes. Umpire—J. hea. g Bring life and strength, aid the dl; gestion, restore the appetite and drive away malaria, malaria} fever and any feeling of lassitude. - The oldest and best known Tonie to restore lost energy. z The Perfect Tonic. Beware of imitations. For sale by all druggists and dealers. MACE & CO,, Sole Proprietors; San Francisco, Caly The Olympics won by: the' -