The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 10, 1895, Page 11

| THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10, 1895. 11 T i Howell 8r., Join F , John Lenders, NEW TO-DAY. :;\;:g.: in course of preparation were A BlG M‘NINE Bfl“u sl"]‘ g?d:l??;?m?’nr’efg‘w;?vkgfi sgfv’:’- Nfl'l‘ PUT '“ UAHAN'"NE The propiietor was arrested and charged § [hichum IORINE, 3. A3 vrenca i : 5 (< 2 with siolating the internal revenue laws b e e nT @ robibiting the preparation and sale of the F. Bartley, F. H. Bell, . Eodeaver, T. J. A rug without first paying the duty. Nichots, John Adam: & fr, and Mining TWO STANFORD PLAYERS. Spalding, Last Year’s Varsity End, and McIntosh of Los Angeles—A Promising Freshman. Never before in her history has Stanford | University had so many good players try- ATEST INFDRMATION {CERNING THIS IMPORTANT INDUSTRY,. | iug for positions on the Varsity eleven. 1in | consequence a feeling of satisfaction seems & S T | to pervade the entire student body, as the | Ccunty, develop as expected it will be an | members observe the early and active in- | easy matter to obtain electrical power for | terest of all the possible candidates for them from Cherokee, a distance of four | i3iron honors. The only position that not overcrowded with likely candidates Kennedy’s old place at fullback. Alfred B. Spalding of Atchison, Kans,, miles. : | The Plymouth Rock mine, near San“’ Andreas, Calaveras County, which recent- | 15 {1y started np with good prospects, has ool e numerous de- posits of gol over 100 fest in width wi e $5 per ton and the o see erected soon on of this ore. ers are now at work ces at Prescott, has been arranged pecimens, may in the field. ed placers at Golden, an area of about the tract ison The gold is coarse been staked off. saving float gold, er sereens, silver jnicksilver. These sluiceboxes so that them while the gravel the Meran Mining 1p & plant to reduce ing the same , but it did not work Two 8alt Lake , have finally ot been made p of the Boston and Mon- Montana, who receatly es in Mariposa County, Montana and assumed agement of Boston i Butte and Boston com- ty of the De ason district, Nev., will n was anticipated, four reports in th are to be relied on, a sale of the da properties to the Rothschilds is notwithstanding the denials of eretofore made. ill at Bingham, Utah, has re- tions after lying idle for a Silver Mining Company of ected the following directo ington, J. N. Ceballos, B . B. Moore, John Sharp, ennings and P. T. Farnsworth. endence group of mines in Ida gulch, Warm Springs district, been purchased by B. R. Salt Lake. an mines on Hardscrabble which contain heavy per- of biemuth| cobalt and nickel, to be verylarge veins. There are mber of prospectors in the dis- t who have gone there since the rich- i the veins was first announced, and cations have been made. on Smith, J. D. Hogue, Ellsworth Daggett and W. H. Farrish are making a careful examination of the ninety-seven groperties belonging Mining Company of Montana, sampling ana taking measurements of the ore bodies. The Barringer-Penrose-Brockman syndi- cate has closed down its mines at White Signal, temporarily is not known. Cartwright & Markley, the new owners of the famous Texas mine at Central, N. Mex., are working twenty men and ship- ping ore to the Ivanhoe smelter. The Mercur Company has obtained an- other group of Camp Fl (Utah) claims, in addition 1o the Mattie group recently purchased. The new claims are the Bun- joining properties, and vern, Malvern 2, Free lowship, Little Gem, Kampas, ywer Reef, Old Horseshoe, Lehiand 0. K. rge force of men will be put to work at interest has been bought by J. A. g of Pheenix in the Gates group of Castle Dome district, twenty he Arizona Copper Company, which has been operating at Clifton, Ariz., since 1822, paid the first dividend in its history month. Louis capitalists have arranged to the Bald Mountain mines in Gold untain district, Sevier County, Utah. price is said to be $100,000. company is now at work at Guana- juato, Mexico, on tailings which have been sccumulating for the past 300 years, The output of the producing mines of Utah seems to be steadily increasing, and | it is expected that there will be much less | suspension of work this winter than is usual. At American Fork Canyon, Utah, a good deal of prospecting is being done on claims which were abandoned many years ago but which are just now being dis- covered to be mines. A railroad was once buiit into this canyon but the track was rd torn up, the mineral deposit not ut as expected. ing rock has been discovered in , Mont., on Brush Creek, 1 miles from Dupruyer, and men are at work prospecting. Anaconda mining company of per ore dai Gold mining in the State of Nevada is yre active than ever before. few placer miners at Osceola, Nev., have taken out about $1500 in the past three months. The placer miners in Sadowa district, ilko County, Nevads, are making good wages, though some are working with™ dry ers. Itissaia thaet a pecaliarity of se placers is thatthe richest ground is found on the mountain side, instead of in he bottom of the canyon, asusual. Some- v will find a quartz ledge up above some of these days. Twenty mines have been brought in El Dorado Canyon, Lincoln County, Nevada, u the Colorado. Thle veins are of low- 1 ld ore, six miles from the river. } plant will be put up on the to farnish power for mining and res of Siiver Star, Esmeralda 3 vada, are said to be constantly imrroving as developed. 3 Toe Oneida mine, Jackson district, Ama- dor County, about which there are many rumors of resumption of work, has in the past yielded about $3,000,000. It has been worked to a depth of 1300 feet. Dr. Bryeson, a large owner in the Ken- nedy mine, is still abroad, and while in Paris interested other capitalists in his Pioneer mine, Amador County. Z It is reported that the New York mine, three miles from Jackson, Amador County, will be started up by new owners under the name of the Evening Star. With the large ledge of the Amador Queen 1t is thought that if the rock mills per ton the mine wiil make money rapidly. L the mines about Oregon Cfvty, utte Portland, Or., has | dered in Salt Lake, in | to the Anaconds | Mex., but whether for good or ont., is mining 4000 tons of cop- | closed down until more satisfactory crush- | mg\mnchmer}' can be provided. ditch is being dug to carry water from | the Mokelumne canal across the brow of French Hill to the Peck mine, which is be- ing operated by N. S. Wright on the out- | skirte of the Mokelumne Hill townsite. Preparations are being made for erectin a new ten-stamp mill for the Coffee-mi! mine four miles west of Mokelumne Hill. | Pumps will be put on the old ineline to drain the water out. | The Cesar Corporandy mine on Quartz Gulch, Calaveras County, has been pur- chased by E. C. Loftus and Ernest | Behaeffle, and will be developed at once. | | Mr. Loftus has also J)urchased the Key- | stone mine at Railroad Flat, and is bring- ing a mill and other machinery from the | Norfolk mine at Murphys to the Keystone. | pectors who, by | Mining affars at Murphys, Calaveras County, are expected to be much better this winter, when several claims will be more actively developed. The Spanish mine, Washington Town- | ship, Nevada County, which holds the record for the cheapest mining and milling in the world, bas new mills with a capac- | ity of from 150 to 200 tons per day. Hunt- | gton mills and stamps are used. Some Scott River miners have put In a fine plant of wheels, derricks, etc., at Hamburgh Bar, Siskiyou County, to work | the river channel, which with its wing, | head and foot dam cost over $10,000. he Yreka Journal urges the miners of that county to maintain the County Min- | ers’ Association on & good footing. Now the people who have found the de- jsit of California onyx near Healdsburg, Sonoma County, want to go to work and develop it like the San Luis Obispo County people have theirs, and make some money out of it. There are several depositsin this State, but only one is being worked on any scale. Lezdville is now shipping from 30,000 to | 35,000 tons of ore per month. Some of the placers at Green River, | Utah, have been sold to Denver men, who | are, by the first of the year, to put ma- chinery to work which will handie not | than 500 cubic yardsof gravel per day. A great deal of mining work is going on in the Lillovet mining district, British Columbia. Many of the miners who have held on to | Sheep Creek properties, Alaska, for years | are now beginning to realize that their | time for profit is coming. The Bald Eagle mine at Snow Dam, Alaska, is making for its owners a profit | of $1000 a day with a four-stamp miil. Some of the ore runs up to $300 to the ton. Forty-mile Creek, Alaska, is nearly worked out and none but crevice and bed- rock scrapers are now working there. | From all accounts Birch Creek, Alaska, | has not panned out this season as well as | expected. | _The hoists in some of the Lake Superior | mines run at & speed of 3600 feet per min- | ute, or nearly forty-one miles per hour. | For short periods speed as high as 4200 feet | per minute has been observed. This is pretty fast travel underground. A suit bas been commenced against the Silver King Mining Company for ore i alleged to have been wrongfully extracted ! from the Mayflower 5“’"5’1 of mines in | Summit County, Utah. The court has | ordered a survey to be made. The Mammoth Company at Tintic, | Utah, is fast paying off its debts, and is | expected soon to be again on the list of | dividend payers. The ore shipments are now about $4000 a month. The gold properties at Pisgah, Utah, are passing into the hands of men of means | who will develop them and put up machinery to work the ore. The Emma Mining Company, which made-a failure of itssilver mininz opera- tions in Utah, has just bought a group of claims in New South Wales. Some miners engaged in stripping ground for gravel mining on Spring Creek, twelve miles from Rapid City, E D have uncovered a fourteen-foot ledge of good ore. The big cyanide works of the Tombstone company at Tombstone, Ariz., are nearly completed. the sale of improvements is evidence of abandonment of the mine. sells bis mill or building he is supposed to have served himself with a notice to quit. The Land Department has rendered a decision that proof of the character of coal land must show the actual mineral; and proof that adjoining lands | have produced coal will not answer. It | has not decided, however, that a claimant up. But then the Land Office supposes all the lands in the country to be agricultural and the miner, to get ny, must prove that what he wants is not. It is not exactly fair, but that is the rule in these days. Monrovia, Los Angeles County, has a | mild gold excitement, occasioned by the finding of a piece of guartz from a vein discovered in an orange orchard by Alfrea Stedman. The only development thus far is the usual one—to have an assay made, hich was satisfactory. Some Seattle men have secured an op- tion op the old Kanaka claim at Honoluln, Klamath River, Siskiyou County. This claim paid handsomely at one time, but the channel was lost and the Seattle men hope to find it. | James Colquhoun, manager of the ! Arizona Copper Company’s works at Clif- | ton, is the originator of a leaching pro- | cess by which, it is said, 2 or 3 per cent copper ore may be successfully treated. | vidences of the location of an ancient ; smelter have been found in the suburbs of | Prescott, Ariz. 8lag and pieces of silver | ore were found near the spot where George { Merwin found the ruins of the old j. A C imann!nclure at Kingman, Ariz., a dry- | washer, which weighs fifty pounds and has | a capacity of from twenty to thirty tons | per day. It is called the Colorado dry- i washer and is said to have been successful | in New Mexico. | ‘A “dry concentrator mill” has com- | menced running at Gold Basin, Ariz. The affairs of the Oro Plata and Ninety- | three mining companies, Arizona, have at | last been settied to the satisfaction of the creditors and the two properties have re- | sumed operation. The tailings from the Little Jessie mill, Pheenix, Ariz., are now being saved and will be worked by the cyanide process. HARLES G. YALE. OPIUM TFAOTORY SEIZED. Internal Revenue Inspectors Make an Important Capture in Chinatown. Revenue Inspectors Cromwell and Thomas made an important capture in Chinatown yesterday when they seized the opium factory at 823 Washington street and arrested the proprietor. The house has been watched for some time past, on suspicion that illicit opera- tions were being carried on there, and yesterday the inspectors made up their minds that the time for action had come. They made 8 sudden descent on the place and caught Leong Sue coming out of a room, whence the unmistakable odor of opium floated. Inside four furnaces in full blast were cooking the drug, and twenty-one pounds of prepared opium, twenty po of crade opium and thirty The Land Department has decidea that | 8o if a miner | roduction of ‘ rado man has commenced to | is one of the old players whose chance of { holding his position against all rivalsis Al B. Spalding, End. {From a photograph.] conceded to be very good. Spalding played tackle on the Michigan Military Academy team in '91-92. Heentered Stan- ford in the fall of ’82, but did not go on the football field until his sophomore year, | when he was substitute end on the Var- sity. Last year he made the big team and did remarkably good work at end, his tackies being clean, hard and sure. He weighs 168 pounds and is 5 feet 10 inches in_height. Wili P. McIntosh Jr. is a freshman, and is after the quarterback’s position on the Varsity; he has several opgcneuu. the | most formidable being the veteran | “Tommy” Code, who held the position for | Will P. Molntosh Jr., Candidate for Quarterback. | [From a photograph.] | three consecutive years until he was dis- placed last season by Harrelson. McIn- tosh weighs only 135 pounds, and is 5 feet rth of Yuma, on the Colorado | for agricultural land must raise a crop of | 8 inches tall, but he isa wiry, gritty little | cabbages or onions to prove what kind of { land he is takin; { | player, and has already lived up to the | Teputation he was given in the south. He | glnyed quarterback on the Los Angeles igh School team for two years, and was | quarterback for the Los Angeles Athletic { Club team last season. He is in his chosen | position on the freshman team, and will | be one of the players to go against the | Berkeley freshmen next month. | e e e — ;EOW IT TFEELS- TO STARVE. | Sensations a Man Experiences When Famishing for Food. | For the first two days through which a | strong and healthy man is doomed to | exist upon nothing his sufferings are per- haps more acute than in the remaining stages; he feels an inordinate, unspeakable craving at the stomach night and day. The mind runs upon beef, bread and other substances, out still, in a sreat measure, his body retains its strength. On the third anda fousth days, but es- pecially on the fourth, this incessant crav- ing gives place to a sinking and weakness of the stomach, accompanied by nausea. ; The unfortunate sufferer still desires food, | but with the loss of strength he loses that | eager craving which he felt in the earlier stages. Should he chance to get a morsel { or two of food he swallows it with a wolf- | ish avidity, but five minutes afterward his sufferings are more intense than ever. He feelsas 1f he had swallowed a living lobster, which is clawing and feeding upon the very foundation of gis existence. On the fi{th day his cheeks suddenly ap- pear hollow and sunken, his body attenu- ated, his color is ashy pale, and his eyes wild, giassy and cannibalistic. The aiffer- ent parts of the system now wear with each other. The stomach calls upon the legs to go with 1t in quest of food; the legs, from weakness, refuse. The sixth brings with it increased suffering, although the pangs of hunger are iost in an overpowering langnor and sickness. The head becomes dizzy; the ghosts of the well-remembered dinners pass in hideous procession through his mind. The seventh day comes, bringing increased lassitude and further prostration of strength. The arm bangs listiessly, the lcFa dnfi heavily. The desire for food is felt ffi: egree, but it must be brought. not sou; | The miserable remnant of a life that still hangs to the suiferer is a burden almost too grievous to be borne, yet his inherent love of existence induces 'a desire still to preserve it if it can be saved without a | tax on bodily exertion. Themind wanders. At one time he thinks his weary limbs cannot sustain him a mile; the next he is endowed with unnatural strength and, if there be acertainty of relief before hiin, dashes bravely and atronfly forward, won- dering whence proceeds hisnew and sudden impulse.—Current Literature. —————— Croquet “has become fashionable once more in England, | adjudication, Judge Prewett of Placer County Holds Court in a Local Law Office. CHEROKEE GRAVEL CONTEST, The Bank of California’s Technical Fight In a Case Involving $250,000. The famous mining suit for possession of the well-known Cherokee grave! mine of Butte County between the Bank of Cali- fornia and N. D. Rideout on one hand and the bondholders of the property on the other has again been started on the way toward the Supreme Court. Yesterday betore Superior Judge Prewett of Placer County, sitting in San Francisco, the attorneys in the case lined up for a week's argument upon a single technical point, which point has already been passed upon by the Judge. The hearing was held in Allen & Herrin’s law office, and although really a Butte County case it takes place in this City for the accommodation of the attorneys. The prominence of the parties interested, the value and fame of the property in- volved and the length and technieal nature of the legal proceedings combine to make the case of unusual interest to min- ing men. For seven long years the bond- holders have been vainly seeking to fore- close their lien on the mine, but their action has so far been successiully opposed by the bank and N. D. Rideout, tga two unsecured creditore. The suit is being carried on upon purely technical grounds; the points presented are fine and intricate and are of such a nature that have never before been brought before a court for ‘he Cherokee mine iz situated twelve miles north of Oroville and is one of the largest and richest hydraulic mines in the State. Over fifteen millions in goid has| been taken out of it, and those familiar with the mine assert that thatsum is but a fraction of the total wealth u?mg in the leads. It is'the only bydraulic mine in the State that has never had trouble with its debris, it owning thousands of acres of tule land, whereon its slickens was depos- ited. Since the commencement of the suit in 1888 the works have been practi- cally closed down pending the result of the litigation. The title of the suit is William Alvord et al. vs. theSpring Vallex Gold Company, the plaintiff, Alvord, being the trustee of the bondholders. The Bank of California and N. D. Rideout appear as intervenors, the mining company itself making no con- test against ths bonds. & “ The principal holders of the bonds are: Louis Glass of San Francisco, David Gage of Oakland, Charles M. Fry, W. L. Jen- kins and Charles M. Post, of New York, with a few minor holders. 5 The case has already been partialiy de- cided by the Supreme Court,and in that decision the bonds were held to be valid. Only a part of the technicalities were brought before the court on that occasion, however. This time the attorneys nope to get the balance of them up for hearing. In the former suit only the validity of the bonds was decided by the Supreme Court. Superior Judge Prewett, before whom the case was tried, held that the bonds were not barred by the two years' statute of limitations, but that they were not legally authorized by the stocknolders, and were, therefore, invalid. The bond- holders appealed to the Supreme Court, with the result that Jud, B cision was reversed. Owing to legal for- mality the bondsmen could not bring the ?:eufion of the statute of limitations be- re the higher court, and, as the banks refused to do so then, that point is now be- ing argued again before Judge Prewett. The Judge has already held that the two years’ statute does not up%ly, and his de- cision is known, but 1t is the only way that the matter can be brought before the Su- preme Court. The argument made by the attorneys in favor of having the bonds declared to be outlawed are of an unusually technical nature, and have never been gmnght be- fore a court for decision. The question hinges on the execution and delivery of the bonds—whether it occurred in New York or California. The mortgage was signed and acknowledged by one of the trustees in New York, and by him for- warded to California, where it was also signed and acknowledged by the other two. The bonds were ' countersigned by Mr. Laidlaw in New York and in San Francisco rewett’s de- | Morgan, M. T. Lawrence, C. F. Reed, Robinson, Fred Deetken, J. Gould, Louis Tetziaff, Jobn Nichols C. Runckel, R, M. Clarken, J. H. Heuth, C. E Mason, J. L. Welker, J. N. Burke, J. N. Findiay, E B, Quigléy, George Maither Ir., £ E. M Kinstry, John MeAmrich. Butte County—8. G.W. Rodds, . P. Moody, A. Ekman, Pricé, A. F. Jones, 8. 5. Boynton, W. H. C. C. Belding, George F. Geisse, Ed Harkness, H. P. Stow, C. J. Nickerson, E. C. Paxton, W. P. Lync¢h, Wiiliam Hawkins, John Gale, W. E. Duncan Sr., E. W. Fo!fi; Frank McLaughlin, Willism Jates, H. C. Hilis, L. M. M. Allen, G. W. Dyer and R. A. Green: Siskiyou County—Fort Jomes, Andrew G. Myers, James F. Farraher, T.J. Nolton, John Saxild and Abraham Erno. C. O. Clark has Saxild’s proxy. 3 Plumas County—A. B. White, 8. S, Taylor, I Bell, H. Patten, A. D. Hallsted, E. Hard, G. Standart, F. 6. Hail, W. Deviney, el- logg, C. Hegard, A. Hali, B. C. Lorich, P. M. Caté, I. H. Thomas. W. £chaltz, §. C. Brown, U. 8. Webb, J. B. Webb, J. B. Higgins, C.R. Thompson. Santa Clara County—Thomas Derby, A. R. Buimore, James Harry Sr., D. A. Bulmore, Joan Dunstan and Charles C. Derby. Trinity County—John MeMurray, R. M. Paul- sen, D. G. Reid. Headquerters will be opened in the Palace Hotel—in the marble room—on Sunday. for the City and a few have arrived. Chairman Tirey L. Ford of the com- mittee on legislation has his report ready. He refers to the inability of the associa- tion by reason of lack of funds to obtain any legislation from the last session of Congress. With the Siate Legislature, however, it was more fortunate, and two bills were passed. Governor Budd vetoed the one sroviding for appeals from judg- ments and orders of contempt, but he ap- proved that providing fog a year’s limit of time for the life of an injunction granted prior to the trial of a cause. After sum- ming up the Btate legislation the chair- man observes: Your committee is of opinion that but little more can be done by our Siate Legislature than has been done, and_that the mining induur{ must look to the National Congress for ulti- mate relief. He next reviews Congressional legisla- tion, giving in connection a brief resume of the conditions of hydraulic mining up to the time of the passage of the Caminetti act, and after noting the changes in the law due to that he discusses the necessity ofsome appropriation and recapitulates as follows: Y . It will thus be seen that the legislation thus far obtsined has been: Firsi—An act of Congress which, in the ab- sence of an appropriation, is of but little prac- tical utility to the hydraulic miner. Second—Certain State legislation defining hydraulic mining, prescribing the conditions under which it may be carried on, making an appropriation to sid its rehabilitation and modifying the law relating to temporary in- junctions. . Feeling that relief must come from Con- gress, the committee urges the passage of the two bills with which the miners are already pretty well tamiliar,viz.: One ask- ing for an appropriation for the construc- tion of-an impounding works and the other amendatory of chapter VI of title 32 of the Revised Statutes. The amount of the‘w?promininn which has been men- tio is' $1,030,000. The amendatory bill has forits.aim the hearinfi of contests by the courts instead of the land offices and would make mining records more definite to begin with. The report.concludes by suggesting that there should be no aelay in the preparations for an effective miners’ lobby at Washington when Congress meets next Dece! 2 The Grass .'flle,v Tidings of a recent date bad this editorial utterance: ‘We submit that the criticisms recently made by the Nevada County Association were some- what premature and unjust. We doubt if, with this record in view, the cancus of Nevada County delegates will formulate resolutions condemning the past year's management. It is unguestionably proper to ever hold in prominence the main idea of the association— the resuscitation of hydraulic mining. But it is also proper to. seknowledge the good work which the officers of the association have ac- complished outzide of that purpose. The Tidings advises the County Associa- tion te “carefally review the State Asso- 5hfion'a work before making haste to con- emn.”” At the meeting of the- Alameda County Association in Oakland last night a reso- lution ‘indorsing the State Association’s record was adopted. The following delegates to the conven- tion were named: Samuel B. Christy, A. F. Merriam, William P. Miller; A. A. Wood, J. M. Wright, I'F. Newson, T, w).‘ ‘Jefl'reyidl‘.l - Phel;[m. & A ey, G. L Tt N. Be‘nnl)x;:in, Georlggeg-w. Baker, T. T. Machin, George Goodman. 3. L. Mayon, J. L. Browne. Alternates—Du Ray L J. ‘aylor, Ed F, Aiken, George Uhl, R. McSorley, C. B. Rutherford. A STRANGE RCTIC STORY, Crazed With Grief, a Father by Messrs. Alvord and Low. The banks claim that the bonds and mortgage were delivered in the State of New York, and therefore that the two vears' statue of limitations applies, while the bondsmen insist that the delivery was in California and brings the case within the four years’ statute, in which event the plea of limirations on the part of the banks would be defeated. On this point the at- torneys will argue for a week to come, The attorneys in the case are: For the bondholders, T. Z. Blakeman; Bank of California, C. W. Cross and J. M, Allen; Rideout, T. C. Lusk of Chico. EVES ON NEVADA COUNTY. Its Delegates to the Miners’ Convention Not Yet All Named. San Francisco to Choose Repre- sentatives To-Day—Alameda County’s Actlon. So far as is known by the officers of the Miners’ Association only about forty of the 120 delegates who are to represent Ne- vada County in the coming fourth annual miners’ convention have been selected. Just now all eyes are turned toward Ne- vada County. Secretary Ralston does not think, however, that railroad influence will be able to dominate the delegation. Its names are being chosen by a committee apponted for that purpose. Several counties have sent their lists to Secretary Ralston. Alameda County chose its delegation last night at Oakland, and fifty or more San Francisco delegates are to be named at the annual meeting of the City and County association in the Cham- ber of Commerce building this afternoon. The Cham ber of Commerce has selected as a committee to represent it at the con- vention A. J. Ralston, W. F. Mergglflush Craig, Louis Sloss Jr. and 0. D. dwin. Representatives have been also invited from the Board of Trade and Stock and Produce Exchanges. 1t is expected that there will be between 500 and 0&) delegates here. Following are the delegates already reported to the sec- retary: Sierra County—Julian Sonntag, F. W. e, J. 0. Jones, J. Hu}nfir, John Martin, C. F. Hamilton, Isasc Copeland, D. T. Cole, rd, W. 8. George, Louis Rosen! Orear, H. W. Orear, H. S Wood, H. H. Meyer, Aden Deison, Alford Westall, M. Wehe, Fred James Vaughn, L. Mitchell, Wes George H. Gray, P.Van Clief, Sol F. Georp I.Pl::x‘x’oy.n.xin‘donlnn Stanley A, mith. Placer County—Hsrold T.. Powery Fred Declares War Against the Walrus. - He Has Killed Hundreds of Them in Order to Avenge the Death of His Son. “Did you ever hear of a strong, able- bodied man going crazy from grief?” asked Captain Debney of the steamer City of Puebla on the water front yesterday. “I don’t mean one of your highly sensitive creatures,” continued he, ‘‘but a man 6 feet 4 inches in his stockings and as strong asanex. Of such a man I heard during my last trip to the sound. He isa Rus- sian-Finn and is sensible on every subject save one. He has a vendetta against the walrus, and his cabin in the wilds of Alaska is built up with their skulls. i “According to the story told me by a passenger who came down with me from the sound this man settled in Alaskayears ago. He married a native woman and she bore him a son. A few years later the mother died and all the affection of the hali-savage father centered on the son. Nothing was too good for the lad and every- thing in the way of hunting and fishing lore was taugpt him. “When the boy was old enough his father took him out'on all his hunting ex- peditions and soon the youngster began working on hisown account. “One fatal day he attacked an old bull walrus, but instead of killing it he him- self was the victim. When the father saw the dead body of his son he was wild with grief, which finally settied into a species of madness. Now all he lives for is to kill walrus. 5 ““When the mania first seized him he lived in a dugout. Now his hut ison the ground and composed almost entirely of walrus skalls. ““He crawls up behind the brutes while they are asleep and seizing them by ° the tusks stands them on end by main force. He looks into their eyes as though seeking to recognize the one that killed his son. and then his knife does the rest. The head is then cut off and goes to make one more to the monument heis raising to the memory of his son.” Beautiful Devotion. An Atchison man will bring suit for di- vorce in the fall on the grounds that his ‘wife makes life a burden by trying to con- verthim. He will all that she kneels and prays for him before she serves din- ner, and that she has awakened him in the night to ask him if he wis feeling any nymgtoms of achange of heart. She will get her reward in heaven, no doubt. but the poor woman will be divorced before she gets there.—Atchison Globe. —_—————— Zululand to Be Opened. A correspondent writing from South Amdn»h:a uys'.w Znulnhnd wflll‘d soon get ope u uropeans, and not be as now, left e%fixely to native races, who merely tch about on a fertile mealie patch and keep a few lean cows without any desire progression to a state of civilization or developing the wealth of the country.—New Orleans Picayune. The Australia Was Docked in Spite of Board of Health Orders. STATE VS. UNITED STATES,| Dr. Chalmers Was Instructed to! Fumigate the Vessel, but Uncle Sam Said No. KNOWLEDGE The members of the Board of Health and | Delegates are aiready starting | | Hoogs, Mrs. J. C. Alves, two the Quarantine Officer differed over the docking of the Oceanic Steamship Com- pany’s steamer Australia yesterday. The board decided that as the steamer came from Honolulu, an infected port, she should be placed in quarantine and the passengers and their baggage fumigated. Dr. Chalmers received his instructions in anything but an amiable frame of mind and at once posted over to Angel Island to consult with Dr. Peckham, the United States Quarantine Officer. That gentle- men went through the steamer’s bills of health and Consular report, read the story of the cholera epidemic in Hawasii and what had been done to prevent its spread to the Australia, and came to the conclu- sion that there was no good ground for quarantining the steamer. He ordered her released. Dr. Chalmers gave the necessary instructions to Cap tain Houdlette and at 4 | P. M. the anchor was wei ghedamid the tu- muituous cheering of the passengers, who expected to spend a week in quarantine, and she proceeded to her dock. The Australia arrived from Honolulu yesterday at 6 A. M. with the following pas- sengers: J. B. Atherton, wife and daughter, Hon. C. T. Wilder, Mrs. A. E. Hawes and maid, Mrs. T. Richards, Albert Luces, Mrs. F. M. Hateh, two | chiidren and maid, Miss A. .-\I‘efiiinder W. H. | ren H. Waterhouse 8r., Dr. J. Brodie, F. wife and two children, H. Waterhouse Jr. S. Dodge, F. Steinert, wife and_four children, G. Waterhouse, S. Roth, T. R. Keyworth, and child, Mrs. C. E. Cooper, C. R. McVeig| Mrs. Dr. Wood and child, S. E. Damon, C. T. Daley and wife, Mrs. Bruce Cartwright and dsughter, Miss May Damon, G. T, Simmonds, Bruce Cartwright Jr., W. D. Baidwin, J. R. Judd, Mrs. A. Fowler and sister, A. D. Baldwin, A.F.Tudd, Jr., Rev. J. B. Thomas and wife, F.F. Beldwin, H. Twombly, Miss M. Mott Smith, P. B. Alken, A. 8. Knudsen, Arthur Rice, Miss Kauffman, Miss M. Hartwell, Mme. Vereleye, Miss J. C. Hyde. | As soon asthe Quarantine Officer was no- | tified he sent word to the Board of Health that the steamer hi ked. ' A meet- ing was held, at whi Mayor Sutro and | Drs. Hart and Williaj ere. present, Dr. Chalmers also being in attendance. | After the Quarantine Officer had made | his report Dr. Hart moved, in accordance | with a previous decision of the board. that | the steamer Australia be sent into quaran- tine at Angel Island until her passengers, cargo and %reigh: were fumigated. Dr. Williamson endeavored to have the passengers omitted from this order. He said that he thought the fumigation before taking passage and the care taken of them on shipboard would thoroughly destroy any danger. On a vote being taken Mayor Butro and Dr. Hart voted for the original motion, so the vessel, freight and passen- ers were ordered into quarantine. Dr. ‘halmers listened to the decision of the board in grim silence, but could only make his protest through Dr. Williamson. It was at this point that the Quarantine Officer made the only mistake for which the board can blame him. Instead of see- ing the steamer safely into quarantine he alls:wed her to remain at her anchorage off Black Point and went to Angel Island to consult Dr. Peckham. The latter was clearly of the opinion that it was no case for quarantine and ordered the Australa | released. Of course the authority of a| United States officer rules and Captain | Houdlette gleefully tripped bis anchor and made for the wharf. “‘The cholera is dying out in Honolulu,” said Dr. Soule, surgeon of the Australia, | yesterday as the steamer was making her | way to the dock. ‘“‘There had been eigh: seven cases and sixty-two deaths up to tha f day we left, but no new cases had been re- | ported for four days and the epidemic was | considered at an end. We sailed on the 2d and it was contemplated making Hono- lulu a clean port by the authorities on the | following day. d we remained there | twenty-four hours longer we would have come from & non-infected port. | “There was not the slightest po:sinili:g | of our bringing any cholera germs up with | us. Not a single member of the crew has | been ashore for two voyages at Honoluln. | We took no water, provisions or coal | aboard and our cargo of sugar was put | into our hold from a steamer that came on | purpose from Kahului, a8 non-infected port, | with it. The passengers and their baggage | were all fumigated before they were irans- ferrea to our shi% and_ the idea of any | contagion being aboard is nidiculous.” | “The cholera is dying out,” said Consul- | General C. T. Wilder, who returnea from | a brief sojourn in Hawaii. “The cruiser Olympia was lying at Lahaina when we teft. She wanted coal, but would not enter Honolulu for fear of the plagne. An attempt was made to dock st Kahului. but there was not enough water. The Ben- nington was in Honolulu Bay and every- body on board was well. The only vessel in quarantine was the bark Andrew Welch, and she happened to be at a wharf in the quaraniine district when the law was passed. The passengers by the steamer Co tic were placed on another steamer, as the Occidental and Oriental Company did not | want to carry them to China and back | again. They were all Raymond excur- sionists and were released after being held | five days.” g | Mayor Sutro said last night that if Dr. | Chalmers had disobeyed the orders of the | Board of Health the doctor would be dis- | missed. He would make a thorough in- vestization of the case, and Dr. Chalmers | would have to ahide by the consequences. 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