The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 31, 1895, Page 10

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1895 4 ¥ CONCERNING te which has secured options on & number of mines in the district. water Th in the streams in the mour mcreased somewhat since the cooler weather set in. | Sinking to 'k at the Eteamboat | mine on McAdams Creek, Siskiyou County, still continues, and the men are now la; ing sluices and hoisting pay gravel. After | clean-up, the work of putting down a deep drain toward Fort Jones will be com-| menced. | No section of the State shows so much in mining as does Calaveras County. At present Mariposa County fol- lows a very good. second. Lands that a | few years ago were offered at low figures | are mow held at fancy prices, and bring | them. The Swank placers, Washington, are‘ elearing up about $1200 a month. | advance A | Coal said to be good for blacksmiths’ | use has been found in the Peshocton | country, Washington, about thirteen mile: from the Grea The commis: dent to tr ¢ Northern Railway. | on appointed by the Presi- th the Assisiaboine and | ans has obtained a ces-| are miles on the min their reservation in the | ountains, Montana. | n and Hector mines, Ama- | now connected by a tun- | good supply of air | | repre- | ng the | The Witdn dor County, nel which f for both mines. good ma ex perts and otk ting outside capital are vi posa County. I Creek country, British Co- | new_properties are being con- ¢ added to the list of shippers and ality of orecoming outisimproving. reduction plant built by the Colo- fercur muli, Utah, is to test, and if the results are atisfactory the works will be aban- not probable that the Sevier prop. erties in the Marysvale (Utah) country will have a mill this year, but it is prom ised in the spring. Since the Chicago and Montana Com- took hold of the Snowshoe mine, v, Montana, there is increased activity all throu he district. The mines around Ainsworth, Wash., | which have in the shade for a few | s considerable activity in Bo- hemia district, Oregon, this season, though none of the claims have been as yet devel- oped very extensivel; The smelter at turned out this tember $200. verett, Wash., has vear up to the end of Sep- | 18189 in gold, $346,774 31 1n | silver, $61,267 50 in lead. total of $60%, A second furnace was recently started, so the works can now treat 250 tons of ore dai The General Gold Extracting Company of Denver, having control of the Peletan- | process for working gold ores, will | 50-ton plant at the De Lamar mines, The examination of assayers is not com- pulsory in British Columbia, though those who submit to and pass the official exam- ination are given a Government certificate of competency. Lawrence mine, near Moores . da County, owned by a China- man named Ah Wing, has been given a permit to mine by the hydraulic system. The Kootenay country, B. C., is quite active just now. The minesin and about Kaslo continue to get out ore ready for shipping. Barges for ore are being built at Kaslo, and the steamers will haul them to Burness Bay as long as the weather permits. The gold camp at Mercur, Utah, has in operation or nearly ready mills capable of handling 700 tons of ore a day, and by the first of the year there will be enough to treat 1000 tons a day. In some of the gulches near the Yukon River, Alaska, work can be carried on cnly for two months each year, while it is possible to work four months on the river eds. The Star mine, near Sonora, Toulumne County, after lying idle for years, has been developed into a valuable piece of property and gives employment to fifty men. The old works have been opened up and new ground prospected, very rich ore ng been found. The owners of the U. S. Grant, Sonnet, Noonday, Merlin and Deer Creek mines, all stimulated by the success of the Star, are energetically at work looking for the same good rock. The Hammond five-stamp mill has been hauled from Jacksonville, Or., to the Steamboat quartz mine. The bullion averages of the Consolidated California and Virginia mine on the Com stock for the past year was: Average assay value of the ore per ton, per battery sam- ples, gold. $2494; silver, $30 15; total, 355 10.” Average assay value of the ore per ton: car samvles, $57 56. Average yield in bullion per ton of ore: gold, §24 44; sil- ver, $23 50; total, $4995. This looks like pretty close 2 Conside in mining is re- ported in the Groom Creek section, Ari- zona. A Huntington mill is being put up on F u & Hughes' Parker mine, among other things. The Tipbecanoe mine, near Sierra County, o e City, ned by George Parent, has been n official permission to mine by the hydraulic process The oil wellsin the city of Los Angeles are now producing upward of 2500 barrels a day, and the output is increas- ing, as new wells are b opened at the rate of about twenty each month, The new hoisting works built by the Ris- | don Iron Works of this city for the Merced Gold Mining Company of Mariposa County will have a hoisting speed of 1300 w0 2500 feet per minute from adepth of 2000 feet. The Crawford Bay country, B. C., is coming to the front. A great discovery has been made there near the head of Hooker Creck, about fifteen miles above Pilot Bay. Some fifteen or twenty gold claims are being prospectsd mear. Gaur & Alesc City, Idaho. The veins are about seven feet wide. The discoveries are on_the old Mullan road, about a mile and a half due east from Ceeur d’Alene City. Frank R. Kerr of this city, formerly of the United States Geological Survey, is opening the South Paloma, which is the south extension of the old Roach mine, above the Gwin, Calaveras County. It will be worked by a three-compartment shaft, and a new tunnel will tap the old shaft. The old Boree mine, between Angels and Altaville, which has been idle for the past ten years, is being reopened by Super- intendent Edward McKay for the new Eastern owners. Edmund A, Roberts of Sacramento bas | View, | erected at Shell N Mines @ Mining ,/ LATEST INFORMATIQON THIS IMPORTANT INDUSTRY,) 0ld to the Kennedy Mining Company of Amador County all of the land lying be- tween the north end of the unpatented ex- tension of the Clyde and the south hne of certain land beloneing to the Oneida Com- pany. The land thus acquired fills up the gap between the east line of the Kennedy and the Clyde, the Golden Gate and the McCauley placer mines, the negotiations for the sale of which were completed with the Kennedy on October 5. The Owyhee Land and Irrigation Com- any is going into placer mining on a arge scale about three miles above Grand n Snake River, Idaho. A $25,000 plant for the reduction of base ores upon an imyro\'ml system has been ound, on the bay shore, outside of Oakland. The dry pulverized ore is fed through a patent blow-pipe fur- nace—an inclined flue 110 feet long. It is called a **quick roasting process.” The gold from the Lamen, Robinson, Osceola, Montgomery ana other Nevada camps beyond the middle of the State goes over to Salt Lake City, but that from West- ern Nevada does not. After an idleness of two years the prop- erties of the Red Bird Mining Company, in City Creek Canyon, Utah, are to be opened up on an extensive scale. An important strike has been made in the Consolidated mine at Park City, Utah, the ore on the incline from the main tun- nel being of high grade. A. F. Holden of Salt Lake bas bonded the properties of the Camas No. 1in Idaho. The production of copper by the Ana- conda properties in Montana averages the | year round sbout 10,000,000 pounds;per month. Vigorous work has been commenced on | the properties of the Carr Fork Mining Company, near the Miners’ Home, in Carr Fork, Utah. The Bonanza group of mines in Camp Flovd district, Utah, has been leased by James Black and cther Salt Lake men, and alarge force of men will be putat work opening up the property. The Meteor group, adjoining the Utah mine in Fish Springs district, Utah, by a recent sale of stock, will discharge its old debts and the present tunnel will be ex- tended at once. The eight new tanks added to the Mer- cur mill, Utah, will permit the treat- ment of 200 tons per day instead of 150 tons as heretofore. 3 Brougham Creek, in the Salmon River country, is sure to be the coming mining country of Idaho, and a stampede is ex- pected in that direction next spring. The B large and samples brought in by prospectors run high. There are also placers, There is plenty of wood and water. About twenty young men of Bloomfield and Graniteville, Ne a County, are de- veloping a gravel mine near the latter place, called the Live Yaunkee, and have recently made quite a rich strike at the end of the 573-foot tunnel. Peter Tautphaus of this City has pur- chased of \\'Jlium Floyd and others the Constitution quartz mine, Willow Valley district, three miles from Nevada City. He boueht also several other ledges in the same vicinity, including the Siam and Mammoth. There are said to be twenty-seven good mining properties now beinz worked in Neal district, Idaho. People up about Calistoga, Napa County, ave much interested in several gold claims in Horns Canyon, but little development work has been done upon them. Rich placer diggings have been found on abar of Snake River, about eight miles above Lewiston, Idaho. Some men were removing drifted sand from an orchard when the deposit was discovered. The Morning mine at Muller, Idaho, is turning out from one to two carloads of concentrates per day. The Rinkead Miiling Company, on the Comstock, has brought three Frue concen- trators for the new plant from the Ken- nedy mill, which has recently been closed down, in the Kennedy district. A large number of claims have been re- corded in the Boundary Creek district, | B. C., this summer, and it is expected that the camp will be very active next season. In British Columbia the Government is lending its assistance in building a road from the head of Crawiord Bay toward Fort Steel. In that section of West Kootenai there are many promising mining claims. In what is known as the St. Mary's country about fifty locations have been made, and the region is tribu- tary to Fort Steel. Recent explorations lead to the belief that the section of the interior of Alaska surrounding the headwaters of the Alseck, White and Copper rivers is rich in min- eral wealth, both placer and quartz. Resiaents of Alaska are very indignant at the details of the new map prepared by the Canadian Government, as 1t takes ina great deal of mining territory now being worked by American capital in Alaska. The Alaska 1rreadwell mill, Douglas Island, Alaska, crushes from’ 24,000 to 25,000 tons of ore per month and about 400 tons of sulphurets are also treated. It is thought that about 600 miners will winter at Birch Creek, Yukon River, Alaska. Seventy-mile Creek empties into the Yukon River, Alaska, about seventy miles below Forty-mile Creek. The fact that prospectors this fall came to the trading post, outfitted and returned shows that ‘b;l%‘v have found good prospects at Seventy- ile. Magnetic iron pyrites are found in the gangue of the guartz mines in the Juneau belt and about Sitka, Alaska. In the Apollo Consolidated quartz mine, Unga Island, Alaska, native’ copper s found with the gold, which is very un- usual, only one other case of the kind hay- ing been reported in America. Until the smelter at Trail, B. C., is com- gleted the ore of the Le Roy Company will e shipped to Butte, Mont. The first ship- ments of a 75,000-ton contract commenced this month. A great deal of mining work is going on in the Lilouet district, B. C. Gold-bearing ore has been discovered in Teton County, Montana, on Bresch Creek, about fifteen miles from Dupuyer. The great stack of the Nutt furnace of the Anaconda Company, Montana, is about 200 feet high. It is 60 feet in diameter at the base and 22 feet at the top; 225,000 brick were used in its construction. The recent gold find in the Costilla dis- trict, New Mexico. is considered valuable. In an area of ten square miles a number of veins have been found running from $10 to $20 per ton in free gold. The new camp has been named La Belle. 1t is about forty-five miles southwest of Catskill, on the Union Pacific, Denver and Gulf road, south from Pueblo. Numbers of miners are going to the district. The sulphur mines on the west shore of the Gulf of California are to be opened and it is thought sulphur can be mined and put on board ship for $1 10 per ton. There is a strong competition, however, in the sulphur which comes by shiploads from Japan. The Mayer district in the Gunsight country, Ar seventy-five miles south of Gila Bend, and eighty-five from Maricopa, is not a new mining region. but it is again coming to the front through theintelligent work of a few miners who are developing a number of good claims. A New York syndicate which has con- trol of anew process of treatin gold ore is £oing to put up works to handle one hun- dred tons a day at some point in the State of Washington, and wants Spokane to help out with a site and power. The Cliff and St. Elmo mines, on Trail Creek, British Columbia, have been sold to an English syndicate for $225,000. The Georgetown divide, we see so often mentioned, comprises that portion of El Dorado Count{ inclosed between the Mid- dle and_South forks of the American ]\x\'er.. Starting from an elevation of 175 feet, it rises to an altitude of 8000 feet upon the summitof the range. The width where the mother lode crosses is about twelve miles, while the gold belt covers an area of about 200 square miles. This di- vide is noted for its past gold production. It was upon its southern slope that Mar- shall made his discovery of gold at Coloma. The greatest hindrance to mining work at this time of the year is lack of water, but by the end of November the rains will replenish the storage supply and raise all the streams, Ore which was formerly crushed at De Lamar, Nev., by rolls, is now worked in Grimn mills, which are reported to be very successful. The wood and lumber companies which supply the Comstock mines, Nevada, have lately received very large orders for min- ing timbers, which implies more active work in some of the mines. Colorado men have purchased the Oro Fino mine in Meadow Lake district, Ne- vada County, being satisfied that they have a new process which will work on the peculiar rebellious ores of that district. A great many people have had the same idea in the past twenty or thirty years, but perhaps the Colorado men may solve the problem. Still many believe that the real reason of the many failures is because the amount of gold supposed to be in the ores is not there at all. The dry concentrator which R.G. Pat- terson has at Gold Basin, Ariz., cannot be made to work without the a ance of the patentee. That is the way with a good many such machines, which do_finely in an experimental way, but_fail in regular everyday practical work in a mining dis- trict. All the machinery for the copper mines near Waldo, Or., has arrived, and the smelter at the Siskiyou mine will shortly be in operation. 3 Dr. James Braden, the capitalist, who is doing much for the mining interests of Southern Oregon, is preparing a plan to bring the placer mines of Kanes Creek into prominence. The Kate Haves Mining Company, which owns the Manzanita mine, near Sweetland, Nevada County, was given a permit to mine by hydraulic process about a year ago, and has filled up the space be- hind its dam. It has now received per- mission from the California Debris Com- mission to continue operations behind new impounding works which have been constructed. ¢ Prescott, Ariz., is again talking about wanting some sort of ore-reduction works, but it seems difficult toenlist the attention of capitalists in such an enterprise. Inthe surrounding districts mine dumps are piled with_ore, waiting for treatment at custom mills, but milling capacity is in- adequate to handle the present output, There ought to be as much money in good custom mills in that region as there would be in good mines. The Los Angeles papers ought to know that the Golden Cross is the most produc- tive mine in Southern California, yet they locate it in Yuma County, Arizona. The i Mining Company owns forty-three claims in Camp Floyd, Utah, on which development work is to be pushed at once. The mines are doing ‘so well around Mercur, Utah, that town lots have more than doubled in price recently. The Neill process of treating pyrites of iron by fire concentrators will soon be in ‘{lxeranuu at the Utah mine, Bingham, tah, Two new deposits of coal of good quality have recently been found near Mount Pleasant, San Pete County, Utah. The miners all over the country are pitching into their assessment work on these da, trying to get it done before the snow falls. 1n this they are wise. There is a noticeable decrease in the receipts of ore at Salt Lake, all of the districts of Utah baving made some reduc- tions in their output. It is only tem- porary, nowever. CHARLES G. YALE. CAPTAN CARLY DE A Well-Known Commander of the Pacific Mail Company’s Steamers. He Was Skipper of the Orizaba and Brought the China From Scotland. John Mansfield Cavarly, one of the old- est commanders in the employ of the Pa- cific Mail Company, died at his home, 1815 Sutter strept, last Tuesday night. He was one of the most successful skippers that ever took a steamer out of San Francisco, and he stood high with the management. On November 23, 1894, Captain Cavarly’s resignation was presented to the directors of the Pacific Mail Company when they were in session in New York. After com- menting upon his thirty-one years of ser- vice the board said: Resolved, That Captain Cavarly’s example is one especially worthy of emulation, for the reason that his success as a commander was due to his close attention to his duty, his un- questioning obedience of orders and hisun- swerving loyalty to the interests ot the Pacific Mail Company. Almost every ship owned by the Pacific Mail Company has had Captain Cavarly as a commander. When the old Orizaba went out on her 1irst trip to Panama he was in command, and when the China, the latest addition tothe company’s fleet, came out from Scotland it was Cavarly who took the observations and directed the steam- | er’s course. Without classifying the steamers in their order of age, Captain Cavarly has at various times commanded the Orizaba, California, Constitution, Colorado, Sonora, Sacramento, Montana, Arizona, Great Re- public, Golden Age, Granada, Acapulc Colima, Colon, China, City of New York, City of Sydney, City of Rio de Janeiro, City of Peking, Georgia, San Blas and San Juan. Of these the City of New York and the Colima will be best remembered, although the entire fleet is well known to the tray- eling public. The New York was wrecked on Point Bonita while on her way to Panama, and the Cohma went down with almost all on board on the Central Ameri- can coast. Captain Cavarly retired from the Pacific Mail almost a year ago. He was then a sick man and his physicians teld him his lease of life was short. The deceased entered the service of the Pacific Mail on January 10, 1864, and re- tired December 31, 1894., His son, John M. Cavarly Jr., is now a storekeeper on the steamer San Juan, and as the vessel is in Mexican waters it will be some time before he hears of his father’s death, The funeral will take place at St. Luke’s Church and the interment will be at Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland. Cap- tain Cavarly was born in New London, Conn., aud was 63 years and 27 days old. POTATOES TO TEXAS. Low Freight Rates Said to Have Falled | of Their Object. In view of the large quantity of potatoes that is now overstocking the local market, the commission merchants thought that if a sufficiently low rate were granted to Texas bY the Southern Pacific Railroad, a profitable outlet might be found for the surplus product. An investigation of the matter at the freight department of the Southern Pacific Company showed that about two months ago the company made a rate of 50 cents per 100 pounds on potatoes to Texas to re- main in force for thirty days. The only result therefrom, it was claimed, was a sEnsmodic movement for a few days, when the shipments ceased. It was found that theroads east of Texas had met the cut of the Southern Pacific and thus prevented the California potato-raiser from Treaping any benefit from the freight reduction, INSPECTED BUTCHERTOWN The Board of Health Orders Many Long-Needed Im- provements. CITY ORDINANCES VIOLATED. The Butchers Warned to Stop Dumping Offal and Other Garbage in the Bay. The Board of Health proposes to see that the ordinances regulating that section of the City commonly referred to as “Butch- ertown’’ are enforced. Within the last few days Health In- spector A. B, Kinne has been all over Butchertown and he finds that many of the sanitary laws are openly and con- tinually violated. Beneath the flooring of many of the larger slaughter-houses may be seen great piles of butchers’ offal, gar- bage and vegetable matter, from which arises the most revolting and noisome of effluvia. The owners of these houses are of the opinion that the tide carries away all this vile debris except what 1s eaten by hogs, but such is not the case. Between high and low tide such vast quantities of butch- ers’ offal find their way to the ground be- low, either intentionally or tbrough lack of proper flooring, as to undergo a sort of | solidifying process, and as a result the tide picks up only the loose particles. This, however, does not seem to be the fornia Fertilizing Company that they must move their establishments, and that, too, not later than November 5. Mr. Alpers loudly protests against such action and boldly announces that he will remain where he is. Inspector Kinne says that unless these establishments are either closed or removed within the stipulated time the Health Department will nail them up. The cases of Lee Sung & Co. and Quang Lung & Co., charged by Inspector Davis with selling impure meat, came upo before Judge Campbeli yesterday. It was shown that the two establishments were owned by the same man, so the charge against Sung | & Co. was dismissed. Davis was asked if he would be satisfied with a nominal fine os §5 or $10, and he replied that he would not. It was then suggested that a $20 fine be named as the proper amount for the first offense, to which proposition he agreed. Dayvis says that he will arrest every man caught with aiseased meat in his posses- sion. STARSFUR THE FESTWAL Many Prominent Vocalists Will Sing for the Children’s Hospital. Contingents Preparing to Come From Oakland and San Jose. Stars of all magnitudes are rapidly being secured for the grand concerts which are to take place on November 19 and 20 in aid of the Children’s Hospital. Miss Elizabeth Bell, the prima donna of the concert troupe, is expected to arrive snortly in San Francisco from the East, where she has recently been adding to her MISS ELIZABETH BELL, MUSICAL PRIMA DONNA SOPRANO OF THE FESTIVAL. [From a photograph.] worst feature connected with dumping garbage along the Butchertown water front,” The major portion of the debris which is carried away by the tide finds a lodging place in taat arm of the bay lying west of Railroad avenue, ; There it rests, diffusing its poisonous odors throughout the entire City. Sec- tions 1 and 4 of the order number 2300, passed September 24, 1890, speak as foi- lows on this subject: Section 1. No person, COmpany O COTpOTA- tion shall deposit, dump or cause to be dumped or deposited butchers’ offal or garbage or any putrid or stinking animal or vegetable matter or any refuse, dirt, ashes, cinders, sludge, acids or other like matter upon any lands within the City and County of San Francisco, or dump or deposit the same from any whari or bulk- nead on the water front of this City aud County, exceptas hereinafter provided. Nor shall any person deposit upon any publie street, lane, alley, place or court within the City and County any sweepings from shops or stores, paper, feathers, straw, broken glass or crockery, rubbish, garbage or manure, or any other debris from dwelling-houses or places of business of any description whatever. No person, company or corporation shall dump or deposit, or cause to be dumped or deposited, butchers’ offal or garbage, or any putrid or stinking animals, or vegetable mai- ter, or any refuse, dirt or askes, cinders,sludge, acids or other like matter, except the same be dumped or deposited_into such receptacles, or into such lighters, bargesor vessels as may hereafter be provided by a_person or corpors- tion authorized to receive all of such material. Such receptacles, or such lighters, barges or vessels shall be so constructed as to prevent the escape of any noxious gases or odors that might be detrimental to the public health or comfort. In addition to this matter of butchers’ offal and other garbage dumped into the bay it appears that certain wholesale butchers are guilty of another violation of the law which is even more injurious to the public at large than the foul air which permeates that section of the City. Under- neath many of the slaughter-houses great pens are arranged where hogs are placed and allowed to feed on such offal and other garbage as they can find. They grow fat on it and in a few weeks without any extra cost to the owners are in fat condition for market—at least so far as fat goes. Section 2 of the same order says: No person, company or corporation shall feed or cause 1o be fed any animal in the City and County of San Francisco any swill, refuse, gar- bage, butchers’ offalor any putrid and stinking animal or vegetable matter. . Why these laws have not been enforced in the fast is not apparent, but the Board of Health does not propose to follow the lines laid down by its predecessors. The following notice has been sent to some forty wholesale butchers, and Health Offi- cer Lovelace says it will be rigidly en- forced: You are hereby notified that the practice of keeping hogs beneath the floors of slaughter- houses or rooms where meat is dressed and prepared for market has been condemned by the Board of Heaith as prejudicial to public health. Your attention is also called to sec- tion 1 of order 2300, goneral orders of Board of Supervisors, which prohibits the dumping of butchers’ offal, garbage, manure, etc., on the water front or from any wharf or bulkhead; and section 2 of order 2300, which prohibits the feeding of swill, refuse, garbage, butchers’ offal or any putrid or stinking animal or veg- etable matter toanimals in the City and County of San Francisco. On and after the 25th day of November, 1895, any person or persons found keeping hogs beneath the floors of slaughter-houses or rooms. where meat is dressed and prepared for market, or any per- son or persons found violating sections 1 and 2 of order 2300, will be prompily arrested. ATS. LOVELACE, M.D., Health Officer. A. B. KINNE, Inspector. _The butchers do not as a whole take kindly to the new order. They even go so far as to talk of resisting it in the courts. “‘We have not done this before,” said In- epector Kinne yesterday, ‘because we first desired to make a thorough investigation and see just where the trouble lay. The result of our investigation is seen”in the formal notice just served on the butchers. “Icontend that if the meat supply of San_Francisco must be prepared for mar- ket in Butchertown, then it is no more than right that the locality should be made as clean and free from filth and filthy smells as it is possible to make it. The butchers themselves and all good citizens should support the Health Department in its efforts in this direction.” The Board of Health has notified the Alpers Fertilizing Company and the Cali- Europeon reputation by making very suc- cessful appearances. One of the solo mezzo-sopranos who has been secured is Miss Josephine Sister- mans, a graduate of the Royal Conserva- Orgeni, one of Germany’'s best-known prima donnas at one time, and now a fa- mous teacher. It was hearing Miss Sister- mans’ beautiful voice when she was a stu- dent that induced Baron Franchetti to write the role of Nefta in his ‘‘Azrael’” on lines that would enable her to sing it suc- cessfully if she ever decided to go upon the stage. Miss Sistermans has sung both in Europe and in New York, and comes to the festival highly indorsed by competent people in the East. Prominent society people of the musical set in San Jose are showing an interest in making the concerts successful. A chorus of thirty singers, representing the best tal- gmd of the Garden City, has been organ- ized. Miss Elizabeth Miller, one of the con- traltos, has an especially fine and well- trained voice. She isa pupil of the late Francesco Lampert1, who was the maestro of Albani and a long list of other celebri- ties, which includes some of the greatest singers of theage. Among the other mem- bers of the San Jose contingent are Miss Hillman-Smith, Miss Florence Gordon and Miss Carrie Foster McClellan. In Oakland nearly 300 of the best singers have joined the chorus, and in San Fran- cisco there isalso great enthusiasm over the work. Many prominent soloists will assist at the next rehearsal here, Among them, in addition to Miss Sistermans, are Miss Ida Seminario. Miss Josephine Sis- termans, S. Homer Henley, Willis E. Bacheller and Walter C. Campbell. STEVENSON'S YOUNG HEIR Soon to Come From Samoa to Visit Relatives in San Francisco. The Author Formed an Unusual Attach. ment for the Lad and Bequeathed Him His Fortune. The 12-year-old lad who was the in- separable companion of the late Robert Louis Stevenson in all his later wander- ings and to whom the novelist bequeathed his estate at his death is soon to visit his folks in San Francisco. The boy’s name is Joseph Austin Strong, and between him and the imaginative author there existed a romantic attach- ment that was started over five years ago and lasted uninterruptedly up to the latter’s death. He made his home with Stevenson on his plantation at Samoa. Only once were they ever separated, and then the youth was sent to San Francisco by the novelist to attend school, but the separation proved too much for the latter. He mourned the absence of the sprightly little fellow, and at the end of six months he had him return to the islands. While the lad was here Stevenson wrote to him constantly. . The letters from the world-famous writer to a lad not yet in his teens are soon to be published by one of the Eastern mag- azines. Written as they must have been for the comprehension of a youth, they are expected to throw an altogether differ- ent light :}aon the character of that little- understood man, who was fanciful and gloomy by turns. In‘a simple, unstudied and unaffected way they tclr of his quiet everyday life off there in the Pacific, The father of the boy is Joseph D. Strong, a well-known member of the Bo- hemian Club, artist and caricaturist. Mr. l Strong marrried the daughter of Mr. Stey- enson’s wife. Joseph Strong Jr. is th only child. When he was 7 geul l:141 alh tory of Dresden and a pupil of Frau Aglaya | | tamily moved to the Hawaiian Islands. It was while on a visit to them in 1890 that Stevenson met the boy. Stevenson purchased an immense tract of unimproved land on_ the island of Samoa, and then proceeded to develop it into a large sugar plantation. Mr. and Mrs. Strong and their child were installed on the place. It was during this time that Stevenson be%an his famous cruises among the isl- ands of the Pacific in bis yacht Casco, that had formerly belonged to the late Dr. Merritt. In all his watery wanderings he was accompanied by young Strong. His parents are now living in San Francisco. The exact value of the estate left by the dead author is not definitely known. The lantation that he bought in 1890 has since geen developed into a magnificent tract of sugar-growing cane. Stevenson also owned a valuable residence in Oakland. It islo- cated on Thirteenth avenue and embraces an entire block of land and is of an im- gosing character. It is the only piece of alifornia property he ever owned. number of years ago young Strong lived there in company with his grandmother, Mrs. Osbourne, and attended the public schools for a while. A grandfather of the boy lives in the hills back of Oakland, leading the life of a recluse. Heisa man of education and learning, a graduate of one of the famous Eastern colleges, and for many years was a principal of the pub- lic schools in that city. Lloyd Osbourne, who wrote a book in conjunction with Stevenson, is an uncle of the hei CAPTAIN LOCKYER SUED. Must Answer for Taking Sealskins Aboard the Tug Hercules. United States Attorney Foote, in the name of the United States Government, filed a suit yesterday against Captain T. C. Lockver of " the tug Hercules, belonging to the Shippers’ and Merchants’ Towboat As- sociation, for $1000 and costs. The Hercules 1s alleged to have taken 170 sealskins off the sealing schooner Win- chester off this port on January 9 last and landed them without the formality of going through the Custom-house. The towboat was libeled on the same charge, but the attorney believes that the captain is also liable, and should be dpun- ished to the extent of the amount sued for. ———— A Carpenter Sues for Damages. 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AT AUCTION SATURDAY, CONJUNCTION WITH SATURDAY. ..NOVEMBER 2, 1895, LN AT ANMEIDA, At 2 o'clock P. ., At the Park-street Broad-gauge Station. this corner is property in this ¢ be increased 10 Park st cars; ¥ ndsome Residen side (No. 1804) Central ave., Union st.: one of the choicest res:de ful Alameda: 14 rooms and bath: plas ment; _electric. 1 i heaer: electric Toad: near two steam sia S8x140 fr. Pretty Hom an Antonia Ave. N. line (No. 2247) San Antonio ave.. 300 feet W, this precty home has 7 rooms and bathj brick foundation; French range; fine ble. etc.: lot 50x150 feet. Beautiful Home—Broadway. W. line (No. 1727) Broadway, 82.6 . of Eagle 3; modern_improvements; : lot 50x121 feet. . Business Property. of Buena Vista 415x106:334 feet, Nos. eet each Park st. 18 | the business street of Alameda; second block from &.P. R. R. depot; terms, 1-5 cash. | Central-Ave. Residence. | A beautiful home of 8 rooms and bath on N. line | of Central ave., 100 feet ¥ 40x146 fee o vaca | 146 feet: Mr. Joun Bartor’s mansion is | ioining block; street work complete; | cash. | Grand Home. | 214 feet terms, 15 E. line of Grand st., 150 N. of San Antonia ave.; a fine home of 5 rooms in the center of Alameda, surrounded by fine improvements; well and pump | on premises; street work all done; lot 50x138 feet; terms, 1-5 cash. | Everett Street—Beautiful Home. | W.line of Everett st., 150 feet | fine 2-story dweiling of 6 room street sew | graded and macadamized; lov 50x140 fee | one-fiith cash. Residence and Four Lot NE. cor. Santa Clara ave. and Broadw: 0x also 2 lots adjoining east, 50x145:9 lot adjoining east, with well and. windmi 145:9 feot; feet. Pretty Cottage. NW. cor. 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