The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 8, 1895, Page 4

4 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER S8, 1895. PACIFIC COAST NEWS, History of the Two Most Important Mines in Nevada County. THE PROVIDENCE YIELD. Though Once Practically Aban- doned It Has Produced $5,000,000. CLAIMS OF THE CHAMPION. With an Aggregate Output of Four Mi]llions It Stands as a Leader. (Special Correspondence of THE CALL.] NEVADA CITY, Car., Nov. 5—The Providence and Champion mines are the most important in Nevada County at the present time and among the most impor- tant in the State. The total production heretofore of these mines is supposed to be about $5,000,000 for the Providence and $4,000,000 for the Champion. Neither prop- erty has been even prospected yet. Both are immense claims, the Providence being more than 4500 feet long and 1200 feet wide and covering an area of 180 acres. Itis, in fact, a consolidation of some twenty claims. The Champion ground is more than a mile in length by 2000 feet in maximum breadth. Both are very irregular in shape. The development work heretofore done on the Providence has been confined entirely to the north end of the claim, the longest drift being 1400 feet and the bulk of the | work not exceeding 500 feet in length. On the Chamvion the extent of the prospect- ing is more general, but is largely super- ficial, so that both claims probably have nearly the same amount of virgin ground at depth. The prosperity of Nevada City in the past has depended largely on these two mines. Its future prosperity is assured by | their splendid showing at present and the | immense possibilities lying dormant now | in each, but which will be certainly tested | in the future. The earliest history of the Providence mine is a matter of tradition, dating back | so far that nothing more definite is gener- ally known than that “piles of money” | wese taken from its surface workings. The first reliable knowledge begins with the ownership of Walraith Brothers and Hunter, who worked the mine to the 600 level on the “‘back ledge” or west vein and to the 1100 level on the east vein. The we in is a contact, the walls being a iorite and slate. The east vein is the grano-diorite. There are four inct vein croppings on the surface of the claim, and the crosscutting hasalready shown two or three more below, but the work so far has been principally confined to the contact or west ledge and to the east ledge. Atthe 600 and 1100 levels of the respective ledges the veins “pinched” somewhat, there had been some misman- | agement in not opening up ground ahead, the sulphurets were not handled to the best advantage—in short, for various reasons not apparent now the mine was closed down and remained closed for three years. In 1891 the present owners boughta controlling interest in the Providence | mine and started in to find out whether it | was a “mere shell,” which was the com- mon report concerning it. Old drifts and | stopes were opened up and retimbered, the shaft started down, vigorous pros- pecting begun, and in sixty days the | pinched veins had begun to open outinto | profitable ore bodies and everything | vointed to a permanent paying mine. It | is not too much to say that the mine bas continually improved since, although not 4 in so greata degree as since the advent of William McKinlay as superintendent some fifteen months ago. Under his able and energetic management work-in all parts of the mine has been prosecuted with a vim and intelligence best illustrated by . its_present condition, which the writer | had an opportunity of viewing to-day through the courtesy of the ownersand Mr. McKinlay. Four hours were spent in going through all the workings with the superintendert and the foreman, John Dabb. If the Providence mine hasnota preat future before it appearances are derfully deceptive. A Vithout entering upon details it i3 suf- ficient to say that the reserves of ore al- ready developed on the two principal veins are extensive enough to insure sev. eral years continuousrun of the company’s stamp mill, and that the lowest| ngs have the richest and largest ore | bodies. As to what lies beyoud in the | great area of unprospected ground, or at greater depth, is a mere matter of conj ture. But as Superintendent McKinl says, the moral certainty of great deposi of good ore could only be increased demonstration. There is one point that demands par- ticular mention, as it is undoubtedly the | most important eyent in the history of the mine. That is the recent -great strike at the 1780-foot level, the deepest in the mine and in the district. When the incline shalt reached this level a crosscut was run west 525 feet to the contact ledge, which was found to be nine feet wide, loaded with sulphurets, with splended Wwalls and gouge, largest at the bottom and widening at the end of the lateral drift south, which has been driven thirty-five feet. On this vein, from this level to the -foot level, is virgin ground. At the -foot level | the vein is only three and a half feet wide, butgood ore. “Thus there is a known re- serve here df 530 feet of ore in depth, probably the best as a whole ever found in | the mine, strongest at the bottom and ex- tending south indefinitely. This body of ore runs from 6 to 30 per cent sulphurets, some of it being in solid masses that would go 50 per cent. The eighty tons of ore per day extracted from all parts of the mine average 4} per cent sulphurets and the average value per ton of the ore is sup- | posed to be about $10. Probably balf of that represents the net profit. Another six months of development work ought to | justify another forty-stamp mll. Improvements in all parts of the mine | and works have been progressing continu- ously since Mr. McKi lfmlay'u advent, and will continne for some time vet. When hie took charge only thirty-five stamps were runping, and it was nard work to provide them with ore. 1t was predicted the ore would not hold out three months. He has added five stamps rince. He is thorouehly conversant with every. detail of mining through practical experience, and produces results thas prove him to be the right man in the right place. A new pipe line 3500 feet long and a reservoir capable of holding 6,000,000 gallons of water will be completed this month.- This will afford an abundant water supply and give a pressure at the mine of 420 feet. The ground of the Providence Company affords_some good object lessons to theo- rists. They would find here two veins in slate, two in what is locally called granite and one at the contact of the two forma- tions. ‘There is hardly any appreciable difference in the character of the ore or | line. The hilis rise by steep gradient from the permanence of the veins, except that | the creek on both_sides from 500 to 00 the ore in the slate is somewhat richer in | feet. Tunnels begin at the creek and run places and at times carries tellurium. [ in on the three veins, that on the Cham- Those who are afraid of a vein because it | pion being as stated, 5000 feet; that on the pinches, as the former owners of this mine | Merrifield is 2000 feet; on the Wyoming seemed to be, ought to be reassured after | 2000. These tunnels drain the different noting this peculiarity as a general chara ledges of the surface water to their levels, teristic, es ally as the swell invariably | and will serve i the future as conduits for foliowing is usually the richer. All veins | water pumped from below, and as main pinch in a preater or less degree, and it | channels for the conveyance of ore hoisted affords no better ground for condemnation | to theirlevels. than the fact of pay ore occurring in chim- | Although an owner in and connected Both occurrences are related, are | with the mine for a long time Mr. Zeitler rsal in a broad sense and cail for no | first assumed control as superintendent in special consideration in determining per- [ 1891. Though standing almost alone at manence or valne. A | times since then in upholding the property The course of the Providence vein is | his confidence in its vaiue has never wa- roughly northwest and _southeast, and the | vered, and to bim more than any other in- dip about 40 Cegrees. The <haft is in two | dividual is due the credit of its being to- compartments, 10 by 5 in tie clear, one | day on a dividend-paying basis and in_the side being used for the cage and the other | front rank among the great gola mines of for the pumpred, manway, water and air | the world. Had ‘it not been for the vexa- pipes. All the hoisting is done with one | tious htigation forced upen it and the sus- cable, and there is probably no mine in the | pension of work for a year, Mr. Zeitler Btate where so much work is done with no | says, a hundred stamps would be running greater facilities. There are three Pelton | to-duy. As it is the largest works and the wheels, one of six feet for pump, one of | best machinery in the distriet have been five feet for the hoist and one of four feet | put upon' it, the mine retimbered and for the compressor. opened up so that ore enough is in sight The Proyidence Gold Mining Company | for a six years' run of seventy stamps. A is a close corporation, with the main oflice | new forty-s ill has been begun San Francisco. The owners are San | which is to be the best in the world when Francisco capitalists and business men. | completed. A reservoir has been started The officers are: Fred Boeckman, presi- | to hold 20,000,000 gallons of water. A rnew dent; P. Tautphaus, John V. Hunter, Jo- | water pipe has been completed 3000 feet seph Butgenbach, Dr. Liebrich, directors. | long of 24-inch pipe to supply water under Walraith Brotkers are also owners in the |a 400-foot pressure. Altogether there property. W.H. Whitman, whose sudden | have been improvements projected and death “in San " Francisco was deeply | mourned by his many friends here, was secretary and also an owner and director. | completed which will aggregate nearly $300,000. Nevada City owes much to the Cham- The contact in the Champion mine is a | pion mine. In the dark days this was the distinct ‘“mother lode.” It has been | one property that remained steadfast in traced twenty miles or more, has some | faith and works. The result was success wonderfully productive mines, but its true | in the end. The effect of that success is nature and importance are as little under- J visible everywhere. It is most conspicu- WORKS AND GROUNDS OF THE PROVIDENCE COMPANY, NEVADA CITY, CAL. [Photographed for ** The Call” by John 8. Swart, Ne GOLD MINING stood or appreciated, even by the mining ;ous in the Providence and other mines, world, as the big mother lode of the State. | which were supposed to be played out and Probably the best-posted man as to its were deserted, but which are now proved value and characteristics is Fred Zeitler, r and better in every way superintendent and general manager of the sible on every thorouy Champion e. Mr. Zeitler's acquai Jity, in the improvements ance with the ‘‘contact” d ojected. Itis visible in twenty years, and bis exp | men’s faces, which are animated with bope dips, spurs and angles during that period | and confidence, instead of being marked has been intimate and varied. Man vith despondency, as was almost univer- other men have flirted with the ‘“old | sally the case less than five years ago. In lady,” but have been more orless incon- | a single month the Champion mine has stant, and have finally cast her off. Mr. | paid $134,000 for labor and material in Zeitler has remained true to his first love, | Nevada Gity, not including the money and boldly avows that, he is more infatu- | speut for necessary supplies from below. ated to-day than ever. He ingenuously There are e working shafts on the acknowledgzed having ilavished some Champion claims, two being on the con- 000 on his charmer, but with maternal s tact vein, two on the Merrifield and one on licitude it has peen all invested to his | the Wyoming. Run at their full capacity, credit, and is now returning munificent | 500 tons of ore per day might easily be pro- ivi Discarding metaphor, Mr. | duced. The principal work being done Zeitler has stayed with the contact lo now through the south shaft of the and has been richly rewarded for his nerve | Champion, at Deer Creek, convenient to and indgment. the old mill and the new. This shaft is The Champion was first known as the | now down 1300 feet, and the lowest level is Trish mine, some twenty-five years ago. | the 1200. Stopes are opened up and ore The first work done was on what is known | is ng extracted from the 200 level to the as New Y s tunnel, commencing 2t 1000 level. At the 1000 level the ore chutes Deer Creek and following in on the vein. | are of a magnitude and character that as- This tunnel was continued at different | sure permanenc and increasing dividends. times until it attained a length of 5000 feet, | On this level a lateral drift has been run the depth from the surface at its termina- 1000 feet and routh 400 feet to the tion exceeding 500 feet. It has alwa; ce line. Throughout this 1400 feet served since as a drain tunnel for subse- 1 are ore chutes varying in width » s been taken out above the 1000 level, in but a fraction of the ground owned by the company, and that as much more is in sight in the ground atready ovened up above that level, the possibilities of the h:t:;re in this mine can be fully appreci- ated. . The most important factor in consider- ing I{yuspective values is the now well- established fact that Nevada County’s mother lode and its parallel veins, like the great mother lode, grow sicher and stronger at depth. This is the potent mag- net that is going to draw millions of cap- ital to California for investment in mines from all parts of the world, and that is gomng to hold that caital securely when the ephemeral bubbles of South Africa ;:nd Australia have been inflated to burst- ng. _The@resent 30-stamp mill of the Cham- plo Company is crushing seventy-five tons of ore per day, or two and a half tons per stamp. The new 40-stamp mill is cal- cuiated to crush four tons per stamp. It isto be erected by the Union Iron Works and will possess every improvement and device known to modéern science for best saving gold. The new chlorination works will be of the same character ¢::d have a capacity of twenty tons per day. The present cost of mining and milling ore in the leinon is about $3 50 per ton, in- cluding all dead work, which is consider- able. The cost of reducing the sulphurets is $8 per ton. The Cham incorporated pion Mining Company is an company, having ~ 34,000 shares of capital stock of the par value of $100 per share. The main office is in the Crocker building, San Gus Kartschoke is president; H. Mnhr, vice-president; Frederick Zeit- ler, superintendent and general manager; Ji F., olling, secretary. Thanks are due Mr. Zeitler "and John Tredinnick, fore- man, for information furnished and for access throughout the mine. A. J. Brooks. = SITSPYNG THE G0N, Hammond’s Defalcation at Los Francisco. guent workings down to its level. The fitst mill was erected on the prop- erty in 1885, baving ten stamps. These were rut continuously and profitably un- til ten years ago, when a mew mill of thirty stamps was erected and a chlorina- tion plant of four tons per day capacity rom two or three feet to sixteen feet of ohd quartz, with sulphurets glittering through the u often seve inches thick. At the 1200 level the largest of these ore chutes is now bemg opened upand is apparently going to be larger and stronger th:an ever. HOISTING WORKS 'AND MILL OF THE CHAMPION GOLD MINING COMPANY, NEVADA CITY, CAL. [Photographed for ** The Call” by John S. Swart, Nevada City.] compieted. After running a year a con- troversy arose between the Champion and Providence companiés as to their north and south lines respectively, injunctions and counter injunctions were resorted to, and work was suspended in the mine for nearly a year. About a year ago the wine started up again. The case in court has | been decided in favor of the Champion | Company, an appeal taken, and a final ad- | judication is expected during the present | month. Many years ago the Champion Company | began ~ acquiring adjoining land and | claims, and have persistently pursued this | policy until they now own what might | fairly be termed a mineral kingdom, ém- bracing twenty-three claims, aggregating | 450 acres of ground, and being more than | a mile in length on three important lodes. | The most important acquisitions have been the Merritield and Wyoming claims and works of comparatively recent date. The three lodes are known respectively as the Merrifield or east lode, which is in a formation locally called granite; the con- tact lode, between granite and slate; and the Wyoming lode, wholly in slate. On the surface the lodes are parallel, at a uniform distance apart, all dip the same way at about the same angle—30 degrees, all carry heavily sulphureted ore of very nearly the same character; the Wyoming averaging 4 per cent sulphurets, the Merri- field 5 per cent and the Champion 6. The Wyommg-ore is slightiy richer in free gold. The sulphurets run from $80 to $100 per ton, being quite uniform as to value. The Merrifield vein is 360 feet east of the Champion; the Wyoming is 400 feet west of the Champion. All the ground of the Champion lies north of Deer Creek, which is the boundary —_— If any work at all is done on the two other véins another big mill will become a necessity as soon as the onenow being built is completed, and_it should not be less than 100 stamps. With the immense area of ground owned by this company and its three big parallel veins, all readily worked through main shafts on the contact ledge and crosscuts east and west, and with the permanence and pay so fully assured by present developments, a comprehensive eystem of development and production on a scale immeasurably greater than seems to be contemplated wonld be justified. . It is stated that a big syndieate is seck- ing to acquire the Champion, Providence and a lot of other claims on the contact and parallel veins, aud that a cash pay- { ment has already been made on some of them. If there is enough wealth back of the scheme it isa grand one, for it would b d to conceive a location more favor- able for operating on any scale desired. Starting on Deer Creek for a center, afford- z a perfect dump, drainage and tailings facilities, with unlimited and cneap water power under a 400-foot pressure available, with three big veins of proved value cen- tering there from north and south within a width of 700 feet, all capable of drainage and development by lateral driits starting from the river banks; with the percentage of cost lessened 1n production and reduc- tion by the magnitude of the operations, the conditions for assured profit seem tc be all fulfilled. The production of the Champion ground 1 in the past is not a matter of record, but is estimated to be $4,000,000, divided about as follows: Champion, $1,500,000; Merritield, $1,000,000; Wyoming, $1.000,000; othe consolidated claims, $500,000. When. it i considered that these amounts have bunches and veins of | Angeles Will Cause a Meeting. There Is the Sum of Seventeen Thou- sand Dollars to Be Paid. L0S ANGELES, CALn, Nov. 7.—The meeting that will occur to-morrow after- noon of the bondsmen of E. L. Hammond, 1t is expected, will be attended by fifteen persons, as that is the number who are vet solvent, and among whom §17,000, the amount of the defaleation, will have to be apportioned. Only 40 per cent of the amount of the bond is now represented by solvent individuals. This bond presents a remarkable com- mentary on the times. It was given about eight years ago, and contained about thirty-two names. They were then all leading capitalists and business men; pos- sessing ample means; now only fifteen out of the number are solvent, and these are bound for $40,000 out of the total of $100,600. Three-fifths of the original bond | has become worthless in seven years. - WLE JAILED. CHIN AH 4 Napa Murderer Run Down at Tos Angeles. LOS ANGELES, Car., Nov. 7.—Chin Ah Wee, the Chinaman arrested recently by Detective Steele in the Chinese quarter, has been fully identified as the murderer wanted at Napa City. Marshal J. T. Johnson of that place will come here to take the Mongolian back for trial. Napa County has spent several thousand doilars running him down. i 1L0S ANGELES NEW JAIL. Contract Awarded to John Iehman at Eighty Thousand. LOS ANGELES, CaL., Nov. 7.—The City Council to-dasy awarded the contract for the construction of the police station and jail to John Rehman for $80,650. This bid was recommended by the Board of Public Works, to whom it was referred by the Council last Monday. There is only $58,000 on hand for the purpose, but the Council seems to think that tne re- maining amount can easily be secured. B g Charged With a Mean Offense. 15 LOS AN 8, Car., Nov. 7.—Mamie Lemon bas haa Wash Covarrubias, a brother of the United States Marshal and the keeper of a livery-stable on Los An- geles strect, near Second, arrested on a charge of betrayal. Covarrubias’ bail was fixed at$5000, and, as he could not give 1t, he was locked up. But this morning it was reduced to $2500, with his brother, N. A. Covarrubias, and DonJuun Forster as sureties. S e Convicted of Stealing a Steer. LOS ANGELES, Cav., Nov. 7.—The jury in the Mace Mayes case’ returned a ver- dict of guilty this afternoon in Judge Smith’s court. Mayes was charged with stealing a blue steer of Gerry Nealy in the Antelope Valley and killing it. This was the case in which the perjury sensation occurred several days ago. P S o C. E. Mayne on Trial. LOS ANGELES, Car., Nov, 7.—Clifton E. Mayne is at last on trial for an alleged criminal assault upon Elsie Shipton. The work of securing a jury took up most of the day. Mayno’s prominence as a real estate speculator, investor and pro- moter all over the coast makes the case one of unusual importance. - ;T ON THE RACK. Delmas Asks Ouestions That Ave Hard to Lxplain. REDWOOD CITY, Car., Nov. 7.—The lawyers, who have been firing away at Jesse Potter in the removal suit being con- ducted sgainst him here, almost reached the point where Potter would be allowed to come off the witness-stand and take a rest, but the end for Potter is not yet. ‘From day to day Mr. Delmas riddled Potter until Potter was, figuratively speak- ing, full of holes. Then Pillsbury would take Potter in hand and try to patch him up again, and the process continued over and over again, until Mr. McEnerney rose to remark that there was no term in the law to express the number of reairect examinations inflicted on Mr. Potter. Mr. Delmas asked Ms. Potter for a further explanation concerning the $3356 collected by Poiter from the Occidental and = Oriental Steamship Company, and which money Mr. Potter kad said was used for a “‘certain purpose,” the inference from former proceedings be- ing that the certain purpose was to secure favorable contracts for the firm of Miller & Lux, Mr. Delmas contended that these charges still appeared on the Miller & Lux "books and for nine vears had re- mained there as an nnpaid account suill owing by the 0. & 0. S. 8. Company. _Mr. Delmas wished to give Potter ample time to explain this matter away if he wished to. Potter had not completed the explana- tion. when court adjourned until next Monday. POTTER ¥ Mr. AR C. E. Hewitt Arvested at Placerville, PLACERVILLE, Car., Nov. 7.—C. E. Hewitt, who left Watsonville a week ago, owing a board bill and appropriating a suit of clothing, was arrested here this morning by the Sheriff at the request of W, D. Staghenson of Watsonville, This is his second offense. § PACFI COAST NS Horrible Story of Crime at Ensenada Told in San Diego. FIRED ON FROM AMBUSH. Mar Joke, a Chiness Rancher, | Shot by an Unknown Per- son in Hiding. INNOCENT BOY MURDERED. The Youthful Employe Slain in Cold Blood Without Any Apparent Provocation. SAN DIEGO, CAr., Nov. 7.—The steamer Pacheco, which arrivedfrom Ensenada to- day, brings news of the cold-blooded mur- der oi a Chinese bov and the attempted murder of his employer on Monday at Cipre’s ranch, near Ensenada. The mur- | derer is unknown, but is supposed to be Joe Castro, a young Mexican who had been working on the ranch. The owner of the ranch is Mar Joke, an intelligent and educated Chinaman. He was found on Monday night by E. Wil- liams, a neighbor, moaning at the latter’s doorstep. The Chinaman was covered with blood, which flowed from a fearful wound in the neck and jaw and from an- | other in the leg. He was taken care of and removed to Ensenada and the authorities notified. They interviewed Mar Joke before dis- patching oflicers to the ranch. Mar Joke said he had left the ranch at noon, driving a four-mule team. He saw two Indians in the yard near the house, but paid no particular attention to them. He returned at 5:20 o’clock, and was met by a bullet from some man who lay in wait between the house and barn. The man wore a large sombrero, but Mar Joke could not deseribe him further, The man fired three shots, the first pass- ing through the Chinaman’s neck and | coming out near the nose, the next going <hrough his right leg and the other strik- ing the wagon seat. The mules became frightened and ran away, dashing through wire fences and running into a lagoon near the Williams ranch. Mar Joke managed to stop them and then, standing on one foot, unhitched a mule and got upon its back with great difficulty. He rode towards the Williams house until exhausted with loss of blond. “After iulling off he dragged himself the rest of the way. Theonly persons at, the ranch, according to Mar Joke, were Joe Castro, a Mexican and Mar Won, a Chinese boy. The Ensenada chief of police went im- mediately to the ranch and there found Mar Won lying in the barn dead, with his hands tied and a bullet hole in his fore- bead. The wound showed that he had been shet in the back of the neck, the ball passing through the head. Investigation -showed that the boy had been cutting wood and was in the act of carrying an armful into the kitchen when he was killed. Blood stains and an arm- ful of wood were found inside the kitchen door, which was open. From the courseof the bullet it appeared that the murderer was lying behind a pile of hay in the yard, unseen from the wood- pile. Under the pile of hay was found a ‘Winchester repeating-ritle with several cartridges exploded. Joe Castro was nowhere in sight and it was feared that he was also killed. The rooms in the house were locked and the officers did not break into them at that time. Laterthey entered them, and found | the trunks owned by Mar Joke and Mar | Won broken open @nd their money gone. | Mar Joke said he had $5850 and Mar | Won had lately received $300in Mexican coin which he was to send to China. Several varties at Ensenada volunteered to go and trail the murderer, but " the officers would not allow | it, and insisted on taking the testimony of residents in the vicinity, and | holding a post-mortem examination of the boy before finding the murderer. This | course resulted in delaying the search | until yesterday, and it is now believed the | murderer has made good his escape. The fact that the murder was committed | while an unusul sum of money was in the house inclines the officers to believe that | Joe Castro is the murderer. At first suspicion was directed toward several Chinamen who had threatened to kill Mar Joke on account of the non-arrival in China of the remittances they had given to him, but the finaing of the rifle and the | good marksmanship with it, together with the fact that the murdered boy was well liked by the Chinese, caused the officers to | Iookkelsewhere for the man who did the | vork. “The body of the boy was cold when | found, indicating that the murderer lay | several hours in the yard waiting for the | return of Mar Joke, to i IMPORTANT SUIT AT SAN DIEGO, | Defendant’s Demurrer Overruled in Pe- ralta Company Against the Auditor. | SAN DIEGO, CaL., Nov. 7.—Judge Puter- | baugh to-day overruled the demurrer of | ————e | THE GHANCE OF A LIFETIME. He Lost It Because He Was Subject to Colds. “Mr. Simkins, you were not here yester day,” said the proprietor to his superin- tendent. Simkins has heretofore not got along very rapidly, *for lack of opportunity,” he says. His abilities ave first-class, but he is always catching cold or something. “Mr. Simkins,” continues his employer, “I value your scrvices highly; there is a brilliant future for yon here, but I would rather have a second-class man here all the time than a first-class man part of the time. You must take better care of your- self.” But the weather is against him. His absence another day causes the firm a serious loss and he joins the army of un- employed. There are many Simkinses—men and women whose prospects are dwarfed and careers ruined because some weakness or ailment—‘too trifling for serious atten- tion’'—reduces their capacity for work and usefulness. Their hope is Peruvian Bitters, that most perfect of tonics—a bulwark against colds, coughs, grippe, malaria, lassitude and loss of appetite and anergs', reducing to 8 minimum the tendency to disease, up- holding the weak and enabling the strong to husband their vigor and vitality for “stormy weather.” Mack & Co., San Francisco. ! inclusive, and pr | and kindred derangements of the liver, | gistaand dealers. All drue- | defendant to plaintiffs’ petition in the | case of the Peralta Land and Water Com- | pany vs. E. E. Shaffer, Auditor. Tle case is one in which the law of 1895 in reference | to the redemption of land sold for taxes is | brought to test. | Plaintiff company alleges that it applied | to the Auditor on September 25, 1895, for | an estimate of amount required to redeem a larze number of lots sold to the State for delinquent taxes for the years 1839 to 1892 iding for redemption ing, and in force, at | under the laws e; the time of such sales, Auditor Shaffer, the petition avers, re- fused to furnish the estimate upon the ground that he considered the act approved on Murch 28, 1895, relative to redemptions, as being the only act in force under whici such redempti hould be made. In his opinion, however, Judze Puter- baugh holds the act of March 25 to be re- troactive m its effects, and that it clearly | increases costs and peralties required for the redemption of land from tax sales made prior to its passage, and, in so far as it dces this, he Lolds the act to be in- valid. Auditor Shaffer, it is understood, has been instructed by Attorney-General Fitz- gerald to appeal from the decision in order to make a test case. The law involved af- fects property in the State to the value of hundreds of thousands of dolars. The Black Kingdom. One of the agents of the American Bible Society recently related the following ex- traordin incident of his trip tirough Franklin County, from which he bad just returnea. There isa small farming com- munity up there among the hills, some- what remote from the regular routes of travel, and which is known in the vicinity as the “Black Kingdom.” The Bible agent visited this neighbor- hood and walked up into the dooryard of the first house. There seemed to be no one at home, but before he had time to knock at the door he was surprised and startled by a most feroclous and unex- | pected attack. | A big Plymouth Rock rooster came at | him like a battering ram, with lowered | bill and flapping wings. The Bible agent | recovered himself and kicked out franti- cally at the enemy. Luckily his foot | struck it in the breast and over went the | rooster. But the fierce old clatterer was | up and at him again like a flash. | This time a_well-directed kick sent the | bird rolling over and over. Butitgathered | 1tseif for another rush and the Bible agent seized a hoe that was leaning against the house and raised it on high. ‘This some- what daunted the rooster. It stopped short, raised itself on its toes, gave utter- ance to three defiant crows and then re- treated in good order with a stately tread. | The Bible agent found that there was | nobody in tke house. As he continued on his way he soon met some men in the hay field. He shouted out: *“Look here, if you don’t look out for that rooster of yours | he'll kill somebody or get killed himself.” At this time the men almost rolled on the ground with laughter. One of them came up and explained that the boys bad so plagued the old rooster that he had be come as ugly and aggressive as any savage watchdog. Po.'llamfl’x:ss. e Perfect Safety Guaranteed. Corbett (to bis trainer)—Is the Sheriff outside? The Trainer—Ye: militia and the ga Corbett around the ring to stop us at once? The Trainer—Plenty Corbett—Then let me get at him.— Cleveland Pri he's out here with the ngs. s -—— Leo X111 is looking forward to the next century. He dates his last encyclical on the Rosary, MDCCCVC, five years from nineteen hundre midnight wind with the horrible hob- goblins pursuing him was only a bad dream, or nightmare, which anvbody is liable to experience eatin Tam O’Shanter’s ride through the | as the result of over- or an attack of biliousness or in. m. 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THE LARGEST STOCK AND GREATEST ASSORTMENT OF UNDERWEAR [EAGLESON & C0., And are there lots of policemen | OF ANY ' RETAIL MEN'S FURNISHING GOODS CONCERN IN THE U. S. ALL EXTRA VALUE. 748 and 750 Market St. 242 Montgomery St. 112 S. Spring St., L. A. Factory, 535 Market St., S. F. Special Rate from Sacramento - $2 Round Trip, G’g:;;lig: Any Regular The Fifth Reglmefit Band wiil accompamy the excursion. SPECIAT. Long Credit Ruction Sale S 7N STOCKTON, THE CHICAG0 OF CALIFORNIA. WE WILL SELL SATURDAY, XOVEMBER 9, 1895, 215 I.arggfllfls 273 Jackson Homestead, STOCKTON. LONG CREDIT. LONG CREDIT. Only one-fifth cash: balance In four equal semi-annuaily paymants. interest at the rate of 7 per per annum, annually. payable semi= he sive W s 0 near Ri he shipping dej TRIC-CARS, which ¢ the city, pass thr RAI-GAS WELLS “RSON HOMESTEAD is less than five ride to the center of the city. )N BATHS adjoin this > upon the Do not fail to attend this Grand Auction Sale. 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