The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 14, 1895, Page 10

. - THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1%95. The Utica Mining Company, Angels, Calaveras County, is about adding two new ovens to the present chlorination 1 n have a capacity for ght tons of sulphurets vorks, which w ing property of the Calaveras rted Gold Mining Company, lim- as County, has been pur- Stevenot and other San The English comp! bout $300,000 on this ground, but about a year ago. It now comes nto the hands of ians. McNear ted men at back George W. work running a tunnel on the Iron Rock <on Hill, ( recently Mine at d has lam on the Sta below Robinson’s F electric power to mine, a dista 0 as to generate 1smitted to the f about five miles. Mr. he mine undera hond. Rawhide mine fame, tunnel on the South he ledge. He h: Carolina m sixteen m of Del Ra; at the I der the direction man for two years nis for his proverty, wh eras County, is be er bond. ient of the Utic: ze of the chlorin- mine, and Mr. uth veras County. one, and the very good for a ore has been struck n El Dorado and most prc The M bougk Mining y, which Cook properties at Coul- Mariy “nion Iron Works of thi has purchased_the Rattlesnake Bar, in El nd has sunk the shaft to et. He is now erecting a 1 on the property. the well-known m; a’ 20-stamp mill a -builder, the App olumne County, belongin to of the Rawhide. z the Merced in Marip mill of the 20-stamp E1 Do nd foreman of hasta County, g, South his a, where he will s re some months vho went from 1 Iston and R. R. Grayson (son who formed a mining me ago, have reopened location belonging to r» Company on Carson They have five he tunnel. This 1 also put five t work ona rty on i} ton_Divide, buth of Michigan Bluff, in A bedrock tunnel is being : the channel. This latter < is being done for the Raiston Divide Id Mining Company, limited, a new French corporation, which has the prop- erty under bond. Dr. A, heidel, anthor of the bulletin the cyanide process issued a short time ce by the State Mining Bureau, has returned to this City from a frip of several months in Europe. He leaves in a few d; for New Zealand and will from there 20 to Coolgardie, 1n Australia, to examine certain gold mines for an English com- any. y The attempts at a cyanide monopoly in South Africa are to be headed off by the Transvaal Government, which recognizes that such a thing would be a detriment to its growing gold-n:ining industry. New York as well as Chicago is begin- ning to take an interest in shares of stock of gola-mining companies, and the Ex- change proposes to establish a place where specimens, reports, etc., may be exhibited by those companies which wish to enlist New York capital. There is talk of a direct line of railroad from Colorado Springs to the Cripple Creek mines, a distance of twenty-eight miles. Six miles of this will have to be a ‘“cog’” road. The London Mining Journal predicts that as soon as the ““deep levels” of the ‘Witwatersrand, South Africa, begzin to pro- duce gold the ouiput of these lields will rise from the present £9,000,000 per annum to at least £20,000,000. In South Australia the cyanide process is giving excellent returns from ores which have hitherto been unprolitable; In New Zealand experiments with dry crushing and dried cyaniding have answered so satisfactorily that foreign capital is being at least attracted into the gold-mining industry. The rule of “big mountamns for big mines” is particularly applicable to mines of gold and silver, so the main mountain range of any section is the place to work. The immen: nge of the Sierra runs from one end of California to the other, and in it, f.om one end to the other, gold mines have been found. Cripple Creek, Colo., is not a new camp by any means, though it is only-of late it has come into great notoriety. Two previous periods of mining excitement and exploration have occurred, one 1n 1874 and the other in 1885; but no paying rmines were discovered at those periods. The gold mines on the North Fork and the silver and lead mines on the South Fork, in the Ceoeur d’Alenes, Idaho, are now actively at work. Chicago does not like to see London making so much money out of speculation in mining shares without taking a hand itself, so there is a praject on foot to revive the defunct Chicago Mining Stock Ex- change. All patented mining claims in Utah under the new State constitution will be assessed at the rate of §5 per acre. This is not as Colorado did when she be- came a State, for they exempted all mines from taxation for ten years. The timber for the Copper Queen mine in Arizona is brought from Oregon, Wash- ington or British Columbia in sailing ves- sels down the coast and up the Gulf of California to Guaymas and thence up by rail to Arizona‘and freizhted to the mines. It is pretty expensive timber when it gets to the mines. German and French cayitalists are be- ginuing to pay a very active interest in the es of West Australia. At the Monte Christo properties (Wash- ington) the concentrator is turning out 1200 tons a week. The Puget Sound Reduction Company is smelting 160 tons of ore per day and re- ceiving 225 tons, and another stack wiil be added tbis winter. Concentrates come from Alaska, British Columbia and Mexico, as well as from Washington. ~Several new discoveries are reported ®om the big bend of the Columbia River, sa County, has given orders | ty fora | 5 | , one of the ownersin and work on the old placers as far north as Gold Stream, seventy-five miles from Revelstoke, has been carriea on during the past summer. : A company is contructing a 7000-foot ditch and flume fo bring water on placer ground near Salmon River, Idaho, near the mouth of John Day Creek. This re- gion was mined with crude appliances as far back as 1860, but there are now 100 men in the district and more work being done than ever before. There is talk of capitalists making very thorough exami aminations with a diamond drill of the Mercur district country, Utah. The Last Chance mine in Gold ke district, Sierra County, is turning out some very nice specimens of coarse gold. The Hampton-Lewis ditch on Grace Creek, Oregon, has been finished and op- erations will commence as soon as the water comes. A six-foot vein of bituminous coal has been discovered on the Illinois River, Curry County, Oregon. H. G. Widman and Chris McCoy have found a four-foot ledge of gold-bearing ore in the coast range in San Luis Obispo County, between Paso Roblesand Cambria Colonel A. G. Myers has found some very fine white granite on Marble Moun- tain, Scott Valley, Siskivou County, which is said to be well adapted for building pur- poses. 7 1 s The miners on the Klamath River, Siski- you County, are crowding work and get- ting out gravel as fast as possible before the winter stormsraise the river and drive them out. g A man in Yreka, Siskiyou County, in sinking a well, came across pay gravel which yields $2 50 per day to the man,and may improve on reaehing bedrock. It is expected that two more well-known mines in Nevada City district will be sold | s will involve the of new machinery and the vment of more men. The Zirn-Schultz mine, in Pine Nut dis- trict, Nevada, with its extensions, will | probably be sold ortl Jastern men who recently exam Ca n mica, having driven most other micas out of the market, is now hav- ing a hard struggle to keep the East Indian product from ing its place. The latter | is perfectly free from iron and excellent for | use in electrical appliances. | _The Blewett mines, Peshaston district, yash., are doin, stamp mill bus; Men with rc | day on the plac but it is now get c well and keeping the 20 ers are making &: 50 per of Snake River, Idaho, 1z too cold for this kind on. In the Wood River conntry, Idaho, a | great deal of development work is going | on and the mines are looking well. An important find of jree milling gold ore is announced in Newton ver County, Utah. ome very heavy capitalists of Montana are investing in the copper-gold properties of Boundary Creek District, on the borders 1 of W ington and Briush Columbia. A { large number of ms have been sold. | | but’ the transportation question is the | most serious obstacle to the miners. | The Canadians do not seem to be invest- { Ing in Trail Creek mines, B. C., to so large | an extent as Americans are doing. The quartz ledges recent!y found in the | northern t of Spokane County, Wash., do not come up to expectations. Los Angelos County has a gold mine alled the Big Horn, on Rig Horn creek, above Almondale, upon which the Lan- i te announces a 100-stamp mall t in the spring. In some places aid to be fifty feet across. )’ Donnell of this City, who has r a few times, owns aranch | Creek, near Glen F Sy County, on which there isa deposit of coal. This he is now about to open and work, | and will purchase the necessary machin- | ery and commence mini | t is stated that La Fortuna mine, near Yuma, bonded for $150,000 to C. D. Lane of Angels Camp, i ing a large body of | | $60 Tock in the 130-foot shaft. | __The Helen Mining Company, Mogollon, | N. Mex., is now employing 100 men on its | | mine and mill. |~ John H. Talbot of Denver has succeeded Hugh H. Price as general manager of the 1{1010n Mining Company at Graham, N. |~ The Dalton mine, Utah. upon which a | | great deal of money has been spent, and | only a few pockets found, hasat Jast struck | the true vein, wi is four and a half feet thick and quite ri Miners who have not yet attended to their annual ass nent work only have | about six weeks left in which to do the | work or spend the hundred dollars. Judge W. W. Wallace of Sevier County, { Utah, has taken a bond and lease on the { Butler-Beck mine and mill in the Gold | mountain district, Utah, at a fixed price of $55,000. Some thirty-seven claims, in different | parts of Camp Floyd district, Utah, are to e prospected by diamond and churn drills. | A Chicago company will do the work. The Chicago Pumice Company, which owns the claims at Black Rock, Utah, has compieted arrangements for regular ship- ments of pumice. Lee, a Chinese storekeeper, is the prin- c_lf'ml owner of the Benz Bar claim at Klamath River, Siskiyou County, and keeps fourty-four men at work, divided into five-hour shifts, day and night. Most of the river miners on the Klamath in Siskiyou County have pulled out for the season to save their wheels and ap- paratus before there is danger of a freshet in the river. Marcus Daly, the Montana *‘Copper King,” nas purcbased two large mines on the boundary section, B. C., for $75,000 and has put a gang of men at work. The Boundary Creek people are delighted with the transaction, as they think it makesa new era for their district. Some good discoveries bave been made in the mining country east of Palouse, in Whitman County, Wash. Several rich strikes are reported, and good wages have been made on placer ground. Some Utah men have been making a good thing at the Sweetwater mines in Wyoming by working over tailings by the cyanide process. The dry concentrators at Gold Basin, Ariz., have proven a complete fmilure, and 4 cyanide plant will now be put -in, but water has first to be sunk for. 3 A new five-stamp mill is being added to the Heck’s quartz mill at Ashland, Or. The difficulties about the Desert Queen, or McHaney, mine have been finally settled and the mine has again been put in operation. If work is renewed on a claim after it has been open to relocation, but’before such relocation, the rights of the original owners stand as though there had been no i default. ‘Work has been commenced againfon Dr. Boyson’s Pioneer mine, in Amador County. By hard work almost single-handed and alone, F. A, Trask has in two years opened up a 400-foot tunnel on the Enoch mine in Pine Grove district, Amador County. Some rock of his was crushed the other day which went over $30 per ton. It is rumored that the McQuig mine, San Andreas, Calaveras County, has been sold for a good price. In Christian' Gulich, Bear Mountain, three miles east of Copperopolis, Calaveras County, there is much activity in the placer mines. Several properties are being worked. The Alexander placer mine, on the Klamath River, Humboldt County, has been sold by William Lord and A. Brigard to New York capitalists, H. P. Dimond of this City acting as agent. A Merced mining company at Coulter- ville, Mariposa County, paid out nearly $25.000 last month for wages in that town. Mr. Mathyas, tbe coal expert of the State Mining Bureau, finds the coal in the northern end of Mendocino County to be exceptionally good. The coal Jand in Round Valley is very valuable. CHARLES G. YALE. FOR GOLD-SEEKERS. A Water System for Placer Mining and a New Type of Dam. By Robert Brewster Stanton, M. Am. Soc. C. E. In the spring of 1893 the author began the construction of a pipe line and reser- voirs for the development of a placer mine, comprising fourteen claims on the summit of the Coast Range in Southern California. The water supply was obtained about 2.5 ? District, | miles from the mine, at a place where there isa basin from 1200 to 1500 acres in area, bounded on three sides by abrupt mountain slopes. The snow drifts and packs into this basin during the winter and remains until late in July. Springs issue at the lower edge of the basin at the head of San Antonio Cieek aud form the source of the water supply for the mines. The water from these springs drops into the gulch at the head of this stream and sinks into_the debris that fills_the gorge. To catch this water and turn it inta the toad of the pipe line a small reservoir was uilt, The debris was leveled off across the gulch for a_width of sixty feet, leaving a bottom of finely broken granite rock, with the rock walls of the hill on three sides. A pine log dam six feet high was built across the guich, and linea with a double thick- ness of plank sunk jntoa trench in_the debnis, the fine rock fragments being filled back against the plank. Owing to the fact that the gravel in the mine was of limited extent, all the work done on this reservoir and other parts of the water system was of a temporary nature. There were five dif- ferent materials in this small basin to be joined by a water-tight lining; shattered slate to be joined to solid granite and to the plank dam; the broken stowe bottom tto be joined to slate, granite and planking, and the planking to be joined to the end of the iron pipe line. This was done by covering the whole inner surface with two coats of hot asphalt 2 which not over half aninch after the crevices were filled. The paste was made of four parts of the best refined California asphaltum and one part of crude petroleum without sand. These were boiled together until, when abso- lutely cold, it was brittle under the ham- while elastic and pliable with the warmth. This lining is in good con- ion after two summers and a severe win- ter, the only repairs made being the ap- plication of a few quarts of asphalt last spring. The pipe line is two miles long from the collecting reservoir to the pressure reser- voir, and runs along a very steep, rough and sinuous mountain side, where it would be impracticable to maintain a ditch or flume on account of the snow and rock slides from the mountains. The pipe was made of No.16sheet iron; it was boiled in asphalt and had driven jeints. The first 1800 feet is 12 inches in diameter; then comes 2000 feet of 10 inches, and the remainder is 8 inches. The first 500 feet is on a grade of 40 feet per mile, and the re- mainder 16 feet per mile. Air valves are located about 1200 feet apart along the whole line, and cross and waste valves are provided at the upper and lower ends and at the head of the 8-inch section. It was decided to be aper to lay the pipe on these continuous grades than to cross the gulches by descend- ing into them, and the pipe line could be emptied of water in winter without the use of so many expensive valves. The size of the pipe line was not so large as recommended by the author, but was de- termined upon to save the extra cost of larger sections. At three places the line s carried over gulches by wooden lattice spans, the timber for which had to be car- ried up the mountain on men’s backs, like all the pipes, valves, asphaltum and other materials. The laying of the pipe was very difficult where an_immense rockslide bad to be crossed. Here the loose top material would move without jarring, and only one 20-feet length of pif\e could be Jaid at a time, as a longer trench eould not be kept open. It was dangerous work, for in driving the joints the heavy blows of the maul shook the whole side. The pressure reservoir was built for two purposes: First, as a penstock at the head of the pressure second, as a reservoir to hold water for some hours during the latter part of the season, when the supply islimited, It has I of 330,000 gallons, but as origin- designed it was to hold 3,000,000 gaiions. The depth at the bottom portion 15 12.5 feet. It is located at the head of a gulch on a thickly timbered part éf a ridge above the mines. A semi-circular dam was built across the gulch of a single | thickness of larze vine logs, with ends sawed on radial lines and butted close together, forming an arch with a slight batter up stream. Each row of logs is separated with, and bound together by, small logs laid at right angles to the dam and extending up into .the reservoir. As these were put in place a bank was formed on the upper side of the timber of earth and broken rock weil tamped around the logs. Theslope on the upper side of thie filling is 114 to 1. There isno material in the neighborhood that could be used in any way as a puddle for a dam, and the bottom and sides of the reservoir are of earth, rotten granite and shattered slate. To make the basin water- tight, a lining was formed of asphalt con- crete. Thisis not what is known in the street-paving business by that name,which is composed of asphaltum and sand, for clean, sharp sand would have cost $20 a ton delivered on the mountain, but is a true concrete of broken stone and asphaltum. The stone was obtained from a porphyry dike near by and was broken into pieces two inches or less in size. All the fine material was left and enough more added to have the entire mass free from all but tire smallest voids. This concrete was prepared in two street- paving pans. The rock was heated and well mixed in one pan and the mixture of four parts of retined California asphaltum and one part of crude l})-ztrolcum was boiled in the other. The boiling paste was poured with ladles over the hot rock and the whole mixed over the tire until every particle of stone, sand and dust was thor- oughly covered with the paste. The con- crete was then taken in hot iron wheelbar- rows to the site of the work and put in place in the usual manner, being rammed, rolled and smoothed down with hot irons. It was put op in a four-inch layer, in strips from four to six feet wide, and where the strips were joined, the old edge was well coated with hot paste. After the lining was finished it was painted with hot paste mixed in the same proportions, but boiled a much longer time, until, when entirely cold. it was hard and brittle, breaking under the ham- mer like glass, yet tough, pliable and elas- tic when warm. This coat was applied while the paste was very hot, and should not be over one-eighth of an inch thick, although, through the fault of the con- tractor, it exceeded this amount at some laces in the reservoir mentioned. The ining cost 15 cents per square foot. In spite of the faulty manner in which the material was laid in places by the con- tractor it has stood so well that the author has advised its use on a rock-fill dam 120 feet high, to be built in Southern Califor- nia. After clearing the site of the dam to bedrock and preparing proper toe catches in the bottom of the canyon where the structure is to be located a gravity dam is to be built of loose rock blasted from the sides and dumped in place by cableways. Care must be taken to have the larger masses of stone surrounded with smaller pieces, so as to reduce the amount of settling and movement to a minimum. = The inner face of this dam is to be laid up with great care. A thickness of perhaps 10 to 15 feet at the bottom, diminishing to from 2 to 5 feet at the extreme top, should be placed hy hand in_the form of a weld-lmd dry wall. The joints should be well filled with small stones and the surface left as even as can be done without hammer dressing, though not smooth. Starting from the bottom every 5 or 6 feet of this hand-placed sur- face should be stepped back about 3 inches, Jeaving a series of these narrow hermes all the way to the top. On the surface thus prepared place a true asphalt concrete per- haps 1 foot thick. 1f this is properly pro- portioned, mixed and laid the 3-inch steps will prevent creeping.—New York Engin- eering News. A Brief Will. A will, which is refreshing in its brevity, has just been filed in the Probate Court. Itisas follows: This is my will. My entire property, without any exception whatever, shall g0 to Miss Louise Keath, 1253 Octavia street. 1 appoint Theodore Krause as my executor without bonds. My body shall be cremated. W. BARTIIS. Sun Francisco, Cal., November 9, 1895. The estate consists of a half interest in a saloon. It is worth $500. Some of the houses in Ottawa are heated by electricity. e leading to_the mines;s ASHIORTH'S TRIAL BEGINS Seven Jurors Secured From a Special Panel of Twenty- eight. OUTLINES OF THE DEFENSE. The Whole Blame Will Be Laid Upon the Deputies in the Street Office. The trial of the indietment against Thomas Ashworth, the Street Superinten- dent, for misgonduct in office opened be- fore Judge Murphy in Department 3 of the Superior Court yesterday morming. The day’s proceedings brough t seven jurors to the box out of the twenty-eight talesmen who were examined. The case came up in pursuance of the indictment which was filed against Ash- worth by the Grand Jury about four weeks ago. The indictment charges that he was guilty of willful and corrupt miscon- duct in office, in that he accepted to satisfy counsel. He had no particular prejudice against any one connected with either side of the case, nor was he a mem- ber of the Civic Federation. He had read the papers, but the papers did not in- fluence him. He would refrain from pass- ng an opinion on the case until finally submitted to him; he would report at once to the court if any one approached him on the subject of the case in hand, and altocether he seemed a model juror. He was accepted. Natban had known Mr. Ashworth for a great many years, but he had had no busi- ness dealings with him. He did not favor actions of the kind then pending. He thought it too late in the day to bring an action of this kind, and, besides, he was noton the assessment roll. Under this last admission he was excused _C. Dickey did not know Ashworth nor Keating, Ashworth's deputy, nor any other politician in the City. He knew about the case through the newspapers and considered the whole business a rotten affair. He would weigh the evidence, he said, but he would not give the defendant the benefit of the presumption of inno- cence until he bad heard the evidence. He thought, too, that Ashworth looked hon- est, ““but,’”’ he added, ‘“‘there is no telling, he may be like the rest of them.”” He had a pretty decided opinion of the guilt or in- nocence of the deiendant, however, and so | was excused for bias. L Lowenstein, a retired merchant, knew no one connected with the case, and bad no prejudice or bias. He was a prop- erty-owner, and had not read much about the case in the papers. Mr. Lowenstein seemed to be generally satisfactory, and he was taken as a juror. H. Braunschweiger, a liquor-dealer, was | in a proper state of ignorance of the facts VISTS MADE BY HIGHT, Members of the Board of Health Inspect the Receiving Hospital. THEIR IDEAS ON THE MATTER. A Tour of Investigation Through the City and County Hospital Yesterday. The Board of Health has come to the conclusion that dress parade inspections of the various institutions under its super- vision are not likely to show the true con- dition of affairs, and in future the superin- tendents of the municipal hospitals need not be surprised if they receive calls from committees of the board at unusunal hours— even at midnight. That was the hour chosen for a call at the Receiving Hospital a few nights ago, and to say that the public servants in that institution were surprised is putting it mildly. THOMAS ASHWORTH AS HE APPEARED money for their labors, McCormick handed them certificates of deposit in the California Industrial Exchange. The certificate credits the ‘‘depositor” with the number of days he has worked and the money value of the same in prop- erty, goods or services at their exchange value. From what Mr. Greene could learn Mc- Cormick had issued over forty of these documents, and the complaint was made that they were not worth the paper they were written on, for McCormick, so Greene said, had taken care to send any goods, etc., to his sister’s place, and the “depos- itors™ were not able to realize anything on their checks or certificates. One of the workmen, F. W. French, complained to the authorities, and he made so much trouble for McCormick that the latter re- deemed the paper. The police are waiting for the proper steps to be taken to bring McCormick to an account for his transac- tions. B A DANGEROUS YOQUTH. J. J. Coffey Arrested for Threatening to Kill His Mother and Sister. J. J. Coffey, 24 years of age, son of the late Detective Dan Coffey, was arrested yvesterday by Policeman Heaphy and booked at the Seventeenth-stregt Station on the charge-of threats against life and vagrancy. His mother discovered him ill-treating the four-year-old son of a neighbor in the cellar of their house, corner of Shotwell and Twenty-second streets. She upbraided him for it, and he rushed upstairs, seized a large carving-knife and chased her and his sister out of the house, threatening to kill them. Mrs. Coffey notified Policeman Heaphy, and he went to the house with her. Cof- fey, with a hatchet in one hand and the knife in the other, defied the officer and warned him not to come near him on pain of death. Heaphy closed with him, and after a brief struggle succeeded in disarm- ing him and locking him up in the police station. AFTER THE FAIR. Goethe-Schiller Fete Decorations Netted Only $125. The committee in charge of the late Goethe-Schiller festival at the Pavilion has not been able to present a complete statement of the finances of the venture. The committees and societies in charge of the booths are still straightening up their accounts. It is now believed that the profits will be nearer $8000 than $10,000, as was at first expected. The magnificent scenery and decora- tions in the Pavilion, which cost about 3500, were auctioned off by W.T. Hess for a trifle, only $125 being realized. The lumber was reserved, and will probably be sold to the managers of the coming horse show. Most of the paintings and canvas were sold to Friedlander, Gottlob & Co. of the Columbia Theater. The stage settings went for $6 50 to the manager of the Mis- sion Turn Verein Hall. aenovnoe e Rauts in the Roadway. E. Marvin, 1722 San Carlos avenue, is a team- ster for the Western Transfer and Storage Com- pany. He was driving along Drumm etreet yesterday afternoon, and at the corner of Jacke son street one of the wheels of his wagon went into a rut on the street and he was thrown to the ground. When taken to the Receiving Hos- pital it was found that there were five wounds in his sealp. 8 wound on his eyebrow and the big toe of his left foot was fractured. el h About 1780 the turn-soit dog was re- placed by the smoke-jack, driven by hot air. 0. K. TABLETS The Great and Only Pure Kola Preparation. IN COURT. street work which was in no way in ac- cordance with the specifications. The case came before Judge Sanderson first, and the plea of not guilty was entered dur- ing the latter days of October. Yesterday the case opened for actual trial. By the questions of the prosecution’s at- torneys it would appear that the case wiil have some savor ot politics. This Judge Murphv says he will not allow. He was an ardent Republican, he stated from the bench yesterday, and he twas not going to allow a _political case to be triefi before him. Nevertheless the question of poli- tics has entered even into the examination of jurors. Y'rom the questions of the defense it is easy to gather that the defense will be the division of responsibility. Mr. Ashworth will maintain that certain persons in his employ were detailed to investigate the manuer in which the contracts were being performed, and upon their report that everything was all right he accepted the work. In consequence, he is not to blame, and as none of his employes, even those who investigated street work, are under indictment, or are likely to be under in- dictment, the case is apt to be, as one juror expressed it, “'a waste of money for no cause.” Maurice Woodhams and Mr. Barnes, the District Attorney, appeared for the prose- cution, but Woodhams did the prosecut- ing. For the defense there were Horace Platt and J. B. Gartland. Mr. Woodhams made the opening statement, and then twelye talesmen were called into the box. R. N. Nason of 912 Twenty-second street knew Mr. Ashworth. He had had business dealings with him, and the opinion which he had formed regarding him was very :}nfavorable. He was excused for actual ias. G. E. Wilson resided in San Rafael, and not being a resident of this County he was excused. W. Webster, a blacksmith, had no acquaintance with Mr. Ashworth or an: of his deputies. He was asked about, an. denied, any acquaintance with Chris Buckley, and then Ackerman objected to the question, as he believed it would prejudice the minds of the jurors in advance. The question was ryled out and then Mr. Webster was asked if he had any bias against cases for the removal of men from office. He said he had; it would be an unnecessary expense for no cause, he said, and his feelings in the matter would incline him to favor Mr. Ashworth. A challenge for ‘actual bias was entered by the people, but Mr. Ackerman started in to show that the challenge was not well founded. He secured an admission from the juror that he would carefully weigh the evidence in the case, but the juror added that he thought Mr. Ashworth ought to be allowed to serve his term out anyhow. Mr. Webster was allowed to re- tire, as not being in a proper frame of mind for jury duty in the case. i . T. Andrews was not acquainted with the defendant, nor with any one of his deputies, nor did he have any political affiliations which would prejudice him. He supposed he could try the case if he had to. but as he was noton the assess- ment roll he was excused. A. Beck was excused for physical dis- ability. _R. C. Atkins knew Mr. Ashworth by sight only, and he did not know any of bis employes. He had no prejudice against actions of this kind, nor had he any opinion in the case. He was passed, but later was peremptorily challenged by the defense. C. Hess, an optician, appeared to be a satisfactory juror, as he had no opinions of any kind on'the case, but he had no prop- erty, was noton the sssessment roll, and so was allowed to go. M. Black was on the assessment roll for personal property only, but that seemed of the case and the persons connected with it. He had bad dealings with Ashworth, and had found him all right. Braun- schweiger was passed. Nine more jurors were then called to the box and sworn. Hugh Curran, a hotel- keeper living on the corner of Broadway and Montgomery street, was the first one examined. He was a Supervisor at one time, when Ashworth was Superintendent of Streets duriug a former term, but he only met the defendant then in the course of committee work. He was willing to try the case fairly, and so was accepted. M. Sheedy was auestioned closely as to his opinion of the responsibility of Mr. Ashworth as head of the street office and in accepting contracts which were de- fective. Mr. Sheedy believed that when the Superintendent of Streets accepted a contract he was_responsible, even thongh one of his deputies had reported the work all right. e would, however, want to have guilty knowledge proved before he would remove him from office. Mr. Sheedy was passed. J. Klenck was accepted by both sides after numerous questions as to his opin- ions of the responsibility of heads of offices, and so was J. B. Warren. Thomas Rivers and H. Braunschweiger were absent from the jury-box when court convened at 2 o’clock, and attachments were issued for them at once. Mr. Acker- man was also absent, but_he came in in time to escape with a slight reprimand. Soon aiter Mr. Braunschweiger came in with an excuse, showing why he shouid not serve on the jury, which he had stayed over time to secure, but, as he was already accepted and sworn, the court would listen to no excuse from him, and he reluctantly took his seat in the box. Thomas Rivers sent word he was sick. Then C. D. Broder was called,and he was examined. Mr. Black, who took Mr. Barnes’ place during the afternoon, was on his feet, befora the examination had been long in progress, objecting to Mr. Ackerman’s question which related to corruption on the part of the defendant. He claimed it was only necessary to prove willful misconduct, and that therefore Mr. Ackerman’s questions were irrelevant. The question was allowed, however. and then Mr. Broder was passed. Mr. Black will put in some authorities ou the point before the case is over. Dunn was examined and accepted after a rigid examination, and the remainder of the pancl was no good from the stand- point of the different counsel. A special venire was ordered, returnable this morn- ing. The jurors so far are: F. M. Black, 1324 Octavia; L. Lowenstien, 1012 Jackson; II. Braunschweiger, 1600 McAllister; H’ugh Curran, Broadway and Montgomery street; M. Sheedy, 515. Stevenson street: F. J. Klenk, 714 Fulton street; J. B. War. ren, 30 Elgin Park; C. D. Broder, 13 Web- ster street, and H. Dunn, 161 Octavia street. CHARLES ROOT'S WILL. He Leaves an Estate Worth $100,000 to His Family. The will of Charles D. Root was filed yesterday afternoon. The testator was the son of the old pioneer, D. Root. He left an estate worth about. $100,000. He leaves the entire estate to his widow. Ruby A. Root, with the exception of 525, a month, which he leaves t0 a child by his former wife until the child is of age. child is now about 14 years old. e The will was filed together with a tion from Mrs. c ti- 's. Root, asking tor its pm}l))ite and the appointment of herself as execu- trix. At the same time Attorney Walter H. Linforth had Judge Coffey a point her special administracrix, until tfie general letters shall have been issued to her when the will has been admitted to probate, Dr. Morrison, Health Officer Lovelace and Secretary Godchaux were about to re- turn to their respective homes at a late hour when the former remarked : “Let us make a call at the Receiving Hospital before we go home. We will not be expected at this hour and we may see some things that will be interesting.” The others agreed to the proposition, and in a few moments they were in the institution. As Dr. Morrison had thought | the visit was & complete surprise, and the health officials had an opportunity to see 1or themselves just the condition it was in. No member of the party said very much, but it was evident that they were doing considerable thinking, and all breathed sighs of relief when once more in the open air. It was not so much the condition in which the hospital was kept that dis- gusted the officials as the general condi- tions under which t he institution was run. All expressed the opinion that the keep- ing or the hospital in its present loca- tion was an outrage, and that it should be remedied at the earliest possible moment. “IhopeI shall never be hurt on the streets and carried into that horrible piace,” said Dr. Morrison. The board, represented by Drs. Park, Morse and Morrison, Health Ofiicer Love- lace and Secretary Godchaux, made an- other visit of inspection yesterday, this time to the City and County Hospital. Their visit was unannounced and the offi- cials of the institution were taken com- pletely by surprise. The members of the board were agree- ably surprised regarding the condition of cleanliness in ich the hospital was found, but saw many things that con- vinced them that the City of San Francisco needs a new hospital. The main cause for complaint was that the buildings are out of date and in poor condition for the pur- vose for which they are used. In some places about the institution the sanitary conditions were found to be bad and in urgent need of repairs. It isex- figctsd that at the regular meeting of the ard, which takes place on Wednesday next, the members who have taken part in the various tours of inspection will make some strong recommendations regarding the hospitals, and that the board will take immediate steps toward finding a remedy for the present state of affairs. Plumbing Inspector Sullivan is also ex- pected to be in attendance with a report of the institutions he has visitea since the last was rendered. * McCORMICK'S “ EXOHANGE." Peculiar Business Practices Get Blacksmith Into Trouble. thlet of Police Crowley and Labor Com- missioner Fitzgerald called *The Cali- fornia Industrial Exchange” to account for practices not recognized generally as being in keeping with good business methods. This alleged co-operative ex- change has its headquarters at 8 Golden Gate avenue, and its president, secretary, treasurerand board of directors is repre- sented by William McCormick, a horse- shoer, on Mission street, near Second. Deputy Labor Commissioner E. M. Greene made an investigation of the ex- change and made a very unfavorable re- gon upon the institution, if such it could e called. He found that McCormick had been luring workmen into his shop, prom- ising to pay them half of what he earns. He assured the men that he had a busi- ness of eighty-five horses to shoe that belonged to merchants, grocers and com- mission men. 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