The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 8, 1895, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1895 RICH MINES AT RORNITOS Operators and Prospectors Grow- ing More Hopeful of the Future, SURE EVIDENCES OF WEALTH. The Washington, the Number Group and the Pool Coming to the Front. HORNITOS, Car., Dec. 7.—Miners here are more hopeful and cheerful at present than for many years past. There are three for this improvement: the renewed interest in gold mining, as own by the somewhat feverish ex- citement in stock speculation on the min- ing exchanges of Colorado; the proposed d velopment of electric power at Merced Falls and elsewhere on Merced River, and e attention that THE CAwLL is giving to ing mattrs at the present time. Jiiners, and especially prospectors, for the most part lead a somewhat isolated life, nd mining news of their own district or teresting reading in many a re- te cabin. They are learning that the g industry is not dead, but is again to the front with a rush that justi- s the opinion of all old-time practical miners that California is the richest and est worked field in the world. All rent work in this district will be 1 no claims will go by The country around Hornitos is °t network of auriferous veins, and z cropy are found in every direc- Few mines are down to any consid- > depth. In those that have gone ce teaches that the ore hness. ton mine has gone deeper er hereabouts. It is situated a half miles from Hornitos Valley road. The Washing- hree full claims, the Wash- T in and Jenny Lind. been done on the property since the com that owned it ions owing to mismanage- of proper appliances and the cost of fuel. The princi- ) J. P. Dwyer, George E. Webber, s are now inaccessible. There shafts, one to a depth the other was down 1000 11 an excellent lode in the ne. There was formerly a 30-stamp and complete chlorina- tion works on the property, but now no Y ery or buildings of any kind longer In some prospect pits sunk about n feet, the lode appears regular and well defined, possessing excelient walls from four to six feet wide, having a strike northeast and southwest, and dips to the west at an angle of 75 degrees. Samples taken from the outcroppings at these 50 per ton. It is estimated Fair samples from the tailings vy result of about $4 50 per ton. re are several gold-bearing ledges on he Washington, which has surrounding it ) acres, of patented land, but scarcely y work has been done on them. e Ni=mber Nine mine is situated about ant a half miles southeast of the gton and consists of 160 acres of hich the following lodes out- Nine, Julia, Number Eight e Ledge. Operations have been v confined to the Number Nine ledge. claim is 2400 feet long, and two shafts een sunk, about 850 feet apart, to a h of 210 feet and 440 feet respectively, ch drifts have been extended to a e not exceeding 200 feet. There is ntly nearly 500 feet of virgin between these two drifts. of the shatt of Number Nine, 210 feet deep and equipped with t hoist and pump, the lode masterly appearance, and b necessary characteristics manence. At the bottom of e the lode has attained to a reat width; neither a hanging r a foot wall has been intersected not- tanding the fact that crosscuts have 1 extended about forty feet across the Samples taken from various points 1e 150-foot and 200-foot levels gave the ing results: $6 53 per ton, § 4 19 per ton, $4 40 per ton. Thereis enormous body of this description of \at could be very cheaply and profit- orked. The 9 lode, like the hington, has a strike hwest, but dips to the east at an angle ng from 25 to 30 degrees. one ry fashion. Innumerable n sunk by tribute workings and leases, out of which, to judge by the waste dumps, some very rich gold has been mined. The books of the company which formerly owned the No. 9 show that from August, 1881, to June, 1884, bullion was soid to the value of $150,000. On the Julia, No. 8 ledge, and Blue Ledge little work has been done beyond exposing the outcrop in places. The No. 9 has a_millsite of 217 acres, patented land, and a water right from El Dorado Creek with 10,000 feet of five-inch pipe conveying water for battery purposes. There is a 30-stamp mill with ore feeders, Blake rock-breaker, 75-horse- power engine, 12-horsepower engine, iwo steam pumps, buildings, office, storeroom and residence. The Pool Mine adjoins the Number 9, and consists of 160 acres of patented land. A great number of gold-bearing ledges ex- ist on this property, on which no system: atic mining has ever been done. The creek that runs through the Pool tract has been very extensively placered, a_nd a great many holes have been sunk in various places. In fact the surface has been *hen- scratched’” and ‘‘coyoted’” in a manner almost ludicrous. The main reefs on the Pool lands follow the same strike as the Washington and Number 9, but there are everal cross lodes which form a network ntersections. e Quartz Mountain is about two miles dis- tant from Hornitos and one and a half miles from No. 9 mine, and consists of one full claim. It has a most imposiog and massive outcrop. In the crosscuts ex- tended from the tunnel level it appears to be a succession or series of parallel lodes, interstratified with metamorphosed slate. At the bottom of the shaft it runs to con- centrate, into one regular, well-defined lode. The ore in the lower level is rather heavily sulphureted. Samples from the tunnel-level crosscut give an average assay of $10 50 per ton, while fair samples from the waste aump at the mouth of the tunnel assay about $5 50 per ton. The mill tailings, of which there is a large quantity, assay about the same figure. A sample from a heap of concentrates outside the mill as- sayed §75 40 per ton, but the value was in the Washington com- | eand Mose L. Rodgers. The | In the | northeast and | At the sur- | ons have been conducted in | greatly reduced owing to the proportion of sand present. At Quartz Mountain mine there are one 35-horsepower engine, an air- compressor capable of running tnree drills two 25-horsepower engines, two steam pumps, a 10-stamp mill with ore feeders and concentrators, and office and other buildings. The Quartz Mountain mine and machinery could be put in running order at a few aays’ notice. The prolonged inactivity of the Wash- ington, No. 9, Pool and Quartz Mountain, admitted to be among the most valusble mines of Mariposa County, has bad a de- pressing effect on the Hornitos district. The reason of the tie-up is simple. Mose L. Rodgers, one of the pioneers of deep- quartz mining and a most respected ci zen of Mariposa, carried away by his inti- mate personal knowledge of the value of these properties, invested his all in secur- ing them. He left himself without work- ing capital and was forced to run in debt for a sum absurdly small in proportion to | the value of the properties. Though small | it has been safficient to tie up the mines, but the recent spurt of mining activity | and the advent ot electric power from the Merced River in the near future will | change all that. Arrangements are pend- ing by which the stamps at Quartz Moun- tain will be running merrily early next year, and as soon as possible, No. 9 will be set in good going order. THE NEWS OF SIN JOSE i Argument Upon the Petition of a Putative Barron Heir Heard. Two Wives Sue for Legal Separation From Their Husbands—Grange Officers Elected. | SAN JOSE, CaL., Dec. 3.—The Barron case was up before Judge Reynolds to-day { on a hearing of the answers of the claim- nts to the Barron estate to the petition of Barron, the mulatto claimant, dward A. Barron demurs to the answers | filed, as the defendants do not state | whether they will take their share under | the will of Edward Barron or whether they | consider the will broken and will take | their share under the law of distribution. n is made to the answers of the charities mentioned in the will. The court sustained the answer of George en ten days to answer. . Barron, tiliam_Barron, and her | minor children. Eva Rose Barron was | represented by Attorney Pillsbury, and George W. Montieth appeared for Edward A. Barron. The case wasargued and submitted. T I R | |PETER BUELL GRANT DEAD. | 01d Age and Heart Failure Cause the Pass- | ing Away of a Cousin of the Late President. | SAN JOSE, Car., Dec. 7.—Peter Buell | Grant, 79 years of age, died in this city to- | day of old age and heart failure. The de- | ceased was a native of Kentucky and a | first cousin of General U. S. Grant. the Confederacy, and lost his ouly son in the Confederate army. Mr. Grant came to California from Mis- souri in 1881, and held the position of Gov- | ernment storekeeper under Presidents | Cleveland and Harrison. He wasa promi- nent Mason, and will be buried with Ma- | sonic honors on Monday. He leaves two daughters and several granachildren. = g GRANGE OFFICERS ELECTED. 5. P. Sanders Chosen as Worthy Master | of 8an Jose Grange was well attended this | afternoon, the occasion being the annual election of officers. It resulted as follows: { Worthy master, S. P. Sanders; overseer, D. H. Blake; lecturer, 8. A. Durkee; | steward, L. Lee; chaplain, M treasurer, G. W. Worthen J. Worthen; gatekeeper, Ceres, Mary Barnes; Pomona, Emily Col- umbet; Flora, Ruth Vandine; assistant lady steward, Ada Betts; trustee, Joseph Holland; organist, Adah Bc The 1 stallation of officers will take place next Saturday, at which time the annual “har- | vest feast’’ of the grange will be held. | — - | BSAN JOSE'S DIVOKCE COURT. | e 5 | Two Wives Who Would Have Their Mari. tal Fows Severed. | BAN JOSE, CaL., Dec. 7.—Sarah Rodgers | to-day began suit for divorce from Benja- | min A. Rodgers on the ground of deser- | tion. Mr. and Mrs. Rodgers were married | in Hollister in 1889. There are no children | and no community property to wrangle | | over. | _ Bessie Bettis to-day instituted & suit for | divorce from Charles Bettis on the ground | of desertion. They were married in 1870, | ana a 13-year-old 1d is the resuit of the | | union, of which the plaintiff waats the | | custody. it HALE'S PROPOSITION WITHDRAWN The Projected San Jose-Saratoga Railway Falls Through. SAN JOSE, CAL., Dec. 7.—The proposi- tion of L. M. Hale to the Board of Trade | to build an electric road from San Jose to | Saratoga was to-day withdrawn because of | the alleged indifference of the San Jose property-owners. Residents along the proposed route in | the Saratoga district at a meeting to-day | agreed to combine and encourage a road | from Mayfield to Saratoga. Already $45,- 090 is subscribed for the new line, and this, | if built, will seriously affect the business interests of San Jose. Arraigned for Criminal Libel. SAN JOSE, CaL., Dec. 7.—George Degel- man, publisher of the Weekly Gazette, a sensational paper, was examined before Justice Dwyer to-day on a charge of crimi- | nal libel, preferred by Cora Everett. The | omplaint was defective and it was dis- | | missed. Degelman was then rearraigned on a similar_charge, and bonds were fixed | at $500. His examination was fixed for December 6. e Destitute Colored Family. SAN BERNARDINO, Carn., Dec. 7.—A colored family, mother and nine children, | was found at the corner of H and Ninth streets with no fuel, food or bedding. The father is a miner onthedesert. The mem- bers of the family were huddled together with the floor matting for covering. The neighbors, hearing of the destitution, sent groceries, and a physician was called by Sheriff Holcomb for the sick mother. This is the worst case of destitution reported for years in this place. A st ige s Sugar Production at Alvarado. DECOTO, CaL., Dec. 7.—The last beet has been sliced and sugar extracted at the beet sugar mill at Alvarado. The ninety- eight days’ run ended to-night after a most successful season. Over 5,000,000 pounds of sugar was produced since the mill began operations on September 1. —— i Crime of an Auburn Ex-Preacher. Daur- | P ing the Civil War he was a supporter of | of the Order. | SAN JOSE, CAL., Dec. 7.—The meeting | | returns. ON FOREST HILL DIVIDE A Revival in the Gray Eagle Gravel Mine and Adjacent Properties. NEW TUNNEL TO BE STARTED. Six Miles of an Ancient Riverbed, With Pay Gravel Six Feet Deep, in Sight. [Roeclal Correspondence of THE CALL.] FOREST HILL, CAL., Dec. 6.—Itisan old saw, often fulfiiled, that *all things come to those who wait.” But for most people, especially Californians, the hardest of all occupations is waiting, though those who have waited have been the winners. This bas been especially true of the mining in- terests of this State, and is just now being emphasized on the Forest Hill divide in Placer County, in the Gray Eagle and ad- jacent gravel mines. Stockholders have come and gone, assessments discouraging many and compelling retirement, but some have stayed to the finish and are now riding on the crest of the revival wave in mining industries. Prominent in this class is T. G. Durning and his associatesin the Gray Eagle mine. For twenty years Mr. Durning’s faith in regard to the possibilities of the Forest Hill divide bas not waned. He has in- vested his money in its properties, has cheerfully taken up the stock of dis- couraged speculators, has bored a shaft 0 feet from the top of the central eleva- tion of that section to the ancient river- bed below, and then, starting in at the Owl Creek Canyon level, bas penetrated the side of the hill with a magnificent tunnel 6000 feet in length, which has yielded tons of pay gravel, the recent rich { strike in free gold rewarding his efforts. The Forest Hill divide is known as that | portion of Placer County lying between | the north and middle forks of the Ameri- | can River, though locally the northern portion of this area is included in the Iowa Hill divide, so called from its principal town and centers of mining industry. Topographically the Forest Hill divide is a plateau, elevated from 1200 to 3000 feet above corresponding points of the bound- ing river canyons, but broken and cut up i by tributary canyons and ravines, the gen- eral surface rising eastward at an average rate of about 100 feet to the mile. Geo- logically its mass is composed of the com- mon Sierra country rocks, slates, lime- stones and serpentines, the whole bein, m”{‘Cd by lavas and volcanic ash an { mud deposits. Underlying the latter formations and superimposed on the true country rocks are enormous diluvial de- posits, lying in the rocky beds of an an- cient buried river system. This was un- | questionably what is now the system of | the American River, its extent, bowever, being much greater. Mining operations and the recent care- | ful surveys and examinations made by ex- | pert mining engineers demonstrate the extent of the buried system to be not less | than 200 miles of channels. The surveys further show that although there are sev- eral distinct systems of channels buried, crossing and efoding each other, the gen- | eral trend is to the southwest and toward the lower end of the divide, westerly from 2 line drawn between the small towns of Todds Valley and Yankee Jims. All of these ancient channels, with the possible exception of those eroded off com- Y!elely by the middle fork of the American River, seem to be within one comparatively narrow bedrock depression, | being the main channel of at least one of the ancient systems. The linear extent of this channel depression, taking the me- anders into account, is certainly about six | miles. It has been bottomed at only one point—about midway—and that in the Gray Eagle drift mine. Though super- ficiaily better defined than most of the an- cient river channels, it is probably the least known of any of them, owing to the fact that its rims of natural rock are so | wide as to deter the running of tunnels in the face of the uncertainty of the depth re- quired for drainage, The Gray Eagle tunnel, however, has removed the uncertainty asto the depth required, and at the same time | bas demonstrated that they have the key | to the whole situation, in that the other mines of the divide, if worked profitably, must be operated through the Gray Eagle tunnel. To this end a new tunnel, about 3000 feet lower down the canyon than the present tunnel, is to be mined out, thus assuring absolute drainage of all the aa- jacent mines. without recourse to pump- ing. The present Gray Eagle tunnel is not only self draining, but furnishes the water motor with power in forcing in the air supply. All of the buried river channels carry more or less gold in their channels or eroded driits. Ascompared with existing river channels of the same locality they bave, so far as mined, yielded much richer In fact, the Forrest Hill divide channels have yielded in the immediate vicinity of Forest Hill, Yankee Jims and Todds Valley, fully $20,000.000, the limits of the mining being two and six miles east- erly from the site of the proposed new Gray Eagle tunnel. Except at Bath and resumabiy | Forest Hill, practically none of the min- | ing has been done in the main channels, but in benches, in tributaries and on the veins of the main channels. The Gray Eagle people already have a splendid tunnel from the beginning to breast and the air connections are first class. Its total length is about 6000 feet. The whole breast of the tunnel is of hard- cemented gravel. The depth, or height, of breast is between seven and eight feet. The gravel extends above the roof and also below the level. From the bottom for adistance of three feet, splendid ap- pearing and very blue gravel flecked with gold is in evidence, which is the upper part of the pay ore. This blue gravel ex- tends down and connects with the bed- rock. The gravel which lies immediately on top of the blue gravel extends all the way up to the roof and isan entirely dif- ferent formation. It is not cemented quite as hard as the blue and is of a gray sandy color and character, The tunnel is in a great channel, which has, at some time, been the bed of a mizhty river. Tox great depth of gravel and its cemented character, ever water- worn and bali-like form: of its gravel and large bowlders, which are worn to the smoothness of glass, and the wall-like jorm of its rim rock on each side, clearly proves this opinion to be correct. This being the case, the richness of the mine and its adjacent properties cannot be doubled. Taking as a criterion the rich- ness of the other mines mn the same di- vide, Superintendent Durning firmly be- lieves his people have one of the greatest and best mining properties of its kind in California. At a point several bundred feet back from the breast a crosscut has been run to the south vein. At this point the channel is about 125 feet wide. From the bottom of this crosscut a winze has been sunk to a depth of about six or seven feet and no signs_of bedrock in the bottom. The gravel for the whole depth would pay, but the water is too strong, hence the neces- sity of the proposed lower tunnel. The rim rock on tihe south side is visible at several points along the tunnel, but the north rim has only been seen twice. The tunnel seems to be near the center of the AUBURN, Can, Dec. 7.—-The Grand Jury to-day found indictments against Joe Bodel!l for robbery and J. W. Hinds for embezzlement. Hinds is an ex-preacher, and is charged with embezzling the funds of the Lincoln Bank- channel, as the layers or stratifications are nearly level across the breast. The tunnel is being run ahead on an incline, the 0>- jective point being the bedrock. When that is well in sight the channel will be opened from rim to rim. The bedrock will then be the floor for the work and breast- ing out will next be in order. The richness of the main channels of the divide at Bath and Forest Hill, considered with the richness of the bench and rim deposits of Yankee Jims and Todds Val- ley, justify the conclusion that extremely rich and extensive channel deposits exist westerly from the last-named two places. Both at Yankee Jims and Todds Valley the inward pitch_of the rims is compara- tively light, making possible the rim and bench deposits to a greater extent than found either above or below. Compara- tively little mining has been done, and all of the main channel is_untouched ground for at least six miles. The mines for the development and exploitation of which the new Gray Eagle tunnel is projected are the Gray Eagle, Wolverine, Clark and the Mountain, the three last named being bonded to the Gray Eagle. The Spring Garden may also be worked to some ex- tent, but how much is quite doubtful, as it is downstream. : At the only point at which the main channel has been opened it is 150 feet wide. From a careful survey of the portions opened it seems to be a narrow place. The bottom is very irregular, the grade is con- siderable and very shallow. Gravel de- posits are frequent. At the upstream end there are indications of a turn eastward in the bed, with increased width and lessened . grades to the channel, which seems to be the lower continuation of the rich May- flower and Paragon channels, and that exposed by the mining in the Darda- nelles. Themean width of the channels of these, three noted mines, as verified by the opening in the Gray Eagle, is about 125 feet of workable gravel. The mean depth of gravel that is drifted out in all of these drift mines of the Forest Hill divide is six feet. With the estimated length of chan- nel at 10,000 feet, its average width 75 feet and its workable depth 6 feet the total of main channel gravels should be 4,500,000 cubic feet, which, at the lowest average of that taken out the past three weeks, should represent about $4,000,000. ’Y‘hat this gravel may be profitably mined the new lower tunnel has been undertaken. Commencing at a point about 3000 feet below the present opening on Owl Creek, the new work will be com- menced and pushed along the bedrock surface, connecting with theabandoned in- cline, thus draining the whole. The length of the tunnel from the entrance on Owl Creek to the foot of the incline will be about 4300 feet. The difference of eleva- tion between the entrance of the proposed tunnel and the ioot of the slope from the present Gray Eagle tunnel will be about twenty-eight feet, with a grade of about five inches to the 100 feet. The tunnel will be eight feet in width and seven feet high. The profile of the tunnel line presents two depressions in the surface from which shafis can be sunk, giving five possible headings for simul- taneous construction. The first shaft will be 60 feet deep and 1000 feet in from the tunnel entrance. The second shaft will be 100 feet deep and in 1750 feet from the en- trance. The saving in cost of ventilation will pay for oneof the shafts. The present tunnel of the Gray Eagle furnishes a steady water supply, amounting to forty inches, immediately adjacent to the entrance of the proposed tunnel, and as the can- yon of Owl Creek falls over 1000 feet (the upver 500 feet very precipitously) the quantity of water and bar fall available will give any red horsepower up to 100, which by rical transmission will furnish all the power required for machine drills and for running the train of carsinand out the tunnel. Thus equipped the Gray Eagle properties will be unsurpassed in all the mining regions of this State. The mills at the Gray Eagle are to start up this week and will probably be kept in operation continuously from this time on. hese operations of the past week but con- firm the recent rich findings, which fact has encouraged the company to make the extensive improve ments reported. M. V.D. A TRAGEDY AT TALLEXD, William Stanton, a Marine, Kills Medora Keach and Wounds Himself. Letters Found Near Their Bodies De- clare That the Deed Was Pre. meditated by Both. VALLEJO, CaL., Dec. 7.—Lying on a marble slab 1n Hanna’s undertaking par- lors is the body of Medora Hattie Keach, otherwise known as *“The Woman of Mys- tery,” with a bullet wound in her neck and another near her heart. On a straw mattress on the floor of the City Jail is her slayer, William Stanton, a marine, with a pistol-shot wound through his left lung. There is very little chance of his recovery, as he is bleeding internally. Tue woman had been a resident of Vallejo for the past two years. Stanton had known her for a lonvser period, he having a mother and relatives residing in Haywards, wuere the young woman formerly lived. There, as here, she always kept ber real name a mystery. On the left arm of Stanton are tattooed the in- itials “H. M. K., June 5, 1895,”” which he says are those of the woman's right name. The two were about to leave for Sacra- mento this afternoon, and just before the time for leaving for the boat to go to the capital city, by way of Vallejo Junction, Stanton shot the woman, killing her in- stantly, and then turned the pistol toward his own beart and fired. The bullet ranged a trifle too high and passed through his lung. The two had quarreled last evening, and Stanton, from letters left behind regarding the disposition of his body after he was dead, had made up his mind to kill three men—two sergeants on the Independence, who had been witnesses against him in a recent trial by court- martial for heing drunk and asleep on duli(', for which he was reduced to the ranks, and the other a resident of Vallejo, who had sued him for a bill. Before going down to the house where the woman re- sided Stanton had borrowed three car- tridges for the pistol. : Following the report of three shots the inmates of the house burst open the door of the woman’s room, which was locked, and found Miss Keach lying on the floor dead. Stanton had fallen across her body and lay there breathing heavily. A pistol was lying near his right hand, and the room was in the utmost confusion. The young woman was fully dressed, with her hat and fur cloak on, as though the; were ready to leave the house for their trip. lgying beside the pistol were three letters written by Stanton, one addressed to Major Pope, U. 8. M. C., commandant at the Marine Barracks, Mare Island; one to the landlady of the house in which the tragedy occurred, and the third contain- ing a receipt for money paid to a local merchant. The letter to the landlady was seemingly from both of them, though in his handwriting, expressing regret for the deed committea in bher house and leaving the woman’s jewelry and his purse to her. In this noie Stanton regrets that he could not meet the three men he desired to kill. He declares that the deed was premedi- tated by both. Stanton was formerly a floor-walker in J. J. O'Brien’s store at 8an Francisco, and was known by many people in that city and also at Haywards, where his mother is the owner of much valuable property. She has been sending him remittances of $50 a month until he was recently reduced to the ranks. His mother has been tele- graphed for. Dr. Vallejo says there is one chance in ten of Stunton’s recoyery. ———— Bicycle Riders Injured. SAN BERNARDINO, Cav., Dec. 7.—Mel- ville Bradley and Orville Eastwood, 6n bi- cycles, collided near the Santa Fe freight offices last evening. Eastwood was but slightly in(i““d' but Bradley’s hurts were serious. The bones of the face near the eyeand a bone in the right hand were broken. . NEVADX'S PLACER BOOM, Increased Value Disclosed in Con- tinued Investigation of the Buckeye. MILLIONS IN ANTICIPATION. The Appeal Advises the Calling of a Miners’ Convention to Protect Investors. CARSON, Ngv., Dec. 7.—The more the Buckeye placers are investigated the richer they seem to be. It is now estimated that it is 300 feet to bedrock, and if this is the case the gold deposits will, by a rough esti- mate, reach the enormous sum of $275,000,- 000. Some old gold miners say that if the nuggets which lie near the surface run over $100, as some of them have, they will at a depth of 300 feet run into the thou- sands. It is the purpose of the purchasers of the Buckeye to also take in the Pine Nut group near by, and assessment work is being pushed in the latter district so that everybody owning claims there will havea solid grip on them by January 1 next. 3 The new strike in Pine Nut in the Eziel claim is fully verified, and shows richer than the originel Zirn mine. The Le Grande group of placers at Silver City are now panning out $215 to the cubic yard, and experts say that no other such a gold find has ever been made in Nevada. As a matter of fact the channel has carried the wash of the gold end of the Comstock for centuries, and has been overlooked until recently. Fully forty men are now at work there for the Oro Fino Company. Within the past week hundreds of acres of placer have been located in the Seigel dis- trict beyond Pine Nut. The Del Mar district has now an output from one mill of $100,000, which will soon be increased to $300.600. The Appeal of this morning advocates the calling of a miners’ convention at Carson atan early date to select a State mining commission to regulate the sale of mining claims in Nevada and protect outside investors and stockholders from swinalers. It says: There will be a big mining boom here in th spring if outside investors realize that they will be given correct information in Nevada and protected by the commission. It will cause millions of capital to come here in 1896 and give the State such a lift, by way of devel- opment, as it never had before. The commis- sion could also arbitrate in mining disputes and save much expensive litigation. Nevada does not now bear a very good reputation in the minlng world. Too many bare-faced swindles have been practiced here. A change must take place before Nevada will stand eclean in mining circles. After the commission is established let all minin locators who have claims for sale send a full description of their claims to the board and pay & small fee. The board can hire experts to examine and verify the reports. If the experts find the report correct the board can indorse it. If not the sentence “Not verified by the facts” written across the report and signed by the board would teach the man who attempted to deceive the board that he had thrown awa his time. Under this system Eastern capital- ists could get on the track of the best prep- erties in the State very casily and feel a con- fidence in investigating. The board would soon have a fund to prosecute legally all kinds of mine swindling and salting and elso pro- tect stockholders. Such a bcard would be a wer in the State in a few years and the bene- t to Nevada would be of the most substantial character. QUEER CRIME AT EUGENE J. A. Straight Accused of Having Criminally Libeled a Dead Man. Arrested Because He Charged That the Late H. C. Humphrey Had Defrauded Him. EUGENE, Or.. Dec. 7.—J. A. Straight, who is known throughout the western part of Oregon, was to-day placed under arrest on a charge of criminat libel. alleged to have been committed against the late H. C. Humphrey. Immediately following the suicide of Humphrey, in Portland, on November 15, Straight was known to have made state- ments to the effect that Humphrey owed him large sums of money, which, he said, hehad been unable to secure. Humph- rey’s friends did not believe this, ana an investigation ensued. Yesterday letiers were received here, written by Strnifiht to persons in Douglas County, in which he'seems to have given as a reason for not carrying out certain business arrangements the fact that Humphrey had collected large sums for him and had failed to turn them over. The letters also charge that Hum phrey held a large amount of notes and stick belonging to Straight. The complaint al- leges that these charges are false and libelous, It seems that Humphrey and Straight at one time had business dealings together in connection with the cinnabar mines in Douglas County, and the sums which form the foundation for the charges were in some way connected with the mining deal. In one letter written by Straight, he charges that Humphrey defrauded him out of many thousands of dollars. Monday is set for the hearing. REALFIGHTING BEGINS, San Francisco Delegates Find a Hard Fight on Their Hands. Whitelaw Reid Is of the Opinion That the Convention Should Come to This Coast. From the looks of things at this hour it seems as though the Eastern aspirants for the approval of the National Committee will do anything to keep the convention away from San Francisco. They are mov- ing heaven and earth and form- ing combinations to down the Golden West, but there is yet a chance for us to come out ahead. The following dis- patches tell their own stories and indicate what our delegates have to contend with: NEW YORK, Dec. 7, 1895. Wendell Faston, San Francisco, Cal.: Just re- turned from Rhode Island. Looks favorable. Leaving for Washington mnlihl. TPPM; WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 6, 1895. Hon. Wendell Easton, Chairman Ezxecutive Com- mittee: Friedrich and Chipman arrived to-day and are hard at work. Our prospects are im- roving and oggonentl getting mervous. Frledrlch reports South very favorable. . Z. OSEORNE. REAL FIGHTING BEGINS. Mealizing Our Strength They Are Bat- tling Hard. ‘WASHINGTON, D, C., Dec. 7.—Messrs. Chipman, Friedrich, Osborne, Knight and Rader of the California cmomittee put in a busy day hustling among the big guns of the Republican party. The Arling- ton Hotel was fihed with politicians to- night, all diseussing convention prospects. The situation is, as predicted in last night’s dispatches to THE CALL, a combination of leading Republicans has resolved that the convention shall not be held in San Francisco. They bave nothing to urge against the City except its remote geo- graphical situation and consequent heavy railway fares, the time and fatigue that would be incident to such a long journey, and, above all, the alleged lack of tele- graphic facilities. General Clarkson sized the situation up correcily when he said yesterday that the greatest danger San Francisco had to fear was the opposition of big newspapers of the East. Among the politicians who are promi- nently identified with the movement against San Francisco are Steve Elkins, Dick Kerens, General Powell Clayton and Tom Carter. The latter professes not to be taking any band in the fight, but those on the inside know that he is for Chicago. ‘Where the convention will be sent is as yet uncertain. The St. Louis men in form- ing their combination against San Fran- cisco hope to secure the convention them- selves, but so do the Chicago conspirators, and some of those who are fighting for Pittsburg. There is a bare chance that they may become involved in a three-cornered dis- pute about it and San Francisco may yet capture the convention, but this possi- bility is so remote at this hour (midnight) it seems that San Francisco is sure to be defeated, with a prospect that Cnicago .will finally be selected. General Chipman says he will to-morrow remind the St. Louis men that in 1833 San Francisco threw her strength to St. Louis. They will remember well enough how M. F. Tarpey, the California committeeman, announced the glad news to the St. Louis crowd and may recall their profuse ex- pressions of gratitude. The California men can scarcely conceal their vexation because Mr. de Young has not yet arrived. If he had been early on the ground the combine might have been staved off, but Friedrich, Chipman, Osborne and others have been awaiting the arrival of California’s representative on the National Committee anxiously. General Clarkson is loyal to San IFran- cisco, and although he probably realizes that there is a conspiracy to defeat San Francisco, he will not surrender until the last shot is fired. WHITELAW REID TALKS. Hs Says the Next Republican Convention Showuld Come Here. PH(ENIX, Ariz., Dec. 7.—For the first time since his arrival here the Hon. White- law Reid talked for publication this morn- ing. Mr. Reid has been quite ill, and since coming to Pheenix has studiously avoided any exertion other than his daily drive about the city. He is recovering rapidly, however, and when seen this morning was sitting in the sunniest spot on his veranda, looking over the New York papers. His clothing was lizht, as it was very warm, and he was wearing a straw bat of last summer’s vintage. Mrs. Reid was sitting beside him, but during the interview she retired. Speaking of the probability of San Francisco securing the next National Republican Couvention, Mr. Reid said: 1 should be very glad to see San Francisco getit. It would be an excellent thing for the entire country, and I mean by that for the East as well as the West. The prevailing opinions of the West in the East are gained from the stories told about this section thirty years ago. Tales of the bad man and rattlesnakes seem to have lingered and to have never received an effectual refutation. If the West, however, could secure a convention of representative and intelligent men, such men as would com- pose the National Republican Convention, much would be done toward dispeiling these illusions, and not only the Pacific Coast but } the entire West would reap a great benefit. It would bea good thing for the East, too, because these men who mold public sentiment and opirion would find out why Western people differ from them on many important subjects and material points of political economy. They would also find out what a magnificent empire lies beyond the Mississippi, and this knowledge would be of great benefit to the entire country. You see. we don’t know much about the West in the East, and this ignorance should be remedied, and the con- vening of a National body in San Francisco would do more than tons of literature to fur- ther this end. Mr. Reid chatted pleasantly on general subjects, but positively refused to say any- thing about the Presidential possibiiities or discuss the political situation, giving as his reason that he was entirely outof poli- tics. As the conversation drifted from one subject to another, Mr. Reid told many pleasing anecdotes of his Western experi- ences and of the men he has known. He spoke pleasantly of the former proprietor of TrE CALL and regretted the difficulties he worked under. He also remarked its improvement under its new management, and said it deserved the success that is be- ing meted out to it. St TRE FINAL PREPARATION. Pittsburg Getting Ready to Move on Washington. PITTSBURG. Pa., Dec. 7.—The final meeting of the local committee which will go to Washington to present Pittsburg’s claims before the Republican National Committee for the Republican National Convention in 1896 was held to-day. Re- vorts from the several subordinate com- mittees declared every possible contin- gency arranged for. It was decided to base the city’s claim on the accessibility of Pittsburg; its facilities for handling the convention; ability to accommodate all who may come, and the fact that the city has guaranteed all the money that may be required by the National Committee. A number of leading citizens left this even- ing to do preliminary work among Na- tional committeemen, but the main body will go to-morrow night on a special Balti- more and Ohio railroad train. Washing- ton headquarters of the Pittsburg commit- tee have been established at the Ar- lington. Among those comprising the committee are Senator Quay, C. L. Magee, Lieuten- ant-Governor Lyon, James 8. McKean, R. B. Quay, Robert Pitcairn, Congressmen Dalzell and Stone, ex-National Chairman F. B. Jones, Mayors McKenna and Ken- nedy of Pitisburg and Allegheny, and representatives of the city and county gov- ernment. All the Pittsbarg newspapers, telegraph and railroad companies and press associations will also be represented. RS SAN DIEGO ARRIVES. A Resolution That Seems to Cover the Ground. SAN DIEGO, CaL., Dec. 7.—The Repub- lican County Central Committee of San Diego County adopted the following reso- lution to-night: Resolved, That the Republican Central Com- mittee of San Diego County highly appreciates the endeavors now being made to bring the Republican National Convention of 1896 to San Francisco. We believe that in this man- ner the bonds of union between Eastern and Western Republicans will be more firmly cemented together, thus enabling the G.O.P. to achieve a more complete and glorious vic- tory in 1896. To this end we heartily second the efforts to bring the convention to the Pa- cific Coast. ARTHUR G. NAsoN, Chairman. HaRRY W. ViNci Secretary. WAS FATALLY BURNED. Mrs. Minnie Fritzeche’s Coal-Oil Lamp Explodes and Sets Fire to Her Dress. Mrs. Minnie Fritzsche of 1514 Sanchez street was the victim of. a terrible accident about 1 o’clock this morning. While at- tending to her household affairs a coal-oil lamp exploded in her hands. Mrs. Fritzsche made an effort to extin- guish the fire, which had spread upon the floor, and in so doing her garments were ignited. In less than a second she was in a mass of flames, which caused her to shriek with agony. Other members of the family ran to her assistauce and putont the blaze, but not until the woman’s body was burned to a blister. Mrs. Fritzsche was sent to the City and County Hospital in a hack, where the doc- tors said she could not live but a very short time. Mrs. Fritzsche has two little children. —_————— Why. Curry—Why did the Legislature decide to close barber-shops on Sunday ? Vokes—Because being shaved by the ordinary barber is so apt to put 2 man into a profane and impious mood -on Sunday mornings.—New York Truth. e Mozart had a memory for music and for nothing else. 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