The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 29, 1895, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1895. 1N SACRAMENTO GOLD Two Million Dollars of Tax Money Paid Into the Treasury. SAN FRANCIECO'S SHARE. Over One-Half of the Total Amount Seat From the Metropolis. HOURS SPENT IN COUNTING. The State Is Now Ready to Pay Off All the Warrants Held in Abeyance. SACRAMENTO, CaL., Dec 2,000,000 of gold coin paid in the first es from Most of te treasury yesterday, beir nt of city and county tas portions of the State, d in on the snger train at 11:20 o'clock Of the gross_ amount s from San Fraheisco, in A. C. Widber and W The full nount of liment of San sco Cily and tax is $1 this amount $518,345 0L, ¢ charge of City Devuty \uditor Bur the first County ving been apportione to the school fund, is retained in the City treasury. The San Francisco tax pyyment has been appor- General fund, d sinking fund, 21,485 68, gold in Sacramento e treas- 1d a Jarge por- as consumed in s duty devolving \:plm‘* Francisco Treasurers or Burrows. Alameda 1 $300, San Mateo § ! , Del Norte $301 50, Joaquin §157 will fally which has ne, all State held in hausted for sc which L HOW pay s £ | GUIHRIE TO COMMAND. Eiected Colonel of the Eceonstructed See- ond Jegimen'. ENTO, Car was chosen Dec Colonel | o command the new Sec icted under g he order went 1 thai there woull ! Guthrie re reconstr ¢ ymmands. Since | w_announced | te for the elected lected, MISSING FAOM SUN JOSE, | | ment resulted as follow rincipal place of business. Rm ar!:: narl‘med as directors: Joseph H. Rucker, Z. P. Porter, J. Howard Carl, J. B. Taylor. V. Shepherd, George k. Tice and N. 0, Miller. T END OF THE DEADLOCK. Mayor Austin Compels Action Upon the Police Bonds. SAN JOSE, Car.. Dec. 28.—In accord- ance with orders n Mayor Austin the Chief of Police to-night brought into the City Council Chamber the Councilmen who had failed to attend several meetings called to approve the bonds of the newly elected police. A fuil board was secured and the bonds approved. Mayor Austin recorded in_the aflirmative the vote of Councilnan Kreig, who refused to vote. Lawyers to Open € SAN JOSE, CaL., Dee. ing of the recently organized Bar Asso- ciation to-day it was decided to open club- rooms, where the aitornevs can congre- eate and discuss legal matiers. The fees for life_memberships were placed as fol- lows: Fifty dollarsif the applicant is over 50 years old: $60 if from 40 to 50 years; $70 if from 30 to 40 yeors, and $80 if under 30 years. Life members shall be exempt from all dues and assessments. Suspended for Fighting. SAN JOSE, CaL., Dec. 28.—Chief Dwyer of the Fire Department has suspended William Sullivan, Ed Mangin, William Galbraith and Ed Corbett, the firemen who engaged in a fight in Stewart’s saloon Christmas night, in which Mangin and Sullivan received knife wounds. Charges will be preferred against the men on the grounds of fighting and intoxication. g Degelman’s Case Dismissed. SAN JOSE, Carn., Dec. 28.—The charge of criminal libel preferred by Cora Comocy against George Degelman, the publisher of the Weekly Gazette, was dismissed in Ju Dwyei's court to-day on motion of the complaining witn Los Gatos Fir SAN JOSE, Car of officers of the 1. lect Officers. The election atos Fire Depart- : Chief, C. C. Christensen; first assista _Paul Tobin; nd assistant, Dan Martinelli; treas. urer, George H. Adams. SENTERCED 4T CARSON Barney Brule to Serve Time for Bribing Witnesses in the | Judge Hawley Finds the Former Night Watchman Guilty of Con- tempt of Court. CARSON, NEv., De —Night Watch- man Barney Brule was to-day senlenced by Judge Hawley to three months in the Storey County jail and to pay afine of $250 empt of court in giving Joseph A vin, the principal witness in the last Heney trial, $100 as a bribe for his non- appearance av the first trial. Brule was ia City to-night. on of the contempi sied by Judge Murphy in iment and in the citation of cases rela- tive to the jurisdiction of the the afternoon General Cla the pr iefendant to his The Judge held that the contempt was committed near enough to the court not to prevent the administration of justice. He read the defendant a severe lecture, and in bis charge stated that in the future culprits in like cases who should come be- | Contractor Clinton’s Bondsmen Alarmed Because of His Absence. He Boarded a Train for San Francisco After Cashing a Check for a Large Sum. { SAN J( wel Cac., Menzo Clin- this city, | wh con va 2 cheek for $2500, part payment on a contract, last Monday and departed | withou ing the amounts due sub- | [ ctors and mate | Ciinton took a contract from David | s several months ago to erect a two- | story briek buil The stipuluted price was §10,700, 1 of this amount Clinton | The fir claims fo t §3500 was used to meet the and material, but of the last $2500 ¢ was paid out. Clinton made no secret of boarding the train for San Francisco, but his failure to return armed his bondsmen, who will have to h the building if Clinton fails to keep his contract. The missing man had pre- viously borne a good business reputation. His fa denies that lie has fled and pre» dicts that he wili return shortly. Frost's Chavges Denicd on the Stand by the Accused. Cixi; The suit of . Dwrer, ch has for its object the removal of the lant from the position of Township his afternoon by . Loui ntiff, and be- { open the case asked the court to te an order on District Attorney Her- | rington requiring him to appear and assi in the case for the plaintiff. Judge Rey ds said that the District Attorney, so the court was concerned, was at lib- le desired, but that | Witness- two persons. and in & few Attor: W minutes returned with the District Attorney. Attorney Howell C. Moore appeared as | counsel for the defendant. A general de- | nial of th the answer filed to | the compla tice Dwver took the stand, and testihed that he was too ill to | attend the evening examination of the five | persons charged with gaming, set for De- | cember 2 He said that Fournie had come to his office and wanted to make affidavit that lie had paid his fine. He bad informed Fournie that the docket should stand es it was. 1f there was any mistake, the ma, rate was responsible for it. Charles Keane did all of the clerical work in the office, and the failure to turn over Fournie’s fine was due to his mistake. The Acton case was an usual one, in that it went over from month to month. The case was settled in November, but the settlement was dated back fo Juue, the month in which the complaint was filed. The fines were turned over as soon as the matter was brought to his notice. The case went over until January 3. = TIVE STORES. CO-OPERA A Rucker Nociety to Carry on a General Merchandise Business. SAN JOSE, CaL., Dec. 28.—Articles of | incorporation of the Rucker Co-overative | Union have been filed in the Clerk’s office. The objects of the corporation are to es- tablish stores and carry on a general mer- chandise business. The capital stock is | a pain ! fore him would receive a severe sentence. He then sentenced Brule to three months in the County Jail, and to pay a fine of $250. e court adjourned only until Monday, which indicates that more business is in itemplation. Other arrests are expected that time. SANTA ANA'S PLIGHT. | Trustees Cannot Compe! a Street Railway Company to Pave Between Its Tracks. SANTA ANA, Car., Dec. 23.—The pav- ing controversy between the City Trustees and the st railway company is now at standstill. It now seems likely that the property-owners will be com- pelled to pave the entire street. They have aiready paved out to the car line from either side, and the unpaved strip in the center, besides being most un- sightly, is liable to cause injury to the pavement already down when the heavy winter rains come. The trustees are seemingly cornered so far as compelling the car company to pro- ceed is concerned, and as the horses have ne: ali been sold, it appears certain that the street-car people do not intend to re- sume business. The trustees have learned that there is even doubt as to whether they can compel the removal of the track from the street. It has been supposed that a failure to operate the line for a period of ninety dsys would give cause for a forfeiture of the franchise, but a prominent aitorney has said that in his opinion the company, under the terms on which the franchise was granted, could hold it for an indefinite time without operation. A most perplexing condition oi affairs confronts the trustees and the only manner of procedure open to them at present, they cousider, is to compel the property owners to pave the entire street. SR CHICO JAILBREAK. Five Tramps Gain Their Freedom, but Three Are Recaptured. CHICO, Car., Dec. 28.—That tramps are not always grateful for favors was demon- strated yesterday afternoon at the City Prison. Five of the tourists confined in e jail were allowed to leave their cells ¢ enjoy the fire in the corridor. They had, been furnished with a fine Christmas dinner by Jailer Strange and were sitting eround the stove smoking their pipes, when it occurred to them that there wasa chance ror escaping. Fourof the vagrants orened the rear door, which had been un- locked, and went out into the back yard. H ere a high board fence confronted them, but they managed in scme manner to scale this and were free. 1t was not long before the escape was discovered and the oflicers made a search of all the boxcars and barns in the vicinity of the railroad. The jailbreakers were not to be found, but Marshal Waite notitied the officers of the neighboring towns and this morning Constable Shilling of Nelson telephoned to the officers here that he had captured tbree of the escapes. Thoy were brought to Chico and locked in the prison again, and to make sure that they will not attempt to escape a second time Mar- shal Waite had a large ball and chain at- tached to a leg of each one of them. S g i Funeral of a Brave Officer. REDDING, CaL., Dec. 28.—The funeral of Constable James Campbell, who died from the effects of a pistol wound acciden- tally inflicted by himseli, was largely attended to-day, The courthouse was closed and no business was done in the police, justice or superior courts, out of respect to the deceased officer. Citizens and oflicials. from all over the county placed at $30,000. Rucker is named as the attended the funeral, ~ The follow- | PORTLAND $ BOYCOTT See Yup Chinese Merchants Violate Their Leaders’ Mandates. DEAL WITH SAM YUPS. Merchandise Purchased From Proscribed Jobbers in San ; Francisco. SEIZED TUPON ITS ARRIVAL Heavy Impost Levied Upon the Un. faithful Mongols for Their Treachery. PORTLAND, Or., Dec. 28.—The recent boycott in Fan Francisco of the Sam Yup Company merchants by the See Yup Com- | pany, growing out of highbinder outrages, was ordered on here three weeks ago, when a meeting of the See Yup merchants, num- bering about 90 per cent of the Chinese tradesmen in the city, was held. It was stipulated at that meeting that no Port- land merchant should purchase goods of any description from a Sam Yup dealer at the bay. The penalty for a transgression of this agreement was that for the first offense the offending merchant be fined one-half of the value of the invoice he bought, and one-nalf of that was fo go to the informer; for the second offcnse the guilty person must, upon conviction, sur- | render the whole of the contraband in- voice to the local officers of the See Yup Company, all of which goes to the in- former or informers. The anti-Sam Yup compact furnished a vocation for a few Mongols who live by their wits. They realized that, in order to obtain any of the Portland trade during thé life of the compact, the Sam Yup jobbers at the bay would have to hold out extraordinary induce- ments to the Portland dealers, and that it was not altogether improbable that some of them would nibble at the bait. Early this week the “spotters’’ were advised that goods directed to a number of See Yup firms here had been shipped by Sam Yup hotuses on a steamer due here last night. The local See Yups, when confronted with this evidence, made no attempt to conceal or deny their treachery. On the contrary, they expressed a willingness to abide by the penalty for their bad faith. The unfaithful See Yups were compelled to exhibit the several invoiees sent them from Sam Yup houses, which in the ag- gregatejtigured np to $2500. The local offi- cers of the See Yup Company last night sumed charge of these goods, for the re- e of which the unfaitbfvl must con- tribute $1250 to reward the informers. REDDING GOLD STRIKE Ore Rich in Yellow Metal Found in a Gulch Near the Town. Returning Prosperity Hastened by a Boom in the Mining In- dustry. REDDING, Car., Dec. 28.—A rich strike has just been reported to have been made in Supervisor Conant’s mine on Harrison Gulch, west of Redding. The ore pros- pects several hundred dollars per ton in gold. It is thought to be one of the richest strikes in the county. The boom in the mining industry is bringing prosperity to Redding and Shasta County. Never in the history of the town have her merchants enjoyed such a good trade or prospects looked brighter than they do at present. The city is thronged with people, hotels are filled to overflowing and money seems plentiful. Several new buildings are now in course of construction and plans being drawn for others, among them a new brick store on Market street and a magnificent three- story brick and stone hotel to cover the entire block bounded by Center, Yuba, Placer and California streets. —_——— WAR AT SEBASTOPOL. F. E. Bullis Hanged in Effigy by the Friends of a Man Whom He Caused to Be Arrested. SANTA ROSA, Cavn., Dec. 23.—F. E. Bullis was hanged in effigy at Sebastopol last night. Bullis is a planing-mill man. Recently he had trouble with G. W. Hunt- ley, a wealthy Sebastopol orchardist. Yesterday morning Bullis had Huntley placed under $500 bonds to keep the peace. Huntley claimed that Bullis haa been too vpolite to his (Huntley’s) wife, and had made some rash threats against Bullis’ personal safely. Huntley's friends were greatly incensed when Bullis caused the arrest of his enemy. The hanging in effigy followed, and this morning thei' declared that Bul- lis would be given forty-eight hours to leave Sebastopal, and if he persisted in re- maining he would bé tarred and feathered. Bullis, who is a married man and an ex- Union soldier, says he will stay in the town. — CHICO ACCIDENT. J. J. Cahill the Fictim of a Tnomber-Mill Disaster. CHICO, Car., Dec. 28.—A serious and possibly fatal accident occurred at the mifl of the Sierra Lumber Company this morn- ing. J.J. Cahill, one of the oldest em- ployes of the company, was engaged in running what is known as a four-side matcher. A sudden breaking of the large belt caused it to become wound around the counter shaft, twisting one end of the shaft loose from the matcher. There were four pulleys side by side, making a facin, of over three and a depth of two feet, an these were broken into thousands of pieces and thrown to all parts of the mill. When the machine stopped Operator Cahill was found lying on the floor with his face badly gashed, one finger carried away and a cut_about five inches long on his left side, just under the heart. A piece of one of the Fulleys had struck him, cutting through his clotbing and entering his side. Cahill was resting easily this afternoon, but the chances are against his recovery. ARSI NS TOOK HIS EMPLOYER'S MONEY. Donald Donovan Believed to Have Fled . to New Fields. REDDING, OaL, Dec. 28, —Donald Donovan, who disappeared mysteriously from his home on Pitt River last' Sunaay, has not yet been heard from, and it is now snxrecwd that he has left the country taking with him a considerable amount of his employer's (Wyndham) money. Donovan was a ferryman across the river, and always had in his keeping money belonging to Wyndham. At the time of his disappearance he was known to have several hundred dollars on his person, and it was at first supposed that he had been murdered for the money. The officers have relinquished the search for his body, which was supposed to have been hid somewhere in the vicinity of the ferry. WILL WED IN SANTA ROSA. Or. A. Pierce Preston and Miss Gertrude A. Rue to Be Married on New Year's Eve. SANTA ROSA, CaL., Dec. 28.—Dr. A. Pierce Preston and Miss Gertrude A. Rue are to be married at the First Presbyterian Church in this city on New Year’s eve at 8 o'clock. The ceremony will be per- formed by Rev. William Martin, bastor of the church. . The contracting parties are sociely fa- vorites. Mrs. P. P. Rue, mother of the bride-elect, was a member of the Woman’s Board at the World’s Columbian Exposi- tion and a member of the executive com- mittee of the same board. Mark L. Mc- Donald, World’s Fair Commissioner-at- large and president of the Santa Rosa Water Works, is an uncle of Miss Rue’s. The bride-elect is a tall, graceful and beau- tiful blonde. Dr. Preston is a native son of the fioldsn ‘West and a Sonoma County boy. e is a gradnate of an Hastern den- tal college and practices his profession in Santa Rosa. The bridesmaids will be Miss Lida Pres- ton, the groom’s sister, Miss Edith Oleson and Miss Dorothy Kinsel, all of Santa Rosa. Drs. F. K. Mundy and A. L. Tib- betts of Petaluma and Dr. Emil P. Hal- sted of San IFrancisco, all classmates of Dr. Preston during his course at the den- tal college, will olgciau as groomsmen. Five hundred wedding invitations bave been issued. The big church building is to be profusely decorated with flowers and evergreens. Dr. Prestonand his bride will reside in Santa Rosa. SINTA- MONICA RESLUE Captain Dittmer Saves an Aged Fisherman From Death in a Gale. Picked Up by the Alcatraz While Drifting Helplessly in a Skiff. SANTA MONICA, Car., Dec. 28.—Cap- tain Dittmer of the Alcatraz rescued an aged fisherman from death in a gale to-day, and he does not regret the act, even though it did cause a delay of several hours in the unloading of his vessel. Jeremiah Everett is the man who owes his life to the kind-hearted master of the Alcatraz. He is an aged veteran of the Civil War, who occasionally ventures into the bay in a skiff to add what he can to his meager pension revenue by catching and selling fish. While the wind was blowing strongly this morning the aged wife of Everett, made frantic by the fear that the veteran would lose his life in the sudden squall that had come up, went to Captain Dorn- field, the wharf-master, and begged him to send a tug to pick up the fisherman, who had left in a skiff before the wind came up. The steamers San Mateo and Mineola were then unloading cargoes of coal and the Al- catraz one of Iumber. The tug Collis was unavailable on account of being laid up while undergoing repairs. Captain Dorn- field informed Captain Dittmer of the Al- catraz of the old lady’s trouble, and Cap- tain Dittmer at once ordered his men to stop discharging and with Captain Dorn- field go to the fisherman’s assistance. After following the storm track for about eight miles the skiff was sighted. It was utterly powerless in the gale that was blowing, and was already half-filled with water. The steamer made haste to pick up the frightened fisherman. Everett had a piece of gaspipe attached to a fish line for an anchor, but was drifting out to sea rapidly, while he knelt in the bottom of the boat and prayed for rescue. He was taken on board the steamer and brought to this port. b — PLUCK OF A SEATTLE WOMAN, Mrs. Fryberg Capures a Burglar by Locking Him in a Room. SKATTLE, Wasm., Dec! 28.—Mrs. J. P. Fryberg, who conducts a Commercial- street boarding-house, captured a burglar this morning by locking him in a room and keeping him a prisoner until the arri- val of the police. A more fortunate ac- complice of this burglar escaped, despite the plucky woman’s efforts to corral him also. SRR BLOCKADE IN THE CASCADES. Great Novthern Passenger Train Snow- Yound in the Mountains. SEATTLE, Wasn., Dec. 28.—There is a complete snow blockade on the Great Northern road. Neither passenger nor freight trains have crossed the Cascade Mountains for twenty-four hours. The westbound passenger train, which attempted to come over the range yester- day about noon, is supposed to be stuck tight and fast in the mountains, where, for a distance of ten miles, the snow is reported to be from ten to twenty feet deep. Jastbound passenger train No. 4 was avandoned here last night. The recent storms have paralyzed the telegraph lines along the Great Northern. e AP g Chinese on the Colville Reserve. SPOKANE, Wasu., Dec. 28.—The ques- tion of the rights of Chinese to locate mineral claims on the Colville Indian reservation was heard before Judge Han- ford of the United States court to-day. He will give a decision in a few days. The issue is of vast importance, as it involves hundreds of valuable claims located in the last two months. g Fire Near The Palms. SANTA MONICA, CAL., Dec. 28.—Mrs. A. F. Elliott’s twenty-acre eucalyptus grove, near The Palms, five miles from here, was destroyed by fire this evening. The disaster was caused by burning the refuse grass on neighboring pasturage and not looking after the fire after it was started. o S R Raiding Gilroy Lottery Games. GILROY, Carn, Dec. 28 —Charley Chung, a Chinaman, was arrested to-day by Constable Rives for selling Chinese lot- tery tickets. Wong Chin, arrested for the same offense, pleaded guilty and was fined $25 by Judge Willey. The oflicers are en- deayoring 10 break up the lottery games in Chinatown. R L Murder at Seattle. SEATTLE, Wasm., Dec. 28.—William Carey, a fisherman 28 years old, was ar- rested to-day for the murder on Christmas day of his wife, an Indian woman. The murderer, after committing the crime, tied a rock to the body and threw it into the bay. The body was found to-day. Carey's former wife died two years age under sus- picious circumstances. P b To Die for @ Seattle Crime. SEATTLE, Wasn., Dec. 28.—John and James McCann, brothers, were sentenced to be hanged for the murder last summer of Joseph Cicero. The date of execution has not been fixed. r MINING 1N AMADOR. Activity in the Claims on the Great Mother Lode. MILLIONS ARE IN SIGHT. Development Work Will Not Be Delayed During the Coming ; Year. RECORD - BREAKING YIELDS. Prolific Properties Which Have Re. turned Vast Fortunes to Their Owners. JACKSON, Car., Dec 26.—Nowhere in California is there more activity in mining or is prospecting cariied on in a more thorough manner than 1 old Amador. On its twelve miles of mother lode, such mines as Hayward’s Eureka, with a record of $20,000,000; the Plymouth Consolidated, $10,000,000; the Keystone, $10,000,000; the South Spring Hill, $2,000,000; Wildman and Mahoney, $2,000,000; Zeilz, $3,000,000; Oneida, $2,000,000; Bunker Hili, $1,000,000; Gopher, $1,000,000 and the Kennedy, $5,000,000, shine as beacon lights to the other undeveloped mines on the great lode and it is safe to predict that within the next twelve months, in and around Jack- son alone, 120 or more stamps will add over $100,000 & month to the gold output of the State. The principal mines now being opened up in and around Jackson are the Argo- naut, Alma, Anita and Jackson Gate. Between Jackson and Sutter Creek the South Eureka has just completed its twenty-stamp mill, and ar the Central Eureka the work of sinking has com- menced. At the old Oneida mine work is to be commenced after New Year's. The Bellwether, adjoining the Jackson Garte, is to be opened up as soon as material for | sinking can be procured. The Argonaut adjoins the Kennedy on the south, and the shaft is now down 1060 feet. All work on this mine has been done in a thorough and systematic manner, and there is not a finer equipped mine in the State. Forty stamps will be running there on good roék before the year 1896 comes to a close. One claim intervenes between the Argonaut and the Alma. The Alma is in the town cf Jackson, and all the work done there has been of a permanent char- acter. The shaft is now down 450 feet, and, after crosscutting at the 400-foot level, where a fine ore body was encountered, the owners decided to sink to 1000 feet, and sinking is now in progress. It is safe to predict that a 40-stamp mill will be crushing similar rock to that in the Argo- naut within a year. South of the Alma is the Anita, which is being superintended by Pecter Reickling, an old pioneer of Amador County. The shaft there has reached a depth of 250 feet, and the ledge encountered shows very flattering results. The Jackson Gate is on the same belt in which the Zeila, the old stand-by of Jack- son, is situated. The Zeila has worn out its forty stamps after a continuous run of sixteen yvears, and a nearly new forty- stamp mill was erected this year. There is hardly any doubt that as soon as a new shaft is sunk on this property eighty more stamps will not exhaust the pay rock of the mine within the next twenty years. Great things are predicted for the Jack- son Gate, which is controlled by F. C. Siebe of Siebe Bros. & Plagemann of San Francisco. The shait there is now down 200 feet in solid quartz, which prospects well enough to warrant the erection of a large mill within the coming year. The croppings upon this property are the largest on this lode. South of the Jackson Gate is the Bellweather, which bas been lately sold to Eastern parties. The Clintdn mine, eight miles southeast from Jackson, is now being operated by the Union Consolidated Mining Company. This mine is splendidly equipped with a thirty-stamp mill, hoisting works, chlori- nation works, comvresser plant and ail modern appliances, and has produced more gold from the surface down to the tunnel level than any mine in the county. There are immense ledges of low-grade ore on this property. The new company is now getting ready to sink the shaft 300 feet below the tunnel level, and has mate- rial enough on hand to carry it through the winter. It isestimated that the mine will be free of water and the thirty-stamp mill started on a large body of ore within two months. During the coming year vast improvements are to be carried on at this mine, giving employmeat to many men and adding to the goid output of Amador County. The Union Company has gone about its work quietly and sys- tematically, and is greatly pleased with the outlool ND PROSPET OF AN ALLIKCE [Continued from First Page.] we will arbitrate it ourselves, and practi cally intimates that we will then see to it that our decision isobeyed. Thatis a toler- ably hard pill for any self-respecting na~ tion to swallow. Still, we have always to remember that in matters of foreign policy there ought not to be divided ranks behind our constitutional leader.” “Does Lord Salisbury’s latest letter shake your belief in the justice of the Ven- ezeula claim as to the boundary ?” “No, not seriously; it is again a question of facts. Where the statements conflict nobody can determine without finding out which statement is accurate. I caa only say that General Guzman Blanco's pre- sentation of the case seemed to me to be very much the same with that which I now read more fully, and perhaps even more ably set forth in Secretary Olney’s letter. Part of Lord Salisbury’s reply is special pleading. Still there are some statements of fact which certainly need to be met. “‘But after all there is in the very nature of the case the greatest uncertainty about these old Spanish boundaries. Why, it was only ten years %&flier than the begin- ning of the present Venezuela guestion that we ourselves were in a most ludicrous bewilderment as to the old Spanish lines which must fix our own boundaries here in the Southwest. Mr. Jefferson himself didn’t know that he had bought Texas along with Louisiana, though he bad; and he was sure he had bought West Florida with it, though he badn’t. Mr. Monroe bh'nsglf. twenty years before be was proclaiming the Monroe doctrine, was engaged in Paris trymng to convince Talleyrana and Napo- leon that the Louisiana purchase of the year before, instead of being limited by the Iberville River, actually includefl Mobile and stretched to the Appalachi- cola. His associate, Livingston, asked | Talleyrand what were the eastern boun- daries of Louisiana, and Talleyrand with a good-natured sneer replied: ‘I do not| know. You must take it as we did.” ‘But what did you mean to take? demandfed Livingston, and Talleyrand replied again, ‘I do not know.” Thereupon, a lit.tle lnbpr, Livingston was found co-operating W{th Monroe in urging that we should claim that Louisiana extended to the Appalachi- cola, and with ‘a little display of for‘te,' especially if Spain should be engaged ina European war, we should get it. “All this uncertainty was about the Spanish boundaries in our own country. France and Spain were treated to the spec- tacle of the United States, through its Ministers, Monroe and Livingston, and through its Secretary of State, Madi- son, solemnly insisting that Napoleon had sold us West Florida, when he hadn’teven claimed it and when we had no more right to it than we had to Patagonia or Madagascar. “Yet this wasin our own country, and in a long-settled region. How much greater would be the natural uncertainty about ths same time, as to Spanish boundaries, on the southern continent in unsettled and largely unexplored regions covered with dense forests? “The government of Thomas Jefferson expected to get West Florida ‘by a little display of force,” especially if Spain should happen at that time to be engaged in a European war. Human nature is very much the same ia both the great Anglo- Saxon nations. Great Britain may have been trying to stretch her boundaries in the same way, and agreeing with Living- ston, Monroe and Madison in the notion that ‘a little display of force’ would be judicious—especially since the gold dis- coveries. The trouble for poor littie Vene- zuela is that the vague definition of these old Spanish boundaries gives a good chance for that sort of work and may make it difficult for anybody to furnish absolute proof that it is wrong.”” ‘ WASHINGTON'S BIG FIRE. Flames Sweep Through a Row of Wooden Business | Houses. Over a Block of Buildings Destroyed Before the Conflagration Is Checked. | SACRAMENTO, Car.,, Dec. 28.—Fire started early this morning in Grant Free- man’s grocery-store, in Washington, op- posite Sacramento, and in a brief period | over a block of buildings were in ashes and | a large portion of the west end of the old | railroad bridge across the river consumed. | As soon as possible the alarm was turned in the railroad company’s fire crew went to the scene, and after a hard struggle pre- vented the destruction of the entire town, which at one time was threatened. | A large number of Sacramento firemen, | headed by Chief Guthrie, also rendered | eficient aid, but as a high wind prevailed and as it was impossible to obtain any water supply other than from the river no apparatus from this city crossed the briage. This produced considerable unfa- vorable comment. The entire loss was about $15,000, much of which was, covered by insurance. The stores of B. Dolan and Mrs. Harnes, the saloon of Duffy Bros. and Al Moffit and the hotel belouging to Mrs. Kelsey were totally destroyed. Contradictory stories are told as to the origin of the fire. It is claimed by several property-owners that the fire broke out in a room above the store of B. Dolan, but others say that the fire was first discovered behind the counter of the store. Wien water was thrown on the fire it scattered in every direction, like burning kerosene or gasoline. When the old bridge across the river was in use the burned buildings were in the best business part of town, but when the new bridge was built the business center moved lower down. The buildings, which were all old and dilapidated, burned like tinder. i During the progress of the fire, J. M. | Kelsey, a well-known resident, went upon the roof of his dwelling to extinguish flames which had startea from sparks, His foot ulipred and he fell to the ground, a distance of over thirty feet. He was unconscious when picked up and it is fearcd that he sustained internal injuries NEW TO-DAY. EEMS sometimes ag if the world were all wrong. Seems as if all the things we like disagree with us, and all the things weu:ion't like, agree with us. Dyspepsia lurks in most of p:he tion of appetite. Of course, it isn't Na- ture’s fault. Nature does the best she can, and if a man will only help her a little bit at the right time, he may eat what he likes and as much as he likes. Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets are for mple who are troubled with indigestion. icularly for those in whom it manifests itself in the form of constipation. The “‘Pellets” are quick and easy in their action. They are in perfect harmony with Nature, They effect a permanent cure. You need take them regularly onl{ a little while. After that, use them occasionally when you need them—when you have eaten some- thing that disagreeswith you. 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