The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 5, 1896, Page 9

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JANUARY 5, 1896. n Co-operative t she_appeared to fected by the lec- con woman | BROWN’S RESIGNATION. The Pastor Will Occupy the First Congregational Pulpit To-Day. ame did not appear on the d in front of the h yesterday. v discourse, how- Lk ct that the been moved was tion of the rumor luring the day that ed his cLarge, to aflirm or deny the BURIED IN- OLD CANS, The Unique Disposition of the Wealth of Leesburg by Miners. ONE LOST A RICH CACHE. The $150,000 Fortunes of Andrew Harra and Mark Guannon—A. J. Bowie’s Properties. W. W. B } bears*evidence of being on the eve of a mining revival something like Cripple Creek. Taere is an abundance OF ‘wild game there. One can get mountain sheep, elk, bear and deer, besides smaller game and fowls. The mountain sheep are exceedingly hard to kill, because of their flectness and penchant for | staying on the highest and ruggedest crags, | but there are plenty of them. The wild white goats which inhabit parts of the Caseade Mountains may also be seen in abundance there. The Idsho Legislature has passed a law against killing the elk, but it doesn’t seem 10 be respected much. The hunt- ers go right on killing them just the same. I had & number of experiences in going after wild game there. 1t was very exhilarating sport, and I escaped without accident. As for the properties which Mr. Bowie is managing, and in which & number of San | Francisco people are interested, they are de- veloping handsomely. Mr. Brizgs will probably not return to Idaho. He is a brother of Kimball Briggs, the artist. | { | | To Drop From the Clouds. This sfternoon at 4 o'clock, at the “Shooting | the Chute” grounds on Haight street, Miss Essie Viola,a young and pretty Australian | aeronaut, will make her first appearance in America. She and her sister Millie arrived re- cently on the steamer Alameda from the colo- 1 hi i the electrical engineer, severed connecf i z : 3 Sol- v Tt is pretty generally who for two past has been in the Sol. ers owever, that he will ulti- ¢ h will take no tion of Dr. | I ial of | in the S0 lar as the ch is concerned, in Dr. 1d, it would be et another church. . | element in the church been opposed to Dr. late scandals have only fiames of their opposition, and s called the | s never been Brown will g of that | him that ired, and . Brown since church be i said he ation. When told of band he said | clieve there was any truth board of the Church was held at | Wednesday night. | ly secret in its S 1e board are what took place. , that the scandal involved was dis- t no formal action was e official board of any Congregational | irch is composed of the deacons of the authority in n as distin- present inst Messrs. Barnard fatch, i and of these at the Morse, Benchly and . Lloyd of the P: will occupy the pulpit o gational Church to-day. Sy A LETTER FROM BOSTON.| Mrs. Davidson Did Not Stand Well With the Congre- gation. aues to deny him- | s, particularly members | 1ewspaper craft. t a CaLy reporter visited his v street, and was met at he minister’s wife. not see any one," she | 15 attorney However, here is something | " handing the reporter the | *. 0. Brown conti HURCH. Room 43., i R AND | er is re- " Winn this church if of which NSACTIONS. Alexander, 6 I of Polk, Francisco to A wenty-fourth stre ssociation 10 James West $1400. The mines are so rich thereabout that the 3 Inprovemen: Com- | 914 miners who yet linger there are nearly all any to Mapgaret Somers, lot 48, block 2, Lake- | N €0od circumstances, with a few that are Tich | ow; B9, in ularge sense. The miners are mainly old Cunieo & Costa Compal < line of Costa 8 570, 1ot 17. gi to Alfred Anderson, lot E 25 by £ of Brewster, J. H. Troy (administrator estate of Michael Mc- W. F. G ot 21, block 3, Oak- Landing Tract 406, lie Fahey to A. D. Courtney, 3 cet and Claremont 3 , block H, V. 1, subject 10_a mortgage 1 Township; $10. te Muenzenmaver to Cath- either, ot 7, block A, subdivision of on of Harmon Tract, Berki # o same, lot .13, block' H, Paradise Township: ion Trac 0. Park, same, lot 1, block H, same, Osakland 81000, ¢ 10 suine, ot on S line of Alcatraz avenue, f Occidental street, W 66, S 127.85, E 50, 7 ‘o veginning. biock A, Paradise Park, 10. sey t0 ‘Theresa Suriner, lot on S line 120 E of Flymouth street, E , block 1, amended map of 0 a mortgage 10 the San Fren- akland Loan Association, Brooklyn $2500. and M. V. Macnado to Elizabeth Beebe, Union City, Wasbin W corner of V and Eigh- E to SW corner of schoolbouse iot, thereof, thence W 1o » point opposite it of begluning and at right ancles (0 V thence S to ning, being in town of . Washington 1 ownship: $10. L. Grifh i, J. Minturn, re-record of deed 458, lots 1 and 2, block K, Uak!and View Jiomestead Association, Oskland: lots 5, 6,17, 1§, vlock 18, lands adjacent to Encinal, Alameda; also property in San Francisco; $5000. hi Antonio lots 6, 7 and 8, block he poin s have advised | 7 | the on ANDREW AND WHO USE HARRA, WAH SING OF LEESBURG, [From a recent photorap MARK G ANNON, WEALTHY CANS FOR BANKS. CITIZENS TOMATO omon Valley, Idaho, with the Lemhi Placer Mining Company and the Leesburg Gold Mining and Milling Company, of which A. J. Bowie of this City is manager and consulting engineer, has returned to this City. Mr. B was for much of the time over 100 miles from any railroad and 30 miles from the old town of Solomon C The only means of transporting supp! was by pack animals over the narrow trails into the mountains. The mines of the companies are in a spur of the Bitter Roots. The region is rich, and the indications are there will be big camps there at some time in the future. There is no wilder region in the West than this partof Idaho. The mountains are exceedingly rugged and filled with all kinds of game. Much of the game 13 big and calculated to entrance the sportsmar The country is cut up by fearful gorges, so that it is no easy matter to get about, es- pecially at this season of the year, when the snow lies deep, and when it is continu- ingz to come down. Leesburg, the old camp where one of the properties 1s sitnated, is a dead place, but Mr. Briggs has a remarkably interesting story to tell of it. Said h 1t once had 8000 people. This was when the Solomon Valley excitement was at its height. Now it has ten or fifteen white men and about . W. Briggs. [From a recent photograph.] enty Chinamen, Wah Sing, a noted China- that part of Idaho, because of his and wealth, runs the only store in amous place an i 1aTtne: ors, who ceme out from the States from to forty vears ago, have been there ever fince, and no longer have any wish 10 go back. A number of these, being far from any bank, have Lid their gold and dust in old tomato cans, and buried it in various places. In this way large sums have been secreted. The woods may be called full of the caus holding gold in t , which have been hidden at the roots n_the dirt floors of cab- ing, and other supposedly safe places. Among these old miners are Andrew Harra and Mark Guannon, who are stated on good Jocal authority to have about $150,000 each stored away In eans. I know them very well. They both have good placer properties and they get out more money when they work their claims than they know what to do with, so they just hide it away. thing occurred while I was there He bad a man for several nights sleeping in his cabin,on s bunk near him. Harra hiad a can full of gold secreted under his bed, and every night when he came in and got into bed he would reach down quietly and heit the can, to see that the gold was all right. He ¢id this right along for several nights and after the man went away. Finally one day Harra desired to buy something, snd fished down again for his ¢an. When he got it out he was astonished to find only rocks and other heavy stuff in it. The yisitor had got on to the combination, extracted thegold and put pieces of stone and jron in its place and went his way. Nobody saw him afterward and he made & rich haul. . Leesburg was so rich in the old days that out of one hole which I saw near the first cabin built there was taken out $38,000. The region ns and parachute drops. has preceded ape that Miss Es- sie 1 sland, last April, when her bal reat ahighaltitude, was chronicled all over the world. She expects 1o reach a great height thisafternoon, then cut | loose and effect a safe ianding. The sides of | the chute and the edge of the lake will be illu- minated by hundereds of incandescent lights this evening. MINERS T0 RECOASIDER, Compromise Bill May Be Dropped by the Executive Com- mittee. | Ll i, { Chairman Merrill of the Montana State Commission Is Here and | Is to Be Heard. in Gympie, Quee | of the members of the executive com- | mittee of ihe State Miners’ Association to | bave reconsidered its action by which the | Ford-Ralston-Singer substitute bill was agreed to at the December meeting. ‘ There have been three bills before the | Miners’ Association for introduction to Congress on the mineral land question, since the efforts began to bring about some sort of an agreement between itand the Central Paci As W. H. Mills and the miners failed to reach a common ground of understanding, the decision was reached by the latter of | appealing to Congressional action for re- lief, and the first bill proposed was the Idaho-Montana act as made applicable to this State. Then Attorney William H. Singer of the Southern Pacific drafted a bill, and it was presented by the miners for consideration. Finally a compromise bill—the com- bined product of Mr. Singer, Chairman W. C. Ralston of the Mineral Lands Commit- tee and Chairman Tirey L. Ford of the Commitiee on Legislation—was adopted as a substitute for the other two. John M. Wright, A. H. Ricketts and Charles G. Yale of the old Mineral Land Commiitee have never taken kindly to the substitute bill and their hostility has been all the more intensified by the visit to this City of Chairman Thomas A. Merrill of | the Montana State Mineral Land Commis- | sion. Mr. Merrill drew up the first draft of the | bill which ultimately developed into the | Montana and Idaho act, and it is this par- | ticular statute for which Messrs, Ricketts, | Wright and Yale have all along been con- | tending. Mr. Merrill was a member of the Miners’ Convention here in 1894, and also | a delegate to the Trans-Mississippi Con- gress of that year. ¥is home is at Helena and he has extensive mining interests, Speaking of the operation of the Montana and Ldaho act be observed yesterday : Both our miners and the Northern Pacifio Railroad Company in our State are pleased with the law'soperation. The Northern Pacific has between 17,000,000 and 18,000,000 acres | of 1and in Montana, which is about nine-tenths of its grant in the two States. Since May the commissions in the the three | districts constituiing our State have examined and classified 1,100,000; in fact, they did this in five months, and at an expense of a fraction | less than 2 cents per acre. Our appropriation | was only $20,000. There have been no protests from the miners at all, and all that the railroad company hes protested has been less than 2000 acres. The railroad people like the law so well | that they assist the Commissioners with sur- veyors in the field. | Thelawsimply amounts to this: The Goy- ernment says, We have granted so many acre of land to the railroad company, reserving th | mineral lands; now we propose’ to go and as- certain by means of & commission, quasi-ju- dicial fn its character, Just what lands we have granted and what lands we have not. After the commission has determined their charac- ter, the right of protest by any one to the Land Office is leit. But the substitute bill of the California Miners’ executive committee is exactly the op- posite. Its assumption at the very out. | set is that all the lands in_the Central Pacific grant are non-mineral, and the burden of proving any of them to be mineral in character is leit on the miner, which is all very well for the railroad com- | pany, but a great hardship for the prospector and miner. Besides, under your bill, the de- termination of the commission in its classifi- cation of lands could be made only upon the | application of some one, and even then it would have only the weight of mere evidence in the Land Office, and would be subject to the rule of preponderance of testimony. Mr. Merril will pay a brief visit to Los Anvgeles, and upon his return a meeting of the executive committee is to be called to bear his views formally expressed. | Already a movement is on foot by.some | THOSE LOST ~ SYRIANS, Canon Good, the Famous Mis- sionary, Tells How He Dis- covered Them, SURPRISED AND DELIGHTED. The Details of the Whence and Where of the Indian Tribes of the Far West. Canon Good, the missionary who claims that northwestern Indians are of Asiatic origin, gives the following interesting let- ter, stating his views in detail on the sub- ject: I have been asked by THE CaLw to add something more to what it has already reported in anrouncing my arrival in this City as to the foundation of my convic- tions and conclusions that the Indian race, for whose salvation and general improve- ment I have given the best years of my ministerial life, as a representative of the Bociety for the Propagation of the Gospel, are of Asiatic or more definitely of Taura- nian or Tartaree origin. I approach the subject with considerable diffidence in my ability to do full justice to so difficult an inquiry. Far away from books, literary society and centers of civilization, and dependent entirely upon his own peculiar modes of investigation, one is apt to grow self- opinionated and puffed up with his own supposed findings and knowledge, forget- ting it is but as a drop in the bucket as we draw water out of the great well of truth, which, as we all know, lies proverbially low down, and I trust therefore the numerous readers of THE CaLy will give me credit for only wishing to contribute something, however little, to already acquired facts, and that what I have to say must be taken for what it is worth. Certainly our very learned literati in Europe—the giants in comparative phil- ology and anthropology—generalized too rapidly on these questions, because they had not obtained a sufficient amount of data reaching from the east to the ex- treme west to come to safe conclusions upon such confessedly obscure questions. Already they have corrected their rapid assumptions, and if my own researches while hidden from the world have in an; way contributed to so desirable a result{ am amply repaid for all the toil and brain sweat the reduction of one oral tongue of | the natives of this great continent has cost me. In respect to the original inhabitants of this continent from the Arctic Circle to the Terra del Fuego of South America and the subsequent colonization by suc- cessive waves of migration sweeping over | it from the east, I do most strongly affirm | that abundant evidence exists of the oc- cupation of this continent by countless aboriginal races, whose origin js shrouded in the darkness of primeval ages, and that just as BEurope received wave after wave of migratory and predatory bodies of conquering people, which flowed on ever continuously from east to west, s0 we | here on this side of the world have had a | repetition of the same overflowing,of race afier race. BSome years after I had become immersed, I may say, in the meshes of the Thompson tongue, I had grown deeply impressed with the multiplicity of faces | that bespoke a foreign origin. I'bethought me that T would open again the tenth and eleventh chapters of Genesis, which con- tain all the reliable account we possess concerning the great dispersion of races, and read it as though I had never seen it before. The first point of importance that struck me was that we are told that the defeated builders of Babel Tower were mysteriously if not to say miraculously moved to disperse themselves in divers directions. They were then scattered over the face of the earth, according to their nations and tongues and families, and of these were the nations divided after the flood. These were the representatives of the historical nations recorded in Holy Writ— the superior races who were to overcome not only the earth but the inferior, unhis- torical and indigenous people of a former creation or origin. KEach division that thus went forth would contain the more highly civilized and polished, the true noma%ics, and the outer fringe of those who were al- most become as savage as those whom | they were to conquer. They would carry | with them iheir language, customs and traditions, and at that time they may have had means of locomotion and trans- portation that were subsequently lost to view. In this way wa should expect to find on this continent whither a certain percent- age of the original hosts who spoke at first but one language before the flood came and settled down—representatives of all these grades and classes—and so we do find the highly civilized Aztecs, so like the Egyptians, therefore nomadics and those of a decidedly inferior grade. Our people were of a nomadic_character, and when I inquired further they had a hame for their nation. They were the Ne-Kla- Kap-a-Muk nation, and they were divided up into families or' sects. They spoke the Ne-Kia-Kap-a-Muk Cheen language, cog- nate with tbe languages of two contiguous tribes—the Towappa Muk and the Sla-Hea Muk people. This seemed to throw a ray of light certainly upon their origin, and the next thing was to establish all the connectin; links of the chain which should bin§ them in this far-off land to their as- sumed original home in the center of Asia. The points are numerous and deeply in- teresting, which, with your permission, I will preserve fox a second paper. Caxox Goop. 0UR UACHRISTENED OWL A New Well-Known Bird of the Night That Has Horns, but No Name. Some Pacific Bird Stories That Pro- fessor Loomis Has Told to Ig- norant Ornithologists. The important discovery has been made in Washington that the horned owl of California has no name. This may be largely due to the retiring nature of this meditative songster of . the moonlight, which has kept it from intrud- ing itself into the business of ornitholo- gists with double-barreled shotguns, but the fact remains tbat the well-known horned ow! of the Sierra forests has just been discovered. In fact, there is no horned ow! west of the Missouri River that has a name—that is, a real name besides the nicknames which vulgar speech has bestowed. . Ornithologists have always supposed that California has put up with the same kind of an ordinary horned owl that has been given to the rest of America and they have carelessly called our fine bird with the peaked tufts behind its ears the Bubo virginianus subarcticus. But now Califor- nia may boasta horned owl of its own. More than that, it has been discoverea that there is no such a thing as a Bubo virginianus subarcticus at all. This is but another of the mass of things which | the Canadian border, and that south of it, | Birds that fly high fly farther from shore. | |MERRY HANDBALL MEN. | ample justice to President Condon deliv- constantly show how ignorant ornitholo- gists are when it comes to birds. It has been known for a long time that a white horned owl by the name of Bubo virginianus arcticus Hourishes north of west of the Missouri, other horned owls live and toot from the plains to the Pacific Ocean. Years ago a big bird man named Hoy shot a horned owl out West, supposed it to be the regular horned owl of the West, called it virginianus subarcticus, and ever since then the specimen, nicely putaway in arsenic in the Smithsonian Institution, has been the type of authority on Western horned owls. It was Ornithologist Leverett M. Loomis of the Academy of Sciences who discovered this owlish scientific blunder, while on the Eastern visit from which he has just re- turned. He had taken two owl skins along with a lot of other specimens in- tended for comparison and study in the great Eastern zoological museums, and on investigation concerning owls he found that the Hoy type was a stray Canadian from the North™ for onme thing and for another thing that the California horned owl has white feet, reddisn dress and other differences that make it a distinct type. As itis a discoverer's sole province to bestow names, he will call the horned owl of the Rockies and the plains the Bubo virginianus hoyi, after the man who made the mistake, but he is still thinking about what he will call the new owl that he has given to California. Of course California is rich in other owls that the ornithologists have managed to name correctly. There is the charming saw-whet, so called because its song sug- getss saw-sharpening in a sawmill; the California screech, which belies the rumor that California birds have no song; the burrowing owl of the Pacific Coast that lives with the gophers and chipmunks, and <o on. Mr. Loomis has also named a new species of shearwater, an ocean bird, that he discovered during his months of daily boating ten miles off Monterey, and it will gointo the books as the “puflinus Gil- berti,” after Dr. Gilbert of Stanford Um- versity. The particular occasion of Mr. Loomis’ trip East was the thirteenth annual con- ress of the American Ornithological nion at Washington, at which he read - paper quite paralyzing to the bird sciena tists there. Loomis has for a great many vears been a special authority on bird mi- gration, and it was the discoveries concern- ing the pelagic birds of the Pacific, made during his relentless boating trips far off the shore at Monterey, that he gave to the science of ornith- ology. The ocean birds of the Pacific are but very little known, and irom three | to ten miles off the Pacific shore any where are millions of ocean birds never seen on shore. Loomis got out among them daily for months, gathered many specimens never reported before in this part of the world, found species never described any- where and made a special study of migra- tions. He discovered and demonstrated the fact, new to science, that ocean birds, in their long migrations between the Arc- tic and the southern regions, are not guided by instinct, but always keep the shore line in view, and are guided by it. | All swing in to follow the bend in the coast line, and during fogs they fly close to the surf to be guided by the sound. During the eighteen months that Pro- fessor Loomis has been here he has in- creased the ornithological collection of the Academy of Sciences from 2100 to 9000 specimens, and is in a hurry to make it 20,000, though this would be small com- pared with the three or four great collec- tions of the East. The Academy of Sci- ences is doing notable work in the aimost unworked field of the birds of the Pacific. First Annual Banquet of the Occidental Club in the Court Was a | Success. The Occidental handball court, on Grove street, presented a charming appearance last night. The walls and fronts of the galleries were draped with bunting and the stars and stripes. Two tables extended the length of thealley, and another table was placed at the top. The occasion was the first annual banquet of the club, and it 'was a success in every respect. Elaborate preparations had been made by President D. E. Condon and the other officers of the club, and nothing was want- ing for the enjoyment and comfort of the guests, who numbered over 100. The menu was all that could be desired, and after the good thingsjjhed been done ered an address of welcome in which he took occasion to refer to the progress of the club since its inception overtwo years ago. b:l. C. Nealon, the popular and veteran player, one of the coast championship team, after replying to the toast of the team in bis usual happy style, performed the duty of toastmaster. The other toasts were: “‘Gaelic Games,” responded to by Richard C.O’Connor, a well-known enthusiast who literally brought down the house by his peroration when he declared, ‘“wherever you find a first-class athlete you will find an lrish- man”; “OIFmpic Club,” Dr. E. N. Short; *‘Occidental Ball Court,” Judge M. Cooney, and “The Ladies,” Frank T. Shea. The toasts were interspersed with & vocal solo by Fred Myrtle; barytone solo by ‘W. T. O’Brien; recitation by T, F. Bonnet; vocal solo by Auditor Broderick; violin solo, “Irish Melodies,” by J. E. O'Meara; vocal solos, Clarence Howland and George Broderick. Vita’s orchestra played appro- priate airs during the evening. The officers of the club, to whom the success of the banquet was due, are: President, D. B. Condon; vice-president, Ed Maloney; secretary, C. J, McGlynn; directors—T. F. Bonnet, Dr. Ed E. Hill, C. A. Sullivan, James J. O'Brien and Al Collins. 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Cut to & Cents a Yard. 500 pieces NICE GRADE STANDARD DARK- CALICOES, reduced from 8!4e. t to B82.85 a Pair. Ccu | 200 pairs FINE QUALITY BLANKETS, in gray or white, reduced from $4. Cut to $3.75 a Pair. 4 cases 11-4 FINE WHITE CALIFORNIA WOOL BLANKETS, elegantly finished, reduced from $5. Cut to 25 Cents a Yard. 4 cases TABLE DAMASK, full width, well made, in bleached, turkey red or un- bleached, reduced from 40c and 45c. to 50 Cents Each. TH BLEACHED SHEETS, well made, 81 inches wide, reduced from 65c. Cut to $1.25 Each. 15 bales BED COMFORTERS, nice colorings, filled with clean white batting, reduced from $1 7. Cut to 8% Cents a Yard. PURE IRISH LINEN CRASH, 17 inches wide, fast edges, close weave, bleached, re- duced from 10c. Cut to 60 Cemnts a Pair. 200 pairs NOTTINGHAM CURTAINS, white or ecru, nice goods, 3 yards long, reduced from 902. Reduced to 75 Cents Each. 20 dozen 8-4 TURKEY RED TABLE COVERS, well made and good colors, reduced from $1. Reduced to $1.15 a Dom=en. 250 dozen 3-4 TRISH LINEN NAPKINS, 20 inches square, edges woven fast, reduced from $1 50. LADIES’ UNDERWEAR AND WAISTS. At B35 Cents. ¢ . 50 dozen LADIES’ CHEMISES, made of heavy muslin, neck finished with cording, regalar price 60¢, will be closed out at 35¢ each. At 4O Cents. 40 dozen LADIES’ GOWNS, made of heavy muslin, lineda back, tucked yoke, all seams finished, regular price 65¢, will be closed out at 40c each. At 85 Cents. 2 30 dozen LADIES’ GOWNS, made of Wamsutta muslin, lined yoke, front of gown trimmed with embroidery, regunlar price 85¢, will be closed oul at 65¢ each. At 75 Cents. 5 25 dozen LADIES’ DRESSING SACQUES, made of fancy striped and figured flannel- ette, regular price $1 25, will be closed out at 75c each. LADIES’ WAISTS, made of fancy striped silk, full sleeves, made in the latest style, regular price $6 50, will be closed out at $4 50 each. CHILDREN’S COATS. At $3.50. CHILDREN'S EIDERDOWN COATS, lined throughout, full sleeves, deep sailor col- lar, regular price $5, will be closed out at $3 50 each. FRAMES, BOOKS, ETC. At 10 Cents. PLUSH AND IMITATION LEATHER, WOOD AND CELLULOID FRAMES, sold during the Holidays for 20c, will be closed out at 10c each. At 20 Cents. 7x5 GILT FRAMES, with handsome Chromos, sold during the Holidays for 35¢, will be closed out at 20c each. At 25 Cents. HAND-PAINTED FRAMES, ribbon trimmed, in all new colors, sold during the Hol- idays for 50c, will be closed out at 25¢ each. At 20 Cents. PHOTOGRAPH BOOKS, with silk Dresden covers, value during the Holidays 35c, will be closed out at 20c each. At 5 Cents. CHILDREN’S PICTURE BOOKS, in five different series, for 10c, will be closed out at 5¢ each. AT EEALF PRICH. ALL FANCY GOODS, includine Games, Books and Fincy Novelties, on our center tables and closed out at one-half price. sold during the Holidays will be placed & See Chronicle and Examiner for Additional Bargains, MURPHY BUILDING, Markel Sireel, coruer of Jongs, SAN FRANCISCO.