The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 11, 1896, Page 4

4 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALfi, MONDAY, MAY 11, 1896. PROSPERITY OF PORT TOWNSEND Flags of All Nations Float| Over Byildings and Shipping. [ SMALL BUT BUSY TOWN. Without Railroads or Land Tl yhala, thecar fisst lasds she eys, . e, e firs us| ‘om ind t! Boomers Its Thrift Is lifting curtain of night, bursts upon your R kabl startled vision a wide uafolding horizon, emarkable. broken, jagged, lacerated by the sharp, penetrating peaks of the Cascade Range of OPPORTUNITIES FOR CAPITAL, Splendid Openings for Enterprising Men and Good Homes for In- dustrious Settlers. PORT TOWNSEND, W asn., May 10.— Up on Puget Sound, in the State of Wash- ington, is located what is probably the most cosmopolitan town of its size in the world. Its population is- less than 5000, and yet any day upon its streets you may pass the subjects of a score of nations, wit- ness the banners of twice five countries floating from the housetops, or in passing doff your hat as many times as there are | signsin the zodiac if you are inclined to be reverential to regimentals. But high above all other ensigns and high over the town, from the top of a bluff and from the top of a high stone tower on the top of that, waves the stars and stripes. From that high command the flag of all flags floats to the breeze unceasingly. Bound for Puget Sound your vessel en- what by this time you have learned for ourself, that no matter what wind may glow Port Townsend Bay is a sure haven— the peerless harbor of the Pacific Coast, well meriting the high rating given it in United States official charts and in the marine charts of the world. But if last night when the storm was raging you felt the comforting sense of security in this sure haven what must be your emotions this morning when coming ur on déck to stretch your limbs? A scene of matchless beauty and loveliness greets you under the clear sky of a peaceful, perfect day. Never in orange blossoms and bridal- gown bedecked was lovely bride more lovely than the vision that now spreads round ]Iou on_every hand. Much-traveled Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher, on a_recent visit to Port Townsend, pronounced with- out qualification this scene to be the raresg for beauty in all the wide and beautiful world upon which her eyes had ever rested. Standing upon the deck of your vessel on this beautiful morning, whence, waked by the sound of Aurora’s advancing cha- mountains, mantled in everiasting snows and now backed by a burning sea of fire and gold. - 5 Bending the eve northward along the line of this mountain range the visicn is suddenly transfixed and the imagination led captive by the grand spectacle of Mount Baker, towering and mighty, sub- lime and poetical in all else save name. There she stands, as much in the heavens as upon earth, snow-clad from summit to base; fitting monument of the loveliness, purity and power of woman; a bride in flowing veil and white garments trailing far upon thefironnd. and through an aiste of lilies marching to the grand harmonies of pature up to the hymeneal altar; womanhood coming in her power an bearing in her hand a scepter plucked ;rom nature’s trophies of homage at her eet. Bear a lily In thy hand, | Gates of brass canuot withstand One touch of that magic wand. | But now turn your eyes from this pic- ture to the west, and 10! in what varied form beholden is beauty unto nature, within human ken from this lovely har- | bor, this choice spot of earth, Great | mountains, huge, massive, mighty, roll up before you, Ingh and higher still, like huge battlements of God's eternal hosts. The advancing sun has now touched them | with the painter’s brush and laid in colors | divine a scene of matchless beauty—mar- velous, speaking, sublime. Velvet fir-clad in eternal green are her foothills and her ———————eee | PORT TOWNSEND HIGH SCHOOL BUILDING. T ters from the Pacific the Straits of Juande | Fuca. After a run of nearly ninety miles on a straight course southeast Port Wilson light is reached. Here your ocean- tossed vessel turns her prow sou’-son’west and you behold the broad and beautiful waters of an ever peaceful harbor stretch before you. From this closer view you are now able to discern that beneath the high | flag and beneath the tall stone tower that supports it there rests on the brow of the bluff a magnificent stone vile, hewn, archi- tectural and ornate. This building is the main United States Custom-house for the entire Paggt Sound customs district, and the town at whose front door you have dropped your anchor, with fourteen fath- oms3 of chain, in a peerless harbor is cos- mopolitan Port Townsend. You have no more than let go your an- chor than two little launches, each flying the American flag, come pushing off shore toyou. If youdon’t happen to be enter- tainjing smallpox, yellow fever or cholera aboard the uniformed quarantine officer of the first launch will smilingly give youa clean bill of health. This, you will find later, is as valuable to you as a certificate of character, for having once been permit- ted to enter the town you will be greeted on every hand by a cordial, hospitable people, ready with the broadest cosmo- politanism to welcome you to the feasts, favors and festivities of their young, grow- ing city. But the occupant of the second launch, that a moment before pushed off to you, is uniformed also. ~ He is the Custom-house officer. Bfit now the shades of night have begun to fall. The hour is inconvenient, your vyessel’s papers are somewhat mixed, and ‘you require a little extra attention and patience.. The pleasant demeanor of the uniformed officer before you is already a guarantee of that. . With this assurance made doubly sure by the polite attentions that follow, you are soon ready to add your testimony to the world-wide reputa- tion for ‘polifeness and accommodation which the Port Townsend Custom-house office enjoys among shipping men. But the black mantle of night that has now settled down upon you, envelopin, your ship and shutting off the sight of afi else save the sea of glittering llgEts of the city, breaks into a furious storm. Just outside Point Wilson, in the straits, the demons of sea and air contend in wiid fury. You rise in the night and give the com- mand to look to your vessel's moorings. But the answer comes back that your anchor is held as in a vise, and your ship stands as riveted and immovable as the huge stone custom-house on the bluff. Any skipper on Puget Sound will tell you slopes, playful in_ blending shades and shadows, broken by bold crags and dark | ravines, and now rising, running, climb- | ing, lifting up into the heavens, and there disputing possession with the clouds, breaking and rolling off into a sea of toss- ing, tumbling, turbulent tops, hoary with the snows of many winters. Such is the Olympic range of mountains, Port Town- send’s special pride, which, seen from this beautiful harbor, appear to be o near that you fancy you might go ashore and run over to her foothills and back fora break- fast appe‘izer. | commerce from China, Japan, | tinction of population. | 8am’s customs officials, including the Col- | for the entire district—Seattle, Tacoma PORT TOWNSEND COUNTY COURTHOUSE. s 1 is, for unimportant as is its population, ‘* are there few cities, if any, on the Pa- | c Coast so world-wide known and so important in posmfon.'hhlzs "krlle i’lfln‘e‘;r;} i nter for the Pacific geographical cente: Alsake, California, Hawaii, Australia, Bering Sea, British Columbia, the Georgian Straits, the Columbia River and Puget Sound. Being the first and last American port of call for all this vast area of marine traffic. it is unquestionably the greatest news center of tne Pacific’ Coast, without dis- Here resides tbe consuls of foreign na-. tions. England, Chile, Norway, Sweden, Hawaii, Japan—all are represented. The_ British Vice-Consul’s residence at Port Townsend is a unigue brick and stone structure, resembling the London Tower in miniature. Here reside fifty of Uncle lector of the Puget Sound district, Port Townsend being the main port of entry and all other shipfiing voints being sub- ordinate to this. ere the main United States Marine Hospital, with the head- quarters for the district, with its full corps of surgeons and officers, is located. An elegant new hospital building has just | been completed by the Government an beautiful grounds laid out. Here is estab- lished tne headquarters of the Govern- ment quarantine service for Puget Sound, with the main offices and residences of the suigeons in charge. In Port Townsend are the head offices of the Puget Sound Board of Health. The main United States bonded warehouse is located here. The United States revenue cutters, with their retinue of steam launches comprising the Puget Sound service, have their headquarters and main offices at Port Townsend, and all of the officers and their families reside here. The United States Hydrographic Office for Puget Sound is located at Port Town- send. The Puget Sound Tugboat Associa- tion, comprising all the great sawmills of Puget Sound, have their head offices at Port Townsend, and this is the home port of all the tugs of these waters ana the resi- dence of officers, crews and their families, The Bering Sea fleet of United States ‘war vessels rendezvous in Port Townsend Bay twice every year, this city being the official beadquarters. The comings and goings of officers and soldiers from Fort Townsend, close to the city, lend further color to the street and to society., Flags of all nations fly from masmenas in the bay and officers and crewsof the merchant marine of all tongues and climes mix and mingle in the daily jostlings of the street. Buch are the elements that .go to make But not yet is the cyclorama completed. up the social and commercial fabric of the PORT TOWNSEND U. S. CUSTOM.-HOUSE AND POSTOFFICE. For now turn to the south, and there looking through a cleft in the high banks at the extreme head of the bay you will behold, as i frame, the picture of fam- ous Mount nier, 2 hundred miles away, and yet plainly visible, as from its base on the earth it rises to the magnificent alti- tude of 14,444 feet, a great pillar of the biue dome, upholding the heavens. But now what of the little city nestling on the north bank of the bay in the midst of this grand amphitheater, and in which every window at every rhumb of the compass frames a picture ? We had said that the cosmopolitanism of Port Townsena wae striking, and indeed little city at the entrance to Puget Sound and mark it among all the cities of the world distinguished for its cosmopolitan- ism. But the delightful location, beautiful scenerv, handsome public buildings shown in accompanying cuts and high tone of the cosmopolitan society that reigns here are not the on‘lfv features that distinguish Port Townsend. A great cornmercial future lies before it. The centering here of so man: ships and Consuls and important institutions are but the marks of that hope. Port Townsend is the natural center and distributing point for this whele northern country and Puget Sound district. Perhaps most Cali- fornians do not know that every pound of freight that goes by steamer from Califor- nia to Alaska is firss landed on the docks at Port Townsend and reshipped from here. This city is the center of the Alaska business, and every steamer for that coun- try starts from Port Townsend. 'he shipping interests of Port Townsend are enormous. Over 75 per cent of the vessels clearing from Puget Sound clear from Port Townsend. The crews are shipped from this city. The only United States Hydrographic Office north of San Francisco is located here. All San Fran- cisco steamers touch here, and nearly every steamer plying between local points on Puget Sound makes this city a regular port of call. The headquarters and home rt of every tug on Puget Sound are at F‘))rc Townsend. o 4 All steamship lines running to points on the straits and those running to British Columbia ports and to the islands call at Port Townsend, and many of them make this city their home port. The water front at Port Townseand is daily a busy scene and would do credit to many a larger city. This city is the headquarters of a large sealing and fishing fleet, which is constantly growing and bids fair to de- d | velop into an enormous industry. More American vessels enter and clear at Port Townsend than at any other port in the United States, not excepting New York, Boston, Philadelphia or San Fran- cisco. The writer recently made a similar statement to the above in'an interview in the Boston Daily Traveler, and was imme- diately ‘*‘called down’ by a chorus of voices from the solons of the Hub. His only answer in next day's paper was to refer them to_the records in the archives of the “‘Only Boston Public Library” and to publish extracts therefrom, which more than confirmed the original stgtements. 1i any one has doubts let him- ldok it up for himself. Port Townsend is unique in still an- other particular. Itis Krobably the only town in the Northwest that ever attained an equal population and commercial im- portance without the aid of a railroad or land-booming compary. Port Townsend sprang into being of necessity, has grown by the gravitation of business to this cen- ter by the natural laws of commerce, and flourishes to-day because thereis a com- mercial demand for a city at the entrance to Puge: Sound. : Y While Port Townsend has grown in spite of a railroad, yet the lack of a railroad has been a great drawback to its_progress, When the §nion Pacific Railroad and the Oregon Improvement companies failed and work was stopped on their extension to Port Townsend—which city was de- signed for their Puget Sound terminus—it was & heavy blow to the young city. The rival cities of Seattle and Tacoma, having railroads at their command, have taken advantage of the long delay and forged ahead. But while the population of Port Town- send is to-day considerably behind these wo cities up the Sound, there are long- headed, shrewd business men, who, baving made a close study of the situation from the broad standpoint of great natural laws of commerce, believe thrat the history of Sacramento and San Francisco will repeat itself here on the Sound, and that the day is not far distant when Port Townsend will forge ahead to her rightful position as the chief city of this great northern coun- try. This list includes mnn{ of the most prominet railroad men, United States Senutors and financiers ot the East and California, who have shown their faith by investing in Port Townseud real estate at the present low prices, witha view to great future gains. One advantage which Port Townsend has over the up-Sound cities is the fact that every vessel finding her cargu here saves from $250 to $500 for towage, besides three days of time and journey. Port Townsend has stood the panic well, 1t is in good condition to-day, with money easier, and business proportionately better than any other town on the Sound.” There are three solid banks here, and a iood m- dustrial payroll independent of shipping. The immense wire-nail works are running at their full capacity night and dn{. 'he engineering works, besides building two Government launches, have all they can doin marine work. The keg factory is running douvle shift, with more orders than they can fill. The boiler works are running at full capacity. The Starrett Sawmill, the Eisenbries Crockery Factory, the bottfing works, sardine cannery, sash and door factory, and many other indus- trial institutions are all operating with good payrolls. The fish industry is growins rapidly and has the promise of a t future, ~ Port ‘Townsend is the headquarters for the cod and halibut catches and other fish products of the northern waters. The spring and fall runs of salmon here are tremendous. Port Townsend is backed by a splendid fruit, dairying and farm country. The islands, Puget Sound’s garden spot, are all tributary to this city. The timber resources tributary to Port Townsend are almost fabulons. Jef- ferson County alone, of which Port Towns- end is the county seat, has, according to MAP SHOWING PORT TOWNSEND AND OTHER PUGET SOUND CITIES. the last official report of the Beoreu?o! State, over 3!.000.%,0&) feet of standing timber. It is estimated that over 100,000,- 000,000 feet of timber Are tributary to this city. fien is a Jist of- some new industries which Port Townsend wants and which offer fine business openings for men of en- terprise and capital and fi;r the establish- ment of which the enterprising citizeus of Port Townsend are ready to offer strong inducements: A hotel man will find here one of the best openings in the country. mod‘enu nllm. well—eondncb% hotel 'ol;kl receive a large patronage and strong in- ducements wonls‘bo ofl.esx“d. A salmon cannery. We have enormous runs of spring and fail salmon, also :tnbs. shrimps, lobsters, clams, herring, C. A sardine cannery. Large schools of the enuine Mediterranean anchovy in all the S, K fruit and vegetable cannery, to utilize the enorma:;chqmmme‘lo of ulnm and vegetables wi now go to waste. A starch factory to make starch from potatoes and supply the growing China and Japan trade. Z A drydock. Port Townsend being the first and last American port of call for all vessels, a drydock would have ail the v T supply the fruit and ox facto 1 fish trade of Alriskn. Fraser River, etc., a8 weil as California. Shingle-mills, to utilize the immense e o Ooail Ghatory, 10, utilize the A tub and pail fa s alder, cedar nm’i other woods adapted for that purpose. % b Iroll: lgrnlees and rolling-mills, to uti- lize the enormous quantities of bog-iron, red hematite and other iron ores in the immediate vicinity. X Capital, to stnrtyup the large sawmills and take advantage of the present strong demand and rise in price of lumber. Creameries. Several good creameries could find excellent locations here. Capital, to develop the Nanaimo coal measures, which experts say extend on this side over .P"“T.m and gmp in many laces close to Port Townsend. pA tinware factory, to imvport tin from the Orient and manufacture a general line of tinware and cans for the trade. ‘Woolen mills, to utilize the wool grown in this vicinity and the island country. ‘Wholesale mercantile houses, to go into the general business of the Alaska, island, Hawaiian, China and Japan trade, ete. A terra-cotta works, to utilize the fine clays in this vicinity. Glass works, to utilize the silicious sands adapted for the manufacture of glass, Apiaries. It hasbeendemonstrated that bees can be cultivated very profitably in this country. Settlers to take up the splendid farm and timber lands which may still be had from the Government. Men of enterprise and industry. Such will find here splendid openings for large and small capital in many industries besides the more conspicuous ones enumerated above. . Visitors to Puget Sound are cordially invited to visit Port Townsend, where & hearty reception will be extended them. TULARE COUNTY'S BIG FRUIT CROP. Visalia Reports Predict a Very Profitable Season. AN INCREASED ACREAGE Good Prices Will Prevail and Fully Compensate for Frost Damage. [} ORCHARDISTS ARE CHEERFUL. Citrus Fruit at the Exeter, Lindsey and Lemon Cove Districts Escapes Unscathed. VISALIA, CaL., May 10.—The fruit crop of Tulare, aking generally, has out- lived the frost scare. It is true that the crop will be smaller than if there had been no frost at all, but it is also true that, in spite of the frost, the fruit crop of Tulare County will be even larger than it was last year. ¥ B Hevnig President Port Townsend Board of Trade. MADERA COUNTY CHASE Outlaws Laverone and Roberts Seen in the Quartz Moun- tain Couatry. A Girl Braves One of the Fugitives, Who Was Attempting to Steal a Horse. MADERA, Can, May 10.—The chase after Laverone and Roberts, the highway- men who escaped from the Madera jail, is by no means abandoned. The officers and citizens who are in pursuit are determined that no efforts shall be spared to recapture the daring robbers; on the other hand, those who know the men predict that the escapes will not be retaken without a fight. It is believed that the fugitives are in the vicinity of Quartz Mountain. Yesterday the officers had deployed their men ina cordon, surrounding the region where the two were supposed to be in biding, but it seeme the escaped robbers were too vigi- lant to be penned in and starved into a surrender. Deputy Sheriff Jones of Fresno, who is in charge of the bloodhounds, returnéd about noon to-day with the dogs, as it was believed that they had rendered all the service which would be neeeun?' from them. He had scarcely reached town, however, before a messenger arrived with a summons for him to return at once. That the men bave been seen several times is believed by the officers. Two days ago Lily Larsen, a twelve-year-old girl, re- gorted having seen & man_answering the escription of Roberts. He was in her father’s pasture, trying to catch a horse, and the little maiden, not aware that she was probably biaving a desperado warned him away. He immediately left and she afterward heard him talking to some one in the brush. P. L. Grace, one of the posse, left the camp this morning to return to Madera. Just before he started an Indian came in, who reported a trail which indicated that Laverone and Roberts had been above Dslndello’n place, between O'Neal’s and Fine Gold. The trail was made by two men, one making a large track and one a small one, just as Laverone and Roberts make. Later in the day an. Indian woman reported to Sheriff Westfall that she had seen two men who answered to the description of the robhers. These men, upon seeing the woman, jumped into the bushes and dis- nppenedl. heir tracks were the same, a big one ard a little one, at the point where the woman said they disa; peared in the brush. The chase has en taken up again, and this is the cause of the hasty summons for the return of the dogs. Jailer Wells has recovered sufficiently from the injuries received in the fight in the jail to join in the pursunit, and a num- ber of citizens have gone to the scene of the hunt. It is believed that Roberts is an ex-con- vict and that there is a reward of $1500 offered for him for a murder committed in the southern part of the Statc. NEWS OF MABE ISLAND Three Hundred Additional Men Soon to Be Employed on the Baltimore. VALLEJO, Car., May 10.—The water front abreast of the navy-yard is well lined with ships-of-war. Guns of all sizes are bristling from ports and turrets. Two gunboats—the Concord and Petrel—are new in these waters. They will soon be placed out of commission to permit of ex- tensive repairs. Their crews will either be discharged or distributed to other ships. As soon as money becomes availabie 300 additional workmen will be employed at the yard to work on the Baltimore, Ranger, Mohican, Concord, Bennington and Petrel. This will make business lively for months to come. Already the merchants of Vallejo note better times with the advent of the snips. The flagship Philadelphia is in drydock donning a fresh coating of paint on hull and sides. The flagship, with the monitor Monadnock, will leave for San Francisco during the coming week. Naval Constructor Baxter and Cival En- gineer Mason arrived last night from Port Orchard. The men who went from here to the northern dockyard to assist in dock- ing the Monterey returned this morning. They are united in their expressions that Mare Island is by far the best adapted for a naval station. It will be many years be- fore the Port Orchard station amounts to A | a great deal as a repair-yard. The Telegraph gives the name of Rear- Admiral Kirkland as the nextcommand- ant of the navy-yard and that the present commandant, Captain Howison, will be given command of the battle-ship Oregon. ‘While regrets are expressed at the depar- ture from the yard of Captain Howison, congratulations are extended upon - his promotion to such a fine ship as the Oregon. From this statement it would not be cor- rect to draw the inference that the frost did little or no damage here. The fact is that the unusual and most unexpected cold weather did considerable damage, and yet when the entire output of the county is considered, the loss is relatively quite small. However, the larger fruit crop in Tulare County this year is due not so much to its freedom from frost, but to the very largely increased acreage that will come into bearing this year. A good deal of inguiry among the fruit men of this county has elicited its corre- sponding quota of valuable information concerning the crop this year and its dam- age or freedom from frost. The frost seemed to strike in spots. Here and there orchards have suffered greatly, even kill- ing the crop entirely. Right aside of these places, however, are other orchards of from 50 to 100 acres of prunes, peaches and apricots that escaped untouched. From all the information obtainable it would appear that those orchards that had just been irrigated, or were being irrigated at the time, were the ones that escaped with the least injury to the truit. Upon the whole the fruit men of Tulare County are by no means disheartened. On the contrary, seeing good prices ahead, they are quite optimistic and to a man cheerful. Had it not been for the frost it is quite likely that fruit would have been a drug on the market and much of it gone a-begging or sold for prices entirely too small to leave a reasonable profit to the grower. As it is, there is bound to be a good de- mand for deciduous fruit this year, for not every locality has escaped so lightly as the fayored Tulare County district. In the Encina orchard, of which Ben M. Maodox is president, thers are at least eighty acres of good peaches that escaped untouched, and out of the entire 440 acres in th~ orchard there are many large spots of other deciduous trees that also escaped and will yield good return. When ques- tioned concerning the fruit outlook, Mr. Maddox expressed himself as entirely pleased with it and said he expected an unusually profitable year. On the Evans- dale orchard, which 1s owned by the same company, in spite of the fact that all the young prunes are wiped out, there are enough good peaches of a sufficient acreage of five-year-old prune trees thut withstood the cold weather to make a fine crop, even at much smaller prices than are reasonably anticipated. The Visalia Fruit and Land Company’s 440-acre orchard, of whicn Co also yield a good-paying crop, though the | frost was felt there to some extent. Somewhat conflicting reports comé from the 1300 acres owned by the Fleming Or- chard and the Mineral King Fruit Com- pany, but a safe and conservative esti- mate of all the loss by frost still leavesa good fair crop of choice delicious fruit for | the coming market. There is a multitude 6t smaller orchardy scattered all about Visalia and, indeed, throughout the entire county, but none of the reports so far received are at all dis- heartening. It may be that here and there a small orchard has suffered a great deal, but'so far as is known at present there is no fruit-grower in the county but what will reap a fair profit for his season’s crop. At Lindsey, Exeter and Lemon Cove there are over 2000 acres of fine oranges and lemons which escaped the ravages of the frost entirely. Not a single citrus tree was hurt. At Exeter, and in the region east of Visalia, the deciduous trees suffered very little or not at all, much less at any rate than in any other section. One reason given for this is that in most of these or- chards the trees are older and have abundant foliage. The foliage kept the fruit “warm and protected it splendidly from the frost. The large orchard of assorted trees owned by H. Thomas is reported in very fair condition, and Mr. Thomas says he bas no cause to complain or feel disheart- ened at the season’s outlook. The same state of affairs is true with re- gard to John Harter’s prune orchard. It is in excellent skape, all things considered, and will yield a fair revenue in return for the labor and capital invested upon it. George F. Beales, superintendent of the Cain Fruit and Nursery Company, expects to harvest a good crop of fruit on his ranch this summer. He will have a big crop of prunus simoni and Clyman plums, He has thinned the trees once, and wiil nave to thin them agam. The trees are loaded. He will have a good crop of Tragedy prunes also, notwithstanding the recent frosts. Taking it all in ail, Mr. Beales feels greatly encouraged. George Perkins’ prune orchard is in gooa condition. There are evidences that a frost was somewhere in the neighborhood, but Mr. Perkins, together with most all the other fruit men in this region, is confident that the increased price of fruit this year will at the very least repay them for all losses by the frost. FRESNO COUNTY’S ARMENIANS. Large Sums Sent to the Sufferers of Their Native Land. FRESNO, Can., May 10.—Rev. A, J. Melchonian, M.D., of this city has re- turned from a lecturing tour of the State. Dr. Melchonian is an Armenian, and he has visited every town of importance in the State, making appeals in behalf of sufferers in his native land. He delivered lectures on Armenia and_took up collec- tions for the oppressed. He raised $900 on the tour. Armenis never had a better friend than the Fresno colony of people from that country. They have raised considerable sums of money which was sent to Armenia and have lost no opportunity to make appeals in the interests of their country. Inthe Fourth of July parade last year they had a float with a young Armenian lady representing the oppression of her country. About 100 Armenians foilowed in line. ST e FOR GREATER SELMA. Organization of an Auxiliary Hundred Thousand Club. SELMA, Cav,, May 10.—A mass-meeting was held here last night to organize an auxiliary Hundred Thousand Club, to act in unison with the Fresno club. A large delegation was present from Fresno. The speeches were cheered to the echo. A pledge was prepared and the rolls opened by the signatures of twenty-five leading citizens and the appointment of the fol- lowing committee to take charge of the rolls and secure not less than 100 charter members: W. L. Chappell, G. W. Terrill and V. 8. Willis. SRRt Santiago Canyon Accident. SANTA ANA, Can, May 10.—Harry Ruce of this city was accidentally shot to- day while hunting birds in Santiago Canyon for a sick neighbor woman. His shotgun was accidentally discharged while the young man was riding in a cart, the charge tearing an arm almost from William H. Hammond is pre: his bofiy The accident occurred near Mme. Modjeska’s mountain home. 0. Big Jot Mo I force. So much flesh uses S NOT STRONG. USUALLY HE HAS' POOR NERVE up all his vital strength. 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