The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 20, 1896, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1896. | , IS PROMOTED BY THE PRESIDENT, Colonel Sawtelle Appoinfed | Quartermaster-General of the Army. | | | SUCCEEDS BATCHELDER. | One of the Best-Known Veterans in the Service of Uncle Sam. LONG AND FAITHFUL RECORD- Performed Fronmtier Duty in California and Was With the Colorado River Expeeition. TON, D. C., Aug. 19.—The ay sppointed Charles G. rtermaster - zeneral of the k of brizadier-general 1 . Batcheld menth. tant quarter- | ok of coionel eceived brevet : at Fortress ops and Sup- Potomac in r re of trapsports and supplies | al Banks in the d in Louisi- West Mi division of the riment of the ta: pot, srtermaster quarter- the same t of Columbia, at Varcouver, r Department of the retire on Msy reaches the age- Sawtelle cre- | | i Death of Professor Ducight. EW LONDON. N. H., Avg 19—Pro- en in poor bealth and came here for a He bas been Sturgis-Hooper pro- of geology and metallurgy at ce 1565, and was a prominent i iasion and | Natiopal Academy of Science. { in Nortbampton, Mass., N 2. graduated at Yale 839, and pe from 1342 to 1345, From 0 he was with J. W. Foster in urvey of tbe mineral regions sum I anding Lal Superior. Between 1355 and 1860 he took in the sarvey of Iowaan tne jead region of Wisconsin. From 1530 to 1874 be was head of the California sur- v il in the latter year it was aban- | | Y0LO AND SUGAR BEETS, doned. Claus Spreckels’ Representative Looks Into the Soil and Climate. Szys the Land if Properly Caltivated Will Produce the Best of Resuits. WOODLAND, Cain, Auvg. 19—P. W. Morse, representing Claus Spreckels, the oasire sugar king, arrived in this v last everiing for the purpose of mak- 2 partial examinstion of the soil and ate of Yolo County, with s view of | ablishing a sugar refinery in this sec- on of the State. It was expected that reckels would make the examina- self, but owing to pressing busi- be was unable to come. . Morse was met by s commitiee con- of M. Diggsand Otto Schluer, and for a drive throuzh Northern Yolo, ere 2 large area of land had been plané- bz Yolo orchard the ‘Were ed at the invitston of g‘.’“{h Pae, na; of the orchsrd. They returned t, having sécured beets from the oo o(ED. A. McGuff, I;l" K.Wliigg;. ;osries Hoppin, George Hoppin, J. W. Hawkins, W. G. Haunt, Yolo orchara and | duced. | M jme with a knife’ Carnival { are through with them. Every mill | eolored Japanese lantern: Heckie, which will be sent to the le-f fnery to be tested for their saccharine | strength and purity of juice. i ng Morse is very favorably impressed | b the land he saw and says that ifitis/ Iy cuitivated it will produce the | sugar beets. | g the evening Mr. Morse met 38| ber of Woodland’s representa- | who are very enthusiasiic | he prospects of a sugarrefinery being . He said Mr. Spreckels| 30,080 acres to be pianted £o | The factory would bave | Mr. ts each year- | a capacity 3000 tons per day, wkich | would reg an outlay of $17,000 each day for beets and fuel. In his contracts with (heabeel-gmr:r; Mr. Spreckels agrees to pay $4 per ton, livered at the factory. He will advance ced at the rate of 10 cents per pound, and | will also advance $5 per acre, yeturnable | when the beets are delivered. The cost of | raising ranzes from $135) to $3 50 per ton, | and with first-class farming is greatly m! The best beets raised so far this year are from the farm of Ed Archber, near Madi- son. A short time sgo he sent a sack of 104 beets to the Western Beet-sugar Com- pany. Theanalysisshowed 15.433 parts of sagar and the purity of juice was 323 per cent. This is above the sverage and a better sbowing than was made by the San Joa- quin County experimeni. Mr. Morse left this morning for a tour through Coluss and Glenn counties. ‘.Ik:o report of the analysisof the beets will be looked forward to very anxiously by the people of Yolo County, as the establish- ment of such an enterprise means much to the advancement of this section. A AT STABBED IS THE GEOIS. Result of @ Eow Between Two Eestau- rant Waiters. ., Ang. 19.—Gas Her- oyed at the Indepen- feeling guarrelsome | ight spree and | Shortly after 8 volved in a difficulty ther warter at the now ina cell at Jail and Hermann is at the| witha woannd in his| may prove fatal The| been able to get along ami- e, but this morning’s he trouble occurred this morning i was waiting on a diner at the res- | d Hermann was taking his| The latter was abusive and he ed the other waiter a number of vile | ames After several words had been ex- nged between them Hermann struck | dina in the face. The latter retaliated with 3 blow. Afier the blows were ex- nged both men made a rush for a long breadknife near by. 1t isnot known who | M s finger is oadly cut, n being probably made by the g drawn through his hand i The men strugzled over the weapon, | which had a blade fourteen inches long. Medina got it. He made a quick tarast, snd Hermann exclsimed, *‘He has stuck ' The wounded man | then sat on a box in the back of the res- taurant for & few minutes and then walked on the street. Shortly after leaving | restaurant he staggered and fell. He| was cut in the neck and groin, but may | live. } STOCKTON'S GREAT FETE Committee Working Like Beavers Both Night and Day. Grand Moonlight Picmic and Novel | Features at Gooiwater Grove | to Raise Funds. STOCKTON, Car, Aug. 19.—Great prep- arations are being made for the moonlight picnic to-morrow night at Goodwater Grove for the benefit of the carnival fund. The affair will be given on an even more elaborate scale than last time, and all of the fashionables of Stockton will be in attendance. An excellent concert pro- gramme will be rendered. Many novel features will be introdaced. Among these will be eight colored singers, who will get up into the tops of oak trees and | zive a voeal concert from their elevated perches. The programme calls them “tree- top warble: They are Ch. s Levy, William Wright, Wiltiam Maxwell W. Bentley, T. Gallowsy, C. Hazelwood, Georze Elbeck and B. Maxwell. There will also be an orchestral piece entitied | “The Indian War Dance,”” with ten braves | in the foreground dressed in war paint, | who will give the war dance of the tribe| they represent. | zht was Beld the first rebearsal at | the Yosemite Theater of the minstrel per- formance that is to be given on the might | of the 24 prox. for the benefit of the carni- val fund. Arthnr Levinsky, the attorney, Zas compieted the farce that he has been writing for the occasion. Seversl clever singers will render solos. Hon. Frank H. Gould will be the interlscutor. The affair promises to be a great successin every respect. 2 The carnival committee is now busy night and day. It has been arranged fo | Lave a number of schooners on thechan- | nel on the night of September 9, and these | will be a blazz of light after the demnmr; | and | factory and every saloon and store alongz | the water front will be covered with multi- s, which will be | ed by the commitiee. | 2 one of the floats will be a fuil brass band, and on snother will be a gigaatic chorus of male voices. Those who are to be on the last pamed barge are now re- hearsing for the event. The Turn Verein will be asked to assist in this of the programme. _ Dir-ctor - Gene A . Peters and Gus C. Grant, his able assist- ant, are now busy with the decorators arranging the dejails of the four principal and seven lesser fioats that are to lead the | -3 parade on the water. —_—— 4 San Franctscan Prostrated. STOCKTON, Car., Aug. 15.—About half- | past 1o'clock this afternoon Peter Ryan | of San Francisco was standing at the cor- nerof Main and Sattef sireets waiting for 8 car. Suddenly be was seen to reel back and fail to the sidewalk,as if dead. It was thought at first that he bad fallen in 2 fit, but after he came to comsciousness he stated that he was not subject to that disease and that the present experience was the first of its kind that be had ever met with. He was not used to hot weather and was overcome by the heat. It will probably be some time before he will entirely recover from the attack. o g Work to Begia on Coal Bunkers. STOCKTON, Car, Aug. 19.—Work on the coal bunkers which are to be erected on the water front by the Corral Holiow Railway Company will in to-morrow, and they will i | ill be finisbed x!n one month. The bunkers will be 250 feet long and #4 feet wide, and wiil contain 3000 tons of —_— Ensenada’s Stolen Gold Bar. SAN DIEGO, Car, Aug. 19.—The gold bar stolen by Garrai: at Ensenada on the pight of March 20,1395, and which lay nid- den until ten daysago. was broaght to this city this morning by the steamer Pac eco ;nd forwarded by express to San Francisco. t was maili Mining Company. $12,608, and it was an obj est on account of the robbery events canpected | (LLEDBY A FALLIG SPHR Baron von Zedwitz's Death Was Due to an Ac- cident. THE CORONER’'S VERDICT Struck by Broken Rigging and Pinned to the Deck of His Yacht HIS WIFE AN AMERICAN LADY Was Married in Washington While the Yachtsman Was a Lega- tion Attache. owing to bodily and mental silments. It 1s alleged tnat she was born in Germany in 1811, could not read or write English, and atiacked the validity of the will on all of these grounds. ———— A4 MEXICAN CONSULATE. Suggestions of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. LOS ANGELES, . Car, Aug. 19.—The Chamber of Commerce has issued are- port to show why a Mexican Consulate should be establisned in this city. Questions have been asked of different | irms engaged in commercial transactions between this city and Mexico. F. M. Edelston of the Mining and Metallurgical Journal writes: u build up a very large business in handling Mexican mines, which are the largest in the worid, if we had better relations with Mexico. We have a large amount of Los Angeles capital invested in Mexico, and more would go in if there were means of gettin- better data about the commerce.” W. E. Harrad writes: “Mexico is the richest mineral district on the coast. They need us snd d'e neeg‘meg_u bat it devolves upon us to demonstrate this fact. However, I am persuaded that they are alive to the situation and oben 1o convie- tion. If reasonable inducements were ! heid out the Lower California Develop- ment Company would run tieir boat as far porth as this point, or arrangements could be made with the Pacific Coast Steamship Company t¢ make Los Anzeles | the northern terminus instead of San Francisco. { TROOP D’s MUDDLE. Captain Carrington’s Visit Eevives Na- tional Guard Gossip. LOS ANGLES, Car., Acg. 19.—The pres- LONDON, Ese., Aug. 19.—A Coroner’s| once in Los Angeles of Captain Carring- inguest was held to-day on the body of Baron von Zsdwitz, owner of the yacht| ornor Budd’s staff, the last few days, has | Isolde, killed by the collision of the Meteor with the Isolde yesterday. The captain: | of the Isolde, Britannia and Meteor were examined and the jury returned a verdict | Lig: to Southern California at the present 8Cter. | ton, United States army, detailed on Gov- revived gossip concerning the selection of | a commanding officer for troop D, N. G. C. It 1s stated thbat Captain Carrington’ “We could | CONGRESS DAY AT CAMP CITY GUARD. H |Gallant Soldier Boys and Ladies Visit the Springs. { PICNIC IN THE WOODS Wayside Orchards Contribute to the Commissary of the Merrymakers. | REVELERS IN THE GUARDEOQUSE aTos, Cal, Aug. 19. ) This was “Congress day” for the major- ity of the members of Company B, betit did pot partake at all of a legisistive char- It was quité the contrary, for the that the Baron’s death wasdue to a purely | time is primarily in connection with the gallant guardsmen and the ladies who are accidental collision of the boats. ! encampment of the local militia at Re- ! yisiting camp, but stopping at hotels, took Los Gatos as Seen From the Hill Overlooking Camp City Guard. that Baron von Zedwitz was struck by the falling rigging of the Isolde and pinned | to the deck of the yacht by the broken spars. He was not thrown inio the water, | as was reported yesterday. Captain Carter, the commander of the Britannis, in the course of his testimonv, | said that the Meteor ought to have passed | under the Britannia’s lee. Captain Gomes, skipper of the Meteor, denied that he bad violated the sailing rules. There was| plenty of room for the Meteor to pass the Isolde, bat the Saint struck the Isoide and slewed the bow of that boat toward the Meteor. Mr. Jameson, representative of the Prince of Wales, who was on board the Britannia, said that the whole thing was | so sudden that he was unable to say | whether or not there was time for the | Meteor to go to the lee of the Britannia | after the danger of collision became ap- parent. WASHINGTON, D. C., Aog. 19.—Baron von Zedwitz, whose sudden death by acci- dent on his yzcht isolde bas been re- ported, was married while attached to the | German legation in this city, the event forming the climax to a brillisnt and sue- cessful official and social experience. His bride was®Miss Lena Caldwell, the wealthy heiress of Louisville, whose sister, Miss Mary Gwendolen Caldwell, made the pro- ject of establishing a Catholic university | in Washingion practicable by a gift of | $300,000 Just previous to his marriage, Baron von Zedwitz had been appointed Minister to Mexico, and to that country he first took his bride. Germany the Baron’s position was en- hanced in every way by his charming wife, and they became very prominent in social life. Since the marriage of her sister to Baron von Z:dwitz, Miss Mary Gwendolen Caldwell has lived abread, mostly in Paris. LIS MGELES CONTET Estate of Mrs. Huber, Mother- in-Law of Senator White, in Controversy. After Considerable Wrangling Among the Heirs ths Case Fina'ly Comes to Trial. Los Axczrzs OrricEor TrE Cary)] 32 Brospway. } The contest over the estate of Mrs. Appolionia Huber. deceased, mother-in- law of Senator White, was on trial before Judge Ciark to-day. There has been con- siderable wrangling between some of the beirs of the deceased and several contests Since their return to | tor. But, aside from this, rumor has it toat he bas been commissioned by the | Governor to make a quiet investigation of the Troop D trouble, and to ascertain, 1f possible, whether there is any good rea- son for delay in the matter of giving the troopers an opporimnity to cioose s cap- tain from among their own number. e SOUTHERN PACIFIC FEANCHISE. MNew Bramch Lime Will Soon RBun Into Pomona. | L0S ANGELES, Car, Aug. 19.—Word was received here this afternoon from Po- monato the effect that at a meeting of the franchise was granted the Soutbern Pacific | Railway Company for a single trackdown White avenue to conmect with the m: line. The company was also granteda ranchise for a telegraph line along the same thoroughfare. SuperintendentJ. A. Muir is of the opinion that trains will be | runnine into Pomona over thenew branch | road, via Covina, San Dimas and Lords- | burg, inside of five days. It is said this | branch road will pot be extended from Po- | mona to Chino and Riverside until next spring. . Death of a Pioneer. LOS ANGELES, Car., Aug. 19.—B. Gran- din, a pioneer and resident of Los Angeles for the past thirty years, died last night at bis residence, 310 North St. Louis street, at the sge of 68 years. The deceased has been an invalid the past seven years, and had been confined to the house for ten months. | He was a brother-in-law of General E. P. Joknson of this city. AR S . LOS 64205 FATALITY, B. M. Bamey Thrown From a Wagom by & Bunaway. LOS GATOS, Can, Aug. 19—H. M. | | | Ramey of the firm of Hutchinson & Ramey, furnitore dealers and under- takers, left the city about noon to-day to érive to Campbells with a load of furni- ture. About 2 o'ciock & womaa driving along the San Jose road saw Ramey lying in the road. He did not answer when spoken to and was unconscious. Neigh- bors brought him to Los Gatos. His back was broken and several ribs fractured and he is Iying at home still unconscious. The doctor says he cannot recover. The horse weat on to Campbelis and stopped at place where the turniture was to be deliv- ered with the furciture and wacon intact. There is an air of mystery around the secideat, and it appears that the only way it could have h:pgemd was by Ram-y falling under the horse and being kicked and also run over by the wagon. He moved to Los Gatos from Iowa about a year ago. Mrs. Ramey bas been mn poor bealth and is now prosral The horse ran awsy with him about three weeks ago. BET RO FLORA FINLAYSON'S EEMAINS. Beceived at Bemo by Many Promiment Citizoms. RENO, Nzv., Aug. 19.—The remains of the late Fiora Finlayson arrived from San Francisco this morning, and were placed ina hearse and driven to the residence where her childhood days were nt. Board of Trustees, held there last night, a | 1 A ! The proceedings of the inquest showed | dondo, his duties being those of an inspee- | to the woods and the picnic grounds near | Congress Springs, sbout five miles west of f Los Gatos; hence the name ‘‘Congress day.” They started about 10 o’clock in the morning and drove out in more than baif a dozen three and four-seated surreys and other vehicles. One surrey carried four | men in s seat, and there were not less than three in 2 seat in the entire proces- | sion. They also ecarried cold solid and lignid provisions, and plenty of them, | sandwiches, bard-boiled eggs, lemons to make lemonade with, pie, etc., and for fruit—well, if the plain truth must be told of s soldier’s outing, they got plenty of plums and pesches by the roadside. | The drive was along a beautiful road | throogh orchards heavily laden with fruit. The odors of flowers and pines and ripe fruit filled the air. Off to the lefi the | vineyards, orchards and wheat fields ex- | tended high up the mountaid sides. The | company bugler sat on the front seat of the | front wagon and trumpeted merrily his | lay, which awoke tbe echoes in the hills. It was a deligbtful drive. The day under the trees was none the less pleasant. Lunch was served by Quar- termaster Clifford soon after the company reached the grounds. It was spread on | the broad tables under the trees. The con- | versation was merry and the laughter fre- | quent as the eatables passed rapidly from the sceue to the unseen. When the rem- nants were cleared away the picnickers either repaired to the dancing piatform, where the company string band was al- ready getting its instruments in tuneor strolled in couples down the valley of the tittle creek, which puried genily by the side of the picnic grounds. There was over an bour of dancing and thea all followed a shady lane to the springs up on the hill side. The maximum of -mineral water was consumed by Dr. Sieberst, Quartermaster-General Clifford | and Guardsman Osthoff, but the minimam was plenty for everybody eise. On the re- turn to the picnie nds the stroil had its romantic as we!l as its sylvan side. The entire company returued to camp about 5 o'clock delighted with the day’s outing. But before the start was made in the morning the boyshad their usual early morning work at company and extenced order drill from 7 to 8:30 o'clock. The drilling 1s done in the eariy morning so as to escape the heat of the day. Dress parade was held at 5:30 o’clock on Rail- road square, with the usnal large crowd of Los Gatos spectators. For these parades the guardsmen pui on their sweill dress- coats and their heimets. .They are a bandsome body cf young men. The farge number of Los Gatos young ladies who look on is mute and beautiful evidence of that fact. In regard fo the way the com- pany is drilling Captain Filmer said to- ‘YTbe drill this morning was almost en- tirely extended order. Toe boys are doing finely. When they came off the field they were perspiring freely, and still they wanted more. They advaace and retreat i iges let them do a little firing. They are all workers in thedrill. I e H | Undertook to Rum the Gauatlet in Response to “Halt! Who Goes There ?” | Srasun s 1Y Cawr Crry Grazp, l i Co. B, First Reg., Infantry, N. G. C., Los G l \ reappeared at Camp City Guard sbout 3:30 be _ bad tenants last night for the first time during the encampment. early iast evening and drove to San Jose. They had a time that was full of joy, ana o’clock this morning. They attempted to saw them and the clarion chalienge, *Halt! Who comes there?”’ rent the early “Friends,” responded the trio. **‘Advance, one friend, and give the co s They bad been chailenged and didn’t know the countersign. They coneiuded that there was nothing else to do but to selves in the darkness inside the lines, sleep before the corporal of the guard This scheme was concocted while the trio table, the oaly thing wisible to them a8 dozen men as they lay dozing before guardhouse. So when the command for dashed for the line, but the sentinel was air and there was great commotion in camip. Before the belated trio bad gotten feet inside the lime the corporal of the guard and three or four relief men were at their heels. All three were easily cap- tured and they had to stand a good deal of jibing all day in camp. This morning they were put to work doing police duty— that is, cleaning up and doing the dirty work around the camp, and they were kept prisoners all dsy, missing the picnic at Confnss Springs. One of the prisoners is weil krown in the City and has s brother who is s prominent member of Company B. In fact, it was his brother who ordered him to be pumshed, which is an instance of the discipline that prevails here when it is deemed necessary to use it. One of the boys stopped a visitor whom he knew as he was passing through camp with these words: “Ob, what if my father sbould see me ! I was mever cut out for a scaven- ger” To-morrow the dancing pavilion will be decorated, moreelectriclights putin and a vrogramme of specialties, including a farce- comedy by members of Company B, will be given under the trees. = The comedy bas one act only, and it is entitled “First Love.” The piot and the love are both said to be thrilling. This is the cast of characters: Hogh Livingstone (2 wealtby iron-founder), Sergeant W. H. Sieberst; Emily (bis daushter), Miss Emily Sieb- erss; Caarles Fox (his nepbew), Sergeant A. H. Clifford; Henry Van Zandt (his nei. ), Sergeant H. B. Sullivan; Per- kins {a groom), Sergeant H. B. Tavlor. Favored ones who have seen the rehearsals say that the comedy will be funny encugh to make “the three guardsmea” in tne guardhouse laugh. This was a night off in camp. There were no exercises at the campiire, though many visitors sat around it and chatted. | Even the “macaroni siring band*’ was off duty. Everybody was out in town visit- ing friends or otherwise enjoying them- and enter- seives. A isrge party was made u E‘: Monte by a He said Captain tained this evening at the traveling phrenologist. Filmer was Napoleon returned to earth; califed First Lieutenant Sturdivant Cyrus the Great, come back once more; Second Lieutenant Ramm Xerxes on his third trip in the flesh, and branded Masjor Hos- mer’s as a military bead. R e AND HIS MESSAGE. Monte Hotel. It will be the event of Fri- Three members of the company left camp sneak in past the sentinels, but the picket morning sir. ign,” commanded the sentinel. make a dash for it and try to lose them- erawl into their tents and beds and feign could get sround in time to find them. lay in the blackness under a picaic in camp being the guard of half the blaze of the wood fire in front of the one friend to advance came all three wary. He diseharged nis piece into the DICK The Carrier Pigeon Safely Delivered the Letter to *-The Call.” Yesterday at daybreak the homing pizeon “Dick™ arrived at his loft at 422 Jersey street, in this City, with 2 message from Captain Filmer of Company B, City Guard, to Tez Cair. The message com- veyed the compliments of the captsin and his men, and stated that the bird and his companion were released at 4:15 2. M. on August 13 This is the secpnd attempt Dick has made to carry a note from the militiamen, who are in camp near Los Gatos, to this City. The bird arrived all right the other time, but be had lost the message. The idea is to demonstrate the feasibility of carrier-pigeon commaunication in time of ‘war when other means ar= cat off. It is about fifty-five miles from Los Gatos to San Francisco, and- the bird would bave armived the same evening he was released had it not been for the fog and head winds, which greatly retarded WAR AT SAN BERNARDINO All About a Right of Way Wanted by the Southern Pacific. | | Citizens Anpxious for the Trains, but Property-Owners Are Vigorous in Opposition. SAN BERNARDINO, Cai, Aug. 19.— The Southern Pacific Company has filed an application for a franchise on South E street, or Colton avenue, leading south from this city. The petition was accom- panied by an ordinance granting the fran- chise. When the matter came up before the Board of Trustees it produced .such a vigorous opposition from residents on each side of the street that the ordinance did npot pass its first reading. The first section of the ordinance reads as follows: That there is heredy granted o the Soutnern Pacific Railroad Company ang its sssigns for the period of fifty years from and aiter the passage of this ordinanee the right to con- struet, maintain and operate asingle or double track steam railroad, and to operste cars aad trains thereon snd thereover by means of steam loeomotives, for the purpose of carrying freight and passengers.in the city of San Ber- nardino. Then follows the description of the right of way from the junction of Mill street and Colton avenue to the motor depot, and in addition the franchise gives tne company the right to build switches and such other privileges ss are necessary in the operation of theroad. It was found by investigation by residents interested that in some the grade of the rail- road would be more than five feet above the official ievel of the street. Tkis fact was one of the msin causes of the active opposition in granting the franchise, abutting p! wners claiming that the grade of the rairoad would greatly jure their possessions. Several residents interested addressed the board in vigorous opposition to the proposed injury to the avenue and property. Trnste;:dmm and Rnchbn&:n out in pronoun: terms agaiost passage of the ordinance. Ii requires the sssent of four memoers to pass it, and it is very doubtful whether the necessary votes can Killed by & Horse’s Kick. STOCKTON, Car., Aug. 19— At 4 o’clock yesterday afternoon George Collier, a well- LAST SPIKE OF THE VALLEY ROAD, Driven Without Ceremony on the Outskirts of Fresno. ALL PROMISES ARE KEPT Property-Owners Still Prevent Active Operation of the Line. BELMONT NOW THE TERMINUS Tracklayers Will Work Back to the River to Complete the Bal- lasting. FRESNO, Car., Aug. 19.—At ten mine utes of 6 o'clock this evening, without ceremony, the last spike was driven by the tracklayers on the Vailey road where the grading ends at Belmont avenue at the northern limits of the additions to the city. The construction train ran to the end of the rails, and to-day for the firss time the people of Fresno could hear the whistle of a Valley road train. There was pothing unusual about the driving of the last spike, ana there were none others present besides the workmen than one or two newspaper men. During the day, however, a large number of people from the city took the streeicars out to Bel- mont and wstched the track-laying. The mananer of the work was watched with in- terest, and the big locomotive with its calliopic whistle won considerable admi- ration. The last two miles of the track were laid to-day. It bhad been expected that the track- layers would reach Fresno by last Satur- day evening, August 15, by which date it was promised several months ago to bave the road constructed into Fresmo. The company kept good its promise, lacking only four days. This delag was caused by the San Joaquin bridge, for which the trackiayers had to wait several days. There have been about 200 men at the work, and they pushed matters along rapidly. Two miles a day of tracklaying, which was their record to-day, 1s not slow. The railroad company has now kept every promise it has made to the people of Fresno, and if they had not been ob~ structed oy the Q and Diaga street property-owners it would be able to begin shipments of this year’s crops. But as matters now stana there is no telling when it will be able to begin operations. 1t has been definitely announced that no business will be engaged in until the road reaches the Q-street depot site in this city. The reports that a temporary depot would be established at the Belmont terminus to engage in traffic from that point until the difficulty with the property-owners rhen- tioned 1s setiled have been officially de- nied. For the present all work is stoppea at Belmont, and the tracklayers will work back to the river ballasting and finishing the road. It is expected that some of the officials of the road will come down from Stockton on the new track. They will be able to make street-car connections to the city and will therefore be able to travel to Fresno by rail and not off those of the Southern Pacific, either. e LIFE INSURANCE SUIT. Laura M. Straube Brings Action Against the Pacific Mutual. FRESNO, Car., Aug. 19—Laura M. Stranbe, widow of S. N. Straube, who diad on December 25, 1594, to-day began suit against the Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Company for §15,000 camages for defraud- ing her out of a $10,000 policy on the life of her husband. The complaint recites that on June 1, 1385, Mr. Straube took out the policy and paid regularly every year up to June, 1893. In the following Decem- ber A. B. Covalt, the local sgent for the insarance company, represented to her that on account of failure to make the payment of the premium to the previous June the policy had gone out of foree. The plaintiff was induced to surrender the policy, the company giviag her an al- leged bonus of $223 76. About three months later the piaintiff learned that Agent Covalt misrepresented matters o her and that the policy bad not gone out of force as pretended. Mrs. Straube there- fore sues for $15,000 damages. TR PR Cass Colrin’s Examinat iom. FRESNOQ. Car., Aug. 19.—The prelimi- nary examination of Cass Colvin, who mur- dered his brother-in-law, Robert L. Tot- ten, at & logging camp near the i Mills, will be held before Justice Redfield at Sanger next Saturday. When the trial comes to the Superior Court Colvin will putin a plea of seif-defense, although the tes timony adduced at the Coroner’s in- uest failed to give the shightest ground ?qt this. Ex-Rev.J. H. Collins will defend NEW TO-DAY. BIG PRESENT FREE. Profits Divided wih Customers wno —COME DIRECT TO— (ireat American fmpartng Tea (o HOHE:- SAVING STORES!: 1344 Market 146 Ninth st. 2510 _Mission st. 08 Third st. 140 Sixth st. 2008 Filimore st. 617 Kearny st 985 Market st. 1419 Poik st. 3006 Sixteenth sta <21 Montgomery ave. 104 Second st. 333 Hayes st. 3285 Mission st. 52 Market st. (Headquarters), S. P. Washington st. 616 E. Tweifth st. a1 Pablo ave. 9i7 Broadway, 1355 Park st., Alameda.