The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 4, 1897, Page 30

30 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JULY 4, 1897. WALKING BACKWARD Ex-Attache Writes in His Usual Vigorous Style on an Absurd European : Custom. Sometimes this walking backward gives rise to rather pretty and even pathetic devices on the part of those who desire to | avoid accidents such as happened to the Duke of Argyll. Thus I can recall the case of 2 relative, who, in return for active service, was summoned with several brother officers to Buckingkam Palace in order to receive from the sovereign herself the Order of the Bath. He had lost his right leg in action so near to the hip joint that there was no means of wearing an artificial limb and he was consequently dependent upon his crutches. When he entered the royal pres- ence it was noticed that he held fastened apparently to the handrest of each crutch a couple of lovely bouquets. At a third of the distance up the long room he stopped, made the regulation how as best he could and dropped one of the bunches of flowers on the floor. Then he mede his wav to the Queen, tendered her the other bouquet, which she graciously accepted, received his Order of the Bath, which she herself fastened to his uniform with many a kindly word, for he had been a favorite of her husband, and then he proceeded to withdraw from her presence. 1f ever there was a case in which the walkin - backward might have been ex- cused, it was there, and the faces of the Queen ana those around her betrayed signs of concern and anxiety lest some mishap would overtake the colonel. He, however, backed away, displaving him- se.f some hesitation and anxiety until he reached that part of the room where he had purposely lett the first bouquet on the ground. That gave him his bearings. He knew where he was then and leaving the flowers there reached the door in saftety, the Queen kindly nodding and waving her hand to him in appreciation of his some- hat arduous act of homage, That her sty was moved thereby wasshown by | the fact that a few days later he received from the Queen a rather unusual present, namely, a handsome carriage and a pair of horses, together with an expression of the wish that the conveyance mightin some measure tend to alleviate the dis- | comiort caused by the absence of the limb which he had lost in her service on the | d of battle. Sometimes when the court dignitaries | happened to be fat, or unkindly trested by nature with regard to figure and form, they present an exceedingly comical ap- pearance when walking backward; that| is to say, to those who, not being of royal | blood, have the advantage of the rear; view; and I for one shall never forgelL the | mirth-engendering spectacle offered to my | sight by a certain noble lord who shall be nameless, and who formerly occupied an | mportant post in tie Queen’s household. Providence had been so bountiful to him | in the matter of talent and intellect, that | it had presumably with the object of even- | ing up things, been lessliberal in physical | matters, and while his bodv was unnatu- raliy loag, his legs were both abnormally sbort, and to say the Jeast, deflected. | Imagine the tigure thus constructed of this | stunted nobleman—for he was very short | —arrayed in the hideous Windsor uniform with kneebreecnes and silk stockings, | wal backward, and you have some- | thing very muchin the nature of a human and dignified than Chamberlain and Lord of Pembroke and Lathom being, more- | over, ade in the art of walking back- | Lathom is a handsome man | with a long white beard reaching almost to his waist, and yet whose figure retains all the elasticity and elegance of a man | 30. He is very tali—not quite so| 1all, however, as the Lord Steward, the Earl of Pembroke, whose good looks, stature and noble bearing are as unrivaled in the House of Lords as they were until three years ago in the House of Com- mons. This is not astonishing, as he is | the head of the House of Herbert, which | however, can be more stately the present | for centuries has been renowned for its good looks, and, moreover, is the grand- | son of the famous Russian beauty Cathe- | rine, Countess Woronzow, while his | father’s charm of person and manner have | been portrayed by Lord Beaconsfield in his nove! “Endymion,” in which he fig ures under the name of Sydney Wilton. It may be of interest to add that the present Lord Pembreke is not without American connactions, his younger brother, Michael Herbert, popularly known in the diplomatic service by the vickname of “Minga,” being married to a | daughter of Richard Wilson of New York, whose h he secured while British Charge d’Affaires at Washington. There was a considerable amount of walking backward at the English court Pprevious to the accession to the throne of Queen Victoria, but nothing like as much as theie is at present. Indeed, royalty | nowadays, in England at any rate, is en- vironed by a vast degree more of etiquette and homage than in days of yore. This is entirely the doing of the late Prince Consort. When he married he was not slow to ob- serve that not only was there a great amount of corruption, extravagance and maladministration at the court of his royat bride, but likewise that there was, pariicularly on the part of the great nobles and principal dignitaries, an absence of deference and respect for the occupant of the tnrone, which grated strongly upon the ideas of a young prince who owed, if not his political principles at any rate his views with regard to man- ner, etiquette and breeding to Austria’s great Chancellor, Prince Metternich. The middle-class farmer-like habits of George 111, the shameiess immorality of George 1V, and of bis profligate brothers, the Dukes of York and Cumberiand, as well as of his successor, King William IV, who added thereto an eccentricity verging on imbecility, had impaired to such a degree the prestige of the sovereign and of royalty in the eyes of the aristocracy. which by reason of its rank had the oppor- tunity of looking upon the reigning family atghort range, that 1t had lost al- most every vestige of reverence for the anointed of the Lord, Indeed, this was carried to such a point that the Jockey Club, composed of the greatest nobles and principai social per- sonages of the United Kingdom, did not hesitate to warn off the turf the trainer and jockey of Kine George IV (whkich was equivaleat to inflicting the same public slight upon the monarch himself) on the alleged ground that one of his Majesty’s horses had been run unfairly. Moreover, when Queen Victoria made up her mind bands of thel openly at the idea of their being com- pelled to accord the *‘pas’’ to the husband of their Queen. ‘The manner in which Prince Albert set ail this to rights was as efficacious as it was radical and character- is A Liberal in politics, and that 100 of the most advanced description, he revived at the Engiish court all those medieval | ideas according to which no one was entitled to wait upon the sovereign er upon the members of the reigning family unless possessed of noble lineage and rank. | He transformed those peers and peeresses which had objected to his precedence into something very much akin to flunkeys, compelling them to perform services which many would describe as menial to his wife and to himself. When he went with her Majesty in state or semi-state | to the opera or to the theater, duchesses, | marquises and earls would be compelied not to sit in the royal box, but stand behind the chairs of the Queen and the Prince throughout the entire performance, and it is hardly necessary to recall here the well-known story of the action of the Queen while on a visit to King Louis Philippe at the Chateau d’Eu, when, althouzh very thirsty, she refused 2 \ glass of water handed her by a servant at the King’s orders, and declined to receive it until tendered to her by one of the King's own sons, the late Prince of Ne- mours. Prince Albert’s plan, although it would not commend iiself to democratic ideas, was a most politic one if we are to judge by the resuits. Forin spite of its being subject to & constitutional form of government, there is no country in the world where rovalty is treated with more | profound regard, and is accorded more | unstinted homage than Great Britain, a land whete the greatest nobles now vie with one another in their eagerness to ob- tain at court offices entailing discomfort and fatigue, as well as the performance of services that in establishments of lesser rank would be performed by a menial. There is no longer any of that “laisser aller’ which formerly prevailed, and which is now so conspicuous a feature at many of the Continental court.. Nor are there to be witnessed at Buckingham Pal- | ace such extraordinary scenes as those which characterize state balls at Madrid and the Quirinal, where, as soon as the supper-room is opened, the buffet is taken by storm, just as if it were the refresh- ment bar of some railroad restaurant and the royal guests a horde of famished tray- elers. Indeed, the etiquette at the English court rivals if indeed it does not surpass | that of the courts of Vienna and St. Pe- tersburg, and it is to be regretted, under the circumstances, that when the Em- | peror of Japan resolved to organize the court of Tokio on a European basis he should have applied to Emperor William for Baron von Mohl, instead oi seeking the assistance of Queen Victoria or the Prince of Wales in the matter, and asking them to place some of their court dignita- ries at his disposal. Baron Mohl was not altogether success- ful in weaning the retainers and dignita- ries of the Mikado of their old habits and manners, and few who witnessed 1t will ever forget the break made by a young Japanese nobleman attached to the court, and who was at the same an officer of the Imperial Guard, one day when the latter was being reviewed in the presence of the diplomatic corps by the Emperor. Every- thing had gone well and the troops had marched by the saluting point in fine shape until the battalion commanded by the young officer in question. He was marching proudly past in approved Euro- pean style, arrayed in his half German, half French uniform, when suddenly all new-fangled ideas vanished as 1f by en- chantment from his brain. He remembered only that he was in the presence ot his divinely descended ruler, to whom the most abject tokens of homage were due, and, dropping from his erect position into s crouching attitude, his body bent in half and his hands rest- ing upon his knees, he taus marched, or ratber crouched in old Japanese fashion, | past the saluting point, every soldier and officer behind him following suit, to the mortification of *the Emperor and his | staff and to the intense and ill-concealed amusement of the diplomatic corps and of X- ATTACHE. ————— London 18 not ouly the healthiest cap- ital in the world, but is becoming health- ier than the great towns ot Engiand. The death-rate is slowly declining, the mortal- ity being below the average for the cor. responding period of the last ten years. NEW TO-DAY. OWADAYS, when women are trying to do everything it is not strange that many things are over-done, It ig not strange that there are all kinds of thsical and men- al disturbances. If the woman who is a doctor, or a lawyer, or a journalist, or in business would not try to be a society woman too it might be different; but the woman who knows when she has done a day’s work has yet to be born. Usually a woman’s way is to keep doing until she drops. Working in this way has manifold evils. As an old colored Aunty used to say: ‘‘There’s always somethin’ the matter. Ifit isn’t one thing it’s two.” The most common trouble resulting from over- exertion, either mentally or physically, is constipation of the bowels, with all its at- tendant horrors. There is no human ailment that so saps the energies, so deadens the ambitions, as that coming from the bowels forgetting their vocation, or the liver only work- i{ng about eight hours out of the twenty- four. Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets are the most effectual remedy in the market. They work upon the system easily, naturally. There is no unpleasant nausea after taking them. No griping—no Fnin—no discomfort. The; are composed of materials that go throug] the system gradually, collecting all impuri- ties and like the good little servants that they are, disposing of them effectually. MRS. ROSANNA M. Biiss, of Colosse, Os wego County, New Vork, says: "I had suffered much with dizziness, somes times faintness from too much mental work, Over exertion physically caused constipation of the bowels. Itried liver pills, They gave tem- to wed young Prince Albert, who was not even a member of a royal family, but a mere “'serene highness,”’ a number of the great English peers and dignitaries actu- ally forgot themselves so far as to grumble rary relief. Two years ago T began using Dr. erce’s Pleasant Pellets. I have, at intervals, used three bottles, and I am now enjoying unine terrupted good health." Yours truly, ICosanmar e lesan HALE BROS. Noveities. the city. will be worn this fall. prices. ISUUTUUSSSUT VPSS HALE’S DRESS GOODS DEPARTMENT. | HALE EBROS. | AT Our Dress Goods Department shows a choice collection of Fall Christian Endeavor people visiting San Francisco should inspect these stocks and purchase their fall dress while in The assortments we are showing are novelties that They are modest, stylish and in perfect taste and are selling at popular The biggest assortments are at 50c, 75c and $1 a yard. NEW-—A new line of FANCY POPLIN JACQUARDS— Black warps wiih fancy colored overshot figures, 42 inches wide, black combined with either cardinal. emeraid. ma- rine, olive or brown, will be very stylish. A 7-yard suitfr..... §$522 suit 41 inches wide, very newe t colar Handsome broche effects, B00O0O00V0B000000BB00000000000000000G00000B00000 $522 sult combiuation 7-yard suit for........ NEW—-FANCY BROCHE SUIT- INGS—Black mohair _figures set oft by the colored back- ground, em erald, cardinal, browns. olive and marine, 44 incnes wide. A 7-yard suit for NEW-FANCY JACQUARD SUITINGS—A peep at a fall nov-liy, black figures on a highly flluminated b ickground, an elegant fabric, sure to be acoming fad. A o g3z fashionable. A T-yard suitfor uit EXTRA SPECIAL—The bvest ar Dress ment, 8 of suitings, worth @1.75 1 new, 39 Incnes @ 1— ) w.de. A 7-yard suit special at Buit FRENCH JACQUARD SILKS—Beaut!- ful designs, full 24 inches wide, this silk xold over our counte:s all season The balance as 50¢ at 75¢ and 85c yard. : Yard @ special at FANCY GROS DE LONDRE SILKS— Our regular doilar grade, 4 pretty styles to select from, 20 Inch. At Hales 75° Yard BLACK SATIN DUCHESS—An elegant fabric for a black silk dress, extra heavy q-ality, 33 inches wide, guar- anteed the best dye and all pure siik. On Special sale at. i 85°¢ Yard CHANGEABLE TAFFETA — A new line just arrived, every color and sbade and tint, a swell one, full 19 inches wide. Thislot for. 75° Yard A SPECTAL FROM WOOLEN DRESS GOODS—Fancy tile check suitings, those verv swell checks 8o popu.ar 10w, 46 to 50 inches wide, extra heavy, would maxe a neat little ou:- ing suil, worth from $525 to 86 a suit. A 7-yard suit from any line at B4z TB00606000606060060060600060666860 HALE'S CLOAK DEPARTMENT STRIPED GI5500 LADI DU pertect fit, fuli skirt. sizes 32 1038 Ou cale at Hale’ LADIES' CHECK DUC Biuzer effects. a s affair trimmed with white duck and small buttons. At Hals's. ' POLKA DOT DUCK —A nobby outfit with a away jacket. “tailor-mude” fit, very s:ylish. At Hale's.... A complete line of Separate Skirts. Yosi- vely the best Skirts fu the city for the money. LADIES' ALL-LINEN OUTING SUITS—Mixed effects. a fly-front jacket and a full, well-fitting skirt, seams all apied and cloth bound, the most caretully made suit of them all. Au Hale LADIES’ BROWN CLOTH COMBINA- TION SCITS—Jacket all lined with fancy silk. here is a bargain, this suit was $1650. For yon now at D WALKING EN MIKE SULI S one-buttoned cutaway jucket Is all silk lined, & perfectly s 7-50 Hiting skir, this sult wi $156. Now —_ a. Hale's. A T (The ab)ve Sults are new, stylish and up-to.date. Altered to perfect fit). T 00000000508800000000808088000 #/m«cmomnnl_ 937-945 Market St., AU TS o ST HALE BROS. SAN FRANCISCO. STORE CLOSED 10-NORROW! Our store will remain closed all day to-morow, July 5. Ready for busi= ness Tuesday morning. DOMESTIC DEPARTMENT. HEMSTITCHED PILLOWCASES, 2- fnch hem. dry-ironed, carefully made 45x36 In. 1214c each | 50x36 ..1214c each GAXBO 5 sems ok 231/c each RC 95 Each SPREADS, .50 d, $l e CROCHET SPREA hemmed and ready to use. Marseilles patterns, & g00d $1 25 spread, 8inches. GENUINE MARSEILL 2783 vards of FINE DIMITY, pretty little patterns for children’s dresses. the 734c¢ kind. The entire lot on sale at. 3 Yard HEMMED SHEETS, well bleached, 2- inca hem, gord. heavy and reliable, sheets that wear and <arists— 72x90 in.. ... 45¢ each | 90x30 in. 55¢c each 81x90 inches.. ch LACE CURTAIN DEP'T. Just received. a line of the very latest Lace Cur- tain Novelties. Justas well be in style. 314 yards long, $1 and $1 50 a pair. TINSELED DRAPERY, $0 inches wide, ] ()C pretiy for mantels,’ buresus, etc, 4 pluk, blue, green, red. Pric . Yard TAPESTRY TABLE COVERS, bigsize, 6 zood colors to select from— N ..75¢ each Quality No. Heavier quality . 8110 each HALE'S FURNISHING GOODS, full_size for double beds, hemm L— | ready to use, an elegant spread Each DAMASK TABLE CLOTHS, white fig- ured, with border ail round— 8-4size. ... $125each | 8-10 size... .. §1 50 each 812 size o el . $3ieaoh ze Napkins to match.. .. $2 dozea BLEACHED DAMASK NAPKINS every thread pure linen. Napsins vou would be proud of— $1 25 doz. | 23x23 in......8$2 00 doz $1 50 do: 24x24 1 HALE BROS ! for cash last week. charge all tnis week. brown or green— No. 16 (2% inch: No. 22 (3-uch). PLAID RIBBOX. neck bows, regular 50c. 86c Yard. ‘We are show 23¢ to 75¢ a yard. 85¢, bUc and 76¢ a yard. Over 3000 yards of Warp Print Ribbons purchased e On sale this week. are extra quality and all pure silk, colored. satin edge. Also Fangy Plaid and Grass Line’n Ribbons on spcau sile. Fancy Neck Bows will be tied and fitted free of WARP PRINT RISEON, blue, pink, black, navy, heliotrops, cardinal, 1 A dark eif-cts pretty for In light an pretty for g & complete line of PLAIN M VKILIN(GS, in biack, brown, cream OF navy, 18 inches wide, Also SILK BORDERED VEILINGS, in the same colors as above, for HALE BROS 55 These Ritbons No 15c yard 19c yard i GRASS LINEY RIBBOX. - Fancy Colored Jacquard edges, 4 in. wide, was 30c. On sale 18c Yard. SH AND CHENILLE DOT Prices inch) %4 inch). 23c yard 0c »ard 256, QgQH:JLJ{RVOD,OQQOOQOU')UUQE‘OQQDGUDQVQ,_QWJLQJUUUIF LADIES' EGYPTIAN COTTON UN- DERVESTS, LNNS, Jersey ribbed and shuped, fancy crochet edie, ORC drawers (0 match (ankle length). Price. 5 " Garment LADIES’ EGYPII COTTON_ UN- DERVES1S. HNLS, a heavy Jersey OBC ribbed garment, crochet neck and &0 front, drawers to match. <ev.. Garment sS' FINE FRENCH LISLE STS, HNLS and HNSS, exfra su- 'OC erior Jersey rithed and O y. shaped, drawérs to match.... ........ Garment GENTS' NATUKAL GRAY MIXED UNDERWEAR, weight, silk-bound neck and_iro just’ enough cotton to keep the gai ment irom shrinkin WOOL medium 50° arment LADIES' FINE LAWN SHIRT WAISTS. separate collar and laun- dered cuffs; light. medium and dark shades: a big ine Of new patierns av Hale's for. 3 BAZAAR GOODS. MELROSE TINTED WRITING PA- 10¢ PER, in boxes, 24 sheets and 24 en- velopes. Price. o Box 50¢ Each COMBINATION D¥ comb and brush ri match - holder. all bossed tin. Price. ING - CASES, ack, mirror and em- 10¢ Each combined, “RFUMED TOI- 0 oatmea’, honey, tar, h bath, glvcerine, liiy, bouquet, Turkis etc.; 12 cakes for 50c or 1 cake for.... 5¢ 8° DUSTPANS, extra heavy japanned tin, Price. ..Each MAIL ORDER DEPARTMENT. Visiting Endeavorers should leave their address for our fail catalogue 1o be issued shorty. Order anything advertised. ol CHILDRENN BLACK COTT o VACATION ST(CKI S, ' o Dest Maco varn, seamie EC o black, full finisk, a stocki 15 o wears, sizes Pair, o f | LADIES' BLACK C o German make, o) 8tocking of tne best rc & higb-spliced heels, d. 15° & and toe. At Hale's LT Pair & POPULAR SHADES IN COTTON HOSE FOR LADIKS AND CHILDREN, oxblood, tan, 9RC brown and bronze, full finish Z¢) and all sizes, Z oate mascre Pair Two Bargains in Gents' Nightshirts, = Good and heavy and plenty big, 54 inches long, full cut, carefully made so they WoD'L rip; a Dightgown worith buy! both Iively spectals, but sleep-producers: flannelette or muslin. Y our choice for B50c Each. SPANGLE TRIMMINGS. TIRE STOCK OF TRIMMINGS AT F 60% OFF. AS EXAMPL. QUOT. 1O Line TWO. FROM GLOVES. THE LATEST NOVEL] CHAMOIS WASH G a Zclasp Chamols Glove in_pearl gr y, with biack embroidered back: also white and natural : flited and warrant a plece of 0 ap” with every | Prices 85¢ and. LADIES' 2-CLAS WALKING GLOVES, broldered backs, oxbiood. tan, @1.00 brown or blac rranted mg,l—- wear, perfect fit 9837-945 MAREKET STREET. wxmwwmuxuxmuygguwxum& £092000000990002900000000000000000900000090 SZ{IQSZQMRQQSI‘QDRQPD‘RSLI The new Sierra Railroad, which is being rapidly pushed into the mining region of Mariposa and Tuolumne counties, is going to add ® great new impetus to the revival of mining development now going on through- out these and other mother-lode counties. It will illustrate anew the immense adyantage of railroad communicatiou to any mining re- gion. G.A.Helmore, who has mining inter- ests about Somora, which the railroad will reach this fall, was in the City last week and told of the new prosperity of old Tuolumne. “There is an immense increase in mining activity up there,” he said, “but it will be greatly increased by the new railroad. It has been & long stage trip for visitors and a long and expensive haul for freight. Railroad communication will bring in more capital, more buyers and make the mining resources better known. It will cheapen transpor-ation for machinery and subplies and so aid devel- opment. Then it will result in many low- grade mines being opened and worked. There are hundreds of mines held by poor men who cannot erect mills. With railroad transporta- tion they will work their claims and ship the ore to the Sclby Smelting Works or to the smelter at Stockton, if otie is erccted there. “There is more freighting and travel along the highways than for many years. The hills are swarming with prospeciors ail along the mother lode. One of the activedistricts is the country south of Jacksonville,jon Moccasin Creek. Nesrly everything is located and they are awaiting anxiously the development work at the Black Warrior. At this mine a tunnet is being driven to tap the veiu 1000 feet be- low the apex. It isin 250 feet and there1s about fiity feet to go. No mines about there have been developed to that depth, and if deep values are found in the Black Warrior it will boom quartz mining all along the lode from the Tuolumne River to Mariposa and give a' higher value to every mine. In the Rawhide district everything 1s taken up and generally held at high figures. Development work at the Alameda and Tarantula has proved so favorable that it has enhanced the value of all the mines in the district. At the Alameda,about a mile from the Rawhide, they are sinking an inclined shaft several hundred feet and are erecting large hoisting works, but are doing only purely development work. “The Tarantula is one of those old mines that were abandoned many years ago, It was bought a fex: months ago by Dr. Redding of San Francisco, and about three months ago a chute of ore, from which $40,000 wes taken in a month, was found near the surfuce. A shatt and hoisting works are going forward and a mill will follow. A few months ago a Mr. Miles located a claim in that district and has sold ore which uetted him $10,000. The Soulsby district is also very active. The Souls- by, Deaa Horse, Black O+k and Draper are all turning out good ore. A number of agents for Esstern investors are around making quiet purchases, especlally around Tuttletown, where several Eastern companies have bougat properties and begun important operations.” This eccount is typical of the new life of nearly every mining region of the State. Field Assistant J. H. Means is preparing a map of a region forty miles square about Randsburg, showing the geography, topog- rapby, locations of imines, ete. It be published with Mr. Means’ report on that region if State Mineralogist Cooper can find any way of getting it done by the State Print- ing Office. be of growing interest. as this region rapidly develops. Within the past two weeks some important finds of good ore have been made about Randsburg, and some strikes of rich gravel beds have been made by dry washers. This desert region grows in prominence every week. The monthly production is expected to exceed $100,000 before fall. Within a few days the Minnehaha, near Randsburg, hag been bonded for $15,000. At the Val Verde No. 2, ore is running $50, and a widening vein was struck at a depth of only six feet. A recent run on ore from the La Monte averaged $93 per ton. Four claims, three miles from Randsburg, have been bonded for $22,500. Animportant development is the formation of a Randsburg company to mine coal four miles from Cow Wells, wherea vein of excellent coal, two feet thick at & depth of fifty feet, has been devel- oped. Little is being said about Kern County out- side of this desert district, but along*the Sierra slopes, amid the plenteous wood and ‘water of the Kern-river waltershed, there are swarms of prospectors and developers, and extensive operations of promise. Kern County is forging ahead. The production for 1896 rose from $342,000 in 1895 to $710,000, and this year the production will take a much big- ger jump. The Californians have abandoned the Den- ver International Giold-miners’ Convention to achieve its own success. It convenes on Tues- day, but not a California delegate has gone after all. A number of the delegates ap- pointed intended to go, but its character, na- ture and promise of success were so hazy and doubtful that all dropped it, cheerfully wish- ing it good luck. The new State mining law now in effect is the subject of wide discussion among miners. There is a widespread doubt that the require- ment of $50 worth of assessment Work in & claim within sixty days alter location will stand a test on the ground that it is in conflict with the Federal statute requiring $100 worth of work within a year after the first day of the January succeeding the date of location. Tosatisfy both laws $150 worth of work must be done between now and January 1, 1899, on all clatms located this year. Other Blatek and Territories have had similar iaws, provoking stmilar discussion, for years, but the point has never been judicially determ- ined except Ly inference. It is likely that the question will be tested soon. However, the Federal law requires “at ieast”” $100 worth of work and contemplates the enactment of sup- piemental legislation by States and mining districts. The best mining lawyers believe that the State law will be upheld. This re quirement is very distasteiul to prospectors. naturally, as it takes some capital to do $50 worth of work on several claims in sixty days, and many men on finding prospects are keeping the locations to themselves and not taking up the cliims through inability to do the required assessment work. Bo.h the report and the map would | has published for free distribution a book, “Hints to Prospectors.”—The American Flat Development Company, which proposed to extend the Sutro tunnel to American Flat, has failed in its negotiations with the Comstock Tunnel Company and the Comstock mining companies. Now plans fo#tunneling from the river at Dayton and from the Dayton miue at Silver City are under consideration.—The cop- per output of the United States during the first five montns of 1897 was 90,000 tons, an increase of 3000 tons over the same period of 1896. The European demand has more than consumed the increase. The oil production of the Los Angeles dis- trict is greatly increasing under the stimulus of the price of $1 & barrel, which has been maintained for some time, and another break in prices is expected.—The Golden Cross Min- ing Company has sold thirty claims in San Diego County to a California and Salt Lake syndicate for $1,000,000. The property in- cludes 150 stamps and has been producing $30,000 & month net. GRADY VERSUS SCHILLING, Attorneys Quarreling Over the Manage- ment of the Matthews Estate. A merry war is still raging between At- torney Frank Schilling and Counselor W. Grady for the control of the estate of Peter Owen Matthews, an incompetent person. Mr. Schilling was appointed guardian of the estate, but his management aroused the anger of Mr. Grady, who thought he could better care for the interests of the unfortunate Mr. Matthews, so he filed charges against Mr. Schilling and had himself appointed guardian ad litem. Mr. Schilling against Mr. Grady came back with a aeries of accusations, and in addi- tion he yesterday presented to the court hisjdemurrer to Mr.Grady’s petition. In his demurrer Mr. Schilling says that Mr. Grady’s petition does not state facts sufficient to constitute a cause for the re- moval of Mr. Schilling, that it appears that Mr. Grady has not legal capacity to sue in this case, and, horror of horrors, that “said petition is ambignous, unintel- ligible and uncertaln, as it cannot be see therefore whether W. D. Grady Esq. is the guardian ad litem and attorney for W. D. Grady, the petitioner, or for Peter Owen Matthews.” The contest was assigned to Judge Slack’s department of the Superior Court, and that may in Ssome measure account for the fact that Judge Slack has so unex- pectedly left for a short vacation, leaving Judge Carroll Cook to stand the brunt of the clashing lawyers when they meet to decide wnich shall manage poor Mat- thews’ property, which is worth several thousand dolla LOST HIS FINGERS. Ignatius Dratham Went Against a Buzz- saw and Sues Its Owners. Ignatius C. Dratham, by his attorneys, Suliivan & Sullivan, has instituted an action against Lows Cohen, Charles Cohen, Elias Wanke and Moses Wanke to recover $20,000 damages on account of per- sonal injuries. Dratham alleges that he was employed as driver and clerk for the defendants, who are owners of a picture-framing establishment, and says that after being 80 engaged for a while he was ordered to 2o to 533 Commercial street, where he was directed to take charge of a circular rip- saw; that ke had no knowledge of run- ning such a machine, and was not aware of the danger incurred by one inexperi- enced in that kind of work; that while so engaged the saw slipped on the wooa which _he neld, and cut off the thumb, indadx finger and middle finger of his left hand. Dratham holds that the defendants are responsible for his hurts because they put him to work on this machine without in- structing him in its operation and without warning him of the danger. Dupont-Street Bonds. Albert Meyer has sued City Treasurer A. C. Widber to compel the payment of $26,380 The Union Pacific, Denver and Gulf railway ‘which he alleges is due on the coupons oi Du- pont-street bonds. e - SUINE CAPRON STEPDATGHTERS Allegations That They Are Withholding Trust Funds. Valuable Property Temporarily Transferred to the Young Ladies. Wrongful Acts Charged Against Madge Manion, Hattie Kearney and Mamie Greer. A censational family contest follows quickly upon the death of John 8. Capron, formerly a prominent citizen and capital- 1st of Nevada. Papers were filed in the County Clerk’s office yesterday by Judge A. L. Fitzgerald, special administrator of the Capron estate, to have declared that a large amount of valuable property now claimed by others is, in fact, held in trust for the said estate. The papers in the case were prepared by Attorney Henry Mayerbaum before Mr. Capron’s death, but that event temporar- ily suspended the beginnine of the litiga- tion. The compiaint is directed against William A. Manion, Joseph E. Kearney, Madge A. Manion, Hattie M. Kearney, Mamie 1. Greer, sometimes known as Capron, the San Jose and Santa Clara Railroad Company, the California Guar- anty Investment Company, the Union Trust Company and the San Francisco Savings Union, the corporations here named being joined as defendants because they have possession of some of the prop- erty in litigation. 1t is alleged thav the ladies named as detendanis are the stepdaughters of the deceased, John S. Capron, and that in January, 189, while sick and believing that he was about to die, he conveye cer. tain property to the female defendants in trust for him on the condition that the same be reconveyed and delivered to him on demand. The assets in dispute include the fol- lowing: A note by A. L. Fitzgerald for $300; C. Wallace, $300% J. C. B Hubbard, S’ sfacs Johnson, $3000; Hegler & Johnson, 3 San Jose'and San'ta Clara Rsilroad bonde, $17+ 500; stock of California Guarantee Invesimen: Company, $10,000; bonds of J»cob Rich, $700; morigage' of J. Kearnan, $1000; of Mary J. McCoy, sm?o; morteags. ot Herman Cordes, foreclosed for 3 A and lot in San Jose, $3000; c.prfim’mufi: Francisco, $2500; mortgage on Pegram Housa. Oakland, foreciosed for $1000; Rich & Bichop ranch, near Los Gatos, $8000; lot and dwelling 1319 Devisadero street, san Francisco, $6000. Precita Valley and Beriial Heiguts lote, gooo mort<age on” Harrub ranch, Byron Sprin %'a‘ 3 depcsit in San Francisco Stving;; nion, $3200; Henley lot in San Jose, $1000; morigage on the Bliss property, Alameda, All the foregoing notes, mortgages and securities are alleged to be in tkfe'depouil vauits of the Union Trost Company, sub- Ject 1o the control of ihe defendants. The complaint sets forth that at sundry times since the 11th of January, 189, and last on the 3d day of this;month, Jobn 8. Capron and the piainiifi de: manded of the stepdatgnters and their husbands that they reconvey and deliver this property to the owner, and that they wrongfully and unlawfully m**4{*#***¥‘limi*mt*fli**i*t*fi**t**ii*}l*t*fl*****t*k**‘ktk*kfli*i*‘# refuse to do so, but have used a gre thereof and are still usine it won 1o tent to defraud the plaintiff, and that.thes threaten (o couceal and dispose of the same, so at the purpose v bequevly rmstrm'cd.p S nEutay residing Judge Seawell has parties inlerested from handling or {rans. * ferring any of the property mentioned by the plaintiff pending the hearing of a motion for the appointment of a receiver, who shall have authority to dispose of ths assets, which are claimed as part of the Capron estate, as directed by the court. 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