The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 15, 1897, Page 6

6 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, AUGUST 15, 1897. TRACES OF bOLD ALONG T SHURES Unnamed River Found by Explorers in Alaska. QUARTZ PICKED UP BY SCIENTISTS. Alvin Seale of the Hopkins- Knowles Expedition and His Discoveries. ARCTIC REGION RICH IN ALL KINDS OF METAL. The Stanford Unlverslty Student Tells of His Finds In the Far North. PACIFIC GROVE, CaAL., Aug. 14.—The frozen north with its wonaerful and ever- changing panorama of weirdness and beauty, its long saummer of constant light and brilliant color and its contrasting long winter of almost unbroken night, its allurements of untold wesaltn yet un- obtained and its frightful suggestions of death from cold or starvation, is a sub- ject just now filling tne public mind to the exclusion of all else. A person who has ever been into this icy El Dorado finds bimself a little above ordinary hu- manity, for he has seen and he knows what every one else is trying to learn— what life in Alaska actualiy is. | Last year Alvin' Seale and Norman | Schotield were sent out by Stanford Uni- | versity on what Knowles Arctic exp n to study the birds and fish of the Arctic regions and to collect specimens of the more rare species for the versity. DBesides being the source of great advantage to its members and to the college from a scientific stand- point this expedition was the means of | giving Seale and Schofield a very accurate knowledge of the climatic and other con- ditions of the Territory of Alaska, its peo- ple and their customs. Much of this in- formation gieaned, by the way, is of espe- | cial interestin the present state of Klon- | dike exciterent. At one time while seining for fish speci- mens in a large river about 100 miles nortn of the Yukon they discovered what they thought to be gold deposits, but being mor? | interested in the fish in the stream tuan the minerals beside it they paid but com paratively little attention to the evidences | about them. Now that the Yukon gold | deposits are proving so rich these men re- gret that they did not make at least a cursory examination, for the specimens picked up give evidence of a considerable | quantity of metal. i *‘Alaska as a country Is marvelously big and beautiful whether the southern or northern portion be taken into con- sideration,” said Seale. “‘The luxurious vegetation of the short summer in South- ern Alasks, its tall grass and ferns, its lovely wild flowers and delicious ber- ries make it a veritable fairyland standing in striking conirast te Arctic Alaska, | which is one weird waste of barrenness, ice and snow that the never-setting sun invests with a grandeur at times awesome. “The beauties of the midnight sun have often been written of ard described, but only those who have actually seen it can form any conception of its appearance, and when to this is added the brilliant and electrical snap and crackle of the northern aurora borealis, the scene is simply wonderful. The whole air and earth and sky seem charged with it, and you feel it even to your finger tips. “*As far north as Herachel Isiand many beautiful wild flowersare to be found during the summer, growing even to the edge of the snow on sunny hilisides. These Arctic fiowers are delicate of tint and structure and comparatively few of them are fragrant, 1 brought back a considerable coliection of tiem gathered from all the places at which the ship touched. “The great numbers of birds and fish to be founda in those regions is at the least amazing, aud when one thinks of acres of waler covered with sea birdsand fish so abundant that some geasons they may be dipped upin hand nets by persons on shore; and of golden plover, snipe, white- fish, salmon, salmon trout and other epi- curean delicacfes in the Arctic, and add to this an urlimited supply of rold which is there for the taking, there seems little wonder that su many people are rushing madly to this land of wonders and wealth. “The other side of the picture is not so alluring, however, for even in the short open season navigation of the seas and streams is difficultand oftentimes danzer- ous because of icepacks and reefs. The almost constant rain and dense fogs, caused by the melting ice and snow, muke traveling by either land or waier- very slow. ln winter there is absolutely noth- 1ng to be done but to tie up to the ice and | wait until the packs begin to break and clear away. This ‘lying-up to the ice’ is a peculiarity of Arctic navigation. On account of the difficulty of getting througn the ice the ship is aliowed & regular nightly rest, and is always made fast to gome stationary ice to remain during the short twilight period which is there calied night. Sometimes there is a grindingand crushing sound caused by tue bLuge ice biocks moving apainst each other, which is rather disturbing during thbese nigntly Tests. . *“Some of the seine fishing carried on by the Hopkins-Knowles expedition was done in the Port Clarence vicinity, and it was here that the mineral signs were seen by us. A laree river, deep enough to float & warship, but as yet without a name, forms the outlet to a lake of considerable size, about twenty miles irland, and empties into the sound known as Grant- ley Harbor, where Captain Kallet, in the chip Plover, wintered in 1851, while on the first Sir John Franklin relief expedi- tion. Grantley Harbor in its turn enters Port Clarence Bay. This bay is notable because the United States Government reindeer station is situated on its northern shore. “The reindeer venture has passed the stage of an experiment now and the station and its attendant village of Sibe- rian Lavps seems a permanentinstitution, The river is known to the whalers as ‘The Narrows,’ and we being the first men other than the whalers wanted to give it the name of ‘Stanford River,’ in honor of the expedition. Along the rvanks of this stream evidences of bell- metal and silver and signs of gold de- posits were visible, and [ brought some £pecimens of quariz home. I have never had this examined bv.an expert. As these mineral discoveries were given so little attention by us and not looked into beyond the mere passing note of them I do not like to give a definite opinion re- posits thereabouts, but I think the region may be full of mineral. 4 “‘There was little doubt aboutthere being silver and bell-metal in the locality, but as to gold I cannot say to a certainty. The natives teli of & place fariher up where a bright liquid rises and falls i A rock fis sure. Thisis, of course, only legendary, for no white man has ever been that far up, and we can only suppose it is quick- silver. This locality: is very interesting from a scientific standpomt.”” DIED ON THE MEXICAN COAST. William Lacy, Who Left Las Angeles for a Cruise on His Yacht, Buried at Guaymas. LOS ANGELES, CAr., Aug. 14 —Meager news reached the city to-day of the death of William Lacy, one of ihe prominent capitalists of Los Angeles, who has been largely interested iu shipping and foreign commerce. ‘Mr. Lacy left here about a fortnight ago for a cruise on his yacht, the Peneiope, to ports on the Mexican coast, one of his objective points being his San Francisquito mine in Lower Cali- fornia. Thus far the only intelligeuce re- ceived in regard to his death was con- tained in a telegraphic message from Cap- tain Larsen of the yacht Penelope, re- ceived here to-day by William Lacy Jr. It stated: GUAYMAS, Mes Aug. 13 (via Nogales). G Manufacturing Company, Los An- Your father died. Buried in ntined for one day. Ed leaves r home. Morrison in charge. Has 3 es for three months, Please instruet. P. L. LARSEN. Though no details are given, it is sup- posed Mr. Lacy must have died of fever. He was in rugged health when he left Los Angeles. Mr. Lacy was the head of the Puente 0il Company; was connected with the Lacy Pipe Manufacturing Company and the Chino Oil Refinery; was a large stock- bolder in the First National Bank and lately acquired the San Francisquito mine, where he found his grave. His sis- ter is the wife of Sir Arthur Sullivan, the comic-opera composer, L TEOPHIES FOK THE GUARDS, Awards of Prizes Won by the Men at Camp Santa Monica. LOS ANGELES, CAL., Aug. }M.—Noth- ing remains of Camp Santa Monica but the flagpole, which is expected to be in proper position for the camp next year. “'General” was sounded at 7 o'clock this moraing and by noon sli the citizen-sol- diers of the National Guard were home- ward bound. The official decision of the award of vrizes was given out to-day, In competi- tive drilling Com pany H of Ventura tock first prize with 326 points, Company M of Riverside was second with 321 ana Com- pany Lof Santa Ana was third with 293, The General Last trophy for rifle marks- manship was won by Captain Meacham of Riverside, whose score was 67 outofa possible 75 at 20 and 300 yards range. Company M for the thira time won the Long Beach trophy with a team of six men, whose average score was42l4, ten shots, at 300 yards. The same colupany made the best record in silhouette prac- tice, scoring 950 points. It stands a good chance of gaining the State trophy. Captain Cargngton, U. 8. A.. whe was inspecter, says that Oamp Santa Monica had the best gnard duty he ever saw ina National Guard camp. —_— Eun Down by an Electric Car, LOS ANGELES, CaL., Aug.14.—A Santa Monica electric car this morning ran over and killed John Reardon, a track laborer at Sherman, half way between this city and Santa Monica. He failed td getout of the way when his fellow-workmen stepped aside to gvoid the car. He is said to have had a brother in 8an Francisco. -~ UF AN INSANE MAN. DEED Attempts to Slay His Wife ana Child Dith an Az SPOKANE, WasH., Auvg. 14.—Miss Laura Tyler, aged 15 years, rode into Wenatchee in great haste last evening to inform the constable that her father, G. W. Tyler, had gone insane and was at- tempting to kill her mother and little brother with a hatchet. The Tylers live on Stamilt Creek, ten mliles from Wenat- Constable Shute and William Kin- v, a relative of Tyler, made the ride to the ranch in less than an hour. The insane husband and father had made a savage attack upon his wife and 8-year-o.d son with a hatchet, but was taken with a violent fit before accom- plishing his terrible intent and succeeded in inflicting only flesh wounds on Mrs. Tyler's arms and shoulders. Tyler was brought to Wenatchee and taken by Deputy Sherlff Palmer to Ellensburg, where he may be committed to the insane asylum. His insanity was caused by a blow upon the head, which he received several years ago. Mrs. Tyler is pros- trated from her injuries, but will recover. ST S AFTERMATH OF THE FARO RAID, Marshal Creed of Sausalito to Be Ar- rectid for Mot Dotng His Duty. SAUSALITO, Can, Aug. 14—Not a card was turned, not & wheel revolved, not a die was thrown at tlie gamblers’ re- treat in El Monte Hotel to-day. The clear sweep made by the officers yesterday when they raided the den has cast a gioom over the gamblers. As an aftermath, complaints are to be sworn out against Marshal John E. Creed of Sausalito and others. Creed will be charged with having failed as an official todo hisduty. Itisstated upon the best authority that evidence has been obtained that Creed not only knew of the gambling ball being in existence, but made a com- mon practice of going into the resort and playing. Creed is not the only one for whom warrants will be issued. Any one who | was in any way connected with the game will be arrested, including the owners of the building, — ATTACKED BY HIGHWAYMEN, Fentura Man Wiips Which Knock One Huflian Senseless. VENTURA, Car., Aug. 14.—An attempt was made late last night to hold up A. L. Chafiee, manaeer of the Chaffee Com- pany’s mercantile establishment, who was driving into town. When near the suburbs two men sprang from the road- side, attempting to grasp the team by ths bridles. Their intended victim whipped the horses into a run, knocking down and passing over one ruffian. Under-Sheriff Snodgrass was notitied and wentto thescene of theattempted rob- bery, where he found a highwayman un- conscious from injuries roceived. He was removed to the County Jail, His identity is as yet unknown. The com- panion of the injured desperado escaped after a hot chase and the firing of several shots by the Shenff’s deputy. Chaffee had $500 worth of diamonds and jewelry about him and was a rich mark for the footpads. s g Robbed an Army Hospital. SAN DIEGO, CaL, Aug. 14.—Joseph Odhner. a private belonging to Battery C, Third United States Artillery, who was sent to the Uzited States Army Hospital here from the Presidioabout a month ago, was arrested to-day for grand larceny. Odhner came for treatment for iung trou- ble. He had been in the army but eight- een months, but during his illness had acquired the liquor habit, and when his money gave out he proceeded to pawn his belongings to get whisky. Finally he be- gan stealing from the hospital, taking five pairs of fine wool blankets. Odhner will be tried by general court-martial at garding the possibilities of rich gold de- the Presidio next month, SEA HARRIAGES ARE NOT LEGAL Superior Judge Allen of Los Angeles So Declares. Important Ruling in the Case of Homer Norman and Janet Thompson. The Court Declares That the Girl Is Not the Wife of the Young Man. LOS ANGELES, CaL., Aug. 14.—In view of the large number of sea marriages that have occurred recently on this coast, a decision rendered to-day by Judge Allen of the Superior Court is of general im- portance. It was the termination of the habeas corpus proceedings brought by the father of Janet Thompson against Homer Norman. The young couple, whose homes are in Azusa, ran away and went through the ceremonial of a marriage on the bigh seas, in which the captain of the boat officiated. In the Judge's decision he said: “As a result families have been dis- gracad, tragedies'have been enacted and estates have been wasted in bitter contro- versies ensuing. The Legislature, in amending the marriage law in 1895, evi- dently hud in view all of these difficulties and sought by one stroke to define a course of conduet, and no other, which would result in marriage. No agreement, contract or act of the parties not in strict conformity to the existing marriage laws of this State creates a marriage in this State or subjects the parties to its duties and obligations unless it shall have been entered 1nto in some other jurisdiction, under the laws of that jurisdiction, in which case its validily will be recognized. “ln my opinion, therefore,’ concluded the court, ‘“‘this attempted marriage within the jurisdiction of the State of California was never legally contracted; that there never was a marriage between these parties; that Norman is not the husband of this girl, and has no authority over her; but, that being a minor, her father is entitled to her custody and con- trol; that she is being restrained, if not by force, by faise represeniations as to her trde relations with Norman, and by artifice and ageinst her father’s will. Itis ordered that Janet Thompson be dis- charged from the custody of Homer Nor- man.” WEALTH FLOATED IN THE STREAH. Stockton Man’s Tale of a Siberian Waterway Colored Yellow by Particles of Gold. STOCKTON, CaL., Aug. 14. ~"Think of a stream of water ten feet wide running over rocks yellow with gold,” said Victor Heck, night clerk of the Commercial Ho- tel, to-day. “They talk about Klondike stories being greatly exaggerated, but 1 don’t know about that. I koow some- thing about the northern regions. and if I had had a chance to stay where 1 saw the sight I speak of I no doubt would be rich to-day—if I could have got out of the country with my wealth. “it was in Siberin. In 1866 the Western Union Telegraph Company coutemplated running an overland line from San Fran- cisco to 8t. Petersburg, Russia, and thence over Europe. Men were advertised for to accompany a party of explorers, and I was one who answered ang was accepted. We.left San Francisco and wentup north, crossed over the Aleutianislandsand went into the other continent. “I was with George Kennan, the now famous Russian traveler and writer. Ken- nan was at that time division saperin- tendent for the Western Union Ccmpany in Siberia. We got up there ia June, and even then the weather was very cold. We had to purchase fur clothes. I paid $3 60 for a suit—a very cheap prics, considering the present Klondike prices. Our expedi- tion was one of exploration. Besides picking out a good pole load for the line, we were supposed to find where the near- est timber for the purpose was to .be found, and that was to govern in a meas- ure the location of tue poles, or, rather, the tripoles on which the line was 10 be strung. “One day Kennan and myse!f tooka trip away from a camp we had made, and up a small creek. I noticed as we went along, at a place where the water broke over a4 natural small stone dam, that it was of a peculiar yellowish color. We stopped the dogs which were driving and 1 gotoutof the furs and examined. The water was extremely yellow—made so by little particles floating in it. I to!d Ken- nan that it must be gold, but at that time we thought there was nothing much in it. ““When we got back to camp I told Ken- nan that I wounld like to get my pay. and I would stay ard see what I couli doon a mining basis. Kennan hed the money, buii t was the agreement before the trip that we were to be ‘returned to San Fran- cisco if alive and receive our pay there. “I could not induce him to do other- wise thap to live up to the company’s wishes, and so after eighteen months of it in Siveria We were returned, and I got my money at San Francisco. We never got through to St. Petersburg. The news of the success of Field's Trans-Atlantic cable killea the Western Union Com- pany’s project. A few aays ago I read in the papers of where Russian geologists had found rich placer beds in the very spot where Ken- nan and myself were, and I always feelas though I had been next door to fortune, but could never move 1nto the right house.” : Heck was formerly a member of the City Council and later Deputy County As- 8e8SOT. Batagndie ASK FCR LAND DONATIONS. Project for the Establishment of a Suger Factory Submitted to Stocktonians. STOCKTON, CAL., Aug. 14.—K. G. Korn, president of the American Sugar Machin- ery Company, and Fred W. Bolzendale, secretary and treasurer of the company, are in Stockton looking over ,the ground and discussing a beet-suzar factory pro- ject with Stockton capitalists.. This morning in company with local men they inspected the proposed site on the Boggs tract along Stockton Channel. The site comprises 100 acres and is in every way suitable for a factory. Mr. Korn said to- day: “The ereciion of a beet-suzar factory in Stockton means that the value of land in this county will be enhanced at least 50 per cent, and it will be of immense value to the entire valley. Before we go ahead with the work we would like to have do- nated to the company, which will be' com- posed of Stockton parties, comprising tue Stockton Beet Sugar Company, with a capital stock of $1,000,000, about 3000 Jeted in any one place, acres of land. This land need not besitu- It could be do- nated in emall lots by farmers within a radius of ten miles from Stockton. In this way the land could readily be se- cured to the company, and no one would feel the loss. This land could be used by the company for colonization and for the raising of sugar beets tosupply the fac- This donation of 3000 acres of land to the company is wanted as a bonus for the building of the factory in this locality. ——— FUGITIVE TURNS PENITENT. §t. Louis EmbeEr ifielm'n: After | Four Years to Fay Back the Money He Stole. PORTLAND, Or, Aug 14.—Sam P. Irwin : as for the past three or four years been hanging about town, engaged in no business, yet dressing well and living the iite of a gentieman sport. He indulged ip no excesses, and was even admitted as 2 guest in respectable families. He had no chums, male nor female, and for a man of his outward type he was very reserved and kept out of crowds. His disposition was genial, and the very few claiming to know him intimately say that Le was a man of superior education. But it seeems that no one knew him weli, with the exception of Harry Wins- low, a sporting man who recently arrived from St. Louis, Mo. Winslow had known Trwin in St. Louis years ago, Irwin re- turned to that city on Monday night. ‘‘He is a fugitive from justice,” said Winslow to adetective this morning. “It was about five years ago when he was prominent in social and business circles in St. Louis, he at that time being assist- ant cashier of a4 bank. One morning he disappeared and ramor had it that he was a aefsulter to the extent of $30,000. There was not much saia about the affair in the papers, but {he detectives went on a stiil hunt for him, which, I presume, they have never given up. *'A week ago I met him in a saloon here and while I knew him only by sight back East I called him by hix right name. He almost toppled over, but, at once recov- ering his self-possession, be insisted that 1 was mistaken. Bat he had shown me his hana by his manifestation of surprise and eventuaily confessed his ideniity. I am not out here looking for pank embez- zlers and that sort of fellows and I passeg my word to him that his secret suould be mine. And so it would have been but for his consent to release me. “Last Sunday he came 1o me saying that he couid no longer endure the sus- pense hanging over him and had con- cluded to go home the next night and ‘face the music.’ During bis travels he had picked up much more than the sum he embezzled. Witn that he would try to effect a compromise with his former principals, who would rather take the money than to convict him. And he went.”’ 2 R R GUILTY OF KO CAIME. Fred Lucas, Arrested in Phonix for Alleged Perjury, Acquitted With Fonor. PH@ENIX, Ariz., Aug. 14.—Frea Lucas, the young man who was arrested in this city two months ago and taken back to Indiana on a requisition from the Gov- ernor, to answer to a charge of perjury and obtaining money under false pre- tenses, nas been ftried, acquitted with honor, and is now on -his way back to Pheaix, During a residence of several months here he bécame quite prominent in religious and socizl clrcles, so that the sudden charge against him and his extra- dition created quite a sensation. The news of his release and exoneration has peen received with much pleasure. Quite a dramatic scene was enacted in the courtroom at Indianapolis when the young man was brought in for trial. Lu- cas hud been arrested and indicted on in- formation supplied by the Indizana Mutual Building and Loan Association. It seems that last winter Lucas went to Indian- avpolis and procured from this association the loan of $900, giving as security a mori- gage upon a piece of Hunungton prop- erty, an abstract of which he exhibited as proof of ownership. This abstract showed on iis face that on December 15, 1895, the deed to the property had been recorded with the proper officials in Huntington, Later the association’s agent discovered that no such deed had been filed upon that date and the conclusion was at once jumped to that young Lucas had swindled tne association and fled to Arizona to escape tueconsequences. An agent of the concern was sent out here to find Lucas and bring him back to a trial. Lucas was easily found and made no resistance to the legal processes served upon him. When the case came to trial it was the District Atiorney who, upon the showing of Lucas’ counsel, moved the court for a nolle prosequi. Lucas did own the prop- erty and the deed for it was regularly re- corded in his neme, only the year was wrong. A clerical error had caused all the trouble. The abstract should have read *'1894” instead of ‘1895 and the Mutual Association should have been a little nrore careful in jumping at conclu- sions, S e PLANS FGOR THE STATE FAIR. Betting on the. Races to Be Confined to the Auction and Faris Mutual Systems. SACRAMENTO, Carn, Aug. 14.—The State Board of Agriculture met to-day to arrgnee the various details relating to the coming fair. The programme privilege was let to J. C. Langenderfer of Sun Francisco. F. W. Covey was elected starter of the trotting and pacing races and R. J. Haven of the running races. J. W. Wilsen was selected as presiding judge of the running races. A communication was received from the San Francisco Farmers’ Club asking the State Board of Agricultury to take in hand the matter of field trials of sugar- beet vlauting, so that they may bo con- ducted in a systematic way under com- petent direction. The board directed the secretary to notify the San Francisco Farmers’ Club that the board wouid co- operate with it, and selected a committee, consisting of Richard Gird, W. P. Mathews and John Boggs, to confer with the committee from the Farmers’ Club. It was ordered tbat the betling on races at the comine State Fair be confined to auction and Paris mutuals, and the secre- tary was directed to advertise for bids to be received on August 23 for the privileze. e o Men Who “Harness the Lightning.” SANTA CRUZ, Can, Aug. 14.—C. P. Gilbert of Sacramento, president of the Pacific Coast Eiectrical Transmission As- sociation, arrived here this evening to pre- are for the convention of the association in this city beginning Tuesday. Gilbert is president of the Sacramento Gas Li -ht and Power Company, and isone of the organiz- ers of the association, which is made up of representatives of long-distance electric power companies. There will be fifteen or twenty delegates in the convention. The visitors will be taken to the Big Creek Power Company’s plant on Wednesday and the final meeting of the convantion | will be held on Thursd R Siz Hundred Veterans Paraie. SAN DIEGO, Car, Aug. 14 —Six bun- dred old veterans, members of the South- ern Callfornia Veterans’ Association, marched in the big street parade to-day. At their head rode the retiring com- mander, A. J. Bell, Commander-elect J. L. Battery, Post Commanders P. I Brooker of Los Angeles, and A. F. Dill, of this city, Quurtermaster Thomas Laycock of Los Angeles and. General N. P. Chipman of Red Bluff. The encampment will break up on Monday, DRECTORS MEET AT SAN (UENTIN Mary Wilson’s Pitiful Case Acted Upon by the Board. Forty-Eighth Fiscal Report of the Penitentiary Is Presented. Two Convicts Allowed to Depart on Parolé—The Jute Miil’s Work Satisfactory. BAN QUENTIN PRISON, Can, Aug. 13 —The Board of Prison Directors, which met td-day, decided that Mary Wilson, a female convict, should be sent to the Stockton Asylum. Her case is most piti- ful. She gained considerable notoriety about two years ago by setting fire to a lodging-house on Sixth street in San Francisco. Bhe Bas been in San Quentin about eighteen months and has become insane. For a long time she has refused to touch fuod, and has wasted away until she is now almost a skeleton. Death may relieve her sufferings at any moment. The tobacco contract, which was not graated at the last meeting, was again considered to-day. It wasagreed to buy tobacco as it was needed, and as no con- tract was let a California firm is supplying the weed. The Golden Eagle Milling Company of Petaluma was given an order to supply seventy-five tons of hay at $11 a ton. The forty-eightn annual report for the fiscal year ending June 30 wasread. It was as follows: Averate number of pris oners for year 1520343 Total COBE.........00ucen Average cost per head per month......... g 810 31 Average cost per head per day.. & s4 Total expenses for year. $162,810 49 Net earnings of jute”d partment.. $25,091 87 Net earnings of comm sary department.. 1.181 91 Support of ail prisoners.. 18,247.00 Rapliss oo - 75988 Deceaséd convicts. 211 51 $41,30194 Net expenses of prison for year, s 8121418 55 Average net cost p°r head per month. ‘Average net cost per head per day.... Among the items in the expense ac- count are the following: * State Prison Directors’ expenses; $2338 95; escaved prisoners, $30; waler, $5898 13; dis- $781 25 Ccharged = prisoners. $1820: transporting prisoners, §1610 43; gas, §2823 90; salaries, | In the genéral expense account there is $146335 paid to Marin County for the prosecution of Robert Kelly, a convict who murdered Convict Arrison during a row in the prison. Kelly is now serving a life sentence in Folsom, to which prison he was transferred from San Quentin. The jute miil is in an exceptionally healthy condition and the jute sacks being turned out are as good as, if not better, than heretofore. Warden Hale reported A R T T T e T T T e T e that the men in charge of the various de- | partments understood their business and no better men could bs found. The jute mill is turning out 15000 bags a day. There are now 685,300 bags available. The ‘Wardeun stated to the board that 25 cents as the average net cost of a prisoner per day was the lowest record that the prison had yet made during his administration. Samuel Brandvs application for a parole was laid over until the next meeting of the board. He was sentenced for grand larceny from S8an Francisco for six years. Thomas McNamara, convicted of grana larceny in Oakland, was paroled. Me- Nemara was received ac_San Quentin on June 4, 1896. Warren Kirkendall, con- victed of assault in Amador County and under a sentence of four years and ten months, was paroled. He was received at the prison on December 12, 1894, John O’Rourke had a year's credits restored and will be released next Monday. The report of Warden Hale in regard to the jute mill shows the following: Bags on hand .o 950,500 Bags sola duri a8 258,328 Bags shipped doring_seaso ,891,128 ~ Bays sold awaiting shipment. 265,200 Bags on hand available for sale. 685, 300 There is sufficient raw jute on hand to run the mill until Marca 1, 1898, at an average daily consumption of thirty bales. The board adjourned to meet at San Quentin on the first Saturday in September. INVASIUN OF 'HOPPERS. Crops Destroyed in a Section of British Columbia. VICTORIA, B. C., Ang. 14.—A veritable plague of grasshoppers is reported in Similkameen County, on the msinland of this province, between the Central Pzcific Raiiroad and the boundary line. H. E. Ward of that section, who has arrived here to take charge of the mounted police pack train for Klondike, states that the number of pestiferous insects is simply incredible. “The ground is black with them,” he says. “Riding from Penticton north I gaw a strip of grazing country perhaps thirty miles long, from which, for a width of from four to six miles, they had eaten all the vegetation, cleaning it off as completely as if fire had pass ed over. It is a cattle - grazing coun- try, and the cattle are aiready as lean as if they had passed through a hard winter. They must ba driven to other ranges or die. I expect the grassshoppers will attack the pine trees next. They are in such swarms that anything may be looked for. 5 “Such a nlaguse is quite unusual in that country. One of the sufferers is Mr. Alli- son of famous Allizon ranch, who says his large garden d vegetaple patch was completely denuded within twenty- four hour: pei L R Find a Grave of Unnamed Dead. UKTAH, CAL, Aug. 14.—John Knight and his brother James Knigbt, who reside in Knights Valley, about eight miles south of this place, while out on a hunt- ing trip yesterday came across a mound indicating a newly made grave. Beside the grave, which was marked by a rude cross, was found the outer wearing ap- parel of a man which, judging from its appearance, had been cut from the body with a sharp knife. The spot where the grave was discovered is about fourteen miles from this place in a southeast- erly direc.fon and about four'miles east of Eigbt-mile Valley, at which place a miner from the southern country spent the winter. He leit his camp this summer to goona prospecting tour and since that time has never been heard from. Itis probable that the mound discovered marks his last resting place. Sheriff Jobnson and twb deputies left this even- ing for thescene of the discovery, and developments are looked for on their return to-morro PRS- Y Orime of a Brutal Husband. CHICO, Cav., Aug. 14—The Distrct Attorney swore out a warrant to-day charging Thomas Lindsay with man- slaughter.” Lindesay compelled his wife ve her bed last week on the day of the birtn of her baby to obtain her own medicine. She died this afternoon. Lind., say is in jail NEW 70-DAY—DRY GOODS SR A A We Are There’s pick up Hurry u too late. MARKET AND i 7 Positively Closing Qut! time left for you to we have to offer. ~=-=THE--- HAMBURGER (0., Props. of THE MAZE, not much the bargains p before it's TAYLOR 8TS. A0S0 AUDJAA D EDJAMAUOAURJhJUOAEAJUMAUOJERUhAUUJAMAVUUULUATIVZGSTUNUATEMBUALTEAIULAUUTULAMAUTUGMMJUCZUAIVOAUAIMPUCCUALUM O CUATUL UL UAIIASUMbOAA B Ly Y T Y VY YT TR T TITSS A SHELTER ON WHEELS. Novel Plant That Will Soon Be Re- ducing the Ore From Arizona Mines. PRESCOTT, Ariz., Aug, 14—For sev- eral years the Prescott Mining Exchange has been trying to induce capitalists to put up a smelter here, and all sorts of in- ducements have been offered in the way of bonuses and assured patronage. Sev- eral syndicates have taken hold of the matter seriously, but, for one reason or anoiher, all the plans bhave failed of ful- filiment, and Prescott is stili without a smelter. But now the project seems to be an assured success. Prescott is to _have a smelter at last, and Jong hauls of Yavapai ores will cease to be a necessity. The new smelter is to be sent out by the Railway Gold Mining Company of Chi- cago. 1t will arrive here on wheels, and will be ready to receive ore the minute the wheels stop revelving. The president of the Railway Gold Mining Company has mide a definite proposition to the Prescott Mining Exchan:e. That propo- sition has been accepted and ils terms complied with, and the smelter on wheels is to arrive nere on the 1si of September. Most of the transcontinental liaes are said to be interes ed in the new scheme, and the Bowman Syndicate’s milling car plant will be used not only in Prescott, but at ali other mining centers where re- duction works are needed. The outfit comprises a complete ore re- duction plant on wheels. Quite a train is nacessary to convey the entire plant, and each part of the process has its own spe- cial car. There is a car earrying the busi- ness manager and his cffice paraphernalia and bookkeepers and clerks, another de- voted to assaying and_scientific purposes in connection with mining, another carry- ing a cyanide process and others still ¢ rying everything at ail essential to the successful reduction of all kinds of ores. The plan is to mov’ the plant from one locality to anotner’ss soon as business be- gins to slacken. Prescott belicves that the smelter once at work here it will be kept so busy that it will remain as a permanent fixture. In that case other smelte’s on wheels will be sent out, and Pbcenix will be the next Arizona city to have her heart’s ambition gratified. AR S The amount of gas annually made in Engiand is 60,000,000,000 cubic feet. To produce this quantity 6,000,000 tons of coal are used. = | MULLER ARRIVES AT CAWP BUDD. The General nn;I_Il.is Staff Received With a Salute of Twenty- . one Guns. SANTA CRUZ, CaL, Aug. 14.—Briga- dier-General Muller and staff, command- ing the Third Brigade, National Guard of California, which will go into camp to- morrow, arrived here this evening., They were met at the depot by the Fourth Cav- alry, U. 8. A.,and Troop C, cavalry, N, G. C. General Muller rode at the hesd of the escort attended by the troop officers, and upon arrval at Camp Budd a salute of twenty-one guns was fired. _A large number of Sacramento and Fresno people came on the evening trains and te-night around the campofire at Camp Budd there wns a larse attendance of visitors. The infantry companies of the Third Brigade will arrive to-morrow morning, one train at 3 o’clogk and an- other at 6 o’clock. They will go into camp immediately. Camp Budd is located within a stone’s throw of the bay, north of the Neptune Batb-nouses and the beach, and the brig- ade officers occupy a commanding posi- tion on a raise of ground at the north end of the camp, whnile io the rear is the site occupied by the United States cavalry. At the east end of Camp Budd the cavalry troop, N. G. C., is located. Stabling has been built to accommodate the 125 horse-. The United States cavalry horses are pick- eted out in true army style. Ay Two XYears for Each Theft. MODESTO, CaL., Aug. 14.—James N, Phillips, the horsethief who broke jail here last Saturday night and who re- tarned yesterdav from Stockton in the custody of Sheriff Purvis, was brought be- fore Judge Minor this morning at 10 o'clock. He pleaded guilty 10 the six charces of grand larceny against him, and at 2 o'clock was sentenced to twelve vears in San Quentin—two years for each charge. ——gila Stole From a Modesto Ranon. MODESTO, Car, Aug. 14.—Constable O’Dounell returned to-day from Fresno with James Codman, a young man who is charged, with having stolen a horse, car- rlage, harness and a quantity of provi- sions from the ranch of Marshal Toombs near Salida while in temporary charge of | the ranch. While at Fresno he tried to | disposa of the stolen property. NEW A A A A e P! The very latest cataphoretic and other electric ing ali dental operations absolutely painiest. A FULLSETOF ThE.H ior. - 85.00 BRIDGE WORK, per tooth. GOLD CROW NS, 225 METROPOLITAN DENTAL PARLORS, 927 MARKET ST., Spreckels Building—927 Hours—9 A 0. to 6:30 P, M. and 7:30 t09 P. D Sundaysopen till 12, 5th floor, Take elevator TO-DAY. e A R A A A CATAPHORESIS. sl appliances are made use of in our offices, render- FORCELAIN CROWNS. 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