The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 8, 1898, Page 8

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL . SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 1898 PICKED UP IN THE RUN T0 THE WIRE. It will probably be a long time ere an- other ‘“after du ciaim of foul is al- lowed from t} tand, that is judging | from the amount of criticism that has arisen from the T 1da-Eddie Jones race on New Year's day. No doubt on that occasion t o 1s labored under the impression b allowing | Piggott's c 1 placing Torsids & Waterhouse colt popular judg footligh T the accl: that oces he wis rd w they saw deci; possil unlike the on dle Jones vely easy at the end they could not believe their senses, and tho something must be wrong. Then Piggott rushed into the stand and the crowd collected about that collected ab approval and good server w ing, that of her speed, and ster W solace to a fact and the name > chro- bald. long n- booking Juck has beco; plungers of set Phil shall do, his lowed by the swagger Tis, the gigantic boo! out here this fall ported, and t bride plegate circumf the and le f State to pos next grew s one gates, and Some one. has chr “colored Archer.’ sented wi rival here, the floral Conley were to f; the horse beh! plant his ho welding it why then Tead ver: then hi But a Ethiop! title, i dead Tider. alone from th Epouse’s ide She said litt He was a fa fliction of t retirement. with: such progeny. On a special Jack Club, ¢ and Mike Her Sherman I ing pres of the are now busily ¢ thelr friends sayv, ing gallery Jealousy over England that wa bound with rafl fly harm in case Thorpe is reported a patent on g use in the ule splitte; fgating Pete is hére w on to pre its bursti ¥ to 1 hand and will chaperon the party Frank Tay! s solved to cut loose from t Baldwin stable. Before Fr. with the Santa’ Anita hor utation was rapidly b s the most skiil- ful trainer in ince his con- nection with th r his name scarce finds its way ou the portals of the stable, unless it be to journey to the judges’ stand to explain the mes- | meric ride of some jockey and his own | reputation has not been added to. i many_friends will be pleased to learn that he has decided to open a public training stable, and it is dol | frozen apple t he will r search far for available The Ingleside management cautfoned the employes in the betting habit. are very stringent more clos ¢y watched, itke trying to escape from quarantined fever-stricken vessel ak to one of those worthi, At the army of ‘“leeches” employed by certain book- makers to inform a jockey “what is do- ing,”” manage to reach them just the same. MULHOLLAND. e Will Consider the Gas Question. The committee on street lights of the Board of Superv s will meet to-day at the call of Chairman Rivers to con- ider the ordinance recently proposed by upervisor Lackmann regulating the qual- 1y of flluminating gas to be furnishe tompanies to their customers. Representatives of the Board of Health and the gas companies will be present to give the committee all the information it desires. ———— PRATT'S ABOLITION OIL Cures Neu- algla, Rheumatism, Sprains, Bruises, ore Throat, Lame Back and all aches pains. F. McBOYLE & CO., Drug- s, B4 Washington street. ¢ K or SDORT a FINE WEATHER FAVORS THE LEASHNMEN, During the past year grevhounds cour: at Ingleside for the most liberal purs hung up on any inclosed coursing 1 America. & the present year they will con- r amounts o far in excess of tnose vear as to obscure the latter from memory. To open stakes at $4 entry, em- bracing thirty-two nominations, there will hereafter be added no less than $323; to all other open stakes, money in puppy stakes of & will be $100; Ive entries and eigt s $50. The monthly events beaten dogs will be fattened to the tune The added entries of first of these Increased stakes will be run off to-day and to-morrow. It for the so-called beaten dogs and the en- try shows an aggregation of performers to whom the apgellation seems a grievous misnomer. But this is not unusual with the class. A purse for non-winners gen- ally brings out talent that dev xpected at every turn in the game. They are in many cases dogs that have been beaten through lack of condiuon, and have been given a long rest to per- fect such. Then there are dogs that have been beaten by accident, b; fuke,” by and by n all these in what manner v thi time [ ol form is likely to send many of the know- ing ones home 1e porcine I t. The | 1g begins at 1 p. m. this afternoon and to-morrow at 1l a. m or shine. g to a new rulir the In- state Coursing Club all ¢ tes for akes at Ingl must hereafter be run r owners or d. This h has ob- meeting for the John Grace cham- ship cup, to be held on Februar beginning to_awaken lively interest, rs. Willilam Halpin, Terry Butler and ey have been appointed by the In- > Club a committee to arrange the It will be run off under the e of the club and to the club's stakes at Ingleside will add Hercules, reported id to have been placed by I w_owners, S taluma. the other mes dang seemed to county »us, they have not quite up to form. has_sold his late stic to J. F. an_opportunity that leashmen overlooked. his ownership nnon ic $160. Yet it remained n to buy him for $160 and him out in the interior. Mr. also had other “good things.” up to a few days ago offering iree other high class performers for sale at low class figures As buyvers were slow to recognize the snap he has withdrawn them from the market. His sole object in disposing of them at all was to make room for divers additions to his kennels that are daily expected. Picking winners in to-day’s run down appears to be a task extremely hazard- ous. On paper the likellest are Gazelle, Tom Fitz. Hazel, Glady's Pasha, White - Magic, Fireman, Mountain 8 liy B, Little ematic, Doug- Move On, Jimmy Harkaway and Lady TO, Jan. 7.—Coursing s become one of the recog- »f the times. Heretofore but it beyond the of dogs who in the tmmediate vicinity. Now. in how , the pleasures and profits of the pastime are sought b; v who reside in counties ad, ramento, and at every cours ing the last few months entries have been made from Placer, El Dorado, Yolo, San Joaquin and Solano’ counti Greyhounds the sport ormerly kept simply for flered by an occasional chaze in the open field, and which never re- ceived the slightest care or training, are now being groomed, blanketed, exercised and looked after as carefully as thorough- bred racehorses, and the sport they af- ford in the field of a regular coursing assoclation fully compensates the owners for the attention they are now giving these fleet-footed animals. The matches for next Sunday promise unusual -interest, as some splendid ani- mals have been entered, and with the ;»-n;_rmxe purses which have been offered by E be a large attendance. The result of the drawing last night was as follows: J. Kendrick’s Chance Shot against J. E s Kitty Lonsdale. . T. Millner's Isonomy against Til- den & Phillips’ Lily T. t Edge Kennel's Flying Dutchman against J. H. Ryan's Forest Queen. Martin_ & _Capurro’s Country _ Boy gainst L. McMahon's Lily of the West. T. Kennedy's Gilty against P. Mitch- ell's Orphan Girl. H. B. & D.'s Skylight against M. Raine Little Idol. ‘Walsh’ Queen of Clubs against Gilt Ed ¥ Whip Jr. 5ilt Edge Kennel's Busy Bee against T. Kennedy's Little Delight. R. Bull's_Blacksmith Boy against N. Kelleher's Reception. Forget Me Not 1.. McMahon's Pansy. Gilt Edge Kennel agal C. Alvord cta A. against H. B. & D.’s Daisy Hill. Condrey & _Rought's Butcher against J. H. Ryan's Lanky Bob. THE FIELD TRIALS AT BAKERSFIELD. Boy The Pacific Coast Field Trials Club is | looking forward to a very successful meeting on the plains near Bakersfield this month. The handlers are buslly engaged put- ting the finishing touches on the dogs, and according to the latest accounts there will be some great surprises in store for the sportsmen who are figuring on their charges “pulling down” some of the prizes. The Hastern dogs that have been en- tered are sald to be doing very well, but they are puzzled somewhat by the pe- cullar .action of the California quall, lops the | Herold of | in & Hanlon there will, no doubt, | |“‘hlc'h are sometimes very uncertain in | s | their habits. | | Howard Vernon has sent his champlon pointer Glenbeigh” to Bakersfleld, | where Tr. r Allender is now perfect- {ing him for the tria Glenbeigh, al- | though well along in years, should make a good run for the place provided that he not learned too many tricks in the | vy Of late the old dog has | unning, but doubtless Allender | will knock some of the loafing tactics, of | which he is possessor, out of him. If the & remains fine a good crowd from will witness the tr - SLAUGHTERING | BY MOONLIGHT. | The slight rainstorm that visited the | country onWednesday scattered the birds | that were loafing on the bay, and, as a | result, the sportsmen who will visit the t marshes to-day expect to enjoy some | good shooting. The best shooting at present is to be had on the Alviso and Mount Eden marshes, but as considerable moonlight | d R. Horner. Timer—C. T. Pfarrer. Scorer—F. M. Goodrich. The '$8 tournament will open next Fri- day, January 14, and great interest is be- ing ‘manifested in the coming games. gnu of the new requirements for basket ball players to enter any championship | games is to pass an athietic test of the tive following events: Marching, dumb- bell drill, horse, parailel bars, horizontal and potato race. A man has to score €5 points out of a total of 180 points. These men have successfully passed the test, viz: W. Wilson, 143 points; George Kl 5 R. Horner, 158%; F. D. Delry, 127; H. J. "Anger,’ 151%; Louls | F. Finch, 1431} F. 8. Oliver, | Lo FOOTBALL FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP. The most important football game in this city since the great intercollegiate struggle will be played at Recreation Park to-day. After many weeks of correspondence and meetings, the Olympics, formerly | S. Bradley and H. Moffitt vs. M. Mul- lany and R. Shields. J. O'Leary and “‘Cyclone’” Hayden vs. | Professor Barrett and J. Condon. | _J. Slattery and P. Kelly vs. J. Pender- gast and P. Hutchinson. M. Dillon and W. Kelly vs. T. Caskin and J. Wren. A. Pennoyer and G. Hutchinson vs. J. | O'Donnell and J. Condon. | BOXING CONTESTS ARE KNOCKED OUT. The Health and Police Committee of the’ Board of Supervisiors met yesterday and decided that they would not issue any permits this month for so-called boxing exhibitions. “It has been sald,”” remarked Chair- man Delany, “that this committee would | to-day reconsider its act in the matter of | permitting prize fighting in this city. As | far as I am concerned there will be no | reconsideration. The better element of | the people of San Francisco is opposed LIBERTINE, the Great Son of Leonatus and Falaise, Winner of Over $40,000 in Stakes and Purses. | shooting will be done to-night it is not thought that hunter o prefer to shoot by the light of the sun will have much SUCCESS 10-MOrTow. Doubtless large bags of teal will be returned from Alviso and Mount Eden on the teal frequent the nday evening, ter ponds at night, where they are bagged by hunters who watch and wait for their arrival. The Solano Republican recently pub- lished the following notes concerning lo- cal sportsmen: corge Green, the well-known pugilist, | with his friend, Arthur Lamphere, both of San Francisco, have béen at the Sui- sun Gun Club's headquarters with Dorm Perkins, during the greater part of the week. | A regular bombardment took place on »s last Sunday, and the mof & ducks reat. The d tionally favorable for the num- rous visitors who came to Suisun to bend the holidays. | Joe Sweeney of San Francisco, who recently recorded as having picked stray duck while hunting at Good- the marshes with Sunday, and the two ured about thirty ducks. ous among the San Francisco hunt. s James G. Chesley, cashier of the Francisco Chronicle, who re- med his reputation by bagging a ring of twenty-eight ducks. Next on the list came W. H. Bryan with a single- | wded record of seventeen. | "hard Bliss and J. Fredericks bagged | 125 mallard ducks near Merced last Sat- urday and Sunday. They report that mallard and sprig_are very plentiful in the ponds about fifteen miles of Merced. | "E. Marriott and F. Patrick returned from Sherman Island with a splendid bag of canvasbacks last Sunday. They were guests of the Black Jack Club. Dr. E. N. Ayres is authority for the statement that Willlam Remfree of An tloch has a flock of turkeys trained to | “work” the wind mill that supplies his | house with water. The turkeys roost on the wings of the wind mill and appear to enjoy the ride round and round im- mensely. Jack Semmer Sr. of this city and Remfree Sr. of Antioch are matched to | | shoot at 100 live birds, the loser to pay for | a dinner for the members of the Black | Jack Gun Club. The race will be held just as soen as the sportsmen will receive the guns | they have ordered from an English com- pany especially for this great event, which will take place in Antioch. e 'NEW YEAR'S PROSPECTS | OF BASKET BALL, | The new year has openea very aus- | piciously for basket ball. Quite a num- P! ber of games have been played during the | first week of 'S, the principal ones show- | ing the following scores: Lawyers vs. | Rushers of San Francisco, 14-2; Incog- nitos vs. Athens (Oakland), 10-8; Mission vs. Union (San Francisco). 12-10. The most unexpected result was that of the game between the Lawyers and the Rushers, played at the Y. M. C. A. gym- natum of this city. had three years' experience, while the Lawyers have hardly been organized five months, and vet the veterans have fallen before the rising Biackstones. The quick play of the Lawyers was greatly admired and the spectators ap- lauded the work quite freely. The teams rlned up as follows: Lawyers. Position. Rushers. Geo. T. 8haw, Jr..L. F. .F. L. Shaw | Dan Willlams. R. F. H. Guittard F. B. Oliver.. .C. E. C. Fleischer L J. Truman, Jr..L. G. W. Mitchell W. D. Delry. .R. G. D. Hanrahan The officers of the game were: Ref- eree—C. J. Anger. Umpires—G. Klarman The Rushers have | R. the champlon lightwelght Y. M. C. A. team, have agreed to meet the Center- ville Athletic Club on the gridiron for the second time this season. Interest attaches to the coming contest as it will decide the champlonship of the coast. The Olymples played the Centerville team a month ago and only succeeded in winning after the hardest kind of a struggle by a score of 4 to 0. In the Cente: le ranks are men who | have made enviable reputations on the gridiron, Whipple, who plays right guard, was a Varsity end on the Berkeley team last season. "La Cuna, at right tackle, became well known by his clever pla: ing on the Reliance team of '%. Morgan, at quarter, Js a U. C. man and is ex- pected to give Bender a close fight for that position next season. Carter, at right half, made a reputation on'last vear's Rellance team by his dashing runs, clever dodging and all-round play- ing. " His run of seventy yards through cattered field in one of the big games s the longest and most brilliant of the season. The Olympics have been playing to- gether for the past two years and go through their maneuvers like clock work. They will rely on team work to offset the ‘star individual playing of the visi- tors. Seawright will play fullback for the Olympics, and it is expected that his support will ‘be of great value to the team. His skill as a football player is tog well known and needs no description. The Centerville team will bring with it a large number of rooters. Foliowing is the line-up and the way the men will face each other: Centerville. Positions. a Olymples. Speck .Duden Holcomb .Jacobs Keller arkatt .Neames .Evans Wilson .Hamilton Seawright The average weight of the teams is 140 pounds. ERIN'S GREAT GAME IS NOW BOOMING. Doubtless the directors of the Olymplc Club, at their next meeting, will allow the long expected handball tournament of the club to be played in Phil Ryan's regulation handball court. The players of the club are very desirous that the directors will grant them some little con- cession. At Phil Ryan's court, on Howard and Fifth streets, the following games will be played to-morrow: . Dillon and D. Connelly vs. J. Law- less and J. McEvely. D. Rudfin and P. Ryan vs. G. McDon- 3 ovee and I* Foley va. D. Byan and - Joyce and T. Foley vs. D. Ryan an M. Basch. 4 3 L. Waterman and E. McDonough vs. N. J. Prendergast and J. R. Bockman. J. Hogan and J. Kirby vs. E. Barry and Housman. P. Steiner and H. Danger vs. L. Cor- ‘raine and W. Manion. Z J. C. Nealon and T. F. Bonnet vs. J. Riordan and R. Linehan. Games that have been slated at Con- don's court to-day are: P. Kelly and P. Hutchinson vs. J. Pendergast and M. Dillon. A. Pennoyer and W. Kelly vs. G. Hutchinson' and J. Condon. Sunday fFames: W. Collins and J. McCt vs. W. Hassell and A. Collins. AT B. Clements and J. O'Brien vs. A. Me- Inerney. andJ Lxd an lon, A. McVick G. Cunningham vs. G. Ebner and J. Bhaw. to such exhibitions, and we want no more | of them.” | -Supervisor Haskins entertained the | same idea. He thought the city would | be better oft if slogging exhibitions were | suppressed. The matter was thereupon | dismissed. Messrs. Gibbs and Groom of the Na- | tional Club, when asked what they thought of the action of the Supervisors in having refused them permission to hold the Sharkey and Jeffries fight this month, said that they had every reason to believe that after a number of professional slog- gers will have left the city the Health and Police Committee will allow clubs of good standing to pull off limited round contests. ““I cannot see,” said Gibbs, “why there should be such opposition to boxing in the face of the fact that for several months the Supervisors had witnessed several of the matches which took place in this city and pronounced them to be !c{:-nliflc and without the element of bru- tality. ““Possibly the Supervisors desire a few | months’ rest from boxing contests, but when there is such a,large number of people interested in the sport, I cannot see why there is such serious objection to fistic entertainments when conducted in a proper manner. Our exhibitions have always been successful.”” Groom was of the same opinion, but he did not think permits would be granted until some of the politiclans who were not on friendly terms with some of the club managers had ‘‘squared” their diffi- culties. Jeffries, who has been training in Oak- land under the care of Billy Delaney, will quit exercising until such time as he thinks there‘is a possible chance of the match being pulled off in this city. Sharkey is expected from Vallejo to-day ?nd doubtless he will take matters easy or a few days until he hears again from Peter Maher. The last named fighter for- warded Sharkey articles of agreement a few days ago for a contest which he ex- pected would be held in New Orleans. | ‘The sailor in all probability will sign the | articles now th:t the prospect of a meet- ing with Jeffries is very slim so far as | this city is concerned. DR. NANSEN WILL NOT COME. The Scandinavian People Meet With Disappointment. The Scandinavian people of San Francisco were all prepared to recelve Dr. Frithjof Nansen. A committee was formed of representatives of near- 1y ail the Scandinavian societies and clubs of this city, representing 2000 Scandinavians. The chairman, Mr. Elias Ruud, has communicated with Dr. Nansen by telegraph and the Red- path Lyceum Bureau, his managers in the United States, and received the following telegram from Chicago: “Nansen will not go to coast. Salls home 19th February. “REDPATH BUREAU. This calls everything off, of course, and the chalrman of the Nansen com- mittee extends thanks to all who have shown interest and signified their in- tentlon of taking part in the reception of Dr. Nansen. ————— Investment Company Incorporates. The "General Investment Company, or- ganized for the purpose of conducting a general land and produce business, incor- g:rnted Yesterday with a capital stock of 00,000, $7100 of which has been sub- scribed. The directors are Thomas W. ‘l,av\“fiher, James Hl:a;:l. P, F}'ng“ 50! lam Thack liam o, E‘u-ry Edwin Allen u‘?&&ulu Fleming. WHY NOT RIDE BASES ON THE WHEEL? To-morrow will see the opening of the Cycle baseball tournament, and wheeling circles are all agog over the games sched- uled. The idea originated with two of the local clubs, which had teams from among their members. clubs were interested, until now eleven in all have entered, and with six clubs contesting each Sunday the schedule runs along until next May. When the country roads are ridable the ideas scheduled to play each other should have a joint club run to some out of town point, and that the game between them should be the feature. This will give added interest to country runs. the rainy months, however, the games will be played in this city, Alameda and San Jose. To-morrow the Garden City Wheelmen and Imperial Cycling Club will meet at San Jose, the Acme Club Wheelmen and California Cycling Club at the Velodrqme and the Encinal Cyclers and San Fran- cisco Road Club at Alameda. The Bay Citys and Olympic Cyclers, although not scheduled, will play a practice game at | Sixteenth and Folsom stre at 12 o'clock. The Cyclers expect to have Joe Corbett in the box for them. Some one has suggested that the Cy- clers might improve on the national game by “running” their bases on their wheels. It would certainly be a novelty, and if & man could once get started right the “stolen base” column would be about a mile long. The thought is worthy of em- ulation. The news that George Stratton was go- ing to leaves the coast for good, as ex- clusively told in The Call yesterday, was all the talk in cycling circles yesterday, and much regret was expressed that the C. A. C. C. and cycling circles generally would lose such ‘a prominent member. | Stratton will probably continue his mem- bership in the association and the Olym- glc Club Wheelmen, however, even after e leaves. The regular monthly meeting of the C. A. C. C. will be held this evening at the Encinal Recreation Club, Alameda, which is situated on Park street, about equi- distant between the broad and narrow gauge trains. Passengers should get off at Park street station on either line. The 7:30 narrow gauge boat will take over most of the officers and delegates from this side. A meeting of the officers and commit- teemen of the association was held last night at President Adams’ office to dis- cuss matters of general Interest, and particularly the road book. It is hoped to have this long delayed work out by | next March. The Capital City Wheelmen of Sacra- mento, having over $2700 in bank, have de- cided to build their awn club house, A petition is before the Board of Super- visors of Alameda County to regrade and widen the base of the San Leandro tri- angle. If these improvements are made that portion of the celebrated cycle rac- ing course will be in splendid shape for the wheelmen this year. The organized cycling clubs should con- | | tribute more liberally and freely to the good roads fund. But three clubs—the Olympic Wheelmen, Encinal Cyclers and | California Cycling Club—are doing an: thing in this direction. nation of say $10 would help the cause ex- ceedingly. The Alpha (ladies’) Cycling Club at a recent meeting elected the following of- | ficers: ‘President, Miss Elizabeth Tilden; vice-president, Miss Minnie Rousseau; | secretary, Miss May F. Madson; treas- | urer, Miss Marie McCarthy; captain, Mrs. Addie Wynne; first lieutenant, Miss Johanne Bertram; second lieutenant, Miss Emelie Cheffers; sergeant-at-arms, | Miss Louisa Kroetz. organized ball | Other | is that any two clubs who are | During | A monthly do- | ALL ABOUT FISHES AND STREAMS. The continued spell of dry weather has had the effect of vastly improving the fishing for large steelheads in Russian River, ‘while on the other hand the sence of rain has ruined the sport Whl('.h local anglers had expected to enjoy this month in the tide waters of Paper Mill e X tated n The Call of Wednesday, the Greek and Italian fis.hermen \\ho seine for small fishes in Tomales Bay with nets of small meshes have been catching’ large numbers of sin.-lh('uds in the channel of Paper Mill Creek nn‘d within a few hundred yards of a pla;ce on the creek which is known as the : use. : “’lk'lllll:n}lilucnimn of the Fish Commission- a pe) o d more than once to ers has been calle e p this fact, but up to the present wri it cannot be sud that they have taken the least notice of tne requests O rs sidents of Point Reyes, rs and the reside s fisning e e Gesirous that they and learn if th;»l shermen are v s of lawful size. “t’\lx';.nf{tochrnn of Point Reyes, in aclelt‘- ter to the sporting editor of The Call, stated that Mr. Babcock, chief of the fish patrol, recently informed one of the visiting anglers to Point Reyes that the Tomales Bay fishermen were using nets of lawful size, and that there was noth- ing in the law to prevent them from catching steelheads in the bay. But ang lers who had seen the fishermen haul in between _thirty and forty last Sun day at Inverness state positively that a 12-inch_trout could not forge its W y through the meshes. If this be the cas the Fish Commissioners should certainly dispatch a deputy on a tour of examina- tion to Inverness, regardless of the ex- pert opinion of the chief of the fish p trol. = e’ Mill Creek is a grand fishing streme: in fact it has not an equal on this coast ing from the numbers of fishes that A rom. this stream annually by the anglers of this city and also of Marin County is ‘really astonishing —tha | there are any fish remaining in, the stream at the end of the angling season. | “Butas it is stocked in a way by the | Commission about once in five vears, doubtless the grand sport that Is enjoved Quring the summer months by visitivg anglers must, in a measure, be attribute to the “too liberal” dumping of fry into | the waters by the gentlemen who have been ‘neglecting” the mountain streams s0 us to give local anglers of little money . and of little time something by whic! they can remember the Fish Commission- | ers” of the State of California. . | “"Anglers who whip to Paper Mill, So- | i oma, Alameda, Calaveras and other :ln-mns which are within easy reach of | this city in the spring an Eummel{ months of the year, do not, as a general thing, look altogether to the buslge(s they make. The outing in spring when the ountry is blanketed in robes of grqm;. when the perfume of wild flowers waft from the trees and hillsides over spflrk- ling waters and is caught on the fly, so to speak, by the olfactories of the lovers of the angle and also of Nature in its | wildest state; it is this which makes glad the heart of the true sportsman and which adds to the pleasures that accrue at the end of a day's tramp when baskets are compared. A | The army of anglers is inc | each season, and, as a con y Fish Commission ay more at- tentlon to the stocking of the coz streams with trout fry. The Paper N and Sonoma Creeks, which are incessant- 1y whipped by anglers during spring and summer, should be liberally stocked, but unfortunately. these streams favored as some-of the far distant tain lakes and rivers that are visited by a comparative few of the anglers of this i ty. The following letter from a resident of Duncan’s Mills to The Call speaks for itself: s Duncans Mills, Cal., Jan. 6, 188. To the Editor of The Call—Dear Si: I would like to answer part of your article of January 5_ entitled, ‘‘Steeiheads Will | Be Scarce.” In regard to the seizure of a net Sunday night and the hasty retreat of the fishermen, I will say that I was one of the fishermen concerned and that we were fishing strictly within the law— i. e., drifting a full T-inch net, “free to float with the current or tide,’ and un- secured; that instead of the fish patrol- men laying in wait for me until a late hour they simply sneaked on us, and we called them down and invited them to examine our net, which they did, and told us we were within the law but had better take our net up and go with them | to the hotel and see Mr. Babcock, which | we did, leaving the net in our boat, and during ‘our absence one of the patrolmen | stole our net. | “Mr. Vogelsang and Mr. Babcock were in bed, and knew nothing of the occur- | rence until notified at 10 p. m., which was | not a very late hour. Furthermore, the patrolmen who made the seizure (?) had previously informed us that we could fish according to law in the manner we were doins Now, if Mr. Babcock would turn his attention to the unlawful running and killing of deer—an instance of which o curred here Sunday ‘“under the Commi sioners’ very noses,” a fawn doe run by two hounds, in sight of the hotel and almost in the very streets of the town— he would fill his office much better in the estimation of the people of this vicinity than by putting in ten hours a day | angiing and persecuting lawful fishermen, What more harm can alawful netdo which catches only six fish in one night than a | bevy “of anglers who catch sixty-five steélheads in one day, as was the case here yesterday? The big fish feed on the little ones, and the rich men feed on the poor. When Mr. Babcock and his cheap John friends want salmon roe for bait they don't question where it ca E me from, and go J. Platt-Betts, the speedy English | home forgetting 1o pay for 1t: but wheg rider, has broken_the Australian ten- | thev catch sixty-five fish a day they mile ecord by 4 3-5 seconds, making the | don’t need the poor man's bait. distance in 20:02 2-3 Hoping you will find room for this Badly soiled cork-handle grips can be | article in Your valuable paper, I remain. | cleaned by the use of a little turpentine. ‘The Century Road Club of America has approved of the San Francisco-San Jose | record made by Ed O. Kragness of the Olympic Club Wheelmen on November 14 last. His time was 2 hours 27 minutes. The many friends of James Joyce Jr., the popular Eastern salesman, who spent part of 1895-9 here, will be surprised and | delighted to learn that he will soon be married, the fortunate Joung lady being a Miss G. L. Watkins of South Manches. ter, Conn., which was Mr. Joyce's home. There is a pretty romance con- nected with the story, they having been playmates in their childhood. The an- nouncement comes with the opening vear, and Mr. Joyce writes me from Washing. ton, D. C.. where he is temporarily lo- cated, saving that he wants all his friends on the coast to know of his good luck, and not having time to write ehch one 'personally Informs them this and wishes them all the season’s comr ments. His oft-expressed wish that his company_might locate him permanently in San “Francisco is re-echoed by hun- dreds in the wheeling fraternity with whom he came in contact during his stay. With Joyce, Lozier, Lennie, Knapp, Goddard and Stratton away from the conslé it does not seem like the same old crowd. The Natfonal Assembly of the L. A. W., which convenes at St. Louls will wrestle with the Sunday tion and the admisston of professionals, the same as the meeting at Albany last year did. This year's delegates may look at these matters differently, for the as. sembly fs, by force of circumstances, a garrulous’ and {rresponsible body, mot through lack of intelligence on the part of the individual members, but because the personnel of the body changes ane nually to such an extent that each assem- bly is practically a new institution, new to the questions brought up for conside eration, ©_ = he Cycle Board of Trade will hold banquet for all its members to-night at 112 Pine street at 7 o'clock. President Fortin and Secretary Hamilton have made excellent arrangements for the comfort and entertainment of the guests. and a splendid time is assured, 3 H. W. SPALDING. Five hundred years ago the rent of arable land in England was 6d an acre. Tremendous Exodus to the Klondike. Despite the warnings of those who have been on the spot, and predict suffering in the Klondlke region, thousands of adventurous Americans are wending their way thitherward. 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