The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 2, 1898, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 1898. * * * * * * % x * % ARSON, Nev., April 1—The {ll wind that has blown the clouds out of California’s sky and with the clouds the rain that is due California’s farmers has immense- proved the prospects of Carson € In all the valley there are no f cattle for sale. All have been dis- posed of and at excellent prices. For jays past two and three carloads of t a day have b shipped from e. F reds of tons of hay have sent out of the valley within the t month at prices more than double Carson Valley ranchers received fore uality of timothy hay raised n a time Haggin & Tevis be- economy to get the supply racing stable from Carson, it their gh it cost them $200 a ton by the it had reached New York. Ne- ia apital is not dependent for its sperity upon the mills or the mines, State and national institutions or er. It is the condition of all these rests united which disposes the Car- been reached and prosperity lies ight ahead. actions - with. which Nevada' en- rer most favored cities. It has river. and’ the mountains. It is ind tree-shaded. Its supply of pring - water comes - from s behind. = It well known of Nevada’s. capital—though it graced itself and Nevada last March f shing what is now known as ht weather—the physician —at te's Prison, located here, reports in four years there has been but ith among the eighty convicts. 's climate is'at least as mer- 1 1o the just as to the unjust. ANENT HOME. ENTERPRISE, years since this particular Sec- a has been in condition e ~what it is to-day. A ) Carson rganized - an im- 1t ¢lub, to which the best men town belong. ~The club props ild up the place, to -encourage home trade, to reach-a '10,000- mark in population.. Years ago. Carson ‘women pposed it impossible to supply their seholds and their wardrobes here. sent outside the State for gowns bonnets and furniture. Nowadays patronize Ormsby ~Coun ner- ts; as a result the Carson store- are keeping a better class of and their prices are more reas- The merchants have They advertise nowadays fully as much as they used to. And ext link in the commercial chain, wspapers, are issuing extraedi- tion, an _innovation heretofore un- known in Nevada—and increasing their circulations throughout the country. The Pine Nut excitement comes just at the right time to lift Carson upon a wave of success. Within three days 2000 acres of land have been taken up near. what was known as the Zirn mine, twenty miles from Carson, where a pocket of ore assaying $60,000 a ton s. found some years ago, and “old as Carsonites,call the discoverer, Y e his fortune. And then a sudden end came to the golden tale. For min- -rs hitherto at Pine Nut have been epeating the experience of the rly.. Comstock miners, with this difference, that the Pine Nut prospec- tors have been seeking for quartz and scorning placer. ORMSBY COUNTY'S MINES. On California placer mines that pay r 20 cents to the cubic yard divi- nds have been declared. The Pine ut gravel extends over 700 acres to a depth of more than 60 feet and is worth $4 a cubic yard. If Pine Nut were lo- cated near Dawson City there’d be a mpede up at the Klondike. People in Carson are deeply interested in the Pine Nut region. They may well be; for if half what is claimed for these wonderful placers is true, Carson’s Improvement Club will have to raise its mark. Ten thousand people will not content it two years from now. An interesting fact in connection with the Pine Nut mines is the pres- ence in Carson of James M. Wishart Oakland, the inventor of a gold-sav- ing machine, a sort of improved rocker which the management of the Pine Nut mines will adopt, provided that tests to be made early next week at the mines shall be as satisfactory as those n 18 n is of a peculiar cxcellence. rming country, of which it is the € to believe that the turning point Carson possesses all the the like a cer- who wore good. ~And the best. As to the become ! i1 to reach out for more busi-| | 1 [ | | i l [ | | x«*«-a*n*«**»n****»»******«-******a***n*****'{***a‘e*'**"**********‘*'***%*******&******************»***-}t*i«-i*?*-fi-‘*v***** THE “CAPE FREXRERXXEXRXEXRRERXARR LR AR R R XA R RXREERELE XX REL XXX TERER MIEW OF CARSON GEEY, 1.00KING. EAST. ‘! made on- Carson’s principal street a week ago. The machine saves all the fine gold by a unique mechanical con- trivance. It requires -only a constant flow of 2% inches of ~water to. work seventy yards of gravel in twenty-four hours. Five tons of: gravel an hour was the rate at which the machine worked, and repeated tests failed to show a trace of gold in the tailings. “If this Wishart machine Wwill do at Pine Nut what it has done in Car- son,” said the secretary and treasurer of the new company, “its adoption at Pine Nut is assured.” | But Pine Nut with all its marvelous | possibilities is not Ormsby - County’s one mineral hope. The mines at -Buck- eye, ten miles away, ‘are attracting much attention. There are 1640 ac of the Buckeye property which will av- erage $1 a cubic yard. Out of 600 cubic yards $1392 worth of the gold flakes Carsonites are admiring as bottled ex- hibits just now was obtained.. And to- day comes news of a strike at Jumbo, twenty-two miles in the other direction from Carsen. On the streets the rumor is that $5000 to the ton is the quality of | the ore taken out. There seems to be a belt of placers half encircling this | valley. And with the develcpment, the awakened interest in mining another Comstock, a golden one, is one of the probabilities. FROM SAGEBRUSH TO SUGAR BEET. | The Alpine Land and Reservoir Com- pany is another cause that will aid in ;the development of Western Nevada. | The most capable men in Carson are ' ’members of this company, | 1 | 1 SLUICING IN THE PINE NUT REGION. | ated, elected officers to serve them, who which s | headed by the Governor of this State. | these | The company owns 5000 acres of land 'have constructed a tunnel 440 feet long, in Douglass and Ormsby counties'which | when irrigated. The company's res@r-1 voir is in Alpine County; and despite | the pooh-poohing of capitalists whose | enterprise consists in banking their | provision of water is assured. At pres- | | money, steps will be taken within the | ent they -have 100 acres in wheat, 300 near future to change a sagebrush em- | | pire into farms which will support 2000 which will yield $1500. farmers. Sugar-beets is to be the watchword of the Alpine Company | after the necessary $50,000 has been | | raised to buy up rights of way, ete. The hard times. late Governor Jones superintended ex- | perimental planting of beets in various are now. parts of Nevada. It was found that| beets raised in this sagebrush land pro- duce 17 ver cent sugar, 5 per cent.more than the average on the coast. The comparative cheapness of the land here, the vast territory which will be |irrigated from the company’s reservoir | they own are capable of seem to assure Nevada's pre-eminence | as a future beet-sugar country. THE OCCIDENTAL COLONY. { A most interesting experiment in col- | onization is furnished by the Occiden- tal colony in Smith’s Valley forty miles from here. The colony has been in| existence six months. It consists of sixteen families—over eighty people. | Each member of the colony paid $150 | into the common fund. They incorpor- receive $1 a day—just as every mem- ber of the colony does, who works and earns that sum. In the half year these people have spent in Smith's Valley hard-working empire-builders only seven men being spared from the | will be worth from $20 to $50 an acre | fields for three months’ time to per- fect the difficult task. Before this the ditch that supplies their land was con- tinually failing them. Now a splendid acres of alfalfa, and an apple. orchard They have filled the school at Weilington = with children. The success of the Occiden- tal colony is instructive. They have had It has taken the closest economy to reach the point where they They have still to 'live through the months till harvest time. The construetion of that tunnel has vir- tually been the sacrifice of 100 tons of produce that might have been raised. But they are people of determination. of exceeding industry. =The 5300 acres supporting them all most comfortably. They have | ten years’ time to pay the $12,000 they owe. But in six months they have practically created $5000 worth of prop- erty. The end of their first year here will see the end of the worst of their struggle for existence, and hundreds of families in California, Dakota, Ne- braska and Pennsylvania, who are watching and waiting for the assur- ance of the permanence of the Occiden- tal colony, will follow in-the footsteps of these men and women. A great point for the success of col- onization in Nevada is. the fact that the Central Pacific Railroad"has over- | turned all precedents in its their | ERAERERERXERRERER R R R RTE RN RN _CITY OF NEVADA. R L T T e KEHERERER * dealings with this question. = Its managers have assured the Alpine Company—which contemplates colonization on a largs scale—that rates for colonists will be practically nominal. Let worthy col= onists come to Nevada and the Central Pacific will pass them over its road. OTHER AIDS TO PROSPERITY. At Carson are located many State and national institutions, the combined appropriations for which - amount to many tens of thousands of dollars an- nually. The State Orphan Asylum, the State Prison, an Indian school, the car shops of the Virginia and Truckee Rail~ road, the Mint, the State printing of= fice ‘are among those that contribute ta the prosperity of the town. Recently the amount of borax and soda shipped to. California and the East has in- ¢reased ' considerably. ' Carson’s box factory competes: with those of Cali- fornia, supplying Riverside and Red- lands with boxes for all their oranges, and sending . boxes even to South America. - Carson Valley potatoes re- ceived first' premiums at Now Orleans, at the Centennial, at the World’s Fair. New -Orleans hotel keepers send. for their supply of*potatoes ail the way to Sagebrushland... An -Ormspy County farmer shipped a carload of apples to Scotland a few: weeks ago. The flour mill here is turning out fifty barrels a day. Three new brick stores have been erected. lately. . Carson's athlatic club is flourishing, numbering over a hun- dred. members and supporting a gym- nastum’ from- which, it is the purpose of the club, decisions in matters ath- letic ‘shall {ssue to rule the world of pugilism. - Carson intends to dictate a new code. of rulés; and when once a pugilist is ruled out of the ring by thae Carson Club his standing as a prize= fighter will be forever forfeited. Such is the extent of the city's pros- perity - that the Carson Appeal—after twenty years of kerosene lighting—has introduced gas into its office and there are wild rumors to the effect that Sam Davis contemplates a new ceiling and | —if the mines of Pine Nut prove all that is expected of them—possibly clean walls. HARVEST OF DEATH IN SANTA CRUZ COUNTY. Three Well-Known Persons of the City Suddenly Summoned, and a Rancher of Aptos. SANTA CRUZ, April 1—Four people of prominence have died in Santa Cruz the past two days. Fred Grasso, aged 52, and a prominent Ttalian citizen, died at his ranch near Aptos. Miss Lizzie Webb died last night at the home of her father, George Webb. _She lwafi] 30 years of age and a native of Eng- and. Mrs. Sophia Lukens, one of the best known women of this city, died shortly before 2 o’clock this morning. - She was a native of Springfield, Ill., and leaves a husband. Evan Lukens, and three chil- dren. She was 57 years old. This morning the sad death of Miss Fannie Crawford occurred. While dress- ing she fell to the floor, death resulting from heart trouble. Miss Crawford was a sister of Mrs. Dr. Gordon, and has been prominently connected with the Christian church. FIERCE MOUNTAIN FIRE RAGES NEAR ST. HELENA. Sulphur Springs Threatened by a Conflagration in a Forest Tract. ST. HELENA, April 1—A fierce mountain fire has been burning for near- ly a week on the McRuer property, two miles from town. A great deal of timber has been destroyed, and several dwellings are in danger unless the prog- ress of the flames js checked. The fire is moving toward Sulphur Springs, and should it reach that place nothing could be done to prevent the destruction of the buildings, as there is no fire apparatus there. “A’ smaller fire is burning on the mountains between here and Calistoga and threatens to do much damage. L ex e Hill Hopes for Reprieve. SAN QUENTIN PRISON, April 1.—Ben- jamin Hill, the Oakland wife murderer, whose execution is set for April 6, will be transferred from murderers’ row to the death chamber to-morrow morning. Hill is in no way cast down and hopes for a reprieve or commutation of sentence to life imprisonment. A e Mrs. Hannah Eastham Dead. ‘WOODLAND, April 1.—Death has been busy among the old settlers of Yolo County of late. Mrs. Hannah Eastham, a native of Massachusetts and 65 years of age, died Thursday night as the result of an apoplectic stroke. FAVORS THE CABLE PLAN Hawaii’s Legislature Has a Bill for Aiding the Company. Permission Under Certain Con- ditions Granted the Pacific Promoters. According to the Scheme the Rates to Japan Will Be 80 Cents and Here 83 Cents a Word. Spectal Correspondence of The Call. HONOLULU, March 24.—A bill has been introduced in the Hawaiian Sen- ate to authorize the construction of a cable by the Pacific Cable Company, known as the Scrymser Company, vhose bill in Congress was favorably ported on by a committee of the House several weeks ago. The bill gives the exclusive cable rights to the islands for twenty years. must be laid within eighteen months f the passage of the act by the rican Congress, and extended to »an within three years. capable of transmitting fifteen words a minute. The rate between here and the nited States is not to exceed 35 cents a word and to Japan not to ex- ceed 90 cents. In céise of war the Presi- dent may seize the cable and exclude all messages he sees fit. A guarantee of $25,000 in Government bonds is to be put up by the company. In accordance with the recommenda- tion of President Dole and the Senate Finance Committee ‘the salaries of the cabinet ministers have .been increased 500 a year to $6000. ate has »assed a bill relating to the registry of foreign-built vessels. It restricts the issuance of registers of It must be | | carried on such business within the re- public for the two years immediately preceding such application for registry. Declaration must also be made by cor- porations, as for individuals, that no aliens are interested in the vessel or its profits or issues, except those who may own capital stock of such corpora- tion. The act is not to affect existing registers. One registration case is now pending and several more applications are ex- | pected within a week. Colonel Macfar- lane some time ago asked for registry for the Peter Jebsen, a Norwegian ves- sel of 1000 tons, now in the Nanaimo coal trade. The Amorapoora, now fly- ing the British flag. will also ask for a Hawajjan register. The United States steamship Mohican arrived on the 19th, nine days from San Francisco. She brought ammuni- tion and supplies for the naval vessel at this port. The United States steam- ship Baltimore will leave for Hongkong this afternoon or early to-morrow morning. i Captain John Good, who was dis- honorably discharged from the Ha- waiian military service about two vears ago, has asked President Dole for a new trial, on the ground of newly discovered evidence. Captain Good claims that he can exonerate himself and asks for a court’of inquiry. The legislators in the Senate will not listen to the terror-stricken. cries of warning sent forth by their qunodam supporters of the American League of the close approach of next year's elec- tion, and the inevitable destruction of the annexation party, and possibly of the republic, at the ballot-box in Sep- tember, 1899, when, to use the words of the president of the league, “There will be a deadly revolution, but not of bul- lets, but of ballots,” which will sweep away every legislator into political oblivion who opposes the people’s will in their desire to make this a popular republic instead of a military oligarchy controlled by corporations of Asiatic- employing planters and the “family compact.” 3 Thpe tremendous power wielded by some of these plantations is aptly il- lustrated by an incident occurring in the Supreme Court on Monday last. A German contract laborer named Johan Viercke, working at the Liliue plantation (for which the imperial Ger- man Consul’s firm is the Honolulu agent) was taken before a district magistrate on Kauai and sentenced for the use of threatening language under the grossest of provocations—he was a married man—to the luna or overseer. He was brought to Oahu jail, and there he might have lingered until he had Independent (one of whose editors has been fined $200 and another $1 for libel for exposing the situation at that plantation), whose friends sued out a writ of habeas corpus.’ The case was well handled -by Messrs. Humphreys and Gear, the latter a brother of Rep- resentative Gear of the. United States Congre: and the-whole ‘bar was in- tensely interested. Imagine the sensa- tion in court and the mortification of the Justices of the Supreme Court, who justly pride themselves upon the im- maculate administration. of our Ha- waiian laws, when it was ascertained that the offense the man was charged with was no offense at all within the purview of our'laws. And this was but the first and weakest objection ‘made to the - illegality of the conviction. . Of course the man was promptly liber- ated and left-with his weéping wife and child. And what redress has this penniless, pitiful man? An appeal to his Consul? He. states that his Con- sul's (the plantation agent) reply to his appeal was: “Don’t trouble me. You know you are guilty and have behaved badly. Go back to the plantation im- mediately and go to work. H— (mentioning the name of the luna) has another. complaint to make against you and you will again be arrested.” The Germans here, except the plantation element, aré furiously indignant, and the whole matter has béen referred to the Minister of Foreign Affairs- at ‘Berlin. SAN JOSE, April 1.—The Board of Man- agers of Agnews lum recently made the following cuts in salaries of the asy- lum officials: Secretary T. S. Montgom- ery from $100 per month to $50, Steward F. C. Young from $150 per month tn $133, Medical Director Sponogle from $3500 per year to $2000, Storekeeper B. C. Shartzer from $75 per month to $50, the assistant physician from $2500 to $2000 per year and the seamstress from $50 per month to $45. It is provided that $100 per year be added to the salary of the secretary, steward and medical director until they shall re- ceive their original salary. 2 ARt Lease of Pasture Land. WOODLAND, April 1.—Short grass in the southern counties and the possibility of short ¢rops in the Sacramento Valley has resulted in_a great demand for pas. ture land. . W. Browning leased lgDOO acres of tule pasture land in Sutter Coun- ty yesterday. AP ) Foresters’ Delegates. SANTA CRUZ, April 1.—Court Santa Cruz, Foresters of America, elected dele- gates to the grand lodge to be held at Healdsbhurg as follows: Roy D. Horton, James Stowe; alternates, Dr. Benjamin rved his time of one year's imprison- ::ent, then to return to the plantation and serve out another year for the one Vessf‘]fi to citizens or corporations not having a place of business and having lost in prison, had it not been for the Plant, George Root. SMITHS' CASH STORE, 27 treet, sells “STANDARD” shirts. Market . NEW LEASE *OF LIFE FOR (OMSTOCKERS Seven Great Mining Companies and the Sutro Tunnel. Agreement Reached at Last After Many Years of Negotiations. | ‘While Divided Against Itself the Lode Was Threatened With Extermination. NOW THE OUTLOOK IS ROSY | People of Virginia City Feel That a Turning Point in the Comstock Has Been Reached. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. VIRGINIA CITY, April 1.—One of the most important events that has oc- curred in the later history of the Com- stock mines was consummated in San Francisco on Thursday last, and news of it has just reached here. On that day representatives of the seven great | mining companies of the Comstock met Franklin Leonard, the president of the Sutro Tunnel Company, and an agree- ment was reached by which the differ- | ences heretofore existing between the [ the various mines along the lode enter into a sort of partnership with the tun- el company. r"‘l‘herep\\'ere present at the meeting Charles H. Fish, representing the Con- solidated California and Virginia; Su- perintendent Kervin for the Gould and Curry; George W. Wells for the Sav- age; H. M. Gorham for the Chollar and Potosi, and W. E. F. Deal, the attor- ney for the Best and Belcher and Hale & Norcross, besides President Leonard. Concessions were made on both sides. President Leonard has always been de- sirous of bringing about this union of interests between the mines and the tunnel, which will practically give the Comstock a new lease of life, and whose ultimate effect is likely to be far- reaching. Negotglations have been going on in this connection for the past two years. Contracts have been all but signed, only to be abandoned. Proposals for a compromise have been rejected first by cne side and then the other, and the Comstock, divided against itself, was threatened with extermination. The Attorney Tausky are to be submitted for the signatures of the various com- panies and to President Leonard. Then they are to be sent on to New York for the approval of the directors of the unnel company. s The succ‘e’ss of the plan is highly probable, and that the various parties interested have been able to reach so satisfactory a conclusion is the best news that Comstockers have heard in years. The working of the upper levels of the Comstock mines, the carrying off of waste rcek through the Sutro tunnel, is the natural, thie most direct and eco- nomical mode of procedure. Where the tunnel taps the Brunswick lode, the territory which has been in dispute, there's ground worth fighting for. Hap- hoid its fate in their hands have come to a peaceable settlement, and people here feel that a turning point in_ the affairs of the Comstock have been reached. MUTUAL RESERVE SUSTAINED. An Injunction to Prevent Collection of Assessments Is Beaten. NEW YORK, April 1.—The application of Charles Schoolhouse,a policy holder of the Mutual Reserve Fund Life Associa- tion, for an injunction to restrain the as- sociation from collecting its assessments as recently reapportioned, came up for hearing in the Supreme Court on Wednes- day, and was fully argued by counsel for both parties. After a full discussion of the facts and of the legal questions in- volved the court refused to grant an in- mining companies and the tunnelpeople were settled, and an amicable arrange- ment entered into by means of whi the unds that the plain- e older had no ata.‘:’ndln papers which are being prepared by | pily for Virginia City, the powers that | or was in danger of such an injury as would entitle him to an injunction; that all of the allegations of the plaintiff were fully denied and overcome by the de- fendant’s affidavits; and because the granting of an injunction would be pro- ductive of great mischief and injury to the association in the prosecution of its business. AFTER A COURTSHIP - OF MANY LONG. YEARS. E. K. Hall, a Rancher of Salinas Val- ley, Aged 78, to Wed Rebecca Liebrandt, Aged 72. SALINAS, April 1.—County Clerk Kalar this afternoon issued a marriagelicense to the oldest couple ever married here. The cortracting parties were E. K. Hall, a prominent rancher near Bradley, aged 78, an< Rebecca Liebrandt, aged 72. Both the groom and bride are well known peo- ple and have resided in Salinas Valley over thirty-five years. Neither has been married before, and they have been courting for some ten years. S Oy ik Trout Season Opened. SANTA CRUZ, April 1.—The trout sea- son opened to-day. The townspeople in great numbers have been fishing, making good catches. The favorite streams are the San Lorenzo River and its tributaries, Zyante, Love, Bear, King, Clear and Boulder creeks. South of Santa Cruz, Scquel Creek and up the coast are some favorite creeks, Waddells, San Vicente, Liddell and Laguna. An exocus of people is expected Saturdayand Sunday to one or other of these favoriie trout streams. RACING ON TWO TRACKS. Winners of the Running Events at Nashville and Little Rock. NASHVILLE, Tenn., April 1.—Weather clear; track slow. Results: Six_furlongs, Sligo won, Alouette sece ond, Nimrod third. Time, 1:2). Four furlongs, W. Overton won, Buck- ner second, Ben Viking third. Time, One and an elghth miles, Cumberland prize, Isabey won, Presbyterian second, W. D. Hamilton third. Time, 2:01%. Six furlongs, selling, Lady Doleful won, Overflow second, Massacre third. Time, 1:19%. Seven furlongs, selling, Mamie Callan won, Maggie second, Bill Dawdy third. Tim: e, 1:32. LITTLE ROCK, Ark., April 1.—Track fast. Results: . Four furlongs, Climacus won, Gay Parisienne second, Hittick third. Time, 511 Clinton Park won, Montedonico second, Valid third. Time, 1:19. Four furlongs, selling, Eugenia S won, Exit second, Dressler third. Time, :51%. Six furlongs, selling, Kirk won, Deer- foot second, Volsette third. Time, 1:19%. Six furlongs, selling, Eleanor Holmes won, Minnie Weldon second, Kruna third, “Six furlongs, maidens, Big Scotts, | Time, 1:17%. ADVERTISEMENTS. ELECTRO w . 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