The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 29, 1898, Page 32

82 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MAY 1898 29, TUKON TRADE LOOKING UP Steamers ‘Ready and Getting Ready to Go. RUSH A BIG EXPECTED. HARD LUCK ATTENDING THE STEAM SCHOONER RUTH. The Chinese Crew on the Troopship China Sent Home and Their Places Taken by White Sailors. Two steamers intended for the Klondike had their trial tn on the bay lay. The Ala Commercial Com- new steamer St. Paul had her trial, while the Alaska-Yukon ation Company’s river steamer a went out on her officfal test. St. Paul was in command of Cap- George Harvey of the Ship Owners’ Merchants’ Towboat Company. He of the most capable masters on the , and took out the Paul by the special invitation of the Commercial Com- pany. The machinery worked to perfec- tion, and when the vessel was going at full speed she av ed fourteen knots an hour. When everything is down to ite be it is expected that the new mer will do better even than on her al. The James Eva took out a large party on her trial trip. They were all friends of the directors of the company, and had a most enjoyable outing on the bay. The intended for the Yukon River will leave this week for St. tow of the company’s steamer serve order at tk Bertha. She was taking rs, cooks, stewards and s to man the Alaska Commer- i amers at St. Mi- » of this crowd was more influence of liquor, and approached there s under the hour of saili > several free fights. Sergeant Tom ney and a squad from the Harbor ¢ station went down to the wharf nd soon had the men under control. Had they delayed putting in an W ppearance for uld have been when they 1. Ruth has not as built at View, aunching she retused to the ways. attempts were made to get her vo of the red Stack were sent down, and they pulled her the tide went out she settled - of piles, and two holes were She had to be put on the in and new planks put in; and id into the water without She had only been anchored however, when a stern- 1 ihto her and stove in another these repairs had been made from Harbor ng her machinery u a sister ship to the Jow running on the coast, and npleted she will be put in the > auspi Klondike trade. 5 “The chief otficers of the steamers Colon nd Starbuck have ch; 1 places. Mate inwaring of the Colon did not relish idea of going to Manila, so he has rred to the Starbuck, which few days for Panama, and Mate Doris of the Starbuck goes to the hire was a great hubbub on the Mail about noon time. The ady to sail for the s getting rid of “hina has been “ha port the coolies had to be got rid of and their places filled by white men. Many of the Chinese were ipped in Hongkong and much to their disgust they, were transferred from the China to the Doric and s ck home. d who were shipped here were tran it the > Port in T > work of dis being rushed and if ould get away to- niia. d to their landing. ging the China i e was a big_crowd of people down to see the Doric off and hundreds of them had letters which they were eager to_get away to the soldiers who left a few days dney and Austraiia s the troop their bunk- ago on the Peking, S: for Manila via Honolulu. ships will probably replenish ers at Honolulu the chances are that the Doric will get there twenty-four hours before they their journe All the letters were gladly ta en charge of by the purser and wil] be n board the troopships when the amer reaches Hanolulu. he big Bri ship Tradewind is to have a new master. Captain Ritchie, the Jopular and able commander who brought her here, has resigned and with his wife will_start for England early this week. Captain Jones is now on his way here from England and on his arrival will take charge- of the Tradewind. The ship is now taking in ballast and will start for Tacoma in a few days to load whéat for Europe. The California-Alaska Navigation Com- any's new steamer Dirigo will be.abnut the first of the fleet to get away for St. Michael. She has nearly all her berths engaged i ected to sail on W nesday. . Michael she will connect with the company’s new steamer Queen of the Yukon, a fine new vessel 124 feet long, 28 feet broad and 6 feet deep. She has accommodations for 200 passengers and 200 tons of freight, and is fitted throughout with electric lights and every- thing necessary for the comfort of ti passengers, The company’s other steam- er, Alice Rix, is now being fitted out at the Folsom-street wharf. She is 120 feet long, 28 feet broad, 6 feet deep and has accommodation for '15) passengers and 150 tons of freight. She will be used on the Yukon river in connection with the steam- er Queen of the Yukon. e FOLLOWED HER HUSBAND T0 EXILE AND DEATH Continued From Page 2. temptuously, as she wiped her flashing eves. “Let them wait; I'll have him out of prison and earn my bread, too.” But for once she was balked. No sooner had she spent her little all on the necessary expenditure for a small store than she recelved a free pass on the next mail boat bound for Sydney, with orders to quit New Caledonia on pain of imprisonment. Alone she would undoubtedly have faced the horrors of a New Caledonia prison, but her chil- dren were unprotected. With one clinging to each hand she found her- self, on a drizzling morning, in the streets of Sydney, a stranger, not speaking a word of the language, and with a few dollars in her pocket. Nay, worse than a stranger, for she had an evil reputation to live down; the Nou- mean Government, ashamed to own that it feared a woman, had sent word that she was expelled from New Cale- donia on the score of immorality. Hap- pily there are lies that defeat their purpose; people would have been ready enough to regard Mme. Rastoul as a dangerous political agitator; no honest person, looking at her grand counte- nance, could believe in her immoral tendencles. The beginning was cruelly hard; she and her children more than once stared starvation in the face:; but little by little it became known that a French teacher of exceptional charm | smirched name, and obliged to battle | and individuality had come to Sydney, and before many years Mme. Rastoul stood at the head of her chosen profes- sfon; to be her favored pupil was to eladm linguistic. distingtion. Her rooms were exchanged for a luxurious home, society sought one who was so obviously “to the manner born,” and soclety, not taken into her confidence, marveled sometimes why the beautiful eves held dark shadows and the sweet face seemed lined with care. - Her daughter could have told them. The daughter who used to wake up night after night and, seeing a white- robed figure pacing restlessly up and down, cry imploringly, “Mamma, mam- | ma, are you never going to sleep?”’ A | few months after her arrival in Sydney Mme. Rastoul heard that the doctor, with eighteen others, had escaped from Noumea in a small boat. For five years her wistful eyes watched, night and day, for the arrival of that doomed crew. Then one day she heard an au- thentic tale of shipwreck; her step lost | some of its elasticity, her beautiful hair silvered and her poor neighbors saw more of her than ever. For there was one side of Jullette | Rastoul's life which society took no note of. In drawing-rooms she was only known as a brilliant social orna- | ment. But the woman in garret or cel- | lar, whose pain of travail had come upon her, the woman bending over her sick child’s couch, the woman stand- ing by her husband's corpse with no burfal fee in hand, these knew that ‘“‘madame’s” bell might be rung at any | hour of the night and that she would | answer as a ministering angel. At length, mysteriously, into ma- dame’s sorrowing life stole the glow of an Indian summer; genius knelt at her feet, offering loving homage and the | tender heart was snared unawares. “I thought all my heart was buried in the sea,” she would say, smiling wistfully. | | | “I never suspected there v any left | Sweet Orchid, White Heliotrope, Extreme to give away, but there was, and he Violet, Sweet Lavender, popular size.....| 500 took it.” Hudnut Florida Water, sprinkle top. .50c wl .adhacm.z‘ ;Qf:iw«#’ 6 HALE'S. € oo &%/gm;g’m bt 5 1§ Thers a fuitunc, urs the age of e seldin. % d;wmm.;.;w—r-q W e % 2 In Our Bazaar. (Atsle No. 4, Upstairs). FREE. & Century Tollet Hints,” in- troducing the celebrated Rich- ard Hudnut Perfumes and Toilet Specialties of New York City. Hudout Perfumery. Quadruple Strength. Sweet Orchid—Napoleon Violet—White Iris— Wood Violet, Opponax, White Rose, A 62-page book entitled ‘“Twen- 5c ounce Hudout Toilet Waters. For years she had no cause to regret; she was the joy and pride of an ex- ceptionally artistic home, the center of an_intellectual Bohemian circle. Then, suddenly, the evil days fell | upon her. I need not dwell on a tale of treachery and hishonor now buried | in the grave. ! Enough that “Madame” once more found herself cast upon the | world, bearing for the first time a be- | for herself and the young grandchild she had adopted. This new experience well-nigh killed her, nay there are some | who know full well that it proved her | deathblow, but she carrfed her mortal she wound bravely. “I die standing,” said once more, “and before I die dis honor must be removed from that| name; my life must honor it.” She kept her word. First in the pretty little town of Hobart, Tasmania, | then in her well loved Sydney, she built | up for herself a reputation that will not soon be effaced. Opposition, ca- lumny, misrepresentation were active- Iy at work; to her wounded spirit the task was harder than of yore, vet she gallantly fought on. Many a time her courage well-nigh failed, but the daunt- | less cry was always wrung from her: | Hudnut 925 Cologne, half pint. .$1.00 | Hudnut’s Celebrated Skin Preparations In Glass Jars. | Cerate, Violet, Almond, Meal, Camphor Ice, | Mutton_Tallow,” Cocoa Butter, 'Cucumber and Orris, Tincture Benzoin, Talcum, Toilet Pow- | ders, Beauty Cream, Liquid Rouge. All sold at Perfumery Counter. Hudnut’s Tooth Preparations. ....50¢|Wash ...............50¢c Paste Hudnut’s Manicure Preparations. Eyebrow Penclls 15c The genuine Richard Hudnut Perfumes and Specialties have the trademark ‘‘Hudnutine.” Look for it—Protect yourself and us. In the‘l;azaar. Main Basement. Enameled Steel Ware. Great Sale. | Here's an importer’s COFFEE OR TEA POTS. “I will not give in. I die standing, | “3 2 3 4 5 quarts or I fall with honor.” e 25c 30c 350 40c Each She died standing. Last January | LIPPED SAUCEPANS. intellectual Sydney was startled by the| 1 1% 2 8 4 5 6 7 quarts| news that its brilliant lecturess and au- | 8¢ 10¢ 13c 15c 20c 22c 25¢ 30c Fach| thority on French literature, the found- SEAMLESS STRAIGHT SAUCE POT. ; ress of its only French Cercle Litteraire | 3 4 5 8 quarts and School of Dramatic Elocution, had | 26¢ 28c 85¢ 40¢ Eack | died after a few days’ illness. Flowers | COFFEE BIGGEN, | were massed over her still form, |1 2 3 4 quarts | Wealth and fashion focked to the tu- | 35c & 49 - 4Se . Booimach neral, her country’s official representa-| Money Back on Anything ou iR Tt tive stood at her grave, the newspapers SEZAM L'(l\';:m—‘.m BUCKET. i view with oneanother in laudatory arti- |1 3 =4 § quarts cles, and adoring puplls erected a mon- | 12¢ ~ 18e 18c 20c 2Ge Each | ument. Only the few guess that the | DN:(- e ““'l';‘ HANDLI?_ = 7 quart heart under that monument was long | §,, e s 2 ouacta | since crushed and broken; that it was SR Rt A | not life’s blood, but honor, that kept it | | 5 DE‘LP PUDDING PGAA\S» Jhn s i pulsating so long. 8¢ 10c 14c 18e 18c 20c Bact ROSE DE BOHEME. S > e ENAMELED STEEL. RECORDS THAT SHOW Spain Is Used TO “MANILA DEFEATS.” F late Spanish statesmen, ad- | mirals and generals have been Be | Drinkjng Cup. 5 c | Cake Turnes Dust Pan e | Cuspido 10¢ | Soap Dish 10c | Skimmer | c Basting Spoon - Bc | Housekeepers should glve this special atten- tlon—We cannot duplicate these goodsor these prices | A word of advice—Come before the line fs | picken over. e us and sold to 3 | and other Straw: 6 HALE'S. Yesterday, Saturday, a great success. usual at 6 o'clock! Hal s0 great is our floor space to-day— 80 many are our new departments— s0 dainty are the summer novelties— Dimities Organdies Dotted Swiss 43cyard Muslin. -6 yard Ginghams ¢ yard Shirt Prinfs. 12,650 Yards Embroidery. astern buyers secured FANCY O el ot e iz ' insertion to match— DEPARTMENT (15t i inens*” season s Alsle No. 2. about over, ours about to ommence. The patterns in this offering are particularly choice, and at the price we offer them will insure a great sale on Tuesday: 2000 yards, 1 to 1% inches wide......2¢ per yard 2250 yards, 13% to 3 inches wide. ... 3¢ per yard and col- 8000 yards, 1 to 2 inches wide (W ored) ...6e per yard 3400 yard wide va- 7 1-Ze per yard (see the hes wide (col- per yard oy’ [CERT v ool o ...9¢ See the Window Displ 200 Doz. Sample Handkerchiefs 125c. After the traveler's return to the whole- . the samples are sold to the in the trade, and big h largest retaile like Hale's wate Scolloped and Hemstitched Swiss manufacture, P Dbought the entire lot, lucky buyers they go for 5000 Yards New Dress Goods 5dc. DRESS GOODS Xot!7%. 7t v';;n%'r; DEPARTMENT .0 i Atsle No 1. show 2T Fancy Mohairs, Faney Epinglines, Broches and Reps, Fancy Jac- quards, Navy Storm Serges, ¥ lar color combinatios ds that only by means of a vast capital can be bought by u at such a price as....... 7 50c per yard 3E, full guar- 65¢ yard In a tancy colors such STO! heavy SERS qualit 1200 YARDS NAVY 50-inch ide, extra anteed all wool... 1 CASE LOYALA SUITI basket weave, 50 inches wide, as navy, marine, seal, myrtle, olive and heliotrope, AVY DIAGONAL SERG! most _ stylish this season, staple colors, ds as build up 75¢ yard 1700 YARDS H probably one of the economical outing mate full 5 The success of this depart- MILLINERY ment has proved that our DEPARTMENT [illiners bas been of the highest artistic beauty, and Alsle No. 4. sold at a very reasonable profit. There is originality beauty and exclusiveness. Alry Leghorns, polita; Panamas and Chips, Dain 5, Li with a wealth of Flowers, Plumes, Laces, Ribbons and Ornaments de- Ilightful to the eye, and in strictest dictates of Fashion, Our display beauty. fn window is a panorama of ¢ per yard | Our sixth afternoon concert was We closed as ¢ yard ....3%C yard - Sample Handkerchiefs. 12*sc each WASH GOODS AS SWEET AS NEW-MOWN HAY—COOL AND FRESH AS THE MORNING BREEZE ! | 3000 Yards Dimity, 45c a Yard. | | | Better grade: 31 inches wid 00 PIECI | 2000 vards SHIRTING PRINTS: % widtn; | 47 doz. TURKISH TOWELS; fast selvage, unbleached; one of the items of Hale | 6 HALE' The day of rest. A fitting prelude to a solemn celebration to-mor- row ! To-Day, Sunday, 4o yard Turk Towels, 2004d. 5 yard Embroideries ... C gach 5000 yds. Ladies’ On sale Tuesday, the re- sult of a specially strong purchase, 3000 yards Dim- DOMESTIC DEPARTMENT Afsle No. 3. light and dark colors; i various 9-tone _plaids, overplaids, checks and crisscross patterns 5 43¢ vard ORGANDIES; one of the season’s llveliest washgoods ; 28 inches wid small dainty figures on & white ground......6¢ yard | plaids and = and tinted c and 15¢ yard small floral grounds WHITE DOTTED SWIS: small and medium do value . % patterns on 24 inches wide; extremely good ..7c yara 2S PERCALES; 3 Inches wide; in over 100 patterns and colorings; light and dark: this season's goods, which we s bought close and sell closel 10 bales unbleached MUSLIN; 36 inches wide; quality the best that can be offered for the price .de yara LIN, bleached; fine close-woven fabric... S Sec yard standard quality; in light colors....3%e yard S GINGHAMS; 27 in plalds and stripes, dark colors; suitable for dresses; an ideal fab- ric for country wear during vaca .on.5e yard 80 doz. WASH CLOTHS; 12 inches square; bleached; good for hotels, camps, cot- tages . .3c each 20x44, fringed, stock which always attra crowd ROLLER .TOWELLIN pure linen, extra 17 inches wide; all y, absorbent ..9¢ yard MOS UITO NETTING (8 yards in a plece) i ceeeee...48€ plece An item put on sale Tuesday, as the va- cation time is now on us; warm weather will emphasize its necessit New McCall Dress Patterns. Atsle No. 1, Rear. Our latest acquisition is the famous Mc- Call Paper Patterns, the creations of Paris, Berlin, Viennaand New York.. If you wish a 42-page monthly magazine of fashicns, cookery, fancy work, popular fiction, we will, if 'you live in the city, for only 30c, give you a 15¢ pattern and every month for 12 months a magazine free. If you live out of the city send us 50 cents and you will get any 15¢ pattern you wish and That we wish we could take a page of this paper to tell you all we would wish to tell you; but these figures speak for themselves. They are for “Good Goods.” Come in Tuesday and see them. You're our guests any time. This advertisement includes such attractions as these Lawn Aprons 0ge.. | CLOAK | DEPARTMENT 6 HALE'S. | To-Morrow, Decoration Day. We mourn Monda our nation’s dead and close our 01day, stores all day! g Dress G20ds.50¢ yard First Show Hudnat's Perfumery 5 each and Toilet Articlss. 10c pair 7-Gored Black Serge Skirts.$4.00 This department _has been enlarged and every -curtain can now be hung just as it will appear at your home. After You purchase draperies here we will hang them free; no charge for our time or our experi- nce. DRAPERY DEPARTMENT Alsle No. 3. WHITE LAWN insertion and deep hem on bottom, 33 inches long, 3012;0 WHITE LAWN APRO: long full strings, inches* wide. practical lesson in Economy. WHITE LAWN APRONS, 8 rows of imitation drawn work, 33 30 inches wide ‘inches long, APRONS with lace ; 11 rows of every item in this column a 514 imitation hemetitch, ¥ rows of = : 5 5 sateen stripes and deep hem on bot- Zfiflniflllnfiflnfifi(‘EM.S};'R:&“F‘ni‘l‘de{:;:: | tom, large full strings, 37 Inches] @2cy in ecru and white "$1°75 Datr | 100, 52.inches wide ECRU LACE STRIPE SCRIM — Good, strong, serviceable material for sash and full-length curtains; specially _suitable es wide summer cottage; 40 _1'ni for your 2c a Yard | 80 DOZEN BRASS DRAPERY CHAINS— For draping curtains and portleres back. To close out the entire lot in a few days we say .Be Pair or |or With our new annex came much more room: a chance for larger stock, - bett service and better satisfac- store silk cord, trimmed crown, silk ruf- fle round front with flosséd edge.... | “snape, ruffle round edge INFANTS' AND CHILDREN'S CAPS of corded " silk brown, full ruche in front, rosette on top, embroidered crown, poke shape...... in red, blue and also white India silk with silk of fine Indla silk, poke shape, bonnets of fine India silk, poke sillc embroidered erown, silk lace tront, 250 bk O Afsle No. 3, Rear. tion_in our Cloak Depart-'| Look H C Wear ment. Anything bought here | will be fitted and altered free of charge. well. OSlery‘ well. TAN COVERT CLOTH JACKET-Lined BLACK COTTON HOSE (for ohfl- throughout with pretty shades of change- dren), fine Maco cotton, spliced able taffeta silk; sizes 34 to 40.. 7.50 | heels, double. knee, 12ic BLACK REP SILK CAPE—I8 inches long, handsome Vandyke pattern; trimmings of chenille and silk; chiffon ruche around neck; sizes 34 to 40, 35, VELVETEBN CAPE-18 long; trimmed with ribbon, lace and Jjet; lined with taffet BLACK inches sizes 34 | empire back $5.00 to 4 BLACK SERGE SKIRT—AIl wool; full fin- ished and lined with percaline, bound, seven-gored and in the latest cut perfect in hang, cut and finish .84 TAN COVERT CLOTH SUIT—Fly-front seamiess, sizes 5 to % | coTTON HOSE, | ®ood | spliced heels, double sole and toes.. Better | " Richelieu and in black and tan, heels and toes, | BLACK COTTON HOSE (for boys), extra heavy quality, narrow double knee, elastic and seaml ribbed, and toes, very sizes 6 to 10., heel COTTGN HOSE (for children) of fine Maco yarn, fast black and all new shades of tan, double knee, sole and toes, 4 to 8. high spliced heels, black, quality, for fast ladles, heavy color, grade of fine Maco cotton, Rembrandt ribbed, Jacket, Jined with colored silk serge; skirt toes ... full fintshed and bound; sizes M to 40 cevsassascascans =7 | Another line—Hermsdort ave, an | “black, .and black with white split foot and black with all white foot, Our business has grown so, dur- | ing the past year especially, that | new departments surprise even | our oldest patrons. For instance | CAMPING AND VACATION $:ite" st S’ maimbiin, 13-foot for 4-foot, $1.00, and_closely woven fanc: ton, S0x40 Inches, .00, including spreader. There's Camp toves, Grips, Vallses, Trunks, Straps, Agate and Tin Ware and all those necessary adjuncts to a life of ease in camp, whether it be on the the magazine by mail free for one year. ghores of Monterey or on Shasta’s heights. OUR MAIL ORDER DEPARTMENT ships orders the same day as received. know the reason why. There’s no reason why (with carc) our out-of-town patrons should not buy by mail just as well as if at our counters. SAN FRANCISCO’S MOST PROGRESSIVE DRY-GOODS HOUSE- 245-947 Market St. 937-939 If not let us know and we will 1 | high spliced heels, double toes st and s | Imitation Seai Leather Béit (see i Calt F bayadere stripes, and silver harness buckles sole white grey, st quality Horn Bone, 10 inch wart’s Linen Threac white Leather beautifully g tinted iined and stit and 15c 28¢c 10c spliced heels and 25¢ 'Notion Department Inducements. Platinum Corsct Steels, black.. . Best qualit | Be: Furniture ‘Gimp, all shades Velvet. Grip Hose Supp gunlurfl)‘ Skirt Binding, 241-943- ] pable of reversing the unvarying mis- | boats at Faro. The engagement was a | fortunes of the past. For proof of the foregoing it Is only hot one, but, as usual, the Anglo-Saxon triumphe Not a ship was left to fly doing a great deal of boasting in | necessary to turn back a few pages of | the Spanish flag. The English loss was regard to the past glories won by | history to show just how incapable the | very small. their seamen. The impression gained from reading their state- ments is that Spain’s career at sea has | been one grand series of successes. In- | stead, the fact is, it has been one grand series of disasters. And particularly | so, when her fleets met the men-of-war of the Anglo-Saxon. In Spain’s early history there is lit- | tle of a maritime nature. Most of her fighting was done on land and with well equipped armies she won enough money to enable her to employ the best soldierly talent of the day. By a stroke | of luck Spain found herself the ruling | power over vast areas of land and with | money enough on hand to empioy men to explore the furthest ends of the | earth for her. At ohe time Spain was really the first naval power. ! But even when circumstances made | her the first of naval powers Spain was | never equal to the task she undertook, | says the London Speaker. A great | Italian sallor secured for her the em- | pire of the West. The fighting prowess | of two great military captains won for | her Mexico and Peru. Her splendid | armies conquered Portugal and brought | her the widest colonial dominion of the age. ! But it was not by sea that Spain won her supremacy, and not by naval victories that she laid her grip on every guarter of the globe. Even when her power ‘and wealth seemed irresistible, when her military reputation was at its height, when the world was strewn with her territories and the ocean laden with her argosies and fleets, her real | naval power was utterly incommensur- | ate with the astonishing pretensions which it made. As soon as England and Holland laid a finger on it, her maritime empire crumbled into dust. The Armada only revealed a fact which English sailors had long suspected, and the conscious- ness of which explains Drake’s sublime contempt for the menaces of Spain— the fact that, even at the zenith of their fame, the Spaniards had no mastery of the arts by which the sea is held. Is there on record a battle which | shows that Drake and Blake and Jervis | and Nelson were mistaken in their low estimate of Spanish seamen? Can any | of us recall the name of a Spanish ad- miral of genius, or of any great Span- ish naval victory since Lepanto, which was won largely by Venetian crews? If we look at the history of Spain since the Armada, we find only a suc- | cession of naval disasters, a succession of triumphs for any state which has ventured to grapple with the Spaniards on the seas. Take the history of the seventeenth century and follow the career of the Dutch admirals and of the greatest of Nelson's predecessors, Blake. Take the eighteenth century and notice how even Alberoni and Patino failed, with all their efforts, to resuscitate the fleets of Spain. Take the modern war in Chile, and mark how few antagonists Cochrane could find there worthy of his steel. Even in the days of her greatest power at sea, Spain was notoriously deficient in the capacity of her sailors, and since those days she has steadily declined. To-day Spanish gunners and Spanish engineers are confessedly among the worst in BEurope. It would be little short of a miracle if it should turn out that Spain, within the last two de- cagdes, had pred a race of seamen ca~ Spanish seamen are. Not only are they weak in science and discipline, but | they have not shown the bravery of the Anglo-Saxon sailors. A study of the records of the British navy, of even re- cent years, will show that for bravery | and valor the Spaniards can give no points to the Anglo-Saxon. Spain can show not a single engagement in which her men displayed the bravery the English have on many occasions. Every student of British history knows of the defeat of the Spanish Ar- | mada. But that is too long ago. come to a more recent date, 1770, is far enough back to show what is intended. At this time the Dons had built up | quite a formidable navy and became | very insolent again. Piracy was en- | couraged to such an extent that Eng- | land had to interfere to teach a les- son. For a number of years there was con- tinual fighting and éngagements were very frequent. The most important of these engagements are as follows: March 17, 1794—The British brig Ze- bra, of sixteen guns, stormed and cap- tured Fort Royal, Martinique. This was a hot fight of many hours and the Spanish numbered their adversaries al- | most 4 to 1. March 17, 1796—British frigate Dia- mond and the Liberty, an eighteen-gun brig, destroyed the batterfes of' Port Sporgui and nine warships. The Dia- mond was in command of Sir Sydney Smith and the Liberty tn command of George McKinley; an ancestor of our illustrious President. - February 12, 1797—Admiral Sir John Jervis in the old Victory, famed after- ward as Lord Nelson's flagship, had an | action with the Spanish fleet and de- | stroyed nearly all of them and cap- tured four ships of the line. May 5, 1798—Two brigs, the Badger of 10 guns and the Sandfly of 8 guns, had an engagement with four Spanish frig- ates. It was a fierce battle, but one that did not last long, owing to the ac- curacy of the British gunners. Three of the Spanish vessels were sunk and the fourth, the Santa Dorotea, was captured, and afterward did good serv- fce fighting for England. 5 November 6, 1799—The Speedy, a small brigantine carrying eight 4- pounders, engaged twelve Spanish gun- boats and successfully defended a con- voy of merchantmen at the same time. May 6, 1801—Lord Cochrane, in the Speedy, ranged up - alongside of the Spanish frigate Gamo, and after a hard fight, in which the Gamo was nearly wrecked, captured her. The crew of the Gamo was 455 all told. The crew of the little Speedy was but 38. July 12, 1801—The Cocar, an English line-of-battle ship, and seven small gunboats met a large French and Span- ish squadron in the Straits of Gibraltar and after a fierce fight destroyed all but one frigate, the San Antonio, of 74 guns, which was captured and put under the British colors. The English loss was trifling. February 3, 1805—The Arrow and the Acheron, both 16-gun brigs, protected a convoy of twenty-eight merchant vessels against two powerful Spanish frigates, and thrashed them off.. August 23, 1806—Captain C. Bris- bane, in the Arethusa, a small corvette, captured the Spanish frigate Pomone. January 1, 1807—Captain Brisbane, in the Arethusa, assisted by four other vessels, captured the port of Curacoa. November 24, 1807—Lieutenant Mec- Kenzie, in a small cutter, captured ten gupboats and a privateer. He de- stoyed them all. April 24, 1808—Captain Searle, in a lit- tle gun brig, the Grasshopper, and a cutter under command of Lieutenant Baugh, engaged all the Spanish gun- | ways The list could be lengthened consid- erably, always with the same result. Such victories as the Spanlards may have gained over the English was al- done by vastly superior num- bers. The same may be said of their “vi~- tories” in the new world. It was always a case of the rude implements of the savage against the armor and guns of Europe. When there has been any- thing like equality on both sides the Spaniards have invariably been de- feated. And so it must always be for the reason that the Anglo-Saxons are the most resourceful race that ever CODES 1P 10 CODES [ODERN TIVES Changes of Twenty-Five Years Are Inserted. THE FULL REPORT WILL BE IN FIVE VOLUMES. Hon. Robert Nelson Bulla, of the Code Commission, was in the city yesterday on legal business. He has recently returned from a session of the commission, which has been very busy for some months get- ting the revision in shape. Speaking of the progress made already, and of the future work of the commission, he said: “It s a vast undertaking that is under way by the Commissioners, and we shall not be able to have it completed until the meeting of the .Legislature. When you take into consideration the fact that there are thousands of sections to carefully re- vise, the extent of the work will at once appear. Our work will appear in four regular volumes, and another which will be_largely supplementary. “There will be two regular reports, one of which will be somewhat conservative | and of a character that all will almost certainly agree with. There will be an- other report far more radical in its feat- ures, and this will recommend serious changes, new bills and innovations. In the main report we have omitted the sec- tions that have been declared unconsti- tutional, but in every instance we have made the proper annotations. We have always made full notes on the changes, referring to the decisions of the Supreme Court modifying or otherwise affecting the main points. Wherever the statutes have made omissions that the Supreme Court has, in a manner, supplied, we have inserted them as Sections of the code. An.instance in point is the case of general elections, which have never been defined in the codes. We found a definition in the decisions of the Supreme Court, and at once supplied it with due credit. . “We have already completed our revi- sions of the civil code and will soon be well along with our work on the political code. It is all slow and tedious work. Our plan is to assign a few hundred sec. tlons to ‘éach member of the commission, after which all of us have to read it by sections and agree. The commission will recommend a number of new bills, and we hope many of them will pass. When you take into consideration the fact that the codes have not been revised for twenty-five vears, and that in that time there have heen a great many changes in the laws and affairs of the commonwealth you will understand the extent of our undertaking.” —————a—————— Advances made on furniture and planos, with 97 without removal. J. Noonap, 1017-023 Mission, | | | demand for copper and copper properties | healthy condition of the minin NEWS OF THE MINES.| Year’s Record Shows Copper Booming To- | ward Second Place. Coal Will Have Its First Inning This Year—The Doings of Big Mines. The figures giving the total mineral | record of the State for 1897 as compiled by Statistician Charles G. Yale of the Mining Bureau present but one marked increase, and that is in the production of copper. -In 1896 but 1992844 pounds, val- ued at $199,518, was credited to California’s | copper mines. In 1867 the production rose to 13,638,626 pounds, valued at $1,540,666. This increase is wholly due to the great | and growing operations of the Mountain | Copper Company in Shasta County. There | is every prospect that the phenomenal | will continue for some vears, and that it | will bring to this as to other cop- | per-producing reg s rapid and con- tinuous an increase as that which has marked the past y The old copper mines_at Copperopolis are about to be rehabilitated; in Shasta County are bodies of copper ore as vast and valuable as that being developed by the Mountain Copper Company; and these and other properties elsewhere age now the subject of active exploftation, Which promises an early de- velopment. Capper has risen to third place in the list of the State’s mineral products, and will likely in another year outstep petroleum, which has recently displaced. quicksilver as the product of second importance. The petroleum product increased in value during the year from $1,180,793 to $1,918,269, and this is surely but a fraction of the value which the annual product will reach in the near future. Coal cut small figure last year, but the recent opening for operations on a large scale of the Corral Hollow mines will in 1898 place coal high in the list for the first, time. The building of the new Postoffice will boom the product of building stone this year and may resuit in the develop- ment of great marble quarries. The total increase of $550,000 in the value of _the State’s mineral product in spite of ‘the dry year, which so greatly curtailed- the gold product, is evidence of the generally industry, ‘uture far 3 which has in this State a greater than its past. The editor of the Georgetown Gazette of Bl Dorado County pfeaches this edi- torial sermon after a visit to the boom- ing neighboring county of Tuolumne: “During our few months’ sojourn in Tuolumne County last winter, one import- ant feature was observed, and we often spoke about it, remarking what a .con- trast there was between the mining spirit of that and El Dorado County. That county ranks in_population and wealth a little under El Dorado. Two years ago her gold product was.rated only a. little above that of El Dorado; now she runs Nevada a close rub for the banner coun- ty, standing second. In Tuolumne we found no business men talking about the mines being played out and not being worth taking hold of. On every hand people manifest the utmost confidence in their mines. It is this spirit which is bringing the famous old county to the front. We need more of that spirit in El Dorado. That is what encourages miners and capital to come among us and take hold. The success of our mining in- dustry is our only hope for prosperity. Discourage prospecting and mine devel- opment and the county goes backward. e have a county certainly as rich in gold as any in the State, and what we want {8 more confidence and en shown by our leadl ud-&romlmt Zens who mnmgglm contagt | tral Eureka-mine is looking finely. at A wi a capitalists and men who come to look at our mines and prospects.” | The Amador Record says that the Cen-| Splen- | did ore has been encountered in the shaft and it is now a foregone conclusion. that this property is going to make one. of the great mines on the lode. The owners have stood by the proposition faithfully and it has cost them a big sum of money to car- ry on the work, but they now have the crown their efforts. As matters stand it ought not to be many months be- fore a big mill will be pounding away and the Central Eureka counted among the steady bullion producer: mony Wit dral on Monds The First Regiment, League of Cadets, will-attend, in command of Col- satisfacton of knowing that success will | onel W. P. Sullivan. nOW | League of. the Cross Auxiliary and friends | will_also be pre: After ‘the ma |on Van Ness avenue, headed | League of the Cross band. present they are cutting the drift is being run from the 1l put the product through the mill test.—Amador Ledger. ' MEMORIAL DAY. Observe It. day with of decorating the pe ceeprated in St Marv's ( v morning at 9:30 th ent. by 0-foot level in ore, and General Manager Dye as How League of the Cross Cadets Will The League of the Cross annually ob- serves Memorial mass in the morning and with the cere- graves of de- ceased cadets in the afternoon. The mass ‘athe- o'clock. e Cross olemn high Members of the the cadets will parade the The various The Argonaut mine paid a dividend of | companies will visit the cemeteries in the 10 een per share for the month of April. yndicate of New Brunswick capital- negotiating for the purchase of the | Mountain _mine, near Sierra City, Sierra County. The property is owned by Pat | Reddy, Judge Garber and other San | Francisco pdrties. The mine is situated | on the mountain side, 6000 feet above sea | @ level. The oré body is fifteen feet in | width and carries low-grade free-gold ore, | ys the Redding Free Press. An aerial (4 tramway is used to carry the ore from + the mine to the mill, which is situated on | the river 4000 feet below the mine. The | 4 mill has forty stamps and is run by water | 4 power. It is estimated that there are 5,00 tons of ore in sight. If the ore will | 4 d $4 per ton the company will purchase | the property and put in sixty more | stam] The ore can be mined and milled | 4 for $2 per ton. The National Mining Company of Rich Gulch shipped by rail from this city on Tuesday to the smelter at Vallejo Junc- tion a carload of sulphurets. The ship- ment consisted of 265 sacks, of 4 total | weight of 25,000 pounds. The company has the finest mill in this county. It is a late improved ten-stamp battery mill with a full concentrator plant, and & canvas plant - behind the concentrators to save the sulphurets, which carry large values.—Redding Free Press. A twenty-stamp mill is being erected by Captain McMurtrie, A. Cornwall and others at the Providence mine, on the north fork of the Tuolumne River, about fifteen miles from Sonora. Part of the machinery has been received, and the re- mainder will be delivered there this week. Large quantities of ore are being taken out of the mine at present.—Stockton In- dependent. We were on Wednesday shown some of the richest sulphurets we have ever seen. They were taken from. the Keltz mine at | West Point, at a depth of 650 feet. An | assay of the sulphurets went $800 per ton. | The lead in the Keltz is about twenty inches wide and the rock assays $0 per ton. The work of shipping the ore to Selby’s reduction works will com- menced next week.—Calaveras Chronicle. An immense gallows frame is being erected over the shaft of the Lightner mine. We used to think that those of the Utica company were high, but this one towers twenty-five feet above any of them, it being 100 feet in height. The Lightner mine joins the Utica on the | north. About its premises all is bustle and activity, and that this property will be a second Utica in the production of the yellow metal there is no reason for question.—Calaveras Prospect. X A report reached San Andreas this weel to the effect that a rich strike had been made at the old Thorn crevice at San Antone Camp. The party who brought the news to town stated that the crevice vields an average of $0 to the bucket, which is, indeed, rich gravel. This crev- ice was worked by Sheriff Thorn and a partner in 1854-57. During the two sum- mers they extracted in the neighborhood of $21,000. James Leé, Frank Cuneo and others are now workin the clalm. Thomas Fullen of the old Demarest mine was in San Andreas this week solicfting subscribers to the capital stock of that oung gold producer. It is intended to ncorporate the Demarest for $150,000. Calaveras Citizen. The Nourse property has been bonded for a good round sum. Thre formation is a massive outcrop of diabase and quartz, which shows up well in free gold.—Tuol- umne Inds The viel R S SRR TR SR R T T SR R R R S SR S S S S U R S O G NS L m:%:&&.fl%&? P POPPUIIR ADVERTISEMENTS. 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