The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 21, 1898, Page 10

10 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MO MEIN MAY BE THE MINERS’ NEW PRESIDENT A Workhorse, but He Will Be in the Running, Mining Association Will Convene in Native Sons’ | Hall To-Day. doned hammer and drill to the drift and the stope and have come to the cjty to meet in annual convention and discuss ways and means for the enhance- s in California. FOR a week the miners have aban- And, incidentally, the do a good bit of politi the president's chair of the California | a hot one and the | cy that will be cre- ed by the voluntary retirement of Jacob Neff ‘are alreadv lining up their forces. Upon the matter of selecting a presi- dent the tion is already divided | into thre ons—the adherents of Ju- | lian Sonntag, the supporters of A. C.| Ralston and a considerable number who | are urging the election of Captain | Thomas Mein of Alameda. So far Sonn- | tag and Ralston are the only candidates | who have appe actively in the fight, | but the announcement was made yester- | day that the 143 votes of the Nevada | County delegation were pledged solidly to Mein, and if proves true the cap- i to withdraw his in- tention not to enter the lists. As Nevada have the power to either elect or defeat, the result of the election is thus far possible of only a dubious forecast 1 Ralston and Sonntag the e giving the best end of the fight to the latter. Ralston for a time fig- ured as having the solid support of the Alameda delegation, but the fact became | known that he was attempting to carry with his own the interests of E. H. Ben- jamin, who is out for the secretaryship, and a number of his supporters have gone over to the Mein and Sonntag lists on that nt. For some reason that cannot be ed there is a general antipathy the members of the | ston's strength has | greatly weakened by his effort to m through. | ar's session bids fair to be the | S ciation has seen since it | into existence. Nearly been carry came mine In the State is represented by either one of its owners or its superintendent, and they have come down to not only talk but to work for a number of meas- res of vital interest to the mining indus- that have been hanging fire for sev- eral years. The mineral lands bill, now before Coni- s, which embodies the old fight of the miners against the railroad, is to be dis- cussed at lei with a view to_effecting some immediate legislation and the asso- ation is as equally in earnest in its in- tention to prevail upon Congress to create in the President’s Cabinet a department of | mines and mining. Debris dam matters | are also to receive due attention and it is | resolved to have something more than | speeches result from the year's ses- u fin si le delegations began to gather yester- ADVERTISEMENTS. PIN PLES BLACK HEADS Blotches, Yellow, Oily, Mothy Complexions, Red, Rongh Hands, Shapeless Nails, Itching Palms, Dry, Thin and Falling Hair and lS’imph’. Baby Humors prevented (uticury SUAP+ the most effective skin pari- fying and beautifying soap in the world, as well as purest and sweetest for teilet, bath and nursery. Hair Warm_shempoos with Save Your Hair T, shampoos, with lowed by light dressings with Cuticura, pur- oot of emollient skin cures, will clear the scalp 2nd hair of crusts, scales and dandruff, soothe irritated and itching surfaces, stimulate the hatr follicles, supply the roots with energy and nourishment, and thus produce luxuriant halr, With clean, wholesome scalp, when all else tails. in For olf rash, heat Save Your SKin Toy B one, e ritations, chafings, undue or offensive perspira- tion, and other sanative uses, nothing so cool- ing, soothing, purifying mud refreshing as a bath with CUTICURA SOAP, the most effective skin purifying and buuumns soap in the world, as well as purest and sweetest for totlet, bath and nursery. 8old throughout the world. Price, CUTICURA CUTICURA (ointment) 50c. POT- CORP., Sole Props. day morning, when the Yuba and Butte county representatives arrived and put up at the Lick. W. E. Duncan Sr. and O. P. Ormsby of Oroville turned up first. “and | announced that there was a train load or | s0_following. : i hey were followed byl a full score of enthusiastic delegates from old EI Dorado, who, with Thomas Clark at their head, descended upon the Grand Hotel and set up headquarters on the first floor. mong the prominent El Doradans who arrived were: C. H. Dunton of the Lar- ¥in mine, P. C. Du Bois of the Germain, George M. Clark, a prominent mining ex- | ert: J. J. Crawford, formerly of ~ the Yining Bureau; E. W. Chapman of the | Taylor mine and Assemblyman R. S.| Raw. T™&. Doolittle of the Placer County del- egation arrived during the afternoon and put up at the Palace, and E. Mallows of cut a considerable figure in the politics of the session. The actual business of the convention will not begin until to-morrow. To-day it will be called to order at 10 o’clock at N. S. G. W. Hall, and the time will be wholly given up fo organization. There are numerous lproxle! to be considered, and the work of the committee on creden- | tials will be by no means a small task. There are two or three voluminous re- ports t0 be xead and disposed of, and all of this matt® is to be cleared away be- fore new matters are even thought of. It is expected that the election will oc- cur_on Tuesday afternoon. The selection | of Mr. Neff’s successor_ is paramount to all other propositions. Never beforc has | the association taken so lively an inter- est in _its own politice. The president’s chair has been considered Mr. Neff's so | long as he has cared to sit in it, and to- morrow when the nominations_are made Phe same district found a stopping place at the Lick. Senator Voorhies, represent- ing Amador, arrived in the evening, and | his mining partner, John Tregloan, is ex- | pected to-day. The Nevada County crowd | did not get in until the 8 o’clock train ar- rived, and then it did not turn up in its entirety. Others will be along on the | Those who did get here | first train to-day. were: W. F. ngelbrecht, John Rector, N.'B. Shoecroft, John Spaulding, R. C.| Walrath, J. M. Buffington, Colonel Mec- | Bride of San_Juan Ridge and Charles | Uren of Grass Valley. W. H. McClintock i came to town as the sole representative of Tuolumne, but to-day M. Wilmans will be | down with half a dozen others of the dele- | gation from Sonora, and they expect to ! | it will be tendered him again. He has al- ready declared, however, that under no consideration will he accept the proffered honor, and for the vacancy that he cre- ates there is to be the livellest sort of fight. Sonntag is confident; so is Ralston. Mein has declined to run, but there are many who think that as a dark horse he is the possessor of many _flne running points, and he is looked to furnish a sur- prise and possibly a defeat to both of the working candidates. Sl SPRANG THROU Illlllllllmmmlll(m"m"mInnl.'l OHN DOWNEY, a horse trainer at the race track, became sud- denly insane yesterday morning, and is now strapped down in a pad- ded cell at the Receiving Hospital. Downey lives with, his wife at 982 Howard street. Their rooms are on the first floor, facing the street. On Friday night he came home and as- tonished his wife by throwing his empty purse on the table and telling her that he had been drugged and robbed at the race track. After a ‘while he became rational and admit- ted that he had been backing the wrong horses. Saturday night he seemed all right, except feeling bad about backing the wrong horse. Boston. London. _Depot fi):():ifififififififlfl)&flfifififlfi)fiéfififlflfififififlfifififififififififififififiOOOQGfiQGQHDfififiGfifiGQQQ!&CiQQQQUbfiOQQQDOOOOWC&QEEQIJQQQQOCIGQ Yesterday morning after having John Downey, a Horse Trainer, Becomes Suddenly Insane and Resents Being Locked Up oR-R-g=Rot-R-F-F-F-FoF-F-3-F=F-3-3-F-F-F-F-F=F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F-F=-F=F=2 3 GH A WINDOW. in a Room. breakfast and while they were pre- paring to go to church, Downey- be- gan to talk and act in such an ex- traordinary manner that his wife got scared, and, locking the door on him, she went in search of a police- man. After she left Downey, find- ing the door locked, dived through the window, carrying the sash with him. He alighted on his hands and knees, and escaped with a few slight cuts on his hands and scalp from the broken glass. His pecullar exit Into the street, hatless and coatless, attracted a crowd, and as he ran along Howard street toward Second he was pur- sued by about 200 people. His wife was among those who observed him, and she ran to meet him. As soon as she took hold of him he became quiet, and when Policeman Royston appeared he went peaceably with him to the patrol box and waited until the patrol wagon arrived. His wife ac- companied him in the wagon to the Receiving Hospital. After she left he became so violent that he had to be strapped down on his cot. Downey’s hallucination is that his enemies have been coming from Hades and giving him wrong tips on the races, making him lose his money. fegegegagogugeguotoReRegefeRutuefefepagofedofoefofategofeRegegogegegagofoFefaPaPegeauiageFelogofetef-FugegefeyafegagagageisFageReRogegeRaRageRegegegagegogegaicReFegegaogafagadeeFagaa] bad 8 8 838 | 25508 o ot 3030 030 1058 20 910 10 108 098 3 5, 0630 31 k10 0K B 20 X 60K H X 0K mm NO' SENSATION, REPRIMAND 0R COURT-MARTIAL The Fort Baker Inves- tigation Ends. | THE OFFICERS WERE LUCKY THE EVIDENCE. 'Mnjm- General Merriam Makes Some Very Pertinent Remarks Con- cerning the Army -rd Its General Government. Major General Merriam has received the report made by his aid, First Lieutenant John B. Bennett, concerning the investi- gation that the latter officer has recently «conducted at Fort Baker. The report went to Major General Merriam yester- day from the office of Adjutant General Babcock. General Merriam has not yet himself formally read the document, but he is acquainted with its contents. No official action one way or the other ha‘s been taken in regard to this report. When seen yesterday concerning the report General Merriam discussed it and its con- tents freely with the representative of The Call, and made some very pertinent remarks concerning it. He said: “I have the report on my desk, but I have not yet read it, although I know what {s in it. You can say that it con- tains nothing sensational and that there will be no court-martial. As commander of this department I am responsible for its conduct and discipline, and when as an officer I think that there has been a breach of either my punishment will be swift and without mercy. “Prior to this investigation a report was made by a board of officers on the camp at Fort Baker. It was found to be a model camp, the sanitary arrangements | excellent and the discipline firm. This argues in favor of the officers there. I know that some of the enlisted men are in the habit of going to the newspapers and giving tales of woe, but these same men, when put on the stand and asked _to tell the truth, make very different statements. _The re- rts published in The Call have een the facts as given by the enlisted men, but these same men have told very different accounts under oath, and there 1§ no evidence to support the charges that they have given to the newspapers. “As an old soldier, one who has given | his_life to the military profession, I claim to know what I am talkng about. These same men who are kicking have never known the same comforts that they have in the army. It i8 because they are be- ing cared for and disciplined as they should be that they kick. It is contemp- tible for them to go behind their officers’ backs and thus seek to attack them. | Much of the trouble that has been pub- lished in the papers regarding the treat- ment of the volunteer troops is the result of the officers not knowing how to take | care of their men. Soldiers in the regular | army under the strictest discipline do not grumble because they have the principles of the soldier ground into them, but the volunteers have raised howls under iden- tically the same treatment. “Regarding the reports that Lieutenant Hule is short in his accounts at Fort Baker as canteen officer, I desire to say that such is not the case. His accounts are correct and perfectly satisfactory to the department and here the matter ends. The public will be disappointed if it ex- pects any sensational developments or a court martial. I shall do what my judg- ment dictates to me is the right thing to be done, but there is nothing in the report to warrant the punishment of the officers at Fort Baker. 1( “Take, for instance, the grumbling that was done when the army was first en- camped here because the men sometimes did not have supplies. It was because thelr officers gxd not_know how to make out the requifftions for them. The regu- lar army officers here many and mzn.n;'l a night remained up to teach and show them how to do so. The Government, you know, requires that every button shall be accounted for, and that in the proper wa and with the proper requisitions an vouchers; and for a quartermaster to have sent these supplies out without a roper requisition would have been for i $o jeopardize his pay for all time to come. I cite this to show that there are many things in the army of which the civilian knows nothing. To be a soldier re- quires a speclal education. Men give their lives to it, and when they die much is left unlearned. You cannot be a sol- dier iIn the fullest sense in three months. “In the army and under the established laws and regulations made for its gov- ernment an officer knows how to lpreceed in all matters, and what the public may think of him has not a feather’s weight of influence; and I, as the commander of this department, know how to act prop- erly in this matter, and I intend to do so without fear or favor,” The famous old JESSE MOORE WHISKY is recommended by physicians for family and medicinal use because it is pure. —e—————— CYRANO POSTPONED. The Great De i.:;fl Play Set for Tuesday at the Comedy. Owing to the elaborate nature of the preparations, the Comedy Theater man- agement has decided to postpone the pres- entation of Rostand’s celebrated play “Cyrano de Bergerac” until Tuesday evening. Manager Ellinghouse has deter- mined that every detail of the production shall be as perfect as possible, and ow- h;f to a slight delay in the arrival of cer- taln accessories has decided to give the company one day's grace. Apropos of the title of the play it stated by the erudite that “Cyrano should be pronounced crisply, every syl- laole being short, the first syllable “Cyr"" having the cound of ‘syr” in syrup. It is common to hear the emphasis erro- neously placed on the middle syllable, Dr. Gerald J. Fitzgibbon Of 21 Powell street having recovered his late accident is able to re- practice NDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1 CHARGES NOT BORNE OUT BY| | penniless and with a thousand or so bitter | summated in California in the {ance of the property. | mining claims that the sale covers. | chase price it will mean the deliverance | to elect an Assessor that would fix a val- | uation on the improvements in any wise 1898. ROTHSCHILDS BUY MARIPOSA MINERAL LANDS Biggest Mining Deal of Past Decade. IS THE FIGURE 44,000 ACRES OF MINERAL LANDS TRANSFERRED. A MILLION A Deal That Will Mean the Deliver- ance of a County From Cor- porate Greed and In- fluence. ‘With the coming of the miners yester- day came news of what is sald to be the biggest deal in mining properties con- last de- cade. By it the Rothschilds may become the largest owners of mining property in the State and the State become richer by upward of a million dollars paid by the agents of the London capitalists for complete title to the 44,000 and odd acres of mineral lands that comprise the old Mariposa grant. The agents and experts of the Roths- childs have been for the past year pros- ecting the mother lode from French ‘amp to Fresno County, and have paid particular attention to the Mariposa sec- tion. with the result that about ten months ago they secured an option upon one-sixth of the big grant, and since that time have been negotiating with the Mackay and Hobart agents for the bal- A bond has been jsrued during the past week, and it is expected that work on a large scale will be soon begun on the many valuable finally decide to pur- it the Rothschilds bide by their bond and pay the of Mariposa County. Ever since history began in California the I\larlgosa grant has been a millstone round the neck of that section’s prosperity. Taking up, as it does, the larger part of the county, it was for years non-prpductive in taxes for the reason that no iiprovements of value were ever erected upon it. Later, when its value as a_mineral proposition was dis- covered and the large interests that have just released it to the London bankers took hold of it and developed twenty or more of its prospects, it was found an im- possibility for the citizens of the county commensurate with their cost. This state of affairs continued for years. Road work was stopped for want of funds, and the county was at a standstill until the voters rose in thelr wrath and put in an official of_their own choosing. The new official worked like a charm. Assessments were proportionate to values, and in anticipation of the harvest men_were put to building roads and mending fences. A new era dawned, and it continued until it came time for the roperty-owners to appear before the oard of Supervisors, sitting as a Board of Equalizers, and make representations that their assessments were exorbitant and prohibitive. For the same reasons that had actuated former Assessors, the Supervisors thought so too, and despite costly mills and valuable machinery they scaled the taxes back to the good old figures and the county went back into its trance. Enough is known of the plans of the Rothschilds to warrant the hope that the | new era has actually dawned. Electric | power plants are talked of, and mining operations on_a generous and business- like basis, and the good news of the past | fortnight has set the picks ringing and | pumps working on old shafts all over the county. The Mariposa grant is as rich in his-| torical incident as in good red nuggets. Its original owner was Don Juan Alvara- do, who received it as a grant of pasture land from Manuel Micheltorena, last of the Mexican Governors. Alvarado “‘went broke’ before his cows came home, and | he turned the property over to Genmeral Fremont for a consideration of $3000. The United States allowed Fremont to so change the lines of the original grant that instead of lying on the fertile plains of the San Joaquin it was broken to pieces over the points of the high Sierras, and under the resurvey the Government con- firmed his title. It took Fremont something like a year and a hundred men armed with shotguns to drive the miners from the property, who had discovered rich diggings there and reared themselves homes. When he had succeeded in this he found himself enemies as assets, and his creditors took the property. They made better time down the finan- cfal toboggan than Fremont, and the rant finally passed into the hands of the Flaods, Mackays and Hobarts, who hung it as a heavy decoration around the neck of Mariposa County, and just now _ the Zood people of that section are doing everything but holding torchlight proces- slons at being finally rid of it, all sava its history. ——————— “THE AMERICAN ABSALOM.” Dr. Locke Warns the Young Men of George Alexander’s Stripe. Dr. Charles Edward Locke delivered a germon last evening at Central Methodist Episcopal Church on “The American Ab- salom, or The Fast Young Man and What Becomes of Him.” based on the life trag- edy of Durie Heithier. The text was II Samuel xviii:22. “Is the Young Man Ab- salom safe?’ Dr. Locke sald in part: “The young man of to-day is the product of ages of developing manliness and ought to be a masterful giant. There are 7,000,000 | young men in the United States, and they | are the custodians of the destiny of the church, the home and the republic. “] desire to address you concerning the fast young man_and what becomes of him. ~ Absalom, King David’s handsome and talented son is a true representation of the modern young man who rebels against restraints, who is Irritated by law, v\gu) doubts and despises religion, and who Dbelieves in nothing and nobody except Ab- salom. Loose habits and evil associates | are mistaken for independence and influ- ence and the fast young man’s progress in wickedness is alarmingly rapid. “It is fashionable to be fast. Many sa- | tanic sycophants thrive on the extrava- gance and lndulfiencefi of the fast young Than. Crime is licensed; there are open doors for wrong-doing everywhere, and the nervous, energetic, enfrenzied, flat- tered young man, deceived into the notion that he can always hold the mastery over his tastes and appetites, rushes forward, applauded and feted by those who are to gain by his sgeedy downfall. “By licensed crime and unenforced laws the nation is in a conspiracy against the young men. The pagan juggernaut has been put aside by an enlightened heathen- ism to be adopted by our boasted modern civilization, in the cruel and diabolical invention of the drinking saloon with its infernal accessories. know that the rum traffic_could not exist without the young men for victims. “If we would save our American Absa- lom we must legislate in his defense, and paralyze the strong arms that are now jifted for his destruction. The inculcation of lofty principles and the development of true character are & young man’s best defense. Let young Absalom be saved before he revolts; wild oats are not a nee- essity. Remember that the bird with a broken pinion never soars as high again.” CASTORIA For Infants and Children, | LINEN DEPARTMENT! This week we will offer extraordinary values in TABLE DAMASKS, TABLE NAPKINS, TABLE CLOTHS and TOWELS, and ask special attention to the following lines, all of which are from the best manuiacturers. 62-inch GERMAN WASHED TABLE DAMASK, good varlety of designs. . e g B C Yard BLEACHED GERMAN DAMASK TABLE CLOTHS, 2 yards wlde and .3 yards long. .. --$2.50 Each BLEACHED SATIN DAMASK TABLE CLOTHS, 2 yards wide and 3 yards long, beautiful patterns. §§ 4,5 O Each DAMASK DINNER NAPKINS, 223 inches square, new designs $2.00 Dozen BLEACHED SATIN DAMASK NAPKINS, 25 inches square, 8 different designs ...... .$2.50 Dozen GERMAN SATIN DAMASK NAPKINS, extra heavy, 26 Inches square, 15 handsome designs. ... 83, OO Dozen FULL-SIZE LINEN HUCK TOWELS, both hemmed and fringed esesecssssesscceanns ....82.00 Dozen EXTRA SIZE LINEN HUCK TOWELS, hemmed, Irish manu- TaCRIFes oot e - s oo . $3.00 Dozen 25 LINEN DAMASK TABLE SETS, cloth 3-4x12-4, napkins BAIB A ennriennenenrneses - DO .00 M 8 m, u3, us, nT, 19, 121 POST STREET. OLIDAY TRADE. NEW G00DB FOR gOLOBE BOWEN % CO- ERG s New goods arrived for the holi- day trade: Keiller sprotter breasts imported raisins Jordan almonds malaga {mported citron carabona Leghorn cleaned currants glace’ fruits pine appie fritters mince meat spiced anchovies live snails in bulk and kegs from France Smyma figs buckwheat flour dates from Pennsylvania appetitsild Bismarck herrings German cervelatwurst We’ll be too busy to have a sale this week—want to deliver prompt- ly all the goods we sell Some apple ciders are made from apples—you can be sure of it here —soc gallon If you ever needjpure spices it is this week Raisins—nuts—citron—orange peel— lemon peel-pure brandy-boiled cid- er-the kind folks come a long way tojget—the kind we sell Imperialj cocktails that usuadly sell for $1.25 a bottle are goc for three days. They are aged in glass. Very good Hickmott’s sliced fruits in 1-1b tins—$ 1 doz—3 tins 25¢ pears peaches apricots plums cherries this price for three days only Cherries in maraschino grace the the table and please the palate. 70c bottle — 624c for three days Guinness’s brown stout and Bass’ ale ale at $1.60 all week: Wheel rand—we know it’s good Do you need whiskey ? are two famous brands reg'ly special Oold “va bourbon 1889 bot $1 25 $1 & < @S bot 150 1715 gal 6 450 The new corn has arrived from Maine. It’s almost as good as though eaten off the cob. Sea Foam corn 12}c a tin—$1 50 doz Sea Foam succotash 123c tin—8$1 30 doz French sardines in oil-for lunch- eons roc tin Tomato catsup is bottled by us— natural and sweet; you’re sure to like one or the other. Both same price 15c bottle—regularly 20¢ _Individual tins plum puddings 3 tins 25¢ We expect some Placer ccounty Here Hermitage rye 1886 “ i w ranges.to-day crate of 1 dozen 50C When you entertain men they NEW 600DS FOR THE HOLIDAY fl"l want cigars and you want them % have good ones We’ve just received freshly made cigars from Hy Clay, Bock & Co., Intimidad and Upmann factories— new tobacco Here are some marked down te reduce a big stock: El Reposo Seiectos 25 In box 82 25 Amerigo Vespuccl s50in box 223 November catalogue free for the asking sz Pine 215 Sutter 2800 California San Francisco §o7s Clay between Eleventh and Tweifth Ouilasd Beware of Imitations 1896--TAXES - 169 Notice is hereby given that the first installment of real estate taxes nd all unpaid personal property taxes, includ- ing balance due from those who have already paid the Assessor, will be delin- quent and 15 per cent added on MON- DAY, November 28, at 6 o’clock p. m. NO CHECKS received after SATUR~ DAY EVENING, November 26. Office open FRIDAY AND SATUR- DAY EVENINGS, November 25 and 26, from 7 to 9 p. m. JAMES N. BLOCK, Tax Collector of the City and Coun! of San Francisco. A MOST INTERESTING COLLECTION of HOLI- DAY GIFTS ON SALE. OPTICIANS KoPPagency. 642 MARKET ST. GHRONICLE BUILDING~ WE EMPLOY NO AGENTS. Baja Californla DAMIANA BITTERS B» g wije gy s sexes. and o grest of the t ve, lls ro_ its owa