The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 20, 1899, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, MARCH 20, 1899. JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Mdress All Communications to W, 5. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFIC MarKet and Third Sts, S. F. ephone Main 1968. FDITORIAL ROOMS. ..2I7 to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874, DELIV NTS PER WEEK. Terms DAILY CALL . one year. £6.00 CALL (% Call), 6 months. 3.00 CALL (4 Call), 3 months. 1.50 65e 1.50 1.00 scriptions. ........ 908 Broadway OAKLAND OFFICE... 3 . NEW YORK OFFICE.., ..Room 188, World Bullding DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Represcatative. WASHINGTON . C.) OFFICE—E_._...... Wellington Hotel C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE ..... < .....Marquette Ballding C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Represcntative. ERANCH OFFICES—527 MOO!Q;nzry street, corner Clay, | 387 Hayes street, open until 0:30 o'clock. 621 McAllister street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin et, open untll 930 o'clock. 1941 Missian street, open unt!l 10 o'clock. 2291 Market street, corner Mission street, open until 9:30 o'clock. open untli 9 o'clock. 105 Eleventh street, open untll & o'clock. 1805 Polk street, open until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ana Kentucky streets. open until 9 o'glock. T AMUSEMENTS. o Central Park—The Steeplechase. AUCTION SALfiS. t 10:30 a. m. and 2:30 p. March 20, at 1 o'clock, at 413 . March 23, at 12 m., Real arch 27, at 12 o'clock TRADE HERE AND ELSEWHERE. throughout the country at large is ice set'a year ago with the regu- There is no halt any- USIN keeping the larity of a walking beam. B where. The movement of goods is the greatest ever known, and from present indications bids fair to con- | tinue so. With the exception of iron and steel, no industry or branch of trade is conspicuously active, but the whole ion is one of remarkable life. The export to foreign countries shows no general abate- ment. True, t ports of breadstuffs, provisions, cetton and oil fell off $6,000,000 in February, but those of manufactured goods:were $5,200,000 larger than during the same month last year, and were sufficient to cover 60 per cent of the imports. The iron trade continues to lead all others are now engaged, and will be until August, on orders taken months ago, before the current rise in prices took place. Late buyers have to pay fancy quotations to get their orders accepted at all. picture, however, is the already noted loss of consid- erable foreign business on account of the sharp ad- vance in prices and the withdrawal of not a few-orders for the future. It is therefore possible that the iron is too prosperous for its permanent good. industr. last week were 189, against 208 for the k last year. The bank clearings showed a gain of 42.9 per cent, and K s City and New Or- leans were the only two cities of any size exhibiting a decrease. The heaviest gains were 55 per cent in New York and 113.5 per cent in Baltimore. The ap- proach of spring has quickened the demand for dry goods, millinery, clothing and footwear, and these lines are reported very act But per contra, wool and cotton are dull and the latter has declined in spite The exports of flour and wheat cf bad crop reports. are slightly in excess of 1808. The lumber trade con- | tinues e, with a marked scarcity in hards woods. The feeling in Wall street was bearish, especially during the early part of the week, the fear of higher money having led to more or less selling, under the influence of which prices declined somewhat. Other- wise the market was without feature. Of course the rain was the feature of the local situ- It brightened things up wonderfully. Most sections of the ion last week. It came in the nick of time. State could have held out a few days longer, and the northern coast counties probably could have matured a fair crop as it was, but the major portion of the State needed rain at once. The situation had got to that point where capital sifiply withdrew from the e State got into better shape. But as market until soon as it was a good wetting down there wa ing of money, which has already become apparent. 1e situation has cleared to this extent that even without any more rain we shall have a fair crop, pro- vided the north winds hold off; for a fierce north wind can dry up the ground and wither a healthy crop in two days, besides playing hayoc with fruit. There is no reason, however, to suppose that we will not get the usual spring showers, in which case the harvest of the State will be large. It was generally expected that a marked decline in the price of many products would follow a rain, but such has not proved the case. Wheat and barley futures went down rapidly, and spot wheat also fell off, but spot barley declined a mere fraction, almost immediately recovering. Small supplies kept hay, beans, potatoes, fruits, etc., firm in the face of the rain, for the truth is we were getting pretty short of these products and will be well cleaned up by the time the new crops come in. Thé coming week may see more or less fluctuation in quotations of produce. ment to the new conditions. an immediate loosen- Some lines will probably go down and others up. Beef is already steadier, as | the starting up of the green feed will enable stockmen to hold on to their cattle, which means diminished shipments to this market now, but larger shipments later ‘on in the season. Tt generally takes some days, however, for the readjustment to become marked. At any rate, the prospects of the State to-day are im- measurably better than they were this day last week and much better than at this time last year. “What the Smart Set Said and Did” is the cap- tion over a lot of dry rot in a contemporary. Judged by this stuff the real smart set consists of people who had sense enough to keep their mouths shut. At IS 1f there is a white man directing the military forces of the Filipinos this characteristic applies alone to his skin. —_— Police in Havana haye lost prestige. own fault. They are provided with clubs. It is their Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. 2518 | Nine-tenths of the mills | Against this rosy | known that the State had received ! There will be a readjust- | THE REPUBLICAN VICTORY. HE closing scenes in the Legislature were re- volting to every citizen who respects his State nd loves his country. The feeling of disgust, | however, is limited to the legislators who co-operated with the railroad in its efforts, helped by the Exam- iner, to clect Dan Burns and to destroy the prestige of the Republican party in this State, so as to insure Democratic success in 1900. These men exhibited the audacity and the recklessness of detected criminals of the violent type. One of the Senators, in the extrem- ity of his passion because the majority of his Repub- lican associates respected themselves and their party, literally screamed that his candidate was “the Re- publican of Republicans,” and compared his defeat to the assassination of Caesar. The intellectual differ- ence between Burns and Caesar is about as wide as the chasm of ages between the-two incidents which were thus ridiculously compared, but there was one point of analogy, namely, that Brutus killed Caesar for inflicting the last destructive blow on republican Rome. Another Senator, who had not received the disgraceful notoriety to which he considered himself entitled, bawled out, “I am for the Southern Pacifiz, and I don’t care who knows it.” | In the exuberance of their disappointment 2 num- | ber of the supporters of Burns almost tumbled over cach other and frothed at the mouth as they dictated their own political epitaphs. Senator Davis, how- | ever, whose poise and whose courage in standing up for political integrity were superb, on behalf of him- self and his fellows, who defeated Dan Burns, the railroad and the Examiner, expressed the actual con- clusion of the whole matter in these telling words: J5i\We will go home to our people with the clear con- | science of men who have done our duty. We will go back and tell them that the candidacy of Daniel M. | Burns was not acceptable to the honest men of the Republican party, and if you think, gentlemen, that we have hurt the grand old organization by rejecting such as he, then I tell you you are mistaken, and we have saved the party from disgrace.” The Examiner of yesterday conspicuously displayed its intimate relations with the discomfited conspira- tors. It published an exclusive communication from Dan Burns, in which that extinguished politician in | effect assigned his own rejection as the reason for the | i : | failure to elect a Federal Senator. In a capitalized | editorial, consisting mainly of congenial epithets, | that truculent journal speaks of the “disgrace” of the | Legislature “as the opportunity of the Democracy.” But, fortunately for the Republican party, while thirty members committed political suicide the Legislature | | was not disgraced, and the opportunity coveted by | | the railroad and the Examiner has lapsed. The Call | has a little natural pride in having taken a conspicuous | part in redeeming the pledges and in vindicating the | | integrity of the Republican party and in upholding | the honor of the State. The railroad was beaten and | any of the bills which were defeated in committee or | antagonism or not. | c prevailing error as to the sex of whom was thus for the first time disclosed. It afterward underscored its originality by calling Senator Hoar and other acknowledged statesmen and jurists who agreed with him “old women.” At various times it has published for the benefit of the rising generation elementary treatises on the best modes of perpetrating crimes such as murder, forgery, embezzlement and burglary. It has also furnished much educational matter illustrating the ‘rise and progress of pruriency. Yesterday it supplied a strik- ing novelty by turning a woman, convicted of having poisoned her lover’s wife, into a Judge. Mrs. Minnie Adams, having been placed on her preliminary ex- amination for murder, the Examiner obtained from Mrs. Botkin an “authorized statement” to the effect that she believes Mrs. Adams “innocent,” but con- ers that “police methods are against her.” In- cidentally the sentenced woman who has survived the ordeal the other woman is about to undergo re- fers to her own conviction as “a judicial farce” and informs an expectant community that if she had only known as much as she does now she could have pur- | chased her freedom. Expansion evidently takes om many phases, but we would be glad to learn whether this latest development is to be classified under the head of “national policy” or of “internal policy.” Some old fogies among our citizens might change a letter in the last quotation and call it “infernal policy.” e eyt THE RUMORS @BOUT REED. ITH a persistency born, perhaps, of a sheer W lack of ability to-invent something new, our Democratic contemporaries are circulating ru- mors of Speaker Reed’s hostility to the President and of the President’s determination to bring about the election of a supporter of the administration to the Speakership of the next Congress. The known opposition of the Speaker to some of the masures advocated during the recent session of Congress affords the only fourrdation for the rumors. There is no evidence that the Speaker used the powers of his office to defeat any bill which the administration thought important to the welfare of the country, nor | is there any evidence that the administration backed in the House whether by reason of the Speaker’s The war with Spain imposed upon the late Congress a vast amount of work outside the ordinary routine | of legislation. The performance of that work was | imperative, and as a consequence the consideration of | the less pressing measures of peace had to be post- | | poned. As a result there has been a good deal of | | disappointment, and the disappointed people have assumed that their bills and hopes were defeated be- ause of the opposition of the Speaker. Out of the situation there has come a desire on the part of some of the discontented members of Con- | its falsehood rebuked. The Examiner was beaten and | branded as a traitor to every sound principle it has | avowed. Dan Burns was killed and his political | corpse prepared for interment. It is true that the life of the Legislature was prolonged until after the church organs began their solemn appeals on the | first day of the week, and that until the gavels fell the | | mirror of hope was still dimmed by the breath ot': | corruption. But the obsequies of the joint convention | were final, and when, after their completion, the mid- | | night bells of Saturday tolled they inaugurated a new | | day, in which the citizens of this great State were enabled to welcome the rising sun with the enthus: { asm of the Aztecs. When, as the adjournment was | Lannmmced, the last vestige of uncleanness vanished | | from the legislative halls the gathered congregations of California may well have thanked God for relief and the Lenten season has been enlivened by a senti- J ment of exultation. 2 P THE BOUNTIFUL RAINS. Y reason of the profuse rains, followed by mild B weather, California i virtually assured of a| 5 year of prosperity, and her people already feel | | the effects of the assurance. There will now be a| greater energy and activity, because of a greater hopefulness in work, and all lines of industry will be- gin to improve. During the season of uninterrupted sunshine, when it seemed that another dry year was before us, and! that our crops would be small, some of our Puget | Sourd contemporaries condoled with us in words ef | sympathy. At the same time, however, they argucd1 that their own communities would lose nothing by our calamity, and therefore while they felt a true sor- sow in our loss, they showed no signs of weeping enough to furnish us with irrigation. | One of their most frequent comments on the situa- ticn was that as California would have no wheat and | very little fruit to export, the demand of the Pacific Ocean countries for such articles would have to go to Washington to obtain supplies, and as a consequence the commerce of the Pacific would center at Puget Sound ports, and San Francisco, despite her wealth, | | her population and her energy, would become sub- | ordinate as a trading center and be known on the | coast chiefly as a pleasure resort. Doubtless there was some foundation for the argu- ment. The interests of every commercial city are largely dependent upon the prosperity of the country back of it. San Francisco would have lost much by a drought in the interior, and has therefore as valid reason as any farming district to rejoice in the boun- tiful rains that have fallen to save the State from the threatened disaster of short crops and our good friends of Puget Sound from the wear and tear upon their sympathies. Once more California has shown the world that she has not only a good climate throughout the year, but also the sort of weather that is needed to render such a climate suitable to industry as well as to pleasure. We have had a winter of elysian brightness, and now we have had the rains needed to nourish all forms of life. We shall have wheat enough to supply a large part of the Oriental demand and fruit enough to sup- ply epicures in Washington with something delicious and luscious when they tire of their own water- logged and mildewed stuff. The whole aspect of affairs has been changed during the week past and almost every prospect brightened. The rains have turned the crisis in our favor and saved the situation. Moreover, there remain two months of showers before the clouds pass away from the sky and dry summer days are at hand. Within | those months we may now reasonably expect pro- | pitious weather. The outlook is bright for us, and to all our sympathizing neighbors we return their kind condolences with thanks, having no further use for them. ORIGINAL YELLOW LITERATURE. HE Examiner-Journal or Journal-Examiner, as _ the Asiatic twins that desire to inundate the United States with cheap labor are called, has made some original discoveries. It found out that the Federal constitution had been “outgrown” before the expression was used. It also ascertained that we were not to be “tied to the apron strings” of the | framers and the expounders of that instrument, the | would have saved much fretting. | mouse, but no matter. | penalty of suspension for six years on full pay would gress to elect in the next Congress a Speaker whom they believe would be more favorable to their bills. | These people have very cunningly sought to create the impression that the President is on their side, and | the Philadelphia Record claims to have authority for the assertion that the rumors about the hostility of | the administration to the Speaker were started solely to test public opinion and determine whether a2 move- ment to depose him would be popular. The results of the test have been sufficient to con- | vince all intelligent men of the firm hold the Speaker | has upon the Republicans of the country. The Demo- cratic organs for partisan purposes have done and are doing all in their little way to keep the rumors cir- culating and to stir up dissensions over them, but thus far with but sligh? effect. The Chicago Inter Ocean is about the only notable Republican news- paper which has declared against the Speaker, and that paper under its present management is not the | influential organ it was a few years ago. | All these rumors of impending strife over the next Speakership may be dismissed as idle tales. The Re- publican party is not going to be divided in 1900. | Tom Reed will be duly elected Speaker as soon as Congress assembles, and the election will be in har- mony with the policy of the administration and the sentiment of the people. | The geat fire at New York is said to have originated 1 through the throwing of a lighted match into a lace curtain. Perhaps this is correct, but it seems doubt- ful. Why should any such complete and abject idiot | as one capable of this trick have been permitted at | large? 2 . The farmers are perfectly willing to concede that prayer brought the rain, and if they have any plaint it is that the plan was not earlier put into operation. It Sometimes the police are too officious. They pre- vented the killing of Butcher Becker of Chicago aiter he had confessed to having slain his wife with a hatchet and burned her body in the stove. Most of the burglars who have been caught recently in this city have been captured by women. Perhaps the same women would have fainted at sight of a Whitelaw Reid is spoken of as a probable Minister to Spain. He may appreciate the honor of the ap- pointment, but he must not expect any bouquets. Gl The only thing that prevents the “contests” inaugu- rated by the evening papers from being nuisances is the fact that few people become aware of them. — Mr. Kipling refuses to make public the personal messages of sympathy sent him, thus strengthening the general belief that he is a gentleman. The man who hanged himself on account of the drought was merely an exemplification of the fact that there is little gained by being in a hurry. There is much unnecessary talk about some man to succeed Alger. What that unknown man needs more than anything else is a vacancy. e S The Reichstag presumes to think itself bigger than the Kaiser. There is one man who does not indorse this wicked view. e There are men who work for salary to whom the not be a grief. . By the execution of the Filipinos it may be judged that some Yankee has unloaded a lot of toy guns on the islanders. 5 —_— Cosper got over in the Burns corral tardily, but there was an understanding that all the time he wanted to be there. When a question of veracity arises between Stein- man and General Barnes it really is not much of a question. As the Government is reported to intend setting a trap for Aguinaldo, we suggest that the bait be a $2 bill. And Burns was certain that he would be elected on | a bigger thing every month the third ballot! SOME MOTHER LODE MINING. A strike of wonderfully rich ore in the old Central Eureka mine, now being re- worked by a San Francisco company, was made a few days ago to the excitement of many stockholders. Ore studded heavily ‘with free gold estimated to run anywhere from $500 to $5000 a ton was suddenly run into at a depth of 1180 feet. The extent of the ore will not be known for somé€ time, but it may easily mean great things for the Central Eureka and for the whole mother lode. The find was made in sinking the shaft on the incline following the hanging wall through the gouge. Between the gouge and the hanging wall quartz bearing free gold was encountered, and a blast was put in, loosening about half a ton of rock fairly vellow with gold. It was seen that the shaft had cut the feather edge of an ore body which extended back from the shaft along the hanging wall. Within the limits of the shaft the layer of rich quartz widened from one to over four inches, To know whether it was a small pocket or a big ore body would require drifting on it. It was decided to continue sinking sixty feet further and then to drift, and until these explorations are made nothing more will be known. The slice of this unmeas- ured body of ore cut off by the shaft is probably the richest rock encountered on the mother lode in a good many years, ex- cept for occasional narrow seams in quartz. The find recalls interesting history. The mine lies next to the Eureka mine, once the Amador Consolidated. It was the Eu- reka that gave Alvinza Hayward his first millions twenty-five years or more ago. The Eureka produced $20,000,000 in its day. When Hayward sold the mine it went to Michael Reese and then to the Amador Consolidated Mining Company, of which David Colton of railroad fame became president and in whose hands the mine died. In 1870 it was the deepest and great- est mine on the lode, running seventy-five stamps- and paying $155,400 in dividends that year. Two costly fires in the mine and other troubles resulted in the aban- donment of operations in the 70s at a depth of 2200 feet. It has for some years been mainly owned by Hetty Green, who will use it for nothing but storing water. Many efforts have been made to get Het- ty to bond or sell,” but she will neither reopen the famous old mine nor let any- body else do so. The Central Eureka joining it was the old Summit mine, abandoned twenty years ago at a depth of 700 feet. In 1569 one chimney of ore yielded $30,000 at from $16 to $32 a ton. Another ore body yielded $140,000. Financial and other difficulties and the cost of mining and milling in those days led to abandonment, and it joined the list of ‘“‘worked out” mines that are now becoming great again. Three years ago E. R. Randall of the ‘Wakelee Drug Company got up a com- pany to buy the property for $37,000 and to sink to lower levels on the strength of the knowledge and faith developed in re- cent years that mother lode mines carry values at depths, and if the ledge pinches out it will be found again below, and on the strength of the record of the adjoin- ing Eureka. Many San Francisco and Sutter Creek people subscribed for stock and have to date paid 22 cents per share in assessments and spent $125,000 in buy- ing the property, exploring upper levels and sinking 400 feet below the old work- ings. The recent find is the first one of importance, and it will stimulate faith in sending that shaft down. A few weeks ago stock was picked up at 2 cents a share. A. Van der Naillen Jr. of this city got rid of 1000 shares for $10 and escaped further assessments. Last week $150 a share was paid for stock uncer stress of the strike. voorhies of Sutter Creek, who a few thousand of the 400,000 shares, own: | brought down some of the rock and much thusiasm the other day. ‘] showed the rock to Alvinza Hay- ward,” he said, ‘‘ and his opinion is that it is the same rich rock that came out of the Badger shaft in the Eureka close by. Such a find means further confidence in deep mining in the mother lode, the ad- vertising of the lode, Increase’ in deep mining and the production of million: Some communities would make a great blow about such a find, but nobody ever does any ..owing about the mother lode.” The mother lode is constantly showing that mining its gold has hardly fairly be- gun. The Gwin, another of those old ““worked out” properties, is getting to be under the enterprising operations of E. C. Voorhies and his ociates, who took the old property and risked a 1400-foot shaft on faith. During the past week the Gwin company contracted for an additlonal forty stamps for its mill, doubling its capacity. “The ore body on the 1200-foot level is 21 feet thick and all average milling ore,” said Mr. Voorhies. “On the 1400 level the ore body is 1500 feet long, and still length- ening, with an average width of 12 feet, and all pay ore.”” One of the most important strikes of the week was made in the Oneida mine, Ama- dor County, where a fine ore body has been found in _the 1750 level. Thomas Mein and the London Exploration Com- pany have been spending a fartune in de- veloping this old mine with a great past, and there is every promise that the story of the Kennedy, Argonaut, Gwin and other mother lode properties opened at depth will be repeated. The Oneida joins the Kennedy on the north. THE BIG ARGONAUT-KENNEDY BAT- TLE FOR MOTHER LODE RICHES. Mining men are greatly interested in the Argonaut-Kennedy suit, in which Judge Nicol of the Superior Court of Calaveras County rendered an important decision last week granting the Argonaut claims to mining ground trespassed on by the Ken- nedy company and giving the plaintiff judgment for about §115,000, the net value of ore extracted by the Kennedy com- pany. The case is an interesting example of the working of the American law of extralateral rights, the Kennedy lying on the north of the Argonaut, which is the old Pioneer mine so successfully reopened by San Francisco capitalists. The two claims lie along the same main vein of the mother lode in Amador County, the Oneida joining the Kennedy on the north, The vein dips to the east at an angle of about 60 degrees and hence soon passes with depth beyond the side lines of the claims. Joining the Argonaut and Ken- nedy claims on the east and also joining each other are the Argonaut and Kennedy mill sites. The inclined vein passes un- der these mill sites in which open the shafts of the respective mines. The terrl- tory for some distance to the east s cov- ered with quartz claims under which the main ledge descends, these claims cover- ing other and minor veins. The Kennedy and Argonaut companies, of course, may follow into any ground beyond their own side lines, the vein having its apex or top within the surface boundaries of their claims, but keeping within their own end lines projected downward. A thousandfeet or so east of the Ar- gonaut and Kennedy claims is the Silva Biine, a small patented claim owned by the Kennedy company. The inclined Ken- nedy shaft in its great depth of 2500 feet passes clear under the Silva ground, reaching the line of its western side at 1550 feet. The line separating the Argo- naut and Pioneer patented claims passes, when projected, through the Silva clai The Argonaut shaft descends on the in- cline parallel to the Kennedy shaft and but about 500 feet south of it. The Argo- naut shaft in following the main vein downward also passes under the Silva claim. It is as to the right of the Ken- nedy people to cross, within the surface limits of their Silva claim, the projected line of the southern boundary ef the Ken- nedy mine and to extract the ore of the main ledge there that the big legal battle has arisen. The Argonaut people claim the right to follow their ledge under the Silva claim, owned by the Kennedy Com- pany. This right would ordinarily not be disputed, of course, but the contention arises, as in all other extralateral right Dbattles, from peculiar circumstances. The side lines of the Argonaut claim are not arallel. The projection of its: two end ines would describe a wedge-shaped form, the divergence being about fifteen degrees. In following its 1500 feet of ledge wherever it may lead with depth, shall the Argonaut company follow lts morth- ern or its southern end line? As the rich ore bodies worked by both companies. lie about the northern end of the Argonaut and the southern epd of the Kennedy claims, the Argonaut people naturally considered only their northern boundary. The Kennedy shaft being several hun- dred feet dee&aer than the Argonaut shaft reached the depths below the Silva claim when the rival shaft had not. Under the Bilva boundaries the Kennedy company rfi_nn drifts southward at various levels en om 1250 to 1750 feet to the limits of its ] both Tunis and Algiers, enabling a force| claim as determined by its own surface end line. Then it crossed the line into the rich’ ore which the Argonaut people expected to reach with their shaft one of these da About 5600 tons were extract- ed by the Kennedy company across the line ‘before its rival succeeded in stop- ping it, about four years ago. The Ken- nedy company justified its operations by saying that as the end lines of the Argo- naut claim were not parallel the Arge- naut company had no extralateral right to follow its vein under the property of the Kennedy company, and that in the absence of such a right 'the Kennedy com- pany was entitled to all the ledge in- closed by the side lines of the Silva claim projected vertically downward. The Kennedy company drew & line parallel to the southern instead of , the northern boundary of the Kennedy claim and left a great wedge-shaped section of the vein in dispute. Its total value migut eX- ceed a million dollars. A temporary in- junction was issued in 186 and the case has just been decided in the Superior | Court of Calaveras County, to which it was transferred. The case was submitted and argued on an agreed statement oL facts as purely a question of law. The | chief legal point was as to the require- ment that the Argonaut end lines must be parallel. Judge Curtis H. Lindley of counsel for the Argonaut side thus states the effect. of the decision: “The real point in the case was whether the Argonaut company had any extralat- | eral right by reason of the non-par- allelism of its end lines, inasmuch as the Argonaut patent was issued before the | act of 1872 sequiring end lines to be par- allel was passed. he court held that its extralateral right was determined wholly by the act of 1366, and that the case was in respectg similar to the ‘Eureka-Rich- mond case decided by Judges Field, Saw- ver and Hillyer and affirmed by the United States Supreme Court, wherein the doctrine was announced that end lines are not required to be parallel under the law of 1866 to conform to the provisions governing extralateral rights.” | The Superfor Court grants a permanent | injunction and ' the Argonaut cnmpany’ wins the net value of the ores it has lost| and a right to the riches in dispute. Thei case will be appealed, however, and it is agreed that the disputed ground shall be let alone until final judgment is given. Some interesting information is given in the agreed statement of facts. Between | October 8 and December 12, 1895, the Ken- nedy company mined 2604 tons of ore across the line at 1500 feet or more of depth. Its gross value was_ $62.218 45 or about $24 a ton. The cost of its mining and milling, was $6119 40, or only $23¢ per ton. The net profit on this particular ore, taken out within sixty-four days, was | $56,099 But during the year before it | appears that the Kennedy people quietly | worked quite a bonanza over the line, for it is charged that 3000 tons of the gross value of $135,000 or $45 a ton was taken out. The State Mining Bureau has a good deal of important work laid out for the next two years in view of its appropria- | tion of $50,000, besides $7000 for publishing. | The work of issuing the Register of Mines | by counties will proceed as soon as the | State Printer will do the work. The reg- | jsters for a number of counties are fin- jshed. There will be much delay, how- ever, first, because the State Printer can Qo little until July, and, second, because | ien he is ready for business there will | be a crush of delayed work from many | cources. Besides the register and the ac- Sompanying county mining maps the State Mineralogist has prepared valuable maps of various ofl and asphalt producing | districts and some bullet ins on special | themes. Scientific field work will also be} resumed. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. | George Myers, a Fresno merchant, is at | the Lick. C. N. Wilson and J. F. Burns, two Los Angeles business men, are at the Russ. Helen Bertram and Jessie Bartlett Da- | vis, the principal lady vocalists of the | Bostonians, have engaged apartments at the Palace. George Warren Stealey, who has exten- sive mining Interests in the Southern part of Chihuahua, Mex., is registered at the California. _W. B. Clark, a railroad man of Hart- ford, Conn., and E. M. Knox, the well- known hatter of New York, are guests at the Palace. William G. Leland, proprietor of the Grand Hotel, New York City, is at the Palace with his wife. He is a brother of Warren Leland, proprietor of the ill fated ‘Windsor Hotel. C. Warwick Simpson of London, Eng- land, who Is making a tour of the world, | registered at the Palace last night. He will leave on the next steamer for Aus- tralia to make a protracted visit. E. A. Thayer of Pueblo, Colo., is at the Occidental with his wife. Mr. Thayer is proprietor of the eating houses along the Denver and Rio Grande Railway and owns the Hotel Glenwood at Glenwood Springs. E. M. Luckett, an Ogden business man; M. M. Carrothers, a Ukiah merchant; F. H. Ransome, a Red Bluff lumber dealer, and George E. Wilhoit, a Stockton bank- er and land owner, are some of the ar- rivals at the Grand. General Russell Thayer of Philadelphia is a guest at the Occidental. General Thayer saw service during the civil war and is a son of ex-Judge M. Russell Thayer of the Supreme Court of Pennsyl- vania, who resigned about two years ago. NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. The annual prize firing competition of the Japanese navy will be held next month in Hiroshima Bay. The competitors comprise 150 gunners chosen from the squadrons at the several naval ports, and the guns used will be quick firers of four and six inch calibers, at distances of from 5000 to 7000 feet at floating targets. The new British cruiser Niobe, of 11,000 tons and 20 knots speed, is in trouble. She was commissioned last December to re- lieve the Blake in the channel squadron, but has ever since been prevented from joining by a series of accidents to her machinery. On March 1 the engines broke down again, and her commission trial had to be postponed for a week to make the necessary repairs. The Jaguar, a composite gunboat, was laid down at Dantzig last November. She has twin screw engines of 1300 horse pow- er to give a speed of 13 knots, and the ves- sel is 2015 feet length, 20.5 feet beam and displaces 8% tons on a draught of 9 feet 9 Inches. The Jaguar is one of half a dozen similar gunboats for the German navy intended for service in China and on the coast of Africa. The German Navy Department has in- vited tenders for supplying shipbuilding material to be delivered at the dockyard at Stettin. The list includes oak timber, castiron, oil, tallow and rope, and offers from foreigners are not barred. The Brit- ish Government is frequently doing this kind of business, but It looks rather queer on the part of a high protection Govern- ment to adopt free trade maxims. The British cruiser Edgar recently lost one of her smokestacks during a storm. Less than twenty vears ago such an acci- dent would have seriously crippled a steamship in the navy, and might have caused her loss, but with the present ap- pliances in the boiler room the smoke- stacks may be carried away without in- curring serious consequences, so long as the fans are keeping up their work. The British Admiralty asks for th of $14,000,000 for building a dockyar: fln“nmd fortress at Wei-Hai-Wei, opposite Port Arthur, China, which latter place has been occupied by Russia. This reveals the purpose of Great Britain to make Wei- Hai-Wei a Gibraltar of the far East, a military and naval base of the first mag- nitude, and indicates the permanent occu- pation of this part of China by Great Britain. France is putting her naval base at Bizerta into a state of formidable prepa- ration for offense and defense. Bizerta lies about thirty-eight miles northwest of 50,000 soldiers to be assembled in twen- ty-four hours at Bizerta. The shipyard is busy constructing pontoons, batteries are erected and mines being laid in the harbor, and large supplies of coal have been ordered. Sentence was pronounced on February 18 at Malta on Henry Vella, late colonel of the Royal Malta Militia, clvil secretary to the admiral superintendent and officer of charge of expense accounts. He had been found guilty of misappropriation of public funds and of other offenses, but his attorney interposed a plea of insanity on behalf of the prisoner. Pending a med- ical examination sentence was postponed. and when the medical experts found the accused to be -sane a sentence of thirty months’ imprisonment with hard labor was pronounced. The Asama, armored cruiser, built at Elswick for the Japanese navy, has been completed. Her full power trial under nat- ural draught took place on February 8, when she made 20.37 knots with 13,000 horse power during a continuous run of six hours. Two days later the forced draught trial gave 22.07 knots with 19,000 horse power, the propellers making 158 revolutions. The Asama is 408 feet in length, 64 feet beam and displaces 9750 tons on a draught of 24 feet 3 inches, with a normal coal supply of 700 tons. The con- tract called for speeds of 20 and 21.25 knots under natural and forced draught, which were realized, although the ship's bottom was rather foul. She is the twelfth | vessel built at Elswick for the Japanese navy. The armor of the Asama weighs 2100 tons and consists of a belt of seven inches Harveyized steel along the water line—two feet above and five feet below— tapering to 3% inches at the ends. Above this is another five inches thick, which reaches beyond the turrets and forms with the ends a casemate. As a further protection of the bow torpedo tube there is a belt extending from the stem twenty-five feet aft. The main deck is of two thicknesses of one-half inch steel and the ammunition tubes are three inches thick. The upper deck is covered with teak, which is practically the only woodwork on the ship. The main arma- ment consists of four eight-inch quick firers with six-inch Harvey steel housings. Two of these guns are forward at an ele- vation of twenty-five feet and two aft at a height of twenty-four feet above the water line. Ten six-inch quick-firing guns are carried in casemates, and four of the same caliber on the upper deck behind shields. - = THAT COMPROMISE. To the Editor: Our public school teach- ers at last seem to be about to receive a portion of their November and December salaries. The proposition of the ‘“‘mer- chant creditors” to allow them to receive one-half month’s salary will be consid- ered at a meeting of the teachers at the Girls’ High School this afternoon. The teachers will do well to accept the olive branch tendered by the merchants. There undoubtedly is right on both sides and a mutual understanding in regard to their differences is wise. TUnquestionably the teachers shovld re- ceive pay for the work performed, and with equal justice the merchants should receive pay for the goods delivered, and as there is not money enough for them to receive pay for their demands in full, they will show good judgment in coming to- gether, and each receiving a part settle- ment. ‘While there may be some chance for the teachers to obtain their salaries in the fu- ture, it should be remembered that the old adage ‘‘a bird in_the hand is worth two in the bush” is just as true now as when first uttered; besides a compromise as offered will in no way affect the likell- hood of the final receipt of their salaries, ‘unless it be that it will add to that desir- able possibility. A TEACHER. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. BOOK AGENTS—H. P., Elmhurst, Cal. There is no State or local restriction unon book agents in the State of California— that is in the way of iicense tax. UNITED STATES MINISTERS—Sub- scriber, Eureka, Cal. The list of United States Ministers abroad was published in Answers to Correspondents February 13. GOVERNMENT TRANSPORTS—A. S, Grass Valley, Cal. The crews on the United States transports owned by the Government are all enlisted men, but crews on chartered transports are men in the employ of the owners of the vessels. THE APOSTLES' CREED—Mrs. S. L., Fresno, Cal. It is not known who pre- pared the Apostles’ Creed. It was held by many early writers that it was composed by the Apoétles themselves, who, during their stay at Jerusalem, agreed upon it. There {s no mention in’the Acts of the Apostles, or in the writings of those who immediately followed them, of any gath- ering of these holy men for the purpose of formulating a creed, and had there been such a _meeting it 1S probable that thera would have been some record of it. Dr. Schaff says: “Though it is not in form the production of the Apostles, it is a faithful compend of their doctrines, and comprehends the leading articles of the faith in the tribune of God and His revela- tlon from the creation to the life everlast- ing in sublime simplicity, in unsurpass- able brevity, in the most beautiful order and with liturgical solemnity.” THE BOTKIN CASE—A Reader, Oat Hill, Cal. Upon the presentation of the papers in the Botkin case in the earlier stages there was sufficient evidence to show that a crime had been committed and that there was reasonable ground to suppose that the party accused had com- mitted it, but upon the presentation of the extradition papers to Governor Budd it was made to appear that the crime had been committed in two States, and he had a right to decline issuing his warrant on the extradition papers for the reason that the accused could be tried in either State, and the accused was tried in this State, found guilty and sentenced to imprison- ment for life. The warrant was not re- fused by Governor Budd on the ground that there was not sufficient evidence to try the accused in the State of Delaware. Cal. glace fruit 50c per Id at Townsend’s.® —_—— Special information supplied dally to business houses and public men b Press Clipping Bureaup(Allen'a), 510 o‘nht: gomery street. 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