The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 3, 1899, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO. CALL, MONDAY, APRIL 3, 1899. ECKELS, ?ropnetor. s B ons to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. Address All Communicat FL\'I;L\I-:;TXON OFFICE . ...Market end Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1865, I DITORIAL ROOMS. 217 to 291 Stevenson Street One . One Enmple copies will be forwanded when requested. OAKLAND OFFICE.. ei......908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE Room 18S, World Building DAVID ALLEN, Advertlsing Representative. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE .....Welllngton Hotel | C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE s ..Marquette Building C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, | open until 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until | ©:30 o'clock. 62i McAllister street, open untll 9:30 cclock. 615 Larkin strest, open until 9:30 o'clock. ig41 Mission strect, open untll 10 o'clock. 2291 Market strect, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Misslon street, open until 9 oclock. 106 Eleventh | straet, open untli 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk street, open until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ane open untll 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS. e Black Hussar.” ty Ball.” Wednesday evening, . Wednesday eve . Wednesda . April 5. tal afternoon, e country, as repre- , was 68 per cent week than for the same week in g in the march of im- the previous week so other indica- 1g off is generally 1 financial element to cke crease over were al attracted so much attention | e the trusts themselves are | rom individual to corporate ore or less uncertain- puts it: “A period of p to another and from where it affects many >ughout the country, ition in business. A little erns may be doing more | v were before the combina- t the point of transition no- pec nageme ndreds of estab hundred cc n ever, as th tiors were effected. But just what to e plausible statement of the case. Cer- g in the general condition of y marked falling off in its volume. i trade to j True, in demand noted throughout J S | the cc 'y buying since January 1 to antici t. but this is transitory and one | The failures | of the year were the smallest for : the liabilities were the smallest ng the first quarter | ns of commerce. of the for the seventeen ye: ures du mount of for twelve of 1899 have | than about $26,680.330, against $31,710,142 last year, | $48,007,910 in 1897 and 125 in 1896, The staples show some new features. The boot and | e trade is halting, owing to the difference bttweeni The talk of combinations has | tations and affected the demand for | been in liabilities not more buyers and sellers seftened wool qu 1 Iron and steel are still active, though p observable in the business. There is | for drygoods in New York, and in fact the les shows a falling off, but there is | of buyers to place all delivery. Metals, which, have e weaker, show signs of returning mber continues firm, though the retail | < | goods. e of tex ent in the willingne: reported smaller. t we have been overtrading | this is so, there will be a pe- | v, of course, until the de- But it is hard to figure out an inactive state of trade at the moment, when the bank | d barometer of trade, are 68 per | er than for the same week last year, and when cities of the country except Kansas w Orleans show a gain over 1808. Thus dition is presented. The merchants re- ess, while their own figures show Surely, one or the other must | ings, the acc cent lar return wrong. Another curious feature of the week was the ad- vance in Wall street in the face of an actual rise in the rates for money. Call loans got as high as 12 per cent, while a good deal of borrowing was done at 5@6 per cent. Nevertheless the market increased in ac- tivity and the sales were considerably over 1,00,000 shares for three consecutive days. A feature of the improvement was the eagerness of the public to buy, another proof of the vast sums available for invest- ment in the United States. There was a decline later on in the weck, but a firmer reaction followed. The bull feeling is very strong in Wall street just now, | and if there were any serious slackening in trade the | tendency would be just the other way. The local s vs no change. abundant crops, the goes. The season is now so far advanced that we are almost certain of a fine harvest, which will be enor- mous if we are spared the infliction of drying north winds from now on. Even with a normal visitation of this sort we shall have a satisfactory harvest. As it is, the situation is infinitely better than at this time last year. uation shov Assured of} One of the prizefighters in a recent event here has got as far as Los Angeles on some of his hard-earried money, and denies that he was engaged in a fake. This is truly surprising. Of course the first thing a pugi- list does after the swindling of the public is to get up on the housetop and proclaim that his business is the fleecing of suckers. The stranger who claims to have been robbed of a fat wallet which was returned by the thief after a single $100 bill had been extracted ought to have told a bet- ter story or kept still A surgeon has been lecturing on the effect produced by the sound of American cannon, but the persons most affected by the concussions are not in a position APRIL 3, 1809 | | if the powers can agree as to the divi | dices. | perts were examined as to the handwriting of this | and by a host of discriminating and just people, once | | nault, an officer in the French service; but this after- State is at ease as far as business | persecutors so vociferous that, after every method of THE PARTITION OF SAMOA. I ROM the present outlook it appears diplomatists [ can discern for the Samoan problem no solution other than that of dividing the islands among | the three powers, and putting an end to the experi- | ment of a tripartite government. Germany has pro- posed it, our Government regards it with favor and it is believed Great Britain will interpose no objection. The partition of the islands, however, is by no means a desirable thing. The objections to it are so | strong that when the project was first broached it was rejected almost without consideration. Each of the three powers involved in the controversy obtained a foothold for trade in the islands by assuring the na- | tives that no attempt would be made to subjugate them. Furthermore the powers by a solemn treaty bound themselves to one another and to the islanders not only to respect the independence of the group but to guarantee it against assault from other powers. The disturbances which led up to the conflict in | which an American marine and three British sailors | were killed, and which brought about the bombard- ment of the native villages by the American and the British war vessels, were not primarily due to the na- | tives. That much is made clear by the brief official | judgment against Dreyfus, he was practically removed referred to as a proof of the inventive genius of his un- scrupulous prosecutors. The fact that Dreyfus did not write the unsigned letter upon which he was con- victed has been at.least presumptively shown, but an | attempt to fasten it upon Count Esterhazy, which ap- peared to be well founded, has legally failed, and the manner of the failure is one of the numerous degrad- ing episodes in the prolonged melodrama. Esterhazy | was tried for having written the bordereau and ac- | | quitted. He was then accused of having had treason- able correspondence with a foreign attache, and a sec- ond acquittal followed. After these proceedings, which were in the line of resistance to revision of the irom the French army for‘‘inconduite habituelle,” an indefinite charge, which may be surmised to mean that he was habitually guilty of violations of discipline. Esterhazy, however, fled to London, where upon his oath he has published a narrative of his connection with the Dreyfus case that shows astounding fraud in the General Staff of the French army, limited, how- ever, to that particular branch of the service. From his statement, fortified by numerous confirmatory | documents, some of them orjginal and some of them photographs, it appears that the determination of the General Staff, by dark intrigues and falsehoods, to dispatch of Rear Admiral Kautz which has just been made public. In the dispatch the rear admiral says: | “The Mataafa people obeyed orders to leave the | Government reservations. Since then they have be- | come aggressive, killing Private Holloway and three British sailors. Our man killed was guarding the American consulate. The German Consul General is- | sued an incendiary proclamation saying that my proc- | lamation was untrue and that he would uphold the | provisional government. The British forces act in | concert with those of the United States, shelling reb- els wherever they can be reached.” On the record thus given it appears that the Ger- | mans in the islands have become so dissatisfied with | their American and British rivals in business and col- ;Ieagues in government that they have deliberately fied the Germans in taking the course they have | 1dopted in refusing to obey the Supreme Court and in | uing a proclnmation denouncing as false the one issued by the American admiral. To that extent the German representative at Samoa is clearly in the wrong, and if his Government would | repudiate his action it might yet be easy to restore | | order and harmony in the islands without destroying | their unity as a country and dividing them among the ; wrangling powers. It appears, however, that the Ger- mans at home are too much wrought up over the is- : sue for any Minister to take the risk of such a repudia- | tion. Partition, therefore, is likely to be accomplished, | ion of the spoils. | THE DREYFUS CASE. the Dreyfus case now pending on the question of | l revision before the Court of Cassation, which is the highest tribunal of France, the French Republic, and especially the General Staff of the French army, | i practically on trial. It has evoked much discussion | and has excited much interest in the United States, | not merely because of its revelations of personal dis- | honor and its disclosures of deep-seated injustice in | French jurisprudence when the Government is inter- | | ested, but also for the reason that its actual merits | have been obscured through race and religious preju- Dreyfus, a lieutenant in the French army, was con- | victed and sent to the Ile du Diable, where he has | endured great torture, for having written what is /| termed a bordereau, or unsigned letter, containing a | list of secret documents in the French War Office, for the benefit of the German empire. On his trial five ex- letter, three of whom testified against him and two for him. The inherent weakness of this kind of evidence has been repeatedly declared in the United States and in Great Britain, but his conviction rested on that | quality of proof, which has since lost most even of its | assumed value. It was claimed last year that another | letter to a foreign attache had been discovered which constituted “la preuve absolue,” or demonstrative tes- | timony, but this letter was speedily admitted to be a | forgery committed by Colonel Henry while the head of the Intelligence Department of the War Office, and he died a violent death in prison, either by his own hand or in some mysterious way that has not been divulged. It has also been asserted that Dreyfus, whose innocence, so far as the press is informed, has | always been proclaimed by himself, by his devoted wife | confessed his treasonable act to Captain Lebrun-Re- | thought, of questionable policy at best, has not been | even plausibly established. Perhaps the most remark- able feature in this travesty of justice is that Colonel von Schwarzkoppen, the German military attache to whom the treasonable communication is alleged to have been made, has always been available as a wit- ness, but the French authorities have studiously omit- ted to call upon him for the direct information that might conclusively settle the controversy. The conviction of Dreyfus occurred in 1804. It was manifestly so insufficiently sustained by the reported testimony that it has never commanded public respect, much less public indorsement. Outside of France, and with even greater intensity among millions of the French people, embracing statesmen, writers and soldiers of the highest standing, belief in his innocence | became so general and the resentment against his | avoiding further inquiry had been exhausted, the Gov- ernment unwillingly yielded to the pressure and the pending investigation was instituted. The Court of | Cassation is now to determine whether or not the con- viction shall stand. Four Ministers of War, among them Cassaignac, resisted the efforts for revision, and he placed his op- position. not on the ground that the original proof {against Dreyfus justified his punishment, but upon “la | preuve absolue,” which almost immediately after he had announced his conclusion turned out to be a forg- ery. Perhaps next to his wife, the strongest advocate | for Dreyfus has been Colonel Picquart, who has been honored in the London Times as “the noblest and most touching figure which has ever reconciled phil- | osophy with humanity.” This brave and fearless gen- | tleman claims that on the trial of Dreyfus document- ary evidence, false in itself and which he had no op- portunity to controvert, was secretly communicated to the court, and he has been imprisoned and is to be tried, apparently because of his manhood and of his fidelity. The existence of some diplomatic papers in the Foreign Office of the French Government tending to say a word | pin County, the home of Senator Teller, the so-called to show guilt, but which Dreyfus never saw, is llso] be under it with his spacious Mexican hat inverted. override the sentiment in favor of Dreyfus and per- petuate the crime of his incarceration, was so fixed that subordinate officers were induced to commit the | most reprehensible acts and were then shielded, in the first instance from exposure and, when that could not | be avoided, from conviction. In his own case, he| shows that his habit of obedience was used in con- cocted interviews and correspondence and in publica- tions in the French newspapers to resist the possible | vindication of Dreyfus, and that on both of his trials | the official source of his prosecution surreptitiously furnished him with his defense. It is possible, although highlyimprobable,that Drey- | fus is guilty, but it is beyond argument in any country | | where the English language is spoken that his guilt | | bas never been legally proved and that his conviction provoked the recent outbreak for the purpose of forc- | ! ing diplomatists to accept the partition policy as an | alternative to the danger of complications that may ead to war. | Doubtless the Germans have had some grievances of which they have a just right to complain. They are not likely to have acted so violently as they have done without cause. Neither the Americans nor the British | are notable for a lack of aggressiveness in trade and | government, and in all probability they have at times | crowded their Teutonic cousins a little too far. Noth- | ing they could have done, however, would have justi- | and punishment represent tyranny and corruption to | | a degree absolutely incompatible with the maintenance | of republican institutions. Our traditional sympathy with France, our love of self-government and our re- | spect for the Court of Cassation inspire the hope that | publicity and law may cleanse the impurities in the | French military service and that justice will now be | thoroughly if tardily vindicated. AT SENATOR TELLER'S HOME. HILE Colonel Bryan and his fellow apostles W of the cause of free silver are exerting all their energies to hold together the organization of '96, that motley host of discontent is rapidly disap- pearing from politics. It seems indeed to be some- thing like the proverbial rope of sand whose particles separate from one another and slip from the hand of the weaver no matter how arduously he bends himself to the task of weaving them together. We have noted the revolt of the intelligence of the South against the position in which it has been placed by the Chicago movement, and the demand of repre- sentative papers of that section for a new leader and a | new platform. The people of the Middle West and of | the Pacific Coast showed by their votes last fall that | among them the old free silver faction had disinte- | grated; and it now appears that even in the silvcr; State of Colorado a similar condition prevails. From the Denver Times we learn that even in Gil- Silver Republican organization has gone to pieces. It quotes from the Gilpin County Miner the state- ment: “The Silver Republican party in_this county | was murdered in the executive session of the city con- | vention last Saturday evening, and there is no longer | a Silver Republican party in Gilpin County.” Com- | menting upon that report, made doubly significant by | the fact that it comes from what is not only the home of Senator Teller but one of the most notable silver producing districts of the State, the Times says: “Prosperity has changed conditions in Colorado already, but the greatest factor in bringing about this changed sentiment was the fusion of last fall. There is not a man in Colorado who does not feel keenly the disgraceful blot upon the State as a result of fusion. | Governor Charles S. Thomas in a recent speech de- livered at a Democratic mass meeting said: ‘Fusion | has been demonstrated a failure.” Republicans should | take courage from these little indications. They tell the story of the future. Denver will go Republican | this spring, the county will go Republican next fall | and at the next national election in 1900 Colorado will | roll up an old-time majority for the Republican ticket.” Thus the evidences of returning reason among the folly inspired hosts that followed Bryan in the last Presidential campaign multiply on every side. In the | West the people are not only adverse to a further agi- tation of the silver movement, but are disgusted with | the whole system of fusion politics. Not even the strong personal influence of Senator Teller among his neighbors, friends and political supporters in his own city and county can prevent that adverse sentiment and that disgust from manifesting themselves. Whatever may be the form that opposition to Re- publicanism takes in 1900, it will not be that which made so much noise in the last campaign. In the sun- shine of a restored prosperity the old Bryanite fusion is vanishing like a fog from the political sky. e e e It is to be hoped that the young woman who has sued a man for so squeezing her hand as to break a lot of useful bones will get every cent for which she asks. The incident occurred in Philadelphia, but it might have taken place anywhere, for no section is free from the muscular freak who likes to show his strength by torturing his friends. There will be many people in San Francisco glad to learn that Anderson has been made a brigadier gen- eral. That he merits the distinction is well known, | and that his superiors were inclined to give him the cold shoulder had been suspected. Germany asks the United States to back down, but we would not counsel her to hold her breath while waiting for the pleasing spectacle of this country in the act of complying with the request. A man who can steal a bag of gold in broad day- light deserves either to be the star of the rogues’ gal- lery or a magnate in the financial world. Actor Burgess has failed for more than $100,000 and hasn't a cent. Burgess has for years been a comedian, buat this is his best joke. Secretary Alger is taking a vacation and the country will hope that he may enjoy it so well as to prolong it indefinitely. As nearly as'may be judged from a distance the rival of the whisky trust is simply another whisky trust. Tl s American troops in the Philippines are resting, but the other fellows have not yet stopped to catch breath. — e Whenever Gage shakes the plum tree Burns will | of & sluice box and troubles with ¢ | nation are other samples. CALIFORNIA MINING AFFAIRS. The State Mining Bureau has got l\l]l}'[ settled in its new and attractive quarters in the Ferry building and during theweek | Curator Durden opened the museum to | the public. The number of visitors al- | ready shows an increase. The field work of this institution and its publications are pretty well known, but not much is known of its interesting | inside work, which in a direct and private | way reaches with more or less benefit | thousands of people interested in mining. | While its general affairs are under the | able direction of State Mineralogist A. 8. | Cooper the benefits of the bureau are di- | rectly dispensed by expert employes who are well known in the mining world. One Interesting feature of the work is the laboratory, which is in charge of E. B. Preston, who has been with thebureau | for so many years. Part of the business of the laboratory is to make free assays for any Californians who send in rock | samples which they want to know about. To prevent’ too much competition with the professional assayers the bureau may glive only qualitative and not quantitative analyses. The samples are assayed and the owner is told what they contain, but not the percentage of each component or how much the rock is worth per ton. This an- alysis, however, is often all that is need- | ed and may be worth more to a miner than assay for gold alone. Any prospec or in the State who wonders and gue: and hopes about what Is in his puzzling | ledge may find out free of cost by bring- ing or mailing sample Since the recent find of rich telluride ores on Coffee Creek there has been a great amount of pro: pecting for tellurides, which few Califor- nia miners know anything about, and mmlf‘ samples have been sent in for an- alysls. Each prospector learns whether or not telluride, gold, copper, etc., is in his ore. In this one way the State has aided thousands of prospectors who were in doubt about their finds. The number of such analyses made varies from thirty to fifty per month ‘While gold ores predominate, every min- | eral In the State gets represented. With- | in the past month Fuller's earth from San Bernardino and Kern counties, cop- per ores from everywhere, mica, cinnabar, | mineral water, coal, etc., have been re- | ported on by Assayer Preston. | But these Iree analyses are but a slight | part of the mining information for which | the mining public constantly draws on the bureau. "There is a constant stream of questions on every conceivable mining luglc and some that are inconceivable. rom ten to fifteen letters of inquiry come a day every hour some- bm\g is dropping in to ask in person. Probably 5000 such letters are answered vearly and the number of people person- ally answered is large. Most inquiries are from California and are supposed to be, but the line is not drawn close. Librarian Jacobs receives and answers most inquiries and it keeps him busy, but there are ethers about who_are pretty sure to know this or that. Mr. Preston and C. Mathyas have traveled every county in the State for years for the bur- eau and they and Curator Durden, James Means, Statistician Yale and others have been giving miscellaneous information for years and have encyclopediac funds of ointers. Then there 1is a reference ibrary of several thousand volumes to consuit. Recently an Eastern woman wrote to know about John Doe, who went to min- ing here in 1854. There is a constant in- uiry about mining law and especiall the law of locations. Every grade of min- ing intelligence is represented. Many want to go into mining and want to know what books to read. Many want | to know where to go to prospect. There is a great inquiry about Coffee Creek and the whole northern region. The value of mica, California iron ores, hanging walls, the cyanide process, Lassen County mines, copper mines, binding material for diatomaceous earth and how to cheap- v settle mud in borax solutions contain: ing magnesia were among the many sub- jects of inquiry received in March, Metal- lurgical difficulties of every sort are pre- sented. Pecullar difficulties in gold mill- ing how to build an arastra, the x;ad‘e ori- Inquiries come from all over the wofld, for the reputa- tion of the bureau is high and widespread. The other day there came from Svdney a query as to the greatest depth kaolin has been found in Australia and elsewhere in tthlex world, and Mr. Jacobs will try to ell. and Women interested in mining are fre- quent inquirers, and expert mining en- gineers as well as green prospectors are constantly served. While the bureau is not at all a mining school, every practi- cal inquiry made is answerec and thou- sands are helped to success in develop- ing the mining resources of the State. It is _at the free service of the public, and if information cannot be given or one wants to know too much, the inquirer is told where to find it. In the develop- ment of the broadening oil flelds of the State the bureau has recently done an especially valuable work. t may be observed that in the bureau but two employes besides the State Min- eralogist receive as bt erience who are paid less than wharf- rngers and policemen. For the coming two years the bureau has its usual agprom‘lat!nn of $25000 a vear, and the tate Mineralogist has planned a large amount of scientific field work and much to be published. And with the increased activity in mining the personal demands for its practical heip- | fulness will be increased. | Colorado and Arizona have just estab- | lished State mining bureaus ~ patterned | after the California dne, the former State enacting the California law almost verbatim. One of the claims in Shasta County which has acquired local fame because of a recent “strike” is the Dalsy Belle, | on. | valuable finds are reported. near Furnaceville. Some rich rock and good promises have been found within a distance of 100 feet in the ledge, and con- siderable gold has been pounded out of the richest rock in a mortar. Back of the strike is a little story of prospectors’ luck that is not extraordinary but is in- teresting. According to the Redding Searchlight W. M. Dale and his partner, | who had staked out the claim, were sit- | ting by their ledge a few weeks ago," looking at the umnvmnkz croppings _on which but little work had been done, but | which did not seem to show anything | much better than ordinary “bull” quartz. | They were discussing where to go next. J. H. Moore, who was rustling about the hills looking for some sort of a prospect worth notice, came aiong, a stranger, and sat down. Yes, the partners owned the ledge and it might be a =ood thing. Moore asked the price of a third inter-| and finally he got it for $20, which to | srs. Dale” and_ Silence sx;ulr:)mlqm:z i . The sellers agreed ?\‘rz‘:rl?grlght away, thinking that Moo‘ffi' would soon pack his blankets and move At night they were ready to upltl the unpromising work, but Moore ~was | built to stay with things, and they de- cided to be decent and do something for the $20. On the second day they ran, c;lr: to shining gold In the ledge, and by night | had taken $300 out of a pocket. ~More | of something better tha 3 3 trio have taken out over §i000 and nave | a locally famous prospect, velop into a good mine. One of the mining stories of the week | tells of George Nelson and Henry Loring, two prospectors, being chased by a pack | of hungry wolves into the mouth of a mine tunnel near Pleasant Valley the| other day. The picks and shovels left in | the tunnel provided weapons with which | the hungry enemy were kept at bay until daylight. = Being miners, of course the | besieged could wield pickaxes effectively in a tunnel, whereas excited -tenderfeet | would have knocked themselves or each other in the head for the benefit of the hungry wolves. It is one characteristic of gold mining that it stimulates the im- agination powerfully. “‘Sniping” has been a lively industry during the past week or two where con- ditions are favorable in the placer gold| regions. This sport consists {n hunting | along dry gulches or gravelly deposits by watercourses over which recent floods | coursed exposing now and then a nugget | in the debris brought from the beds of | | which may de- the watercourses above or washed out of banks. Boys, men and women hustle out to gather gold, though baskets are not required. Local papers here and there | record that Johnny found a nugget worth | $2 50 or 37 and some times much more R. H. Norton has resigned as State Coal Mine Inspector of Washington to become superintendent of the Tesla coal | mines at_Corral Hollow, Contra Costa | County. His annual report as inspector, | Jjust issued, shows that the coal produet | of Washington increased in 1888 from 1,130,192 tons for 1897 to 1,810,229 tons. From 1892 to 1897 the product was nearly sta- | tionary. From 1882 to 1896 each 37,244 tons | cost a human life. Protective laws and | inspection raised the product per fatal | accident to 190,320 tons for 1897-88. The tunnel in the Red Point drift mine | in Placer County is now in 12,700 feet, or over two and a quarter miles. There are | fifty-nine men on the payroll and an av- erage of 108 cars of gravel is mined per | day, using seven horses to tram the gravel out. There are fourteen hydraulic mines in | Eastern Placer County which had re-| ceived from the Debris Commission per- mits to mine by the hydraulic process. Owing to lack of water, only one has been operated so far. The recent rains, how- ever, will allow all of them to start up for the first time. This is a small sample of what the rains have done for the miners | generally and of how mining activity is| increased. i Trinity County is to-day experiencing a | boom in placer mining that exceeds any- thing since the days of the v 8 the Trinity Journal. Since the last rain commenced placer miners have been busily engaged on their respective claims. | Men can be seen working every gulch | near Weaverville and in places the Trin-| ity River is llned with sluice boxes. | }l‘hére has been started in Colorado an | organized effort to place a mineral ex- | hibit at_the mining exposition to be held | in London this summer. Cripple CreekJ | interests are leading the effort. The ex- position will be a place for exceptionally | effective advertising of the resources of | any mineral region. London is the world's | | great center for mining investments and | the exposition will attract wide notice. The British colonies will make exten- sive exhibits. | The Flat Creek mining district in Shas- ta County, which abounds in gold and copper, is one of the regions affected by the boom in copper and in prospecting. | The district is now practically covered | with locations. On one day a week or so ago seventeen claims were recorded at | Redding. : A number of men at Butte City, Mont., have inrnrfinrated a prospecting company with 5000 shares of a par value of $1 each, all of which has been subscribed. says the | Mining and Scientific Press. The stock is Ra(d for in monthly installments. Work will be commenced under the direction of a competent manager in Idaho. This is an association organized for a definite urpose on a common-sense basis and is ikely to lead to satisfactory results, Men have been put to work on the old Union copper mine in Del Norte County. There is a considerable supply of zinc ores in Mariposa County. An unsuccess- ful attempt to work them was madeabout ten years ago. A cyanide plant has been established in Pleasant Canyon, in the Panamint range, Eastern Kern County, to work a ‘vq';vh;)t tallings estimated” to contain | 20,000 | A nugget worth $175 was found the oth- | er day by some Mexicans who were dry washing on the desert near Virginia Dale, in Riverside County. AROUND THE CORRIDORS | A. E. Thompson, a Dawson mining man, is located at the Grand. Mrs. William Hammond of Livermore | has engaged apartments at the Occi- dental C. W. Hall of New York, who owns ex- tensive mining interests In this State, is a guest at the Grand. J. O. Smith, one of the directors of a large drug firm in Chicago, is registered at the Palace with his wife. H. D. des Essards of Paris, France, who has come to this coast to Inspect the mining industry, is at the Palace. A Brizard, a prominent merchant of Arcata, is making the Lick his headquar- ters during a short stay in this city. Zoz{ Amari, secretary of the imperial Japanese legation of Mexico, arrived at the Palace yvesterday afternoon, and will return to Japan on the next steamer. C. H. Boynton, a merchant of Ferndala and Assemblyman from Humboldt County, and J. W. Guthrie, a Sacramento business man, are among the arrivals at the Grand. F. M. Morgan, a Chinese Customs Com- missioner for the British Government at Shanghai, arrived from the Orient yes- terday, and left immediately for the East on his way to Swansea, in Wales, where his wife lies very ill. Captain M. Patterson, a veteran pllot of coasting steamers in Oriental waters, ar- rived in the city yesterday from Kobe. He has been away from America for thirty-two years, and was met by his family, whom he had not seen in sixteen years. Colonel' George McFarland of the Ha- walian army and proprietor of the Royal Hawaiian Hotel arrived on the Nippon Maru from Honolulu yesterday and regis- tered at the California. He is making a flying visit to this city on private busi- ness, and will return to the islands on Tuesday. J. Y. Calahan, general agent of the Nickel Plate road in Chicago, returned from Honolulu with his wife yesterday, and registered at the Occidental. He was accompanied by Jay W. Adams, who is connected with the road in this city. They will shortly go to Seattle and other Northwest points in the interest of their company. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, April 2.—Liloyd Tevis of San Francisco s at the Fifth Avenue. o NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. The two battieships for the German navy, one at Blohm Hamburg, the other | by Schichau at Elbing, are to be com- pleted in four years and will cost $2,900,000 each. They are duplicates of the Kaiser Friederich 1L | The British Admiralty will allow a sub- sidy of $21,220 per annum for a period of thirty years to the Calliope dock at Auckland, New Zealand. This glves the Government the right to have its war vessels docked when required in prefer- ence to private shipping. William Laird, the last of the three brothers who conducted the well-known shipbuilding establishment at Birkenhead, died on February 7. The three brethers died within the last five years. The firm was chiefly known in this country as the bullders of the Confederate cruiser Ala- bama, and for the depredations of which Great Britain had to pay about $8,000,000. The Laird brothers also built many ves- s:ls for European and other foreign na- vies. The old 38 and 100 ton guns at Gibraltar are gradually being supplanted by mod- ern ordnance. Two of the latest wire- wound guns of 9.2-inch caliber have been installed. These guns weigh only twen- ty-seven tons, but throw a shell of 3% pounds a distance of fifteen miles, or two miles farther than the width of the straits between Europa Point at Gibraltar and the coast of Africa. The guns can be loaded and handled by two men, and can penetrate thirty-six inches of iron at 1000 yards. Nearly all the naval powers are recon- structing a number of their old armor- clad ships. The simple and effective method of putting new armor on top of the old was first tried in the Turkish navy at the suggestion of Woods Pasha, a British naval officer. This plan was next adopted by Germany, followed by Italy, and lastly by Denmark, where the Odin, built in 1873, has had Harveyized steel put over the old armor. The drawback to this operation is that the increased pro- tection is gained at the expense of the coal-carrying capacity, but in vessels in- tended for harbor defense a few inches more draught will not impair their use- fulness. The same system applied to sea- going vessels would have disastrous re- sults. | this Shichau, at Elbing, Prussia, has recent- ly built two torpedo-boat destroyers for China, which are the fastest boats yet turned out from any yard. Their trials took place in the Baltic, over a course of 18% miles and with 67 tons of coal on board, the average speed was 33.6 knots. This course was covered {n 32 minutes and . and on one occasion in 31 min- ?t::‘f::sfi seconds. With their full out- fit and 2 tons of coal they made the dis- tance at the speed of 3.2 knots, and with natural draught the boats made between 30 and 31 knots, carrying a load of 67 to_rzs sufficient o s of 500 sen miles. The contract called for 32 knots under -forced drauzt\{. The boats are 193 feet 6% ln_cht-'s in length, and have 2 displacement of t beam, fioteém, and the engines developed 6000 horsepower. The British battleship Implacable, of 15,000 tons, which was launched at De}’nr’\: port on March 11, was lald down on 8 15 and was, therefore, only about eight months on the stocks. She welghed near- ly S000 tons at the launch, which gi\‘r‘s an average of forty tons of material for each working day. This record for ralpxrl construction is shared with Chatham and Portsmouth. The Form!dahlo. was begun at Portsmouth on March 11.5;];:3'; and was launched on November 17, vear, while the Irresistible, begun April i1, 1888, at Chatham, was launched on December 15, 18%. The three battleships are identjcal in all particulars. Notwithstanding the presence in Asiat- ic waters of more than 100 war vessels besides those of China and Japan, piracy is sometimes heard of as having taken place on the coast, and cases are quite frequent on the Canton and West rivers. During the past year no less than eighty attacks by pirates on those rivers have been reported to the authorities, and the British Consul at Canton has made vigor- orous complaints to-the Viceroy, Sug- gesting that the old German torpedo- boats, of which twelve are lying at Whampoa, be utilized in suppressing the piracy. The suggestion was adopted, and two of these sixteen-knot boats were sent up the West River to break up the river pirate business. MORE SCORCHING ON MARKET STREET Two Little Girls Knocked Down by & Bicyclist and Saved From Serious Injury by Their Father. The efforts of the Associated Cycling Clubs and the police to put a stop to scorching on Market street have had a salutary effect, but there are still reck- s riders who defy the law, and two oung girls had a narrow escape yester- day afternoon from serious injury by ons of them. Adam Miller, 646% Minna street, was crossing Market street at Sixth with his three young daughters just as a number of bicyclists belonging to the Bay City Club approached the crossing from the ferry. According to eye-witnesses they were riding at a speed of abolut eight iles an hour. One of them was z fi:&. ng ;:'ni as the Millers had almost reac! enha sidewalk in front of the Donohoe build- ing he dashed into the family. Two of the girls, Louisa and Alma, were knocked down, and Miller grabbed hold of the bicycle to prevent it passing over the prostrate form of the girls. He also caught hold of the cyclist, but was un- able to hold him, and he made his escape in_the crowd that wckl athered. Dr. C. T. Rea, cAllister street, saw the collision and he made the remark that bicyclists evidently thought that foot pedestrians had no rights. Ivan R. Lang, a machinist, who claimed that the bicycle belonged to him, shook his fist in the doctor’'s face and said he was an “old crank.” Dr. Rea went in search of a policeman and while he was gone sev- eral wheelmen tried to take the bicycle away from Miller, but he clung to it and held it till Policeman O'Keefe appeared. There was no bell on the machine and Lang, who claimed it, although both Mil- ler and Dr. Rea declared he was not the man who was riding it, was arrested and taken to the City Prison, where a charge of riding a bicycle without a bell was booked against him. One of his friends put up $5 cash bafl for him and he was released. Several cyclists followed Lang to prison and held an indignation meet- ing outside. Two or three hot-headed youths wanted to walt until Miller c%lx;i; rom Captain Spillane’s office and do up, but wiser counsels prevailed. Pi{‘he two little girls were fortunately not hurt except for the shaking up they got, but it was mo fault of the bicyclist that they were not seriously injured. ~The wheel has been retained by the police as | evidence against Lang. = e A Military Evening. This evening military exercises will be given in the First Presbyterian Church on Van Ness avenue and Sacramento street for the benefit of the (urnfishflnr fund of the church. The programme will be under the direction of Mrs. W. B. Har- rington, president of the Ladies’ Society of the church, and Mrs. Cyrus Wright, who will be in charge. General Shafter has promised to be present and a number of the soldiers from the Presidio will gist in the tableaux which will be given. Mrs. Walter Fonda will sing the attle Hymn of the Republic” and the *“‘Star- sfiangled Banner,” and the church or- chestra will render martial music. The rooms will be decorated with flags, one of which was in the war of 1812 and another in the Civil War, some Spanish flags cap- tured at Manila, and other Spanish trophies from the late conflict. ——————————— Ian McLaren’s Lectures. The sale of reserved seats for the lec- tures to be delivered by “lan Maclaren” at the California Theater on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday next will commence morning _at the box office of the theater. The first lecture will be “Readings_From the Annals of Drum- totchty, With Notes. 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