The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 3, 1899, Page 6

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OFFICE .Wellington Hotel C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE ... ......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. 621 McAllister street, open until 9:30 | o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock, 1941 Mission street, open until 10 o'clock. 2991 Marked street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 251 | Mission street, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open until 9 o':lez( 1505 Polk street, open | until 9:30 o'clock. NW. cdrner Twenty-second anq Kentucky streets. open untll 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS. Columbia—‘“The Woman Hater." Grand Opera House—"El Capitan.” | Orpheum—Vaudeville. Alcazar—“Captain Swift."” Tiveli—*“The Geisha.” Chutes Zoo and Free Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and evening. Oi; Corner Mason and Ellis streets, Specialties. Insterstate Panorama Co., Market street, near Eighth— e of Manila Bay. Pavilion—Dog Show Races, etc. ar bay resort. Amusements every ths. Campo— The El Bunday. THE BUG IN THE CHARTER. /\ R. HENRY N. CLEMENT and Dr. E. R. 1 \ Taylor ar e and reputable lawyers. In f Sunday these gentlemen as- failure to provide in the he regulation of the rates and Telephone and Telegraph Com- between that cor- and other monopolies, classified as common of these reasons is the doubtful con- i such municipal legislation, and the sed intermixture of the business of lephone and Telegraph Company, which I concern, with the service of the Sunset Tele- I'clegraph Company, extending to all parts » reasons for tt he Pacific 1d for the discrimination « 1e function of the press to determine con- | 1 questions. It had been supposed, however, | here could be no doubt of the power of State | gulation in the particulars mentioned, and that the | in controversy was the existence of this | APPOINTED SENATORS. ENATOR PERKINS, in discussing the seating S of Senators who are appointed by the execu- | tive, says he may be criticized for his present position because he voted to seat Corbett of Oregon. The first case decided by the Senate was that of Kensey Johns, appointed by the Governor of Delaware in 1704, after a legislative ses- sion had been held subsequent to the occur- rence of the vacancy. The Senate held that the Legislature having met, the Governor took no juris- diction by its failure to elect a Senator. Up to this time this rule has been adhered to. The issue raised case was stated by Senator Spooner of Wisconsin, an able lawyer. It turned on what constitutes “a meet- ing"” of the Legislature. The Legislature of Oregon met and the Senate organized permanently for the transaction of business. The House never reached even a temporary organization, but met from day to day without a quorum, in a futile effort te get a quorum and permanently organize. In this way the time allotted to the session passed away without the transaction of any legislative business, and, of course, without notice to the Governor that the Legislature was 1n session at all, since the official notification to him of that fact by committee never occurred. The issue in the Corbett case, then, was, Does such a gathering of the members elected to the Legislature censtitute a meeting of that body within the legal and constitutional meaning? Senator Spooner said: “The constitution has de- | volved that Federal function (election of a Senator) upon the Legislature of a State. So it is but a step to argue, and the conclusion is inevitable, that there is no jurisdiction under the constitution of the United States to perform this Federal | function until, by compliance with the consti- tution of the State and the law of the State, | there exists an organized legislative body, consti- tuting a Legislature capable of legislating. So it was, at the suggestion of Mr. Fessenden, in 1866, that the present law was passed as we find it in the statutes to- day, containing the words, ‘meeting and organization of a Legislature? T looked at Anderson’s Law Dic-| tionary this morning and it says: ‘In the sense of to constitute, to qualify for the exercise of appropriate | functions. It may refer to a government, a court, a | legislative body, a board of deputies or other officers 1 “If there is a quorum of sworn members in each | House, who have elected a Speaker or a President pro tempore, who have provided themselves with fa- | cilities for expressing and recording the legislative will, who have clothed themselves by a performance of conditions precedent with the power to legislate, so that they may pass laws which will be valid and bind- ing, a rule of action upon the people of the State, even though they may not have been able to elect a permanent Speaker they should be taken as a Legisla- ture within the constitutional sense and qualified to choose a Senator.” The Oregon House consists of sixty members. The | constitution of the State requires that two-thirds of each House shall constitute a quorum to do busi- ness, but a smaller number may meet and compel at- tendance of absentees and adjourn from day to d the municipality, either by express specifica- | under the implications of the law. We have | fore us any direct adjudication on the subject, the American Law Review for April-May, 1890, able opinion by one of the most prominent ers in Kansas was published, in which the rights of State control and of the delegation of municipal | itrol over telephone companies was vigorously as- | In perhaps in other | States, the same views are entertained. It seems that | Il monopolies or even competitive associations, de-’ pending upon franchises or privileges derived from | the public, should be subject to restrictions in their | cxactions and should not be permitted equally to | plunder the community at large and their private cus- | tomers. | This municipality has its regular legal adviser, to whom the constitutional question should be promptly committed. If the State constitution as it exists| n es the Legislature in dealing with telephone | companies it should be amended. We do not believe | that there is any such limitation. The other point | suggested by Mr. Clement and Dr. vlor can hardly be sustained. There can be no doubt that the State jurisdiction of the Sunset Telephone and Telegraph | Company and the municipal jurisdiction of the Pacific | Telephone and Telegraph Company are clearly dis- tinguishable. To a certain extent they may use the | ame wires and the same instruments. But it is well understood that the identity of each corpdtation is; separately maintained, that each service is independent | of the other, that the accounts are not commingled, and that it is entirely practicable to treat the business of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company as distinct and complete within itself. The existence of this bug in the new charter, to | which The Call has invited the attention of the pub- lic and of the municipal authorities, is unquestion- able. The constitutional doubt should have been re- | solved in favor of the people and not of the telephone monopoly. There should be no delay or hesitation in the e e of lawful means to compel its submis- sion to reasonable supervision over its tariff and to| some recognition of the interests of its customers. These monopolies, in alliance with the railroad, have | virtually held themselves above the law in this State | and have treated the public with contempt. It is time " to make them understand that the American people | live under a free Government and not under a private | despotism | e s e e not L | | | serted Massachusetts also, e In their efforts to distribute prize money to lhe; Cubans the American authorities are having a great | of trouble with “swollen” lists of insurgent When the American Government | needed Cuban soldiers in the war with Spain the list | ble and willing men was lamentably small. Cuban soldiers | From the tenor of British comment on Coghlan’s | speech it seems the opinion over there is that he ought to be deprived of his rank as captain, retired for about a couple of weeks and then restored to the navy as a commodore Senator Butler of North Carolina is said to have enrolled himself as a student in the law school of the | university of the State, which shows that the Senatot, | though a Populist, has sense enough to see that he can never learn any law in the Senate. The emissaries of Aguinaldo want to retire from their rebellion with honor. Thus far they have retired | ftom the advance of the American troops with haste. 1t 1s rather late in the campaign for them to change their policy. It is cheering to hear that the Emperor William has joined in the gayety of nations. He has just read and apparently enjoyed “Hoch der Kaiser!” The report that Aguinaldo is of Irish parentage on his father's side accounts for his excellence as a fighter, but where did he get that name? | of bringing about a general | be respected on sea as on land, and will also advo- Observe the language, “may’—not “must” “shall”—compel atteridance of absentees. meeting of the House thirty-four were present and | twenty-six -absent. When the roll was called thirty responded and thirty were absent. So it continued from day to day, the highest number responding to rollcall being thirty-one. There was not even a tem- porary organization, no temporary Speaker elected, and only thirty-one of the sixty members were even sworn in. Senator Spooner's argument that this did not con- stitute “a meeting and organization of the Legisla- ture”’ was perfectly correct. and his deduction there- from that the Legislature not having met and organ- ized the Governor had not lost jurisdiction of the Senatorial appointment highly plausible and justifiable. But, observe that very argument was complete admission that if the Legislature had met and had organized and had then failed to elect a Sen- ator the Governor's jurisdiction would have been lost. Therefore, in voting to seat Corbett Senator Perkins remained in line with the adjudicated cases of Johns and Lanman, and his vote was not inconsistent with his present position. The doctrine of the constitution is that the Governor takes jurisdiction only when the vacancy occurs during a recess of the Legislature, that such jurisdiction ceases upon the meeting and or- ganization of the Legislature and does not return to the Governor upon legislative failure to exercise it. It was plausibly held in the Corbett case, in line with the foregoing doctrine, that the Governor’s juris- diction remains intact if the Legislature fail to “or- ganize.” As we have said before, the whole matter is so plain that it needs no lawyer to state it. The Legis- latures of California, Utah, Delaware and Penn: vania had met, organized and were in session transact- ing legislative business, and the executives were offi- cially notified and cognizant thereof when the vacan- cies occurred in the Senate by expiration of the | regular terms. Therefore jurisdiction was never in | the Governors of those States, but was originally in | the Legislatures and remains there until the Legis- | latures choose to exercise it. W with a festival of rejoicing over the return of | the season of flowers, but with the celebration | of a great epo;h-making victory, the month will not | be lacking in-more peaceful suggestions, for its chief nor At the first was was a THE PEACE CONGRESS. HILE we have welcomed May this year not | event will be the gathering of the international con- | ference called by the Czar to consider the possibility disarmament of the nations. 3 The conference is to open at The Hague on the | 18th and every civilized nation on the globe will be | represented among its members. The delegates from | this country will be Andrew D. White, Embassador | to Germany; Stanford Newel, Minister to the Neth- erlands; Professor Seth Low of Columbia Univer- | sity; Captain Crozier of the United States army, and | Captain Mahan of the navy. The American commis- | sion as a whole is regarded as an exceptionally strong | body, several of its members being men of interna- | tional reputation. ! It is not expected that much of a positive nature will be accomplished by the conference, for no dele- gation is to be empowered to do or to promise any- thing which will be binding upon its Government. It | 1s to be a meeting for discussion merely, and from the tone of the comment on the subject in diplomatic circles it is doubtful if the Czar's suggestion of gen- eral disarmament will be given much more than a perfunctory consideration. Nevertheless there is a strong belief the discussions at the meeting will result in materially strengthening the cause of peace. It is said the United States and | Great Britain will unite in urging an international agreement that private property shall in times of war cate a more keneral adoption of arbitration as a means of settling international disputes. The notable feature of the conference will be the part the United States will play in it. For the first time an American delegation will sit in a great Euro- pean council and be respected as the representative of a world power of the first class. Of course American sentiment with respect to disarmament will have little weight, since that issue does not affect us. We have no heavy armaments to menace Europe, neither do the armaments of European nations menace us; but on all other questions the expression of the Ameri- can Commissioners will be given as much attention as is paid to those of any other power. It is generally believed in Europe that after the conference at The Hague is over there will be a meet- ing of the greater rulers of Europe in England, at which time the recommendations of the conference will be reviewed and possibly some agreement may be reached which will strengthen that famous “con- cert of Europe,” which has now become an established institution of diplomacy. Under any circumstances the peace conference is likely to be the most impor- tant event of the year, and its proceedings will be studied closely by all who are interested in the wel- fare of nations and the prosperity of mankind. U laws, subject only to essential constitutional re- strictions. The enforcement of ‘the law, there- fore, is guaranteed by a compact between the people ENFORCE THE LAW. NDER our free institutions the people make the themselves, which cannot be disregarded without vital danger to the republic. The Call has uniformly insisted that the Federal constitution and the State constitutions, and all the laws made in pursuance thereof should be rigidly observed. It has applied this obviously correct doc- trine without evasion or partiality. It has demanded its application to its own party and to the Federal administration. It has denounced Asiatic expansion and imperialism, because the one is a substantial equivalent for the other and both are repugnant to constitutional obligations and also to the theory and the practice of our Government. While recognizing of the Legislature” Now, what is the ‘organization’ | the terrible provocations in the South, it has uni-. formly resisted the cruelties of mobs and declared that crime should be punished through the courts, whether perpetrated by brutalized negroes or by re- vengeful whites. It has antagonized monopoly in every form that has raised it above the law or enabled it to strike at the rights and the interests of the pub- lic, whether represented by oppressive trusts or wield- ing dictatorial power through an individual, as in the case of C. P. Huntington. The scenes in Idaho, which have been depicted vividly in our columns, show the evil example and the viciousness of unrepressed lawlessness. In the most wanton manner, without excuse or palliation, valuable and wealth-producing property has been destroyed and hundreds—perhaps thousands—of industrious citizens at least temporarily deprived of employment. The crime is as deadly to labor as it is to capital. uality before the law does not mean an aristocracy of violence any more than it means an aristocracy of fraud or greed. It does mean the same law and the same administration of the law for the rich and the poor alike, and that all men of every condition, living in the United States and possessed of the inestimable and inalienable rights of American citizenship, or whose presence among us is tolerated, shall be com- | pelled to live in peace and in order, in conformity with the necessities of civilized society, and shall not attempt to steal their neighbor’s goods, to injure his body, to take his life, nor forcibly to redress their own grievances. Mob law spreads like an epidemic. It must be dealt with dispasstnately and temperately, but with inexorable firmness and promptness. is justified in refusing to treat with the Filipinos un- til they have unconditionally surrendered, there is much greater necessity for the refusal to temporize with outlaws in an established American State upon this continent. Lawless combinations of miners at Wardner are quite as destructive and inexcusable as aggressive and fraudulent combinations of capital in San Francisco or in New York l ern authorities consulted upon the selection of a new president for the State University have advised that upon the close of the first academic year after the new man enters upon his work all the pro- UNIVERSITY REORGANIZATION. F the report so widely circulated be true that East- fessors and heads of departments in the university | shall resign so as to leave him free to reorganize the institution, then the Regents are certainly wise in deliberating well and long before they act. A whole- sale reorganization and reconstitution of the univer- sity staff may be attractive, but it will be a hazardous experiment to carry out. The claim is made by those who favor the rumored | plan that there are in the university some professors who should never have been appointed and some who have grown old in the service and are no longer use- ful. The climination of these, it is said, would be of great benefit to the institution. New men would mean new vigor, new energy and a new. and more vitalizing ‘stimulus to the university in all lines of its work. Even if all that is claimed were sure to be accom- plished beyond a shadow of a doubt, there would still be serious objections to anything like a wholesale sweeping of the university by an Eastern broom after but one year of experience in the State. It would be demoralizing to university life if each change in the presidency should mean a wholesale change in the professorships and the teaching body generally. Under such conditions a university career would be almost as uncertain as one in politics, and a professor in future would have to give a good deal of time and energy to the work of wire-pulling among the powers that be in order to hold his position after attaining it. The great universities of Europe and the East have not become centers of learning and noted as the liomes of scholarship by any practice ot turning pro- fessors out of their chairs simply because they * have grown old in service, or because they are not “up to date” accofding to the ideas of some new head of the institution. There is no need for a clean sweep at Berkeley, and if there is to be one it should not be intrusted to an Easterner. Berkeley should have a strong and vig- orous personality in the president’s chair, but there is no reason why she should seek it at the risk of ‘de- moralizing the staff or rendering uncertain the tenure of cffice of the men who elect to serve her in any of her departments. - It begins to look as if the Filipinos were awaken- ing to a realization of the fact that American bullets are hard to dodge and don’t bounce after they strike. Up to date about a dozen candidates have come forward to fill Tom Reed’s place as Speaker of the House, and still there is room for more. The dispatches announce that the Coghlan incident has been duly closed. It is possible that some covert reference is made to the gallant captain’s mouth. If General Otis | mining on Gold Mountain, near Grass Val- ley, late in 1850, is Frank Morse, who is an engineer at the San Francisco Mint. His interest in the nebulous history of that beginning of quartz mining greatly stimulated by an account re- cently published in these columns in col nection with the Peabody-Gold Hill sui involving the oldest quartz mine in the State. The following is part of the story told by Mr. Morse: “I suppose there are not more than three or four, if as inany, survivors of that meeting of December 30, 1850, when the Gold Mountain mining district was or- ganized. I remember the time quite well. I went out there in September, 1850, from Parks Bar, on the Yuba near Marysville, where I had been running a wheelbarrow for $16 a day until I got a fever, as so many of the miners did. ““This rich ledge on Gold Mountain was known to exist for some months before this organization of the district, and the recording of claims. The ledge was broken off and turned downhill like a sort of wave and it was not found in place short of about forty feet below the su face. The side of the hill below the vein and the ravine were rich and claims were being worked when I got there, each claim being 30 by 40 feet. The rules ob- served elsewhere in nearby diggings were followed, but claims were not recorded until December 30, 1530, when laws were adopted and a recorder elected. Thomas Cracklin’s claim merely happened to be the first one recorded and so ranks as the ldest one by the record. Some of the :ck of the broken vemn s very rich and, of course, the dirt w The only way most of us could work the rock at first was by pounding up the richest specimens on a stone with a hammer and then panning out. A man by the name of Huff, who 1 thnik was an old Georgia miner, had a big mortar and it was the only one in the diggings. He and his party rigged up a spring pole and pound- ed out $20,000 that winter. Long years af- ter I found Huff ranching on the Ameri- can River. To show iw much we knew about quartz mining, a few of us pooled our claims and run a tunnel 250 feet long that tapped the ledge about forty feet below the surface. There was no water to contend with and we could much better have just sunk a shaft forty feet deep, but we had an idea that we ought to ha a tunnel for some reason, probably be- cause it would be easier to get the rock out. 1 reraember that Joseph Cracklin took out 315,00 with 1 mortar and went East in 1851. I helped him pound it out. Two men, Walsh and Wheeler, bought up a number of the claims that winter and turned their sawmill into a quartz mill. afterward sold to a London com- , who sent out Melville Attwood as manager, about 1852. “‘Some of those first mills built in would be great curiosities now. One set up near my cabin, and would work night and day—if they could get it to work. I would be trying to sleep in | my cabin and would hear them say, ‘Well, | boys, I guess we've got steam enough ! now.’ Then the thing would start up and | go set-choo, rattlety-bang, rattlet bang, rattle-ty-bang, rat-tle-ty-bang | choo—bang’, and then it would stop. The Kelly mill’ was not very far aw and was made almost entirely of wood. | The wooden mortars were lined w ! boiler iron. As I remember the cam shaft | it was a big log 18 inches thick with the wooden cams mortised in a spiral row around it. As the journals were all of | wood, it would squeak frightfully. You 851 | could’ hear it a mile sometimes. When it | would squeak a_fellow would climb up and ‘dope’ the bearings with molasses. 1 suppose they did not have any g to spare. A lot of the rock ore we took out of our tunnel and sent to the | first mill went only $49 a ton, and as we had to pay $50 a ton to have it crushed, | we quit.” e Herbert Long, an emintent mining au- | thority, has written for the New York | Engineering and Mining Journal an ex- tensive and interesting account of the Iron Mountain mine of the Mountain Cop- per Company, in Shasta County, which is | being operated on so large a scale. | The ore deposit, he says, is part of a | great lode, in some places hundreds of iffi(‘l wide. ' The mine proper consists of a | great lens of ore roughly shaped, like a Ship’s hull that has been. thoroughly mapped and explored. It is estimated to contain 1,730,000 tons of sulphides. There is an excellent prospect of finding similar ore bodies to the north of it. T fol- lowing is an interesting estimate of the | value of the mine: | “Assuming the co | estimates of quantit sulphides contain ver | tons of metallic copper. | ides together have over . and 8,500,000 ounc o are 1,000,000 tor The total value prices of the three val be something over quite enough to make a good mine. | " “Arter prolonged study of the mine and s I concluded that it would require 3 for the exhaustivn of the known body, and that by working on the \ ch I submitted to the company, an annual net profit of $1.300,000 would be secured 100.000 in o 3 worth 1m might very be taken value 1t nresent market able metals would 10,000, his is re I of the mine, at the ruling rates of inte Jout $9.000,000. This estir ing only with the kno: 1 when we r of the remainder of the great area which is not vet fully prospected, but in which ore is known fo exist in no all quantities, “It can hardly be believed that this mine laid unappreciated, though not unknown, through so many vears, while an active search for mineral went on through this neighborhood and all over the State. For years, the Iron Mountain mine was hawked about for a buyer unsuccessfully, 2nd was cventually sold for $300,000. part stock, part cash, to the present owners, the Mathesons of London, and their asso: ciates, The news comes thi orado company, which great pold dredger on a bench of the American River at Mi. Sippi miles from Folsom, 130 feet river, is planning to construct three or four more in that region. Other dredging enterprises are in process of elaboration, and the increase of dredgers promises to be rapid. This form of the industry has great possibilities in California, but like anything in mining must be handled with skill and discretion. Mr. Postlewaite, who is California’s leading authority on the subject, sa; ““The field for dredging in Califor: an immense one. Nearly all the river: draining into the Sacramento will pay to dredge in parts. There is virgin ground in the beds. Then the old deposits of tail- | ings are often rich, for they lost a good deal of the gold then. " Besides the benches and old cuannels there are many basins up in the mountains that would | pay well. Where there is a natural or ar- | tificial supply of water within twelve feet of the surface ground can be worked. “Ground must first be thoroughly pros- pected. To sink shafts with timbering and umping is costly, if not impossible. There s now in a steam traction prospecting machine, costing $2000. which will sink and case a hole several inches in diamete: at a cost of about $3 a foot. Ten to twenty holes should be sunk in an area of 100 week that the Col- s just starting one Bar, six above the acres, according to the amount of By _sinking such holes verage values can be clos known: there are no risks, and it be- comes a legitimate and safe enterprise, h no element of speculation. ‘Under ordinarily favorable conditions the cost of dredging will be within three cents a yard. Hard ground costs more, because iess is handled. Bowlders are handled, but they lessen the output, and if there are too many large ones. T would say, ‘Don't dredge.’ One beauty of a large amount of ground near Oroville is that the bed rock is a volcanic ash which is easily dug _up. dredged some time. It is noticeable that most of the monev being invested s Fastern money. though Californians are beginning to mak v inquiries.” Local mining laws are rapidly being adopted, as mining districts are organized again all over the State as a consequence of the repeal of the State law. Last week a eonvention of Tuolumne County miners Was held at the courthouse in Sonora *“for the purpose of adopting the old quartz mining laws made by . similar convention held Fn the said dity cf Sonorason Oc- tober 5, 1872, and also for such other reg- ulations as_shall seem proper for the protection of persons eiigaged in mining.”” Tn reply to a Los Angeles (Cal.) con- cern that wants to buy from some one in California 1000 tons of graphite equal to Ceylon quality. the MmmF and Scien- tific Press says that it is believed the or- der cannot be filled. Practically graphite does not exist in California in commercial quantities. There were several San Fran- cigco dealers, but none have produced any ot consequence for a 'ong time. The Cal- ifornia Graphite Company has a deposit | It will all befq EWS OF THE MINES. One of the few Argonauts now living | near Cazadero, Sonoma County, but it who were present at the birth of quartz has not produced any. The Elkhardt mine | | p T | is near Watsons, ~ Mendocino County twenty-eight miles from Ukiah, but is & nen-producer, being of too low grade to be used. There are several small known deposits in Southern California, which have been utilizad. 7 A mining district that is attracting.con- siderable attention just now lies over in Nevada to the east of Modoc County, oc- cording to the Redding Free Press. It is lceally known as the Pueblo district, and is directly on the route of the old over- land immigrant trail. A number of rich silver and copper strikes have been made in the district and the sale of one mine, the Denio, a copper proposition, has lately been effected. The sale price was the round sum of $100,000. Ii 1s stated that in early days immigrant trains brought into Californfa and Oregon samples of ore extremely rich in silver—so rich, in fact, that the white metal would run out in big drops under the blowpipe. It is a for- bidding district to :he prospector, how- ever, owing to the scarcity of water and lack of transportation facilities. Shasta County's lead in copper mining is being followed by a general waking up as to copper possibilitics in other mining counties, says the Redding Free Press. Reports from Siskiyou County indicate that the people have faith that a copper smelter there is only a question of a year or so, as large bodies of copper-bearing ore are encountered in several districts of the county. A 40-ton smelter to handle the ores of the Copper Queen mine is an assured addition to the wealth-producing agencies of Trinity County. A copper smelter is being erected in Plumas Coun- ty. Several deposits in that county are under bond and are nuw being examined by experts. “‘My correspondence,” says Fred Grote- fend in the Redding Searchlight, ‘‘has re- vealed many inquiries with regard to the deep ground possibilities of the Coffee Creek section, and 1 had an idea that there would be quite a number of pros- pectors there this summer, but I did not think they would come as early as April. 1 am reliably informed, however, that for the past ten days or two weeks fully fif- teen men have gone in there each day, most of them possessed of a fund of ex- perience and equipped to stay all sum- mer. There is no getting around the fact that the men who do scientific min-! ing are impressed with the possibilities in existence there. It is the scientific men | who are sending those prospectors there.” Reports of rich strikes and fabulous finds are getting to be of almost daily occurrence. No sooner does the excite- ment occasioned by one find abate than another is reported. Thus has it been for two weeks, and if the discoveries made in that time in El Dorado Count hold out the value of gold in the mone, market has seen its highest quotations Among the rich discoveries of the Tp st «week, that made on the ranch of J. M. Bell at Ringgold is probably as rich as any, and owing to its continuity to the mother lode belt, quite as important. The strike was made Monday in the bottom of an incline shaft only eight feet deep. in which they had been following a string- er pitching to the ledge. They are still | in the pay streak, which improves with depth. Specimens brought to town dur- ing the week were nearly 50 per cent | gold, and were enough to give anybody | the prospecting itch.—Mountain Demo- crat. | The Washington mining di joying quite a quartz boom at and has entered upon a systematic of development that it has never enjoyed before, says the Placer County Leader. Among the best developed mines is the California, There has been a tunnel | driven in the mountain that cuts the vein | at a depth of 700 feet. The tunnel is 2100 feet in length, and the ledge where | it was cut is 30 feet wide. The ore aver- ages about $6 per ton, and is worked by a | 2)-stamp mill at present, but the com- bany intends to erect twenty more stamps | this spring. E A San Francisco_company is develop- | ing the Grant King mine in Placer County. They have a very large ledge of low-grade ore, but are so situated as to be able to handle their ore at a very low fig- ure. The same company is also develon- ing the Dillon mines. rict nel in on the vein 400 feet,” with a depth | They also own a very ill furnish ample bling them of about fine wate power at a very low cost, to work very low-grade ore at a profit. The revival of operations at the Strahle Slate Quarry near this city will be wel- come news to all, says the Place Nugget. hoped that the quar ated to its full capacity son why the splendid It socn be ope There is no T¢ quarries in the near vicini should not supply all the slate roofing for the western half of the United States, and | with proper management and develop- ment the day will come when they will | do so. This week the work of putting in twenty more stamps at the Dutch mine in Tuolumne County will begin, which when finished will give the mine a complement of forty stamps. The underground work- ings are reported as good and rich as s reported in Tuolumne County that tempt will be made to find financial | cking to run a tunnel from Moccasin Creek, that is to be three miles long, and tap the mother lode at a great depth. A company of San Francisco capitaiists spending $20.000 in putting in a hydraulic elevator to work the tailings from the old Cherokee drift mine in Butte County. 1t is reported by the Auburn Republican that at Whisky Diggings, near Lincoln, the day shift in the copper mine, located near that place, took out $1500 worth of copper ore in one day recently. Captain Thomas Mein goes this week to the Treadwell mine, Douglas Island, Alaska, of which property he is general | manager. There is talk that the Yellow Aster | mines at Randsburg, the richest and best | developed of that district. have been sald to Captain de Lamar and associates for $3.000,000. The property was recently ex- by Victor A. Clement. formerly ted with John Hays Hammond in | the Transvaal A new electric company expects to sup- ply _electric power to operate the gold dredgers about Oroville. J. O. DENNY. TRUMAN CONTEMPT CASE. Supreme Justices Suggest That Man- | damus Would Have Been Better. The case of T. J. Truman, the Treasurer, on habeas corpus was on hearing before the Justices of the Supreme Court y terday and taken under advisement. Con- siderable interest has ieen manifested in the matter, because it is not every day that the Treasurer of a city is adjudged guilty of contempt of court. Joseph P. Stevens is the official reporter in the de- partment of the Superior Court presided over by Judge Cook. The latter gave. the reporter an order on the treasury for $117 salary due, but the ‘reasurer refused to honor the ‘same. He claimed that there was no_money ir the fund from which | such orders or warrants are cashed. Judge Cook asserted that there was am- ple money. for instance, the general fund, in the pe: on of the Treasurer for the ment of court reporters and he fo urer Truman suilty of contempt refusing to honor the Jdemand and ordered the city official into the custody of the Sheriff until the money w d. To thi decision Mr. Truman took excey appealed for relief to ‘he Supreme Court, He obtained a writ of habeas corpus and when the matter was up for consideration vesterday ‘he took the position that he could not legally pay the amount of the m the funds set aside for that Also that th2 order should have B on_by the Auditor before the Treasurer could honor it. While the higher court reserved its decision it in- timated that perhaps mandamus proceed- ings would have served the purpose of the lower court better than contempt pro- ceedings. —————— Renorts Received on Indian Work. The San Francisco Protestant Indian Association held its quarterly meeting at 717 Post street yesterday afternoon. Mrs. J. D. Spencer occupied the chair and Miss M C. Willey acted as secretary. Reports were read from Pliny E. Goddard, super- intendent of the Indian mission at Fall River Mills, Humboldt County, and showed much advancement in the work of civilizing and educating the dark- skins. A motion was made that a Christ- mas box be prepared and forwarded to the reservation. Material contributed for the preparation thereof may be left at 132 McAllister street. Any material for fancy or lace work may be contributed at the same address. R — Foster Perjury Case. The case of Fred Foster, the horseman charged with perjury on the complaint of A. Howard, the Australian plunger, was called in Judge Mogan's Court yes- terday. Foster was instructed and ar- raigned, and by consent the hearing was set for May 8. “hey have a_tun- | | | supported the AROUND THE CORRIDORS Rev. J. C. Burgess of Danville is stay- ing at the Occidental. D. C. Page, an extensive fruit grower of Vacaville, is at the Russ. D. R. Cameron, a fruit shipper of Han- ford, is a guest at the Lick. James Williams, an insurance man of Denver, is located at the Occidental. Charles M. Coglan, secretary of the 3oard of Equalization, is at the Lick. Henry G. Hawes of Santa Barbara is at the California, accompanied by his wife. Mrs. J. Harpst, wife of a prominent lumber dealer of Arcata, is at the Occi- dental. Judge L. L. Chamberlain, former Dis- trict Attorney of Auburn, is a guest at the Grand. D. A. Matheson, a Chico merchant, and S. W. Kenyon, a Fresno hotel keeper, are late arrivals at the Grand. James Cuzner, a Los Angeles merchant, and H. D. C. Barnhart. a Santa Cruz cattle dealer, are registered at the Lick. Mrs. S. Farnsworth, who is prominent in Council Bluffs society, is registered at the Occidental with her two daughters. Dr. William L. Hood of Big Oak Flat, Tuolumne County, and J. E. Prewett, an attorney of Auburn, are staying at the Grand. F. L. Stimson and E. T. Stimson, capi- talists respectively of Seattle and Los An- geles, are registered at the Palace with their wives. E. Heldmaier, who has the contract for the construction of the breakwater in San Pedro harbor, is making the Palace his headquarters. C. C. Wheeler of Alameda has returned with his wife from Fresno, where he possesses large land interests, and has en- gaged rooms at the Russ. Lewis Seasongood, a banker of Cin- cinnati, returned yesterday with his fam- ily from Monterey, where they have been sojourning for several weeks, and en- gaged apartments at the Palace. M. Wright, London solicitor for Lady Hesketh, daughter of the late Senator Sharon, left New York vesterday for this city. Mr. Wright is coming here to look affer the interests of his client in the Sharon Estate Company. Congressman Francis G. Newlands of Nevada will ac- company him to this coast. Edwin B. Hay, past grand exalted ruler of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, will arrive in this city on Friday next from Washington, D. C. He comes at the request of Grand Exalted Ruler Galvin to look over and report the condi- tion of the organization throughout the State, and to make arrangements for a large local representation of Elks at their big excursicn to St. Louis in June. ———— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, May 2.—The following Californians are registered: Mrs. Emlle Sutro, Miss Eva R. Castle, Miss May A. Farquharson, San Francisco; Mrs. M. E. Crocket, Los Angeles, at Fifth Avenue. e —— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. MIZPAH—A Subscriber, City. The meaning of “Mizpah” ully ex in the Bible—Genesis, xxxi:49. THE DEPOSED CHIEF—H. land, Cal. The Samoan chief who was | banished in 1888 was Malietoa. LOS ANGELE AND OAKLAND-J. W. W., Sunol, Cal. According to the last taken census, which w. that of 1890, the population of Los Ange was 0. and that of Oakland was 48,682, CONSUMPTIVE PATIENTS — F. Both Dr. Hirschfeld It treated patients in tk consumption, by m process which each disc GRANT—E. X. 8. 8., Sacramento, Cal. 3., and Dr. Day- s city aifected a new | It is asserted that U. S. Grant, recently a candidate for Senator from California, Republican party during the Presidential ‘campaign of 1595 IN THE SIGNAL CORPS— b - & . M., Alameda, Cal. A telegraph operator who wishes to engage in the signal service of the United States in the expectation of being sent to Manila should make appli- cation to the signal service office at army headquarters in the Phelan building, San Francisco. SR RIGHT OF WAY—J. E., Redwood City, Cal. If an individual proposes to close up a roadway which has been in use for twenty-five years you should commence n action against him to enjoin him fro arrying out his purpose, and in that wa: settle the question as to whether the road was dedicated to public use. —————— Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.* —_——— Special information supplied dafly to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. * Wedading invitations, visiting cards, fine tationery and printing at Sanborn & Vail's. = e ——— They had been talking of the war hero, “When he passed through our town,* said the blonde, triumphantly, “I kissed him.” “Quite likely,” answered the brunette, but I never have found it necessary to take the initiative in such matter: | Chicago Post. = e+ “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup” Has been used for fifty years by millions of mothers for their children while Teething with perfect success. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays Pain, cures Wind Colic, reg- ulates the Bowels and is the best remedy for Diarrhoeas, whether arising from teething or other causes. For sale by Druggists in every part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mrs, slow's Soothing Syrup, 2%c a bottle. e HOTEL DEL CORONADO—Take advantame of the round-trip tickets. Now only $60 by steamship, including fifteen days' board at hotel; longer stay, §250 per dav. 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