The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 19, 1899, Page 4

b HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JUNE 19, 1899 4 e e THE BAT TRATGIS00 CAFE, MDD iR e e 2 Fall JUNE 10, 1809 MONDAY... e JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communicat: PUBLICATION OFFICE . .....Market and Third Sts., S. F Telephone Main 1868. | EDITORIAL ROOM. 217 to 221 Stevenson Street { 1874. 15 CENTS PER WEEK. | gingl cents | Terms uding Postage: i DATLY CALL (! DAILY CALL ( DAILY CALL ¢ DAILY CALL—By Single WUNDAY CALL One Year. KLY CALL, One Year. All postmasters are authorized to receive subscriptions. Sample copies will be forwarded when requested. QAKLAND OFFICE.. | NEW YORK OFFICE Rocm 188, World Building | KROGNESS, Advertising Representati | NE JRK N ANDS. Waldorf-Astor Brentano, 31 ray Hill Hotel. WASH! 908 Breadway | Union Square; GTON (D. C.) OFFICE Wellington Hotel | C. C. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE -..Marquette Building | C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. CHICAGO ANDS, House; P. O. Ne Great Northern Hot Alditortum erman mont House; BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 639 McAlllster street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 1641 Misslon street, open until 10 o'clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open untli 9 o'clock. 2518 Misslon street, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh st open untli 9 o'clock. 1505 Polk strect, open until 9:30 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second ang Kentucky street: AMUSEMENTS. >rmance. Chimes of N Free Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon | Speciaities. hth—Pat- and Panorama Co., “orner Mason ing Races, etc "AUCTION SALES. I—Thursday, Ji venue and Mark denh! ran N A CHEERFUL COMMERCIAL STCRY = HER re to trade eek, th T most y being the strength developed by ce notably wheat, which some weeks news from the bt i the trade in the United € been bullish, center ble reports d to accept the unfave »s until the conditions became It from the growing crc so strong that they could no longer be ignored ed dy that the wor o will be cc , the f; being variously rould ve been firmer in symp Other cereals | kets have been e is reportec vity in business is indicated by the mtry’s bank cle ption cities ex- With the ex and Omaha, all the large 1g that the improvement in trade is res for the w the distributive trade of the country seer the weather is reported favorable, il trade is brisk and orders for fall delivery ported larger lier than for a number of taples show marked and all of the important ones are firm. The demand for iron keeps up to the fever point, | thou of it is speculative and would cease with and t. None of the any o a decline. The starting up of many new furnaces has | set large buyers thinking, and it is now thought that | ere long the production will overtake the consump- | tion, hence the heaviest purchasers are not taking any- thing for next year. The present production is the atest ever known in this or any other countr being 236,062 tons for the first week in June, against 230,000 for the first week in May. The market con the recent advances; so stiff, in- | 2 per cent discount on cash pay- | mients for nails has been stopped. | Woolens continue firm at a further advance in sev- eral descriptions, but buyers have been so accustomed | to cheap values that it is hard to educate them up to | the advance. Cotton does not respond to reports of decreased acreage and other firm conditions, and re- | mains unchanged ; conditions stand about the same. s Ex- | have caused no stir, being recognized | owings by foreign bankers. Our foreign | mes to show a large balance in our favor, the May exports being $23,000,000 larger than the im- | ports, while for eleven mc 2c ports as mere b trade contir 1s the increase in excess | 1es the enormous total of $493,000,000. | onger any fear of what may happen if | e should return our securities, for the very good | reason that $260,000,000 of them have already been re- | turned, leaving the quantity still left in Europe tuo“ small to cut any figure. f On thi i of exports reac There is no 1 coast the conditions remain practically un- changed. Wheat has hardened somewhat in <_\-mi->:|t!w§ rica it the market is mulish in the face cf persistent bull news and go, luctantly 0, es up slowly and re- | The Californian crop will not be as large as | expected a few weeks ago, but an immense yield of | barley is looked for, and the latter cereal is weak in | Hay has been rising gradually during the past week, but the appreciation is slight. The de- mand for fruit on canning and drying account con- tinues sharp, and the very good prices are maintained thout difficulty. Wool has been selling so well that lers expect the market to be cleaned up by the | first of August. There is an active inquiry also for | new hops, but the growers are firm in their views | nd are not disposed to write any contracts at current | itions. Provisions are selling off well, and sev- | consequence. | ness {and ( THE BALLOT-BOX REMEDY. “T" HE CALL does not question the good faith of the present Grand Jury in its investigation of the alleged corruption of Supervisors. But it seriously doubts whether the inquiry will have any practical and useful results. It is very rarely the miscreants to justice are often used g 1st public officers in the here are groundless and are invented to bring corrur L to show th press and e { for sensational purpose | es are almost invariably true, but, although ng ir ces from established ! - usually beyond the reach of the courts. | e subtleties of political corruption are very intricate | In reality such char unerri tors against popular rights 1hlic servants are masters of their busi- which, though they can be ! understood, it is most difficult to penetrate. A man who would give or take a bribe would ordinarily commit 1 the fact. But legislators, Super- other officials are often purchased and | ct in total disregard of their obligations direct receipt of money. The distribution , the operation of which is now being the heavenly twins known as Burns the accomplishment can seen, the connections discerned, but the interior mystery cannot be successfully unraveled. It may be oiten noticed that, about the time of the nt rascality, the in- have an to control | and ape rjury t0 conc ced to without the illus s a potent agency The results st ends. be urate nece aition of some transpa e 10 do the external work inex- plicable increase of prosperity. Mortgages are lifted. Additional capital is obtained for business enter- pr Jle contracts are awarded. The va- rious iployed to reach and to compensate not e n effectually concealed, d. An expe- in a railroad case, is often has been put up against ty nnot be definitely trz especially t t nd yet, altho: at a jury 2h he 1 formulated char It i ot d so dange against them that makes corruptionists contaminating work es of respectable citi- 1pervious to od an ium and they ally punished. n observing public are not not be judic But a vigilant deceived. Their prooi may be moral as distinguished from legal, but it produces certainty. No legislator or Supervisor who can be handled for dishonest pur- ' poses escapes o an honest Supervisor rdly ever suspected. There is very e to public be Ti they walk . sure appreciated and re- spected S known, for many years The Hun- fications, source of The effective remedy is not investigations that sound well rated villainie has been the v tin with its innumerable spoly. , but ton r it is the only not al corruption. nd Ju the pol 1 are ready to perform e and hold possession of y This proposition is es- true of the Republic: ty. The thorough- Republi S Francisco can ns, the railroad push and other rotten understand t their civic d organizations. P ns of ts in their party e s The opportunity their strength and their de- ded, a demonstrati v will soon be 1 there is a reasonable improved. | THE DEWEY MONUMENT. received from but n $. compara- in the ag- in their ing funds 1 Fran- orate the gratitude of this genera- king victory mountin 30,000, now raged in rai nument by which cisco is to comme tion to Admiral De in Manila well be satisfied with what has been thus far accomplished and sanguine of the speedy | subscription of the entire amount needed for the work. Up to this time the general public has hardly been appealed to. The subscriptions that make up the fund at present have been given in large amounts. From this time on, however, the great mass of the people | will add their contributions to the fund, and while most of them will. of course, be small in comparison | ¥ for his epoch-mz Bay may with the muni they will te exceed the sum total of | and make the monument an expression of the sentiment of the whole people and in the large subs few althy men. not that o ! The battle of Manila was so essentially a victory | that establishes the prestige of the United States in the Pacific Ocean, that it gives to the Pacific Coast States This is no longer the b The great commercial energies of the country will have their future develop- | ment th ain Francisco and other Pacific Ocean | ports and it would not be easy to exaggerate the ex- | new position in the Union. ck door of the republic. energies will eventually accomplish. | It is, thercfore, right and fitting there should be | erected in this city a monument which will represent | the appreciation of the people of the Pacific C Dewey's great sérvice. ast of | For that reason the appeal | cordial response from all patriotic citizens. As the | spirit of national loyalty stirs more strongly in the | popular heart at the approach of the great national | holiday of the Fourth of July, the appreciation of the | mighty victory of the great admiral will increase, and it is fair to assume that by the time that day arrives | the $100,000 required for the construction of the monu- ment will be virtually assured. EDUCATION IN ALASKA. SCANDAL in the Department of Public Education is about the last thing that was ex- pected in news from Alaska, and yet that is what has come to us in the report of the Grand Jury of the United States District Court for that Territory. It s as rich a scandal as could be found in the most civilized of home districts and has more than the fa- miliar complaint of a waste of public money. Congress, it seems, has appropriated, between 1884 and 1897, as much as $415000 for Alaskan schools, and the Grand Jury, taking a scrutinizing sur- vey of the whole wide domain of iceberg, glacier and gold fields, finds no sufficient return for the money. | put his finger upon the | who did the job, he could not sustain a | cent sums given to start the movement, |- | meat of you. cral descriptions of cured meats are higher. Cattle, | The schools are not only few and far between, but the | sheep and hogs are still in light supply and bringing | very existence of some reported is doubtful. They are nnusually good prices. The demand for merchandise | out of sight from any point of view the Grand Jury keeps up and the exporting merchants are busy. i could find, and accordingly the members of that body Tumber rules firm at the recent advance, with a|have concluded if there be such schools they have scarcity of vessels to handle the export demand. | been established not for the youth of the “advance | B we are doing a first-ciass all-round business, | guard of ci The predictions made last spring that California would | barbarian offspring of those who “By day catch the break the commercial record this year seem in a fairlermine, and by night chase other vermin.” zation” in the Territory, but for the | way to be verified. The waste of school money and the bad location of |schonls are by no means the only offenses charged | against the offending Superintendent. He seems in- | deed to be a man with a frozen gall, capable of ven- |turing upon the most extraordinary schemes without !gctting cold feet. He is accused of promoting |a wild plan “for revolutionizing the mode of travel and transportation of mails in Alaska by the intro- A | actual legal proof of bribery can be obtained, and | duction of domesticated reindeer from Siberia,” of ions to W. S. LEAKE, Manager, | the failures of legislative committees and grand juries ' having demoralized the educational system of the | Territory by neglect of duty, and of having “per- | sistently embodied” in his official reports “that which | he knew to be false.” From the arraignment it will be seen the Alaskan | School Superintendent has gone far beyond anything ever perpetrated by schoo!l authorities in this climate. We have known school money to be wasted, school dignitaries to neglect their duties, school reports to contain false statements; but no attempt has ever been made here to introduce reindeer, or to effect any other kind of revolution in our civilization. It is not easy to understand the bitterness with which the reindeer scheme denounced. from this end of the line the Alaskan mail service has seemed to be so abominable, it is the conviction that anything in the way of a revolution would benefit it. However, we have not had experience, Alaskans have, and our judgments must give way to theirs. The report concludes with this heartfelt outburst: “The Grand Jury, therefore, earnestly protests against any further recommendation for the importa- tion of domesticated reindeer, and respectiully begs and prays on behalf of a long-suffering people that the honorable Secretary of the Interior may in his wisdom see fit to relieve Alaska of the incubus of an official who enjoys neither the respect nor the con- fidence of any considerable portion of her people, white or native, and whose days of usefulness, so far as Alaska is concerned, were long since buried.” So ends the first chapter of the schools scandals Alaska, and so begins the introduction of the rein- revolutionary is eer into American politics as a creature. WHITE LABOR IN HAWAIL REPORT from Hawaii announces that the Supreme Court of the islands has just handed down a decision in the case of two white men who undertook to escape from the bondage of con- tract labor on the plantations, but were arrested, con- victed and confined in jail upon failure to pay the fine imposed. The decision affirms the action of the lower court ng and imprisoning the men, and declares provisions the Constitution the United s, cited in defense of the laborers, are not in force in Hawaii during the present transition period. This upholds the validity of the penal clause in the contract labor laws in Hawaii, and consequently un- establishes freedom there, we are to have virtual slavery in a Territory of the United States. It is significant that the same report that brings of this decision adds: he importation of Italians as laborers upon some plantations is now definitely decided upon. A num- ber of managers have made application for this class of people, and they will almost certainly form a part of our population in the course of a few months.” While the report speaks of Italian laborers only, it the planters in their eagerness to get workingmen under penal contracts upon their planta- be ready to take Americans as well as for- eigners if they can get them. Efforts may be made in this city to induce unemployed men to go to the islands, and it will be well for workingmen, there- fore, to give heed to this decision of the court. Labor in Hawaii is very likely to mean slavery for an indefinite period. The Hawaiian lobby was strong enough to prevent the passage of an act providing a permanent government for Hawaii last winter, and it may be able to postpone it for another year. Until that question is settled the workingman who goes to our “Paradise of the Pacific” had better be careful what sort of contract he signs. e r———s in conv: the St of of til Congres new is safe to sa tions wi Explosions of powder s on this coast are altogether too frequent. Similar establishments in the East rarely suffer from such disasters, and there is evidently a lack of care in our factori It is even probable that if they undertook to manufacture so harmless a mixture as baking powder the stuff would get away and raise the roof inside of a month. The Hawaiian labor problem threatens to become something like the old slave labor question, on a smaller scale, of course, but just about as offensive in | |'its nature; and Congress is going to have a lively that whenever a| time in solving it. It is evident country in the temperate zone annexes a tropical island it annexes trouble. Seventeen Governors of as many States have prom- ised to attend the Anti-Trust Congress at St. Louis. It is safe to say that, if the Executive of North Caro lina repeats too often his famous remark to the Gov- ernor of South Carolina, the delegates may be forced, | in seli-defense, to resolve themselves into an anti-tick convention. The frank announcement of the German delegates to the Peace Conference that Germany will oppose | tent and the magnitude of the commerce which those | any proposal for disarmament inclines to the belicf that the Kaiser was slightly sarcastic when he ex- pressed his imperial desire that the results of the con- ference would be “satisfactory to the Czar.” Mr. Lockwood is mistaken when he says, “If you [ for subscriptions to the monument finds a ready and | have got to be robbed it does not matter whether you are held up by Dick Turpin with a pistol or by John Rockefeller with a railroad.” He {orgets that Rocke- feller would undoubtedly say grace before making The “man with the ax” seems just now to be monopolizing general interest in Alameda County to the exclusion of “The Man With the Hoe.” Poet Markham, however, can console himself with the re- fiection that a prophet is without honor in his own country. Al It is now said a combine will be organized in New York to oppose the tinplate trust, and it is to be hoped the report is correct. A battle between a combine and a trust would be watched with as much interest as a fight between a crocodile and a hip- popotamus. The report that the story of the assassination of Luna may be a Filipino hoax raises a suspicion that the whole Luna record may be a fake. Our boys in Manila have been hunting for him for a long time, but have never succeeded in finding him. Tt is really surprising to what an extent the people | believe that prizefighters are spendthrifts, In the very nature of their calling they can be nothing but close- fisted. If MM. Charron and Winton do not cease expend- | ing wind about*that automobile race there will not be enough leit for their tires. General Otis seems to find it about as hard to “grasp the situation” as to catch the Filipino, Indeed, | while the | The things of most present importance concerning the rapid growth and progress of the California Miners’ Association are the Southern California branch of the association, organized a few days ago at Los Angeles, with Stephen M. White as president, and the mistaken hostility to the organization which has for some weeks been expressed repeatedly by news and technical journals and a few mining men of that region. This new organization was effected about six weeks ago in Los Angeles at an open meeting attended by Secretary E. H. | Benjamin, Attorney General Ford, Sen- ator Davis, E. H. Ricketts, Charles G: Yale and others of the California Miners Assoclation. The new society, supposed to represent the interests of Southern Cal- ifornia in the association, has been sup- | ported by a number of the leading min- ing men in that part of the State, and has already acquired a considerable member- ship, in spite of the hostile arguments from some sources that an independent organization would be much better. This hostility on the part of some men and in- | fluences interested in the mining prosper- | ity of Southern California is certainly a mistaken one that will not help the min- ing industry south of Tehachapi, which has never before specially figured in the work of this powerful State organization Those who have objected with many words to the affiliation with the Califor- nia Miners’ Assocaition sav, in effect, first, that the fields and their interests are naturally separate; second, that the California Miners’ Association is controll- ed by San Francisco business men, who use the organization to divert the mining trade to and control it from San Fran- cisco; third, that Central and Northern California_put little men or money into | Southern California mines, and that the llmporlance of the industry south of Te- hachapi is not recognized up here. Tt has | been said that ‘“the bay people do not give fair and adequate consideration to | the miring interests of Southern Califor- | hia; That bay capital cannot be Interested | in Southern” California mines; that Los Angeles is interested in_ building up a mining trade that would be best fostered by an independent organization: that }Snu(horn Callfornia mining opportunities | | i can be better advertised by a separate or anization; that the California Miners Association 1s chiefly seeking the 75 per cent of the membership dues which have been fixed at §2 per year for individuals, ete.” The urging of these things in the col- umns of news and technical journals and | from meeting platforms has hindered the growth of what promised to be a strong and effective auxiliary association. It is wnother exhibition of ‘the feeling of inde- pendence of the rest of the State that bobs up now and then down there. To say that the mining Interests of Cali- fornia are split into two parts by a range of mountans s to take a narrow and er- roneous view of the California Miners’ ocfation. The State association is | made up of fourteen county organizations, and the association has never since its or- | ganization, seven years ago, either in an- nual convention or through lts executive or other committees, dealt with matters of sectional interest, except in the great matter of the rehabilitation of hydraul mining. This question gave the asso | tion its birth, and the Caminetti law gave | evidence of its power and effectiveness, | but since then this matter has been an | incidental one. This assoclation gave birth to the pending demand for a cabi- net department representing the mining industry, and it still hammers away at | the plan, helping give it needed boom and restige. Southern California is as much ‘lanrPR[Pd in this as any other part of | the State or country, as it is in the min- | eral lands bill, to which the association gave birth and the bright prospects of which are to be credited largely to the insistent work of the association, largely done through A. H. Ricketts. The revision of the Federal mining law is another field of its labor not peculiar to the inter of any section. ters o | | | A number of such mat- | f equal interest to miners in Utah, uthern and Northern Califor- » been taken up by the association and await the adde support of the { | | Southern California mining interests. In matters of State legislation the asso- ciation has been an effective force and will continue to be one. The Legislature has in the main acceded to {ts recom- mendations as to mining legislation, and its representatives have always been a defitite and effective force hefore legisl tive committees and with legislators. The liberal support of the State Mining Bu- reau has been largely due to its influence. The appropriation of $250,000, which it | gained from the Legislature as well as from Congress, is one evidence of its polit- | feal force. Another among such evidenc |is the tacit understanding with the Go ernor, that after raising hy $10.000 the ap- sropriation for a California exhibit at the Patis Exposition, $25.000 shoutd be devoted to the mining industry of the State. Tt ha s been along such broad lines that the association has worked so far, and it is along such lines of general importance that it has gained the prestige and es- teem it holds in the halls of hoth national | and State legislation. The future effec- tiveness of the assoclation in Washington and Sacramento would be further in- creased by the co-operation of the leading influences concerned in the mining indus- try of the southern Par( of the State. If in” the future two California miners’ as- soctations should exist, the two would hardly agree on the same specific propo- sitions, and the divided counsels might easily confuse and defeat measures of im- portance to the whole mining industry of the State. A larger representation of the industry acting as a unit would add much to the power and scope of the associa- tion's efforts. What has been accomplish- ed so far, including an effective example of what may be done by an organization of the mining industry on broad lines has been done with little aid from Southern California. The California Miners’ Asso- ciation is not a chamber of mines. It con- cerns itself, with no mining properties | and it does not try to influence the min- | ing trade, Its purposes are broader an.. .. | confines itself to those broader purposes of general legislation and the general rosperity of the industry. “Uncle Jake" Neff. who is and has been since its organ- ization its president. confines its efforts | to fields in which Southern California is :és much interested as any part of the tate. Much San Francisco money is invested in Southern California mining properties, but it is to the East and to Europe that the whole State largely turns for mining capital, and this is especially true of Southern California. The California | Miners’ Assoclation has not given South- | ern California especial attention for the | 800d reason that Southern California was not répresented in it. Its wants would have more effective attention through one strong State organization than through a small independent one. The American In- stitute of Mining Engineers will meet here in September as the guests of the California Miners’ Association, and that will fi\'e another illustration of the value | of affiliation. The association will issue a large and handsome exposition of the mineral resources of the State, in which Southern California will be fairly repre- sented and with which such an affiliated ssociation might concern itself. In the matter of the Paris mineral exhibit a unity of policy will add to the success of the ‘display. As a new mining region Southern California will have land, water road, legal and departmental matters which would be handled with more suc- cess and benefit by a strong and influen- tial organization representing the whole | State than by one representing a small region. Active affiliation with the State associa- tion would tend to cure neglect if such exists and to turn attention southward and make the splendid undeveloped re- sources of Southern California better known. The California Miners' Associa- tion seeks moral strength rather than financial co-operation, and from every Polnt of view the interests of the mining industry in Southern California seem open to better service from a great than from a local organization. Since a review of the rapld rise of gold dredging in California was published in these columns a few weeks ago, three new big modern dredgers of the chain bucket type have begun actual operations and five more are being arranged for by three companies. On the Feather River, the Merigold Dredging Company hu' started a new dredger on about 300 acres of alluvial flat five miles below Orovilje. This dredger has trouble with tree roots, which reduce its output from 200 to 1200 cubic yards of gravel per twenty-four hours. © When such a dredger goes to turning over such a recent river bench it 1finds roots more troublesome than bowl- CONCERNING THE STATE'S MINING INDUSTRY ders, This dredger is rigged with a specfal | derrick to pull and handle stumps. | On the American River not far from| Folsom, a Colorado Springs company has started a dredger to work on an ancient bench 150 fect above the river. It was set up in an excavation to which water is flumed to float and operate the dredger, an. the ¥ nature of the ground thete v ens the waste of water. S greatly lessens t vater. This company is planning to put 5 machine to work. A Postlewaite dredger has just been sent from here to the Lewis River, in the Northwest Territory. It will be erected on Lake Bennett and floated 200 miles to near the mouth of the Hootalinqua. 2 The Kia Ora Gold Dredging Company conducted by R. H. Postlewaite, has suc- cessfully started a very interesting dredg- ing operation by the Feather River. It is the first successful attempt in this | country to operate a floated dredger in | y_porous ground. This new company has 157 acres of land about a half mil» from the river, which is an old river bed. | Most of the land is an orchard costing $150 an acre, and the fruit trees are being| sacrificed for the gold below them. The | surface is about eleven feet above the| ¢ line, and it is_thirty feet to bed- rock. The pay ground varies greatly, but it averages well and it is proposed to| work over every cubic yard of the ground | and turn the gay orchard into a waste of | tailings banked up behind the dredger. | The dredger was erected in a hole and floated. Water for floating and working s pumped and piped from the river by a steam centrifugal pump. People called | Postlewalte a fool for proposing to pump and maintain a lake in that sort of ground, but 230,000 gallons a day is doing | the work. That represents the daily seep- | age. The pumping cos a day, in-| cluding $225 for one man’s wages and a | half-cord of wood a day. There is now being built an electric pump designed to be self-oiling and self-regulating, which need be visited but two or three times a | week, thus saving a man's wages, etc. During May this dredger handled 29.000 cuble vards of gravel in twen days at an expense of $1020. exclusive of interest and depreciation. The cost was about 3 cents a yard and the returns were | roundly $3000 or ahout 10 cents a vard. There are many thousands of acres of | fmu_nd awaiting such operations in Cali- ornia. demand for Mrm?r [ There is a lively properties in the Campo Seco region. is a hopeful sign that the holde; disposed to sell.—Calaveras Citizen. | We are informed that preparations are | now being made to resume operations at the Esperanza mine on a larger scale than ever hefore. The stamp capacity is to be Increased fo eighty stamps. a new hoist to be erected and the shaft is to be sunk an additional 500 feet. As soon as | the new machinery can be put in place there will be nearly 100 men at work at the mine.—Calaveras Chronicle. At 1895 feet the new vertical shaft at the Oneida struck the ledge, and it was found to be ten feet thick at this point. Sinking will probably be continued fo the 2100 level. The next thing in order will | be the cieaning out and retimbering of the old shaft, after which. if the outlook continues favorable, we may expect to| see a mill erected.—Amador Republican. J. 0. DENNY. | » AROUND THE i CORRIDORS | Dr. Harrison of Yreka is at the Grand. | Dr. J. D. Young of Stockton is at the | Lick. | V. F. Will, rancher of lone, is at the| Russ. J. Ellin Lang of Seattle Is at the Cali- fornia. Willis Pike, the attorney, of Fresno, is at the Grand. W. H. McClintoch, a mining man of So- nora, is at the Lick. M. E. Sanborn, an attorney City, is at the Lick. S. Migliavacel, the vineyardist, of Napa County, is stopping at the Grand. Cecil H. Bauer, a merchant of Portland, | and wife are stopping at the Palace. E. H. Cox, the banker, of Madera, ac- | companied by his wife, is stopping at the | Palace. George H. Wigmore and wife and R. Ross, of Los Angeles, are at the Occi- dental. James Parke, James Kirkland and J. A. Williams, planters, of Guatemala, are at the Russ. A. L. Chamber and A. R. Denike came up from San Jose yesterday and are guests at the California. Cecil H. Bauer, a prosperous merchant | of Portland, Or., is visiting this city with his wife and they are registered at the | Palace . Bert Bretherton, a representative of a | Rochester firm, who has been at the Pal- ace during the past four weeks, left for the East yesterday. | Ben Herbst, one of the best known | traveling men in the United States, ar- rived from New York with his son ves-| terday, and took quarters at the Palace. | Mrs. Gilbert Overton and Miss Gwen- doien Overton were among the passen- gers who arrived on the Peru yesterday evening. They are registered at the Oc- | cidental of Yuba | Rev. W. R. Goodwin, pastor of a Meth- odist church in Los Angeles and formerly pastor of the California-street Methodist Church of this city, is the guest of W. Good- H. Meister, 2073 Folsom street. D; win is on his way home after a v Chicago. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, June 18.—B. T. San Franeisco i NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. Three Russian tornedo boats building in France are of 312 tons displacement, to steam 26 knots and will cost, collectively, $006,000. There is great activit at Kiel, where the armored cruiser Furst | Bismarck and a sister ship of o0 tons are being built with great rapidity. The | total working force is 6840 men, a large | number of them working on night shifts. | It is reported that when the British battleship Victorious was recently dock- | ed at Yokosuka the Japanese naval con- structors discovered t.at the araught marks were wrong and that the ship actually drcw one foot less than | the marks indicated. i Lacy of t the Albemarle. | at the dockyard The small cruiser presented by Spanish residents in Mexico to the mother country has been begun at Cadiz, The vessel will | be 258 feet In length, 35 feet heam and 2000 | tons displacement. The battery will con- | sist of four 5.51 inch, four 4 inch, four 6 pounders, all quick-firers, and two ma- | chine guns. | The gun factory at Osaka is now | equipped acture ordnance of | li-inch caliber. The limit was hitherto | 9.45 Inches for guns and 11 inches for | mortars. Additional machinery has been imported from France since 1894, and the | first gun of 11 inches caliber, weighing | 2 tons, has been begun. The Vulcan Shipbuilding Company at Stettin is about to build a drydock of large capacity at Cuxhaven, at the mouth of the Elbe. This company, having the Emperor of Germany as a large share- holder, is kept busy on naval contracts, and the new dock will be a semi-Govern- ment improvement in line with the grow- ing navy of the German Empire. French dockyards have in hand quite a large number of vessels in course of con- struction. Brest has five battleships, one armored cruiser and two submarine boats; Rochefort has seven vessels, Toulon four, L’Orient seven and Cherbourg ten vessels making a total of thirty-six vessels of all kinds. In the same number of navy-yards in the United States not a single vessel is being built. The British Admiraity has purch 300,000 feet of fireprof wood for a:fi: Queen’s yacht and 350,000 feet for the use | tion for the difficulty | with cork | the publication, you might | the State of Nev | a couple would recognize such license. of ships now in course of construction. The contractors, whose works are located at Fulham, do not claim taat the wood is fireproof, for it will char, but it guaran- tees that the wood will not convey flames and thus start conflagration on bhoard ship. This latter quality is all the Ad- miralty expects the wood to possess, and the tests have been successful. The Norwegian Government Is ing the example of ather naval pov extending subvention to merchant ste ers with a view of utilizing them as val vessels in time of war. As a beginning the Bergen Steamship Company has been encouraged to build a small t Christiania at a cost of $1 14 to 15 knots, and the Governme: antees a ¥ g is equal to | vested. The Yarrow water-tu’ ; boiler is used ntirely in rec 1s of the navy in Holland. Tt is carried in X cru each of 10000 horsepower, in two bat ships of 6000 horsepow each and three torpedo boats, each of 1000 hors power. Some of the ships of war built at Elswick are also fitted with the b ers. Among others, Don Carlos, a Por tuguese cruiser, has twelve hoilers, « veloping 12,700 horsepower, and two D wegian armored ships of nd tons will also have the Yarrow boiler. The Argentine Republic is building a drydock at Porto Belgrano, in Buenos Ayres, which will be 656 feet in length and carry thirty feet over the sill. forts—one of which has already been com- pleted—are also in course of construction and will mount heavy Krupp guns. These improvements, together with a short rail- road, will cost about $12,000.000, and the work is being done by Dutch contractors. Hitherto the only drydock in the Argen- tine was at San Fernando, and being only 300 feet long was unsuited for the 1o ships of the Argentine navy or merch steamers in need of docking. t Tord Charles Beresford and Mr. Ritchle, president of the Board of Trade, are not agreed on the question of reft r British seamen and how to remedy serious difficulty. Mr. Ritchie, who is member of Parliament, recently gav his views in writing to an inquiry by a deputation of the Navy League, statir that the scheme of training lads at the expense of the Government was one | positively declined to put before tha House of Commons, and contended that If the mercantile marine wanted British sea men they should train them at their own expense. Lord Beresford, replying to this letter, sald he was not at all surprised at Mr. Ritchie’s answer. The attitude of thority always had been to ignore gre: o N 0 | questions till the press and public insisted on something being done. The dearth of British seamen and the fact that thei ranks will have to be depleted in w: time by taking away their finest spec mens for the Royal Naval Reserves con- stitute, in Lord Beresford’s opinion, a se- rious danger, and contended that it was | the duty of the Government to take up avor to find a solu- and that the best way of inducing them to do this was to agitate. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. this question and ende A DAY IN 1857-8. 7(‘: The 4th of April, 1857, fell on a Saturday SULLIVAN'S WEIGHT—A , City. At the time that John L. Sullivan was de- feated by James J. Corbett, September 7, 1891, he weighed 212 pounds. His opponent weighed 178 pounds. BEER IN GLASS—H. W. B., City. Beer will keep equally well in bottles closed s with glass stopper providing apped so as to protect it from the cork is | atmospheric influences. TIMBERING MINES-S. L., Oat Hill Cal. The Mining Bureau, which issued a pamphlet on mine timbering, being out of Find one in the libraries or obtaln permission to read one | in the hands of some of the mining super- intendents. IR FOUNDER OF THE RED CROSS » City. Henri Dunant, the founder of the Red Cross_Society. is living in Heiden, Switzerland. He was at one time very wealthy, bit is now quite poor, having expended near the whole of his fortune in humanitarian work. He receives year- 1y a pension from the Czarina of Russia, who recognizes the good work that he started. THE CUBAN RESOLUTIONS—A. O. S., City. The joint resolutions passed by both ses of Congress April 18, 1893, conclude in the following language: “The United States hereby disclaims any disposition or intention to exercise sovereignty, jurisdic- tion or control over the said island . except for the paclification there- s its determination when that is completed to leave the govern- ment and control of the islands to its people.” THE HUSBAND'S EFFECTS-J. J., City. If a man is arrested on a petty charge and locked up at a sub-police sta- tion in the vicinity of his residence and his personal effects are taken from him, such should be entered on the records to his credit and then sent to the property clerk at the Central station. Such effects should under the rules of the department be delivered only to the party from whom taken (unless he is not responsible), ex- cept on a proper order. The sergeant at the sub-station would not be authorized to deliver the effects to the wife of the pris- oner. A MARRIAGE LICENSE-B. G. A, City. A marriage license issued by a County Clerk of the State of Californi fs valid only in the county in which it ued. If a couple obtained a license Yuba County, Cal., and then went to the State of Névada fo be married, that cense would not avail them, as ho one in authorized to marry i, however, the couple were married in the State of Nevada and returned to Yuba County the marriage cert te could be recorded in the County Recorder’s office the same as any document that the par- ties desire to have recorded. Cal.glace fruit 50c per 1b at Townsend's.* e e Special informa pplied daily business houses and public men by t Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mo gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. S Har e e According to computations the bla race embraces about one-tenth of the ing_members of the human species, 150,000,000 individuals. 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