The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 10, 1899, Page 4

Vessels NO MERCEN@ARIES. the great hospital Dom, to which the foundlings of the whole empire are sent to be 1809 : reared as the children of the state. In that insti- | tution boys are reared, knowing no parents, no fam- | ily, nothing but the state, to be put into the army as | officers. | degree of fide MONDAY ..JULY 10, JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE. Market and Third Sts., S. F Telephone Main 1868 | EDITORIAL ROOMS.. 917 to 221 Stevenson Street Telephcne Matn 1874 that has proved to be a necessary amily pride nor tradition. What the State orders is the command of father and mother. This system of basing autocracy on the accident of bastardy. of which | so little is known outside the empire, in a great degree | accounts for the remorseless things done in Poland, DELIVERED BY CARRIERS, 15 CENTS PER WEEE. Eingle Coptes, B cents. Terms by Mall, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sinday Call), one year. .$6.00° ° > : DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), § months o :l-r‘: in the Caucasus, in Fi DAILY CALL «including Sunday Call), 8 montbs. 1 R s e e DAILY CALI—By Single Month 2 @6c | State wants mercenaries. Sin and sh; supply = SUNDAY CALL One Year 1.50 | and the covert faults of poor humanity build a wall O e . 100 | iound men and races, over which the rights of man All postmasters are authorized to recelve subscriptions. gample coples will be forwarded when requested. ..908 Broadway ca not go. Freedom is unchangeable. | rialism is the same cult everywhere. If the outgivings from Washington are correct, -is are the same as in every land OAKLAND OFFICE So is tyranny. C. GEORGE KROGNESS. Menager Forsign Advertising, Marquette Building, Chicago. WS STANDS. ews Co.; Great Northern Hotel; Hotel. methods in this count where they have been applied. If th blood an CHICAGO Sherman House: P. Fremont House; Au NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: PERRY LUKENS dR .29 Tribune Building | ., .. .| peace, prosecuted in their name. Early NEW YORK NEWS STANDS. our undeclared war in the Philippines it was said oA s G R Tnfon Squate: . coidiers who knew the theater upon which that WASHINGTON (. C.) OFFICE Welllngton Hotel | W37 must be fought, fim! by civ: ians who knew the C. C. CARLTON. Correspondent. people who must be subjugated by it, that 100,000 to i s would be required there. The com- 11 in Manila, successor to Weyler as early as the 8th of February n over. This report he repeated 1e up to the last of June, when he said a republic he money required for its maintenance BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 639 McAlilster street. open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. , reported 1941 Mission street. open untll 10 o'clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. 2518 Rission street. open until 9 o'clock. i06 Eleventh street, open until 9 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty- ma ge Governor General, s e rebelli time to 1d or the anti-imperialist senti- be ov t L exce nited States, and that he must have it wou the second and Kentucky streets, open untll 9 o'clock. AMUSEMENTS. ting stations. A call on the States for voluntee to be filled by the National Guard organizations 1d be pron y answered and any quota demanded 1d be met. It is given out from the office of the 1 that there are various reasons for or volunteers. It is said that regulars State organizations enlist too much every volunteer regiment there man; the operations of vol- are pref popular is sure to be a newsp unteers, death and. disease among them are fully AUCTION SALES. "QI""H("L b Lo DT | On the other hand no personal interest is felt in the onday, July 10, at 11 o'clock— | regulars. The of the immunes is cited. Ten regiments of these blacks were recruited as regulars h war, any number of them might dge & Co.—Tuesday, July 11, at 12 o'clock , at Market street. Horan—H , at Tenth and Bryant streets. ‘durimz the Span have been killed, worhd | would have cared; but whenever anything went wrong | with the voluntee: Governors and even State Legislatures came to the front to demand ident and Secretary of War the righting of ng. To rid itseli of this popular Department prefers a class of sol- S0, d or diseased, and no one Congressmen, of the Pre atever TRADE CURRENTS APPARENTLY SHIFTING. was wr interest the W. In other words, an army 10t excite it. enary as can be found is required to carry out an imperial policy. With such an arn would have been no complaint beei. Cont fi diers who do r 1 cont A some es above the average all ove: nearly the leading € report are ab the h in Ty 1 son. 5 ctors could have sold unfit the different lines come in it : 1 c = ! o : COMS 1 el h ood at the hig price for the best. The regulars aren hat th yusmess ot ed States ior the 1 N = paxe tt s ; i LT could fied of eating it and the taxpayers could st six mo )i the year was phenomenal. There = St . i e ek Dy : have footed the bill and everything would have gone are 1ndi of some decrease in the iron trade, ¢ e & G 4 S s as smoothly as the most advanced student of addition, numerous orders mentioned so ireely of | .. | Pl 2 division and silence could desire. late have turned out to be the same orders sent in to n attempt to be filled. Thu travels, multiplies into a dozen other reason given for this method of providing troops is it will not be necessary for the people to know how many are enlisted. As it happens that ing eight hundred thousand dollars be found expe- rre frankness. It may be ny act of the Executive h requires concealment no right in it. few days, and gives an erroneous impression the iron and steel in- , just the same. r cannot be charged the people a day for th to tr re it m pine war, m with atic that die 2 set dowr S Nave | pyepartment of a republic whi irom t that Muitiplication of the sar g Prices for the better gr: a liv demand i} de: to the wool trade. again been nced under from the people with have helped cottor he distributive trade of | e of the THE EDUCATIONAL CONVENTION. OS ANGELES will this week have the honor of enter: ng what will perhaps prove to be the L most important conve: Even the work which it accomplishes be small in imme- ally 1i are reported unu. large, in- 11 business. Prelim ntinued g ct, being the heaviest thus 3 too, show unprecedented tot 1t nary reports on of the year. ain, that th ssembly will none the less be a iiate results, the notable one, for the mere meeting of so large a num- r the first half of the year, while ces has been and enormou the ge it having been few export trade of 1808, the only falling off being in the European mand for our food product In fact, the course of our export trade shows some shifting. Our ex- 1 and women engaged in so potent an oc- % : cupation as that of instructing the youth of the nation _ All sigrs point to an | .14 chaping the education of the children of. 70,000,- ort of the ense volume | o, of people cannot be regarded as other than an ber of m upward, t ere {epreciations, event of great moment. In his work on conditions in this country M. de 2 e b Tocqueville said: “It cannot be doubted that in the parts during the fiscal year just closed exhibit a de- United States the instruction of the people power- 000.(:(‘;{!‘0 Eng]“"d'ém’,"e than $20,000,- | fully contributes to the support of a democratic re- and $6,000,000 to Spain and Belgium, | o jpjic: and such must always be the case, T believ this decrease being almost wholly in food products. | (e instruction which awakens the understanding The advance in cattle in the United States has had | ;¢ ;o0 ceparated from moral education which amends ('m?fiderz«h. to dn» with this falling off. Against this |} poore uma\-fi‘ra.h}: showing, however, there has been 3| That sentiment, written carly in r:?,.::r'a;:cr;i’:;fi n::fle“;‘:::‘:_: (::r?::pr:]':iui: | shareq by the '(‘Ir\sfi:‘( nh:crvgrs m'_our. inftimtirms to- = s > % i | day. The welfare of our political institutions depends China alone being 33 per cent larger than last year, crease of § 000 to Franc > | largel \’;M Hey '1":6 ;d :‘" trade with the | pich is given in them. Every educational conven- S S ‘h' 2 """”]' ""?”'; Thus it| 00 ic therefore a matter of public concern, and the “I" £ ;ce" & q‘h"‘ have lost in Europe has| ., eedings are watched with a more general and a “h'“'_ Epee "1 : "7“““ FoourEns ;;’ the countries | o inteiligent interest than is accorded to the meet- above name t would appear from this that bnsxnc»‘ ings of the representatives of any other single indu currents are u ng some changes e There is nothing surprising in this. For yea | remoneds SEoe it Ea For years com-| yyhen the educators have completed their work in mercial ec have been pointing out the grow-{ j .o Angeles they should then be provided with a ing imp of Asiatic and South American Coun- | eane of sceing Central and Northern California be- tries, and have ireely predicted a brilliant trade future | fore they go home. The managers in charge of the fo (hAe United tates in t}1(‘<,e d‘rcxmvn.s. due to our| oniention of agriculturists in this city very wisely superior geographical position. Providence has hap-| ;rranged for the delegates an extensive programme pily placed :“ between Europe and “hc East, so that| .¢ travel throughout the State, so that they will be ;rnm l::.e ;n ant c‘r‘nlz»! we can supply the former and | 10 16 return East with an intelligent idea of what Jom s - ac :‘ A 7:(! "; > l‘_"‘_c )zeosgraphuifil | California is. Something similar should be arranged post "": c“‘ : Eyeaius rnA.]c e ":'"d tates the | 1. the visiting teachers. The number of delegates f.ca:?,cr r):A ;»n t)‘efi\\nrl 1 llms ever ;ch- | to the educational convention is too large for any other wor + 2 | 3 : 4 4 2 ‘d] 1 C" ae unangalguecn d? the | . ciderable excursions to be provided for all of them o mc 2w uohEcy mant; in a body, but separate tours nfight be arranged from that position even now. | that would be thoroughly satisfactory. remain about the same as Our export trade continues lively, heavy as ever, while the exportation of provisions and | S men, but Theodore Roosevelt is making him. general merchandise is continuously large. Prices | self one thing to all men and is finding it profit- for almost every g quoted in the market repnnsi able. He made a speech to the students of Cornell are strong and tending upward, and there is not a| University and lauded culture as the best thing on downward tendency observable in any important linei earth, saying amid the cheers of students and faculty of produce or manufacture. Fruit holds up to its| alike: “Our country could better afford to lose all while we have West In omists e of ter of oted. previously and the abundant THEODORE ROOSEVELT. in harvest promises an even | : T. PAUL made it his aim to be all things to all Shipments of lumber are as | abnormally high level without difficutly, and ship- | the men who have amassed millions than to lose one- | i ments to the East are limited only by the supply of ' half of its college-bred men.” Then straightway he cars. The California fruit growers are making a good | went to New Mexico to meet the Rough Riders, and deal of money this year, and the State will see the 1 in a speech to them said: “I pride myself upon the beneficent results from this fruit millennium later on. | fact that I am an Eastern man by bir{h, but I want From present indications 1890 will be the banner Cali- | to say to you that T am prouder of the fact that T am fornia year for some time to come. | a Western man by cultivation. ' Clearly Mr. Roosevelt is a congenial companion to Two youthful San Francisco lovers who started out | whatever company he is in. Before a university au- to marry and concluded instead to go to the matinee | dience he would rather be a college man than two have wise heads on their young shoulders. Each may | millionaires, and before a mustang audience he would yet make some other happy. rather be a cowboy than an LL.D. If there seem to the century, is | upon our schools and upon the instruction | i | be a contradiction or even a variation in such state- | ments it is a case of seeming that is deceptive. The | genial orator is not a man who has made millions, | but he is one who has graduated from Harvard and! has lived in the West, so his philosophy is consistent | with his record. ! What he has accomplished in the way of remaining | the classic assembly in the academic halls of Cornell | Mexico is slight in comparison to what he did when in his campaign for the Governorship he managed to satisfy the exacting “Goo Goos” of New York poli-| i tics without in any way ceasing to satisiy the machine | and its boss, Senator Platt. An accomplishment of | and and the Khanates. The that kind required no little tact and proved that the|C famous Rough Rider is a strategist as well as a| fighter. There are people who regard Roosevelt's activity | in swinging around the circle from Massachusetts to| Impe- New Mexico as an evidence of a desire to work up a| to the $50,000 for two year boom for himself as a candidate for the Presidency next year. All reports of any such intention on his| part are promptly denied by him, but he recog‘nizesi that denials do not count for much in politics. There the people who furnish the | js 1o instance on record of any man ever admitting | bureau has for the past two 3 that he desired to be a candidate for the Presidency. have a right to the fullest knowledge of all matters,| Roosevelt knows that and therefore he adds to his|ofl and asphalt fields. There have been denial something in the way of confirmation. He goes to Washington, becomes the guest of the President | and from the White House itself reiterates his confi~“ dence that his host will be renominated. | So the versatile Roosevelt manages in every junc-| ture to do the proper thing in the proper w He! has all the elements that are required to make up! popularity, and as Governor of New York he may | | show himself possessed of the qualities demanded of 2 | statesman fitted for the Presidency. His one danger | is that of talking too much and of being too eager to| say pleasant things. A foolish speech has blighted | more men. The administration is raising the men. 1anv a career that was once as promising as his to- | €XIsting appointees are as follows: Its method is by recruiting at the regular army re-| 4o Alameda—Mack Webber, Oakland 4 ador—H. W. H. Penniman, San Andreas ERE it not for the serious issues that are in- THE PLEDGE AND THE PEOPLE. W volved the controversy mow going on over the dollar limit tax levy would constitute one of the most grotesque farces known to American poli- tics. It contains nearly every possible element of humor, and reveals the fickleness, the contradictions | and the absurdities of human nature in a striking light | and in singularly ridiculous situations. ] For years the talking and vociferous element of the | taxpayers of San Francisco has been clamorousl: in-| sistent in demanding the administration of the city upon a tax levy not exceeding $1 on every $100 of the | assessed valuation of property. So frequently was the demand iterated and reiterated that “dollar limit” | became one of the most familiar phrases of the com Reformers shouted it and audiences ap-| plauded it. No municipal campaign was complete without it. If the conventions of the two great parties | neglected to include it in the platform there was| straightway organized an independent movement to push it to the front, and numerous and loud was the band that helped in the pushing. One administration after another failed to comply with the dollar-limit demand. Republicans in office reiused the popular wish and at the next election they were retired to private life. Democrats in office scorned the dollar limit, and they in turn were rele-| gated to obscurity. At each successive act fixing a tax rate higher than that of one dollar on ths hundred voices of strong condemnation were heard in the land. | They came from the people, from the press and even | from the pulpit. Supervisors were denounced as be-| trayers of trust, breakers of pledges, plunderers of the; public, boodlers and robbers—and all because they did | not keep their promise and be true to the dollar limit. | At the last municipal election the old cry was taken up by Mayor Phelan and sounded by him and his sup- | porters with unusual clearness and force. Over and | over again Phelan shouted that slogan until it became | something like the universal cry of San Francisco. When the conventions met each party pledged its candidates to the dollar limit. The pledge was made as explicit as language can be, and as binding as any form of promise that can be made. Because he stood as the conspicuous champion of the dollar limit, Phe- | lan was elected Mayor, although nearly every other | man on his ticket was defeated. Not a single man of either party was elected who was not pledged to that rate of taxation. If there be any such thing as an! expression of the will of the people that expression was given last fall in favor of a rate of taxation not| exceeding $1 on an assessed valuation of $350,000.000. I We have now at last a majority of the Board of‘ Supervisors who purpose to keep the pledge. They have announced an intention to be true to the require- ments of their party platforms, to make their per-| formance in office correspond to their promises of the | The Finance Committee has reported in; munity. campaign. | favor of such a levy and the majority of the board | stands ready to accept it. J‘ Now for the Board of Supervisors there ought to ! be applause and praise. Bands ought to play and | | bonfires burn. The citizens have achieved a great | victory. They have at last in office faithful public| servants. The dollar limit of taxation is assured for | | the ensuing year. The reformers, the taxpayers, the | economical administration advocates, the various as- | | sociations for civic improvement, have all a share in' the triumph, and ought to be loud in rejoicing. | Strange as it may seem, there is no rejoicing. There | | is no applause. Many of those who were most insist- | | ent upon the dollar limit are now denouncing the| | Supervisors for a willingness to grant the demand. | Every department of the municipal government is | clamoring for a larger allowance of money, and in : every case the clamor is supported by a considerable | body of taxpayers and prominent citizens. The Su-| | pervisors, instead of receiving applause for kecping: | faith with the people, are being subjected to a tremen- | dous pressure to force them to be false. Nothing that aristocratic philosophers and wits ever said of the fickleness of public opinion is any too| mocking to describe what is now going on over thisi | issue. The very men who demanded the dollar limit | 1and supported Phelan in shouting for it are now urg-| ;ing the Supervisors to impose a higher rate. The | very men who are now denouncing the Supervisors | ifor upholding their pledge would have denounced: ! them just as loudly if they had of their own wili| lbroken that pledge. | { | There is but one thing for the Supervisors to Jo, ! and that is to hold fast to the pledge by which they | won the suffrages of the people. The best way to rid} municipal campaigns of ill-considered policies is to enforce them. It is time the dolle=-limit policy | should be tested. The people by a unanimous declar- | | ation through the platforms of all parties have de-| manded it, and because some men have shown them- selves fickle, there is no reason to believe the whole | people are so. If the Supervisors keep faith with the | | people they cannot be blamed if the estimates of the | | Mayor turn out to be erroneous and deceptive. 1 The Fourth of July Committee has whitewashed | | Colonel T. P. Robinson. The majority of the mem- | l bers evidently thought he was a “fence.” | i ! cause the last Leglislature set a definite | received and refined amounted | away is shown to contain $2 worth of | cents per tons of hay, but the cost of AMONG THE DIGGERS OF CALIFORNIA'S GOLD Theoretically and practically this secures a| himself and yet making that self equally pleasing to[ With the reopening of the State Print-; ing Office this month the State Mining Bureau will have an opportunity to do support of autocracy. The child of the state has 10 and the free and easy crowd that greeted him in New | some publishing when the State Printer | gets around to it amid the crush of work | that will follow two vears' lack of offi- cla! printing in all departments of the State government. When the office will enable the Mining | Bureau to issue mining information is not | known, but State Mineralogist A. S. ooper will find out this week. The bureau will not be able to do all the printing that has been planned be- limit for each State Institution, allowing the Mining Bureau $i00 worth of work at the State Printing Office in addition support. Th will not make the publication of all the county mining registers and maps po: ble and will limit the output of bulletin The mining registers will be the chief | publications of the’ bureau during the | coming two vears. The energy of the ars been mainly expended on these registers, the field work having been confined to the about twenty of the county registers com- pleted ready for printing, giving tabulat- €d Information regarding all the produc- ing mines, etc., of each county and ac- companied by elaborate maps giving the geography, topography, mines, water powers, etc., on the scale of four miles to an inch. ' But $7000 will allow only a few to be published now, so that these convenient and valuable works will for some time include only portions of the mining rtegions. These registers and maps have been corrected by special dep- uties appointed in the different counties There are now twenty-three of thes county representatives of the bureau un- der appointment for the purpose of sup- plying the bureau with information and not for scientific or other field work. The Butte—H. D. Gage, Cheroke: Calaveras—H. W. H. dreas. San An- tra Costa—Thomas Dorado—Charles Wek Fresno—Geo Kern—W. R. M Los Angeles—W. L. Watts, San Nevada—C. E. Uren, Grass Vall L. Watt n Francisco. n H. Parker, >hn_A. Edman, E. F. McPhall, Obiepo—George S. emurdo, Barbara—J. K. Harrington, Santa Bar- . H. Woife, Santa Cruz. Dittmar, Redding. ra—Frank R. Wehe, Downleville. M. Dayidson, Fort Jones. Lowden, Weaverville. H. Barton. Sonora. The State Mineralogist will issue no bi- ennial report, as had been the custom of the bureau before Mr. Cooper's appoint- ment. but as many special bulletins as the | funds will allow will be issued. One will | be a report on the ofl fields of Los An- geles and parts of Orange and Ventura counties, by W. L. Watts, who has been working in that field for about two years and who is now in San Francisco com- piling his report. Mr. Cooper will himself prepare a bul- letin on the general oil and asphalt re- Sources of the State. James H. Means, ong t to who is about to make a se the Coalinga and other oil fields of the| San Joaquin Valley. will prepare a brief | Teport thereon, to be accompanied by a| map of the Oil City field. A delayed re- port on the geology of the Randsburg re- gion, which was studied by Mr. nearly two years ago, will also be A bulletin on chlorination and a special report on the interesting use of oil as fuel in the furnaces of the Selby Smelting Works, where oil has recently been suc- srully substituted for coke, are also in contemplation. Governor Gage has not yet appointed the field deputies required by the last Legislature, and nothing definite can now be said as to the field work to be done in the mining region During the present week the prospects of the mining exhibit at the Paris Expo- sition will take shape. Victor Haikes, who has charge of the mining depart- ment of the United States display. will | be here and will settle the amount of 2 to be given California and the na- sp ture and extent of the exhibit. Charles| G. Yale, who has been appointed by the | California commissioners to take charge of the State’s mining exhibit here and in | Paris, is permanently in the mint service, but will probably serve if he secures a Jeave of absence from the Treasury De- partment. The Union Tron Works is con- Sidering the proposition of building a complete miniature stamp mill to be | shown In operation. Probably three-fourths of the gold | produced, California_has vears | gone to Selby’s, who refine it it fn the Mint. It has been ti 10 P the same price and make the same | Trges as at the Mint. On gold 700 and ne the charges have been 6 cent ounce. supplemented by an allo charge of 1 cent per $100 worth of gold. by a charge of 1 cent per ounce where there is 10 per cent of base metal in the bullion, and by a_deposit charge of $1 per §1000 or less. When Selbys de- Posited’ refined gold they were charged bnly for the alloy. as the gold .was ac- cepted as ready for minting. for which no charge is imposed. The profit of the re- finer thus came from the charges as fixed ch ov an by the Government. "Now the Mimt authorities have, as has been told in the press, reduced th main charge from 6 cents to 4 cen making the charge the same at all the mints and assay offices. It was stated by a representative of the Mint Bureau that the reduction would divert fcld deposits from the private refineries direct to the Mint. But now Selbys have reduced their charge 2 cents, and will continue to make the same charges as the Government. They thus expect to retain the business at lessened profit and to continue refin- ing the bulk of the gold produced on the Pacific Coast. Last vear the amount so to over $20,000.000. The benefit to the miners by the reductidn is not much, but it will count to the large producers at 2 cents per ounce. & Another scheme to recover gold from sea water has been launched. Tt is in London and is probably a chimerical ewindle. An electrical engineer is repart- ed to have inventeC an apparatus which Wil recover the gold from the concentra- tions of ship condensers at sea. There fs encugh on the surface of the idea to make it alluring, but at 2 cents worth of gold per ton of sea water a ship would have to condense a good deal of sea water to concentrate enough gold to pay for oiling the apparatus. This recalls that the most rational scheme in this line has been evolved by an assayer at the San Fran- cisco Mint. He proposes to start with the bittern of the salt works around San Francisco Bay. at which immense quan- tities of salt water are yearly evaporated. The bittern, or residue, which is thrown gold or more per ton, and he wants cap- ital to rig up an electrical apparatus to utilize it The Man on the Automobile is coming. He may even do something for the miners. That depends on _how successful he i3 in getting up hill. He is said to be a prophet §f good roads, The bicyclist surely was, but he made better roads down where it is easier riding. If the automobile gets to rmishing around the highways where the miners’ supply trains jolt and reel and strain it will be a force for good roads. If any region needs good roads it is a busy mining region. The cost of bad roads to the farmer has been figured to twenty miles of bad roads per ton of ore has never been figured out. The nearly defunct Anti-Debris Associa- tion has again been forcibly heard from through its manager and attorney, Rob- ert T. Devlin. who has brought suit in the Supcrior Court of Nevada County to enjoin the well-known Red Dog hydraulic mine at You Bet, Nevada Coun This mine is operating on a permit from the California Debris Association and its dam was in: g:cled and approved a short time ago by Major Heuer. The action is thus an attack on the Caminetti law and on the exclusive jurisdiction of the Federal engineers. A similar suit against the Kate Hayes mine was recently filed. Some San Francisco newspaper men are mining platinum and irldium—that is, they are successfully saving considerable amounts of these rare metals along with the gold product of their placer mines on the Trinity River. The company is the Adele Mlnlmmpln}', and the property is the old berlain gravel mine near | educational conference at Los Angeles ar- Paulsen’s ranch, where two giants have been operating profitably during the sea- son. Professor G. E. Bailey is manager of the property. The big electric power plant of the Utica mine s being rapidly pushed toward completion. Last week the bed for the machinery was hauled from Milton. It i one great casting. weighing 22,500 pound A compressed air plant is being sup- plied to the Red Point mine in Placer County. i The season’s clean-up at the Hupp & McMurray hydraulic mine on the Trinity was $17.00. Five grants are being operated at the La Grange. A thirty-ton roasting plant to aid in working the base gold ores of the Mu town distriet, County. planned by W . owner of t Bon Ton mine. He s to do cus- tom work, besides handling the Bon Ton ore. The highest assessment in any t of § property in the State is tt on property of the Mountain Co Comp Shasta County. It is an creas over the assessment of last year. | The Thorpe mine closed on Thursday. It has been reported that the mill would be the only department closed. and the sinking oper ons would be carried on. but a statement made by one who is in| a_position to know says the shut-down will be complete.—Mountain Echa. In the vicinity of lowa Hill are several operation, says the Placer Leader. Thée Morning Star and ! the Big Dipper employing the majority of ‘About ten men are employed at the men. Jupiter mine, above lIowa Hill, and we feel safe in sayving that this plece of property will prove to be a bonanza to the stockholders, for every one, inter- ested and disinterest a eal very couragingly of it. ne they will strike . which they hope will prove 2 arrastra by men of sm to develop their are being profitably run 1l capital, who are tnus| properties themselves According to the Scott Valley Advance, | the clean-up for the previous month's run of two arrastras ¢ luded at the Lanky Bob mine on Whites Gulch last Thursday gave $2000 worth of the vellow metal from | thirty-eight tons of rock crushed, or an| average of $52 In the mine both the | upper_and lower tunnels are being ex- | tended. running on the ledge. i John R. Scupham. mining engineer and expert, located in the Crocker building, San Francisco, an intimate friend of Dr. | Schloesser, representing millions of Eng- lish. Wall street, New York and other capital, has recently written to Dr.| Schloesser, says the Lassan Mail, that the Great Northern Banking sociation of Minneapolis, one of the wealthiest bank- ing institutions of Minnesota, is desirous | of investing in some of the doctor's prop- erties at Havden Hill. A great deal of mining, mostly develop- | ment work, is going on this se; n in the | New River country in Trinity County. | Considerable activity in Trinity County placer properties is reported. Three suc- cessive dry seasons were badly felt by the placer mine owners of that district and the results of the good water suppl of the presnt vear are therefore ail the more noticeable. Sheriff Thomas Bergin of Trinity County has just sold his Bergin | placer mine to San Francisco parties. The purchase price was $35.000. The sale was made last week, the news reaching here | Saturday evening. The property consists of 640 acres, 2 es of which are known | to conta vel.—Redding Free Press. | AROUND THE CORRIDORS| J. D. Carr of Salinas Is at the Occl- dental. T. C. White, a banker of Fresno, is at| the Lick. . S. Hoffman, a merchant of Carme- | is at the Grand. C. H. Schiveley, the Oroville banker, is a guest at the Grand. J. W. Neville, a merchant of Salt Lake City, is at the Palace. Meyers, a tobacconist of I e ; Fresno, is at the Lick. Senator E. C. Voorheis of Sutter Creek | | is stopping at the Palace. Ex-Adjutant R. L. Peeler mento is at the California. W. C. Swayne. an architect of Marys- ville, is stopping at the Grand. | F. C. and C. Smith, beef packers of | Portland, are guests at the Grand. | Mrs. H. Spencer and son. H. L. Riggs, | returned from Dawson yesterday and are | registered at the Lick. b Dr. P. J. H. Farrel. accompanied by his wife and children, arrived in this city | esterday morning and are at the Palace. A number of educators en route to the of Sacra- rived yesterday The following are stop- ping at the Russ: John R. Park, State Superintendent of Schools of Salt Lake Ct R. E. White of Great 1ls, Mont.; Steth and Frank and Willard Beli of alt Lake City. NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. ‘ In the French navy orders will shortly | be issued to build four torpedo-cruisers | of the Faucon type, three of which were | built in 18%-87. They are: The Condor, of | 1243 tons; Eperofer, 1258 tons, and Faucon, 1239 tons, and are all of the same general dimensions, namely. 216.5 feet length, 20.25 feet beam and 15.42 feet draught. Their speed ranges from 17.7 to 17.1 knots, with horsepower from 3860 to 3200. These new boats and four submarine hoats are to be built at Rochefort. The British cruiser Hermione, on the China station, collided with a Chinese fishing junk on March 7 on the coast of Kwantung. sinking the junk and drown- ing the wife and three children of the skipper. The Chinaman sued for damages and the case was tried In the Hongkong Supreme Court. The acting chief justice, W. M. Goodman, rendered his decision on May 15, finding that the Hermione was entirely at fauit and awarded $150 dam- ages to the unfortunate Chinese fisher- man for the loss of wife and three chil- dren. As the woman was 25 years of age, the #upposed value of her services up to say 60 years were thus rated at $3.91 per annum. The claim of damages for loss of vessel has not vet been settled. An_interesting comparison of the Brit- ish, French and Russian navies in regard to battleships and cruisers appeared in a recent number of the Nineteenth Century. All the ships are reduced to a common standard, five points being awarded to modern large battleships, three to middle- aged and small modern battleships, two | to completely rearmed and reconstructed | battleships and to modern armored cruis- | ers. To large protected cruisers like the Powerful are assigned 113 and the ordi- | nary protected cruiser one. 1On this basts | the summary is as follo | uisers| Total, | 54| France . T Russi: From these figures English fleet is about double that of France in strength | and somewhat superior to the combined | fleets of France and Russie, gkl The British crutser Pyramus of 2135 tons | —one of elght vessels of that class just completed—made her four hours full pow- er trial trip on May 31. developing 1.7 knots under 7303 horse power, with 220.3 revolutions and a steam pressure in the bollers of 261 pounds. The tendency of all the naval powers to keep up the speed of | vessels of all Kinds and. in fact, to im- | prove upon previously bullt ships, attracts attention to the six cruisers of the Den- ver class which have been designed for | the United States navy. In these designs | there has been an apparent retrogression | in speed, for the Cincinnati and Raleigh. | of 3200 tons, were rated at 19 knots, Where-i as the Denver class, on 3100 tons trial dis- | placement, are to make only 16% knots. To offset this loss of speed the normal coal carried is 470 tons in the new ships, | in beautiful new designs at Sanborn | against 350 tons in the Cincinnati. | of a somewhat similar type in the British i " are the Spartan cl of which | fere are ten, all built in 159, and long before the ships had the advantage now obtained by the use of water-tube boilers. The comparative data of the Spartan and Denver class are rather interesting at this present stage of navy building in the two countries: 5 Spartan. Length, feet.. Breadth, feet. Draught, feet. Displacament, Horse-power Speed, knots. Coal, tons. Guns fon the Spartan car- cement of k] n seagoing condit! ries 600 tons of coal on a displas 3500 tons. The Denver class will carry tons of coal and displace about 3500 tons, in which condition her speed will fall be- low that of the trial of 161 knots. A difference of nearly four knots in order to obtain a comparatively small Increase in coal carrying capacity would seem to be considerable of a sacrifice in the speed, and there is really no gain apparent in he introduction of the water-tube bofler, the weight of which is much less than the type cylindrical boilers. An interesting target practice at sea took place recently in the Mediterranean. A floating target four feet in length and two feet six inches wide, made in oval shape and showing less than one foot | above water, was towed by the British battleship Camperdown at the rate of eight knots an hour. This target was fired at by the six-inch guns of the battleship Royal Oak at a distance of 1200 yards and running in an opposite direction at speed of eight knots. The first broad- side demolished the target, and the Navy and Army Hlustrated concludes from this | incident that “the navy still keeps up the hooting which has characterized it since the days of the Virgin Queen,” but the conclusion ot others less loyal to the British navy must be that it was simply a chance shot of the five broadsiders that hit a target of such an insignificant size. CHAMBERS, KAUTZ & CO. The latest intelligence gzeceived from Apia makes it very clear that the “'settla- ment” of the Samoan question is not com- pleted. The business will not be finished until Chief Justice Chambers is recalled and reprimanded for malfeasance in oftice, to designate his official conduct in .tha mildest manner possible. -Nor can it be considered at an end before Admiral Kautz is disciplined for the shameful part which he played in the wretched drama enacted prior to the advent of the com- mission sent by the three Governments to adjust matters. There is every reason high standard of to believe that the ons of unofficial statement of the decis the commission will be materially changed in the official report of their work. Enough is known of the actual situation with which the members of the board had to deal to justify the beltef that nothing | short of Chambers’ dismissal and the for- mal investigation of the acts of our naval representative will satisfy the sense of decency of those who in the last analysis are officially responsible for these men. In advance of the attempts of interested correspondents to_clear the sKirts of Chambers and 1tz, the methods of both were honestly portraved and scath- ingly reprobated by witnesses of their acts, not deterred by sentimental notwne of Anglo-American rubbish from speak- ing the truth. Our own correspondent on the ground, who is in a_position to speak with authorit declared ago that the American were being led around by the nose” by British disturbers of the peace. This fact has since been positively verified by other manly American observers of events in The correspondent of The all ent by the last steamer from Apia a lengthy account of the labors of the com- missioners and a forecast of the probabie recommendations that will be included in the majority report of that body. It ap- pears that the English commissioner’s at- tempt to dominate matters as had been done by the British Consul and naval authorities previous to his arrival, ran against a snag _in the opposition of his American and German colleagues. Com- missioner Eliot_was in favor of sustain- ing Chambers, Kautz and Sturdee in face of the most damaging evidence against them. but the other commissioners, ac- cording to The Call's informant, would not listen to a proposal that violated every requirement of justice and truth. It is confidently predicted that both Cham_ bers and Kautz will be properly grilled ‘n the official findings of the commission. The American Consul, Luther W. Osborn, directed his efforts toward a peaceful so- lution of the difficulties precipitated by the infamous conduct of the Chief Jus- tice and his British allies, but the London Mmissionary influence, which it seems was praamount with the Anglo-American com- bine, thwarted all attempts to reach a set- tlement based upon equitable treatment of Mataafa and the majority of the island- in | ers, whom they saw fit to antagonize. The whole controversy was provoked by the bigotry and insolence of alien func- tionaries, who sought to run things to suit themselves on the- assumption that the natives had no rights which powerful usurpers were hound to respect, or even recognize.—The Monitor. Tt e e STURDEE'S EXPLANATION. “We had to have some fun to keep alive in this beastly, God-forsaken country,” is the explanation which the gallant Captain Sturdee of H. M. S. Porpoise vouchsates for the shelling of villages of Samoa in- habited by inoffensive old men, women and children. Kautz's exploits in the same line were inspired evidentily by tha example of the British captain and as a guarantee of good faith in the formation of an Anglo-American alliance for the ex- termination of the natives.—Monitor. Given away with each cash want adver- tisement ordered in next Sunday’s Call, & magnificent portrait of Admiral Dewey, printed in ten colors, size 14x21 inches, ready for framing. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. INGERSOLI—J. W. }: City. The ad- of Robert G. Ingersoll is New York COINS—F. E. B, Cll;‘? Half dollars of 1818 and of 1876 do not command pre- miums. COPY OF A WILL—Germania, City. You should write to the United States Censul at the point in Germany nearest to the place in which the will was filed and he will secure a copy thereof, vou, of course, agreeing to pay the expense in- curred in making a transcript of the same. As your communication does not state in what Jlal’t of Germany the will was filed the department of Answers to Correspondents cannot direct you to wllxtlch Consul you should address your- self. Cal.glace fruit 50c per Ibat Townsend's.® Al oo Special information supplied dally to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Burcau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. * ————— Tlemish oak with ivory ornaments, Ja- panese grey. old Dutch, Persian green, bone black, gold leaf, gold bronze and English oak mouldings for picture frames Vail's, 741 Market street. ‘& —————— There are nearly 1000 warehouses and retail shops in Manila for the sale of the areca nut, the fruit of a certain species of palm. “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup” | Has een used for fifty years by millons of mothers for their children while Teething wita perfect cuccess. 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