The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 17, 1899, Page 5

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"AUCTION SALES. { day, July 17, Furniture, at 1230 | ‘hursday, July 20, Horses, at 310 Golden July 21, at 11 o'clock, thorough- | ENGLAND AND AMERICAN GOLD. AD it not been for the sudden increase in the Bank of Eng: nd rate of discoupt from to 3% d 4% per cent for short advances the per cent 2 week would have sed without a ripple on the smooth c sea, which, as far as this was concerned, was a Vv expanse of | otonous prosperity. But the action of the “Old I'hreadneedle Street” arrested the attention | wciers, for, like a two-edged sword, almost any direction and lead to | As the financial situation in Eng- and produces more or less effect on trade condi- this and other countries, it is not amiss to ses nerican fina it is liable to cut n results. unfores it country stands. - advance in the rate of discount was caused by ack of gold. Last year at this time the bank’s re- stood £25,000,000, ar $1,250,000,000 in At that time England was calling serve rerican money | in money from Germary and paying America for her | wheat, cotton and other produce largely in.securities. | r the tables are turned: England now has | ces in Germany, and as she returned the | major part of our securities Jast spring this mode of | payment is no longer open to any marked extent. Add to this heavy reductions of the reserves of the New York banks of from £9,000,000 to £1,000,000, the impending call of the Japanese for their gold loan, the continued outflow of cash into the South, .the French competition for gold in the London market, prospect of heavy payments to the United States grain and cotton as soon as the crops begin to ve, and the inability of the bank to obtain gold | ad except to meet interior requirements, and it | will be that the “old lady” will have to do | something to induce the American banks to keeg gold on her side of the ocean, or else pay the Ameri cans for their produce in that gold which she finds | Hernte the advance in the | But ti no ba o short at the moment. rate of discount, which, it is hoped, will keep the gold in. England. The oultépk at present is that | there will be*few gold exports from the United | States to England in the near future, though, vof‘ course, some unforeseen condition may arise to change the present complication. The gist of all this is that at the moment we are England’s creditor. We are going to ship her large quantities of farm produce which she must have, and for which she must pay in some form or other. She | ot do this by selling us back our stocks, for she most of them back some time ago. £rgo, it is a As a gross proposition this is im- mensely in our favor, but the net proposition shows a different aspect, and that is, owing to the intricate intimacy of the two countries in commerce and finance, what affects one is bound to affect the other. In other words, while we might profit temporarily by a commercial mishap to England, it would re- | ist us later on. As this condition is fully | recoguized on both sides of the water, it forces New ser case of gold coin bound aga York to adapt her financial condition to those of | London as far as is consistent with our own pros- | perity. The cord that ites these commerical | Siamese twins must be kept intact. But we have an astute set of financiers in New York, and they will | probably manage tlie: thing somehow so “that the | United States will be able to pay a dividend or two out of the transaction. They generally do. At any rate, this country is the arbiter at the moment, © The condition is but another proof of the im- | mense prominence of the United States in the com- merce of the world. We are becoming: a large creditor nation, and must be considered in all inter- national affairs. It is this fact which has caused the advance in the rate of discount of the Bank of Eng- Jand. | Another interesting fact in trade last week was the | increase in bank clearings 8f 60.0 per cent over the same week last year. Of eighty-two cities and towns reporting clearings only four—Milwaukee, Spring- field, Mass., Buffalo and Chattanooga—reported 2 decrease. This shows a general wave of présperity’ throughout the country. Neither mud nor hill has been able to stop the Cali-Herald automobile. L& lfrom Dewey the impression that he came to give | one object there, to drive out the Spaniards and re- | or not. | be expected to recover in that climate. | warrant the rosy reports sent home. | the island of Luzon and their observations were offi- | pine republic and the Presidency of Aguinaldo. | take up arms and defend their newly won liberty and A stretch of thickly settled country has now been tray- LET US KNOW THE TRUTH. X-SENATOR EDMUNDS in his article on the Philippine situation says that secrecy is un- becoming in the officers oi a republic and that suppression of the truth and misrepresentation of facts are still less tolerable. Speaking for our most honorable history and traditions and for the people who desire to preserve them both untarnished, ‘e says, “Let us know the truth.” We have already protested against a censorship of the news and a violation of the mails which keep the truth away from the people, who are paying | $800,000 a day and giving the lives of their sons in 2 war that Congress never declared but which is prov- | ing the second of all our wars in cost. An officer in the Oregon Regiment, who like many others waits for muster out to give the authority of his name to his statements, says: “The Filipinos got them their freedom. Next came General Anderson, who treated Aguinaldo as the head of a republican government and gave the impression that he had but Then came Merritt, who treated Aguinaldo as a brigand. Then came Otis, who gave the Filipinos every latitude. In Manila were 1500 trained Filipino soldiers, who begged to be allowed to join our army, ; but Otis drove them to the enemy. Otis is a great office man. When it comes to saving 10 cents he is a great general. He devotes most of his time to | tire. iE finding out whether some clerk is entitled to rations It will take a hundred thousand men to con- | The sick and wounded can never | Facts do not | These islands | quer Aguinaldo. will cost a great many millions and ten thousand lives. The hospital facilities should be increased at | | once.” | There could hardly be drawn a stronger picture of | a disgraceful situation. After the treaty of Singapore, made by Consul Pratt and ratified at Hongkong by — | Dewey and Wildman, there is no doubt but the Fili- | pinos were treated as a national entity and given to | understand that they were our allies. The conduct of Dewey and Anderson confirms this view. In October, 1898, Paymaster Wilcox and Cadet Sargent, on behalf of Admiral Dewey, made a tour of ; | cially reported. They found the people friendly and | | very happy in their independence, oblivious to things | in the outside world, but alive to the expulsion cf the | paniards from Maniia, the declaration of the Philip- The report is full of praise of the intelligence and kindness of the people. At the town of Aparri the news had | | come by steamer from Hongkong that our repre- | sentatives at Paris favored the independence of the | i with an American protectorate. Colonel | ands | Tivona thereupon surrendered his military command | to a civil officer. The latter made a speech in which | he thanked the disciplined troops and their colonel | for services to the province and republic, and assured | them that their services would be perpetuated and | that every man, woman and child stood ready to resist to the last drop of blood the attempt of any | nation whatever to reduce them again to dependence. | He then placed his hand on an open Bible and took the oath of office. If all these things had been known to our people, and if the facts of the undeclared war which is still on had been frankly given out, an im- | | perial sentiment would never have crystallized. | There is every evidence that the sentiment of the | volunteers has been mendaciously misrepresented. | One of the privates in the Oregon regiment says: “You see, we didn’t volunteer to fight these Filipinos. We went out to fight the Spaniards, and when the panish war was over we thought our trip was up nd we had a right to come home. The other volun- teers-down there are of the same mind. I don’t think a single volunteer company in the Philippines would stay an hour if they could get home, and most of the regulars feel about the same way.” Let the people have the truth. Tt will be more to the credit of the administration to tell it now than to continue censorship and violation of the mails and let the returning volunteers shock the country into a political reaction. Anything being done officially by | an administration that is kept from the people is something it has no right to do. ! THE COMING AUTOMOBILE. BAD start makes a good ending,” says the proverb, and if there be truth in it The Call- ! Herald automobile will come into California with colors flying, make a record run across the | State and arrive at The Call office in triumphant | demonstration that long-distance journeying over American roads by the new vehicle is feasible. Proverbs are not to be relied upon in all cases. | There is always, however, some foundation for them | in the common experience of men, for otherwise | they would never find sufficient acceptance to be- | come proverbs. The bad start of the automobile, for example, will have a tendency to bring about a good ending by the very fact that it puts the mechan- ism to a severe test, reveals its weak places and | shows exactly where alteration and strengthening are | needed. With every breakdown a way is providedi for improving the machine, and by the time it crosses | the Missouri the automobile ought to be in good. shape to make the rest of the journey without a seri- | ous derangement of any part of its machinery. The record of Saturday’s run shows the various difficulties which the machine has to contend aga.insti in making a long journey and taking the roads ’155 they come. Considerable speed had been made along a good road and everything was seemingly all right, when a portion of the road that appeared solid and strong gave way and ran the machine into a ditch, | very nearly upsetting it. The jar of the shock ! snapped a brass casting that controls the valve on the 1ear cylinder. The break was repaired with solder and a new start was made, but as soon as speed was | developed friction melted the solder and a new dclayi occurred. Il L In the journey of the day some of the roads were | good and some were execrable. There were long hills | to climb and all kinds of roadbed to be traversed. i Despite the obstacles, however, and the accidents, a single one of which caused a delay of three hours, the | record of the day showed a run of fifty-seven milei‘! upon a consumption of five gallons of gasoline. So | far as speed and the extent of mileage covered are | concerned the record is not one to boast of, but it shows that the machine can climb hills and make headway over all kinds of American country roads. With the weak parts of the machine strengthened, | and with a freer motion in all its parts resulting from their use, there are ample reasons for expecting the record of the journey to improve as the automobile | comes West. One feature of the run is worth noting. A long ersed and yet hardly any runaways have been caused | by the appearance of thé machine along the roads. : In the run from Poughkeepsie to Hudson on Satur- day not a single accident of any kind was reported. It appears then that the danger of frightening horses by ;is a lie that stalks forth boldly in the garb of a lie. | United States for the purpose of aiding the Filipinos | | the bull. the machine is not so great as was feared. Of course there will be many accidents caused in that way when the machine comes into general use, for some horses will shy at anything that is unusual, but there will be nothing like the wholesale stampede of panic-stricken horses along the highways that some people fear. B CHANGES IN RURAL ENGLAND. VER since the repeal of the corn laws and the adoption of a policy of free trade the rural dis- tricts of England have been declining in rela- tive value to the urban districts. The changes were slow at first, but with the increasing facilities for the importation of farm products from abroad they fol- lewed one another more rapidly, until now the situa- tion is so different from that which prevailed in for- mer times as to amount to something like a revolu- tion in the social structure of the kingdom. The landlords were formerly an aristocracy of wealth and power. Their large landéd estates rented to tenant farmers brought them in vast revenues and enabled them to maintain, in addition to their man- sions in London, those stately country seats sur- rounded by spacious parks which have been the ad- miration of every traveler, and have made English country life something like an ideal earthly existence. As the competition of American farmers increased the incomes from British farms diminished, the de- mand for them fell off, and the revenues of the land- lords decreased. A considerable number of the great estates have been broken up and sold. In other cases the owners of castles have had to close them, be- cause of a lack of money to maintain them. So ex- tensive have been the losses of the lords in this way that a recent writer on the subject estimates that about three out of every four members of the nobility, whose wealth consists chiefly of agricultural land, are in such financial straits they can hardly maintain their town houses, much less keep up their big establish- ments in the country. It is stated that the number of agricultural labor-{ ers in the rural districts of England has decreased as much as 12 per cent during the last twenty years, although the population of England and Wales as a whole during that time has increased by more than 6,000,000. the population is less at present than it was during the middle ages. The inhabitants of rural England are moving in a mass to the cities or are emigrating, by reason of a lack of profitable employment on theI farms. Such is one of the results of free trade. A great industry, the most essential to a nation’s welfare, has been virtually destroyed by a policy designed to aid the manufacturers, and now the United States and Germany are beating manufacturers in their own markets. Cobdenism, in fact, seems about as dis- astrous to Great Britain as could be any policy de- vised for the express purpose of wasting her wealth, breaking down her industry and destroying her em- pire. A Washington.” to be the defeat of imperialism and a maintenance of the rights of the Filipinos, and it is added that while the plan of the movement is a revolt of colored voters from the Republican party at the ballot box, “there are those among its supporters who would willingly take part in an armed uprising, and who, were it | possible, would offer their strength to aid the Fili- pinos in their struggle for independence.” A report of that kind is about as senseless a lie as the jingoes have yet concocted in their efforts to‘ | A SENSELESS REPORT. REPORT from Boston announces that there is being organized in that city an “uprising oi discredit the conservatives who are upholding American republicanism against the jingo craze for adopting an imitation of British imperialism. That a | number of colored men in Boston have organized for | the purpose of opposing imperialism may be, and very likely is, true. That they may aim to organiz:‘r allied associations among colored men throughout | the country may also be true. But that any con-| siderable number of representative colored men are organizing to fight the administration or to aid the Filipinos by an armed uprising is altogether credible. It has not even an appearance of truth. in- It Considerable efforts have been made to misrepre- sent the attitude of the administration toward the Philippines. Jingoes have scught to make the Presi- dent appear as one of themselves. Bryanites seeking to array the masses against the administration have | denounced him as if he were a jingo. Thus when the colored men organize to protest against jingoism they are at once described as instigators of revolt against the President and are accused of a willingness to break out into open and armed insurrection. ‘What comes next? The jingoes are resourceful iars, but can they ever excell what they have now ac- complished in that direction? The picture of plotting negroes organizing for an armed uprising in the is really about as senseless a thing as could be con- ceived even by the imagination of a lunatic. e It would appear from the cablegrams that Sir Thomas Lipton, yachtsman, is a very good fellow with the money that Sir Thomas Lipton, grocer, steals from the public. At any rate, fourteen tons of jam he had put up for sale were condemned a few days ago because the stuff was unfit to eat. _— An ambitious captain of the National Guard of New York has promised to recruit England’s military forces with America’s sons. The “elder cousin” bun- combe seems to have reached the bombastic stage. There ought to be a niche somewhere in the Philip- pines for the New York captain. A new wonder has been added to the American museum of colonial freaks. Uncle Sam has the Sul- tan of the Sulu Islands under salary, which is another way of saying that the United States is paying his Majesty to behave himself. “The discovery of a long-lost deed for a roadway to the Almshouse through the Sutro tract will prabably lead to the opening of a new avenue to that institu- tion. As if one road to the poorhouse wasn’t enough. Agricuitural Commissioner Pryal reports conditions in Alameda County that seem to foreshadow the de- struction of this year's corn crop. Chiropodists will prepare to go out of business. In a grand fiesta de toros at Roubaix, France, it is proposed to match a lion against a bull. To be thor- oughly up to date, they should substitute a boar for foail Selubi, So great are the crowds at present in London that American chorus girls are unable to find hotels in which to lay (hefy heads. Send them home, the pretty dears. eiintpde Koot A dispatch from Salt Lake announces that “Cannon is charged with polygamy.” The use of this sort of ammunition is certainly in violation of the articles of In a considerable number of rural villages | the colored race against the administration at | The object of the organization is said | to systematcally The steady increase in ofl production in Southern California, the rapid increase of the men and money the industry is en- gaging and the big San Joaquin Valley oil boom will make of especial interest | the report on a large oll-producing re- gion in Southern California which is b ing prepared for publication by Field As- sistant W. L. Watts of the State Mining Bureau. iy The report, which will be published as a bulletin, will embrace the results of two years' labor by Mr. Watts in Los Angeles and purts of San Diego, Ventura and Orange counties. It will describe the geological formations yielding oil, their relation to other rocks and the structural conditions unaer which oll is found and will glve statistical information as to the production of the different fields and wells during 1847 and 1898. The report will not touch on Santa Barbara County. Regarding the condition of the indus- try down there Mr. Watts said in a gen- eral talk: “There is much more pros- pecting and development going on than ever before and the industry will con- tinue to steadily grow. In the Los An- peles fleld thers are two strata of ofl- earing sand. The wells reaching only To the first stratum are about played out, while the deeper ones are still producing. The development of the eastern exten- sion of the field in 1898 made up for the falling off in the old ground. There is much_ prospecting in the Puente Hills, | where four or more new companies have | geveloped _ paying - wells. Puente, Santa Fe, Central, Home, Rex and Co- lumbia companies are operating there. | The Santa Railroad Company pro- duced about 60,000 barrels frcm its wells seven miles from Fullerston last year, and it is producing at a greater rate | now. All its ofl is used for fuel in fts engines. As is well known by far the greater part of the oil produced is con- sumed as fuel in its crude state, though the production of lubricating oils and the | many by-products at the refinerles is quite extensive. " A very small amount of flluminating oil is made by refining and th controlled by the ‘Standard Oil Company, which probably mixes it with | its Eastern oils, “New flelds will be developed in the fu- | ture all along the coast range. The | places already discovered at w ich the | geological structure is such as to allow the accumulation of oil in valuable quan- | titles undoubtedly have their counterparts elsewhere at points yet unknown, and as an immensely greater number of people are taking an Interest in ol it is becom- ! ing a leading feature of the mining in- terests of the State. The rise in the price of iron has not seriously retarded devel- opment and will not do so. People kick at the increased cost of wells, but if & man wants to put down a well he will do so when he gets through kicking. The chief value of the patlent geological work that Mr. Watts and a few others are doing lies in the fact thaf it serves as a guide to Intelligent -prospecting and de- velopment in new places. A large number of wells are always being put down by “practical” oil men, who take charge of operations for some company such as those being formed so numerously in the San Joaquin Valiey, with little regard to the study of the geological conditions, and with much scorn of *‘geological experts.” But a geolo al expert in oil-bearing formations can often tell a driller that a paying yield is impossible where he pro- poses to drill near an oil spring, and that there are chances of success at points far away where there are no signs of oll. Not long ago a well nearly 2000 feet deep | was sunk in a near by county close to oil indications, vas on the wrong side ined oil-bearing formation, and r it went the further from ofl- t. Regarding the importance of c information in prospecting for Watts sal n California the structural conditions affecting the lines along which paying wells can be obtained are much more complex than in the Eastern oil fields. Hence it requires more geological knowl- edge to direct prospecting and the open- ing of new flelds. Those who contemplate investing in oil propositions should ac- quaint themselves with the facts con- cerning the occurrence of petroleum, so that they may be able to form some esti- mate of the risks'they are taking. Propo- sitions vary greatly in evident risk. There is a lack of general knowledge as to what constitutes a bona fide oil proposition, but people are paying more attention now to geological features and to technical meth- ods. 1 don’t believe {n luck. If a man is going to put down a prospect well the more he knows about the geological condi- tions the s the chances he takes. The man who works out the geological facts ]-erlalnn\f to territory to be prospected is not infallible, but he can say that on account of such-and-such geological con- ditlons there is or is not a reasonable probability of obtaining oil in payving quantities within such-and-such lmits. Nature's secrets may be guessed at, and the guess may be right; but the only re- ltable method s to patiently work out the roblem. The only way to get a definite nowledge of the facts pertaining to the occurrence of petroleum in California is investigate the terri- tories in which there has been the most development. These facts can then be ap- plied intelligently to territorles yet unde-~ veloped.” Mr. Watts in_his long study of the Southern fields has several times pointed out probabilities of success in untouched flelds. Omne case was that of the eastern extension of the Los Angeles field recently developed successfully after his opinion had been given. He pointed out the prob- ability of productive wells under the ocean off the shore at Summerland, where long wharves bear many oll der- ricks pumping oil from under the ocean. But the man with the divining rod still flourishes and is busy all over the State telling with his forked stick just where to drill to get so many barrels of oil a day. Mr. Watts runs across him fre- quently in Southern California, where he always claims the discovery of a new fleld and he is helping capital to operate in the San Joaquin Valley. Other wells are driven near oil indications according to the advice of an experienced ‘“practical” man, who sizes up the ground with con- sclous wisdom. is drill may strike an oil supply and will if the oll is there and the drill goes deep enough, but expert scientific opiniorfs are as needful in oil enterprises as in any part of the minin field and should be sought when sever: thousand dollars is to be gambled on a hole in the ground. Mr, Watt's report will be the third by him on the ofl and gas yielding formations of California. This, with an extensive work on the genesis of California petro- leum by State Mineralogist Cooper, and the scientific work being done in the San Joaquin by Deputy J. H. Means, will af- ford this ?'es,r extensive additions to the scientific [iterature of oll and asphalt in this State. There is a probability that the Califor- nia Miners’ Association will interest itself in the injunction suits against the Kate Hayes and Red Dog hydraulic mines brought by the Anti-Debris Association through its manager and attorney, Robert T. Devlin. These suits are based on the contention that the dams which have been built at these mines to restrain the debris of the hydraulic operations, which have been licensed by the Federal engineers composing the California Debrls Commis- slon and by them regularly inspected and approved, are not bullt so as to efficiently and permanently restrain the tallings, and so the streams below are being dam- aged and threatened. The Caminettl law placed the: control of hydraulic min- ing operations in the watersheds of the navigable streams of this State wholly within the power and discretion of these Federal engineers, whose judgment alone regulates the material and construction of these private dams. They are sup- posed to be competent judges of what an efliclent dam is, but their competency in this respect is now attacked. The constitutionality of the Caminetti law reposing flnal authority in the Fed- eral engineers is involved. It is asserted that an appeal may be taken to the courts, which may overrule the engineers. The law is assailed in its most vital part. It is because the very existence of the law is threatened that there is a strong sentiment among leading members of the assoclation in favor of taking up the fight, Things are being rushed at the Melones mine, in Calaveras County, where the big- gest and finest stamp mill in California— 125 stamps—is being erected by the new company under the direction of Manager W. C. Ralston and Superintendent T. B. Deleray. Extensive bulldings and costly tunnel and other development operations Geneva. are in preparation,and in less than a year the biezest mill and the most notzhlnylow [N THE QIL, GOLD ANDCOPPER FIELDS grade quartz mine in the State will be in operation. About $600,000 is being invested in this iong idle property, chiefly by East- ern capitalists, whose co-operation was se. cured not long!ago by Mr. Ralston. This is a typical example of what the rational investment of capital in large minihg en- terprises means to the prosperity of the State. One result of this particular inflow of capital has been a boom for the little town of Robinsons Ferry. This is what one new mine Is doing for one new town, acording to the Mountain Echo, published at Angels Camp: “We visited the thriving and rapidly rowing town of Robinsons Ferry last riday, and were agreeably surprised to | note the wonderful changes for good that | have been wrought there within the past year. Over forty new buildings outside of | the mining ~ company’s structures have been erected, and there are now fully ten new buildings in course of con- struction. Several very fine cottages have | tion arrived from the were among yesterday’s arrivals at the Occidental. Walter S. Martin has come up from San Mateo and is registered at the Palace, C. B. Jack, one of the leading mer- chants of Salt Lake City, arrived at the Lick yesterday. J. E. O'B. Wilson of London, a young Englishman traveling for pleasure, is at the Occidental. At the Grand yesterday a large delega- school teachers’ It came from Los Angeles. convention. NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. The Japanese battleship building at Vickers, at Barrows, has been named Mi- kasa, and the armored cruiser building at Elswick the Iwaka. The naval policy of Japan, according to the London Engineer, is crystallized un- der five heads: Firstly, battleships very powerful; second, ships very swift and suitable for most purposes; third, second. class cruisers for commerce duti fourth, third-class cruisers for scouting, etc.; fifth, destroyers. been built and also several large business houses. Tents dot the here and there, most of the occupants walting for material with which to con struct houses. Business seems to be thriving in -all branches, and there x»\re! fully 400 laboring men in the place, many at work and many walting for orders to begin work,” The benefits flowing from the develop- ment of the old Melones mine are not col fined to Roblpsons Ferry. The money in- vested and the constant stream of it to go forth in expenses of operation through the vears will reach in some degree thou- sands of people and many interests, and the successful working of such a great body of low-grade ore will be a powerful stimulus to other similar mining enter- prises in the State in the future. The Bully Hill group of four copper ciaims near Copper City, In Shasta Coun- ty, have not yet been sold to Millionaire Delamar for $350,000, as reported a day or two ago. The owner, James M. Sallee of San Francisco, returned here on Satur- day with Captain Delamar’s representa- tive, Mr. Hartwig, but the deal has not been closed, though it llkel{ is the most important minin ing in the State just now and If effected will be one of the most important of re- cent years. It would mean copper mining operations and the erection of a smelter on something like the scale of the Moun- tain Copper Company at Iron Mountain and Keswick, and it would mean the de- velopment of a large and rich copper belt and further enterprises. A year ago the property, on which considerable develop- ment work has been done, was bonded for $275,000 to L. A. Scowden and others, who failed to float the proposition in the East and in London before the bomd expired on Julg 1. Mr. Sallee raised his price §75,000, but Captain Delamar is figuring on the proposition while Redding hopes and prays. The projected Southern California Min- ers’ Association, to be a rival to the re- cently organized Southern California branch of the California Miners' Associa- tion, was organized in Los Angeles other evening, chiefly by Los Angeles mining-machinery and other business men interested in the mining industry. The following officers were elected: C. B. Boothe, president; C. A. Burcham, nrst ident; C. S. McKelvey, second dent; Major G. S. Nolan, secre- ; H. O. Collins, treasurer. Executive committee—George W. Parsons, A. Rich- ardson, Gall Borden, H. H. Botsford. The four gentlemen elected on the executive committee, together with the president and two vice presidents, constitute the ex- ecutive committee of seven. There is a strong movement among leading mining and business men of Red dnig and of Shasta County generally in favor of organizing a county miners’ as- sociation, to be afiiliated with the Califor- nia_Miners' Association. The Umatilla drift mine, in El Dorado County, is reducing its cemented gravel in a revolving, perforated hexagonal cylin- der at the rate of 2% tons per twenty- four hours, The Hidden Treasure mine has declared a dividend of 10 cents a share on 6,000 shares. William_Belderrian, better known as sPoker Bill: and his son, “Young Po- e, quartz lead on the north bank of the Mo- | kelumne River, nearly opposite the Lone | Star mine, says the Amador Ledger. The | three Cranmer brothers, who recently | came here from Cripple Creek, Col., and | who have bonded the Sherfield mine and | its 1500-foot extension, will have a half- | interest in this mine. | There has been encountered in the Gwin mine a ledge at the lowest depth of | the shaft which gives promise of putting | that mine in_the list of high-grade gold | producers. The ledge where encountered hills and slopes | wiil be. This | g deal pend- | the | have discovered an unusually rich | ejghteen-inch torpedo | A dock basin is being built at Ham- urg which will cost $5,150,000. This, with he floating dock recently completed, glves the German navy practically an addition- al fitting out and repair station. The float- | ing dock is 558 feet in length, 84 feet wide | and will take in a vessel drawing 29 feet. In the event of war this dock can be towed to Cuxhaven, at the mouth of the | Elbe, and war vessels can then be docked | and overhauled there, instead of going to either Wilhelmshafen or Kiel for that purpose. The Foudre, torpedo transport ship in the French navy, built in 18%, is being converted into a seagoing training ship, not having proved a success for the pur- pose originally intended. The vessel was built to follow the British plan of having | a torpedo depot ship for the storage and repairs of torpedoes to accompany a fleet and distribute these missiles as required. | Her speed, however, fell short, and on account of her narrow beam the ship did not have the steadiness necessary for a vessel of that class. Her prototype in the British navy, the Vulcan, of 6620 tons, built in 1889 at a cost of $1,852,2%, has a speed of 20 knots, whereas the Foudre, of only 6090 tons, cost $2,038,560, and steams about 19 knots. * The Bulwark, battleship of 15,000 tons, building at Devonport dockyard, was be- gun March 20 last, and up to June 20 3100 | tons of material had been worked Into the hull. This beats the best record of ship- buflding in any Britishydockyard, and Devonport holds the credit for fast and economical work. As an offset to this | phenomenally quick work, the case of the | Gladiator, a cruiser of 5800 tons, bullt at | the Portsmouth dockyard, 1s to be noted. | This ship was laid down In January, 1896, | and was not completed for passing into | the first reserve until June 20 last, thus taking about three years and six months | in its construction, or nearly twice as long | as the building of the battleship Majestic, | of 14,900 tons, also built at the Portsmouth dockyard in 136i. The Japanese torpedo boat destroyer | Akebone, built by Yarrow, appears to ba | the fastest of the six boats built by that | firm, and is reported to have made thirty- | one knots. The vessel is 220 feet in lensth, | 201 feet beam and 380 tons displacement. | The hull Is of galvanized steel with a small proportion of nickel, and has a ten- sile strength of forty tons to the square inch. This material is very expensive and | has been used in only this instance. The | Akebone's twin screw engines are triple | expansion, with four cylinders to each of 20%5, 31% and two of 34 inches diameter, | and a stroke of 18 inches. Steam Is gen- | erated in four ‘straight tube” Yarrow boilers carrying 230 pounds. Each boiler weighs elghteen tons with its water, and | will give 1600 horse power, or 6400 collect- | tvely. The vessel will stow 100 tons of [ coal, and the armament, besides two tubes, consists of one twelve-pounder and five six-pounder rapid firing guns. Her complement is fifty-six officers and crew. Mr. Lanesan, who succeeds Mr. Lockroy as Minister of Marine in France, was born in 1843 and was a surgeon in the na until 1870, when he resigned and followed his profession in private life. He eventu- ally drifted into politics and has been elected a Deputy several times. Mr. | Lockroy served in the last Cabinet less | than one year, but had been Minister of Marine for a brief period in 1895-%. The | frequent changes in the French Ministry | of late vears have been greatly detri- mental to the navy. Mr. Lanesan is the sixth change in the head of the naval ad- ministration since 18%, the successive Ministers being: March, 150, Admiral Barbey succeeded by Admiral Lefevre in December, 1883, until October, 183, when Mr. Lockroy came in and remained until May, 1596, when Admiral Besnard took office and was again supplanted by Mr. Lockroy In October, 1898, who held the | office about eight months. Each one of | these Ministers has had his hobby, | one believing entirely in large armored ships, another in cruisers and armored | vessels of moderate size, and lastly Mr. | Lockroy, who pinned his faith on sub- | marine boats. Various and radical reform- is two feet Thick an assa}'s $30 per ton.— Amador Ledger. . 0. DENNY. AROUND THE CORRIDORS E. B. Valentine, an insurance man of Fresno, is at the Lick. Bank Commissioner John Markley of Geyserville is at the Lick. Dr. and Mrs. C. G. Campbell of New York are registered at the Palace. Dr. Edward G. Parker, U. 8. N,, is at the Occidental. He arrived yesterday. H. W. Sawyer, a prominent resident of Olympia, Wash., is staying at the Grand. 46—+ The attendants “of the Receliving HAKDCUFES Hospital had atory measures were introduced by each thelr curlosity | Minister regarding the personnel and the AND excited yesterday | education of officers and no time was alternoon by the | Elven to prove the value or defects of such STRAIT-JACKETS t | measures before a new Minister took of- mysterious ac- | fice. As a natural result the navy has So———— ¢ tions of astrange | always been in an unsettled condition and young man who for over an hour paced to and fro in front of the hospital windows. Every now and | then he would stop and scan the windows | in an anxious manner, and again resume his nervous pitter-pat on the concrete | driveway. He was finally seen to brace himself up as if for some supreme effort, and with rapid strides walk toward the entrance to the insane ward. He rang tue | bell, which was answered by an attend- | ant. “I am going to make a somewhat peculiar request,” he sald; “but I want you to do me the favor I ask and I will explain my reasons later.” “Come inside and tell me what you want,” sald the attendant. The stranger walked in, and when the door had been closed he turned to his host. “I want to see the best strait-jacket you have in the place.” The jacket was produced and carefully examined by the visitor. “Now, Mr. Attendant, I am going to ask you to place this jacket on me. Put it on and lace it up as you would if I were a violently insane patient. Lace it tight and knot your strings in the most secure manner vou know of.” The attendant, who was not busy and Just in the mood for some diversion to re- lieve the monotony of wailing for some- body to go crazy, complied with his visit- or's request, and in a few minutes the voluntary inmate of the insane ward was securely bound in the appliance which is only used in very extreme cases. “That’s good,” sald the visitor, survey- ing himself. “Now may I trouble you to show me to & room where I can be alone for a few minutes.” . The attendant thought he had a good subject for confinement, but kept his thoughts to himself and showed his mys- terious visitor to a cell. He then closed the door, which he left unlocked. About ten minutes later a violent knocking was heard. The attendant rushed to the cell wh:{re he had left his visitor. “You might open the door o5 the indtvidual, il The attendant opened the door and, to his consternation, there stood the mys- terious young man with the strait- Jacket carefully folded over his arm. “It was a hard one, but I did it. I promised to explain why I put you to a.. this trouble. I want to thank vou for your courtesy, and would like to know your name. Mine's ‘Harry’ | Houdini, They call me king of handcuffs, but I :hlnk l{ can put it all over strait-jackets s well.” its expenditures have been heavy with- out rendering satisfactory results. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. HOMING ’PIGEOI\S;WA R., San Rafael, The secretary of the California Pigeon and Homln% Society i{s H. G. Himmel~ right of 1208 Powhattan avenue, San Fran- cisco. PAWNBROKERS' CHARGES — Sub- scriber, City. 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