The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 7, 1899, Page 4

FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY A " 1899, MONDAY AUGUST 7, 1809 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. | T T | Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. “ PUBLICATION OFFICE ..Market and Third Sts., S. F I | { Telephone Maln 1568, EDITORIAL ROOMS.. 27 to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 187T4. DELIVERED BY CARRIERS, 15 CENTS PER WEEK. Stngle C B cents. Terms by Mall, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), DAILY CALL ( DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), 3 months DAILY GALL—-By Single Month CALL One Year. Bample coples will be forwarded when requested. OAKLAND OFFICE ... - .......508 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS, Menager Forcign Advertising, Marquette Building, Chicago. PONDENT 1« Herald 8quaro NEW YORK C €. C. CARLTON. NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: PERRY LUKENS JR... .29 Tribune Bullding ORRES! CHICAGO NEWS STANDS. Bherman House; P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel; Fremont House; Auditorium Hote! NEW YORK NEWS STANDS. ‘Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, 31 Union Square; Murray Hill Hotel. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE ...Weliington Hotel J. L. ENGLISH. Correspondent. H BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. 200 Hayes street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 639 McAllister street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Misslon street, open until 10 o'clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh | street, open until 9 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty- second and Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock AMUSEMENTS. | efit, Thursday afternoon, Lady of Lyoi | —Vaudeville every afternoon ecialties. N SALES. AUCTIO at 2:30 o'clock, Turl | iny, v, August 10, at 12 o'clock, | a SWEET COMMERCIAL SCNG. SONG too often sung loses its charm, but there | isa a suggestion of gold coin ir ditty now b + the country which keep it fresh a To the merchant, farmer, thr to the min merc ner there is a certain that bu professional man and wage-ea charm in ling week aiter w in the United States is better than ever before, and | ness the reac that the tide of prosperify that set in soon aiter the I rinistration came into power shows ent Republican | I conditions indicate a continuec ess of any thing eve k clearings over last year, gs shows a free produ merchandise, while the orders for iron and steel, boots and , lumber and metals, shc yolen and cottor 5] the midsummer records of the best previous exceed year in the history of the country. | Advices the West and Northwest report a | large and trade which in some sections The ances being fre- sever ity of the jobbing houses. i prices is upward, ad general trer n factured goods and the raw product. in mw to rise, and the lumber market is Wool continu firm as ever, with a general and sharp demand fo building purposes. The failures for the week were nst 189 for the same week last year, and the | ain of 34.6 per cent, New O ans and Omaha being the only important es to 1d that insignificant. No complaints v quarter of this vast country, and there | 126, aga 1k clearings show a le record a los are heard is no weakness apparent except in wheat and its de- pendent cereals, due wholly to the fine crop prospects. | the commercial song now being sung Dollars set to music make a Such is throughout the land. rating lay. condition continues as solid as Gibral- | 1k of England, by its recent advance ini the rate of discount, virtually admits that the flow of | gold is into, and not out of, the United States, and | this is emphasized by the shipment of $1,000,000 from | Sydney to San Francisco, and the gradual hardening of exchange to the gold importing point. There is an accumulating pile of bills against shipments of Ameri- can produce to Europe, which the latter is being called upon to pay us in some form or other. In the face of this fine showing the net purchases of American stocks by London in Wall street amount to 40,000 shares. These conditions show the United States to be in an exceptionally strong financial position. The local situation remains unchanged. Great activity is reported in provisions, lumber, farming implements and the large and varied list of staples regularly exported from San Francisco to all parts of he world. The fruit season is so profitable that coun- try merchants report the voluntary payment of old | accounts previously given up as uncollectable, which | gives the said country merchant a most €njoyable | sensation, a sort of champagne pleasure i doing busi- | Ships cc | sweet and exhi O ur financ The Ba tar. ness ntinue scarce, owing to the heavy ex- port trade, and a number of important articles of pro- | duce and manufacture have lately advanced in price. | As for money. there is plenty of it for solvent borrow- | at moderate rates of interest. Not for years has Francisco enjoyed such a lively summer trade | as that of this year, and the fall demand bids fair to be proportionately heavy. This is a debt-paying year. < San { According to the veracious Boston Globe an open- air Junch given by Vice President Hobart to General Alger included hard and’ soft shell clams, Spanish; mackerel, cucumbers, lobster, chicken, green corn, sweet potatoes, corn bread, salads, celery, waffles, watermelon and muskmelon. That may be a normal New Jersey layout, but if Alger tackled it all we can understand how he managed to put up with that em- | palmed beef without kicking. | A great many of the clergy and some of the laity have been concerning themselves lately as to the whereabouts of the deity in the Philippine war. They have expressed no whit of anxiety anent the devil, being well assured that he is still in the fiting line. | B ‘submitted and apportion the revenues fairly a .| until a pra | tion. | manded. their trust. | honest men. STAND BY THE DOLLAR LIMIT. TAND by the dollar limit. That is the final counsel and exhortation which the people ad- dress to the Supervisors who are expected at their meeting to-day to fix the estimates and the tax levy for the ensuing year. The path of duty is, there- fore, plain. The Supervisors have but to keep their pledges and all will be well. Doubtless a good deal of pressure will be brought to bear upon the Republican majority of the board to induce them to break the pledge. Many persons who clamored for the dollar limit when it was a campaign will be among those who now seck to have a | higher tax levy and a larger revenue than can be ob- tained within that limit. The advice and the urgings of such persons should be set aside. They would have been among the first to denounce the Supervisors for breaking the pledge had it been broken. The Republicans of the board must stand firm. They must not permit Democratic demagogues to make cheap politics out of an issue of this kind. The board is under Republican control, the dollar limit is a Re- publican pledge, it has been recommended by Repub- licans and is indorsed and supported by Republicans. Democrats in office may break their pledges to the people, but the Republican party has a record for fidelity and insists that its representatives in office | shall keep the record clean and unstained. The dollar limit policy must be tested. The taxpay- | ers have desired it for years and they have a right to demand of the Supervisors that it be given a fair trial. It is of course the duty of the Supervisors to go carefully over the various estimates that have been ord- ing to the relative needs of the various departments of the city and county government. The moment that has been done the estimates should be adopted fixed. There should be no dilatory and the tax le temporizing or for compromising with the advocates of a higher levy. The whole question has been gone over time and It is as well understood now as it can ever be tical test has been made. The voters, the the property owners of the city look to the again. taxpayers | Republican Supervisors to put the test into opera- There is no way by which the issue can be hon- orably avoided or evaded. The dollar fimit is de- Republicans must fulfill their pledges and prove their fidelity to the people who trusted them with power and office. The Call, which supported the Republican Supervisors in the last campaign, has con- fidence they will keep their pledges, and be faithful to TO SAVE SAN FRANCISCO. ITH the coming of to-morrow the contest at the primaries will begin, and it is hardly too much to say that with the close of that con- W test it will be virtually known whether San Francisco : to have an honest, business-like administration to cceed the present one, or whether the government of the city under the new charter is to be put into | cperation by bosses for the benefit of taxeaters and boedlers It is not worth while to make any extended review of the comparative iniquities of the two factions ggling for supremacy in the Democratic camp. ixaminer has with much reiteration told the < The people a good deal about Buckley, and Buckley has told a good deal about the Examiner. For years the rivals of to-day were partners and members of the same gang. While these rival bosses with their gangs are left to fight out their battle by themselves, the taxpayers, the property owners, the Letter citizens will turn to the Republican primaries to consider what is going on there. That there are disreputable bosses seeking to obtain control of the Republican conven- tion is not to be denied. It has been noted, how- ever, that at every step taken in arranging for the party primaries those bosses have been baffled and beaten. As the matter stands now the men who repre- sent true Republicanism and have an intelligent re- gard for the welfare of the city have a chance to elect honest delegates to the convention and thus make certain the nomination of a clean and strong and win- ning ticket for the campaign. Honest men cannot be elected without the votes of The ward bosses and the spoilsmen are not going to work for men who would repudiate them n the convention. They will send there, if they can, serviceable creatures of their own, and will require them to nominate a ticket equally subservient. There will then be but little choice between rival candidates cer! n | in the campaign, and it will be too late for good citi- zens to redeem the municipality. The issue is not to be set aside, and he is but a fool who thinks he can shirk his political duty with impunity. The Examiner of yesterday set forth the of boss domination. It said of Buckley that s in power “he dealt in the corruption He evils when he w of public officers as other men deal in groceries. sold franchises over scores of miles of the city streets. He sold judgments from the bench. He sold acquit- tals to criminals who could afford to pay. He fixed the membership of Grand Juries and decided who | should and who should not be indicted. He had men sent to State’s prison, and when this would not serve he has had men assassinated.” The boss who did all that was the partner, the aider, the counselor of the Examiner while doing it, and the Examiner was his partner. Can any decent citizen confront the possibility of having either a Buckley or an Examiner-Rainey administration in power. one or the other may win if the Republicans put up a weak or a bad ticket. The issue then is plain. Good citizens must attend the Republican primaries to-mor- | row and vote for honorable men as delegates to the convention. That is the only way to save San Fran- cisco arid her taxpayers from the abominations of boss rule. S — By rising at 3 o’clock in the morning and making | a hurried journey of sixty miles, the Governor of Georgia succeeded in saving a negro from a gang of lynchers. It was a commendable act, and yet it is by no means creditable to Georgia that her Chicf Executive has to lose his sleep in work of that kind. THE REPUBLICANS OF IOWA. S there have been many evidences of lafe. that f\ certain time-serving Republicans are seeking to postpone a settlement of the money prob- lems of the country until after the next election, it is gratifving to note that the convention representing the Republicans of ITowa has not only declared an un- shaken allegiance to the sound-money policy of the | party, but has urged the importance of embodying | that policy in law. The plank referring to the subject in the platform is sufficiently strong to be worth quoting. It says: “We readopt the following declaration from the Iowa Republican platform of 1808: 4 “‘The monetary standard of this country and the | commercial world is gold. The permanence of this no delay, no postponements for the sake of | Yet | 1 7 standard must be assured by Congressional legisla- | tion, giving to it the validity and vitality of public law. All other mioney must be kept at a parity with | | gold.” | ‘ “And we urgently call upon our Senators and Rep- | resentatives in Congress to lend their best endeavors | | to enact these propositions into law.” Declarations such as these coming from a body representing the sterling Republicanism of Towa will go far toward offsetting the weak counsels of men | who, while claiming to be supporters of sound money, | are vet insisting that nothing should be done at this’| time to put our monetary system upon a sound Basis. | The Republicans of Iowa declare against a timid and | | compromising course. They are for setthng the cons | | troversy at once. They have solicited the suffrages of the people on certain propositions and, having been successful, they now demand that their Representa- | tives in Congress shall use every effort to enact those propositions into law. . i In the position they have taken, the Republicans of Towa do not stand alone. The intelligence of the na- tion is with them. All the great business interests of the country are on their side. ‘Merchants, manu- | facturers, bankers, farmers—all classes of men who | have a fair knowledge of the financial problems of the | tepublic join them in the demand for legislation. Qur monetary system has been too long the football of political struggles. It is time to take it out of fidlitics | and establish it upon a basis that will make industry;‘ secure and commerce safe. | | Towa is so solidly Republican that but little interest + | will be taken by outsiders in the contest that is to | come. The State issues involved concern only’the | people of the State. The one point of national inter- est is this manly declaration in favor of a straightfor- | ward policy on the part of Congress in dealing with | the money question. It is a declaration that comes | at the right time and is expressed in the right words. ) It gives cheer to those who have been battling for currency reform and carries confusion to the time servers and the compromisers. | D ———— T H THE McNAUGHTON CASE. ; HEN, according to an old story, certain jury- W men are asked to explain why, despite the | strong evidence against him, they had ac- | quitted a prisoner charged with hog stealing, they re- plied frankly, “We had some of the pork.” The story is an illustration of the truth that acquittals are easy | where juries are biased in favor of the accused. | Although that fact is well known we find many peo- ple sufficiently credulous to accept the acquittal of a person by even the most.partial jury as a conclusive proof of his innocence. The Marysville Democrat | exhibits that sort of credulity in its comments on the results of the investigation of the charges brought against McNaughton, the newly elected principal of | the State Normal School of San Jose. McNaughton, a man wholly unknown to California, was chosen principal of the Normal School by Trus- tees appointed by Governor Gage for political pur- poses. When charges were made against McNaugh- ton, based upon evidence obtained in localities where he was known, the Trustees who elected him acted as a jury to try him. He may be innocent, but innocent or guilty his acquittal by such a jury was politically necessary and a matter of course. Yet upon that record our Marysville contemporary says: “Some time ago the San Francisco Call contained an attack upon Governor Gage, in which the Execu- tive was held responsible for the appointment of a bad man named McNaughton as presidert of the San Jose Normal School. It declared that a large major- ity of the appointments made by the Governor are bad, and that McNaughton is the worst of the whole job lot. We suggested at the time The Call may have been misinformed and that the man certainly is enti- tled to a trial before conviction. A press telegram sent from San Jose yesterday announced that after a thorough investigation of all the charges the Not- | mal School Trustees had unanimously decided that | Professor McNaughton is not guilty of wrongdoing.” | In that statement there are some inaccuracies. The | Call has, indeed, said a majority of Gage’s appoint- | ments are bad; but it has been far, far from saying that “McNaughton is the worst of the whole job lot.” | Gage has appointed some good men, but in his going | up and down the State picking up stray sheep for his mutton he has picked up many a blacker one thas | McNaughton even should all the charges made against | that person be true. The Call has never pronounced judgment upon the | McNaughton case. We published his record as it was | made known to us by reports from places where he lived. The point made by The Call was and is that Gage in seeking to turn the State Normal School into a part of the spoils of politics appointed as Trus- | tees of the institution men who, | in subservience to | bosses and for political reasons, set aside the claims | of all the eminent and honorable educators of Cali- fornia and elected to the principalship a man who was then wholly unknown to the State, but who is now known to have been living for years under the cloud of serious charges made by responsible men in a formal and official way; charges which he evaded | by leaving the place where they were made. | | We repeat that the disgrace thus brought upon the | Normal School is a part of Gage's work just as much | as is the disgrace brought upon the Board of Health 1 in this city; and he must be held responsible for the; one as for the othe Fast being driven out of trade by the oncoming au- tomobile, it was thought that the poor horse might still have continued as a pet of society. As far as that hope is concerned in these parts it is blasted. | Prince Poniatowski drove four mules to a swell drag the other day at B’lingum and they made such a hit with the local Four Hundred that it is believed the hybrid will become the proper thing to the utter ex- clusion of the equine. in proportion to his means to the fund required for the reception of the California Volunteers. Let your money talk liberally now and you can shout better when the boys come home. i It is the patriotic duty of every citizen to contribute | | The welfare of San Francisco depends upon the suc- cess of a clean ticket at the Republican primaries to- | morrow. Make up your mind to-day that you will | go to the polling booths and vote right. | — | Attorney General Tirey L. Ford, judging from his | apathy in the Wells-Fargo war revenue stamp case, | is endeavoring to live up to the feeling suggested by his baptismal name. i ety | Contribute now to the volunteers’ reception fund, 'and when the boys come home you will have a right |to cheer. % With the opening up of the first brewery at Dawson | an increased output of Klondike bubbles may be ex- | | pected. | We have had just about earthquakes enough of late !to keep real estate moving during the dull season. l General Alger has answered his accusers. He says | it was the other fellow. | of the e: INTERESTIL NG PHASES OF THE BIG OIL BOOM . The ofl boom spreads and intensifies | to control sufficient territory, that they San Francisco men and San Fran- daily. | cisco capital are going into large opera- tions in the Fresno County oil fields near Coalinga and southward, and San Joaquin Valley companies still multiply to operate all through the oil region which stretches south to Tehachapi along the foothills tern slope of the Coast Range and in districts in the Kern County foot- hills of ‘the Sierra Nevadas. 'A number of prominent San ‘Francisco capitalists and business meh: are interested in big com- panies newly formed to explpit properties bought or bonded. The biggest scheme formed in the city is the proposed Oil Ex- change, of which Wendell Easton is the head, and,which is designed to practi- cally control the State's output of oil. in- cluding Southern California as well as the Coolinga field. It may be said that the new oil situa- tion has ‘two main general features. One is 'the’legitimate development of the un- doubtedly great ‘oil resources of the State orth of Tehachapi, and the other is the natural and undoubtedly great aggrega- tion of wildcat operations and downright swindling schémes that are and will con- tine to be floated for the benefit of un- Ecrupulous promoters and theé catching of suckers who.are not well posted on the ways and wrinkles of the oil business. The, Coalinga field has quickly become the ‘banner producing distriet of the State. It is the first producing field of any im- portance developed north of Southern California, and it~ is - the first actual démonstration’ that there are great com- mercial possibilities in the oil vielding formations that continuously attend the Coast Range throughout the length of the | State. After thirty-five years of fruitles prospecting from Tehachapi to. Del Norte a rich field has at last been developed, and it warrants the long-standing faith of experts that -such fields would be discov- ered in time in this stretch of folded, un- altered sandstones and shales. The Coalinga oll appears to be the best fuel oil yet found in the State. It is di ferent from any of the Southern Califor- nia oils in being lighter, less of the vola- tile elements having escaped. To the-ex- tent of the supply it has driven the Southern California oil out of the San Francisco market, and the producers ob- tain a higher price. Large San Francisco consumers pay about $1 30 per barrel, and the producers are said to net over $1 a barrel at the wells, while Los Angeles producers get 85 cents. The entire present production is from the small area at Oil City controlled by Messrs. Canfieid & Chanslor and their associates, who are securing extensive addltional areas to prospect. With the exception of the Kreyenhagen field, about twenty miles south of Oil City, where a small yield has already been secured, all other operations are yet but prospecing ones and Carry possibilities mere But there is every reason to expect the development of other producing fields of importance. A great amount of good money will be sunk in success here and largely to the Ith of the lucky prospecting, and a there will probably add ofl supply and to the weal ones. But the fakes are legion. Few could be ea: v pointed out, but it is well known that scores of stock companies are being floated on the basis of any conveniently distant patch of desert and on the tide of the popular oil craze. This basis does well enough in one way, as the bought a purely at all to draw divi but to sell at an ad- mainly spirit, not future sales of oil, vance. - Other companies are successfully formed to operate in good faith and the operators are simply and foolishly going 1t biind. The land secured is ithin a few miles territory of a producing or a promising and there is likely an oil seepage on the land, as there is in thousands of places where ten barrels of ofl could not be se- cured. But wells will he put down where an expert could tell that there was no chance of suc Many San Francisco people, as well thousands of people elsewhere two cla: are venturing monev in_these s of operations. The wrecks ations will strew the . while here and there may be attained. a notable succes: The Fresno Republican has awakened amid the fever to call a halt in the reck- less oil speculation. With all confidence in the value and future of Fresno County’s ofl fields, it says: “But gambling in ofl stocks different thing, and it is | gambling rather than with oil develop- ment that the present boom, outside of Fresno, is chiefly c rned. Wild- cat companies are being formed by men of no responsibility and no resourc beyond a -doubtful title to a stretch of doubtful land which they have no means nor intention of developing. The stock of these companies is being put on the market, not as an investment, but as a gambling risk. People buy it, not to keep it, but to sell it again at inflated prices, each holder hoping to pass it on to an- other, until the last man is left to “‘hold the bag’ and the whole thing collaps Such manias of speculation do not help | but only hinder legitimate development. and in the long run they bring an odium which nothing can counteract.” Amid the present “wildcatting” in new oil territory a portion of a pap the current Mining and Scientific Pre W. L. Watts is of especial interest. Mr. Whatts has spent years in special studies of the California oil regions for the State Mining Bureau. Regarding “The Busi ness Risks of the Oil Prospector” he say: ““The business risk of prospecting for ofl varies greatly. Oil prospecting proposi- tions may be divided into two orders: “First, the ‘orthodox’ proposition. In this case the prospectors have in view.a definite ofl-ylelding stratum, which has proved _remunerative in adjacent terri- tory, and from which stratum they expect to obtain their oil. Moreover, they have S al evidence 'in sight to sumption that the oil ce in view forms an oil territory they are about the r in warrant stratum they ha line through the to_ prospect. = “éecrmd, the ‘wildcat’ propositions. In this instance the prospectors have no definite oil stratum in view which has proved remunerative in adjacent territory, or they have not sufficient geologflca.\ evi- dence in sight to warrant the assumption that an oil-yieldlng stratum, which Is known to be productive in adjacent ter- ritory, forms an oil line through the land they are about to prospect. “In prospect wells of the first order the least risk is taken where the outcrop of an ofl sand, which has J)roved remunera- tive in a certain oil fleld, can be actually traced through the territory to be pros- ected, and the geological structure of the ocality is known. “More_ risk, however, is undertaken where there lsfpo outerop of the oil sand, although the strike and dip of a remuner- ative body of oil sand in an adjacent oil field are known, and the rocks overlying the ofl sand can be traced to the territory about to be prospected. “Most oil-mining enterprises which have for their object the development of new territory, especially when operations are conducted at a distance from any known oil fields, are ‘wildcat’ propositions. Some idea -of the conditions regulating the amount of risk involved in such enter- rises may be gathered from the follow- ng statements 8 ““The least risky wildcat proposition is the case in which the strike and dip of a remunerative stratum of oil sand in an 0il- fleld adjacent to the territory about to be rospected has been ascertained; and al- hough there is no further geological evi- dence in sight it _is found after carefully platting a mflP of the territory that if the stratum of oil direction of its strike, without any mate- rial alteration of the angle of the dip, it would form an oil line across the terri- tory to be prospected. It is a more risky wildcat_proposition to prospect the side of the fold opposite to that on which an oil line has been developed, In cases where Surface indications warrant the assump- tion that the same sequence of formation exists on both sides of the fold and yet no outerop of oil sand has been discovered on the side about to be prospected. It is a stul more risky wildeat propo- sition when a stratum of 0il san.. has been discovered concerning which nothing is known except that the sand gives evi- dence of containing oil and a well is sunk for the first time to determine whether or not the oil sand contains oil in remuner- ative quantities. “It i8 a_much more risky wildcat prop- osition. where no_outcrop of oil sancf has been discovered, but where a well is sunk in @ certain formation because it shows some irregular “e?““ of petroleum, or because the formation appears to be simi- lar_to that containing a remunerative hodfi' 101 o|=‘s‘and in other ]t:laces. ““Tt is well for 0, prospectors to study t! ik e ate ahont o ke Bera e pending money, and care should be taken sand were extended in the’ | is, the m may have sufficient room to develop their oflfleld in case their venture proves suc- ful. No one should undertake the v forms of prosvecting uniess he can well afford to lose the moncy to be put into the enterprise.” This expert, of course, deals here mainly with the second cla~" of operations mentioned above. Ordinary horse sense is all that is needed as a guide when those of the first' class approaech. “The ‘oil situation at- Santa Barbara is interesting. .- The comparatively recent and remarkable development of an exten- sion of the ‘Summerland- field under the ocean with pipes sunk through: the bl:lnfi deep into the oil-yielding strata that pitc at an Incline. out under the sea has prnmgled’emernrlslng ©oll men to pro: the shore in front of some of Santa bara’s most exclusive suburbs. beach between the lines of high an tide are not private property, and on a section of this tide land right in front of Mrs. C. H. Fernald's beautiful home at Miramar Megsrs. French - and = Cody raised an unsightly ‘derrick and planned others. Mrs. Fernald objected and nearly all Santa Barbara objected to the pros- pect of a lot of great unsightly derricks marring the beauty of their famed and gentle beach and troubling "the Arcadian quiet of that dreamy retre: In the night a lot of zens'’ the last inch of rope and iron. 3 vigilance committee operations, is threatened, will follow - further attempts to tap those warm and shelving sands. The oil operators threaten jto buy shot- guns and go right ahead. Al Barbara prefers beauty tooil, and there is more trouble coming. Santa Barbara has _demonstrated that it aesthetic. The Santa Barbara Press champions the beach defenders, and say “It is worth g to Santa Bar- bara and thesuburban resident districts that the sea front shall be held inviolate from the disfigurement The ‘prominent citi- of derric! other unsightly buildir The de ment of oil' near the city is of but small value, and at best it i question whether oil exis ving quantity in any of the atlons that infringe on the anta Barbara is not and made a commercial ¢ 1t s to exist at all, remain as it t delightful residence place on an Continent can not be the Amer rbara issue is importont legal standpoint 2 tween the lines of id low tide is the property of the t low tide to the cean floor is under diction of the United 1 mining laws govern- itions cannot apply to Whether and how they ond the line of low tide want to file a claim on The beach t sive_j States. The Fe ing mine; these tide might should someboc the wave: But ‘he St r in any way pro- vided for mine fons or_for the | mining use of its tide lands. At Summer- | land and elsewhere a form of locating on | them has been gone through with by oil operators, but the ofl men are undoubt- edly squatters, holding possession by the | suffrance of the State. Their legal eject- | ment would be accomplished by a sult | Bar- | a low | razed .the derrick and carted away anta | | anticipated, | twenty-one Knots. Petropalowsk, turret-ship of 10,960 tons, the armored cruiser Admiral Nachimonr of 8524 tons, and Gilyak, a gun-vessel, jus completed, of 93 tons, besides nine tor. pedo-boats, now in course of construct at St. Petersburg. The steam trials of the armored cruiser Asama, of 9750 tons, built at Elswick for the Japanese navy, gave the following re- sults: Under six hours' natural draugh:, 13,000 horsepor er and .37 knots; under forced draught over the measured mile, 1900 horsepower and 22 knots, or one-halt knot in excess, of contract. . ' Serious defects have been discovered in the engine frames of three new Frencl ships, namely the turret-ship Bouvet of 12,200 tons, launched in 18 and the Gali- lee and Lavoisier, cruisers of 2317 tons, launched in 18%6. The defect owing to bad metal, are such that it will be impos- ible to make repairs, and as a con quence the ships cannot be driven at their intended high speed, which was seventeen and a half knots for the Bouvet and twenty knots for the cruisers. The accident to the British torpedo-boat destroyer Bullfinch on July 11. which re- sulted in the death of eight and injuries to three men, was caused by the bre ing of a piston red. The rod was fo through the bottom of the cylinder, ing a terrific explosion, and portion the machinery were forced through bottom of the vessel, making leaks w were with difficulty controlled by pumps. This is the second accicent this vessel, as a couple of months ago he: balance weights gave way during a pre liminary trial and badly disabled th: machinery, but fortunately on one W hurt. The Guichew, a sheated cruiser of S tons, built in imitation of the Columbi and Minneapolis in the United Sta navy, has proved a sad disappointme on her trial trip. With a horsepower « 24,000 a speed of twenty-three knots wi but the trial gave onl The French construc- tors propose to reduce the diameter of the propellers in order to obtain more revo- Jutions, but this is not at all likely to re- cover a deficiency of speed of two kno ! In addition it will also be necessary to re- filed Ly the Attorney General. The Santa | Bark legal war may definitely bring this issue into court, and i f so interesting legal problems will be The Santa Fe is the largest burne tuel oil in the State, and or est producers upon its own the Ri is now r of arg account, The company < barrels of oil daily. The company in the neighbor- hood of sixty engines fitted with mechan- fcal appliances which makes oil burning | | | | i possible, and the number is to be in- creased fast as the ne ary arrange- ments for the pu The | oil is cheaper than cc cleaner and easier to handle, and in every way prefer The company now produces something like 400 barrels of oil a day from its own fields, and new wells are being constantly drilled. The stuff is also being used for saturation of the roadbed at several points, for the purpose of lay- ing the dust of the desert, which in times past has made traveling at certain sea-| Sons in some places anything but pleas- ant. s | Southern California’s latest is a mica excitement_at San Jacinto. Deposits of mica_described as “immense” have been | near that town and a Los aver has said that it is the vet found in this country. The Jacinto rushed to the said er found in hil mines trange informa- cen ordered for ym mica.”t It is s a valuable been kept hot to th ays,” and adds the :““Machinery _has the manufacture of ol f to be hoped the discovery aked out in every di- ay usual to ‘‘rushe: into busi men own | s mines now The San Jacinto Register “The road has for a number | but few such dt s are val- | F As with slate deposits the quali-| ties of te: color and cleavage, af-| fording lar and regular = sl ts and are exceptional. | t the find is not | giving commercial value, Definite information abou at hand. activity steadily increases in | unty and throughout Northern In one day last week fifty-| s were filed at Redding. claims are being rapidly bond- McGurran & Co. of Salt Lake e secured four claims near Copper | ving them for St. Louls people. ‘ndicate is adding to its pur- of copper and gold properties. | hey are considering the Hearne ~and King copper groups of claims, which are being _experted. reported that J. F. Coleman has refused $150.000 for an option running to January, 1300, on the Mammoth group of claims in the copper belt, the bond being for $100,000. The property is being prospeeted by a tun- nel.' A number of other properties in the copper belt are In process of negotiation and the prospect of extensive copper de- | velopments besides those which Captain | de Lamar will inaugurate with his re- | cently acquired Bully Hill mines i bright. Redding is very anxious to know | what De Lamar will do in_the of building _smelters and a railroad, but | nothing definite is yet made known. Copper City is having its second boom. About 1897 copper discoveries boomed the new camp and lots sold at aulte a high figure. No copper was mined and the bot- tom dropped out. Now that actual pro- ducing operations backed by large capltal are under way and a good future assured a boom is on again and real estate sales are lively in the little camp. In 1879 E. Dobrowsky, now living in Redding, paid $500 for a Copper City lot and later put the deed away just for a souvenir of lost money. Last week he dug it up, dusted it and filed it, and he expects to get his money back yet. The Crocker estate is prospecting land belonging to it near Tgermnllto,gu:ing boring machines, and may work the ground with a dredger. The Portland Gold Extraction Company is erecting a large cyanide plant at gaw. yers Bar, in the Salmon River, in Siskivou ;;num)'. to work valuable dumps of tail- ngs. On Friday of last week deeds were fi In the Gfice of the Colnty Recorder mo veying to the Eureka Slate Compan:; Strahle siate ~uarry near Kelsgv. yfflg Eureka Slate Company is, says the Georgetown Gazette, composed of a stros yndicate of Oakland capitalists honved by William Dingee, a prominent capitalist of that city. The articles of incorporation were filed In the office of the Secretary of State on the 17th ult. The company is capitalized to the amount of $500,000 nearly all of which has been subscribed. It is said the company will at once pro- ceed to install a complete plant of new and improved machinery at the quarry capable of handling a slate output sufie clent to supply the entire West. A number of mother lode mines have already been compelled to shut down be- cnxse_ r{f !ac}( o‘f water. rticles of incorporation of _six mining companies hayve recently been Rlee‘; in Sonora County. Four_are San Fran- cisco companies J. DENNY. Brazil has ordered two small river gun- boats from Yarrow's yards. They ' have been named Marapatta and Mercedes, are 88t feet in length and are to steam 12 knots. China, it is reported, has contracted with the Vulcan Works at Stettin, Ger- many, for two armor-clads of $000 tons, and six protected cruisers of 3500 tons, to be completed in thirty months. The cost of these eight vessels will be something | ish territory. | gomiery street. arrange the disposition of weights, as in the present state both trim and behav: are faulty. The ship, it is alleged, is so disappointing that so far as possible all detalls of this costly blunder are kept secret. The estimated cost of the Guichew was $3,059,725, to which probably another million must be added to make the vessel serviceable. An armored cruiser named Garibaldi landed June 29 from the yard of = Italy. She is Ansaldo at Sestri Ponente, | 257 feet in length over all, 343.88 feet on the load water line, feet beam, and on a mean draught of 23.28 feet displaces 7400 tons. The water line belt is 4.92 inches maximum thickness, tapering to 2.5 inches at the ends; bulkheads 3.94 inches and armor above water line one to one and one-quarter inch, all Harveyized steel. The armament consists of one 10-inch for- ward, two 8-inch aft, fourteen 6-inch, ten 3-inch and six torpedoes. The engines are to develop 13500 horsepower, calcu- lated to give a speed of 20 knots, and the normal coal carried is 700 tons, with a bunker capacity of 1500 tons. Ansaldo built the Cristobol Colon of the Spanish navy, destroyed by the American squad- ron oft Santiago, July 3, 1868, The Colon proved herself the speediest ship in the two squadrons and reached her trial speed of 191 knots within one-quarter of a knot in her efforts to escape. A brief summary of the British naval manuevers just ended were as followws: A British convoy (C) of slow ships, the Calliope and Curacoa, escorted by a fast first-class cruiser, on passage from Hali- fax to Milford Haven, is ordered to wait at a certain rendezvous for the arrival of a protecting squadron. A hostile squadron of fast ships (fleet A) Iving at Belfast is sent to sea to intercept and capture the convoy, bringing it into Bel- fast. Fleet A consists of the channel squadron of eight battleships, three 11,000-ton cruisers of 20.5 knots speed, and xteen second-class cruisers, besides a number of .torpedo-boat destroyers sta- tioned at Waterford, Kingstown and Bel- fa After a short period a superior Brtish squadron (B) of slower ships is sent to protect the convoy (C) to a pre- aranged rendezvous and bring it into Milford. This latter fleet consists of ten battleships, four first-class cruisers, six- teen second-class cruisers and torpedo- boat destroyer, distributed at Milford Haven, Holyhead and Lamlash. The whole of Ireland belongs to the enem England and Wales and islands are Brit- War was declared on July 29 and terminated August 5. The umpires were Vice Admiral Sir Cyprian Bridge, Rear Admiral John Fellowes and Rear Admiral Swinton Holland. AROUND THE CORRIDORS George F. Buck of Stockton is at the Lick. D. R. Oliver of Sonora, a mining man, is at the Lick. Thomas J. Kirk, Superintendent of Pub- lic Instruction, is registered at the Lick from Sacramento. W. W. Middlecoff, an attorney of Stock- ton, is at the Lick. Attorney Arthur L. Levinsky of Stock- ton is at the Palace. S. H. Babcock, a railroad man from Salt Lake, is at the Palace. Lieutenant Oliver D. Norton of the U. S. S| Badger is registered at the Palace. G. S. Holmes, proprietor of the Nuts- ford Hotel in Salt Lake, is at the Palace. ——e—————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Aug. 6.—S. G. Holloway of San Francisco is at the Fifth Avenue. Harold Farnham of San Francisco is at the Marlborough. Peter Dewees of Oak- land is at the Bartholdi. s —— Cal. glace fruit 50c per 1> at Townsend's. * —_—————————— Clerk—I am only waiting for you to rajse my salary, sir, to get married. 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It scothes the child, softens the gums, allays Pain, cures Wind Colic, regu- lates the Bowels and is the best remedy for Diarrhoeas, whether arising from teething or other causes. For sale by druggists in every part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup, 2%c a bottle. —_—————— HOTEL DEL CORONADO—Take advantage of the round trip tickets. Now only $60 by steamship. Including fifteen days' board at hotel; longer stay, $2 50 per day. Apply at ¢ like ten milion taels—equal to. $16,600,000. The Russlan Pacific squadron’ will shortly be reinforced by the arrival of the New Montgomery street. San Francisco. e Trunk moved, 25c; furniture, planos, freight. Signal Transter Co., 530 Jones; tel. Sutter 4il.