The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 20, 1899, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1899. Call MONDAY... NOVEMBER 20, 1899 STREET LIGHTING PROBLEMS. That is, if 330 men had voted ahead of him he was { No. 331. Between him and the machine probably ITERALLY it is a dark prospect that confronts | were four men in line, while others waited behind San Francisco this winter so far as the lighting ' him. He moved up until he reached the machine in | of the streets is concerned. Under thé present | turn, when he told his name and number to the man JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Man; ager. PUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, §. F. Telephone Main 1868, 217 to 221 Stevenson § Main 1874, EDITORIAL ROOMS. .. 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Manils Bay, Market street, near avillon—Grand ival Eall Thanksgiving & akland Racetrack—Races. AUCTION SALES. ey, November 21, at 11 o'clock, Horses, THE LATEST WALL STREET GAME. | re of the week was the ex reet r street has been den of tight money, and sev- Government was implored to re- by buying back bonds issued by ministrations. But the Government at ed, g that stringency was not lative, and artificial at that. It y charged,and subsequently discovered,that reet were borrowing im- did not nedd and All of course, withdrawn from circula- e scarce, and the wealthy borrowers previous a ntile but subject to call rown | ure be 1t did consent to buy bonds— of $100,000,000 as desired, but to 0,000. The sequence was amus The joke 1 the outcry for the purchase of bonds rties could be found who wanted to seli. ) declined, saying that the money as tight only in Wall street, and ey preierred to keep their bonds. A syndicate to 1l $10,000,000 was formed and that was all. So the ment's charges proved true. vever, was good. The money mar- being assisted by a material in. in the circulation by liberal call loans by the Lond too, appeared in the market as a i our securities, so the situation came much easier. e are growing indications of a halt in the iron Pigiron has indeed advanced, but manufac- ts are weakening, and the new demand oes not offset the completion of old orders. How- are s S tive to the whole country. t after liately rke: ank moderate buyer o e lat mning far into the coming year. The minor etals continue to decline, as a rule. On the other and, many lines are showing continued strength. Lumber is firm and active. Wool is also in good demand, both for export and local account, and cereals, hides and leather, boots and shoes have ruled some time, though wheat weakened off Prices for provisions suffered some shad- ing. The textile manufactures continue to sell freely, though wool products are hampered by the rise in the raw product. The bank clearings of the country fell off last week, being only 17.6 per cent larger than for the same week last year, though every large city except St. Paul showed a gain. The gains, however, showed a scaling down everywhere from recent levels, and Pittsburg dropped to 681 per cent, with New York showing a gain of only 16 per cent and Chicago 21.3 per cent. The failures for the week were 219, against 223 last year, which is also a less favorable showing than for some months. On this coast there are few new features. All lines continue to report activity, with no diminution in the demand for all sorts of goods. Fluctuations in for somewhat. produce and merchandise have been few, but almost | always in the direction of higher prices. The con- tinued rains promise a year of heavy crops, and as most farm and orchard products are bringing good prices the effect on the community is excellent. Col- lections are reported good, failures are infrequent and small, and solvent borrowers find no difficulty in securing funds at reasonable rates of interest. As far as California is concerned the situation could hardly be better. — A witness in a will contest at San Rafael testified the other day that he considered his mother of un- sound mind as she came to his house one day in a dress that had no sleeves. That witness probah never attended one of the swell functions of Four Hundred. A movement is on foot to get all the manufacturers of cameras into a gigantic trust—to focus photo- graphic capital, as it were. the | arrangement large districts of the city are but dimly | with the watch, then stepped up, threw over the top | lighted on any night and the whole city is left un- | lever which closed the curtain beiind him, voted, | lighted for seven nights out of every thirty. During | threw back the curtain, and went out.” those nights the only illuminations upon even our | As an illustration of the rapidity with which the busiest thoroughfares are those which are radiated | voting can be done by the machine it is said: “One from the windows of shops, are supplied by private Eminute is a long time in which to vote. To test what subscription or are given by the moon. | could be done within the minute one voter pulled the Such a condition in a city of the wealth and popu- ‘ straight Republican lever, threw back its pointers, lation of San Francisco amounts to what is virtually | pulled the Democratic lever and threw back its point- conspiracy to bleed | | a municipal disgrace. It is an evidence of incom- petency and inefficiency in the administrative authori- ties of the municipality. That, however, is not now the issue in point. The question is not who is to be blamed for the situation, but how to provide a | remedy for it. Reliance on the moon, on shop win- dows, on private enterprise may be sufficient to fur- efforts should be made at once to provide the illumi- | nation which the needs of the community demand. | It is conceded that the task is one of some diffi- ‘m!xy. The appropriations for lighting during the JSuperrisor Perrault, however, has suggested in an | interview with The Call a plan by which something at least may be accomplished. It is to have the out- | going and the incoming Boards of Supervisors agree land pledge themselves to create a deficiency in the street lighting fund, and in that way provide for light- \'ing the streets during the winter every night in the | month. The suggestion affords a basis upon which | to build. It may not be approved by other officials, _ | but it is at any rate something definite and to the purpose and serves therefore as a good starting point from which to go forward in dealing with the issue. One thing is certain. Responsibility for the dark- | ness of the streets for so many nights out of every | month rests upon the officials of the city. It is use- less to say that reliance upon the moonlight during the period of the full moon has been the custom for years, nor does it avail anything to say tlat no one | now in office had anything to do with establishing | the precedent. It is sufficient that those in office now | have charge of the public welfare now, and it is to | them the people look for redress of evils of this kind. | Seven nights are a very large proportion of thirty. ;’A city whose streets are left in darkness that often | is sure to attract thieves, burglars and footpads, and | to give encouragement to tramps and other idle and | desperate classes to resort to the practices of foot- pads. The darkness of the streets is a heavy handi- | cap on the and a source of danger to all poli P whose work or pleasure takes them out at night. | Surely for an evil | can be provided factory or feasible such mag de some remedy If the Perrault plan be not satis- let some other be adopted. The public is not particular as to what method of over- coming the difficulty be taken. The one thing desired |is a system of street lighting adequate to public needs. General Wes he Boer | bombarding Kimberley, has s, sent word to Cecil Rhodes that the drinks will be on him when the | | town falls. This is probably the most sardonic in- | stance on record of an invitation for a man to “set ‘em up.” R ‘l News comes that many Samoans are heeled for conflict. In this they differ from certain pugnacious | individuals in this country who are generally gloved | for a fight. | OUR DOCK FACILITIES. TATEMENTS made in an interview with The i Call by T. C. Friedlander, secretary of the San | of the port for receiving large ocean steamers and | accommodating the commerce which they bear. In ! the course of his remarks Mr. Friedlander is quoted | as having said: *“We cannot wait long. Steamers of 10,000 tons are building, and it is intimated that the Pacific Coast terminus of the line upon which they { will run will be at Seattle. If we wish to have 10,000 | ton steamers come here we have to move.” There is no exaggeration in these statements. The | increase in the magnitude of ocean-going vessels has | forced even the greatest ports in the world to devise | plans for meeting the requirements of their trade. Harbor improvements and dock improvements are commander who is | Francisco Produce Exchange, recall public at- | private money at ruinous ral:sl tention to the importance of increasing the facilities |to have these ardent women displaying their devotion ne so great that | ers, repeated it twice, split on seven Republicans, | threw back their pointers, split on six Democrats, | threw back their pointers, closed up both lines of | pointers, then pulled a party lever and voted. He ;did not hurry, and when he came out he had used | just fifty-two seconds.” | A voting machine that makes a record of that kind, 908 Broadway | nish lights for a village, but not for a great city, and and which does its work with rapidity, accuracy and economy is certainly better than the system now in vogue which leaves so much room for errors if not frauds in the count. Sooner or later all large cities in the country will adopt the machines, and it may -+--Herald Square | fica] year have been made and cannot be changed. | be safely said in most of them the sooner they do it the better. An Oakland man has raised himself to the danger- | ous prominence of a public menace by attacking the standing. of a myriad of men who are usually con- sidered reputable. He wants to be considered in- sane because he has been in the habit of borrowing money without knowing when or how to pay it back. | Panama wants to be annexed to the United States. This is probably the preliminary announcement that another of the Latin-American governments is soon | to be in the midst of a revolution. NE of the interesting facts which has been | | THE AMERICAN WOMAN @BRO@D. O given bright illumination by the war between | the British and the Boers is the position American women occupy in British society. They constitute a distinct element in the social world and | bave recently organized themselves into an associa- tion bearing the distinctive title “American Women,” for the purpose of supplying hospital stores for the | sick and the wounded of the army. | There are a great many women of British birth in the United States, but they do not parade the fact | nor are they a distinguishable element in any gather- ing or in any work. It is true that in politics we | have bodies of men known as German-Americans or Irish-Americans, but these exist for campaign pur- | poses only. They have no social existence and are | never thought of in relation to social functions. The | American woman, however, when she goes abroad remains an American to the extent at least of assert- ing her nativity and making it felt in every direction. | Some of the leaders of the American woman's as- sociation for raising money dor the wounded of the war have been living in Great Britain for years. | The™are the wives of British lords and statesmen, | the mothers of British sons, but they still cling to the American name. There seems to be a sort of pa- triotism in them that survives all the changes which years of absence from their native land bring about. “In spite of all temptations to belong to other na- tions” they insist upon being known as American women. So we have Lady Randolph Churchill, | whose son at the front is now a prisoner in the hands of the Boers, and Mrs. Chamberlain, wife of the | Secretary of State for the Colonies, posing not as | British matrons but as American women, and under that title doing work for the cause in which their iheans are engaged. In a certain respect it is not altogether satisfactory | te the British so conspicuously under the title of an association of American women. The term might be | misleading. Persons not familiar with the facts | might readily presume from the reports that the | women of America are sympathizers with the British, | when as a matter of fact the majority of them are not. | For example a recent dispatch from London said: | “American women have been enabled to express their sympathy for England in the Queen's own | womanly way, when diplomatic etiquette and pro- priety have silenced the Embassy. The American | scheme for equipping a hospital ship for the wounded soldiers and distressed refugees has commanded ad- now being discussed in every seaport of note on the | miration and respect and has been carried out with lobe. The rapidity with which the tonnage of ves- | great spirit and practical skill. Mrs. Blow is credited | sels is being increased was shown by a recent state- | with having been the first to suggest the movement, | ment concerning shipbuilding in Great Britain, from | but Lady Randolph Churchill has taken full charge of which it appears that there were thirty-five more |it, with the assistance of all the best-known American cient to keep the majority of | ships launched in Great Britain in the first eight months of 1897 than in the same period of 1899, but the gross tonnage was 222,747 tons less in the former | year. In the first eight months of 1898 there were sixty-one more ships launched than in the same | period of 1899, but the gross tonnage was 7688 tons less. In other words, the average tonnage of the | ships launched in 1807 was 1535; in 1898 it was 1go3, | and in 1899 it was 2191 | The economic forces of the time compel the con- | struction of large vessels, since the larger ship can :tarry freight at a less proportionate cost than the smaller one. In discussing the subject Senator Frye l‘rccem!y said: “When the largest ireighter was 3000 | tons the rate across the Atlantic was $8 50 a ton; when 6000 tons, $6 a ton; when 8000 tons, $3 50 a | ton; when 10,000 tons, $2 50 a ton.” From that | record it will be seen that a port which cannot ac- commodate the largest of ocean steamers will not long hold its own as a metropolis of commerce. Mr. Friedlander was right in saying, “If we wish to have 10,000 ton steamers come here we have to move,” and | he might have added that if we wish to keep moving we must provide for steamers of that size to come. THE BUFFALO VOTING MACHINE. S attention to reports given of the excellent re- sults obtained from the use of balloting ma- chines in several of the larger cities of New York. One of the effects of the good showing that was made has been a revival in the East of public interest | in that system of voting, and the whole question is now being discussed with a good deal of elaboration. The Buffalo Express has given some interesting in- formation concerning the manner in which the ma- chines are operated and the time which the average voter requires to vote by means of them. In the course of the article the Express say: “The process at the polls was very simple. There HORTLY after the recent elections we directed were four election officers or clerks on the registra- | tion books. Each party had a watcher checking the list of voters. One man stood in front of the voting | machine, watch in hand. noting the time when the minute allowed to cach voter would expire. The men on the books kept well up with the machine. As a voter entered the booth he gave his name and ad- { dress, and after it was written in one book and veri- fied from another, he was told what number he was, ! women in England.” | Clearly that is not a fair statement. It misrepre- | sents the case, for the women who are doing so much for Great Britain and showing their sympathy are inot really representative American women in the full | meaning of the word. Since they have taken the title, however, it is pleasing to note they are doing ‘their work with eminent success. They have raised something like $150,000 and got a steamship to take | the supplies to South Africa. To that extent at any rate they prove themselves truly American women. | When they go for money they get it, and moreover | they get it promptly. ———— William F. Herrin is displaying a remarkable de- gree of candor. In an argument before the Inter- | state Commerce Commission at St. Louis he said | that the Southern Pacific Company does not regu- late freight rates to yield profit to others. He would have been fully as candid and more truthful if he had | said that the Southern Pacific Company regulates | freight rates to permit no profit to others. There is one species of “grafting” in horticulture to which fruit producers of the State do not take kindly. One of the employes of the California Paris Expos tion Commission has been accused of using his au- | thority as a weapon with which to charm dollars into his own pocket by “grafting” upon the fruit-growers. The City Council of Des Moines, Towa, has passed a curfew ordinance under which all persons are liable to arrest who are found on the streets without a good excuse after 11 o’clock at night. Indications seem to be favorable for a splendid liar «crop at Des Moines in the near future. — The ‘British have evidently determined to enact | their South African tragedy behind closed doors. iThe news censors are doing their work so well that | reports from the scene of war are simply bewildering | nonsense. Cable advices are authority for the information that shells rain night and day in Ladysmith. it is | possible that some of the Leonids that did not ap- { pear in this country may have been in the bunch. An amusement resort has advertised a balloon as- cension by a Chinese. Nothing could be more natural than that the daring Oriental should make 1an attempt to reach the celestial regions. 4 a .which will keep the total production near MINES AND MINERALS. SCIENCE AND OIL BOOMS. PETROLEUM AND PROGRESS. PHILIPPINE OIL FIELDS About 2400 coples of the splendid book of 508 pages, “California Mines and Min- erals,” published by the California Min- ers’ Association under the direction of Secretary E. H. Benjamin, as a souvenir | of the California meeting of the Amer- can Institute of Mining Engineers in Sep- tember, were last week shipped to the | office of the secretary of the lns(llute.' Rossiter W. Raymond, in New York, who will distribute them by mail to the mem~t bers of the institute. Secretary Raymond generously offered to do this, which will| save the California Miners’' Association | several hundred dollars in postage. There | have already been given or mailed to| rs of the institute 164 copies, mak- | ing 264 forwarded to members. The pub- | lishers delivered 2088 copies, and of lhe‘ balance of 424 copies all but 100 have been | delivered to subscribers or sold. There are many local inquiries for the work and many people have expected free cop- ies and been disappointed, but the few coples remaining are held at the price of | $5 each for the benefit of the association treasury. It should be remembered that the costly work was not prepared and published for | a large California distribution, but as a worthy souvenir of San Francisc hed body tha ry and to give 2600 or 50 of the leading mining engineers of the country and of the world a compre- hensive knowledge of the greatness and opportunities of the California mining field. There is already evidence that it will be of incalculable value in this wa?'.t Inquiries for it trom all parts of the world are already coming to the office of Sec- retary Benjamin, who is himself just now | absent in Alaska. Copies have been sent to foreign members of the institute in | Canada, Asla, Ru: . various countries of Europe and to South Africa, and re- guests for the work have already come from all these quarters of the worid. The same mail last week brought one lnq\;:r)l' a from a mining superintendent at Portage, Can: , and from an enginecr in Germany. The latter is Arthur Diesel- | dorff of the University of Marburg, who | writes that he wants its aid in preparing | some articles for a German geological | magazine op features of the California | mining field with which he Is acquainted. Among his toples will be the sulphur | bank and New Almaden quicksilver de-| posits, the latest oll fields, gold statistlcs, | ete. | “It 1s not for curlosity and for shelving | the volume forever in some boukrasr.-i that I so much want the work, but for publication in this country,” he says. “California Mines and Minerals” will soon be out of print, but it wiil long be a reference work in nearly 3000 libraries that will stimulate interest in California mines and afford material for writers thereon. N The widespread search for petroleum now going on through California will have :‘ scientific as well as industrial importance. | Every well that is put down, even by the | foolish or by the rascally promoters, may | be a valuable contribution to the geology of the State i{f competent records are kept. There is much to be known about | the occurrence of oil in this State and of the extent of the oil yielding formations, | and every reliable record of drilling will | be interesting to_scientific students of this field. In the Eastern States the geo- logical problems connected with oil and gas ylelding formationes have been pretty thoroughly worked out. In California the conditic are quite different, as is the oil itself, and it will be an imporiant field | for geological study for years. | The n(.‘fi\‘ll y of county recorders and of dealers in oll well machinery and sup- plies is an index of the increasing activity in the ofl field. Companies are springing up over night in all directions, and many OF them have begun drilling or will do so in the near future. The San Joaquin Val- ley is being scoured by agents and pro- motors with capital and with shoestrings looking for “oil land,” and many of them are the easiest suited people in the world when it comes to a location. Most any- thing will do for the prospectus. Many companies are conducting bona fide opera- | tions, and new fields can hardly fail to be developed. In Kern County large tracts are being | secured for ofl operations throughout a | large region. Quite a number of wells are | being driven in the McKittrick district, | and one or two have developed small | yvields at comparatively slight depths. A company is about to drill near San Carlos Creek, on the west side of Fresno County, near the San Benito County line. Opera- tions are also under way In the Park- field region of Monterey County. Los Angeles yet controls the trade in ofl well machinery and Fup{)lh‘?. and dealers | there have beeen pressed to fill orders re- cently. A large business in this line will undoubtedly soon be built up in San Francisco. The Santa Fe Company s bullding a branch road from Richfield to its Fuller- ton ofl fleld, and this will aid the further development of this region. In the Coalinga field a company that is boring has falled to reach oil yet, but it | uck a water flow of 50 barrels a day | d sold it to other people that needed water, thus paying a considerable part of its expense for drilling. Some extensive oll operations are going on in San Luis Obispo County which may et become an important oll producer. glate Senator Morehouse and several San Francisco business men have leased about 4000 acres on a 10 per cent royaity, | and other large tracts have been leased or bonded. Several rigs for drilling have been sent up from Los Angeles. Summerland. in Santa Barbara County, 1s having ofl luck both ways. New wells are going down in land and in sea, and last week two companies struck ylelds of ofl. One is a 30-barrel well. “The in- crease In wells and in production is en- courglg’tng. but they can't get rid of the oll. The Southern Pacific Company can- not supply cars to haul it away, so large is the demand for cars by the Coalinga fleld and from elsewhere. The car famine has reached the ofl industry. Every Sum- merland tank is full, and last week two companies found themselves In the posi- tion, *“Oh, dear! If we pump we'll lose the ofl, and if we don’t pump we'll lose the well. As some wells would fill up if operations were suspended those two companies pumped away and let the ofl run into the sea. More expected to have to do lkewise. Of the Los Angeles ol fleld the Times says: “Thisyearthe output will be a trifle | larger than last year. Although there is large increase In the number of wells, there is a falling off in the pro- ductlon of the fleld east of the Sisters' Hospital, and also in the central fleld, that of last year. Better prices is a most welcome factor this year. The average price of ofl been between $1 and $1 35 per barrel, and with approximately the same production as that of 1898 will place the value of this vear’s production ve near $2,000000. 1In the local field to- there are over 300 men employed, ab. the dally average for the year. The aver- age wagelrer man is $2 50 per day, mak- ing a total of about $227500 pald during the year for labor. Money paid for labor, of course, soon finds its way Into circu- lation, local merchants reaping the benefit. New fields are being opened in the extreme southwestern part of the Aren, is of brown color, city, and experts say that the outlook s very bright. The use of oll as fuel s becoming more general every day.” There are 663 wells in the Los Angeles field, an increase of 113 over 1595 and of 340 gver Ixm th'),le yield 'Il:i 1898 :u 1,171.371 arrels, which was sold at the average rice of 05 cents per barrel. » Interest in ofl and in the anppl{: Islands may In the future find common ground In America's new Orfental posses- sions. As vet knowledge of the petroluem, as of the other mineral resources of those islands, Is vague, but the Philippine ofl fields are among the many scattered all over the world which contain large future sonslbllltlfl for the comparatively new in ustry. In * Petroleum and Its Product: one of the latest and best works on pu.lfiect. oublished in London in 189 by t g‘ ngL\.n:gled ‘cchemlllt. ‘Bo;-rmn Red'oodi ere s ‘count of the o-currence pel;ulell;,m lhi thde l;lléndl: 4 “In the island of Cebu there a - siderable gurface Indications -.nrd' etn:o wells have been drilled to a moderste depth. 1 was obtained in both, but from the second it flowed and much gas was emitted. c‘rog:":;‘:lmfly found by Mr. Warren to hav, » mvlfltiy of .809 and it cbnwn:d.n:‘:fimg paraffin rature of 73 de- that at a tem f”’ F., or a little bcfi:e ; It ceased to ow. A specimen which the author rm‘;‘od%mpit;‘ 'v’v“:?i with some fluores- cence and disagreeable odor and at com- mon temperature is fllled with crystals of solid hydrocarhons. The strata in wkich the oil occurs have been much upheaved. Mr. Warren belleves that if the course of the oil-bearing formation s at all regular petroleum will be found in other islands of this group—viz., in Leite and Boho!, to the eastward and in Negros, Guimaras and Panay on the west, some favorable Indications having, indeed, beer. met with ?! or near Massiru, not very far west of loflo.” San Diego County is coming to the front raptdly as a mining region. The great gold resources of its eastern desert por- tion are being rapidly prospected and ex- ploited, and a number of new desert mines will be heard of soon. Much interest is being taken in an extensive deposit of kaolin of unusual fineness and value near El Cajon. Samples have been taken to Japan and pronounced equal to any in the world, and similar judgment has been ronounced by Eastern manufacturers of ne pottery. It is expected that Japan will furnish the principal market. Min of lead, coal and molybdenum are also be- ing exploited in this county. 'ghe cyanide plant to be erected at the Golden Cress mine at Hedges, in San Diego County, will be an Interesting ex: periment, the success of which will £ ther stimulate the use of this process where conditions favor it in California. The new plant will have a capacity of 30 tons a day, and will be operated on the mill tailings, which now amount to 900,000 tons, reported to be of the average value of $2 03 per ton. It Is stated that the cost | of treatment will be but 65 cents a ton, which is rather surprising if true. Another unknown prospector out of water has been found dead on the Mojave Desert. If the cost In human life and suffering of the desert mines and knowledge of its un sal resources could be u-’!‘lmutcd it ‘'would be found surpris- Ze. man, who Is in charge of the col- of the California mining exhibit for the Paris Exposition, is visiting ‘va- rious mining r ms to secure ores and nd a special effort is be- ing made by Mr. Ekman to secure them. Owners who are willing to loan such specimens will have their full value se. cured to them by bonds given by the Cali- fornfa Paris Commission, and it Is hoped that the exhibit will contain a splendid showing of nuggets, crystallized gold, etc. “At the 200-foot level In the Orihano mine, situated in Kern County, Cal., seven miles from Keene, a rich strike of ore, running $50 per ton, has been made,” says the Los Angeles Times. “The Orihano mine s owned by St. Louls and Los An- geles partles.” early one million dollars has been in- vested in gilsonite claims on the Colorado- Utah State line by Boston men, and con- siderable will be spent in development. In sinking the new shaft on the marck & Gladstone mine, located at Selby Flat, last week an exceedingly rich vein two feet wide was cut, showing much free gold and fine sulphurets. The shaft will be sunk 100 feet deeper under the present contract, the levels started and the ore cpened up ready to mill.—Nevada City Transcript. F. M. Simpson, the superintendent of the extensive reduction plant of the H. H. E. M. Co. Is extracting ™ per cent of the goid out of the Golden Eagle ore, and esserts that a better cyanide proposition cannot be found anywhere in the world than that of the Golden Eagle at the Hill Hayden Hill never before presented so busy an eppearance. Every house on the Hill is occapied and with five companies employing « large crew of miners, the in- habitants of the Hill have become nu- mercus. Good miners have no difficulty in finding employment here. Teams for hauling ore, timbers and wood are in great demand.—Lassen Mall. The discovery of an eight-foot ledge of very promising looking ore in_the tunnel of the Glant King clalm on Washington Creek s the latest important mining de- velopment in Waghington district, says the Nevada City Transcript. Drifts are now being run on the formation and there is every indication that the Glant King will in time prove to be one of the great producers of that part of the county. The old Mountaineer mine in Nevada County is to be thoroughly explored and devel, d. New hoisting machinery will be put In and ten stamps will be added to the ten now in the mill. In the cross-cutting in the 100-foot level of the Ford mine on Monday a rich strike was made, which was most welcome news to the stockholders, says the Calaveras Citizen. It is found on the foot wall in a narrow streak, averaging from § to 10 fnches, but it i3 rich, running an average o The busiest section of the county is that of the Rose Hill hydraulic mines and the region between them and the Italian reservoir beyond El Dorado. Hundreds of men are working on the ditches and | reservolirs and thousands upon thousands | of dollars s being spent to perfect this water supply.—Calaveras Citizen. Thirteen mines are in operation near Carters, Tuolumne County, which has been reached by the railroad. Considerable gold is being taken out of the pocket mine at Jackass Hill. belong- ings to Messrs. Frazer, Pratt and Dorsey. The lucky dlxfier: cleaned urum'm from one pocket this week.—Tuolumne Inde- pendent. J. 0. DENNY. AROUND THE CORRIDORS Dr. A. W. Warden of New York !s at the Grand. H. C. Roy, a wealthy fruit grower of Visalia, is registered at the Grand. Dr. E. G. Parker, U. 8. N., is among the recent arrivals at the Occidental. John Edwards, a wealthsy mining man of Tucson, Ariz., is registered at the Lick. Robert Strathorn, a leading mining man of Spokane, Is a guest at the Occidental. Marion de Vries, accompanied by his wife, is registered for a short stay at the Palace. Lester E. Walker has come down from his home in Fresno and is at the Lick for a short stay. Professor James E. Keeler of the Mount Hamilton Observatory was one of yes- terday’s arrivals at the Palace. E. C. Hopper, secretary of the Latonia Jockey Club, is at the Palace. He comes to the coast to preside in the judges’ stand at the Oakland track during the present racing season. Ferdinand W. Peck, son of the United States Commissioner to the Paris Expo- sition, is at the Palace, where he arrived last night from Chicago. His visit here iIs taken with purely personal objects in view and has no connection with his father’s official position. R. J. Kilpatrick, a New York million- aire, who has been likened to “Coal OfI" Johnny because of his enormous wealth and Its sudden acquisition, is at the Palace, accompanied by his wife and daughter. They arrived in the city yes- terday In a private car, and their trip is taken with the double purpose of seeing a little of the West and allowing Mr. Kilpatrick to attend to some business en- NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES, The French Navy Department now ex- changes photographs of ships with other naval powers. It is rumored in naval circles that Rur- sia is about to try the plan proposed by Sir Edward some ten years agc of pro- tecting ships’ bottoms by a thick skin of armor as a torpedo antidote. The plan is not likely to prove practical, for it will only be necessary to Increase the torpedo charges and the limit of protecting the bottom of a vessel is sooner reached than that of the above-water structure. Two battle ships are to be bullt for the French navy next year if the present Minister of Marine remains In office to consummate his plan. They are to be 438 feet in length, 79.5 feet beam and ais- placing 14865 tons. They are to have triple screws, engines of 1747 to give a speed of eighteen knots and a Bis- | coal capacity of 1525 tons. Taeir bat- teries wplTl include four 12-inch, elghteen 6.45-Inch, twenty-six 6-pounders and two 1%-pounders, besides five torpedo dis- charging tubes. The complement wliil number 12 officers and 780 crew and tha cost of each ship Is estimated to reac ‘n $7,108 500, including armament, which wiil make them the costliest ships afloat. The Canopus s the first British battle ship fitted with water-tube bollers and her performance is in every respect a verification of the anticipated advantayes of these steam generators over the Scoteh boller hitherto used. The Majestic class, | fitted with the latter bollers, rendered only 17 horsepower per ton welght In the | boller-room under forced draught and un- | der natural draught 14% horsepower, whereas the Canopus gives 22 horsepower to each ton of welght in the boller- room. In the Majestic the coal consump- tion was 240 pounds per horsepower per hour; the Canopus consumed only 172 pounds. The heating surface in the old bollers was only 2 square feet per horse- power, while In the new bollers it is 2§ square feet. This gives for the Canovus full power for less weight and the power can be more easily realized and more re- lled upon. The second annual session of the Insti- Jap Am tute of Naval Architects In will shortly be held at Yokohama | the papers to be read and discuss “Drydock: “Leakages in Mar! ers,” “Ship-building at nghal “The American Navy.” Ther 1 three Institutions of this kind in world, chiefly composed of persons o mately connected with navy b namely, that in London, organized a similar one in the Unit 1 and the Japanese society of 158. There are men in that country who witnessed the arrival of the American squadron un- der Commodore M. C. Perry in Yokohama Bay March 8§, 154, and the attendant cir- | cumstances. The n S were awe- | struck with the po us old side-wheel steamer Powhattan and almost red to death over the of the saluting guns, | but forty-six years have put them abreast with nations who had hu of a start and its military a can hold their own in a discussion Jpon | subjects relating to their professions with those of the Caucastan race. Navy-bullding continues brisk in Great Britain, there being in course of con struction no less than eighty-two vessels | of 41295 tons at the present time. Of | this number fifty-two ships of 331360 tons of all classes are the British navy and thirty of $1630 tons navies. Seven battle shi are bullding at the do seven other vessels 'Elxh(een private shipyards Ing thirty-eight vessels of 2059 tons for | the British nav sixteen yards have the foreign navy tonnage in hand. ships under construction a es lows ty] CLASS OF SHIPS. Battleships . Armored cruisers | Protected cruisers. | Bloops | Gunboats | Ot private shipyards Barrows heads list with four shi of §1,950 tons, Elswick follows with vessels of 42340 tons and the | Thames Iron Works with three of 40.94 tons. | ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. MONTANA ARBOR DAY—C. 0. XK., 1 The law fixing Arbor day in Mon- | tana was approved March 15, 166, MERCHANDISE TO >}10.\'GJL"Ll'—T. | K., City. Duty on merchandise received | at Honolulu from the United States nas not yet been abolished. | TIDES-C. M. T., Pacific Grove, Cal. | The nearest point to Pacific Grove at | which tides are taken is Monterey harbor. | At that place high tide is one hour o | minute earlier than it is at Fort Point, | San Francisco, and low tide Is forty-four | minutes earler. FALL RIVER PAPERS — Subscriber, | City. The following is a list of the pa- | pers published in Fall River, Mass. | News, Globe, Herald and L'Indepe: e\'enjnf s e Adver! | Cathollc Advocate and Monitor, weekl: and Churchman, monthly. e koo U Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.® ———— Special Information supplied dally business houses and public men b Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 | gomery street. Telephone Main 1042, t the onte . ————— Sanborn, Vail & Co. have recelved and now have on sale a beautiful line of new | lamps and a nice lot of pretty, moderate- priced statuary. B ————— It is belleved that the most anclent dic. tionary in the world is the Chinese lexi« con, compiled by Pecut-she a thousand years before Christ. “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup” Has been used for fifty years by millions of 1 ‘thers for their children while Teething perfect success. It soothes the child, soft. t.e gums, allays pain, cures Wind Colle, regu~ lates the Bowels and is the best remedy for Diarrhoeas, whether arising from teething of other causes. For sale by druggists in every part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mrs, Winslow's Soothing syrup, 2c a bottle, —_—— California Limited. BANTA FE R UTE—Connecting train leaves at 5 p. m. -londay. Wednesday. Friday and Sat. urday, giving passengers ample time to see Log Angeles and Pasadena. Finest equipped train and best track of any line to the East. Get handsome folder an. full particulars at tf Murket stret. —— HOTEL DEL 20i. NADO-Take advantage | of the round-trio tickets Now only g0 by steamship, including fifteen dayw board at ho- tel; lons. stay, §250 per day. Apply at 4 New Montgomery street, San Franctsco. —_—— Tourist Excursions. PERSONALLY « scted Tourlst Excursion with latest improved Pullman Vestibuled Siee ing Cars, through from “alifornia St. Louts, Chicago and Bosto *_ednsday and Friday. Get 633 Market st. - to St. Paul, n, every Sunday, full Information at A young woman at Muncie, 2 married In'a costire of flesli':‘g:;\h;:; tights. She was a ballet dancer and the wedding occurred between the ncts. Those little kernels in the neck! times they swell, become painful, soften, and end in a scar. Give such a child just as soon as the kernels appear. The little swell- ings will grow less and less and soon will disapper alto- gether. Continue the Emul- sion until the child has good flesh and a healthy color. " _soc. and $1.00, all druggists. SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists, New York.