The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 11, 1899, Page 4

DI‘Cl’;}({BER 11, 1809 MONDAY JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. ations t5 W. 5. LEAKE, Manager Adaress All Commun PUBLICATION OFFICE. .. Market and Third. 8. F. Telephone Main 1868, EDITORIAL ROOMS. .....217 to 221 Stevenson St. Telephone Main IST4. Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Sin 1. DAILY CALL (Inclnding Sun DAILY CALL (Including Sun DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 3 month DAILY CALL—Ry Single Mont SUNDAY CALL One Year... WMEEKLY CALL One Year... All postmasters n OAKLAND OFFICE C. GEORC Manager Forelgn Advertising, Marguette Build- < 3 ! YORK CORRESPONDENT: €. G CARLTON.© e Merala Square (EW YORK REPRESENTATIVE rERRY t:l\ll\\ IR... ..29 Tribune Building CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: N NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldorf-Astorin Hotel: A. Breatano, 31 Unton Square; Murray Hill Hotel. WASH GTON (D. C. C J. F. ENGLISH, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES—327 Montgomery street, cor- mer Clay. open ke street, open until street, open unti street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission reet, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 !‘ilrkei reet, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 1096 Valencia street, i1 9 o:elorl:. 106 Eleve: street, open til ® o'clock. AW. cormer Twenty-sccond and Kentucky udevilie. ald of the Assoclated y Fund of Charity e A Orpheum- the Theatrical M - r and Tartar.” b Opera-house—""The Chimes of Normandy. ar—"Mother Earth.” X ambra—Georgia Minstrels Chutes, Zoo and Theater—Vauddville every afternoon and evening Olympia, corner Mason and Ellls streets—Specialties. Central Park—Steeplechase and Coney lsland. orama Battle of Manila Bay, Market street, Dear Ewghth Western Turt Assoctation, San Mateo County—Races. AUCTION SALES. Layng—Thursday evening, December 14, at 7:45 hbred Yearlings, at 721 Howard street. & Co.—Tuesday, December 13, at 18 €35 Market street. ANOTHER TURN IN TRADE. HE condition of trade again veered around last week. There was a sharp decline in the volume of business during the preceding week, but dur- ing the six days just past instead of a loss in bank clearings there was a gain of 19.9 per cent, and the ¥ important cities exhibiting a loss were Balti- more, St. Paul and Omaha, the decreage in these three being So the lull observed the preceding weck was merely transient. In fact, it is noted in the t whereas the close of the year always finds © clock. very st East tl more or less less than usual, and no former year ever closed w such a volume of unfilled contracts and orders extending far into the new year. This con- ses continued activity in trade for some ear of 1900 has any former year ever closed with such Quotations for pig iron, are fully maintained, though some s of manufactured iron are lower. Pro- iron and steel are generally sold well up idle of next year, so no decline in the iry need be expected for some time to The recent famine in cars has not yet been s in prices. iron come relieved, and the demand for iron for this ac- continues enormous. Lumber, too, shows con- tinued activity, with no loss in firmness. Colder weather has stimulated the demand for boots and shoes, and hides and leather, already “high and firm, r in consequence, the former having the week. Shipments of boots < from Boston have been 372,000 cases, or 0.3 per cent larger than in 1898, and 937,000 cases, or 278 per cent larger than in 1892, the year preceding Wool has again gone up under a strong manulacturers Ivanced durir the panic 1 demand, though are much having filled their most urgent Al the Jarge New England cotton ve granted their operatives an advance of 10 in wages, which does not look much like Another very favorable feature is the improvement in wheat, which, though shight, is stimulating, as it has broken the monotonous decline of the past several months. The commercial failures, too, which increased a fortnight ago, again show a decrease, those last week being 221, against 248 for the same week in 1808 When we look at these figures, and add advances of 10 per cent in the wages of cotton operatives in Georgia and mine workers in West Virginia, it will be seen that 1899 is making 2 brilliant exit W s usual at the close of the year, when the public investors generally withdraw, spec neec ative not ow most milis h per ¢ depression in this industry. all street is waiting for the January disbursements. The con- tinued stringency in n y there also operates against any a it is hoped that the market will Ret easier after the turn of the year. At present the professional traders have the street to themselves. Again, it is believed in New York that a critical point in the foreign money market is approaching. Neither the Bank of France, the Bank of England nor the Rank of Ger has any gold to spare, and the slow advance and ck of success of the British ar- mies in South Africa make financiers timid about operating. All three banks have recently advanced their rates of discount to keep their gold from slip- ping through their fingers, but the doubtiu] condition of affairs in the Transvaal is against much improve- mient in the gold supply for some time to come. In California the prospects continue flattering. We have had a very fine year in 1899, but unless present indications are misleading 1900 will be a still better one. An Oakland church that preserved its unity in the face of an assault upon its orthodoxy is trembling in the balance trying to determine whether or not the fair members of the congregation should wear bon- nets at divine service. If there be nothing in the fuss there certainly is in the feathers. dull, the shrinkage this year | | | junct to the park. | candidate to walk {lor to be Governor-elect. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 11. 1899, "\ THE PANHANDLE EXTENSION. PPONENTS of the propesed park improve- O ments have seemingly abandoned the conten- tion that the cost would be excessive, and of late have put forward the objection that the construc- | tion of the panhandle would require along a consid- erable part of the route a deep cut which would be injurious to property and entail upon the city a heavy expenditure for the remuneration of property owners. It has been argued that unless the deep cut were made the grade of the roadway would be so steep as to render it unfit for driving purposes. The opponents | of progress have therefore presented what they regard as a dilemma—either a grade too steep or a cost too | steep to be undertaken. The new objection is not any more valid than that which was first put forth. There is nothing in the condition of the district to be traversed by the pan- handle extension that will require an excessive ex- penditure to render it fit for a grand driveway and promenade from the city to the park. In a letter discussing the subject Superintendent McLaren of Golden Gate Park points out that the deepest cut necessary to give a 6 per cent grade, which should be the maximum, will be only twenty- desirable to give a uniform slope along the whole distance, as the effect should be undulating; that the width of the blocks, 275 feet, allows ample oppor- tunity for curving drives; that grades and bridges | could be so arranged with reference to the present grade of cross streets that in driving along the pan not be across any car lines on the level with the cars; and he concludes by saying: “Once the land is acquired it is a matter for an engineer and landscape gardener to devise the best plan for its improvement. Winding roads may follow made. In either event the great purposes of the pan- ed, and that will enhance rather than diminish the effect.” In presenting their various objections to park ex- tension, the opponents of the improvement are really aiding the campaign of education on the subject. It is desirable to have all the problems of the under- | taking thoroughly thought out, discussed and under- stood from the start. There is no intention on the part of the most enterprising citizen “to go it blind,” in the way of municipal progress. Every phase of the issue should be duly considered, and when that consideration is given fairly, the conclusion will be more favorable than ever to the projected improve- ments. I The extension of the panhandle is a necessary ad- It is the connecting link which is to join the two stateliest thoroughfares of the city with the great park, which is now one of the most beautiful and extensive in the world. With the newly awakened spirit of progress and civic, patriotism a provision for the establishment of tfle boulevard should be promptly made. Let us vote it this year as a holiday gift to ourselves and to future generations of San Franciscans for all time to come. —— ald his transition to eternity. He evidently did not share the belief that he was entitled to an extremely warm reception on the other side. Robert Buchanan asserts that Rudyard Kipling is a Hooligan and not a poet. He may be right, but it is safe to say that he will get no publisher to pay him Hooligan prices for his criticism. The Union Reform party, with headquarters at Co- lumbus, O., has a platform of one plank. The mana- gers are confident that they can find some luckless THE KENTUCKY CONTEST. F the three members of the Board of Election O Commissioners in Kentucky, two have reached the conclusion that the lawiul vote of the peo- ple in the recent election for Governor was 193,714 for the Republican candidate, Taylor, and 191,331 for Goebel, the Democratic candidate; and accordingly they have issued the official certificate declaring Tay- The third member of the commission refused to sign the certificate and has filed a minority report. The decision of the Board is not final. There is still an avenue of appeal if Goebel chooses to make it, and it is probable he will do so. It appears that the certificate to Taylor, the Court of Appeals de- | cided two election cases in a way that is regarded as | favorable to the chances of Goebel should there be a recount. In one of these, the court held that all bal- |lots should be printed on white paper, sufficiently thiick that the printing cannot be distinguished from the back, and if ballots are used at an election which is not conducted as required by law, and is invalid. | In the other case the decision was a ruling making perpetual the writ of prohibition issued against Judge Tony of Louisville restraining him from in- terfering with local elections by writs of mandamus. He was charged by the Democrats with arbitrarily issuing the writs. With that much in the way of encouragement Goe- bel will doubtless make up his mind to continue the contest. He is the more likely to do so by reason of the fiery zeal with which his partisans are urging him on. Throughout the country generally political issues have been so comparatively unimportant this year that few people realize the bitterness which animated the fight in Kentucky. An illustration of the spirit oi Goebel's followers is to be found in a recent utter- ance of the Louisville Courier-Journal. It declares the fight against Goebel was made by a combination of railways, trusts and other corporations with the ; Republicans of the State, and says: “As the day of election approached ominous mut- | terings of slaughter were given out by the oracles of the railway-Republican trust. Senator Deboe began it. He was followed by the trust newspapers. Rivers of blood flowed through the columns of these. Citi- zens of the best repute were singled out and men- tiored by name for massacre. One newspaper, which owes its existence directly and solely to the truse, advocated the burning of the Courier-Journal build- ing and the lynching of the responsible owners of the property. The Saturday night before the election the orators of the trust made the air livid with their prefanity and lurid with their threats. The Governor of the State came here and sat upon a platform and listened to talk that would have disgraced a Tagal. Persons in Prince Albert frocks and silk hats, calling themselves gentlemen but putting all Christian man- hood to shame, went about with their pockets stuffed h trust money and trust votes to corrupt, while the thugs of the trust, with Whallen at their head, were preparing to spring at the opportune moment.” Now, it is safe to say that these assertions contain exaggerations carried to the verge of complete false- {hood. That they have been set forth by a paper of six feet, and that for only three:blocks; that it is not | handle from Van Ness avenue to the park it would | | the present elevations or the twenty-six-foot cut be | | handle extension will be served. Out of the thirteen | | blocks only three will be affected by the cut suggest- | Winters, the murderer, wanted a brass band to her- | with the e on the very day the Election Commissioners issued | | do not substantially comply with the law the election | the standing of the Courier-Journal is the only thing which gives them significance, but that is significance enough. "It is a warning of the evil passions which are aroused when such men as Goebel get control of the political machinery of a great party in a State, and should set the people everywhere on. guard against bosses of that kind. ——— POSTMASTER GENERAL'S REPORT. ROM the summary sent from Washington of the annual report of the Postmaster General it appears the public expectation of a recommenda- | tion for the establishment of a domestic parcels post system is to be disappointed. In the summary there is no reference to the subject, nor to that of postal savings banks. The recommendations are, in fact, extremely conservative and hardly go beyond what is | required in the way of extending facilities to meet the growing demands of the country and for remedy- | ing abuses which have developed under the existing | law. The Postmaster General commends the bill intro- duced by Mr. Loud in the last Congress to put an end to the misuse of the privilege of second class mail matter by persons who are not entitled to it. The public is fairly familiar with the facts of the case. Congress designed to give to news- papers and other periodicals a rate of postage which would enable the people to obtain such educational The publishers of cheap novels and of advertising cir. culars adopted the scheme of issuing their publica- | tions as “periodicals” and by that means procured the l‘ri_uht of mailing them as’second class matter. The re- | sult has been that the Government has been carrying | tons of that kind of stuff at a loss every year, and as | a consequence there has been an annual deficit in the | Postoffice Department. | From this condition of affairs the Postmaster Gen- | eral makes three deductions. First—That more than one-fourth of the entire volume and weight of matter carried through the mails is rated and pays as second class matter, when, under the spirit and intent of the law, it ought to be rated and to pay as-third class matter. Second—That while this wrongly classed matter amounts to more than one-quarter of the whole volume of mail transmitted, it furnishes only one-fiity-fifth part of the postal revenue. Third— That the expense of transportation being reckoned at | 8 cents a pound, the mere carrying of this matter costs ‘$14.|os.|29 04, while the revenue from it was only $1,763.516 13, involving a loss to the Government of $12,344,612 or1. These abuses have been repeatedly pointed out, and they would have been put an end to long ago but for the existence of a strong lobby interested in main- taining them, and for the widespread opinion that the deficit in the Postoffice Department is due less to the carrying of second class mail at a loss than to the exvessive prices which are paid to railroads for car- rying ali classes of mail. In the last Congress many Representatives voted against the Loud bill on the express ground that they believed postal economy should begin by reducing the rates paid to the rail- | roads and not by depriving publishing houses and advertisers of the second class mail privileges. It is gratifving to note that the Postmaster General | urges upon the attention of Congress the need of an iimmcdin(e reorganization and reclassification of the | railway mail service. The two things, in fact, should be undertaken together. In the last Congress the | effort to put an end to second class mail abuses was | defeated by men who said the railway abuses should | be remedied first, and then when a bill to remedy that evil was introduced it was defeated by members | who said the second class mail abuses ought to have been first remedied. It is not worth while having that farce repeated again. There is no use dealing by piecemeal. Let the whole postal law be reconsidered and all the abuses and defects be abolished at one reform. BRITISH ANTI-JINGOES. HEN Edward Atkinson, by way of arousing \V popular sentiment against the conquest of the Philippines, began to circulate through the mails copies of certain speeches made in Congress against annexation he was roundly denounced as a traitor, his pamphlets were excluded from the Phil- ippine mails and some of the more exuberant jingo journals demanded that he be arrested by the mili- tary arm of the Government or lynched by the people. The British jingoes appear to be less rabid than our own by a great degree, and their postoffice authorities are negligent of the duty of suppressing | treasonable documents. There exists in Manchester an organization calling itself frankly the “Manchester Transvaal Committee,” which is engaged in circula- ting far and wide documents of various kinds calcu- lated to give aid and comfort to the enemy. The issues which led up to the war are dealt with vigor | ously, and the British Government is assailed with | something of the ardor which marks the conduct in | this country of a Presidential campaign. In one of these pamphlets, recently received, the 1Boers are described as “a people passionately seek- | ing freedom from British control, cheated out of ter- Irimry by British arbitration, once already robbed of !indepcndence by British force, and the recent victims of a foul plot hatched by the man whom the British Ministers—and, so far as they know, the British na- tion—love to honor.” The Outlanders in the same pamphlet are depicted as “a medley of gold-seekers,” who have swept upon the Transvaal “in sudden tor- rents, crowding into a single district and a single in- |dustry, secking not a permanent home, but a preda- | tory sojourn in a foreign land.” | Commenting upon the assertion that the Outland- | ers have been mnjustly taxed, the Manchester com- Imi!lcc says: “The gold law of the Transvaal is the most liberal in the world, and, as might be expected, ithe progress of output and of profits has been phe- | romenally large. Compare with the Rand the condi- | tions imposed ‘by the speculators who own and rule | Mashonaland; there it is ordained that so per cent of | all gold mining profits goes to the Government and that all diamonds are a Government monopoly:” Carefully and elaborately the arguments of the committee go over every claim made by the British Government and by the Outlanders and show the weakness or injustice of cach. Coming at last to the question of the right of Great Britain to interfere in | the internal affairs of the Transvaal the committee says! “A war in order to compel another state to | give to British aliens a share of the government is an act without precedent in the annals of public crime,” and the pamphlet closes by saying: “To in- ‘sist that we have suzerainty implicitly contained in a iconvcnlion from which it is explicitly excluded, to read into that suzerainty an utterly unprecedented power to interfere in the internal government whose independence_wc had expressly guaranteed, and to refuse arbitral investigation of these claims, constitute an aggravated insolence of demeanor which, if per- sisted in, can hardly fail to bring its own punishment if the government of this world rests upon any foun- dations of morality.” and news publications at a comparatively small cost. | NATIVE OIL HINUS e 0DOR. - GOOPER EXPERIMENTING. . HAVE YOU CINNABAR. HOW MINES FLOURISH. Oue of the biggest possibilities to be noted In the speculative future of the California petroleum industry is just now resident in the laboratory of State Min- eralogist A. 8. Cooper rather than in the areas supposedly underlaid by oil-yielding | formations and now being so vigorously | brospected and exploited. To the discovery of new producing flelds, which undoubtedly exist all over | the State, the ofl intercsts mainly look | for the future of the industry. But Mr. Cooper thinks that he has solved a chem- feal, laboratory and industrial problem, the solution of which would mean more than the discovery of severai ofl fields | of the magnitude of the Los Angeles field. As Is well known, the California min- eral ofls have been good for little else than fuel. As fuel California petroleum I8 supplying better than anything else the | | erying need of the State for a cheaper source of power. California oils so far produced in commercial quantities have | an asphalt base, while the Eastern and Russlan oils, which practically supply the | ©oil lamps of the world, have a paraffine | base, Mineral ofls always vary in vari- | ous ways according to the districts from Which they come, and Californfa ofls are | | peculiar and are differentiated even in this State. The mineral ofls which flow or are ! | pumped from the ground all over the | world have varying chemical character- istics and are complex in composition. From the *“crude ofl” which comes from the earth come series of products, as di tillation is carried on at varying tempera- tures and by varied proc From all such ofls naphthas, benzines, etc., are| first recovered by distillation. These are the most volatile element: They are produced In California ofl Oil_fit for illuminating is a sort | of midway product. How much fllumin- ating ofl can be distilled from a certain crude ofl depends, of course, on the chemlcal composition of the crude oil. | After the {lluminating ofl has been dis- tilled at the requisite temperature (hem] remain various kinds and grades of oil useful for lubricants. In recent mineral ofls have largely supersedes mal and vegetable oils for this purpose. But a small part of the California ofl product Is refined. The great bulk of the product is burned up under steam | bollers, and the demand for this purpose exceeds the !ungly‘ as it Is cheaper llmn“ steam coal at the present high rates of | $1 a barrel and upward. At the refinerfes | across the bay and In Southern Califor- | nia a considerable refining business goes | quletly on, yvielding a number of by- roducts, including illluminating oils, | ubricating ofls, vaseline, paraffine, as- | phalt, naphtha, gasoline, etc. | This is one of the great industrial se. | crets of the State. California oll wi not | put in the ground by the Almighty to be burned in ordinary lofl” lamps as | the refineries of 159 are able to monkey with it. Nobody can burn distilled Cali- fornia oil in a lamp without being driven out of the house by the odor and having a lamp chimney to clean in a short time. It smokes and smells. Up to date ‘it is | better used in a furnace. | But some people do not think so and | this will be news to many Californians. The Standard Oil Company controls the | illuminating ofl market out here as else- | where, There Is no war between it and | the Union or any other California oil com- | pany. The average householder knows that the corner grocery sells ofl at vari- ous prices. Good oll that neither smokes nor stinks costs o much. Cheaper oil smokes and stinks in efther a_lamp or a | coal ofl stove. That cheap oil is a mix- ture of California and Eastern oil. Hun- dreds of tuousands of barrels of this mix- | ture are sold on this coast yearly. Men | who ¥now the business say that C: nfa burns on an average a lower grade of flluminating ofl than any part of the civ- ilized world. The best Eastern oil is in | the market, but the cheaper oils described | are largely supplied and bought. The reason why California petroleum does not afford a good illuminating ofl lies in its chemical composition. Petroleum, which scientifically includes natural gas, mineral olls and solid asphalt, paraffine, etc, 1s a hydrocarbon. Carbon and hy- drogen enter in greatly varying propor- tions into the composition of the hydro- carbons. The Pennsyivania illuminating ofl, constituting about 50 per cent. of the crude product, has won the world because | the proportions of carbon and hg;drugt-n| ave a comparatively perfect combustion. | 'hen distillation, as now known. does its | best with California oil the illuminating ofl produced burns with an ill-smelling, !flolt’ flame because there Is a greater pro- rtion of carbon, and hence not enough mdrogen to maintain complete combus- tion. That is the reason why the cheap oll of the corner grocery smells. Mr. Cooper has been wrestling with this problem for some years, and his labora- tory experiments have been legion. His alm has been to Invent a process by which a high-grade of illuminating oil can be made out of Callfornia petroleum. Success In this effort would be one of the greatest sclentific, Industrial and inven- tive triumphs which California has given to the world. It would exceed in value the discovery of the ‘“coaching’’ process made accidentally a generation ago by a nexllgent attendant on a petroleum still, which has increased so much the percent- | age of {lluminating oil obtainable from crude oil. If the chemlical constituents of | California ofl can be changed by an in- | vented process £0 as to produce a good | quality of llluminating ofl the process will not only largely revolutionize the | California ofl lndusll’ih but will naturally affect the industry all over the world. glve the detalls of his process. as appii- cations for patents is still well-cquipped rivate laboratory across :he bay. All e was willing to say was petroleum twenty-five or a higher por cent of lllumlnnllni oil equal to the best in the world can be produced. the ver- centage varying with the specific gravity of the oil. When this is accomplished, as it 1s safe to say it will be, California pe- troleum will not be slmply in competitinn Wlah' conllb\ilt wlllh ""}'.mllnfms as well, and its relative price should be enhance This will not be done by it other olls, but by a proc the ofl {tself.” Thomas A. Edison says his plant on the Ortiz grant, in New Mexico, will com- mence by taking out $10,00 a day. Figur- ing from his estimate of $500,000,000 in the district, it will require 219 years and 130 days, including Sundays and holldays, to extract the gold.—Exchange. Willlam Nicholls Jr., proprietor of the Polar Star hydraulic mine at Dutch Flat, informs the Colfax Sentinel that he will turn on water at the mine De Two monitors were used last lg::;:e;llfi two more have been added for usec in this winter's run. The mine employs a large force of men. Two thousand inches of water are used under pressure of several {mndr:e“tne‘e’t.""fl‘o m";el is coarse, and a of pow: ge it from lhepoblnghl.- et 1o 4 Rev. Mr. Weber, the evangelist, is a mixing with ss of treating neries. |1 | calities where con The State Mineralogist is not ready to‘ are pending. and he | conducting experiments in his ‘I am fully satisfled that from California | mining man, and a thorough one at that. He owns claims in Butte and Plumas counties and Is the agent for Eastern capitalists. He is a geologist and as- sayer, and can do anything around a mine from ‘running an engine or amalgamat- ing to rh. rpening a drill.—Nevada City Transeript. Fr:lnkl Mandevilie of Willow Ranch called at our office recently and drew from his wallet a diamond shed from the volcanic sands and gravels In the vieinity of Nelson Point. The gem was discovered near the tail end of a sluice box in which a quantity of gravel had been washed.—Plumas Independent. One of (he instances of the trony of fute is the coadition of affalrs at the Redlands mill near Ballarat. It seems that a cor- poration was formed in Southern Cali- fornia for the ostensible purpose of work- ing district, but really with the object of “skinning confiding, stockholders. A mod- ern milling plant was purchased and lo- cated all Fight, but there was no ore, and at the proper time the affalr collapsed. One day a prospector came along to the abandoned property. He dug around the 1 day or two, horned the rock, cesult of his observations proved the astoundirg t that was bullt over a large vein—over twerty feet of gold ing ore—that will miil over $3) a ton.—Plumas Independent. Recently an old man operating one of James Cillls famous Jackass Fill s extra d a plece of gold which the exa mine: w counterpart of a duck. P! and Mr, G | price.—Sono llis purchased It at doubie Democrat. As an evidence of the revival In mining | in Mariposa County we are informed that | i | | é | ‘: : i ) 4 g . g % . ! )¢ . 5 * : 3 §d + MO&MMMHHWM | one day last week twenty-two ten-mule teams left Merced for Mariposa with min- | ing m ery and supplies. It is stated ‘nmt the new owners of the grant pro- | Pose to spend 32000000 in development work, and the butterfly county is now en- joying a boom that justifies all that the most ardent believer in the richness of ’;_‘s Quartz mines ever predicted.—Visalia mes. Some ricn developments have been made vln the Big Bonanza mine, south of An- | gels Camp, which have caused the stpck to take a jump {rom 50 cents per share to 2 Sinking s going on and the shaft has reached a depth of 300 feet. At this point rock was encountered, some of which will go as high as $1%0 to the ton. A correspondent of the Union-Democrat from B Oak Flat, Tuolumne County, says: “Each succeeding week brings glad tidings of rich H'fliknflmlng made in our Vicinity and of vast amounts of cap'tal being invested In our mines, and there is every reason for assuming that this sec- | rank at the head of the class in the near future. ork at the Oneida mine proceeds da and night. The work of clmr;ulng m:(d:?nz old shaft is golng forward as rapidly as P ble, and the usual work in !rv‘ ‘new ft. which is now nearly 2100 feet dee is being vigorously pushed. o uite for the new miil 18 ready e ture, work upon which will doubtl, Bin very soon.—Amador Republican. The ‘first well for the development of water in the new digging, about three miles this side of Cuddaback Lake. down 125 feet, and has t The Indications are ver the intention to go down water does not stop work. It is thougnt, ever. from present indications that will not be able to go down 20 feet ore the water sto work. 1In that ase a number of wells will be dug con- tiguous to cach other and a sufficient {upply reached in that way.—Randsburg .\(_l‘!u-r. = he Keystone driller received a depot, consigned to I Towden at Weaverville. has not vet been started on its final destination. The driller was manufactured in Pennsylvania. It con- sists of the machinery of a diamond drill mounted on a traction engine. The dri]- r has been secured solely for the purpose of prospecting for gravel beds In Trinity County. The driller will be conveyed by its traction engine power to different lo- itions appear favor- able for underlying gravel beds—Red. ding Searchlight. J. 0. DENNY. AROUND THE . CORRIDORS H. Tsaacs of Los Angeles is registerad at the Grand. P. Walsh, a prominent railroad officlal of Topeka, Kansas, is at the Grand. Charles K. McClatehy of the Sacramento Bee is registered at the Lick with his wife. Arthur L. Levinsky, a Stockton attor- ney, is here on a brief visit. He s at the Palace. (o7 A.‘ Canfield and R. V. Ellis, who have large Interests in the Coalinga ofl are at the Palace. ¥ o s o3 Spaulding, a Woodlana merchant, and George E. Wilholt, a Stockton busi- ness man, are among the arrivals at the Grand. Mrs. L. O. Schoonmaker arriveq yester- ;iay’ 'tro;n h;r ::ma in Plainfleld, N. J., 0 join her husband, F. X. Sch who Is at the Palace. s Major Charles McClure, U. 8. A, tain Charles L. Potter, U. . A, o George G. McClure arrivedq yesterday from the Bast en route to Manfla. They are registered at the Occidental. Frank W. Grifin, who {s interested in gold dredging operations near Oroville, is at the California with his mother, Mrs. 8. E. Murry. Mr. Griflin will make a fly- ing business trip to Bastern points and will return home for the Christmas holi- days. —_—— NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES, A workman's dining hall has been estab- lished at the Chatham dockyard at a cost | to the Government of $13,000. It fs under | the management of the Dockyard Work- men’s Canteen Assoclation. The keel of the Bulwark, battle-ship of 15000 tons, was lald March 20, 1599, at Devonport dockyard, and the ship was launched October 1S. During this interval 540 (Ionn of materlal was put in the vessel. A fatal accident occurred on the Ger- man cruiser Hansa last month, while on her way from Singapore to China. A steam pipe burst, scalding two firemen to death and the ship had to return to Singa- pore for repairs. The Japanese battle-ship Shikishim. recently built at the Thames Iron Works, London, is still being put through a series of trials while awaiting her armament. During a trip at sea along the Cornish coast last month she attained a speed of 18.78 knots under forced draught and 17 knots under natural draught. There are more naval vessels bullt on not excepting Italy. The latest addition is a bumuh:zconlnned for to be de- livered at BreSt on or before June 11, 1903. The vessel is estimated to cost $4,- 000,000, exclusive of armament, to be 433 feet in* length, 14,500 tons, and to have ing a gold mine in the South Park min-| the mill ttself | tmen weighed sixteen pennywelshis | for the superstrue- | 400 feet If the | paper in France than in any other navy, | triple-screw engines of 20500 horsepower under forced draught and 10000 hnrn; power under natural draught, with a coa consumption Iimited to 1% and 1% pounds under the above conditions of power. The British crusier Hyacinth of 500 tons and 1000 horsepower has p: through a thirty hours' coal ump trial under one-fifth full power with the following results: Horsepower, 2131; speed, 121 knots, with steam at 197 100 revolutions and a consumption ©of 173 pounds per horsepower per hour. Admiral Cervera, late commander in chief of the ill-fated Spanish squadron fn Cuban waters. has written a hook of 218 | pages fontatning dispatches recetved dur- Ing the late war and also the re his captains on the battle of Sant is published at Ferrol, and wiil probably be translated in the Bureau of Naval In- telligence at Washington. rts of go. It The Rursian cfrcular bullt in Scotland in 185, formed one voyage, nameiy to Sebastopol. ’ yacht Livadia, has only per- trom Glasgow She did not revolutionize | Bavy building as her designer. Admiral Popoft. fondly anticipated. Her engines it Is claimed have been taken out and are dolng peaceful service in a factory, and the name of the Livadia has been appro- priately changed to that of Experiment. Another theft of a code book fs sald to have occurredl on the gunboat Magple at Plymouth. The authorities refuse infor- | mation, but it Is admitted that a theft | had been committed from the captain’s | cabin, and the entire ship’s company were | detained on board for a couple of nights and a rigorous search made by the doek- | ¥ard police. Some of the men were even stripped, while others were paraded in bare feet and their boots and stockings were overhauled. The missing book deals | with a code of signals for ships going inte action, which every now and again te altered. When the Magple safled Novem- ber 12 for the cape she had been supplied with a new code. This is the third time within two years that naval code books have been stolen from ships. and only in the first case was the thief discovered and punished. There is something amiss with the en- forcement of discipline in the Queen’ navy and indicates a very serfous stat of affairs. The number of courts-martial held on sallors and marines for striking or assaulting superior officers show £y rapid annual Increase. In 1596 there wers 79 cases, In 1507 there were 9, and during 1593 the number had Increased to 149. The &rowth of cases of “offenses against su- perfor authority” is a natural conse- quence, for whereas there were only 163 in 1896 and 29 in 1597, the number rose to 253 In 159. The total number of blue- Jackets and marines afloat was 77,301 in 1596, in 1867 the number was 82,201 and 88, - 261 in 18%5. There were In 159 one case of assault to every %0 men, which In 1868 had Increased to one case to every 560 men. This offense s practically unknown in the United States navy, for the punish- ment Is justly very severe, while in the British navy the punishment is compara- tively slight. S———— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. DREYFUB—E. J., Gualala, Cal. The home of Dreyfus is in Carpentras, France, Department of Vandause, THE SHAMROCK-C. T, City. ;"hd yacht Shamrock was designed by William Fife Jr. of Fairlle-on-the-( Iyde, and wa built by the Thornyerofts of 'Chicwick England. She was launched June 28, 15, AT SAN QUENTIN—R., Oakland, Czl. The prison at San Quentin is open to vis- itors daily, but it Is advisable to address |a communication to the Warden asking | him on what day the writer may have an opportunity to see a certain prisoner. It Is only necessary to go to the prison and apply at the gate for admission. Letters | sent to prisoners are read by the prison | ofMicials. A prisoner galns two me credits for good behavior the fir: four after the second, the twelve the fourth, seventeen the 4 twenty-two the sixth twenty.seven the seventh, thirty-two elghth, seven the ninth and forty-two the year; that Is to say, if a prisoner s = tenced to five years, wh months, he can by good behav seventeen months of that time curt and serve only forty-three months, or three years and seven months. If the term | Is ten years, or 120 months, he could re- | duce his term to six years and a half. The longer the term the greater the amount of credits. ‘Time to ship to Eastern friends Califor- nia glace fruits, 5 cents a pound, in fire- etched boxes or Japanese baskets. Town- send’s, Palace Hotel. . ——— Special information supplied dally to business houses :nd public men the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 Mont~ gomery street. 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