The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 30, 1902, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 30, 1902. WEDNESDAY... ....JULY 30, 1902 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. #¢eress £1) Cowmuriesticns to W. 8. LEAKE, Manager. TELEPHONE. Ask for THE CALL. The Operator Will Connect You With the Department You Wish. PUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, S. F. EDITORIAL ROOMS.....217 to 221 Stevenson St. Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Coples. § Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Fostage: DATLY CALL (Including Sunday), One year. DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 6 months. DAILY CALL (ncluding Sunday), 3 months. DAILY CALL—By Single Month. BUNDAY CALL, One Year. WEEKLY CALL, One Year. 828333 All postmasters are authorized to receive subsecriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded when requested. Mafl subscribers In ordering change of address shouid be perticular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order to insure & prompt and correct compliance with thelr request. QAKLAND OFFICE.. «..1118 Broadway €. GEORGE KROGNESS. 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N Governor of California, appeared in a court in this city, and, in a dispute over its jurisdiction, flouted the bench, talked of judicial proceedings as “a farce” and “a roaring farce,” and in the presence of the public did and said everything, short of putting themselves in contempt, to discredit a2 court and im- press the people with the unimportance and trifling nature of judicial proceedings. Their conduct tended to nerve every law-breaker and to lead up to such a scene as occurred not long after in another court of this city, when an accused hobo reviled and defied the bench. A lawyer’s duty to his clients requires that he at all times maintain an attitude of respect for the courts. o pass that the bench may be treated by the bar with open disrespect, the power of the judi- ary is broken, for it exists, as do all the institutions evolved by the social compact, only in the willing support of the people, who respect it as the safeguard of all personal and property rights. If a court may OT long ago two attorneys, representing the f it com be discredited while it is considering and rendering | a judgment the judicial finality will soon cease to command respect, and the beneficiary thereof will not be bettered by his judgment. In another court there has been a recent occur- rence in the same line, in which the executive depart- ment of the State government figures in an attitude of disrespect toward the judiciary. In the Board of Health cases a vain proceeding was instituted to try title to an office by 2 writ of injunction. A Superior Judge voided the proceeding, as was his duty, and pointed out that such title can be tested only by quo warranto. The course suggested by the bench was taken, and | the proper writ was applied for. The case went to the presiding Judge, Cook, for trial by himself or for assignment to another Judge for hearing. The pre- siding Judge, as was his right and duty, decided to hear the case himself. The law gives him authority to assign the case where he may choose, and he, in- formed of the condition of the docket in all the Supe- rior courts of the county, assigns it where the promptest hearing may be had and the speediest jus- tice be secured. When he assigned it to himself the adverse attorneys attacked his action, and, in effect, claimed the .right to usurp his lawful function and assign their case themselves, selecting the court in which they would choose to appear. It being a case in which the State appears in behalf of the people, the Attorney General took part, and appearing before the presiding Judge, in furtherance of the claim of the private attorneys that they can select the court before which to appear, he, not succeeding in getting for them and himself such an extraordinary privilege, withdrew the proceeding from court. This leaves upon the presiding Judge a most un- just implication. It casts a doubt upon his judicial integrity and intelligence that gathers power for harm because it comes directly from another branch of the government. It is the executive discrediting the ju- dicial branch. No citizen and no attorney will say that there is the faintest shadow &n Judge Cook’s professional or judicial career to justify siich a with- ering implication. We are willing to admit that the attorneys and the Attorney General took this course in pique. Denied by the court an abdication of its function, like children, they may have refused to play. But this does not appear to the public, to which they stand in the position of casting the most serious of insinuations upon the presiding Judge of the courts of this city. An attorney is the sworn officer of the court. As amicus curiae he has the privilege of warning and defending the bench against implications upon its integrity or attempts to abuse the power of its writs 2nd judgments. The entire relation of an attorney to the court is intended to be that of protection of the bench against just such implcation as these attor- neys have themselves cast upon it. True, they say the Board of Health case is political and that Mayor Schmitz may affect the mind of the court through his influence in party affzirs. But where there is an elective judiciary the some may be said of any Judge. And as all men are clectors, every act of the court may be said to have a bearing upon votes. But how vile is such an insinuation! If it be true, no one can be sure of judtice, for every judgment involves the rights of men who vote, and who may yisit their disappointment upon 2 Judge at the polls. It is put- ting the bench under duress insufferable and every citizen, interested in the orderly administration of the law, should resent the insinuation. dence and respect. prevent what he pretends to seek. to the scene and all the There are many There is much written evidence swells to a formidable volume. were the way open they would say so. and further dilatory action? THII W AKX OPEN: ¢ UDGE SLOSS, by his decision on Governor Gage’s writ of prohibition to prevent such a trial of his libel suit as will secure prompt investigation and publicity, has opened the way to a speedy trial and conclusion which will command public confi- No ome has misunderstood the. Governor’s frantic effort to delay and block such investigation. A fair examination is impossible in the distant court before which the Governor has sought to bring the'action. It wasa play and a pretense which did not even deceive the gallery. The Call comprehended clearly the issue which it made, and confidence in its testimony led naturally to a desire to seek such forum as would permit a dignified and authoritative examination. ‘ The way is now open and we are ready to proceed. Is the Governor ready? His action is brought in the name of the people of California. He invokes their. power, in their name, and cannot ignore their rights, nor use their name in a .covert attempt to In his application for the writ which is now dissolved and denied, he made oath to matters affecting his convenience. In his petition for the warrant of arrest he repeats with unction and frequency that he is the Governor of California, and lest his official char- acter should be forgotten he veneers the case with reminders of it. Then when he made | cath to initiate a dilatory writ, he lays off the robes and title of office and proceeds to sanctify his personality by a jurat, insisting that he will be grossly inconvenienced by coming to San Francisco to seek the bubble reputation in the courts. With extreme frugality he chose a criminal proceeding rather than a civil. A civil suit would have served the same purpose, but it would have to be prosecuted at his ex- pense, and the taxpayers could not be made to pay its cost. So he falls back upon the fiction that the alleged damage to his reputation is such an injury to the people of Cali- fornia that it thust be punished in their name and at their expense. As he invokes the people, we think we speak fo- ‘them in saying that they are not asleep to their rights in the matter. They cannot prevent his use of their authority and money for his own benefit, but they have the right to demand, and we believe do demand, that an action brought in their name shall not be so used as to make them the ambush and refuge of a fraudulent pretense. They want this case tried, promptly. As the Governor assumes that the injury is to them, and of such a degree as to warrant the use of their name, they have rights in such use. ) We have no fear of the people, whom we have defended and not wronged. We comprehend fully the technical use of their authority. Their great name runs at the head of the warrants and writs which the Governor is using. If the legal way were open for the expression of their opinion, under such conditions as to give authority to their voice and wish, does any one doubt that, with practical ‘unanimity, they would sustain our position that, as the law gives warrant to jurisdiction of the case in San Francisco, convenient evidence, the case should be tried here? witnesses, some are business men and some are public officials. evidence, some in the accounts and books of the prison, some in the public records at Sacramento, some in the transactions of the Prison Directors as a board of audit, and some in the proceedings of the Board of Examiners. This written Put the case to the people. Do they want to stand the expense of putting all these private and official witnesses to the inconvenience of traveling 500 miles to San Pedro, and of transporting this formidable freight of books, accounts, records and documents to such a distance from the place of their legal deposit and custody? They do not, and Against the inconvenience to which he desires to put so many witnesses; against the cost and risk of transportation of so many documents; against the cost of it all to the taxpayers, the Governor sets his own personal convenience. He lives near San Pedro and cannot come to San Francisco. in search of judicial repairs to Lis honor! Were his action anything but a pretense he should be willing to seek vindication at the ends of the earth, and should not set off his others. Even his witnesses are here, within an hout’s call of San Francisco, Looked at from the point of real convenience to them, this is the proper jurisdiction in which to go to trial. The way is open. Will he seek to close it by further resort to legal technicalities personal convenience against that of THE SIBERIAN RAILROAD. HEN the Siberian railway project was first W under consideration there was a feeling that the completion of the line would come to the world of trade and travel as something like a startling revolution. The event has not been exactly that way. As the road progressed the traffic along it grew by slow degrees and the world has not noted any great change occurring at any particular time. It appears the road is now virtually completed, and vet it attracts nothing like thc attention from the world that it did years ago, when it was but a project whose successful operation was the subject of wide- spread doubt. A recent report to the State Department from the Consul at Niuchwang says there are now four points on the Pacific coast—Dalny, Vladivostok, Port Ar- thur and Niuchwang—from which trains can be taken to St. Petersburg by a rail route interrupted only by Lake Baikal, which makes a break of twenty-sgven miles. At the time the report was written nothing better than second-class accommodations could be obtained from the Pacific coast points to Irkutsk, but preparations were then under way to improve the service. At that time there was a daily second-class train from the terminal points, while first-class trains ran thrice a week from Irkutsk to St. Petersburg. The time from the capital to Irkutsk by the first- about 3000 miles. The rate of first-class fare between those two points is $62 57, while second-class fare is $4681. The charge for sleeping-car berths for the route is $11 60. Recently an English traveler, who has made the journey by the new road, reported that it would not be available for heavy traffic for many years to come by reason of its slight and faulty construction. It appears that at first the Government was afraid to venture much on the project and constructed the line as cheaply as possible. Furthermore, there was a good deal of dishonesty on the part of the official superintendents and the contractors. Thus the road has many weak pldces, where heavy traffic or high rates of speed would be dangerous. What proportion such places bear to the whole route is not known, but it is quite probable that most of the line will have to be materially improved before it is up to anything like the standard of either of the great transcontinen- tal lines in this country. Such improvements will, of course, be made as fast as Russian bureaucracy can get the work done. The road has proven to be profitable in a far greater degree than the promoters expected. It was designed mainly for military purposes, but it is becoming im- portant as a commercial factor and has led to an ex- traordinary development of large districts of country through which it passes. Thus while the effects have not been startling in the way that was ‘expected they may prove in the long run to be more important in their consequences than any one anticipated. B — - Virginia epicures are making an effort to introduce the peanut in place of salted almonds at the dinner tables of the swell set, and they claim to be acting not merely for the profit of a local industry, but for i the cultivation of a new pleasure. SOUTHERN CHILD LABOR. RATIFYING reports come from the South Gof the progress of the movement for putting an end to the system of child labor which now prevails in the factories of that section of the Union. The movement is being supported vig- orously by potent forces in the South itself, and is not dependent wholly or even mainly upon the action of labor unions or the agitation of Northern re- formers. One of the chief factors in the campaign of edu- cation is the association of women’s clubs. In those organizations are a large number of earnest, ener- getic and influential women who are making special efforts just now in their various States to bring about legislation which will put an end to the evil. The activity of the clubs is especially notable in Georgia, and it is announced that the leaders in that State have already prepared for the restriction of child labor a well-devised bill, whose adoption they will urge upon the Legislature as soon as it meets. It must not be supposed that the women are alone in the fight. The subject has long been under con- sideration in all the Southern States. Many of the most eminent of Southern leaders have advocated reform, and while the desire of the people to encour- age the establishment of manufactures has led them to hesitate to interfere with the management of the class express trains is eight days, the distance beingMills and the labor supply, there is an increasing public sentiment in favor of putting an end to the excessive employment of the labor of young children. The Atlanta Constitution, in reviewing the progress of the campaign for reform, says it is now certain that in the end the reformers will win, and it advises the millmen to make terms while they can. It says: “There is enough both of morality and business sagacity among the millmen of the South to present a satisfactory solution of the problem—one that will abolish the menace of generations of stunted, over- worked and illiterate factory operatives and yet allow the reasonable employment of those who are fit to labor and who need both the work and the wages. This can be done without imperiling the investments or cutting down disastrously the profits in the cotton milling industry of the South.” From such statements of leading papers in the South it is safe to draw the conclusion that the mill- men will no longer be able to convince Southern Legislatures that child labor is necessary to the maintenance of Southern factories, or that laws against child Jabor would be a denial of the freedom of contract that is the natural right of every indi- vidual. Consequently while reform may be delayed for a time the probability is the time will be much shorter than was feared. In fact, the millmen may themselves see the folly of longer opposing the re- form movement, and join with the reformers in pro- moting the passage of fair measures at the coming sessions of the various Legislatures. According to a recent census bulletin steel is the largest of our manufacturing industries, textiles are second, meat-packing third and lumber fourth. It is strikingly illustrative of modern civilization that we should be making more use of steel than of lumber even in a country like this where wood is so abundant WHITE RACE’S ISOLATION DUE TO EARTHQUAKE el - ‘The story of the discovery of the ex- istence on Mindoro Island of a hitherto unknown white nation, as told by Lieu- tenant L. A. de Clairmont and published in The Call of last Monday, has attracted Widespread attention and given rise to much speculation as to the origin of this out of the way race. Lieutenant de Clairmont says that the priests at Pagbilao believe them to be the descendants of some branch of the Caucasian family that was cut off from the parent race by one of nature’s con- vulsive upheavals. In support of their theory they point to the volcanic origin of the islands and call atten®on to some of the terrific con- Vulsions that in ages past have torn apart huge continents, converted smiling valleys into towering mountains and thrown the crest of lofty elevations into the ocean’s depths. The ancestors of the white folk on Mindoro, they say, were survivors of some awful change of the earth’s surface. Cut off from the main- land by stormy seas, isolated from their | kind, they went inland and took up the | nation business on their own account. KEEP CONSTANT WATCH. The average height of these strange | Caucasians is about 5 feet 4 inches. They afre well formed and exceedingly active. This much Lieutenant de Clairmont learned from Manuel Castro, one of the natives that has access-to this jealously guarded territory. Their method of guarding against in- trusion was also described to De Clair- mont by Castro. Their capital, Castro said, was sur- rounded by an almost impenetrable trop- ical forest. Through this heavy growth are tralls leading to the outside world. At intervals along these trails are clearings, similar to the one in which the Spanish | surgeon discovered the twin bables. | Trusted subjects of the white Sultan are stationed in all these clearings. They are | somebody at home. In the event of invasion, one of the resi- dents in the first clearing would run to the second clearing, whence another run- ner would speed the warning to the third outpost and so on in relays until, in an incredibly short space of time, the news of the unfriendly approach would be announced at the capital. The highlands surrounding the capital afford ample retreat for all the inhabit- Castro, however, the art of defense has been brought to perfection by these Min- | doro whites and the march of conquest would cease many clearings from the Sul- tan’s seat. MAY VISIT STRANGE CITY. Few Americans, Lieutenant de Clair- mont says, could have secured the in- i formation freely given to him. His ability to speak Spanish as it is spoken by the high class Spaniard won their confidence and his knowledge of the Latin nature en- abled him to gain their sincere regard. 1 To an officer bearing only a subaltern’s commission, this confidence and regard led at times to embarrassing situations. The natives of Tayabas province wanted to elect De Clairmont their Governor. Na- tives of high standing from all over the province called upon him to see for them- speak their language and to add the weight of their presuasions to change to consent his refusal of the Governorship. ‘When he left Tayapas he was escorted to the seaport by the native band and ac- companied by the principal dignitaries of |, the community. % De Clairmont has placed himself in com- | ; munication with Manuel Castro and ex- pects withim a few months to be in pos- | | session of photographs and further data | | concerning this strange race of exclusives. Some day, when his health has recovered from the. tropical fevers that drove him home, he hopes to return to Mindoro and in company with Manuel Castro visit the capital of this unknown people and bring to the outside world something of their him resign. to Lawlor and he promised to hand in his resignation. sented had a string attached to it. was to take effect when his successor was appointed. the resignation in that form, pointed in a day or so. heai lor" cisco. value of a French piece of 1509 unless the denomination is given. Reader, City. | sey no marriage license Therefore if a couple desire to marry all they have to do is to go before some one LAWLOR WILL SOON BE QUSTED FROM POSITION et Dr. Lawlor, superintendent of the Home for Feeble-minded at Eldridge will be relieved Thursday. The directors of the home will meet at the Grand Hotel Thursday afternoon and appoint his suc- cessor. Colonel John T. Harrington, one of the directors of the home, who is stopping at the Palace, stated yesterday that he ‘was tired of waiting for Lawlor to retire and that at the meeting to-morrow he would himself present the name of a medical man to fill the superintendent’s position. From the way Harrington spoke, it was evident that he has a ma- Jjority of the board with him and that his nominee will secure the coveted place. “I am tired of this hanging on on the part of Dr. Lawlor,” said Harrington, | “and the sooner he gets out the better for the institution. I will present the name of a man who will fill the position with credit and the moment that he is appointed the resignation of Dr. Lawlor will go into effect. “There is a reign of terror at the home and I want Lawlor to get out at once,” said Harrington. made by the press had been tigsated Governor Gage sent us a let- ter ‘“After the charges inves- recommending Lawlor’s retirement. We wanted to take action at once and dismiss Lawlor, but Director Dug- gan, who is his friend, asked us to let ‘We sent a committee of one The resignation he pre- It I was willing to accept thinking that Lawlor's successor would be ap- Since then the matter has been hanging on and I am ily sick of it. I will see that Law- successor is appointed Thursday. Di- rector Duggan has been trying to delay the matter, but he can’t do it any longer. ‘When I have anything to say to Duggan provided with huts and there is always |in the future I will say it at a public meeting. I don't care whether Duggan votes for or against the man I will nom- inate, for the latter will be elected.” ANSWEKS TO QUERIES. “THE KEEPSAKE" — Emma, City. “The Keepsake,” by Lord Tennyson, was first published in 1851. ants in the event of an invading force| NO BONUS—A. C. T., Enumclaw, pushing its way that far. According to ' Wash. The Territory of Arizona, this de- partment is advised, does not offer any bonus for the discovery of coal veins within its borders. AMETHYST—A. W., City. Amethyst, the name given to a gem, is from the | Greek amethusko, was so named from the ancient notion of to deintoxicate, and ts being an antidote to the effects of ‘wine. TWO COINS—N. S., Sutter Creek, Cal There is no premium on a dime of 18%4 un- less the same was minted in San Fran- It is impossible to give the market | THE CHRISTIAN—Anxious Reader, | City. The first production of “The Chris- tian” at the Columbia was by the Fraw- selves the Americano who could really | 1o company on the 25th of December, 1799. Mr. Colville appeared as John Storm, | Effie Ellsler as Glory Quayle and Frank ‘Weston as Drake. MONTEZUMA’'S WATCH-X. M., City. ‘Montezuma’'s watch’ is the name given H 0 a curious stone of basaltic porphyry n Mexico weighing twenty-four tons. This stone is marked with figures denot- ng the Mexican division of time, and it s termed the Mexican calendar. NEW JERSEY MARRIAGE—Constant In the State of New Jer- is required. life history. PERSONAL MENTION. Protessor Reichel of Berlin, Germany, is at the Occidental. Anthony Clark, a mining man of For- est Hill, is at the Lick. H. B. Maxon of the United States Coast Survey is at the Grand. Joseph Cralg, proprietor of Highland Springs, is at the Grand. ‘W. N. Ryn of the Crucible Steel Com- pany of Denver is at the California. George Creighton of Moscow, Idaho, is at the California, accompanied by his wife. H Frank A. Grace, Sheriff of Sonoma County, is at the Occidental, accompanied | , by his bride. ‘W. J. Byrne, assistant chief of the se- cret service, is here from Washington, D. C. He is staying at the Grand. of the Santa Fe at Los Angeles, is here on railroad business. He is at the Palace. ; ‘William Eliot Smith, president of the | Tilinois -Glass Company of Chicago, is at | the Palace, accompanied by his wife and | two daughters. L Californians in New York. NEW YORK, July 29.—The following Californians have arrived at the hotels San Francisco—A. Bowers, G. P. Grif- fith, at the Imperial; S. P. Bradford, E. Cramer, at the Westminster; W. A. Mor- ris, at the Navarre; A. N. Ward, G. G. Baumgardner, at the New Amsterdam; ‘W. A. B. Baldwin, E. E. Baldwin, at the Park Avenue; R. K. Belden, Mrs. R. Eal, Susanville, duly authorized to perform the ceremony and have the nuptial knot tied forthwith. DIMES OF 18%—F. B., City. Every few | weeks somebody, asks if there is a prem- ium on a dime of 18%4. This department has repeatedly replied that there is no premium on dimes of that year except for twenty-four that were issued by the Branch Mint at San Francisco and which bear the letter S. GAME WARDENS—C. E. C, City. The Game Warden of Alameda County is A. 8. Macdougall; of Santa Clara County, Fred L. Foster. There are no regular Game Warden for Contra Costa and San Mateo counties, but there are deputies in those counties who are empowered to make arrests for violation of the game aws. GOLDEN APPLES—S., Oakland, Cal. “The race was lost by golden appless,” 4 a'term that is sometimes used on English race courses, is based upon the following from the fable of Atalanta, the swiftest of all mortals: John J. Byrne, general passenger agént | the man who could outstrip her in a race. Milanion threw down three golden ap- ples on the course, and Atalanta, stop- ping to pick them up, Hence when the swiftest horse/comes in second or third it is presumed that some one dropped golden apples for the jockey to pick up. She vowed to marry only lost the race. FREEDOM OF THE CITY—Subscriber, Cal. The granting of the freedom of the city” is a relic of the days when all cities had walls and gates and when the keys of the city gates were presented on golden or silver platters to visiting monarchs. the keys was a token of surrender or sub- mission, and kings who visited cities in their own dominions were always The presentation of | met ter, at the Gilsey. perial. Miss Kilney, at the Manhattan; W. Ellis, A. Ward, at the Continental; S. Henrich, D. A. Hodgmead, H. R. Lipman, at the Grand Unlon; S. C. Irving, at the Astor; Mrs.'J. Head, at the Holland; Mrs. A. Ul- Los Angeles—T. L. Hall, at the Im- San Jose—I. E. Levy, at the Earlington. —_————— Examination for Engineers. The United States Civil Service Commis- sion will hold an examination here and in other cities for the position of engineer, Philippine service, on Augst 26; age limit, 18 to 40 years. Two positions, one at a salary of $1400 and one at a salary of $1600 per annum. Applicants must have had at 1 least ten years' exverience as engineers, not less than two of which should have been in a refrigerating plant of not less than twenty-five tons daily capacity. Per- sons who desire to compete should apply to the United States Civil Service Com- mission, Washington D. C., or to the sec- retary of the local board of examiners, Postoffice, for application form 1093, which should be properly executed and promptly filed with the commission at Washington. Persons who are unable to file their appli- cations, but whose requests are received by the commission in sufficient time to ship examination papers to places of ex- amination selected, will be examined. —_———— Took His Ticket Up. T. St. Clair Jones yesterday filed a suit for $%5,000 damages against the Southern Pacific Rallroad Company. He -claims that the San Francisco agent of the com- pany caused him great misery and suffer- ing by compelling him to surrender a ticket he had purchased in New York en- titling him to a trip from there to San Francisco and return. He alleges that the | agent had no right or excuse to expoge | Xim to humiliation. This correspondent, outside of the moat by the leading offl- cials with the keys, in token of the feal- ty of the citizens. When monarchs vis- ited each other the presentation of the city keys became a complimentary cere- mony, to indicate that the city was as much at the service of the visitor as if situated in his own domain. During ths past 200 years the ceremony has degener- ated into an empty form. When Gen- eral Grant visited London he was given the freedom of that city, and in that in-| stance he was the city’s guest, but i most instances “the freedom of the city” is a mere compliment. PRESIDENT-ELECT—J. C. F., City. who conceals his dentity behind initials, writes that “the swearing in of the vice-president-elect before the President-elect covers exactly the point” that in case of the inability of the President to take the oath of office the vice-president would take his place, 2nd he adds: therities on that matter that the hands of the Senate clock are turned back and back so that the hands may not point to the hour of noon until the vice-president- elect has taken the oath of office and that consequently if anything happened to the President the country would not be without a ruler.” stch authorities showing that the vice- president-elect can be sworn in so as to take the place of one who has not been sworn in, as in the case of President- elect being stricken just before the oath cculd be administered to him, this de- pertment would be pleased to have J. F. C. cite them. Sofme of the brightest minds in the courtry have for more than fifteen years been trying to solve the question, “So particular are the au- If there are any “What would happen should the President-elect of the United States SECURE MORE ACRES FOR BIG BASIN PARK The expenditure of a quarter of a mil- lion dollars belonging to the State of Cali- fornia for the purchase of lands in the Big Basin, in Santa Cruz County, Is pro- vided for in a contract which has already been drawn and which will probably come before the Big Basin Park Comissioners at thelr next meeting. Members of the commission are now studying the contract, Wwhich has been approved, so far as its legal value is concerned, by the Attorney General. Another step which has been taken by the Commissioners is to have submitted to the Attorney General the abstracts of titles of all pieces of land that the Com~ missioners have deemed to be eligible for park purposes. There were about a dozen of these abstracts, but they represent lt- tle excent the holdings of the Big Basin Lumber Company. This company was organized just as the active promotion of the recent movement for the acquisition of a Big Basin Park began and the company at once secured possession of about all the lands that the commission was expected to favor. The company has been actively engaged since the passage of the bill by the Legislature in seeking to make the State pay $100 per - acre for lands, some of which during the past two years have been sold to private parties for $40 per acre. CONTRACT IS ADMITTED. There is a great deal of secrecy in the proceedings of the Big Basin Park Come mission, but it is admitted by the Com~ missioners that they have gone so far as to have a contract presented to them for their acceptance. Favorable action will mean that the State is committed to the outlay of $250,000 for the purchase of and indefinite sums for each succeeding year for the maintenance of the park which it is proposed to create. " '1?here are snags in the. way. Onme of these is a legal snag. The bill authorized the payment of 350,000 per annum for five years, when the entire appropriation would be used up. The question is raised ‘whether the State would have any title to the lands until the entire $250,000 is paid over. The contingency is suzgested that the Legislature might change the bill, and it is not sure that the final action of the commission may not be delayed until an amendment to the bill may be pro- cured that will give the Commissioners the right of condemnation, which they do not possess while the payments are a series, each covering only a part of the total cost. As the matter now stands, the Commis- sioners have before them a proposition to pay $250,000 for about 3800 acres, according to a statement of one of the Commissioners. This leaves the acreage rate about $66, which is a considerable re- duction from the price that the Big Basin Lumber Company started in to exact from the State after getting practical con- trol of the Big Basin. Not all the lands included in the plan now entertained are covered with a heavy growth of the sempervirens tree. Most of the land is timbered, some is in the bed of the east and west forks of Waddell Creek: all of it is where it would be necessary to build a railroad to reach it if the purpose was to cut the timber and transport it to mar- ket. 5 LANDS NOW INCLUDED. According to one of the Commissioners, the lands that may now be bought by them include the ownership of the bed of the west fork of the Waddell for a dis- tance of between one and two miles and of the bed of the east fork for a distance of from two to three miles; also the recti- fication of the boundaries of the tract so that it is one connected body. Some watershed is also in the bargain as it stands, enough, so the Commissioners think, to insure a fair amount of water for park purposes in the summer time, when the people of the State are sup- posed to be camping in the Big Basin. Two tracts, known respectively as the Bur- ling and McKinney tracts, have been added to the lands of the Big Basin Lumber Company originally put up for the State to pay for and lands that the State would not take from the lumber company have been set aside and others have been sub- stituted. 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