The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 6, 1902, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1902 oommoomuomoo: FREE WITH... THE SUNDAY CALL. The Banghart Pictures “CARTOONS IN COLOR.” + ONLY A ROSLE. Not sold elsewhere under ONE DOL- LAR each. ARE ISSUED FREE™to sub- scribers of the SUNDAY CALL. These beautifui reproductions in color are the actual Pastels now on sale all over the country at the price named. Mr. Oscar Holliday Banghart, who has studied under the most famous mas- ters in Paris, Munich and Dusseldorf, is one of the greatest illustrators known to the magazine world. His work is characterized by dainti- ness of touch and rare delicacy of coloring. His pictures of the American Girl are unrivaled even by Gibson. So great is his vogue in the swell set that New York society women almost beg for the privi- lege of a sitting. ¢ ¥ The exact reproductions of Mr. Bang- hart’s twelve famous Pastels recently exhibited in Chicago are offered EXCLU- SIVELY by the SUNDAY CALL to its readers without other charge than the regular subscription price of the paper. _.WITH_ EACH... SUNDAY ISSUE Those desiring the complete set should send in their subscriptions with- out delay. : Wm‘ SENPERVIRENS REFUSE 10 QUIT Saviors of Big Sequoias Form a Permanent Organization. Seia i Will Ac; as Advisers of the Commission Appointed by the Governor. The Sempervirens Club of California, having accomplished its original object of securing the purchase and reservation of the Big Basin redwoods by the State, | met at the Palace Hotel last evening to | hear the reports of officers and wind up | its affairs. The meeting was small in | numbers, but surcharged with energy and eloquence. President Charles Wesley Reed, after congratulating the club upon -the suc- cessful accomplishment of the- purpose | for which it was created, reported that | the entire work had been done with an | expenditure of $724, and that $1050 still | remained in the treasury. In reviewing | the history of the club’s struggles against | almost overwhelming odds to save the; giant sequolas from destruction Mr. Reed | paid high tribute to the services of An-, | drew P. Hill, W. W. Richards, Carrie Stevens Walter, D. ‘M. Delmas and Father Kenna. Then he continued as follows: Not the least gratifying of the events which have occurred during the last two years in connection with the California Redwood Park is the fact that the commission appointed by the Governor have dome their work so well. Had ‘the two hundred and fifty thousand ($250,000) dollars been put at the service of the commission immediately a larger park could h§ve been bought, but as it is 3800 acres of the #host beautiful trees in the world, and some-of them of the tallest, have been secured for our park, and the site ras been so ju- | diciously selected that it will not pay to cut | down and destroy the remaining redwoods in the Big Basin. The possibility of further de- struction is removed almost as much as it the entire tract ha® been purchased by the Govérnment. Your financial secretary, recently returned from Washington. Mr. Richards, h: There as he secured from the Bureau of Forestry of the Government the assurance that if requested by the California Redwood Park Commission to survey the park and Jay ou: a working plan to preserve the trees from fire, the Govern- ment would make the required survey without cost to the State, If done for private parties the cost charge of the survey would be several thousand dollars, so Mr. Richards has again, and this time most heavily, of the State under obligations to him. In conclusion President Reed stated that he personally believed that having.com- pleted its work the club had no further purpose of existence, but as he under- stood there was considerable oppositioa to this plan he desired to offer his resig- nation as presiding officer. A warm discussion ensued, the burden of which was that the Sempervirens Club should not only be kept alive to guard the interests of the new park and agitate improvements, but shouid spread its in- fluence over all the State and help other sections to foster and preserve their natural attractions. One enthusiastic member from San Jose ; argued that it was the club’s duty to help the State commissioners in running the park, but the more discreet Mayor of Santa Cruz suggested that there was a . better and more urgent fleld of en- deavor in agitating the building of new roads into the reservation as well as other improvements, either by public sub- scription or by legislative appropriation. This suggestion was finally agreed upon as the basis of a permanent State Sem- pervirens Club, with local branches in every county and the following officers were elected: President, Mrs. Lovell ‘White; recording secretary, W. W. Rich- ards; corresponding secretary, Carrie Stevens Walter. A committee was also named to draft a constitution and by- laws. Pacific Parlor’s Anniversary. Pacific Parlor of the Native Sons of the Golden West will celebrate the twenty- first anniversary of its institution on the evening of the 9th inst. by a grand ball in Native Sons’ Hall. The affair is to be international and will be one of the most | select ever arranged by this parlor. The following committees will have the af- fair in charge: Arrangements—William H. Locke, R. Fraser, T. P, Martin, J, F.' Cannon, Allan, G. 'W. Liille, F. 1. Gonzales, R. Roche, H. Dahl and L. Jennings. Floor committee—D. A. Ryan, W. J. Wiley, J. Comyns, F. R. Neville, G. Stangenberger, C. F. Kroger, A. P, Seller, Dr. J. I Richards, G, H. Wendcll, F. Trautner and C. Gilfuss. Reception_committee—WiRiam H. Langdon, D. J. Loomey, Dr. T. W. B. George il —_— ADVERTISEMENTS. CHANGE OF CLIMATE Not Necessary in Order to Cure Ca- tarrh. The popular idea that the only cure for chronic catarrh is a change of climate is | a mistake because catarrh {1 found in all | climates in all sections of the country; | and even if a change of climate should benefit for a time the catarrh will cer- tainly return. Catarrh may be readily cured in any climate, but the only way to do it Is to | destroy or remove from the system the catarrhal germs which cause all the mis- | chief. The treatment by inhalers, sprays, pow- | ders and washes has been proven almost | useless in making a permanent cure, as they do not reach the seat of the disease, which is in the blood and can be reached only by an internal remedy which acts through the stomach upod the blood and system generally. A new discovery which is meeting with remarkable success in curing catarrh of the head, throat and bronchial tubes and also catarrh of the stomach, is sold by cruggists under name of Stuart’s Catarrh Tablets. These tablets which are pleasant and | harmless to take owe their efficiency to the active medicinal principles of Blood Root, Red Gum and a new specific called Guala- col, which together with valuable antisep- tics are combined in convenient, palata- ble tablet form, and as valuable for chil- Jren as for adults. Mr. A. R. Fernbank of Columbus, Ohio, says: “I suffered so many winters from Catarrh that I took it as a mutter of course, and that nothing would cure it except a change of climate, which my business affairs would not permit me to take. “My nostrils were almost always clogged up; I had to breathe through my mouth causing an inflamed, irritated throat. The thought of eating breakfast often nause- ated me and the catarrh gradually getting mto my stomach took away my appe- tite and digestion. 4 “My druggist advised me to try a fifty- cent box of Stuart’s Catarrh Tablets, be- cause he sald he had so many customers who had been cured of Catarrh by the use of these tablets that he felt he could hon- estly recommend them. I took his advice and used sgveral boxes with results that surprised and delighted me. “I always keep a box of Stuart's Catarrh Tablets in the house and the whole family use them freely on the first appearance of a cough or cold in the head. “With our children we think there is nothing so safe and reliabls as Stuart's Catarrh Tablets to ward off croup and colds and with older people I have known of cases where the hearing had been seri- placed the people | | sald "yesterday in GEORGE RODDEN'S DEATH DEPRIVES CUPID OF ALLY POPULAR MARIN COUNTY JUS- TICE WHO HAS ANSWERED i DEATH'S CALL. o Thousands of Marriages Are Accredited to Late Marin County Justice of the Peace —_— AN RAFAEL, Dec. 5.—George Rod- den, who ‘died at his home in this city last night after less than an hour’s iliness, was known through- out the State as “‘Cupid’'s friend,” | he having a record of performing more | marriage ceremonies than any other Jus- | tice of the Peace in California. More | secret marriages have been performed in San Rafael probably than in any other city on the coast and invariably Judge Rodden tled the nuptial knot. He had been in office twelve years and was to have commenced his fourth term on Jan- | uary 1.~ He prided himself upon the long | list of coyples he had united, asserting his average for twelve years was one | marriage a day and that during the last | four years more than 1000 men had taken | marital vows with his blessing. Judge Rodden was 72 years old. For more than twenty-five years he was one of Marin County's ' most popular resi- dents. He was a plone#r, having arrived in the State in 1851. The funeral will take place from the First Presbyterian Church | on Sunday. | @ il @ PHYSICIANS SAY - HENDERSON LIES — Declare He Is Sane and Not Under Hypnotic Spell. ———er William Henderson, affas “Jack” Fra- ser, who made the startling statement in | Judge Cook’s court Wednesday when put jon the witness stand to testify at the trial of Willlam B. Kennedy, alias *Yel- low,” charged with the murder of Police- man Eugene C. Robinson, that he had been for some time under the hypnotic infiuence of W. HaSchooler, attorney for the defendant, and made it appear as if his mind was unbalanced, has been de- clared perfectly sane by Drs. Rethers and McGettigan, the commissioners appoint- ed by the Judge to examine him. They unmistakable terms that ‘when Hernderson says he is under hy pnotic influence he lies. When court opened Dr. Rethers was called to the stand and in answer to the Judge said that after three conversations with Henderson, each of about an hour's duration, he had come to the conclusion that Henderson was sane. In answer to Attorney Schooler Dr. Rethers said that | Henderson was not suffering from any mania. He did not believe that Hender- son was laboring under a delusion ‘when he said he was under hypnotic in- fluence. “If Henderson says so, ‘“‘queried School- er, “he lies?" and the doctor quickly re- rifed: “If you want to put it that way I say he lies. A man to be hypnotized must be a willing subject and compara- tively few people are fit . subjects. It would be impossible to hypnotize an in- sane person. I have come to the conclu- sion that Henderson Is not insane.” Dr. McGettigan also testifiéd that Hen- derson was perfectly sane and competent to give testimomry. He had no hesitation in saying that when Henderson asserted that he was under hypnotic influence that he lied. Henderson was wés then called to the stand to testify after the Judge had over- ruled the objection offered by Schooler to his testimony. He. was reluctant at first to testify, saying he did not consider he was in a fit condition and wanted to know what the doctors had reported. He was curtly told by the Judge to answer the questions put to him and he meekly obeyed. His testimony was practically the same as at the trials of Woods and Kauffman, » This ended the case for the prosecution and the attorneys for the defendant inti- mated that they had several objections to make to portions of Henderson's testi- mony,” which' they will offer this morn- ing, and as they did not intend to put on any witnesses the arguments of counsel could be heard Monday morning. Duties on the Cable. Customs Collector Stratton said yester- Gay that he would impose a duty of 45 per cent advalorem at the rate of one and a quarter cents per pound on four marine leagueés of the cable brought here to be laid to Honolulu. ————— Sudden Death. ‘William Ritchie was found dead in his bed yesterday morning in his room. at 23 ously impaired by chronic catarrh cured entirely by this new remedy.” Broadway. He was 53 years old, and had been sick for several months. | pleces or_portions i charge and allow a flow of gases to pen- MINERS” PLEAS FIND RESPONGE Agents Visit Mineralized Countigs Searching for Truth, ARV Lk Large Timber Owners Are Taking Interest in Proceedings. L Ol T Miners and all others who take an in- terest in the distribution of the lands in the public domain in California will be interested to know that the Government has recently increased its investigating corps to look into the allegations concern- ing the grabbing of mineral claims through the operations of the Eastern and also the Californian speculators in timber properties. The Secretary of the Interior is evidently going to have full reports from his own men. In the meantime the State Mining ‘Bureau report, that .was mentioned some time ago in The Call, is in Washington. Very likely the search for facts from now on will be largely con- ducted by ,the Government. From one énd of the mining counties to the other | the timber and mineral questions are tak- | ing a great share of attention. ‘Horace Stevens, who was in the field t> find out what ground there is for the complaints of the miners relative to the timber men’s acts, has returned to the city after going over the Redding district. He has already filed a report concerning the Susanville and Marysville districts, but has not presented a report in full about the Redding district. He is sup- | pcsed to be preparing such report to for- ward to Washington for the information of the Secretary of the Interior. Thomas B. Walker, whose holdings of timber lands in California are reported to | now amount to approximately 1,000,000 | acres, has taken the situation to be suf- ficlently interesting to warrant him in ad- dressing a communication to a mining pa- per published in this city, the Pacific Coast Miner, in which he says: The objection of the miners has been that the occupancy of these timber lands by the lumbermen would preclude the miner from tak- | ing his claims in the land held and owned by | the lumber firms. In an occasfonal instance it might be found in the future that quartz veins existed in timber lands. As a general rule | this 1s not the case, and It would certainly not apply to the minestalready discovered and held by the clalmants patiently waiting for | some developments that would enable them to obtain something of the value of their discoy- ory. And, in general, the ownership of lands by men who are in the lumber trade would not stand in the way of acquiring title to any at a miner might cesire to’ take, or, at least, of obtaining the mineral rights on any ground where he might make a discovery. From my knowledge of the matter, and I have a considerable understanding of timber locations, I do not believe that a single forty-acre tract of land has been entered as | timber land In the countles in which I am | interested when the intention was to obtain | title to a mine. It certainly has not entered into my calculations. | OIL IN MINING. | Treating of the subject of smelting with the use of crude oil, A. von der Ropp, su- | perintendent of the Selby Smelting and ' Lead Works, makes some very interesting statements. - Liquid fuel is now exclu- sively used at the Selby works for the generation of steam. One ton of coal| should smelt about three and one-half tons | of ore. It has been determined by Mr. | von der Ropp that one ton of ore can be s1uaelted with one barrel of oil and three and one-half barrels are equal to one ton | of coal, 80, says Mr. von der Ropp, more than 50 per cent of expense can be saved in smeiting by using oil instead of coal. These Statements were made at the re- | cent convention of the Californie. Miners’ | Assoclation and some attention was pald to them in the daily press at the time while the convention was in session. | Since then there has been no opportunity to review Mr. von der Rapp's ideas in full until now, when coples of his paper and of several others that were délivered to the convention have been recetved. Oil is so largely a home product and has come into use so largely in mining operations in California that expert views | concerning the utility of oil fuel in the | mines are of value to all miners. These | are the details of the extent to which the Selby plant employs crude oil as de- tailed by Mr. von der Ropp: Four roasting furnaces with a total of eleven burners, one matting furnace with three burn- ers, one copper furnace with one burner, four- teen lead furnaces with fourteen burners, thir- teen zinc retorts with thirtecn burners, three cupel furnaces with three burners, one anti- mony furnace with one burner, one furnace for melting fine sliver with one burner; total, forty-seven burners. In all of these furnaces the use of crude oll, so Mr. von der Ropp says, has brought about a saving of from 40 to €0 | per cent in the cost of smelting as compared with the cost of coal to do the same work. The objection to the use of oil in the blast furnace is made clear by Mr. von der Ropp when he says that solid carbon plays an important role, es- | pecially in the upper level of the blast furnace shaft. Its function, especially with the fine ores, is to limber up the etrate the charge evenly. Besides this, ADVERTISEMENTS. Slept Very Little Because of Smothering Spells, Palpitation, and Heart Pains. To Dr.Miles’ Heart Cure I Owe My Life. Heart pains, palpitation, smothering spells, shortness of breath, weak and hungry spells and general debility, indicate a weak heart. The longer these symptoms exist the more serious they becomie. They represent con- ditions of heart weakness which must re- ceive aid from the outside. A weak heart cannot cure itself, no matter how slight the affection. Unless speedily treated it will grow_worse, slowly but surely. A perfect cure has been found in Dr, Miles’ Heart Cure which removes the cause so that the disagreeable symptoms soon disappear. _ “It gives me great pleasure to add my tes- timonial to the hundreds of others who have testified to the merits of Dr. Miles' Heart Cu;:l,‘ as it may be the means of helpi another sufferer to try it. I am sure that owe my: life and health to Dr. Miles’ Heart Cure. had s for six years with pal- itation and Ra.in in_my heart, I could not "leonmyll:l‘:l;o:e,lw‘nv '“k"fl: t very little because of molzerm" spel o hing I could think of but I the use of Dr. Miles’ Heart Cure. I am now well and able to do my work and although it is three years since I first used the nmedy_lblvgno:’ifno( heart trouble. I took in all six bottles of I tried every tl no relief until | electric power in a few days. | in most extensive manner. _pany. ot eart Cure and think it the grandest medi- in the world, and it si'el me pleasure at all times to recomment '—MRs. 'HOLLINGSWORTH, Medford, Oregon. All druggists sell and gmtce first bottle Dr. Miles’ Remedizs. Send for free book on Nervous and Heart Diseases. Ad Dr. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind. £ 4’ GIFT 1. GIFT 2. 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TIMELY EDITORIAL AR- TICLES on Important Public and Questions. SHORT STORIES by the most Popular of Living Story-Writers. SHORT NOTES on Car- rent Events, Science and Natural History. AMUSING ANECDOTES, Items of Strange and Curlous Knowledg: Poems, etc. 4 - jon for the filty- incandescent carbon has certain functions to perform -in the blast furnace which are of a chemical nature. If coke or coal should be entirely replaced in the blast furnace the blast furnace charge would rrobably become too dense to allow the gases to escape freely. ‘‘Besides,” says Mr. von der Ropp, “there would be con- siderable danger of explosions if _ofl should be used as fuel in blast furnaces.” PROGRESS OF WORK. The Redding Free Press says that Del- amar and. the Bully Hill mines will Have The power lire is finished up the Pitt River. The coming of the electric current will begin jan era of general improvement at the Bully Hill camp. The mine and smelter Lave been idle some weeks and an elec- tric plant has been installéd during the suspension of work. The Free Press says: There are rumors aflcat that when the plant does start up it will do so under the same management that formerly operated It and that the pending deal between the Great Western Gold Mining Company and the Delamar people has been declared off. Just how true this re- port Is cannot be definitely ascertained, but it is given from pretty reliable authority that the “Delamar company will Jo,2lone in_the turther development of Bully Hill properties. The Yreka Journal has the following: A _man named Dan Jones, representative of dn English syndicate, has been inspecting the coal mine at Herrs ranch, between Yreka and Ager, in company with the managing super- intendent, B. A. Cardwell, with a view of mak- ing a deal for its purchase. He seems anxious to secure the entire mine and put up smelter works, coke ovens, etc., for operating th: mine Imaddition to this he will build a branch railroad to connect with the main line of the Southern Pacific Company and engage in mining gold and copper ore, which cannot fail to produce good returns by the smelter process. Should this mine be opened up on a large scale, like the Iron Moun- tain copper mines at Keswick, it will prove a greater benefit to Siskiyou than the Shasta rroducer of $6,000,000 a year to Shasta County towns. There seems to be an inexhaustible body of coal in the mine, ard. it is belleved iron can be found In our mountains equally extersive by thorough development, besides copper, gold and cinnabar rock of great value. A new company has taken a bond on the John Royal mine in Tuolumne Coun- ty, now owned by E. C. Day and others, and the erection of a ten-stamp mill is promised. The Altadena mine is also u der bond. . The Redding Searchlight reports con- cerning the troubles at Keswick, where the Mountain Copper Company’s plant is located,, as follows: The officlals of the Mountain Copper Com- pany are putting the smelter in shape for a prolonged shut-down, and up at the mine at Iron Mountain no work . is bemng dons ex- cept by the fire fighters. The claim ia rome quarters that the company was bluffing Coes not seem to be in accordance with the fac The Colfax Sentinel says that the Wil- liam Mitchell gravel mine near Center- ville has been purchased for $10,000 by H. Estorf of Colfax. Development work will be carried on by Estorf. The shaft in the Shenandoah mine in the Plymouth district in Amador Coun- ty has been sunk 90 feet. The sinking 1s continuing. TOMBSTONE'S REVIVAL. The operations which may rejuvenate Tombstone, Ariz., are steadily progress- ing. ' The Arizona Republican says: The big pumps at Tombstone have had the steam turned into them and will in the pumping of water from the 020-foot level to the surface ‘of the new shaft that was re- cently sunk by the Consolidated Mines Com- The large triple-expansion pump has been firmly. set on the station cut out on the 600-foot level and when the steam was .urned on a few days ago. the parts moved ilke clock- work. The pump has a capacity of 1706 gal- lons per minute and is expected to Iift a 14- inch column from the 800 fost level to the sur- face.. The two-inch duplex sinking pumps are in place and one of them is already at work pumping the water fiom the bottom of the shaft, 630 feet to the 600-foot level. Three eight hour shifts are now at work sinking the shaft, marking the first effort to go below the water level. The company is getting ready :~ make other, extended improvements. Some eight or tem other holsts have been cot with the new shaft with pipe lines to furnish them with water, and operations will start on them in_the course of next few months. At the Stlver Thread the shaft is to be made four compartment, the same size as the new t, and another set of large pumps there. At the Tranquility a new engine is o .be added to the shaft. The company in- tends to use ofl as the principal fuel. Ex-Senator Dorsey and his business as- soclates have purchased the Marquita mine in the Tyson district, Yuma Coun- ty, Ariz. The price is reported to be $100,000. This mine has been idle more than twenty years. Some years ago an option was taken for $65,000, but the own- er finally refused to part with the prop- erty, so says the Arizona Republican. A company has been organized at Vir- ginia City to drain the mines of the Gold Canyon section, between the Alta at Lower Gold Hill and the Dayton at Silver City. The proposition is to construct a tunnel 8300 feet long, to connect with the south lateral branch of the Sutro tunnel at the Alta shaft, all of the water to be drained through the old Sutro tunnel. Eighty acres of land have been bonded at Steamboat, Washoe County, Nev., by C. M. Sain. -The local papers say that the.bond is for $80,000. The shaft of the Ohio-Tonopah mine is down 320 feet. The Denver papers report that a plan has been adopted for the unwatering of the Cripple Creek district. The El Paso tunnel will be constructed at a cost of 90,000 to $100,000. It is expected to tap the main water course within seven months. The Wedekind mines in Nevada have been incorporated in Utah, the company being capitalized at $1,000,000. Johm Sparks holds 999,000 shares. The finding of molbydenite, which s worth $1 a pound, is reported to have tak- en place at the mine of the Iilinols Cop- per Company, Arizona. The Wickenburg News-Herald says that several pockets of molbydenite were discovered in a new shaft. A Chicago woman has declined a prof- fered nomination for School Trustee om the ground that her two-year-old baby re- quires all her time. ADVERTISEMENTS. Pears’ Pears’ soap is dried @ | whole year. That's why it lasts so. It wears as thin as ‘a wafer. ’ St 211 aras the world, WEAKNESS AND ITS CURE. Perhaps no ailment that affifcts humanity has so baffled medical science as functional . weakness - in men; and it Is certain that general. . 1 say that until the perfec- tion of my system of treat- ment, weakness was as st of it is certain, and my cures t.