The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 1, 1904, Page 7

THE AN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1904. IMPORTANT STATE TOPICS - oA S Cned BTN N AN W72 7:1)"(&’5 TREATED BY PROMINEN T MEN 77 a T T faa a8 it oA TYPICAL OF THE PRO- DUCTION OF PRECIOUS YEL- LOW METAL IN GOLDEN STATE > DRAULIC Mimqgitic PLAaCER CcOQuUNT > T W t "N N SR OB L 5 e o S Scope of California’s Mining Show a St. Louis Is Defined. i -Catalina Island travertine. supplied by Tuolumne -and | dino counties. Structural “material which has been s been from different areas, eparated. The material select- s been”'with- 2 view.of not only e superfority .of cur build- h W ¥ he mines | ing matérial; but the many different t 2., y »r exhibit prom- | counties which produce it. g, as 1 ARCH AT TRANCE. 3| bits the dif- 3 ar to have a height of 2 and a width of 17% ‘feet, with. a ss of 6 feet. The entrance is to in width. The bloeks of stone cemented with cement.. from Napa and San ° Bernardino° special exhibit of ce- = made from thése counties. the most prominent exhibits » that of borax and soda and s, that of borax occu- > 1 is | thickr be 7 feet be will 2 wooden stamp third in the will A - P 0 feet. A large methods | g ) r from Owens system | Lake will be shown, and beside it will be the residue from the evaporation of this water and the by-products ob- tained from the residue, with illustra- tion of the uses to which these by- products may be applied California is prolific in mineral waters and they will be exhibited from twenty differnt counties, and an analysis of each will be given. Mineral substances of recent discovery will form a prom- | inent part of the exhibit. Among the latter levidolite or lithia mica from San | Diego County will furnish perhaps one of the most striking and beautiful ex- hibits at the exposition. A grotto will| be formed, upon which will rest a col- amn twenty-five feet high. Five classes of different colors of this material will | be shown, through which will be scat- | tered pieces containing crystals of pink, and black tourmalines. As no oth-| er ate contains such a variety and quantity of this substance the exhibit promiges to be of exceptional interest. VARIETY OF MINERALS, The gew. industry, which is now as- suming sowme proportions, will be well 'nted 3y chrysoprase from Tu- unty, tourmaline and kunazite an Diego County and tourquoise an Bernardino County. Besides a number of gems of minor im- bs nce and jewelers’ materials in | great variety will be exhibited. Another prominent exhibit which no | other State can produce will be niter | from large deposits which have been 1 whi hen is some BUILDING SHOW in the mine odel department o from eaves the mine ur which will wn a n op- fom » the latest rrm'ht_'dAs of re- | found in San Bernardino and Inyo 3 ores to native mer-| counties. Probably no other discovery sther models will also be in recent years is of as much import- to the State as these deposits, ch in extent rival thoge of Chile and h need only the touch of capital to | transform the niter industry into one of the most important. A fine collection of salt has been made both from the desert deposits and the various evaporation plants in the State, Massive exhibits of limestone, infuso- rial earth, sulphur, asphalt and bitu- trating ore reduction as at | ance d. " fornia will be shown te scale, more so than aitempted t pas* expo- detailed information e Mining Bureau has for the past three years avallable. Oils from eve: State will e shown, with a commerciz] znalysis of each Sample; | minous rock. maj - 3 A n ock, gnesite, gypsum, 50 ofl sands und formations in which | graphite, chrome, potter's clay, coal Miniature drilling and | fuller's ¢ Py oA oy 3 is foun | fuller's earth, mica and other indus- trial materials will be made. Massive exhibits have also been collected of gold quartz, cinnabar, coppér, manga- nese and iron, which are illustrative of the average character of these ores. Thousands of small samples of ores of all classes have also‘been collected and will be exhibited in cabinets. One of the most important features which has been arranged is the infor- mation bureau. Here it will be possi- s will also be included also sections of ofled vements and the prac- ion of petroleum and its many ways will be ex- hibited. Nearly all the composite e\lf‘rial for the great 1*h is to adorn the exhibit has been v being assembled nite blocks from Ma- dera, Sacramento, Placer, San Ber-| ple to obtain information col - 3 K ncernin d;l:v'x a.’nél -~ Ilurm_: unties have been | any mineral deposit in the State. On: obtained. ufa, Santa Clara, Solano. | wall of the exhibit will be devoted to Contra Costa, San Luis Oblspo and Ventura counties have furnished blocks of sapdstone. Terra cotta and glazed brick are supplied by San Francisco manufaciurers. o5 well as the medal- lions representing ihe seal of the State and bears' heads. El Dorado County furnishes a course of slate, Los Angeles the mnecessary pressed brick, San Diego County pala- the maps of all the mining districts, and literature describing the same has been prepared and will be freely dis- tributed. DETAILED INFORMATION. Much attention has been paid to the labeling of each tpecimen, no matter what nature, with condensed informa- tion accompanying every sample, giv- Chipman Declares Fruit: Will Be Profitable. = | By N. P. Chipman, President’ State Board of Trade. b Will” fruit growing continue -to ‘be -profitable in California? . Is there pres- ent danger of overproductién? Should fruit tree planting cease? These are importarit questions and should be fair- ly met. B In all the valley regions, from Shasta to San Dlego County, pne of the chief inducements, if-not, the paranmiount in- ducement, held out to intending°settiers.! With "its fruits fresh .from the trees | on small tracts of land’ has, been and |as well as in dried, canned and pr still is that fruit growing, intelligently pursuéd, offers the highest-known re- wards of the soil, and it is generally be- lieved that this industry alone fully Jjustifies the efforts being made to bring homeniakers . to the Stdté. ' There are other profitable uses to°which a portion of the twenty or forty acre farm. may be put, but If. we cut out fruit growing entirely what shall we substitute that offers better returns than fruit or that may not soon come ‘under the ban of overproduction? ? At the recent convention of the fruit growers of the State, held at*Fresno, it was resolved, with but one negative vote, “that the fruit growing industry of California is in a prosperous and sat- isfactory condition.” The reportg there made from various- parts of the State and the generally buoyant feeling feeling afnong growers showed that ihe few pessimistic expressions were by no means shared by the growers generally. REMARKABLE HISTORY. The development of this industry fur- nishes one of the most remarkable chapters in the history of the State. From the point of supplying merely the home market we have built up a business which brought irso. the State in 7902 $35,000,000 or $40,000,000 that went to the growers (1903 brought us still more), not to speak of the money that went to the packers, canners, wine dealers, commission men and transpor- tation companies. This has been ac | complished in about twenty years. We have vractically driven from the American market the French prune and the raisin; we have made large in- roads on the importation of oranges, lemons, figs, almonds and walhuts and ne and grape brandy; we are rapidly marketing side by side with the foreign article our preserved fruits and jams in various attractive forms. We are reaching into foreign countries .with many of our fruits. ~ The California prune is well known in Germany, Eng- land and France. ° 5 Our wines are on the tables of con. noisseurs in nearly all civilized coun. tries and in increasing supply, and there i& no reason ,why the California raisin should ‘not be as well known in Russia and Germany and Englgnd as the Valencla or Malaga. The California apple grower is a successful competitor with the Eastern and Canadian grower at London and Liverpool; the Califor- nia Bartlett pears are familiar to the lovers éf that delicious fruit in Eng- land, and a large part of our- dried pears, apricots and peaches find a mar- s L ing among other things its location, the nearest postoffice, name of the owner and address, extent of the deposit, etc. All minerals will be classified by sul ject. In this way, an investor inter- ested in any particular substance will be able to inspect in a short time the mineral from different parts of the State in which, he is interested, where- as, by the installation of county ex- | hibits, confusion would follow. County collections of any particular mineral will, however, be grouped together wherever possible. During the time %ccupied in making the collection, photographs have been taken of everything which would illus- trate the mining industry. These pho- tographs will be arranged by subject and placed in cabinets. Owing to the small appropriation made by the Legislature the California Commissioners have not been able to apportion a very large amount to the mineral exhibit. Taking it as a whole, however, the indutry will be well rep- resented. The ce assigned to California in the mines building has been very much reduced-from the desired size, and if the present space, which is 42x68 feet, is not enlarged the exhibit will neces- sarily be cramped. CLUB WOMEN "~ ARE ANGERED Resent Action of School Direet- -ors’in Dismissing W. H. Hut- ton, Manager of Playground ? ————— WILL MAKE A /PROTEST Deposed Man Is Protege of Cali- fornia Club, Which Says Sue- cessor Is “‘Only a Pugilist™ g By the dismissal of W. H. Hutton | from the position of manager of the children’'s playground at Seventh and Harrison streets the School Directors have incurred the displeasure of the ladies of the California Club, and a storm is brewing around the heads of the men who direct .the educational affairs of San Francisco's boys and girls. Hutton was appointed as manager of the playground in question when it was opened three years ago. He was a protege of the.California Club and was appointed by the then existing School Board at the request of the la- dies, who took the most active inter- est in securing the playground. It is now claimed that Hutton has that his successor, Joseph Meyers, is | a personal friend . of School Director Roncovieri. Meyers physical culture at the Young Men's Hebrew Club, but some of the ladies of the California Club declare that Meyers is “only a pugulist.” Hutton notice in which to vacate his post and turn the keys of the playground over ! to Meyers. ° Hutton says his removal was the re- sult of a political bargain in order to give another man his position, as he was not subject to civil service. He dismissal was that he was not atten- tive to his duties, but he denies the charge. He says that he built a num- ber of club rooms at the playground been deposed for political reasons and | is a teacher of: was given but three days'| claims that the reason given for his/| ALASKA BILLS IN CONGRESS ARE MANY BUT WORKE Friends of Meas- ures Are Not in Harmony. BY SAMUEL W. WALL. CALL BUREAU, HOTEL BARTON, WASHINGTON, Jan. 31. — This is a story of the wilderness of Alaska in bewildered Washington, too. If the big district does not get a good deal of what has been coming to it for a long time, in the matter of legisla- tion, at this sitting of Congress, Alaska | will have only her own friends to blame. | To scan the bills that have already | been introduced in hew behalf would i leave the impression that Congress was |about to devote the entire session to the unrepresented and misrepresented } wilderness that forms the northwestern j extremity of this great country. But | there need be no worry as to that. | Alaska needs a lot of things, if the | bills are to be accepted as a sign, but i she will get but a few. Primarily she | { needs a representative, or represema-" | tives, in Congress and a new code of | mining laws. It is quite possible that | | she could get both of these, if her | ! friends out of Congress could unite in support of any of the bills aiready in- troduced. For Alaska has acquired | many friends on the floor of both houses during the past year—some of them very influential —and who are willing to work for any reasonable measure of relief. But the many repre- i sentative Alaskans now in Washington are all found to have pronounced views on essential points that are radically at variance. For instance, in the single matter of a representative there are those who favor Senator Nelson’s bill, providing that such delegate should be appointed, | while, for the most part, an appointed delegate is tabooed as worse than none. Congressman Cushman of Washington, ' who is a champion of Alaska, has a | bill providing for the election of a del. gate and declares that the House will B et Toaat o the ity S that | Bear to no other. “The Senate can have he has kept all the apparatus in good |20 &ppointed delegate of their own,” condition. Mrs. Mary Kincaid, an ex-member | the School Board, is very indignant | b gf,e‘_ Hulu‘n's renfoval and} say:lhat ! profldes_ for three elective delegates | the California Club will make a nro-.a"d he insists that no other will suit, ‘says he, our side.” Jones of Washington has a bill that “but he can’t come over to | test to the School Directors and -to |25 Alaska is of such extent that no one Mayor Schmitz. Mrs. Kincaid says that Hutton was recommended by the California Club | for the post of manager of the chil- | dren’s playground and that he is a very, capable man and has shown every interest in his work. The children's playground at Seventh and Harrison streets has been a boon to that district. The grounds are pat- | rénized weekly by thousands of chil- | dren and the police ‘say that the chil- dren are kept off the streets and pre- ‘| vented from getting into bad’ company | by the opportunity for recreation of- | fered by the grounds. - {’ket in"Germany; and other forelgn couu- tries. . .One would’ natfirally conclude that ! the fruit growing business that had | achieved S0 much in twenty years and was.5till’ on a paying basis and cor- - . stantly enlarging its market, that had .demonstrated its -ability not only to ‘. reach every domestic market but was | successfully invading foreign markets would hesitate to di courage further éxpansior. This same | suggestion - of- over-production has fcome up periodically -ever since I be- - came’.interested in thé fruit growing industry.. .Several ‘times I-have been asked by the growess themselves to combat and downe this specter. - THE :OUTLOOK IMPROVES. Ten, years ago I took up the matter and marshaled the points of the ar- gument with as ‘much care as a judge wbiild write an opinion to ‘support his | conclusions or a lawyer would prepare 'a brief confident.of his position. In , 16oking over .the record of the con- ! troversy at that time I find that a less encouraging outlook was before us | than® there is to-day; the reply then made to the alarmist holds good to- day. Many difficulties confronted us then in the art of ggowing fruit that have since. been removed; many factors en- | terfng into the problem of successfully marketing our fruit which were then served .forms, uncertain have since found satisfactory | sblution; new and comstantly widen- ing markets have opened to us, as was then predicted; improved methods of preparing and handling our products have come to us by experience; for many reasons we are better prepared to sefl and more customers are ready to buy our largely increased product than ten years ago. | The essayist who treated the sub- : ject of the raisin at the Fresno con- vention (a Fresno raisin grower) coun- i seled no aore planting of raisin grapes. Statistics show that in 1898 the raisin crop was as large as it was in 1902 (I have not yet collected the data for 1903), and in ten years the output increased only 19,000 tons. Look at the citrus industry. 80,757 tons and in 1902 it was 225,668 tons, and the orapge grower never more prosperous. There was an in- creased shipment of fresh deciduous | fruits in 1903 at prices reported satis- factory. nuts at a high price. The Fresno teso- lution was simply the statement of an existing fact. PLANTING FRUIT TREES. | Fruit tree planting is going on all | the time eart of the Rocky Mountains. Despite the'drawbacks and discourage- ments and the climatic limitations to fruit growing there, so essential to hu- ! man existence as an article of food is fruit regarded that nothing daunts | the owner of land from making an effort to meet the ever increasing de- mand. If the soil and climatic con- | ditions of the State of Iowa, or the | State of Illinois, for example, were the | suppose that the farmer would grow { corn ‘or oats or wheat? Certainly not. The State would soon become one un- broken orchard and no fruit grower there would worry himself about over- production, Look at the hundred$ of thousands ! of acres devoted to fruit growing in Europe by countries that send abroad for other food vprdducts. There are many more acres of grape vines alone in France than all our orchards and vineyards if we had twice our pres- ent acreage. Fruit growing has ever been classed mong the most profit- able branches of agriculture the world over—indeed it is or should be classed as intensive cultivation, and when made so is everywhere profitable. INTELLIGENCE ' NEEDED. There are many unprofitable orchards in California, but ° -~ reason for it is not far to seek. Side by side one or- chardist will fail while his neighbor prospers under no better natural con- ditions. So it is in every business. But no one intelligently seeking the truth would judge the business by the exam- 1 In 1893 it was | Dried fruits moved out very | romptly at remunerative prices and | same as in California, does any one; | man can properly represent its great |area and varied interests. ! MAY CHANGE LAWS. ‘With regard to the amending of the mining laws, concerning, which there has :been .more outcry than any of | Alaska’s needs, there is such confusion | of thought that no- man has as yet been brave enough to offer a bill. Sen- {ator Dillingham, who led the Senate | commission into the wilderness last | | summer, and who is the author of a | big batch of Alaska bills already filed, has not yet determined upon this mat- \ter. but will present a bill a little later. | Cushman, representative of Washing- ton, who wears an ‘“Alaska Brother- hood” button in the lapel of his coat, is | also preparing a bill. He is in great | | doubt, however. He was for cutting out the “power ‘of attorney” privilege in the matter of locating claims and very determined about it. He is not so sure now that this is the thing to do. | “This matter of locating is not the real | evil,” he says. *“It is-in the holding of | these claims. There is much to be said in favor of the power of attorney | | in makiag location, but nothing for | holdiug these claims indefinitely with- out their being worked" as against the | miner and prospector who may be , willing to do "his assessment and de- velop the property and the country. And vet there is a man here in ‘Washington who is said to hail from | | Valdez as a pald representative of the | | people there and wko claims to -be spe- | cially deputized to see to it that a law | be passed by the Congress making as- | sessment work upon mining claims in Alaska in no wise obligatory for the holding of claims indefinitely. It is not likely that in results he will earn his | wage, but he offers an illustration of how widely men differ concerning Alaskan affairs—even Alaskans—and | suggests how difficult it must be for Congress to agree upon a measure to | please its people. AMENDMENTS PROPOSED. Judge Wickersham of Alaska is here | |in Washington and upon occasion | freely expresses himself as opposed to { any changt in the mining laws that | would not be made to apply to general mining laws of the United States. In other words, no special legislation for Alaska. His argument is that the {,mining laws are known to the miners | and prospectors and any change would | create confusion in their minds and | set up special standards for the dis- | trict not to its best interests. Senators Dillingham and Nelson have introduced, and Senator Perkins will introduce, a bill for the creation of a new judicial district in Alaske The special objection urged to the bills is that they use latitude and lon- gitude as dividing lines for the propos- | ed district, while nobody in Alaska | knows where those lines are. The EX ITH a view to enlarg- ng and improving Its news service from Washington The Call has sent to the capital of the nation Mr. S. W. Wall, a well- known, trained and reliable newspaper writer, who will in future have charge of The Cali's news bureau in that city, with headquarters at the Hotel Bar- ton. Mr. Wall has for a score of years been a resident of Pa- cific Coast States, and is there- fore competent to keep the peo- ple of the Far West advised in all matters that have bearing on mercantile, <agricultural and mining interests. He will de- vote attention especialf to news | of department mattdfs and of | legislation affecting the States | and Territories of the Pacific | slope. - Wall is a lucid and force- ful writer and one of the best of the newspaper correspondents of this country. His first achieve- ments in the field of journalism, when he was one of the staff of | the Pittsburg Dispatch, brought him into prominence, and his fame was further accentuated | in later years when he accom- panied the late George Francis | ‘Train in the latter’s first record- breaking trlp from Puget Sound | around the .world. His latest conspicuous effort was his trip { to the Klondike in 1897 as spe- | cial correspondent for The Call. | It was the first year of the great | Alaskan gold field excitement, and when the correspondents, who had been sent to Dawson | via Bering Sea, reached the Yu- kon, they found the river closed | to steamer navigation. The cor- | respondents, excepting Wall, turned back, fearing to risk the rigors of an Arctic winter. Wall | was undaunted. He purchased a rowboat, hired guides and poled up the turbid Yukon. It | took many days and the endur- | ing of severe hardships to ac- complish the task, but Wall got to Dawson just as the river turned to ice. He was the only one of the newspaper corre- spondents who succeeded in his | mission. | + . | | per cent of which RS FEW Reform of Mining Laws Rouses Discord. + -+ natural water sheds are suggested as the regl dividing lines. Senator Nelson's bill providing for the election of a representative is specially objected to, as it fixes the date of the election in summer, when everybody is too busy to vote. “No man at that time would think of tak- ing a day off for the purpose of vot- ing, as nearly ery man who votes would have to,” said a well posted Alaska miner discussing this bill. ““Besides, in the summer,” he said, “the country is overrua with transients | who are not entitled to but who would vote.” Another of Senator Nelson's bills addresses itself to curbing the license of the city council at Nome. The council has heretofore fixed salaries at their pleasure; for instance, putting them up, away up, when the official did things, la®ful or unlawful, as they | indicated they wished them done, cut- ting them down when he showed a | disposition to go his way, even though The bill allows the couneil to fix sal- aries of the Mayor and other officials, but being fixed, not to change it dur- ng their term of office. | | | ilh;u way be the enforcement of law. | | The time of | all local elections is changed in this bill from April to July. | According to another bill of Nel- | son’s all taxes and license money col- | lected outside of incorporated towns goes into a spectal Alaskan fund. 25 if needed may be used for school purposes outside the towns, 10 per cent if needed may pro- vide for insane and destitute and the remainder shall go toward the build- ing of roads and bridges. A board composed of the military is named to look to the building of roads. MAY DENY GAMBLING. Another bill prohibits gambling and the employment of women in saloons, | provides a fine and forfeiture of li- ¢ense upon conviction of either or of allowing women to “‘rustle” in saloons. { _Another Nelson bill provides for | the erection of a free bridge over the Snake River within the city limits of Nome. Senator Dillingham has introduced a bi!l suspending indefinitely the right of the North American Commereial Company, lessees of the Pribilof group of islands, to kill fur seals on or near these islands and providing for the opening of negotiations with Great Britain looking toward a revision of the laws governing the taking of seals, The President is required to negotiate with the Governments of Russia and ' Japan to the end that they be led to subscribe to any agreement that may be reached between the United States and Great Britain. In case no such agreement can be reached then the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may, by the bill, with the approval of the President, reduce the surplus fe- male fur-seal life on the Pribilof Isl- ands by killing the same down to a minimum number of not less than 10,000 adult female seals and the malé to not less than 1000 virile adult males, the skins to be sold and the money turned into the treasury. NEW GOVERNMENT WANTED. Finally there Is the expected bill providing for a territorial form of ’governmem in Alaska. It is offered lby Jones of Washington. It may be said that among the Alaskans now in ‘Washington there is not much enthu- siasm over this bill. It is pointed out that the big district is in no condition to support a cumbersome form of government, that its taxable property could not pay the expense and that for many other reasons it is not ready —its immense distances, with inade- quate means of communication, the difficulty of holding _elections, etc., make the territorial idea impractica- ble. The Senate committee has re- ported against such a measure. | This reviews the Alaskan legislation as proposed to date. There will be much more to follow. If any of it ever gets into the law books, it will prob- ably be through much tribulation. But whether or no this much may be pre- dicted that through the digcussion in- cident the East may come at last into the knowledge that Alaska, with its immense area. vast resources and un- | limited opportunities, is on the map. Among the prominent Alaskans the city looking after legislation on their private interests are Francis Me- Nulty, Nome lawyer, who seeks the place of Colonel Grisby as District At- torney at Nome; “Tim” Galen, Deputy | Marshal at Nome, who is a brotfer-in- |law of Senator Carter: John Rustgard, formerly Mayor of Nome; C. P. Dam, Alaskan steamboatman; Judge John- son, formerly District Judge for all of | Alaska, and who resigned that office to | prdetice law at Nome. Porter J. Costen. an attorney at Nome, is here in the interests of lot owners at Nome to secure patents for the same. The matter has been concluded before the general land office, and pat- ents ordered issued, Costen being named as commissioner to transmit the 1 same. in | ple of the man who failed when his| | neighbor under like conditions suc- ceeded. 4 Let us see what f 1it growing means in some European countries where the | ghost of overproduction seidom enters. The vineyards of France in 1897 em- | braced 1,623,567 hectares (a hectare is | two and a half acres), equivalent to 4,- 058,917" acres. Our acreage of vines is about 300,000 and all other fruits about as much more. France exported to the | United Kingdom wine valued at | £3,751,763 or $18,768,815, and brandy valued at, £1,300182 or $6,500,- 910. The = United Kingdom im- ;ported from Spain fruits valued | at £2,026,464 cr $15,132,320, and of | wine £807,410 or $4,037,050. I have no data of the many thousa. s of acres in | France devoted to apples, prunes, olives and other frui‘s than grapes. Our planting is insignificant beside them. Look at the fruit planting in Italy. Olives, 1,034,000 hectares: wine grapes 3,462,000 hectares; chestnuts, 412,000 hec- | tares; in all 12,270,000 acres. { Consider Spain. Of the 79.65 per cent of productive land 3.7 per cent is de- voted to vineyards; 1.6 to olive culture, and 20.8 to other fruits. Spain exports large quantities of oranges, raisins, grapes, nuts, olives anc wines. Of wine .in 1896 she exported 143,471,188 pesetad (peseta is 1 franc), equal to $28,674,237. France alone took over $14,000,000 worth | of Spain’s common wine and over $500,- 000 worth of her sherry. Little Greece in 1893 had 336,000 acres of vineyards, besides 168,000 acres of currants not so classed (but they are grapevines all the same), and 432,000 acres of olives.. This is a condition that has existed in Europe since long be- fore fruit growing in California had any commercial significance. The need for other focd products in those coun- tries has marked the present fruit planting as about the maximum limit. The export trade so valuable to France, Italy and Spain is accessible to us and our better and cheaper methods of pro- ducing these articles, by reason of the fertility of our soil, improved means of culture and preparing the goods for market, and the higher intelligence of those immediately concerned in the manufacture, should admit us on nearly an equal footing to the world's trade. And we always shall have a large and ever increasing home market. ADVISING SETTLERS. To the intending settler in California I unhesitatingly say comr and join the noble army of fruit growers and be not afraid of overproduction. Buy twenty to forty acres of good land (and you can get it in the Sacramento Valley and San Joaquin Valley and many oth- er places in Northern ..nd Central Cali- fornia for $25 to $76 per acre); plant part to fruit trees, after carefully studying your soil arn. the varieties best adapted to it; plant some alfaifa; raise your chickens; keep a cow o= t o and a few hors; have a family garden; produce as near as possible what you require for home consumption; do your work with the help of your family and don't be afraid to carn wages on the outside when you have nothing to do at home. In short, farm here with the sam > in- dustry you did back East and I can as- sure you not only a goci living, but that you will have money to loan and withal will experfence the joy of living in the most delightful climate in the world. At this writing, Janu.ry 24, 12.4, if you live in the Northwestc.a States you are fighting weather 20 io 40 degrees below zero. Let me give you the reading of the thermometer in Cal- ifornia: . 58, Min. 46 (above) 56, Min. 36 (above) 56, Min. 32 (above) . 60, Min. 36 (above) Red Bluff is 200 miles orth of San Francisco. Think of this, Minnesotans and lowans, with your fur caps and ear 1abs, with your woolen mittens and your overcoats and your broad woolen comforters encasing your necks and fdces up to your eyes when you go out to feed your shivering stock I can al- most hear you slapping your sides and back to keep your hands from freezing. Come to California and be comfortable. —_————————— Publishes New Law Volumes. Thomas Carl Spelling, the well-known attorney, has just issued two volumes entitled “A Treatise on New Trial ana Appellate Practice,” which work ‘is likely to be of great value In legal cir- cles. The treatise presents and illus- trates the laws and rules of practice in proceedings subsequent to decls- ions by trial courts, including final dis- position in the Appellate Court, with special reference to the codes of Cali- fornia and the Pacific Coast and West- ern States. The careful analysis and systematic arrangements of the decis- ions bearing on new trials and appeals is sure to be appreciated by the legal profession. —_— e —— Tries to Strangle Mother. Herman Hasse, a laborer, living at 524 Cixth street, tried to jump out of a three-story window at his home short- ly after midnight yesterday morning while temvorarily insane, and when his mother struggled with him to prevent him ecarrying out his intention he grabbed her by the throat and at- tempted to strangle her. Policeman Hammond heard her screams and res- cued her. Hasse was sent to the de- tention ward at the Central Emergency Fospital to be examined by the Insan- ity Commissioners. —_———————— New Law Reference Book. A véry useful reference book for use of attorneys in court is one compiled by Curtis Hillyer of the San Francisco par and just from the press of the Rancroft-Whitney Company. The new law volume is entitled “Law of Evi- dence in California™ and it follows the Code of Civil Procedure closely. A large number of decisions of the Su- preme Court find a place with eacn section, and many ample cross-refer- ences are also to be found.