The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 30, 1905, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1905. AL ESTATE MAKES STRONG ADVANCES DURING YEAR 1905 [homas Magee & Sons Issue Circular Showing Great Gains Over Last Season’s Sales. Business and Residence Portions of City Indicate Growth and Promise for Investors. Interesting figures from the advance sheets of Thomas Magee & Sons’ Real ] 'state Circular show that the market has been very The sales were almost three times as many as those of 19oo. active during all of h: year Residence and business portions alike show great advances and promise for investors. ¢ real estate | in acquiring lands in this section for de-« s trom advance | Pot and warehouse purposes, as well as | Real Estate | the purchases by the Ocean Shore Rail- homas Magee & | 7030 Of & terminal site on Mission street, g # | between Bleventh and Twelfth, have been ¢ sales of San Fran. |1he Signal for renewed activity in the | i Ry b WD . ???5’[3’; | southerly and westerly portions of this | & d Highest pre. |section.” This latter corporation is the | : e one of its kind which is controlled [ were the ‘n_ | entirely by local capital. Its efforts in the giving Increased facilities to the traveling m:rw?n? public for reaching the heart of the city 1 > |are appreciated, and it is hoped that the ie totals 0T | gofion of the gentlemen who formed this r the totals | ., poration will stimulate and encourage COMPATISON | oiherg to develop the other resources of erewlth ap- t sales were, of course, those south side of Market street, South east of Fourth, $306,000; south west of Sixth, %.60,000; south west of Sixth, $125,000; same | ,000; same resold, $160,000; soutn | e Market, west of Second, $150,000; | h side Market, east of Main, $125,000; | h corner Market and First, $120,000. | of importance on other streets in | our city and its adjacent country. { | | | | sout! level reached in the years sales Byl o p‘:‘;:t.{r“ s section were: North corner.Third | for beginning of a |2nd Jessie, 000; soutn side Mission, | D & o west of First, §20,000; resold for $275,000; | not level of west corner Third and Natoma, $220,000; | b volu resold, $240,000; south side Mission, east of | - Sovel = Fourth, $210,000; resold, $221,000; north cor- | a Radge ourth and Howard, $200,000; west side | East, south of Market, $1%0,000; west side | Fourth, south of Mission, $165,000; east | corner Third and Sherwood, $160,000; north corner Fourth and Natoma, $150,000; east | corner Seventh and Harrison, $150,000; ked th@ begir appre- 20 real an south side Mission, west of Fourth, $127, ; south corner Mission and Third, $12, East, south of Market, west corner Mis- ! east side Sixth, of Stevenson, $100,00v. STERN ADDITION ACTIVE. 1661 sales made in Western Addition, amounting to $16,3 844. This shows an increase of $2, over the figures of 1904, an increase of 20 per cent. The sales in this section have west side the | well distributed, the usual totals being due partly to s: in the busines$ ions of such streets Van Ness, | as well as residence sec- p Polk, McAllister and H usual number in g ng prices paid The sales in the Mission district were ré were twenty- |22 In number and amounted to $8,897,- | recorded on Market an increase of over $3,500,000 over 1904 | t and Gough, figures, or an increase of over 60 per unting to $5,659,50v, | Cent. Sales were well distributed, and ‘g from $1000 o front | the monthly totals have been uniformly a foot, the highest price | 1arge. The important sales besides the r any’ property in this city. | tWo blocks at Eighteenth, Nineteenth | lo was that of the | and Dolores, sold to the city for a park | os D. Phelan, on | for $151,35 and $140,000, were: South side rket street, east | Market, west of 1 th, $135,000; corner Skrket by -an h and Howard, $130,000; corner Mar- feet, for $700,000. an ]'.um,d_ faml_ rr;:vhi; $ mt cndr» SORT \er Ninth and Folsom, $57,000; west side 5 s o s Ninth, north of Howard, $55,000; corner NS e Sub: SWS Shonhar ¥ ment | Ninin' and Harrison, $35,0000 corner Mis- PEWISLY " S mhrih Side and Tenth, $55,000; east side Tenth, of Kearny, 48 feet | o 0" of Mission, and corner Va- iy e e s and Fifteenth, $35.000. ot Epllii e Sapination thousand one hundred and *j"’ll':;’h:*:s"r‘.nv i5 mportance sales were recorded in h ” ¢ - and homesteads, amount- | o mpeghig e g s 601,015, an , increase of | g g gl et grostoreadd ek over 1904 figures, or 50 i " Sorathel. Wit The event of the year ikt 68 e eommer. | in this section was the purchase | om the Fra te to the Cowell | DY @ strong syndicate of about fifty | ’ 350,000 completes the list of | Plocks ranging from Nineteenth ave- s .00 ang over for the vear. |Due to the ocean and from I street | 904 three | South, the largest single purchase be- is remembered that i ), $1,151,000 and $1,000,000, t will be appreciated how gen- activity has been in 1905 with no excess of the three sales men- wve of $700,000, $500,000 and $500,000. ing twenty-one full blocks and por- | tions of thirty-six blocks between y-fourth and Thirty-seventh | R and W streets, for $280,000 Parkside Syndicate, taking hold b s . 2 property and opening it up, | . and this - T | sary to put the large properties pur- nd & dou t the movement in real e has been well distributed over all ons of the city. The monthiy sales are given herewith: chased by them in first-class shape for immediate sale. The advent of a | branch of the Ocean Shore Railroad into a portion of this section should, when completed, have a very bene- ficial effect on values there. “The building operations amounted | to $20,096, , as against $16,916,118 for 1904. This is an increase of $3,- 180,640 over 1904, or mearly 20 per cent, |No. sales.| Amount OUTLOOK FOR 1906. Notwithstanding the realization of | many of our hopes for the year 1905 ! and the grand total of $74,392,540 for the year, as indicated in these col- umns, there is room for the belief that | 1906 will far exceed the totals for | 1905. Compared with other cities as Eeptember October ... ember ember ARA SECTION. FIFTY-V . z to population, bank clearings and | business dome in this section in- |y, qing operations, San Francisco's | « $5,138,455 in 5 over the figures | figures show no larger a percentage of increase in the volume of real estate business and no larger a volume Of | actual business done mw any of the | targe Eastern citfes. hile in- pre- { vious years we enjoyed a moderate growsh, we have only now begun to - 19 This is an ineréase, of 52 per and the number of transactions also seq slightly. With the sales on street mentioned above of $700,000, 0% and $500,0, which were all.in the ara seetfon, there was also the sale on east of e e T f | show, not what our possibilities are it 5 inches on Market Siresl 0 [for the” future. but by a leap = end| erage depth of 64 feet with “L" % by | youngd fnto an increase of 50 per cent | 7 out-to Mason street, which £old for | in one year over figures of $47,000,000, | 3354 S01d for MInum; the hofth' | maintained for three successive vears, st corner of Market ‘and Battery | pave demonstrated that the ‘business | - 2% feet on Market by average | done in real estate in 1805 is only on . h side | ; nar with that of the larger cities of feet east of Golden | ¢po country, in proportion to popula- - feet on Market sireet bY | (jon, bank clearings and building op- eragt depth of 165 feet to Turk street | grations. In other words, San Fran- rear for $200,000; north side of Market | cizoo®1os ohi reached a point in Its for $275,000; the north side ee feet east of Mason, 20:3 feet rowth by rapid strides In t Market street by average depth of 80 | Saur vears | hich i watia® b for $147.500. Space only forbids our | reached had our growth been form during the las: fifteen years. To be sure, this growth is more notice- able, coming as it has in the last few years. While during 1904, consider- ing the city as a whole, prices had not advanced materially, they have done so during 1905, “Those in touch with the real estate market have been asked during the last year if there was not undue In- flation in the real estate market. A fair answer to this question would be, that in times of prosperity like the present, a small degree of specu- {lation is bound to creep in. A fair $18,416791, an i1crease of over $11,000,000, | statement would be that 85 to 90 per es compared with the figures of 1904, and | cent of our volume of business is due over $8000,000 over the figures for 183, |to growth and merit, while 10 to 15 and is the greatest increase of any sec- | per cent might be considered due to tion In the city. This section witnessed | speculation and a @iscount of our fu- unusual activity on Mission street and on | ture. A careful study of the mort- portiors of Howard street, as well as on | gages in connection with the real es- cast, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth and‘ute sales will show that while the Eixth streets, in the first half of this year, | real estate sales amounted to $74,- | while in the last half of the year the | 392,540 for the year the mortgages, all purchases by the Southern Pacific Rail- [ owing for the remaking of many old road end the Western Pacific Rallroad | mortgages, indicates that our regl es- uni- five other important sales between $100.000 and $400,000 The sales quoted show the charac- magnitude of the business done indicate no spectal an in t seetion and preference for any particular part of this ter section. The. northerly portions of Mont. gomery and Sansome streets have wit. nessed considerable activity. The sales in the 50-vara section w 680 in number and amounted to $23,761.846 as against 53) sales in 1904 with a total of $15.623 455 LARGE VARA SECTIO *“The sales roade in the 100-vara section | were 807 in pumber, and amounted to | ond {frost and ice last night. tate purchases, taken as a whole, are being made on the basis of two-thirds cash and a third mortgage. As long as a condition such as this exists no talk of real estate purchases being on anything but a sound basis can have any foundation in fact.” NEW YORK BUILDERS DEFEAT COAST FIRMS Union Iron Works and Se- attle Concern Lose Chance to Construet Liner. Special Dispatch to The Call. SEATTLE, Dec. 29.—The New York Steamship Company probably will build the Pacific Coast Steamship Company's new passenger steamer to be placed on the run between San Francisco and Seat- tle some time in 1907. At a meeting of the board of directors held in New York the contract will definitely be let, but thel is little chance that it will go to any other firm than the New York one. Of the six bids submitted that of the New York firm was the lowest and was most acceptable. Two Pacific Coast firms and four Atlantic Coast firms submitted bids on the work. Moran Bros. of this city and the Union Iron Works of San Fran- cisco were the two Paclfic Coast firms. The New York Shipbuilding Company offered to deliver the boat cheaper and quicker than the coast companies. The cost of the new steamship willi run be- tween $760,000 and $800,000. The amount of the bids is purposely withheld by Vice President Ford. The New York firm of- fered to have the vessel completed in twelve months. The Union Iron Works wanted eighteen months. —_——— Priest Saved by Children. PORTLAND, Dec. 29.—In a fire which partially destroyed St. Michael's Ital- ian Catholic Church at an early hour this morning Father Alexander Castelli was badly burned about the head, shoulders and back. He was rescued from what would have been certain death by two children, who discovered the fire. The fire is supposed te have | been started by ‘a’ live coal from the fireplace in the room. —————— BULLY HILL MINE IS SCENE OF RICH)} STRIKE Ore of High Grade Is Met With at the Eight Hundred-Foot Level. REDDING, Dec. 29.—An unexpected- ly large and high grade body of ore was opened up on the 800-foot level of the main Bully Hill mine yesterday. The ore is very high grade, being sec- in rank only to the high-grade character of the first rock removed, namely the ore that gave this mine its great reputation. Recent extensive ex- plorations on the 700-foot level show the ore body at second only to the showing on the 800-foot level. The ore body shows a width of sixteen feet. — . MARGARET SANGSTER Talks to Girls IN NEXT SUNDAY’S CALL. B — e — EXTREMELY COLD WEATHER FELT IN SHASTA COUNTY Heavy Fall of Snow in Redding and Thermometer in Weaverville Records 18 Degrees. REDDING, Dec. 20.—The cold snap of the last two days has been the most severe ever felt in Northern California. Snow has fallen in great quantities in the mountains and in Redding there was a heavy snowfall yesterday, with Indications point to more snow to-night. At Weaverville the mercury dropped below MAIN 18 degrees last nigat and six inches of | snow fell. Cattle are suffering severely and stockmen will lose heavily. ————e—————— Woman and Girl Die in Flames. TILLAMOOK, Or., Dec. 29.—Mrs. Hembree, wife of A. Hembree, and their daughter, Ora, about 17 years of age, were burned to death early to-day at San wake. Their house caught fire and all got out but Mrs. Hembree and her daughter, who, wishing to recover some of their effects, returned to the build- ing and the roof feil in upon them. —_———— Would-Be Murderer Takey Life. SAN DIEGO, Dec. 23.—Andrew Nich- ols, aged 67, a Greek, this afternoon committed suicide after an unsuccess- ful attempt to kill his wife. Nichols had been suffering from various physi- cal ailments, for a long time and was despondent. p el st that depth to be | BLAZE DESTRDYS REDDING STORES Flames Spread With Great Rapidity and With Diffi- culty Are atvLast Subdued FIRE FEW MONTHS AGO Damage Suit for Libel in Court as Resumlt of the Con“agration of Last May —_— Special Dispatch to The Call. REDDING, Dec. 20.—One of the most disastrous fires that has occurred in Red- ding in ten years took place at 2:12 o'clock this morning. In a space of three hours flames destroyed the stores of the Cheno- weth-Moore Company and Willlam Kes- ler. The fire started in the rear of the building, which is owned by Mrs. Anna O'Neil. The loss of the Chenoweth-Moore Company is $22,000, Kesler's $7900 and Mrs. O'Neil §2000. The Chenoweth-Moore store was in- | sured for $14,000, Kesler for $7900 and Mrs. O'Neil for $1000. On May 25 last a fire broke out in the same building and partly ruined the stocks of both stores. At that time Mrs. O’'Neil, owner of the building, made state- ments to the effect that Z. Chenoweth, member of the Chenoweth-Moore firm, had set fire to the building, and for mak- ing this statement she is now defendant in a libel suit for $25,000. The fire last night was in one of the most prominent blocks in the city, and for a time it looked as if the whole block was doomed. The heroic work of the firemen prevented the flames from spread- ing to adjoining buildings. AWFUL HALLUCINATION OF AN INSANE MAN Imagines His Two Wives Are Talking to Him at Onece. Speclal Dispatch to The Call. SAN BERNARDINO, Dec. 20.—It was an open question when James Artega was brought to the County Hospital this morning whether he had the delirium tremens or was crazy. He was brought |in from Hesperia, where he owns and manages a small winery. Artega is en- tertaining an awful hallucination. He has been married twice and he imagines his two wives are talking to him, one commanding one ear and one the other. He tries to induce them to stop, but their | tongues wag on. The flesh under one of his ears is torn. He must have been making strenuous efforts to deaden the sound of one of those raucous voices. Through the hours of his torment he keeps calling out in Spanish: “Take them away, take them away.” HUNTERS HEAR CRIES IN NICK OF TIME Petalumans in Danger of Drowning Rescued by Fel- low Sportsmen. Special Dispatcn to The Call. PETALUMA, Dec. 20.—S. G. Arnold. his son, F. H. Arnold, and Harry Slith, an employe of the Petaluma and Santa Rosa electric railway, had a narrow escape from drowning ir Petaluma River last Thursday. They left Peta- luma in a small hunting boat to hunt for ducks in the marsh below town. The tide was low and in some way the boat was cupsized, throwing the occu- pants into the water. All were ham- percd with heavy hunting suits and rubber boots, and none but F. H. Arnold could swim. The slimy waters near the | banks prevented their making the shore. Their ‘cries for help brought other hunters to their rescue. The trio was taken froin the water when about thoroughly exhausted. CALIFORNIANS CLAIM 00,000,000 -ESTATE Three Riverside People As- rt They Are Heirs of Fortune in Holland. Speclal Dispatch to The Call. RIVERSIDE, Dec. 29.—Riverside is to the front with three heirs who lay claim to a portion of the Metzger mil- lions which for 200 years have lain in the national treasury of Holland. The claimants are G. 8. Metzger of Colton avenue and Harry Metzger and Mrs. Otto Fritz of Kansas avenue. As the Metzger estate is valued at $200,000,000 and the heirs are estimated not to ex- | ceed 200v persuns, the individual share ‘would amount to the handsome sum of $100,000. Eastern heirs bave formed an association to fight for their claims, which, it is said, the Dutch Govern- ment admits are valid. — el MEXICANS PURSUE AMERICAN METHODS TO WIN STRIKE “Cholos” in Employ of Gas Company Post Pickets und Win Over Men Sent by Agency. SAN BERNARDINO, Dec. 29.—At noon to-day the humble cholos in the employ of the San Bernardino Gas Company refused to go to work unless their wages were raised to $2 a day. They have been getting $170, but this is too low a figure, they claim. The company denied their request and sent word to an employment agency to fur- nish more men with all expedition. More cholos came, but with arrival of each new man the pickets posted by the striking employes won them over. Fifteen or twenty men have been sent to the scene of the strike, but the re- sult has been the same in every case, the force of the strikers has been aug- mented each time. It is planned now to smuggle men past the pickets in buggies and then force the strikers to keep away. e LIKENS MURDEROUS INDIAN TO DOG HERO OF A NOVEL SAN BERNARDINO, Dec. 29.—Louis Napoleon Bellamy, a half-breed Indian, well educated and reared by a promi- |nent pioneer family of this sity, was genzine is]| never sold in convicted of assault with a deadly weapon by a jury to-day and sentenced to two years In prison. In making his ‘argument the District Attorney likened || Bellamy to Jack London's dog hero in “The Call of the Wild.” He said the savage spirit of Bellamy’'s ancestors quickened the Indian’s blood at inter- vals and at such times he thirsted for en. One shot the side.’ PLA CER MINES T0 GAIN MILLIONS IN PLATINUM Director Walcott Reports on Within two years, so Charles D. Wal- cott, director of the United States Geo- logical Survey, has just reported, the in- vestigation of the black sands of the Pa- cific Coast will lead to an addition of from $2,000,000 to $5,000,000 to the output of the placer gold mines of the West. In addition to this. Dirctor Walcott predicts that an adequate supply of platinum and the allied metals, osmium and iridium, wiil be insured, and valuable industries will be developed in many points in the have been determined, definitely, to be in the sands of the coast. Those are the first official estimates that have heen made of the value of very interesting experiments that have- been pruceeding for some months. They are the Interfor, in which an appropriation of $25,000 to continue the investigation into the black sands is recommended. mental work comes to an abrupt end. Director Walcott writes that the plant is idle, but is kept in readiness, so that it may be started in a day after notice has been received to proceed. The sum of 325,000 is reported to be sufficient to have the experiment continue umtil next June. This new addition to the wealth of the country would be distributed over every State and Territory west of the Missouri River and the processes, according to the director of the Geological Survey, “will be equally valuable to the placer mines of the south and to many undeveloped placer regions in Wisconsin, Minnesota and other Lake States.” EASY OF EXTRACTION. Up to dafe samples of black sands from more than 2000 localities have been examined. Still more than one-third of the mining localities have been represented in the tests that have been made. It has been determined that from 95 to 98 per cent of the gold and platinum in the black sands can be easily ex- tracted, simply by concentration on tables of certain types. Sands of sea beaches and the heavy sands from sluice boxes proved to be in the best possible condi- tion for separation on tables, Director Waicott enumerates among the substances that have been found in the sands of this coast, in addition to gold and platinum, the following: Chrome iron ore, for the manufacture of paints; chrome steel and bichromate of potash; monazite and zircon, for the manufacture of incandescent gas and electric lights; magnetic ore, for the manufacture of steel; tantalite and columbite, which have become very valuable In electric lighting, and corundum, quicksilver, tin ore and garnet. Placdinum has been found in many local- itles where its presence was not suspect- ed. The majority of tne specimens com- tained gold in appreciable amount, which it had previously been supposed to be impossible to extract, either because the gold was finely divided or because it was coated with iron oxide or other materials which prevent amalgamation. The divi- sion was easily accomplished. “It was found in the experiments,” so writes Director Walcott, “that much larger supplies of high-grade magnetic iron could be made valuable easily by concentration from the sands of the Pa- cific Coast beaches and from waste mag- ‘metic iron ore from the sluices of placer mines. This addition of wealth would be great, If suitable means for smelting these sands could be found.” The fact has already been published, but is restated in this connection as a matter of interest, considering the great stake that the Pacific Coast has in the subject of coast iron and steel, “that, ith the co-cperation of the Portland Chamber of Commerce, an electric smelter was built from materials obtained principally on the spot, and steel of good quality was made directly from the ore, with as high an efficiency as eighteen pounds of steel per hursepower day, an efficiency equal to the best electric smelt- ing practice in forelgn countries, where such processes have become established.” VALUES IN CALIFORNIA. An interesting part of Director Walcott's report deals with the values of platinum that were discovered in the course of the black sand experiments in many locali- ties. The values credited to this State, per ton of con. -ntrated sands, range from 2 cents to $1934 18. The statement of values in €alifornia is condensed here as fol- lows: Piatinum_values per ton of concentrated sand in Chico, $5 46; Magalia, 30 cents; Mokelumne Hill, 2 cents; Crescent City, 4 cents; Smith River, b4 _cents; South fork of Smith River, §618 31; Wilson Creek, 2 cents; China Flal Humboldt County, $177 08; Orland, §6 ¥ Michigan Bluff, 34 cents; Genesee, 6 cent: Sawyers Bar, $2 80; Oak Bar, b4 cents; Kla- math River, §2 40; Callahan, $7 €2; Hornbrook, 18 cents; Happy Camp. 350 Cecilville, $2 01; Trinity Center, 28 cents; Burnt Ranch, 13 00; Big B 75: Junetlon City, T, 5 1934 18; Hawkins Bar, $4 05. The value per ton in platinum in Oregon ran very low, accordin to the showing made by Director Walcott, who credits 15 cents a ton to the town of Denmark and 6 cents a ton to Pistol River Beach, in Curry County. Platinum has been found frequently at Oroville in dredging opera- tions. At Stone Lagoon, in Humboldt in commercially appreciable quantities. The Santa Barbara beach and Sawyers Bar, in Siskiyou County, are promising districts. At North Fork, Trinity Coun- ty, the supply is reported to be plentiful. Incidentally some information is im- parted by the Director of Geological Sur- vey that may be of assistarice to any one who intends to search for platinum. The metal is easlly distinguishable by its great weight—in panning it remains be- hind even gold in the pan; by its white color—it is whiter than lead, and is dis- tinguished from amalgam by its smooth West to handle the by-products which | embodied in a report to the Secretary of | Without such appropriation the experi- | County, this State, platinum was found | Sands Rich in Metal. THIS STATE’S VALUES ARE HIGH surface, whereas the surface of amal- gam as seen under & good glass is rough; by its ressitance to nitric acid, as com- pared with native silver or lead. Native platinum is usually very impure. Occa- sionally it contains so much irom, chro- mite and jother impurities as to be dark in color and not easily distinguished from grains of chromite, with which it is fre- quently assoclated. It often contains iri- disomine, which oecurs as flat, angular scales, while platinum scales are usually rounded like gold dust. Generally, reports Director Walcott, platinum grains arc smaller than gold grains. Large nuggets are very rare. SMELTER SITE TROUBLE. The Redding Searchlight reports that the site selected for the Balaklala smelt- er has been taken up by San Francisco, Oakland and other parties. Locations have been made, it is alleged, on top of those of the Balaklala company. TWo quarter-sections were located. The Seareh- light publishes the following story: The lcaters are A. Soderiing of Bodis, A. M. Reynolds and M. A. Hickox of Redding, Addinita_Jacobs, Nathan Jacobs, Frank Ja- cobs, C. S. Farquar, Mabel Scott, F. W. Lake, J. B. Richmond and C. 2. Tracey of San Francisco, and John D. Ackerman, Portia Ackerman and Zoe Ackerman of Oakland. The San Francisco and Oakland contingent claim that they are not jumpers, In the sense in_ which that word is . They located ground that was open to location -only since November 20, the date the land was thrown open to entry, they maintain. The locations made on November 5, befors the land was thrown open to entry, ars vold, according to their contention. But there is another side to the story, It is held that a mineral claim can be located on Government land at any time, a milltary res- ervation excepted. Thus, a mining claim can be staked out within a forest reservation at any time. The land that was an Indian allot- ment up to November 3 became Government land on that day because the allotment was then canceled. The two quarter sections could be located as mineral grounds at once, and they were so located on November 5 by the Balaklala interests. The quarter sectlons could not be filed upon as homesteads, though. until November 20, when they were thrown open to public entry. Two furnaces at Kennett are reported to be treating from 30 to 600 tons of ore a day. An additignal furnace will soon be in operation. According to the Folsom Telegraph the Natoma vineyard, of 200 acres, a few miles below Folsom, is again under bond to a company and may be dredged. The prospecting is proceeding systematically. Last year a winery on the ranch wus re- built at a cost of $§75000. The company having the bond will decide on or before May 1 whether the property shall be pur- chased for dredging. Dredge mining will be resumed on the Bear River. Two machines will be con- structed. The pit for the first dredger has been dug. The Plumas Star reports that a big strike has been made'a Genesee and that a twenty-foot ledge has been discovered by Los Angeles parties. The Indian Creek mining property, In Trinity County, has been bought by Dr. Fields. —_—— New Year's at Del Monte. After the storm the weather is beautiful at Del Monte, and the goif links were never greener. Why not enjoy your New Year's holiday there? Round-trip tickets, good return- ing Tuesday, including-four days' acc.mmoda~ tions at thé hotel, $1S. Through parior car on train leaving Third and Townsend streets at 3 p. m. . —_————— AFFIRM AND REVERSE ORDER MADE BY THE LOWER COURT Appellate Judges Render Decision Af- fecting Opinion of Jurist Who Heard Damage Sult. SACRAMENTO, Dec. 29.—The Appel- late Court to-day rendered af import- ant decision in the case of the Boca and Loyalton. Railroad vs. the Nevada, California and Oregon Railroad, in which the court afirms the decision of the trial court in granting a new trial on the east crossing, but reverses the trial court in granting a new trial on the west crossing. It appears that damages were awarded the plaintiff be- cause the track of the defendant had crossed their right of way in two places. A new trial was granted on the ground that the original and amended incorporation papers of the plaintiff did not provide for condemna- tion proceedings. The Appellate Court holds that the trial court erred as re- garding the amended articles. —————— NOT QUITE AS BACKWARD AS HER ANCESTOR, MILES Descendant of Standish, the Puri- tan, Will Wed on New Year's Day. SANTA ROSA, Dec. 29.—Miss Leah Barrows, the youngest daughter of Su- pervisor J. W. Barrows and a lineal de- scendant of Miles Standish, will be led | to the altar Monday evening by Frank | L. Hoyt. The wedding will occur at the Baptist church and Rev. Leander Turney will officiate. The bride-to-be is a striking blonde and a very charm- ing girl. Hoyt is the junior member of the firm of Hoyt Bros., prominent con- tractors and builders of this county. ——a——— JLLINGIS GIRL CAPTURES BAPTIST DIVINE'S HEART Engagement of a Recently Ordained Petaluman to Miss Annie Long s Is Announced. PETALUMA, Deec. 29.—The engage- ment is announced of Rev. Charles @arth, recently ordained a minister of the Baptist church at Napa, and Miss Annie Long of Barrington, Ill. The young people met while both were stu- dents at the Chicago University. Mr. Garth is a son of John Garth, a pioneer resident of Petaluma. = IUBSERRIVERIVRY > Mr. Henry F. - December, 1905. gs (o announce that they will establish their own passengcer offices al 401 California Street, San Francisco, on Jan. 1, 1906, vnder the management of Dorgeloh. ADVERTISEMENTS. FINDS A NINER DEAD N CREE Body of Well-to-Do Grass Valley Prospector Is Dis- covered After Long Search SUSPECTED MURDER IS Ghastly Wound in Back of Van Hoeter's Neck Grim Evidence of a Foul Crime —_— Special Dispatch to The Cail. GRASS VALLEY, Dec. 29.—Robert Van Hoeter, a well-to-do prospector, who had lived in this city for the last forty years, was murdered in cold blood at his cabin’ near Rough and Ready, about six miles from here, within the last few days. He was missed from his accustomed haunts and a few friends called at his cabin. They found the door unlocked, food upon his table and his keys in the door. They com- menced to search, but snowstorm compelled them to give it up. This morning Sheriff Walker, City Marshal Daniel Deeble and twelve others went to the cabin to institute a search. They had been out only about five minutes when Willlam Rule, a friend of the dead man, shouted to his companions that he had found the miner's bedy. Van Hoeter was lying face upward in a creek. In the back of his neck was a large hole, evidently made by a shot- gun, and in the right shoulder was an- other gunshot wound. A short distance from the body was found a beer check on a local saloon and a few silver coins, upon which were bloody finger prints, The dead man had trouble with his neighbors over the land he was work- ing, which was reported to be quite rich. It is also reported that Van Hoeter had just made a clean-up from his sluice boxes and that the murder was done for the purpose of robbery. Dennis Donovan, one of Van Hoeter's neighbors at Dead Mans Flat, was ar- rested by the Sheriff to-night and is being closely questioned concerning his troublé- with the murdered man. Van Hoeter owned several pleces of real estate, two or three mining claims and a large block of stock in a Placer County min ————————— Mr. Retail Merchant, You will need for the coming year printing. We were never better prepared to do It cor- rectly. Letter heads, billheads, envelopes, cir- culars, stationery that has character, adver- tising matter. Let us figure with you. San- born, Vail & Co, T ket street. * |SALOONMAN'S DEATH ADDS TO MYSTERY Liquor Dealer, Whose Wife Was Poisened, Dies From Effects of Same Drug. PORTLAND, Dec. 29.—The body of Kas- par Van Dran, until recently a saloon- keeper In this city, was found to-day in bis room in a downtown hotel. He had committed suicide by swallowing eyanide of potassium. Van Dran left a note in which he blamed a former rival saloon- keeper, Joe Young, for his troubles. An unusual story is attached to the two men and their families, involving the attempt of Young to kil Kaspar Van Dran and the death later of Mrs. Van Dran from cyanide poisoning, administered by per sons unknown to the authorities. Last summer Van Dran was shot and seriously injured by Young for alleged interference in the domestic life of the Youngs. It was while Young was out of jail under bond for shooting Van Dran that Mrs. Van Dran was poisoned by drinking gin- ger ale poisoned with cyanide. Mrs. Van Dran died almost instantly. A bartender named Chase, who had been in Young's employ and who later went to work for Van Dran during his convalescence from the injuries inflicted by the bullets from Young's pistol, was arrested in San Francisco on suspicion of having killed Mrs. Van Dran and was re- turned here for examination, but was never put on the stand. There was not sufficlent evidence to hold him. Later Young was tried for shooting Van Dran, convicted and sentenced to ten years’ im- prisonment in the penitentia BAJA. CALIFO.RNIA Damiana Bitters A