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6 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDQE, Editor and Proprietor. ' SUBSCRIPTION RATES: DAILY CALL— per year by mail; by carrier, 15c per week. SUNDAY ALL— II.SO per year. WEEKLY CALL— «I.CO per year. The Eastern office of the SAN FRAXCISCO CALL (Daily and Weekly), Pacific states Adver tising Bureau, Khim'.ander ' building, Hose and Duanc streets, New York. SATURDAY MARCH 9, 1895 Vetoes are in demand. The people watch the Governor. Fireman Budd, turn on the cold water. Brace up, Mr. Mayor, and make the The Gaiety girls are gone, but the girls that remain are gay. Vacaville dicers the lenten diet with the luxury of fresh fruit. 'Jlie new era is coming in with a rush, and cherries an- ripe. Fewer beggars and more flower-stands would imprcn c the st • ■ Traffic will never move easily so long as it has to move over cobblestones. It is a pity that Greaham hasn't some of r ose of wholesome resignation. Congress left Democracy with nothing to stand on, but it can sit down on Grover. We defend Republicanism when we de nounce the representativea who disgrace it. Fat fees and high taxes make a good living for tax-eaters, but are death to tax payers. Str< - is a public nuisance that a little well-directed energy would soon remedy. axing at the tariff-tinkers is virtually taking an oath to support the industries of the country. A coal-miners' strike in Pennsylvania is getting to be a^ much of an annual racket as house-cleaning. Party men are organized to support political principles, but what do non-par tisans get together for? Everybody boasts of representative gov ernment, but very few are proud of what their representatives do. It matters little which route the San Joaquin road takes so long as it gets there and is able to branch out. If there was even a single bubble of repu tation left to the fiasco Congress, the re port of Cannon exploded it. Whether we are to have an extra session of Congress or not depends very largely on how Grover likes the iishing. Patience, practice and perseverance will do anything; they have even succeeded in electing a senator from Idaho. A Cuban revolution always seems to be made of some kind of stuff that ends in smoke, but is never up to snuff. I.ra king the Republican campaign ■ on the part of a legislator is equiva lent to breaking with the party. Mud roads in the country and cobble stones in the city have long been out of date and ought to be out of sight. If Grover should manage to get his hook ';t in his coat-tails he could boast of catching the biggest sucker on record. If the Fresno raisin men will stick to it, they will tind as much profit in cultivat ing co-operation as in growing raisins. Democratic extravagance in Congress is no excuse for Republican extravagance at Sacramento, but it is a very strong warn ing. It is altogether probable that Tariff Re form Wilson will give us free trade in foreign stamps and a deficiency in the postal revenues. It appears bad to have so many frauds in various parts of the country exposed every day, but it would be worse if they were not exposed. There is no good reason why the city should not issue bonds, pay its creditors, improve the streets and proceed to be an up to date metropolis. Although the late Congress did nothing in the way of statesmanship, it managed to get awa^ with more money than any other Congress on record. Since the legislators were co generous in dividing the spoils with the attaches, it is probable the attaches will now declare dividends for the legislators. Li Hung Chang once more bobs up as the greatest man in China and points with pride to the fact that though his country fell he saved his peacock feather. Perhaps the Mayor and the Chief of Police were not aware that there were any beggars on the streets, or any ordinance against them, until they read the Call. The prompt conviction of Hayward for the murder of Miss Ging scores a good point for the law of Minnesota, and the next thing is to see how promptly it can be enforced. The proposed plans for beautifying the water front are good and when carried out will form an attractive feature of that newer and better San Francisco that every good citizen desires to see. Let us hope that the first step toward peace in the Orient will be a cessation of the verbosity of the war correspondents and a reduction of the reports from that country to the limits of fegitimate news. When the idle attaches shall have com pleted the work of sucking sparrows' eggs and jerking foreign blankets off California beds, they might be set to work to take up the cobblestones and pelt the Silurians out of town. The reappearance of the Conlin claim at Sacramento is another evidence of how hard it is to kill a bad measure so long as there is boodle behind it. Conlin has no claim against the city that can be enforced in equity or law, and the Supreme Court has already decided that to pay his de mand would be to give away the money of the people in violation of the constitution. Hia claim is not large, but if paid would open the way for others of a like nature that would cost the city millions of dollars to satisfy. It should be promptly squelched by the Governor. CLEVELAND'S COLLAPSE. The industry of the country has been paralyzed, the revenues have been re duced below the needs of government, the expenditures have been raised to above a billion dollars, a spying income tax has been imposed upon the people, the pensions of honorable veterans have been diminished, the bonded debt cf the Nation increased by $150,000,000, Congress has ad journed and Cleveland has gone fishing — behold the results of two years of Demo cratic supremacy. For much of the evil of these two dis astrous years Congress may be justly blamed, but the greater portion of the evil has been due to Grover Cleveland. This stupid, sullen, stolid man, vast of neck, vaster of stomach and vastest of all in his egotism, has been the destroyer of his party, the scourge of the people and the disgrace of the Nation. His rise to office was accidental and his course has been the inevitable consequence of electing a man with a bare capacity for a Sheriff's office, to the august position of President of the United States. Cleveland went into office for his first term as the result of a monumental lie backed by a party that demanded a right to see the books of the National Government and investigate the course of Republican administrations. The books revealed no errors, the investigation dis closed only facts that added to the honor of the long list of Republican Presidents from Lincoln to Arthur. Cleveland there fore had nothing to do but to sit back in his chair and pose for dignity. As the Seu ate was Republican he could do nothing to expose the full extent of his incapacity, but he managed to reveal enough of his domineering spirit to disgust the people, and at the next campaign he was beaten for re-election. Four years nut of office enabled him to make Mugwump alliances and he was re-elected. This time he was borne to power by a tidal wave of popular folly, and a Democratic Congress went into office with him. Then began the greater ex hibition of political imbecility, ignorance, partisanship and factions folly ever made in a representative government. Thestory of the two miserable years that have fol lowed needs no reviewing. Our great Re public has been depressed at home and shamed abroad. From the management of the finances to the management of for eign affairs, everything has displayed an impotence that has awakened mockery all round the world. The abler leaders of the Democratic party have endeavored in vain to check the folly of their President or to guide his obstinacy, but they have argued, cajoled and threat ened in vain. Some of the more independ ent representatives of the Democratic pr< ss sought to save the party by fearless criticisms of the worst errors of the ad ministration. Even so stanch a Democratic paper as the Examiner, the great orcan of the party on the Pacific Coast, found it impossible to defend him and grew in dignant in criticising him. Nothing availed, however. The Democrats had to take the consequences of their folly in accepting such a leader, and they have now abundant chance to study out how they like him. Side by side with the fat prophet of the White House has been the lean Mugwump of the State Department. Between Cleve land and Gresham the dishonors are easy. They have made the complications that in volved Democracy in hopeless confusion. They have cheered one another in mutual blunders by mutual praise and have gone together deeper and deeper into the mire. Now they stand in the mud and stand alone. The Democratic Congress is gone. Their power is stripped from them. The people watch them with an amused con tempt as they fish for suckers, apparently unconscious that in catching one another they have each caught a sucker beyond all measurement or rivalry even in the pools of politics or the rivers of corruption. MINING, NOT GAMBLING. The mining revival which now promises to become a feature of California's pros perity will be on different lines from the methods recently pursued. Min ing has become mainly a business re quiring large capital and the application of scientific processes. The gold must be sought in quartz ledges and deep gravel leads. It is probable that the revival will stimulate the invention of new processes in the treatment of the refractory ores, which, however abundant, have defeated previous efforts at reduction as a business proposition. Possibly electricity may have a part to play in this connection. All this requires money and time. If capital from home or distant sources is to take hold of the work it will look for sub stantial investment. Mining operation is one of the most legitimate of pursuits. Mining-stock operation is apt to be some thing very different. It is desirable for the credit and success of our new deal that the one should not degenerate into the other. We have had enough mining-stock booms; enough of Pine-street exploitation of the community. There have been, and are yet, substantial mining properties listed on the Stock Exchange and handled by honorable dealers in ac cordance with legitimate speculative methods. But every old San Francis can also knows that Pine street and Pauper alley have repeatedly been the scene of wild inflation of non-existent values, in which speculative manipulation, "inside points" and curbstone rumor have combined to boost up some airy structures until the kick of a porphyry horse has shat tered the unsubstantial fabric and buried the hopes and fortunes of hundreds be neath its ruins. We want no revival of that kind. Neither do we want a mining development that will resolve itself into great operating com binations of stock companies and "milling propositions." We want California, East ern or foreign capitalists to go to the mines in person, or by their trustworthy experts and agents, to examine the ground, to in vestigate prospects, to go into shafts and tunnels with their eyes open, and to in vest their money with a view of working a mine and not the speculative community. The best bullion-producing mines of Cali fornia have not been listed at the Stock Ex< hange. They have been turning out gold year after year and enriching their owners as legitimate business propositions. There are opportunities for the develop ment of hundreds more of the same kind, and that is what our prospectors, mining experts and capitalists should have in view in our new auriferdus era. PARTY DUTY. The business of condemning Republican legislators who ignore their obligations and violate their pledges to the porty and the public is the proper function of a Republi can newspaper. It is the duty of the press to voice the demand of the party for fidelity on the part of its representatives. The Republican party is clean and high minded. It expects like qualities in its representatives, and will be satisiied with nothing less. The Call would be recreant to its party if it failed to denounce any member or rep resentative of that party who violates THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 1695. plighted faith and willfully disappoints public expectation. It is only from within that the party can be purified. It is to the eternal credit of the Republican party that it has never lacked the virtue to discipline itself. It was founded on moral principle and it has never departed from that foun dation. It has been betrayed by individual representatives, bat it has never failed to call them to account for their conduct. There are two ways of dealing with party traitors; one at the polls, the other through the medium of the press. The former is effective for the future, but it is shutting the stable door after the horse is stolen. The Call proposes to attend to the case of those Republican legislators at Sacra mento who are now ignoring and defying the wishes of the party while there is yet time to bring them to book. If there be any possibility of turning them to the path of duty and decency, it shall not slip for want of effort on our part. If there are any timid or weak-kneed Re publicans who fear that we are doing the party injury or injustice by attacking its recreant representatives, let them possess their souls in peace. No party was ever the worse for the counsel of a faithful friend. The Call has full faith and confi dence in the Republican party, and loves it too well to see it abused and betrayed in its own house. The worst enemy of the party is he who fails to act up to its prin ciples, and its best friend is the man or the newspaper that shows that enemy up in its true colors. STREET BEGGARS No man who has within him a spark of the virtue of humanity can consider the hard fortunes of the poor without a feeling of sympathy, and if the poverty is asso ciated with physical misfortune or deform ity the sympathy in generous minds is always prompted to immediate helpful ness. Out of this virtue there has grown an evil. Its generosity has prompted fraud to prey upon it and many a deserving un fortunate goes unhelped because there are so many undeserving beggars to rob charity of its alms before it reaches those who need it most. The wide recognition of these truths has prompted enlightened communities to make suitable provisions for 'he deserving poor and to restrain impudent and unworthy beggars by the strong arm of the law. In this respect San Francisco has permitted her practice to fall below the level of her enlightenment. Having prescribed by law for the care of the poor and the sup pression of street begging, her ofiicials have enforced neither the one nor the other. We have not many street beggars, when compared with the cities of Southern Europe or of Oriental countries, but we have many more than should be tolerated in an American community, and the Call has undertaken an exposure of them in the conviction that it is high time to rid ourselves of the stigma which their pres ence upon the streets afhxes upon the com munity, its law and its officers. If the street beggars are deserving of care and support, it is shameful that we do not provide it in the proper way and to the proper extent. If they do not deserve help,it is sharnoful that we permit them to practice fraud upon the generosity of the charitable. In either case their presence in conspicuous places on the streets is a disgrace to the City, and our laws are con demned. "Why should the unfortunate who needs the help of his fellow men, be forced to seek it by daily begging upon the streets? Why should the man abundantly able to provide for himself, be permitted to gain his living by whining for charity instead of by work? These questions admit of but one rightful answer. Street begging, under any cir cumstances, should not be tolerated. Citi zens should refuse to make it profitable, and city officials should be resolute in en deavoring to make it impossible. Our whole street policy in San Francisco is bad. It is the blot upon the metropolis that mars its excellence and defaces its at tractions. It is time the policy should be changed and the streets made commen surate with the true dignity of the City. Let us clear away all the street nuisances from cobblestones to beggars. Let us pro vide comfortable homes and generous care for all upon whom the misfortunes of the world have fallen; ana for the persistent, insolent, able-bodied street beggar let us provide a good wholesome cure in the form of work or punishment. What are beggars and cobblestones doing on the streets of an enlightened com munity in this age of the world anyhow? SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. Elsewhere ia this paper appears an article published in a late issue of the Call on the subject of bonding Pan Francigco for the pur pose of making municipal improvements. The article is bo general, so applicable to small in terior cities as well as to San Francisco, that we reprint it in the hope that our own people can be awakened to the importance of munici pal improvement to such an extent as to be willing to bond the city of Merced for that pur pose. The time has come now when Merced must go ahead or else be distanced in the race for population and importance by her less favored but more progressive neighbors.— Merced Sun. We hear no reasonable objections made to the idea of granting the use of Goat Island for Uriuinal facilities to any and all transporta tion companies. In fact nature seems to have raised that bump in the bay for just that sort of occupation. There is a question, however, whether it is wise for the General Government to cede the island to the State and thus relin qoisfa a title Uncle Sam should have and hold in time of war. Let the General Government instead of the Slfete be the landlord in the leasing oi the island to railroad and steamship companies.— Kapa Register. The high price ($501,000) brought by the gore lot at Stockton and Market streets, San Francisco, at the auction in Judge Slack's, court last Monday is attributed to the valley railroad enterprise and the faith it has inspired in the future prosperity of that city. The prop erty, though extremely valuable, would have realized much less, real-estate men say, if it had been sold six months ago.— Alameda Encinal. The railroad company seems to be getting in its work at Sacramento very effectually now. The Legislature will adjourn in a few days. The statesmen will have to get home and the railroad lobby knows it. On Monday the anti scalpers' bill passed, and other railroad meas ures are expected to go through before adjourn ment.—Santa Cruz Record. In our opinion a good newspaper should be more like a Judge than a lawyer— that is, it should be fair and judicial rather than one sided and partisan. It should conserve the best interests of society, should never inflame a mob, incite to riot, or lessen the security of life and property.— Los Angeles Record. The present lot of the average Chinese gen eral is indeed a hard one. If he stands up and lights the Japanese he is cure to get licked, if he runs his own Government causes him to be put to death, and if he suppresses insubordina tion or a desire to pillage among his own sol diers they behead him.— Vallejo Times. Should San Francisco capture the Republican National Convention this year it would be a recognition of the growing importance of this State and that city and would be of great benefit to the Pacific Coast. That the delegates would be royally entertained goes without say ing.—Redlands Facts. If you cannot say anything good of your town either move or keep still. The man who always runs down his own town and yet stays in it is a living example of silurian incon sistency.—Santa Clara Journal. UP-TO-DATE IDEAS. According to a cablegram received from London last week the Pope has received from the President of the Transvaal Republic a dia mond weighing 971 carats. The stone was found in the Jagersfontoin mines and is de clared to be the largest known. The cablegram states th£t the monster dia mond is of a bluish-white cast and practically perfect, its only blemish being a tiny spot in the center, invisible to the naked eye. AVhy the President of the Transvaal Republic has sent it to the Pope is not made clear. It is not to be supposed that he has made a present to his Holiness of a stone valued at $1,000,000. Probably his object was to get a free advertise ment for his little republic and the big diamond found there. The Jewelers' Circular this week prints a picture of the diamond, showing its actual size. This was received from a correspondent in South Africa. The Circular presumes that the diamond referred to is the one known as the Jagersfontein Excelsior. It was picked up by a native while he was loading a truck. Although a white overseer was standing near him, he managed to hide THE LARGEST DIAMOND IN THE WORLD. [Reproduced at iU exact size.] it and keep it on his person for some time. It turned out, however, that he did not wish to steal it, for he delivered it personally to the manager. As a reward he received $750 and a horse and saddle. The exact weight of the diamond is 971% cams, or about seven and uiif-quarter ounces avoirdupois. It therefore weighs uncut nearly half a pound. A diamond of fair size for a ring weighs one carat. In its present condition it measures three inches in length, one ami a half inches in thickness, two and a half inches at its greatest breadth, and one and a third inches at its least breadth. It is of a beautiful bluish color, and is shaped like the broken-off end of an icicle. The flaw in it is believed to be more serious than is stated in the cable dispatch. It is a black Fpot near the middle. It could be cut in two, however, so as to leave out the blemish. It would then make two of the largest diamonds in existence. At the time of its discovery it was valued at $1,000,000. It is at last positively known that the new cup defender, now building by the Herreshofls, is not to be a ccnterboard, as will be seen by the following from the Providence Journal: At the Herreshoff Works, in Bristol, the lead keel that was run nearly a week ago in the south shop is iv plain sight, as the wooden mold has been removed and a good view can be had of it. It is of a peculiar shape, and differ ent from any lead, keel that has been cast at the shops heretofore. For such a large amount of lead the company had good success in run ning it, as there is not a flaw, seam or mar to be found anywhere on Its surface, which goes to show the pains that were taken in making the cast. The surface of the lead is still in a rough state from the impression of the mold, but that will disappear in a short time, as preparations are being made now to smooth it off and finish it. It has been given out recently in some newspapers that the deck or upper part of the lead keel was about 35 feet in length, but it is now known that it is consider ably shorter. As stated before, the mass of lead stands nearly 5 feet in height, with the heft of the lead just forward of the center, where it is 2 feet 9 inches in thickness. The breadth of the keel across on top is 14 inches, and at the bottom it is four inches less. The keel tapers from just forward of the cen ter to all points, the breadth of the forward and after ends being six inches. In shape it resem bles somewhat a Cape Ann dory, only the for ward end is rounded off, while the after part takes a diagonal form, and the lower part of the keel has a very slight curve downward. The big chunk of lead is solid. There is no hole in it to admit the passage of a centerboard, and all hope that the new cup defender will be what has come to be accepted as the American type— a centerbemrd— must therefore be aban doned. PERSONAL. J. M. Pickerell of the navy is at the Occi dental. Dr. Thomas Flint of San Juan is registered at the Grand. P. A. Bucll. a lumberman of Stockton, is at the Grand. J. U. Martin, a stockman from Woodland, is at the Russ. C. C. Wallace of Eureka, Nev., arrived at the Palace yesterday. R. C. Sargent, the capitalist, of Stockton, is staying at the Russ. W. R. Burt, a banker of Saginaw, Mich., is stopping at the Palace. J. M. Fulton, a railroad man of Reno, Nev., ia stopping at the California. Gfcorge W. ilapes, the cattleman, of Reno, New, is registered at the Russ. Frank M. Buck of Vacaville came down yes terday and put up at the Palace. J. R. Tregloan, a mining man of Amador, is in town and stopping at the Grand. Dr. J. Hunter Wells of Portland is in the city and has registered at the Occidental. State Prison Director Robert T. Devlin of Sacramento arrived at the Grand yesterday. E. R. Ilutchins, president of the California Fruit Transportation Company of Chicago, is at the Palace. F. B. McGovern, a New York dealer in Cali fornia products, formerly of this city, is regis tered at the California. John Coplice, merchant, of Butte, and Senator Edward Cardwell of the same city are at the Occidental. Both are pioneers or Montana. PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT The late Moses Kimball of Boston, who made his money as a theatrical manager in that city, was an interesting character. For many years his ambition was to be Mayor, but the politi cians never took kindly to his aspiration. When he was an Alderman, before the war, he voted and spoke against allowing Daniel Webster the use of Faneuil Hall to refute the abolition ar guments of Wendell Phillips. Webster never forgave Kimball for this, and the' incident practically ruined Kimball politically, though he was sent to the Legislature after the occur rence. He made many public bequests in hia will. Some years ago Frederick Douglass addressed a convention of negroes In Louisville. He said in the course of his remarks that he did not think an amalgamation of the white and black races desirable, the pure negro being, in his opinion, the best of the race. While speaking his eyeglasses continued to slide from their perch. "But I wish," interpolated the speaker. "I wish we could get up some sort of an alloy for the negro which would insure a nose capa ble of holding spectacles." Miss Anna Gould was once a pupil at Ogontz, and was so lively and full of fun that she came near being rusticated as a warning to the other pupils. The words, "Reserve the cots for the two most uninteresting babies," always accom pany the check Miss Gould sends each year for the support of two beds in the babies' shel ter connected with the Church of the Holy Communion in Xew York. Mrs. Henrietta M. King, a widow of Corpus Christi, Tex., own 1875 square miles, or about 1,250,000 acres, of land in that State. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. George T. Arnold, an express messenger who runs on the Union Pacific between Denver and Kansas City, is at present visiting his brother, a Southern Pacific employe who resides in Oak- land. Mr. Arnold has been in the express ser vice for a number of years, and in that time has had several exciting experiences with train-robbers, of which he gave several gentle men some particulars while loitering about the Palace yesterday afternoon. The discussion of train robberies led up to a statement by Mr. Arnold regarding the invention of what is called a distance lock, which was recently tried on his car. "The contrivance makes it impos sible to open the express-car safe, to which it is attached, until the train has traveled a certain number of miles," said he, "and the messenger simply locks his safe, sets the lock to travel the number of miles to the next station, and it cannot be opened until the train has gone the designated distance. A peculiar mechanism connects the lock of the safe with one of the axles of the car in such a way that the safe, after being locked, can only be opened after the axle has revolved a certain number of times. The model that was experimented with was not thoroughly perfected, but even in its conditicn it was found that we could set the lock so that it would open within a few rods of the desired distance. The train-robber's most effective foe iv the future, it seems to me, will be the in ventor." T. D. Draper, who is connected with the pro posed carriage factory to be establishod at Merced, was in the city yesterday. Mr. Draper has had quite an eventful career and many year? ago took a prominent part in one of the most sensational cases which ever disturbed Central Indiana. Along in 1877 a young man named Ernest Whitehousa, who had made Terre Haute his home, suddenly blossomed out as a desperado of the worst stripe and in a few weeks succeeded in terrorizing the inhabitants of that section of the State, eluding the efforts of the police to capture him, holding up a number of people and killing two or three men during his mad career. Large rewards were offered fur the arrest of Whitehouse and these attracted the uttention of Mr. Draper, who at that time was but a plebeian porter in a whole sale house. He armed himself with an old fashioned live-barrel pistol, started on the trail of the desperado and succeeded in running him to earth near St. Louis. Mr. Draper made quite a sum of money by his fortunate capture and this he put to a good use. Koller skates were just coming into favor at that time and he had an opportunity to buy an interest in. the patent. A large manufactory soon grew up at Richmond, in that State, which gave its owners great wealth before this pleasant means of recreation fell from popular favor. M. de Fernat, a wealthy plantation-owner of Cuba, is in the city and is making a tour of the world with a party of friends in a private car. In conversation yesterday he said that the trade of Cuba was simply astonishing when compared with that of other nations and was only to be explained on the ground that every thing raised on the island was for export and all are articles of the first commercial import ance. "The exports of Great Britain, which are larger than those of any foreign country," said he, "are $32 70 per capita, while those of Cuba are $50. It is not intended to convey the impression that Cuba is richer than England, but it is simply an illustration of how the ex actions of the Spanish Government rake the island over and gather up every item of value in order to raise a revenue out of all proportion to the number of people subject thereto. The United States furnishes almost the exclusive market for Cuban products, but in return gets only a small proportion of the trade of the island. Out of a total importation into Cuba of some $35,000,000, the United States gets less than one-third, while England, which buys only a half million dollars' worth of Cuban products, soils that country almost as much a* the United States." F. C. Hubbard, who is connected with one of the large locomotive works in the East, was at the Baldwin yesterday. He says that the ten dency in engine-building at present is in the direction of larger and more speedy machines. "It has long been considered that a mile a minute was the limit of railway travel," said he, "but several railroads are now having great engines constructed which will run heavy trains at the rate of eighty miles an hour. There is a short stretch of track on the New Jersey Central road over which trains are now being run at the rate of 112 miles an hour, but with the engines now in use the road must be nearly straight to accomplish such a speed. But with the enormous engines now in course of construction one and a third miles an hour can be easily accomplished over curves and grades, there being only one requisite, and that is a solid and well-ballasted roadbed. Such a speed, however, will proba bly only be attained by special trains on the larger roads." Alexander McDougall, the inventor of the "whaleback" boat, who was at the Palace sev eral days during this week, is also largely in terested in mining. He is said to be connected with John D. Rockefeller, the Standard oil magnate, in several ventures up in Washing ton, and also has interests in the new Rniney Lake fields in the Northwest. "A large num ber of horses are now engaged in freighting goods from Tower, the northern terminus of the Duluth and Iron Range road, to both the Rainey Lako and Seine River goldfields," said he, when discussing the development of those regions, the other day. "The distance from the railroad to the fields is 100 miles and the freight rate is $1 per 100 pounds, when a year ago it was $2 50 a hundred. The district has shown such remarkable richness that a strong effort will be made to induce the State to build a wagon-road to it." J. F. Millar, representative of Leonard, & Ellis, oil refiners of New York City, returned from Honolulu on the steamer Australia. Since his arrival he has heen very ill at the Califor nia Hotel. Mr. Millar knows nearly every civ ilized country on the globe and is particularly well acquainted down on the islands. In con versation yesterday he said that the feeling there toward the United States is of the kindest and that in fact the white population consider themselves as almost belonging to the Ameri can Union. He also stated that the pulse of business is greatly quickening and in his expe rience of an annual call at the little republic for eleven years he had never found things looking brighter from a financial point of view. Pound Limits Unmolested. The Fire and Police Committee of the Board of Supervisors took the question of the exten sion of the pound limits under consideration yesterday and read numerous petitions pro and con. It was iiually decided to indefinitely postpone the matter, a proceeding which is equivalent to refusing to change the limits from their present boundaries. The committee also decided not to indorse or approve any bill of the Coroner for chemical analysis for more than $'25. In the past $00 was allowed for such operations. Plain mixed candies, 10c lb. Townsend's.* Bacon Printing Company, 50S Clay street. • Townsend's Cal. Glace Fruits,"our make," 50c lb. in Japanese baskets. 627 Market street. • CtTR-rr-TTP; heals wounds, burnß and sores as if by magic; one application cures poison oak; it relieves pain ana abates inflammation. * Those who contemplate building can do so advantageously to themselves by entrusting their building improvements to Jas. E. Wolfe, architect, Flood building. Specialties in fiats.* A woman who was about to be baptized in the Campbellite Church at Jamestown, Kan., fainted away, but the preacher, never losing his presence of mind for a second, prompt!} dipped her under and she came to all right. J mitre blood is a foe to health. It causes many fonr.s oi suffering. Hence the Importance of pure blood. Here, also, is the roason for the wonderful cures by Hood's Sarsaparllla. Get only Hood's. Ladifs take I)r. Siegert's Angostura Bitters gen erally when they feel low spirited. It brightens them up immediately. "Brown's Bronchial Tboches" are the sim plest, quickest and most effectual remedy for Bronchitis, Asthma and Throat Diseases. SAMUEL SIMON'S HEIRS CRY FRAUD. THE EXECUTORS CHARGED WITH FEATHERING THEIR OWN NESTS. A GREAT ESTATE VANISHES. Appraised at Less Than Its As sessed Value and Bought by the Accused. One of the biggest land suits that was ever filed in this State is now under the hand of W. S. Barnes, the local District Attorney. If prosecuted to a successful conclusion several commercial heads that heretofore have been high will be lowered to the dust. The suit involves land in Kern. Tulare, Fresno, Merced, Mariposa and Santa Cruz counties, and a large amount of city prop erty in the heart of the county seat, Tulare. The allegations of the complaint, if established, will prove a system of fraud which was as bold as it was ingenious, and as nearly successful as was possible. The suit involves the estate of Samuel Simon, who died March 3, 1885. It was supposed that Simon left an estate of great value, principally in lands, situated in many of the counties of the State. Under his will, beyond a few legacies of comparatively little importance, the prop erty was bequeathed to his widow and his stepson, Jefferson Martin. The executors were his brothers, S. I. and Ephraim Simon, and they appointed as appraisers Adolph Zirker and James Manasse. Zirker was a relative of the Simons and Manasse was an employe of the firm of Simon & Jacobs, of which Samuel Simon was senior member. Upon the distribution of the estate the claim of each legatee was paid in cash, al though the bulk of the testator's estate had Deen composed of real estate. The executors had turned everything into cash. The estate distributed was worth about $111,000. ■ ' Some time after the death of Samuel Si mon his stepson, Jefferson Martin, mar ried. Jefferson died a few months after the union and to his widow a posthumous child, Jeffreys Martin, was born. The child and the widow were made legatees of his estate, which consisted of his legacy from his stepfather. Soon after Jefferson Martin's death his mother, Mrs. Simon, died, leaving all her property, consisting of her interest in her late husband's estate, to Mrs. Martin, her son's widow, and to his child. This made Mrs. Julia Martin and her daughter Jef freys the direct legatees of old Samuel Si mon. Their estate amounted to about $25,000. In the meantime Adolph Simon, brother of Samuel Simon, and a legatee under his will, had become insane, and a guardian had been appointed for him and for his es tate. The guardian found that notwith standing his substantial claim upon his brother's estate, Adolph Simon had not enough property to pay his expenses at the asylum, and being surprised at this he investigated. It was then that the facts upon which the big complaints are based were discovered. According to the complaint Adolph Simon's guardian found that Samuel Simon's estate had been appraised at nearly $200,000 less than the assessed value of the property, and the assessed valuation, as is always the case, was far below the actual value. He found land in Fresno County which according to the complaint was as sessed at $60,000 and appraised at $7521 U9. More land in the same county, assessed at $50,000, was appraised at $13,243 77. Land in Tulare County in one instance assessed at $10,000 was appraised at|32ol 40; in an other instance a piece worth $10,000 was valued at $.">240. In each instance it was was only the interest of the deceased which had been assessed aed appraised. He found, too, as the complaint states, that the executors of Samuel Simon's will had bought in every bit of the testator's inter est in all the lands and the price paid was according to the appraisers' ligures. Before liis guardian's investigations were completed Adolph Simon died, and his widow then brought suit in the Fresno courts to set aside the purchase of the ex ecutors of land in that county, on the ground of fraud. Mr. Barnes' suit is an intervention in this case. • Barnes' suit is brought in the interests of Mrs. Jefferson Martin and her daughter, Jeffreys Martin, who, as was explained, are practically the only legatees of Samuel Simon, through his descendants. In the complaint it is charged that the executors procured fraudulent appraisements, and then, upon the basis oi these appraise ments, fraudulently purchased all the real property of the testator for something like $200,000 less than its assessed valuation. The entire estate is assessed at $300,000, which it is claimed is, as is usual with as sessed valuations, 60 percent less than its market value. The appraisers valued it at $111,000, and the allegation is made that the heirs of Samuel Simon have been defrauded of the difference between $111 - 000 and about $425,000. Samuel Simon was well known in this city as a real-estate man and dealer in general merchandise. His firm of Simon, Jacobs & Co. had stores in all parts of the State, and wherever they had a store they had plenty of the best real property in the vicinity. His brothers, Ephraim and S. I. Simon, are well known here in business circles, and the widow of his stepson and her daughter are well known in society. It was only last Thursday that little Jeffreys Martin, one of the plaintiffs in the case : made her first bow to the social world as hostess at a children's reception. The suit which Mr. Barnes is now pre paring will be tiled in Fresno, as an off shoot to the suit of Mrs. Adolph Simon, to set the alleged fraudulent purchases of land in that county aside. Ordinarily the statute of limitations would long "since have stepped in to bar any claim, but the fact that little Jeffreys Martin is still a minor suspends that" rule and allows the suit to be brought even at this late day. Besides, it is only within the last three or four months that Adolph Simon's guardian has discovered the peculiar status of Samuel Simon's big estate. It is probable that several local suits with the executors as defendants will be tiled at an early date. SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS. "Yes," said the Rev. Dr. Goodman, "I always endeavor to write my sermons so that they can be understood and appreciated even by the dullest intellect. Before delivering them in public I invariably recite them to myself."— New York Herald. Excitement in Boston— Friend : This must be bargain day. I never saw such a. crowd in your store before. Dry-goods man— l should say it is bargain day. We are selling "Homer's liiad" in the original Greek at 98 cents.— Puck. "Have you boarded long at this house?" in quired the new boarder of the sour, dejected man sitting next to him. "About ten years." "I don't see how you can stand it. Why haven't you left long ago?" "No other place to go," said the other dis mally The landlady's my wife."~Bo S ton Herald. Dora-Does Mr. Clinker believe in the aris tocracy of the intellect? • C .° 1 5 a^ N °- Hu tol<l me he was tr ying to get in the Four Hundred-Life. Customer (in cheap restaurant)-Give me beefsteak with muabrooma. Waiter (loudly to cook)-Slaughter in de pan With fumigated toadstools !-Exchange. ' Theatrical manager-You Bay you want an engagement to star in my theater? Your name is not familiar to me. Have you ever starred? ~ .Would-be actress— Never. "Where have you played?" "I never played on the stage." "Have you received any dramatic instruc tion?" "None whatever." "But you have, at least, studied the art? You are familiar with the works of the great dramatists, are you not?" "Never read a play in my life." "Good heavens, madam! What preparation have you, then, for going on the stage as a star?" "I have had my photograph taken in 1 li) ! different poses. "—Florida Times-Union. •'Aren't you ashamed," asked the phi!fln« thropic lady ,"to let your little girls go about barefooted, as you do?" "Sho,' lady," replied Aunt Mirandy. "Dat am' no 'casion foh indigniflcation. Dia fam'iy is done.^cotch de Trilby fad."— Washington Star. On a lonely rock la the ocean wide, All bathed in the sparkling spray, Sat a mermaid fair, Who toyed with her hair And sighed through the livelong day. Now, the plaint that she uttered o'er and o'er As she wept the hours away Was, "Oh, for two feet Like Trilby, so sweet— But alas, I'm not built that way !" —New York World. THE WHALEBACK`S TRIP Merchants' Exchange Kecurds and the Captain's Report Disagree. The whaleback steamer City of Everett returned from Port Costa last evening after discharging her eur^o of 3800 ton- oi coal in remarkably short order. When the whaleback arrived here < 'aptain i: reported having made the trip in f>2 hours from Port Townsend. The records oi the Merchants' Exchange differ from the cap tain's report. The records say that the Everett left Port Townsend a week ago Thursday morning. As she arrive port on Monday morning, this • make her trip from 82 to 94 hours. Seeking Her Lout Son. Mrs. J. C. Moore, 820 Grand avenue, Los An geles, writes as follows: "My son left Valpa. raiso, Chile, aboard the Esineralda and I have not heard from him for ten years. He thinks that I still live in Wisconsin and I am in sr>r« distress about him. If you will kindly tell ho\r I can let him know that I am in Los Angrlcs or how I can get word to him I will be very thankful and you will greatly oblige a very anxious mother." In Zante, one of the lonian isles, t a petroleum spring that is mentu ■ Herodotus. It has been known for i 3000 years. REAL ESTATE FOB SALE BY THOMAS MAGEE & SONS, Real Estate Agents And Publishers of Real Estate Circular. r,ej:move;id to 4 Montgomery Street, Union Trust Building, Cor. Market. -• .. INVESTMENTS. Rents $2GB: price $28,000; Clay St., near San- some: large lot and building. Polk-st. corner; rents $305: C8xlO2; in the heart of Polk-st. business: $56,000. Business lots; 16th St., near Mission; 2.*>x9oj 56250 each. Steuart St., bet. Market and Mission; 35:10y 3 x 137:0; ,000. A bargain— slo,ooo; rents «80; Main St., below Folsom; 48x137 :C; covered with 2-story build- ings. HOUSES AND LOTS, 83800 TO 910,000. Only $2000 cash; balance easy payments; new residences now being finished with all conven- iences; west side Buchanan, between Vallejo and Green; fine view of bay; $7250 each. Bush, near Mason ; south skit ; 3 story and base- ment: modern house: rents $75: ?10,000. O'FarreU St., near Jones; 22x68:9; and house of 6 rooms; 7800. Cheap, $5500: Pine St., near Stockton; 34:6 x 77:6: and 2-story house; 12 rooms and modern conveniences. »-"{"•' ■ Bryant St., N. si^e, bet. 3d and 4th: 33:9x80 and 2-story building; rents $54; $6000. Bryant St.. N. side, near 6th; 2 flats and lot; 25x 75; runts 941; $1500. Fiercest.; two fine nearly new houses and lot; 37:6x105; bet. Golden Gate aye. and Turk; will be sold cheap. $3800: very line nearly new '..'-story modern house; 8 rooms, bath, etc.; 27:6x125; W. aid* Collinfrivood St., bet. 19th and 20th; a short block W. of Castro-st. cable-cars,; street work done ; $1800 cash, balance $23 a month. "WESTERN ADDITION LOTS, 81600 TO 83&00. ?3500each— 2 lots, 25x137:6: north side Sacra- mento St., bet. Scott and Devisadero; cable-cars pass. Cheap; only $3250 each; lots 25x100 : Waller st., north side; half a block from Market; flats hers rent steady. Geary St., north side, near Cook, west of Central aye.; 3 lots; 25x100: only $1600 each. Broderlck St., bet. Grove and Fulton; lot 25x100 1 $3000; cable-cars pass. Cheap: $2000 only, each; 3 lots; 27:6x137:6; north side Sacramento st., bet. Spruce and Maple; cable-cars pass: easy terms. Green st.; line view of bay ; north side, bet. Pierre and Scott; any size front by 127:8 deep; street work done; 25x127 :5: $2000. Jackson st., near Walnut ; 1 block west of Central aye.; lot 27:6x100; $2300; street work done. That California has for so many years and is even now obliged to import goods that might as well . bo manufactured right here is worse than bad —it's simply - But there is at least one product of home industry that has satisfied caretul dressers as well as care- ful buyers: >4s L 'jl TRACE MO. STANDARD ypj nißrs \ NEUSTADTER BROS., SAN FRANCISCO, Prop'rs Standard Shirt Factoryw Blf OFFICE 41115 BIS DESKS. IK $24.00 ■ — DROPPED $24.00 6EO. H. FULLER DESK CO., 638 and 640 Mission Street.