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SILVER FORGES AT WAR.
Sibley's Presidential Boom
Not Favored by the State
League.
HOT FIGHT IN CONSEQUENCE.
The Result Is Rebellion and Seces
sion in General Warner's
National Party.
Instead of the great results for free coin
age aimed at, the visit to California of Gen
eral A. J. Warner of Ohio, head of the
American Bimetallic party, and Congress
man Joseph C. Sibley of Pennsylvania,
named by that organization for President
in 1896, has apparently been productive of
the opposite effect. The effect is the flat
secession of the State Silver League from
Genera! Earner's National organization.
The State Silver League had its inception
in a general convention at Los Angeles
last December. Two months later a cau
cus of Congressmen enthusiastic for re
monetization met in Washington and
acreed upon Mr. Sibley as> the Presidential
nominee of the silver movement for the
next campaign. The State League did not
like this method of choosing a candidate,
but as it was understood that General
"Warner and Mr. Sibley were to make a
journey to the Pacific Coast, local bimetal
lists concealed their feelings until after the
gathering in Metropolitan Temple last
Tuesday evening.
Even in the preparations for that meet
ing there was a noticeable coolness on the
part of men identified with the league, the
only member of it taking any active part
being George P. Keeney, one of the State
executive committee. Mr. Keenej- then
did an indiscreet thing in the eyes of his
fellow-comraitteemen in accepting an as
stcretarvship for the National
>n, and he was given the alterna
tive of either having liothing to do with
tne secretaryship or resigning vis place on
the committee. Mr. Keeney chose tne
latter alternative.
Tbe expression* of antagonism toward
ai Warner's booming of Mr. Sibley
:'.y so many and loud that
c ting of theexecutive" committee was
at boa Angeles last Saturday after-
The entire matter was submitted
.b-committee of five to report up. >n.
Ai.-u Udell, upon whose recommenda-
P. 0. Ciiilstrcm and H. I. Willey were
n the executive committee to repre
sent t-an Francisco, was one of the sub
comn vttee. It was a hard task for Mr.
Alya'a committee, and after a struggle
which lasted until 2 o'clock next morning
a voluminous rejMjrt was prepared by Mr.
Udell from which two of the five dissented.
The report as adopted is very candid,
and lets out the entire plan by which Mr.
Sibley was to secure general indorsement
from the siiverites all over the country.
It sajs that the committee had "examined
the petition requesting Joseph C. Sibley to
be a candidate for President in 1896, on a
so-cailed platform of the American Bimet
i ailic party.' 1
It seems that Mr. Sibley was to be put
forward as the standard-bearer of tne free
coinage movement in a manner which was
-'d to be obsolete in American poli
tics, o-xing to the strong Jacksonian revolt
against caucus and other ring methods
many decades ago. After the caucus had
named Mr. Sibley in Washington, numer
ous petitions were circulated lor signatures
in various sections, the gist of each being
a strong appeal to Mr. Sibley to accept the
nomination. The plan seemed to succeed
ail right until it reached California.
The report of the committee is rather j
verbose and. the objections to Mr. Sibley's j
boom are mingled with much explanation
of the points of difference between the
propaganda of General Warner and
...e BuYer League. General Warner
has but one issue — that is the free and un
limited coinage of silver at a ratio of 16 to 1.
Soi so. however, with the Slate league.
It has a large number of Populists in it,
and they do not think any financial plac
iorm would be complete unless it included
a provision for an issue of greenbacks and
an explicit declaration against the National
banking system and the issuance of any
more Government bonds. It goes further,
therefore, in its statement of principles
than the mere asking for free coinage
"without asking for tne consent of any
other nation," and, accordingly, the report
has much to say upon issues which are
otberwig • concisely stated in the following;
a of the league's regular plat
form :
Third— The restoration of business to a cash j
.. ith a National currency equal to 15 ppr j
cent of the annual domestic commerce of the
country, and consisting of gold and silver coins
end paj'Or money, all of which shall be unlim
ited legal tender for all debts, public and pri
vate, and laws forbidding: the making of pri
vate contracts discriminating against any part
of the circulating medium.
Fourth— No issuance of interest-bearing
bonds in time of peace and no National banks
of i>6ue, nor the issuance of money in any man
ner except by the National Government.
Some of the allusion's of the report to
Geneial Warner and Mr. Sibley are pretty
strong. It characterizes the members of
the Si'olev caucus as ""persons claiming the
ri^ht to dictate the party nomination for
President of the United States," and "seek
ing a division of the bimetallic party by a
wrongful use of party machinery to force
indorsement of the said candidate, regard
less of the wishes of others in the party as
to what the issues should be when appeal
ing from the money power to the intelli
gence of the American people." It plainly
insinuates that the Warner-Si bley plan of
advocating silver is dishonest, and says
Mr. Sibley's adherents are "evading a vital
The following excerpt is an indi
cation of its tone:
They straddle the National bani question by
pretending to give the General Government the
exclusive control over the issue and volume
•A paper money, when in truth their platform
L .hi be fully complied with by leaving the
• nd volume of paper money -wholly in
the hands of the Netional br.nk-. They at
tempt to lead the people into the belief that
those who are urging Mr. Sibley (orthePresi
" deiicy are opposed to Government partnership
with" National banking institutions that con
trol tbe circulating medium at the pleasure of
their foreign stockholders.
The committee therefore recommended
the adoption of some plainly worded reso
lutions condemning General Warner and
Mr. Sibley ; appealing to sister States to
organize like the California leagr . and to
protest against the caucus method, and
calling for a National convention of State
Jeagues to meet at St. Louis March 16, 1896,
to nominate candicates for President and
Vice-President. The resolutions charge
General Warner, as chairman of a "self
i National executive committee,"
with "establishing rival organizations in
this and other States to force' the favorite
of the condemned caucus upon the Ameri
can people."
It all means that the California organi
zation proposes to move from henceforth
independently of General Warner and the
National party, and that it will do its ut
most to bring about a National convention
of its own in St. Louis next March, which,
it, hopes, will adopt a platform and nomi
nate candidates upon the lines it lays
down. The resolutions are half apologized
for by the statement of the committee just
preceding them: that for the silver move
ment to succeed "it must be supported not
t inly by our independent citizens through-
X, at the Union, but that many of our
statesmen who may aspire to the Presi
dency must be enlisted in the cause, whereas
if they unite against one man his case
becomes hopeless and then, if he forces
1 imself with the power of party ma
chinery, the whole movement sinks to a
combination of office-seeking politicians,
v.-ho insulting the intelligence of Ameri
can citizenship, urge the election of their
candidates regardless of the interests most
tiear to the people/
The report and its resolutions are to be
made the manifesto of the State league,
and will bear the signatures of the execu
tive committee aa follows:
Enoch Pepper (chairman), Asa H. Tru
man, Willouehbv Cole, Alva Udell, John
A. Farnsworth, Cornelius Cole, George W.
Knox. L. A. Sheldon, I. E. Messmore, L.
W. French, H. I. Willev, Charles T. Pep
per, Thomas D. Poole, H. H. Savage, J. A.
Cowell, John Robson and P. 0. Chilstrora.
Cornelius Cole is the present National
coinimtteeman from Los Angeles.
A BLOCK GUTTED.
DestroctiTe Fire on Turk Street, Near
Leaven worth.
A fire started in 316 Turk street yester
day shortly after 4 p. m. and an alarm was
rung in from box 96. Painters were burn
ing the old paint off the walls preparatory
to repainting the building, and it is sup
posed the fire was started through their
carelessness. The flames ran along the
walls and roofs of the adjoining building
and the firemen had literally to flood them
before ai! danger was past.
The buildings were occupied as follows:
316, Mrs. O'Keefe; 318 and 822, Mrs. E.
Taylor; 330, Mrs. Buckley; 324, Mrs.
Frances Olmsted; 314 is vacant. The oc
cupants were able to save • a portion of
their personal effects, but their furniture
was ruined. The buildings belong to the
M. Heller estate. The loss will reach
17000. During the excitement a thief
sneaked into Mrs. Buckley's house and
stole a box containing diamonds and other
jewelry belonging to Mrs. Wright, a
dressmaker, who roomed there.
A gasoline stove in 316 exploded during
the fire, breaking the glass in the windows,
and the noise reared the spectators. Rob
ert Langan of engine 17 fell off one of the
buildings and sprained his left ankle, which
was attended to at the Receiving Hospital.
STATE BOARD OF TRADE
To Make an Exhibit at the
Cotton Exposition in
Georgia.
The Board Will Try to Obtain $7500
From the State for
Expenses.
The State Board of Trade met yesterday
afternoon, General Chipman presiding.
Colonel Irish, chairman of the immigra
tion committee, submitted a long report
showing the increase t>f population in this
State during the four years subsequent to
the United States census of IS9O. lie esti
mated the number of residents of the
State from the number of votes cast at the
last election, allowing live residents for
each vote cast. The net increase was placed
by him at 214,610, making the total popu
lation of the State 1,422.240. The increase
was divided among groups of counties as
follows:
Southern California group, 54.303 or 23.59
percent; Saa'Joaquin group, 39,498 or 34.90
percent; Sacramento Valley group. 30.785 or
22.9 per cent; Bay counties, 27,605 or 12.12
per cent; Southern Coast group, 11,494 or
19.03 per cent; Foothills group, 26,537 or
37.5 percent.
Colonel Irish estimated that with the I
present rate of :icrca&e the population of
the State in 1900 -would be 1,744,655. He I
argued, however, that the era of renewed >
prosperity which has just opened would
raise the total figures to 2.5U0.000.
The board ordered the report to be
printed snd instructed the committee to
make further investigations to ascertain if :
possible to what particular industries the j
increase in population is due.
The boara desires to send the* entire ex- i
hibit now at the board rooms to the Cotton
Exhibition at Atlanta. Ga., and keep lec
turers there with it. There is in the State
treasury the sum of $7500, being an unused
balance of the $25,000 appropriation made
by the Legislature for advertising the
State at the Columbian Exposition in
Chicago. The board desires to use this
balance, but is doubtful if it can lawfully
do so, and General Chif.man was ap
pointed a committee of one to confer with
the Attorney-General and the Secretary of
State on that point.
A plan for s-ecurine the money was pro
posed yesterday. Members of the board
compiled a booK which was printed for
free distribution at the "World's Fair.
They charged nothing for their work, and
it is" now proposed that they present bills
for the unused balance, and if the bills be
allowed, turn the money over to the board
tor the purpose stated. The plan was
crystallized in a resolution, which was
adopted without a dissenting voice.
On motion of "W. H. Mills it was re
solved that the Manufacturers' Associa
tion, the Chamber of Commerce, the
Produce Exchange, the Chamber of Com
merce of Los Angeles, the Half-million
Club, the State Board of Horticulture, the
county Boards of Trade and the State
Agricultural Society be invited to co
operate with the State Board of -Trade in
securing the exhibit of the State of Califor
nia in Atlanta.
If the exhibit be sent the railroad has
agreed to furnish transportation for it to
Atlanta and back free of charge.
G. W. Snyder of the Manufacturers'
Association addressed the board, suggest
ing that encouragement be given the culti
vation of tobacco in this State. The mat
ter was referred to the committee on
industrial resources.
The lieterrent effect on the investment of
foreign capital which has been caused by
the uiien land law constitutional amend
ment waß discussed. The committee to
which the matter had been referred re
ported that there was no cause for aliens to
te aiarmed. as no change had been made
in the laws. It was stated that the alarm
was a fact, however, and the committee
was requested to devise ways and means by
which the true status of alien land-owners
might be generally understood and the dis
tinction between merely alien owners and
non-resident alien owners emphasized.
Fay Butler, a theatrical man, submitted
a plan whereby California might be ad
vertised in the Eastern cities by means of
a dramatic company. The plan was re
ferred to the proper committee.
Messrs. Emery, Maslin and McAfee were
appointed a committee to co-operate with
the committee of the Mechanics Institute
and the State Board of Trade to insure
the success of the exhibitions of these or
ganizations.
Secretary J. A. Filcher had telegraphed
to the Secretary of Agriculture to inquire
as to what damage had resulted to cropa
from the recent severe frosts in the East.
The reply he received read :
i*en fruits slightly damaged in the cen
tral, lower and upper peninsula; Wisconsin
fruits killed in northern, injured severely in
centml portions, and strawberries slightly In
jured; Kansas fruits iujured in central and
western counties; Minnesota fruits consider
ably damaged; Nebraska fruit siightly In
jured; Colorado crops damaged slightly, fruit
uninjured: Wyoming fruits and vegetables
damaged slightly.
J. Sterling Moeton, Secretary.
The secretary was instructed to make
similar inquiries of the department fre
quently and to communicate all replies at
once to each member of the board.
The board adjourned to meet the second
Tuesday in June.
NEW SUITS TILED.
Litigation Commenced by Parties Hav
ing Grievances.
The A. Andrew:- Company has asked the
Superior Court to declare its organization
dissolved.
Frederick Casse and his wife are suing
Colombe M. Berger for $10 ,C00 damages for
personal injuries received by Mrs. Casse
falling into a hole in tne sidewalk opposite
the premises at 713 McAllister street
owned by defendant, whereby was occa
sioned the premature birth of a child,
which was born dead.
Samuel W. Latz has sued Louisa Green
hood ior JSSO for services performed by his
wife for Leopold B. Gostorf, of whose will
Louisa Greenhood is executrix.
THE SAN FJBANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, MAY 15, 1895.
HOT AFTER LEVINGSTON.
His Official Acts Reviewed by
a Civic Federation Com
mittee.
DEEDS OF BEASTLY DEPUTIES.
Dr. C. C. O'Donnell Tells What He
Knows of the Management of
the Morgue.
The vigorous protest of R. Porter Ashe
against The harsh language used by the
Civic Federation in their struggle against
the appointment by Governor Budd of a
Board of Health that would choose Dr.
Marc Levingston as Health Officer and Mr.
Ashe's demand for specific proof against
his client and friend brought forth yester
day the following specifications of miscon
duct in office from the special committee of
the federation which has the matter in
charge :
Hon. J. H. Budd, Governor- -Dear Sib: The
committee of the Civic Federation who pre
sented to you a respectful protest against the
appointment of Dr. Marc Levingston to the
position of Health Officer of this City, beg leave
to submit the following facts in support 01
the protect: . _
Dr. Levingston's first official act as Coroner
•was the appointment of Sprecht and Simmons,
two notorious Buckley lambs, as his chief depu
ties His nextaci was to remove the Morgue
irom Sacramento street, near police headquar
ters, to Mi? siou street, adjoining to and connect
ing with W. J. Mallady'B undertaking establish
ment.
MaHadv has been proved tohavegivena note
for $150 to "Long John" Wilkins to withdraw
the name of Dr. Davis from the nomination
for Coroner in favor of Dr. McAllister in a
former campaign, who was to give the Morgue
business to Mcllady.
After these acts Levingston went to bacra
mento and remained for two months trying to
lobby through the Legislature a bill giving him
$20 for every autopsy, during all which time
deputies Sprecht and Simmons signed certifi
cates of death and usurped the Coroner s
functions, although without having the slight
est legal right in the matter. Dr. Meares, the
iioalth Officer, and the Uoard of Health finally
put an end to these unlawful practices, as can
be shown by the records of the proceedings of
the Board of Health and the accounts in the
newspapers of that time.
We rind it stated in all the papers contem
poraneous to that date that Patriot Dunnigan,
who committed suicide March 4, 1883, was
buried without an inquest, and about the
same time a boy, who cut his throat, was
buried w ithor.t inquest : in the latter caEe Coro
ner Livingston's certificate stated that the boy
died of hemorrhage of the lungs. The Board
of Health compelled the Coroner, against his
protest, to exhume the body and hold an in
quest.
Iv May. 1883, Chief Deputy Sprecht went to
H. D. Knight, tne superintendent of the Union
street Cable Railway Company, and now chief
engineer of the United State.* Mint in this city,
and offered for the sum of -$300 to pack a Coro
ner's jury.
The case was that of Charles Heusch, who
had been killed by the Union-street cable-cars,
and Levingston's deputy agreed, in the pres
ence of officers whom Knight had secreted In
his office, to fix a jury who would bring in a
verdict of exoneration.
We refer for evidence of the last transaction
to Mr. Knight, tn Chief of Police Crowley and
to the Chronicle of May 17, 1883.
About May 13, 1883, Lottie Hnnsinger took
poison in the bachelor apartments of a million
aire in this city. Her body was unlawfully
taken from the Morgue to a private undertak
ing establishment and every effort made on
the Coroner's part to smother the scandal and
! assist the millionaire. The girl's mother and
i friends have assured one of our members that
i much money was used by the millionaire, and
this was openly charged at the time and it bs
caiae a mutter of common notoriety.
A man was accidentally killed and his body,
after being handled by the Coroner, was given
to Undertaker Mallady and by the latter buried.
The man's widow charged that Mallady was
robbing her in his charges for burial, and on
her statement a meeting of the San Francisco
Undertaker** Association was called. Mallady
appeared before that body and openly and pub
licly stated that he could'not return the money
to the widow as he bad been obliged to pay it
to Coroner Levingston.
The court records in the case of Millionaire
McLanghlin, who committed suicide, fchow that
Mallady charged $1000 for embalming the
body. Objection was made to this and Mal
lady appeared in Judge Murphy's court and
testified that he was only permitted to retain
$200; the remainder was given to Coroner Lev
ingston. 11. B. McAvoy, a respectable under
taker of this city, whose place of business is on
Fifth, near Market, Is authority for the state
ment.
As for the statements of vile and indecent
treatment cf the bodies of unfortunates it was
of common notoriety and was so treated by the
press, newspaper men declaring that the de
i tails of the Morgue orgies were too hideous for
publication.
Otto turn Buden, a practising attorney of
this City, was present when Levingston's depu
ties kicked dead bodies about the Morgue. A
Chronicle reporter says that a body was bru
| tally stripped in the presence of a gang of
j Buckley roughs, one of them remarking: "If
the knew what would happen to
him he would not have killed himseli," and
Mallady responded, "Yes, he's in purgatory
now."
The Morgue was In such a filthy condition
during Levingston'B administration that Dr.
Bloch refused to make an autopsy until the
Morgue was cleaned.
Finally. The committee desires to call your
attention to the fact that Dr. Levingston's
reputation is and was a matter of common
notoriety. General bad reputation cannot be
established by specific acts, even in a court of
justice. That" Dr. Levingston's general reputa
tion is and was bad nobody can deny. His ad
ministration was a stench in th« nostrils of the
whole community. He attained the bad emi
nence of notoriety as a corrupt politician and
as an inefficient and careless public officer.
The specific acts that we have recited could
not of themselves have given Dr. Levingston
nis unenviable reputation. Others beyond the
reach of this committee are also the foundation
upon which his character for badness rests.
The absolute belief of San Francisco in Dr.
Levingston's general unfitness for public office
is the most severe charge that can t>e brought
against him, and should be an insuperable
obstacle to his appointment by you.
Christopher A. Buckley has been charged
with felonies too numerous to mention, yet no
Grand Jury has ever been able to bring him to
trial. Nevertheless this committee holds that
that fact would be no good reason for appoiut
iug him a Harbor Commissioner.
So the fact that Dr. Levingston has not been
convicted of crimes laid at his door is not a
reason why they should appoint him to office.
The wishes of San Francisco and her citizens
should be considered in this matter, as the
Board of Ilealth and its officers constitute a
part of the government under which they live
and which so nearly affects their interests, it
would be an outrage upon them to appoint
either Buckley or Levingston to office. Each
belongs to the same class, and therefore it was
that tne Civic Federation protested against the
appointment of Levingston and declared tnat
such an act would be a public. calamity.
I. J. Truman,
Georue T. Gaden,
E. R. Dille,
D. Gilbert Dexter.
Governor Budd and Mr. Ashe will each
receive a copy of the letter, and it is ex
pected that the Governor's decision con
cerning the question whether or not his
appointees shall be those who will proba
bly tender Dr. Levingston the position of
Health Officer will be made public within
a very few days.
Dr. C. 0. O'Donnell expresses himself as
highly indignant to think that Dr. Leving
ston should aspire to tne position of Health
Officer. He also objects to having that
gentleman compared to himself. Dr. O'Don
nell said :
"Levingston talks about turning over
$61,000 of money found on the bodies of
(subjects. He doe'sn't say, though, that that
sum consisted almost entirely of certified
checks for large sums found on the bodies
of McLaughlin and Blythe. Why. his
former deputy will tell how even the cloth
ing of the unknown dead was sold to deal
ers in old clothes.
".M.tlladv,the undertaker tojwhose estab
lishment Dr. Levingston moved the
morgue, told me he bad to give Leving-
Pton $souO for that privilege. He bragged
to me, too, that when he buried a pauper
in the potter's field, he used a coffin with
a false bottom so that the same coffin
conld be used again and again, being low
ered; relieved of its bottom plank and then
raised and carried back to the morgue.
Then, too, everybody will remember my
rinding a great number of bodies off Long
Bridge where they had been dumped by
Mallady 10 avoid the expense of burial."
Dr. O'Donnell spoke of his election. He
said that though all the men voting for
him bad to write his name on their tickets,
he had received 29,000 votes. Dr. Leving
ston, who was Coroner at the time, received
only a few over 3000. This, he argued, in
dicated the estimation in which Dr.
Levingston was held at the end of his first
"Just the same," concluded Dr. O'Don
nell, "I think Dr. Levingston will be ap
pointed. Soon after the Governor's elec
tion Dr. Levingston told me he was to be
Health Officer. I asked him how he knew.
He said that he had received the promise
of it from Governor- Budd, who was his
personal friend. lam afraid the Governor
will keep his word."
Dr. O f Donnell referred to J. J. Groom,
who was formerly ur. Levingston's deputy
and his own, for proof of his statements.
Mr. Groom last night said that he had not
known Dr. Levingston to do anything fof
which he could be held accountable. The
indignities offered to the dead and the
holding of bodies, he said, was the work of
the undertakers alone.
In speaking of Dr. Levingston's political
affiliations, Max Popper seemed to be
amused at Mr. Levingston's declaration of
enmity for ex-boss Buckley. Mr. Popper
echoed the remark of another Democrat
that, "Levingston was one of Buckley's
sins," and said: "I was chairman of the
convention that nominated Dr. Levineston.
I assure you that I had nothing more to
do with the nomination than the man in
the moon. Buckley put up a slate and it
weni through and Dr. Levingston was part
of the slate. We almost succeeded in
breaking it once, but did not succeed. As
I remember it, in their disgust over thirty
delegates in the convention voted for
O'Donnell on the final ballot."
NOT A VERY FLUSH YEAR
The Southern Pacific Com
pany's System Went Be
hind in Earnings.
Yet the Shrinkage Was Only 5.61
Per Cent Upon the Income
of 1894.
The annual report of the Southern Pa
cific Company, its proprietary companies
and leased lines for the year ending De
cember 31, 1894, was issued yesterday. It
makes a large volume of 130 pages, replete
with statistics on finances and important
transactions of the various lines during
the year.
The proprietary lines are the Southern
Pacific Railroad companies of California,
Arizona, New Mexico, South Pacific Coast
Company, Northern California Railway
Company, Northern Railway Company,
Morgan's Louisiana and Texas Railroad
and Steamship Company, Gaiveston, Har
risburg and San Antbnio, Louisiana West
ern, Texas and New Orleans, Gulf, Western
Texas and Pacific and New York, Texas
and Mexican Railway Company. The
leased lines are the Central Pacific, Oregon
and California Railroad and California
Pacific.
The total length of lines operated is as
follows: Proprietary, 4488 miles; leased,
2175.49; total, 6C61.01. This shows an in
crease of 50.33 miles during the past year.
The miles of road owned by the affiliated
companies aggregate 1268.31, making a
grand total of 7932.32 miles. From the
voluminous reports a concise summary is
given under tne head of "General re
marks," which show the earnings and ex
penses for 1394 of all lines constituting
the Southern Pacific Company's system,
as follows :
Average miles of road operated. . . . 7,910.69
Gross transportation earnings ♦50,918,157 44
Operating expenses 33,331,278 41
Earnings over operating expenses. 117,586,879 03
Rentals and other receipt 5.......... 684,682 61
Total receipts over operating ex
penses.... $18,271,561 64
Taxe5 ......... . . ...... . . .".TtT... . Xi. $1,242,114 90
Trackage and other rentals ;. 1,357,568 09
Interest on bonded debt „ 9.260,396 96
Other payment*. 4,736,883 46
Total... $16,595,963 41
•>,.,-i', ; . - ■
Earnings. $1,676,598 23
Income from investments owned
b. S. P. Co.. 371,03140
Duo from O. & C. R. R. Co 641,355 71
Balance earnings. 2,587,985 34
Betterments and additions charged
to capital account 1,268,017
• The earnings over all expenditures
amount to $1,474,788 45. The shrinkage in
gross earnings averaged 5.61 per cent, and
balance earnings shrunk $147,572 17.
PACIFIC COAST FARMS
News of the Orchards and the
Vineyards of the
State.
What Is Being: Done in Preparation
for the Approaching
Harvest.
Noah Coblentz of Lodi has cleared as
much as $000 a year off one acre of straw
berries. %
The Los Angeles Times says: This is a
great year for beemen. The last rains
will keep the white sage blooming, the
bloom of which bees love so much, and
which, makes such excellent honey. Just
now the honey-makers are as busy as
bees.
In the tunnel of the Grapeland irriga
tion district a flow of 600 inches of water
has been developed and it is believed that
the volume can be increased to 1500 inches.
The system is formedjunder the Wright
law and when completed will cost $200,000.
—Moreno Indicator.
Bee-keeping causes but little hindrance
to the work of the main crops, and it is
not sufficiently appreciated. America pro
duces about 25,000,000 pounds of honey
and 1,000,000 of wax, all worth $6,000,000.
Most of this is from clusters of but a few
hives, and is scattered over many States.
A. M. Aldrich of Riverside has planted
out a young orange orchard, and in order
to derive revenue from his land while the
trees are coming to bearing age, he has
forty-one rows of strawberry plants run
ning the full length of his forty-rod field,
and he expects to sell over 600 bushels of
berries this season.
The recent rains in the Sacramento and
San Joaquin valleys have caused great re
joicing among the farmers. Good crops
are assured now, says the Eureka Standard.
The recent frost nearly destroyed the
apricot crop, but did little damage to
other fruits. California can now look for
ward to a bountiful harvest.
R. J. Hipwell and G. S. Wood, of On
eonta, are harvesting forty acres of barley
in the exact southwest corner of the United
States, and it goes about, two tons of hay
to the acre— which is not much, but is
more barley than can be produced on the
same number of acres in any of the other
three corners of the United States.— San
Diegan-Sun.
A large ugly-looking destroyer of vegeta
tion resembling the tobacco worm has
thowed up in some of the unpnined and
neglected vineyard? east of Dinuba and i 3
devouring the foliace of the vines at a
rapid rate, says the Traver Advocate. So
far it has only been seen where the vine
yards were not pruned, but they will bear
watching lest they take in others also.
Probably a few days of hot sunshine would
be a blessing just now.
The canneries of California annually
pack 1.500,000 cases of all kinds of fruit and
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years. The lots front on Haight, Waller, Lott
streets and Masonic avenue. We will trade you one
or all of these lots for any sum you name if you will
drop into our salesroom, 10 Montgomery street, at
12 o'clock to-morrow.
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from 300,000 to 500,000 cases of vegetables,
chief among which are tomatoes, peas and
asparagus. The total value of the pack is
about $5,000,000. Of the fruits, 200,000
cases are annually shipped to England and
other foreign countries, and the balance is
consumed in the home market, great quan
tities going East by rail and water.
Much progress is being made with olive
culture in Southern California, and the
fruit is being planted as far north as Mer
ced. The ofive thrives in many parts of
the San Joaquin Valley, and there are a
number of small orchards in the vicinity of
Fresno. It is a valuable crop and though
it takes somewhat longer to mature than
others, the grower is well repaid for hia
time, trouble and money when the trees
come into bearing. The olive industry is
one that should be diligently fostered in
California, for it will aid materially in
building up the State.— Stockton Mail.
By the way, how many farmers have
secured sacks? asks the Colusa Sun. It is
not prudent to let the date of sack ship
ment go by without having secured half
the number judged by the present out
look. Prison sacks can now be secured for
about 4 cents, nor is all the money for the
engagenient necessary to be paid. It is
now high time to begin to secure sacks.
After the time has passed when shipments
of sacks can be made, it will be easy to
form a combine if it becomes known that a
large percentage of wnat will be needed
remains unsold.
In reply to the query, "When should
bees begin to breed in the spring?" asked
in the American Bee Journal, Mrs. L.
Harrison said : " The bees are the best
judges of the time. Keep your bees strong.
Give them food if they are short of stores
and leave the rest to them." Professor
A. J. Cook says: "As soon as the pollen
Is in the flowers. In some seasons this is
too early. On the average I find bees
should be out and rearing brood as soon as
they begin to collect." Mr. Mahon an
swered: "That would depend upon climate
and circumstances. I would not care to
have them breed before the spring is
sufficiently advanced for them to have
frequent flights."
The immediate remedy for hard times
in the San Joaquin Valley is diversity of
crops, less attention to specialties, more to
productions that will supply the family or
find a local market. There is more profit
to the producer in two dozen eggs or in a
spring chicken than in a bushel of wheat.
What is wanted is less wheat, less wool,
more butter and cheese, more eggs and
chickens and more hogs. California should
supply its own people with everything
needed in the way of farm products, and
vet millhons of dollars are talcen annually
from the State in payment for hams,
bacon, salt pork, cheese, eggs and poultry,
for the production of which no special skill
or exceptionally favorable conditions are
required.— Loveil White in Bakersfield
Californian.
Some valuable, sound advice is given by
Professor Charles H. Shinn of the Uni
versity of California with reference to the
horticultural prospects of Kern Valley in
the Bakersfleld Californian. The sugges
tions of that eminent expert will be read
with profit by horticulturists of every part
of the State. Professor Shinn says:
"We are slowly learning, after many
mistakes, that every portion of California
has its own fitness for som« industry, and
that no portion of our loved common
wealth is without immense resources.
"The horticulturist in Kern Valley must
deal with very rich, very rapid growth,
very warm sumrrers and considerable frost
in the winter, at least over large areas.
These elements point plainly to certain
classes of products, and, as markets widen,
especially indicate vegetables, fiber plants,
deciduous fruits, grapes, certain berries
whatever, in brief, can rest in winter and
responds quickly to extraordinary stimuli
in summer. Why not peanuts and pea
nut oil ? Why not concentrated vegetable
products for armies and city dwellers?
Why not whole rivers of sugar? And,
with a greater population in California,
why not rice, cotton and tobacco? A hun
dred other horticultural products will sug
gest themselves; one after another will
receive attention and prove more or less
profitable. Nevertheless, the great devel
opment of Kern Valley will long progress
ou the lines of the more useful staples of
horticulture. I should expect the Santa
Clara, Napa and Sonoma valleys and a
thousand lovely nooks of the Coast Range
to surpass Kern -Valley for many years in
certain lines of seed raising, floriculture
ana specialized fruit products. But in
many deciduous fruits, vegetables, etc., I
should not be surprised to see that the
vast bulk of the supply before very long
was from Kern Valley and similar districts.
"My advice to the horticulturists of Kern
would be to aim at producing the food
supply of the United States in those lines
to which the valley is best adapted by na
tare. Produce middle-class supplies in
unlimited quantities, at less price tnan any
other district can produce them. Carry
manufacture as far as practical within
your own district, but do not forget the
single aim of supplying the American
middle-class man and the American
laborer with cheap food. Make Bakersfield
a terminal point. Put Bakersfield dried
peacnes, prunes, blackberries, okra. toma
toes in every cabin three times a day.
Send them to distant frontiers, to the
railroad-builders of Southern Siberia and
the prospectors along old Phoenician trails
in Africa. In the long run the world pays
tribute to those who feed it. Temporary
depressions pass and wealth pours in upon
th« productive districts. The lands of
Egypt, or Assyria, or Asia Minor, are no
more fertile than Kern Valley.
"No horticultural industry is really over
done in America to any greater extent
than are other industries. There always
seems to be a surplus of doctors and law
yers and yet the active, capable ones man
age to hold on and gradually better them
selves. In every line of business the care
less observer sees no gaps, but other men
come along and make places. It is the
same in horticulture, excepting that for
many years to come the prospects for in
telligent horticulturists will not lessen, but
rather increase. In every district, how
ever, horticulture must most painstakingly
adapt itself >o local conditions, and so in
the course of time California horticulture
will become an epitome of the horticulture
of almost the entire North Temperate
Zone. The law of the growth of cities,
which has held good elsewhere in America,
will hol>i good here also, and we shall
have to feed cities like New York, Phila
delphia and Boston within the limits of
this imperial California."
Over 1800 carloads of oranges have been
shipped East from Riverside to date this
season.
Orange orchards in bearing in this valley
will give their owners from $100 to $500 per
acre. We hear of many yielding from $150
up. — Pomona Times.
Experienced prune-growers contemplate
discarding low-grade fruit, claiming there
is no profit in it, and that the sale of the
better grades is injured by placing it on
the market.
The Rhizobius ventralis, the parasite
which was introduced from Australia by
the State Board of Horticulture at much
expense to work the destruction of the
black scale in our orchards, has apparently
not fulfilled the expectations, as from the
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vana. 10c, 2 for 25c, 3 for
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! southern counties of the State comes a de
j mand for something better than the
Rhizobius to destroy the scale. Perhaps
the parasite is being judged too speedily.
I Orchards have become so foul from the
! ravages of the black scale that in many
I places oranges must be cleaned with brush
I and water before they can be shipped and
j packed. Experiments in S:m Bernardino
I County show that the parae»ite has no ap
j preciable effect upon the real* .
There is a native bug in this State, called
the twice-stabbed ladybug, that is &lso
fond of the black scale, but which is of but
little use, as the scale will breed the faster
and overrun an orchard in spite of the
ladybug. This ladybug is about twice the
size of the Rhizobius ventralis and has a
red spot on each wing, while the Rhizobius
is small and entirely Dlack. From the ap
i pearance of the two red spots the ladybuß
i has received the name of the twice-stabbed
; ladybug.
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DELINQUENT SALE NOTICES.
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U Eagle Mining Company— Location of principal
place of business, Han Francisco, California; loca-
tion of works. Devils Gate Mining District, Lyoa
County, Nevada.
Notice— There are delinquent upon the following '
described stocK, on account of assessment (No, 1),
levied on the Bth day of January, 1895, the
several amounts set opposite the names of the re-
spective shareholders, as follows:
No.
Names. I*o. Cert. Shares. Amount.
Morris Hoeflich 5 10,000 81,50000
H.M. Levy, Tru5tee......... 7 20,000 5,000 00
E. M. Levy, Trustee 8 1,000 150 00
H. M. Levy, Trustee 9 % 1,000 160 00
H. M. Levy, Trustee 10 .1,000 160 00;
H. M. Levy, Trustee 11 1,000 160 00
H. M. Levy, Trustee 12 600 75 00
E. B. Holmes, Trustee. 18 20,000 3,00000
E. B. Holmes, Trustee 19 7,900 1,185 00
E.B. Holmes, Trustee 20 995 149 26
And in accordance with law, and an order from -
the Board of Directors, made on the eighth day of
January, 1895, so many shares of each panel of '
such stock as may be necessary, will be sold at pub-
lic auction at the office of the company, room 60,
Nevada Block, No. 309 Montgomery street, San
Francisco. California, en MONDAY, the fourth
day of March, 1895, at the hour of 2 o'clock p. m.
of said day, to pay said delinquent assessment
thereon, together with costs of advertising and ex*
penses of sale.
E. B. HOLMES. Secretary.
Office— Boom 50, Nevada Block. No. 809 MoaS>
gomery street, Sab Francisco, California.
POST PO V F. v ttvt.
Notice Is hereby given that by order of the Board
of Directors the date of the sale of delinquent stock
for assessment No. 1 is hereby postponed to MON-
DAY, the 25th day of March, A. D. 1805. at UM ,
same time place. HOLMES, Secretary.
y KB, HOLMES, Secretary.
GOLDEN EAGLE MINING COMPANY.
FURTHER POSTPONEMENT.
Notice is hereby given that by order of the Board
of Directors the day of the sale of delinquent stock:
for assessment No. 1 is hereby further postponed
to WEDNESDAY, the 24th day of April, A. IX •"
1895, M the same time and place. -;
K. B. HOLMES. Secretary.
. FURTHER POSTPONEMENT.
Notice Is hereby Riven that by order of the Board
of Directors the date of sale of delinquent stock for
assessment No. 1 is hereby further postponed «B
TUESDAY, the 14th day of May, A. D. 1895* at
the same time and place. y - i-._ f ,_
K. B. HOLMES, Secretary.
FURTHER POSTPONEMENT.
Notice Is hereby given that by order of the Board
of Directors the day of sale of delinquent stock for
assessment No. 1 is hereby further postponed to
MONDAY, the third day of June, A. D. 1895, at
the same time and place. ' -
E. B. HOLMES, Secretary.
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