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CAPTAIN
LOVERING'S
BRUTALITY
Evidence Relating to
the Treatment of
Hammond.
COURTMARTIAL OF
THE OFFICER.
Witnesses Tell How a Prisoner
Was Stabbed and Dragged
by the Heels. j
KICKS AND CUTS ALSO
ADMINISTERED.
Erg nnlngr of the Inveslgatlon Into
Shocking Cruelly at Fort
Sheridan.
■•:.
?reciel Dispatch to The Call.
CHICAGO, Nov. 22.— Captain Leonard
A. Lovering of the Fourth Infantry, sta
tioned at Fort Sheridan, appeared befor-2
a courtmartial et that post today to
stand .trial on the charge of "conduct pre
judicial to good order and military dis
cipline." The specific charge is causing
Private Hammond to be dragged over the
ground by the heels from the guardhouse
to the cilice of the recimental adjutant
after Hammond had refused to walk.
The court was an hour late in convening
because of a delay in toe arrival of Briga
dier-General Wade, the presiding oiticer.
A cold wind from the northwest blew
across the parade crounds and Private
Hammond, who stood without an over
coat on the porch of the officers' club
here the court was I eld under guard of
three soldiers wrapped in heavy #rmy
ulsters, shivered, while his te3th chat
tered and his face turned blue from the
cold.
The four men stool in the falling snow
for almost an hour, the guard with their
bayonets leveli d toward the prisoner, un
til Lieutenant William?, who had been
notilied of the delay, Look pity on Ham
mond *nd ordcrc I turn bacK to the guard
house. Hammond was thin and Dale, and
his Dear a nee indicated thru his Impris
onment had told on hi* health. His army
overcoat was at Plattsbur*, N. V., where
he .•■ft it when he absented himself with
out leave, and mere was none lor him at
Fort Sheridan.
Th» first witness was Lieutenant John j
J. Bernard, the ofHc r of- the guard on the
day that Hammond wai dragged He
testified that lie ordered Hammond to ap
pear before 'lit; summary court and that
the latter refused to go. He exhausted nil
means to get the private to tro before the
court, and being unavailing tie reported
the matter to Captain Lovering, who was
officer of the da}'.
"Did yon hear Captain LoVPrlng us?
oaths in hi- languace to the prisoner?"
Judtre Advocate Hunter asked in ques
tioning Lieutenant liernnrd.
"1 heard him say, D you, come
out,' " was the answer. Tiie lieutenant
was unal»!«- to state positively to the court
whether Lovering Kicked or stabbed the
prisoner.
Corporal New, who was corrornl of the
day on October 19, but wLo has since been
reduced to the rank of v private, was the
next witness called, and stated that Lov
erinc, as officer of the day, sent three men
to Hnmiuond'a cell, wi'.h orders to prod
him with their bayonets if he would not j
walk. "He said he would die be.'ore he ;
would walk," said New, "and I then saw i
Love ring k.ck him twice and pro! him i
■with his sword."
"How much force did the officer use?"
askeil the Judge Advocate.
'He kicked him pretty hard, so hard at j
least that Hammond fell down and rubbed j
his de," was the answer.
"How hard did Loveriu^ prod Ih
prisoner with his sword?" was the next
question.
"The sword must have pa"?cil through j
Hammond's clothing," said New, "lor ho i
cried, "Don't do that.' When the prisoner
had been dragged down the guardhouse '
steps I saw Lovering prod him ngain. |
That time it was in the band and 1 saw j
tJie blood trickle from the wound."
Sergeent Brainard was culled, anil gave i
a minute description of how Hammond
was dragged, le<t first, over the si 1 of his
cell, then down the guardhouse stone j
bteps, a hundred yards along the walk, I
down over the curb and up again to the
walk, down again and across the road,
over tha opposite curb, up the steps 'o i
Company D's quartern, then down over
the curb, and finally up the steps to the j
adjutant's (Mice.
'How did Hammond look when he ar- ]
rived at the court?' asked Colonel Hunt- !
er.
"He was crying when the rope was j
taken from his feet," answered the cor- I
■poral. "His pant? were worn through to j
the skin, and when I returned with him
to the gunnlhou*'! he showed me the cuts
made by Captain Lovering's sword. They
were all blooding and were deep."
Corporal Ward was the last witness, and
Mi evidence corroborated that of Corporal
.New. An adjournment was then taken to
10 o'clock to-morrow morning.
VICTORY FOR THE CONTESTANT.
Judge Dougherty of Santa Rosa De
cides the Coleman- Ta/bot
Will Case.
SANTA BOSA, Nov. 22.— Judge Dough
erty ;his afternoon decided the famous
I encil will contest in the Colcman-Taibot
estate case in favor of the contestant,
Joseph Talbot. Mrs. Dow. daughter of
Colernan Tuibot, offered for prchate a
j>eini: will found in an old coat the de
ceased ieft wiih her. In ihi.« will her
father left her $:JOU<i. Ju-lge Dougherty
in liis decision bolds that the will was
duly madentid signed and is testimony in
character, but says the object of adminis
tration is to pay the debts and distribute
tiie surplus to the heirs. In order lo iiavo
an administration there must be property
to administer.
The petition of Mrs. Dow having failed
to show that there is any estate lo probate,
her duplication (or ■ pro jute ot the will
and letters of administration was denied.
Pone* n» 'in Itnlian Count.
SAN JOSE, Nov. 22.— Leon Castera,
who poses as an Italian of noble caste, was
to-d:iy charged by Peter Mcgandi, a fel
low countryman, with having opened a
sealed letter telonging to him without au
thority. A warrant was issued, but Cas
tera could not be found. A short lime
aeo ( a-tora swindled v number of promi
nent Italian residents of tins city out of
sums of money by representing himself
to be a nobleman iv needy circumstances.
POISONED
BY PERSONS
UNKNOWN
Probable Verdict of the
Coroner's Jury at
Dixon.
NO ACCUSATIONS TO
BE RETURNED.
Arrests Not Likely to Result
From the Belew
Inquest.
SUSPECTS WILL BE UNDER
CROSS-FIRE.
Close Questioning May Brlnj? Out
Some Clew !o the Polsoner'o
Identity.
Hi eclat Dispatch to The Call.
DIXON, Not. 22. — The prospect is that
thi-; town will le crowded « iih strangers
to-morro«v. There have been many
strangers here to-day, for a rumor gained
currency yesteruay that the inquest in
CORONER F. W. TRULL, Who Will Conduct the Eelew
Inquest at Dixon.
the celebrated Belew murder case would 1
be held to-day. On the eve of the investi- ;
gation that begins in the morning there is
intense interest, for people dwell here in
union like the members of one lamily.
There has nover been anything iike such
a crime in this part of the State, and few
seem willing <.o believe that either of those
accused hai anything to do with lv Ai
thf> masses hore hesitated until the last
before they would believe it was a murder,
so they are slow to locate the responsi
bility. They will leave that to the Coro
ner's jury.
It is now almost certain that there will
be no arrest following the inquest, unless
Captain Curtin and the District Attorney
have some evidence "up their sleeves"
« hich they deny the existence of to those
not on tfie Inside. FranK Belew, one of
the principal suspects, was in town to
day. Ho was an object of much Interest
to stranger*, a<id was pointed out to all
inquirers as the- man accused of having
poisonad ah brother and sister. The
strain of ten days has not told on him
iniK.h, though ho iias at timos been greatly
worried. His brothers have stood by him
from the Oßtsel, cirtag him courage when
ever his spirits were low.
The inquest will be held at Ven>'orao
Hal!, t tie i:ir<^p«it b Hiding in Dixon, and it
ir, bcliev«d ; hat it wiil not seat hulf of those
who ufij-iy for ad mission. District Attor
ney Dovitu told some of his legal friends
the day lie left here that he doubted very
much whether the inquest would bp lon^
drawn. It wa« his policy at the outset to
reserve the s-trongest evidence until a
more serious inquiry, if the case ever
ranches such a stage. It may be eaid with
considerable conlidence thni the Coroner's
jury will not accuse anybody of ioul play.
The inquest bids fair to b- a perfunctory
affair, and it is almost certain that tho
verdict will be that the dead brother and
plater Wt-re "poisoned by a person or per
hods to 'he j iry unknown."
In spite oi deep feeling and much sus
picion, it i« the general opinion that
nothing of importance will result froru
ihe inquest. If the examination hefore
the Coroner tecomes very warm Frank
Helen* will be usked to explain some of
the contradictions in his statement to tho
detectives and the District Attorney. In
a similar way, Harry Allen will bs pinned
down as to the meaning of his many
threats. It may come to ugat thivt Alien
talked so despo ralely that the dead man
was forced to cirry a revolver for his own
protection. There nre rumors that there
Will f>e an attempt to show that Allen has
lone; boen iv the habit of talking wickedly
and mat he has in the pa«t year caused
several men to lrave tbf Sne;id ranch for
fear lie would harm them for interfering
in his iiffair.i, particularly where women
■were involved. All these stories tend to
keep up the tension.
There is much curiosity also as to
whether then will be evidence concern
ing a mysterious woninn in the ca-^e, as
foreshadowed by Arthur Heiew. Ma»iy
people believe there will be several im
portant aurprises before the inquiry closes,
but there will probably be little lißht
thrown on tlie mystery of the murder of
tho little faniiy that was swept from
earth two necks a^o.
Cotmil tlai-ria Coming.
CHICAGO, Nov. 22.— A Wabasti (Ind.)
special says: Charles B. Harris, the nowly
appointed Consul to Nagasaki, Japan, will
on Monday leave for Han Francisco with
his family. Ho has engaged palace on
the City of Peking, which leaves San' Fra
ncisco (or Yokohama November 27.
TIIE SAX FRAXCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1897.
REORGANIZATION
OF THE NAVY
Changes Proposed by
the Personnel
Board.
Reports as to Proposed Amal
gamation of Line and
Staff Office's.
Certain Engineers Who Must Pass
Examinations or Ba Dropped
From the Service.
Special Dispatch to The Call
NEW YORK. Nov. 22.— A special to the
Herald frosu Washington say»: Such prog
ress was made by the navy personnel
board to-day on the subject under con ld
eration that the end of ita labors is com
ins in view an a result of its work. This
morning a draft of tbe measure for the
reorgan zation of i h j personnel was di
rected to be printed, and it will be con
sidered at another session to be held to
morrow. The draft will not represent the
completed measure, a-j it will relate only
tc the matier of ihe proposed amalgama
tion of line ami engineer corps, and it is
intended to add provisions to it as the
work is continued.
The features of tho proposed measure
were reported to the board to-day by two
sub-committees appointed to prepare
them. Tbe first of these con. mit tees,
composed of Captain R. D. Kvan&, Lieu
tenant-Commander Richard Wainwrlght
and Chief X mincer Rac, submitted a re
port which contemplated the establish
ment of a special designing corps for shore
duty only, to ba composed of thirty-six
engineer officers taken from the head of
the list. No additional members will be
appointed to this corn", and by retirement
of the oflicsrs who will be placed in it it
will finally ro out of existence. All offi
cer*, including and below Chief Engineer
H. N. Stevenson, down to and mc tiling
Passed Assistant Engineer W. W. Bu-h, be
tween whom there are seventy-seven offi
cers of grades of chief engineer and
liaised assistant, engineer with rank
of lieutenants, and pa<-ed assistant en
gineers wi:h rank of lieutenants of the
junior guide, will be transferred to tho
jine and given an option to quality for
line duty. In case they desire to con
tinue performing engineering work they
will be allowed the privilege both ashore
and afloat. These ofricen of the grade of
passed assistant enjzineer mid assistant en
cineer iielow Passed Assistant Engineer
Hush will be transferred to the line and
they will be required to undergo nn ex
amination to become lino officers. In
case of failure at the forthcoming exam
ination they will be given an opportunity
to go to sea for one year and perform line
auty. At the end of that period they will
be re-examined, and in case of failure they
will be dropped from the service.
Th» b):»rd alio received the report of a
sub-ronimitt.ee, compose! of Captain W.
F. Snmrson, Captain A. H. McCormlck,
Lieutenant A. S. Key and Chief Engineer
G. li. Kearney, In reeard to th& number
of oflicers necessary for each grade. I
understand the snb-committpe reoom
mended an increase of 100 officers over
ttioje now in the line and engineer corp:<,
which make the number to be put in the
amalgamated line .-.nd engineer corps
slightly more than 1000.
OUTLAW LEE RECAPTURED.
Wanted for Having /Jobbed a Train
and Taken Life in Indian
Territory.
SAN BERNARDINO, Nov. 22.— Noah
Lee, who escnpeu from Officer Covin^ton
some time ago while under arrest by ask
inpto gointoa barbershop to getashave
and then skipping out the buck way, has
been recaptured by United States Marshal
Pourade and.Cointable T. J. West. They
found him about forty-five mile* from
Water Station, in the Kagle Mountain
mininp<iisinct, and he was broughtin by
those officers and Daptty United States
Marshal Oakes of Los Angeles yesterd.iy.
Last even me he appeared before United
States Commissioner Ctle and was held
under $10,000 bail and remanded to the
custody of Oake*. who conveyed him to
L'ih Ange e« this morning.
Lee is under indic;ment from the Grand
Jurvat Paris, Tex., charged with bavins?
robbed a train in company with two other
men. The hold-tin occurred in Atoka
County, Clioctaw Nation, Indian Terri
tory, on June 24, 1« ( J3. After robbing the
passengers the men shot the express mes
senger and sent several bu.lets into the
midst of the passengers in the coaches.
Mill fall*,, Union Depot.
MILL VALLEY, Nov. 22.— Ground was
broken to-day lor the union depot to be
erected by the North Pacific C>ast road
mid the Tamalpais Scenic roai nt Mill
Valley. The structure when completed
Will be the finest n n the line of the Nortn
Pacific Coast road.
NEEDS OF THE
ARID REGION
Professor Hilgard on
Whitney's Recent
Report.
Agricultural Department Has
Received Needed En
lightenment.
Will Investigate Conditions In Sec
tions of Deficient Summer
Rains.
Special Dispatch toTHEC'ALU
BERKELEY, Nov. 22.— Much attention
and comment have been given of late to
the statements made in a report of
Professor Milton Whitney of the Depart
ment of Agriculture at Washington, of
the observations made by him during a
recent tour of exploration tnrougll the
"arid" region west of the ilocky Moun
tains. As reported by telegranh in the
issue of The Call of November 18, this
repori recite-, in substance, facts familiar
to dwellers in the region concerned, but
which thus far have failed to be properly
apprehende l and appreciated by the
population living east of tbe Mississippi,
including even the Department of Agri
culture itself.
It should bo a matter of congratulation
that at last this understanding of the true
state of things in the great West has found
iti way to the official coisiiousness of the
department, and is likely to receive Us
effective aid in a lull investigation of the
various phases of agricultural proDlems
presented in the regions of deficient sum
mer rains, for that is what the word
"arid" has practically come to imply. It
has too long been ielt to individuals and
States a. one to investigate these prob
lems, wittiout the aid of the national De
partment of Agriculture even to the ex
tent of supplying the seeds distributed
annually in time for sowing the same sea
son, despite annually r*-|ieateu aimoni
tions ann requests to that < ffect both from
private par'.iea and from experiment sta
tion--.
Professor Whitney's mission of explora
tion tltrrm^l. the arid and senr-arid re
gion of ttie United States is the first fruit
of this better apprehension ar.u change of
policy on the part of the national Depart
ment of Agriculture, w:.ich ia doubtless
in me main due to the fact that iiecretary j
Wilson has himself had experienc3 in the
experiment station work of his own Mite
(Iowa) and therefor* thoroughly under
stands ih ■ need of the knowledge ai.d iii
vesii.gation of local and re>;.onal facti and
conditions and of the adaptation of tne
policy of the department ihereto in order i
ihat the benefits of the work of the same j
may tie fairly distributed instead of being |
l.racically confined to the Atlantic and I
Ciulf slopes, as has been tbe case hereto- !
lu-ie.
The fact is that that work, as well as the ,
agricultural textbooks and periodicals j
published east of ihe Rockies, have always '
laJten for .granted the essential climatic:
and soil conditions of Europe and of the
Atlantic Slope and have hardly taken into
account the wholly diffeienr. state o: I
things in the arid regions which fnrm so I
large and important a p:irt of the eultiva- I
b!e area cf the globr. To a greater or j
;ess extent these conditions have, it is j
trii'\ bern known and described for a long '
time past; cut they have hardly entered i
mio ttie active consciousness of those j
dwelling outs.de, being considered rather i
as unimportant exceptions to the normal!
regime of the regions of summer rains,
just us irrigation itself was viewed n- a
rather undesirable makeshift and substi
tute lor the natural rainfall oi ;he humid >
countries. The change of opinion that of i
late has been gaining ground in this latter
reipeet in the East, causing the more fre
quent use of irrigation in the regions
whrra summer rams do usually but not
always supply the needful !noi''ture for
thn :>ucuess of crop 3to be senou-sly con
sidered and practically carried out, has j
doubtless had its share in directing the
attention of the departmen t more d.rectly
to the Irrigation regions.
But however we may welcome even i
this tardy recognition of the peculiar i
needs and consequent rights of tho arid
region it cannot oe admitted that, as the
telegraphic reportt intimate, the depart- i
Blent or Professor Whitney have just I
made a new discovery of matters hereto- j
fore utiKnown or unpublished. While it is
quite true that "ihese soils will make the
most rtTnnrkai le chapter i;i the world's
history of agriculture," it will bo so >
largely because it illustrates so forcibly I
the conservative tendency even of men o't
science, aii<l still more of farmers, to re
gard :is normal nncl as generally true i
whatever happens to be so in tueir own j
surroundings. The Eastern farmer '
brings with him to CulLornia the ideas
and practices to which he has been accus
tomed, and it oftentimes takes years of
failure and unnecessary expense to con
vince him that "circumstances alter
cases" very emphatically in this instance.
Even thus it has taken Professor Whitney
a 1 ersonal exploration to convince him of
the truth ol what the California experi- i
meat station hns for many years past re- |
corded in its publication*, and even in a
special bulletin (No. 3, 1892) of the id-mi
ca! branch of the Agricultural Depart
ment at Washington, under which his re
cent explorations have been conducted,
vz. : the Weather Bureau.
Ttiat bulletin (which has been repub
lishnl in considerably enlarged transla
tions both in France and Germany), to
gether with the regular publications of
the California Exper ment ytntton, sets
forth in full ihe important differences
existing between agricultural conditions
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! in the arid and humid climate? respect
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| fully the marvelous facts alluded to in the
telegraphic summary of Trofessor Whit
| i.eyN report.
I; is there explained that as in ar d
j eliniates the formation of clay in the
j weathering process that accompanies soil
I formation is very much less than in the
i regions of summer rains, me so;ls are
| predominantly of a pulverulent or
sandy nature, and of great depth.
The relative absence of clay pre
: vents the forruaton of such "sub*
j soils 11 as are formed in the East
Iby the washing down of ciay
from the ntrface soil. Hence both air and
piant roots can and do penetrate much
nioie deeply, and the latter ran thus sup
ply themselves with much more both of
moisture and plant food than is possible
where a compact subsoil lies nt frojn six
to ten inche* below the surface, ana
where, therefore, the feeding roots are
concentrated in the surface layer. Hence
a six week*' drought in the East ana in
Europe paralyzes the active roots of the
crops, while, as t is year's experience
shows, tountiful crop 3 may be harvested
where the roots can penetrate to four or
five limes the depib, even with a six
months' drought. And as there is no "raw
sutisoii" which, if turned up by deep
plowing, would in th<» East de
prive the farmer of one or
two crops, the California farmar can
as a rale plow as deeply as he pleases ir
respective of that consideration, although
in certain soils he should not go too de.-p
|in order not to wuste moisture. As it is a
j well-known fact that sand is an excellent
j mv eh the tilled surface ordinarily con-
I stitutes such a good protect ; o i against
evaporation and consequent waste of
moisture that no recondite c.tuses for the
remarkable conservation of moisture dur
ing the long season of drought need be
looked for.
But there is another cause for the con
servation of moisture i-i such lands as the
Ch-.no beet fields alluded to in the tele
gram?. It is ihe almost universal pres
ence in our lowland «o Is of a certain pro
portion of "alkali" salts, w .ich prevent
evaporation to a very maierial degree.
Even reclaimed alkali lands nred much
lejs irrigation than similar lands not con
taining the salts, and in my plants are
fully satisfied with the moisture thus re
tained. In dry seasons ihe success of
crops where a r-light impregnation of al
kali exists often contrasts strikingly with
the total failure in non-alKdline tracts
alongside. It is therefore quite easy to
understand why, as is stated, "the soil is
always moist beneath the aikali crusts."
There certainly is no occasion to look
> for the origin of this moisture in artesian
waters, as the report seems to intimate;
the less as in strong alkali land 3 a water
tight hardpan usually intervenes at the
depth of three or four feet.
That the quick method of moisture de
termination in the various soil layers by
electricity, devised by Professor Whitney,
will render good services in the farther
study of local conditions is unquestion
able. But the main facts and their com
paratively simple explanation have been
matters of record for years, and hay«
largely molded the agricultural practice
oi California. E. \V. Hilgard.
TEN DOOMED TO DIE.
Co ny id ion of the Police 0 fficials Who
Had a Hand in Lynching Assail
ant Arroyo.
MEXICO CITY, Nov. 22.— The treat
trial of Arroyo's murderers is over, hav
ing terminated this evening with the sen
tence of death pronounced on ten of the
police officials and policemen concerned
in the butchery of the hapless wretch,
whose audacious attempt on the Presi
dent's life caused so profound a sensation
here. The juiy was out over seven hour^,
returning n» verdict at 5 r. m., and Judte
Fiores delivered his continuation verdict
at about 8 o'clock. The prisoners s:o d
up, and the genuarrues presented arrn
during the deliverance. The coirtrcom
was crowdeJ, for tne closing -cencs in tiie
trial were most dramatic. Villavicencio
and Cabrera took the verdict cool W, us \n
fact did a!l ilie prisoners. Bellido was
sentenced to eleven month.-.' imprison
ment, and Cuellcr, who bought the
knives at tin? order ol hia master, the la'e
In-ipector-Ceiieral Velasquez, and also
Br3vo, were acquitted and set free.
The concerned men no not yet seem to
realize their perilous position. Their
lawyers entered an up pea! in each ea^e.
Public opinion sustains too verdict.
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COPPER CAN
BE HARDENED
Wizard Duffy Discovers
the Art of Making
Damascus Steel.
Has Also Mastered the Science
of Welding Copper
Tools.
Beg 'lining of a Series of Wonderful
Work In tha Tempsrtnar of
Metals.
Special Dispatch to The Call.
BOSTON, Not. 22 —James H. Duftv, the
"wizard" of Machiasport, Me., haa discov
-1 cred the lost art of producing Damascus
9teel, and discovered the art of harJenine
copper and brass. Ii the corner of bis
, smithy there are knife blades and razors
! of coupar that will hold an edge with the
best steel.
A number of Boston men are so well
i satisfied that the discoveries made by the
j Maine man are valuable that they have
| made him a flattering offer for the secret.
' When he moved to Machiasport the can
ning industry haii tegun to grow, and the
soldering coppers used in tae factories
; were sent to him for repairs. Mr. Duffy
; thought if copper could be welded two old
j soldering tools that were worthless mifiht
be welded into one that would be worth
; something. The difficuty was to find the
j way to welcJ them.
Recently he astonished the factory men
I by taking a lot of cast-oft soldering cop
! re f s and bringing them back nicely weld
:ed and as perfect as new one;. In fact,
1 they were more perlect than new ones,
i for not only did tuey hold the beat as well
aa the new tools, but they did not wear
. away so quickly, and for this reason alone
| they were more valuable. Then the wiz-
I ard surprised his intimate acquaintances
by producing from his laboratory a copper
i sword wtich he proceeded to bend into a
: circle and let it soring back into shape
•gain, which it did as the most perfect
j Damascus steel would.
The wizard will talk about the quality
of metal produced, but ;s reticent in re
gard to the process throujh fhich he puts
it. He will only say that in his experi
ments in attempting to weld copper with
out rendering it permanently soft he
struck upon the secret of the ancient
method of making Damascus steel. He is
positive that he has it. Ha saya that al
though he has made some wonderful dis
coveries, he has learned tnat the»e are but
the banning of a great series of aiscov
er es that mu-t foMow as part of these.
He says that it is the simplest thing in
the world; that every ironworker &n<\
every copper and bra-s worker at their
trade ireaa upon it every dnv, but fail to
seen. It is the simplest thine imagina
ble, and the transmutation of metals, lie
says, will yet be done as simply. This
much the wizard of Machiasport says, and
no more. His copper swords and razors
and his steel swords and edge tools say
n.ore than he.
Will Get a JBaii'iosm- Salary.
EEI) BLUFF, Nov. 22.— Frank A. Boole,
for many years manager of the Sierra
Lumber Company, of which Peter Dean of
.->; m Francisco is president, hus resigned
h sposiiio. 1 , to takeeffeci on December 1,
when he will become manager of the
Singer Lumber Company, one of tlie
largest on ih« coast, at a saiary uf $6000 a
year. C. K. Tinkham of Chico, who has
been in the employ of the Sierra Lumber
Company for many years, will take the
Vacant jlace here.
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