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32 BRISK TRADE IN BIG DOGS Men Who Are Going to the Klondike Are the Purchasers. Ranchers and Residents on the Mission Road Are the Victims. ■Warrants Out for the Arrest of John Hlggins and James Flynn for Stealing the Canines. John Hlgrgins and James Flynn, two young men living near the Five-mile House, Mission road, have developed a new industry, which has so far proved very profitable. Mo6t of the ranchers and residents In the surrounding districts own or rather owned valuable dugs, principally of the St. Bernard and Newfoundland breeds. Recently the .1"- T s have been disappearing, until now there is scarcely a large dog in the neighbor hood. The police were notified, and the mounted squad were instructed by Cap tain Glllen to find nut the mystery of the disappearance of the canines. Cor poral Shanahan was not long in solv ing the problem, and yesterday he took one of the victims. A. Schuts, 42 Palmer street, to Judge Joachimsen's court, to swear to a complaint charging Higgins and Flynn with grand larceny. Shanahan found that all the dogs had been stolen by Higglna and Flynn and sold to men who intend to leave for the Klondike gold fields. The prin cipal purchasers were, according to Shanahan, James Brownlle, a barten der on Larkin and Fulton streets, and James B. Wingate, a druggist now em ployed in a store on Market street. It is said that Brownlie and Wingate have between them bought between twenty live and thirty dogs. Schutz also obtained a search war rant for the recovery of his dog, which Is a Newfoundland, valued at $100. It was stolen from him on January S. Search warrants will also be sworn out by the other men who have lost dogs, and a lively time is expected when they are all recovered and taken to the City Prison till the cases are disposed of. Higgins and Flynn piled their trade during the hours of the night. They usually had a tempting piece of meat with them and get the dogs to follow them without making a noise. The dogs would be taken into tne city under cover of darkness and sold. The price paid for the dogs is not known, but. assuming it was $20 each, Higgins and Flynn did a rattling business. Unity Alliance. Unity Alliance No. 14. S. P. A. of A., has elected the following officers for the current year: P. D. Mullaney, P.; W. 11. Donovan, Sr. V. P.; Daniel L. Callaghan Jr. V. P.; E. P. Hunt. S.; M. J. Con nelly. F. ?.: An'lrpw Meehan, C. S_; John J. Donepan. T.; Thomas Watson, con ductor; William O'tjinnnr, S. at A.; J. J. Egan, O. G.; John Hennessy, William Mul.vln, J. J. Connelly, trustees; John Burns, F. P. Hunt, J. J. Ponegan. M. J. Connelly and W. 11. Donovan, delegates to State council. Division No. 2, (\. O. H- Division No. 2 of the Ancient Order of Hi bernians has adopted a resolution to be pre sented for ratification by all Celtic organiza tions It opposes the promulKatlon of a treaty of arbitration between the United States and Kngland. NEWS OF THE MINES. New Railroads for Mines and New Mines for Railroads. Boom In Southern Califor nia—Two Tales of Great Placer Finds. It looks as though the Mother Lode is to be reached before a great while by another railroad line which will give a large mining region that new impetus •which transportation facilities, bringing cheapness and convenience to every phase of mining life and operation, can give in a greater degree than anything else. The Stockton and Tuolumne Rail road Company, though composed mainly of women and so far managed by an able and active woman, seems to have good prospects of getting a real railroad running from tidewater to Summersvllle on the East belt in Tuolumne County. A committee of twelve citisens has been organized to Becure subscrip tions to stock in the county and Mrs. Annie Hikert of Jamestown, the hustling organizer and president of the company, declares that capital for the enterprise is waitinß m Stockton, San Francisco and elsewhere. Whether this road is built or Dot a number of branch railroads will thread various parts of the mining region of the Btate in the near future and every one will bring a transformation in the way of quickened development, Increas ed population and increase of mining prosperity and production. The Stockton and Tuolumne road, if built, will go through Copperopolla and will likely tiring about, a resumption of copper mining in that rich copper re gion. When the leading copper mine there closed down it cost $3 to haul the matte to the railroad at Milton and $2 to get it to Stockton. <'oke cost as much to get in. A rate on matte of $1 from «'o[> peropolis to tidewater might !><• expect ed to result from the building of this road. The line would cross the mother lode near the Rawhide, Tarantula ami other large mines and reach a group of rich mines on the Bast Kelt. Sonora would be. reached and i),<- cost of trans portation and production would be de creased over a large mineral area in the county. With this and the Sierra rail road reaching It, Tuolumne would make large strides. TWO TALES OF RJCII PLATER STRIKES IN CALIFORNIA. The week has afforded two Interesting tales of "strikes" by placer miners In California worth noting amid the Klon dike craze. Although quarts mining is the field in which the great future fl< velopment of California gold mining will be reached, and while rich finds I:: quartz lodes are of almost daily occuri throughout the State, the placer deposits will yield hundreds of millions in the fu ture, and new developments are constant reminders that cv tn placer mining is not "played out" in California- ' >ne ,»f these finds is a "drift" deposit up north in N« - vada County, and the other is .t placer •worked by a dry washer away down on the desert in San Bernardino County. The finding of another tl' 'i pectJon of puried ancient river 'b.T.-ei is thus de scribed by the Nevada Daily Transcript: "A remarkably rich lead of blue gravel has been found on Clifford B. Calkins' eighty-acre Tract of patented ground at the foot of Belby Plat, a mile w.-st of north of town. The dirt pays from ten to fifty cents a pan, and the gold is very coarse. "The strike was made on New Tear's day. Young Mr. Calkins and his father HALE BROS. 2tH ~-^ — -> — - >^>->-v O o 000 <=> Ota H, *£ Sm CJ ? ■»*■ *■»»■■£»■ H pßifi^SuKaSmset \ B J F"t '" ~~^ : - I Wa 1 'Wm WLitlAKArMwn e>AjLjQo ||||]^^ Ww^MP j -W ®i 8 3 Swifter selling as the sale goes on. Hundreds of items ~/y v^ , 3 S 1 „,»■_ S^ r^r* 6Jt3Bfi3 crowded out. We've taken a few to give a hint. 'Tis hard to f^^^^^W^^^^j/f/Ifw^^^^i 2 E .I^^^P^l^^^^^^!^^^^ 0 keep from saving at such saving times as these. |Sil|j§^ ''■' ' '.^^^^^.J]]^^^-^!"^!!!!-' "idlllllliiil^S 3 SZ ouooo Qo i- ouocoQO 0 ®@®®(S)®®® ■ J^jtfMM Jf£*) J^fV --• E THE WAY WE CLEAR IN 1 '""h^.FRyTnD UNDERWEAR nn M ail V^^ ®^ (f^^ ix^n/mrc>^rfr^Cr HOSIEKY AINU LJINDkKWtAK. Orders ___^£^ J^i^l^j^ n Plll/Ylri^ 1 ILO» A snappy list, chock full of honest money-savin truthfulness. Chock Filled '. ... , i J^^^^Sc^fSr Winr^ '— ! 'ffTT7TTT T g^^' \^H: i/V/nil^VJ » a'^rv^* - fun of sjJV-'fagtjon, wear and goodness. Never mind about the profits. rillCU .- jh jjjijj>^ *> J l' ; ! | /'• iFffPHiP^i-v \» : •£= A budget of bargains to tickle the purse of economy-seekers. Every one a money- Clearance isn't for that. . _ If Mll^V^llllKH^fci ! i''ij^H^_ iM =^ g saver. Every one a snap - " ISoTton 1%%. a t c ra I SSS^SKu. I ' Received J^T B '—^ Good. thick, wan* n7"~ Our beau^l » T , P cs- "Gents' | com b , mj !,«s£- Gen^ .nforce^ b,^ £- In Time. :i^^^^| fi r J^B^--£fc: EH..vr m^ fl n e oTthrcSo e n SStg » «W^ Sly H'! t c^t Onj C ~ ::; - TEfe^SmniiXlthM' -^ EgKTI Se^TeS^a 5c *>-"— -ir _____ _i To^se^l^. . I -~fi; g^k^Li hh r H B iS THE WAY WE CLEAR IN 3 «^- leader : Y a rd — ; : I Good Strong Cordu- | — — -■ Int WAY WE CLEAR IN . — i <• €*— v -- 1: Our $3&0 and 14 lines, 3 _„ roy lubbe d Stock- :An odd lot of Silk- . =^ I«. \i- w-,,1 nunlitv Turkey, O c c-i so gl@|| Chil- iS«^ 12; c Gents* pound SAirts, very „ DRESS GOODS. I g ?Sle £CS'-rS*33 2oc - lB^ *$£ .. i 2' C l& rirSVl 4Q DRESS GOODS. S= Snmask ...-v an ; uu the or- ZUC — — |p_J«- In the lot I Pair H o.c SdSiSSS'*^ »- ■<- . ilirt , &%?£s&s£ 49C No wonder Clearance Sale draws crowds and great stocks dwindle to notMn__e M =3 •_ _dinar> bargain , 1 Kale's Great $3 Portieres, — ' _•_ - --— i get a Tsc garment for Each No wonder we're busy! 'Tis saving time. 'Tis clearing time. The time of speedy _2 ~Z .. rlWeOtai We nnl «5.00 S^tc Som! Ho^ur^ular'^ gl»h neck.- long. ' selling prices and special bargain snaps. _^ £- Towellnft i<°* zooavzltlV™ full IA/- Tapestry 3 H yards by 50 inches. 5 *4-<>'> - Q . German in-.,-rtation. o'nTf; nS T ,\T ~ E DTshee oTfwekr^w^etfw,^! lOC jPorticres to from: the h 4__ H«™«orf . Lnd.cS' -Borne of our best style 3 You can buy any of our 3 Uisnes j m the linen department.. Yard I lot to be closed a LssJtf be, dee,. lv^ rnn Vcklb quality,- crochet neck lyt *>* A and qualities of 75c and SI »>O $1 50 Fancy Pierola Suit- =S £ Cambric Fine Soft Cambric-an Improvement on bed luxury-softer than nu.U, 8c | Ho~ Igf Q sc »nd |£ T, 1 4dC SU^ j^^^^JgSOC |^ Sstt-e^y^s a^..^ $ 00 3 £ plw 45x36 inches, eaelly worth ay. > Special to Introduce 1 ^. e ;..f. i f. c . 3 .. a ... t . ~ PaTr — Pur c wooTm odd'lSt & ° m£ items; to be closed out.. | Yard Su.tinfcs (This^la an elegant ♦l^ -^ Cases I . — — — -— - of Saxony i i a— . —^ :SI : ,r',, a<^ ie . s ' Sea l'2 l< ' S3 i Ladies' Vests and Pants the i Extra Heavy ' Fancy Rep Your choice of our $1 and 13 A BOOM IN BLANKETS. hSf SSB! S^#^S BrSf"]:H 7 . c & sp«;:s 1 •^ /A UV/V-TiTl 11> IL^ »-a A 1 » m. a-». ■ -v_^« Hoss , a W earable lO' f welip pants are pink. ! (\Ck r Silks j this season. all good col- iOC Suitings (EVery yard new this COC ~T* Manufacturers' Seconds. Slightly damaged, but just as warm and long-lived. We | gggSj^;;.?. \ 4& a e r gK c^ej °llSh '° rS: tO do- Yura ? EeaS ° n) Yard =3! I snapped up thlslot in a jiffy-paid spot cash. KeMl share our bargain with you. See window z^r^ THE WAY WE CLEAR IN MILLINERY GOODS. I Broken lots of our $1 25 k. r^iwh 1 Mohair* SumnLl 0 i £ REG^' 4 r TE = tß^t B^ R l^SS^: THE WAY WE CLEAR IN MILLINERY GOODS. F ancy \£%Bk»M%£ &M Fffi&i? LfT **^ 3 £ SSSSSS^S^J?^ A veritaHe storm of .uick-sale pricelets.' Every reduction guaranteed. JS^pSfS $j^ Mo™* S£^t^"are 55C the finest fleece, to boom tne blanket -*- si lKhtly defective, to close Pair JETTED FEATHER AIG- ] FEATHER WINGS. FEATHER lany of the three 10ta.... Yard ' H^Z — • ; ?*— fale RETTEP. FEATHER WINGS AIGRETTES AND- FANCY ~ 1| Anything you like in our "*g ; t£Z AND COQUE FEATHERS A GILT AND JEWELED AIG- ! Here's a hummer! Rep- 1 75, "Oc Fancy Wool Curls, 38 —« s»>- miscellaneous assortment. Pt/-» RETTES— Worth «0c and 50c Of?/-> 51. 75 and'u'ar $1 To and $2 Fancy! wml inches wide, for "IS 5^ T t,t .v wort! 15c and Me each. On Ot The. entire lot to go with^-OC $2.00 Silks, in all the latest q>l-25 ,-,„.' <V»*e have stated reduc- :ptr|f» -^ ,bw_ REGULAR $5 WHITE WOOL BLAN- These blankets are "seconds." In the best the tables at Each clearance Each Silica patterns; swept into! "Pi Curls tlons as they are. We OVfV -^ g- KETS— T6xS6 Inches, pure wool, an factories all blankets produced are Inspected clearance sale at I Yard l I I ask you to investigate.) Yard r^S \ZZ elegant blanket for J5; on account «0.65 gj expert. The slightest defect bars a SMALL JET CROWNS-Here's (-<, -^ ;♦— of slight defects 2S pairs will be '«*— blanket from the first class. THESE ARE JETTED AIGRETTEP-A mixed IQI r a snap, reduced from 3oc, 15c OC r^[ ' JTI closed' out at * alr DEFECTIVE— & re "seconds." lot of 25c and S.'.c lines to Dt " ™'V and 50 each to Each T»T TUT pi|r>\/ m~p A ' r W A AT\ — • S^: rushed out by clearance at... Each (Come early for these.) | fl£^ IS LJ V 13 /\ £*. J\ rV IV • -^ B r^ts-I!x j 4 Sl^cTu^me^sufe: extra large - blankets- ' Clearance in the Cloak Department thin g S c num ance flash of nimble clearin2 Tsricelets< The kind that sell Bndfflak * 3 E SflErtblE^ b^nd^an^ele 6 : . 4 . 2 5 St 0^! $«»» "for ofher^cioa^wln "t??^?' ■«'*■*•*••«•' 24 Sheet, of Writing Paper, m*. to match .....4o box »= gant $S blanket; slightly defective; to *"+ ket. heavy silk ribbon bound, white. *O — We must have room, tor other ctoaki, will PC in soon. 24 Sheets of Crane . Famous Dislan! Linen Paper for 12cwpackasa =S •»— close ■ Pair slightly imperfect; to dose lair ._ -- — -_— . ——^^ 25 Heavy C ream Envelopes, for clearance 5c package =— S= - " . Dt . i Thibet fur around Black or Navy] ; Good Playing Cards with Convex Corners, for clearance To pack -^ ■ sg- |* IC n j collar ami down A Walking Jack"ts. Genuine Imperial Shoe Dressing, for ladies 9c bottle ZZ^ ■»— Plush j f ront> elegantly cm l •JjT'' 50 l\eat hl^' n collar. Vi silk Fine Medicated Toilet Paper, in big packages 3 l-3o package 312 fc: OCFANS OF NOTIONS. tu|)ts isSKqiSsfiScSj ''V . Jacket '•' IK-°° The Celebrated Wool Soap for sale at Hales • • 4o cake — * •I- V/Vl-inil\J V/I AlV^ * IVIIV* __^ A_riatty_little affair.. I • Each Z^ i s,x The Mites of Prices on these ood are mere for alities. ?= - §^P -««- SSI " Th Way We Clear Out Embroideries. 3 SIX THOUSAND SPOOLS OF | r^ii«T " hu : ' Brnided braid on front, back * US mtz BASTING COTTON— Good, strong CHILDREN'S HANDKERCHIEFS— C% r> 7. ° „« Jdeal rape for every- *ff»-OO Beaver ami sleeves, blue or! I A merry selling to clear the stocks. «»»— basting cotton, regularly sold for CZ r Pretty colored and hemmed borders, -<£W v»ip<. B day winter wear. * V v. Jackets black, as neat anri j i*T.SO _„.„ r>A«n»>Tr< rvppnmn>v /- ,.,„,.,,„ rnrp PVTO A mFPV^iu. -S *— 20c dozen, to rush the clearance we OW 2SO dozen, to go at Each Clearing price Each " a -« c «-» perfect as a jacket v < FINE CAMBRIC EMBROIDERY— CT^, IIUIII EDGE EMBROIDERY— B^i 1^ •£= will sell a dozen spools for Dozen ■ i i can be :..:.! Each Guipure edge. 2to 3 inches wide; *Jy to 6 inches wide; 30 pretty patterns -^j i X — ! — this is an extra quality. To close.. Yard 1 make choosing easy; these are typ- \A r> ~*^? •- lollies' Black Fig- Two-toned Bouclej _ . leal clearance sale bargains. To iTrv I^s g"~ . nred M hair Skirts, Capes with Thibet We call particular attention to the quality. close Yard -*» \ y~* ,V .. . _ , . IV^h^;^ i rich i lined tl and Ladies* fur around collar and GUIPURE EDGE EMBROIDERY— 2 hi 13 , «»— v . , - Mh • -ly lined aril Boucle <lown frnnt. I i GI'IPI'RE EDGE KMBROIDERT— 24 IS **"- nK>--^ \ - V Sir"- \ "l__- fl > i '*'^' L "'"HrH r 00m^^^' 1* —<\ c, . " i bound with velvet, a <^l-5O Canea sateen lined, a styl- | tCT.OO to 4 Inches wide, an elegant pattern Or* -«* s^ t7V^\^" X,^>v l :: -'3n^!£i!_Jr3'^-'Z"'^re^ 'N_>r<.^<^^ Skirts W ell-made. well-fit- '♦ "T" »!«=» |sh little carment. i«TO assortment of the 12Vsc kind. To t/C , We call your careful attention to the values "2 s^- "~\i\ "/ //XV wT*~^ *^'^S-J^^^r'-^^ J^^> >( 2 1 !^ _^sr I ting garment ; Each Clearing price I Each ; close Yard jin Blankets quoted in this advertisement. ZZg 2Z /^^^^^/^^^^^V^^ A /^ &'~\'~/* l^Jl T^IL Til -C Cl« * In our ore is increased this week. We have arranged with, one of V *t<rt \\_ S\_^\*'\&r'W V \\r I IIG I |63,51ir6 Ol OllODDlflB[ the most prominent manufacturers of food articles to make a display •El » « ss> ; " :~".?' ffßl*" ' rr O of food products in our store and serve an attractive luncheon free £ 937-939-941-943-945 Market Street. to our lady patrons. You can rest and refresh yourself, if fatigued, without leaving the store. 3 and brother had been working the claim steadily since August 14. They had run 216 feet of main tunnel and had upraised ;<.!.<l drifted In various directions for ral hundred feet more, searching for the blue lead supposed to ll< ement Hill, but which has heretofore never been found in that part of the country. "After a conference <>n the last day of the year they decided to work ;i few days longer. Next morning an impulse s. :z«.-<! one of them to X" Into an uj ten feet above the tunnel and drift west erly. He had guni; but four feet when he struck a rim carrying a thin layer of genuine blue gravel and pitching to the west. Since then t!.> rim-rock of the new-found lead lia.s been broken through at various points for a distance of forty feet and found to be uniform and regu lar. Every foot of it pr< spects splendid ' ly, 10 cents to the pan being the poorest so far. it extends almost parallel with and several feet above th<' tunnel, and the owners are satisfied that they have half a mile on the channel. '■Arrangements ■will now be made for the thorough and systematic working of i the claim. The eider (>'"■■ has been a gravel miner In that locality sino and he regards the find as o best ever made on or above Belby Flat. : which was a veritable Golconda to the pioneer placer miners. A number of oth er old-time gravel miners have visi t*••!t *••! the claim in the last few days, and they say they have (seen nothing so good for tlirty years or more. "Pot many years past the search for this deposit has been carried on by pros pector after prospector, and without avail till now. Tens of thousands of dollars have been spent In sinking and !in running tunmls and cuts. One shaft was sunk a great distance into the ridge some three decades ago -- 1 • i<li < l struck a I bo'ilder twenty or mnro feet across the top. Here the shaft sinkers quit In dis trust. Had they put an Incline down past the boulder a few feet they would have found what they wanted, for the boulder lies just over the .channel, as the last f< w days have proven to the present ; owners. Such is thf» irony of the gold | hunter's fate very often." The San I-iernardlno Times-Index i matches some of th< [ the Klon dike thus: "I-ouls Curtis, Dick Donahue and W. i R. Radenburger an- three partners doing j business in the Virginia Dale District, and last evening the first two named came in with $370f> in gold dust and nug gets as the result of less than two months' work. And yet people will rush to Alaska and endure all kinds of hard ships jn the search for gold in the Icy north when untold wealth is to be had at our very doors. The claims from which the gold was taken have only b^en lo cated a little over six weeks, and ar» called the "Rough and Ready' find 'Klondike. 1 They are situated in the Virginia Dale District, and are placer i claims, being worked with dry washers. The largest nugget taken out Is worth $JK *4, and many others of smaller sizes were found. Ofttlmes the miners took I out $972 per week while only two of them : were working." THE MOST RELIABLE BBTOCATS OF ALASKA'S G< >L,D V\i> fDTJCT. The Alaska Mining Record gives the ; following estimate Of the Alaskan gold ; product of 1897, including the American : portion of the Yukon Valley: '"'Die output of the mines of Alaska is extremely difficult of estimation. The vastness of the mining territory, the mi ! gratory characteristic of its population and the entire absence of reports and statistics from a great part of the small er camps render it a difficult matter to arrive at a statement approximately cor rect except by .artful study and watch ful attention • detail. Tl i lowing estimate is believed to ! nearly correct as possible, and still rep- I ts. fully, yet conservatively, the production of gold in Alaska during the past season: "Xowell Gold Mining Company, 50 stamps, 1275,000; Berners Ray Mining and Milling Company, 40 Stamps, $200 000; THE SAX FRAXCISCO CALT>, SUNDAY, JAXTTAKT 16, 1898. HALE BROS. Alaska Treadwell Gold Mining Company, ' 24-i stamps, and Alaska Mexican Gold Mining Company, 120 stamps, $1.4" Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company. TS, stamps, $120,000; the Jualin Mining Company, l r > stamps, $7f>. i ' | o'i; Ebner Gold Mining Company, ]" stamps, $65,000; Alaska "Willoughby Gold Mining Com pany, 10 stamps, not in opera; Mine. Norton Sound. 10 stamps, $.''.0,000; Raid Eagle Mining Company, 4 stamps. $250,000; Alaska. Commercial Comyany, 46 stamps, $600,000; Portland Alaska Gold Mining Company, If> stamps. $20,000; Au rora Borealis Gold Mining Company, E stamps. Just started; the Sum Hum Chief (Jold Mining Company, 5 stamps, just started; total output of quartz mines. $3,035,000; Lituya Bay pla cer mines. 120,000; Cook Inlet placer mines. $260,000; Birch Creek district, Vn kon mines, $800,000; other Yukon dis tricts, $700,000; from various districts throughout the territory, not named in the above. $S0,000; total output. $4,865,000. "This Is but a slight Increase over the output of last year. "While the quartz production Is considerably greater than that of 189S, It will be noticed that th.> placer output, which was greatest in Rirch Creek district lnst year, is consid erably smaller owing to the abandon ment of that district by many who Joined the Klondike rush." N'< iTEP. During the week the ditches of the South Yi;ba Canal Company in Nevada f'ounty froze near th< I j»dwatera and the Champion and Providence mines ■ treed t i close down temporarily. Yuba County is arranging a mining fair exhibit, which will occupy a Bpace V.i by 20 feet. Two Napa girls, Misses Josephine and Ion! Rider, have bought the Yellow | :■,*.-• of Texas mine for $2500, and will develop the property. Thp following correspondence of the El Dorado Republican from East Diamond Springs, El Dorado County, Is typical of .'.ange that has come over a large proportion of the small mining towns of the State: "Rip Van Winklf.who camped In this neighborhood twenty years ago and put the whole community as well as himself to sleep, has awakened. Ra il from this long slumber, with re newed vigor and energy our people are going to see if the dreams and visions which visited them during that long rest cannot be realized. Half a dozen mines or more are In full blast, some already milling their ore; others sinking, drifting or excavating, and the whole system of ledges from Webber Creek to th" Cosum !!• s is undergoing a thorough prospect ing." An old channel of the Sacramento River near Reading, 70 feet higher than the present channel, is being sii< fully worked at several points, mainly by drifting. From one claim on this old channel $16.0p0 was taken In two years. The old channel crosses the present one several times, and can be traced as far ■ ello. • Keswick, Shasta ■ County, the ' town about the Mountain Copper Company's smelter, will in a few days have a new electric light plant ready for operation. I Fifteen saloons help attest the prosperity of this camp. The excitement following wild news paper reports ,of riches on the Yaqui River, Mexico, has petered out and dis gusted rushers are still returning. One of the latest notes of them is the follow ing In the Tombstone Prospector: "A party of men arrived at Nogales the other day. They had traversed almost the en tire length of the Taqui River in search of placer ground, and although they struck color everywhere, they found no placor gold in paying quantities.* Thus warnings should be constantly sent out which should not be lost to those who have the Yaqui gold fever." It is stated that 215 cars of or** a day are being shipped from Butte by the Ana conda Mining Company to Its smelter at Anaconda. This means about 8000 tons every twenty-four hours. ' . / The annual special mining edition of the Alaska Mining Record, published at Juneau, comes to hand , with an unusual degree of excellence and interest. An ex tensive review of the vast and undevel oped quartz deposits of Southern Alaska is followed by descriptions of the large HALE BROS. quartz min< I now helns successfully oper ator! and : • half-tone Illustrations are ttered throughout the pa^es. The rir)K s of ;■■ Yukon River basin >>n the American described nt consider able length, aa la the town of Juneau, the Alaskan metropolis. A larire and accur ate map of .-ka is one of the features of the edition. How Southern Callforolan Mines Are Coming to the Front. The mining districts of Southern Cali fornia will probably show an Increase of gold production of not far from $1,000. 000. as compared with iso<'>. During the year a groat amount of development has gone on, and many new mines will be producing this year. There is now more prospecting going on all over the deserts and in Ban Diego County than has ever been known. More capital Is seeking in vestment than ever before. Bales of de veloped mines and of promising claims are reported almost daily. Many of the investors are Eastern men, but there, as elsewhere throughout the State, Califor nians are eagerly looking about them for gold properties. A number of mills and j cyanide plants have been erected or ar ranged for during the past few months. It is estimated that there is $14,000,000 Invested in the gold mines south of Teha chapi, with I stamps dropping and about mi employed. The number of mines located is about 3SOO, and perhaps 2500 are being actively worked or devel- > oped. Yet as truly as of any other part of the State can II be said that tho de velopment of, the gold, resources has hardly begun. During the year hundreds of valuable finds have been made, and in scores of claims on which develop ment has proceeded "strikes" have been made. The greatest activity has been seen in the Randsburg district, which will now enjoy a second growth with the completion of Its railroad; but the Vir ginia Dale, Perris. Pannlmint and other districts scattered over the great arid gold-producing territory are likewise see ing the beginnings of greatness. Southern California has as much to gain from the coming Mining Fair at San Francisco as any other part of .the State, yet there has been no extensive and or ganized movement to show to the many thousand! who will attend the exposi tion the opportunities which Southern California offers to gold seekers, the pos sibilities of Us great hidden wealth, Its peculiar attractions to prospectors, and the chances for investment there. South ern California knows how to advertise and has well learned the value of it. and now comes a chance to advertise its min eral resources and fruits. The southern counties should match the mother lode region with the magnificence, pictur esquenest and allurements of its display at the Mechanics" Pavilion. A weekly record of all the mining prog ress In the counties of Ban Diego, San Bernardino. Riverside and Kern would require a large amount of space. During the past week the arrival from Chicago of C. W. L<Jller and S. C. Good of the Monroe Mining and Milling Company has brought to prominent notice the proper ties in the Virginia Dale district, which this company has bought and propose to develop on a large scale. There are four claims yet undeveloped, but showing a wide ledge giving high assays and the promise of a bonanza. Tile company also has two properties in the Chuckawalla Mountains, in which shafts of about 50 feet show a line ledge of ore about six feet wide. The company promises to be gin extensive development at once. The development of tin- desert gold.re sources is of course hampered by lack of water, of milling facilities, transporta j tion, etc., but these aids, along with elec- I trie power and special processes adapted I to the ores and the mining conditions, will rapidly Increase from now on. A few days ago a tew custom mill was started at Johannesburg, and now the San Ber nardino Times-Index reports that a 40 stamp custom stamp miii and a cyanide : plant will be erected at once at Bars tow, i giving prospectors and claim owners with small capital a chance to work their properties. The Lone Star Mining Company, with a capital of $1,000,000, was organized at Ontario last week to work the Lone Star ■ and Yankee Doodle mines. HALE BROS. WHIST The fourth annual meeting of the Pacific Const Whist Association has pone Into history. The news columns of The Call have Riven a very pood account of what has transpired. The president of the association received a great many congratulatory letters from the great masters of the Kamt% which no doubt will be read with great interest by the whist-lov lng public. The first Is from Miss Kate Wheelock, known throughout the world as the Whist Queen. It is as follows: BOSTON, Jan. 7 IS9S. P. J. Tormey, President P. C. W. A.— Dear Mr. Tormey: Your Invitation to be present to your fourth annual meeting of the Pacific Coast Whist Association, to he held In your city January 14 and 15, 1898, Just received, and again 1 felt the same regret as in past ses sions and for the same reason— the distance alone Is the reason. Hut I do send you all my best wishes for a successful feathering. And certainly Bin you wrre the first to conceive the Idea of having association!*, and Since many in the East have followed out your idea with great success, you ought to feel proud of the fact that it started from the Pacific Coast and in your pity. May the best whist win In the. wish of your sincere friend, KATE WHEELOCK. WMISTERS FROM OREGON. The Portland Club of Portland. Or., was represented at the whist convention by the president of the North Pacific Whint Asso ciation, 1.. Therkleson, which club was ad mitted as a member of the Pacific Coast Whist Association. Mr. Therkleson was ac companied by Judge 1,. T. Barm, E. C. John son and Mr. Sweeny, the team who visited San Francisco in August last and carried oft the Payot trophy. . DOES IT CONSTITUTE A REVOKE? A very unusual and Interesting question hns be^n submitted for our opinion. It arose the other evefilßC in a match game In the rooms of The Trist Doplicate wTUsi Club: East dealt nnd turn»-.l qoeen Of spades; Booth Icails a tmall diamoad, which is won by East. .•a'is to of spades (trumps) and holds the trick, then switches to ■ dub, which is won by North, an,l North Immediately comes through Bast with » spade ttrump); Bast .i diamond; South plaj West. att-r hesitating ■ little, in s surprised way asks. 'Wli.it are trumps?" Asking the ques to m fee nml correct his fr ror; North and Bouth rlalm a revoke, fful claims, under law 88, that he has the right to :i-k. "What the trump suit Is" at v; during the pla> of s deal. «'ll; OPINION. If we were a reJStee or umpire in a mntrh and this question came up just ns It did In W, ws w'uM allow ii revoke, as we In terpret the law povernins: revokes. l^iv. 2S— The second paragraph reads: "A renounce in error may be corrected by the player making it before the trick In "which it occurs has teen turned and quitted, unless either he or his partner, whether in his right turn or otherwise, has led or played to the following trick, unless his partner has asked whether or not he has any of the suit re ll' uncr>d." Questions asked at a whist table by a player, undor the strict letter of the unwritten law, should be addressed to the partner, and are answerable only by him. This being the case, the t|U»-stlon asked was to all Intents and pur poses asking the partner. "Whether or not he had any of the suit renounced?" -Under the laws of duplicate whist, as adopted- by the last Congress, a player has the right to pre vent his partner from committing any irreg ularity . except this one thing, "Renouncing in error." t, asking this question at this partlcu - ins partner, the dealer, that th" trump suit, and the turneii ..■ knew was still i: n|>la> t-<t. an.l 1 saj estab ,-oke. The words •king tliis questloa do not fit the the law governing such oases, ex l'iit tho spirit * • THE PAYOT TROPriY IN OREGON. The Fayot trophy 1b soinf? the rounds in Ore gon. When tho crack team of the Trist Club, composed of Q. M. Steams, Lieutenant Le selne, Richard Nixon and S. P. Heuston, won f HALE BROS. so easily from the Portland "Whist Club It was generally supposed they would hang on to It for some time. But Judge L. T. Barm. captain of a mixed team from the Oregon Roail Club, composed of Mr. and Mrs. Carroll Hughes, Miss Sallie Beck and himself, Bent in a chal lenge and New Year's eve was selected for the contest. The match consisted of forty-eight deals and resulted in a victory for Judge Harln's team by a gain of six tricks. The Indies are members of the Kate Wheelock Club of Portland and it Is not to be wondered .it that they could play equal with the men. THE PLAY CALLED Th|E "fIL- BANY LEAD." Mr. John T. Mitchell, the author of two of the greatest works on duplicate whist that have ever been published, is the whist editor of the Times-Herald of Chicago. "When John cracks a nut one is sure to get some good meat out of it. Under the heading of "The Albany T^ad" he says: "The play first described, which la at present used as a call through the honor, was formerly used to show a holding of three card suits, and has been variously known as the Milwaukee lead, the Albany lead, the Syra cuse lead, the Pottsvtlle lead, etc. Whenever it struck 'a new place it was usually considered that it originated there, and was so christened. The number of places whose name it bears is the best proof of the extent of Its inroads among the whist players, and yet while it re tains its popularity for some little time In each of its birthplaces. It soon proves so disastrous to those who have adopted it that they are glad to let it go quietly and without public cere mony, and when it is born again in another community the whist players of the previous birthplace have no heart to dispute Its pa ternity. The above is only another way of pay- Ing that the play cannot be recommended. Ptill. the hardest duty gi regulation whist player has to perform Is to lead from four trumps when the remainder of his hand con sistsof three three-card suits. The only Other way out of the difficulty is to lead the bottom of one of the three-card suits, provided It is headed by the ace. king or queen, with prefer ence In the order named, and If you have not anything as good as that, abide by the rule and blame the game If It loses." TABLES FOR CLUB PAIRS. Whist Editor C«ll: For the purpose of fUHner certain traps in duplicate play T have recently soni^ calculations which It till to be Of ruffielent general Importance to justify dis pemi nation. The scheme for progressive duplicate for pairs suggested by Professor "SVhitfield and published by Mr. Mitchell in his late work at pases 67 and 6S only goes as far as ten tables. This I* inadequate for large clubs, and I have extended it to Include sixteen tables, involving the play of thirty-one trays, as many as can conveniently be played in one evening. The players move In the same order. I. c.. the highest player plays against the lowest, the next highest against the next lowest, etc., the first round, and on the subsequent rounds each pair takes the place of the next lower. No. 1 remaining stationary alt evening. ■ In the original assignment of pair numbers the north and south pair* are the same number as the tables at which they sit; the east and west pairs are the difference between that number and the one greater than the number of pairs in play, it will be observed that the north and south pairs move to,ward the first table, and the east, and west pairs move away from the first table. The essential difference between this sys tem andllowell's system Is that here the play ers move regularly and the trays do not. while in his plan the trays move regularly and the players do not. The extensions will be sent to all clubs de siring same free. H..H. HOTAL.ING. MIDWINTER MEETING OF THE A. W. L. Oor whist editor Will leave Tuesday next for Buffalo, N". V.. whsrs the midwinter meeting Whist League takes place. It will be held at the Hotel [roquois. The only contest of note that will take place at this meetiner will be for the A. W. L. chal lenge trophy. The business of this meeting is to adopt a programme of play for the comlnK whist congress to be held in Boston In July HALE BROS. next. We will be absent about a month and If any iittle thing happens in our whist depart ment charge it up to the editor's whist en thusiasm. WhjIST TALLY CARDS. 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