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Orfheum Vaudeville.
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AUCTION SALES.
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STILL AT HIGH-WATER MARK
AGAIN Europe needs our gold, and again we
have got it tor her. Last week $4,000,000 was
withdrawn for export at New York, and it is
said to be for loaning purposes. Exchange and trade
balances indicate this, as tfie United States is not
obliged to export gold at the moment to satisfy com
mercial obligations abroad. So the financiers natur
ally infer that the outflow is in the shape of borrowed
money, especially as political conditions in Europe
just now are such that ready money is needed. Wall
street operators, however, seem to take the opposite
View and to consider it merely the forerunner of larger
gold experts from now on. Their ground is that with
diminishing exports of merchandise, as compared
with imports, the balance of trade is gradually shaping
against this country, which, of course, means ship- i
ments of gold to Europe sooner or later. There
seems to be no basis for the supposition that large re
turns of American securities by Europe are causing
gold export, for the quantity of returned securi
t'cs during the past three or four months has been
small and growing smaller. Again, the New York
money market is <\u'\ct and easy, while the London
and Berlin markets are strong, with a demand for
funds. So the commercial theorists seem to have the
best of the argument.
The trade balance shows 19 per cent less exports
than last year and 26 per cent larger imports, but an
increasing excess of exports is promised for June.
The Government revenues are less than $100,000,000
behind the expenditures for the fiscal year, notwith
standing the large payments for the Philippines,
Cuban soldiers and the greatly increased army and
navy expenses. This showing is considered satisfac
tory. The commerce of the country continues to lead
1898. the bank clearings for the past week being 40.2!
per cent larger than during the same week last year,
and out of twenty large cities only one — Omaha —
shows a loss, and that only 4.7 per cent. The failures
for the week amounted to 178, against 285 for the
same week in 1898. As long as the clearings and fail
ures keep up this fine exhibit the country is all right.
The leading staples are in better position as a rule
than they have been. Iron, of course, is active and
Stiff — that goes without saying. In fact, the usual
summer shut-down in the iron and allied trades will
be ignored this year. Prices for Everything in the way j
of iron have advanced this year, and apparently the
end is not yet. The iron trade never saw such times :
before. The woolen industry is also reported active, j
the manufactured product being in brisk request at ;
all leading centers, while the call for wool has been so i
sharp that supplies are being materially reduced and !
prices are rising all along the line. San Francisco j
dealers calculate that at the present rate of demand
the local market will be cleaned up of wool by the Ist !
of August. Cotton has declined somewhat, owing to
improved crop prospects, though the general market |
if reported in a strong position. Wheat has continued
unsettled, the bad outlook in Southeastern Europe
and a fine foreign demand being offset by ample
American supplies and improved prospects for spring
wheat. Raw sugar is weaker under reports of im
proving prospects, but refined is in heavy domestic i
demand and firm.
Here in California there have been no important j
changes in trade conditions during the past week.
1 he export trade of the coast is fine and freight rates
by sea have ruled firm of late in consequence. Farm i
products have been in quick demand as a rule, owing ;
to Government orders and the call for the northern j
coast of Alaska, which is reported remarkably lively !
this year. This latter demand for fruit and'other farm I
produce has been a godsend to the California farmer
this summer. The canners continue to scour the
country for fruit, and quotations are still higher, while i
the East is taking all the fruit we can send there. This !
is the finest fruit year California has seen for a long j
time.
General merchandise is active and the merchants in j
&]] lines report a brisk movement. The general ten
dency in prices is upward, which explains the in- i
creased cost of living noticed by all housekeepers, i
Harvest wages have advanced from 50 to 100 per cent \
over last year, and there is a demand for men all over |
the State. This improvement in labor conditions is
having its beneficial effect on trade, which was rarely I
better than it is to-day. |
THE CORKSCREW LINE.
THE CALL from the beginning of the contro
versy with the. Market-street Railway Com
pany has endeavored to find and to support a
method of supplying increased railway facilities to
the property owners and the business men in the
northeastern quarter of San Francisco. Much of the
Market-street monopoly scheme has been necessarily
abandoned because the votes essential to its original
adoption could not be obtained. But one part of the
scheme is now being pressed under cover of the rea
sonable and just corkscreWkCxtension, which* is an
unnecessary abandonment of public rights and inter
ests, and open to every objection that has been gen
erally approved.
It was insisted by The Call, which merely expressed
sound public opinion in an intelligible way, that un
less indispensable no new franchise whatever should
be granted to the Market-street consolidation until the
new charter became operative. The plan was to spread
a network of new franchises and privileges over the
north end of San Francisco that would destroy all
possible competition and enable the Market-street
Railway Company to hold the streets in a vise. This
was manifestly unnecessary for the sole purpose to
which the present application has been restricted.
With the trolley reluctantly tolerated upon the Post
street system and its connections, with the new fran
chise for a single block on Taylor street, and, as was
ultimately concluded, the projecting of the Sansome
street track northward to the bay, complete and rapid
communication between the northeast and the south
west quarters of the city, with all necessary accom
panying and connecting facilities, would be estab
lished. When, however, under cover of disused fran
chises on Geary street, it was intended to employ the
trolley on that street from Taylor street to Grant
avenue, a new franchise was proposed on Grant ave
nue from Geary to Bush street, and thence down
Bu^h street to Sansome street, that was certainly un
necessary for legitimate accommodation and would
have had the effect of riveting the Market-street mo
nopoly on a most important and growing business
portion of San Francisco.
It is now designed, and we regret to say with the
apparent approbation of Mayor Phelan, who. on this
as on the gas question, has abandoned his originally
upright position, simply to drop one block of this
extensive and valuable franchise and place the point
cf its commencement at Post street instead of Geary
street. Thus, on the street-railway question as on
the gas question, compromise, as understood by Mr.
Phelan, is a practical surrender of public rights and in
terests in important particulars. A new franchise from
Post to Bush street, on Grant avenue and thence down
Bush street to Sansome street, is a very important
withdrawal of the little franchise capital there is left
to the municipality and a positive and unnecessary
donation to the Market-street Railway Company, the
effect and intention of which are to make that monop
oly virtually invulnerable.
Whatever inducement may have been insidiously
offered, however weakly Mr. Phelan may recede from
positions that in the first instance were probably un
necessarily vigorous. The Call does not propose to
abandon the protection of the public interests, nor,
under the specious pretext of meeting a righteous
demand, to consent to a steal that is as bad in prin
ciple, though less in extent, than the robbery first
projected.
The Call hopes that the Supervisors may stand by
their colors.
THE BOURBON DEMOCRACY.
"T^HE. platform adopted by the heterogeneous
Democracy of Kentucky reads like a catalogue
of relics unearthed from the age of stone. Its
inspissated Bourbonism is its only- characteristic fea
ture. It reaffirms the Chicago platform of 1896
"without the slightest qualification." This alone would
be an evidence of retrogressive stability that no phys
ical, moral or intellectual convulsion could shake.
But its subsequent resurrections and its unconsciously
ludicrous efforts to infuse the breath of life into the
decayed skeletons of dead issues exceed all possible
anticipation. Its language reads like oracular petri
f cation and is colder and more incapable of mastica
tion than of the embalmed speeches of W. J. Bryan.
"Our faith in bimetallism is vindicated by events."
The vindication consists of the fact that every leading
nation in the world has refused to co-operate with the
United States in overturning the Baconian system of
logic by the establishment of a double monetary
standard. Therefore, we are instructed by the inspired
Bourbonists of a State where all whisky is good but
some better than others, that '''relief can only come by
the independent action of the United States," which
means the instantaneous adoption of a silver stand
ard and the scaling of all wages and of all debts by the
exact difference between the bullion value of silver
and the Chicago platform ratio of 16 to 1.
After a long imaginary interval in the celebrated
impersonation by the actor, Jefferson, everybody is
astonished to find that Rip Van Winkle has come to
life, while the bones of his ancient dog have been
actually pelted into fragments by the torrents of years.
The Kentucky Democracy has accomplished a greater
feat of resuscitation in its free silver plank, which
even their immutable leader has only casually re
ferred to of late in tones of blended reverence and
stoicism.
Bat Kntucky voices many other political entangle
ments. It measurably justifies the war with Spain
but damns the expense and charges it to the admin
istration. It has also discovered some mysterious
connection between trusts, against the worst forms of
which the Republican party has not only declared
but legislated, and the demonetization of silver, which
was supposed to have been abandoned as a party
slogan long before the unprocreative fusions of 1896
and 1898. It has poured trusts, protection and cheap
silver into a witch's caldron and concocted a mixture
for which no descriptive name will ever be invented
; and which would turn the stomach of the last sur
vivor of the dreg-swallowers of Bascom's grocery.
The indorsement of William J. Bryan for the Presi
dency necessarily follows. The premises and the con
j elusion are as closely related as the apostolic exposure
of the two domesticated quadrupeds that so promptly
j returned — the one to its vomit and the other to its
1 wallowing in the mire.
The Call accepts the blast from Kentucky with com
; plete equanimity and only regrets that the indorse
| rnent of the repudiated fusionists of 1896 was not in
I some manner fastened upon our State and muncipal
I fusionists of 1898. That, however, will come in due
I time. Republicans can possess their souls in patience
I and they will soon hear the fusion disharmonies, ac
companie4 by the railroad whistle.
SCANDALOUS APPOINTMENTS.
WHETHER the charges against the newly
elected principal of the San Jose Normal
School be true or false, another scandal has
gathered around the appointments of Governor Gage,
for of course the Governor is responsible for the
action taken by the Trustees appointed by him to
manage the affairs of the school, evidently not in the
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JUNE 26, 1899.
interests of the institution, but. for political purposes.
From the day when he entered upon his office and
threw aside the mask he had worn during the cam
paign before the people, Gage has been not only an
open but a shameless supporter of the worst prac
tices of politics. Almost every appointment he has
j made has been either a scandal in itself or the cause of
one. When he has not appointed embezzlers to posi
i tions of public trust he has appointed persons hardly
i more worthy. His one object appears to be to advance
the Burns push and the railroad gang.
The appointments by which the welfare of so im- ]
portant an institution as the State Normal School at
San Jose has been subordinated to machine politics
constitute one of the grossest outrages upon our edu
cational system that could be possibly perpetrated. !
• That it has resulted in an immediate scandal is per- j
I haps not altogether to be deplored, since the charges
made against the new principal serve to direct public
attention to the manner in which the Gage Trustees
have entered upon their work of using the school for
i political purposes.
From what the Governor has done with regard to ;
the Normal School, it is evident that no institution i
of the State is considered by him to be an unfit place
for the display of his political favoritism and his devo- \
tion to the Burns machine. It is fortunate, therefore, \
that comparatively few vacancies have occurred in I
I the Board of Regents of the State University for him
;to fill. He would have used the university as he has ;
j used the San Jose Normal School. The new presi- j
dent of the institution would have been the choice of I
Burns politicians and his selection a new scandal to j
blacken the reputation of the State and seriously |
injure the university itself.
Gage has taken care of his friends. All the member';
of his Los Angeles law office, from his partner to the
janitor, have been provided with "soft snaps" and
I good salaries at the expense of the taxpayers. He has
i taken care of the Burns push and of the railroad. To
; their demands he has sacrificed everything. Not only
| the offices which have been long regarded as the
i spoils of politics have been placed at the disposal of
I the machine, but, as is now seen, the great educa
tional institutions of the State have also been sub
! initted to it as a part of the plunder.
It has been the desire of the people of California
that the public educational system from the primary
schools to the university should be kept free from
the manipulation of machine politicians. Gage has
wantonly and defiantly affronted that sentiment. The
scandalous jobbery that well nigh wrecked the San
Jose High School has hardly passed from the public
mind, and now Gage turns over to the same gang that
made that high school a part of the spoils of politics
the control of the State Normal School. There is no
telling to what extent Gage may yet go in his sub
} servience to Burns, the railroad and the political ma
chine which they manage; and it is therefore by no
means to be regretted that an open scandal has oc
curred to call public attention to his unscrupulous and
shameless course.
PHELAN'S GAS RESOLUTION.
OXCE more the public has been given a striking
and costly proof of the frail support on which
Mayor Phelan has built up his pretensions to
be a careful and faithful guardian of public interests.
The resolution fixing gas rates at $i io per thousand
feet has been weighed in the courts and found to be
so carelessly drawn up as to be utterly worthless and
invalid.
In the suit of the San Francisco Gas and Electric
Company vs. William B. Hooper, in which the valid
ity of the ordinance was involved. Judge Seawell dis
missed the issue with something like contempt. Under
the act of March 4. 1878, the municipal authorities are
authorized and required to fix the standard quality
and illuminating power of the gas to be furnished,
and tlio rate and price for each 1000 cubic feet to be
charged therefor, "by any person, company or cor
poration." The Phelan resolution, introduced and
submitted to the Board of Supervisors by his counsel
and direction, regulated the quality and fixed the price
of gas to be furnished the city "by any company or
corporation." The word "person" included in the
statute was omitted from the ordinance, and there- !
fore the ordinance is not uniform in its operation, i
and is consequently invalid.
Upon this showing of a clear and plain breach of j
the law. the Judge did not deem it worth his while
to consider any other of the issues raised in the case, j
After pointing out the defect of the ordinance he j
said: "I make no further comment upon this de
parture from the plain requirements of the statute
than to suggest to the board the propriety in its future '
resolutions of following the letter as well as the spirit
of the statute."
A blunder of such a nature cannot be defended upon
any ground and can be explained only upon the sup- '
position that the Mayor "hefted" the statute instead of
reading it; and drew his conclusions of what it re- i
quired from the way it felt, rather than from what it '
said. This is the second notable instance where the ;
city has had to suffer because of the careless manner
in which the Mayor attends to his official duties.
From first to last the proceedings of Mayor Phelan j
with respect to the issue between the city and the
gas company have been a series of contradictions and
absurdities. Early in March the Gas and Electric
Company declared its willingness to accept a rate of
Si 50 as a fair price for gas, but the Mayor was then
posing as a reformer of the most radical school, so
he set himself against such an agreement and brought
about the introduction of the resolution fixing the rate
at $1 10. He then declared that ordinance to be valid
and was loud in urging the people to refuse to pay
higher rates. Later on he saw a new light from some
source, and a short time ago gave his sanction to
another resolution fixing the rate at $1 50, thus mak
ing a complete surrender to the company and expos
ing the weakness of his pretensions as a "defender of
the public welfare."
The issue now gees over for another year. The
gentlemen who made the fight in the courts to uphold i
the $1 10 ordinance have lost their money, but possi
bly they are wiser as well as sadder men, and have
profited something from the experience.
The British aristocracy is fairly drinking in Ameri
canism these days. At the fashionable Albert Doll
Bazaar in London an American bar was the star at
traction. The Duke of Manchester, Lord Henry
Somerset and other titled swells acted as bartenders
and mixed a thousand American cocktails for their
fair patrons.
Judge Redwine is said to be responsible for the wild
confusion and parliamentary demoralization which
have overcome the delegates to the Kentucky Demo
cratic Sate Convention. Perhaps if the gentlemen
had been true to their friend John Barleycorn they
would have retained their senses.
A peculiar and particularly pathetic form of insan
ity has manifested itself in a war veteran and pen
sioner of Wooster, Ohio. He has asked the Govern
ment to reduce his pension.
Friends of Rear Admiral Kautz are relieved by the
news from Washington that he will not be relieved.
THE MINING FIELD
AND THE EXPOSITION
The general prospects of the mining fea-
I ture of California's exhibit at the Paris
Exposition next year were described on
Saturday by B. XV. .Runyon, president of
the California commission, who recently
returned from a visit of Inquiry to the
East. It is now certain that the Ideas
concerning a large and striking display of
California's mineral resources and indus
try which have from the start filled
the minds of the enterprising mining men
concerned with the general welfare of the
industry, must be greatly circumscribed,
i Owing to the comparatively small amount
!of space obtainable the display must be
small and the efforts of those Interested
in Its success must be directed to making
|it varied, rich and attractive and to the
effective advertising of the California
mining field in connection with the dis
play.
Mr. Runyon learned that the whole Cal
ifornia exhibit cannot be bunched in one
I place. According to the will of the ex
| position authorities in Paris the United
States' exhibits must be shown, according
jto prescribed classification, in special
! buildings or departments devoted to this
i and that industry or interest. California's
■ display must be divided up accordingly
and occupy the space in each United
; States collection awarded by Commis
i sioner Peck and his department chiefs.
Mr. Peck appears to have appreciated the
importance of the mining industry in this
country, which produces nearly ?500,000,000
worth of mineral products yearly, and he
i has mn do special efforts to secure as large
I an amount of space for it as possible. The
United States exhibit will !"■ placed to
| frether in the big Mining building. Pre
liminary diagrams secured by Mr. Runyon
show that the United States has been
given an area of unstated dimensions,
Modern Gold-Dredger Recently
Started on Feather River.
This shows the outward appear
ance of one of the big $35,000 gold
dredgers of the modern New Zea
land type, now multiplying in
California. It is the one lately In
stalled by the Kia Ora Gold-Dredg
ing Company in a tract of orchard
and pasture, nearly three-quarters
of a mile from the Feather River
below Oroville. The surface is
about eleven feet above the water
level. It was set up in an excava
; nearly square, in one of the large central
i aisles of the Mining building- Japan at
one end and Portugal at the other have )
I each about one-tenth as much space. Cal- ;
1 ifornia will get whatever share of this ;
Bpace is awarded t<> it by P. J. N. Skiff of ■■
Chicago, who is in charge of the mining,
feature of the American exhibit. How
many square feet of floor area it will have ;
la not yet known. A portion of the whole
Bpace will be divided anrnnß States pro- |
: viding special exhibits, and as California
has made the largest State appropriation
and has the greatest mining record and j
greatest variety of mineral resources it
will douhtlesß get more room than any
other State. Then it may contribute a
good deal to the general make-up of the
American display.
"I saw Mr. Skiff at Chicago and got
■ some general ideas on the mining exhib-
I it," said Mr. Kunyon. "He said that j
among other things he wanted California ,
j to send petroleum, borax, asphaltum.
! onyx, rich cold ores and gems. There
| would be no room for showing actual mm- ;
Ing machinery in operation, but small i
working models might be shown. He at
once agreed to accept a working model
i of a California quartz mill, which will
be supplied with a ton or two of ore and
! show the actual operation in progress. !
The California exhibits will be delivered
at Chicago, where the responsibility will
be assumed by them. The running exhibit j
- must be small, but we want to make a
I striking showing. Pictures, topographical
i and other maps and descriptive literature |
| should be sent. Some could be displayed
■ and the rest constitute a supply for distrt
-1 bution. Mr. Skiff agreed that California !
'■ could send a special representative to at- j
i tend its mining display, answering ques- i
tions, etc., and that he would appoint
him an honorary mineralogist on. his own
staff. Each mineral specimen may bear
i the name of the individual contributor,
! the mine, etc. A special representative
of Mr. Skiff's department will be out here
soon and then more will be known."
On Saturday Mr. Runyon wrote Mr.
Skiff in part as follows:
"Since my return to California we have
; earnestly taken up the work of making j
i up the' different exhibits, in which we
I would like mining to be one of the prin
cipal features. I have the memorandum
you gave me regarding the different spec
imens we would like exhibited from Cali
fornia, and within a day of two will see
I one of our manufacturers in reference to
making a complete quartz mill, which we i
would like to exhibit in action. I am not ]
positive that we will be able to make this
exhibit, but will advise you in a few days.
We can, however, give you a very choice
exhibit of ores from our chief mines.
"Can you give me any definite informa
tion as to how much space we will have
in your department? When the amount is
allotted to us we can work much more
intelligently, as you know."
The exposition appropriation bill as
agreed to in legislative committee pro
vided $120,000, and of this the committee
estimated $15,000 for the mining industry.
A strong committee of- the California
Miners.' Association went to Sacramento
and succeeded in raising the appropria
tion to $130,000, with the tacit understand
i ing with the legislators and the Gover
! noi that the raise was for the miners, and
; that $35,000 should be devoted to adver
i tising this great and booming California
I industry. The disposition of the fund is
largely left with the Commissioners alone.
Mr. Runyon says that the amount to be
spent for the mining display and its at
tendant advertising features has not been
decided on. Since the appointment of thi
commission the exposition committee of
the Miners' Association has not yet taken
any steps in the matter. There is a wido
field for effective effort in getting all the
| advertising possible out of the small but
I fine and comparatively prominent exhibit
I and the Paris Exposition provides the
! greatest opportunity in sight for letting
I the mining investors of the world know
what a rich and virgin field for mining
capital California affords.
A number of the mining machinery and
supplies men of Los Angeles and some
others have issued a call for a meeting In
Los Angeles on July 13. when it is pro
posed to form a miners' association for
Southern California. This will be inde
| pendent or and opposed to the promising
■ Southern California branch of the Cali
fornia Miners' Association, organized a
few weeks ago. The circular of invita
tion says in part:
"The object and duties of the associa
tion, when formed, will, in part.be to make
better known the advantages that our
mining districts offer as a field for profit
able investments; also to co-operate to
ward the enactment of such laws as will
protect our mineral lands, and protect the
miner in the ursuit of his occupation
and such other purposes as shall promote
the best interests of the mining industry
of Southern California."
The success of such an investment will
be regretted by many friends of the indus
try, as it would divide and weaken rather
than combine and strengthen the influence
of the miners of the State in securing
legislation and otherwise fostering the in
dustry.
Crude oil has gone up in price and at
i Los Angeles sold last week at from M
: cents to $1 05. The rise in the cost of cas
i ing has checked drilling and checked the
I supply. The strong gushers recently
struck at Fullerton have subsided. The
Loftus-Graham well has fallen from 000
to 200 barrels a day and the big gusher
struck by the Santa Fe Company wIU
have to be pumped.
j Coalinga, in Fresno County, is becoming
! the banner field. The San Joaquin alley
1 oil craze increases. Many new com
i panics are constantly forming and much
! new prospecting work is being started in
i Kern, Tulare. Kings and Fresno counties
especially. San Francisco capitalists are
taking hold of the new fields. The Krey
enhagen field, twenty-five miles south or
Coalinga, has developed oil at 050 feot in
the 800 acres of the Kreyenhagen Oil Cnm
-1 pany. One stratum of oil sand is reported
to be 300 feet thick. A fine quality of
: kerosene has been distilled from this oil
'■ experimentally. The Panoche oil district
in Fresno and the McKlttrick and Elwood
districts, in Kern County, are attracting
1 much attention.
A Placerville dispatch to The Call says:
General Juan C. Alvarado of London is
visiting the Darling mine near George
town to inspect the property. Gen
eral'Alvarado is at the head of an Eng
lish syndicate that recently purchased
the Darling Mine. The mine was a rich
producer in the early higtory of quartz
mining in this State and was worked to
a depth of 200 feet. The mine has been
un watered, and the new owners propose
to continue sinking until a depth of 500
feet has been reached.
XV. C. Ralston, vice president of the
California Miners' Association, who has
returned from an Eastern trip in connec-
tion and 250,000 gallons of water is
pumped daily from the river to
keep up the artificial lake and
operate the machine. The mass
ive machinery and the big movable
girder carrying the endless chain of
steel buckets directed against the
bank and bottom are not shown.
Hundreds of acres of this groand
will be worked thirty feet to bed
rock at a cost of abc-ut 3 cents per
cubic yard.
tion with the Melonc3 mine, was told in
New York by President Douglass ami !
I Secretary Rosslter Raymond of the
j American Institute of Mining Engineers
; that over 200 members of the institute j
: would doubtless attend the annual meet- !
| inp in San Francisco in September. The
: total number of visitors will probably
reach a thousand, and among them will
be several prominent foreign mining
engineers.
One of the interesting old mines being
resuscitated la the Valley View copper
mine in Placer County, better known as
the "Whiskey Digging" mine. In past
years three quartz mills have been erect
ed at the mine and removed. A San Fran
■ Isco company is now developing the
property for copper and gold, with good
prospects. According to reliable state
ments this property and adjoining ledges
contain a greater variety of minerals
than perhaps any other one locality
known. Australia has one similar de
posit. Besides gold, silver, copper, zinc
and other ores there are many other in
teresting minerals, Including- molybdenum
and tourmaline.
Agents of the mines in trouble witli
s-trikers at Wallace and "Wardner. Idaho,
have been trying with small success Jo
get California miners to take the place
of the strikers. Special efforts have been
made along the mother lode and at Iron
Mountain to secure men, but California
provides plenty of work for any compe
tent miner now and the job offered j:ad
no attractions anyway.
The American River, near Folsom. is
to have another gnld dredge. Boston men
have secured 100 acres and are prospecting
other properties. They will put in the
biggest and best dredge obtainable and
more are contemplated.
A Boston syndicate represented by C.
D. Galvin has bonded for development
nine copper and gold claims on Squaw
Creek, six miles from Kennet, Shasta
County. Much money will be spent in
the development operations. Many other
similar operations are in progress through
that promising region.
A $3000 pocket gave local fame to the
O'Hara claim at Browns Flat, Tuolumne
County, last week. One chunk of gold
weighed two pounds.
The Pennsylvania mine of Grass Val
ley, as a result of a new 10-stamp mill and
good ore. has declared Its thirtieth month
ly dividend of $10,300, or 20 cents per
share, four times the amount that has
been declared regularly. The stockhold
ers paid $55.000 In assessments before div
idends arrived, and the last dividend
made the cash returns to date equal the
assessments. Now they have a grood mine
and a good Income. That Is what Califor
nia mines can do when money is invested
wisely.
A number of copper properties have
been sold or bonded during the week
AROUND THE
CORRIDORS
Among yesterday's naval arrivals at the
Occidental was E. P. Jessop.
H. E. Kennedy is registered at the Pal
ace from Washington, D. C.
Henry Bently, a wealthy business man
of Chicago, is at the California.
Frank W. Grlffen. the Oroville mining
man. is a guest at the California.
M. E. Clowe, a wealthy grain man of
Yolo County, is staying at the Lick
J. E Harper, a wealthy merchant of
Reno. Nev., is registered at the Grand.
N. Tslmbalenco, a traveler from Odessa
is among the late arrivals at the Palace'
♦L- J F '! lk r th and C " A - Stonecipher
two Modesto lawyers, are staying at the
E. W. Deitz of India and B. Morgan of
clental P ° re "* &vests at tne Occi-
Baron Bismarck and Baron yon Heyl
have returned to the city and are at the
Palace.
Admiral Kautz is registered at the Occi
dental, as js also W. H. Moreland. Bishop
of Sacramento.
John M. Striling, a merchant of Santa
Rosa, and D. Levy, a business man of
Williams, are both guests at the Grand.
Waldo S. Johnson and Arthur R Red
dington, two young business men of
Marysville, are registered at the Grand
H. P. Judd and R. C. Lydecker, two
Yale students, arrived on the overland
last night on a vacation to the coast
They went to the Occidental.
Congressman Payne and party left last
night for Alaska via Portland and Seat
tle. They spent their last day In the city
visiting the park and Inspecting our forti
fications. The gentlemen expressed them
selves as charmed with San Francisco
and all pertaining thereto, and deeply re- ■
gretted that the time they had set apart
for vacation would not permit them to
make a thorough tour of the entire State.
Charles S. Hamlin. formerly assistant
Secretary of the Treasury under Presi
dent Cleveland, is at the Palace. Mr.
Hamlin, who is accompanied by his wife.
is on the coast merely for purposes of rest
and pleasure.
Dr. R. Vasivinckel, Hans Lippigen and
De "Wieke. a party of wealthy Ger
mans, arrived at the Palace last evening.
They came in on the Rio and are making
a tour of the world.
J. G. Anderson and wife, Mrs. H. A.
Campbell. H. N. Schmidt and Mr. and
Mrs. George H. Paris constitute a party
of travelers who arrived on the "Rio"
yesterday and are staying at the Occi
dental.
CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK.
NEW YORK. June 25.— M. Cohen of Los
Angeles is at the Broadway Central. A.
H. Crocker and M. Morcus of San Fran
cisco are at the Vondnme.
NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES.
Japan has placed orders in Europe for
cne third-class cruiser, two torpedo-gun
boats, one reserve torpe-do-boat. eleven
torpedo-boats of the first class and six
teen smaller torpedo-boats.
The British cruiser Seylla. while nt gun
practice In the Mediterranean. 3teamed at
12 knots and fired 70 rounds at a target
1600 yards distant, scoring 5*5 hits, or 80
per cent.
The battleship C. building at Wll
helmshafew, although of the same gen
eral type as the Kaiser Frederick Til and
the Koenig "Willielm. Is to have engines
of 15,000 horsepower and a speed of 19
knots, against 13,000 horsepower and 18
knots of the other ships.
The British battleship Hannibal. 14.0W
tons,- which has only been in commission
about six months, recently made a long
distance run at sea. during which she av
eraged 16.5 knots. Her trial speed under
forced draught was 17.5 knots, and her
performance under service conditions ex
ceed the expectations by over one knot.
Krupp. by a new system of hardening
armor plates, gives a neater thickness
of hnrdness and a harder surface to the
plates. Thp improvement is effected by
adding 25 per cent more nickel than for
merly. The cost per ton is thereby in
creased to about ?400 per tnn. but this in
creased cost, it is believed, will be offset
by the less quantity that may be required
on account of the improved quality of
the armor.
With the completion of the Amphitrite
the British navy counts seven cruisers
of one type of 11.000 tons. 16.500 horse
power and 20.5 knot speed. The Amphi
trite made her eight-hour full power trial
last month with good results, developing
18,229 horsepower and averaging 20.78
knots, the coal consumption being only
1.57 pounds per horsepower per hour. Un
der one-fifth power the horse
power was 3600 and the speed
13.32 knots, with a coal consump
tion of L.54 pounds. In the meas
ured mile trial the horsepower was 13.695.
speed ir»."3 knots, with 112 revolutions, and
the coal expended was only 1.43 pounds
per horsepower. Other ships of . the
same type gave the following re
sults: Europa, L 94; Andromeda, 1.74;
Adriadne, 1.73; Diadem, 1.61; Ar
gonaut, 1.60, and the Niohe, LS6
pounds. All these ships are fitted with
! Belleville water-tube boilers, but various
I improvements have been experimented
; with in successive trials with most satis
' factory results in the Amphitrite.
Startling disclosures of the inefficient
state of the Italian navy have recently)
| been made in an official report by a board
I of examiners to the Minister of Marine.
j The navy list bears the names of twelvfc
: battleships and nine armored cruisers, the
I oldest built in 1864 and four launched in
| 1597 but still uncompleted. Of the battle
ships the Affondatore. Duilio •and ijepttttta
! are only fit for coast guards, and the
; Italia may be utilized as a floating bat
! tery. Five armored cruisers are also
] condemned for sea service and good for
! coast guard, and include the Ancona,
Castelfigardo. Marco Polo. Maria Pia
and San Martino. Of the fifty-two un
j armored vessels, classed as cruisers and
I torpedo-gunboats, five of the fourth class
| and all nine of the fifth are only fit for
transports or as coasting cruisers. The
ships of the sixth class and the two of
the seventh class are absolutely useless.
| The five torpedo boats of the first class,
! namely the Aguila. Sparviero. Nlblo, Av
| voltolo and Falco. built in 1888, cannot be
1 used in active service except with ex
| treme prudence, and of the 153 smaller tor
pedo boats only SO are in good condition,
I and they are eleven years old. These also
j could only be used in coast defense, and a
f.\v destroyers would play havoc with
this fleet. In case of -war only three "of
the large ships building could be mad<
j ready, and the rest of the armored and
j cruiser fleet not absolutely condemned for
further sea service would be found to re
quire many defects to be made good be
fore they could cope with any hope of
success against a foreign fleet.
Cal. glace fruit 50c per lb at Townsend'*.*
Special information supplied daily to
business houses and public men by th»
Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's). 510 Mont
gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. •
"The way to sleep." says the scientist,
"is to think of nothing." But this is a
mistake. The way to sleep is to think
it is time to get up.
EXCURSION TO
$81 — Detroit, Mich., and Return — $81
Leave San Francisco S a. m., June 29, the
Burlington Route will run an excursion to
Detroit In charge of a special manager. Up
holstered tourtst sleeping cars used on this
occasion. Route via Salt Lake and Denver,
passing Colorado scenery by daylight. Arrtv*
Detroit 6 p. m. July 8. Berths reserved, etc.,
at S2 Montgomery street, San Francisco, or
972 Broadway, Oakland.
Official Route Christian Endeavor
Excursion to Detroit.
Leave San Francisco 6 d. m., June 19. via
Central Pacific, Union Pacific. Chicago and
Northwestern and Wabash Railways, one day
spent at both Denver and Omaha Exposition.
Round trip rate to Detroit. $81. For reserva
tions and further information address George
P. Lowell. Transportation Manager California
Christian Endeavor, 1626 Eighth aye.. East
Oakland, Cal.
Low Rates to Detroit, Michigan, for
Christian Endeavor Convention.
The SANTA FE ROUTE will make rate of
$81 for the round trip. Tickets on sale June
29th. For full particulars call at ticket office.
628 Market street, this city, or 1118 Broadway.
Oakland.
Reduced Rate to Detroit and Return
Over Northern Pacific Railway.
The C. E. convention will be held In Detroit
this year, commencing July 5. The Northern
Pacific will be official route, as ft was in 1897.
when the convention was held In San Frtr'vo
Over 10.000 people returned East ove th»
Northern Pacific, and they were lnud in their
praises over the many beauties seen along he
line. You will have a nice. cool, pleasant
Journey, enjoying the most luxurious of accom
modations. Stopover allowed at the wonderful
Yellowstone Park. Send 6c in sramps for il
lustrated book to T. K. Stateler, General
Agent. 63S Market st.. San Fran lsco.
"Mrs. Winslow's Soothintr Svnin"
Has been used for fifty years by millions of
mothers for their children whilp Teething wlta
perfect nuccess. It soothes th>: child, softens
the Kums, allays Pain, cures Wind Colic, reg
ulates the Bowels and Is the best remedy for
Diarrhoeas, whether arising from teething or
other causes. For sale by Druggists in every
part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mrs.
Wlnslow's Soothing Syrup, 25c a bottle.
HOTEX, DEL CORONADO-Take advantage
of the round-trip tickets. Now only $60 by
steamship. Including fifteen days' board at
hotel; longer stay $2 50 per day. Apply at 4
New Montgomery street, San Francisco.