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Train No. 12. Shasta Express, leaving San
Francisco at 8:00 a. m. will connect for Live
Oaks. Chlco and way stations via Davis and
Marytivllle. No. 18, Sacramento Passenger
leaving at 3:30 p. m., will connect at Davis
for Yolo. Willows and way stations. •
New rrhedules for Western and Sacramento
divisions will be adopted June 19, when train
No. 16, Oregon Express, will leave San Fran
cisco at 8:C5 p. rn., Innead of 7:00 p. rn..
and train No. 14, Reno Expresn, at 7:00 p. m.
ln*tead of 8:05 p. m. Train No. 0, Eastern
Exnrr«». leaving San Francisco at, 0:00 p. m.,
and train No. :<, California, Express, which
will arrive San Francisco at 12:00 p. m., will
run via Martinez and Stockton Instead of via
ltcnlcia as at present.
Important Train Service Changes.
Trlns East From the World's Fair.
California and Pacific Coast visitors
to the St. Louis World's Fair who may
wish to Journey eastward can reach
principal cities and towns without chang
ing cars by going over the Vandal la-
Pennsylvania lines, the shortest route
from St. Louis to the East. A regular
daily service of seven through fast ex
press trains from St. Louis to Pittsburg.
and the East enables passengers to leave
the World's Fair city at convenient
hours throughout the day. Purchasers
of flrst-class tickets to Philadelphia or
New York over Vandalla-Pennsylvanla
lines may have them routed via Wash
ington for the asking, permitting a visit
of ten 'days at the national capital and
Baltimore. ' For further information
communicate with E. M. Pomeroy, 621
Market street. San Francisco, CaL •
The application for a writ of habeas
corpus for the release of Leslie Falk
enberg was argued before Judge
Dunne yesterday. The Judge denied
the writ and remanded the prisoner
into the custody of the Sheriff. On
March 30 Judge Mogan sentenced
Falkenberg to serve six months in the
County Jail for maliciously procuring
a warrant for the arrest of Mamie
Garrity for cruelty to a minor child.
Falkenberg had asserted that his
brother was the father of the child,
but it was proved that he himself
was the father and that the charge'
of cruelty was trumped up out of a
spirit of yindictiveness. > —
Falkenberg Writ Denied.
FIgel was last seen two weeks ago
yesterday. At that* time he was on
the water front, going in the direc
tion of the dock where the Sacramen
to and Stockton ( river steamers are
anchored. He spoke to . none of the
acquaintances he met. Subsequently
it was learned that he had issued a
number of fictitious checks and col
lected the money;, upon them.
Theodore Flgel's disappearance is
still unexplained, except that a track
of forged checks has been left behind
to give cause of his absence. His
wife and two children, living at 1341
McAllister street) have been left des-j
titute and the, poor woman protests
she has no knowledge of his where
abouts. '^Twelve years ago she mar
ried him" and bore her burden silently.
Asked if her married life . haid been
happy, she said her application for
divorce- was in the hands of her at
torney. ..Then she broke down -and
wept. . '»> l^-ij ; ' ' »
Two Weeks and Fnmlly^Is
• Destitute.
No Trace of the Missim* Man Had for
THEODORE FIGEL'S WIFE
PREPARES FOR DIVORCE
The testimony showed that McCann
asked the clerk for something to re
lieve cramps In the stomach and that
the clerk gave him bicarbonate of
soda in a liquid which he thought w:is
distilled water, but which proved to be
carbolic acid.
In the inquest held yesterday on the
body of John McCann, accidentally
poisoned with carbolic acid in the
People's drug store on June 5, the
Coroner's Jury returned a verdict of
accidental death and censured the
clerk, C. F. Large, f/)r carelessness.
The Jury recommended that the Su
pervisors pass an ordinance regulating
the arrangement and handling of
poisons in drug stores.
Coroner's Jury Holds C. F. Large Re
sponsible for Accidental Poison
ing of John McCann.
DRUG CLERK CENSURED
FOR IUS CARELESSNESS
William O'Brien walked into a sa
loon at 38 East street yesterday after
noon, and, calling for a 25-cent flask
of whisky, threw down what pur
ported to be a $10 bill in payment.
The bartender discovered that the bill
was a. genuine $1 silver certificate,
which had been raised to $10 by the
use of "pasters." He gave it back to
O'Brien and tried to arrest him, but
O'Brien ran away and was caught by
Patrolman T. P. Maloney. The prisoner
will be turned over to-day to United
States Secret Service Agent George W.
Hazen. Hazen has a dozen similar
notes that O'Brien has passed, to
gether with sufficient evidence to In
sure his . conviction in the Federal
court.
William O'Brien Attempts to Pass u
Pasted Silver Certificate Upon a
Water Front Bartender.
NOTE RAISER CAUGHT
BY A POLICEMAN
The Hammon gold dredgers on the
river east of Marysville are expected to
begin "operations early in July.
During the year ending June 30,' 1903,
the Yukon, territory produced gold to
the value of $12,113,015. The production
of the preceding year was $9,566,340. The
gold . output for >the first mentioned
year was greater than that of any in
the history of the district, the next in
record making being the year of 1899
1900, when the output amounted to $9,
809,464. The large output of last year
was due to the abundance^of water.
The figures relative to the gold produc
tion of the Yukon are taken from the
annual report offhe Department of the
Interior of the Dpmlnlon of Canada.
Work has begun on the Coalinga Oil
and Transportation Company's pipe
line from Coalinga to Monterey. The
line will be 110 miles long.
The Potillo qtlartz mines, nine miles
from Weaverville, have been bonded to
a company for $30,000, according to a
local report. In the group are three
mines.
While excavations were being made
for the Fairchilds building, adjoining
the Masonic Temple, in Placervllle,
pay gravel was discovered. The Placer
vllle Nugget says that one pan was
worth $12. The gravel is being wheeled
to the bank of Hangtown Creek, where
it will be washed with the sluices for
gold.
The Basler Mining and Development
Company has been -incorporated to
work mines thirty miles west of Red
Bluff.
Mining: Notes.
The argument for the peddlers was
made by Curtis Hillyer. Ex-Judge
Murphy appeared for the Commission
ers and Luther/Elkins for the city.
Superior Judge Hunt yesterday heard
arguments and took under submission
the case of William Kamelakls against
the Park Commissioners and the Chief
of Police. The plaintiff is a peddler
and in his suit represents other ped
dlers who seek. to annul the order of
the Park Commissioners excluding
them from plying theii^' business on
the ocean beach, particularly near the
Cliff House. The peddlers contend
that they, solicit trade between high
and low tide and that their ground is
not within the juriwliction of the* Park
Commission. The Commission argues
that the map filed in I860 shows that
the highway extends to the lap of the
water, otherwise, . westward from a
given point, to the Pacific Ocean.^ The
chart of the city of San Francisco rec
ognizes the highway to the lap of the
waters. -^
and the Chief of Police Is
Under Advisement.
Case Against Park Commissioners
PEDDLERS' CASE ARGUED
IN JUDGE HUNT'S COURT
About a year ago Gagan was shot
five times by Mr3. Etta Fitzgibbon in
her rooms at 1 Fifth street. She
claimed he hud attempted to strangle
her, but she was convicted of assault
to murder and is now serving a. term
in San' Quentin. Prior to that time
Gagan was arrested on a charge of
burglary for breaking into the Van
Ness bazaar on Market street, but th<!
charge was reduced to petty larceny.
alarm of fire were booked against him
at the City Prison.
Shortly before 9 o'clock Gagan-en
tered the room of Pauline Pepin in
Bacon place and was leaving with a
bundle under his arm when he was
seen by some of the other women, who
raised an alarm. Gagan fled and dur
ing his flight dropped the bundle in
front of the California Hotel. It con
tained several silk wrappers belong
ing to the Pepin woman.
Policeman Grunwald was notified
and while he was searching for Gagan
an alarm of fire was turned in from
box 4 9, Stockton and Sutter streets.
Grunwald hurried to that corner and
found Gagan, who had turned in the
alarm, in charge of W. Hartnup, a pri
vate citizen. 'Gagan was taken to the
City Prison and was later identified
by the Pepin woman as the man who
entered her room.
Pacific street, shortly after midnight
on June 8, when he underwent the
thrilling experience that placed him
In Judge Mogan's court yesterday as
complainant against John Duzske and
William Jarrett, accused of burglary.
His tale was attentively listened to by
a large delegation from the most ex
clusive set of Barbary Coast society,
and at times it moved the auditors to
deriEive laughter.
According to Mr. Brzezinski's theory
he was the victim of a modern arrange
ment of the antique panel game, said
to have been in active operation long
before the gold brick swindle was first
sprung upon the PomDeilans. He was
entertaining in his apartment a young
lady from an adjacent dance hall who
had manifested preference for his so
ciety when the door was rudely burst
open and two men, believed to be the
defendants, rushed in, and after chid
ing his gallantry relieved him of $360
cash, a watch and chain and three
boxes of cigars. Several detectives and
others gave testimony that served to
help the prosecution, and the defense
will have its inning next Monday.
Miss Raynee Langford, the lady in
the case, haughtily denied collusion
w,jth the defendants, and also tried to
make It appear that her visit to Mr.
Brzezinski's chamber was not volun
tary, as he had insinuated. She went
there, she said, to call upon his two
daughters, each of whom presides over
a "temperance',' saloon owned by the
father, and she said that 12:30 a. m.
was not an unusual hour for ladies to
make social calls in that district.
Joseph Gagan Is Accused of Burglary
and Turning in False
. Alarm of Fire.
Joseph Gagan. who Is not unknown
to the police, got himself into serious
trouble yesterday morning. Charges
of burglary and turning in a false
Elizabeth Johansen yesterday sued
for divorce from her husband, Dedrik,
on the ground of desertion.
Malvina Schell yesterday sue'd for
divorce' from her husband, Bradford
T. Schell, upon the ground of cruelty.
She saj's that they were married at
Rohnerville. Cal., in 1894 and have
one child, 9 years of age, a"hd alleges
that upon various occasions he choked
and struck, her and upon a time when
she met him coming out of a saloon
with another woman on his arm he
denied that the plaintiff was his wife.
Judge Murasky, upon further hear
ing of the case, yesterday took under
submission the application of Dora
Trudgeon for divorce from Daniel A.
Trudgeon, a barber, who deserted her
a day after their marriage.
Divorces were granted yesterday by
Judge Kerrigan to Helen Cookson
from Herbert H. Cookson on the
ground of willful neglect, and by Judge
Hunt to Robert McCord from Fannie
McCord on the ground of desertion.
Mnlvina Schell Wants Divorce for
Cruelty — Other Domestic
Infelicities.
ARRESTED ON FELONY AND
MISDEMEANOR CHARGES
DENIES HIS WIFE IN
PRESENCE OF ANOTHER
None of these young men is more
than 20 years of age. They belong to
respectable families, but fell into bad
company. White and Schwartz for a
time had a handbook on the races and
took bets from sporting women. When
they got a good sum of money to
gether they "welched" on their bets
and left for the East with Antrim.
When they were arrested a letter from
Antrim was found in their possession
and this is 4he basis of the charge
against him. . •
Antrim has been In trouble before
for stealing books from the Polytech
nic School in this city and selling
them to second-hand dealers.
Howard F. Antrim, a youth who
formerly sold cigars in San Francisco,
has been held to answer before the
Federal Grand Jury at Indianapolis,
Ind., for sending an obscene letter
through the mails. / Antrim's uncle,
Henry Fisher, is paymaster for the
Schutt Improvement Company at
Kennedy, Ind., where Antrim was em
ployed.
Antrim is little more than a lad and
until last February kept a small cigar
stand on Mason street, near Ellis, in
this city. He started for the East with
William White and Edward Schwartz,
a few months ago to take' In the
World's Fair at St." Louis. 'White 'and
Schwartz were arrested on 'June 4 in
Cincinnati by Secret Service Agent
Bolan for attempting to pass one dol
lar silver certificates that had been
raised by means of pasters to the de
nomination of $10.
Three Misguided Youths Held
for Crimes Against
Uncle Sam.
The District Attorney's office has an
nounced several times that new evi
dence against the defendant had been
discovered, but the officials have been
very secretive about it. The Justices
insisted yesterday on knowing what
the new evidence was and Harris re
luctantly stated that the defendant had
made a confession to some one who
was now absent fromjthe State. Ken
nedy smiled broadly and one of h ! s
attorneys inquired ! if it was Cooper."
the man to whom Soeder was alleged
to have made a confession.
The court declared that if Hender
son's testimony should be corroborated
the evidence against Kennedy would,
still be Insufficient. The defendant
feels confident that he will be released
and seems to be in the best of spirits.
dence on which the last Indictment
was returned Kennedy will go free.
If not he can be rearrested after be
ing released on writs of habeas'corpus
until he shall have been tried by jury.
TWO SAN FRANCISCO BOYS WHO
ARE UNDER ARREST AT CIN
CINNATI, OHIO.
Later Attorney Cannon, who repre
sents Dr. Brennan, called at the Hall
of Justice with bonds for Brennan's
release. | He was followed by Bren
nan, who was booked at the City
Prison and immediately discharged on
an order signed by Judge Fritz, who
had accepted the bonds.
Cannon denied emphatically that any
attempt at compromise had come from
him or his client and said that they
were prepared to fight the case to a
finish. He supposed that Hassett,
after reflection, had concluded it was
inadvisable to proceed with the case.
"You don't mean to say," queried the
Judge, "that you intend to compound
a felony?"
Hassett disclaimed any such inten
tion and the interview closed by the
Judge refusing to Interfere in the mat
ter. .
A warrant was'at once obtained from
Judge Fritz for Dr. Brennan's arrest
on the charge of grand larceny. A fe'iv
hours, later Attorney Hassett called on
Judge Fritz and asked him to instruct
Policeman Conlon, who had the war
rant, not to serve it. The Judge asked
the reason and Hassett replied that
there was a proposition from the other
side.
Dr. Brennan was accused of em
bezzling over $39,000 in coin and several
articles, the property of Rev. Father
Patrick J. Grey, , former rector of St.
Patrick's Church' Dr. Brennan claim
ed that the property had been given
to him by Father Grey in view of the
fact that Dr. Brennan was to attend
Father Grey professionally for the bal
ance of his life. •
After an argument lasting several
days on the application for a writ of
habeas corpus for the release of Dr.
Thomas F. Brennan, held to answer on
a charge of felony embezzlement,
Judge Gesford of Napa, sitting in de
partment 12 of the Superior Court,
granted the writ yesterday and dis
charged the prisoner. He did so on
the ground tHat the charge should have
been grand larceny. The * complaint
was drawn up by Attorney M. C. Has
sett, special prosecutor, and at the pre
liminary examination Police "Judge
Fritz , expressed the opinion that the
charge should have been grand lar
ceny, but Hassett was of a different
opinion. „ - ,
The Supreme Court has held in an
opinion rendered several weeks ago
that the evidence connecting Kennedy
wTflTthe murder of the policeman was
insufficient. The Grand Jury mean
while has returned another indictment
on the evidence that the Supreme
Court rejected. If the court decides
that it can consider officially the evi-
Attorneys Newburgh and Schooler
appeared for the prisoner and told
hold their client had been nine, times
released and immediately rearrested.
Attorneys Harris and Weller from the
District Attorney's office set forth their
reasons for attempting to hold the de
fendant.
The court was unanimous in an un
official opinion that no indictment
should have been returned in the de
fendant's case, but the Justices were
in some doubt as to whether they had
the legal right to examine the evi
dence submitted to the Grand Jury.
William Kennedy, the negro who is
accused of complicity in the murder
of Policeman Robinson, appeared be
fore the Supreme Court yesterday on
a writ of habeas corpus. Justice Mc-
Farland stated that the only question
to be determined was whether the
court could review an Indictment by
the Grand Jury. The contesting at
torneys were granted five days In
which to file briefs on this point. A
decision may be expected within a
week or two. Meanwhile Kennedy
must remain in jail.
Warrant for Grand Lar
ceny Issued and Request
Made, for Its v Withdrawal
Attorney Taaft narrowly escaped
commitment for contempt of court
¦when he informed Judge Mogan that
it is impossible to make a suit out of
a pair of trousers.
•'If that plea were uttered with in
tent to pun. you should be ashamed
of yourself," said his Honor severely,
••for it has been sprung upon this
court at least fifty times within as
many Tracks. I will charitably accept
It as a tongue slip, however, with a
Fred Landmasser of 100 4'4 Mission
Etreet was charged with threatening
to kill his wife, Madge, and Judge
Conlan continued the case in response
to Mrs. Landmasser's request that she
be afforded further time to ascertain,
¦n hether she really means to prosecute
and thus deprive herself of a bread
winner.
• • •
The evidence went to show that
Mr. Toomey violated the laundry rules
by entering a room where some young
fomen were employed and engaging
them In conversation. The foreman
reminded him that he had no business
there and he would better depart,
v hereupon Mr. Toomey calmly began
manufacturing a "cigareet" and re
marked that he would like to 6ee any
one attempt to enforce his exit. This
so angered the foreman that he went
to the front office and notified Mr.
Eichelbfrg of Mr. Toomy's defiant at
titude and Mr. Eichelberg hastened
to where the intruder coolly awaited
expulsion and at once expelled him.
Mr. Toomey averred that unnecessary
violence was used in his removal, as
he was pitched headlong down a stair
way and into an empty barrel at Its
foot. Mr. Eichelberg. on the other
hand, vowed that he used no more
force than was necessary to effect his
purpose of ridding the room of Mr.
Toomey's presence.
His Honor has the case under ad
visement.
Judge Mogan concluded the taking
of testimony In the case of Charles
Edward Elchelberg, proprietor of the
People's Laundry, who was charged
¦with battery by Joseph Toomey, sub
stitute driver of one of the wagons
belonging to the establishment.
When the cape of former Police Ser
geant Reuben E. Wolf, accused of bat
tery by Edmund E. Coblentz. a news
paper reporter, was called before
Judge Fritz the defense asked for a
two weeks' continuance on account of
the illness of the defendant's attorney,
Hiram L. Johnson. The prosecution
¦was ready to proceed with the Im
paneling of a Jury from the venire
then in court, but the Judge stated
that the apparent seriousness of the
case demanded that the full legal
representation of each* side be present
and ordered a continuance till 9
o'clock next Wednesday morning.
John Carr visited the lodging-house
at 515 Mission street and behaved in
Fuch a disorderly way that the land
lady, Mrs. Margaret Cook, had him ar
rested for disturbing the peace. He
was drunk, Mrs. Cook testified, and in-
Fisted upon visiting every room in the
house to find a real or imagined Mr.
Healey, of whom she had never heard
before, and when she and her hus
band attempted to expostulate, Mr.
Carr promptly knocked the latter pros
trate and also treated her with un
sermir.g rudeness.
As he stood before Judge Megan and
his misdemeanor was recounted Mr.
Carr plainly was not entirely sober, for
he swayed and muttered unintelligibly.
Bailiff Hickey. whose keen sense of
propriety was shocked by the defend
ant's condition and demeanor, en
deavored to straighten him up, when
Mr. Carr turned upon him and acted
pa outrageously that the Judge ordered
his removal lo ihe tanks.
Judge Conlan, rejuvenated by his six
weeks' vacation, gave Patrick Ferry
six months for stealing $17 and a watch
from the apartment of Allan Davis at
7"4 Howard street.
Joseph teems to be a well-meaning
jrocac fellow, for he obtained employ
ment in a biscuit factory the day after
his arrival here and worKed steadily
until he was arrested. Pearl Is a very
pretty girl and says her life aim is to
become Mrs. Joseph C. Woodworth.
Pearl and Joseph were sweethearts
In the southern metropolis, but their
mutual attachment was not approved
by the Klrl's mother, who did every
thing in her power to keep them apart.
One day. however, 6he took Pearl out
to visit a dentist and the girl em
braced the first opportunity to slip
away from her and join the waiting
Joseph. They took a steamship for San
Francisco, arrived here about a week
• gro and, representing themselves to
be husband and wife, engaged an
apartment at 717 Howard street. There
they were discovered by the policeman
who was sent in quest of them as soon
cs Chief Wittman received notification
cf the elopement from the young wo
ir.arfe parents.
"We would have been married as
»oon as we arrived here," 6aid Joseph
to the Judge, "but we could not ob
tain a license because neither of us is
of legal age to marry without parental
consent, and we knew that if Pearl's
mother could prevent the union she
would do so."
When the lad and the lass appeared
before Judge Mogan yesterday morn-
Ing and his Honor heara their story,
he suggested marriage as the best
thing he could prescribe for them.
They agreed. Then he sent for Mr.
White, who cheerfully consented to ar
range the preliminaries.
Sirteen-ycar-oM Pearl Sullivan and
nineteen-year-old Joseph C. Wood
worth will be united in uedlock just
as soon as the formal consent of their
respective parents, residing at Los An
eelo?, can be obtained by Secretary
White of the Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Children. Mr. White
wrote to the parents yesterday and,
pending his receipt of an answer, the
young ccucle will remain in the City
Prison, where they have been confined
cince Thursday evening, when they
were arrested and booRed for va
grancy.
The Blue Ledge Mining Company has
been Incorporated in Nevada County.
John Tyrrell, W. T. Jones. James Coan.
W. L. White and Porter Bliss are th*
incorporators. The Blue Ledge mine is
three miles above Nevada City. It was
worked thirty-six years ago. A flre de
stroyed the plant and work was discon
tinued thereafter. James Colley is the
principal owner of the property, which
has been bonded to Tyrrell and others.
Twenty stamps of the Metropolitan
mine, near Angels, were started last
week.
Fred Zeitler has been elected presi
dent and superintendent of the Zei
bright mine for the year.
The Yellow Aster mine, at Rands
burg, is reported to be crushing 520 tons
of ore per day.
According to the Amador Ledger 300
men are employed in the Gwin mine.
The eighty-stamp mill is running con
tinuously. A great deal of work has
lately been performed on the top of th»
mine.
The Nevada County Miner reports
that operations are to begin at the*
Haskell Peak mine, in Sierra County.
A strike is reported to have been made
in the White Bear mine, about nine
miles from Downieville. Pay gravel
was struck in an upraise.
The San Andreas Prospect says that
the mining outlook has never been bet
ter in the vicinity of San Andreas than
It Is now. "With gravel channels and
quartz propositions the vicinity has a
bright future.
The Mokelumne Hill Chronicle reports
that there is quite a boom in the Rail
road Flat mining district.
nology. Each of these institutions of
technical education is jvell represented.
Forty students and professors from the
Columbia School of Mines were the first
to arrive. The Massachusetts Institute
of Technology is represented by twenty.
A practical course in mining will be
given, extending over a period of ten
weeks from the 18th Inst. The school is
in charge of a committee consisting of
Professors Munroe of Columbia. Rich
ards of the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology, Smythe of Yale and John
Hammond. All the latest machinery
will be at the disposal of the students.
RECENT OPERATIONS.
Operators of other sorts of mines
may be interested in seeing the • offi
cial returns of the cost of producing
52,538,614 worth of borax. There was
paid out In salaries for the year 1902
the sum of $18,128; for wages, $114,863;
for miscellaneous expenses, $47,606; for
supplies and material, $213,538. The
total cost, as represented by ttlese fig
ures, for producing 19,142 tons of borax
was 5394,137 t> or at the rate of a frac
tion more than $20 per ton.
This high cost may be largely at
tributed to the distance of borax de
posits from bases of supplies and mar
kets, necessitating teaming over long
reaches of deserts in a temperature
and under circumstances extremely
trying.
At the St. Louis Exposition Califor
nia has a structure. of lepldollte that
attracts attention. California Is pro
ducing lepidolite In San Diego County,
to bo exported to Germany, where It
is converted into lithium carbonate.
The total production of lepidolite and
all lithium minerals, according to the
report referred to, was very small in
1902. There were but 12 mines hav
ing such products' in the United
States, and the total value of the
product- was but $25,750, the quantity
produced being but 1245 short tons.
Lepidolite constituted more than 70
per cent of the total output. The Geo
logical Survey slightly raises the
amount of lithium minerals mined to
1750 tons, worth $43,200.
Growing out of a generous offer on
the part of, George Crocker j of San
Francisco, the joint. Summer School of
Mines at Silver Plume, Colo.; is now in
progress. The attendants are from Co
lumbia's School of Mines, connected
with Columbia University of New York;
the Lawrence Scientific School of Har
vard, the Sheffield Scientific School of
Yale, the Colorado School of Mines and
the Massachusetts Institute of Tech-
The census returns never have dealt
separately with borax until the cen
sus to which allusion is made in this
article. Since the beginning of the
borax mining industry In California
the output has varied from nothing in
18C9, 1870 and 1871 to 19,142 short tons
in 1902. The value of borax produced
in California is treated separately by
the. Department of Commerce and La
bor. .The figures for 1889 are $145,473.
representing the value of the output;
for 1902 they are $2,538,614.
COST OP BORAX MINING.
Some interesting facts may be glean
ed from a bewildering array of sta
tistical tables relating to the growth
of the borax industry in California,
The first commercial production of
borax in the United States was in
184C, when twelve short tons were
mined in California. Borax production
in. the United States is credited by the
Government mainly to the colemanite
deposits in this State, although there
was some production, not very formid
able in amount, from the marsh de
posits of California, Nevada and Ore
gon.
California is seventh in the value of
products. Of the flfty-two different
classifications of minerals mined in the
United States in 1902 California Is cred
ited by the Government with twenty
six. Since that census, It may be re
marked, some discoveries have been
made in this State. The State Mineralo
gist of California, in fact, in his last
annual report claimed that more than
fifty different minerals are mined in
this State.
In connection with mines, quarries
and oil and gas wells the rank of the
States is set down as follows on the
basis of the complete returns of 1902:
Pennsylvania leads in the number of
wage earners employed and in the
value of products. Ohio is second in
value of products and third in number
of wage earners, Illinois is second in
wage earners and sixth in value of
products, Michigan is third in value of
products and fourth in number of wage
earners, West Virginia is fourth In
value of products and fifth in wage
earners.
RANKING TILE STATES.
The statistics and general statements
that are made relate to all mines and
quarries and petroleum and natural
gag wells that were in operation during
any portion of the calendar year ending
December 31, 1902. The inclusion of the
refined products for gold, silver and
other metals that are summarized in a
comprehensive tabulation brings up the
value of products for 1902 to $884,040,863.
an excess of $87,214,452 over the $796,826,
417 reported as the value of the direct
products of the mines, quarries antt pe
troleum and natural gas wells. The
returns for 1903 that have been given
out are necessarily incomplete, being
based somewhat on estimates. This for
the present makes the bulletin in hand
the latest handbook that will be avail
able to careful investigators.
That the State of California is cred
ited with heing the richest of any In
the sisterhood of States in the matter
of diversity of minerals will not be
overlooked by Investors in all parts of
the world, to whom the publication In
question will be a valuable and trust
worthy handbook of information.
The Department of Commerce and
Labor has caused the facts to be gath
ered from the mining census that was
conducted in connection with the
United States Geological Survey. The
census methods were modified to agree
with those of the geological ' survey.
The totals for the two offices agree.
Therefore the publication now submit
ted by the Department of Commerce
and Labor is reliable. This ia- an im
portant consideration, being a guaran
tee of the accuracy of the statements
made.
The State of . California, so reports
the Department of Commerce and La
bor in a bulletin just issued relating to
mines and quarries i of the United
States, although ranking seventh in the
value of products in 1903rheld the first
place in diversification of minerals.
This fact has been known to persons
familiar with the mines and minerals
of this State, but the official pronounce
ment of It by a branch of the Federal
Government h*as advantages that can
not be overlooked.
Joseph Brzezinskl was intoxicated in
his own "temperance" saloon, at 402
James Jackson (colored) will be sen- |
tenced to six months to-day by Judge i
Mown, who has discovered that he is !
an old offender in the larceny line.
Mr. Jackson was arrested one day |
last week for failing to return a bicycle :
which he had borrowed from a boy, j
and in court he repeatedly and solemn
ly declared that he had no recollection
of what he did with the vehicle. As he !
testified, his hat - in his hand, the j
Judge's eagle eye perceived a bit of j
paper stuck in and almost concealed by |
the sweat band. The headgear was I
snatched from Mr. Jackson's hand and j
the paper examined, and, sure enough, i
it turned out to be a pakn ticket show
ing* that Mr. Jackson had pledged one i
bicycle for the sum of $2 50. j
Then one of the bailiffs whispered
something to his Honor, who sharply
interrogated Mr. Jackson and quickly
ascertained that he was recently re
leased from prison after serving a six
months' term for stealing some Jewelry
from Mrs. Julia Taylor of 250 Minna
street and forgetting to remember what
he had done with the plunder until it
was found where he had concealed it
behind a gate post near the Taylor resi
dence.
• • •
So firmly wedded to the pistol-carry
ing habit is Charles Johnson that neith
er detention in prison nor judicial
warning can divorce him from it. He
was arrested several weeks ago for
brandishing his revolver in the face of
a Fifth street restaurateur with whom
he had a dispute over payment for a
meal, and when he promised to drop
the weapon into the deepest part of the
bay Judge Slogan gave him freedom
to do so. Instead of separating him
self from the pistol, however, he kept
it concealed on his person until Thurs
day evening, when he again displayed
it in a threatening manner in a saloon
at 839 Howard street. His case has gone
over until next Monday, by which time
the court will probably have devised
some other means of attempting' to
cure him of a dangerous mania.
The woman was arrested in the Em
porium by Special Officers Allan and
Tilton, who state that she had stolen
from that establishment four silver
spoons, three shirtwaists and three
sets of buttons, of the total value of
J7 30.
Ida Morton, a young married woman,
charged with shoplifting:, failed to ap
pear for trial before Judge Conlan
and her attorney presented a physi
cian's certificate to the effect that ap
proaching maternity would make her
public arraignment an ordeal that
might result seriously. The case went
over till to-day for further inquiry.
hope that you will be more careful
in future."
The case was that of Ah Jim, who
stole a pair of pantaloons from the
clothing establishment of J. Rosenthal
on Dupont street and concealed the
plunder underneath his blouse, where
it was discovered by Patrolman Bert
Wren. Jini will be sentenced to-day
for petty larceny.
WRONG CHARGE IS MADE
Supreme Court Decides Not
to Give Judgment Until
Point of Law Is Settled
t 4
Defendant is amused
Assistant to the District
Attorney Solves Mystery
About the New Evidence
Held for Felony Embezzle
ment and Released on a
Writ of Habeas . Corpus
Mother of Maiden Does Not Approve of Attachment,
So the Sweethearts Come to San Francisco and
Are Anxiously Awaiting Permission to Marry
Officially Reports There Is Greater Variety of
Minerals in This State Than Can Elsewhere Be
Found and Values Entitle It to Seventh Place
SAYS KENNEDY
HAS CONFESSED
BRENNAN WANTS
NO COMPROMISE
BOY AND GIRL ELOPE FROM LOS
ANGELES AND ARE UNDER ARREST
GOVERNMENT GIVES CALIFORNIA
FIRST POSITION FOR DIVERSITY
CALIFORNIA
BOYS IN GREAT
TRIBULATION
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