New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-05-04
LOCAL MISCELLANY.


-, eso OOO-wHAT THEACCUsEp MAN oAIo'
r,.s Pheby was arrested at the Hoffman
,nnn Wednesday evening by depusy, snel,l'
an An order of arrest Issuoa Uy IaI IN defanlt Of
and c0nnnTId The order of arrest Was granted on
SMay4ovits of the Inyo Consolidated M,hln BB anu
Milling Company OF Csto Srn aas AZ srlonppS to
Win anany' The affidavts recitc that Mr. Pheby
sns made Superintendent of the company on Septe
S.S o. at $500 month He was to take charge OF
~ ;Ii and the work of reducing the silver ore 10
bullion which he was to sell for tno tht Z. had
San a15 % on hand above all the claims against
The company 1t is charged that ne afterTasd aet
strac.sd Ga asa U machinery were dam
S.i h ;rc IN December asst. aud Pheby is SAID 10
have received $33 500 of insurance money III sefsU
ment et the damage w e S7oass 4 and put in
roncbers for expenditures amounting TO Soe,VVI TO-
An examination has since shown accordihg 70 unU
effdavit that the actual expenditure was 9niy
%Io no and Pheby is said to have acknowieageo
the fact and to have promised TO make h;ch
Failing to do this tho suit was >orough' upon "N-
the ordeh =, ar Il Western man about forty-fve
wears of age. who has been engaged IN mining t on
the Pacific coast for twe5tynFS ,oS gs He has
iaen in this city for about month, but hls IaillH
Is in Oakland Cal To IRBHiS 1esssPday sfer,
ynnn he said; any attorney, Z. f. Blsckwelt, -
ont Of town and desire to consult Win h'' Doior0
mak,ng any harsed with taking money to pay for
house in Oakland snggestod the reptr.ei 70 use
sAs partner of the firm had not r'fn came a TO
N.wYork expressly for tho purpose OF wlthdfawng
from the partnership. had already Paio MI.
P;"nev several thousand dollars more than was
dus TO- him, and. now because 1 will not pay hum
stiil more he has caused my arrest ne anu WEI
together in the Office and roomed az !ne sae nOu'o
mill a week ago Nothing was said OF DrinRlng
amt. | went to Newport for dag or two. ana on
nv return was arrested; The amount mentionea IN
the legal papers -inore than r the m;"e
i'm the fifteen months when had cnarRe VI ~. aod
will readily see that the gT 81 consume e good
share of the profits. The mine was hred hrst.
Se;nS ovned by senator John P. Jones' Trenor
w. Park and associates. II was tnoh 'ho o"ip'i''
Mill and Water Company"
MOVING AGAINST ADULTERATED TEA
AucTIoNEERs EyJoINED FROM SELLING LARGE
QUANTITY OF so-CALLED PING-sUEY TEAS
Tn. 6rst action nv the authorities under the law
of 1881 10 prevent the sale of aduleraed teas was
taken Yesterday by the Health Department. John
H. Draper g. Co., auctloneers hau %eoo he lots
were 1858 packages of Ping Suey teas, belonging 10
Williams & Hall of Boston. and Purdon o. virgin,
nj this citv When the packages were ohereu ior
sole the ancioneer was served with an injunction
;ssned by Judge Sedgwick of the superior COURT.
restraining the sale on tns grGnaI 1a ssscmbIed
we're astonished and departed when it was clearly
shown that the sale could not be resqmed The in.
Junction Counsel wS' fs Se'i9 ssS Board of Health
TSs ap SoGcs for it was based on adavts
made BY President G F. Chandler Of the Beard OF OF
R Rea,sn, onS two experts C. G. Boardman
William MacGregor. 1t was alleged in the atlida-
wits that the packages OF teas We're Own9d y
fpsSSa aud and d0s0 wsSe Be-
sold by. draper & &C, Co. at Trs teas pV ware
named in the advertised list as Ping Suey teas. but
they we're only coored and adulterated imlta.ioas
OF PngSuey teas pr ChanalSsr .necmens Of tea
eiven TO him by the two experts and said to be
Samples Of the alleged Ping 9ey teas soI 70
he sold by Draper & Co., and had found
th,t the teas were adulterated with mineral sub;
stances. They evidently had been mapuIactuIeu
prepared in imitation OF an4bner anu nnwboe
some and unfit for use, The sale Oh 30 dare sooa
quantity of such teas would cause injury TO great
Mr Love who is the public analyst of the State
BOARD of Health declared that the teas referred 70
had been adulerated by the adtion OF nn ire
really were. and of greater value that they mao
been eolored and coated with a much inferior ana
cheaper % fse teas WE'RE sonceaed and that the
mineral mat ter rendered the teas unwhoesoIne ana
Injurious to health. The two experts who procured
samples of the teas for chemical examination, made
similar statements.
George r Kellock. of Draper g. Co, said to
TRIBuNR reporter that the injunction looked 10 him
like sharp practice. His catalogue had been issued
since Saturday, but the firm had no intimation OF
He sold from thirty to fifty thousand packages of
these teas every year. and never had had any dun
Guilty before. The goods were not OF high grade
Int were the coarse leaf of green tea, and brought
as low "a and as high as 80 cents a pound lie
Thought the trouble arose from the recent combina-
ton 70 break up auction sales OF teas
Mt Purdon of Purdon q Wiggin, to whom
1900 of the packages belonged SAID that the
Ping-Suey tea vas wholesome and good, but not OF
high grade 1t was green tea and that KIND OF yea
trouble arose from the objection of certain brokers
to auction sales, though he did not wish to state
that fact positively