New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-10-21
TOPICS IN LEADING CITIES
SAN FRANCISCO.
CHINESE IiMIGRATION-THE LICK TRUST
EX-SENATOR SHARON.
IBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNE !

SAN Francisco, Oct 20.-Mahy Chinese who ar
rived last week from Hong Kong are still held on
the steamships because the description on their
passport does not tally with ther personal appear
ance. Every device known to the subtle Mongol-
ian has been practised to crcumvent the restriction
act. The chief plan has been 10 smuggle coolies in
as traders and students, whom the act allows To
enter the country. Many of this latest cargo were
entered as merchants" whose clothes were
shabby and foul with dirt. One alleged merchant
had capital of $50 and his luggage was tied up
in an old battered tea-chest which he sung on
pole and trotted off with to Chinatown. These arc
samples of "traders" in this crowd Others arc
designated as students" whose skins are brown
with exposure and their hands calloused with toll.
It is as plain as day that they are the coolies
against whose Importation the restriction act is lew
eled but the officers in most are bound to adj
nit them because their papers are regular and ap-
proved by the Chinese Superintendent Of Customs.
Canton is sending over the bulk of these coolies tho
number of which Is increasing on every steamer.
This attempt shows with what serenity the Chinese
break the treaty when any money can be made by
violating it,
The Grand Jury is doing good work in indicting
the criminals whose cases have been dismissed in
the police courts through the use of influence"
The new jury seems determined to bring number
of these offenders to justice and redeem the reputa-
tion of the city as O law-abiding place. This week
young hOodlum known as Fat Jack" was con-
yicted of brutal assault on woman who died OF
her injuries, and the judge sentenced him to fifty
years in the State Prison. Another of the same
gang was convicted and will probably receive o
wholesome sentence.
The Society of California Pioneers, despite tho
charges brought against the managers of the Lick
Trust, seem disposed to accept the situation and
not to appeal to the courts. This action makes
one suspect the Pioneers are in their dOtage for
certainly their inheritance is growing smaller and
beautifully less each year; while the trustees arc
absorbed in astronomical experiments on Mount
Hamilton.
Two large sales Of farming lands by local auction
eers are notable as an index of the advance In
prices in the last decade. One ranch near Stockton,
in the great San Joaquin Valley, slit into small
tracts, brought $97 an acre. Another tract in folo
County, near the State capital, sold for from TSo
TO Sll5 an acre. One ranch has poor buildings, tho
other has none. All this land, however, is suitable
for fruit and grapes, which are coming to be the
main reliance of small farmers, as they pay twice
as large a revenue rs wheat. ~
judges Sawyer and Deadly, of the United States
Circuit Court, have been inspecting this week tho
devastation caused by the mining debris near
Marysvle in order to decide the merit OF one of
the suits brought by the farmers against the Hy-
draulic Mining Company. score OF such mspec-
tions have been made, but there will be no safety
for the farmers in the valleys of the Yuba Feather
and Sacramento rivers until the present temporary
Injunction be made perpetual against the miners
who have well-nigh ruined river navigation and
buried hundreds of fertile under deposit OF
barren slckens."
In a few days handsome new ferryboat viii be
put on by the Central Pacific Railroad between
this city and Oakland. The boat is patterned
largely after the North River ferryboats but Is ee-
gantly fitted up. An observatory has been pro-
vided off the main saloon from which one may view
the bay without being subjected to the cold winds.
The case against ex-senator Sharon was dis
missed to-day in the Police Court because the stat
ute under which it was brought was found TO DO
repealed The prosecution did not produce the let
tars they claim to have, and the whole proceedings
ended in a legal farce.