New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-04-15
SAN FRANCISCO.
POLIrICS-TIIE wEATHER-"LUCKY"B BALD
WIN-THE APACHES.

WIN-IHE APA(HES.
frRon An OCCASIONAL CORRESPONDENT TRIBUNE. |
SAN FRANCISCO. April 5.-1he retrenchment in
municipal affairs has scarcely been nine days
wonder before 1T is brought to a summary end. At
a meeting of the Supervisors this week nearly all
the old retaiDes put back IN their places and
the reduced salaries restored to their original
figures. After the politicians had been cared for,
energy tagged aud the resolution to order the
street lamps rehghied lost. As light at night
III the streets is what the cty is chiefly suffering for
need of this action furnishes fine parody what
legislation ought to be. This sudden end OF econ
omy is due to the fact that bonds for $1,000 have
been ordered issued to provide for the municipal de-
ficiency The Mayor has vetoed the order. but this
will not prevent it from going into effect
The sensation of the week in the courts has been
the Baldwin trial-tbc sequel of the attempted
shouting of Lucky" Baldwin. the millionaire, by
Young woman who calls herself Fannie Verona
Baldwin and claims to be the old mans cousin.
Baldwin was shot in the arm. but the
wound was trihIng and he recovered. The
young woman after languishing a month III JAIL
was released on bail The case was a farce from a
legal point of view, as there was no plth In the
prosecution. Baldwin failed to take the stand as
witness because he feared that the defence would
bring out other scandalous episodes in his career.
The defence accumulated a of testimony
showing that after Miss Fannie came to this city
from Oregon and put herself under the protection OF
Baldwin, she was greatly changed and several
times attempted to commit suicide dropped into
tho court. room Tuesday and had a good look at the
far defendant. She is what would be called very
pretty woman with clear, pale skin; large dark
ewes, very expressive and appealing, and regular
features She shows no signs of the hard life that
abe has led and the native refinement of her face
would seem to belle the possibility Of any intimate
relations with coarse a man as the mining
millionaire The latter sat by his counsel, twlri-
ing his thumbs nervousy and occasionally casting
q glance at the dark .robed figure near him The
woman whom he has wronged, however, never
looked at him. This afternoon the case was sub
United to the jury and after ten minutes delibera
ton they returned verdict of not guilty on the
favorite California plea of emotional insanity.
Showers have fallen nearly every day this week.
alternated with bright sunshine and warm air
conditions the most favorable to the growing crops
There is no longer any talk of dry season. the only
fear now being that the heavy rainfall will induce
floods in the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys.
Ranchmen who come in from the southern counties
report an unusually heavy rainfall with much snow
in the mountains that the stock will not suffer
So much from lack cf feed as was Predicted earlier
In tie season. The immediate effect of the on
this cit has been to help all business and to silence
the croakers. who beginning to talk of repe
tltion of the hard times Of five years ago.
The Chronicle has been engaged for the better
part of the week in exposing gross frauds in the adj
of the Surveyor Generals office in this
city 1t seems that nine-tenths of the legitimate |
work of the office has been done in an outside Bu-
reau conducted by J. f. Benson. who began his |
career as an ordinary surveyor of Government land.
He now controls nearly every surveying party in
the field, dictates appointments of contractors to
The head office, manufactures bogus settlers in
order pat III applications for surveys, and then
edits and nanipnlatcs the field notes Of surveyors
before they are turned over to the Chief onlce aud
filed away vouchers for the money expended
There IL nothing TO prevent the surveyor in the
field from returning false reports OF the amount OF
work done bv him, aud also nothing to hinder his
field notes being altered by the Bureau, while the
examination of these notes months before the copies
of them are handed over to the Government; gives
Benson an opportunity TO lind out the best bits OF
timber aud agricultural land on the coast and to
buy them at the lowest rates The Government re-
Qures an oath from the deputy surveyor that bis
field notes are the true and original" ones, but
the Bureau has a number of these Oatns in blank,
rs occasion demands, that the only check against
fraud is nulited. Ii is probable that thorough
Dverhauling of the Surveyor Generals Office VIII he
made and there are limitations that IL will be IN
leresting for an ex-SecretaTy of the Interior who
was The protector OF Benson.
The Apache outbreak In Arizona has called out
The usual caustic comments from the Territorial
press on the inc ciency of the United States troops
Certainly there seems to be ground for these
ytrclures as the military has not distinguished it
self in recent raids The only effective blows 10
Apache power have been given by Mexican troops
On the other SIDE of the border hence the nsolence
Of the Indians and the periodical disturbances on
.he San Carlos Reservation. The Apaches are born
lighters and with Winchester rifles and plenty of
they formidable foes especially In |
he rough mountain country OF which they know |
10 much and the soldiers so little.
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