New-York tribune., 1883-06-17
SAN FRANCISCO.
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| SAN FRANCleCO. June 16.-Defalcations seem to
have beeolne sporadic here Within the past three
months there have been no less than half dozen,
! showing an utter lack of common honesty on the
| part of the defauters.
First came tho Wholesale thefts OF Gray, the Trust
| Clerk OF the Iiarbor COMMISSION. who fasifed
| books and vouchers, and when exposure came fed
| to Mexico. This week new steal Of $4,000 has
been dug up IN his accounts which makes the total
| defalcaton 100000. Gray is here in jail, await
ing the result OF the expert investigation INTO his
| ingenious accounts Across the bay in san Quentin
Just beginning sentence of fourteen years Is Kay,
| the Oakland Official who squaudered about SlO,OOO
of city funds on poker ana women. Tho latest ad-
dltion made Thursday to the gang of delTulters
was the Oakland city treasurer, Dods. who stole
| $4,000 He began IN the usual style dabbling in
stocks ard using public coin 10 repair his losses.
| His books, like Gray's, were beautifully kept and
| balanced to cent, Dnt the City Council neglected
90 count the cash in the treasury; so he helped him
| self without hindrance. All these defalcatlOns
were due to the criminal carelessness OF higher OIL
| Gers in leaving to poorly paid clerks the complete
| control of large sums. Dods. for instance, had a
salary OF S1,e00 year.
General Crooks snocess in hunting down
| Apaches in their mountain stronghold has created
| great interest here, and Is believed to mark new
era in the development Of Mexican mineral reserves
So long as Apaches could count of escape to the
Sierra Madres, there was no safety for prospectors
| on the other side of the border. Now Crook has
beaten them at their own game The only thing that
remains Is TO transfer tho renegades 60 lndGn Ter
| ritory aud if another outbreak occurs in the San
| Carlos Reservation abolish that hotbed Of border
raids ani transfer all the remaining Apacnes to
| reservation remote from their native mountains.
n. al, nf tariU fla
Madres for precious metals, while the Southern
| mining boom has utterly collapsed. Disgustcd
| prospectors have returned to Tombstone with
| ports that the pacers worked oat by Mexicans
and Indians and the country barren OF Ood or
water One party was headed by an adventurous
Arizona woman and Gil perishing Of
| thirst on the desert.
| The death of Eugene Cassery yesterday removes
| man prominent in early California politics. His
chief claim to grateful remembrance lies in the fact
| that he was strong upholdor OF the Union at
| time when tho majority of Democrats hefe sided
with the South. A man of unusually active mind
he was stricken iu his old age with Eotenng Of the
| brain To this infrmity Duncan, the notorious
bank defauter owed his escape on his last trial for
| embezzement Casserly was tho main witness for
\ the prosecution but when brought into court the
! once able lawyer couldn't remember his own name.
A Miniature anti-monopoy boom has broken out
| in the State Four meetings of farmers were held
| last week and more are announced. great effort
| was made by General Magee Of San Jose, to have a
! big meeting aud harbacue a fortnight ago, but IL
| failed through his own lack of personal popularity.
| This week rotten eggs were thrown at Railroad
| Commissioner Carpenter bya who claims TO
| be a Fresno County farmer, but who was never
known to do days work ranch. Ho IL a
| ,mall-sized edition of Kearney without the ex-
| draynan's humOr and command OF picturesque
yituperation There is question that The present
Railroad Commissioners violated the pledges under
which they secured an election, but rotten-eggine
them does not exactly seem TO DO the remedy for
breach Of faitn.
The Thomas concerts were greater success than
| uos aut,cIpated There was fashionable craze
over them which packed the big pavilion at all the
nerforlnances The local chorus after the perform
ance of the first night did we'll At the last matinee
the audience insisted upon an encore from Miss
| Tbursby but after she had repeatedly acknowl-
| edged the applause Thomas went on amid a storm
| of hisses At the conclusion of the concert the
excited audience vented its spleen IN more hisses
This lesson was good one for san Francisco, where
the encore sysem at concerts becomes an lnsuiier-
| able nuisance. Theatres did poor business owing
| 70 the concerts. Wvndham has suffered here as
is good 1t is mainly bis own fault as he opened III
an old play and only brought out one Lew piece in
| a four weeks engagement.
| The sensation of last week was the almost unpre-
eedented beat which allied here Cor four days.
The Forty-Niner was brought forth 10 bear testi-
mony to the severity of the heat; no weather like
il has been seen since 1852; the sky was coudless,
the sun pitIless tho mercury stood at 90o IN the
| shade the consumption Of beer was enormous.
Thfoughout the State the heat was even greater
than 10 this city, bat strange 10 relate there were
no sunstr0kes One does not suter 80 lnuch nero
does In New York with the temperature ten degrees
lower. In fact. IL perspiraton flows rea9hy the
heat ON this coast is stimulating rather than relax
ing, Yesterday strong wind caIne up out OF the
| vest bringing with 1t the usual summer f0g, 20
that IL is safe say the hot weather i az an end
Its results have been disastrous TO small fruits Dut
reports do not Indicate that II has done any mate
rial damage TO the grain or fruit.
Last week ] took vacation trip through the
Santa Clara Valley, remaining several days az ear
| afoQn Springs IN tho Santa Cruz Mountains. Never
| aid this noble valley look lovellor; the gram was
breast high and of the rich dark green that Bives
nronIse OF nm ample crop; many fields were dotted
with hnycocks while Others were covered with the
srashiv cut grass. arranged in long, even rGws
| syerywbere was the wealth OF color that carly
sun1ner brings before the dust takes the brightness
out of grass and foliage. The accounts oil the crops
mat have been received from this section were not
| exarrerated there will be tine weld OF gram.
and tr,t trees are 80 loaded that orchardists nave
beeu compelled TO thin out tho young fruit. l.ann
is held at an extraordinarily hga price AL through