New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-10-17
TOPICS IN LEADING CITIES
SAN FRANCISCO.
POLITICS -COMsTOCK COLLAPSE CROCK
ER-sPERRY WEDDING.
IN, rr,ronArH TO rHG rnIBuNE.I

inv TELEGRAPH TO THE rRIBusEl
CIV E,,xc,sco. Oct 18.-Local politics become
,,ora bonelessly mixed every week, but the nros-
rect ia that the week before election win see INC
ohsorpton OF most OF the Independent side-sho"s
~, tho regnlar parties There are no less than ten
tickets now in the field each with nominations ior
Mayor and school directors. Several parties ha'o
,,,t soished ther tickets and at the present rate
g ,,,o,rass they will not do so by election day.
Th re,piar r publican nominee for Mayor Is
,h,er D,he william T. G irratt having retireo.
Mr Doble also heads four Independent tickets he
is n worthy manufacturer AMI importer q" s'oei' '"'
ia without experience IN public llie anu Is appai
entv blind to tho ludicrous position III winch tno
f,c,ions have placed him. Riding four horses III
n eircus is a trnng feat compared TO maintaining
his eou,librium on these conflicting Platforms
The State canvass goes on steadily. swift. Inc
Popnblican nominee for Governor. is making
strong tight in the interior. aud he Will gam votes
hv his able speeches. Bartlett, his Democratic
rival will he hurt by the discovery that for years
he has drawn $50 monthly rent for an old shanty
occupied by n Chinese launir This was at
lime when as Mayor he publicly denounced the
Chinese and appealed TO all citlzens not to give
them patronage Six months ago Bartlett evident
y became alarmed lest the fact that he maintained
this laundry should be known, and he turned out
his Chinese tenant.
The abandonment of deem mining on the Com
stock has been bad blow to a small army of stock
brokers here who have managed petty details In
mining shares. although there has been morning
greater than q $50 rise IN any Comstock shares
during the last i've years Still brokers have made
q living owing to the passion for gambling in low
priced stocks. Just ten years ago the value of
Comstock shares listed at the San Francisco
Exchange was S272. OO0, 900 To-day these same
shares represent less than S1,oOOOo0. This
enormous loss has fallen mainly on small holders of
stock. and 1t explains why san Francisco has not
made more rapid grow tn in the past decade.
Around the Stock EXCHANGE may still be seen
crowds of dilapidated spectators who work few
DAYS in eacn month and then spend the proceeds in
this wretche gambling thaG gives less chances of
winning than faro or a Chinese lottery. Despite
the total collapse OF Comstock u Is probable mat
some new device will be Invented Tor keeping awe
The hope of opening up a new bonanza on the
lower level.
The second son of Charlie, Croker president of
the Southern Pacific Railwy Company was
married to Miss Ethe willard Spcrry ut Stockton
last vice.. Ground WAS broken tor a costly
corner Of Cafornia and jones sts. winch forms
rart OF the present grounds of the grooms tdiuer.
The house will be the webbing present 81 Charles
Croc aer. It will III Romlnesqne aud Queen
Anne STYLES. two stories and attic OF stone ana
resssd brick. vita the upper story OF stncco ana
hard wool and promises be one of the handsonest
residences the CaIiorua street hilL MI. ana
Mr.. Croker are now IN New-IOrk. whence they
will sail next week for Europe.
the Chinese murderer Fong All Sing was
repreved for the second time this week. aud the
date of execution postponed to November ~
Opinions in regard to THIS singular case widely
differ. Both the lawyers VINO prosecuted and
defended him believe bin n victim of conspiracy
of rival highbInders. but the police regard HIM
AS a clever criminal. VINO nv pretcnoo OF conversion
10 the Catholic Church has secured warm friends
who believe in his innocence and VIII make very
effort to get a pardon for him. Tho crime Tor
which he twice convicted vas the murder OF
Chinese cOurtesau who threw palltul ol dirty
water on his head as he pass, through the alley
nuder her
The Southern Pacific Railway Company received
this week 400 freight cars from the East ana
it is said several hundred more are now building
for It, The inference is that heavy shipments
of grain will be male this winter by way Of New
Orleans to Liverpool
An old Oregon pioneer. Samnci NJ Lyon, died
here this week. tie ha mined IN the III Dorado
country in early days AMI then went to Portland
wnere he made "a large fortune in eXch Angling gold
an 10 the general mercban Use business. III came
here with his family three years ago AMI bought
handsO, place ou Vauness ave-. whore he died.
A new French daily newspaper has Just been
started here, called The franco dlQOrHian.