New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-02-05
CALIFORNIA FOR A TARIFF.
PROTECTION TRIUMpfIS - POSTAL - hADoi
DRIvES-GAMBLING.
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CIV Cr.x ,sco Feb 4.-The san frahc'soo
r,,ar,hor 81 Commerce has free trade minority
.., =, ., oIivo as n California flea. Not iohs "s'
.t;s ,oi,oritv had the assurance TO attempt W
-. .ho massage of a resolution asking ior IT,
oinroc;tv with Canada because theh 'n's o'a'c
,a hovc fpec lumber and coal from bri'ish
Columbia A protection resolution was "uopocu
coi'. - This week the lively minority,
headed nv old Claus Spreckcls, tired 10 gct Vne
endorsement of resolution placing bounty OIL
,,,,o cents per pound on beet sugar produced III
,h;s country After a breezy debate the majority
,-i,Iod the resolution, which was denounced as an
oeort in the direction of free trade. ana adopted
49, resolutions fatty condemning any attempt
% interfere with the present duty on sugar, ana
calling on the Pacific Coast delegation in Congress
n use all possible means to defeat any action IN
Congress that contemplates change of the sugar
antv and the establishment of the bounty system.
The resolutions also urged the delegation to make
n vigorous protest against any reduction OF the
duty on lumber, fruit wine and wool ana otiier
important coast interests AS the Chamber Vi
Commerce is the representative body OF san ran
CISCO as well as of the State and Coast, t'iiS III.
stand against any free trade tinKerihg Vi 'ho ''"
is significant. Politics has no force Ill sr"'o
question of this kind, and at least nan 'he GULL
mittee that drafted these strong Resolutions
against the bounty system or any change LII ou'ios
Democrats.
COMPLAINTS Of the defective mail service al
San Francisco increase every week 1he working
force here is small and their labor is greatly IN
creased nv irregularity in arrival of the trains
The overland trains are from two TO SIX houfs
late every day, and consequently many employees
are kept on duty from early morning until MD
night. Nothing has yet been done by the new
Postmaster General to reform the idiotia methods
of Mr.. Villas.
Numerous street robberies in this city have led
to unusual police precautions. The officers in the
western addition especially have been warned to
look ont for footpads Officer Harrington early
on Thursday morning man come running
down Washington-st. toward Van Ness-avc The
officer says that he shouted Halt" and the man
stu coming toward him, he fired, putting a bullet
through a haclxman, Thomas Edwards, who had
driven Miss Jennie Flood to a party on Toughest
With two other haclmen he was running doWn
the street to get warm. Edwards and his COM
paniOns declare that they heard no command 10
halt IL was lamentable mistake on the police
mans part, as Edwards was sober and industrious
The Mercantile Library trustees have at last
decided to sell the present building and move up
town 1t is estimated that their present quarters
will bring 81 $4,000 The building was con-
sanctioned by the State. High manufacturing
establishments now surround it and cut of the
light and sunshine. The library has an admirably
selected general collection of books, and would
flourish if in convenient location
The statements Of :" The New-York Herald" In
regard to the working Of the Chinese Restriction
act have excited amusement here. TO give the
total number of coolies who succeeded in getting
into the country last year as eight is too absurd
MI far M
has arrived here for more than year WlthOuI
fifty Chinese whn had no proper certlhCates ana
frequently as many as $50 have been landed Oh
habeas corpus Wits
The sixth annual Viticultural Convention will
be here next month. Tie exhibit OF wines ana
brandies promises to he large and interesting
comparative exhibit will be opened in order to
determine the nature Of the wines from different
parts of the State. The special feature OF TINS
exhibition will be the department OF ralslns. ana
al sections of the State invited TO send samples
The project of establishing National park near
Mount Shasta has been broadened and now a
heavily timbered tract is to be reserved IL H.
cudes ten townships, or about two hundred thou
sand acres in SiskyOu and Shasta Counties. A
hill vii! be presented some time during I'M,
session Of Congress asking that TINS land DE SET
apart and the forest preserved
new snort has been started on the San Joaquin
plains. This is rabbit driving The Jack rabbits
are SO numerous in Kern County that ranchmcn
have organized and will hold weekly rabblt-drlVcs
Long UldDPnldf cOrritlS VI pIuSL uiV h0''O'
hundred men drive the rabbits into the corral ana
then knock them on the head with clubs. ABOUT
half dozen drives have been held, and 1900
rabbits been killed The large land owners give
barbecues to the men after the drive.
General Bdwels offer Of a iifty-acre tract near
Chico in Butte County, for tree planting station
has been accepted. This will make four stations
under the charge of the State Board of Forestry.
San Diego is now paradise of gamblers In the
heart of the CITY, on the main business streets,
five faro banks and many poker games are in full
blast. These gambling places are as open to the
public as ordinary saloons They reap nice
harvest from the crowds of strangers that throng
the streets During January three thousand
through passengers from the East arrived in San
Diego, while the total arrivals for the month
were ten thousand.
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