Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-28
A BREEZE FROM THE PACIFIC
"Silver" Stewart Makes a Great
Speech.
FACED BY PAUPEH LABOR.
The Swimming OF the Gilbert
Islanders-Los Angeles Real Es.
ate OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Death.bed Repentance.

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. o. Special
correspondence of THE BEE. 1.-The Gill
bert Islanders have left us, returned to
their native specks Of rock amid the
blue wav OF the Pacific. Two Of them
gave a great swimming performance at
the Cliff House, before they embarked
on the schooner Addie G. Hazeltine.
The two best swimmers of the party, or
rather, to be exactly truthful, the two
whose constitutions best resisted the
cold Of our waters, were named E.gee-
bor-wa and Narkada, and they went
through the vehement surf that beats
around the Cliff House like veritable
mermen. But there was an American
sailor who swan With them for the fun
of the thing, and who made just as good
a showing. He had been wrecked IN
the Gilbert group and spoke their Ian
guage ~nuently. He vas consequently a
great boon to the people who had paid
their fifty cents to see the swimming
from the veranda and windows Of the
Cliff House. and it was from him that /
learned their m E~-gee-bor-wa
sounds somewhat Digger Indian-like,
and the men somewhat resemble the
Shoshones, who are the best specimens
of the race, as the Diggers of Northern
a second exhibition in the afternoon,
and Egeeborwa climbed this time
onto seal rock, giving those creatures
n fearful scare. Narkada was taken
with a fit of coughing when in the midst
of the breakers, and il he had not been
promptly rescued by the sailor and the
other native, he would have lost his
passage home beyond any doubt. All
the islanders were suffering from
colds and bronchial trouble. which
seemed strange, for San Francisco has
been remarkably free from fogs consid-
ering the time of year. Lee, the sailor.
said that they would all have died from
consumption if they had not been sent
home. So that shows pretty plainly that
there is no real safety for a pulmonary
invalid north Of Santa. Barbara. And
yet people from the east who have weak
lungs come and settle in this city and
all along the Contra Costa range on the
other side of the hay, and expect to be
all right. 1t is clearly a mistake.
LOS ANGELES REAL ESTATE OPERA
TIONS.
There is every reason why southern
California should become n great and
populous community. but the real estate
men, particularly in Los Angeles, take,
in my opinion, a wrong way. A
that city q paper, which is
distributed gratuitously in whole or
in part. On the editorial page are
statements about lots which | copy yer
batim.
Five year ago lots on Downey "
| nue.. in East Los Angeles, were sold for
800 which cannot to-day be bought for
| $40, O00." LESS than nine months ago
lots in Meadow Park were selling for
$50 each, and they are now eagerly
| sought after at $3.50 each" Lots in
| the business center of Pasadena are
selling for 81 600 a front foot, and lots
bringing from 50 900 to S., 900 each.
| took the liberty of asking a Pasa-
dena journalist whether these state
ments were true. "True?" he answered
in a flame OF rage. 'True? No indeed.
This is not journalism, it is sheer lying.
And IL is not business enterprise either,
but unmitigated scOundrelism.' .
FACE TO FACE WITH PAUPER LABOR.
1t is clear that from common sense
principles there can be no wisdom in en-
~deavoring to obtain enormous prices
for building lots.g Southern California
offers unusual inducements to men pre-
pared to deal in dried fruits, in sweet
wines, in raisins and nuts, both almonds
and walnuts, and it's climate is so be.
nignant hat the rheumatic sufferer
loses his pans, and the consumptivc re.
gains health and strength. But though
these things increase the population
they cannot largely increase its wealth
There is no great fortune to be made
even in ~raisins, for though the demand
is great, the competition with Spain
makes prices low. Many IA working
girl has tried her hand at picking mus
cats, and found that she could hardly
carr living expenses. How often have
heard stories of supposed wrong from
people who had gone south to work al
raisin making. The fact is that in al
most all the products of Southern Cali
fornla, the producer m face to face
with the pauper labor of Southern
Europe and wages must be low. | dc
not like to say that southern Californi;
must be peopled with poor families if a
all, but h facts squirt that way
Therefore the booming Of the Los An
geles real estate men is sickening folly
CLEvELAND's DEATH BED REPENT
ANCE.
The administration has suddenl,
awoke to the fact that California wa
mad clear through, made so by a lonl
series of hostile acts and studied ne
glect. All of a Sudden there has beer
change, a sort Of, eleventh hour refor
nation. Some one must have informed
the president. that the Californian
were in ecstacies over the Chinese ex
clusion bill, ard that there was
chance for mimi 70 regain the gooC
opinion Of the Pacific slope by paying
some attention Ia the wishes and want
of that section.
1t is, after allsa part of the United
States, though Mr.. Cleveland had for
gotten it, and Secretary Whitney evi
IDENTIFY never knew it. DR.. McAllister
the United States commissioner of i'm
migration in Frisco, took upon himsel
to pose. as the champion of the Chinese
and to do all in his power to frustrat'
the workings of the bill, more particu
larly with regard to The return of tn,
coolies on the Hong Kong steamers
His appointmentfwas promptly revoked
and he woke onf morning to find hi
head in the official sawdust. The ofic
was conferred upon William H. Thorn
ley, who is the GATE commissioner. l
happens that Mcklister ought never t