Omaha daily bee., 1888-10-07

hausted there will be no more until the
strike is over. This will virtually place
US ut the tender mercics OF the South
Pacific, which, in combination with the
Oregon Improvement company, owns
the Mount Rainier coal beds, and we
have before us the prospects OF paying
the highest price for the poorest article.
TIE VIEW BATHING RESORT.
1t is a singular fact that no bathing
arrangements on anything like a proper
scale have been made on the beautiful
Pacific ocean beach until very recently.
Adolf Sutro. the man who made the
Sutro tunnel at the Comstock lode in
Nevada, though he did not realize a
colossal fortune as he supposed he
would, did succeed in getting something
out of his enterprise, and he invested 1T
in the Cliff house and the Sealrocks,
one OF the favorite resorts OF all Fris'
cans. Everybody rides or walks through
the Golden Gate park to the CHI house,
and breakfasts there after loaiing ON
the piazza and watching the sea lions
crawl up and down their rocks and
dump themselves into the sea. The dis
lance is II little to far for real study OF
the queer actions of these creatures,
and SutrO conceived the idea of making
u causeway from the beach out to one OF
the rocks which was untenanted by
the marine monsters, and turning it
into a bathing place. 1t was a great
scheme, and will result in making
the Cliff house a resort without an equal
in the United States. This action
of Sutro has stirred up the park COM
missioners who awe already done Won
ders for the city, for they have turned,
| by the patient work OF years, sand dunes
| into a paradise of flowers and shade
trees. superintendent McLaren de-
serves the highest encomiums for his
skill and fidelity to his work. The
| latest addition is to be IL deer park, and
u man of Souoma county felt So sympa'
thetic that he sent down a herd OF ten
| deer before anything had been done tC
make u place for them. A plat of ter
acres is to be enclosed, and as the win
tiers in San Francisco are really more
agreeable than the summers (becausC
there are no fogs therel, there is Mt
necessity for a deer house, and the an
TERED pets can roam about with nearly
the freedom of their mountains anC
with much more security.
III ALIEN LAND CLAIM MAN.
David Evans, who was formerly the
superintendent and manager Of the
California Redwood company, ant
whose chief business apparently was t.
hire mcn to swear out land claims il
the best redwood timber land OF Cali
fornia, and to hand over the land GER
tificates to the company, has been ad
mitted as United States evidence in the
suit which the national government ha'
brought to punish this glazing abuse o
national generosity to genuine settlers
The first prisoner to be tried il
Charles Beach, Of Eureka, which
is in Yrela county and must not be con
founded with Eureka, New. Evans wa
a Scotchman who came to Californi,
and bought land patents under the firm
name OF Rugs & Evans, but the firm
afterwari merged in tho Californi;
Redwood Co., and Evans became it,
superintendent. Whatever DISCUS,
may be put upon it, there is no doub
that the business OF Evans was to hire
men to cheat the United States by rep
rescnting themselves as intending set
tiers. Beach, of Eureka, was in al
probability Evans chief agent, and h,
atfrms this, put Evans denies the fact
and when challenged To show his book
admits that he burned them up. Evans
however, admits that the lands h,
bought from Beach he Immediately con
veyed to the president OF the company
II looks very much as il the chief OF
fender was t~estitying against a subordi
nate, and there is an unpleasant odo
about the matter which suggests tina