New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-01-29
TOPICS IN CALIFORNIA
PROTECTION FOR FRUIT-GROWEhS-Lr4G
CVTCK-MFRCED CANAL


CHUCK-MERCED CANAL
SAY FwANcrsco, Jan. 2s.-The convention Oh
the American horticultural Association thls "eei>
NJ San Jose was marked by the ADOPTION OF s''o"s
resolut ons in favor OF protection 10 Huesio~''s'
Several free traders including Vicc-f NUN
.on and ahhott Kinney of the California Forestry
Board argued that the fruit-growers needed no
protectjon and that consumers should De apie
10 get fruit at cheaper rates. They were VIII
answered by NJ ". Estee, who showed the hope
lessness OF California fruit-growers competing
with French and Spanish growers without a
tariff. lie showed that foreign frui:- raisers and
vine-makers paid only 80 cents per day for
laborers whereas California fruit-growers paid
81 per day. His remarks were cheered and PESO
buttons were adopted declaring that any reduction
Of the existing tariff on green and dried fruit and
other horticultural and agricultural products would
injurc all and destroy many Of these industries
Prominent California vfticulturists viii soon
start bank here, the stockholders Of which VIII
be wine growers. A general banking business
will be done, but the chief feature viii be to
advance loans on wine. A storage cellar VIII De
connected with the bank Then wlne-HaKer
may send his product to the bank and get a loan
of ten cents per gallon on It, and thus DC saved
from selling fresh wine at a sacrlhce
Tl,e second conviction of Lee Chuck of murder
IN the first degree will probably fetch this no
torious "hichbinder" TO the gallows. The Su-
preme Court recently granted him q new trial ON
a pure technicality He shot Chinese merchant,
whose testimony sent two of Lee Chuck's frien'1,
10 the State prison for burglary. Lee Chuck has
plenty of money and has expressed the opinion
that as long as his coin lasts he never will he
hanged
The total collapse Of the baseball season was
marked tins week bv the departure OF nearly
all the leading Eastern players Only OBrien ana
Denny. Of the NETWORKS: Irwin. Wood and Fogarty
Of the Philadelphia; Williamson and Carroll OF
the Chcacos; and Foutz, of tie Browns, remain
here. They will stay till the opening OF the
Eastern season.
Ex-Congressman Horace Davis, of this city, has
been recommended by the Committee of Regents
for president of the State University at Berkeley.
MIR Davis is a nephew of the historian Bancroft,
and graduate of Harvard He has made large
fortune in Gour milling.
The body of cx-Promier Gibson, Of Hawaii. was
embalmrd placed in q costly cOifin. ana VIII NC
cont to Honolulu for burial His death stirred
gp the M9rmons Their NEWSPAPER organ ga fd IN S
by selling Offices in the Mormon priesthood to
Ignorant kanakas.
J. f. Whichcr, one Of the pioneers Of Oakland.
died this week The death of his wife at san
Diego affected MN so tfldI ne never rdlllfu
the shock. He lived eighteen years in Oakland,
and assisted in the first survey of the town
Next Wednesday the great MERGED Canal the
most important irrgatlng cnterprise IN CaII-
fornia will be formally opened by Charles Croker.
An excursion train will be run from this CITY 10
MERGED and the railroad millionaire Will take
down many OF his friends in q private car ,tON-
ernOr Waterman and other State officials VIII ne
present II is expected that several thousand
people will witness the ceremonies. III mas taken
five years and aihaf and Sl,50O0OO In money 70
complete the canal which Is twcnty-seven miles
long and irrigatcs 800 900 acres
Some idea Of the rush Of settlers into California
may be gained from the fact that the Government
Land Office business has trchled during the past
year while the Southern Pacific Company has
sod tmec-quarters of million Of acres Of It's lands
Millionaire John Bidwcll, Of Chicago, has offered
70 give the State Board of Forestry fifty acres OF
land near Chico. Butte County. for an experimental
trce-plantng station tract of six acres was
recently planted Santa Monica. The engl-
neer of the Forestry Board reported that in the
northern counties geat interest taken in the
preservation of the forests. The shake-maKers
did as much damage to timber on Government
lands as great fires He thought the Board should
take means to make the fine forest country near
Nicc.G;11tt SHASTA National park.
The Ensennda Company S having trouble over
its affairs with its agents at San Diego. Some
OF its property has been attached for advertising
bills contracted by those agents, and there Is a
general uncertainty about the validity of the
the Mexican Government of Mrs. BuTton's claim.
A Californian who has lust returned from Todos
Santos Bay says that there not over 900
Americans in the colony and that the water sup
ply is entirely inadequate for lrrlgatlng one
tenth of the tracts.