New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-05-06
CALIFORNIA GRAIN CROP.
WHEAT INJURED BY DROUTH MlNiNa
sTOCKS-sPIKITUALlsTs
frY TEL aaLPR TO rHn rRIbuNe

rsY TELEGRAPH TO THE rKIBuSa
FaAyofsco. May 6-The rain which began cary
on Thursday morning ended on Friday rlornhs' "s
rainfall was general throughout the State, ana IL
from IA inches ct Emigraht Gap In sierra w ~
nm inch at Modesto In the great valleys the raia4.
averaged from 10 10 so Late sown grain was heipeo
but the great majority OF tho fields were too far an
v.rced TO be aided In MERGED and Tulare ana al
along tho west side Of San Joaquin, the "hoa' @'1
barley are so burned up that they VIII DC gooa or
feed The grain crop OF tho State VIII not DC neary
30 large as last year. although at the oeghmhs Vi ~
season It promised TO be = bonanza wheat yeas Inc
hot weather and north winds early In April ar'oo up
the good ground and prematurely developed grain.
The rain while OF small advantage to wheat growers
has made sure very large crop OF fruit
There is no question whatever that the delegation
elected by the Republican State Convention this week
Is strongly for Blaine The FEELING a. sacramento
among the delegates to the convention was almost
unanimously for Blaine, and his name was tho only
one that called out any enthusiasm.
Tho week has two more Comstock mines
declare dividends without any material improvement
I'm the stock Hale and Norcross for the first time
in seven years will pay this month hslfdollar
dividend In Its history the mine has paid million
and half in dividends and has taken away from
the stockholders five millions In assessments
1t is now selling at 30. The Confidence, tho other
NINE which has declared o So dividend, has only
900 shares the bulk Of which Is held by the Sharon
estate Il will probably be run up to good figure
as the insiders have nnetenths Of the stock The
general public Is very shy about putting Its money
into mining stocks, but u a big deal comes 1t viii
lose It's head usual and sink its money. Callior-
mans seem to have incurabe passion for gambling
and it is on this that the mining stock manpulators
rely.
A prediction made several weeks ago by local spir-
uallsts that the steamer Queen OF the Pacific would
meet with disaster has been seized upon By mediums
here as successful test OF their powers. The facts
arcthat one Of these sptualisc frauds declared re-
peatedy while in trance that he saw the steamer
burning Several tmld people refused to secure pass
age on her. and the agents contemplated arestng the
medium for malicious mischief but decided that 1t
would only give him free advertising. since the
steamer sank Port Hartford, disaster found TO DO
duo to an open porthoc was started that some
sprtualst had opened the port to fulfil the pred'c
ton but there are no facts to bear out this sensational
theory. Mediums and slate writers. however, have
made capital out OF the wreck. and will probably
secure by 1t new crop Of dnpes.
Tho Bohemian Club viii probably remove early next
year to a building the Spring Valley water company
viii erect on the southwest corner OF Stockton ana
(icary sts opposite Union Square. This square pronr
ICES soon TO be club quarters the Union and Cosmos
clubs face IT, and the Pacific Cub is near by IL Is
proposed also to erect this square handsome statue
Of Lincoln The only statue Of the mayred Presidens
In this city ia the old and mutilaei figure In front OF
the Lincoln school, which win be removed q an eye
sore.
Plans have been adopted for lofty tower 10 COM
n,ete the new City Hall 10 will be 420 feet high
and Augustus LAYER tho architect. declares that IL
will greatly improve the general ecct Of tho structure
Much work is being done the City Hall, and 10 VIII
soon lose tho appearance Of Q mediaevd ruin WHOM
II has borne for ten years.
CAPTAIN Jerome b. Cox Is not satisfied with the
verdict Of the Supreme Court In his twenty years
litigation with Mclaughlin. The Supreme Court only
gave him an interest from three years ago, whereas
he claims interest for generation.
Millionaire Lucky Baldwin was arrested this week
for battery upon George B. Coulter, mining capital
IA, BALDWIN had some words with Coulter, owing to
the mining mans attentions to some OF the married
women In his hotel whom the old millionaire ended the
discussion By knocking Coulter out. Seine OF tho
witnesses in tho case are Morris Tallman aud WHO
and Frank Carlyle, the actor, now In New-iork
Exorbitant prices charged in Southern Call
furnla for railroad and pine humber induced
the shlppng OF lumber from the East, by
rail Texas syndicate is now dotng large business IN
southern yellow pine lumber which IL sels Ior less
~ seu &c hourb The lumber dealers OF California had
killed the goose that laid the golden egg
Those who have located on umbcrands in oreron
propose TO tost the validity OF ek-ComnsssoheI
sparkss In refusing patents to those VINO hse
claims approved and who have paia T,ons n. tn,,sd
States Circuit Court al Portland tho dockct win ca 1
crowded with similar suits As hundreds OF bona mug
locsters uniust deprived OF patents ~ Cali H.
fornia and with the failure OF the Government 70 su
vey the public lands II is doing much to retaro 'ho
settlement Of the States