New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-04-14
.rHT TALK OF CALIFORNIA.
!. MIND BOSS BUCKLEY SUGAR TRUST
FISHERY CONCESSIONS.
,.r Tr,.rcn.rn TO the TRIBUNE,

FISHERY CONCESSIONS
reY TELEGRAPH TO THE rEpUSE.i
Can Francisco, April lathe political dulness
:. .his season was enlivened this week by the
s..o.k Of ex-State Senator jeremiah Lynch upon
~. democratic Boss Buckley of which an out
,,rs WAS sent TO The Tribune on Wednesday. This
..smnblet. which was reproduced in full in " The
rh,oniclen created great sensation among the
,..al noliticians. The leading Democratic news
.sss,s nrnted extracts from it, and then ip edi-
t..,.,s ATTEMPTED to show that Lynch's animus
$50 from the fact TINT Buckley defeated him
e., the United States Congress. The truth is
Ia, Buekley offered the Congressional seat TO
r. ,sb for $4,000, but Lynch, although he has
,ienty of money, refused 70 put himself in the
power of the Boss
T,vnehs exposure of Buckley will do good, as it
i, ada to the agitation that is being made against
che blind Boss's control of San Fran
siseo and State politics. In the 'ast
legislature Buckley had scores Of his henchmen
amounted to secretaryships and other offices, and
he increased the expenses OF the state government
t.or, 10 100000 to s2,5oo.o00 year. He is the
rival of Tweed in his rapact*y His control Of the
chief criminal courts here is notorious and it is i'm
,,ossshle 70 secure the conviction of any one who
has his backing
An this week efforts have been made in the
oo,,ts here 10 ret at the secret Of the formation
~ the Sugar Trust but without any result. Au
the refneries here except Specialists prompts
;o,rsd she trust when Secretary Searles was out
here. last year State law was passed pro-
hibiting the trust, and this inquiry is made to
SECURE the facts on which the Sugar Trust so far
as il applies to California refineries, may be abol
ished. The witnesses who have been
4. fIa..~@ all 4ro.. al pr,ifL
erous memories, and profeSsed TO be able to re-
can no material facts. Even the existence of the
trust, and the terms upon which the American Re-
fnery Joined the unholy compact" could not be
legally established, The inquiry goes on next
week. but with such perjury as has been seen, it
will result in nothing.
The entries for the spring meeting Of the Pacific
Blood horse Association, which begins next Satur
day, show that the meeting will be entirely sue
cessful Mr.. Baldwin, who has taken no part in
these races for three years, has entered good
string: but the chief interest centres in the
Australian thoroughbreds imported by Mr.. New
ton. They three-year-olds and will have an
opportunity to show what they can do against
California stock
Many women prominent in society here recently
invited Mrs. G. D., Adsit of Chicago, to deliver
course of lectures art in this city. The
course proved financial failure, because Of re-
ports that came from New-York and Chicago in
regard to the lecturers transactions in the sale
of etchings and engravings. She asserted that
she was agent for Frederick Keppel g. Co, Of
New-York, but they repudiated her, in answer
TO o dispatch. A prominent Chicago art dealer
also gave damaging testimony against her. Mrs,
Adsit appears unconcerned over this exposure,
and says she came out here mainly TO investigate
land frauds for New-York paper.
John F. Swift, the new Minister to Japan,
win leave here for his post on April %.
dinner win be given to him by his friends before
his departure.
The tourist travel this winter and spring has
been good, and IL is expected that larger number
of people will enter the Yosemite Valley than ever
before A leading excursion agent estimates that
he has brought 1000 tourists to California this
winter. and that he will take 1000 into the
Yosemite.
Albert. the ex-champion pedestrian, is expected
here the last OF next week. to enter q big walking
match He win contend with Hart for the cham
pionship. = z,sa1 - So, = 90
9 sanchez Facio, the Mexican Governme nj expert
who recently exposed the frauds OF the Inter
national Company at Ensenada, and Showed that
their concessions should be revoked, declares that
the transfer OF valuable fishery concessions for the
west coast OF California TO Salorrio Brothers is
merely a scheme of English stockholders of the
International Company to Rcuro such control OF
the fishing privileges that they may exclude all
Americans Salorrio, he says is an employe OF
the International Company, and is mere dummy.
Unless some protest is made by Secretary Blaine,
Facio says this fishing privilege will pass into the
hands of the English syndicate, which Is growing
more arbitrary as its power increases.
Nothing more disgraceful has been seen in a long
time than the quarrel over the consrol Of Mrs Ben
W n - o-AIo md I'm Rnnh
wonan's nearest relatives declare that she was
wholly under the influence OF General Rufus In
gals who was made guardian OF her two ohihren
Joseph Holiday, executor Of his brothers estate,
has the children locked up, and refuses TO allow
Ingalls, to see them. Joe phi, a well as the mother
and sisters of Mrs. Holiday, assert that ingalls,
used her money to pay his own debts, and Co
creed her into appointing him guardian. General
Ingalls, win contest the matter In the courts and
thus add 70 the costly litigation which has nearly
wrecked the Holiday estate.