New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-07-21
FROM THE GOLDEN STATE
BRITISH COMMERCIAL RIvALRY-A HIGH
BINDER WAR-GOLD.
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San Francisco, July 2O-Ncxt week the San
Francisco Chamber of Commerce will consider
an appeal of Captain Merry for conference
of the business men OF the whole Coast TO devise
means to guard against a British invasion of
American commerce The plans of the British
Government to concentrate maritime commerce
at the terminus of the Canadian Pacific Railway
have excited apprehension here as well as tho
scheme for putting fast mail line from Van|
couver to Yokohama and Hong Kong and the
proposed cable from Victoria to Honolulu and
Australia Leading merchants and shipping men
here see the importance of continuing American
mail lines to Australia and China, of an ocean
cable to Australia, and OF coast defence and new
navy The plan is to have the California delega-
ton in Congress meet the principal merchanu
and learn all the facts in the case in order To
make strong presentation OF the needs OF tha
Coast at the next session. Another year OF Cow
eminent neglect and the British will have such
a strong grip on the Coast commerce that 1T
can't be shaken.
The Board of Education has accepted the lease
of the Cogswell Polytechnic College for three
years, and will carry it on as a manual training
school, Dr. Cogswells deed of trust declares
that the school will be made there as soon as
its revenues justify it, but under the present.
arrangement it will require $4,000 from the
school funds to obtain il. As the School Depart
ment can't pay its teachers promptly now ono
wisdom of adding this new burden is questioned.
The police are in constant expectation OF a
bloody warfare between rival highlander societies
growing out of the recent murders. These feuds
have smouldered here for some time, but withi1
two weeks four murders have been committed
and scarcely night passes without an attempted
assassination Seven electric lights on masts
were placed in thu worst alleys of Chinatown this
week The Chinese denizens burned punk and
incense to ward off the evil influence OF wnat
they call The Devil Light"
Seven years ago John s. Gray, secretary OF the
State Harbor Commission, was discovered TO %
q dcfaulter for s6OO lie escaped TO Mexico,
but was caught, convicted and sent TO State Prison
for ten wears He was pardoned when he had served
less than his term on the ground that he was
diving. and he left here for Australia. His bonds
men refused to pay his shortage and were sued
The case has been fought mainly on technlcailuet
and with damages and interest the amount now Il
ssO 600. The special counsel for the State now
declares that he will press the suits, even II
he gets no aid from the Attorney-General
After nearly four years of immigration
commissioner
nav over $4,000 of Chinese head'
money which he had collected as fees and claimed
as his perquisites. His bondsmen were sueo anu
Judgment obtained against them
The DAILY company has scored great success
bere This week the Baldwin being crowded every
night to witness Railroad of Love- -, The sale
for next week indicates an equal rush. ne oinsr
bonses are given up to melodrama ana variety
shows. so that the fine acting Of the New-1orN
players is brought into greater relief
The latest theory of the cause of the wreck
Of the steamer Granada is that powerful ocean
currents created by the great storm drove nea
of il he was out of his course, and the struck
on the rocks. Captain Saemmond, OF the HAWAIIAN
steamer Costa Rica, reports that IN the same
storm his vessel was driven IN shore fourteen "iies
in a twenty four-hour run.
This week William T. Coleman sold his large
mining interests in Shasta County to wealthy
English syndicate for $4,000, 900. The properly
Nara II Is understood that the new company
will put in costly plant and carry Oh the "orA IN
extensive style
There is a genuine mining boom In Ld
Angeles county, as rlch ore hdS 49,
discovered in San Gabriel Canon Several Ioca-
lions that promise enormous yields have been made
on the Moave and Colorado deserts Near Dag
gett. in Sa1 Bernardino County. gtld mas peeh
found in tellIrium that assays sl2,00o tpni
Wherever gold has been found in tellurium ths
yield always has been large.
Tie owners of bearing orange groves in Southern
California have reaped bonanza this season, aS
the price Of the fruit has been high ana reany
market secured both here and at the East. ono
widow in Riverside, who has twenty-acre grove
in full bearing, sold her crop for slo,Ooo, ana
several Others have done as well, although fair
net average yield is 500 an acre.
Eighty-six carloads of fruit left Sacramento in
four DAYS this week for the Eastern cities. The
trains go through nearly on passenger time. In
one of these fruit trains a car lifted up as
large tank and full OF water in which were ?
number of young sea lions from Santa Barbara
bound for Chicago.
BAD NIGHT FOR ROGUES IN TITUSVILLE.