The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1891-07-23
OUR SAN FRANCISCO LETTER.
Per S. s. Australia, San Francisco,
July Ii, 1891.
(From our special correspondent.)
(Concluded.1
InferOceanic Canal.

declared that he courts inquiry, but he
will probably get more than he or his
colleagues may desire. The soundest
financial organ in France, Economists
Franchise, has denounced the Panama
affair as "the greatest financial scandal
of the nineteenth century," and demands
the trial of the persons responsible for
the absorption of 1,300,0O0,0O0 francs
snatched from the savings of small capt.
talists. many of whom have been ruined
and numbers of whom are dead through
despair. The paper declares that the
series of agreements" on the faith of
which shares of the capital stock were
issued, were fictitious, and that many
millions were squandered in bribing the
French press to seduce by fal!aclous
statements small capitalists to invest,
while millions more were appropriated
by members of the Council of Admins
tration.
81. B. Glaven, whose company, the
American Dredging Company, did most
of the real work on the Panama ditch
will probably be made chief of the con-
struction company now building the
Nicaragua Canal
The New York Recorder has the fol-
lowing to say of Warner Miller's return
to New York: "The Hon. Warner Mil
Ter returned yesterday from his months
tour to California To reporter of the
Recorder who called upon him he said
that there is a wonderful interest in the
success of the Nicaragua Canal among
the business men OF the Golden State,
hen bod Low
sums in aid of its construction. The
same condition of affairs Mr.. Miller
continued, Il found in Chicago. Men
there appreciate the impulse that the
opening of the canal will give to the
are anxious to do all in their power to
accelerate its completion
Frank P. Davis, Division Engineer of
the Canal Company, has filed his report
covering work done up to November 8,
1890. 1t is most sanguine document.
a Remarkable Phenomenon.
Scientific men, the Southern Pacific
Railroad Company and the public gen.
orally are very much puzzled over a
phenomenon existing on the Colorado
desert. In the latter part of June it was
noticed that the waters of the lake at
Salton were steadily rising, notwith-
standing there had been no floods or
cloudbursts. Since that time the water
has continued to advance at rapid rate
and all efforts to learn the source of the
rise have proved fruitless. 1t was first
supposed that it was from the Colorado,
but it is not, and now the only reason
able theory is that the water comes from
ho Gr,lf Of Go1ifornio ond hof io oop.
verting the desert into an arm of the
Gulf. This is a reasonable supposition,
as the desert is 26O feet below sea level
at the lowest point, and has undoubtedly
in ages past been part of the Gulf. Ex-
petitions have been sent out to solve the
mystery if possible, and reports are ex-
pected daily. At latest accounts the
lake covered nearly 500 square miles and
was rising at the same rate, about two
inches in twenty-four hours. Should the
waters continue to advance if they come
from the Gulf, the railroad company will
have to change their line of road for
some distance.
San Francisco News.
Nelson A. Bradt has just completed a
journey across the continent on a
bicycle, going from New York to San
Francisco in eighty-six days. His actual
travelling time was sixty two days.
J. j. Auberton, the owner of the Lon
don Graphic is here on pleasure trip.
W. IL. Taylor won the Coast tennis
cham pionship at San Rafael on the 4th.
The Examiner has published a page
illustrated article describing new cave
in the Siskiyou mountains just across
the Oregon line. The cave is forty-five
miles from the railway, and from the
description rivals Mammoth Cave oi
Kentucky.
The farmers of Hanford are thinking Of
establishing mule freighting line to
! excessive rates charged by the railroad
company.
The olive growers of the state held
| their annual convention on the 9Th
Many papers were read.
! Peter Schneck, an ex-Soldier, was ar.
rested in Chinatown on the 9th for q
last year. He confesses the deed.
Destructive brush fires prevailed in
Marin county on Mount Tamalpais early
In the month. At one time the San Rafael
water works were threatened. The tota
| damage was small.
! Col. T. G. Marceau of the Governors
staff was married July 9th to the widow
| of John d. Fiske, the noted Fresno
| Spectator, who was shot and killed last
year.
P. N. Lilienthal has been made man.
ager of the AngIo-California bank, vice
Ex-Governor f. f. Low, resigned.
Mrs. MI. O'Connor, wealthy San
Rafael widow, was robbed of a package
of diamonds and jewelry in broad day.
light on the 9Th. The theft was commit
| ted so adroitly that she does not know
how it was done.
The Chinese are making legal fight
to be admitted to the City and County
Hospital.
| American News.
| A dispatch from Baltimore says that
the chesapeake and Ohio railroad com
pany has closed a contract with Fur.
Miss, the big steamship owner of Eng.
land, for three regular lines of steamers
from Newport News, Va, to Liverpool,
London and Glasgow, and for occasional
steamers to Havre and Antwerp. They
are to carry the products of the south
and west, and there will be ten steam.
ers month. 1t is believed that the es.
adjustment of this line will lead to that
OF others from southern ports.
| A Canadian company has been formed