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be lost in shipping to the San Francisco
market before prices fell, as the Inevitable
result of the triumph of supply over demand.
Among those whom THE CALI. reporter
met on his river trip was ex-Mayor Eugene
Gregory of Sacramento, who is engaged in
handling the bulk of fruit and agricultural
produce in the Capital City. Said he: 81
never remember to have seen such potato
crop. 1t is in no sense true that the giut re.
suits from heavy or exorbitant freight rates.
SO far is this from being true that hundreds
OF carloads OF potatoes from the Sacramento
Valley have been shipped East to points
never touched before. In that way it has
been good and cheap advertisement for
California. 1t is not true, either, that the
potatoes shipped to San Francisco have
been OF inferior quality. Some small part
OF the crop has been shipped in hurry
the fields; but the simple truth is that we
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-08-01

The Chinese swarm all through the DO
tato and fruit district of the Lower Sacra-
mento. There is an encampment or vii
lage Of the Mongo.ians every hundred yards
or so all the way down.
The explanation is simple. The fertility
OF the soil insureS a certain return for la
Dor expended. The Chinese boss does not
mind the labor if the dollars foot up all
right He contracts with white boss to
cultivate a given acreage on shares. The
white boss lives like lord. He tolls not,
neither does he spin. Occasionally he gets
sharp spell of chiis and fever, but that is
all. For the rest, life on potato or fruit
ranch on the Sacramento River is much such
life as conquered Hannibal and his merrie
men In Capua, after they had defed the
roman legions for fifteen long years.
FACTS AND FIGURES.
=, Lest It should be suggested that the sta
tistics of these districts do not bear out this
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pleasing dream of lotos-eating incidence,
the case of Randall Island may be cited A
few years ago this island, which is in plai
sight CT the steamer deck, was bought for
The land is cultivated in every way, and
yields crops with equal kindness. 1t will
grow anything, and enthusiasts say that if a
haudspike is struck in the soil an iron foun-
dry will shoot up on the spot within three
months.
The Pearson District is, however, the
garden of the Lower Sacramento. 1t CON-
sists OF 5000 acres of land in high cutiva-
ton. and is chiefly held by the German
Savings B INK of this city. The land when
first acquired was worth $50 an acre, now it
is worth $500.
THE LOWER POTATO BELT.
All the way down to Collinsville the same
fertile belt continues. A considerable por-
ton is rented out at the rate of about SO pei
acre per annuE, and it is easy TO under
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SCOFFED AT A VETERAN.
How a Grand Army Man and Pensioner
Resented an Insult.

At an early hour yesterday morning John
Fitzgerald Of 762 Brannan street entered
John ID. Lqster's saloon at the corner of
Gilbert and Brannan streets.
You think you're wonderful man, don't
yOu?" remarked Fitzgerald, as he gIared at
tue G. A. r. badge on the saloon keepers
breast You Grand Army men make me
very weary"
as that SOP" asked Luster. It'll tell you
right now that I'm drawing a pension for
gallant services rendered my country"
If you are getting a pension that amounts
to nothing, for three-quarters of the men
on the pension list never smelled the smoke
Of battle"
"Pll soon convince you that l do know
now 10 fight" Toared Luster This is how
used musket in the war;" and with this
sally he raised a cane and belabOred FitZ-
gerald on the head. AS the scoffer of vet
Grams went to the floor Luster poked the
cane in his right eye. Fitzgerald limped to
the old City Hall later in the day and
swore to a complaint charging Luster with
an assault with deadly weapon.
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corner of Waverly place and Clay street
with 100 unstamped cigars and two fiYe-,ael
G cans OF unstamped opium in his possession.
Ihe cigars and opium were confiscated and
new was given over to the United States
Marshal. AT S091s Clay street Lee Duck
was found in the unlawful possession Of
nine fve-tael cans of opium Which had been
rented without restamping. Both man and
drug were taken care Of by the Government.
Al S34 Washington street raid developed
a box OF cigars, one of opium and two of
elsarettes-au unstamped. They were
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-08-01
The Hebrew Faith.

The University of Koenigsberg has chosen
rector of the Jewish faith for the first
time since its existence. which dates back
$50 years. The new rector is DR.. Ludimas
Hermann.
How long, asks the Jewish Progress, are
these barbarities in Russia going to last?
The blush of shame must mount to the
cheek OF every civilized human being in coIl-
templating the recent horror committed in
the small farming settlement of Viele by
Russian demons calling themselves men.
Can civilization offer no relief? Must the
murderous work continue without one blow
for the rights Of man?
Another new Hebrew colony will soon be
started in Southern New Jersey. 1t is en-
tirely Independent Of those proposed by the
committee controlling the Baron de Hirsch
fund. Inc 1ncorpOratOrS have secured a
tract OF 300 acres, through part of which
the Philadelphia and Cape Nav Railroad
runs. Here will be formed a town, which is to
contain q population of $500. In this town
1t is proposed to start five factories, for the
manufacture of cigars, hats, shirts and cloth
ing and brick-yard, there being 175 acres
Of clay near at hand owned by the company.
The rest of the land will be divided into
small farms, none of which is to contain
more than fifteen acres. comfortable
house will be built on each farm. These
farms Will be given TO the best Of Russian
refugees. None but large families will be
allowed to have farms. The small families
VIII be obliged to work in the factories in
the town.
sketch of Baron de Hirsch in current
London newspaper represents him as very
guarded in conversation, indisposed to
promiscnouS charities. careful and exact in
his dealings. aud in no sense given to ex-
travagance. He transacts business on thor
duSl business rules and tolerates no de-
pariure from these with any, His beneyo-
lenceS are entirely distinct from his business
dealings; lie exacts his dues and his dona-
lions are free benefces. His wealth is
varlously estimated at from $40, O00, 900 to
S1OO O0O,0 600, much of which he inherited
and to which he has added the enormous
net profits of years of mastery financial
management. He is believed to possess the
largest individual fortune in all Europe.
Baron de Hirsch is of Austrian nativity, and
still maintains his principal interests in the
great enterprises from which his colossal
wealth is derived
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stand how the certainty of crop and the
cheap rental has tempted increased cultiva-
ton and hence produced gut in the potato
market and possibly also in the fruit mar
ket For it may safely be said that from
the suburbs of Sacramento to the base of
Mount Dia6lO and the head of Suisun Bay
there IS enough fertile soil to supply the en-
trety of the United States and the half of
Europe with fruit and potatoes if only their
produce could be put on tie market in time
Truth is stranger than fiction and the tray
eler who leaves the steamer at Benicia, after
enjoying the beauties of Suisun Bay sun
set, will be very apt to exclaim that the
The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-08-01

Judge LAWYER has granted Margaret ].
Gates a divorce from Roscoe f. Gates, be-
cause of his failure to provide. They were
married In Millville. .Shasta County, No
vember 26. 1873.
c. c. Westenham has filed cross COM
plant in his wife's action for divorce, de-
nying her charge of infdelity, but accusing
her Of this crime
Complaints for divorce have been filed by
Dencio Oyster against Edward Oyster,
Sarah Z. Miller against Charles III. Miller,
jory.
Elizabeth Beggs has been granted d.
vorce from her husband, Samuel, on ac-
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divided into three belts; the first twenty
miles cultivated for hops and alfalfa, the
second for fruit, the third for potatoes and
root crops. Quite apart from the edifcation
to be derived by persons interested in agr-
culture, the artist and lover of nature will
find few trips equal to that afforded by The
Sacramento River steamers between the
State capital and Benicia. 1t is cheap
trip, too, and there is no element of sea-sick-
ness to act rs Marplot in the play. Per-
haps for one, two or three hours the steamer
Is delayed for cargo on the wharf at the
foot OF X street. Even here the observant
mind can find food in watching the carp
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Poundmen Fined.

Ferdinand LIE Brun. one of the poundmen
employed by the Society for the Prevention
OF Cruelty to Animals. was fined $50 by
Judge Morley yesterday for committing q
battery upon John McFadden. Fred Mass,
who assisted in the assault, was fined $50.
About month ago they assaulted McFad-
den because he objected to the removal Of
some Of his goats.
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Objects to the Horse Do.to,.

Hugh McCrum has filed a complaint for
$1,000 damages against E. j. Greedy, vet
Urinary surgeon, who keeps hospital for
the treatment of diseased animals next
door to the plaintiffs residence on Golden
Gate avenue, near Polk street. McCrum
also asks the court to enjoin Greedy from
nlaine nf
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Filtered From the Register

A warrant was issued yesterday for the
arrest Of Christian A. Gintner of Winter
lane on three charges Of petty larceny. 1t is
alleged that while employed rs bartender
by X. ID. Schroeder Of 30 Eddy street he
stole various small sums of money from the
cash register.
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Eastern fruit and grain and root-crop grow
ers, who pay heavy tribute to the fertilizer
men, will emigrate 10 California in as big
body as the adventures who came around
the Horn, braved the isthmus and endured
the Nicaragua transit from 1919 to 1858.
Every yard of soil in the Sacramento Val
ley. between the State capital and the head
of Suisun Bay, is richly and exceptionally
fertile. A trip on a Sacramento River
steamer is an ordeal of its kind in warm
weather, but it is the awakening from
bad dream. If all else should fail Califor-
MIA could gather salvation from the lower
Sacramento Valley. The recent potato
glut is only the minor conclusion of the
major proposition. 1t is of record. and can
be proved, that one resident Melted $1,000
profit in the Pearson District as the result
of two years labor on twenty fye-acre
holding. He struck q streak of luck, per-
haps, in a fine crop Of pears, which were
short elsewhere; but the figures can be mad,
and moreover the producer had to share
with several copartners.
THE POTATO GLUT
As to the cause Of the recent potato glut
1t could not be hard to find to man who
should go Though this river valley at the
present season. The land is always equal
to producing two crops a year, and potatoes
had been unduly high priced in San Fran
cisco for the past summer, fall and winter.
Hence, in the very early spring of the pres
ent year, every one took to raising potatoes
along the lower Sacramento, in the outlets
OF the San joaquin and on the many rich
island morasses. Potatoes were planted on
the roofs Of log shanties, in the gangways
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of riverside hulks and wherever the tubers
could be assumed to get a chance to find
holding ground in moist, kindly earth.
Concurrently with this WIDESPREAD in
vestment came an exceptionally mild spring
and all the conditions that could conduce to
big rotate crop, on an ordinary or even
barren soil In the general way the plant
ing and harvesting of crops in the Sacra-
mento and San Joaquin valleys is repre-
scented by the following table:
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Maturing.

In other words all the ordinary crops ripen
early.
The potato crop not only ripened early,
but few trials convinced the riverside
producers that if every ranch on the river
was going to bear like theirs no time should
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Seiznres I'm Chinntnwn

The CuStom-house authorities made three
seizures yesterday In Chinatown of un-
stamped cigars and cigarettes and of SUI ug-
gled opium. Jee Yew was caught on the
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fishermen handling their lines and pulling in
three or four Founders about every quarter
Of an hour. Then when the boat starts at
ances at the cabin table and the captain is
sure to be full Of riverside yarns which, if
occasionally prosy, are at all events descrip-
tive, appropriate and veracous. 1t is sute
to be very hot for the first twenty or thirty
miles and the sun-struck potatoes cease to
be mystery.
CLARKSBURG TO CoLLINsvILLE.
Wicked travellers have declared that the
principal products of Clarksburg the first
important landing) are lightning whisky and
ehillS and fever. The strongly marked fea-
lures of tine men at the steamer landing seem
to betoken a survival of the fittest, and it
has been cruelty alleged that there are seven
widows to every adult male in the district.
Prohihitionists elevate their hands and
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Catholic News.


In Japan ten Catholics represent large
Christian districts In the native Parlia-
ment.
The Sisters of Mercy have established a
convent at Kingston, Jamaica. for the edu-
cation Of the negroes of that island.
Father Grieta, a missionary priest in H.
dia, has discovered a remedy, successfully
tested in Calcutta, for that scourge, the
cholera. which has threatened to desOlate
the world so often.
1t is said that the mother of Olive
Schreiner, the wellknoWn South African
writer, has become Catholic, and is now
living III convent at Grahamstown, South
Africa
The work of digging the foundation for
the Centennial Arch on the site of the old
Mission Hill, Santa Cruz was begun last
week. The cornerstone will be laid BIZ
Mayor Bowman on the 18th Of August A
payment OF $1,000 on the arch must be made
very soon and the committee hopes that
subscribers will come for ward at once with
the sums they have promised.
A body of 5000 Flemings, who have been
holding Congress at Bree, have addressed to
his Holiness a telegraphie dispatch than king
him for the luminous instruction contained
in the Encyclical and an address has been
received by his Holiness from the Society of
Mutual Assistance and the Corporation of
Arts and Trades at Perugia, thanking him
lOI HIS lldSlcIly tIcdLuicuJ Oh subject so
complicated.
Archbishop Janssens of New Orleans re-
Gently addressed at the Convent of the Holy
Family, in that city. large assembIage of
col0red people, who, in answer to an invita-
tion issued by the sisters. had willingly re-
sponded. The OBJECT of the meeting was to
raise funds to build home for colore d
girls where they would be taught trades.
The discourse of the Archbishop prove d
highly satisfactory to those present and a
committee was appointed to formulate pla rs
TO raise the necessary funds-about $40, 600.
The Indians of the Indian agency at Fort
Beuthold have addressed an earnest petition
to the Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions
at Washington, requesting the bureau to
send them Catholic teachers for their chill
dren. There are 103 signers to the petition
and they state that they are all Catholics,
many of them having been baptized by
Father de Smet thirty years ago.
On recent Sunday the Right Rev. DR..
Brennan, Bishop OF Dallas. Tex, made his
first visit TO TeXarkana and received grand
welcome. He heard tho confessions of a
number of Poles, Italians, Germans and
Spaniards in their own tongues. One hun
dred and fifty persons received first CON-
munion and forty persons were confirmed.
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PACIFIC COAST STEAMSHIP co
FOR PORTLAND & ASTORIA, OREGON.

THE UNION PACIFIC RAILWAY s-~r
L Ocean Diyison-and PACIFIC COAST .1stCEsp
STEAMSHIP COMPANY will dispatch from Spear
street Wharf, at 10 NJ, for the above ports one u
their Al iron steamships VIZ:
STATE OF CALIFORSIA-May 81, June H. 81.
July .. is. 80, August Il, 80
COLuMBIA-May 81. June L. Is, 49, July TO- %,
August g. 10. II.
0REGCN-May %. june s. 90.
Conn ectinC via Portland with tue Northern Pacii3
Railroad, Oregon Short Line and other divergI1y
nhes for all points in Oregon, Washington, British
Columbia, Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Dakota Utah.
wyoming, Yellowstone Park, anu all points East and
Fare to PortlandFCablu. sls; steerags. 50; round
IMP. cabin, $50
Ticket offces-l Montgomery 81 and Palace Ho-
ftl, New Montgomery 81,
GooDALL. PERKINS g Co. Supt- Ocean Line
LIST 10 Market San Franc1n1
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BOARD OF NEW CITY HALL COMMISSIONERS
PROPOSALS FOR METALLIC FILES.

CEALED PROPOSALS FOR THE FOLLOWING
~ work ana materials Will be received by the Board
OF New City Ian Commissioners, in the chamber of
the Board Of Supervisors, WEDNESDAY the
18th day OF August, 1891, between the hours OF II
A. NJ and IL NJ. OF that day:
For the furnishing and placing Of metallic docu-
mcnt file boxes in the fittings made therefor IN the
County Clerks new office, in the northwest wing of
the New City Hall, to the amount of 1900, or
Whereabouts Proposals to be accompanied by SAM
pies of the file boxes bid upon, and the to be
completed on or before the 31st day OF December
1891.
Dimensions OF files to be obtained In the ONCE of
the architect.
In awarding this contract the question of quality
and durability of the files bid upon, in connections
with the price, Will be considered.
The secretary Will furnish blank forms of propos-
ais and bonds TO intending bidders No bid Will be
me bids must be accompanied with certified
check. or with bond with two more good and
suihcent sureties, in the sum of per OF the
total sum OF tender to guarantee the closing of the
contract when awarded. The name of the bonds
men. when bond is given, must be admitted the
commissioners az least three days before the open
ing OF the bids, In order that they may pass upon
their competency he board reserves the r!ght to
reject any and all bids. Payments Will be maze by
audlted demands upon the treasury drawn against
the New City Hall Fund
Bidders must strictly comply with the proposals
with reference to bondsmen Should they have
them instead OF checEs).
GEORGE II. sANDERsoN,
THOMAS y. L. SMILEY,
JOHN II. BURST,
Board Of New City Hall Commissioners.
EDWARD ]. WOLFE, Secretary.
San Francisco. july Z. 1891. iyi 30f
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Fresno County proposes to raise $4,000
for county exhibit at the Worlds Fair
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Weak Men and Women

CHoULD USE DAIIANA BITTERS. THE
y Great Mexican Remedy; gives Health and
Strength TO the Sexual Organs mol cod U
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SAN FRANCISCO AND N, p. LWal

5No. w. COLEMAN, +. b. LATHAM
General Manager Gen. Pass. & rkt. Ayk
General Offices, 81 Sansone street.
The critic., 1891-01-06

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The critic., 1891-01-06
WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH COR.
MANI

Our esteemed contemporary, the Hon.
GEoNER CLEVELAND, must not make the
mistake Of supposing that the noisy but
feeble boom of the Hon. u, II. HILL is the
only one which he must account for I'm
the equation of 1892. Unless all the indi-
cations are deceptive, his claims are likely
TO be contested by far more formidable
aspirnnt--we allude to the Hon ARTHUR
+. GoRMAN of Maryland
Mr.. GoRNAS is not the sor, Of man who
posts n notice Of his plans and sends his
boom around for public inspection with
brass band and a poet-laurcatc. The sug-
gcstion that he has his eyes fixed ON the
Democratic nomination Of next year may,
therefore come to many in the nature of
surprise. But Mr.. GoRNAN is u par
ticularly astutc person who does not
make practice Of taking the public into
his confidence; so there is nothing in the
fact that his boom has exhibited the
bashfulncss of the violet rather than the
ust.ntation Of the sunilower.
A little reflection, however will bring
out many significant points. Consider,
for example, the extraordinary activity
N7tiuNbi ''VhhNN iltAN NtNNl'ltAl Nlilllli Nh'
past year. Consider, also, his sudden aud
uncXIectcd prominence in the Senate.
The opportunity that came to him in the
contest over the Elections bill has been
improved with brilliant ability. lie stands
10 day the recognized leader of the Demo-
cratic party in the Senate, If not in Con-
gress as whole. AT one bound he has
come to the front, taking precedence of
the old and tried veterans, and there are
none who deny his leadership. He has
displayed qualities hitherto unsuspectcd
lie has disclosed astonishing reserves Of
skill, of wisdom and of courage. lie has
even added to his display of adroitncss
and Of tact the charm of oratory and the
power Of craftsmanship.
Unconsidered, two years ago, save as a
practical politician and an election hustler,
Mr. GoRMAY is at this moment the ac-
ccItcd chief Of his party in all its national
aspects, its pillar of strength in the hour
of trial, its brains and its nerve. Further
more. he is the idol of the workers. His
sudden cminence in the higher rcllms of
y l!tiCs is not understood to mean that he
has abandoned any of the methods and
rtnNicuOns which cndcar the leader To his
followers. lie still believes in rewarding
work, and holds that the Offices should go
TO those who do the most effective voting.
In all practical respects he is the same
GOEMAH who organized the CLEVELAND
cmIaign in 1884. As the party candidate
next year he would bring out the widest
enthusiasm Of every professional in every
corner of the country. Tammany would
hump itself for him as it has never
bumped before, and the workers to n
man, from Castle Garden to San Francisco
and from the Penobscot to the Rio
Grando, would spit upon their hands, take
hold aud strain together.
Make no mistake, gentlemen; the Cor
MAN boom is ON. 1t is to the HILL boom
as circus tent to toadstool, And what :
the matter with GoRMAN anyhow? Isn't
he all right?