New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-03-27
TOPICS IN CALIFORNIA.
BEHRING SEA CONTROVERSY-SIIEE
ERS AGAINST FORESTRY EXPERTS.
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San Francisco. March 26-The Behring Sea
controversy has excited almost as deep interest
here this week the Gillian dispute did in the
last days before the American ultmatum. The
merits of the sealing question are well known
here, as the San Francisco newspapers have printed
scores of columns of descriptive matter. written
by experts who have visited the Prbylov ISLANDS,
and illustrated with maps and cuts that show
the devastation in the rookeries made by the sea
poachers. What chiefly irrtates the Caliiornlans
Is the Dragging of the Canadian poachers who
continue to declare that our Government VIII
never dare to interfere with them so long as they
fly the British flag. The Presidents letter TO
Lord Salisbury was read here with as great sat
isfaction as his famous CHILEAN utimatum.
Old Harvard men and others interested in edu-
cation have given warm reception to PRESIDENT
Eliot He has gone through round of break
fasts dinners and receptions that would nave en-
hausted many young men. On Charter DAY a'
the State University, President Eliot Delivered al
elaborate address showing the advantages o! 'ie
new education which was introduced at Harvard
and which has now made It's way lhto moS' Vi
the colleges in the country What the speaker
said about the governing power OF the COZ
lege being vested in the graduates called
forth much applause His speech Will do aoo'
~ IL stimulates the movement TO Insist upon the
selection of a young and efficient president lor
the State University which has Just celeora'ea
its twenty-third birthday.
Ex-Governor Newton Booth, OF California, is
slowly dying at HE home in Sacramento, OF IN"
same disease which endea the life of General
Grant Cancer is eating away his tongue ana
throat, and for weeks the sufferer has conmuui-
Gated with friends only by means Of typewriter.
lie recently consulted specialists in New-lork. but
decided that death was preferable TO the terrible
operation that they held was necessary.
The street railway franchise of w. B. Wiltshire
now pending before the supervisors is the most en-
tensye ever proposed here. 1t embraces twenty
three miles, and includes two complete lines run
ming from water front t. ocean beach. One will
90 out Broadway and the other out Sl\tCentl-st
10 Ocean The main cross town line Will run
on FllmOre-st.
A singular protest is made by the owners
of cattle and sheep in Fresno County, against
the reservation Sequoia Natural Park in that
county. These people hell convention
in Fresno and took down the sworn evidence
OF sheepherClers which fatty cOntradicts in
MANY respects the conclusions OF the forestry
experts These experts have demonstrated that
denuding the mountains of forest will lessen the
water in the streams the snow will melt quicker
in the spring. The shcepherders present mass
of evidence from personal observation that snow
mets first in the woods in the Sierra Nevada
Mountains. and fingers longest in the country
where there are trees. They also declare that
the great bulk of the snow which remains after
June lies in the mountain canons lar ABOVE inc
timber line in places where even sheep dOh 80
because there is no grass. They claim that the
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ness in Fresno County, which is worth $1,000
600 YEARLY As the evidence which has been lof-
warded to Washington is very specihc' IL VIII
rrobablv receive some attention, though IL ought
NOT 70 check the movement for the preservation
~ the big trees Unless this region DE reserved
nv the Government another ten years VIII see
ito beauty gone, for the lumbermen and sheeP-
berders will effectually ruin It,
The old Congregational church at the
southwest corner of California ana dupont
sts the first brick edihcc onh' ~
Son Francisco. is now being remoueileu
into cheap flats For years it was the nn nes.
church building in the city, ana ior mndc,Sv Of
it was used as headquarters iT hos s,e vacant
Scences For two years II has Deeh vacant
large and elaborate piece of sculpture Wa ,hs
nlaced this week the main en!rahce VI w VI
new German Bank building on oanlorhia ,,S ,o,r
Is paneI twelve and one-half feet long ana ioo os
nnS Pone.half wide representing two O9pids an ~
money changers The sculptor is RTPfrS az
- ;s Of granite and white marble.
Chief Miguel Of the Yuma Indians Is IN 'o w.ho
Ire cane here 10 look after three OF MS trIoe, W.
We're sent 10 San Quentin prison for HE ior Mliius
a medicine man. Miguel SAYS his people PIE now now
~ovar had help from the Government, Dut nov
tbev want an irrigation ditch in the valley Oh u,,
Colorado, they can grow crops crops Attend n, school
in Yuma and Miguel said he wanted AL ms Sonn nd
people to learn to read, write ana "co''' s'''
citizens.
The Coabuila Indians, who inhoolt the n erpaV
valley on the fringe Of the Colorado nsSl,,
of which Indo is the centre are .rfsE
wrought up over efforts Of Indian A hn, w nq
~ force upon them chief whom they don VIM ~
nh RI ~, lions snb-chefs elected VIII faolo 10
succeed old Chief Cabazon 5f p fnr 1y'I for
chef and swears that the tribe must accept nm
Tvs, Indians are sober and industrious, ana IL
Rnst's present scheme be carried out there Is sure
TO be trouble.
Pr. Armstrong, recently connected WIN new
yorl, insurance companies, has purchase y4Gn.
orchard of ninety acres near Lon, mus h MSn
IN ow,ner of l. 90 acres OF trhlt Ill one pouS
~. IN 10 lost orchard in the world.