New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-11-20
TOPICS IN CALIFORNIA.
ELECTION RESULTS-HYDRAUIIC MINING
COLORED SETTLES FROM TENNESSEE.

IBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRlBUNEI
San Francisco Nov l9.-Onicial returns from
something over thrce-ffths of the counties IN the
State have been received. and they show MN
Cleveland slightly ahead 1t Is impossible 70
tell how the remaining counties will 30 as one
Presidential election furnishes no criterion Tor
another in this mercurial State The best judges
incline to the opinion that Cleveland has carried
California by about / 900. The State Legisla-
ture is surely Democratic, and already there is
lively fight among the candidates for the Cnited
States Senate The ablest as we'll the most
prominent is Stephen NJ. White, of Les Angles
His chief competitor is W. w Foote, well-known
criminal lawyer of Oakland, who has pohtlca'
aspirations Then there is young James '. Ooic
man. who succeeded TO the millions of the bonah~'
King O'Brien, and who has strong desire iol
npb,ic life The contest between White and
Foote will be so bitter that many think Coicman
may be elected as a compromise candidate
The State Convention Of the California Miners
Association brought together this week Iepie-
sentative miners who discussed plans for the re-
sumption Of hydraulic mining in California an
industry that once yielded from Sl@'oVo'"oV ~
Sl5,O0O,OOO yearly, but which was ao"oiu'eiS
suspended more than ten years ago because OF t''e
injury done TO orchards in the valleys by the nc
s,osit of mining debris brought down In the waters
of the Sacramento and San joaquin Rivers. Inc
convention Endorsed the Caminnetu Dill no" ocS
fore Congress- but added an appeal for an appro-
priation of S45O,OOO for building dams TO i'm
mound debris and also request for a modification
of the law granting title TO drift mines. -Four
Thousand miners are on the rolls of the Association,
and they are earnest in their efforts TO revive
hydrsTlio mining and make it once more lead
ing California industry.
DR. j. G. Hepburn and wife were welcomed here
this week after thirty-three years of missionary
work In Japan Mrs Hepburn was the first white
>voman IN enter Japan The doctor has done
valuable service in translating the Bible and sew
eral Presbyterian theological works into japanese.
j. S. Rosewald's new opera, The Baroness
Meta" was produced last evening by amateur sing
ers before fashionable audience at the Urahd
Cpera House There will soon be produced here
a comic opera with music by II. j. Stewart and
libretto by Peter Robertson. the well-known dra-
matte critic The music is bright and attractive,
while the hbretto is so amusing that Manager
French, when he was out here with Lii an RUSSELL
wanted 70 buy il and bring out the opera IN New
York His Majesty" is The title, and the nun
tnrns on an impecunous king, who secures the
services and costumes of a strolling opera com
pany in order to receive fellow potentate.
The local dramatic critics have been somewhat
puzzled by Julia MarlCwe. They concede her
great dramatic ability and her art in producing
effects in the most natural way, but they OBJECT
TO her reading of Shakespeare. ana they are IN
cIned TO think that Chicago has done thc actress
an III turn by its expressive t1atterY. In WOrd,
they say she gives promise OF being great actress
but what she needs above all things Is systematic
training in clocution.
Fifty-four negrOeS-ncn, women anu GiII"rcn
arrived this week AZ Stockton rom Icincss'I.
They are the advance guard of 500 who VIII reach
San JOAQUIN County This winter from Ieht61ssre,
Alabama and Kansas enc party has bought
tract of land ten miles from Stockton ana proposes
10 establish a fruit growing colony. these colore1
pecple ought to do well, there is great demand
Tor good workers on the big fruit ranches anu cn
dren can earn nearly rs much as adults in picking
fruit and grapes.
One of the peculiariieS of California ls tha'
tropical fruit nnoy be grown in the warm loot
hills belt along the base of the sierra Sevaua
Mountains as f1r north as the parallel OF >prins-
field. Ill Some Of the finest oranges IN inc S'a,e
are grown at Or0ve. in Bate County, ana NC
orange groves are irrigated by old mining ditcheS
rancher near Auburn, i'll Placer County, has me
banana trees on his place, which produce lrulC
with M other shelter than sOut hedge