The morning call., 1894-01-18
AROUND THE CORRIDORS.

William WeaVey OF Durbn, n. OAK, Is regis
tered at the New Western. He has in years
past oeen an extensive wheat-grower in Da-
kota, having harvested as much as 65.000
Oushels or the grain in one season. Mr..
Weavey Is now devoting his lime principally
10 the breeding of "cattleo," the cross Of the
Du1aio and ordinary cattle. His experiments
nave been confined to the Poled Angus breed
OF cattle entirely and have been very success
Iul. lie has with him here three of the ''cat-
tieo" and four buffalo. The hides of the cross
Dfeeo animals are very valuable, commanding
from 500 to 81 so each. The hair is OF finer
Tex ture than that OF the pure breed buffalo, and
the color is rich sealbrown. The meat of the
hah-Dreed is also Of a superior quality to that
OF The pure blood. Another feature about the
haif-breed animal is that it is OF better size
IMAM ordinary cattle. Mr.. Weavey has two
yearliDgs with him which weigh over HOO
each. The i'll success heretofore attending at.
tempts 10 cross buffalOes with cattle Mr..
WeaVey attributes TO breeding at the May sea.
son OF the year. He thinks he has solved the
problem.
san Francisco people might learn something
from the experience of Chicago In regard TO big
towers on public buildings" said <. w. ZiegIer
a prominent real estate man OF Chicago. in the
Occidental yesterday. 'The one on the Board of
Trade building in Chicago, which is 325 feet
hlgh, VIII be torn down, and it is estimated
that the attendant expense will be about $780,
600. The tower has settled about eight inches
and the building itself has settled even more
than that this being attributed TO the great
weight OF the tower. Your uncompleted City
Hall and rumors hear as TO what is TO be done
with 1t In the way OF tower recalled our
trouble to my mind.''
Governor L. d. LewelIing and wife OF To.
peka, kans., are at the Palace. The Governor
has probably been the most abused man that
ever occupied Kansas gubernatorial chair. lie
refuses TO discuss the late troubles with Mrs.
Lease, the female Populist, whom he recently
deposed from her position on the State Board
OF Charities, and says that the evil results at
trlbuiable TO his famous tramp order exist only
in the imagination of his enemies. Relative to
the widely advertised offers of several Kansas
Towns for the Corbett- Mitchell fight Governor
Lewelling says that II a priZefght ever takes
place publicly in that State IL will be after he
has severed his present relations with the State
government.
Halett Bedmond, a Saina (Kans) attorney,
related peculiar case of a suit for damages
against his city 10 several gentlemen In the
Grand yesterday. The son OF a colored man
named Adams was lyDched in Salina last April
and the father brought suit for damages
against the city, claiming that the sons death
represented a pecuniary loss TO him. Adams
fils being under a sentence of seven years.
imprisonment IN the penitentiary at the time of
his death and the testimony proving him a
worthless character, the jury decided that there
had en- no actual damage sustained by the
plaintiff. but allowed him 81 as nominal dam
ages"
J. F. Howe of Eddy, n. NJ. was at the Grand
yesterday and spoke enthusiastically OF the
OF the mammoth work just finished In the
Pecos Valley, of restoring the great fumes and
irrigating dams washed out by the disastrous
floods of last fall and the completion OF mother
dam which makes reservoir larger than Lake
Chatauqua. n. Y. The water flows through
1900 miles OF canal. The building of these
dams IN six months, at a cost of nearly half
million dollars, in the midst OF year of re-
markable financial stringency, Mr.. Howe
thinks speaks very well for the enterprise Of
the people in the locality mentioned.
The members Of the Iroquois Club have for
some time past been expecting a distinguished
visitor to this city in the person of Lieutenant
Governor Sheehan OF New York, or ''Blue-eyed
BLY, as he is more famliarly known and
have expected to give him reception be-
fitting his rank and distinguished services to
The Democracy. Mr.. Sheeban, however refuses
10 materialze, and in a letter TO gentleman In
this city the other day he states that there are
peculiar personal considerations which Will de-
tain him in New York State indefinitely, in
view of the present uncertain condition of
political affairs.
j. A. McMurtrie, the contractor who is in
charge OF the work now being done on the
Southern Pacific road between Santa Margarlta
aud San Luis Obispo, is at the Palace. The
work is progressing rapidly on the tunnels, and
indications decidedly iavorab for its COM
pletion by May L.
John Dougherty of New York and W. w
Cook of Denver. who are engaged in the
attempt to straigbten out the tangled affairs of
the Union Pacific Railroad, are at the Palace
having come down from Portland yesterday.
They leave for the East IN private car to-day.