New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-12-02

bitter feeling between miners ard the valley
farmers which has lain dormant for ten years.
one good result Of the recent Fruit Growers
Convention is that the railroad company has
given assurances that better time will be made
on fast freight trains next season, and that the
rates will be reduced. 4 committee of growers
has been authorized to make contracts for this
transportation. II is asD announced from Los
Angeles that the Southern Pacific Company. as
well the Santa Fe has cur the rate on vege-
tables to Is cents a hundredweght reduction
OF One-quaiter
A good rain fell throughout Northern and
Central California this week. the fall ranging
from eight-hundredths Of an inch in Almaden TO
eighty -fve-hundredths in san Francisco. The
rain will help all the farmers. as IL was heavy
enough 10 start ploughs
The decision Of the state Supreme Court giving
the estate Of Mrs. ID. J. Murphy TO her three I'M
married daughters. ends a scandalous case. Lady
Wolseley Of England. was Mrs. Murphys eldest
daughter She objected to her mothers WILL Civ
ing all the property to three girls, on the ground
of undue influence The trial resulted In the
washing Of very dirty family linen. Lady Wolse-
ley being shown ungrateful to her mother and
refusing her hospitality when she was in Eng
land. The lower court decided against the VIII.
but now the three sisters triumph.
At the entertainment given this week for the
benefit Of Emma Frances Dawson. the author OF
"Old Glory" Professor Melville II. Anderson. Of
Stanford University. created sensation by a
slashng attack on San Francisco for its neglect
Of the poet who has celebrated the city In her
verse He scored San Franciscans In a way that
would have warmed the heart OF Mrs. Kendall.
He denounced its society as vain and vulgar,
with no true appreciation Of literature or art.
He dweIt on "the crush OF monopoes the hard
commercialism. the public jobbery and robbery
the faint religiosity. the parody Of social ele-
gance the make believe literature and art The
same words might be applied to any large Amer
lean CITY, and Professor Anderson failed TO take
into account the large number OF people here VINO
are genuinely interested In literature ana ART.
They are not so well organized as in older cities
but they form element that Will yet IeaVen
the whole OF California society.
Savini has done a fair weeks business al the
Baldwin, but ne has been hurt by the poorness
OF his company. 1t Is getting dangerously near
the last theatrical ditch when the machinist
and the stage carpenter are called upon 10 play
the high nobility Harry Mann, as the success
sor Of CAR Hayman In charge or the BALDWIN
and California theatres. has received warm
welcome as he has hosts OF friends on the coast
Many curious stories have been printed TINS
week about volcanic action on Mount Ranier,
In Washington The first reports were that tne
mountain was In violent eruption, bechlnB lortn
smoke and lava, but later reports show that tiIis
was incorrect. The appearance OF severdi ga
ciers near the summit are changed ana great
ayalanches swept down the side OF the noun
tain 1t Is probable that gases made their way
from the interior and caused the phenomena
The amusing feature OF the affair IL that Seattle
Insisted that there eruption, while its
rival Tacoma ridiculed the idea, and declared
II was fake" Of its neghbor