The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-04

WHITE CoAI-F o., Berkeley Cal. This cor
respondent from the seat of education incloses
In his communication clipping from news
paper, the name of which he, however, does not
furnish. 1t is as follows:
While the pupils of the second class were reciting
tnelr physical geography lesson Mr.. Rogers said
there was plenty of white coal mined in Australia
and did not know why black coal was not there.
The correspondent then asks: SIS there such
thing as white coal, and how does it differ from
the ordinary coal in other respects than color?
Does not Australia produce practically coal of
the same character as our anthracite or btu
minous eoal?" Mr.. Matthias of the California
Mining Bureau, whose special study is coal,
read the paragraph, and his first comment was
nonsense After moment he added
mat tnere is no such thing as white
| coal. The carboniferous strata of New
| South Wales which extend over q vast area,
are very rich IN coal, and the coal fields of the
colony are among the most extensive in the
! world. The whole basin of the Hunter River
| down to Newcastle on the sea coast abounds
| in true coal of the palaozoic age. In the south
OF Queensland an oolitic coal field has been
discovered. The word oolitic is from oolite,
which biologists declare is a variety of lime
stone belonging TO the mesozoic formation,
between the chalk and the las. That is the
nearest to white coal from Australia, OF which
anything could be ascertafned, but whatever
that may be it is not an article of commercial
value, as none of the coal-dealers of this city
nav nave ever heard OF or handled, white coal If
Mr.. Rogers will read up he will soon discover
that there is plenty of black coal in Australia.
OKLAHOMA - S ubscriber, City. Oklahoma
which in Indian means beautiful land"
opened to settlement in 1882 is very irregular
in form and is in the central portion of the In
dian Territory. 1t is bounded on the north by
the Cherokee outlet, on the east by the Iowa,
klckaDoo and Pottawatomie reservations, on
the south by the Cheyenne and Arapahoe res
ervat1ons, while the long and irregular south
west line is formed by the Canadian River, and
on the northwest the Cimmaron flows for q
short distance. The area of the Territory is
,SS77 96 acres. The Oklahoma region has
been known to white men since 1862, when
Don Diego Dionisio de Penalosa passed through
~ on MS way north. He reported 1T as land
OF pleasing, peaceful and most pleasant fields,
with trees and rivers, fruits and flowers 1t
was part OF the Louisiana tract purchased
from France in 1903, and was included in the
large area set apart for the Indian tribes in
1884.
VOTERS QUALIFICATION ia. p, Richland,
Sacramento County, Cal Voters in Connecti-
cut, Maine, Massachusetts,, Mississippi and
wyoming are controlled by an educational
qualification. In Connecticut the voter must
be able TO read the constitution or the statutes;
IN Maine, he must be able to read the constitu-
Ton ana Write his name in English; In Massa-
cnusettS, ne must be able to read the consttu-
tlon In English and must be able to write; in
MISSISSIPPI, he must read or understand the
constltutlon, and in Wyoming, must be able to
otitutlOH. LII AIhdnsuo, bcldNdIe,
Georgia, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania,
the voter Is controlled by the payment of taxes
required to either own property (real estate)
OF the value OF $137, or pay 81 rent before
being allowed to vote.
EDWIN ABNoLD--R C. D., City. Edwin Ar
mold, author, was born in Rochester, England,
June 10, 1882. He graduated at Oxford Uni
versity in 1854. He was appointed principal
OF the Government Sanskrit College at Poona,
India, and fellow of the University of Bombay.
he resigned in 1861 and became connected
with the London Daily Telegraph. He received
the Turkish order of Medjideh in 1875, the
imperial order of Osmanie in 1886, and be-
In 1888 he became knight Commander of
the Indian empire. He has written a number
OF Oh DOCKS and poems, and in recognition OF the
BOOK OF Love- he received the Persian order
o. the Lion and the Sun. He also wrote "The