New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-07-14
TOPICS IN CALIFORNIA.
QUARREIS OVER FAIRS MONEY-THE
BUSINESS BOOM-GOvERNOR BUDDS
PECULIAR METHODS.
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PECULIAR METHODS.
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San Francisco July l3.-The people who as
sisted Bonanza millionaire Fair to sink 100000
in wheat speculation are now having a merry
war over the division Of their commissions
Broker McGlaufiin accuses Angus & Bresse.
who were Fairs agents. OF appropriating $4,000
of commissions. Angus says that this amount
represents his perquisites for giving the busi-
ness TO McGaufn and that Fair knew ne
was getting this rich dividend The absurdlty
Of this claim is apparent TO any one VINO khe"
Fairs close methods Of business. He employed
Angus & Bresse on salary, and 1t would nave
made him angry to know that one OF MS sara
ried agents about to rake In Small
fortune in fees for favoring certain wheat
brokers' firm. The whole matter Will come out
now In court. and the mysteries OF this ais
astrous wheat deal will be laid bare
The stolen will Of Senator Fair Is also exer-
cising certain people, who hoped to make money
out of It. Two men suspected Of purloining 1t
have been trying to sell 1t to the LAWYERS ou'
thus far they have had no success They are
now being Swallowed by detectives. and they
may be sent to San Quentin. instead OF secur-
ing fat reward.
Reports from fifty California cities and towns.
show remarkable activity in mining. irrigation
and railroad development. New methods OF eec-
tr;ca power are being applied to hydraulic ana
quartz mining so that claims which were aoan-
doned as improbable twenty years ago are now
yielding good returns. In irrigation many new
bitches are being dug and new districts opened
which bring valuable tracts Of rich land under
cultivation. with the assurance OF gooo crops
every year In Southern California especially
there is an enormous increase In acreage OF
oranges and other fruits. and in vines. All the
California cities report large increase IN ouiio-
ing. and in dozen places the demand for houses
exceeds the supply. These reports are valuable
as they contradict the gloomy prophecies OF
those who declare from hasty trips through the
State that California is losing ground.
The signing Of the lease for the China basin IN
this city and the beginning of grading at Stockton
marked this week the opening OF real work on
the San Joaquin Valley Railroad. The new en-
terprise will be pushed vigorously. and from pres
ent appearances the road will be built rapidly
Colonel Croker of the Southern Pacific. takes
the correct view of 1t when he says that II will
helm his road because II will bring new settlers
into the great San Joaquin Valley, which Is now
thinly settled
Much comment has been caused here by the
bad showing made by the LIST United States In
fantry in its march this week to Monterey The
first fifty miles made leisurely In -FOUR days.
the men being relieved of knapsacks ana every
thing except rifles. blankets and haversacks
Yet forty men were disabled and obliged to take
10 the wagons The matter will probably De
referred to the War Department, as there Is
something radically wrong In training wnen
soldiers cannot march ten miles day on good
roads.
Governor Budd who was the only prominent
Democrat on his ticket who was successful al
the last election has original ideas in regard to
n,,b,ic business He announced his selection Of
four physicians for the State Board OF Heaitn
after a dinner at public restaurant and the
lucky appointees thereupon took drink win the
Governor
curious scene was presented at the meeting
of the Yosemite Valley Commissioners this
week. when Old John Hutchins. the pioneer OF
the famous valley, with tears streaming down ms
face begged for the privilege OF living until his
death In the cabin which he built over thirty
wears ago and by the side of which his VIE ana
daughter are buried The Commissioners ,e na sa
neighboring hotel but the old mans tears moved
them and they gave the use OF the house and one
acre Of ground to him for the remainder OF MS
life
Charles Warren Stoddard author Of South
Sea Idyls" Is here on visit TO his OLD father
Mr. Stoddard is now professor Of English liter
allure In the Catholic University at washington
but he has many friends here, where he made MS
f1rst hit in literature by his sketch OF life in
Tahiti and Hawaii
The fine shooting by Strecker at the recent
Schutzenfest in New-York is more remarkable
than that of any other Californian, because
he has practised so little. Strecker is par
ber who owns a shop and works six days
week at his trade. He enters prize-shooting
contests here without any preliminary practice
and usually makes the best score His health
is good though he looks like consumptive,
and altogether he Is a marvel
The State University Regents this week de-
cided not to collect tuition fees from students
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and 1t was suggested that $50 year should be
levied on each student The Regents. however.
decided that tuition should remain free. and
that the deficit should be met in some other
way.
Northern California and Southern Oregon are
cursed with a gang of train robbers and stage
robbers, who receive aid and comfort from
ranchmen, and are thus able to defy the police.
The two men who recently looted an overland
express train near Roseburg. Ore, are under
arrest but the criminals who robbed train
In Shasta County. California, and the man VINO
has twice robbed the stage near Redding are
still at large. though heavy rewards are or
fAr f,oir onfr