The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-03

Ghost book, and it was from this that Kind
prepared the text for the opera
WHITE CoAL-F. o., Berkeley, Cal. This cor
respondent from the seat of education incloses
In his communication q 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 recitng
thelr 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 "Is 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
mlnous coal?" Mr.. Matthias of the California
Mining Bureau, whose special study is coal,
read the paragraph, and his first comment was
Nonsense" After a moment he added
that there is no such thing as white
coal. The carboniferous strata of New
South Wales, which extend over vast area,
are very rlch 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 pal9oZoic 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 aScertained, but whatever
that may be 1t is not an article of commercial
value; DIS IlOuG Oh Jne COaI-QealeTS I01S Guy
have 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 - ubscriber, City. Oklahoma
which in Indian means beautiful land"
opened TO settlement in 1889, 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
eryations, while the long and irregular south
west line is formed by the Canadian River and
on the northwest the Cimmaron flows for O.
short distance The area of the Territory is
l,SS7 ,796 acres. The Oklahoma region has
been known to white men since 1862, when
Don Diego Dlon1s1o de Penalosa passed through
IL ON his way north. He reported it as land
OF pleasing, peaceful and most pleasant fields
Win trees and rivers, fruits and flowers 1t
was part OF the Louisiana tract purchased
from france IN 1903, and was included in the
1884.
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Sacramento County. Cal. Voters in Connecti-
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wyoming are controlled by an educational
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Ihe voter is controlled by the payment of taxes.
IN hnode Island, citizens of foreign birth are
required to either own property (real estate)
Oh OF tne value OF 1887, or pay ST rent before
being allowed to VOTE
EDWIN ARNoLD-R. C. D., City. Edwin Ar
nold, author, was born in Rochester, England,
June 10, 1882. He graduated at Oxford Uni
verslty IN 1884. 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
vain the London Daily Telegraph. He received
the Turkish order of Medjidieh in 1876, the
Imperial order of Osmanie in 1886, and be-
came q companion of the Star of India in 1887
In 1888 he became Knight Commander of
the indian empire He has written number
BooI of IoTe be Seair be Persian OF order
OF the Lion and the Sun. He also wrote "The