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Mineral Value of Veins.

The Secretary of the Interior has rem
dered an official decision that s.the mineral
value of vein is not established bv an
ordinary assay certificate" 1t is very sell
dom SO sensible view of mining matters
is taken in such discussions, as it agrees
with general mining experience. How.
ever, as the view is taken in order to make
it difficult for the miner to obtain title to
his vein it is more in line with the Interior
Department rulings than might be sup
posed at first glance. The miner is re-
quired to prove that his mineral is of paw
ing value or rather that his mine will pay,
which is an absurd proposition, because if
he did not think it would he would not
bother to get the title and work it. But the
department requires this proof and the
miner tries to prove it by assay certificates
that the ore is worth something. This.
the Interior Department holds, does not
establish its value. Next it will require a
mill built and run of ore made before be-
heving it is mine. The Department of
the Interior is getting more and more abb
surd each year in its rulings as to mines.
1t throws all sorts of difficulties in the way
OF getting title to mineral land. The
farmer is not required to prove his land
will produce crops which will pay, or even
that it will produce crops at all. But the
luckless miner must not only prove the
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The Mineral Land Commission.

The mineral land commission has gone
already to work in Montana classifying the
lands, so that no more mineral land can
be taken up by the railroads. They have
gone first into a valley where the land
would naturally be of an agricultural char
acter. A surveyor, furnished by the
Northern Pacific Railroad Company, will
accompany the Commissioners in the field
to find corners and section lines. The
Commissioners hesitated about accepting
the services of a surveyor in the employ of
one Of the interested parties, and did not
do so until they found that it met with the
approval of the State Commissioners ap-
pointed by the Governor to look after the
mineral land business. When Congress
shall have recognized the Importance of
the question and the vast interests in
volved, and shall make an appropriation
sufficient for the purposes OF the Commits
sioners, it is the intention of the board to
employ its own surveyor.
1t seems to be an absurd proposition to
appoint these commissioners to examine
lands and then not give them competent
assistants, or any assistants at all. They
so to prevent railroad taking what it
does not own, and then have to take a
railroad surveyor to point it out to them
The whole Mineral Land Commission was
a disappointment to the miners of the
Northwest. Men were appointed who
knew nothing of mineral lands to Judge
mineral lands, and were not even citize ms
! of the States interested. The Governor of
Montana then appointed State commits
sIoners to cooperate with the Government
commissioners, but they have no author
| ity. The Government seems very slow to
take the proper steps in Montana and else
where to prevent the railroad getting hold
OF mineral land to which it has no right
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existence of mineral, but the mineral must
be of character or grade that will pay to
work All this seems none of the depart
ment's business.
If miner chooses to take up and pay the
Government for his claim, it ought to be
his own lookout as to whether it pays or
rot. Some of these days Congress will give
the Interior Department and Land Office a
good sound shaking up, and take away the
privilege of making rulings which practi-
cally nullify the law, or else make its rul-
ings itself If all those which have been
made by the department were abolished
and a new and sensible practical set estab-
lished, it would be better for the mining
interests of the country AT present it is a
discouraging matter to get title to mineral
land, whereas, as long as the miner is
willing to pay his money, the Government
ought to extend every facility. Undesthe
present conditions, instead of helping the
miner it binders him.
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J. 27:6 by 1876; $40.
Ignatz and Pauline Urbach to Adolph Sachs, lot
25 by E 100: $40.
selD to Margaret and Patrick Enright, lot on Sc
line OF Bowie avenue. 1928 NE of Eleventh
street, NE 22.6 by Sc 70; $40
Joseph NJ. and Eliza X. Comerford to John and
Johanna McCabe, lot on line of sharon street,
22O \ of Sixteenth street, n 25 by f 25; So
garet E. Dunno lot on line of Twenty-irst street,
SO E of York. E so by s7:6; 80
Same to Carl Jacobs lot on s line of Twenty first
street, so w OF Hampshire, w 25 by 81 :6; So
o on and adoph drefn to m 81
Twenty-fifth, rs by E rs; $40.
ALAMEDA COUNTY.
V. R. and Anna NJ. Raymond to Nancy E. Bones
(wife of s. WI of Oakland. lot on NV corner OF
Alice and Ninth streets, w 100 by N 100 Oak
land; gift.
Joseph p and Mary E. Twyman, % Lyman NJ.
nue. since widened to 100 eet l25 Of Temesca
avenue. \ % by f 131, being portion of lot 20,
Iemescal Park, subject to a mortgage for $loOo
Francis NJ. Wells OF Berkeley to Anna Muller OF
Bee 9 N NV sRo b Eoso and Tract Th
$4,000.
torney, Of San Francisco), to. ]. A. Eastman OF
Oakland Township, lot 8. block E, Latham Ter
race Brooklyn Townships $500.
Joel +. Whatley of Alameda TO Mary Whauey OF
Alameda, lot on Sc corner of Alameda avenue and
Lafayette street (Nineteenth street), e 81 by 100
being the w one-half lots 2, and 4, block D.
Amended Map Bartlett Tract, subject TO a mort
gage to German Savings and Loan Society for
$4,000: gift.
Charles E. and Emile TIansen-of San Francisco
to Emma Claussen of Alameda lot on line of San
Antonio avenue, $50 F. of Walnut street, E so by
100, being portion of L half OF block K, lands
adjacent TO Encinal, Alameda; $40.
Alfred Williams of Oakland TO Adeline Marryatt
OF San Francisco, lot S corner of Thirty fourth
or Brown streets, 5l6 z of West, E so by s 100,
being lot 49, block E, property Of Central Land an
Company, formerly Brown Tract, Oakland; $4,000.
Mary W. Burlington of Oakland 10 Laura j. But
fington of Oakland, lot on SW corner of Tenth and
Oak streets, 100 by w $50, being lots II 10 1S
block 125. Oakland; gift.
Catherine Moran of San Francisco to Annie NJ.
425 Z of San Pablo avenue, Z 25 by 12725,
being lot 46. resubdivision OF portion of blocks
and E, Garrison Tract, subject to mortgage,
Berkeley; $40.
Annie NJ. Quinn of Oakland to Maggie Brooks OF
San FranciscO same, Berkeley: $40.
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HOTEL ARRIVALS.
IRAND HOTEL

uRAND HOTEL.
R Doherty, PurissIma A Kay Providence
e seymour San Bern Reynolds, Cal
NJ Levee, Vallejo E Dinkelspiel, Suisun
G II Fox, Clements w Richmond, StaPaula
A Gray, Santa Paula Miss Church Pasadena
Mrs A NJ Anthony, L Ang / f Hickok Los Ans
j FL Glide & I, Sac L Rosentha Stockton
Grady q w, Napa H 7 Power, Auburn
c Caldwell. bakersfield T w Schwartze, Cain
W Ruston, England r E Mansfield. Indiana
G Campbell&w, Suisun w Tipnin, Fresno
j NJ Gillett & S. Astoria Jackson, Jackson
c a Wakefield&w, Orovi f G Heller, Chicago
L ID BAR Arcata Mrs + M Massey, st Rosa
w Clark, Boston c Frances Salinas
w Jasper Wheatland G NJ Hartley. Vacayille
J Bogue Tudor Wright, Seattle
Dr Ingllsh, Vacavllle I II buckingham, Vacav
w III Huck&w, Vacaville ] Buck & W. Vacavie
W Parker w,Kenwood n A Harrison Stockton
s = la Shells, Biggs F NJ Smith, Novato
w E Lawrence&c, Vacav E Swinford, Cousa
T Shaw, Sac r Black, San Jose
J Tully, Nevada City II \ fully Bitter Water
I'll Frankenheimer, Garibaldi Jr, MERGED
Stockton F B Bridge Chicago
f J Brandon, San Jose
PALACE HOTEL.
G p Whitehead DIV, Colo L B Libby New York
COOK, Boston p Sieppel Geneva
Il P JohI son IL W, Cal Myers, New York
w Winter, Chicago J G Shields Colorado Spr
G NJ Dobson, New York Mrs G Hogg Nevada
X Alexander, Vancouver e w Dempster, Chicago
w + Fitch, Kentucky + n Perkins, New York
Mr. SMrs de la Poer, NY r + Yoheerton & w, N Y
A Melchers, Mazatian r Volquardsen, Mazatlan
+ Schornmann. Hungary MrsHW Child Il CHI Mont
E J. Ives & w, Montana Miss Pond, Montana
F NJ Sawyer Guatemala E g LOTUS, Sonora
G Curtis New York j NJ Proctor Petauma
Oldenroff d W, Mexico II C GoodeIl Sacramento
WIN Harrington &w, Cal w E Sawtelle Worcester
NEW WESTERN HOTEL.
b Burns, Long Island Dennery, Baden
James Ryan, Los Gatos ] Harris Cincinnati
B Dalton, Mare Island P ] Moran Chicago
Healey1 b Tom Williams, Chicago
d Bragton, Nv Haven Tom Cornell, Los A ngeles
w McLaide d chd, S Bra W III Wilkinson, Pha
w Hwaite, Spokane A + Hanson, Bouldin lid
W Johnson, London II Henery, Montague
J McHenery, Petaluma B Fisher Alameda
& Patters, Stockton
LICK HOUSE.
A Dowd, Menlo Park C Tilson, Modesto
Z T. Coily & w. Maine w James, Bakersfield
G Z Van Deusen, n E Jackson, Phila
Mrs Church 6 son, Il f Barnard Lick Oh
Woodland servatory
A 5 Smith. Marysville c Bowling & W, Nevada
q Fancher, MERGED J Bowling, Nevada
II Postletwaite, San Jose E jenkins, n
X Barcar, Vacaville 6 Darnin, Fulton
BALDWIN HOTEL.
NJ Votten, Sacramento Baruch, Alameda
NJ T Ward Il w. Denver Warren Treat Briggs
Bullew, Salinas r Hauser, st Paul
w II Redington, Chicago w Fl White, Mendocino
Mrs Barker, San Jose Mrs E Rucker, San
Hall, San Jose L Bourke, Chicago
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Building Contracts,

Mrs. Clemence Goldsmith with J. Y. Hull, lot on
line of Geary street. SO f of Octavia 27:6 by S
1876, alterations and additions: $410O.
Davide Garabaldi with Luigi Ounce, to build on
w line OF Varennes street, n IS n of Union, n 20
by W 60, all work, three-story frame building
$2350.
Board of Education with ]. j. O'Rrien, lot on SW
corner Noe and Twenty fifth streets, w 100 by S
Ia alterations and additions to James Lick Gram
mar School; $500.
bert street, 1926 f of Jones, n 100 by Z 100, al
terations and additions TO North Cosmopolitan
Grammar School building; $4,000.
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SAN FRANCISCO GALL"

BUSINESS OFFICE ofthe San Francisco CALL
40 Market street, open until IL o'clock every
night IN the year.
BRANCH OFFICES-53O Montgomery street.
corner Clay: open until 80 O'Clock.
S39 Hayes street, open until $3.50 o'clock.
ut Larkin street, open until 80 o'clock
SW. corner Sixteenth and Mission streets open
until O'Clock.
251S Mission street, open until 9 O'Clock.
116 Ninth street, open until 80 O'Clock
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n REAT CLAIRVOYANT AND CARD-REA D.
VI er; Nine. Stewart from Boston: seventh daugh.
ter of the seventh daughter has read cards since
years of age: ladies or gents soc. GIT Market 34
NINE. DIR. THOMAS, SCIENTIFIC REVEA L.
1l er by eggs and caris Gin English German )tells
entire life past present, FUTURE consultations on
all affairs nothing excepted; names given good
advice; sure helps restores lost love by sympathy;
mistake impossible: fee 81; letter 50. 80 Kearny.
A UGUSTA LEOLA, FORTUNE TELLER;
~ magic charms; love tokens: true picture OF
future wife and husband; teaches fortune-telling:
develops clairvoyance. slate writing, etc.. has the
seven holy seals and the Palestine wonder charm;
fee 81 and upward. 1926 Mission, Twentieth.
NINE. RAVENNA. TEST MEDIUM, LIFE
Iu reader: name, given. 1928 Howard: 25c up.
NINE. MOREAU, BEST MEDIUM, CLAIRVOY-
Iva ant; speaks German; 25c up 131 Fourth ST.
RS. DR.. THOMAS BEIGHEL, CLAIRYOY-
NI ant and magnetic healer; sittngs daily. En-
trance 425 Kearny and COS California sts, rm. 81.
T EON, PIANIST, CLAIRVOYANT, LIFE
- reader. o33 Post ST.: hours a. NJ. to p. NJ;
also SUNDAYS.
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SPIRITU ALISM.

SPIRITUALISM
nR. SCHLESINGER, TEST MEDIUM AND
II healer; tobacco and alcohol cured. 534 Page.
MRS. S. SEAL-SPIRITUAL MEDIUM: RE-
tl lgious cir Wed. PM; Thurs, 2:30: ITO Nc
Allister st.
M RS. EGGERT AIKEN, TRANCE MEDIUM:
" cir SUM- eve.: developing cir. Tues. eve. us
Post ST.
ASTROLOGY.
A RRIVED FROM THE EAST-MRS. MEL
"A son reads head and palm; tells past, present
and future 14S Sixth ST., cor Howard, room 20.
A STRAL SEER-PROF. HOLMES 523 GEARY
n ST.; horoscopes, questions stocks. advice
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(NOMPETENT GIRL WISHES A SITUATION
- is a hrst-ciass America or German cook: city
OF country; references Please call for days, 746
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COMPETENT WOMAN WITH THE BEST OF
- reference wishes 81 uation to do general house
WorK IN American family: good cook and Iaun-
box 81 Call ''9~~
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GoACHMAN (ENGLISH) WHO THOROUGH
- ~ understands his business; understands gar
dening and cows; willing and obliging: frst-cass
references. Address TED, 1725 Everett St.. Ala
media Cal.
GOOD HOUSE PAINTER WITH TOOLS
c., 1921 Pine st.
w ANTEn-PLAIN PAINTING: S. F. OR OAK
'. land 81 90 per day. Box 10, Oakland Call Office
MAN AND WIFE, IN COUNTRY OR CITY;
~. ~ experienced farmer: position foreman pre-
1erred Address E.. box l25, Call Office
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WAGONS AND CARRIAGES.
DOR SALE-DOUBLE-TEAM WAGON IN
l. good order. Apply 1885 Washington st.
G1O FOR SALE-LIGHT WAGON: CHEAP
I'D III. Apply 1912 Market st.
LNOR SALE CHEAP-FOUR SECONDHAND
II wagons, 3 second hand bugges: also 2 stalls to
let. Inquire 346 McAllister St
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MALE HELP WANTED.


w ANTED-FRENCH OR GERMAN CHE
W for Is days at So day; cook, $50; Germe
boy to wash dishes, $15: married man to tax
charge OF small fruit farm, $40, etc. l.. ANDRE
315 Sto ckton st.
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mi q SUITS TO ORDER; SAMPLE BY MAIL
all 4 NEUHAUS. Merchant Tailor, 10 hearny.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-10-04
BUSIN
Two Things Which Stand In the Way of
Progress.

Two Things Which Stand In the Way of
Progress.
The improvement in business which
few months has been in spite of two
things which stand in the way Of prog
ress. One of these is the new tariff law,
the result Of which has been to initiate
greatly the volume of imports without
correspondingly increasing the exports.
The effect has been, first, a continued
deficit in the government revenues. The
deficit for the current fiscal year to date,
q period Of 20 months, amounts to
more than $14,000,000. The effect, sec
ond, has been to create an immense
trade balance against this country. Dur
ing the eight months ending Aug. 81
the exports were SOS, 200, 900 less than
in the corresponding period in the pre-
ceding year. The excess of imports over
exports was $50, 500, 900, while in the
corresponding period in the preceding
year the excess Of exports was nearly
$65, 1000, 900. There have been disap-
pointing delay in the movement of the
crops and disappointing foreign de-
mand for our products. There is large
stock of cotton held abroad, and hence
a retarded demand for our new crop.
Europe does not seem to be eager to buy
our wheat. Russia and other competi-
tors of our grainfelds appear to be un-
derbidding us. Notwithstanding the low
prices ruling here. When we do begin
to export our agricultural products in
large amounts, the low prices obtained
will diminish the money total of our
exports and thus make it more difficult
to overcome the sum of merchandise
imports. Thus the new tariff, regardless
of the real or alleged benefits it may be-
stow, is working an actual injury by
increasing the adverse trade balance,
and thus compelling gold exports at a
time when the whole energies of the
government have been employed, even
at the expense Of repeated bond issues,
to maintain the gold reserve in order tc
insure the maintenance Of the gold
standard in this country.
The other thing against which the
Improvement in business has to contend
is our defective currency system. Eu-
ropean capital is holding aloof from
American investments, London prefer
ring to indulge in wild speculation in
South Africa gold mines, and the secret
Of the absence of foreign participation
in our markets is distrust of our finan-
cial system. It is feared that notwitb-
standing all that the administration
may do we will yet drift upon silver
basis. On this side of the water we
have a much more hopeful understand
ing of the subject, but certainly the
coming congress has magnificent op-
portunity to clear away these adverse
conditions The fear is, however, that
it will waste its energies in the usual
partisan sparring preliminary to a
presidential campaign. Philadelphia
Ledger
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-10-04
How to Judge a Book.

We knew that the Moslems, when they
conquered Persia, found in that country
an innumerable quantity of books and
scientific treatises, and that their gen
eral, Saad Ibn Abb Oueccas, asked Ca
liph Omar by letter if he would allow
him to distribute those books among
the true believers with the rest of the
booty. Omar answered him in these
terms: "Throw them into the water If
they contain anything which can guide
men to the truth, we have received from
God what will guide us much better.
II they contain errors, we shall be well
rid of them, thank God" In conse-
quence of this order the books were
thrown into the water and the fire, and
the literature and science of the Per-
slams disappeared. -Notices ct Extraits.
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It's COLI again With tie same swfitness
that 1T threw itself out. AS the fanos
enter the flesh the venom is injected. If
the thing struck at is beyond the rat
tiers reach, the snake has the power Of
squirting its venom III Jets, which it
can do to distance of four feet or more.
Sometimes a rattlesnake loses its
fangs IN the flesh of the object it strikes,
but that does only temporary damage
to its deadly armory. There are plenty
OF incipient fangs lying in the jaw, only
waiting for chance like that to come
forward and be in line for business.
They grow very fast, and in the course
OF two or three days rattlesnake that
has lost its fangs is refitted with a
brand new pair. This is a good thing
to remember, for it is the popular be-
lief that RATHER is made harmless by
extracting its venom fangs. The only
way to render one of these reptiles
harmless, besides killing it, is to apply
redhot iron to the cavities left by the
fangs. This will destroy all the vitality
OF these dangerous parts, and new fangs
will not come in.
"The rattlesnake never pursues his
prey; he waits. He will not go out Of
his way to attack anything. He will in
variably keep on his course if not cor
nered or leased. You may step within
four inches of rattlesnake and will
not be disturbed by it if you keep right
on your way. If you stop, the snake at
once will take it for a challenge and
hit you only too quick 1t is said, as if
by authority, that the rattlesnake never
sounds his rattle until he has coiled. If
that is so, rattlesnakes that have seen
must have been freaks, for they have
ratified when lying at full length and
even when moving, as we'll as in their
coils. The RATHER, when travelling, will
cross lakes and streams, and he swims
with his head and his rattles raised
we'll above the water. The force with
which rattlesnake can strike is such
that once leased one into striking at u
piece of betting at least quarter of an
inch thick, and he sent his fangs clear
through it. New York Sun
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Only Four Days to California

In response to popular demand, the
Minneapolis & ST. Louis Railroad en-
tiers upon it's 10th year of Phillips
Personally Conducted Excursions to
California. Elegant upholstered
Tourist Cars run through to California
points without change, leaving ST..
Paul at p. NJ, Minneapolis 1885 p. m.
Oct. 3rd, and every Thursday there
after, and reaching California in less
than four days. In this age time is
an important factor in the selection
Of a route. The Albert Lea Route is
the quickest and most popular. The
price of double sleeping car births is
only $500 through. A gentlemanly
conductor accompanies the car, and a
colored porter accompanying the car
performs the usual duties. Passengers
may take meals in dining cars, or pre-
pare them on cooking ranges provided
for the purpose.
Secure reservations early, addressing
A. B. QUITS,
G. T, & P. A., M. & ST. L. Ry.,
Minneapolis, Mimi.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-10-04
WHAT is ELECTRICITY?
Some of the Numerous Theories on the
Mysterious Current.

Some of the Numerous Theories on the
Mysterious Current.
Well, what is it? 1t is scarcely pos
sible to say. There are theories-many
Of them. 1t is evidently something of
which we cannot take a part; we can
not cut a piece of it off and subject it to
analysis, nor can we pour little of it
into bottle for future study and con-
temptation. 1t is like the wind-its
effects can be measured, it's force,
strength and quantity can now be CAL
culated to very nice degree. Still, to
iken it to the wind, it is stupendous
power, a mighty typhoon, blowing, as
it were, without moving, two ways at
once along all parts of its path, giving
off halo of magnetism at right angles
to that path everywhere.
One of the incest theories, perhaps, is
the one that considers electricity ICON
dition' of atoms, brought about by
chemical action, as in battery cell, or
by what might be called severe irrita-
ton of the magnetic halo, as in dyna-
mo, and by other means, such as heat
and friction.
What this condition is is beyond us
it may be violent rotation, or it may
be an equally violent vibration of
atoms! Probably the arc light would
prove it to be vibration. But as NO
man has seen an atom at any time, not
even with the most powerful micro
scope, it is impossible to say. Friction
in some form or other is present, as
heat is produced before burning, or de-
struction, takes place.
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COattail Buttons.

The buttons at the backs of our coats
are survival. Formerly there was a
buttonhole in the forward corner of each
skirt, and when gentleman was walk
ing or riding he turned his skirts and
buttoned them to the bottom at his
back. The buttons on the wrists of our
coats are relics of the days when the
sleeves were so long that they covered
the tips of the fingers, and the cuffs
were turned back and buttoned when
the hands were employed.