The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-17
AROUND THE CORRIDORS.


The necessity of being part of the country
and creature of the cline is best represented
by story told some friends yesterday by At
torney A. T. Vogelsang in the Occidental Hotel.
ut dates back to the time Grant was at the
head OF the Nation and has as one OF It's
characters Raum Foote, brother OF W. W."
SAID MI. Vogelsang, land is true. Ihats
an important feature The story is that
after the war came to a close body
OF good old hard-she1led Confederates lett
the South and the negroes and went TO the
southern part of Idaho to live. None OF them
were church people and they never attended
cornerstone ceremonies arranged by the
church-going people. Well, they were there
some little time and had things their own way
when Grant sent out a tall, gaunt, cold-Wafer
Circuit Judge from Maine. He was a stiff
necked sample of the Down fastener and did
not seem to hit 1T off very well with the boys
After he had laid down some of his Puritanical
law and rendered few decisions the native
inhabitants concluded to do something to him
ana stop his movements While everybody In
the camp was trying to concoct a plan OF
action Raum Foote one day discovered that the
Judge wrote a hand which was exactly similar
to that OF fellow named Jim Hawley.
Here was the chance TO do good turn.
The regular citizens were notified and small
secret meeting was held, at which it was de-
cided to have Hawiey write out resignation,
sign his Honor's name to it and send the same
on to Washington, stating as reason that the
climate was too severe and the work not prop
erly In his line. Finally the document was
prepared and sent to the capital.
1T seemed to have q color OF reason In 1t and
the resignation was accepted. Immediately
following its acceptance another Judge was
shipped West, SO that the process of dishing up
Jaw in Idaho should not be retarded. When
he reached the camp of his predecessor there
was row and subsequently suit. The new
man got away with it. An investigation was
held and Hawley was arrested, but not held,
owing to. the lack of evidence. Later on the
ousted official was sent to New Jersey, where,
understand, he was treated worse than In
Idaho The new Judge proved to be better
fellow, and as he took quite naturally to the
western wilds he was enabled to build
brownstone front, and finally got to work for
the railroad" 49,. tsst-
Guatemala is a good field for mining pros
pectors, according to John r. Chandler, the
Government archaologist and mineralogist of
that country. Speaking last evening at the
Occidental he said: s'There has been good
deal of gravel mining along the streams, and,
although these are rich and indicate the exist
ence of rich quartz veins somewhere, very
Most of this placer mining is done along the
streams toward the coast and away from the
plateaus. l believe that there Will be found in
time the same sort of system - ancient river
channels of rich gravel deposits on these
plateaus under the deep deposits of lava as is
found in California. OF course the everything
volcanic tufa there is much deeper than here
and more difficulty will be experienced in
prospecting and locating the channels.
In dc two
back to nearly 400 years ago, we know that the
amount of gold produced by the placers of
that country is enormous. The Spanish vice.
roys had deputies in every district who forced
the Indians, even the women and children. to
bring in a quill several inches in length filed
with gold every third or fourth day The re-
suit was that these people were worked so
hard that whole districts were depopulated.
The Spanish rule in those days was something
terrible. 1t was declared by one of the
grandees of the time that the Indians were not
human beings, and this served as an excuse
for many OF the atrocities which eliminated
during the reign of Bedrarias one of the vice
roys of Nicaragua, when, in fifteen years.
100000 Indians were sold into slavery or
killed outright"
''The electric light Examinations in Sacra-
mento on the night of the 9th of September
will be the greatest display of the sort ever
made in the world" said E. b. Willis of the
Record-Union LAST evening. 1.-THE new power
company will supply the light and power free
and all the people win have to do is to deco
rate. There will be more lights on the Capitol
building alone than there were at the whole
Midwinter Fair. There are being erected two
great arches, one on and one on K streets.
The plaza and all the buildings and residences
of the town will be Illuminated. The town is
alive now with the work of preparation. You
can hardly walk about for the wires. The carni-
val colors, cherry red and apple green, and the
Native Sons color, gold, will be used in the
lights and decorations.
"The evening of the 9th will, of course, be
the Native Sons day and with the State Fair
on, we expect an immense crowd, but elaborate
preparations are being made to provide them
with accommodations.
"The streetcars are all being run now with
the power from the FOLSOM dam, and the fac
tories and mills are all giving up their steam.
Very soon every wheel in Sacramento will be
turned by electricity. There viii be great
saving in this, as the electricity costs from 40
to go per cent less than steam. Then, of course,
il will make great difference in the amount
of smoke and the cleanliness of the city,"