The morning call., 1895-03-03

ngnt IN Marin county. Great interest was telt
in the affair, because the man who had been
challenged, pugilist familiarly known as
The Chicken was great pet IN local sporting
circles.
ga number of reporters and sporting men
took the ferry-boat to Sausalito as l did, but
the prize-fghters and their hackers went over
in little yachts for fear of the police. When we
were halfway over we found that the police
men were on board to stop the fight, or, if
they could not succeed in doing that to stop us
from witnessing it. Finding the pugilists were
not on the ferry-boat and seeing the yachts
they gave chase, and were soon far enough
from the ferry. The little boats ran inshore at
point agreed upon, and all we could do was
to watch them. The police could not get ashore,
as the ferry-boat was too hulking to bring near
the land.
'FWell, thought of my reputation for always
getting the news and then looked at the wa
ter. Not being much OF a swimmer it took all
my courage to make the plunge; but when the
police were not looking dropped in and man..
aged to founder ashore.
at naturally made the police very indignant
to watch the pugilists and their hackers with
the one lone reporter all land and go off to the
fight under their very eyes, but they were not
quite Jealous enough to swim ashore.
"'The Chicken knocked the other fellow out
in two rounds. AS I was the only reporter
clusively in the CALL"
Fred B Davis, the well-known local character,
whose figure has for years been familiar sight
to the habitues OF the Palace Hotel, died yes
terday morning at 8 O'Clock from attack of
la grippe complicated with pneumonia. DR.. ].
D. Whitney, who prescribed for the dead man
Friday morning, said yesterday that he learned
Friday evening that through some misunder-
standing the prescription had not been filed.
"In the morning Fred appeared downstairs in
the barroom in an almost nude condition and
evidently delirious. In the afternoon he again
came down dressed, but decidedly feverish. 1t
was with some difficulty that he was persuaded
to return to his apartment. The exposure in the
morning was sufficient to bring on congestion"
Mr. Davis came to California from Oneida,
New York, where it is understood his
parents still reside. He had probably been
resident of this State for twenty-five years, as
Mr. Warren, the manager OF the Palace, says
he has known him for about twenty-five years.
Davis was generally supposed to hold q posi-
tion in connection with the hotel, the prevail
ing impression being that he acted in the
capacity of a private detective for the house.
Mr.. Warren states, however, that this is an
erroneous idea. The dead man had q room on
the half floor of the hotel for which he paid a
nominal rent, and his only known vocation
was that a guide through Chinatown. He
owned few acres of land at Thermalito, op-
posite Orotille, on which an orange orchard is
planted which is just beginning to bear. This
property he secured through the assistance of
Major Frank Mclaughlin, who has for some
years favored the dead mans affairs with his
attention. Davis gained some celebrity through
his connection with the Sharon case, and was
for some time the Senator's bodyguard. The
arrangements for his funeral have not yet been
completed.
S. B. Simons, wool-grower of Eastern Ore
gon, who was at the Lick yesterday, says sheep
on the ranges in thatloeality wintered well and
that the loss will not exceed one-half of 1 per
cent. The loss of horses has been much heavier,
he says, as their comparative worthlessness
caused the ranehers to feel indisposed to waste
hay upon them. Another cause for this loss
was the appearance of a disease similar to
Texas fever, which has proven disastrous in it's
effects wherever it secured foothold. Horses
have been sold as low as 50 head. in large
numbers. But good drafthorses still command
good figure.
l. F. j. Hall, an experienced miner, who has
prospected in almost every field in the West
and who recently took trip to the Coolgardie
gold fields, says that the opportunities here are
hundredfold better than in the widely adver-
tised section mentioned. "The steamship lines
are booming that country" said he, 'sbut the
truth is that unless man has a good deal of
capital he stands no show there and even
when he is possessed of that requisite his
chances of success are far less than i'll Califor-
MIA. believe that this State offers the best in
ducements to miners OF any section of country
The trouble heretofore has been that our in
vestigations have been too superficial. We
have failed to thoroughly investigate proper
ties which in all probability can be made to
pay WELL"
"Oyster growing promises to be great in
dustry on Puget Sound at no far distant day."
said j. f. Fraser of Portland at the Occidental
yesterday. sit is claimed that there is double
the amount of oyster land on the sound that is
to be found in Chesapeake Bay, and oyster
sprat, or small seed oysters, when brought from
the East and transplanted will, with proper
care, fully equal the Eastern product in point
of size and flavor. The only drawback to the
industry at present is litigation which is
pending regarding titles to tide land, and when
that is settled the business is bound to BOOM !"
w. B. Cornwall, one of the chief advisers of
ex-Queen Liliuokalani, is said to be severely i'll
at the Palace.
The Countess Kullmann of Austria, whose
husband is q distinguished officer in the Rus