The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-06-29


sibilities of a dangerous rush of the long
undined vanished.
The colonel is United States Indian In
spector and has been during the present adj
ministration. He has come to San Francisco
to take charge of the warehouse in which are
10 be stored the supplies to be distributed later
to the various reservations in the Pacific
States. His father was Senator Joseph Lane,
known after the Mexican War as Fighting
Joe" Lane Among the Indians Colonel Lane
is said to be an object of admiration, and q
man to whom they appeal as just arbiter of
all their disputes
"The Indians" said he yesterday, as he at
tempted to muffle yawn, care getting so they
take care of themselves. They are improving
and becoming more civilized. Contrary 10 the
general belief they are also increasing in num-
Der.
81 have just come from the klamath region,
and before / visited the Indians there was
among the Nez Perces. They are an interest
ing tribe. Why, some of the Nez Perez girls
are so nearly new women that they ride
bicycles to school.
''The klamath Indians are perhaps the most
intelligent IS tribe, and the Bannocks
Well, won say it. They are the worst In
dams there are. They live in Idaho, and
numt er only about 500, but mean, disagree
able-yes, squaws and all, although they have
as the bucks"
The best known and most travelled cat on
the water front is Tom of the Alameda. For
thirteen years he has been making voyages
between San Francisco and Sydney, New South
Wales, and in that time has made forty-six
round trips and travelled 667, $50 miles. He
is known in Honolulu, Apia, Auckland and
Sydney almost as well as in San Francisco, but
as he is now growing old and fat he very
rarely ventures ashore.
When Tom was kitten he one day strayed
from the bark Alden Besse aboard the Ala
media. He would make friends with no one,
but roared the steamer at his own free will.
Chief Engineer Little tried to make friends
with him, but failed. and not even the most
dainty tidbits could coax him into the engine.
room.
As he grew older Tom began hunting rats
and he soon had the upper part of the vessel
clear of the pests While chasing one of the
yermin it took refuge in the galley. and Tom
in his eagerness to get at it jumped on the hot
stove. His feet were badly burned and he at
once made for the hold, where he hid himself
When the cat did not appear for twenty
four hours the chief began to make inquiries.
The sailors told him of the accident and said
the cat was hiding in the cargo. For nearly an
hour Little crawled about in the lower hold
and finally found the poor brute. He carried
him to his room and fixed his paws up with
vaseline. For over a week he doctored and
fed him and now Tom and the chief are in
sepsrable. There are three other cats on the
Alameda, but not one of them dare set foot in
the cabin or on the poopdeck.
In that part of the ship Tom is master, He
is also master of the chief engineers room
and is great deal better than watchdog. No
outsider can get in while Tom is on duty, and
that is almost constantly. On the last trip of
the steamer from Australia Tom and his
mas ter were photographed by one of the pas.
sengers. The picture is priced as Mr.. Little
expects the cat to finish his 1nillion-mile run
by water before he dies This will be worlds
record.
Colonel Carlos Gonzales, retired offcer OF
the Mexican army, is at the Lick. But he is
not alone.
When he arrived the other night it took
three carriages to bring his wife and family
from the ferry, and as he marshaled his forces
in the hotel Office the curious loiterers drew
back against the wall and whispered to one
another that an orphansge must have burned
down.
The colonel is from very productive part of
Mexico His principal hacienda, La Concha,
twelve miles from Torreon, in the State of
Coahuila, is surrounded by eight or nine
square miles of cultivated land, all OF which
belongs to the man of numerous family.
Cotton is one of the products, although no
less than 500 other families live upon the
coloners broad acres; SO it is well-settled
country. In addition to this estate. on which
he employs so many men, he has lot of land
let out to different individua He owns land
all along the Nazas River, the best lands in the
country.
The colonel does not speak English, but he
has an interpreter in the party. He is q short
man, about 55 years of age, and wears a long
black beard, fierce military mustache and a
high silk hat.
1t is his intention to place some OF his chii.
dren in the College of Notre Dame at San Jose
and others in q school at Los Angeles. He
will. however, take five of the younger ones
back with him to Mexico after he has visited
Monterey and other coast towns dear to the
heart of every Mexican who thinks of what
might have been had the Mexican war never