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The San Francisco call., 1896-01-26
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CHICO ATHLETIC CLUE.
Organized With Healthy Merabersht
and a Pr0fcssfonGL Teacher.

Organized With Healthy Mcntbershtp
and ProfeSsfonGI Teacher.
CHICO, CAL, Jan. 25.-An organization
of prominent citizens and business men
was formed here yesterday to organize an
athletic club. Several hundred dollars
were subscribed at once for the purpose of
providing the necessary paraphernalia to
furnish the club and its rooms with an
outfit equal to any interior club in the
State. Great enthusiasm is manifested by
the members, as already evinced by the
interest taken in it. Competent professors
will be engaged from time to time to in
struct the members and good talent will
soon bring the club to a high degree of
perfection A hall has been secured in
the central part OF the city for a term of
years After the club is in thorough work
ing order the public will have an oppor-
tunity of seeing them in an entertainment.
The club has 300 members at present.
Following is the list of officers: Park
Henshaw, president, lawyer; Harry Reed.
vice president, broker; w. H. Benson.
second vice. president, Sperry FlourmilIs:
Guy r. Kennedy, secretary, lawyer; H. w.
Heath, treasurer, Bank of Chico; board of
J. O'Conner, farmer; 10 d.
Sproul, lawyer; B. Cussick, capitalist: ].
Sims, capitalist; f. Teatrew, merchant.
Mr.. Moth has been engaged as instructor.
He was formerly of st. Paul, Mimi. and
has met in wrestling matches such men as
Muldoon and Mcleod, and has lately been
with Fitzsinmons.
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Probability That Whalebone
Factories Will Soon Locate
Here.
a RAPIDLY GROWING INDUSTRY
How the Crude Bone Is Scrubbed and
Dried at the Yards and then
Manufactured.
The establishment of the whaling station

The establishment of the whaling station
at Monterey Bay will, it is expected, in
crease the demand for skilled labor en-
ployed in this City in the manufacture of
whalebone. This is looked upon by the
Merchants Association as another lndica-
ton of good times for California, and the
whaling industry on this coast will be fos-
tered.
In ITSELF the whaling trade is consider
able at this port, but its increase means
more to Iandsmen and the manufacturing
interests of the City than is generally
known. It means that within the next
few years San francisco will become not
only the whaling port of the world, but
also the center of the whalebone manufac-
turing interests.
Already awhalebone factory has been es-
tablished in this City and before long the
six other factories in the United States
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Large Force of Men Unable to
Prevent an Overflow of
the Torrent.
THE TOWN WILL BE FLOODED.
Backwater Is Steadily Rising and
Forcing the Stream Over
the Banks.

WOODLAND, CAL, Jan. 25.-The Sacra-
mento River at knights Landing is rag
ing torrent, and has reached its highest
point this season. 1t is now at a stand
still. That it is not rising at present is
owing to big break that occurred this
afternoon in the levee just below town.
A large force of men is at work attempt
ing TO repair the break, but the labors to
prevent an overflow will be practically
useless, as the backwater is steadily ris-
ing and the river is several feet above its
banks.
A telephone message received here at 8
o'clock tonight from Knights Landing
says that the town will be flooded before
morning despite all efforts.
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Il BRILLIANT EVENT.

The Gridiron CIub's Anniuersdry Din
,,er at the arlington Last Night.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. 25.-The
eleventh anniversary dinner of the Grid
iron Club was given tonight at the Airing
ton and was the most brilliant effort this
club has ever made. Those present in
cluded Chauncey Nj. Depew, Justice Brown
of the United States Supreme Court, Vice
President Stevenson, Senators German,
Hill, Pettigrew, Elkins, Shoup, Thurston
and Wilson, Representatives Cannon,
Crisp, Savers and Smith, Secretaries Nor
ton and Smith, Charles Emory Smith of
Philadelphia, Felix Angus of Baltimore
and many others. There were 169 who
sat down to dinner.
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HOW CORAL GROWS.
Professor Joseph Le Conte Explains
the Florida Reef and
KEYS.

The lecture-room of the Mechanics In
stiuute building at 81 Post street was
crowded last evening with the members
and their friends who Assem- bled to hear
Professor Joseph LIE Conte lecture upon
the Origin of the Peninsula Keys and
Reef of Florida" He used a number of
rough maps with which to illustrate his
explanation OF the nature of the phenom-
ena. He said:
The subject of coral reefs and coral Islands
mas peen Tor many years of great interest to
popular and scientific minds. They are of in
terest to the popular mind on account of the
gorgeous color1ngs OF the little animals which
form the Islands and on account of the fairy
ike beauty of the little islands which they
nave caused to spring up in the ocean. They
are also OF interest on account of the peculiar
dangers which they cause TO navigation
Inere are more wrecks along the KEYS of
Florida and in the straits OF Florida probably
than anywhere else in the world. The little
town OF Key West was actually formed on the
wrecking business. The crowdine together on
the reef OF the greatest variety of animals that
can be found upon the earth makes it intensely
Interesting to the scientific man We have al
evidence in these reefs OF the subsistence of
the Pacific Ocean in mid-ocean. In the mid
Pacific, over an area greater than this CONT
nent, the bottom of the Pacific is going down
and has gone down 10000 feet. OF course
somewhere there is correlative elevation.
The whole of the coral reef and kavs nf
Florida have been formed during the present
geological epocn. Corals grow upward, gener-
alton after generation adding debris TO the
accumulating funeral pile. This continues
until they reach the surface of the ocean,
when they can grow no higher.
The debris is washed upon the island, which
it has now become, and the whole is cemented
by the action of the ocean with carbonate of
lime. Seeds are washed upon the soil thus
made and vegetation results. Animals come
in the same way. Then man comes and it be-
comes an inhabited island.
My theory in regard to the coral islands is
that the corals could not have done the work
alone. Corals cannot build from more than 90
or 100 feet. Then there must have been pre-
existing bank. This, believe, was growing
bank OF sediment deposited BY the Gulf stream
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Decoration and DolIars.

How many of US would not gladly pay
for reticence. if so be we could find It'll
But, alas! the public is of the same mind
as the critic. In proportion to the price
must be the quantity OF ornament, and
so it comes about that the eye is fatigued
by its presence in season and out of
season and competitors in the market
of production vie with each other as
to the amount that can be offered for
the money. Is it wholly impossible to
educate public taste in this one matter2
Every year now brings its exhibition of
arts and crafts IN different parts of the
world, and almost every month it's practi-
cal handbooks, its treatises on the theory
and practice of design, or on the principles
and analysis or ornament. Is it not posi-
BILE TO teach that the due subordination of
decoration is every bit as important as a
feeling for beauty of form or a grasp of the
limitations imposed by the character of
the material and the tools that work 1t p
From Design in Bookbinding," by Mrs.
S. I. Prideaux, in the February Scribner's.
The British Museum recently acquired
a sword, a watch and gold snuffbot
once belonging to Edward Gibbon.
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MUST HAVE a Low RATE.
knights of Pythias May Not Hold The,
Convention at Mtnneapolis.

CINCINNATI, OHIO. Jan. 25.-The as
sembly council Of officers of the Supreme
Lodge of the World, Knights of Pythlas,
met at the Grand Hotel in this city this
afternoon. A resolution was unanimously
adopted providing that no encampment
be held in Minneapolis next August un-
less guaranteed rate of / cent a mile is
secured. The resolution further provides
that unless such guarantee Is in the hands
OF the supreme chancellor by February Is
he shall notify the assembly members by
wire, whereupon the assembly shall CON
vene in Cincinnati, February D. for the
purpose of changing the place of the con-
vention of the Supreme Lodge.
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NOT AMEnToAN CITIZENS.
Many Engineers on Our Ocean Steam
shtEs Z re Brittsh Stt6iects.

WASHINGTON, D. c., jar. 25.-The
subcommittee OF the Senate Committee
on Commerce held a meeting to day.
John w. Bryant of the Western Water
ways Association laid before them the
memorial OF that association, urging
iurther improvement of the Mississippi
River
a favorable report was ordered on Frye's
hiii pni amending the naviga ton laws. The
IN winch is general in character, simpli-
4 nes existing statutes and repeals many
W Ias 4. are now obsolete. Andrew Furuseth
I4 Ti can francisco, president of the Sailors
o onloh OF the Pacific Coast, addressed the
committee on this bill with special refer
ence 10 laws relating TO shipping articles.
1eorge Uh!er, pres dent of the National
Marine Engineers Beneficial Association,
ADDRESSED the committee for almost an
hour in favor of Mr.. squires' bill making
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SILVER DOLLAR COINAGE.
Orders Sent to the Mint at PhiIadeIpyEa
NeU OrL cans and This Cftg.

Orders Sent to the Mint at PhiIadeIphfa,
Ne,c Orleans and This City.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. 25.-Orders
were sent to-day by Mint Director Preston.
by direction of Secretary Carlisle, to the
mint superintendents at Philadelphia,
New Orleans and San Francisco to resum e
the coinage of silver dollars from the
silver bullion purchased under the act of
July IA, 1890. The amount of silver bull
lion to be coined monthly, "until further
orders" is 81, 800, 600, divided between the
three mints as follows: Philadelphia,
5000, 600; New Orleans, $780, San Fran
cisco, 500, 900.
Under the act of 1890 the treasury has
on hand $177, 100000 of silver bullion,
against which there are $i37,0 600 of
notes outstanding. OF the bullion pur-
chased under this act 100000 has been
coined
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schooners PROBABLY Lost.

GLOUCESTER, MASS, Jan. 25.-rhe
schooner Falcon, owned by Ernest Wons-
ton, which sailed from this port November
% on codfshing trip to the Georges, has
never been heard from and her owners to-
day gave her up for lost. She carried q
crew of ten men.
The schooner John w. Bray, seventy
five tons, owned by John F. Wonston Il
Co., which sailed from here on Goldfish
ing trip on November II, has never been
heard from. The crew mum bered fourteen
men.
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SLAIN By INDIANS.
The Body of a Miner Found In the Dry
Bed of Picacho Creek.

The Body of a Miner Found In the Dru
Bed of Picacho Creek.
SAN DIEGO, CAL, Jan. 25.-Evidence
OF cold-blooded Indian murder was found
on the desert last Tuesday by Jose Garcia
and A. d. Ray of this city, who were on
their way to Picacho placers below the
line. In the dry bed of Picacho Creek
south of the mountain OF that name thew
came across the remains OF q white man.
the flesh half gone from the face and a
ghastly wound over one eye.
Garcia, who is an old Indian trailer
took in the situation at a glance. Prints
of the bare feet of Indians were discovered
leading down the arroyo, and a number
of the tracks were to be seen surrounding
the body. There was no evidence of a
struggle and it was apparent that the
wound, whether caused by rife bullet or
hatchet, had caused death instantly.
The body was clad only in Jumper" and
oyeralls, and the Jumper" had been drawn
out of the overalls and the belt pushed IN
under the arms. Coyotes had not touched
the body, though birds had preyed upon
the face.
Garcia and Ray took careful note of the
body and the conditions surrounding if
and continued on 20 the placers, which are
on the edge of the desert. There they told
OF their find and learned that the BODY was
that OF ali Italian, Bartoli Potesti, who had
been mining at Picacho. Potesti was
known to h ave $500 or 5000 in a belt which
he co instantly wore. He left Picacho over
a month ago to walk to this city, where he
expected to buy dry-washer He told a
Mexican named Llera that he was afraid
TO stay alone at his camp and intimated
that attempts had been made to rob him.
Llera said that he found two Indian
olias at Potesti's camp, which be con-
sidere sign that the Indians had been
there.
Victor Pinto, a Mexican outlaw, told
Llera some days before the body was dis
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SALVATION PEOPLE PROTEST.
The american Army Does Not Ltke tbe
Recall of the Booths,

HecdU or Ue Booths.
NEW YORK, N. Y, Jan. 25.-The order
recalling Mr.. and Mrs. Ballington Booth
has caused almost revolt in the Ameri-
can branch of the Salvation Army. A
great mass-meeting to protest Will be held
February 3, at which Chauncey NJ. Depew
will preside. ] he movement started with
the Auxiliary League.
Letters of sympathy have been received
from the following members of the Auxil-
iary League in California: Mrs. Leland
Stanford; the Rev. DR.. Briggs of Santa
Cruz; the Mayor of San Jose, Cal. Judge
Campbell Of San Francisco; Mayor Sutro
of San Francisco; Professor Jordan ard
DIR. Hood of Leland Stanford University !;
g. S. Montgomery of Alameda County,
Cal, and Hon. w. Z. Hale, warden OF San
Quentin Prison, CAL
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CLAIMS OF CANADIAN sEA1ERS
Suggestions as to Payment for Seizu res
Approred bu tho British.

WASHINGTON. D. c., Jan. 25.-The
suggestions for the settlement of the
claims of Canadian sealers seized prior to
the sitting OF the Paris tribunal of arbitra-
ton, through the appointment of COM
mission, have been approved by the Brit
Isn Government and its acceptance was
formally laid before Secretary Olney
to-day by Sir Julian Paucefote, the British
Embassador. The next move in the mat
ter will be the submission of the plan
agreed upon between the two Govern
ments to Congress for its approval.
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TRADING IN MAY WHEAT.
Armour Giren Credit for FIurry II. the
Chicd0o Pit

Ar,noMr Gtre1a Credit Tor a FIWrry In the
Chicago Pit.
CHICAGO, ILL, Jan. 25.-Trading in
May wheat on change to-day was of q
highly excitable kind. Big traders
stormed and added to the turmoil of the
pit in their anxiety to find the key to the
situation. May wheat opened at 63%
cents and went by spurts up and down
until. it had gained the 655s-cent mark,
near the close of the short session. Scalp
ers cleaned up quick profits and brokers
freely credited Armour influences with the
responsibility for the lightnin g-like
changes. The market steadied at the ton
figure and fell off a quarter at the close.
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This gave the market Scent rise in two

This gave the market Scent rise in two
days and cents in the week.
There was no abatement of the excite
ment for more than ten minutes at time
during the whole session. and the know
ing ones were whipsawed half a dozen
times. Every K-cent advance appeared to
the talent to be the climax. The fuctua-
tlons were caused by brokers rushing into
the pit at the same moment, as if on pre-
concerted signal and the brokers thought
Armour was getting revenge for the fun
which was poked at him on Change for bis
threat to swamp the trade in December
with deliveries.
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Thrown From a Car.

James E Brown of 932 Clay street, editor OF
the Vindicator was badly hurt on Thursday
by being thrown from a car at Montgomery
and Post streets. He is paralytic and while
he was transferring from Montgomery-stree
to Poststreet car the horsecar started and he
was thrown and badly hurt. DR.. Marc Leving-
ston, who attends the injured man. says that
Mr.. Brown was badly cut on the body, arms
and head, and that there is danger OF blood
poison
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| Steamships officers and

engineers on ocean steamships officers and
requiring that they be American citizens.
A large number of engineers now tenn po-
rarily in Washington were present. While
a numb Der OF the engineers of the new
American line had become naturalized cit
1zens Mr.. Uhler called attention to the fact
that nine or ten of those engineers were
still British subjects and live in England.
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ARMoR PLATE oTERoHARGEs.

Alleged IrTeguld rittes in the Ndey De-
pdrtntent Being Looked Into.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. 25.-The
Senate Committee on Naval Affairs, now
engaged in investigating alleged irregu-
larities in the Navy Department relative
to overcharges for armor plate and the
patents issued thereon, etc, held a secret
session this morning. Commander Folger
had been summoned, but failed to appear.
The evidence submitted was all docu-
mentary and its character is held in con-
fdence by the committee until its finding
is made public.
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covered that Potesti had been killed bv
Indians. He did not give his reasons for
knowing this, and he was suspected of
being Implicated in the murder. The
footprints, however, are those of Indians,
without doubt.
The spot where the body lay is about
thirty miles from Jacumba and six miles
below the Mexican line.
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Suinr for Services.

The case of Mrs. A. E. Wells to recover 1920
from the estate of John J. Wells for services
rendered will come before Judge Seawell to-
morrow. Wells had al insane sister whom he
placed in care of the plaintiff, his sister-n-law
When he died there was no provision made in
his will for the support of his sister, although
he had given various sums for that purpose
during his lifetime. Mrs. Wells became indig-
nant and is suing for the value OF her services.
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Sno,U and Hard Times.

ST. JOHNS, N. F., Jan. 25.-The worst
snowstorm in twenty years was expert
enced here for the past four days and some
of the drifts in the streets are ten feet
high. Business is at standstill. Hum
dreds of men are begging labor or bread.
The public offices are crowded with unem-
ployed and many business concerns are
discharging their employees owing to the
depression.
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TULARE COUNrKs GAIN.
Farmers viii Increase Their Acreage
Bfcause Of tie RniMfalL

VISALIA, CAL, Jan. 25-The rain to-
day amounted to 20 of an inch, making
for the storm 234 inches, and 4.37 for the
season. Farmers are busy sowing grain,
and the indications are that a large acre
age will be planted. There is every indica-
tion OF an immense yield of fruit, and
orchardists are happy.
The rise in the price of grain, reported
by THE CALL, has given the people new
hope, and if the price is maintained, many
of the local ranchers will have money to
loan when their crops are harvested.
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Mrs. Lease Very III.

WINDOW, MINI, Jan. 25.-Mrs. Mary
E. Lease is in very critical condition as
a result of pneumonia, but her physician
thinks she will recover. All her lecture
engagements in Minnesota nave been cam
celed.
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Death of Publisher Mnc,n,uon

LONDON, ENG, Jan. 25.-AIexander
Macmillan, one of the two brothers who
founded the publishing house of MacMil-
Ian & Co., is dead. He was born at Upper
Carrie, in the island of Arran, Scotland,
in 1917
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Merced Drenched.

MERGED, CAL, Jan. 25.-It rained very
hard from 9 o'clock this morning until
noon to-day. and this evening the sky is
clear of clouds. The sum total of the rain
fan for this season is up to the amount re-
corded at this date last year-nearly eight
inches. The farmers and stock-raisers are
iubilant over the prospects.
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ry Had No Money.

Jew All Ty was sentenced to three years in
Folsom for burglary in the second degree. Ty
was arraigned in the morning and he pleaded
guilty. He saw no reason for wasting money
on trial, he said. and ne might just as well
take his sentence at once His closing thought
in addressing the court was: Man no catch
money go Jail anyhow
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Fire In a Brass Fouwdrv.

CLEVELAND, OHIO. Jan. 25.-Early
this morning fire broke out in the H. c.
Rouse block, on Frankfort street. It
caused loss of $4,000. The fire started
on the floor occupied by Rouse & Hills
brass foundry.
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OUR FOREIGN TREATIES.
Congressman Tdtcney'S Resolution to Ir
qUire Into Their Status.

40%tIO I'tVO I7tetF 5ttttUSs
WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. 25.-The
subcommittee of the Ways and Means
Committee on reciprocity and commercial
treaties wish to have the committee en-
powered to inquire into the status of our
treaties with foreign countries. The mat
ter was brought to the attention of the
subcommittee in resolution by Tawney
of Minnesota, and he has practically
agreed to report the resolution favorably
to the full committee at its next meeting.
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FOR A NEW HALL.
Circular Letter to the Irish Societies of
San Francisco and Irish
Americana

The following circular has been issued
to the Irish societies of San Francisco with
view to securing their cooperation in the
plan to secure funds for the erection of a
hall to be used in common by the Irish
Americans in this City as a meeting
place:
HALL OF KNIGHTS OF ST. PATRICK,
Sc. cor. Mason and O'FarreL Streets,
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 25, 1869
To the Irish Civic Organizations of San Fran
cisco and to Irish Amertcqns generally: The
Knights of st. Patrick feeling the Importance
of establishing in San Francisco hall and
meeting place which shall be at once a home
for the Irish societies and monument 10 the
Irish race in this Community, have appointed
the following named members, to wit: Jere-
miah Deasy, John Mulhern, Frank T. Shea, T.
R. Bannerman, William Cronin, Daniel E. Con-
don and Thomas F. Barry as committee to
secure the cooperation of all kindred organ
izations desiring to aid in this laudable under
taking. This committee does not believe it
necessary to offer arguments in favor of
the benefits of erecting general
meeting place for all the organfza tions
mentioned, nor to urge hearty and
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The Trea,ury GOA Reserre.

WASHINGTON, D. G., Jan. 25.-The
treasury gold at the close OF business to-
day stood at S49, sol, $751; Withdrawals for
the day, $6S 900.
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Scarab q Burrlar AWAY.

burglar made an entry into the residence
of a woman at 61312 Dupont street yesterday
morning at O'Clock. The woman was awak.
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Con,,.l-GrncroI Ho,a

WASHINGTON, D. c., Jan. 25.-The
President has recognized Fung Yueng
Hong as Consul-General of China in San
Francisco.
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Monster Parade of Blueiackets
and State Militia Will
Take Place.
FIELD SPORTS AND A BALL.
The Fighting Monterey Expected to
Be Present During the
Festivities.

SAN DIEGO, CAL, Jan. 25.-Prepara-
tons are being made for monster mill
tary parade in this city early next month
in honor of Rear admiral Beardslee and
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ened by hearing her bedroom door open, and
on looking in the direction of the door she
saw the light from a bullseye lantern. She
shouted and the man ran AWAY