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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-05-28
STREETOAR TRANSFERS

Additional Concession Granted by
Manager Il. p. Vining.
E. P. Vining, manager of the Market
street Railway system. has given notice
of important additions to the list of street.
car transfers:
Commencing Tuesday, June 1, 1897, trans
fers Will be gwen from south bound cars OF
the folsonl-stIeet line to eastbound cars OF
the Solanostreet line, and from westbound
Solano-street cars 10 northbound Folsom
street cars, subtec to tn condition that pas
sengers travelling on the Folsom street line on
transfers from Solano or Third street cars will
not be given transfers TO the other of said
two lines, and that passengers travelling on
The Solano-street line on transfers from south
bound cars will not be given transfers TO any
northbound cars.
Commencing Tuesday June l. 1897, trans
fers viii be- given al the corner OF Market and
Second streets from cars of the Bryant and
Brannan and Second street lines TO inward
bound Market-sireet cable-cars; also from out
warj-bound Markets. treet cabie-catS 10 cars of
the Bryant and Bralnan and Second stree
lines during the hours that said lines are
operated rom said corner, subject 10 the con-
dItion that passengers travelling on Second
street on transfers received from outward
bound cars Will not be given transfers to any
inward bound cars.
Commencing Tuesday, June l, 1897 north
bound cars OF the Mon tgomery street line will
receive transfers al the corner OF Market and
Montgomery streets from northwesterly bound
Sixth-street cars, and Will issue tran iers at
the corner OF Jackson and Kearny streats to
northbound cars on Kearny street for North
Beach and the ferries. Southbound Monigom-
ery-street cars will receive transfers at the
aforementioned corner from southbound
Kearny-street cars, and will issue transfers at
Market street, which will be accepted on out
ward-bound SiXth-street cars, but not on cable-
cars or Oh the Eighth-street car. Other trans
fers of the Montgomery street line will remain
in force as heretofore.
Commencing Tuesday. June /, 1897 cars of
the Sixteenth-street line will make their
northerly terminus at the corner OF Ssnsome
and Jackson streets.
Northbound cars will issue transfers to
eastbound cars OF the Preside aud Ferries,
Jackson street and Sacramento street lines,
and south bound cars will receive transfers
from west bound cars af said lines.
Northeasterly bound cars of the Sixth-street
line will also issue transfers to north bound
Montgomery street cars, at The corner OF Mar
ket and Montgomery streets, and southw est
erly bound cars of the Sixth-street line will re-
ceive transfers from south bound Montgomery
street cars at said corner
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-05-28

would probably be necessary to handle it
at present. He expected TO see The day
when many wharves wonld be necessary.
He expected 10 see San Francisco with a
million inhabitants. With the new COM
peting railroad, with which Fresno and tn e
San Joaquin Valley were now equipped,
the fruit and vegetable growers had taken
new courage and were preparing to send
their best products 10 the City and hoped
the City would meet them.
The State Grange will meet on June
and discuss the subject fully in the light
of the difficulties presented, and a state
ment will be laid before the Com mission
ers INN ediately afterward, giving statis-
tics of their needs and giving some plan
for the es Enlistment of the market.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-05-28
AuCIIoN ALHs.

BY e. s. SPEAR & Co.-This day May 20, Rugs,
at kearny street, corner suffer, IL A. NJ, and
2 80 p. NJ
:, IY L. $. SPAR & Co.-This day, May %,
furniture at go Pine ST., at II O'Clock.
BY (HAs- ivy * to.-This day, May %,
furniture at 1875 Market street, at 10 O'Clock.
tRANK Y IUTIkKFIELD-This day, May
2s, Furniture, at 1l3 Larkin ST., o'clock.
BY EAsToN & r LDRI DeE.-Saturday, May 20,
Zeal Estate, 81 Geneva, MERGED County,
BY EAsToN Il ELDRIDGE.-Tuesday, June !,
Real Estate, Mt 6SS Market street. at - O'Clock.
~ KILT d Co.-Tuesday. June l. Horses,
at cor Market aud Van ess ave-. al o'clock.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-05-28
Ord ered Back to China.

Leon All Fong, one of the sixty Chinese
women arrested some weeks ago by Special
Agent Dewitt c. Jackson since dismissed)
was taken before United States Com mis- siener
Heacock yesterday afternoon for the purpose
of allowing her counsel, Lyman; l. Mowry, to
introduce testimony 10 show that she was
native of California. The witness was
Chinese woman of unquestioaable reputation,
and she lied palpably that even her attorney
blushed Judge Heacock ordered her de-
porfed to China
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-05-28
Realty sale.

Company will hold special grand auction
sale Saturday. May %, at O'Clock P. M, at
saiesroom 466 Eighth street, Oakland Those
looking for investments will do well to in
spect the properly before date of sale, as some
OF the most desirable business ana residence
lois in Oakland wils be sacrificed without re-
sar
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-05-28
ADJUSTMENTS.

BALDWIN THEATFsR An American Citizen"
MoRosco's OPERA HOUSE a Dark Secret.
,; AlCAzAR I1IEATER The hree Hats and
"Ihe First Born"
1oIuMRIA IHEATER The Fatal Card" Mon
Gay evening, May 81.
1lNoLI OPERA HOUSE Martha
oRPHEUM-Iigh- Glass Vaudeville
oBfRoN.-Grand Concert;
scTRo BATHS Bathing and Performances
HE NHUTEs AND SKATING RINK-Daily III
IAlgAt street. one block cas-, or the Park.
pICNICS AND EXCURSIONS
Fl. CAMPo-N1usic, dancing, Boating, Fishing
6NeIy sunday
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-05-28
Two More Unhappy Homes

Only two suits for divorce were filed in the
Office of the County Clerk yesterday, namely:
Elenda Johnson against Martin Johnson. for
failure to provide. and Agnes NJ. Nation
against John b. Nation, for cruelty.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-05-28
CrOSSnal' S Specific ulItQp3

With this iemedy persons tan cure themselves
without the least exposure. change OF diet,
change in appllcat on 10 business. The medicine
contains nothing that Is of he least injury to che
constitution Ask our druggist Tor " Piices 81
bottle
The St. Johns herald., 1897-10-09
Feeding Birds.

''It is a kindness, as we'll as a pleas.
 ure, to caged birds to feed them pepper
 grass and chick weed occasionally" said bird dealer to a Star reporter. Ut is something they need, as it rests them up from the various seeds which are fed them. Canaries are specially fond of pepper grass, and it does them good. There is no difficulty in finding it in the lawns or in any of the parks, and no objection is ever made to any one pull ing a few branches. Chickweed grows best in shady, protected places, and can be found in abundance. The white clover is also much relished by birds, though the red clover is better, but the latter is not so plenty except in the larger parks. The truth is, any kind of the grasses now, as they are in seed, is good for caged birds. A bird can be de- pended upon to eat no more than it should eat, for there is hardly such a thing as overlooking them. They know their limit, and they enjoy being kept up to it ,as a change from the usual seeds" s."-Washington Star.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-10-09

r., drvfng-rooms. From here the gun is sent to the "white-aproned cook, who adds the purest sugar and the freshest cream, granulated pepsin powdered guru or kola or other desired ingredient to it and cooks it in a steam. lacked caldron, where it is turned and mixed by an ingenious double-actinp heater or rotating paddle until it has assumed the consistency of bread dough.
 Now the "dough boys" take hold of it and knead it in finely powdered sugar. passing it through to the rollers" !" where it is rolled between steel rollers until 1t is of the proper thickness, when it Is whisked away to the markers"
 The markers are steel-knived rollers which leave their impress upon the long sheets of appetiZiDg gum before it goes to the seasoning room, after which it is broken on the lines left by the mark CTS. Now the gum finds it's way to the wrapping room The nimble fingers of 150 dainty maidens are here at play.
 Under their delft touch waxed paper, tin-foil and pretty wrappers envelop the, gum quick as a wink, and in anOth- CT moment the packers have the gum to place in jars or boxes, wherein it is supplied for sale to the general public Journal.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-10-09

worth over S0C0C0O in less than a year, and six or seven men struck 1t rich and sold out for over q million each. Fully half the population walked hundreds of miles to get there No railroao ran through Southern Arizona Ill tnoSe days, and the awful Colorado ana -ho
 jave deserts had to be crossed Ill wagons or on foot by the multltuues of fortune seekers from CallIorhla. Desert sand storms were encountered, and for days travellers to Tombstone endured a temperature of over 130 de grees in the shade. Many a man died on the hot, sandy plains
 Miners or their way to the new camp from the East and the South tO1led across the Arizona alkah plains, through immense cactus areas, and risked their lives in the then hostile land of the Apache Indians. For miles and miles the travellers were without water, for there were no wells, rivers or springs and many q man, with his family and horses. djed of thirst. But hardship, pain suffering and risk of life were aH secondary to an early ar rival in Iomast01s and the location of a minirg claim When Tombstone was reached there were new privations and more physical distress for the greater number espeeiauy for those who had hasteEed rem offices, stores, shops, clerkships and the pastors study. Over 0ne--t irt Of the men in camp had very ittls money, or none at all, and knCE 10 way of earning it except by tie Lardes1 kind of man. ual labor, tr which they were unused. | It cost $1 night to sleep in g dirty, | rough pine bunk. Wa--r sold at 20 l cents a gflon, a small dish of beans itt oo cents talloW candles at TWO bits (zo cents), common Oyeulls at 5 each, smoked hans at SIP eacl, and cowhide boots were disposed Of S fast IS they | could be lauled to canp across the desert fron Los Angeles and Yuma for $35 a pair. II was ground hog case with these commodities for the first ten months Of ToubstoLa-tak them at the price asked 2r go without. In 1881 all the Tombstone mines that paid well were in the hlnds Of few persons and the population of the place had gone down to 5000, Tn 1883 the mines, with two exceptions, began to peter out and the popdlation dropped to 5000 Since then it has gone down slowly to less than 1000 souls.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-10-09

NIT. Everett is a lawyer, and. having
 most Important engagement in a
 neIghOorlng town, determined to take
 the morning train to the place in uues-
 tlon. He m1scalculated the time and
 did not discover his error until warned
 Dy the train whistle. He is elderly. but
 IS an expert wheelman, and Jumping
 ll'to the saddle he dashed off to the de- pot. Just as the train started persons on the platform saw him riding with head down and feet moving like Diston rods down Harrison street to the rail- road. At the crossing the cyclist turn ed onto the gravel track between tha rails and scorched down the road after the fast receding train. As tho last car passed Evergreen place, moving at a speed which would have caused an experienced train jumper to hesitate
 the cyciSt rode abreast of the roar platform. Still pedaling with one foot and grasping the bar with one hand the scorcher reached over and clutched the railing on the platform. With A qulcK movement he swung himself clear of the saddle, drawing his wheel after him by twining his other foot around the frame, and landed safely on the steps of the car. The feat was wit. messed by at least twenty persons. and all agreed that it beat the record for any trick riding any of them had ever seen
The St. Johns herald., 1897-10-09
THE RUSH FOR GOLD.
PREVIOUS CRAZES RECALLED BY
 kLONDIKE EXCITEMENT
Many Fortune-seekers Froze in the Mountains on the Way to Rocky Belle, While Hundreds Died of Thirst and Heat,
Trials of Pioneer Miners


 The rush of gold-hungry men to the Yukon has revived recollections of ia. nous stampedes to other mining fields. The first great excitement, of course. followed the discovery of gold in Cali fornia and many stories of suffering and death are mingled with the tales of fabulous wealth. But there have been other and far more thrilling craZes. These came when the news was brought to the almost exhausted gold fields of California that great discov- cries had been made elsewhere and the miners set out to find the new riches.
 Probably the widest stampede ever known in the southwest was that to the Rocky Belle camp in northern Arizona, in the region of the Moqui h. dian reservation, in December, 1874. The region is 5000 feet above the sea and lies among SHOW clad mountains. It was an unusually cold winter when the news went abroad that Hank Bin ford and his cOmpaHions had struck a whole mountain of gold rock that
 e1J GU OhS- YOOO lO luS lOQ. The re- port seemed incredible at first, but when samples of the ore were seen by miners in Tucson, Albuquerque and Los Angeles they proved sufficient to satisfy the most skeptical. A week more and over 2,O0O miners from every part of Arizona and Southern Califor- ma were moving day and night. scarcely stopping for food and sleen, toward the Rocky Belle camp. Hun- dreds of men travelled 700 and 500 miles on foot and with mules and donkevs to the new diggings, and nearly all travelled across desert and mountain for distance of 250 to 300 miles As the multitude journeyed on the report of the richness of Hank Binford's find grew until it seemed as if wagon loads of rich gold ore awaited the travellers Merchants and professional men in Maricopa and Tucson and that part of Southern Arizona became imbued with the spirit of the miners, and turning their business over to others, Joined in | tie movement on Rocky Belle. The ]
The St. Johns herald., 1897-10-09

The operation of the postal savings bank system of Great Britain is of
 great benefit to the people of that coun- try. Too much stress cannot be laid on the importance of such system in
 developing habits of thrift in the young. Much significance attaches to the fact
 that so many of the depOsitOrs are chil-
 dren. If the youth of the present can l be taught the value of money and in- duced to save, the number of spend
 thrifts will be remarkably less in the ]. nnxt generation. and nOvertv and want
 will be far less prevalent. Postal say ings banks have done much to allay 1 discontent in England and to render l government more stable. Why should this country do less to promote the wei
 fare of its people and increase their in terest in the maintenance and well-be- ing of the Government? In Great Britain the sums standing to the credit of depositors in the postoffice bank amount to nearly $500000,0O0 In this country, with its larger population, the deposits in few years in a postal say ings bank doubtless would be large enough to absorb the entire national debt. How much better the people of this country would feel about it if the interest on the national debt were going to the small savings depositors instead
 of to large money holders, a considera- ble proportion of whom are foreignersl
The St. Johns herald., 1897-10-09

lines that will be built by the Belgian company recently chartered, 1t is an- nOunced that the French government has completed important arrangements for the extension of railroads from Cochin China, the TOnquin region, well into the adjacent Chinese provinces. On the west the transcasplan lines are ap- preaching Chinese territory. while rail- road building under English govern mental auspices iD the Malayan penin- sula is progressing with much enter prise, and new concessions have just been wrested from the Chinese govern ment. Several million dollars is about to be spent for constructing POO miles of road as an extension of existing lines. All this work in and about China means the gradual opening up of an enormous commerce with that rich and productive empire.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-10-09
THE LEGEND A MYTH.

The Enchanted Mesa of New Mexico
 Divested of It's Romance.
 The legend of the enchanted mesa. situated some distance south of Albu- querque, New Mexico, has been ex- ploded by party of explorers, headed by Prof. Libbey of Princeton Univer- sity. The mesa is perpendicular rock rising 700 feet above the surface of the plain and covering forty acres. Here. according to tradition, Acoma Indians. to the number of 1,500, dwelt in a vil- lage in the sixteenth century, their means of access to the top of the mesa being by steps they had cut in the rock. Once while the able-bodied members
The St. Johns herald., 1897-10-09

Let the gentle art of revenge be left to women. They understand better than men how to insert the metaphori- cal poignard under the fifth rib of their enemies and to drive the iron into the souls of those who have injured them. Speaking of revenge, that was a neat turn which Mrs. Smythe of Atlanta gave to her dagger. Her husband had been a candidate for the collectorship of Georgia, but had been turned down by the President, who appointed a ne- gro barber to the position. Finding that all her neighbors had indOrsed the ne- gro in preference to Major Smythe. she has thrown them into consternation by offering to rent her mansion to the ne- gro at a nominal sum. No one but a woman would have thought of that.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-10-09

A special cable dispatch from Paris
 says that the Countess of Ancaster has
 publicly announced that dancing has
 become lost art" We are constrained
 to believe that Lady Ancaster is in CT TOT. While it is true that the stately
 minuet and the quadrille of another generation have gone the way of all earthly things, other dances which be- long to a higher form of art still hold the center of the stage. Who was it a few years ago that restored American diplomacy in Paris to the lofty position it once heldi T. Jefferson Coolidge. And what means did he employ to win that diplomatic triumph? Loie Fuller and about hundred yards of cheese cloth. Certain forms of the dance have disappeared, but others remain un- changed and apparently unchangeable. The dance performed before Herod when John the Baptist was beheaded was the star attraction of the Midway during the Worlds Fair. To-day it is keeping the dime museum circuits busy.
 The cotillOn has gone and the polka and
 the SchottiSche are going. But what of that? The new dances make up in Iati- tude what the older ones have lost in longitude. High art in the dance is no longer measured by gracefuIness and genteel department. It is measured with a yardstick and is entirely mat ter of altitude. The dance undoubted- ly has degenerated. But so long as a young woman of little grace and less can earn on the stage as a dancer" larger salary than is paid to the President of this republic it is hard ly fair to classify dancing among the lost arts.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-10-09

were at work in the fields below light | ming destroyed the steps and cut off from their kinSmen the aged Indians
 and children left in the village on top
 of the mesa. To reach the unfortu-
 mates, thus isolated, was impossible
 and all of them to the number of 300
 perished. The surviving Acomas then
 moved to a new home and ever since
 regarded the mesa as sacred. Thus runs the legend.
 Last week Prof. Libbey ard party visited the mesa prepared to explore it. A line was shot across the rock. suitable tackle was made ready and separately the members ascended in a chair to the legendary home of the Acomas. The legend proved to have been unfounded. Writing of the sub- ject Prof. Libbey says: ''No traces of former inhabitants were found. Fur ther, no altars or traces of prayer sticks were found. This fact best of all shows the inaccessible character of the place, because, if it had been ac- cesSible, the medicine men of the AcOma tribe would have certainly used it for such purposes.
 Not the slightest trace was found which would enable me to believe that a human foot had ever before passed over the top of this famous rock. A few agile lizards and several gray rats were the only occupants of this castle in the air. Some fine specimens of stunted pines, few species of flow ering plants and the ubiquitous sage brush lent variety to the surface on the line of color of the bright sand stone"
 Thus dies legend that has been the inspiration of poet and romanist.
The St. Johns herald., 1897-10-09

hardships that the fortune-seekers suf
 fered in the mountains will never be
 fully known. A large number of men
 coming out of the warm, balmy air of
 the semi-tropic valleys lost their lives
 amid the snow banks and ice in the
 mountains, and many a man was made
 an invalid for life because of exposure l to the biting cold during the stampede. | A severe blizzard ragged in the noun tains for several days while the miners were slowly trudging through them. In one party of 100 men from New
 Mexico four men were frozen to death one morning, and it is thought that fully twenty more died in the same way in the mountains at that time. To this day there are in California and Arizona gray-headed miners who lack a hnger, toe or an ear lost in the ter
 rible cold of that stampede.
 When at last the Rocky Belle dig gingS were reached it was soon seen
 that there was no ore in the district worth the digging except in the claims held by Hank Binford and his friends. and that the reports of their finds had been exaggerated beyond all reason. Binford's own mine petered out a year or two later, and he got only few thousand dollars from it.
 The Rush to Tombstone.
 With the possible exception of the rush to the Leadville mining district in Colorado, there has been none any where in forty years attended with more excitement than followed the news of the finding of great deposits of gold and silver in Tombstone in 1879. | Miners from every part of the Pacific i coast caught the fever for gold, and as week after week samples of the Tomb | stone rock were more widely circulat- | ed, and rumors went forth concerning | the fortunes this or that man or con- pany was getting out of the hills and | mountains about the new camp, thou sands started for Tombstone. Hun dreds of young men and youths in the older States were wild with zeal to hasten to the new Fl Dorado and started across the continent with little or no preparation. In less than four after Gird and the Hawkinses began getting several thousand dollars a day from their mines there were over 5000 persons in the camp, and several months later Tombstone had a popula ton of over 10000 men and POO women. There never was another camp in the southwest like that at Tombstone in 1879 and 1880. Indeed, there have been very few similar communities in the world. For over seven months the daily output of precious metals aver aged about $5O,OOO. Over a dozen men went there penniless and came back
The St. Johns herald., 1897-10-09

Kansas City has an ordinance impos- Ing fine of two dollars and a half on every electOr who fails to vote at q general election. But the Supreme Court of MissOOri has just declared the ordinance invalid, on the ground. so it Is stated, that it is degrading to asso- ciate the franchise with money value. It might be well to experiment with a suggestion. made some time ago. that capitation tax of, say five dollars per dhhum' be laid upon every voter. to be remltted if he casts his ballot on elec- ton day, and vigorously collected if be ooes not. Put in this form. the propo sltlon might pass the ordeal of the courts.