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it will result in an industrial revolution
in this section of the valley.
A cursory glance at the plant as con-
TEN plated will convince any one that the
project, without its equal in the world, is
OF immeasurable significance to the people
of Salinas Valley, and that they be quite
pardonabIe for their enthusias N in con-
templating its erection.
The factory will be picturesquely situ-
ated, about four and half miles southeast
of Salinas City, on the banks OF the Salinas
River. On three sides of it lie the great
plains of Salinas Valley, while imme-
diately south and just across the Salinas
River Mount Toro commences its ascent
from the level valley and reaches an alti-
tude of BOO feet. Within the shadow of
this mountain the great buildings will rear
their forms.
The first building met on approach to
the grounds will be the office, modern
brick structure 40x80 feet and two stories
high, where the clerical force will be
hou ed. Here also the beets to be crush ed
will be weighed and accounted for. Pro-
ceeding on the grounds in a southerly
direction one next comes to the beet
sheds. These sheds are five in number.
separated by drlveways, and have each a
with of 40 feet and length of 804 feet,
making a combined structure covering
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he beet crop one has II tons to the acre.
Experience also has iroven tha alter use
land for beet crops II IS cleaner, and far
better results are had in growing grain
The pulp from the factory will feed and
fatten thousand of head of cattle. The
yearly output of sugar in five months
camuaign will be about $4,000 tons or
120 900, 600 pounds.
An approximate idea of the size of Mr..
Spreckels' new am bition can be had by
comparison with he rest of the best sugar
factor es in t. e State. The factory at
Watsonville has capacity of 1000 tons of
beets a day, the Chino factory capacity
OF 75O tons per day and the factory at AL
varado canaclty of 500 tons per day,
making total of all the factories COM
blned of 2250 tons per day or capacity
snort of the capacity of Mr.. Spreckels'
new factory of 750 tons OF beets per day.
With this prospect in view it is quite
reasonable that the people of Salinas City
and the valley about it are spurred to
degree of high expectation. and are lend
ing their full sympathles to this enter
prise, which promises so much for their
future; for no doubt, aside from the
benefits derived from the esta blishment of
the factory itself, other industries will
spring up as consequence OF 1t, for the
valley is large covering an area OF GAG. 900
acres, with abundant natural resources,
rich and fertile in varied soil with cli-
mate unmatchable, but little known to
the great outside world, and with vast
tracts in it where even to this day the
only sound that is heard is the crv of the
shepherd 10 his vagrant dog. The faith
of the people is solidly planted. the fac
tory is no experiment, and its protector
knows no such word as failure and when
these propitiatory signs shall develop to
things real, Salinas Val ley will owe its
progress and prosperity to the indomitable
spirit and tireless energy of Claus
Spreckels.
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THE Bull DING TRADES,
Very Little Work Now in the
Carpentering Line in This
City.
The Matter of the City Hall M arbe
Work Laid Before the Stone.
Cutters Union.

Within the past week the assertion that
times in the carpentering trade are br SIX
and that the members of the craft are
nearly ali busy has been repeated by sew
eral, and at last found its way into print.
The statement is not correct. To the con-
trary. work is hard to obtain, and there
are far more men than there are jobs.
At the meetings of the Carpenters and
Joincrs' Unions Nos. 304 and 4S3 last even
ing the matter was discussed and the
statements were made that the assertion
mentioned is misleading and injurious
A large number of union carpenters are
out of employment.
the outside world there will be rush tc
this City, which is now sadly oveFcrowded
with men who are involunIariIy idle.
For example there are about 400 car.
penters now in Carson, New. Should
tuese become missed and come to this
City In the expectation of obtaining en-
ployment the situation would be more
EN- barTassing.
A meeting of the Sandstone-cutters'
Union was held at 1159 Mission street and
large representation was present. An
audience was given to committee from
the Marble Cutters and Polishers' Union,
consisting OF J. T. McCann, M. ]. Fla
herty ana j. j. Hourlgan.
The latter called attention to the marble
| work now being done in the dome of the
City Hall. The committee stated that it's
union de- Tres the cooperation of the
Sandstone-cutters' Union in protesting
against The work that is being done on
that job.
The objection Is to the nature of the
work being done there and the committee
asserted that IL is not being performed ac-
cording 10 the plans and specifications as
called for in the contract They further
asserted that the City Hall Com m ssion-
ers had been informed of the situation.
but lhat these officials seem disposed not
TO bother with the matter.
The sandstone-cutters will consider the
subject at their next meeting.
Inc organization committee OF the
Building Trades Council also appeared
and urged the union 10 affiliate with the
council. This, too, will be decided at the
next meeting. In the meantime a COM
mittee was appointed to look into the
proposition.
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luxury that the husbands wealth would
permit. They would make the journey
by easy stages, stopping where the fancy
seized them.
Oakley went so far in his plan as to get
a passport for him self, his wife and the
child. Then came the siren on the scene
and the pretty plan was shattered.
How she gained the mastery over Oak
ley will perhaps never be told, but she
gained it and instead of the peaceful and
respectable journey with his wife and
baby he whirled madly across the cOnti-
nent in perfect drencn of cham pagne.
The artful adventures may haye known
OF his intention of going to Japan, and
thus been able to more easily lead him, or
she may have !ured him from his fire 'ide on
the spur OF the moment, but one thing is
certain-she knew he had money or she
would never have been his companion.
That she was TO figure as his wife in the
Ori mt is proved by the fact that he had
engaged passage on the China steamer for
Oakley and WIFE"
The story of his dizzy flight is told by
the documents Coroner Hawkins was per-
mitted by the Palace Hotel management
to see yesterday
There was letter of credit for f100O
drawn bv Brown Bros. e. Co. on Brown,
Shipley d Co. of London. Apparently his
TeduY CaSH ldSleQ untli the woman naQ
landed him among her friends in New
Orleans, for it appears that the first
amount charged against the letter was
f42 on February %. This last d but
day, for on the Oath he drew ESQ and on
The 3Oth EGO more. Seven hundred and
fifty dollars went in week, and then the
pair started for San Francisco, champagne
flowing like water all the way.
Arrived here there were more demands
for coin. On the 1st inst. he drew f100
and on the "a f40 more, nearly f70O in
all. Then death exhausted Oakley lie ter
of credit, and the siren, bereft of the
source from which her purse was lined,
fed back over her trail of dishonor and
death. leaving her dupe to be cared for by
strangers
The papers shown the Coroner con-
sisted in addition 10 the letter of credit,
OF letters of introduction to Mrs. Brtton
of Yokohama, Mrs. Dr. J. Ballard at Kobe,
and others.
The inquest on the case will be held
.his morning at the Morgue. and Coroner
Hawkins will make great effort to ascer-
tain something definite regarding he cir
| cumstances surrounding Oakley's death.
The manager and clerks, as well as other
employees Of the hotel, have been subpe-
naed, and will be asked particularly re-
gardlng the woman who accompanied
Oakley.
1t is not thought probable that anything
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Read the great expose in THE
CALL Tomorrow, 1.-THE HypO-
critic UnmaSked..
CARSON PIGEON SHOOT.

Ned Fay Received an Order From
Stuart to Ship Birds.
Ned Fay, prominent local sportsman,
is of the opinion that there will not be a
pigeon shooting tournament held in Car
son in conjunction wlta the big pr1ze-fig bit.
Mr.. Fay said yesterday that he had re-
ceived an order from Stuart to purchase
several dozen OF the best pigeons he. could
find in this City and ship them to Carson.
Fay answered back that the sportsmen of
San Francisco did not approve of pigeon
tournament being held at Carson during
the time in which prize-fg ghting will reign
supreme, and as a consequences he recon-
mended the postponement of the trap
shooting events until May or June, when
an event of the kind can be carried off
successfully. Mr.. Fay will not purchase
birds for the shoot until he receives an
answer to his letter. He adds that there
is wide difference in the meaning of the
words sporting man and sportsman, and
that they do not travel hand in hand as
many people imagine.
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soon SAL|NAS WILL SEE ITS
GRAND BEET SUGAR FACTORY
A Mammoth Enterprise That Means the Investment
of Two and Half Million
Dollars.

nearly four acres of ground. In each
there are two tracks. Two trains can
enter any one shed an d deposit beets in
the V-shaped bins from which the beets
are Immediately carried to the ditch
below, cement-formed canal Is inches in
width, and in it carried to the cleaning
house, from there to proceed to undergo
the many processes that finally convert
them in to sugar.
To the north of these sheds there will be
provided cemented floors for dumping
beets, measure contrlved for the conve-
nience OF the farmers at the end of the
season, when the bins shall prove made
quate, and an immediate removal of the
beet crop becomes necessary.
One hundred and fifty feet from the
sheds and to the south, one is brought
against the main buildings of the plant.
The principal building is structure 106x
$50 ieet, built of brick and five stories
high. with roof of slate. The extreme
height of this building is 130 feet. In
here there is wilderness of machinery
almost beyond the power of description.
Machinery of the most ingenious type,
evidencing the very latest attainmeEts
and skill in the art of mechanism, and
the patents for much of which are exclu-
siveIy controlled and owned by Mr..
Sprec6els. When this vast and compli-
Gated array of machinery is in motion, it
will crush daily over 5000 tons OF beets
and produce 1000, 600 pounds OF sugar
This vast product is hauled by trains that
enter this building at the northeast cor
ner, there being two tracks for that pur-
pose.
Separated from the principal building
by track and distant to the east "a feet
is the boiler and llmekiln house. In this
house is developed the great power that
moves the machinery OF the plant and is
store1 the lime used in the sngar-making
process. The dimensions of this building
is 65x557 feet. From its roof will project
two steel smokestacks. with diameters of
10 feet and a height of 200 feet.
Further toward the east and distant "a
feet with track between is located the
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CLAUS SPRECKELS'PLANS
FOR THE STATE.
Over Six Hundred Men Will Be
Employed and Scores OF Farm
ers Find a Market.
MONTEREY COUNTY WARMLY
INTERESTED.
E aborate Scale of BuildingS-A Great
Industry That AugurS Much
10 California.

Although the time is not definitely
fixed it is not far removed when active
operations will be begun in the erection
of the great beet-sugar factory projected
by Claus Spreckels.
The citizens of Salinas and of the valley
at large keenly appreciate the great i'm
portance of the mammoth undertaking g
propos ed by Mr.. Spreckels and feel that
the future aagurs substantial and perma.
nent advantages from this enterprise, and
as the time draws near TO the realization of
the factory as an actual factor in their in
dustrial works they are still more i'm
pressed with its magnitude and its glow
ing promises.
1t is no exaggeration to say that when
M. Spreckels' ambition is fully realized
and this stupendous plant is in operation
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OAKLEY'S FLIGHT
WAS AN IMPULSE
He Had Planned to Go to
Japan With His Wife
and Baby.
Money Was Spent Like Water
While Journeying to
This City.

John N. Oakley's mad career across the
country in company with an adventures
that ended in his death at the Palace was
apparently not premeditated, but rather
the sudden Impulse of a drink -soddened
brain.
1t would seem that sitting ct home in
Pittsburg with his wife and little child
they had planned q journey 10 the Orient,
where he could gain much-needed rest.
They would go to the land of the chrysan-
themum and there. under the genial sun
of the Mikado's domain, dwell in the idle
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FOOD COFFEE.
WOULD LIKE
To Claim tho Benefit If True

~-~O
A gentleman stated that he had gentle
running off at the bowels shortly after
leaving off coffee and starting in the use
of Postum Cereal.
The makers would not object to claiming
so desirable a feature for Postum if he
claim could be sustained, for there is not h.
ing will do an old coffee drinker SO much
good as free action of that sort.
But unfortunately Postum cannot be de-
pended upon 10 produce this result, as it is
composed only of grains and has no effect
excspt as very nourishing LIQUID iood
The fact is that coffee tends to congest
the liver and prevent its free working.
Therefore if coffee drinker Will qui, the
use of it, frequently the congestion will be
relieved and the accqm ulation of bile will
pass of and clean out the bowels. Then
continue the use of Postum anG keep we'll
1t Is pure ood d-drink and is nourish ing
and fattening. A package can bs had
postpaid for 25c OF the Postum Cereal Co.,
Lim., Battle Creek, Mich.
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This morning a. 10 o'clock the mass for the
deceased members OF ST. Joseph's Union will
be celebrated in St. Mary's Cathedral. This
charitable society takes care of homeless chil
dren. The members volunteer to contribute
TO the support of the Youths Directory, where
the destitute children kept until places
are got for them in respectable families,
where they are brought up to be good MEM
bers OF society
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United States Circuit Court yesterday morning
did not proceed very far because Of the anxiety
OF the defense to consider the returns made by
the United States Marshal. The case went
over until this morning at 10 O'Clock, when it
is understood that Attorney Black will fight
the return of Marshal Baldwin.
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Sold Liquor to Thor Brothers.

James Anderson, Milo Ferry and James
Richards, three Hoopa Valley Indians, will be
tried in the United States District Court to-
day for selling liquor to other aborigines on
the Hoopa Valley Reservation. They were re-
Gently indicted by the United States Grand
Jury and arrested in the valley by United
States Deputy Marshal.
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GLOVE DEPARTMENT!

AND HOOK KID CLOVES black only regular
price and 81 so pair, will be offered
80 dozen sBUTTON UNDRESSED MOUSQUETAIRE KID
GLOVES former price 81 so pair will be offered
so sBUTToN LENGTH MOUsQUETAIRE FRENCH
so dozen sBUTTON UNDRESSED MOUSQUETAIRE KID
GLOVES 81 will be
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Read the great expose i'm THE
CALL Tomorrow, 1.-THE HypO.
critic Unlnasked.''
BuxtOn La MisainD

DuAUOu
Samuel Buxton. a nephew of William NAL
lady, the undertaken, has been missing for
four days past, and his relatives are growing
anxious as TO his whereabouts. He lived al
345 Jessie street and is about feet inches
tail and of light complexion
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definite regarding her will be learned, as
she took care to remove everything belong
ing to her.
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ARE FRIENDLY TO 1.-THE CALL
and Carpenters Unions Rescind
Resolutions That Were Passed Under
Misapprehension.

(5vot cotwigAsd7he Examiner is at liberty to rsbn6hsh)
The following communications tell their own story:
SAN FRANCISCO March g. 1897
To the Editor of The CaN-SR: At the last meeting OF
Carpenters and Joners Union No. 3o4 certain statements
were made upon the strength of which the union passed
resolutions condemnng THE CALL We have since learned
that the statements made unWarranted and msead-
ing and at the meeting held this evening those resolutions
rescinded this union does not wish to do an nus-
ce to THE CALL which has always been fair and impartial
in its dealings with the labor unions and Workngmen.
WILLIAM JILGE,
President Carpenters and Joiners Union No. 3o4
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IF your printer can't get the Genuine Bank
Stock" paper. send to Mysell-Rollins, % Clay"
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-09

Buffers Case Continued.
The Butler habeas corpus proceedings in the
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-09
The St. Joseph,s Union.

JEwELRY store, 81 Third removed to sos
Kearny. Large stock Of diamonds. watches etc.
The San Francisco call., 1897-03-09

Willy grocers sometimes work in cheap
limitations of Postum Cereal Coffee if the
customer will stand it.
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TEMPTING OFFERINGS
TO INTRODUCE OUR
PEERLESS COLLECTION
NEW SPRING GOODS!

Introductory Spring goods last proved
Notwithstanding unfavorabe weather
for the INFINITE VARIETY CORRECT AND BEAlTJEIU
STYLES exhibited surpassed the expectations best
for presenting the VERY NEWEST FASH
simultaneously with their display Eastern fashion cente
and IN advance of other firms.
The MARVELOUSLY LOW PRICES quoted proved an equally
agreeable surprise and this surprise fail intensified
following other SPECIAL BARGAINS OFFERED
WEEK extra nducement the inspection
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GREATLY AUGMENTED DISPLAY!
SILK DEPARTMENT.!

regular value for yard will offered
regular will be offered
SURAH SILK regular
COLORED TAFFETA SILK regular price c yard will be
DUCHESSE yard
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LINENS! LINENS!

LINENS-The standard grades will be pushed this
week if The VALUES ARE GREAT.
LINEN edges Sc
~
INCH WIDE CHECK GLASS TowELING,
Z
2c
HA f TABLE dice patterns 50 inches wild" zoe
CREAM TABLE DAMAsk Irish linen (no the cotton mixed kind 35c
sB. TABLE DAnAsk not great deal Left 55c
HEAVY UNBLEACHED TURKISH TOWELS l()c
EXTRA SPECIALS!
BLEACHED
20 dozen 64 BLEACHED SHEETS BEDS well 25c
"a Xxx sHEETING, unbched 81 wde
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CLOAK DEPARTMENT!

100 da atAeh ALPACA SKIRTS d regular price 81 each will be $
100 1a. BAsk ALPACA SKIRTS regular price s. each wi"
BaDa oss alpaca SKIRTS Dr0eaasd regular price So each will be
Baok s,ss 1 A.2sd SKIRTS variety of regular price
aS SERGE SUITS in blue and black regular price sa will be
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BLACK GOODS DEPARTMENT


pieces WEAYEs regular
will be offered
STORM
will be offered
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EXTRA SPECIALS!
LADIES' SILK UNDERSKIRTS!

About 165 LADIES BLACK SILK UNDERsKIRTS.
the dollar Prices So 50 "
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Last week of our very successful sale or
Fine hite Wool Blankets. Prices again cut.
See s.Examirer" for few special numbers
and prices.
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be distribution
will mailed application.
The herald., 1897-10-24
OIL PROSPECTS
The Shutdown Has Helped Prices
Opening New District

The Shutdown Has Helped Prices.
Opening New District
"Oil prospects are good at the present
time" said Secretary Strasburg of the
Oil exchange yesterday "and the shut
down will be big thing for producers.
We may find it necessary to start pump
ing before the first of November, which
was the original date. but 1 am not at
present in position to speak definitely.
The Southern Pacific is buying some nine
thousand barrels a month from u.s. in
addition to what they are getting from
their own wells, which they are still
pumping. The outside owners are
gradually joining the organization and
this last shutdown will undoubtedly es.
tablish the power of the trustees in the
fields.
"Are the wells giving out? Well,
think that in another two years the field
west Of the river will be almost aband-
oned, and East Los Angeles will be the
happy hunting ground for the we'll borer
and his oil-smeared derrick. 1t is the
opinion of number Of authorities that
the results would be very much more
gratifying in the district east of the river
and north Of San Fernando street as far
as regards the quality and flow of oil
All fear of overproduction has been re-
moved in the last two months, as we ex-
pect to have more orders than we can
fill after we start pumping again. 1t is
doubtful if another shutdown will be
necessary, for four or five months any
way"
The herald., 1897-10-24
EVENTS OF TODAY

Orpheum-Vaudeville.
Burbank-'The Gray Mare"
The herald., 1897-10-24
THE SOCIAL DEMOCRACY
Principles Of the Organization Elk
plained-A Public Meeting

Paulk's hall contained fair-sized and
interested audience last evening to lis
ten to an explanation of the principles of
the Social Democracy. Job Hartman
spoke of the rise Of socialism out of eco
nomic necessity.
Socialism is not beautiful picture, of
the stuff that dreams are made but a
commercial evolution, as logical as 1t is
inevitable. The wage system by the very
nature of it's operations, exploits the
worlds workers and heaps colossal
wealth on a few, who do little or no
work.
DR.. A. j. Stevens. a speaker and writer
on economics, outlined the working of
the Social Democracy. He said they
proposed to colonize several thousand
Socialists in some western state, prob
ably Washington, capture the political
machinery of the state and turn all in
dustries. as fast as practicable, into
state ownership.
The West Enders will give another
public meeting soon.