New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-12-12
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Can Erancisco. Dec 11.-President Mckinley
o,..sage was received with favor here because
~ ,,s pronounced opinions in favor or havana"
annexation the Nicaragua Canal increase Oh 'io
Navy and establishment OF a better government
for Alaska. All Californians. irrespective OF pom"
tics are united in regard to the great Importance
NJ pushing work on the Nicaragua Canai. Ch'''
4, IA completed with American capital 'here can
no no great progress for California or the Facnn'
Coast With it every one admits that suoN
growth would follow as has never been Seei
since pioneer days
Stories Of big strikes in the Klondike region
have reached here from Juneau ana Seat'le TINS
week but they are SO indefinite as 10 De "oi'h
little attention. One bonanza Is SAID 10 pe on
nos creek fifty miles above Dawson where dirt
near bed rock yielded from SSoo 10 Sl'@oo 10 ."e
nan. The man who brings this story says that
x.oa,oa overland from, the Klondike in seventeen
days over the Dalton trail. a trip which Dalton
the discoverer OF the trail. had hard work 10
mako IN forty DAYS Another report comes from
Juneau and is even more unsatisfactory, as the
man who furnishes It declines TO tell the location
Of the rich district which he asserts his partner
has found These stories are probably the WORK
of braggarts who desire newspaper notorlety UT
of men who are DESTROYS of keeping aiive the eN-
element about the Klondke mines. so that a
larger crowd may be induced to go to the Yukon
country next spring.
Measures are being taken TO make the parade
of the Golden Jubilee, celebrating the discovery
of gold in California. the finest pageant ever
seem on this coast Prizes will be offered for
the most artistic floats. and every effort VIII be
made to give realistic history Of the State. All
survivors Of pioneer days will have places IN the
procession and there will be liberal representa-
ton CT cowboys Mexican vaqueros. INDIANS ana
prospectors. Probably the most interesting feat-
ure TO the younger generation will be repro
duct,on OF an old emigrant train, with actual
"prairie schooners" used by the pioneers, ana
with real Indians who formerly harassed the
emigrants and attacked them when they were
careless or weak in numbers. Another feature OF
the parade that will commend it, especially TO
tourists is the Chinese division. The Orientals
will turn out in full force, and they promise to
furnish spectacle greater than mas ever oeeh
seen here on Chinese New Year
The sensation of the week in the local stock
market has been the boom in Hawaiian COM
mercial, which opened at 23% and closed strong
at 90 The advance is due TO the confidence In
annexation. which will mean great apprecla-
ton of this stock and Of Hutchinson Plan
tatiOn. The listing or 1aWdlldn SoinHeICiai III
New-York helped the stock here.
BY a decision Of Judge Morrow this week,
Florence Blythe appears to be strengthened IN
her hold on the estate OF the old millionaire
Blythe. The Kentucky or GYPSY, Biythes are
thrown out Of the Circuit Court. but they still
maintain that they have standing IN the Fed
eral Court, as they charge that Florence was
nonresident alien at the time Blythe died. and;
in the absence OF a treaty between the United
States and Great Britain, was incompetent TO
take by inheritance. Florences attorneys, on
the contrary. regard this decision as sweeping
away the last legal obstacle to her secure pos
session Of the finest business block in the city.
1t is said her attorney, General Hart, who gets
nearly one-half the property. VIII transfer his
part to John d. Spreckels, the Oldest son or the
sugar millionaire.
Joseph Enright pioneer machinist and
foundryman, died here this week. He had lived
in San Jose for forty years. where he had built
etructed In the State. He had built thousands
of portable straw burning engines. which bear
his name. He made large fortune, but lost
II in the failure OF the Shasta Lumber Com
pany.
Justinian Caire, pioneer hardware and wire
work dealer, also died.
remarkable case Of homicidal insanity
which finally led TO suicide is that OF John W.
Sims the North Carolina wife-murderer. who
ended his life in this city this week. He was
placed in an asylum after shooting his WIFE
under circumstances that showed that his mind
was unbalanced. More than year ago he
escaped from the asylum. and detectives have
vainly sought him in various parts Of the coun-
try. He left letter giving a clear account
OF his crime. and declaring that he had never
suffered from remorse. His case would furnish
an interesting study in psychology.
Residents Of Nevada and others who are op-
posed to lynching criminals have been greatly
wrought up this week over the barbarous hang
ing by mob Of Adam Uber, Of Gardnerville.
New Uber killed Hans Anderson as the latter
was abusing him because he refused to drink
with Anderson. Uber was unpopular, while An
derson was well liked Uber was taken to the
Jail at Genoa, and on Tuesday morning the Jail
was stormed, and Uber his clothes stripped off
and his hands bound behind him. was dragged
by rope over the frozen ground to the out
skirts of the town. There. bleeding from a
score Of wounds his eyes gouged out and his
left arm broken and hacked with an axe, he
was hanged. AS his naked body hung from
the tree the mob poured volley after volley Into
1t from pistols and Winchester rifles. until II
bore little resemblance to a human being. The
Grand Jury will investigate the lynching. but
there is little prospect Of securing legal evil
dence as the Sheriff was evidently in sympathy
with the mob, since he did nothing to defend his
prisoner.
LOSS OF VISUAL ACUTENESS.