New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-10-17
TOPICS IN CALIFORNIA.
AFTER COAST TRADE-MINlNG NE"S-
PERSONAL AND DRAMATIC.
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San Francisco Oct ia strong effort Is
being made by the business men of san fran
cisco 10 preserve the city trade on this eoa"''
New steamship lines are to be orgahizeu ""0'
NIL, carry freight at much lower rates ana ai
.snec,a, hid will be made for the iucrau'e
Alaska traffic. which will begin next APrli anu
will last until November. AT 10" es'n''a'
bOOOO people will go into Alaska next sp''"e
and summer and the San Francesca men W."
o. organising this movement declare that they
nropose to get their fair share OF this '"ue'
whic-. Seattle is trying to monopohze'
Pc APPS the best equipped man VINO mas '
turned from the Klondike is Henry bra''iooe''
q mining expert in the employ OF the HNpo
ton Company of London he declares '
though some of the claims are eA'iaoi u '.a.,
rich the ground is spotted and poor Chains a.e
generally found adjoining those which P3! We"
H. sovs the WELD has been greatly exaeseia'eu,
hill tho difficulties OF getting WOOD anu Vi
carving on mining have been uhueles'i"
His careful conservative estimate VIII 90 '',u0
10 check the revival Of the YUKON ieNei'
,s threatened by the boom reports from '"e
North.
Ugly exposures have been made recem.is 80
,aoard 10 the methods used In seVerai |'
etota institutions. In the Nhi'uef
School there was riot, which was o'''
,,,,h difhculty and at the Preston oo"oo' % "
austrv at lone there is fight soins OH oe'" ,,-
49, .,,rorintondant and the employees Inc
superintendent cannot remove any 800
,,,tbout the consent of the trustees, so inc ia0-
49,. oos on and the real purpose OF the
-, which is to teach boys useful traoeS' "
,oc,ec,ed Though much moLey has peeh spe
~ buildings and equipment, tnere arc ~
.oo,s or machinery for teaching the po!o' -
This and other institutions couiu DE an
q, the hands OF politicians, there "ou'u " ..aa
bone for H. but as all the offcers aie orr -
nv tive Governor in recognition OF poii"
,.,co there's small chance or an! eiH'
being done.
Two promoters OF prize-nshts nav
,of this week Joshua d. Ilpos iN -
sornad as assistant cashier IN inc
1Iorse and j. ]. Groom has haa a''d'
served on his hat store and mas iiie' ..o
q, ,rsoivAncy Gibbs and Groom seVerai sea''
ego formed what they called the Na.ioh"'
1ot,c Climb They gave out at first that PROM
49,. noort,rc mon were backing them put IN
,.. ,bev v.ore the club, and DIVIDED 'he
80. % their venture. They did gooc DUST
- ,r+u the dcht between FitZsmmoIs anu
charksv which their hired referee gave " VI.
sailor on foul that tie best eNpei's
was fake" They cleaned up iae
on this decision in bets but 1t was ia'"' ~
prosperity
Rain fell on one day throughout mus. pa
of California this week. but II cauSeu u,
only IN the southern counties, where II vas 20
cantionally heavy No less than one anu me
ouarter inches fell in Los Angeles iheie voc
- damage TO raisins in Fresno ana HNei
eide and the sugar beet growers VIII oe "e"''
losers unless they can dig their crop pn,l, n
I s w. moisture causes the beets to sprou' III
tbe soi, and lose large part OF their sugar
Tho state University Regents this week placed
Professor j. NJ Schaeberein III 80 rs'' ,s little
nberse Of Lick Observatory. and there Is r'i t
-, that at the end of the year ne VII. ne
made director. Professor Holden wHmu n. Sam
after twenty-three years or SerEcs Ia contToi
o. bonae. tho Observatory. Under MS coH'ioi
10 nensnt ,nonr the astronomers were unceas-
;n~ and Messrs. Barnard, Burnham ana 49,
MS u.s. forced out They had all done orlginai
w hut they declared they would not endure
professor Holdens autocratlc ways. sue ~
Ieins specially is the sun, ana MS sreat 80 Ia
plot was the proof four years ago ~ COW.
ppbntooraphs taken in Chill that the sun Is COW
erred with volcanoes that oelch 1orth "io''e"
material
Auoustus Thomass THE Hoosier Doctor
drew good houses at the I0i9il,n" i I'D the
THE Baldwin next week Will nave Chuei ny eii,
red Robe" which promises to be successful
The threat Of Charles Frohman to Dr1n Is, ~
wore counanjes TO California has caused fnuCi,
discussion here. While ii must ne auint'eu
that dramatic criticism in san fIahclsco 10
largely written now by those VINO nave maui ho
snecial study of the theatre. on the "thei manu-
the Eastern managers frequently SEM our lsooI
companies to present plays that nave hao
ereai success in Ncw-YOrk the result ma
been TO discourage the attendance OF the large
class of the playgoers who formerly couiu
be counted on regular patrons
All California vineyardists are watching with
interest the experiment made by the ltaiah-
swiss Colony at Asti in Sonoma County III rlpeh-
ing half a million gallons of red vine IN a sIeat
underground tank This tank is dug out OF rock
IN the hillside. is 1n4 feet long. ~ feet "!de
and - feet deep. II is coated with TWO Feet
~ cement and then glazed so that wine ages as
though i'm bottles The tank has been covered
and three feet of earth placed over the cover
so that the temperature may he kept UNIFORM
1he tank was filed this week and after threc
ronths the wine will he drawn of 10 smaller
wooden tanks in a cellar. The wine was pumped
an through two 4-inch pipes. but 1t can be
drawn off by gravity. The great tank contains
ten times as much wine as me famous VII vi
Heidelberg 1t cost only S'ooo
Puget Sound capitalists have just closed q
deal for the Black Butte quicksilver mines IN
Soutbern Oregon consisting OF go acres with
{? O0O OO0 tons of ore in sight. As the ore runs
IRON, 20 TO 10 per cent mercury and Is only
sixteen miles from railroad, the net proht
should be large,
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