The San Francisco call., 1897-09-12
and minor pieces, but that soon became in

| operative
| CLPPERroN IsLAND-N. A. 8, City. Clipper
| ton Island is in the Pacific Ocean, go miles
| from Acapulco in southwesterly direction
| therefrom. There is colony of men in the
! employ of q company that collects guano
J there. II is dangerous, low, lagoon island
{ about three miles long from north TO soutn
ana about the same width from east 10 west.
In the center there is a large lagoon. III was
discovered BY Dampiers companion, captain
CIipperton, for whom it was named. He made
ihe discovery in 1908, after separating from
Dampier and while on his way 10 the Indies.
Captain Sir Edward Belcher, who hrst gave 10
the world an sccouut OF the island, salo that
there were no living trees TO be seen upon II,
| but that il Was covered with boobies, frigate
| pelicans and several kinds of tern. Plenty OF
{ fish are found. A report received last June says
that there is no vegetation on the island save
some patches in the lagoon, but seldom out OF
! the water, and that there is plenty OF hsh.
! sharks and crawfish. The island. or coral reef
as IL is sometimes called, has never been sur
| veyed and It's dimensions are only guessWork.
It's height is from five to fourteen feet above
high wafer.
| MINERAL LANDs-D. NJ, City. Section 231S
| OF the United States Statutes says: ain all
cases lands valuable for minerals shall be re-
served from sale, except as otherwise ex
! pressly directed by law"
! Section 2319 SAYS: ''All valuable mineral
| deposits in lands belonging to the United
/ States both surveyed and unsurYeyed, are
| here by declared 10 be free and open TO explo-
| ration and purchase by citizens OF the United
| States and those who have declared their iu-
/ tention TO become such, under regula tions
| prescr ibed by Jaw, and according to the local
customs or rules OF miners in the several min
ing districts so far as the same are applies bic
J and not inconsistent with the laws OF the
United States"
! Section 1920 says: mining claims upon
veins or lodes of quartz or other rock IN places
bearing gold, silver, cinnabar. lead, tin, cop
! per or other valuable deposits, heretofore To-
! Gated, shall be governed as to length along
| the vein or lode by the customs regulations
and laws in force at the date of their location.
| A mining claim located after the 10th day OF
| May, 1872, whether located by one or more
persons, may equal but shall not exceed 1900
! feet in length along the vein or lode; but no
I location OF q mining claim snall be made un til
/ after the discovery OF the vein or lode within
| the limits of the claim located No claim shall
exceed more than 800 feet on each side OF the
any claim be limited by any mining regula-
| tion to less than % feet on each side of the
middle of the vein at the surface"
WAGON TIREs-Rex, San Jose, Cal. At the
last held session of the Legislature OF Califor-
MIA the following law in relation TO wagon
/ tires was passed;
The width of tires fer wheels upon wagons or
other vehicles be used upon the pa bile high
! ways of the state of California shall be Tor the
! FOL owing styles of wagons as follows;
Two and three-quarter inch steel or thimble-
skein axle. 7s inch tubular steel or iron axle not
less tnan g. nch tire: 11s inch steel iron axle
pa inch tubular or iron axle not less than 31a-
! inch tire; 3 inch steel or thimble skeiu 15s inch
iroD 23 tubular steel or iron axle, not less
than inch tire; S14 inch steel or thimole ssetn,
! "a rs steel or iron, 25s tubular steel or iron
axe not less than 412inch tire; 312 inch steel or
thimble skein. pinch Steel or iron, rs inch ubu-
| lar steel or iron axle. not leSs tAsn o-lnch
| tire: 33I-inch steel Thin bic Skeln, 214-inch
| steel or iron, or 31s-inch tubular steel or iron
axle. less than 519-inch tire; 4-inch and larger
steei OF thimble SseiH, inch and larger stee!
or iron. 314inch aud larger tabular steel OF iron
! axle, not less than 6iach tire.
Other styles of axles shall have tires of the
! same width as those of equal carrying CO paeity
! above enumerated. Ail intermediate axles
| shall have tires of the same width as the next
| larger size above specified
| To sell or purchase or to use on public
highway wagons or vehicles not having tires
| as above specified is a misdemeanor, and TO
| bring into the State and offer to sell wagons
/ not provided with such tires is alsosa misde-
meanor. The punishmsn is not less than
| S25 nor more than $500 fine or imprison-
ment, nor less than % days nor more than $50
| days.
! THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE-Argument, City
| The following. from lecture by NJ. Muller on
/ "The Science of Language" is probably as full
/ an answer as can be given 10 tae oues ton,
''Is more than 80 per cent of the English
language derived from foreign langusges?"
| There is, perhaps. no language so full OF
| words derived from the most distant sources
| as English. Every country of the globe seems
/ to have brought some of it's verbal manuiac-
| lures 10 the Intellectual market of gland.
| Latin. Greek. Hebrew. Celtic, Saxon, Danish,
| French, Spanish, Italian, German-nay, even