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The San Francisco call., 1898-08-24
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

MAGUIRES -subscrib- CT, Oakland, Cal. James G. Mcguire was born in Boston. Mass February 22 1853
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When the Post prints the head: "The Poisoner Will Soon Be Behind the Bars, and uses such type that the apparent statement is The Poisoner Behind Bars" the Post in its feeble way has gone into the bunko business.
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There should be every effort to catch the brute who killed the elk at Golden Gate Park. Such fend at large is a menace to the safety of the community.
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favorite tune at Sacramento is "Therell Be Hot Time in the Old Town To-Night." Also the time mentioned got there about as soon as the tune
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When those speculative Englishmen who are about to start out after ship laden with pearls shall have found it, castle in Spain would be good place to store the treasure.
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Enough naval captains are on the sick list to dem onstrate that cruise in southern waters is different from vacation sometimes
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First and Second
"Mrs. winslow's Soothing Syrup

Class rates again reduced via the Santa Fe route. Call at the new ticket office. 62S Market
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SANTIAGO DE CUBA. via Pack Mule to Bafquiri, thence by Towboat Ananias to Key West, July 16.-To Joseph Pulft- ger. Bar Harbor, Me: Yours reed. Shaf- ter is getting real gay. Won't let me fix the whole surrender. Says he ought to have something to say about it. What shall I do? SCONEL-
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RAR HARBOR, ME-, etc., July 16-To Scoyel. Santiago de Cuba, etc: Soak Shafter Rush details before you smash spot mentioned or the Journal will have us again. PULt1ZS,ER-
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There should be delay in squelching the scheme to have bloomer girls or any other girls acting as bootblacks at the ferry
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That was nice act the part Of Hilborn to con gratulate Metcalf, and only mighty mean man would think of trying to read bctWen the lines
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MANGANESE+F. l.. H., Lompoc, Cal With regard to the material named you should place yourself in communication with some reputable first class drug house. This department cannot adver- tise such
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Gators announcement that he has been forced out of the Populst party has some importance, it indicate that another party is about to acquire him
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MANGANESE-F. L. H., Lompoc, Cal. With regard to the material named you should place yourself In communication with some reputable first class drug house. This department cannot adver- tise such.
 SHILLINGS-T. F. L.. City. The United States hints never issued any shillings. coinages. In 17S3 shillings were issued in Maryland and Pinetree shillings in Mas sachusetts about 1862.
 TAXES-Miner, CouItervil1e, Cal. State and county taxes are used exclusively for State and county purposes. The Federal Government has its own and independent method of collecting revenue from the citizens of the several States and Terri tories.
 TEACHERS EXAMINATION-G L.. City. The next examination for teachers for the public schools in this city will be held some time in October at a date to be fixed. Candidates for certincates must be proficient in all studies below and includ- Ing the grade in which they apply for a certificate.
 CITIZEN AND ALIEN-Canadian; City. A native born citizen or naturalized citizen of the United States has an ad- vantage over an alien in this that he has voice in the Government. An alien may
 
 of the States, unless there Is a law to the contrary. and such law has been held l to be constitutional.
 | NEWS FROM MANILA--Curiosity Sac ramento, Cal. It is true that 1t takes a | letter about thirty days to reach Sacra- mento from Manila. but the news of the l surrender of that place and the battle be- | fore it was received by telegraph The news was prepared at Manila, sen by | transport to Hongkong and from thefe | transmitted by cable and finally by tele- graph to the Pacific Coast
 TRANSFER OF LAND-B. C., City. If A agrees to purchase a piece of prop erty from he should have a searcher of records, titles and deeds make a search for the purpose of ascertaining if there Is any incumbrance on the prop l erty unless there is already an abstract | of search If there is, he should have l the search continued from the date of the | abstract. The transfer is by deed and 1 the purchaser should see that the seller | gives him a clear deed. It Is not the l duty of the purchaser to clear off any in- cumbrance on the property.
 ENLISTED MEN-Mrs. W. H. S., City; A. T., City, and A, S.. Alcatraz. Men who enlisted in the regular or the volunteer army since the declaration of var with | Spain, now that the war is over, may make personal application for a discharge ] by addressing the Secretary of War. It l is discretionary with him whether he will
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Probably an American vessel can now go to Havana without the risk of being blown up. The war has complished something.
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Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by. the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 Mont gomery street Telephone Main 1V4z.
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BAR HARBOR, ME, via Megaphone on top of Pulitzer building. New York, July 16-Sylvester Scovel, Santiago de Cuba; Hearst is beating hell out of us Do something! Quick PULITZER.
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You will find the latest things in wall paper at Clark's. 65S Market street.
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If the Harneyites able to entertain the notion that they are not dead surely would be so heartiess as to deny them the joy of doing SO
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When the Democrats adopted their free silver plank question but they did not mean it.
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Cal. glace fruit soc per ID at pownsend's..
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sHILLINGS-T. F. L.. City. The United States hints never issued any shillings. There were, however, colonial and State coinages. In 17S3 shillings were issued in Maryland, and Pinetree shillings in Mas sachusetts about 1862.
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TAXES-Miner, Coulterville, Cal. State and county taxes are used exclusively for State and county purposes. The Federal Government has its own and independent method of collecting revenue from the citizens of the several States and Terri tories.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1898-02-17

slept In rude cots, on boards, tables,
counters, floors, trucks In the open air.
some had horse blankets. others only
a covering Of fieas.
The employments Of the newcomers
We're as varied as their nationalitles.
They worked an anything and every
thing. Common laborers received $40
per day and ordinary mechanics $40.
Five dollars day was about the small
est stipend paid even to boys. A pick
and n shovel were worth $40; a tin pan
or wooden bowl S.. and butchers
knife $40. Lumber rose to $500 per
1000 feet. Wheat -four and salt pork
sold ut $500 a barrel; a small loaf Of
bread was 30 cents, and a hard-bolled
egg 81. You paid SO to get into the cir.
Gus, and $55 for private box. Ordi-
nary coarse boots cost $40 a pair; a
stout pair. was worth $500. When a
shirt became dirty the wearer threw IL
away. Washing cost SIS dozen in
1S40.
Rents were monstrous. Three thou
sand dollars month was paid In ad-
vance for. store hurriedly built OF
rough boards; and small room on the
second floor used as a lawyers Office
rented for 81 900 month. Lodging was
equally extravagant. A bedroom in a
hotel costing $3.50 month, and a sleep
ing berth or bunk" one Of fifty in the
same apartment, SO week.
In the social life of San Francisco at
that period the gamblers cut the widest
swath. They constituted a controlling
class, with whom was all the physical,
moral and financial force. Nearly evl
erybody gambled and the stakes were
sometimes enormous. AS high as $780,
600, 1t Is said, have been risked upon a
card. Five thousand, three thousand
and one thousand were repeatedly ven
tured.
Sunday was a "wide-open' day In
California in 1S49. 1t was looked upon
only as a day for trading. recreation,
spreeing, business meetings and prep
aration for the business of the ensuing
week. 1t was very common to see large
cards hung up in clearinghouse and
business places like this: 'All bills paid
up here on Sunday" That was the day
for miners to get their blacksmith
work done and lay in their supply of
provisions for the week; the day for
holding public meetings for the enact.
ment of other municipal business.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1898-02-17
Cheap to Run Trolley Cars.

The cost of running trolley car q
mile Is found to vary greatly in differ
ent places. A Brooklyn company gets
the best results, running car one mile
for $1,000 cents. A Binghampton COM
pany does it for 94.100 cents. Cheap
coal and sound engineering seems TO
explain the low cost in these places.
The annual reports of the railroad COM
missioners Of New York and Massachu-
sets show that usually the cost is much
higher OF the five companies opera
ting over 5,OUv,OO0 car miles per year
one obtains its power at less than cent
a car mile; three between 1 and . cents,
and one between 2 and cents. OF 10
companies operating less than 100000
car miles per annum four obtained their
power at less than . cents per car mile
under average conditions of load, track,
etc, six between 2 and 3 cents, five be-
tween 3 and 4 cents, one between 4 and
cents and three at more than 5 cents.
Conditions vary greatly so that sep
arate estimate of all items of cost must
be made for each locality.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1898-02-17

the diggings. The ground upon which
the postoffice in San Francisco now
stands was sold for $3.50 and bought
hack decade later for 100000. Lick,
the man who left a fortune to build
the big telescope, purchased bi. of
ground on Montgomery avenue for $50,
which he sold thirty years afterward
for $1,00O,O00. The history of the gold
discovery of the Pacific coast Is full
enough of romance and pathos to be
told with degree of confidence at this
time.
John A. Suffer man OF enterprise
and had wandered from Baden, Ger
many, where he had been born in 1903.
having been Swiss guardsman, first
to Vancouver, then 10 the Sandwich
Islands, and finally to Alta Califor-
nia," where he settled, built farm
house, gathered flocks and herds, got
into his employ skilled workrnen. and
was prosperous. He, however, wanted
one thing-a saw mill. He had been
compelled to get his lumber at great
labor and expense from the mountains,
far distant from his farms. 30 he
sent his millwright, James Wilson
Marshall to find saw mill site. Mar
shall. who was a native Of New Jer-
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1898-02-17
BATTLING WITH SNOW.
Great Railways Are Kept Clear I'm
Winter az Enormous Cost.

Great Railways Are Kept Clear In
Winter st Enormous Cost.
There are thousands OF men In the
Northwest whose only occupation dur
ing the winter months Is to fight snow.
1t is exciting work. too. life that in
wolves the greatest hardships and con-
tinual risks. One might search the
world over for more desperate and
dangerous employment. The cost of
these snow storms to the railroads Is
something enormous. 1t Is estimated
that the two leading lines running west
through Minnesota and North Dakota,
the Northern Pacific and the Great
Northern, and the leading road in the
northern part OF South Dakota, the Chi
cago, Milwaukee and st. Paul, have
spent during one season not less than
100000 In clearing snow from their
tracks and in putting up additional
fences and guards. Besides their shops
become filed with equipments dam
aged or ruined In tussles with the hard
snow-ice on miles Of tracks. In addi-
tion, other roads, whose mileage is not
so great or whose lines are In parts of
the Northwest less exposed, are said to
have spent half rs much more In the
same time. In all 1t Is believed 81 ,000,-
600 Is not too high an estimate of the
direct loss, outside of lessened travel,
to the roads in the blizzard section dur
Ing hard winter.
Under favorable circumstances the
snow parts readily before the onslaught
of the plow, but when the drifts are
found too deep or too hard for the
plows to handle hundreds of men are
set at work, and most of them learn
for the first time that shovellng snow
Is about as hard work as man can ask.
They do not dig the track open but are
set off into little groups few yards
apart, and each group cuts square
hole down into the drift, perhaps clear
through it, perhaps only part of the
way down. Then the men are with
drawn to safe distance and the wedge
pillow, driven by three or four mogul
locomotives, pulling half dozen heav-
1ly-lOaded coal cars to give impetus 10
the mass when 1t strikes the bank Of
snow, is sent ut full speed into the hol-
lowed drift. Often the entrance is
made at speed of thirty or forty miles
an hour, and usually the drift is con-
quered.
The introduction of the rotary plOw
has simplified the task Of snow fighting
more than anything else, especially in
the prairie country. 1t bores its way
into snOw-banks, clearing just enough
space to enable the waiting train to
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1898-02-17
Let Congress Act.

The time has come for the Republic
can party, now charged with the duty
Of carrying on the government, to full
ill the pledges 1t made in 1896 to up
build the American merchant marine
In the foreign carrying trade. Let us
have some practical legislation. We
invite the attention Of Speaker Reed.
Chairman Dingley of the Ways and
Means Committee, and Chairman
Payne of the Merchant Marine Com
mittee and their Republican colleagues
in the House, to the party's promise as
to American shipping. What is the
Steamship Mems Committee doing? Is
,ur ore to remain in the ground, and are
factories, mills and shipyards to con-
tinue idle, while committees Of outsid-
ers formulate shipping bills? 1t is time
the shipping interests stopped merely
trying to get together on shipping legis.
lation. Let Congress act. Revive
American shipping! = Commercial
America.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1898-02-17

of the labor, and no hands could be got
ten to doiwork other than gold mining.
Neither he nor Marshall succeeded in
doing much at mining, and so they
went from bad to worse.
Marshall was driven away from Gallo
ma by the fights between the Indians
and the inrushing gold seekers. When
he returned several years afterward
he was bankrupt. He did all sorts of
things for eight years, and in 1857 re-
turned to his old home and made a liv-
ing by saving wood, making gardens,
and cleaning wells. Subsequently he
received a small pension from the
state, but died in 1885 in poverty at the
age of % years. 'Sntter met almost as
bad fate. He died almost in want,
and was at one time threatened with
dreams of the almshouse..
Marshalrs secret once out, the world
began to pour into California. There
were no railroads and no other sort of
roads to the Golden Gate in those
years, but all that then were in the
West led to California, and crowded
caravans crossed the Sierras constantly
and thronged packet ships sailed from
Europe and from the Atlantic coast of
America round the Horn to the glitter
ing shores of the new lei Dorado.
From February, 1S4S, to May. 1S4S,
more than 800 square-rigged vessels
were lying in the harbors stranded and
disabled for want Of sailors. the crews
having deserted to go to the gold re-
oion
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1898-02-17
SUE AS A SURGEON.

How the Great Writer Attended to
His Friends Leg.
Eugene Sue ara the eccentric wit
Romieu were intimate friends, and
often enjoyed the widest pranks to-
gether. One evening they dined at the
Cafe de Paris. On the way home Ro-
mieu made misstep and sprained his
ankle.
Sue, who had been surgeon in the
navy, picked his grooming companion
up, placed him in carriage and drove
him rapidly home, where, after put
ting him to bed, he hurriedly dressed
his foot.
At the commencement of the opera
ton ROmieu, who was suffering great
ly, tainted away and did not come to
until 1t was over, when he murmured
his heartfelt thanks for the relief he
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1898-02-17
The House Does Well.

The House rejected the Teller reso-
luton by a vote of 49, to 1872. Thus it
gave majority Of fifty against a meas
ure calculated to injure the cOuntry's
credit. 1t thus declared itself in sym
patty with the statement of the Presi-
dent that nothing should ever tempt
us-nothing ever will tempt us-to scale
down the sacred debt of the nation by
a legal technically. Whatever be the
language of the contract, the United
States will discharge all of its obliga-
lions in the currency recognized as the
best throughout the civilized world at
the time of payment"
After the action of the Senate in
adopting this Teller resolution, which
says that the bonds Of the United
States ARE payable, principal and in
terest, at the option of the. government
Of the United States, in silver dollars
of the coinage of the United States,
containing 4121a grains each of stand
ard silver; and that to restore to it's
coinage such silver coins as a legal
tender in payment Of said bonds, prin-
clpal and interest, Is not in violation of
the public faith nor in derOgation of
the rights of the public creditor" the
country will rejoice at the unhesitating
position taken by the Housekeeping
field Union.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1898-02-17

pass through. Some of the bigger plows
weigh over fifty tons by themselves.
and with the machinery that operates
them the total weight is over 100 tons.
In number of cases snow fences
along the tracks have been blown into
the cuts by winds during the storms
and then covered by snow, the whole
mass being frozen solidly. Into this
mass rotary plows have been driven,
and not being constructed to fool with
sections of fencing, they have invaria-
bly, got the worst of 1t and been disa-
bled. One disabled machine, starting
for the shops for repairs, was behind
an engine that had to leave it and run
for water. Twenty minutes after the
locomotive had gone the track was
hopelessly blocked, and 1t took three
days to get back to that rotary plow.
At another time at station in North
ern Minnesota the engine Of a passen-
ger train was detached to go to a tank
1000 feet away. When the water had
been taken the engineer found the
track blocked that he had come over
five minutes before, and it took him
and his fireman just fourteen hours to
go back that 1000 feet to the train
waiting 1T the station. A fearful bliz-
card was raging and no man from the
station dared go to their relief, while
they did not dare trust themselves
more than few feet from their ma
chine. At the end of fourteen hours
they had shoveled before the engine so
as to get back, and they were so badly
frost bitten as to be laid up for several
lays.
1t Is difficult to realize that the air
can be so full Of snow as to hide objects
only few feet away, and that this OBJ
structing snow is so fine as not to be
distinguishable at the same time. 1t is
hard to understand how a man can lose
his way in broad day on his own door
step or on the way from his house to
his barn, but hundreds have had the
experience and scores have died in con-
sequence
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1898-02-17

shut the knowledge from the world
for a time at least. With the men al
the mill the best he could do was ia
make them promise to continue their
work and say nothing of the gcld dis
covery for six weeks, by which time
he hoped to have his flour mill COM
pleted, and his other affairs SO arang'
ed as to enable him to withstand the
result. The men, indeed, were not yet
prepared to relinqulsh good wages FOL
the uncertainty of gold gathering.
If only the land could DE secured on
which this gold was scattered-for
probably 1t did not extend far in any
directon-then interloping might be
prevented, mining controlled. and the
discovery made profitable. 1t was worth
trying, at all events, Mexican grants
being no longer possible. Suffer began
by opening negotiations with the ma
tives, after the manner oe the English
Colonists on the other side OF the con-
tinent. Calling council of the Gallo
lords aboriginal Of those lands. Suffer
and Marshall obtained FROM them a
three years lease Of tract some ten
or twelve miles square, on tri6ng pay
ments of cheap ornaments. Suffer
then returned to New Helvctia, and
the great discovery was contaminated.
A messenger intrus:ed with this pOr-
tentous secret to Colonel r. b. Mason,
then the chief representative of the
United States government in Califor.
MIA, let the cat out Of the bag, and pre-
vented Suffer and Marshall from reap
ing the reward Of their great discovery.
This man was n mill hand-Charles
who was instructed to say nothing
about the gold find, but assist Marshall
to make arrangements to secure the
saw mill and the land about with
mineral rights" from the government.
But Bennett could not keep the enorm-
Gus importance of his errand to him.
self. He met some prospectors who
had an idea of finding coal, and during
their talk exclaimed: "Oh, have
something here better than COAL" ex-
hibiting his specimens. He showed
them to others, and so the matter got
abroad. Bennett and Marshall found
Colonel Mason at Monterey, who, when
the messenger exhibited the gold, re-
fused to make any promises as to a
grant Of land.
The upshOt was that gold seekers be-
gan to pour in about Caloma and the
saw mill from Francisco and Monterey,
and Suffer had finally to abandon most
of his industrial enterprises. The stor-
les of those days would fill volumes,
and 1t only remains to chronicle the
fate Of the two luckless men who found
the treasure, but did not profit by 1t.
Suffers saw mill did not prosper, be-
cause the gold fever had absorbed all
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1898-02-17

n. 1S4S--he made his great discovery.
watching the tail race of the new mill
he noticed bright yellow particles
mingled with the dust which had been
washed out by the recent rains. At
FIRST he attached little Importance 10 ii,
but upon examination, seeing more and
more of 1t, and some in shining scales,
the thought occurred to him that 1t
might be gold. He sent an Indian to
his camp for a tin plate. and In this
washed out some of the dirt. He found
b few grains Of clear dust and went off
10 mediate. He said something 10 his
companions to the effect that perhaps
he might find a gold mine. To which
they replied with smiles: "Guess not (;
NO such luck" But he could not put
the idea out of his mind. The next day
ne made a closer examination OF the
washed-up soil, and found a nugger,
out was not yet sure that 1t was gold.
He weighed 1t in his hand. He bit 1t.
he hammered 1t between stones. Sure
II II must be gold. And so 1t was, and
60 the great secret of the Sierra stood
pevealed.
lHe found more of the metal. and
fytcn mounted his horse and hastened
hack to Suffer, to whom he told the
Story. A private examination by the
s.srtners up the river disclosed gold
along its course, and In the tributary
rnvines and creeks.
suffer regarded the discovery as q
uisfortune. without laborers his
extensive works must come to a stop
nreeaging ruin. Gladly would he have