The San Francisco call., 1898-04-07

just outside of Hornitos. He found the center of the maze one evening at apout o'clock and it was about an hour after midnight when he found the way out He is still taking up the rents in his clothing. The following morning Jordan and a COW became aware of each others 8 presence at about the same time. The cow was wearing a brindle hide, a dewlap and a tail, while Jordan was attired in a bright red sweater The ensuing race was one of the most exciting in the his tory of mountain sport, and was won by Jordan, who beat the COW to a five-barred hurdle by about length, though he failed to clear the ditch on the other side. The afternoon of the same day this won derful discoverer became possessed of a piece of information that will finger in his memory when many another fact shall have faded away and been for gotten, namely, the surprising force with which man can fall from a horse whose back looks, to the observer standing in the road to be not over three feet from the ground.
 Mir. Jordan wanted a horse and after some trouble, small beast of buckskin tendencies and uncertain temperament was procured. The animal was led up to where that gentleman was standing
 
 porters of how he used to break his own string when he worked at cow punching, and stood quietly enough waiting for Joe to finish; but as soon as that gentleman had concluded and started to mount him a change came over the beasts demeanor He sidled this way and that, and it was only with the help of half a dozen by islanders that his temporary rider was at length enabled to mount into the sad dle, where he remained for exactly thirteen seconds. and then hit the road with such force that. when his friends came to his assistance he said: Don't touch me, boys; the top of my head is cracked clear around, and if you 1oggle me it will fall off like the top of a split cocoanut. Just tell my wife my last thoughts were of her, and leave me to die in peace''
 IL was 1ound, however, that things were not as bad as he imagined He had. for tunately. fallen on his face, so no partic- ular harm was done.
 Edgar Ashcroft. owner of the Broken Hill mines of Victoria, N S. w., and dis coVerer of the sulphite process of saving silver, Is a guest at the Palace.
 Norman Menzies, proprietor of Menzies' Hotel In Melbourne, is one of the arrivals on the Alameda who went to the Palace MT. Menzies Is accompanied by his daughter.
 G. W. Star, 8 mining man of South Africa, who manages ten mines in the vicinity of Johannesburg, is one of those who got in on the Alameda yesterday and went to the Palace.
 George Condon, member of the Lon don Chartered Company's forces at Jo- hannesburg, Is at the Occidental He ar rived yesterday and the report is that he Is on his way to the Klondike
 MT. and Mrs. Stennett of Brisbane, New Zealand. F. Einning of New Zea- land, D. N. Nolan and family of Auck- land, and M. M. Wilkie of Auckland, all arrived on the Alameda yesterday and went to the Occidental
 Among the passengers of the Alameda who registered at the Palace yesterday are E. Howard Taylor of Australia, w. s. Spencer and T. R. Bell of Melbourne and J. w. White of Sydney, who is ac- companied by his wife and dauhter.
 J. O. Fairfax, proprietor of the Sydney Morning Herald, and w. G. L. Spowers, proprietor of the Melbourne Argus and Weekly Australasian. are two newspaper men from the Antipodes who arrived on the Alameda yesterday. Both gentlemen are staying at the Palace, and are ac- companied by their wives.
 Miss Chispa de Greayer Sanborn, daugh- ter of William D. Sanborn, general agent of the Burlington route. who has been spending the winter in the East with her grandmother, Mrs. s. A. Sanborn, of Galesburg, Ill.,, and also visiting friends in Chicago, St. Louis and Omaha, re- turned home last Monday, and will here after be at home to her friends at 14O6 Buchanan street.
 V. M Clement, mining man of South Africa, who was one of the Jameson raid CTS, and who was captured by the Boers and only liberated after paying a fine of G2000, is a guest at the Palace, where he arrived yesterday on his way from Africa to the Klondike, where he goes with George Star, another South African ex- pert, to look into the mining opportuni- ties of Alaska MT. Clement Is an old Californian, being at one time superin- tendent of the Bunker Hill, Sullivan and other mining properties of this State. He is an intimate friend of John Hays Ham, mond and other big American mining men of Johannesburg who have made names for themselves that are known all over the world. Mrs. Clement accompanies her husband.