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The San Francisco call., 1899-07-08
OIL TO Be USED
on THE STREETS
Will Supplant Water at
Santa Barbara.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

SANTA BARBARA, July 6.-Santa Bar
bara streets will hereafter be sprinkled
with oil. The Board of Supervisors has
decided to do away with the old style of
using water to settle the dust and claims
it has solved the problem of turning bad
roads into good ones and keeping them in
proper condition with less expense, at the
same time making it easier for teams to
haul heavy loads. The oil used is crude
petroleum mined at Summerland. With
two sprinklings in a months time the
roads will have a hard surface similar to
asphaltum and the cost to the county will
be only about S25 month. Applied twice
each month the oil keeps the dust down
better than water applied twic" each day.
The most sandy roads will become hard
and firm under this treatment.
Colonel Deaderick of Carpenteria was
the first to try the experiment. He started
by using the sand around the oil wells
be as good, If not better. 1t proved sue
cessful, turning roads that were impass-
able TO hard and firm highways. On the
Fourth of July the Supervisors, escorted
by Colonel Deaderick, inspected the work
done on the roads in his district. They
were surprised and delighted, and the
more they inspected the more enthusiastic
they became.
Large storage tanks will be erected
along the railroad, and oil can be shipped
miles, at very low cost. The Supervisors
of each district will supply the necessary
apparatus and in a short time oil will be
the only dust settler used. 1t will be es
pecially beneficial to the wheelmen, who
Contemplated introducing a resolution for
a bicycle path from this city to Carpen
terra. This plan was abandoned as soon
as oil was introduced.
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-08
AFTER THE BULLY HILL MINES
Captain de la Mars Proposed Invest
ment in Shasta County

REDDING, July Tt is reported here
that Captain de la Mar is negotiating for
the Bully Hill copper mines in this coun-
ty owned by James Sallee. The $3.50. 900
bond on the property held by L. A. Scow-
den. q New York mining promoter, eX-
pired on the 1st of July, and it is an
nounced Sallee will not renew the bond
to Scowden. About a month before the
expiration of the bond an expert named
Bulla, representing the Utah millionaire
mine owner, made a visit of inspection
to Copper City in the interest of Captain
de la Mar. but as hard feelings existed, it
is said, between Bulla and Scowden, the
latter refused to allow Bulla to enter the
mine during the life or the Scowden op-
ton 1t is now said Sallee has raised the
price of the Bully Hill property to $780,
000-the same figure at which the Iron
Mountain mine was sold. and in which
Sallee held a third interest. German
syndicate is making overtures for the
Bully Hill property.
A w. Robinson of the engineering de-
partment of the Southern Pacific Com
pany at Sacramento made a special trip
to the Copper City country a few days
ago, presumably to ascertain the feast
bility of a branch railroad from the main
line. The Bully Hill mines are an i'm
mense smelling proposition, carrying cop
per- gold and silver.
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-08
FAILS TO TURN IN
LICENSE MONEYS
Napa's Marshal Short IN
His Accounts.
Special Dispatch to The call

NAPA July For several weeks ru-
mors have been afloat concerning. lrIesu.
larities in the City Marshals methoos OIL
doing business. Official notice was taken
Of the matter when at the last meetiHs OIL
the Citv Council in June Mr.. JaenscA'
chairman of the Finance Committee, an
nornced that the MarshaPs reports hdu
not heen made and filed each quarter, rs
proyided by law, for the last Few years.
The Finance Committee was at TINS meet
ing instructed to make an investigation.
at the first meeting in June new + l.
nance Committee was organized, anu lIif'1 @
committee first carefully examined CITY
,rreas11rer Thompson's books and found
that thev had been accurately and neatIy
kent-that the figures tailed with the
cash on hand. The commlttee io'lT,i men tu- NJ
it's attention to City Marshal CaaIsiii0 si az az
hooks to discover that that of1clad was
short in his accounts on June /, 1399, IN IN
the sum of S1697 some shortages uatInS l
as far back 1894 that the oo total innd
due the city up to July l, 1899 (not 1ncluu
ing returns made for licenses collectsu II, IN
june. was $2OO7. Since such hnQlng tiie ,,iit5
Marshal had paid into the CITY sad"ou4y oI,ey
S945 The license money not turnSu - 80
in 1894 and from that date forward Is ioI
small amounts. -, . si1.d +o
In the fall of 1897 Chalgnealu ld6en 1ic,eIseS e9
turn over the money for twelve hccil9es
collected from the Bank of Napa N"n1rIGGn 1rG
institution pays $40 per quarter). Inc
stubs are in the book, but the money an an
sWering TO them is not in the city
Strong box. So far as the committee can Ga,
ascertain no returns have been nade lop
iicenses collected from hackmen, draymen
and expressmen doing business in NaPa.
The Finance Committee is assisted IN IN
its Investigations, which are by no means
vet complete. by City Attorney York and
CITY Treasurer Thompson.
Marshal Chaigneau was seen with rel, eIo
erence to the shortage this morning. he
said the irregularities had occurred IN his
larger license collections during the last
two years; that he was somethiinng in IKE IKE
month-s3OO of the amount applying on
collections previously made-that he was
possibly 1920 behind now: but fully in
next meeting of the City Council He has
some property in San Francisco that he
hopes to realize on and does not want MS
hnnd Snnan Disturbed.
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-08
SENDING OF
OFFICERS TO
SOUTH AFRICA
It Causes Some Pertinent
Questions to Be Asked
in the Commons.
BALFOUR IS EVASIVE
But the Government Leader Admits
That Great Britain Is Not
Taking Any Chances.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

LONDON, July Tn the House of
Commons to-day Sir William Camp
l-Bannermann, Liberal leader in the
House, asked the Cover nme.lt leader
Mr.. Balfour. if he had any statement
to make on the apparently official COM
munication published in the Times to-
day giving the names of a number of
officers said to- have been ordered to
proceed to South Africa for the pur-
pose of organizing the residents as well
as the police and local forces at various
points on the frontier.
Mr.. Balfour replied that he was not
aware that it was an official communi-
cation. He added that no contingency
had yet arisen which, in the opinion of
the Government. neceSSitated ma
terial increase in the forces now in
South Africa.
He added: "WeS however, think it
necessary. under the existing circum-
stances, to take such steps as may
bring the present force up to the
proper standard of efficiency and mo-
bility. The War Office would have been
extraordinarily wanting in it's most
obvious duties if it was not prepared
for any emergency"
Sir Henry Campbell -Bannerman re-
joined: 1T is not with regard to bring
ing the present force to proper stand
ara OF e1IlclenCy lndI L WISH " II4dul4 g
but as to the paragraph which appears
as an official communication
Sir Henry Campbell -Bannerman then
read the following extract already ca
bled to the Associated Press:
The commander n-chief has been
engaged in completing the composition
and organization of larger forces which
will be necessary to dispatch should the
negotiations with the TranSVaal fail. y
1T is in regard to this statement of
the Times" he continued. which is ap-
parently a new declaration of Govern
ment policy, that 1 wish to inquire" :"
Opposition cheers)
Mr. BalfOur replied: II do not think
there is any new declaration of policy
in that paragraph. but 1 conceive that
the-War Office would be extraordinarily
wanting in its most ordinary and OBJ
vious duties if it were not prepared for
any emergency. however undesirable
and however unlikely, that could posi-
bly, arise" (Mir isterial cheers)
Henry Labouchere. Radical mem
Der for Northampton. asked whether
the officers spoken of in the communi-
cation as going to South Africa were
going into Cape Colony and Natal to
organize the police and local forces,
and if so whether 1t was with consent
of the colonial authorities there.
Mr.. Balfour replied he did not know.
Commander George Richard Bethel,
Conservative member for the Holder
ness division CT Yorkshire, said: would
the gentleman say in what circum-
stances the special service of officers
is likely to be employed and against
what enemies of the Queen?"
Mr. Balfour replied: MY honorable
friend is quite as competent a prophet
as l am. and it will require a prophet
to answer for contingencies that may
arise
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-08
INTERESTS THE PEOPLE
OF THE PACIFIC COAST
California Postmasters Appointed
and Several Changes in the
States Postal System.

WASHINGTON. July THE following
California postmasters were appointed
to-day: Paul Morris, Chinese Camp,
Tuolumne County, vice Joseph T. Nc
Lumpkin, Butte County. vice Christian
Anderson. resigned; Albert Brown, Veter-
ans Home. Napaa County, vice John H.
The special postal service between Visa
lia Exeter and Soledad and Paraiso
Springs, Cal, will be discontinued after
The postoffice at College Park. Santa
Clara County, has been made part of the
as sub-station No. l. This order takes
effect August l.
Army orders-By direction Of the Assist
listed men now at stations designated
after their respective names are trans
feTped to the sgna SerPS anited Sa
George ]. Young, Battery N. Third United
States Artillery Angel Island; as second
Iiams and Marion T. Mitchell Battery n.
Third United States Artillery. Angel ISL
and; Privates John W; CuSick and Arthur
Artillery, San Diego Barracks. The SOL
diers thus transferred will be sent to San
Francisco and will report upon their ar
department. who will furnish them trans
portation to the Philippines: Upon their
arrival they will report to the &c command and
for assignment to duty.
Major Willard S. H. Matthews. surgeon
United States Volunteers. is relieved from
further duty at the general hospital. San
Francisco and will proceed without delay
to the Philippines and report in person
to the commanding general Department
OF the Pacific. for assignment to duty.
Post Quartermaster Sergeant Alexander
Goehr, former sergeant of Battery L.,
Third United States Artillery. now at Ma
lolos. P. l.: will report to the command
ing general, Department of the PACIFIC,
for assignment to duty. Private Reginald
WoolIett, hospital corps. Manila. has been
discharged from the service of the United
Pensions: California. original-Harmon
S. Hogoboom,- Los Angeles. s6. Renewal
Francisco. So Increase-Thomas Hop
kins. College Park. Sc to sSi Noble D.
Rood, Santa Barbara, S14 to sl7 Original.
widows. etc.-Kathleen Unckenstein, San
Francisco, S.
Oregon: Increase-John Sanders, Wolf
Creek, Sc to SS.
Washington: Original--Edward Noel,
Jaques, New Whatcom, Sc.
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-08
Juvenile Handball Players.

Phil Ryan. the owner of the San Fran
cisco handball court at S5S Howard street,
has offered a gold medal to the winning
team consisting of the young athletes
who entered as juvenile players last
March. Out of the entries j. White, M;
Mcguire J.. Collins and E. Curley proved
the most proficient in the class. These
four will now contest for the gold medal.
White and Mcguire will play against Col
ltns and Curley. The first brush will come
off on Sunday at the Howard-street court,
the best three out of five games of twen-
ty-one aces to be declared the winner
None of the boys are over eighteen years
of age. and from the manner in which
they can get about after a hopping ball
some good play may be expected. The
other entries for Sunday are:
J. bowling and R. Housman VS.. P. Ryan
P. Foley and J. Kirby VS.. D. Regan and E.
Barry.
P. Hutchinson and NJ Dillon vs.. P. Kelly
and G. Hutchinson. .-,,
and G. Mcdonald.
j. Riordon and E. MaIoney VS.. ]. Harlow and
E. Toy.
han and T. F. Bonnet.
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-08
THREATENED A LAWYER.
Ex-Constable Coschina Under Arrest
at San Jose.

SAN JOSE, July T.-Ex-Constable Mat
Coschina was arrested to-day for having
threatened to kill Attorney W. M. Beggs.
He was subsequently released on $1,000
bail. His preliminary examination will be
held tomorrow. The trouble grows out
of an attachment served by Coschina a
couple of years ago while Constable. In
the trial of the suit the attachment was
set aside and judgment was given against
Coschina and became a lien against the
latters property. although indemnity had a1
been given to protect the officer. For
some time Coschina has been preparing
to go to Angels Camp, and he had ar
ranged to borrow $1,000 on his property but
could not do so until this lien was re-
leased
Beggs is attorney for ]. o. Hickey, who
holds the lien. Yesterday Coschina went
to Beggs and told him his wife was seri-
ousIy III from worry over the affair and
if she died he would kill Beggs. Hence the
warrant.
Attorney Beggs. on the other hand, has
bought a revolver and declares he will
shoot Coschina should Coschina show his
head In his office.
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-08
CONCESSIONS ARE
MADE BY FRANCE
Additional Space at the
Paris Exposition.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

CHICAGO. July 7.-Commissioner Gen.
eral Peck is elated at the feeling of the
French Government and of the expost-
ton officials at Paris toward the United
States. He has just received an official
cabIegram from the Minister of Public
Works, through ambassador Cambon.
stating that the right to construct pier
landing at the United States building has
been granted.
This has been matter of negotiation
for eight months and there were serious
difficulties TO overcome. and Peck feels
largely indebted to ambassador Cambon
for the result. He is also in. receipt to-
day of a cable from the assistant COM
missioner general announcing that
special area of 10000 square feet has been
set apart for an American limited rail-
road train which he thinks will reflect
great credit upon the American display.
The Southern Pacific Railroad Company
has agreed to aid in the construction or
the forestry building and will send logs
to Paris of a diameter that will make
a startling exhibition. The area for the
lfe-saving service station has been
doubled by the liberality of the French
officers. and every other concession that
has been asked since the return of the
commissioner general last May has been
granted by the French people
The space diagrams in many OF the de-
partments are completed and are being
sent out to the exhibitors for their def
mite apprONal.
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-08
OPPOSE ASSESSMENT
OF GOVERNMENT BONDS
Los Angeles Savings Bank Officials
Declare It Will Cause Loss to
DepoSitors

LOS ANGELES, July THE officials of
the various savings banks of the city are
much disturbed over the action of the city
and county Assessors in having added
$40 600 worth of government bonds to the
list of taxable property. OF this amount
S59 ,212 80 belongs to the Columbia Savings
Bank, the German-American Savings
Bank owns 900 of these bonds and the
Southern California Savings Bank S32. COO.
The presidents of these banks are deter
mined to fight the assessments. They say
that if the assessment is allowed to stand
and they are forced to pay the tax they
will have either to stop doing business in
Los Angeles or else they will have to de-
crease the rate of interest paid to depos-
itors.
The bank officials do not deny that they
tried to avoid paying taxes on the money
invested in the bonds, which are usually
considered non-taxable. They deny how
ever. that they tried to evade the law.
They claim that the purchase of the
bonds is legitimate and regular business
transaction, the element of profit in which
was to be the money saved from the Tax
Collector.
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-08

was not able to break down the OBJ
stinate refusal of Dusseldorf, Hamburg
and Frankfort to see a memorial of
Heine erected in cities once the home
of the poet Why not place it in Paris,
they asked. since Heine deliberately
made a Frenchman of himself, accepted
a pension from the French Government
and employed his leisure in writing
philippics against his own from the
safe vantage of the apital of the he
reditary foe? Perhaps because Paris
would have rejected the monument, not
for the reason that she diSliked Helne,
but because she might not care for just
this kind of sculpture. At any rate, the
great rejected was proposed for New
York and very handsome sum was
quickly raised in this city for its pur-
chase and erection.
But there were objections raised. In
the endeaVOr to keep down the number
of public sculptures not of the first
quality. which threaten to deDase the
average in New York beyond enduring,
this fountain was voted not quite up TO
the desired mark and rejected on this
side of the Atlantic. Then the warfare
between the partisans of the fountain
and their opponents began in earnest
and was Waged long and ffercely. Fin
ally however, the opposing factions as
sumed q more peaceful mood and il was
decided to permit the fountain to be
erected in the Borough of the Bronx
where it will have about ii trees. f1ow-
ers and grass. 1t stands as the result
of a compromise between the contend
ing parties, the opposition having with
drawn its untenable argument that as
monument it is unworthy of a pub
lie place, its friends having retired
from their demand that it shall occupy
one of the few most desirable spots in
the city for memorial.
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-08
GRAIN SACKS STOLEN.
Thousands Confscated by Thieves in
Yolo County.

WOODLAND, July 7.-Grain sack
thieves have commenced their depreda-
tions in Yolo County and they are operat-
ing on a larger scale than ever before. Al
Bourne has lost 1900. Benjamin Ely has
lost 1000 and other farmers report the loss
Of smaller lots. Several farmers report
the, loss of small lots of grain.
1t has been discovered that the stolen
sacks were sold in Sacramento. One of
the suspected men is now in the Sacra-
mento Jail His accomplice, Henry Heintz,
made his escape into Yolo County. He
was traced to Elkhorn. thence to Wood
land He arrived here early this morning
At this point the officers lost the trail, but
they expect to pick it up again soon.
There seems to be no doubt that Heintz
will soon be landed in jail
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-08
HYNENEAL RECIPROCITY.

STOCKTON. July 7-Reciprocity of
ministerial services will mark the per-
formance of the marriage ceremony of
Rev Henry A. Fisk of San Francisco and
Miss Clotilde Grunsky of this city next
Wednesday. Yesterday at the residence
of Dr. Frisbie in San Francisco. Professor
D. A. Mobley and Miss Mabel Barrows.
both of this city. were united in marriage
by Rev Mr.. Fisk. q warm friend of the
groom. Next Wednesday Professor Mob
ley. who is also an ordained minister of
similar service for his friend. Both of the
brides have been schoolteachers of Stock
ton. Professor Mobley has just retired
from the principalship of the Stockton
High School and will continue in school
work here next year, having last evening
been elected to a good position by the
Board of Education.
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-08
FAITH IN THE COLUMBIA.
Veteran Joel Ellsworth Praises the
New Gun Defender.

NEW YORK, July 7.-Captain Joel Ellis
worth, who steered the Puritan and May
flower to victory against the Genesta and
Galatea, respectively, says:
THE Columbia is a fine boat and I'm
sure she can beat the Defender in the
end but not with those sails. The claw
topsail and jib are no good in windward
work and that is the work that tells in
a race You mark my words, as soon as
her sails set as well as the Defenders
She will outSail her.
How many minutes do you believe the
Columbia can beat the Defender in a
thirty mile race. when she is in proper
trim?'' was asked.
Judging from Thursdays performance,
I should say that the COlumbi can beat
her from five to eight minutes. From all
the reports l have read do not find any
that she could beat the Defender running
free. I understand it now. Both are deep
draft boats and there is no reason why
she should go faster free. but depth does
not count in the windward work, for she
probably draws more than the Defender"
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-08

in the average season. Barley is making
a good yield and Will soon be all har>
vested.
The manager of the Haywards cannery
has been in this vicinity for some time
and this week he contracted for the fol-
Bros of 1uba City. 200 tons; j. S. john
son of Marcuse, $50 tons; Marcuse orchard.
$50 tons; besides smaller lots The price
has not been made public. but it is in the
neighborhood of $40 per ton.
Contrary to reports, the Sutter Canning
and Packing Company has not entered
the combine. The superintendent. Mr..
Pratt, set a price on the plant which the
combine thought too high.
One of the best sales of pears noted this
Julian Trembly, the veteran grower. who
has disposed of his entire crop of Bart
let's at $50 ton. He has a large crop
and they are choice in every respect, just
the thing for canning
The San Francisco call., 1899-07-08
TRIBUTE TO
THE FAMOUS
GERMAN POET
END OF MUCH STRIFE
After All the Controversy in Europe
Over the Memorial It Is Finally
Erected in New York.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

nj EW YORK, July Amid a
N chorus of 1900 trained voices
VI the Heine memorial fountain
will be unveiled at the intersec-
ton Of the Concourse, Mott
avenue and One Hundred and Sixty
first street, Borough of Bronx. at
o'clock tomorrow afternoon. The
memorial is the result of suggestion
of the murdered Empress Elizabeth of
Austria who was great admirer of
the German poet. 1t is of Tyrolean
marble.
The tale Of the Heine fountain has
become a cause celebre in Germany and
the United States. Innocent as it may
look-for what can be more innocent
than a figure of Lorelei, the nymph of
the Rhine. and trio of mermaids
Chastely draped in fish nets?-it has
reused hatreds that have their roots in
the remote past and put life into sneers
that We're started in the middle ages
and challenged logged prejudices that
belong to the history of Prussia as the
barnacle adheres to the wreck. and in
jected into the pleasant discussions of
esthetics the venom of religious intol-
erance and sociaIistic strife. The rabies
of religious. social and national ques-
tiOns has made it impossible to ap-
proach the Heine fountain calmly and
judge it on its merits as a work of art,
for any one who undertook that method
was met by a perfect whirlWind of sus-
picions and insults, as if the excited
supporters of its cause could not be-
Iieve that everybody else was not in
fected by the prejudices which, alas,
did make their appearance in more
quarters than one.
The trouble began with the tWOfold
objection to Henri Heine as a writer
who scOurged not only Prussia but all
Germany with whips of scorpions and
assailed as only a clever Hebrew can
assafl the Christians. 1t is true that
he directed his poisonous stings also
against the Jews. his own race; so
much so that many Jews, while proud
of the luster he conferred on their race,
have never forgiven him for the insults
directed against their most cherished
ideas and habits. But their opposition
was not active. The national feeling of
the Germans, outraged by the satiriSt,
and the hatred of the Catholics, REIN
forced by the dislike of a man aroused
who spoke far from indistinctly in fa-
VOr of the Socialists, were powerful
enough to put a veto on monument
to Heine within the limits of the en-
pire.
The murdered Empress of Austria,
with all her influence as a German
Princess and Austrian Queen mother,