New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-07-02
TOPICS IN CALIFORNIA.
NEEDLESS EXCITEMENT. OVER BUBONIC
PLAGUE - THE OUTPUT OF THE
KLONDIKE-TRYING TO BOOM
CONSTOCK NINE
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ment has been caused by the disagreeiileht oe-
tween the Federal and State Quarantine officers
over the admission Of the passengers OF the
Japanese steamer Nippon Maru on when
death occurred from the bubonic plague. the
vessel was quarantined for one week at Ma
gasaki and at Honolulu and not even freight
was allowed to be put ashore When the steamer
reached here 1t was decided to quarantine the
passengers for two weeks. as two japanese. who
tried to escape by swimming across the Bay
and were drowned bore signs Of the plague
No scientific meteorological analysis has been
made Of the glands from the bodies of the
Japanese. but the local Board has refused to
permit the cargo Of the steamer to be landed
although the Federal officers granted a permit.
Much loose talk IL INDUCED in by local doctors
VINO have no personal knowledge Of the bubonic
plaRue Men who have studied the disease IN
Hong Kong say that while the community was
not attacked by IT, as 1t is filth disease, which
appcars 20 lay hold on Orentals because OF
their violation Of simple sanitary precautions,
in tfs cool climate OF San Francisco there wousi
be no ohance for the germs TO develop unless IN
some crowded tenement of Chinatown where
the conditions would be similar to those in the
native settlements In Hong Kong and Canton.
News which arrived this week from Ho, Ha-
eral Eagan has made a large fortune in the sale
of his big tract of coffee land to a sugar syndi-
cate. Eagan several years ago bought five thou
sand acres of wild Government land in the Olaa
District near Hilo for $4,000 He put IT In his
sons name planted two hundred acres with cof
fee and placed his son in charge. Recently the
son sold all the land except what was In coffee
10 a sugar syndicate for 500 AS Eagan
paid only So an acre for the land. the profits
NAV be easily estimated This fortune, added
70 the San Francisco property which the Cen
eral owns. but which was put in his wifes name.
doesn't seem 10 bear out the recent appeals
made by his friends. which induced the Presi
dent to give him his full salary during the six
years OF his retirement.
The will of l. G.. wickersham. Of Petaluma,
will be contested by his son Frank. who was
cut off with So, although his father mentions
that he had given the boy 100000, which was
regarded as his share Of the estate. AS the
property amounts to over $1.OO0OO0 and was
divided between three other children. Frank will
attempt to break the will the ground of
due influence. Mr. WicHersham died at Peta
luna. ard the richest man in Sonoma
County
Nearly every day now steamers arriving
the KoAdike. No vessel however. has brought
more than $JtOOOO aS all these early passengers
came out by way OF the upper Yukon and Chill
koot Pass. In about fortnight the first vessel
by the regular Yukon route, by way of St.
Michaes. is expected. An estimate of the Klon-
dixie output is that it Will be about the same as
last year. not exceeding $l5.00O.OOO and perhaps
dropping to $12,0OO000. The districts outside of
KlOndiEp q
yield. none have proved rich. Along the
Alaskan coast the miners have met a succession
of failures. KotZebue Sound and the Koyakuk
River have been dreary disappointments. In the
Atlin district there have been some good finds,
but strict Interpretation Of the alien law by
the Canadian officials has driven many of the
American miners out of the place. From all &C
counts. the claims even on the two rich creeks
of the Klondike uncertain in other
mining districts one man cleaning up fortune
end his neighbor not getting enough gold to pay
for working placers A great exodus must take
place from Dawson City before the falls
again as the city is crowded with men who
have money and get little work. For
such men to remain another winter would be
little short of suicide.
An appropriation Of S125 900 is pledged for
the new st. Mary's Park. which will take the
place OF the dsreputable rookeries that now
cover the block bounded by California. Dupont
and Pine SITS. and ST. Mary's Place. This property
faces old st. Marys Church. which for over
forty years has been landmark at California
and Dupont SITS The women in two disreputable
alleys have been cleared out for many months
but the work of condemning the property and
transforming II into a park has been delayed FOR
Pack of funds. This will make as pretty park
as old Portsmouth Square. for II is sheltered
from winds and overlooks the bay
The Henry Miller company in Anthony Hopes
1.-THE Adventures of Lady Ursula scored big
hit at the Columbia Theatre, and the comedy
will draw good houses for two weeks. There is
nothing noteworthy at the other houses
An attempt was made this week to boom the
Comstock mining shares the strength OF re-
ports OF good ore on the seventeen-hundred-foo
level OF the Consolidated California and Vir-
ginia, but 1t proved failure. Though the ore
may be OF as fair quality as described, the
public been deceived so often that 1t VIII not
touch these mining stocks until there is some
good proof in the way Of dividends that the ore
is worth working. The last big find In Consoli-
dated Virginia realized S6.0O,OW and carried
the stock up to $50 1t may be that the present
find Will prove TO be similar body of good ore,
but until this is demonstrated no need look
for any large advance In price. Consolidated
Virginia rose to So on Monday. but II is now
down TO 50 Il. Compressed air Is to be used az
an auxiliary In operating the hydraulic pumping
plant IN the shaft of this mine The draining or
the water from the lower levels of the Com
stock is awaited with much interest by people
who believe there is rich ore In sections or sew
eral mines that have not been fully exploited
with the diamond drill.
A German syndicate Is about 10 erect another
big copper smelter In Shasta County. The syn
dictate controls twenty-five copper mines near
Redding and will develop them Immediately by
building eighty miles Of railroad to connect with
the Southern Pacific. This new smelter VIII
double the copper output OF Shasta County.
The Oxnards have bought FIVE thousand more
acres of land in Ventura County, which Will give
them acreage sufficient to grow all the sugar
beets needed for their new factory near Ana
helm Their system will be 10 lease the land
which comprises twelve thousand acres. In small
tracts. the lessees to work under the direct SUI
nervjsion Of the factory experts. In this way
there will be rotation OF crops and the sou VIII
~ no exhausted. as It is when the land is