New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-25
TOPICS IN CALIFORNIA.
THE cRAvEN-FAIRa SUIT INVOLVES PER-
JURY-BIG TREES WILL PROBABLY
BE SAVED-C AaIILIE D'ARVILLE
TO BE MARRIED.
TO BE MARRIEI
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will probabl seceiye. attention from the Grand
Jury. Mrs. CrsS'en's story that she and Sena-
tor Fair were married by Justice of the Peace
symptom of Sausalito. astonishing, but it
was understood lsr evidence would be corrobo-
rated by symptom He first made an affidavit,
before her testimony. declaring he had per-
laSmed the marriage ceremony and then the
nav after he recanted and declared his first
ssHdavit was a fra I'd, made purpose to en-
aouraee Mrs Craven to tell a false story. The
s.unsei for the Fair heirs assert that they have
contract made by Mrs. Craven with man
named sylvia in which She promises to pay
him $50 600 for testimony that will establish
her marriage to \the Senator. 1t is impossible
TO tell whether Sylvia and symptom have been
bribed. or whether they were actually agents
for the Fair lawyers. and by INSCRIPTIONS
means cleverIy entrapped Mrs Craven. In
any event, it is believed that they as we'll as
those who hired them 10 commit perjury should
be punished. for their~actions tend to bring the
courts into contempt
Women of the California. clubs have made a
good fight this week for the preservation of the
CaIaveras big trees. and the kilograms which
they sent to Washington and the feeling that
they aroused here will probably end in saving
the big tree grove from the hands of lumber
men. 1t is doubtful whether these giant trees
would pay in lumber for the trouble and ex-
pense Of handling them, their grth is so
great that special apparatus would have TO be
devised Telling them. T7ae neighboring forest,
however is full of superb sugar pines, which it
will be crime TO cut for timber. as there are so
few Of these stately treessleft on the slopes Of
the Sierras.
The Rev DR.. Wadswort11. president Of Occi-
dental College. OF Los Angeles, this week de-
clared that any educational institution was hurt
by an endowment ofover S1.000,O00. He declared
that when wealth came religious feeling de-
parted and he cited Princeton awful eX-
ample He also commentator the fact that at
the recent exercises at the State University q
Jewish rabbi and Unitarian preachers were in
vited to speak, but no orthodox minister The
facts do not agree with DR.. WadswOrths state
ments for, although the SKATE University has
received several millions of dollars recently, at
no time since its foundation have the Young
Mems and the Young Women's Christian asso-
Citations been so.large or so influential now.
These two associations include many Of the
leading students. and they give character to the
whole student body.
The engagementswas announced this week Of
Camille D'Arville the comic opera singer to
E w CreIlin who is president of the
Ruby Hill Vineyard Company and superntend-
ent Of the Monaghan oyster beds. Burlin-
game Crellin is well, known here where he has
lived for several years.
The Illinois. Central Railroad Company which
recently completed a branch to Council Bluffs.
and has made working arrangements with the
Southern Pacific at New-Orleans. has opened an
agency here and placed w. H. Snedaker in
charge. Mr.. Snedal1er for many years has been
the agent here for the Rio Grande Western.
Maggie Moore, an actress who received her
stage training as "a girl in her teens at the old
California Theatre aunder Mccullough and Bar
rett; returned this week from Australia with
her own company, and will play next week at
the New California Theatre in The Silence of
Dean Maitland"
Charles Montgomery, friend Of convicts and
Salvationists who has been carrying on the
Brooklyn Hotel for several years is in financial
straits, and a receiver has been placed in the
hotel Montgomery has been twice the victin
OF rogues within ten years. First he lost SloO,-
600 by a thieving British manager whom he
placed in charge of the agricultural implement
works in Los Angeles. Then. six years ago. he
was forced 10 pay $1,000 ransom by some des
perate ex-convicts whom he had befriended-
light rain fell this week in all the counties
north of Tehachapi but Southern California
which is suffering from drouth, obtained re
lief The rain in the northern counties ha:
helped grain and fruit. In the south the lacl
of water is serious menace TO grain. and many
orchards are reported suffering. The
snowfall has not been heavy in the mountains
and in many places irrigating bitches are carry
in June and July. The outlook is bad. and the
necessity Of storage reservoirs is being enforced
as never before.
The rush TO the Cape Nome gold diggings mex
month will surpass anything seen here since
the big rush 10 the Fraser River and Caribot
in the early 1fties. The stampede to the Xlon
dixie two years ago will be small compared t
81. Then the Spanish excitement on
and the adventurous crowd that would have
fiocked TO Dawson volunteered for Cuban anC
Philippine service. Now there is nothing Il
those
excitement, and they are evidently bound t
go 10 places under the Arctic Circle by thou
sands Nearly all the passenger accOmmoda
lions on the big steamship Zealanda have beer
engaged. and scores of sailing vessels will carry
small parties. who have chartered them. Every
vessel that can he impressed into service has
been engaged. and fortunes are being made il
freight charters.
The shipments from this port promise to be
heavier this month than in any similar month
for years. The steamer City of Para sailed fol
Central American ports with the largest cargo
ever consigned to those cities. The big Ameri
ship Shenandoah is loading the largest
amount of freight ever sent to Australia The
Pacific Mail Steamship Company has beer
forced to buy the tramp steamer Algoa to ac-
commodate its growing Oriental business.
Net for thirteen years have freight rates for
wheat ships been high now. This week
the four rnasted bark Reliance was chartered
for ais I'd for wheat for England, and she vii
carry 245S tons In 1887, when the Fair wheat
deal at its height. grain charters reached
the same figure that paid this week but the
bubble burst before the British ship Yarmouth
which had been chartered, could load. The de-
mand for ships far exceeds the supply as
the Philippine and Hawaiian business has
drawn off many, and the Cape Nome rush next
spring promises to absorb more. There is also
great scarcity Of deep water sailors
The stock market has been dull, despite good
general business. Reports Of the plague on the
island OF Maui near the big sugar plantations
have depressed the stock a trife but the latest
disease tad 20