New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-16
ON THE PACIFIC SLOPE

San Francisco. Aug. 1.-THE Grand Army re-
union next week promises to be among the most
successful held by the veterans. Already thou
sands OF delegates have arrived and by next
Monday IL is believed that fifty thousand mem
bers Of the Grand Army OF the Republic and
other strangers will be in the city. Novel cleo
trical effects viii be SEEN in Market-st. and the
general decoration Of the main business streets
promises to be elaborate. All the railroads
have given low round trip rates. and this has
been strong inducement to members and their
families who have never seen the Yosemite the
big trees. Lake Tahoe and other show places OF
California. The cutting Of the overland journey
to three days from Chicago and four days from
New-York has also done much TO stimulate
thousands to take advantage of the opportunity
to see the Pacific Coast States.
The big man hunt in the foothills of the Sierra
Nevadas has practically been abandoned. Only
two Of the escaped Folsom convicts have been
recaptured and one has been killed. The eight
others are widely scattered. but five are known
TO be together under the leadership Of Theron. a
San Francisco hOOdlum foOtpad who was serv-
ing life sentence. and who planned this sue
eessful and sensational escape. The chase after
these convicts has shown how easily fugitives
can elude pursuing officers IN wild country.
especially when they are assisted by the noun
light from Folsom Prison viii compel the prison
directors to build a wall around the peniteu-
tlary, so that jail deliveries viii not be easy.
PROBABLY II viii also result in change of war
dens, as the present Incumbent is considered 10
be too easy in his treatment Of criminals.
George Champlin. for many years associated
with Senator Leland Stanford in sheep raising
and grape growing in Tehama County. died on
his ranch. near Tehama. this week. aged sew
ar1tyr- Cfr 10
chusetts in 1S49 Another pioneer who died this
week was J. W. Cassidy. Of Santa Rosa. who
was a member of the old vigilance COMMITTEES.
He was the first man in California TO build a
fruit dTier
An epidemic of typhoid fever at the big Ium-
Der camp of McCloud. in SsEiyou County re-
suited from the same cause as that at stanford
University. The cows drank sewage water In
a population of two thousand mill men there
are more than sixty cases OF the disease
President Benjamin Ide Wheeler settled this
week all rumOrs that he would resign from the
University Of California. He declared fatty that
all rumors that President Roosevelt would give
him an important foreign mission were pure
canards. and that he had no intention OF aban-
doning mis- educational work in California This
declaration welcomed at Berkeley where
much uneasiness had been caused by the re-
ports. President Wheeler has done much 70 ad-
vance the standard OF scholarship at the Uni
versity of California and to stimulate the inter
est in the institution. which now ranks as third
in size in the country. This year the require
ments are so severe that the freshman class
will be smaller than last year The freshman
class at Stanford promises TO be the largest in
the history OF that university. and It is probable
that the rule limiting women students 10 i've
hundred will be enforced
For the first time since the primary election
laws were passed the voters of san Francisco
this week showed some realization OF the inn
portance Of defeating the bosses. The United