New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-10-08
ON THE PACIFIC SLOPE.
Prospects Of Fusion Success an San
Francisco Improving.

Francisco Improving.
San Francisco. Oct 6.-From all indications
Mr.. Partridge, the Fusion candidate for Mayor
of San Francisco, is gaining strength IN his nshl
against Mayor Schmitz and his allies Ali sa-
ioonkeepers, gamblers, racetrack men, keepers
of dives and dsorderly houses, in fact, all VIZ
cious and criminal elements of the city, are soma
Tor schmitz because all those people have found
that under him they ply their illegal trades
in safety. Added to this large element is al
most the entire union labor party. Even re-
spectacle union men are working for Schmisz.
because they think the Citizens Alliance is be-
hind the Fusion party and will control its ON
GERS should they be elected. This Is foollsn' out
1t serves to obtain votes and to save reply TO
questions as to why they working with open
and notorious grafters.
The stranding of the steamer Alameda on the
rocks off Fort Point is one Of those marine dis
asters which are difficult to explain. Here was
a big passenger steamer going to sea in heavy
fog, yet no lead was heaved to show whether
she was approaching shallow water. The pilot
and captain declare they misled by hearing
no sound from the fog siren Lime Point
Should the fine weather continue the steamer
may be saved from the rocks where she has re-
NAMED for the last week. but in storm she Is
almost sure to go to pieces
Charles NJ schwab. who is here after thor
ough inspection of the Tonopah mines. declares
that the Union Iron Works here will be greatly
enlarged and that the most important feature
viii be a department for the manufacture OF
mining machinery of all kinds. The shipbuild-
ing plant viii also be increased. The new Ne
vada mining companies. we'll the gold
dredging companies in California, have made
demands for large quantities of heavy machn-
cry Mr.. Schwab's idea is that all this machin-
cry should be made here. He has put much
money into the Tonopah Extension, Golden An
Choir and the Midway mines at Tonopah, and
from the indications he purposes to develop
these properties. This will do much to help
Tonopah as well as Goldfield as both camps
have been hurt by the methods of some of the
large companies, which nave refused to work
good ore bodies IN order to rig the stock
market.
At the affiliated colleges this week was
opened part of large Egyptian collection made
recently for the University of California by DR..
George a. Reisner. Mrs. Phoebe A Hurst bore
the expense of the expedition. which has been
working for several years among the tombs OF
ancient Egypt. The pottery collection is re-
garded by experts as unequaed in this country,
and many vases anu UTENSILS dnteQaIe the Nero
gIyph period There are about dozen wooden
collins fully six thousand years old One of the
treasures is a portrait of occupant of coffin
painted on the cover Three hundred cases of
these curios have been unpacked, and about
three hundred and sixty more are coming from
Egypt.
Miss Eleanor Robson will begin on Monday a
two weeks engagement at the Columbia The
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years since she began her stage career as a girl
of seventeen at this theatre. playing in stock
companies.
The Rev. John F. Jones. well known Domin-
lean priest. died this week after two months
Illness. Father Jones a very eloquent
preacher and n close friend of Father James
O'NeiI, also of the Dominican Order whose
death last year robbed the Dominlcans of the
ablest preacher this coast.
The University of California will establish
next season a permanent summer school of sur
veying leasing land and putting up buildings
for a camp. There viii be classes for sopho-
mores as well as for upper class men. and work
will include railroad surveying. Last summer
the surveying camp included 225 students and
six instructors.
III.
3. Curtis, formerly well known by his acting as
Samuel of Posen," since his release for killing
a policeman in San Francisco. The theatrical
company which he took from here to Australia
has returned to Honolulu. Curtis. though he
made $1,000 in the venture. paid salaries.
and disbanded at Auckland leaving many cred.
itoTs.
The last steamer to go down the Yukon River
this season left Dawson on Sunday The trip
from st. Michaels TO Dawson is being made
rapidly. as Captain Newcombe broke all records
this season by completing five and a half trips
Reports have come TO Tacoma that prospectors
sent out by the Northwest Siberian Company
have made no atrikes this season. Six men will
prospect at Cape Serge and Kolouchin Bay. The
result of this winters work will determine
whether the company will continue the explora-
ton of Siberia for minerals another year.
Lewis German. who has been nineteen years
IN Siberia. surveying there for gold, has arrived
at Tacoma He declares the Amoor country vii,
be the scene of the next big gold rush. and he
predicts it viii surpass the Klondike as placer
mining bonanza he says ali that Manchuria
needs IS TO be free from the dread of the Chinese
brigands. He is preparing an expedition to de-
relop mines IN Manchuria-