New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-29
ON THE PACIFIC SLOPE
Indictments Against San Fran
cisco Fish Dealers.
by Telegraph to The Tribune

San Francisco May 2S.-The indictment
Of a score of members Of San Franchises
so-called Fish Trust for alleged violation
OF the Cartwright law is the first vigorous
move of the local authorities against a
combination which is alleged to have kept
up the price of fish for many years, al
though an unlimited supply exists only a
few miles from the city. Italians have con-
trolled this trade for years, and, it is said,
have sold tons of fish to glue works ana
fertilizer factories so that the price for
food fish could be kept up to high level.
Fish should be the cheapest article of food
in the market here. but it has been one OF
the dearest for years, because the alleged
combination was too strong for Independent
dealers to fight.
Heirs of Claus Spreckels, the sugar mill
ionaire, are lined up for legal fight Inc
Younger sons, Rudolph and Claus, OBJECT TO
an equal distribution of the estate among
the four sons and one daughter. Ihey
claim that two older sons, John D. ana
Adolph should be excluded from this d.
vision because their father during his lie
gave each of these sons more than Slo.oo""
in advances, as he specifically stated in his
will. Thus far the older sons have won III
court
The filing of what purports to be the Will
of John 4. Benson. the land operator, who
died the day after he was released from
the federal prison, shows that Benson leit
all his estate to his second wife VINO was
the divorced wife of ''SWiftWater Bill
Gates a spectacular Klondike millionaire
Benson declared in the will that his f1rst
wife got a divorce from him over thirty
years ago The son of Benson declares that
no such divorce was granted ana that nus
father continued living with his mothel
until he became enamoured or Mrs Gates
and married her. The son says MS falher
was a bigamist, and therefore the seconu
Mrs. Benson has 10 claim on the estate
Benson once owned thousands of acres OF
land in California but the attorney for his
second wife says he wasted fortune VAIN
Nv irving to save himself from punishment
for violating the land laws.
The Olympic Club let contracts this week
for the erection of a new building In POST
street. near Mason. the cost of which viii
be s395OO0 The building will be one or
the best equipped in the country 1t VIII
he five stories high, with foundation and
steel frame strong enough 20 bear hVe adj
ditional stories and will he 10 by 1917
feet. IL Will De CDiiDlttt'i 'IcAb MAY H.
club. which is the most fiourishing athletic
association west of Chicago, has seventeen
hundred members, but it expects to have
three thousand by the time the new build
ing is finished Many of its members are
l:olders of amateur records.
President David Starr Jordan in an adj
dress to the graduating class OF Stanford
University this week made comparison
between the work of Simon Newcomb and
Edward H Hartman. He declared New
combs work and influence would live for
ever and that his scholarly spirit would not
fail to stimulate seekers after knowledge
for centuries whereas Harrimans work
would soon be only matter of history.
Frances Rowen. the fourt ZEN year-od
daughter of Captain r H. Rowen. chief OF
the bureau of steam engineering at Cavite,
Philippine Islands sailed this week for
Manila. She came here from Philadelphia
alone and knew one on the steamer
Although q mere slip Of a girl she prob
ably holds a record as a traveller, as she
has circied the world several times and
has lived in China. Japan and the Philip
pines She has lately been studying at
Swarthmore College.
\ big building strike is feared at Stock
ton in the San Joaquin Valley. because OF
the exactions of the carpenters union. 1t
demands 81 50 a day Of eight hours. whether
men are high class worknen or only rough
carpenters. The contractors are willing to
pay the scale for expert men, but they re-
fuse to pay more than s. so o. "a for rough
carpenters
The Mammoth Channel Goid Mining Com
pany. near Oroville. Butte County. has
struck the cid mammoth channel" Of blue
gravel, which carries large amounts of
sold. Since the pioneer days miners have
been searching for this gravel bed The
channel is ten feet deep and every pan is
rich in gold
Professor Shaw, of the Agricultural Col
lege OF the University OF California, has
lust returned from inspection of lands
and crops in Imperial Valley, in the delta
OF the Colorado River, adjoining old Mex
100. He reports that more than five thou
sand acres have been planted in cotton and
that the results are gratifying The land is
so rich that no fertilizer is needed TO grow