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PACIFIC COAST.
Wright Irrigation Law
Favored for Nevada,
THE ALASKAN EXPEDITION.
The Sacramento Board of Supervisors
Are Charged With Being
Boodlers Etc
Riverside w to have free postal de
livery. ,
The mnnicipa) affairs of Victoria, B.
C., are to be investigated.
The enly female convict in the Arizona
primn haa been pardoned.
The plain crop at Canon is rotting on
the trees. The market ia overstocked.
The sale of wild-flower eeed at San
Diego ie becoming a profitable but inesa.
The Nevada State Board of Equaliza
tion promisee to raise the assessments
all round. B
The jury in the caae of John Hagger
ty, who killed hie ion last April at Sac
ramento, haa been suable to agree.
John R. Berry, Collector of the Port
of ban Diego, haa aned the Union News
paper Company for $25,000 for alleged
libel.
Since January 1 over 1,030 vessels
have crossed Humboldt bar, and the
shipments of lumber have been over
100,000,000 feet.
An order for 300 combination and cat
tle cart is now being filled at the m ad
enine sho)ie of the Southern Pacific
Company in Sacramento.
William Reed of Florin charged three
member of the Sacramento Board of
Supervisors with being boodlers, and he
haa been arrested for criminal iibel.
Samuel J. Bran of San Jose, late in
structor ol franco atcornell linivertity,
has been appointed instructor of French
at the Leiand Stanford (Jr.) University.
An effort ia being made to resume
work in Sacramento on the oil well.
which haa been abandoned at 920 feet in
depth, owing to the piping becoming
wedged. '
It now seems thnt a railroad will be
built around the fait at The Dalles, Or.
on the Washington aide and a line of
boats put on by the Columbia River
iav gauon company.
The newspaper men of San Diego are
all being involved in libel saita. bo far
the ( mun and the Sun have had suits
entered against them, but other eoiu
jilaints are looked for every moment.
There waa an enthusiastic body of
men gathered at Carson recentlv to dis
cuss the subject of irrigation. The ap
plication ot the principles of the right
taw of California waa favored for Ne
vada. , '
The largest land fur shipment of the
vear was made from Victoria, B. C, the
other day by the Hudson Bay Company,
destined for London. It includes
owl worth of beaver and $10,000 worth
of hear skins.
It is ecii mated that nine-tenths of the
water from the Colorado river la Sowing
into halton Sea,, and the winter Hoods
will greatly augment the volume of wa
ter, which may seek a Gulf outlet. A
lake 150 mileelong and 300 feet deep ia
predicted.
The Native Sons of Truckee are schem
ing to erect a monument on the site ren
dered historical by the death of the
members of the Donner party. It is to
euit 15,000, and the various parlors
throughout the State are to be asked to
contribute.
William H. C. Brotherton, the wheel
barrow man, who left San Francisco
April 1 last to make the trip on font to
New York city, passed through Flagstaff,
A. T., the other day. He has been laid
np for five months in the hospital at Los
Angeles, tie seems to be in good health
now.
The Los Angeles Farming and Milling
Company haa commenced ejectment pro
ceedings against 141 settlers, who have
quailed on a portion of the Lanser
slieim ranch, which the settlers claim to
lie government land fraudulently in
cluded by the owners of the ranch when
the survey was made. '
Tne schooner Lizzie Crosby has re
turned to Port Townsend from the Ko
dias fishing grounds with a catch of H0,
(ssi rootish consigned to Anacorte own
ers, who intend to establish a drier at
tliat place to dispose of the catch of the
Coiny and other vessela, which are ex-jjK-red
to arrive soon.
Tne Schwetka scientific expedition has
returned from Alaska. A large collec
tii.n of botanical specimens waa made,
arid photographs of everything of inter
est tvere taken. The most successful
feature of the whole trip was the break
ing through the Mount St. Eliaa Range,
a f i never before accomplished by man.
The Arrowhead Reservoir Company,
having in charge the construction of
lrt' motive reservoirs in the mountains
rj'ir'ii of ftn Bernardino on the head
t jters of tue Jiojave river and its teilc
nl&nm, hue advertised for the onstruo
in of three large tunnels one 4,910
'i! length, one 8,tfiH feet and one
-. feet, niat.i.'ip a total of il,-iUO lcet
'uel.
EDUCATIONAL.
University Extension Makes a Good
Start In Kansas City Free
Education In London,
Salvador has a telephone school.
No fewer than 20,000 children learn
Dntch as well as English at the Cape of
Good Hope schools.
The Indianapolis Journal has a motto :
"The public schools must not be
plunged. into polities."
The latest estimates from Harvard
University are that the treshmau clans
will number about 460. .
The Bricklayers' Union of Boston is
the first trades union in the country to
countenance trade schools. It has
agrsed that apprentices shall be in
structed in trade schools In that city.
England is very gradually approach
ing a system of public elementary
schools. "The educational bill, which
has just passed the House of Commons.
is a long step in the direction of such a
Bystem.
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a member of the Battle Creek, Mich.,
School Board, is the wife of a former
Chief Justice of that State She has
been President far thirty years of the
Ladies' Literarv Association of Battle
Creek.
Yale University will put $150,000 or
$200,000 of its b'ig bequest from the
rayerweather estate into a new build
ing for the Sheffield scientific school. A
feature will be the mechanical depart
ment supplied with a lOO-horse-power
engine.
Prof. Dudley Allen Sargent, the Har
vard expert in athletics, is said to be
better known in the far West than an?
other instructor at Cambridge. To bis
summer school in gymnastics there
come students from Texas, Dakota,
California and also England.
The one hundred and thirty-sixth
session at the University of Pennsyl
vania opened October 1. with an in
creased attendance in all departments,
tne luuii ueing a,oou stuuema, a gain oi
270 over last year, and the largest num
ber ever in attendance at the institu
tion.
At Yale, we are told, the proprietors
of boarding-houses and the owners of
houses containing rooms to let have en
tered into an infernal conspiracy to tax
all students to such an extent tliat they
can by no means obtain board and lodg
ing at leas tnan to a week.
Of the ten college graduates who have
been Presidents of the United States,
five were alumni of William and Mary
College, two of Harvard, two of Prince
ton, and one was an alumnus of Union.
Of members of Congress 189 were gradu
ates of Yale and 108 of Harvard.
Miss Florence Bascom will enter
Johns Hopkins University at the begin
ning of the current year" She will en
ter the department of geology and will
give special attention to petrography.
Miss Bascom is a daughter of Rev. John
Bascom, late President of Wisconsin
University. '
The honors of entrance into the Uni
versity of London were recently carried
off, over 1,600 male students, by a young
Scotch girl Charlotte Higgins. Her
father died when she was but eight
years old, and it is through the eff.irta
of her mother that she has beenjtble at
twenty to be in possession oi ier fine
education.
University extension has made a good
start in Kansas City. A society has been
organized there in behalf of "the move
ment, composed largely of college gradu-.
ates and of members who are heartily in
sympathy with the work and who will
give it their active support. The Mis
souri and Kansas universities, not .to
speak of other established institutions
of learning in the two States, wid fur
nish an able corps of lecturers, and
everything appears to favor a higher ed
ucation in Kansas City. The system has
been tested elsewhere with the most sat
isfactory results, and that is a sufficient
warrant that it will not fail.
The establishment of free education
in London has given a considerable stim
ulus to private schools. A nnmber of
parents belonging to the lower middle
classes have withdrawn their children
from the board schools, either on the
ground tliat they object to take educa
tion tree or that they think that free ed
ucation will bring an inferior class of
children into the schools. They have
sent their children to those " schools for
young gentlemen " and for young ladies
which abound in all parte of London,
and the private schoolmaster, who haa
recently had a hard time of it, is now
reaping a considerable harvest.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Progress Made on the Niagara
Falls Turmel Colorado's Fruit
Resources. V
Pittsburg hopes for a new city ball on
her old postortice site.
The report of a formation of a tobacco
trust is denied by New York men.
The Niagara Falls tunnel has now
14fi feet of its 3,K10 feet excavated.
E. T. Jeffrey, of Chicago, has re
signed from the World's Fair directory.
The cost at the Nevada State prison in
Carson ia 07 cents per day, the highest
in this country.
The Georgia Legislature has passed a
bill to prevent combinations among in
surance companies.
A perfectly organized band of thieves
and counterfeiters has been broken up
in ruimiKi eouuty, jrty.
The protracted drought ia drying up
numerous brooks i New Hampshire
and killing many fish.
Coloradoana believe that that State
will bftfore king rival California even in
its frnit-grvwiiig resources.
EASTERN ITEMS.
Kiowa Wants Its Female
Mayor to Resign.
ARKANSAS COLORED PEOPLE
Emigrating to Oklahoma The Case
Against Detective Q'Kaliey
at New Orleans.
Co-operative Alliance stores are to be
established in every county in Kansas,
The New York Central railroad will
help to enforce the alien-contract-labor
law.
The Buffalo Board of Health has de
clared theaBarber asphalt works a nui
sance. At Davenport, Ia., the water in the
Mississippi river k lower than it has
been since 1804.
Saratoga, N. Y., and Hartford, Dan
bury and Norwalk, Conn., arf in great
danger 01 a water lanuiie.
Southern cities are running themselves
into dent neaa over heels to getimprov
ments in the way of water, gas and elec
tric ngnta.
King Bird, a negro convict in the
tranalort penitentiary, deliberately am
putated bis arm in order that he mieht
escape hard work.
The Boston Park Commissioners are
being urged to take steps to preserve
what ia left of the earth-work fortifica
tion on Bunker Hill.
A $1,003,000 building is to 1 e erected
in Chicago on the southeast corner of
Washimiton and State streets to the
memory of Columbus,
An English syndicate, which paid
$000,000 lor a Baltimore beer brewery
($200,000 in cash) has offered to sell it
back for $126,000 cash.
A Pullman sleeping-car conductor haa
been arrested at Sbreveport, La., for vi
olating the law by permitting a colored
passenger to rule on 11 is car.
Several hundred Pittsburg people stood
in line for hours, jostling and pushing,
for the singular honor of buying the first
stamp sold in the new poatoffice.
Negroee are leaving Arkansas bv the
carload for the newly-opened lands in
Oklahoma, and farmers expect trouble
getting help to handle their crops.
The cotton worm is creating great de
vastation in many counties in Missis
sippi. One field of twenty-two acres
has been entirely stripped of its leaves.
Another claimant to the estate of A.
T. Stewart, the dry-goods millionaire of
New York, hobs np in Australia. His
name is Hunter, and he claims to be a
first cousin. '
Dallas. Tex., is onranizina a scheme
for a supply plant which will furnish the
6,00d members of the association with
all the beef, live and dresaed, that they
may reqnire.
Prof. Lee of the Bowdoin College ex
pedition to Labrador save that the du
plicates of the valuable velica secured bv
the explorers will be sent to the World's
Fair at Chicago.
The Mexican government has just
granted a concession for a standard
gauge railway about 850 miles from the
City of Mexico to a ton on the Pacific
Coast at Palizada Bay.
The Canadian government has notified
the steamship companies that it will
hold them responsible for the mainte
nance of any destitute Russian Jews
who may land in Canada.
The examination of President Dill of
the defunct Clearfield and Hontzdnle
(Pa.) Savings Banks is now in progress,
and facts showing be is guilty of embez
zling large sums are coming to light.
Members of the Boston Fruit and Pro
duce Exchanue will leave Boston in Feb
ruary for a trip to the Pacific Coast. The
party will be gone a month, and will be
taken charge of by Raymond ct Whit
comb. During the past week about forty men
have been discharged from the employ
of the Wagner Palace liar Company at
East Buffalo, N. Y., because thev were
members of an organization of An
archists. At New Orleans the case against- De
tective O'Malley has been nolle prossed.
O'Malley was indicted on a charge of
bribing the jury which acquitted the
Italians accused of assassinating Chief
of Police Hennessy. - V
Aa a matter of general convenience
the Secretary of the Treasury has de
cided that employee of the Treasury De
partment may receive their salaries in
weekly installments, instead of only
semi-monthly aa at present.
C. A. Sprockets, Rudolph Sprockets.
J. Uhler, Charles Watson, William O.
Hempstead and Louis Sprockets will
make application at Philadelphia next
month for a charter for a corporation to
be known aa the Sprockets Steamship
Company.
The total school enrollment for the
United States on July 1, this year, was
about 14,220,000. The total public-school
enrollment, including about 06, duo in
universities, etc., was 12,730,000; in pri
private and parochial schools not far
from 750,000 each.
Dr. Dorchester, the Superintendent of
Indian Schools, in giving his estimate of
the progress in christianizing the In
dians in the Dakotas says from the
church authorities he learns that the
Roman Catholic Church Indian popula
tion in those States ia 4,740, while
from 10,000 to U,0UO are of other denominations.
NATIONAL CAPITAL
Italian Citiiena and Resident of This
Country Take Matters Into
Their Own Hands,
The President has denied a pardon to
William Reinheiuier of Indiana, sen
tenced to two and one-half years in the
penitentiary for counterfeiting.
The Treasury Department officials are
now looking around for a first-class man
to compose a commission to be sent to
Portland on the public-hnilding site.
Before it starts West, it is announced, J.
B Montgomery will be given a hearing
in advocacy of his property on the- east
side of the river.
There is a general rumor in Washing
ton that Secretary Blaine has decided
not to resume hie duties as Secretary ol
State, and that John W. Foster, now
Secretary of the Treasury, will be ap
pointed to tliat position immediately
after the November elections. State De
partment officials declined to discuss the
matter.
The Board of Supervising Inspectors
of Steam Vessels, specially convened lor
the purpose of determining the best sys
tem of a line for carrying projectiles for
use iu case of marine disasters, made a
report so the Secretary of the Treasury,
recommending the question be referred
to the ordinance bureau of the War De
partment as poswssing the best facilities
lor conducting the experiments. The
board also recommends the repeal of an
amendment to Sections 4488 and 44811 of
the Revised Statutes until a safe and
feasinle means can be invented to ac
complish the object contemplated bv
such amendment in the use of appa
ratus. ; ,
The recall of Baron Fava, ths Italian
Minister to this country, on account of
the New Orleans affair las left the in
terests of Italy in the United States in
a peculiarconditiun. TbenrescntChanm
d'Alfaires in Washington, not being in
vested wim tne powers of a Minister,
the Italian citizens and residents of this
country, feeling the necessity for repre
sentation of their interests, nave taken
matters into their own hands. The
President of the Italian Chamber of
Commerce in New York called on Secre
tary Kusk, and it is expected that his
visit was in connection with negotiations
looking to the raising ot the Italian em
bargo od American porta. It is under
stood that these negotiations have been
in progress for some time, and that they
are in such a state that the promulga
tion of the raising of the embargo will
oe announced snortiy.
PERSONAL MENTION.
Lord Randolph Churchill Makes Some
Sharp Remarks About Hit Old
Colleagues.
Herbert Spencer is a man of medium
stature, with pink and white cheeks and
xino gray eyes.
Lord Lvtton's health is said to lie se
riously compromised, and he thinks of
resigning his post of Ambassador to
i" ranee.
Baron de Rothschild's hobbv is pho
tography. He commence his oleaaure
'each day at 6 . u , and tranetixee many
a mum? scene ana view.
Don Carlos, pretender to the throne of
Spain, who is living at the present time
in Venice, is said to be badly in need of
money. He was obiiged according to re
ports to pawn his jewels a short time
ago.
When he visited America in IKK! Ron-
langer showed nothine of the (od In hii
dress or the snob in his manner. He
wore but one of his medals, and that
pinned inconspicuously on his vest.
where it was practically concealed by his
coat.
Judge Alien H. Morril of Alabama is
mentioned aa likelv to fill the vacancv
on the InteratateCommerce Commission
caused by the death of General Bragg.
Judge Morrill was formerly a law partner
of Senator Pugh, who will urge his ap
pointment,
John D. Rocke eller. who has been
dunned to his home at Forest Hill for
some weeks past, is a very sick man.
Several physicians examined him, and
declared him to be free from organic dis
ease, but decided that his nervous sys
tem ueeueu aosojute rest.
Again the - reproachful news comes
from abroad that Louis Kossuth, the
Hungarian patriot, now blind and old,
is living in wretchedness and novertv in
Turin. Forty years ago, when he vis
ited America, tne simple mention of
the fact that he needed funds would
have brought forth a hundred offers of
assistance.
Siireerd ann of Haiwlrifb thonn i..
daughter of the Norwegian litterateur.
Young Ibsen is a physician quite well
known in Munich, where his father has
until lately Deen residiuj? for many years ;
and the bride-elect contemplated a pro
fessional mnflii'Al ettrAMr. Th ufa,l,i;n..
is not expected to occur in the near fu
ture. . .
The late Archbishop of York was sit
ting next to Queen Victoria at dinner on
one occasion, when her Majesty asked
nim now ne iimeo ins picture, which had
lately come out in Vanity fair. " Wall,
your Majesty," said Dr. Matree. "mv
children think it isn't half ngly enough
for me!" This reply so amused the
Queen that she burst into uncontrollable
laughter.
Michael Munkacey, the artist, spent
the greater part of the summer at his
caetie in Luxembourg. A part of his time
was also passed at Neuilly, near Paris,
in superintending the construction of his
new studio. Miinkacey intends to paint
.; u.r Un " "i ll. ',,o. .,1
Hungary by the Magyars " in the new
studio. He has already finished the
sketches for the painting.
A FRENCH DUDE FISHING.
The Call lo Idea if Sport Tjrpl8Ml b a
llriilan PlMator,
I shall never forget a fellow I saw
one duv last summer, just outside of
Paris, flailing in the tjeine.
To nrehifhv th Ihwh upa vnev atriet
over there in regurd to fishing aud
shooting. The seasons open ami shut
like a jack knife with a snap, aud
woe to the trunsfrrPiaor. On a certain
day in July, I think, the season opens,
and' knur before daylight of the day
the banks of the river tilt along the
Bois do Boulofrne are lined with fisher
men sitting side by sido, almost elbow
to elbow. I strolled down to the river
one day and witnessed the sport. Tak
ing out a cigar I paid a woman two
sous for a chair, and sat dowu to get a
wrinkle in French fishing. For half
an hour all sat in silence with not a
movement. Presently one fellow had
a uiiioie. lniiuetiiHtely every eye was
turned on the little red Dual on bis
line. The float moved perceptibly.
The man, with every uerve strained
aud eyes riveted on the float, breath
less with excitement, watched. The
float dipped again. The man pulled,
and the cork came to the surface, but
no fish. All along the line of-fiaher-nien
there was an ejaculation of
"Ah I" The disappointed fisherman
put on a freab piece of unit and waited.
Presently the fish took hold again;
and this time he had him. Carefully
he worked him in to the bank, aud an
attendant slipped a delicate lauding
n.t l!l(llt. lIlM liw), uti fai.i,tfl him ti.
the bunk. There was a cry ail along
the line of fifty or more fishermen of
"lion, bon, tit joli." Several hud down
their rods and gathered around the
basket, lined with leaves, in which the
fish nus carefully placed. lie was a
monster, nearly six inches long, and
must have w eighed about four ounces.
Then all went at it again with renewed
hope aud courage.
Presently a cub drove up and there
descended from it a dude in an elabo
rate sporting continue eyeglasses and
a broad brimmed hut. alkmg lew
urely to the bank, a man who had ev
idently lieeu sent ahead to secure a po-,
sitiou vacated. A servant brought '
from the cub a folding stool aud
placed it on the Imnk ; reluming to the
cab he produced a delicate rod and
satchel. The rod was put together;
the satchel wiu opened and a small in
ver bait box, a towel, a piece of soup
and a bowl were placed on another
afeKjl alongside.
The servant opened an umbrella and
held it over the tishennau's head to
screen him from the sun and the fish
ing begun. It was a long wait for a
bite. Finally there was a nibble and
miss; several more nibbles and misses,
and presently there wns a fish, sure
enough. The excitement all along
the bank was intense. With the aid
of the landing net the fish wu se
cured. J be servant essayed to take it
off the hook, but the fisherman an
ticipated . him and held it up in tri
umph. But this operation wet the
dude's gloves, and he took them off
anu uirew tiiem awuy.
Things were getting interesting and
exciting, und blank the exiienee.
rreaeuuy nnolher Hall, which, being
secured, the servant dipped up water
from the river and handed the dude
the soup and towel ; aud he washed his
hands. This was repealed every tiuie
he cuuirht a fish. All this time a ifi u-
duraie had been walking up and
down, and approaching the lucky tisb
ermaii there followed au animated
conversation with much gesticulating,
seemingly a protest against such wdia
criuimule slaughter.
The dude waxed indignant aud quit.
The servant uujointed the rod, gath
ered up the stools, umbrella and fish
basket and placed them iu the cub,
which hud been waiting. The dude
entered and was driven off with his
eutch, numbering about six, the ag
gregate weight of which might have
been two iiounds an immense suc
cess. 1 have no doubt this great catch
made an item in next morning's paper,
with the usual lie about the weight of
the string and the big one that was
hurt.
I had learned how the French do if.
Evidently a tittle llshiug goes a long
way with a Frenchman. No doubt
my little man went home, took a rose
water both aud lay down for a rest
after such a fatiguing and exciting
episode. I though to myself how 1
would like to get that chap out in the
Kockies on a thorn bush creek, of a hot
uay, aim make nun wade the stream,
with au orcasiomti stumble over a slip
pery bowlder and a souse under.
What a power of good it would do
him, and what fun for mel Forest
and tttream.
. The Thumb Ring. '
It has taken a lung , While for the
thumb ring to uiuke any headway in
New York, buijt ivery slowly gain
ing ground. !im: Dixcy was iLent
man to wear jMiftg upon his thumb,
and he hiufrsV.f 10 it tenaciously for
two yeaw. ' jtt is a jiluin gold band,
worn iusffUiow ilia joiut, and it waa
placed there- hint merely us a lark
it excilid, ." inm-ii talk among the
people whqf, kitew the burlesque actor
that he has ruf used to take the ring
off and has worn it ever since. Actors
always havu a -certain, following
among yg"nieii whoee, brains are
not of danj tOHs feight wad tvtio are
capable of 'tataMiC their rjiergies to
small things: iue small tluugs have
tukeu the form of a thumb ring, and
there is a very considerable portion of
rather young men about town who am
following Mr. Dixey's example. Mew
loraauu.
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