Mines and
Mining
Miners when they complete their annualassessment work should by no means failto file with the County Clerk ofthe county
where the mine is situated affidavits of
the performance of the labor. A littlecare in this matter willprevent possiblefuture litigation.
Smelting companies in "Utah and Colo-rado are increasing their charges on sili-cious ores on account of the increase inproduction of that class of ores, while thesmelting works inCalifornia have reducedtheir charges on these kind of ores on ac-
count of their scarcity and to encouragetheir production.
The California Miners' Association in-tends to renew its efforts withCongressthis winter to get a law for classifying themineral lands on railroad grants similarto that which now applies inMontana andIdaho. Such a law ought to be passed atonce to prevent the mineral domainpassing from the prospector to corporatebands.
The Holcomb Valley mines, San Ber-nardino County, have been shutdown bythe Ensign company, a patent havingbeen refused because the Southern PacificCompany claim the mines are on railroadland. The company, through its agents,asserts it wants no mineral land, butKeeps on taking allitcan get.
There is unusual activity insome of themining districts of Lower California.Most of the old camps have been workedin a slipsuod manner many years, butlittle systematic development has beencarried on.
In Yuba County there are signs of a re-vivalin quartz mining in several direc-tions, while a few men are engaged onplacer diggings.
Prospecting will now cease for the win-ter in the higher ranges of the Sierras, butmany a manVillanxiously wait forspringto test his "last new find."
No graphite has been shipped from thisState for some year*. The quality ofgraphite
—or plumbago^— found in this
State up to the present time has been toopoor to handle.
About fifty tons of "fossil meal," or in-fusorial earth, was mined in Napa Countylast year, which sold for a total of $2000.
Most of the iead produced in this Statecomes from Inyo County, but as the oreshave usually silver associated with thelead there is now a smaller productionannually than was the case when silverhad a decent value.
A great many men find employment inall the camps during the last two montnseach year doing assessment work forclaim-owners who have put off the duty as longas possible.
Clalifornia prospectors who have claimshad better do as much development workon them as possible, for the time is com-ing when any gold claim that can makeany sort of a showing willbring its price.
The Greenviile mines, Piumas County,are still being operated, and preparationsare being made for extensive workanotnerseason.Ifhalf the stories are true which come
up from the Goler region, near the .Mo-jave Desert, Kern County, some of themines there are abnormally rich.
The cyanide process is doing pretty welldown at Bodie, where a $tio,ooo shipmentis shown as the result of working a batchof tailings.
The AJtooua quicksilver mine in TrinityCounty sent down eighty flasks of quick-silver the other day. The company isemploying about 100 men.
A tale or suapstone mine has been foundat Sims station, on Hazel Creek, ShastaCounty.
The Sierra Bnttes mine 2 of Sierra City,Sierra County, has been bonded by Mrs.A. Bigelow to W. H. Martin of NevadaCity and P. Tautphus. F. Boeckman andDr. Liebnch of San Francisco. The Jedgeis a large one and is supposed to be the ex-tension of the famous Sierra Buttes mine,from which the English owners took out
nearly $11,000,000, and which is still beingworked though the product is compara-tively small.
The sale of the Gold Note group ofminesin Kennedy District, Nev., ought to be agood thing for that region, for the newowner will work them actively.
The oldPhoenix mine, thirty-five milesfrom Phoenix, Ariz., will soon be startedup again, arrangements having been made•with the creditors. The mine has a 100---stamp mill, but did not pay when pre-viously worked. The plan is now to put aforce of men at work and operate only asmany stamp?) as are necessary, the newbeginning being on a more careful basis.
Between Lewiston, Idaho, and the reser-vation line several placer 3are being ac-tively worked. Some of the locations navebeen mined over many times, but the paystreak seems to be renewed by tne floods.Old style rockers are run every winter.
A new mining camp has been discoveredand is being opened up in Fremont's Peakdistrict, thirty miles northwest of Bar-stow, San Bernardino County. The ledgescarry free-milling gold ore and there iswater four miles distant. As the campwas only struck on October 2, very littlework has been done. Ten distinct ledgesare said to have been found.
The Ophir mine, Oakland district, Or., ispreparing to ship ore to the Selby smelt-ing works.
The Antone Millerproperty in Althousedistrict. Or., has been purchased by C. O.Pratt for Tacoma capitalists.
The plffcer tielus on the Ollala section,Douglass County, Or., have been workedon a small scale for about forty years, butnone of the channels have ever been pipedby hydraulic process.
The Illinois River copper mines, Ore-gon, are giving employment to twenty-live men. The smelting plant has allbeen hauled in ready to be set up.
The "natural soap" mine, near Elko,Nev., is to be opened up and the productutilized commercially by James Yering-ton. An Eastern company talks abouttaking out a hundred tons a day and re-finingit, or preparing it in some way forthe market.
W. H. Lowell, chief clerk of the Con-solidated California and Virginia mine atVirginia, Nev., has prepared for Mr.Mackay a statement of the total product ofthe "bonanza mines" within the com-pany's patented ground. From the begin-ning up to October 1, 1895, the gold pro-duced was $61,671 ,510 4«; silver. $09,752,---81!>(¥>; total, $131,424,:-{36 13. The dividendswere: California, $:U,320.000; Con. Vir-ginia. $42.930,000 ;Con. California and Vir-ginia, $3,898,800. Total dividends, $78,---148,800. This is far and away ahead of therecord of any gold and silver mine in theUnited States. And tne mine is stillship-ping bullion, having produced last year$3H4,526 from 10,2/35 tons of ore.
The old Sheep Ranch mine, CalavsrasCounty, kept a town and its people goingfor twenty-rive years, but no other richlodes were ever found in its immediatevicinity, though the region has been verythoroughly prospected.
The National Mining Development andBrokerage Company of Portland, Me., hastaken hold of the Swiss Girlgroup of cop-
per mines, about twenty miles east ofPrescott, Ariz.,on the same belt as thefamous mines as those of the United VerdeCopper Company. The mines will be de-veloped first and reduction works put upafterward.
Rossland, B. C, has no boom, but it is
quite a lively camp In which about 3000men are interested.
The Weiser (Idaho) Signal says that atest run by the Warrens dredge showedthe gravel raised to yield an average of20 cents per cubic yard and that the com-pany can handle 2000 yards per day.
The long-talked-of tramway, eleven andthree-fourths miles long, from Rossland toWeill Landing, B.C, is at last to be built.The tramway willcome near all the prin-cipal mines" of the camp and willassistmaterially in their development.
Miners are makine as high as $8 per daywith rockers at Buffalo Bow, eight milesfrom Lewiston, Idaho. The diggings are ona river bar, but are not extensive.
The Blewett mines at Perhastin, Wash.,paid $9000 last month. Tanks are beingput on for the cyanide process.
The Skylark mine at Ainsworth, B.C,in the Kootenai country, is showing up alarge body of high-grade ore. The mine isin better condition than ever.
Anagreement has been signed by Wash-ington men to buy the!Steameral mine, inMcAdams Creek, Siskiyou County, for$20,000. •
The Annie mine in the Bohemia district,Oregon, the most extensive in the district,has beee sold to a Chicago syndicate.
The bonding of mining companies in theBoundary Creek district, B. C,by suchmen as "Marcus Daly, John R. Toole andAlmon Tarrell, all interested in the greatcopper industry of Butte, Mont., is con-sidered of ereat significance, as indicatingthe value of the mines of the region.
A syndicate of wealthy men has Deenorganized in Vancouver, B. C, to investin Trail Creek mines.
A great deal of ore from the mines inthe different camps in the West Kootenai,B.C, is rinding its way to the Pilot Baysmelter.
An invoice of ore sacks has been received by the Old Dominion mine, Col-ville.Wash., and it is believed that themine will become a permanent producerat an early date.
There are indications of Bohemia dis-trict, Oregon, becoming quite an activemining camp next spring.
Portland and San Francisco men havepurchased the McCarthy &Durphy gravelclaim of 400 acres in Jackson County, Or.,and itwillbe worked systematically nextseason.
Southern Oregon miners hope for a wetwinter, in which case more mining willbedone than ever before.Itis estimated that the mines of Trail
Creek, British Columbia, willbe shippine800 tons of ore per day by next July.
A Washington paper states that thosestaking claims on Lulu Island, FraserRiver, will hereafter be required to put upa bond of $1000 with the Government, butno reason for this unusual course is given.
There is increased activity in the oldCariboo region, British Calumbia, wheremany millions of placer gold were takenout as far back as 1858. Now, water is tobe brought in to work the gravel banks onan extensive scale, tunnels are to be run,hydraulic elevators and giants are to beused. Some 500 men have been workingthis summer making preparations for thework to be done next year, which is to becarried on by an English company.
There is a good deal of gold minine eo-ing on in Northern Idaho, on the line be-tween this country and British Columbia.
In the southwestern part of Oregon, atGranite Pass and Medford, the placermines are being worked with much suc-cess.
Colorado men have purchased a largeinterest in the Sampson mine in the WestMountain district, Brigham, Utah.
Arich strike has been made in the RobRoy mine, Newton district, Beaver County,Utah. The old mill on the mine is to bereplaced by a modern one.
Sews comes from Bingham, Utah, thatsince the tunnel reached the vein the lowerworkings of the Spanish and other mines
on the same lode are being drained andcan now be worked without trouble wherein the past the water has seriously inter-fered with the extraction of ore.
The new concentrating plant ofthe Daly-Wes«t Company, Park City, Utah, is beingput in position and willbe in operation bythe Ist of January.
Negotiations are going on for the powerto operate an electric plant to operatemills, tramways, etc., at Brigham Canyon,Utah.
The conditions at Skull Valley, Utah,are said to be similar to those at CampFloyd, and it is hoped tfiat the men nowproopecting there will prove up a goodcamp.
Over 100 men are at work at the GoldBank mine, Forbestown, Butte County,and it is said to be yielding $30,000 permonth.
Hydraulic Mining Progress.
Itis worthy of note that the CaliforniaDebris Commission at its last meetinggave permits to mine by the hydraulicprocess to eleven mining companies andpermits were granted to seven others toconstruct impounding dams. All thesepermits were given at one meeting, whichshows that, notwithstanding the manyobjections to the Caminetti act, it is work-ing well. For manjr years before that actwas passed, through the efforts ofthe California Miners' Association, noHydraulic mines in the drainage basinof the San Joaquin and Sacramento riverscould legally be worked. Since the passageof the act over 100 of these mines havecommenced worK and are continuing it.Moreover, as the above statement shows,many others are preparing to resumeoperations. Itis true that the minerscannot work as they please, without re-striction as to the amount of gravel to bewashed or the disposal of their debris, but
| itis equally true that no anti-debris asso-iciation can interfere with them when theyj are mining under a Government permit.The Debris Commission, composed as itis of ITnited States engineer officers, is a
Iconservative but just body. Itwill let nomine operate unless all the requirementsas to impounding tailings are compliedwith, but itwilllet no prejudiced personsinfluence it"aeainst granting" permits tomine by hydraulic process when itthinkssue!) permits should justly be given. Ac-cordingly the mines are again graduallybeginning to work, and our annual goldproduct from this source *is gradually be-ginning to increase.Itis gratifying tonote that the hydraulic
owners have generally accepted the situa-tion, though this can scarcely be said ofthose who had an interest in opposingthem. Meantime the mines are beingworked and are producing gold withoutmaterial injury to the navigable streamsor the lands adjacent to the banks. Forall of which the public have to thank theCalifornia Miners' Association, throughwhose efforts Congress came to the reliefof this State and enacted this law.
Deep Gold Mining.
The fact that as rich ore as has ever beenfound in the Kennedy mine, in AmadorCounty, has been struck at the bottom ofthe mine— nearly 2000 feet—should be veryencouraging, not only to all the mother-lode miners, but those inotner sections ofthe State, as proving that our gold mines"go down." Our very best mines in theState seem to be those in which depth isattained. Those who open new claims, orreopen old ones, now consider it best tosink a deep shaft at once and ccc whatthey have. This is one of the reasonsgold mining on quartz cannot well be car-ried on without an investment of capitai.
There is an immense amount of pros-pecting and mining now going on in thecounties where the mother lode is found,and while all the claims may not turn outas rich as the Kennedy has, they all havea chance of getting something rich whenthey get deep enough. The strike willencourage dozens ofother companies nowat work. The mine itself, though workedin early days, was abandoned for manyyears until the present company took holdof and thoroughly developed* it. Theyhave made a big mine and a handsomeprofit. The presence of such ore m thebottom of the mine shows that many moremillions willdoubtless be taken out.
Charles G. Yale.
Ingleside track, the most elegant in America.
JAKE SHAIN HEARD FROMHe Kevoken the Power of Attorney
Given Notary Public Cm-tin.Jake Sham, who disappeared some
months ago, leaving a large list of credi-tors to mourn his sudden leave-taking,has been heard from. He is supposed tobe in the City', though that fact is not byany means established as yet.
The power of attorney given D. A.Cur-
tin has been revoked, though the notarydoes not accord Mr. Sham that right untilhe has satisned all the absconding col-lector's creditors.
Mr. Curtin is very indignant that Shamor his representatives should make the as-sertion that creditors were constantly putoff with the excuse that no money3hadbeen collected.
"Allmoneys collected by me," said Cur-tin, "'have been properly accounted for orcan be on demand. lam ready to made ashowing when called upon, but in themeantime Ido not propose to shoulderthe whole or any part of Sham's mis-doings."
CAPTAIN ROSS` APPEAL.The Decision of Local Inspectors
Talbot and PhillipsReversed.
Their Superior Sharply Criticizes theWay in Which They Made Their
Investigation.
Captain John Bermingham, SupervisingInspector of Steam Vessels, has reversed
\u25a0 the decision of his local inspectors, E. S., Talbot and W. A. Phillips, in the matteri of their refusal to renew the license ofICaptain John Ross, master ot the wreckedi steamer Maid of Oregon.
Messrs. Talbot and Phillips are the same; officers that investigated the Colima dis-| aster. In the case of Captain Ross theyj held he was to blame for the loss of hisvessel in a gale off Chetco. Or., September11, while on a voyage from Seattle, PugetSound, to Morro Bay. The steamer
j sprang a leak, became water-logged andIher heim would not answer properly.
Messrs. Talbot and Phillips were of theopinion that Captain Ross should have re-turned to Puget Sound for an adequatesupply of coal and there have his rudderrepaired. Itwas charged that the vessel
icould not be properly steered in the condi-! tion she was unless her engines were made
to go at an unusual rate. His license hav-ing expired they decided not to renew itfor six months, and Captain Ross appealedto Captain Bermingham.
Captain Bermingham completely exon-erated Captain Ross. He as much as saidthat the local inspectors had not given hima fair hearing, and hf held that the localboard had no authority to punish him,much less to declare that they would doso, as his last license —his fifteenth issue —had expired more than a month prior tothe investigation.
Captain Bermingham severely criticizedthe manner in which the case was heard,and said the "paucity of the questions"put to the only witnesses that testified,viz., the captain, mate and engineer,"could hardly be expected to bring outthe essential facts regarding her loss, orthe alleged negiect of Captain Ross toreturn to Puget Sound." He held that itwould have been impossible for her tohave reached Cape Flattery, then almost100 miles dead to windward, when thevessel sprang the leak, and he remarkedthat the fact that the vessel was a flat-bottomed, center-board, converted steam-vessel was not brought out at all.
The supervising inspector, in closing hisopinion, said Captain* Ross was deservingof praise rather than censure, and hecommended the captain's skill displayedin the construction of two jury ruddersand a pump when the vessel was in dis-tress. Captain Ross is a ship-caipenterhimself.
The Maid of Oregon was built in As-toria, Or., in 1888, as a center-boardschooner, and was afterward converted intoa steamer. Captain Ross had made onlyone brief trip on her before.
The Kites' Carnival.The Elks' Carnival at the Mechanics'
Pavilion last night was a pronounced suc-cess. There was a large attendance andno lack of enjoyment. The prelude in-cluded Spanish, Polish, Turkish and Trilbydances. In the latter dance twelve bare-footed maidens appeared and won raptur-ous applause from the great audience.The march of the bloomer girls and themarch of the Amazons deligiited all.
During the evening the entertainmentwas diversified by an electrical illusion,which was erected at the end of the Pavil-ion. Itwas an pxcellent imitation of amillin the forest at the foot of a mountain,the whole being illuminated withelectricaleffects. After the grand march dancingwas begun and continued all night.
Ducat, the great iniler,runs at Ingleside.
DURRANT STILL FIGHTINGHe Complains That Unfair Pub-
lications Injured HisCase.
A VOLUMINOUS AFFIDAVIT.
Judge Murphy Characterizes One ofthe Charges as "A Sweep-
ing Assertion."
There was an exceedingly scanty crowdin Judge Murphy's courtroom yesterdaywhile General Dickinson read voluminousaffidavits in support of his motion for anew trial for Theodore Durrant. The de-fendant's attorney read on and on from a75,000 word document. It was a detailedstatement by the accused man of false,malicious, injurious reports made one dayand contradicted the next bycertain news-papers in this City. Witnesses alreadysummoned and witnesses in prospective,said the affidavit, were hunted out by thepolice and press, their past dug up and
that record held over them like a scourge.And by reason of this the defendant lostthe benefit of certain evidence. Jurorswere approached, and not only their mo-tives and opinions questioned, but their
decisions anticipated and published.Besides these allegations the affidavit
contains printed articles from the news-papers published during the trial as evi-dence of the spirit of antagonism to theprisoner, utterly preventing him from re-ceiving a fair trial- The opening paces ofthe creat document referred to the effortsof the defense to get a change of venue andthe failure in spite of sufficient grounds tosupport his plea, and that consequentlythe defendant was forced to stand trial iha locality inimical to him. Then Durrantalleges in his affidavit the long-arm at-tack upon Charles H. Clark in Boston, animportant alibi-witness. The newspapers,especially the Examiner and Chronicle,not onlybegan to make things interestingfor Clark here but are said to have set theirBoston men to work digging up his record.He was charged with embezzlement, andthe Chronicle Was said to have gone so faras to say "he will be arrested to-day."Next day those newspapers were Baid" tohave denied their own stories.
Then the papei passed on to the cases ofPawnbroker Oppenheini ami lienihan, whopawned a ring, both of whom were said tohave been worried by certain newspapers.Mrs. Monier is alleged to have refused totestify for the defense because of press at-tacks upon her.
The incident of excusing Juror WalterS. Brown after he had been accepted byboth sides was mentioned. The objectionto Brown was caused by the report of hisservices in the Howell counterfeitting casein the United States court. All the pro-ceedings of Jadge Murphy's court regard-ing the Brown affair were set forth verba-tim in the affidavit, and in it Durrantclaims that Brown had a perfect right toSt as a juror, and that his unjust dismissalprejudiced Durrani's case in the mindsof the other jurors.
Then the case of Nathan Crocker, anotherjuror who had been challenged by the de-fense and the challenge overruled, wasalluded to as an incident injurious to thedefendant.
Reference was had to the matter of deal-ing with newspaper men for contempt,the defendant complaining that JudgeMurphy had refused to cite certain news-paper people for having interviewed jurorsand improperly published those inter-views.
"That's a sweeping assertion, general,"said Judge Murphy, interrupting the read-ing. "Can you give the date of the timewhen that citation was refused ?""Ihaven't the date here," said General
Dickinson, "but Iam very positive thatsuch request was made.""Iam as positive that none was made,"
returned the Judge. "Iexpected that youwould do bo, but Ihave no recollectionthat you did. Irepeat, that is a sweepingassertion, and Ihope District AttorneyBarnes willmake a note of it."
And that officer, sitting under the judi-cial eye, mentally made the requestednote.
As General Dickinson resumed the read-ing the Judge interrupted him aprain andagain by requesting him to make allcharges specific as to the character, paperand dates.
•'Do you use all of the articles you referto?" said he.
"No,Ionly use the headings. IfIusedthe articles this would make an immensevolume."
The affidavit then took up the Examinerand Chronicle publications relative to thenotebook and the lecture alibi matters,and the alleged emnity of the medicalstudents toward Durrant. The disrobingstory, in which Mrs. Clayton's daughter,Ida, was alleged to have been insulted inthe church by Durrant, and indignantlydenied next day by the young lady, was re-ferred to.
The District Attorney is busy preparingcounter-arlidavits, which he will oifer inopposition to the motion of the defense.
The arguments will probably consumeseveral days, running well into the comingweek. The hearing will be resumed to-morrow morning at 10 o'clock.
GENERAL DICKINSON HEADING LENGTHY AFFIDAVITS.[Sketched by a
"Call" artist.]
DEATHS AT A aUARRY.Two Employes of Contractors Warren
&Malley Now L,ie at the Morgue
With Skulls Fractured.The mortuary record at the quarry of
Contractors Warren & Malley in SanMateo County has been rather big for thepast few days, The third death there wasreported yesterday and two bodies now lieat the Morgue with fractured skulls.
One of the bodies is that of James Kingof 515 Howard street, a paving cutter, andthe other that of Edward Marite, a Swisslaborer. Marite was brought to the City Re-ceiving Hospital on Monday and on t'uss-day he died, and King was conveyed tothe City and County Hospital by a waironof the Guadalnpe dairy Tuesday and diedyesterday morning. Rocks falling onthem is given as the cause in both cases.About a week ago a man was killed at thequarry, the Coroner of San Mateo Countytaking charge of his body.
Coroner Hawkins will hold inquests to
ascertain whether the deaths of the twomen brought to the Morgue here were dueto criminal carelessness on the part oftheir employers or not, and the presenceof James Hand, Jeremiah Foley, WilliamKerry, Patrick Martin, B. Moore and C.Bosie will be required as witnesses. Kingwas 44 years old, married and a native ofIreland,and Marite was 35 years of age andsingle.
IRISHMEN AND FREEDOMAn Eloquent Oration at Metro-
politan Hall by JamesD.Phelan.
IN THE CAUSE OF IIBEETY.
Part of the Irish Reviewed at theEntertainment of the Knights
of St. Patrick.
Metropolitan Hall was well filled lastevening with some of the most representa-tiveof the Irish-American residents of thisCity to enjoy the grand literary and musi-cal entertainment of the Knights of St.Patrick given incelebration bf Thanksgiv-ing eve. The evening's programme openedwith a violinsolo by Frank Hess, who wasfollowed by Miss Nettle Flynn and Messrs.H. Anderson and W. T. O'Brien in a triofrom Verdi's "Attila."
Frank T. Shea explained the absence ofPresident Jeremiah Deasy, who was tohave made the introductory address, bystating that he was ill,and performed thepart of the absent officer by reviewingbrieily the origin and history of the orderof the Knights of St. Patrick in this coun-try.
At the conclusion of his remarks he in-troduced James D. Phelan as the orator ofthe evening. In the course of his eloquentand wittyaddress on "The service of theIrish people to the cause of liberty," Mr.Phelan said: •
The success of the Irish in foreign lands hasnot been won by favor and patronage. Youknow tnat well. They have had to show theirpossports at every crossroad!
As the Irish have been victims of prejudice,even so, inno discussion in which they take apart, should there be appeal to prejudice.Taunts, jibes and falsifications be metby facts and arguments, and in this connec-tion Icannot but refer to the forbarance withwhich the Irish inAmerica have acted in theface of the greatest provocations, for they are ahot-headed people, and have been known to re-turn a blow. Bat forbearance is one of thelessons of liberty they have learned. Tumultin a democracy is no protest, rioting is noanswer, but free"speech, free press, free assem-bly, free elections, are the constitutionalweapons of all;and itcannot be fairlychargedajrainst the American people that they arelike the Scotchman who said, "Iam open toconviction, but Iwould like to see the manwho can convince me!"
Tbere is one characteristic of Irish soldiers—
they have almost invariably fought for thecuuse of liberty, and if on account of thepower, vigilance and repressive measures ofEngland, which have inado oi all Ireland aBritish garrison, they have not been able tolight for 2<X> years on their own battlefields,they have had the supreme satisfaction of hav-inK fought the enemies of their liberties on thebattlericMs of the world.
In broadly considering the services of theIrish in freedom's cause we should lirst in-quire what qualifications they possessed.
As a matter of historical fact the Irish are anancient people, whose cultivation of the artsand sciences antedates civilization in Eng-land and the continental countries. Irelandwas never invaded by the Romans and thuspreserved Its individuality,but it is needlessto inquire into causes when we have the facts.A translation of the work of Dr.Zimmer, theGerman scholar, nas recently been issued fromthe press of Putnam's Sons entitled "TheIrish Element in Medieval Culture." fromwhich Iquote. Recalling the fact that Irelandreceived Christianity in the third and fourthcenturies and referring to the immunitythe Irish enjoyed from the Roman legions,which overran "Britain, the author says: "Ire-land can indeed lay claim to a great past. Shecan not onlyboast of having been the birth-place and abode of high culture in the fifthand sixth centuries, at the time wrhen theRoman Empire was being undermined by thealliances and inroads of German tribes, whichthreatened to sink the whole continent intobarbarism, but also of having made strenuousefforts in the seventh and up to the tenthcentury to spread her learning among theHerman and Roman people, thus forming theactual foundation ofour present Continentalcivilization."Iwould now a.'k any fair-minded man know-
ing the history of that time, as chronicled bysuch unquestionable authorities, ifit is un-reasonable to draw these conclusions: First,that a people who resisted such atrociousmethods and survived must have somethingin the fiber of their race to recommend themas colonists and as men; and, secondly, thetrnon-submission to slavery and firmresistance totyranny cannot but have lareely entered intothe creation of those forces which were thengathering for freedom; and, if so, they wereunquestionably brought by them in their exileof immigration to the colonies of North Amer-ica.
Have we not here one of the secret inspira-tions of that marvelous achievement when thethirteen colonies, although without money ormunitions of war, unskilled in arms and in-viting their owndestruction, sprang up as oneman in fierce and determined resistance tothe first approach of English oppression? Ifthey had not been bitterly taught what Eng-lish domination meant do you think theywould have risked all on the hazard of warfare*withone of the most powerful of continentalpowers before any alliances had been made?Never. The colonists knew they were fightingfor their lives, honor, homes, children, theirall, which was encompassed in that one word,liberty. In the Ught of liish history, wellmight they say: "Uive us liberty or give usdeath."
So we find the Irish spirit and soldier intheforefront of the Rebellion! The red man dis-appeared before the white man, but theXeltwas unterrified by the Saxon ;and, not only byjust wars, but by "the simple influence of pub-lic opinion, which he has been no small factorin creating and maintaining throughout theworld, he is winning that coveted freedom forhis people and all peoples at home and abroad.IkThe history of the Irish brigades recuntingtheir services in foreign lands is » record ofvalorous deeds. Such names as those of O'Hig-gins and Lynch stand for freedom in Chile;O'Brien was the leader of the war of independ-ence in Buenos Ayres, and O'Rourk was theliberator of Servia. These show the bent andleaning of the race.
But what a glorious page is that describingthe part played by the Irish race inhelping totree America! Among the generals of Wash-ington ot Irish lineage were Geneial Stark,the hero of Bennington; General AnthonyWayne, the hero of Germantown; GeneralsSullivan, Thompson, Montgomery, Knox, Ir-vine, Hand, Moylen, Butler; and the navalcommanders O'Brien and Barry, the lattercalled "the father of the American Navy." Atthe battle of Bennington, Stony Point, theCowpens, Kings Mountain, Irishmen com-manded inperson; and the Declaration of In-dependence is subscribed by nine of Irishblood.
As to the number of Irish of the rank andflic who served in tnat war we have official es-timates. In1785 there was published inLon-don the results of aParliamentary inquiry intothe failure of the American war, and Major-General Robertson, who had served in thearmy for twenty years, testified. He was asked:"How are the American provincial corpscomposed ? Are they worthy Americans oremigrants from various nations of Europe ?"This answer came: "Some corps are mostlynatives, but General Lee informed me that halfof the rebel Continental army were from Ire-land."
InPhiladelphia, in1771, there was organizedthe Society of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick,of wnich the Knights of St. Patrick, underwhose auspices we are here to-night, is an off-shoot and in full sympathy and accord. Thissociety was ofgreat service to the colonists, ofwhich we have abundant and interesting testi-mony. They sent men to the front, and at onetime when the "'ragged Continentals" weredying for want of food in the field thePennsylvanians, iv response to an appeal,raised $1,500,000, of which the FriendlySons ot St. Patrick alone contributed$500,000. Among its members was along list of American officers, includingWashington himself; not that they claimedhim as an Irishman, but they loved him as aman who was free from prejudice and wasleady to meet and accord merit to others, andeenerously acknowledged services performed.Inaccepting membership in the society, whosemeetings he frequently attended, he wrote:"Iaccept withpleasure the ensign of,eo worthya fraternity ns that of the Friendlygions of St.Patrick, a society distinguished for the firmadherence of its members to the glorious causeon which we are embarked."
Corresponding to the Friendly Sons of St.Patrick was the charitable Irish society organ-ized inBoston in1757. Ina body this societyin 1833 visited General Andrew Jackson, thehero of the war of 1812, tnen President of theUnited States, who, by the way, was the son ofan Irishman. Inreply to an address of wel-come General Jackson said: "Itis with greatpleasure thatIsee so many of the countrymenof my father assembled on this occasion. Ihave always been proud of my ancestry and ofbeing descended from that noble race, and re-
joice that Iam so nearly allied to a countrywhich has so much to recommend it to thepood wishes of the world. lam well aware, sir,that Irishmen have never been backward ingiving their support to the cause of lib-erty. They have fought, sir, for thiscountry valiantly, and I have nodoubt would right again were it neces-sary."
General Phil Sheridan, who struck the finalblow at Lee, was born but one" year after thearrival of his Irish father inNew York;Gen-eral James Shields, the honored hero of twowars, was the only general who defeated"Stonewall" Jackson, and General Kearnyand others make an illustrious company ofIrish officers. The common soldier of Jri?hbirth is also identified with every battle in thewar. Irishmen composed whole regiments,like the NintfiMassachusetts, the Sixty-ninthNew Jersey and the Sixty-ninthNew York.
Unqualified opposition to foreigners is asurvival of Puritanism. The Puritans had awroner iaea of freedom. They wanted itall forthemselves. Youcould worship freely their God,but itstopped there. They were bent on theirown salvation alone. It is said of them thatthey first fellon their knees and then on theaboriginees. They were austere and intoler-ant. They deprecated bull-baiting, not becauseit gave pain to the bull but because it gavepleasure to the people. They sold slaves.They burned witches and exiled good men likeRoger Williams for the assertion of reli-gious independence; those they did not exilethey hanged. And yet their descendants havevastly improved and have become good Ameri-cans;* inproof of which ithas been shown thatwhereas they originallysold the slave to theSouth lor the love ofmoney they took him backfor the love of God. Ho, you see, there is somehope for the descendants of the Irish, and oneor two generations inav remove all their faultsand raise them, by evolution, into the highestheaven of patriotic reward.
Disraeli said "I wish that the republic ofthe Puritans had blended with theiribeSof thewilderness." Then, thought he, there wouldbe a real homogeneous people and Americannationality, and not until some such amalcam-ation took place. But he was luistaken. Apeople with pretensions to a race, a languageand a skin of their own might have resulted,and while this would have gladdened thepoet's heart it would not have added to thesubstantial happiness of mankind.
No; the essence of an American nationalitymust be found inthe republican form of gov-ernment and all that ilows from it: for thedistinguishing characteristics of the Americanpeople are not inthe color of their skins, butinthe color of their minds; not in the wordsthey adopt to express their ideas, but intheideas themselves. The American, the loyalAmerican, possessing the essential elements ofgood citizenship, is the man who, irrespectiveof birthplace, religious belief or language, un-derstands and appreciates American institu-tions and for their defense is willingto laydown his life. Are not the Irish by this testgood and loyal Americans T History proves it.
So wise were the fathers of the Republic thatthey gave us a constitution which, after guar-anteeing our liberties, prevents us from laps-inginto despotism by a reactionary wave, sooften experienced inhuman affairs, under thestress of bigotry or forgetfulness of historiclessons. It saves us by liftingus high abovethe assaults of mere majorities, and requiringtwo-thirds of Congress and three-fourths ofall the States to alter the great fundamentallaw. So there is no danger of our again re-turning to the tyrannies of the past, fromwhich we emerged after a sanguinary war,andin which our American saviors were not onlyour colonial sires, but the French, the Germanand the Irish soldiery. Itwas a victory for thecause of mankind, and all mankind, underreasonable restrictions, should be permitted toenjoy it.
The Irish have pined fora government suchas ours for centuries and were ripe to appre-ciate its benelits. Ithas been to them a refusefrom oppression and has given to them in-finitelymore than their native land ever con-ferred, and itis their duty and it is their rightto love the stars and stripes with patrioticfervor.
At a time and ina place where America hadfew friends a great Irishman spoke in herCause ;and permit me to quote his words, whichshow, ina line, the patriotic value of the Celticelement in American nationality: "Dependupon it,the lovers of freedom willbe free.' 1
He also spoke of Burke, Sheridan,O'Connell, £mmet, Wolfe Tone, Gold-smith, Berkeley and others as championsof liberty. His fineeffort elicited frequentand hearty applause.
W. T. O'Brien rendered "The HolyCity" as a barytone solo, and Miss LillianO'Connor, who was introduced as a de-scendant of the great O'Connor, recited"The Dandy Fiftn"in such an effectivemanner as to be recalled, wheri she de-claimed in touching style "The Wearingof the Green." Next came Miss MillieFlynn, who gave "Because ILove You,Dear," as a soprano solo. Frank T. Shea'srecitation of "The Star-spangled Banner"concluded the evening's exceeding enjoy-able features. Miss Julia Heffernan actedas accompanist.
Among the honored guests on the plat-form were: William Greer Harrison,Charles M. Shortndge, James D. Phelan,J. J. O'Byrne and other prominent citizens.
CAN HAVE ITSINVENTION.Offer to the City Through the
Union for PracticalProgress.
Scheme to Supply Power to the PublicFrom the Waves of the Pacific
Ocean.
President John M. Reynolds told theUnion for Practical Progress on Tuesdaythat the Finance Committee of the Boardof Supervisors had shown great aversiontoward doing anything on the municipalownership question.
The petition of the union, signed by sev-eral thousand voters, had been presented,he said, coupled with a careful argument,typewritten, in favor of the City owningits own water and light service, and theFinance Committee had simply evaded thematter ana postponed from tune to timethe consideration of it. The petition askedfora special election to be called for thesubmission of the question i.o the people.
D. E. Bohannon, general manager of the''Wave -power Air -compressing Compa-ny," then came forward with an idea,backed up by a proposition. He first ar-gued like this:If street railways could be operated at half
the cost required to operate them to-day bythe use of coal the people would be directlybenefited by a cheaper fare. If the City andCounty ofSan Francisco could furnish its ownlight,heat, water and power at a small outlayof capital for a plant, and operated that plantat a small expense, the people would save thedifference intaxes as compared to the presentcost. The Wave-power Air-compressing Com-pany is ready at any time to sign an agreementwith the City and County of San Francisco,givingthe free use of its invention for munici-pal purposes.
His proposition was already preparedand in writing. Itwas an offer oi the in-vention to the City formunicipal purposesin this form and manner:
San Francisco, Nov.26, 1895.To The Union for Practical Progrees—F. \V.
Potter, Secretary: The Wave-power Air-com-pressing Company, having control of the rightfora patent to compress air in the City andCounty of San Francisco by the waves of thePacific Ocean, hereby proposes to grant to theCity and County of San Francisco the free useof the said patent for municipal purposes, pro-vided this offer is accepted and practical oper-ations begun within six months after a prac-tical demonstration has been made by this com-pany.
We understand that "uae for municipal pur-poses" means the use for any plant or enter-prise which may be owned ana controlled bythe City and County ofSan Francisco and usedforpublic purposes. Yours very respectfully,
Wave-Power Air-Compressing Company.W. R. Cop.coran, Secretary.
Itwas decided to have the executivecommittee of the union communicate theproposition to the Board of Supervisors.
Last night's meeting was held in CeresHall, in Mrs. Dr. Cora A. Morse's resi-dence, 621 O'Farrell street, where theunion willgather hereafter untilpermanentquarters are secured.
Swallowed a Steel Toy.
The baby of Mrs. Macdonald, 1121% Folsomstreet, swallowed a steel "jack" toy yesterday.Itstuck inthe child's throat and caused greatpain. The child was taken to the ReceivingHospital and Dr.Bunnell experienced consid-erable difficulty in extracting the toy. Thechild's throat was badly lacerated by the st*>elprongs, but the mother was thankful that itslife was saved.
Mark Hopkins Institute of Art.Open daily,including Thanksgiving day and
evening. The desire to see Murillo's greatpaintings is steadily increasing the attend-ance. Amusical programme is providedeveryThursday evening. •'
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