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EXAMINER WILL TAKE NOTICE. THE CONTEMPT AMENDMENT. JUDGE M'KENNA'S SUCCESSOR. THE OUTPUT OF GOLD. EVENING SENTINEL The following, copied from the San Francisco Wave, meets our most hearty endorsement: "The selection of the successor of Judge McKenna has been the topic of general discussion among lawyers and laymen ever since it was definitely announced that the present Judge of the Circuit Court would be appointed to a place in President McKinley's cabinet.

The office that will be made vacant by his resignation is the most important Federal judicial office in the State, and it is a matter of grave importance to the State and to its bar that the place be fllled'by some man of high and unimpeachable Integrity as well as deep learning in the law. It would be scarcely proper at this juncture to review the good, bad and indifferent names which have been suggested as possibilities for the vacant judgeship. Indiscreet friends have affected to be engaged in prompting the candidacy of some of the gentlemen who at present adorn our Supreme and Superior benches. Doubtless in many instances the names of these gentlemen have been used without their knowledge, and therefore in advance of a definite announcement from them it would be unfair to discuss their merits and demerits. "Among the leading lawyers of this city whose good opinion we value and whose learning we respect, the judgment has been almost unanimous that the place most naturally should go to ex-Justice J.

J. De Haven, and In this selection we heartily concur. Judge De Haven needs no certificate at our hands. His integrity has never been so much as questioned. His ability is known wherever the decisions of our Supreme Court are quoted as authority.

He is modest and retiring almost to the point of indiscretion, but notwithstanding his aversion to the ways of the political judge, he is more than popular, he is respected and held in honor by the people. His appointment to the Circuit judgeship would be followed by an almost popular demonstration of approval. The press and the bar of the State, Democratic and Republican alike, should join in endorsing for this position a man whose past official record has been one of such unswerving honor and fidelity. His ability none will deny, his honor no man will question, and in his case we would say that it is only necessary to indicate to the President that his appointment would meet with an approving response at the hands of the people of the State for the appointment to follow." Dr. Jordan, In an address at Berkeley said: "Stimulants produce temporary insanity.

Whiskey, cocaine and alcohol bring temporary insanity, and so does a revival in religion one of those revivals In which men lose all their reason and self-control. This is simply a form of drunkenness, no more worthy of respect than the drunkenness which is in the gutters." If the doctor had added that there was more permanent insanity caused by revivals than there was by whiskey drinking, he would have stated another truth. Boulder Echo. Dr. Jordan should read the Sunday Examiner account of a Methodist revival that is going on at Pacific Grove.

So should the people who dissent from Dr. Jordan's conclusion. The Pacific Grove revival is peculiar, if not absolutely ridiculous. A good article always speaks for itself, and such has been the case with the improved roads of this city and county. Our main thoroughfares, those which have been macadamized and those which have been graded and turnpiked, are in good condition after two weeks of almost steady rain.

The Cliff E'rive makes an excellent showing for the work put upon it, and the vehicles out that way Sunday afternoon found few occasions for complaint of mud-holes. The indications from Sacramento are that the National Guard will receive an appropriation that will enable it to secure that which it needs badly, namely, uniforms, overcoats and blankets, but the chances for encampments are very slight the energy of parties Interested appears to be in the direction of securing an appropriation for camp sites. If the bill for sites passes there is but little hope for an appropriation for encampments. The total production of sugar in 193-96, according to the estimate of the well-known authority, Licht, was 028,316 tons. Of this quantity the United States consumed nearly 1,800,000 tons.

There Is no index to its contents in Beautiful Santa Cruz which Is a great inconvenience to those desirous of turning to any one thing printed within its covers. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. One of the subjects of novel interest which is gradually attracting a larger share of attention from economists is the increasing supply of fresh gold coming from the mines. It was not until the ingenuity of the mechanician and the widening knowledge of the scientist were combined and applied to silver mining that the price of the white metal was seriously and permanently depressed.

In these times it is easier to obtain new silver in large quantities than formerly in small ones, and against this condition the doctrinaire and the orator will multiply words In vain. An attempt to reverse it is a movement against the laws that have always maintained their place at the basis of the business transactions of the world. At this point comes in the striking question if the great stream of gold now flowing from the mines may not, in some slight degree at least, affect the relative value of the metal and eventually lessen the gap existing between gold and silver. What the chemist, the inventor and the skilled workman, backed by abundant capital, have accomplished in silver mining may be similarly achieved in any other field, and the probability is strong that such will be the result. No talk is more common in the mining centers than that relating to new processes.

Improvements In the treatment of ores, in mechanical operation, in motive power, secure some advance with each succeeding year. Occasionally a great discovery, usually made by accident, though events may lead up to it, steps in unannounced and reminds us that the labor-saving devices that are known are but a small stock compared with those as yet unknown or misun derstood. It is not alone the fact that the yield of gold from the mines now exceeds $200,000,000 a year, and is climbing upward rapidly, that Invests the situation with a novel Importance, Immense de posits of low-grade gold ore are found in several of the States, and the time may soon come when they can be worked at a profit. Georgia, for in stance, has had several attacks of gold fever, and a mint in that State, before the war, coined gold from local mines to the extent of $26,000,000. A dozen years ago the engineers figured out a margin in reopening the mines, and much work was done, though without immediate result.

Since then thechlor-ination process has been added to the resources of the miner, and he finds wealth in rehandling the waste of other days. A renewal of gold excitement Is apparent in Georgia, and prospectors and capitalists from South Africa have been personally inspecting the extensive field for more than a year. Other Eastern States possess gold deposits of almost equal interest. If they can not be worked to advantage at present it is certain that the adverse figure in the calculation is constantly growing less. In view of these changes in the vast business of mining it is but reasonable to ask the students and professors of economics not to forget the elasticity of things in an age pre-eminently inventive; and orators are cautioned not to dwell too profusely on the appreciation of gold, for unless all signs are mis leading the supply of dollars of a value universally recognized will soon be equal to all the requirements.

CURRENT PRESS COMMENTS. Sacramento Record-Union: It is to be hoped legislators will promptly pass into law Senate bill 456, identical with Assembly bill 499. The Acts relate to the humane treatment of dumb animals and is amendatory of the law under which the present animals friends' societies have their existence. The amendments were suggested by the late Humane Society State Convention, ad are the result of the years of experience of the societies now incorporated under the Act of 1874. These amendments are few, but they are important.

Alameda Encinal: Those poor overworked attaches of the Legislature the spittoon-cleaners, the clock-wind the doorkeepers with no doors to keep, the ushers with no one to usher, and all that ilk are not to be forced to report at 9 o'clock every morning and answer roll call. They found warm defenders in some of the members who had doubtless got "some of the pork" for themselves and their constituents. The fact that requiring them to be present is the only means of ascertaining whether they are doing anything at all in return for their exorbitant salaries, cuts no figure with their defenders. We must have better streets and more yards of sidewalk. To get them we must construct and pay for them.

Other people will not make the investment for us. Sacramento Bee. A Constitutional Amendment has been introduced into the Senate and Assembly, numbered 27 in the Senate and 32 in the Assembly, which should be passed by the Legislature and submitted to the people for their approval or rejection. It adds to Section 9 of Article I of the Constitution of the State of California the following language ''No speech or publication reflecting upon, or concerning any Court, or any officer thereof, shall be treated or punished as a contempt of Court unless made in the immediate presence of such Court while in session, and in such a manner as to actually interfere with its proceedings." That is the wording of the Barry Act of 1891, a Statute of the State of California which was unceremoniously kicked aside by Judge A. P.

Catlin of the Superior Court of the County of Sacramento when he fined the editor of The Bee $000 for contempt in a case in which it was subsequently unquestionably demonstrated that the editor was in the right and the Judge in the wrong. This proposed Constitutional Amendment is not only the Barry Act revived, but it is at the same time an exact copy of the Federal Statute now governing the Courts of the United States. THE DUCKWORTH MATTER. Sacramento Bee. The long expected report of the committee appointed to investigate S.

J. Duckworth and the temporary roll scandal in the Assembly has been made, and it will be a disappointment to those who thought they saw a determination on the part of the committee to be altogether thorough and fearless. The report, which is in the nature of findings, censures Duckworth for appointing so many employees, censures the members for voting for the appointments, and particularly censures the Mileage Committee for allowing illegal mileage. In brief, the committee finds that the law only provides for three temporary attaches, and that the Chief Clerk appointed 112; that the total per diem should not have been more than $74, whereas members had voted to allow that none but statutory officers were entitled to mileage, and yet the Mileage Committee voted away J303.SO in illegal mileage; that none of the temporary employees worked more than half a day, yet the Mileage Committee recommended that they be allowed to draw seven days' pay, and the Assembly voted to adopt the recommendation. MUSCULAR WOMEN.

The Wasp. The tendency of women to muscular development nowadays is so general that no surprise is felt on account of the appearance of a professional bruiser of the fair sex in San Francisco. She calls herself Miss Cecil Richards, which is supposed to be equivalent to Miss Jane Doe. As she is only twenty years old and has red hair, it is not wondrous that her complexion is fine. Among those whom she defeated in fistic en counters, she asserts, was Miss Lansing Rowan, an actress, beloncrimr to the Frawley company.

The battle took place in Los Angeles in the presence of fifty men, who paid $10 each. Miss Rowan was fond of having it known that she moved in high society in Los Angeles before going on the stage. She was knocked out by a blow on the jaw, which was remarkable for an actress like Miss IU.wan. locked so funny that I felt sorry for her," remarked Miss Cecil. This expression of feeling might have been an appropriate comment on Miss Rowan's aspect when she came forth as a danseuse in one of the Frawley plays some months ago.

She looked so funny in tights that people were sorry for her. A Washington attorney is rather noted for the facility with which he forgets financial obligations. He has owed a certain grocer eight dollars for a year or two, and the grocer determined to get it. One dav he nn. proached the lawyer and said: "Judge, I have a customer who has owed me a small bill but won't pay it.

What would you do?" "Sue him," said the lawyer. "Very well, I will put the account in your hands." and the merchant gave him his own bill. A few-days later he received the following note from the lawyer. "In the case of against I took judgment for full amount of your claim. Execution was issued and returned 'no property My fee is tpn which amount please send check.

Will always be glad to serve you." Subscribe for the RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION. One wek (In advance) 10 cts One month (by mail or 25cts One year (if not in advance) 3 00 One vear (strictly In 2 50 The "Evening Sentinel" contains three times more reading matter than any other 25-cent daily issued on the Pacific Coast. DUNCAN McPKERSON, Editor. TUESDAY FEBRUARY 9, 1897 THE ECKELS FINANCIAL THEORY TESTED. The failure of the 11.

F. Hawkins iron works, one of the largest bridge-building concerns in New England, is announced. The assets and liabilities of the proprietor about equal in amount. Mr. Hawkins thoroughly understood his business and enjoyed the confidence of the community in which he lived.

But somehow in his case the Eckel's theory that credit is as good as gold did not work satisfactorily. Mr. Hawkins made an exact statement of his financial condition to his principal creditors before he filed a petition in insolvency, but the showing failed to procure the needed relief. His business had been profitable until the hard times overtook him, and apparently nothing but a few thousands in money was needed to tide him over. The fact that the bank with which he had transacted nearly all his business was secured for outstanding loans may have had something to do with the decision that insolvency afforded the only relief.

Of course, no bank should be censured for not taking the chance of a customer's business. The bank's profits lie in loaning money, not in building bridges. But its action shows the need of money, even in cases where the credit is good. Credit in a proper sense of the term is not synonymous with collateral security. It means accommodation without security, accommodation based upon business ability and character.

Mr. Hawkins had the basis of credit, but not the credit itself. The bank held securities, valued on their face much in excess of the loans, but when the securities shrank in value so as to destroy the margin, his credit disappeared. Bulletin. The above failure leads us to ask: Supposing the community in which these works were located had given J10.0O0 to secure their location, where would their investment be in this hour of failure? It would be in the suds, would it not? And this leads us to suggest that when Santa Cruz pays for the location of a factory it gives the use of land and necessary buildings, free water and freedom from municipal taxation, for ten, fifteen or twenty years, the realty to become the absolute property of the manufacturing company at the end of the stated time, provided it is in business as a manufacturer at the expiration of such time.

We passed through one experience in Redwood City, San Mateo Co. Some twenty years ago a San Francisco boot and shoe manufacturer offered to establish a boot and shoe factory in Redwood City if the people of that town would give him a lot and erect thereon a suitable building, employing from twenty to sixty hands in the factory. A merchant gave a lot on the main business street, and the citizens dug up some $3,000, enough to erect the required building. The building was put up. Leather arrived, machines were set in motion men and women were put to work, and boots and shoes were turned out rapidly, and all contributors were pleased.

This condition lasted but for a short time. The big boot and shoe manufacturers and wholesale dealers concluded that the limited Redwood City factory was a nuisance to them, and they cut their prices to figures below cost. This act, in the language of a local journal, "hung up" the Redwood City factory. The lot and building and machinery were sold to satisfy cold creditors. Dr.

Merrill, the most generous and enterprising man in the town, lost every cent he could control, $37,000, in trying to help the fac tory, and the people who gare tne lot and the $5,000 lost the same, and to-day the lot and building are the property of a stranger, barely earning enough rental to pay taxes and insurance. It is a good thing to have "strings" on gifts of subsidy. When the Coopers gave a lot to this county for the location of a Court-house, they provided in their gift deed that the lot should revert to them or their heirs in the event that the county ceased to use the lot for more than two years for the uses of a Court-house. That provision "hung up" the present Court-house at the "old stand." There comes the ugly rumor that the Supreme CouVt probably will grant a new trial to Theodore Durrant. Of course, in the nature of the case, this rumor is shadowy.

Before Monterey county is divided, we suggest that the large ranches of that county be divided into farms and Fold to people who will till them. S. F. Post. Heretofore the Examiner has stated repeatedly that the reorganization committee of the Union Pacific Railroad Co.

has offered $45,000,000 for the Government's claim against the Union Pacific line. No matter how frequently its attention is called to the fact that this offer included the sinking fund of $17,030,000, it returned as fresh to the allegation that $45,000,000 had been offered as if it had not been knocked out time and time again by the facts. This morning, how.ver, on the third page of the Examiner's issue is a telegraphic statement from Washington that the Hon. Mr. Thurston, Senator from the Union Pacific, declared that the offer was for $29,000,000 net for the Government's claim against the road.

At last the official fact comes out that $29,000,000 is offered in discharge of a debt of that is, the claim of the Government of the United States on November 30th, last, was $60,000,000. At last the Examiner admits that the offer of $43,000,000 was deceptive, and was made in that form solely for the purpose of deceiving and for the conscious purpose of augmenting the apparent liberality of the offer. At last the Examiner comes down to the truth and admits that a claim of $60,000,000 is about to be discharged for New Stories Re-Told. Some time ago a religious imposter invaded the southern portion of Ohio and created much excitement among the farmers. Several gave the new "Messiah" all they possessed, and he soon became the center of a large colony of deluded followers.

One moonlight night the "Messiah" was sitting on his verandah smoking when a shrewd old farmer came up and saluted him "Good evening, mister." The "Messiah" raised his hand and said, "I greet you, brother." "You'll excuse me, mister," continued the old farmer, "but my folks are much Interested in you; my wife says she'll stand by you, come what may." "Amen," said the "Messiah." "Now, see here," added the farmer. "I am kinder worried about this thing and want to get it straight. Now you can perform miraclesturn water into wine, heal the sick and walk on the water?" "Yea, verily." "Well, I'm mighty glad of that. lot of them fellers said you couldn't and are coming up here to take you down to that mill pond below and chuck you in to make sure. They will be here in about fifteen minutes, an' I thought I'd tell yer.

Glad you can do it, as the water's mighty cold. Good night." The caller bowed and went off. The "Messiah" disappeared and was never heard of again in Ohio. The mystery of his sudden departure was unsolved for a long time, but at last the old farmer told the tale. DIED.

BACHELDER-In Granite Gulch, Feb. 7th. Matilda, wife of Capt. J. A.

Bach- eiuer, a native ot New York. 65 years. Notice to Stockholders. V-OT1CE IS HEREBY GIVEN TO THE Stockholders of Hiu Cheek Powek Lomvaxy a corporation organized and ex- of Stockho ders of said corporation iM beheHattheofr.ee of said corporation what is known as the Pilot CI, I. liuild nir being the othce of the principal place of hnt inessof said corporation, and where the Directors of said corporation usually meet, and situated the fit of Santa Vrui, Coun- th" 14th of April, I897, nt "A f-'oi.

of said day. Said ini Z. act- ed iinl( creaillic hum hnv.i,- cornor o.i r.f corpor tiori of one t. SWANTON s.v.r.,.,- fh8-td Notice to Stockholders. NTtICM Jm HEREY GIVEN TO THE (wVvvhoMpM 1510 Cl(EEK AN' 11 organized and ex- St, 11,1 rtl the laws of the holders nf Ji tlmt.il mtin of Stock-the oHici VtA Vfiwatioii will he held at tne oHice of said corporation in whit is 'bei the said I'lare ofln.siness of of said ftr.

T' nml hero Director Sted hl'ru "if a (' County of SKthlStTtth? thn of Shi' corporation from dred am fcf to one The California Powder Worts Having at great expense introduced the most recent improvements in the manufacture of Fine Sporting Powder S1 of Sportsmen to Which has been Prov(Ml superior to any imported Powder, both in error n-tu ana purity. It is only necessary to trv this Powder to be come satisfied of it3 superiority. ai vv- H. LAMB'S Hard war Cruz' The trade suPPliel at Reduced Prices. BERNARD PEYTON, Superintendent..