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Show THE SALT LAKE TIMES. SATURDAY. JVLYmO. - 0 SQI IDS AMUl'.ALONES. Chinese Fisheries on the Rocks of the Pa-cificVillage of Abalone Fish-eries. BOME LITTLE CHUNKS OF ASIA Which Dot the California Coast for Miles A Mollusk Whose Grip is Dangerous to the Unwary, tourist visiting the finds few strati jror things the camps of Chinese along the shore in THE coves from San north to the Klamath. camps look as if they older than the discovery America, so weather beaten are the red wood shanties. It is impossible toascertain the results or proli Is of these fishcries.for a large pari of the product is dried and sent to thu flowery kingdom for sale, and the Chinese are proverb-ially close mouthed about their busi-ness. common of Pacific coast shells, but the Chinese discovered its edible qualities, and began to ship tons of dried abalones to China. The business soon became so profitable that colonies of Chinese dotted the coast from Santa Cruz southward, and thousands of shells still lie on the cliffs to mark their camps. Only a few years ago any one who wished could easily find abalones so large that when well pounded, sliced and fried three were an abundant meal for a hungry man, but most of them now are quite small, hundreds of shells not boing larger than a watch case. The flesh is white, nutritious and very palatable. I have many times taken a sack and a crooked bit of iron to pry the abalones off the rocks, and followed the retreating tides a mile westward down the dripping shale searching the crevices for choice specimens for the boys in our summer cabin on the Estero cliffs to fry for dinner. In Southern California a score of years ago it waa a very common thing for Spaniards who had a saddle horse of which they were particularly proud to cover the bridle, reins and trappings with bits of polished abalone shells, and they certainly were much prettier and easier to carry than the heavy silver dol-lars which were spiked in patterns over the saddle leathers a few years later, and were bored and hung from thereiss. Thus far in this narrative it would seem that there is nothing dangerous about the gentle abalone. He is simply a large shellfish, clinging to the rocks near low tide water mark, and he has seomingly no defense whatever against his numer-ous foes. But in several well authenti-cated cases the abalone has deserved the title "dangerous." In 1873, on the coast of Monterey county, a Chinamen disap-peared from a large camp of abalone lishers. They were working on shares and great emulation existed, so it was thought that ho liad ventured too far and that the incoming sea had swept him away. But in a few days his body was discovered bent ovor a crevice, his hand held fast by an abalone, and firmly secured in this position, unable to escape and too far from camp to make his cries heard, the poor fellow had seen the tide riBe inch by inch till it drowned him. Ho had lost the small flat bar of iron used for loosening large abalones from the rocks, and seeing a very large speci-men far down in the crevice had inad-vertently placed himself at such a dis-advantage that he could not exert suffi-cient strength to withdraw his hand, nor to break the shell, nor even to force his hand further in so as to destroy the firm clasp of the mollusk. This sad event caused abalone hunters to desert the camp at once, and tha place i still known as "Chinaman Point." - VILLAGE OF AEALONK FIBHF.RS. The two most interesting features of the Chinese " 'long shore" industries are undoubtedly the squid and the abalone fisheries, both of which can be observed in the Bay of Monterey, which is in fact tho center of the squid business, but not of the abulone, tho latter being more or less known to the entire coast of Califor-nia, especially off San Luis Obispo and Ventura. ' On the shores of Monterey Bay, south f the old town, are tho remains of the once flourishing works of a whaling com-pany. "The ground," writes a recent visitor to the place, "is all so saturated with oil that it gives under foot like a poor iwphaltum pavement on a hot Au-- , gust day." An qccasional whale and a good many banking sharks are still tried out for their oil either here or on the shores of Oirmol bav. sixmiloe walk, and between , the two whaling camps are the Chinese villagos for squid fishing and abalone catching. On the rounded bowlders below the cliff, in the midst of "unspeakable dirt," aro the Chinese shanties and hundreds of drying frames of pine laths. These frames are covered for many weeks in the autumn with tho oily squid, a fish nhnut aa long as one's hand. They enter the bay in vast schools and are netted ty tons. They are split and boned, dried for two days on the frames and then thrown on the sand to complete the proc-ess of drying. The packing is done by trampling them close together in great Backs. Cod and halibut come and go, but the great schools of squid, which no American will eat, aro the main re- - lianco of the Chinese fishing companies of the region. The Chinese villages, as seen in the afternoon from the bay, with their junks and lateen sailed hailing craft drawn up on the beach or coming in with their ' freight, the widespread nets, the children in red and yellow, the curious balconies projecting over the water, the flags and high scaffolds, and acres of drying fish, all soim to bo thoroughly Asiatic, and the Asia also of the great Mongolian lowlands of sleepy rivers and squalid little fishing villages, such as travelers in China describe. Sometimes tho Chinese build on the cliffs, but by far the greater part of their "camps" are set "between sea nnd cliff," and often miles from any town or rail-road. There are Italian fishing villages, too, but these are not unlikosuch villages the world over, and they are far less pictur-esque than those of the Chinese, They are perhaps seen at their bust on Kan Francisco and Toniales bays. The Ital-ians never go very far from their mar-kets, for they uhn to supply all the food fishes and leave the wpiid and abalones to the Chinamen. Crubs and shrimps are gathered in by Italians, Portuguese and Chinamen alike. The oyster trade is in the bandsof Italiansand Americans, the latter controlling some of the larger California companies. But tho most curious food product of the Pacific coast is probably that beauti-ful and useful mollusk the abalone, which has made many a Chinaman rich enough to return to his native land, buy a rice farm and settle down as the nabob of Ids village. The abulone is a univalve ' -.- 1 DRYING SQUID AT K CHINESE FISHERY AT MONTEREY. There is also a story told among some of the old familios in San Luis Obispo to tho effoct that a young Mexican who went out on the rocks at low tide to pro-cure a very largo abalone shell to take over the Coast range to present to a young lady was caught in like manner, and waving bis red scarf and shouting for help was dragged loose by half a dozen men, who reached the place while tho tide was rapidly rising above his waist. Even the ordinary sized abalones re-quire a stroug jerk to get them from the rock. It is probable .that the largest abalone that ever grew could be taken off by any person if it was done quickly, but tho slightest delay would bring one to grief unless he had a lever handy. The shell is so broad and flat that it can-not be seized. The only way is to in-sert the fingers or some instrument be-neath the edge, which is usually raised half an inch from the rook. The old American settlers near the sea coast have learned to value the aba-lone highly as furnishing an epicurean feast when properly broiled and served piping hot. But few modern cooks know how to prepare abalone, and tho tooth-some morsel is fast becoming a tradition. So indefatigable in its pursuit are the Chinese that in a decade or two more this curious and delicious mollusk will probably be almost extinct. Cuaui.es Howard Shinn. .... A YOCHG CHINESE ABALONE CATCH KK. and clings like a limpet to the rocks. Its single shell is ear shaped, and many specimens have been found that were nearly ten inches in length and eight in width. The "abalone jewelry" is made from a small button of pearly accretion in the middle of the shell. The abalone exists in its fullest per-fection south of San Francisco bay, but it is found for many miles north of tho ' Golden Gate. It thrives along the coast of Baja, or lower California, as far as Cape St. Lucas. There are two varie-ties, one with dark shells, tho other witL reddish shells, both being alike pearly inside. When (ground from the outside, o as to show the red and black alternat-ing with the tinted mother-of-pear- l, tho ffeet is wery attractive. j , yhe atilonq used to btj one of thempst In a Drunken Rage He Shoots His Wife's Uncle and a Child. ' ' ' , HIS WIFE WANTED TO LEAVE HIM Which Caused Him to Fly Into a Par-- , oxysm of Rage and Revenge Rose ' Within Him. Abe Myers,' of Kansas City, Mo. , many ysurs ago wooed and won the pretty meet of Bttijamin Van Uorn. They were mar-ried, and for a short time theirs was a life of love and happiness. But soon Myers took to drinking, then to nbnsing his wife, who, driven to desperation, left him. He promised reformation and she returned to him. This happened many times, each time his subsequent outbreaks of drunken brutality being more violent. So a few weeks ago the patient woman de-cided to leave her husband, never more to return, and as usual found a shelter under the roof of her uncle, Benjamin Van Horn. When Myers found his wife had deter-mined to leave him for good he sent her note after note, imploring her to change her decision and give him one more chance. Myers concluded that the uncle influenced his wife in her decision, lie drank and brooded and brooded and drank till the devil of rage and revenge rose within him and thoroughly mastered him. Arming himself with a revolver he crossed over from Kansas City, Mo., where U !,. 1,,,..,,. t.r.novmnnn hurt heen snftnt With Uim "1'1'J i'vj.ww yr his sweet faced little bride so many years SwrtwSi had alwayiftived when aifiC W together, to Kansas 7 f) City, Kan., where I v Y hip heart-- jA ,4C5t' broken wife feKA9'wi was, and CHJ a a presented HISS VAMHORW tvC. fjk her uncle's .vSiTWi house, de- - lmvanfwm 1 m a n d i n g (7" f) admittance xtA'.!vJM if As he stag 'L gered up Ti BUR-th-pathway to the houiie Jw Mrs. Myers and her un- - "'JSwJ ' clo were sitting on the -- - stoop, and the wife fled " into the kitchen. Old Mr. Van Horn spoke kindly to the wretch, for he want-ed no trouble, and offered his hand in greeting. But Myers rejected the prof-ere-d hand and said, "I want to see my wifo," and brushing the old man side rushed Into the room where the frightened woman had taken rctuge. In an instant he was upon her like a tiger, and while he graspod her by the throat with one hand he drew his revolver with the other. The old man followed the burly ruffian Into the house, and just reached the room in time to see him point the pis-tol at his wife's heart. Van Horn grasped the murderous hand and thrust it aside, and in the turmoil that followed the ter-rified woman escaped from the room. Then Myers pounced upon the old man and shot him. Aa the old man fell to the floor, with his life blood spurting from the gapiug wound, Myers rushed from tha room in pursuit of the woman. Coming down the stairs he saw the pretty young daughter of the man be had just shot down a sweet girl, with whom he had no quarrel and in his blind rage he turned his smoking revolver on her and drove a bullet through her body just below her heart. The poor girl screamed in agony and the murderer turned and fled to the yard, where he found the old man, who had dragged himself that far, leaving a trail of his blood to mark the way. The sight of tueold man weltering in his gore seemed to further madden Myers, and he again raised his revolver, saying, "I'll finish you now!" The old man piteouslf cried, "Oh, don'tl don't) you've done it al-ready!" and at the same moment the voices of the neighbors, who had been aroused by the shots and the screams, warned the des-perado that he had better fly. He jumped the back fence and started to ruu, with a score of people and one police officer in pursuit. Before he had gone many rods he turned and discharged his revolver at his pursuers, and one of them received the bullet in his thigh. He turned to run again, but tripped up and fell, and was soon surrounded by an angry mob, one of whom produced a rope and wanted to string him up there and then. This would have un-doubtedly ben done but that the police officer drew his revolver and kept the crowd at bay till he landed his prisoner in the lockup. COHN bKUS. n s nil M F. R BARGA-lH- r 'IDSUMMEK B ARlrAlTv We are determined fzr We offer all our French Sateens at 20c PER YARD. 65c quality Scotch Zephyr Ginghams reduced to 40c. " 50c " " ' c. 40c " " " 30& '' " 30c ' " 22ic Fancy Irish Dress Linens reduced from 50c to 30c per yard. A large lot of Checked and Striped A lot of Checked and Striped P Seersucker Ginghams at 10c, reduced sucker Gighams 16 yards for $l;foia from 15c. Plice 10c- - Our entiro Block of Canton, Shanghai and Japanese Lyons priD; Silks at 75 eta per yard. We are clearing out Checked and Striped White Lawns at 6Jc to 22c per yd; former prices 12i to 40c per yd; the line is offered at less than cost. We have gathered up a lot of short ends of Table Linen and broi lots of Napkins and Towels, which are offered at less than cost. 100 dozen Ladies' Sheer Lawn Handkerchiefs in fancy hemstitching' at 10c each; regular price 25c 100 dozen Ladies' elegant drawn-wor- k Sheer Lawn llandkcrckj. at 25c apiece; former price 50c. TTfStiT SALT LAKE CITY --4-J j riflUM Garden City, Plat "(T njll!iliTHELEADWa ADDITION . :r' LOBAdffiiJ J. G. JACOBS, Mn'r. m mpGSXElOffic, Mat'lBaakofBspublic W.S. BURTON, Prest. W. C. BURTON, Mgr. GEO. F, FELT,Secy Burton - Gardner Co., Call the Attention of CONTRACTORS, BUILDERS and the GENERAL PUBLIC to the fact that their LUMBER YARB Contains a full stock of Lumber, Sash, Doors, etc. fhinte Finest Planing Mill in fa city, m by Electricity Is turning out first-cla- ss work at their yard. And announce further that they PROTECT THE CONTRACTOR? AND BUILDERS by refusing to contract, and doing so solicit in return their patronage. Don't forget we Manufacture the COMBINATION FENCE, WIRE MATTRESSES all sizes, and cam the 'HOUSEHOLD' and 'STANDARD' Sewiwr Machines. Oflice and salesrooms, 101 and 103 East First South street. Factory and Yards, corner Eighth South and State road. 100 dozen Ladies' Sheer Irish Lawn Initial Handkerchiefs 3 for 50c; ihis is our well known 25c initial handkerchief. We offer to close out a lot of handsome Black Lace Floundngi Chantilly and LaTosca and offer them at the following reductions: At $1.10; reduced from $1.50 At $1.25; reduced from $1,75 " $1.75; " $2.50 " $2.00; " $3.25 ' $2.25; " $3.50 " $3.00; " $4,50 " $3.50. " $5,00 " $4.25 j " $6,00 Closing out balance of Black Drapery Nets at bare cost. 100 dozen Ladies' Ethiopian Dye splendid quality Black Cotton Hose at 25c a pair; reduced from 40c. We offer special bargains in Ladies' and Misses' Whi Muslin and Cambric Skirts for this week. .V line of Tucked Skirls at 25 cts. Tucked with Cambric Ruffles at ofit Embroidery ruffle with tucks at 75 cts Embroidery aud lace trimmed at $1, Our entire line of higher priced Skirts will be found open ou our counters and will be offered at reduced prices for this week. The line includes an endless variety of styles in Torchon, Piatt Val, Medecis aud Embroidery Trimmed. iuJKlSSaOoting Flannel Blouse Waists SJaWu COHN BEOS TtTtTTMTT PHGS FEERONE ON DRAUGHT AT Z. C. M. I. Drug Store. 112 & 111 MAIN STREET. " NERVE, BLOOD AND BRAIN TONIC, The Children's Best Tonic. Contains Iron and Phosphates. Does not constipate. For Delicate Women. It is the finest and most palatable Iron Tonic in use. For Merchants and Business Men. It is quieting to an overworked brain and nervous - system. and headaches in the morning Professional Men and Students. ' Will find l'hos-Ferron- e of benefit in mental work. It builds up the whole system. The Restless and Nervous . Will be surprised at the relief this delightful drink affords. The Finest Soda Fountain Drink in the World. 5 cents per Glass Great Reduction SUMMER SUITINGS FOR THE NEXT THIRTY DAYS AT LEVY & SHULMAN'S, Merchant Tailors, 7-- a B, First Sotit3.Stiest. John Grant, Omahi Neb. 8. F. Redman, Salt Late Cilj, Tolixx Grant &, Co, :CONTRACTOItS FOR: STREET AND SIDEWALK PAVEMENTS --AND DEALEK3 IN- - Cements; Trinidad Asphaltum for Streets; Slagolithic anJ 6im olithic for Sidewalks, Basements, Floors, etc. The Best Brands of Portland and American Cements. Crushed Slag for Concreting for Sale to Contractors, Estimates furnished on all kinds of Cement Work, Cementing, etc. All work Goarffi ffler!t9J' Masi- - Crusher at Bamberger's Warm Spring 434, Cor Third West and Ninth Xorth J. F. Marks, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER Artesian, Salt or Gas Wells Drilled. 737 .?. Went Temple Prospects for Coal and Minerals. Deep Wells a Special!.' fiHEFimm! Frankin Fire Insurance Co., Of Philadelphia. Organized IS 20. -;- - Charter Perpetual. Assets, - - $3,174,357.04 Insurance Reserve, . 1,765,294.71 Continental Insurance Company, Of New "Z"oxlc Cash Capital, - - $1,000,000.00 Insurance llcscrvc, - 2,470,343.24 Assets, - - - 0,217,773.91 When you purchase a policy that you expect to be worth $2000 in case of fire, you should investigate the com-pany with the same care that you would use in lending that sum. No States in the Union have as good insurance laws as New York and Pennsylvania. Call at our office for copy of the Safety Fund Law. This law prevents the failure of a company by great confla-grations. Under this law none of the surplus funds can be divided among stockholders. Both have to be held for the security of policy holders as long as a policy remains in force. DAVIS & STRINGER, 23 West Second South st Two doors cast of Cullcu Hotel. Stents, -S- PECIALS Our Addition corner of Second "West and Tenth South, with fine trees on all streets and alleys, is the choice " subdivi- - sion adjoining the city. Ties are now distributed and cars will be running on Second West and Tenth South wTthin sixty days. Lots at original price until August ist only. , Davis & Stringer. S, J, ETATHAH, Letting Down Prices Again! We would advise everY MaTand Woman to themsefc keep posted and attend our special sale during this week. along withjauandjudge for yourself the truth of these assertions. 111! Ks !lml rndcrshirte 50c each Sf 1--2 Jen s Inlanndried Shirts . 45c each a" ysJ-oz.Jtte Denim Overalls 45c a pair H s Iheck Jumpers . 40c each --- J 3 Klndmlllris and Drawers 30c each f T S s S Si SET11 ai'Lll,en Masters $1 each ; 2 ai 5 Jp s and Vests . i fo afh s a !S,aek - SI 50 each 3 S Men's Fine 12-W- Balbrin 5?i s g , tat Waists . I5ccich I wSWS Ss. m Pants , BoSnits,ageS4toll . tfe!ff ill IS. J.NATHAN, Prop. . . . 15i Mai: The Wrongs One Woman Suffered. The habeas corpus suit in St. Louis which John Bortrand brought against his divorced wife to gain custody of their child, Edith, brought out some curious testimony, and most of it was more in favor of the wife than of the husband. He had been divorced from her for seven years and had married again. The child by the second marriage dying, he attempt-ed to got possession of Kdith. When Bertrand was put on the stand he explained the beatings which he had given his first wife by saying that he thought MR. AND MBS. BKI!TRKU. some women would make bettor wives it they were knocked down oftuner. Mrs. Bertrand swore that he had acted on this theory, with her for a subjort. Ho knocked her down, she said, and kicked her when she was in a delicate couditiou. For days, according to her story, sho was obliged to lives on a cup of meal boiled in hot. water, for refused to give her money to, buy food. 'Ilo in the meantime ate regu-larly at a downtown restaurant. So touch-ing was her story of her wrongs, and she told it with such evident reluctance, that spectators were several times .moved to tears, and even the judge maintained his composure with difficulty. The rollue i)f the Whaling Induntrjr. New Bedford, Mass., was at one time the greatest whaling port in the world. With the decline of the whaling indns-tJ'- however, mills were erected, and now tho town has become a manufactur-ing rather than a seaport town. A dozen abandoned whalers lying at the docks tell of long past days. It is a strange fact that the timbers of a whaling vessel seldom decay. . They become so perme-ated with oil that they are capable of re-sisting time's ravages for a long time. But their peculiar shape renders them useless for other traffic. What whaling is now done is mostly in tho hands of the Tortugnese. The Wealth of Honduras The recent discoveries of coal in north-ern Honduras seem likely to prove to be very important. Borings have revealed besides the coal valuablo deposits of salt, veins of natural gas and artesian wells of considerable magnitude. The coun-try is in an unusually prosperous condi-tion. During tho year 3,000,000 bunches ot bananas were exported, besides large tmantities of oranges and cocoanuts. Mahogany is also sent out of the country by tbu ship load. An extremely 1'rhultlvo Caiinou. Among the trophies of Germany's past triumphs that grace the grounds which surround the Marine academy building at Kiel none is of more interest than a can-non mado by natives of Africa and cant- - AN AFRICAN PIKCK OF OltDNANCE. nred from them in a battle near PanKani. Ir, has not the slightest contrivance for aiming and its caliber is very small. The carrinse if made of wood. The wheels are cut out of oue piece, approximately round, and are fastened to the wooden axles with long rusty nails. The piece of ordnance apparently would prove more dangerous to lis owners than the enemv. Crazed by the Cronln Murder. Frank Collier, a prominent Chicago law-yer, was released not long ago from an in-- i sane asylum. After his formal release Mr. Collier went into the remarkable details of his case, lie began, he said, to be irrespon-sible on Aur. 5, 1SS8. "I remember that ou that day," he continued, "1 tried to re-- '. member where I was on the night of the Cronin murder. A fear seized me that I would be charged with tho crime. I was known to bo anti-Iris- and I had relations with British societies and with the British j government that if they were brought out in court would have been very dangerous." Finally ho went out one night and care-full- y traced the track ot the assassins. Arriving at the spot in lincohi park which Woodruff described so minutely he ai tempted suicide, but tb revolt" wouldn't work. |