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Show BARRELS OF FLOUR ONCE THROWN INTO S. F. BAY SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. Aug 7 The fact that barrels of flour floated around In San Francisco bay In the year 1850 could hardly be expected to Interest a present-da;.' ambassador from Chile, to the United Spites, .-aid Beltran Mathieu, the Chilean ambassador ambas-sador at Washington, on his visit tb this clt during the Memocratlc convention, con-vention, but In his cnau it was a matter mat-ter of familj history. Mr Maihleu said that his- father, a young Chilean merchant, conceived the idea v, hen news of the California gold rush spread to South America that flour would be much In demand In San Francisco. So a ship was 'chartered loaded with flour and the sails set for the north. Unfortunately for Mr Mathieu s futher, many other people had decided I that similar ventures in flour would be profitable, and when his ship sailed Into the Golden Gate flour could hardly be given away there was such a supply here. The elder Mathieu Ma-thieu dumped his eargo into the bay, sold fits ship for what little he could get for It and decided to make San Francisco his home For several years he rnn a store here bUt finally sol'J out and re turned to Chile, where he remained |