Official recognition of Californi diamond jubilee celebration was given a couple of days ago by the United States, when the first of 300,000 Jubilee half-dollars made its appearance from the San Francisco mint. One side of the coin depicts a Californian miner panning gold, On the reverse side stands the Californian bear. I understand that the coins will be sold to the public at a dollar apiece, and the revenue, expected to reach $200,000, will be used to defray expenses of the celebration, San Francisco will certainly go wild between Sept, 5 and 12!
'A novel feature of the event is to be the choosing of a beauty Queen, Catifornia. kiri ' is 3 to be given & round trip ticket to Australia, in addition to high honours at the jubilee celebration, while the girl securing the next largest number of votes on her 'Beauty will be sent to Honolulu and back, and: the third lucky one will become the recipient of a new automobile. San Francisco the name of doing things in unique fashion, when she likes' to. do 80; this jubilee affair is to trouse anything the city. has and anyone coming from China and likely to arrive between the Gates above mentioned should see tot that they have hotel accommoda ation reserved, unless they wish to camp in the open.
Ie is likely that the special coins will sell for large sums before. the event is passed, for 300,000 is a very small number and not any means likely to satisfy number of people who will wish to secure such a souvenir.
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