The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 30, 1895, Page 6

CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. —— SUBSCRIPTION RATES: DAILY CALL —$1.50 per year. #1.50 per year. of the SAN FRANCISCO y), Pacific States Adver- inelander building, Rose and York. tising Bury Duane stree The dollar limit is played out. Concentration of effort is whatis needed now. Since the rain the revival is fresher than ever. We cannot ran the City Government on promises to pay. If the bimetall tick together the gold men will be stuc! The City is confronted by a necessity that knows no law. Now is the time for San Francisco to -ghow her resources. Wherever there is a just debt there is an honest way to pay i The Illinois Democrats are evidently trying to put a hoodoo on silver. There are men who will never care for you unless you are careless of yourself. ion may be sawing aw movement The Cuban revolu wood but there is no buzz about it. It is the champions of silver who get the golden opinions of all sorts of people in these days. In the diplomatic contest the retreat of | the Nicaraguans from Corinto counts as a brilliant victor; At thi man feels either too la: drisky to attend to it y to work or too John Ball has his eye on Nicaragua, but his ears are listening to hear what Uncle Sam may have to say. The San Joaquin road will not only be a big enterprise itself, but it will start many others all along the route. The announcement that a community of Bhakers is to be organized here need not set the whole City atremble. The opening of the baseball season in the East reminds us th: the season is always “open’ in Californi Santa Cruz paring for a grand floral fete in June, when pretty girls and roses are most in evidence there. If the pay of the Supreme Court was in danger the Justices would be apt to find a way to construe the law liberally. What will it profit Germany, France and Russia to try and act togetherin the Orient when they canuot agree in Europe? | The man who cannot believe that there is every indication of a prosperous year hinders prosperity with his stupidity. All associatior tions of every kind should co-operate in the work of advancing the welfare of Cali- | fornia. 1i there are any of our interior exchanges that are injuring their communities by ad- vertising lotteries we are not informed of the fact. | It is mean enough for a silurian not to do anything himself for the good of the | State, but an attempt to discourage others is a crime. This year will be marked in California’s history as the one in which she trans- ferred her eyes from the back of her head | to the front. | Healdsbure is going to try to prove the wvalue of her climate by showing that one of her native daughters is the prettiest girl in town. The Florida women who whipped a wife- beater on Saturday proved that there are other ways of ruling the world than by rocking the cradle. The only way for the Democrats to get even with Cleveland is to nominate him again and thus put him in a position where they can get a lick at him. Several distinct types of horseless ve- ‘Ticles propelled by different kinds of power are said to be in use in France and areeven becoming the rage in Paris. There is plenty of room in the private buildings near the old City Hall to accom- modate all the ghosts which the destruc- . tion of that edifice will unhouse. A word of good cheer is next in value to @ deed in the line of progress, and one croaker can chill the ardor of two men who would be useful if left alone. . Improvement and advancement being | the order of the day, the Russian River Valley Improvement Company is moving to keep the ebullient stream in harness and ready to attend to its proper business of developing that part of the State. s Publishing the lists of winning numbers in lottery drawings is the best way to en- courage thriftlessness, the gambling spirit, and the sending away of money so much needed by the individuals who thus squan- der it and the community which re- quires it. . The Chinese placard posted in China- town, charging that the police are black- mailing the malefactors of that district, has no more value in determining the crookedness of the police than in showing that the highbinders have been lately sub- jectea to a surveillance that makes them desire a change in the force. For some time past the people of Capay Valley have had only three trains a week, much to their loss and inconvenience, and a8 a consequence a vigorous effort is being made to obtain better accommodations. The matter is of interest to every city and town that has business in the valley, and the Capay people ought to find strong ellies, therefore, in their fight for improve- ment. It is asserted that the people of Bis- marck, finding themselves short of musical talent for an entertainment, got the offi- cials of the United States Court in that city to summon musicians from Fargo and Grand Forks as a special venire of jury- men; and having in this way obtained the talent of the State went on merrily with their entertainment, regardless of the fact that Fargo was left without a single wusician to play at an ordinary ball. 46 per year by mail; by carrier, 15¢ | season of the year the average = societies and organiza- A TYPICAL VALLEY. The plains of California are embraced in the immense continuous stretch of level land comprising the great interior basin, which in turn is made up of the valleys of the 8an Joaquin and Sacramento rivers. This is one of the distinctive features of California’s topography. The assumption is that when, in ages past, the Coast Range was upheaved, a great inland sea was formed which covered these plains, and that the accumulating waters broke a pas- sage through the range to the Bay of San Francisco at the opening, which are now known as the Straits of Carquinez, thus leaving the great basin dry. Other notable valleys in Northern Cali- fornia, though much smaller than the great basin, are those which open directly upon the bay, widening as they approach it—such as the Santa Clara, Sonoma and Napa valleys—which are assumed to have been at one time, before being lifted above the level of the sea, widely extended arms of the b | There still a third class of valleys | wholly distinct from these, and therefore | presenting conditions peculiar to them- | selves. They are the comparatively small | valleys which nestle wholly within the | Coast Range, having no wide opening either upon the bay or the great basin. There are very few of these of any consid- erable size, and the most notable of all is the Livermore Valley, in Alameda County. Even this valley has peculiarities en- tirely distinet from any others thusin- | closed, and these peculiarities have a spe- {cial and important value of their own. These are: First, such an elevation above the frost line as permits of the growing of some of California’s most profitable fruits; | second, a sufficient removal from the coast to escape the fogs, which induce an injuri- | ous mildew on certain kinds of vegetation; third, a natural absence of forests, and yet | at the same time a generous abundance of | vegetable mold in the soil, and hence great | fertility. The Livermore Valley embodies | all these peculiar advantages in the high- es d as, in addition to all this, it ngly beautiful and is a natural sanitarium and is blessed with a sufficient | natural water supply and excellent rail communication with the outer world, it possesses every esthetic charm and ma- antage that the heart could wish. This was one of the first sections of | Northern California that enjoyed the ad- | vantages of an overland railroad. When, in 1869, the Central Pacific finished its line from Sacramento to Ogden, there was a railroad, owned by local capitalists, ron- ning from Oakland (to San Jose. Itwas necessary for the Central Pacific to extend its line from Sacramento to the bay, and so it acquired the road from Oakland to San Jose and ran a line southward from Sacra- | mento to Lathrop, and then westerly over | the Coast Range, through the Livermore | Valley, and then down the narrow canyon of Alameda Creek to intersect the San Jose road at Niles. Had it not been that the neces-ity of securing a shorter and more level route required the Central Pacific to construct another line from Sacramento to the bay, choosing the route via San Pablo Bay, thus diverting overland traffic from the Livermore Valley, the incomparable | charms of that valley garden would have had a wider advertisement. As it is, Californians themselves have made it the wonderful valley that it is, where the finest wines and fruits and sugar beets than one could wish are pro- duced, and from which there are generous profits, and where the best effects of a resi- dence in California are seen in the high in- telligence of the people and their beautiful homes and towns. SCIENTIFIC COOKING. The dinner recently given by Edward Atkinson of Boston to a distinguished company in Washington has given rise to more comment in the Eastern press than any other dinner of recent occurrence. It has achieved this distinction not by ex- travagance, but by economy. A feast cost- | ing $30 a plate would hardly have attracted much notice, but Mr. Atkinson’s dinner cost less than 30 cents a plate, and yet was | declared by those who partook of it to | have had all that was necessary to form a | truly choice and delightful repast. | The apparent miracle of servinga mod- ern state dinner of six courses to fourteen people at a total cost of little more than $3 with a consumption of only 10 cents’ worth of fuelin preparing it is explained by the substitution of a scientific method of cooking for that which is now in vogue. | Mr. Atkinson has invented a stove from which not a particle of heat escapes up the chimney or into the air. All that is gen- | erated is used in cooking the viands. More- over, the oven is so constructed that no odors escape from it, and thus the heat, the substance and the flavorsof the food cooked are all conserved in the dinner. Secretary Morton, who was one of the guests of the occasion, is said to have been much interested in the ‘process. Itisnot unlikely he will have a series of investiga- tions undertaken by the Department of Agriculture in order to determine the most economical method of preparing food. It is estimated by an expert that it costs $20 per capita a year to feed the 65,000,000 peo- ple in the United States under our present method of cooking, and of this amount it is believed that 20 per cent can be saved by the adoption of a more econom- ical system. This would mean an aggre- gate saving to the country of $260,000,000 a year, besides lightening the work of housekeepers and providing better food. While these good results may be ex pected from the adoption of a system of scientific cooking, there is hardly much hope that the new system will come into | vogue with any great rapidity. The cook- ! ing of luxuries and the preparation of fancy dishes may be taught as a fad and readily taken up, but when it comes to the substantials, cooking is one of the most unprogressive of human practices. Al- most every cook is a conservative firmly rooted in the belief that her method is the | best. It takes a long timé to bring about a change in the kitchen, and we will be disappointed if we expect science to shine | there all at once. In the meantime, how- ever, the subject is a most important one, and if Secretary Morton carries out his investigations the result will receive much more attention from the people generally than is usually given to the reports of the Agricultural Department. AN INSTRUCTIVE REPORT. The annual report of the Pajaro Valley Railroad conveys much valuable informa- tion. As published it is as follows: The capital stock of the road is $1,000,000, di- vided into shares of the par value of $100. The amount of stock outstanding is $300,000, on which dividends of 5 per cent were declared last year, amounting to $15,000. No deficit is reported. The cost of theroad has been $255,660 and of the equipment $64,413, a total of $320,073 for 23.7 miles. The passenger revenue last year was $1483 18 and the freight revenue $70,381. The profit was $54,921 65, an increase of $21,064 02 over the previous year. This road was run parallel to the South- ern Pacific from Moss Landing, on the Bay of Monterey, to Salinas, and about the only traffic which it has had was the haul- THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, APRIL 30, 1895, ing of wheat from the valley to vessels in the bay. There is no settlement at Moss Landing, and hence the passenger traffic between Salinas and the bay was nothing. Yet in spite of the disadvantage of hatling practically but one kind of freight, of car- rying few passengers and of running in opposition to the Southern Pacific, with its far superior traffic and other facilities, the little road paid a dividend of 5 per cent last year and had no deficit. If this is not an object lesson of the most valuable kind we cannot imagine one. It is easy to sup- pose that if the length and scope of the road had been greater its profits would have been at least doubled. 1t may be instructive to consider the further fact that some of the controlling spirits in this minor enterprise are also actively concerned in the San Francisco and Ban Joaquin Valley Railroad. The directors of the Pajaro Valley road are: Claus Spreckels, John D. Spreckels, John L. Koster, W. C. Waters of Watsonville and M. Ebrman. Claus Spreckels is its president; John D. Spreckels, vice-presi- dent; E. H. Sheldon, secretary; J. D. Spreckels & Brother, treasurer, and W. C. Waters, general superintendent. Claus Spreckels is also president of the San Joaquin Valley road, and there is every good reason to believe that with the very much larger scope of the enterprise he can assist in securing for it a financial success exceeding that of the Pajaro Valley line. These considerations are valuable as in- dicating the safety and wisdom, from a financial point of view, of investing in shares of the San Joaquin Valley road. PROSPECTS IN UTAH. In a well-considered letter published in the CALL yesterday there was given a re- view of the political and business prospects of Utah, which was of ‘more than ordinary interest to the people of California gener- ally, but particularly so to those of San Francisco. As a part of the Greater West, Utah is so closely allied to California that her inter- ests are practically the same as ours, both in politics and in business. It is therefore a matter of gratification to note that the political outlook for the Territory gives promise of a speedy accession to the Union, with the assurance that this will be fol- lowed by an increased representation of Pacific Coast Republicans in the Senate. This means that the great Western ques- tions of arid land irrigation, the promo- tion of the mining industry and the im- provement of Pacific Coast harbors and rivers, will have a stronger backing than before and will therefore be more likely to obtain a fair hearing from the country and more certain to receive the support of Congress. The business outlook is as encouraging as that of politics. Salt Lake City and Jtah have long been seeking a closer com- munication with California and a freer outlet to the Pacific Ocean. The business men of the Territory recognize the fact that competing lines to the westward are needed for the advancement of their com- mercial and industrial welfare. Forsome time past a number of progressive men have been considering the best route for projecting such a line, and a terminal has been looked for at San Diego. It is still more than likely that a line to that city will be constructed sooner or later, but at present attention in Salt Lake City has been directed mainly to the San Joaquin road, through which an opportunity is offered Utah to geta competing line with a terminal in San Francisco itself. In discussing the merits of the various projected routes, our correspondent says: 3an Joaquin road is the one to which pin their faith, as it is a , backed by the solid men the territory through which it will run. Salt Lake should, and probably will, take steps to co-operate with the promoters of this line, which will be the means of en- riching this Territory tenfold.” 1f this view of the situation should pre- vail, it is evident the coustruction of the San Joaquin road would be only the begin- ning of a great transcontinental railway system, beneticial not only to California, but to the whole of the Great West, and indirectly to the entire Union. Thisis the prospect we have now before us. The wel- fare of Utah, therefore, appears at this juncture to be part and parcel of that of California, and the proceedings at Salt Lake, whether of a business or a political nature, will be watched by our people with more than ordinary interest and attention. The excellence of the work displayed at the Spring Exhibition is sufficient to justify a high degree of pride in California art. It is to be doubted if any community of a population not greater than ours could, out of its own ranks, show a display superior to it; and, when the comparative youth of our State is taken into considera- tion, the exhibit may be rightly considered a genuine triumph. The success of the exhibit, moreover, does not depend upon the exhibits of a few well-known artists. In the works of the younger and lesser known men and women there is abundant evidence that the art of the immediate future in Califor- nia will not fall in any way short of the standard it has attained in the hands of its present masters. Some of the work of these younger artists is well deserving of the most critical study, and will yield to the artistic perception an enjoyment hardly inferior to that derived from the contemplation of what are conceded to be the masterpieces of the exhibit. It is a characteristic feature of the exhi- bition that not only have the works been produced by California artists, but they show distinct California influences and deal to a very large extent in California themes. Itis evident from this that our younger as well as our elder artists are drawing their inspiration direct from na- ture and are relying on the schools only for methods and modes of treatment. This gives encouragenient to the belief that the lack of originality of which we hear so much complaint from the East, will not be noted in the art on this Coast, but that our painting and our sculpture will be as distinct in its essential elements as that of any other country in the world. ‘Where our artists have done so much, society should do something. It should be a part of the higher social culture of our people to know the literature and the art of California as well as that of foreign countries. To see the Spring Exhibit and to make something of a study of it should be imperative upon all who make any pre- tensions to artistic taste. What has been put on exhibition at the Hopkins Gallery is, as we have said, a just source of pride and gratification to the State, but unless we show ourselves capable of appreciating it, the pride will be little more than a vain glory. ‘When Claus Spreckels informed the Vi- salians that the lowlands thereabout of- fered perfect conditions for the growing of sugar beets, and that by producing the sugar for the United States the San Joa- quin Valley could save $80,000,000 a year to the country, he touched but one of the items of wealth that lie within the soil of that great region, and that will be devel- oped by the Valley road. scoand planned to build up ! SAILORS AND SHIPS. ‘The life of & sailor at best is not an existence rounded out with the fatness of luxury. The geles blow fiercely and icily, and the heavens themselves scantily hide a “frowning provi- dence” that heaves sleety rains and chilling snows upon the wretched ‘mariner. Even the sea resents his intrusion on its eminent do- main, and the hungry waves are ever reaching out grasping hands to drag him down with “bubbling moan” into the dark grave-like deeps. The unmitigating and unending hardships of his days and nights naturally leave their impress upon his being and he becomes & man unfeeling and in a measure inhuman, yet not brutal. Jack grows tough in fiber, but his newer nature never brings him to the com- mission of those acts that stand out in the pages of crime. The sailor of to-day is not a criminal. The forces that bear him down in the social scale stupefy, but never brutalize. His first finer perceptions gone, he is more foolish than roguish, and yet the milk of human kindness is not absent from the sailor’s make-up, and his free hand always lands him in the penury that eternally menaces him, and consequently into the open jaws of the sharks that swim the shore. While there is no man among the tribes that roam the earth so deserving of charity as thesailor, and while his apologists have an ex- cellent case in his defense, Jack’s imperfec- tions cannot be hid under a bushel. While being a philosopher-at-large and accepting a life of harsh treatment as the inevitable which no man may shun, he does a deal of unpracti- cal kicking and would use up his nerves—if he had any—in battling with the minor ills his flesh is heir to. When he is not issuing from one of the catas- trophes that break so frequently the monotony of his existence, he is looking through glasses that focus unfavorably and the hue cf the prospect never Strikes him rose-colored. His present ship is always harder than the last one, and to-day’s bill of fare is much worse than that of yesterday. The officers that op- press him now can swing a belaying-pin with a dexterity and & frequency unknown to the pugnacious mates of yore. His memory is short and the fire of his resentment soon burns itself out. Rob, beat and starve him and he growls awhile, then wipes his tearless eyes and mans the topsail halyards, forgetting his wrongs in an effort to masthead the yards and get the canvas to drawing handsomely before the spanking breeze that is blowing him along. Change his work, his watch, his diet, in fact, break into the routine of hislife in any man- ner, and heconsiders that a principle is thereby involved and it 1s his duty to growl. In short, Jack is a living paradox and an example of the eternal unfitness of things. He storms when itis calm and is calm when it storms. He is miserable when he is satisfied and satisfied when he is miserable. He knows no fear when death rideson the gale and isa child when confronted by the ordinary and simplest affairs of life. Nowhere in civilization is a human being treated worse than in the merchant marine, especially the American service. Occasionally one ship is an easier berth than the others, and in it the sailor is not treated quite so doggish, but the same needless abuse, the same unneces- sary, unmeaning crushing down of the man’s spirit prevails in all. There he is an outcast from that which makes life worth living. He is quartered and fed like the lowest brute, and his value is about equal to that of a topsail-sheet block. His physical endurance is strained to its ut- most tension, and his food, foul and unwhole- some, is as healthful s the hard handspike that often breaks his head. Who may wonder that free American citizens are leaving the sea and American sailors are no longer found in Ameri- can merchant ships? In the American naval service it is different, and the white cruiser is being filled with the better class of native marines. Just legiglation and intelligent officers govern the blnéjacket, and there is & constant upward lift in his social condition. “Give me iron hearts in wooden walls, said & famous Yan- kee admiral years ago, ‘“and I'li | take my chances on the sea even among ironclads,” proving that the metal in the man was preferred to the metal in the ship. Jack in the United States navy is not pampered and petted, and punishment humane and fitting follows swiftly upon a breach of the regula- tions. He gets better pay then a laborer on shore and his job iasts all through con- tingent upon his behavior. He is always gov- erned with.justice, cared for in sicknese, en- couraged to s wages by a system of banking that pays him interest upon the salary he is earning and his Jatent manhood fostered by the great Republic that isStriving | to crew her noble fighting machines with men of metal—not wood. Possibly the personnel of the merchant sery- will arise to the plane of her naval sister. Possibly the plairt of the ill-treated man at the upper topsail halyards—a plaint whose echo is sometimes, but should ot be, heard on the warship—will be hushed, and the merchant mariner be accorded the righteous usage dealt out to his more fortunate brother in the rifie turrets. The intelligent legislation that builds an American hull must build an American crew, pure and simple, to man her. Then Yankee flags, Yankee tars and Yankee ships will be found in every sea. Unfortunately Jack will carry his inherited prerogative to grumble from berth to berth, and he is seemingly no respecter of ships. He siips from the dark, noisome horrors of the merchant forecastle into the bright, wholesome compartment of the man-of-war, and too often celebrates his emancipation from a former wretcehed existence, from the brute of a ship’s mate and the brute of a boarding-master, by arraying his newly found manhood sgainst the discipline, rules and practices that have been in vogue in the naval service before he was launched on life’s stormy sea. He sets himself up as a limb of nautical jurisprudence, or, in marine parlance, “a sea- lawyer.”” He really means no particular harm and does not quite understand that he s injur- ing the good name of his new floating home when he publishes his imaginary woes to the public. The iron men of the old navy never called their noble ship ‘‘a slgver.” To them she was the home of the free, and naught else walked her decks from the starry jack on her bowsprit to the crimson stripes waving abaft the mizzen. They sailed and fought undera regime more severe than obtains in the young navy of to-day, and the glory of the old service is an eternal sunburst along the sea. The cruiser Olympia, one of the fairest craft that ever flew the ensign of a republic, is being made a hiss and a byword by the reports that come from certain of the recruits among her crew, and “the folks on shore’ are beginning to wonder if the “stern lieutenant” of song and story is worthy of his hire, and if the stern warrior that manned the ship of long ago has not degenerated into a plaintive pleader for soft tack and hot pie. PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. Willlam E. Gladstone continues to be an om- nivorous reader. Hardly a new book of any importance comes out in England that he is not one of its earliest perusers. If he ises- pecially pleased with the book he is very apt tosend a copplimentary letter to the anthor. It is proposed to name a street in Paris after Alboni, the illustrious singer. Mme. Alboni lived in the French capital for nearly half a century. She loved Parisians for the hospitable treatment they always extended to her, and when she died she leit the “adorable city,” as she called it, $400,000. James B. Ely, the general secretary of the in- tercollegiate branch of the Young Men’s Chris- tian Association of Philadelphia, will start on October 1 for India, where he will engage in evangelistic work among the low-caste people of Northern India. He will work under the auspices of the Preshyterian Board of Foreign Missions. President Cleveland’s chief recreation at Woodley is a drive in the afternoon and a game of cards in the evening. The President is a good whist player and is also fond of pinochle. He has been strongly urged of late to take to horseback riding for exercise, but his friends have failed to make an equestrian of him. He has been gaining flesh again of late. A. Barclay Walker, owner of the yacht Ailsa, is a lieutensnt in the Laneashire hussars. He is a son of Sir A. B. Walker, & gentleman who wes created & Baronet in 1886, but who is widely known in England for his benefactions. The owner of the Ailsa only became smitten with the yacht-racing fever last year, although he has been a loyer of yachting from boyhood. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. 'W. H. Burne, & Chicago newspaper man, con- nected with the Times-Herald, is at the Palace. He says that within a few days there will be two Democratic newspapers in that city, one in favor of silver and the other in favor of the gold standard. ‘‘John R. Walsh,” hesaid, “who made the Herald what it was, has long been & stockholfer in the Inter Ocean, which has been a losing game since the control passed from the hands of H. H. Kohlsaat, and the paper has been in the market some weeks. J. 8. Clarkson tried to get hold of it in the in- terests of his particular friends in the Repub- lican party, but William Penn Nixon put too high a price on it. But Walsh, being a share- holder, will no doubt find a way to secure con- trol. If so, Horatio Seymour, who is consid- ered one of the ablest managing editors, will be editor-in-chief and the paper, which has long been Republican, will be made free trade, single gold standard and Democratic. “But the silver men in the Democratic party are not going to be left without an orgen, and Iam relisbly informed that a newspaper, to be called the Enquirer, will appear at an early day in May under the editorial management of Willis J. Abbott. Mr. Abbott is one of the ablest exponents of the silver side of the cur- rency question. “‘The changes in journalism in Chicago are numerous just now. Two weeks ago J. W. Scott, who owned the Times-Herald, died, and Mr. Kohlsaat purchased the paper for $710,000, and has also become the owner of the Post, an evening paper. Mr. Kohlsatt, who is one of the best known newspaper men of to-day, is by nature a philanthropist, is very wealthy, and will no doubt make a brilliant success of this, his second newspaper venture.” F. W. Kiesel, a member of the firm of Fred J.Kiesel & Co., who are large dealers in Califor- nia wines in Utah, at the Lick House last night, in speaking of the effect of the raise of prices by the Wine-growers’ Association, said: “Al- though the crop of grapes this year is going to be much larger than it was last season the growers are asking higher prices. And yet the price of wine to consumers is not going to be raised appreciably. The people who will lose by the raise in prices are the dealers, particu- larly those big New York concerns that buy a million or & million and & half gallons of wine each season. They will not exactly lose, but will not make such great profits as they usually expect.” PERSONAL. N. S. Sayre, an attorney of Lakeport, is at the Lick. H. M. Yerrington of Carson, Nev., is at the Palace. L. P. Lome of Pasadena is a guest at the Palace. J. R. Barnett, a stage man from Ukiah, isat the Russ. Thomas H.Thompson, a land-owner of Tu- lare, is at the Lick. Dr. H, Conferth of Marysville, registered at the Lick yesterday. A. D. Duffey, a lumber man of Santa Cruz, is registered at the Russ. E. J. Cahill, a civil engineer of San Martin, is stopping at the Grand. S. Harris, & mining man of West Point, registered at the Russ yesterday. J. Lee and T. G. Herman, merchants of Nevada, are stopping at the Russ. * W. E. George, an attorney of Sacramento, registered at the Grand yesterday. John J. Snyder, the District Attorney of | Stanislaus County, is at the Grand. x , & merehant oi Healdsburg, came down yesterday and registered at the Russ. Barney D. Murphy of Sen Jose arrived in the City yesterday and is stopping at the Palace. Colonel Isaac Trumbo arrived in town yester- day from Utah, where he has been some weeks. E overnor Colcord of Nevada has come down from Carson, and is stopping at the Pal- | ace. €. Milman, a merchant and mi Newman, was emong yvesterday the Lick. F. A. Wadleirh, general passenger agent of | the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad, is at the Palace. ing man of arrivals at zona aud California for the Atlantie at the Grand. airbanks, a banker of Peta- Colo: | luma snd.commander of the Fiith Regiment i National Guard, is at the Lick. | Semuel T. B State Superintendent of ame down trom Sacra- mento yesterday the Lick. Captain C. N. uquerque, attor- ney for the receivers of the Atlanticand Pacific Railway, registered at the Palace yesterday. Public Instru SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS. | Tirst baby—T don’t like the pure old Saxon | Tanguage: | Second baby—Why? , First baoy—It's got ‘I ween” in it.—Philadel- | phia Press. Aristocratic father—And your ancestors? | Aspiring youth—Oh, I have 'em. I had & fatherand mother, and so did all their people | before them.—Detroit Free Press. e appears to have lost her at- for the gentlemen,” said one girl. replied the other: “she didn’t lose it. IHer father lostitin Wall street.”—Wash- ington Star. s “What perfect sympnthy there is between Mrs. Plainface and her daughter.” “I should think so! How could she help sympatbizing with a daughter who looked like her.”—Life, . Mistress—Mary, go to the door at once. Some one has rung three or four times. Mary—Ob, iv'sall right, mum. It's only that young feller as is mashed on Miss Maud. You needu't be afraid of his goingaway in a hurry.” Tid-Bits. Jeunesse Doree—By Jove! a veiled woman always excites in me a curiosity to know her. 01d Gallant—You'll get over that m’ boy, in time. I1f she was young and good-looking she wouldn't be veiled. w York World. Editor—Did you see the complimentary notice 1 gave you yesterday? Grocer—Yes; and I don’t want another. The man who says I've got plenty of sand, that the milk I sell is of the first water, that there are no flies on my sugar, and that my butter is the strongest in the market, may mean well, but he is not the man I want to flatter me a second time.—Boston Beacon. LAW OF THE LAND. All Miners Have to Do Is to Comply ‘With the United States Statutes, Questions of date and of proper oath to accompany the declaratory notice of the location of a mine were involved in the controversy between Ed L. Preston and Duncan Hunter, decided by the United States Circuit Court of Appeals yesterday. Hunter and others had jumped the Pine Tree placer claim in Flathead County, Mont., belonging to Preston, claiming Pres- ton’s declarntory notice and oath were not properly made and dated under the Mon- tana law. The lower court’s indFment was based upon the requirements of the Mon- tana law and was against Preston. The Court of Appeals held that Preston’s locating and notice were in compliance with the United States mining laws, and incidentally g:conounced the Montana law to bein conflict with the organic law of that State in saddling unnecessary bur- dens upon miners. The dates of the papers were al nght, and the only thing in dis- pute could be the notarial acknowledg- ment, which Preston’s declaratory notice had affixed to itin place of the oath re- quired by the Montana law. The judg- ment of the lower court was reversed. ————— To Practice in Our Courts. The following attorneys were yesterday ad- mitted by the Supreme Courtto practice in this State: Miles W. McIntosh, licensed from the State of Maine, on motion qf Charles E. Wil- son; Daniel C. Murphy, District of Columbia, on motion of Frank J.Sullivan; John C. Cal- houn, Colorado, on motion of Ben 8. Wilson; J. M.’ O'Neill, Colorado, on motion of L. M. Hoefler; L. E. Greene of Missouri, on motion of William Rix; Thomas J. Gafiney, Michigan, on motion of James A. Hale; James K, 'y Oregon. on motion of Arthur E. Mack. AN EASTERN CONNECTION, The Chamber of Commerce to Hear the Arizona Cen- tral People. ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC LEASE. San Luls Obispo People Want a Branch Road to Carisa Plains. The Central Arizona Railway Company is going to ask the people of San Frgncxsco to consider the advisability of baving the San Francisco and San Joaguin Valley road form Eastern connections through it. The matter will be brought before the Chamber of Commerce to-morrow morning by the representatives of the Arizona road. Yesterday afternoon Gen- eral Dimond, president of the Chamber of Commerce, President Watkins of the Board of Trade and President Craig of the Half- million Club, at the invitation of Colonel Weils Hendershott, the attorney of the Arizona road, met that gentleman at the Grand Hotel, and after a conference he was invited to appear before the Chamber of Commerce to-mfrrow morning. Judge Warren, the receiver in chancery for the Atlantic and Pacific road, came up from Los Angeles yesterday with Captain C. N. Sterry, the attorney for the receiver. They had come to Los Angeles on some legal business for their road. Judge War- ren last night said that he did not think that the chances would be that the Atchi- son, Topeka and Santa would again get the lease of the Atlantic and Pacific and the St. Louis and San Francisco roads. These roads were intended to be built and run toggther as a transcontinental line. He said: ‘The Atlantic and Pacific was built from Albu- uerque to the Needles and the St. Louis and San Francisco from St. Louis to Sepulpo, in the Indian Territory, within about 200 miles of Albuquerque, where it was to have been run to join the Atlantic and Pacific. The chances are that these roads will not be leased by the Atchison road again, and they with that gap between_ Sepulpo and Albuguerque filled up would give a clear line through from the Mis- souri River to the Colorado, from St. Louis to the Needles. Here is an opportunity for the San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley road to get an Eastern connection. Engineer Graham and his corps of as- sistants in the field began yesterday to make a second and final survey for the {Val- ley road from Stockton to the Stanislaus River, twenty-five miles south. They found two good crossings for a railway over the river. “One of these crossings,” remarked the chief engineer yesterday, ‘‘if taken will cause us to change the entire route from Stockton, but if we take the other one it will be necessary to defiect the route a little. Either good site for a bridge.” Mr. Jacks of San Luis Obispo called at the office of the company yesterday and suggested the advisability of extending a branch line into the Carisa Plains. These plains lie between mountains about sixty miles west from San Luis Obispo, and they are said to be susceptible of cultivation, under which they can be made highly productive. For want of a railway they have remained unproductive, however. Jacks stated that the people of San Luis Obispo are desirous of having a railway in that district, and he suggested that a road could be run either from Visalia or Ar- mona across the San Joaquin Valley in a southwesterly course over the mountains on the west side, where it would drop into a great expanse of level land known as the Carisa Plains. Telegrams were sent out yesterday to President Spreckels and the directors out of town asking for information as to when a meeting of the board can be held. Alarge amount of important business is awaiting their return home. the most important be- ing the lease of China Basin. Bacox Printing Company, 508 Clay strest. * e, Pineapple and cherries, 50¢ 1b, Townsend’s.* e Mark Hopkins Institute of Art, spring ex- hibition, open daily, admission 25 cents. Thursday evenings, admission 50 cents. ~ * e FINFST sauternes, haut-sauternes and dessert wines. Mohns & Kaltenbach, 29 Market street.* — MARK HOPKINS Institute of Art, spring exhi- bition, open daily, admission 25 cents, Thurs- day evenings, admission 50 cents. . —————— The Plouf Estate. Robert Murdock, an executor named in the will of Dr. John E. Plouif, has renounced his trust, and the decedent’s sister, Mrs. Louise A. Edwards, wife of Henry S. Edwards, has nomi- nated Mrs. Gertrude E. 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The Great Barbe, Benedict & Goldman Sale of Cloaks, Capes, Suits, Skirts and Waists, At 50¢ on the $1.00 of ‘Wholesale Cost. More Sa]aspenpfix Hand To-day. CAPES $2 fiu—Bflrbe, Benedict & Goldman’s . Capes that sell regularly at $5 00. SUITS $7 fiu—The greatest value in Barbe, Ben- . edict & Goldman’s entire line of Suits—a 3-Button Box Coat Suit, lined throughout; worth $15. e Herbnger Giypos ET & TAYLOR sy5% MIRK SN FRRNQQ. Exploded The idea that California had fallen aslesp everlastingly has been exploded. She is up and hustling and making the chips fiy, The idea that the products of her induns- tries are inferior to Eastern goods has been exploded. They are rapidly displacing the latter in popular favor. 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