The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 5, 1895, Page 20

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MAY 5, 1895. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. THE FLOWERS OF THE CITY. The rose show in the maple room of the Palace Hotel was a very beautiful exhibi- bition, as enchanting in its way as was the chrysanthemum show in its own a few months ago. The most useful lesson taught by these two exhibitions is that no matter how rich and gorgeous are flowers in the countries of their original produc- tion, when transplanted to California their excellencies are amazingly increased. DAILY CALL—#8 per year by mail; by carrier, 15¢ | Behind this simple and patent fact lies the per week. SUNDAY CALL—#1.50 per year. WEEKLY CALL—#1.50 per year. The Eastern office SAN FRANGISCO CALL (Dally and Weel Pacific States Adver- tising Burean, I ander building, Rose and MAY 5, 1895 Indolence is the red feather in Satan’s cap. ingat home may becom a dis- er and his ey Some money wit people He is not ne The musical a great many me whole story of the wonderful capabilities | of the State. San #ranciscans have need of these flower shows in order that their love for flowers may be cultivated, for the City is wofully behind every other city in the | State in the flower-gardens. The grounds surround- ; the mansions of the millionaires on | Nob Hill give distressing evidence of a | lack of the love of flowers, of their high decorative value and of the wonderful resources of the climate. Around the splendid brownstone Flood house not a no good rest after dishonest | blossom is to be seen; a few struggling | blooms break the bare line cf the presty Huntington me heliotropes and haray geraniums are seen in the old Crocker grounds; the chief adornment of the new Crocker mansion is ivy, which | seems as inappropriate to this climate for | decorative purposes as pines; the Fair mansion he only one that offers any who love flowers and of San Francisco might be made. owers do not produce so hand- here as in other parts of the . the most useful of a1l flow- g them. The fogs induce mil- to blast the buds. This does ay that highly satisfactory ot be secured in rose culture main trouble is a lack of knowl- : About the only ttention they receive is a constant and | ous drenching with the hose, whereas ey need very little water and generous fi n and cultivation. arkable advantage that San Fran- isco enjoys over any other city is that ender plants, including the helio- pe and the caila, will bloom in the ter with little danger from frost. The , even tenderer than these, is seen \ many gardens. No roots or bulbs have | to be dug up in winter to keep them from | g. Now, as summer is the natural e for plants the world over to bloom 1 mature their seeds, and as the seasons th of the equator are opposite to ours, | it is evident that plants brought hither | from those southern regions will bring | their habit with them, and bloom during lesdraw | they The v vho makes a picture | of her always a mode nan. Under some a he world appears to have been cr breed daisies. Eve Jose that wonld lay gold uld properly tend her. Sunday is th h we can sober up from the drunke six days of an keep us n our garden packs of life is that we how sweet is doxes of life that the best, but the best is Larkisa 1 - paper in this that halts between the inclination to and the duty to fly. Some peopl ake a great splutter in the swim r frantic efforts to keep their heac iter. Tt tthe Maple Hall show are but those in the cheeks of the girls Francisco are prettier. ould sacrifice the st friend to make enter- al visitor. A London woman is said to be drawing ces and ma v by de- tures on the art of muk up of he ent for a 1g mon A tall man generally wants a short wife, but he never learns till after marriage just what her height is—whether it reaches to his pocket or his heart. - are reasons, apart from those ence furnishes, to convince us It requires a very strong faith, great fortitude and a deep devotion on the part of the Salvation Army to kneel on the cobblestones of San Francisco. There are some people so mean that when they see a person with the milk of human kindness in him they wonder if some of it isn't water and chalk. The face is the mirror of the heart, which is a good deal warmer than a looking-glass and gives back a much prettier reflection if looked into long and often énongh. When we extend our sympathy to the wind-stricken people of Iowa, let us not forget those of New York, Massachusetts and, Delaware, for their Legislatures are still in session. Some people think that being good one day in every week makes them worthy of heaven by the cumulative process, just as though salvation can be purchased on the ingtallment plan. The discussion over the high theater hat has reached Paris, where an ingenious citizen suggests as a remedy that ladies be compelled to sit on one side of the audi- torium, thus giving men an unobstructed view from the other. ¥ Rome should get up from the seven little hummocks on which she has been sitting so long and should try a seat on the lofty summits of San Francisco’s hills she would feel like doubling up to keep from becoming bald by wearing off her hair as her head rubbed against the clouds. If the Philadelphia Record is correct in saying, “ The flower festivals in Santa Barbara and Los Angeles show that Cali- fornia is getting there with both of her fetes,” then the occurrence of so many other festivals all over the State would imply that California is a kind of centi- pede or hundred-feter. “ The New York Herald has made a new * departure in journalism by combining the Weekly Herald with the Sunday edition, on the ground that the field of weekly news is well covered by local papers in country towns and that metropolitan journals can achieve the best resalts weekly by concen- trating their energieson the Sunday paper. | of instruction in floricult intendent McLaren of Golden Gate Park out winter. There are many of these. and make a splendid show in the hothouses stern cities. thrive and bloom outdoors in .San Francisco, and yet this opportunity shamefully neglected by our people. othing is more needed here than a school ure, and if Super- does not see in this suggestion a dazzling opportunity his strong Scotch head is not so hard nor his purse so eager as it might be. ven in the summer months the pau- city of flow is disheartening. As a rule, only a few of the hardiest and com- monest perennial plants are grown, and it is are is taken in A developing their highest blossoming ef- ficiency. It is almost impossible to find a housewife or daughter who has the least idea of the planting and growing of an- nuals. Ifevena tenth of the women of San Francisco would develop an intelligent love of flowers they would produce a city which for its little flower gardens alone would become one of the wonders of the world. A HAND ON THE CURTAIN. With the destruction of awe for the Unknowable has come almost a fierce determination to sound the uttermost depths of the mysteries which surround us. Here in the West are two daring men, each with a hand on the curtain behind which lurks the Inscrutable—one engaged on the problem of the fourth dimension with all the boldness of inspired courage, and the other coolly and patiently working to solve the mystery of gravitation. While these scientists are proceeding on material- istic lines, searching the Unknowable by means of algebraic formulwe, shrewd and logical believers in what are commonly termed occult matters are pushing their | efforts into the darkest places and reveal- ing marvelous phases of the human mind, will and spirit. The singular part of it all is that these in- quirers are fighting for the same end—the discovery of the Inscrutable. | Among the most recent of wonderful discoveries is the presence of argon in the air; and we may be sure that the next problem to be assailed will be the purpose and function of this mysterious com- ponent. The possibilities which it pre- sents are dazzling, but there is not space here to discuss them. Next we are assured that the mysterious phenomenon of table-tipping isexplainable on the theory of “levitation.” That is, for every positive force there must be a negative one, and a particular preponder- ance of one over the other determines a specific condition. Granted that thereis such a force as gravity, there must be a force in existence which tends to overcome it. What can this force be? Buppose that the human will, which has developed so extraordinary and mysterious powers in certain cases—as in the hypnotic control of other persons, in the healing of physical ailments by faith, and in other ways— shouid have a special individual power, amounting to a physical force, which should be able to counteract gravity toa limited extent by compelling heavy ob- jects to float in the air; that is a problem upon which some earnest minds are at work; and who can declare that no proof of the fact shail be given, and who can foresee the extent to which this force might be exercised if proved and devel- oped? Would not at least the problem of “‘aerial navigation’ be solved ? Another manifestation of this spirit of unrest and inquiry is found in the wonder- ful progress that medicine is making. It is true that many ludicrous mistakes are made—as that by Brown-Sequard, when he announced that he had discovered the elixir of life—but these do not dampen the ardor nor impair the value of the great achievements of Jenner, Pasteur and Koch. Along with these great discoveries of the nature and the cure of disease are proceeding intelligent efforts to prevent it. Hygiene is becoming one of the greatest of sciences. Not only have the dreadful plagues which formerly devastated the earth been shorn of their terrors, but communi- ties and individuals are learning the secret of preserving health at home. It is singu- lar, however, that the mastery of the art of intelligent living is the slowest of all. In this field we have earnest workers, Ed- ward Atkinson being the greatest, and it is in this field that the highest work of socio- logical reformers is to be done. Robert Stevenson of San Francisco has promised us that if some of our wealthy men give him the material aid necessary to maintenance of attractive | g garden of bloom the | But many of these| prove his theory of “kinetic stability”” we can secure a glimpse of wonderful things that at present lie beyond the ken of our senses. It is hoped that some patriotic gentleman of means will look into the matter. As to Henry Thurtell, the brill- iant young professor of mathematics in the Nevada State University, we hope that he will so successfully pursue his inquiry into the problem of the fourth dimension as to make us capable of acquiring it with- out having to die to attaim it. SENSATIONAL JOURNALISM. One of the disadvantages to a com- munity resulting from that form of jour- nalism which delights in sensations rather than in common-sense, is the evil repute which such journalism gives to the com- munity abroad. People at home can easily detect the bugaboo under the scare head and be satisfied of its harmlessness, but people in other parts of the country take the scare in earnest and regard the com- v as the abiding place of an awful Francisco is just now suffering as ictim of this kind of misrepresenta- The lack of funds to pay certain | debts due to contractors for supplies has been so exaggerated as to lead outsiders to believe that the treasury is empty, the City bankrupt, all its institutions destitute and the inmates of its charitable asylums re- Beacon adds: *If this road was continued up the coast as far as Eureka it would meet with good support, not only at Eu- reka, whose inhabitants at present are very much enthused over the subject of railroad communication with San Fran- cisco, but also along the coast. The in- creasing industries of this coast demand a railroad, and we believe at no far distant date one will be built.” Of course casual references of this kind tothe need of great undertakings do not imply any early beginning of the work: but they keep these enterprises in the public mind and in that way inculcate a sentiment for progress which, at the first opportunity, will take the shape of action. One of the most notable features of the day is the sudden outburst of aspiration in Central and Northern California to emn- late the example of Southern California. The Colusa Herald yearningly exclaims: ““Oh, that we people of the northern part of the State had one-quarter of the energy and push of our southern neighbors! Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man, what are the possibilities of this great Sacramento Valley. Those possibilities are spread out before us by a generous and pleading Provi- dence, and when, oh when, will we stretch forth our hand and possess them ?" It would seem that this outburst is not altogether unreasonable. The Napa Register quotes General Wasson of Pomona as duced to starvation. As an outcome of this the Chicago Tribune recently pub- lished a dispatch from this City under the heailines: “San Francisco's Treasury is Empty—Funds Exhausted Through Reck- less Expenditures by Officials.”” The reader of such a dispatch would of course hardly think of coming to 8an Francisco to make his home or to enter business, and as a consequence the City suffers. The publication of these exaggerated stories at the very time when we are mak- ing such earnest efforts to build up the City and to increase its population, has at- tracted the attention of the keen-eyed, clear-headed editors of the interior, and they have been commenting on it in their usual incisive way. The Alameda Argus in referring to the scare-head publication said: “This may be one way to increase the population to a half million, but it isa mighty queer way.” And the Petaluma Courier said: “It is truly refreshing to know that such brilliant and brainy men are at the head of our metropolitan dailies, They should go and serve an apprentice- ship on some cross roads country weekly.” The sarcesm of our neighbors has been well directed. A few years’' experience in | provincial journalism would be of great advantage to some of our metropolitan | contemporaries who regard sensationalism | as of more importance than a due regard for the welfare of the community. In this particular case there was no good reason for making a sensation st all. San Fran-| cisco is not bankrupt, her treasury is not empty, her institutions are not destitute, | and their inmates are in no danger of | starving. OUR EXCHANGES. During the recent editorial excursion to the festivals at Los Angeles and Santa Barbara, some of the excursioni sug- gested the formation of a Sacramento Valley Newspaper League, and the project has been favorably considered by many of the leading papers of that section. The Woodland Mail in warmly indorsing the measure says: ‘It remains for the organ- ized press of this valley to commence the campaign for a new Sacramento Valley. | built upon new faith in ifs destiny and new purpose in compelling the world to recognize and confess that no section of this land of plenty outrivalsitin its wealth- producing possibilities.”” A similar view of the chance of advancing the welfare of the valley by the work of the combined press is taken by the Corning Observer, which urges that if there are to be any trips of the association, they should all be in the north, so as to make known each fruit section. ‘There are beauties to be seen in all our counties,”” says the Observer, “that cannot be surpassed in any part of the State. In one year more than 7000 acres belonging to the Maywood colony will have fruit and flower shows as well as the south.” From these statements it will be seen that the editors are thinking less of the advancement of their journals than of the welfare of the communities in which they are published, and it is doubtful if better proof of genuine local patriot- ism could be found anywhere than that which is so abundantly evident in this dis- cussion on the formation of the proposed league. Sl In commenting upon some reports that the work of the Southern Pacific Company on the gap in the coast line is to be discon- tinued or carried on with diminished vigor, the Santa Barbara Press says: “This idea has been very happily exploded and all doubts set at rest by a letter just received by one of our real estate men from C. P. Huntington himself, in which it is defin- itely stated that the work will be pushed through to a finish without the slightest delay, and that the working force, instead of being diminished, will shortly be in- creased to the fullest number of men that can be worked to an advantage.” The publication of the statements of this letter has naturally given no little satisfaction to the people of the coast counties. The clos- ing of the gap is to them of as much im- portance as the construction of the com- peting road is to the San Joaquin. In- deed, it is of importance to the whole State. The opening of that line will be another important step in the development of California. It will give easy access to some of the fairest portions of our broad domain, and lead to an increase of wealth and population, which, while primarily af- fecting the coast counties, will indirectly benefit all. Moreover, it is an easy pre- diction that when the south coast road is completed the north coast road will soon be begun. Out of the flower festivals at Los Angeles and Santa Barbara has come the good fruit of a popular sentiment that is at once optimistic and patriotic. It is worth not- ing, moreover, that the action of the Chamber of Commerce and tne Half- million Club, in cordially supporting the fetes, has won for S8an Francisco almost as much praise as has been given to the festal cities themselves. The people of the interior see in the grand excursion of the Half-million Club a proof that San Fran- cisco has taken a new departure and will hereafter be found working for the whole State as zealously as Los Angeles has been working for the southern counties. A good expression of the general trend of sentiment throughout the State on this subject is found in the statement of the Fresno Republican : “If S8an Francisco has been sleepy and lethargic in the past, so much the greater is the credit that we would give to her now that she has girded her loins for the friendly fray of commer- cial competition. The whole Btate has regrétted her past somnolence; it rejoices in every indication of awakened enter- prise.” Progress and enterprise are the prevail- ing words in all sections of the State. The Point Arena Record having said there is some talk of extending the North Pacific Coast road to Gualala, the Mendocino saying: ‘‘You have natural advantages in Napa that we do not have in Southern California, and if you had done one-half the work in improving your country that we were obliged to do in our section of the State in order that we might live there, you would be compelled to use force against settlers if you prevented their coming in.” That there is much truth in this is beyond question. Southern Cali- fornians have taught us all “there is more in the man than there is in the land,” and now that the northern section of the State has begun to realize this, we may expect a new California, in which the people will not only brag of the climate, but_show the enterprise to profit by it. To the people of Santa Clara County the completion of the gap in the coast road is of almost as much importance as to the coast counties themselves. Under present conditions Santa Clara County is in a pocket. Itlies off the highway of travel and its vrosperity has thereby been gravely impeded. The San Jose Mercury in repub- lishing the statement of the Santa Barbara Press that the completion of the gapisto be pushed forward with all vigor says: “This is welcome news for San Jose. The coast route is so much pleasanter in every way than the route throagh the San Joaquin Valley that there can be no doubt that all the overland passenger traffic will be transferred to the former road and so will pass through this city. We shall thus be placed upon a direct transcontinental line, and the advantages to the city will be at once perceptible.”” There can be no doubt of the accuracy of this forecast. The people of San Jose are in fact experi- encing the truth of the old saying that everything touches the pocket sooner or later. They bave been in the pocket a long time, and now bcth the competing road and the coast road are coming to them. The people of Southern California are naturally pleased with the flowery compli- ments that are being showered upon them faster and more profusely than the roses fell in the joyous contests of the recent festivals. They exult in this glory and are filled with wonder that other Californians are not built on the same style. Forexam- ple, the Redlands Citrograph says: “South California has the pluck, the vim, the busi- ness acumen to use every means of adver- tising our country. Ittakes lotsof money, but it is freely poured out. When is San Francisco going to get thoroughly awake to latter-day methods of doing business?” While indulgence in the glad boasting of the first part of this paragraph is permissi- ble, the question with which it closes is in bad form—that is to say, it is out of date. 8Ban Francisco is alive, awake, erect and leading the State. The competing road, the Manufacturers’ Association, the Half- million Club, the grand excursion and the project for bringing the next Republican National Convention to this coast attest her enterprise and her abundant energy. The Citrograph should get into line with the procession and not throw chestnuts at the elephant. SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS. Bilzag—What is that low, rumbling sound I hear? Beezin—Hush! That's the man at the next table eating soup.—Roxbury News. Van Clove—Who is going to be the best man at your wedding with Teddy Thoughtless? Miss Vanderwhack—I am.—Town Topies. ‘“Well, George, I suppose we will go to the lake ags this summer?” “Well, no, my dear. Now that you have baby, I don’t think we'd better. Squalls are always dangerous in lake regions.”’—Harper's Bazar. Nodd—Our nursegirl has just had a terrible fit of sickness. Todd—Yes? What was the matter? Nodd—By mistake she took some medicine she was going to give to the baby—Judge. Trivett—Miss Flop claims to have made 1000 refusals of marriage. Dicer—That's easily explained. When young llow asked her to marry him she replied: & thousand times, no!”—Tit Bits. Ci “I guess,” said the sharp-nozed girl, “that I will take the wind out of her sails.” *“Why,” asked the fluffy girl, “don’t;you be up to date and say take the wind out of her tires?"'—Cincinnati Tribune. Visitor—What are the usual steps your eti- quette requires to be taken by an individual preparatory to marriage? New Yorker—A divorce.—Chicago Record. “Bless him,” she mused; “there’s none of the new man nonsense about him.” With a tender smile she watched her husband as he sang the children to sleep.—Detroit Tribune. The old bachelor is merely & cheap remnant. Galveston News. PEOFLE TALKED ABOUT. A plaster cast of the statue of Chancellor Kent has been made by George E. Bissell, the Poughkeepsie sculptor. The Cnancellor is rep- resented as standing in a thoughtful pose, wearing*the full silk robes of his office. In his left hand he holds manuscripts which repre- sent his commentaries. A pen isin his right hand. "The statue is to be cast in bronze and placed in the reading-room of the new library of Congress at Washington. Thomas Shepherd, a convict in the Indiana Prison, South, at Jeffersonville, a trusty, fell in love with & woman somewhere in the town, and in order to see her manufactured, after months of secret toll, a rope ladder out of bits of yarn, string and the like, which from time to time he picked up. It wes over thirty feet long and very strong. With this on several occasions he made his way out of the prison, always returning to his cell after an absence of & few hours. | Guillermo Moncada, one of the Cuban insur- gent leaders, said to be now dead, was a negro, black as coal, of huge stature and vast strength. He is described as being as gentle as & woman in his ordinary disposition, and to gein mere private ends would not hurt a fly. It was only when fighting for Cuban independence that he became fierce and warlike. J.B.8wan, a Massachusetts man, claims to have raised a potato of the Maggie Murphy variety which weighs 86 pounds and 10 ounces. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Andrew Mason, the gentleman who has been stirring things up in the Carson mint by inves- tigating bad melts and bogus bullion bars, is in the City, housed at the Palace Hotel. Mr. Mason is one of the tried and true Inspec- tors who inspect, but is really not an Inspector. Said he: “I cannot understand why I am called an Inspector of Mints. I am merely the superin- tendent of the United States Assay Office at Washington, and have merely come to San Francisco for a conference.” Mr. Mason is a very plessant gentlemsan to chat with, but he only likes to chat about things which do not pertain to the mints. “Has the conference any connection with the Carson mint, Mr. Mason?” He placed his hand on the scribe’s arm with a fatherly air, saying: «I always like you newspaper boys. Iam glad when it is possible to do you any favors. Noj; it has no particular connection.” Have you straightened the shortage out to an exact figure?”’ “Yes. I believe I can give you the amount. I think it would be all right. Here it is.” The gentleman went down in his vest pocket and secured a slip of paper containing the fig- ures, *75,594 75 3-10 total gold loss.” “There you are, sir. That is the exact amount. I have reduced it to actual dollars and cents.” “Who got it. Mr. Mason?"” Mr. Mason arched his eyebrows, gently patted the reporter’s shoulder and returned the slip 10 his pocket. “Have you located the man Heney, who was said to have been in on the deal?”” “I feel as though I could safely say not yes, but it is probable we shall.” “Do yon expect to recover the amount of the shortage?” “I do mot anticipate that it will ever be sent back to us, but we may recover something. You see those things are always of such a char- acter that it requires a little care in discussing them. But whenever anything occurs that I can give to the reporters I will do so0.” “Is it likely that this steal will result in clos- ing up the mint at Carson?” “There will be no more silver deposits taken there, and in future nothing but gold will be accepted.” “Will that be coined there?” “No. Probably—in fact it will be sent dewn to the San Franeisco Mint. All the silver vaults are sealed up.” “Does that not practically close up the insti- tution?” “Well, it is still an assay office. You under- stand I do not know just what it will result in. There is nothing stupendous about the short- age. I will return to Nevada on the 10th and clean up the business, and then—" There was a peculiar expression on his face which suggested the query, ““What will occur?” I shall probably go back to Washington with my report.” C. B. Treadwell, the son of Tiffany’s principal diamond buyer in Europe, stopped here a few hours yesterday on his way to Los Angeles. Mr. Treadwell’s father has large antique art stores in New York, Boston and Chicago, where «“C.B.” acquired his early mercantile educa- tion, but for several years past the young man has been in Nebraska. His home is at present in North Bend, on the Union Pacific, about 100 miles west of Omaha, and Mr. Tread- well had many amusing incidents to relate concerning the State of his adoption. He said: “I have seen Nebraska develop from a wild cattle and cowboy country to a rich agricul- tural district, but Ican never forget my first experience there as a sheep-raiser. I had a chum in New York, whose father and mine concluded that it would be the best thing they could do to buy us a sheep ranch in Nebraska, and get us out of New York for a few years. Accordingly the ranch was purchased—for a mere song—and we emigrated. If I had ever been told that two lifelong chums could become the bitterest enemies, without cause, I would not have believed it, but my experience con- vinced me that anything is possible under the influences of solitude and Nebraska blizzards. Our ranch was back from the Platt River about six miles. The nearest neighbor was four miles distant. For three months and nine days we were prevented by the storms, deep snow and ‘blizzards from getting off the ranch, and for at least two-thirds of that time we were,unable to get out of the house. Inlien of plastering we had pasted the interior of our one-roomed shanty with coples of New York pepers which had been sent to us from time to time during the summer. Those old papers were read a thousand times, I'll venture. We would stand on chairs and boxesand read those that we had pasted on the ceiling, and lie on the floor and peruse those low down on the walls. Atlasta coldness sprang up between us, the cause of which neither of us could afterward recall or surmise. For exactly eight weeks to a day, though sleeping in the same bed, eating off the same table, washing in the same basin and taking turns in the performance of certain household duties, not a word was spoken be- tweenus. It is remarkable, as you may say, but I will give you my word as a man of honor that during those eight weeks neither of us so much as uttered a syllable to the other. I could tell you much more about the blizzards and the loss of all our sheep, and the subse- quent return to New York, but I consider that to have been the banner experience in my Western life. Were we ever iriends afterward? Yes, the best of chums again, but we never re- fer to that unhappy season of silence on our Nebraska sheep ranch.” Major Hoover is a busy man, for, as he says himself, a man who runs a hotel, engineers a fight for office in the Loyal Legion, and cares for the funds of one of the biggest churches in the City has little time for other things. Of his latter capacity he is especially proud. “We have settled up everything at Trinity Church,” he said, as he leaned against his own counter in the Occidental corridor, “and I have money still left in my hands. We have paid over $200,000 for the building and lot which we have on Gough and Bush streets, and have paid off lots of other expenses, and now after allis finished we have money still in the treas- ury and our income is running shead of our ~ expenses. As for my chances of getting the head offiee of the Loyal Legion, I don’t know much abotit them. Colonel Smedberg is run- ning my campaign, and what he is doing or what success he is meeting with I don’t know. Colonel Kinne has guarenteed 10 keep order and suppress all rioting during the election at the Palace on May 13, and so I guess the affair will pass off quietly.” Warden Charles Aull of Folsom prison is wandering around the halls and the office of the Palace with tf{e air of a man who has lost something. ‘I came down yesterday to see bow they would get through with their work atSan Quentin,” he said, “but it seems that the men were reprieved. We have two men under sentence of death at Folsom ourselves, | and we will probably have to do some work of that kind up our way. Repairs are in progress just now on the Folsom buildings, and some additions are being made to them, notably in | the commissary department. All else is quiet up there, inclnding Chris Evans.” —_— PERSONAL. . Louis is at the Captain A.Lederman of Grand. Dr. W. H. Baldwin of Sacramento is at the Grand. Dr. and Mrs. J. F. Lewis of Los Angeles are &t the Palace. H. Hirschfeld, & capitalist of Bakersfleld, is at the Lick. General A. L. Hart of Sacramento isstaying at the Grand. George C. Bryson Jr. of Carson, Nevada, is at the Russ House. J. B. Howard, & contractor of Mexico, regis- tered at the Russ yesterday. HIS FRIENDS STILL HOPE They Claim That Dr. Leving- ston Will Be Made Health Officer. ALL APPLICANTS MUST WAIT They Receive Cordial Greetings From Governor Budd, but Not Any Plums. Dr. Marc Levingston’s friends have not despaired. They thronged the cor! of the California Hotel yesterday talked among themselves and with Governor. They have put on a bold and intend to keep it up. Dr. Levingston's friends are among tt men closest to the Governor. T intimate companions, and it is known tk Governor Budd is always loyal to friends. Among those who look hopefully at the future is Porter Ashe. He has the succe: of Dr. Mizner and of Dr. Levingston both Carl E. Lindsey, District Attorney of Santa Cruz, is registered at the Grand. G. C. Coker, one of the Supervisors of Placer County, is registered at the Russ. M. Lawrence, manager of the Tallac House on Lake Tahoe, is at the Baldwin. WG. W. Stohl, & merchant of Napa, came down yesterday and registered at the R Louis Dean, a big cattle-man of Nevads, is down from Reno and stopping at the Russ. Charles Aull, Warden of the State Prison at Folsom, and Mrs. Aull, registered yesterday at the Palace. J. R. Trainer, 8 commission merchant of Marysville, came to town yesterday and regis- tered at the Grand. R. G. Barton, proprietor of the Barton Opera- | house and a vineyard-owner of Fresno, is a guest at the California, i J. L. Gillis, assistant superintendent of the | Sacramento division of the Southern Pacific, came down yesterday and registered at mek Grand. SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. Every letter sent east or north ought to con- tain a line or two drawing attention to our summerclimate. Make the flat statement that this is the best summer climate on earth, and | stick toit. Repeat it and keep repeating it: quote summer temperaturesand hammer itinto the people, as winter figures have been quoted | and hammered for twenty-five years. We have | the winter advantages pretty well advertised | and generally believed in. A persistent cam- | paign in behalf of the summer will doa vast deal of good.—San Diegan Sun. There is nota State in the Union where the | expenditure of money for public parks, hand- | some streets and boulevards, and lovely, well- | kept private grounds, will yield such solid and abunaant returns in yellow gold as in this | Golden State of ours. Need we say to Santa | Cruzans that the bright particular spot where returns from such expenditures will be most sure and abundant is right here, where nature invites the highest efforts of art.and where nature, beauty and utility resfde?—Santa Cruz Sentinel. With the addition to the population which irrigation, fruit farming and the new railroad will unite to bring, home consumpticn will be increased, and there will be more demand for labor, more demand for small farms, more trade for merchants, more employment for clerks, and the increased number of laborers will cause an increased demand for building lots and buildings.—Stockton Independent. San Franeisco is seared, badly scared. The United California problem is only a question of scaring her so badly that she will turn the mil- lions of her hoarded wealth out into the chan- nels of industry for the upbuilding of the State. This is likely to be done and it fore- bodes ill to the success of the cause of State division, if there is such a cause.—Pomona Progress. Claus Spreckels expressed the opinion that the rich land eround Visalia would produce from thirty to forty tons of sugar beets to the acre. This is an industry that should be care- fully thought about. There is money in the business, and we have thousands of acres of land that ought to be producing & good reve- nue and which is now idle.—Visalia Times. It would not be strange now that the price of oil is so much higher if our Humboldt oil field should be prospected. There is oil in abun- dance in Humboldt and in time it will be found in paying quantities. The reservoir of nature’s lubricator will yet be tapped, when oil and mineral gas will flow in pipes through | all. the streets of Eureka.—Humniboldt Standard. If that Pasadena girl who grabbed a lamp and rushed down the track to stop a train after she had discovered an attempt to wreck it is a sample of the “coming woman,” we hope she will arrive in time to take a& hand in hanging the man who made her deed necessary.—Red- lands Facts. The marked advance in the price of wheat, together with the recent decided improvement in prospects for both the grain and fruit crops, sugur well for & year of great prosperity for the State and coast.—San Luis Obispo Breeze, The cause of the gold monometallists must need bolstering up, indeed, when its support- ers demand that no Federal pap be given to any person favoring bimetallism. — Stockton Meil. Times are getting better. Wheels are be- ginning to go round in other places besides the heads of the cranks.—Oroville Mercury. RATES IN THE BALANCE. Transcontinental Freight Schedules to Be Discussed by the Interstate Commerce Commission. C. F. Smurr, general freight agent of the Southern Pacific Company, went to Chicago yesterday to attend a session of the Inter- state Traffic Association which is to be held in that city for the purpose of dis- cussing the “long and short haul” across the continent. Denver merchants protested to the com- mission that freight rates from common Eastern points to the Pacific Coast were less than to Denver. The railway com- panies explained that it was necessary 1o cut rates to coast points on account of com- petition by ships and steamers via the isthmus and Cape Horn. To this the mid- land men made reply that if the railway companies could afford to carry at a low rate clear across the continent, they could at heart. Speaking of Dr. Levingston, he said: “Yes, I think he’ll be appointed Health Officer. I feel quite sure of it. I can’t for the life of me see why I shouldn’t. “Nobody has dared bring a single spe- cific charge against hi I3’s easy eno for disgruntled politicians who see they are about to lose a play to yell about the winner. When it comes to proving their statements 1t's g different thing, thou, “Look at the men who are making fight against him. Who are they? Sup- pose we should begin te about their shortcomings, don't you think we could give some interesting reading? 3 “But we won't. Dr. Levingston doesn’t do that sort of thing. He is too big a ma: But I do think it is wrong for the public to condemn & man_just because a lot of poli- ticians are assailing him. 3 “‘And look at what they say. Not one of them knows a thing against Dr. Leving. ston. They all say that some one has told them, or that sonie one, who has been told by somebody, who heard about it from e one else, has told them. @I don’t see that Dr. Le anything to fear from his detractors. g a gston has He | ought to be appointed, and I think he will be appointed.’” The enemies of Dr. Levingston are a thing but idle. They are doing everyth in their power to move the Governor. Even if Dr. Levingston were as spotless as the driven snow his friends would bave hard work driving against the storm that has arisen. Crowds gathered in the California Hotel quite early yesterday morning. The Gov- ernor did not appear till afternoon, though. In the morning be visited the Mint and had a chat with Superintendent Daggett while the anxious applicants were waiting. ‘When he did arrive his callers were cor- dially received. There was a jolly bit of pleasantry for each of them, but that was They were all put off till next week. Weekly Mortuary Report. There were 113 deaths in the City during the week ending May 4. Nine deaths were from heart disease, 5 from bronchitis, 6 from ca cer, 6_from i 1 from Bright's Criminals Sentenced. Charles Wilson, convicted of grand larceny, was sentenced by Judge Bahrs to imprison- ment in San Quentin for four years. H. A ter, convicted of felony embezzlement, was sentenced by Judge Belcher to six months’ im- prisonment in the County Jail. oo Sl E. H. BLACEK, painter, 114 Eddy street. o s . — RENTS collected. Ashton, 411 Montgomery. O e e CALIFORNIA Glace fruits, 50c 1b. Townsend's.* e e BaAcON Printing Company, 508 Clay strest. * - GEo. W, MONTEITH, law offices, Crocker bldg.* e s TRY our ‘‘Atlas Bourbon” and you will want none other. Mohns & Kaltenbach, 29 Market.* —_————— It cost Kentucky $114 to secure the ex- tradition from Ohio of Navoleon Bonaparte Shackleford, who stole a $2 hog. ST HAVE you ever noticed how your system seems to crave for special assistance In the spring? 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