The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 30, 1895, Page 18

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JUNE 30, 1895. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. == == —— SUBSCRIPTION RATES: DAILY CALL—$6 per year by mail; by earrier, 15¢ per week. SUNDAY CALL—#$1.50 per year. WEEKLY CALL—$1.50 per ye: The Eastern oflice of the SAN FRANCISCO CALL (Daily and Weekly), Pacific States Adver- tising Burcau, Rhinelander bullding, Rose and Duane strects, New York. THE SUMMER MONTHS. Are you going to the country on a_vacation? It #0, it 18 10 trowble for us to forward THE CALL to youraddress, Do not let it miss you for you will miss it. Orders given to the carrier, ov left at Business Office, 710 Market street, will receive prompt attention. UNE 30, 1895 — ¥his week we celebrate. Get ready for the Fourth. Patriotism begins to effervesce. Vlt is pardonable to shy at the troiley-car. Proclaim your independence of the lot- tery habit. Tn the eyes of the silurian energy is the thiei of repose. Ut Sy This is surely a great country and we bave the best of it. Those who have the strongest horse sense do the ieast kicking Enjoy vour quiet to-day, for the racket of the Fourth is coming. The Clevelana bulge on Democracy looks like a bump on a log. Go to the rich aunt, thou sluggard; con- sider her niece and Le wise. Once more we remind our country read- ‘ers that the Cit inviting. The big fire threw a strong light on some of the needs of the City. The bicycle is working a revolution in the world as well as in its little wheels. See to it that the patriotic firecracker does not play the part of an incendiary. The prompt contributions for the relief of the fire sufferers do credit to the Oity. Because they are too proud to do things by halves some ptople never do anything at all. he wisdom of an owl’s facial expression is belied by his habit of hooting at every- thing. The wise old trout does not need to put on its spectacles to recognize the amateur fisherman. It is the full-blown roses that are mostly trying to convince the buds of the charms of a bloomer. Auburn steps squarely into the ranks with a company to construct an electric sireet railroad. He must be either a very depraved ora wvery upright man who dares to keep a par- rot in the house. By a secret society of silver knights some men hope to bring about an open return of the silver day. The Grand Jury at Sacramento has sent a kite into the railroad clond which for so long has hung over that city. It is right enough that the National birthday should make a bigger noise in the world than riders will be de- ing a transcontinental boulevard in order to have a full sweep for a spurt. The Ol2 Lady of Threadneedle Street is somewhat anxiously watching the pale silver cloud that is rising in the far West. What profiteth it the small boy who, though he catch all the fish, sells them with his glory and encourageth the art of lying? —_—— Cleveland is reported to have said to o friend: “I believe McKinley will be the Republican candidate and the tariff the fssue.” Althongh the bicycle is the great spin. ning-wheel of the day, it is decreasing the extent to which woven fabrics are em- ployed. One consolation that the presence of the silurian brings is the assurance that we do not have to bury him although we know he is dead. The churches might do a profitable ser- vice by praying that our contemporarles be delivered from the lottery advertise- ment habit, The purport of the report on the Colima disaster is that had it not been for the at- traction of gravitation the vessel might not have gone to the bottom. It will not be until we come to regard clothes as being more useful than orna- mental that we shall have cracked cne of the hardest nurs of civilization. The Sacramento Grand Jury is either the most melodramatic of players to the gallery, or the most robust agency of re- form that the West has produced. The attempt to compel Chairman Gould of the Democratic State Committee to declare whether he was with Cleveland or the country resulted merely in rounsing his anger. The proposition to build an electria rail- road across the continent makes the stately locomotive regard the buzzing little dy- namo with less condescension than for- merly. The three greatest works now before the world are the Siberian Railroad, the Trans. Andean Railroad in South America and the Nicaragua canal, and of these the last is the greatest and should be completed first. The Chicago Times-Herald obtained a complete rerort of the Republican League Convention at Cleveland by telautograph, being the first use of that means of trans- mitting news in practical journalism. Thraough the clear conscience of a friend one may see whether there lies beneath only a yielding mud which some disturb- snce may stir into a roil, or ciear and glistening pebbles that stand for stability, There may be a protounder sermon than we suppose in the fact that the flag, when Loisted in San Francisco, never hangs limp and listless against the pole, but opens out with majestic dignity in the wind that makes us healthy, wealthy and ADVANCING JOURNALISM. - A short time ago the CALL made a new departure in practical journalism by pub- lishing pictures of the Los Angeles Fiesta transmitted by telegraph. That achieve- ment was in many respects the most im- portant innovation and improvement in newspaper work that had been made in a long series of years, and demonstrated the ability of modern art to send pictures around the world as speedily as to send news. Our enterprising Chicago conter- porary, the Times-Herald, has now taken another step in the direction of improved news service by successfully accomplishing the feat of obtaining a full report of the Republican League Convention at Cleve- land by the telautograph. While the transmission of news by telautography is not so radical an innova- tion on the existing system as was the transmission of pictures by telezraphy, it is still an achicvement of no small mo- ment. and may lead to important results in the near future. The telautograph differs from the telegraph in the fact that nstead of delivering a message at the re- ceiving station in the form of dots and dashes, it transmits it in the exact form in which it was sent, and the message arrives as a fac-simile of its deposit at the sending station. It is literally an autograph trans- mitted across the country with the speed of electricity on a telegraph wire. The first telautograph on record was an apparatus designed by Alexander Bain of Edinburgh, half a century ago. It was, however, too crude to be of any service. Later on Abbe Caselli of Florence in- vented a system of telegraphic writing, and still later another system was devised by an Englishman, E. A. Cowper, buteven this was of no practical service. Ameri- cans then entered the field of experiment. J. Hart Robertson and also Etheridge of Pittsburg made improvements on the Cowper system, but without removing all its deficiencies. Theapparatusused by the Zimes-Herald was invented by Professor Elisha Gray, and this, according to the re- port of that journal, has proven to be com- vletely successful, and may now be ac- counted among the recognized and well- established appliances of news transmis- sion. ‘Whether the telantograph can be made sufficiently superior to the telegraph to drive it out of the field remains to be seen. The accomplishment thus far can hardly be considered equal to the sending of pictures by electricity, but perhaps it may prove in the end better adapted for that service than the telegraph. Under any circumstances, it works another forward step in the development of journalism, and the Times-Herald deserves the congratula- tion of the press upon its successful enter- prise. . THE STANFORD DEQISIOR. The decision of the case of the United States azainst Jane L. Stanford has been handed down by Judge Ross, and isan able and exhaustive opinion. In this re- speet, at least, it accords with public expec- tation, for Judge Ross is recognized by the people of California as one of the most capable and upright jurists who has ever adorned the woolsack of the State or Fed- eral courts. He was, therefore, expected to deal with this important cause upon its merits, and to dispose. of it in a comprehensive opinion devoid of technicalities and full of reason and good sense. In these elements the decision satisfies the public mind. Whether the result arrived at by Judge Ross will meet with the approval of men depends largely upon the point of view. Looked at from the standpoint of State interest, the people of California should concur in the decision of the Federal court. It is certainly better for this State in the selfish sense that the great properties and greater benefactions of the Stanford estate should be permit- ted to Dbe utilized according to the intent of Senator Stanford and unim- peded by the disaster which a decision ad- verse to his estate would enuail. On the other hand, those who believe in the measuring out of exact justice be- tween men and men and between men and States regardless of local or temporary interests will object to the conclusion reached by Judge Ross and be inclined to look npon it as another victory of wealth and capital over right and law and reason, and to insist that the case should be car- ried to the Supreme Court of the United States for ultimate review and decision. Those who do not agree with this decis- ion will find it difficult to combat because of the fullness of its treatment of the sub- ject and the lucidity and cogency of its logic. The whole history of the TFederal legislation forming the contract between the United States and the Central Pacific Railroad Company and upon which the ob- ligation of the latter to the Government is based is passed under review, and it is made to appear therefrom that the contractual relations of the two parties did not con- template a personal liability on the part of the stockholders of the company. Judge Ross shows clearly that upon this point the statutes are silent, and argues that upon a matter of such importance they would gurely’ bave spoken if it bad been the intent of the parties that the share- holders should so be bound. This really is the only material issue in controversy. The opinion of Judge Ross shows that the question of the statutory liability of the stockholders of th» Central Pacific Railroad Company under the laws of California has really nothing to do with the case, for the reason that whatever the rights of ordinary creditors of this corporation might be under sec- tion 322 of the Civil Code the Government i3 not such a creditor, be- cause its rights depend upon its contract and not upon the statute at all, In other words a creditor of a Califor- nia corporation may, by contract, waive his claim to any personal liability of its stockholders, and this, it is contended, the Federal Government has dome. It is a matter of satisfaction to all concerned that the case did not go off upon the issue of the application of the Califor- nia statute as to the lability of stock- holders, which would have involved its decision npon the technicality us to whether the statute of limitations did or did not apply. Itisa matter of congratulation to the State of California, and especially to the Stanford estate, that this long-threatened and very important cause has reached the point of decision. Tt will relieve a very considerable strain upon the estate and upon the great univer- sity which its properties have endowed. It will also go a long way to enlighten public opinion as to the real law and facts upon which the claims of the Government rest, and as to the propriety of a further prosecution of the case. DEATH BY ELEOTRIOITY. All the shsurdities of the New York State law requiring that capital punishmen shall be inflicted by electricity have been revived by the case of Dr. Robert W. Buchanan, who is sentenced to suffer death in the electric' chair some day this week, In order to meet the claim that ‘“‘electro- cution” does not produce death, but that this happy conditfon ie the result of the . surgeon’s explorations in the post-mortem examination, it is proposed to employ a delicately constructed machine called the ‘“‘cardiograph,” which will register the faintest heart beats, and which, therefore, may be used to determine the fact of death or life. - The New York law was the resuitof a maudlin sentiment which, unable to abol- ish capital punishment, sought to make it as “merciful” as possible. We all remem- ber the horrible contortions and convul- sions into which the condemned were thrown by the action of the fatal current, how many gruesome blunders were com- mitted and how the air was made redolent with the odor of burning flesh. It would have been difficult for human ingenuity to devise a more revolting form of taking hu- man life. In the abstract sense of punish- ment the law cares nothing for the man- ner in which the death sentence is executed. It merely wants the criminal killed as a warning to others. It seemed that hanging was a sufficiently barbarous method, and yet it was very rational in a physical sense. Under the modern method the long fall, the heavy blow of the knot upon the base of the skull and the severe shock to the spinal column indubitably produced instantane- ous unconsciousness and a total insensi- bility to pain, even in the absence of dis- location of the vertebra, which almost invariably ensues. It is fairly, although not so clearly, reasonable to assume that a very powerful alternating current also pro- duces instantaneous unconsciousness and that the fearful struggles of the victim under the current are purely dynamic; but this new idea that the current does not kill is thing to draw tears from the angels. In these days, when men are frequently killed accidentally by the electric currerit and when it is practically impossible for an educated physician to be deceived over the indications of death, it is amusing to read of a machine that will test the pres- ence of life or death by direct application to the apex of the heart—an operation i itself generally sufficient to produce death. The idea ignores the fact that the inherent muscular activity of the heart isone of the least reliable evidences of life, and that it is not uncommon for the heart to show action long after the complete and irre- coverable paralysis of the diaphragm has made death certain. New York has made herself sufficiently ridiculous not to in- dulge in further absurd vagaries. FATHER ORESPI'S DISCOVERY. Next to Junipero Serra, that wonderful man who, though lame, trudged afoot across the burning desert from Mexico to San Diego and there planted the cross of the Master, Father Crespi, his most effi- cient aid, was the most remarkable of the Franciscan monks who in California paved the way for the pleasant life which we now enjoy. When the Franciscans had worked as far northward as Monterey, establish- ing missions along the way, Crespi started on foot to find the bay which that cheerful pirate, 8ir Francis Drake, had mapped on the northerly coast. The sturdy Francis- can and his small band of retainers first encountered the Pajaro River, which (“pajaro” being the Spanish for “bird") they so named because of the large number of ducks whose wings shadowed the stream. Next good Crespi discovered a most won- derful treein the region now known as the Santa Cruz Mountains. Though an educated man, he had never heard of this strange vegetable production, a tree of lofty height and beautiful symmetry. More than likely he cut one down in order that he might study its structural peculi- arities, for in his quaint report of his expe- dition he calls it a marvelous tree and names it ‘‘palo colorado’’—red tree. In- stead of naming it after him, preferring instead to call it “sequoia,”’ after a Semi- nole chief who invented an alphabet for the language of his tribe, we still in com- mon speecir call it “redwood,” which is really the name he gave it. The next startling discovery made by Crespi was from the summit of some high mountain of the range that follows the trend of the coast. His delightful report does not inform us what mountain it was, but from its summit, to which, doubtless, he clambered laboriously to see what it might reveal, he saw the great ocean on the west and a fine inland sea on the north; and this likely was the true dis- covery of the bay of San Francisco. This shining sheet stretched as far northward as he could see, and on its eastern side were reared the dun slopes of the Coast Range. With an innocence hardly compatible with our conceptions of his intelligence, he never dreamed that this “sea” had an out- let to the ocean. for when he reached the Golden Gate, probably overlooking it from the heights back of Fort Winfield Scott, he was dismayed to discover that his ad- vance northward was checked by a beauti- ful deep-blue channel a mile wide, which Sir Francis had neyer mentioned. It is immaterial to discuss the father’s account of his journey back by way of Alviso and around the Contra Costa shore in circum- scribing the bay, and how surprised he was to discover that a great river poured into the bay from the northwest, and that he had to build a raft on which to cross the Straits of Carquinez. He arrived at Drakes Bay at last in safety. ‘Wonderful things have happened since then. The banks of a rivulet that emptied into San Francisco Bay about at the pres- ent crossing of Montgomery and Clay streets were lined with a highly aromatic shrub which was new to the early explor- ers and which they used as a medicine. They called it “yerba buena” (good herb), which in our degenerate times is princi- pally a constituent of mint juleps. But that was the original name of S8an Fran- cisco, which is not nearly o rich in whole- some memories as is that of the strange old monk of Assisi. There are those of us even in these hard and grasping days who, upon ascending the lofty hilltops that overlook the City, can form some con- ception of the inspired thoughts that must have lent wings to the soul of old Crespi. A BROADER OUTLOOK. At a meeting of the Labor Council of this City Friday evening a resolution was adopted “protesting ageinst the action of the Half-million Club to induce people to come to Oalifornia until it bas taken measures to secure work for the host of unemployed already here” It is perfectly clear that so long as unemployed worthy persons are among us it is the duty of ali citizens, whether embodied in the Half- million Club or not, to seck to secure em- ployment for them. It is, moreover, the duty of the State, all private measures failing, to atcomplish this end. At the same time we should have been much gratitied to sce that the Labor Council is working to secure the results which the most intelligent activities of our people are now striving to accompligh, ‘We should have been glad to see that the council regarded the Half-million Club as onlyone of the organizations devoted to the advancemient of our local interests, and that there are others working in co-opera- tion with it that are seeking to secure the results which. the Labor Council and all otners desire, Furthermore, it should be | reflected that the Half-million Club, as we understand its function, is not seeking to bring workingmen to California under the pretense that employment can be found for them. We understand that its inten- tion is to add to the population those who have the means to make homes and establish plants for the employment of our idle people. It would be difficult for us to imagine so intelligent a body of men as those assem- bled in the Half-million Ciub defeating the purpose of their organization. They have set themselves to the performance of a cer- tain task, which, as it is to bring additional capital and energy into the State, we deem most admirable. But besides them we have certain other organizations, among the most important of which is the Manu- facturers’ and Producers’ Association, whose special function is to encourage the consumption of articles of home produc- tion. The Labor Council might do a very handsome thing by assisting this move- ment by organized indorsement and the individual efforts of its members. The power which could thus be exercised would be enormous, for working people need most of the things which California is producing, and their consumption of these articles would go a long way toward securing employment for all the worthy idle workers among us. We hope soon to see a perfect spirit of co-operation between the workers and the earnest men who are doing all they can to advance the interests of the whole people. CALIFORNIA CONDITIONS. The report of the immigration com- mittee of the State Board of Trade esti- mates the increase of population of Cali- fornia from 1880 to 1894 to be about 214,570, giving the State a population of 1,422,740, The estimate was not carelessly made. The report contains an elaborate analysis of the various means by which it was arrived at, and furnishes good reasons for the belief tLat the conclusion is not far from the exact truth. E The gains of the several sections of the State are estimated as follows: Southern California, including the counties of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernar- dino, San Diego, Santa Barbara and Ven- tura, increased 54,303; San Joaquin Valley, including Fresno, Kern, Kings, Madera, Merced, San Joaquin, Stanislaus and Tulare, increased 39,408; Sacramento Val- ley, inciuding Butte, Glen, Colusa, Sacra- mento, Solano, Sutter, Tehama, Yolo and Yuba, increased 35,785; the bay counties, including Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Mateo, Santa Claraand Sonoma, increased 27,605; the south coast group, including Monterey, San Benito, San Luis Obispo and Santa Cruz, increased 11,494; the foothills group, including Amador, Calaveras, El Dorado, Mariposa, Nevada, Placer and Tuolumne, increased 26,537; Humboldt increased 3786; Mendocino, 3483; Shasta, 4612; and Siskiyou, 4027. It will be noted the estimate for San Francisco is not given. The rate of in- crease, after the careful analysis noted, is calculated upon the basis’'of the fall elec- tions, on the ratio of five persons to each voter, a comparison of voters to population in the census years showing that ratio to be about correct. On this basis of calcula- tion, however, the population of San Fran- cisco has decreased since 1890 by 782. This fact will detract from the value of the es- timate, as it is certain that the population of San Francisco nas increased instead of diminished. Taking the increase shown in the interior of the State, however, asa basis, the committee asserts that if no greater ratio of increase is obtdined the population of the State in 1000 will be about 1,800,000, but there: is reason to be- lieve that with the improved conditions the ratio will be augmented and the census, at the close of the century, will show Cali- fornia to have 2,500,000 inhabitants. A report by A. N. Towne on the indus- tries and general condition of the State makes an even better showing than that of the committee on immigration. The census of 1890 credits California with only 1.9 per centof the total population of the United States. It had, however, at that time 3.4 per cent of the total improved farm lands, 28 per cent of, the rail- road mileage, 4.8 per cent of the value of farms and livestock, 3.5 per cent of the value of farm products, 2.3 per cent of the output of manufactures, 38 per cent of the gold, 2.1 per cent of the silver, 93 per centof the asphaltum, 8.7 per cent of the wheat, 22 per cent of the barley, 23 per cent of the beans, 60 per cent of the wine, 6.9 per cent of the sheep, all theraisinsand all the olives; and for public education expended 3.5 per centof the total expenditures of the country. ‘While California cannot claim to be the greatest Statein the Union, these figures attest that her people arethe most pros- perous and the most progressive. Their energies, coupled with the wide area of the State and its boundless resources, will eventually win for it the first place in the Union. There is every reason moreover to believe that the decade now opening will be more prosperous in a broad sense than any the State has ever known. The renewed interest in manufacturing enter- prises, the wide areas brought under irri- gation, the revival of mining, the sub- division of big estates, all these will natu- rally aid its advancement. Californians, therefore, have good reason to be satisfied with the prospects ahead, since, with a fair degree of energy and co-operation, all of them can be speedily realized. —_— DRAWING-ROOM BRAINS. When Daudet, the great French novelist, was asked recently what he thought of the English people whom he had been visiting in London and by whom he was raptur- ously lionized, he made this reply : *‘How can I write about England when, as a matter of fact, I have seen only an ‘England of the drawing-room’? And as to this, although I find the best English society very interesting and have met in it men of real superiority, I regret that I have made no acquaintance with the mid- dle classes, the bourgeoisie, the business men, the workers, the live forces of the land. TItis hereasin France—in society one does not see the real forces of the na- tion.” It must be discouraging to the male hab- ituesof drawing-rooms, not only in London but_elsewhere, to learn from this master- student of humar passions, hopes and ac- tivities that they are not to be considered among the living forces of the world, but likely they will find consolation in a knowl- edge that the great man’s observation is considerably at fault. In England a man need not belong to the middle class or the bourgeoisie in order to be a world-builder, and if these latter (who in this country are the moderately well off and the poor, assuming that if we have classes they are distinguishable by the size of their for- tunes) should be eliminated from Ameri- can drawing-rooms we: should have to abandon all attempts fo maintain fashion- able coteries. If weregard the drawing:room men of both countries from the t of view of birth, which includes all the finer products of heredity, and put all other ¢onsidera- tions aside, we shall find that M. Daudet has overlcoked one of the most vital ties of the race—the force of inherited pride. It is in the born aristocrat, whether he be rich or poor,an English earl or a common American laborer, that we may RPN expect to find some of the noblest qualities | be that nation. If there were not & gradual that govern the conduct of men. Between | Spreading of intelligence among the people, the dawdling inanities of the drawing- room and the heroic charge at Balaklava there was a gulf of amazing width, but it was easily spanned by the perfumed high and low, rich and poor, society would not bave existed to-day and chaos would have possessed the whole world, To the extent that we succeed in making intelligence universal, to like extent we will be able to remove the dandies whom London sent to war; and it | barriers in the way of freedom, prosperity and is a notorious fact that in the American civil war the most desperate and deter- mined fighters were the gently reared sons of the fine old families. Men of this kind, when such exceptional circumstances as those which led them to make the French Reyolution a necessity do not pervert their nstincts, may be usually depended upon at least to manifest the highest patriotic spirit when the safety of their country is threatened. AROUND THE CORRJIDORS. Colonel M. B. Gerry, an ex-District Judge of Colorado, who sentencea Alfred Packer, the confessed man-eater, to be hanged, is at the Grand Hotel. He isa resident of Washington, D. C., and is here on his way home from 8 pro- fessional visit to Arizona. That celebrated case was tried at Lake City, Colo., in April, 1883, and excited great interest all over the United States. Packer wascharged with murdering five companions in the moun- talns near Lake City in 1874. One of the mur- dered men was George Noon, a brother of John Noon, now a resident of Fresno, and of Dr. Noon, who was educated at the University of California and recently practiced medicine in this City. “The story of the tragedy, as told in court, was a thrilling oue, though the evidence against Packer was circumstantial, except as to the eating of the human flesh, which the defendani admitted. “Packer started as guide with & party of twenty prospectors from Utah in the fall of 1873 to go into the San Juan country in Colo- rado. When the party reached the camp of the old Ute Chief,Ouray,on the Uncompahgre River, near the present town of Montrose, on the Den- ver and Rio Grande Railroad, it was subdivided into four parties, each taking a different pros- pecting route. “The several parties agreed to meet at the Los Pinos agency, near the present town of Saquache. All but Packer's party finally ar- rived there. Packer reached the agency in the spring of 1874 and when asked as to his com- panions he sald that they had run out of food and finding they were about to starve drew lots, the unlucky person being killed to serve as food for the others. Thiswent on until only himself and one other remained. Hedrew the fortunate lot and killed his companion and thus survived. “But the bodies were found together in a deep gulch called Slumgullion and Packer was held a prisoner at the agency, whence he es- caped. He was captured nine years later at Fort Fetterman,Wyo.,and carried back to Lake City. > “At the trial Packer told a different story. He said that while he was away from the camp o man named Bell had killed the other three men, and when he returned he was obliged to kill Bell in self-defense. After he had shot Bell he smelt cooked flesh, and being hungry al- most to starvation, proceeded to cook and eat until he had become insane. But two juries doubted him, and he is still in the peniten- tiary. “T’no theory has been advanced since the trials that the party discovered a lost silver mine and got into a row over it,and that Packer and Bell killed the others, whose bodies were ranged in order about a dead campfire; or that Bell alone killed the others. Packer admits killing Bell, and it has been said that he claims to have knowledge of & very valuable silver mine that he discovered on that eventful trip.” ““The outlook for the orchardists of the Santa Clara Valley is a particularly good one for the coming season,” said James H. Madden of S8an Jose yesterday, “‘and the fruit men down our way are in the best of humor. The crops give promise of being exceptionally heavy as regards prunes, both of the French and silver varieties, and what s better, the prices are not going to fall aslow as they did last year. Our fruit-raisers deserve, as well as need, a good year. Lastseason they realized very little; in fact, some of them came out losers on the year. Prunes sold for less money than they had in years before, and apricots and cherries were the only fruit which brought anything like fair figures. “This year the early cherries sold well at ex- cellent prices, and while the crop was not a heavy one the growers made mopey on their products. As for the apricot crop, it will not be as heavy as last year, but the prices will be higher. Alreadv contracts are being made for the fruit at $30 and 35 a ton, and_before two weeks I think choice ap- ricots will be pringing $40, and possibly $50 & ton. Many orchardists are holding over their fruit with this expectation. The canneries have no hold-over stock, and their agents are around trying to get all the fruit possible. “It is in prunes, though, that the orchardists will, I think, do best this season. After the late spring frosts it was thought that the young fruit would not mature, but would drop off as soon as the summer sun began to throw its burning rays around. On the contrary, the fruit hes not been damaged, and there are fine prospects for a large crop and excellent prices. But few contracts have been made yet for prunes, and how the prices will range can only be guessed at outside of the fact that they will not be low. Last year they feil as low as $16 and $18 a ton, but I would give as a fair aver- age for this year from $35 to $40.” PERSONAL. Dr. A. 8. Markell of Cloverdale is at the Grand. Silas Carle, a contractor of Sacramento, is at the Lick. Professor A. Gudeman of Philadelphia isa guest at the Palace. James McArthur, & fruit-grower of San Jose, is at the Russ House. J. C. Chandler, a lumberman of San Jose, is staying at the Grand. Assemblyman J. B. Sanford of Ukiah was one of yesterday’s arrivals at the Russ. George A. Nourse, an attorney of Fresno, and Mrs. Nourse are guests at the Lick. W. J. Baxter and Frank Wildes of the navy registered yesterday at the California. F. D. Nicol, an attorney of Stockton, came down yesterday and registered at the Lick. Antonio Sans, & merchant of Salvador, was one of yesterday’s arrivals at the California, Charles H. Babbitt, a well-known newspaper correspondent of Washington, D. C., is at the Palace. W. C. Conroy, S8heriff of Placer County, came down from Auburn yesterday and is staying at the Russ. R. H. Beamer of Woodland, & member of the State Board of Equalization, was one of yester- day’s arrivals at the Lick. 8. J. Smith of Williams, Colusa County, is down on a visit. He expects to make a tour of the middle and southern portions of the State before returning. H. W. Beott, the proprietor of the Portland Oregonian, who has been in town since Friday, left yesterday afternoon by the Oregon express for his northern home. Ex-Judge Frank T. Baldwin, a member of the Code Commission, and Mrs. Baldwin came down from Stockton yesterday and took apart- ments at the Palace for a long stay. Ex-Justice of the Supreme Court Van R. Pat- erson left for & four weeks’ fishing excursion yesterday. He will first go to Sissons, and then through the northern counties of the State. Harris Faning, W. C. Davidson, M. J. Mec- { Connack, J. 0. Morton, James J. Raly, R, Z. Johnson, N. H. Hall, E. F. Eckhardt, F. D. Kanns and P. M. Bannon of the United States navy are at the Occidental. They are under orders to sail with the cruiser Philadelphia when she leaves this port. Robert Farrell, an old newspaperman of Los Angeles, 18 in the City on his way to Honolulu. He goes as a press representative witha large private excursion. Mr. Farrell says that his pleasure in the trip will be greatly marred by the fact that his wife cannot accompany him, owing to the ill health of her mother. OFINIONS OF EDITORS. We want better schools, we want broader- minded schoolteachers, we want anything and -"W‘h::.l m;l:. ;;n- Adiffuse mblllhu'nu among Peo] greater the num! ot self-thinking, intelligent people there are in the nation the stronger, better and grander will happiness.—Pendleton East Oregonian. The action of Sacramento’s authorities in arresting vagrants, sentencing them to long periods in jail and then suspending sentence iong enough to permit the men to flee from the city and infest other towns is wholly repre- hensible. If these fellows are guilty they should be punished under the law, and when their terms are out perhaps they will be will- ing to work. Itshould be made unlawiul for any judicial officer to impose sentences on offenders and then turn them loose to prey on any other community than the one within the Jurisdiction of that court.—Fresno Expositor. This community is much too small to sup- port separate buildings for the several denom— nations represented in this place. Isn't it true that if the members and friends of ell the churches would combine they could putupa structure larger, more comfortable, conve- nient and ornamental than any one particular sect could build without putting a very heavy tax on but a small number of people? Let all g0 in together and put up a substantial place of worship and then take turn about in the occu- pancy of the building. If you can’t work har- moniously pull in your shingles as Chris- tians.—Capay Valley News. A reference to the last census report shows that there are in the neighborhood of 500 man- ufactories of various kinds in the City of San Francisco, and perhaps as many more in the remainder of the State. We look in vain, how- ever, through the columns of our exchanges for the announcements of even & hundredth part of this number. How are the people to know whom to patronize unless their adver- tisements appear in the public press?—Dixon Tribune. ‘Would it not be better for the town of Mar- tinez to use her credit to raise money (which can be secured at very low rates of interest) and establish water and light plants than to be paying private corporations the biggest kind of profit on their invested capital? We think so and are of the opinion that whatisa good investment for an individual or corpora- tion is equally good, if not better, for a com- munity.—Contra Costa News. A live lumber market to this country means fiush times and plenty of money. It has beon 80 in the past, it will be so in the future, and the lumber interest can be materially aug- mented by the encouragement of other in- dustries that havebeen kept in the background through lack of capital and lack of interest to a large extent.—Seattle Post-Intelligencer. It seems to us that one of the best reasons for the convention to be held in San Francisco is that the telegraph companies do not want it there. If the telegraph monopolists are able to dictate where the convention shall be held in 1896 we may expect a little later on they will assume the right to dictate tne platform and the candidates.—Vacaville Reporter. 17A bold and bad burglar has robbed a bicyele girl of the money in her bloomer pockets in New York. Which goes to show that if women will wear bloomers they are liable to have their pockets picked the same as anybody else. As it was before, nobody could find their puckets and they were safe.—Pasadens Star. We have observed that those persons who are most strenuous in demanding that we shall not have bimetallism without international agreement are the most certain that we can have no international agreement. Of course, this is only a coincidence.—Seattle Times. There seems to be not & single survivor left of that leather-lunged band who proclaimed that the only hope of salvation for the Ameri- can farmers lay in a system of Government ‘warehouses.—Tulare Register. Not a man from California need hope to get a seat in our Senatorial circus by crawling under the tent.—Pheenix (Ariz.) Gazette. Our wine is selling in New Orleans at 18 cents a gallon, and in Mew York, with a French label, at $1 50 & quart.—Pasadens News. L PEOFLE TALEKED ABOUT. Whistler is putting together the material which has accumulated fora second volume of “The Gentle Art of Making Enemies.” Sarah Bernhardt has been fined $2 in a Paris Police Court for employing two children under 12 after 9 o'clock at night at the Renaissance Theater. M. Pobedonosezeff’s proposal that all ele- mentary schools in Russia should be placed under the superintendence of the church has been rejected by the Czar. London is about to see the Earl of Rosslyn on the stage as a professionalactor. The first Earl of Rosslyn earned the title by being Lord High Chancellor under William Pitt. A Schiller museum is to be founded at Mar- bach, where the poet was born, by the King of Wurtemburg. A Swabian lady has offered to buy for it the valuable Cohn Schiller library, which contains among other rarities a com- plete set of the Schwabisches Magazin, where his earliest poems appeared. UP TO DATE JOKES. “Don’t you think a pink tea is so nice, Mr. Jones?” “Er—yes; at least, I suppose so. I must say Ilike the red stuff preity well myself.”—Ex- change. The poet Byron, who expressed his dislike of schoolgirls because they smelled of bread and butter, ought just to attend a ‘“‘commence- ment” nowadays—that's all.—New York Re- corder. “I'm awful sorry for Mrs, Fly. I see she has ‘been arrested for trying to smuggle in a lot of silk. Isn'tita pity?” “I don’t see much call for sympathy—she brought it all upon herseli.”’—Gray & Co.’s Monthly. *‘Oh, how delightful!” exclaimed the drtless young creature at the reception. “You are an authoress!” “I presume,” replied the Boston eelebrity, with a cold smile, ‘I am what you weuld call & novelistess,”—Chicago Tribune, Our experience was that even if a boy did come to school late, with his shirt on wrong side foremost, his hair wet and river sand on his coat collar, he wasn’t expected to answer any conundrums, provided he had the fore- thought to bring a bunch of wild roses for the teacher.—Chicago Times-Herald. — Park Musie To-Day. Following is the programme of musie ar- ranged for the open-air concert at the park to- d‘g,A. Spadina, conductor, in the place of Herr Scheel: Coronation March, “The Prophet”” Overture, “Peasaiit’s Wedding" Solo for waldhorn. . Sololst, J. Reiter. at Vienoa' Meyerheer Efle o G E. H. BLACK, painter, 114 Eddy street. * —_— e RENTS collected. Ashton, 411 Montgomery.* CALIFORNTA Glace fruits, 5001b, Townsend's.* 6x0. W. MoNTEITH, law offices, Crocker bldg.* BAcON Printing Company, 508 Clay street. * WINE-DRINKING people are healthy., M. & K. wines, 5¢ a glass. Mohns & Kaltonbach, 29 Mk¢* ——————— Sidney always attributed his love of poetry and his skill in verse to the trainin, of his mother. It was her practice to rens to him passages from the best poets, THE merits of Hood's Sarsaparilla as a blood purifier and building-up medicine are extoiled by thousands who have been benefited by ft. Is It not the medicine for you? Try it now. ——————— ¥ Dx. SIEGERT'S Angostura Bitters possess an ex- quisite flavor and are a sure preventive for all diseases of the digestive organs. —————— - Iz aflicted with sore eyes use Dr. Isaac 80n’s Eye Water. Drugglsts sell 1t at 35 cents. NEW TO-DAY. [TPARIS ‘CTT SRS SEMI-ANNUAL Clearance Sale BEFORE STOCK-TAKING. THIS WEEK. IMMENSE REDUCTIONS —IN—— SILKS 3500 Yards Black Silks, Comprising Rich Brocades, Satin Duchess Armures, Surah and Fancy Weaves. All latest productions. S5 5000 Yards Fancy Colored Taffetas, w756 856 81,00 v YARD This comprises many Broken Lines. For- merly sold at $1 25, $1 50 and $1 75 per yard. Remnants. 2000 Remnants, Waists and Skirt Lengths of Rich Novelty Silks at Half Price. Fancy India Silks. Our entire line to be closed out REGARDLESS OF COS AT c PER YARD. 8000 yards reduced from $1 and $1 25, AT 75[; PER YARD. 2500 yards Satin, Cashmere and Broche India Silk. The very latest. Reduced I’r_qm}l.:'fl) Per Yard. G. VERDIER & CO., SE. Cor. Geary and Grant Ave. VILLE DE PARIS, BRANCH HOUSE, LOS ANGELES. SCOTTISH UNION AND NATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY —AND— ORIENT INSURANCE (0. Will issue policies covering property in the City of San Francisco at the ofiice of W.J. CALLINGHAM, General Agent, 420 California st., 8. ¥.,, amD. MANHEIM, DIBBERN & C0., CITY AGENTS, 217 Sansome st., S. F. FURNITURE 4 ROOI1S $90 Parlor—Silk Brocatelle, 5-plece sult, plush trimmed. Bedroom-—7-plece Solid Oak Sult, French Bevel- plate Glass, bed, burean, washstand. two chairs. rocker and tabie; pillows, woven-wire and top mattress. Dining-Room—6-foot Extension Table, four Solid Oak Chairs. Kitchen—No. 7 Range, Patent Kitchen Table and two chalrs. EASY PAYMENTS. Houses furnished complete, city or country, any where on the coast. Open evenings. M. FRIEDMAN & CO., 224 to 230 and 306 Stockton and 237 Post Street. Free packing and delivery across the bay. e g " o The San Francisco Laundry. 33 Geary Street. Telephone Main 5125, Best Money-Making Business V-laking . 40 ACRES OF 17-YEAR-OLD VINEYARD, situated one mile south of the thriving town of Sebastonol, Sonoma County, witn o 1ull equipped winery of 60.000 gallons capacity, underground cellars, eic. ‘Winery surrounded by 1000 acres of yineyards: only one more winery in the section. Musti be seen 10 be appreciated. ‘erminus of R. R. one mile from the . address By B O Sonoma County, Cale ¢ ¥ 0ey A0, Sebas