The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 6, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1895 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free "AvL1, one week, by carrier.$0.15 ar, by mall... 6.00 bs, by maif 3.00 Caxx, three months, by mail 1.50 L. one month, by mall .50 v and Sund and Sund, and Sunday C 1.50 1.50 BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street. Telephone... Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS 517 Clay Street. Telephone... Maln—1874 BRANCH OFFICE: 0 Montgomery street, corner lay: open until sion street; open until 9 o'clock. Ninth street; open until 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE: 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICI Advertising Bu a, Rhinelander ew York Cit; 1E CALL to i s you for you will miss it. Orders given to the Carrier, or left at Business Office, 710 Market street, will receive prompt atten Eastern, people California is so t of mind. Hawaiian filibusters than to make a whistle of a pig's tail. 1f San’Francisco wishes to pirouette in a carnival she has a nght to, and the cli- miate is agreeable. Every “electrocution” indulged in under w York law shocks the community as the vietim. The opponents of the Sunday saloon New York are denouncing ation’’ and demanding home The Hawaiian filibuster is stalking the Pacific Coast, breathing fire and smoke and groaning like a raw-head-and-bloody- bones. —_— It must be costing President Dole a pretty sum to maintain a literary bureau devoted to the manufacture of filibuster ghost stories. A comprehensive protective tariff is all that is needed to advance our reviving in- a s to a high degree of prosperity and keep them there, The Camp Roache experiment demon- strates that California bas the most intelligent and best educated body of farmers in the world. % e S e Under the Wilson tariff foreign imports increase and American goods are crowded out of American markets, but the deficit in tke revenue continues. What will it profit Kaiser William to celebrate the German victories over France go long as he insists upon keeping Bis- marck in the background? Two more silver conventions are to be | held soon, one in Washington and one in Ban Francisco, and still the goid men assert that the silver movement is subsiding. The Atlanta Exposition is getting the biggest kind of advertising in the Eastern States and if we have a suitable exhibit there we will get some of the benefit of it. In being shifted to and fro from the Sheriff’s gilded buggy to the Black Maria for transportation to the courtroom Dur- rant " is probably impelled to wonder whether he is a martyr or a criminal. The fruit-growers of Placer County have set an example of loyalty and wisdom in repudiating the means adopted in New York and Chicago to bresk down the power of the California fruit-growers. If sensational newspapers which are working to :strengthen the Provisional Government of Hawaii by publishing fili- buster yarns are not receiving liberal pay for their services they are neglecting a golden opportunity. The friends of the Solid Eight continue fo insist that the solid ones exercised dis- cretion in trying to award a valuable fran- chise to the Market-street Railway Com- -pany, when the law requires them to award it to the highest bidder. The story that a Democratic county con- vention in Kansas was induced to indorse Populist nominees by a distribution of but- termilk among the thirsty delegates is a good enough Kansas yarn, but it does not harmonize with National Democracy. A Chicago expert on racing says Ameri- can racetracks are the finest in the world, and that to make the sport in this country equal to that in Europe there is needed nothing but a few wholesome whippings and shutfings upin dark closets for certain track-owners who abuse the sport. A. large crowd of Brazilian gypsies recently left New York City for California, but the Tribune says: “As they intend to cross the continent in wagons, give shows, tell fortunes and trade horses, not to men- tion other things, on the way, there is no telling when they will get there,” The news that President Barrios of Guatemala is moving to effect an alliance of the Central American States revives the old but always interesting problem thata union of states all of which are internally dismembered wouid be the most pictur- esque thing that the history of the world could produce. The supreme contempt with which the Federal Government ignores the sensa- tional reports of black-bearded and red- banded *‘filibusters,” who use the Pacific Coast as a parade ground for their blooay intentions with regard to Hawaii, is the cruelest’ stab that sensational jour- nalism has received in many a day. It is somewhat curious to observe that while the State has provided by law that all its candidates for the gallows shall be taken care of at San Quentin, Judge Mc- Kenna, representing the sovereignty of the General Government, has ordered that Mate Hansen be executed at the San Jose jail. Whether this is a mild reminder of the overshadowing power of the United _Btates to compel a State officer’ to perform " aservice of which his State has relieved him isa matter that should have an inter- est particularly for the untrained gallows’ arm of the Santa Clara Sheriff, RAILROAD . ASSESSMENTS. The State Board of Equalization com- pleted the work of assessing the railroads of the State yesterday, and the people will be glad to note that it refused to grant any further decrease of taxation on the roads, but on the contrary raised the assessments in the aggregate by the sum of $238,000. This is not much, but it is something. When it is remembered that former boards decreased the assessment of railroads in the State from $17,963 a mile in 1885 down to $9286 a mile 1n 1892, it will be seen that | the action of the present board is at least the beginning of right doing and promises | better results in the future. As the present board isa new one and this is the first year of its work it was per- haps justified in proceeding in a cautious and conservative way to rectify the errors of former boards. While the elaborate tables and unanswerable array of figures published by TrE CaLL yesterday showed that a much larger increase of the assess- ments might have been made and still have railroad property favored far above that of the citizens generally, still, inas- much as something was done to check the wrong, there will be no tendency to ad- verse criticism. The board has taken a long step in the right airection by raising the assessments at all, and this in itself will give no lijtle satisfaction to the people. ‘While, however, we accept with some gratification the present raise, it must not be supposed that THE CArrn is fully satis- fied. The contrary is the case. When the ssne arises next year, we shall ask for a still further raise of assessments and sub- mit again the unanswerable arguments for it which we published yesterday. The members of the Board of Equalization wiil then have had a fuller experience, and we may reasonably expect them to act more vigorously on behalf of the people and deal more effectively in righting the great wrong upon the taxpaye: In the mean- time what has béen done, is at any rate an improvement on the past, and for that we may well afford to be thankful and rejoice that our argument of yesterday on be- half of the people was not wholly in vain. THE HIGHEST DUTY. However flatteting may have been the popular conception of David Starr Jor- dan’s character and abilities as the head of the Stanford University, it has been greatly raised by the remarkable interview with him which THE CALL published yes- terday. His leading ‘declarations, put in few words, are that by reason of peculiar climatic and social conditions the youth of California have more mental and physi- cal vigor and a broader view of life than the youth of the Eastern States; that by the employment of wealth for the pur- poses which the Stanford University rep- resents a new California will rise, produc- ing men and women of the highest type; that this university is founded on the idea of individual need, the 1itting of an educa- tion to the student rather than the fitting of the student to a system of instruction, Speaking generally of the schools of the State he declared them to be of a higher grade than in other partsof the nation, but he deplored the evil influence of poli- tics on their conduct. An exceedingly interesting part of his interview is that referring to the pioneer class, graduated this year. It is as much 4 a credit to him as to the founders of the institution and the general conditions ap- pertaining to the State to learn from him that “'it is the strongest class I have ever | seen”—not higher in scholarship, but in force and variety of individual strength. Proof of it is found in the fact that most of | them have secured excellent positions, those who have not preferring to take“post- graduate courses. The demand for teach- ers turned out by this institution has been larger than the supply. Several ot the 1members have gone to the United States Geological Survey. By far the most interesting point made by Dr. Jordan is the one that the peculiari- ties of the climate produce a high mental and physical type. This is a matter upon which THE CarL has been constantly in- sisting, and Dr. Jordan gives the same reason for it that this paper hLas often advanced. “We do not,” he says, “have the extreme cold of the East nor the de- bilitating summer.” He might haveadded other things, such as freedom in California from diseases produced by local causes, an opportunity for an abundant and unre- stricted outdoor exercise, constant ocean winds of absolute purity and rich in strength-giving ozone, and an unusual prevalence of sunshine that is both agree- able and healthful. The particularly attractive feature of the Stanford University is its comprehension of these facts and its determination to make the most of the opportunity which they present for developing individuali- ties. Asyet the State is young and lack- ing in homogeneity and an understanding of community interests, but these condi- tions will be produced by just such work as that which the Stanford University is doing. “The people of California,” Dr. Jordan wisely observes, ‘‘are not perma- nent enough for a definitely formed public opinion, as in the East, and the lack of general public opinion shows in corrupt municipal government.” On the part of such a man as he, wielding so great a power, an undersianding of these evilsis sufficient to induce the strongest efforts to counteract them. The entire State agrees with him in the hope and belief that nothing will seriously interfere with the welfare of the university. INCREASED IMPORTS. From the advance sheets of reports showing the declared exports of various countries to the United States for the first quarter of the year 1895 as compared with those of the corresponding period of 1894, which have just been issued by the Bureau of Statistics of the State Department, the people derive further information concern- ing the working of the new tariff, and ad- ditional proofs that whatever may have been the intention of its framers, it oper- ates in the interest of foreigners and against home industries. The reports made public do not cover the whole extent of our foreign trade, but they are sufficiently comprehensive to show the general effects of the new tariff. Taking only those showing the imports from the larger countries, we learn that in the first three months of 1895, thé increase, as compared with the imports of the same period of 1894, was in round number: $864,000 from Austria, $828,000 from Bel- gium, $957,000 from Canada, $6,425,000 from France, $6,961,000 from Germany and $1,843,000 from Switzerland. From Great Britain and a number of other important countries the figures are not given, as the Consuls have not yet made their reports. Even in the case of some of the countries named the reports are not full. Thus in the case of Germany the figures are made up from the consulate districts of Berlin and Frankfort only, and in the case of Canada there were no re- ports from the British Columbia ports ex- cept that of Vancouver, where the increase amounted to $342,987 for the quarter. The imports from the various countries include, of course, almost every kind of product known to commerce, and the great bulk of them are of kinds that can be and are produced in this country, We im- ported sugar and tobacco from Cuba; woolens and silks, wines, fruits, skins, hides, leather, china and glassware. gloves and millinery of all kinds from France: dyes, drugs, chemicals, silks, woolens, linens and cotton fabrics from Germany, and from Canada we imported lumber as well as grain, cheese, eggs and other ar- ticles that our own farms produce. Every dollar’s worth of these importa- tions displaces just so much American in- dustry, and takes just so much work and wages from the American workingman. The development of our resources is just that much retarded, and our manufactur- ers and farmers are to that extent handi- capped in the employment of labor. When it is remembered that along with thislarge increase of imports in the first quarter of the year there was also a growing deficit in the National revenues, the injurious effects of the Democratic tariff will be too apparent to need ar:ument, even though the whole story has not yet been told and the full extent of the damage has not been made known. THE FREE COINAGE MOVEMENT. The committee of the New York Cham- ber of Commerce having in charge the crusade against free silver has made public a summary®of reports received from vari- ous States concerning the present status of the silver movement. It is evident from the tone of the report that the intention of the committee was to encourage the gold men, and, as far as possible, discouraze the silver men, in the prosecution of the campaign. This is made clear by the opening statement that the movement for free silver is waning, and a due allowance must be made for the bias of the commit- tee in order to appraise the true value of the report. Eliminating from it those portions which are only expressions of opinion and weigh- ing only the facts stated in it, we shall find it far more encouraging to the silver men than to the advocates of the gold standard. The only facts of any note that can be con- sidered favorable to the gold men are the defeat of the Silver Democrats in Ken- tucky and the alleged success of Hoke Smith’s campaign against silver in Geor- gia. Neither of these facts is likely to dis- courage any silver man who has any knowledge of the situation. The Xen- tucky Democrats, on the eve of a cam- paign, felt bound to adopt a platform in- dorsing the Democratic administration; they made it clear, however, that the sil- ver movement is not without force among them by nominating a strong free silver man for Governor. There is certainly nothing in that to encourage one side more than the other, and that it should be cited as a great victory for the gold men is an evidence how much they need encour- aging. 0f Hoke Smith’s campaign little can be said. That a speech by an official of Cabi- net rank should draw a large audience is in the natural order of things, and itis folly to make from the size of the crowds that throng to hear him an estimate of the ex- tent to which the people favor his views and support the policy of the administra- tion to which he belongs. While the features of the report favor- able to the gold side of the controversy are of this doubtful character those that show a growing strength among the silver men are more certain in their significance. The report states that the movement in Ohio.| has become very strong, and that strenuous efforts are now being made by Brice and other gold-bug Democrats to head it off, to the extent at least of preventing the Dem- ocratic State Convention from adopting a free-silver platform. In Pennsylvania the silver movement is led by Senators Came- ron and Quay, supported by the Manufac- turers’ Club of Philadelphia, and with such leadership and backing is making good headway among the people. Concerning the outlook in the Middle West the report states that in Indiana, Illi- nois, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin the people are largely in accord with what the committee calls “silver magnates.” The only encouragement given to the gold men in regard to these States is the ascer- tion that the crops are good and that when the farmers find themselves once more prosperous they will be content with things as they are and will cease to de- mand the remonetization of silver. This is the sum and substance of the re- port of the committee after seeking in- formation from leading men in all parts of the Union. Itisbut a scanty showing of the results of sueh great efforts. If the gold men can find anything in it which justifies the assertion that the movement for a return to bimetallism is subsiding, they must be able to read something be- tween the lines that is not visible to the eyes of the general public. It is a report, in fact, which adds nothing to the popular knowledge of the situation. ‘On which side the majority of the people stand will not be known until the vote has been cast in the Congressional elections next year. In the meantime it seems to be certain that the sentiment in favor of a return to bimetallism is increasing both in tbis country and in Europe. It needs no re- ports from prominent men to assure us of that fact. It is written broadly in the news of the day. All the forces of com- merce and industry are leading up toit, and far-seeing statesmen are advocating it in England, France and Germany, as well as in America. It is one of the greatre- form movements of the world to which ] €very omen augurs success. THE COLFAX PROTEST. Nothing is more encouraging than the vigor with which.the fruit-growers of Placer County, assembled in mass-meeting at Colfax, have repudiated the inadvert- ence of their manager in contracting to sell the fruit of the county to certain houses in Chicago and New York that are maintained in opposition to the California Fruit Growers’ and Shippers’ Association. It cannot be too strenuously insisted upon that the fruit-growers of the State must stand together in the marketing of their crops. There may be sincere individual disagreements as to the best methods to be pursued, but that does not jusfify the establishment of rivalries in methods of marketing the products. The Placer growers evidently realize the importance of this idea. Although they receive from the opposition houses as good prices as the regular houses could have secured, they remembered the pledge taken by the fruit-growers of the State in tie convention of 1894 to support the machin- ery established for the disposition of fruit in the East, renewed their pledge and de- nounced the opposition houses that had treated them so well. This is an admira- ble spirit, snd if exhibited unanimously by fruit-growers would solve all existing prob- lems. It is expected that every effort will be made at Chicago and New York to break the force of the California compact, create dissensions among the growers, and thus secure a control which our growers cannot afford for a moment to relinquish. All sorts of baits and temptations will be offered and the measure of a grower’s wisdom will be his ability to resist them and remain true to his State, AROUND THE comzmoxis. Since George K. Fitch disposed of his intarest in THE CALL he hasspent a great many unhappy moments fearing for its future. Thisis not a supposition, but a statement from the lips of Mr. Fitch himself. “I tell you, young man,” said the veteran journslist toa friend yesterday, “there was a time shortly after I disposed of THE CALL when I trembled for its prosperity. I feared that it had not altogether passed into worthy hands, but, greatly to my astonishment and, I will add, to my satisfaction, it has elevated and z;xtflt ’h‘.seu up until it is the best paper in the City. “Do you really think, Mr. Fitch, that THE CALL'S future is brighter than its present?” “Yes, I do,” answered the journalist, “Iwill tell you why. THE CALLis, as I tried to make GEORGE K. FITCH, THE VETERAN JOURNALIST. [Sketched from life for the “Call” by Nankivell.] 7 it, a publie trust, & servant and guardian of the people and their rights. It is editorially strong.” *And its policy, Mr. Fitch, in the matter of being faithful to California?” “Now you are touching upon the most fm- portant point. That is the keynote of THE CaLL’s growth and prosperity. Itis friendiy to the country. For instance take the way THE CALL has boomed and written of the growing cities outside of this place without charging so much & line, That is one of its grandest works and it demonstrates to me that my fears were groundless. “Such action should commend the paper to the entire State and I have no doubt it does. “Yes, indeed,” resumed Mr. Fitch, after a moment of silence and reflection, “it’s good; it’s clean; it's strong. I watch it day by day and see that it is true to its nativity. You know I got to be a perfect crank about a news- paper practically being a public trust and I always conducted THE CALL on those lines. “By the way. There is another feature of THE CALL that strikes me very well. It is its independence. I was afraid it would fail on that issue, but it has stood the test in grand shape. I like THE CALL. I have ceased to bother my head what becomes of it. I have studied it carefully and found that it is doing its duty well.” John Powers, 8 mining man who has been in most of the mining districts of the world, was lately down in British New Guinea, and tells of a curious state of the labor market on the island of St. Agunan, where there are rich de- posits of gravel. “St. Agunan Island,” he said yesterday, ‘‘is only about twenty-five miles in diameter and is about 300 miles from Cook- town. Mining has been goingon there for only two or three vears, and the work is mostly done by the natives. They do not know the value of money and have no use for gold. They will do a great deal of work for trinkets of little value to us. While I was there an old man and his two sons worked ten days for & jewsharp. They will do a great deal of work for a few red and white beads. One of the na- tive women will work twenty days for a ealico dress. The natives feel very friendly toward the whites. For a pound of tobacco a lot of them will pitch in and build & good-sized house. But the missionaries are spoiling them somewhat. in teaching them to work for gold and to bring the gold to their stores to make their purchases. One day we came upon acamp of native miners being worked by the onaries. It was a Sunday, and we re- trated, saying that we had not worked our men on Sundays. We were told that it didn’t make any difference in this case whether the men worked on Sunday or not, as they had not yet been converted.” The decision of the Supreme Court in the Hale & Norcross case revives reminiscences of the times when fortunesin great mining specu- lations were made and lost in a day. Andrew J. Moulder, Superintendent of Schools, was for many years secretary of the Pacific Stock Ex- change, Among the men he knew intimately was the millionaire Edward Barron, whose es- tate yet figures in the courts. Down at Bar- ron’s delightful place in San Mateo County the millionaire once told Mr. Moulder this story of strategy: “I was the owner of 10,000 shares of Con. Virginia. It was worth about $100 a share. My stock was in Flood's safe, and I knew that there was no way I could get it with Flood’s consent, as he was bending every possible en- ergy and employing every influence at his command to control the mine. He knew that the stock was there, and wanted it there instead of on the street. I reasoned this way to myself: ‘Here is a million dollars invested. This is wealth beyond my earliest dream of affluence. Shall I make it secure to myself or risk it in this swirl of gambling excitement?” Resolving, if possible, to realize by selling without Flood’s knowledge 1 began to ponder over some strategic plan. At that time James H. Latham, brother of Milton 8. Latham, was the money-lender having the largest transactions on the street. I went w him, told him the story and asked it he could deliver 10,000 shares on my order to sell. He reflected for a while and replied: “ ‘This is & very large transaction. Come in to-morrow and I will give you an answer.” “‘At the appointed time on themorrow I called and Latham said: ‘“‘Yes, we can deliver the stock.’ Iadvised him to scatter the orders among brokers, giving the largest transactions to & well-known broker who#e hostility. to me was common talk. Gradually the sales went on and Flood could not account for the stock. Finally, when the burden of taking it in came very heavy he came to me in great excitement, saying: “Barron, this must be yourstock. What does it mean?" I kept very placid, and placing my fingers in my pocket drew out & broker’s tag, showing I had been the purchaser of 100 shares that very day. Two or three days later Flood came to me in great excitement, assert- ing: “ ‘Barron, there is no other stock in the world than yours now going on the market. Iknow it must be yours.” “Again I sssured him that I wasa buyer, and produced the proof that I had purchased that day 200 shares. “In due course of time Latham closed the transaction, and Flood learned for a fact that my stock had been sols My meeting with Flood, his anger, his vows of vengeance I shall never forget. He said although it had cost him $700,000 to buy the stock, he would spend $7,000,000 to see that the money I had ac- quired should never do me any good. I be- lieved that he would make his threats of re- taliation good, and from that time on I never engaged in another stock transaction.” — PERSONAL. Dr. A. J. House of Santa Ana is at the Grand. Dr. M. 8. Charles of Suisun is a guest at the Grand. Dr. and Mrs. J. L. Asay of San Jose are at the Lick. Rey. Richard H. Gushee of Los Angeles isat the Grand. Judge J. E. Prewett of Auburn is & guestat the Grand. ‘W. E. Dunn, a Los Angeles attorney, was in this City yesterday. Superior Judge A. P. Catlin of Sacramento is staying at the Lick. John Chenowith, a newspaper man of Fresno, 1s visiting the City. C. W. Toyer, a mining man of Nevada City, is staying at the Grand. Mrs. E. ». Buckingham, a large fruit-grower of Vacaville, 1s at the Palace. H. A. Heilbron, a leading merchant of Sacra- mento, is & guest at the Palace. Chaplain W. E. Edmondson of the navy reg- istered at the Grand yesterday. George F. Winslow, Medical Inspector of the United States navy, is at the Occidental. James H. Wadsworth, a banker of Yreka, came down yesterday and put up at the Lick. , 8. T. Black, Superintendent of Public In- struction, came down from Sacramento yester- day and is staying at the Lick. Andrew Rocca, one of the owners of the Great Western quicksilver mine, registered at the Lick yesterday. J. A. Barham, member of Congress from the First District, came down from Santa Rosa yes- terday and registered at the Occidental. ‘W. J. Coombs, one of the Government direc- tors of the Union Pacific and an ex-member of Congress from one of the Brooklyn districts, arrived here yesterday on his tour of inspec- tion of the railroads and registered at the Palace. Mrs. Coombs is with him. W. G. Purdy, second vice-president, secre- tary and treasurer of the Chicago, Rock Island and Western Railroad, with his family, from Chicago, and Charles Kennedy, general north- western passenger agent from Omaha, arrived here yesterday and registered at the Palace. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. New York, N. Y., Aug. 5.—Arrivals from San Francisco—W. A. Paull, at the Coleman; J. M. Burges, at the Brunswick; C.S. Bradley and T. G. Lewis, at the St. Cloud; K. 8, Ceft, at the Sturtevant; A. Roullier and R. J. Miller, at the Tmperial; 'W. Tilmer, at the Cosmopolitan. From San Diego—G. W. Marston, at the West- minster. From Oakland—J. V. A. Van Stralen, at the Colemas OUT-OF-TOWN PERSONALS, Gilroy, Cal., Aug. 5.—Miss Evelyn Casey has returned from San Francisco, accompanied by Miss Evelyn O’Connor. Mrs. L. Philbrook of San Francisco and Mrs, Charles Hornback of Los Angeles are visiting their mother, Mrs, E. H. Martin. Miss Fannie Boyd of Marysville is visiting the Misses Rea. iss Edith White- hurst of San Jose is the guest of Mrs. Nettie Whitehurst. Miss Clara Onsley left for her school at 8an Luis Obispo, Mrs. Killey for Tres Pinos, and Mrs. W. McKinney for Salinas. Mr. and Mrs. G. Wolfran have returned to San Jose. Miss Carrie Perry is here from Salinas. C. W. Cobb and W, E. Eustice went to the Coast Sun- day. Professor Lighthall has arrived from San Jose. Abe Lewis 18 in the city. Miss Geneva Keaten entertained a party of friends Friday evening in honor of her cousin, Miss Jessie Keaten. Mrs. C.J. McClure and her daughter, Mrs. Aitken of Prescott, Ariz., are at Pacific Grove. The® Misses Martin have entered Irvington College. Miss Hannah Sorren- son is home from Osakland and Vacaville. Mrs. George Roop of the Gilroy Hot Springs accompanied her sister, Miss Storey, who has been summering there, to her home in Sausa- lito. Miss Lewis of Santa Cruz visited M d Mrs. J. W. Lewis this week. Mr. and Mrs. P. C. Hodges have been occupying their cottage at Santa Cruz, Miss Birdie Hobbs has returned irom Salinas. Professor J. B. Hankensen has ac- cepted a school in San Luis Obispo County. Miss Laura Dewart and Miss Florence Bassig- nano lead in the voting contest for the most popular fireman’s daugnter. Madrone Mineral Springs, Aug. 5.—The fol- lowing are among the late arrivals at this re- sort: Dr.David Starr Jordan, Mrs. Jessie Jor- dan, Miss Berbara Jordan, Knight Jordan, Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Knight, Miss Eliza Geraldson, Professor H. R. Fairclough, Miss Fairclough, Miss K. McGuire, Professor and Mrs. Nathan Abbott, Miss Dorothy Abbotr, Miss Phyllis Avbott, Mrs. W. Miller, Miss Edith Miller, Miss Margery Miller, . Stanford University; Major and Mrs, E. B. Wright, Mrs. Otis, Mis§ Hood, Miss _Lynan, F. F. Martens, William Barr, H. C.Johnson, J. L. McGovern, George Robinson, William Collins, F. C. Collins, Mr. and Mrs. E.'S. Ciprico, Mrs. G.'Doon, F. H. Hyde, S. K. Sayder, Mrs. F. Whittier, San_Francisco; Mrs. Ephraim Dyer, Miss Edith Dyer, H. 8. Dyer, E. Dyer, Miss M. E. Riley, Oakland; James E. Simmons, Berke- ley; Mrs. M. C. McClellan, Mrs. M. B. McClel- lan, San Mateo; . Denike, B. Denike, yron, J. Rocher, J. Turner, E. Benni- son, Miss Elizabeth Ingalls, "San Jose; Mr.'and Mrs. Henricl, A. R. Fritschi, Alameda ; Mrs. John Bender, John Bender, Ernest Ben- der, H. Bender, Miss M. Bender, Miss E. Ben- der, Morgan Hill; Miss M. Martin, Centerville; W. E. Horn, Mrs. W. E. Horngand child, Irving- ton; - Miss 'Farley, John S, Sheely, Miss H. Bheely, Miss C. Sheely, Santa Clara; Miss W nie Sforrey, A. J. Staider, Gllroi(l!ot s&rmgs; Mrs. M. Townsend, New York; Mr. and Mrs. E. . Dyer, Miss Nina Dyer, Miss Mary Donovan, Mrs. A, Kerr, Miss Kate E. Riley, Alvarado; Mr. and Mrs. C. Scott, Portland, Or. Santa Rosa, Cal,, Aug. 5.—The following guests are at Duncan’sSprings from Santa Rosa: Hon. J. F. Campbell, W. J. Eardley, Harrison White and wife, Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Burris and Earl Burris, Bert Flint, Allen B. Lemmon Jr., J. Lemmon, R. Craig and A. L. Fisher. From Cloverdale—J. G. Heald and wife and Harry Green. From Glen Ellen<H. Hill and D. A. Macphee, and from Healdsburg, Mr. Mrs. Bush. Hon. ‘T. J. Geary and family have re- turned from a month’s sojourn at Inverness. Miss Julia Sulliven of San Francisco is visiting her friend, Miss Josie Byington, here. Miss Tessie Rock, who has been visiting the R. L. Crooks' residence_here, returned to San Fran- cisco Saturday. Rev. John T. Shurtleft left Monday to spend a few days in ana. Mr. and Mrs. F. Lester, tandem cyclists of Oakland, are in Santa Rosa. They came on their wheel built for two. Charles W. Wood of Sutter Cit; is visiting his mother here. Hon, G. Potter of Fresno and family are in Santa Rosa. They intend to make this their future home. - A large number of students for the Pacific Methodist College arrived here to- day from all parts of the State. Superyisor P, H. Thompson of Sonoms is in Santa Rosa to spend a week. Editor R. A. Thompson has re- turned from Paso Robles. Capitola, Cal., Aug. 5.—The arrivals at the Hotel Capitola yesterday were: Mrs. Minna Oest, Miss Minnete Oest, 2{iss Birdie Oest, Mrs. M. Hogan, Miss Mary Hogan, San Jose; Mrs. P. Carey, Miss Amelia Carey, Berryessa; Miss Mary Carey, M. Hogan, East San Jose; T. H. 0'Toole, Morgan Hill; M. Pomeroy, C. Worth- ington, Santa Clar: Menon, L. Heney, L. A. Spitzer, A. Kraus aud wife, A. Cooper, San Jose; A. Mcieod, H. Deitz, San Francisco; Mr. and Mrs. Millard Morse, Mrs. Augusta B. Smith, Charles Bradley, J. B. Johnson, B. C. Healey, illiam R. Doyle, S8an Jose; Mr. and Mrs, Letter, Oakland; Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Schwartz, 1. C. Bennet, A. Cordova, T. J. Smyth, Harr Weli, 8anta Gruz; Mrs. 0. J. Knot and uhil San Jose; E. M. Menno, Santa Cruz. H.Plum- mer goes to San Jose to-morrow. A. M. of Hanford drove in to-day witheh ind Ati:'\(llghte!. H. E. Levin left for San Francisco 2y, OFINIONS OF EDITORS. The Vindicator, edited by J. E. Brown, de- votes an editorial in its current issue to the colored convention which has just been ter- minated. The writer of the article. gives it as his opinion that while the convention has un- doubtedly been a success soeially, the move- ment is one to be regretted. He condemns those who “aspired to be the political bosses of the negroes the first day of the meeting of the convention,” and remarks that the gathering was held for the purpose of bringing to the front a few disgruntled politicians under the specious pretense of advaneing the interests of the colored people, and for no other purpose. . New California is here with both feet, and no mistake. Two years ago hardly any project of a public nature would have been indorsed by & yote of the people, no matter what advantage it might have beento the gemeral public. All can recollect how & proposition to vote bonds for a public purpose, or granta right of way througha city for a railway could notbe ob- tained without a battle, and then was apter to fail than carry. How different to-day; bonds are voted freely for public enterprises, and railroads have no trouble whatever in securing rights of way over the most traveled thorough- fares. All hailto thenew California.—Hanford Democrat. Itis well known that a heated Presidential contest is a serious injury to business. The fears of the people are played mpon and un- numbered ills are prophesied to come about in case of the election of a particular candidate. The attention and time of millions of people are taken up with the excitement of the cam- paign, and it is some time before business men get reconciledto new conditions and go about business as they did the year before. One remedy for this state of affairs is to have a six-year term for the Presidency and to limit the occupant to one term.—Los Angeles Record. Not the least of the evils which connect themselves with the holding of publie position is the conviction begotten in the mind of the average official that,like a person prophesied of in Holy Writ, the Government rests upon his shoulder, and without him the machine would cease to revolve. This is the same delusion ex- perienced by the fly on the rim of the coach wheel, who congratulated himself on the dust he was kicking up. Nothing is more refresh- ing, perhaps, because of its rarity, than to ob- serve a man unspoiled by = taste of official life and power.—Los Angeles Times. Invariably during the busy season street fakirs visit our towns and reap a financial har- vest. Our residents should eschew purchasing inferior articles from these glib street orators and patronize home industry. This kind of outside opposition is unjust to our merchants, who'have to pay taxes to support the county Government.—Solano Republican. i Insome of the African gold fields they have been crushing diamonds in the quartz-crushers for some time without knowing it, and if we are not mistaken the same is true of our gold mines in California. Bits of broken diamonds have been often found, and it may possibly sly to make a careful search for them.—Pasa- ena News. The shouts of the ‘“‘addition” boomers are heard sll over the land, and the money of small investors comes flowing into town to help swell trade. Some day Stockton will re- ceive lots of abuse by reason of the specula- tions of men, women and children who bought blindly.—Stockton Independent. Democratic papers point to the fact that the price of wool is going up. Of course it will go up a few cents at this time of the year, but is it as high as it was under the protective tariff, or is it worth about half?—Salt Lake Star. Detectives and officers are sometimes quite active in the pursuit of noted criminals like Brady, but their actual capability is not fully demonstrated till the scramble for rewards be- gins.—Fresno Republican. The San Francisco CALL remarks that “an honest public officer is the noblest gift of poli- ties.” And, it might have added, one of the rarest.—Tacoma Union. The hammer came in collision with the nail when THE CALL spoke for all in these words: “As long as the fruit-producers are divided the other fellows will get the profits.”’—Marysville Appeal. Those who visit in Stockton in 1905 will find it a ratlroad center, 8 manufacturing center and the head of a ship canal to the bay.—Stock- ton Independent . ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. GRANT'S RRTIREMENT—A. P. O., City. General Grant was retired on the 13th of May, 1884. This was “in recognition of- '.hi distinguished services rendered the United Stétes.” He was ?lmd on the retired list, with the rank and ull gny of general of the army, the pay being $183,500 per annum. SrooLs—W. W. R., City. Spools for thread are made on a bobbin lathe. Blocks of wood are dropped into a hopper, taken by machin- ery, turned, and they drop out at the other end all ready to receive the thread. One of these lathes can turn out about 1500 an hour. BATTLE-SHIPS—G. H., City. Itisimpossible to state which nation has the best battle-ships. Each nation claims the best. The truth of the claim will probably never be established un- less there is war between nations, when the merits of the several vessels can be tested. WHERE HE BELONGS—A. 8., City. An indi- vidual is usually spoken of as of the place in which he has his domicile, For instance, if John Jones lives in Oakland but does business in San Francisco it is proper to speak of him as “John Jones of Oakland.” K~16GHTS OF LABoR—C, 8., City. The order of Knights of Labor was founded in the city of Philadelphia in 1869 b{ Uriah 8. Stevens, and was formally organized in 1871 for the protec- tion of working people and ihe development of educated labor. THE GERMAN EMPRESS—J, R., City. The wife of William II, the German Emperor, was born in Dolzig, Holstein, on the 22d of October, 1868. She is the daughter of the late Ernest Gonthier, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonder- ‘burg-Augustenburg. THE PoUND WAGON—D. B. D, City. It is not unlawful for the dog-catchers to be on the streets with the Pound wagon for the purpose of catching stray dogs on Sundays. PEOPLE TALEED ABOUT. A piece of literary gossip now gaining cur- rency is that the clever crude story lately pub- lished by Blackwood and entitled “The Curse of Intellect” was written by Lord Salisbury’s daughter, Lady Gwendoline Cecil. At a recent sale of Burns manuscripts in Lon- don two poems, embracing only three folio pages, sold for £40. The poet lived for four years at Dumfries on from £50 to £75 & year and supported a family of seven members on that sum, Ruskin is quoted ad saying that he would much rather have been a civil engineer than a. critic of modern painters. And he added, with asigh: “Whether literature and art have been helped by me I know not, but this I do know, that England has lost in me & second Telford.” Mrs., Oliphant’s first book was published when she was only 21 yearsold. Since that time scarcely & year has passed without a three-volume novel coming from her overflow- ing mind. Mrs. Oliphant is now nearing her :gzenue-, and her life is spent quietly at Wind- Mrs. Hannah Rowe of South Atkinson, Me., who has been totally blind for twenty years, experienced an odd partial recovery of her sight a few days ago. She suddenly become able to see quite distinctly one afternoon about 2 o'clock, but her vision was totally obscured again in two hours. Since then she has been able to see every day between 2 and 4 o’clock in the afternoon, but during the rest of the twenty-four hours she is as blind as formerly. HUMOR OF THE DAY, 7 Birdie—That mean old shower had to come just as I got out on the bathing beach this aft- ernoon! Belle—Well, you had your bathing suit on didn’t you? 5 Birdie—Yes, and I got it soaking wet.—Som- erville Journal, ‘ First Youth—8ay, fellers, I'm ashamed ter go home. Becond Youth—Why? First Youth—Me cousin Sarah frum Boston 1s visitin’ us, an’ every game de New York Club ‘lloul she t'rows it inter me face.—New York Unpardonable Obliviousness—That little Vis- count to Baroness de V.—You wouldn’t believe how absent-minded I am, Baroness! Itis diffi- f;}.&l to imagine how any one can be so thought- “What kave you done this time?” “I had bought you a bag of sweets, and while coming along—"' “You lost them ?” 0. Iate them.”—Paris Cloches FROM EASTERN. EDITORS. / Let It Qome In. y English capital continues to flow into American mines, mills, factories and other industries, a field of investment opened in 1881, its volume varying with the condition of business here, but, on the whole, in- creasing and showing in the main satis- factory results. With the late revival of industrial activity, so seriously depressed by the miserable policy of the Democratic party and the administration, it has taken a new start, and will no doubt continue.— New York Tribune. ————— 2 The Way to Prosperity. A term or two of good Republican ad- ministration will bring things back to their normal standard of prosperity. A country making money at the rate of $7,000,000 a day has no business to be in financial straits or have its industries be- numbed or paralyzed. Only the most stupid and benighted management could bring it to this pass, and that is what the Democerats have given it in fuller measure than even their adversaries ever dreamed of.—New York Tribune. ————————— Home Rule Is Best. Really, those who look on Sunday as a day of sanctity and those who are anxious for the closest possible restriction of the liquor traffic would have more reason for hope if their cause was submitted to the poople of New York under the just prin- ciple of home rule, than if they put their trust in legislation at Albany which would violate that principle, and consequently encounter local contempt and resentment. The fair way is the best way with the peo- ple.—New York Sun. e ————— The Annexation of Uana Had Southern statesmen, fifty years ago, not been so bent on securing an extension of slave territory, and the administration of Polk not been in sympathy with them, there would not now be any Manitoba uestion to disturb the Cabinet of Premier %owell. and make the outcome one of sug- gestive speculation ir@n our side of the line. Had the DergocPatic cry of “Fifty- four forty or fight” been carried into our foreign policy, what is now Manitoba and the provinces to her west would have been either States or Territories of the United States. The conyiction is deeg‘ that events are rapidly ripening for the absorption of g?n{;da by the United States.—St. Paul obe. ———————— Gone Orazy on Holmes. The public is fast becoming nauseated with the stuff that is peing printed about Swindler Holmes, particularly in this city, Columns of witless theory and wild specu- lation concerning him appear daily in the blanket sheets. epogers are given free rein, and with their imaginative faculties in good working order they concoct stories which not even_the most gullible of readers can swallow. Everything they write, no matter how absurd or manifestly impossi- ble, is published. A mighty sigh of reliet will go up when this era of Holmes’ idiocy is ended.—Chicago News. —————————— Killing Heresy With Song. The Simpson Grove Methodist brethren have discovered a new and effective way of suppressing the fellow who preaches other than orthodox Methodist doctrine. They don’t put him out; they scorn to bring charges of heresy; they just join in an old- fashioned camp-meeting song, and sing so loud that the erring brother can’t hear himself. There is merit in this method of dealing with the disputatious crank, its chief recommendation being that it is ef- fective.—Philadelphia Times. IRON IN CALIFORNIA. A CORRESPONDENT TELLS OF AN IMMENSE UNDE- VELOPED DEPOSIT. To the Editor of the “Call”—SIR: In common, no doubt, with the great majority of your read- ers, T have been much interested in your recent revelations regarding the magnitude of the manufecturing industry of your City. It is really marvelous when one considers the great distance at which San Francisco is situated from the source of supply of the raw materials which enter largely into its manufactured prod- ucts. This is especially so as relates to iron- work, in which your numerous extensiye works excel in mechanical construction. Of this com- modity, in the form of pigiron, steel billets, rods and bars, thousands of tons are annually imported into your cni and not one pound pro- duced in the whole of this great State. That this is the fact is a matter of more astonishment than the unveiling of your great factories, for within our bordérs, in less than twenty miles of rail communication with San Franeisco and other tide water points, exists & great body of bessemer ore of unexcelled purity, many times demonstrated by the leading experts and metallurgists of the country, East and West. ;n quantity inexhaustible, in 3urily with searcély a rival—with none in the West, this mountain of wealth slumbers unvexed by drill or powder. Wh{ is this so? We are told thatreducing fuel is high. Granted. Soare trancontinental and around-the-Horn freights on iron and steel in the Tough. California and Arizona have great forests of accessible timber readily convertible into charcoal, and charcoal-iron is not out- classed. Have we no capitalists with sufficient nerve to thoroughly investigate the possibili- ties of economic home production of one of the materials entering so largely into constrnction, which once established would take front rank among the industrial affairs of this thriving commonwealth? C. L. H. Daggett, Cal., Aug. 1. Bacox Printing Company, 508 Clay street. * ———————— Duck Dresses, navy blue dots.. Duck Dresses, light stripes.... Pique Dresses, white with colo: L Heavy Duck Dresses, solid shades. .. Kelly & Liebes’ Cloak-House, 120 K e E. MARTIN & Co., the liquor merchants, ere at 411 Market street. The fact that their re- moval has not resulted in the loss of any of their old patronsis the best evidence of fair and honest dealing. The high standard of their wines and liquors has long been known. * ——————— “Er, that isa funny looking button you are wearing,” said the man with an account. *T never saw an ‘N. C.’ button before. Do you belong to the Sons of North Carolina or what?” “Sons of nothing,” said the grocer. “That means ‘No Credit.” " The man walked out without swelling the ace count.—Indianapolis Journal. EVERY nervons woman needs a medicine which will enrich the impoverished blood and send it through the veins loaded with life-giving proper- ties. This is what Hood's Sarsaparilla does. -, Dr. StEGERT'S Angostura Bitters is known all over the world as the great regulstor of the di- gestive organs. ——————— Miss Bloomers —I wonder when Charley Newboy will ever learn to ride properly? Miss Knickerbockers — What's the matter ? “‘i}‘?“ Bloomers—Why, he works so hard pedaling that he doesn’t have breath enough Jeft to propose.—Chicago Record. * “THE WOMAN WITH FELINE EYES," A STORY BY MADGE MORRIS WAGNER, Author of “Liberty Bell,” will be pub- lished in NEXT SUNDAY'S CALL Tae CALndevotes a great deal of attention to excellent articles on Western Themes by Western men and Western women, “4