The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 29, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1895 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. Free: pafly and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier.§0.15 SUBSCR!I;TI(iN RATES—Postage ove year, by mail... 8.00 six months, by mail 3.00 hree months, by mail 1.50 Deily and Sunday CAX Daily and Sunday CAL Tafly and Sunday CALL Deily and Sunday CALL. one month, by mail .65 Funday CALL, one yesr, by mail.. 1.50 W EEKLY CALL, one year, by mall, 1.50 BUSINESS OFFICE : 710 Market Street. +ev... Main—1868 Felephone EDITORIAL ROOMS: Street. 817 Cla; .. Main—1874 Telephone....... BRANCH OFFICES: £70 Moptgomery street, corner Clay: open until ck. es street: open until o'clock. 0 0'clock. u streets; open oot ¢ Z 2618 Mission street; open until 9 o'clock. 116 Ninth street; open until 8 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE: 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Pecific ftates Advertlsing Bureau, Rhinelander tullding, Rose and Duane streets, New York Cliy. ect of a boiled-whezt diet is not Sp cheering to the farmers. After this thé California K never call Boston “Bean Town.” Politics and the weather together in the East have made things just about hot enough to sizzle. ghts will Now that Mexico has begun making ad- vances to Cuba it is time for Uncle Sam to durry up with his proposal. The fondest hope of the administration t now is to postpone the next bond issue until after the fall elections. The shippers of California are hovering between hope and despair, with odds in favor of the latter alternative. As Olney is an inexperienced man in politics he may consent to accept & Demo- cratic nominat; in a Revublican year. 1f the report is true that Cleveland sleeps twelve hours out of every twenty-four at Jray Gables he must be neglecting the baby. Carlisle may have controlled the Demo- cratic convention in Kentucky, but Hardin and Blackburn are leading the party in the camp: In resenting the criticism of the press, Railr Commissioner Stanton should not overlook the less patient utterances of the people. St. Louis has twenty-eight persons charged with murder in her jails and the cordage trust is thinking of advancing the Mrs. Lease recently told a reporter that she likes the Populists of Texas better than the Populists of Kansas, but then it wasa Texas reporter. NG i I'he Democra factions are splitting their party open just about wide enough to let the Pop ts march through without stepping on anybod Railroad Commissioners Clark and Stan- ton seem to have developed a mutual sym- pathy that has caused some wonder in the opposing parties which elected them. If the Towa emigrants to Mississippi who are reported to be dissatisfiea with that Btate are wise they will come out ard try California before they return to Iowa. According to the latest critic the plays of Ibsen are ‘hysterical galimanfries of pathological nastiness,” and it would seem that Ibsen might retort “you are another.” It is more than likely that Democracy will be sunk so deep in the political sea this fall that the tidal wave next year will roll over the remains without disturbing them. Comptroller Bowler would be a pretty good fellow to fill the vacancy on the Su- preme bench, as he has already shown his ability to declare an act of Congress un- constitutional. As a lively discussion is going on in New York over the question ‘“Is man more beautiful than woman?” it would seem that dry Sundays must have a bad effect on the brain. It is claimed that the suburban acquisi- tions of Chicago are about as burdensome to that city 4€" the colonies are to Great Britain, and Chicago is running in debt every year trying to govern municipalities fifteen miles away from the city hall. General Coxey having made a vicious attack on Buck Kilgore in Texas the Fort ‘Worth Gazette thinks it worth while to tell the world that the place where the speech was made was fully 200 miles from the Kilgorean boot. Should Railroad Commissioner Stanton’s objection to the La Rue schedule on the score of its failure to abolish discrimina- tions be taken as an indication that he in- tends to abolish the discriminations prac- ticed by the Southern Pacific? So great and widespread is the disgust of the Towa Democrats at the way the State convention was bossed by Federal office- bolders it is now freely predicted the party will be third in the race this year and the Populists will cast a larger vote. It has been decided in Kansas that a distiller can manufacture liquor in that State for medicinal, scientific or mechan- ical purposes and sell it outside the State | for anything he chooses. This is a kind of prohibition that allows a large license. From tke success achieved by the ad- ministration in several State conventions this summer it would not be surprising if the Democratic National Convention were controlled by Federal office-holders and the party strapped tight to a Cleveland money plank. An item in the Philadelphia ?Ledger guns thus: “Two days after Gomez was killed by consumption he wrote to a friend in this city, ‘I am in excellent health and am feeling as strong as I was when a young man.'” Gomez was evidently a dead-sure liar. The St. Louis Globe-Democrat having been asked to raise money forthe prosecution of men who lynched a negro for rape ina Missouri county replied: “Not a cent for prosecution, but millions for defense in a case of this kind.” It goes without saying that so long as the press preaches that doo- trine there will always belynching parties, THE RAILROAD COMMISSION. The Railroad Commission met yesterday to accomplish nothing, except to demon- strate its own worthlessness as a depart- ment of the State government and to dis- play the shameless disregard of its mem- bers for the pledges they have taken and the official duties they have assumed and sworn to perform. The schedule of grain rates which Mr. La Rue laid before the board several weeks ago, and of which yesterday he was ex- pected to urge the adoption, got no further than the point of idle discussion and use- less talk. The old and oft-used tactics of the railroad company were agamn em- ployed to accomplish that delay which de- stroys the hope of the people for relief, and in the employment of this policy the rail- road found in Dr. Stanton a most willing tool. It is easy to imagine the smile and sense of complacency with which the officials of the Southern Pacific Company regard the Railroad Commission after such a meeting as that of yesterday. The attitude of Mr. Stanton at the meet- ing of yesterday appears to be inexcusable from any point of view. He bad taken the pledge which his party had presented to him as the condition of his nomination to the office of Railroad Commissioner. He had been elected because he had taken it and had thereby bound himself to de- vote his whole time during his official term to its performance. He acknowledged yesterday that he had studied the subject of railroad schedules thoroughly, and he had evidently prepared himself for their discussion from one point of view, at least. That point of view, however, was altogether from the side of the railroad and of its interes Instead of seeking to amend the schedule of Mr. La Rue in any item wherein he deemed it defective stead of even pointing out its specific de- fects; instead of presenting a schedule of rates upon all commodities drawn in conformity with the terms of his solemn pledge, the whole effort of Mr. Stanton was directed to the proposi- tion of delay. He would resolve the com- mission into a judicial body. He would require specific complaints from the ship- pers of all commodities, He would cast upon the shippers the burden of proof that the present rates are excessive. This in a nutshell is Mr. Stanton’s position. It is not surprising that repre- sentatives of the railroad company who were present at the meeting yesterday felt themselves called upon to add nothing to the effort of so able an advocate of the railroad’s policy of delay as Mr. Stanton proved himself to be. The attitude of Mr. Clark is, if anything, more contemptibie than that of Mr. Stan- ton, with whom he was evidently in fall accord. He, too, had no schedule to offer, no reduction to propose, no relief to sug- gest, no policy to adopt, save the railroad policy of delay. In fact, the only dispute during the entire session between Mr. Stanton and Mr. Clark occurred over the issue as to which of them was liable to the charge of being the greatest scoundrel in office, and even this simple issue was not settled at the meeting of yesterday. There are two things, however, which the Railroad Commission succeeded in demonstrating to the people of California beyond the mnecessity of fuither proof. The first of these is that the pledge which the Democratic party exacted of its candi- dates for the Raiiroad Commission was a fraud in its purpose and a trick in its promulgation, and was so under- stood to be by the men who took it, and who succeeded in being elected by the reason of having taken it. It isevi- dent now that the Democratic members of the Railroad Commission never intended ta ccmply with the terms of their pledge, and that the open violation of its every sen- tence will be continued by them and each of them during their official term. The second point which reached the per- fection of proof yesterday was the abso- lute worthlessness of the Railroad Com- mission to the people of the State. It may be set down as a fixed and final fact that this body of men will bring to the shippers of Californiano relief whatever from the ex- cessive,discriminative,arbitrary and unrea- sonable freight rates of the Southern Pacific Company. Their relief must come from another source, and that source is the one which it has been the recent mission of this paper to place before the public mind. The building of a competing railroad thfipugh the fertile valleys of California, and its patronage and encouragement when built, is the oniy practical and possible means of securing reasona- ble transportation rates within this State. Let the peopnle of California who have heretofore looked with diminishing hope upon the Railroad Commission asa means of relief turn their eyes and their hopes to the great project of the Valley road and give to .it and to its construction that substantial aid which shall insure its completion at the earliest possible date. When its rails shall parallel the tracks of the Southern Pacific Company and its trains shall begin to move, then and not until then will the railroad rates of the State of California be reduced and regulated in accordance with reason and justice as between the shipper and the carrier of freight. MR. EASTON'S PLAN. Wendell Easton has returned to San Francisco from Europe with a plan of some magnitude to bring colonies of Europeans to California. He has secured English backing to the amount of $2,000,000 to $5,000,000,with which to procure one or more large tracts of land for colonization pur- poses, has arranged with steamship lines to bring colonists at a reduced rate, and has arranged to open an office in London for the handling of the scheme. This enterprise comes at a fortunate time. The settlement of the State has been practically arrested within recent years, principally by reason of hard times prevailing everywhere, but partly because California froit-growers have not been lately securing good profits. Both these conditions are passing away. Californians have learned that they can make a gener- ous vrofit by extending their markets and securing other benefits from co-operation, The State is now preparing to begin the struggle all over again on new lines which experience has taught, and with every assurance of a prosperity greater than has been ever known before. All the agencies working for the good of the State are proceeding harmoniously. Gold min- ing is being resumed with a vigor surpass- ing that of early days, foreign capital be- img alarge element of this renewed activ- ity. The wine industry has been fully re- established on a profitable basis. The world at large is learning the superiority of California products and is making an increasing demand for them. The earliest attempts at founding col- onies were made in Fresno County, and becanse they were ably and honestly man- aged they were almost universally suc- cessful and to-day are in a prosperous con- dition. This success induced the starting of many similar enterprises, some of which failed through lack of means on the part of the projestors, others through weak or crooked management, others through a lack of care in selecting purchasers, and still others through a desire on the part of the projectors to make unreasonable pro- fits. . The colpny idea is the best of all schemes for the settlement of a new State ifitis properly handled. In order that foreigners may find contentment under the strange conditions which they will encounter it is advisable that they settle a colony ina body, so that they may enjoy the social customs of their old homes. The indis- criminate bringing together of settlers from all parts of the world into a close community has proved one of the most disastrous of ventures. We may depend upon time to make thorough Americans of foreign colonists. The second gener- ation, having access to our public schools, solve that problem. The first essential is the content and happiness of the original settler. Mr. Easton gives the encouraging infor- mation that British capital regards Cali~ fornia as the best ground for investment. This has already been shown in the readi- ness with which English capitalists are investing in California gold mines. Itis extremely vital fo California to secure all the English capital possible. This would counteract in a measure the English influ- ence which works against California and in favor,of the British possessions on our north. California is the natural highway between the Australian colonies and England, and it is to our interest to make the most of the opportunity. A TALENTED ROGUE. Mr. Jack Brady, the bandit, seems to have developed & sense of humor as de- licious as that which distinguished Mr. Black Bart, who wrote poetry and robbed trains. When Mr. Brady, who had secured $52,000 from a train robbery, was arrested he informed the officers, after decorous haltings, delaysand conscience pangs, that the money lay buried in the Yolo swamp, and that if they would take him thitherhe would unearth it and surrender it to them. This offer was made without any promise of immunity from prosecution and with a clear idea on Mr. Brady’s part thata bandit with $52,000 wherewithal to defend him- self need have no great fear of the peni- tentiary. That was the first act of Mr. Brady’s comedy. The next was the stupid publ- cation of the offer and the filling of the Yolo swamp with treasureshunters. Mr. Brady evidently reckoned on the officers’ making that blundering publication, and knew that this would open the way to the two ensuing acts of his comedy. His plans seem to have worked admirably. Mr. Brady was taken to the swamp, and, under the chaperonage of the officers, he hunted and hunted and hunted for the buried treasure. The longerhe hunted the more despairing he became, and finally he swore with - tears streaming down his cheeks that he was unable to find it—he had forgotten just where he had cached it. So he was returned weeping to jail The next act came easily enough. Two of the three sacks which had contained the money have been found in the swamp, empty and eloquent; one of the army of amateur treasure-hunters had found the booty and made away with it. Assuming that Mr, Brady had outside confederates, they could have reasoned thus: “If we bring three empty sacks into the swamp and place them where they are sure to be found, it will be suspected that we exist and are at work. We shall, therefore, leave only two; fer that will be positive proof that we had no hand in their appearance here."” s And so the poor bandit behind the bars ‘weeps all the more sorely. He nhad tried to be honest. He endeavored to return the money without a single stipulation. Now he is utferly ruined, having only the sympathy and generosity of his prose- cutors to weaken the force of the law. Meanwhile, $40,000 of his $52,000 capital having disappeared, and a close search of bis pockets having failed to reveal its presence there, the detectives are very sorry for him, believe wholly in him, and wait anxiously for the news that the third sack has been found empty in the swamp. ‘With such talents it seems a pity that Mr. Brady has not tried to emulate Sardou and Pinero instead of indulging in the vulgar pastime of robbing trains, A BETTER PAVEMENT. The Merchants’ Association is to be con- gratulated on its success in securing the unanimous consent of the property-own- ers along Montgomery street to pave that thoroughfare with bituminous rock. All that remains now is to get the consent of the street railway company to pave its part of the highway. 1t is likely that this will be granted, but as the present horsecar service 1s to be changed to an electric line the company may defer action until the change is made, which will require the laying of a new road. The new pavement should not be con- fined to that part of Montgomery street lying between Market and California streets, as was the case on Kearny street. North of California sireet there are very valuable improvements on Montgomery, including the handsome insurance build- ing at the corner of Sacramento street. The steacv decline of real and rental values norih of California street has re- sulted from causes of a nature similar to the neglect of the street pavement. The paving of Montgomery street is a neces- sary step toward curing all the ills that afflict that quarter of the City. The fact that values have declined in that section in spite of the great bemefit which the Montgomery-avenue cable might have been expected to bring ought long ago to have been sufficient notice to the prop- erty-owhers that a radical fault lay in the nandling of their properties. With a better pavementand animproved streetcar service Montgomery street ought to recover its old prestige. The decline of the brokerage business has had something to do with the retrogression of the street, but there are other kinds of business for which it might make a bid. ADVERTISE THE PRODUOTS. In adding the functions of an advertising agency to its other duties the State Devel- opment Committee of the Hal{-million Club has done a commendable thing. It has addressed a circular letter to the news- paper publishers of the State asking for as low rates as can be made for two-line and three-line advertisements of California manufactures. The commitiee proposes to canvass the larger cities of the State for small advertisements from manufacturers and to insert these advertisements in the various newspapers, except those of San Francisco and Los Angeles, which have their own canvassers. The idea is admirable. The press of the State is making a hard fight for the con- sumption of home products, and it is only right that the manufacturers should share with the papers the benefits which the press is bringing them. Aside from this it is a clear business proposition, in which manufacturers will certainly receive the larger part of the benefit accruing from the advertising. When they see that the pop- ularicy of Eastern products among Cali- fornia consumers is the result solely of generous advertising, and that they can offer a better article generally for a lower price, they need no further instruction concerning the value of newspaper adver- tising. California manufacturers hitherto have displayed a lack of the business shrewd- ness that enables Eastern manufacturers to defeat them on their own ground, and the leading spirits of the Manufacturers’ and Producers’ Assoeiation, fully aware of this fault, are wisely endeavoring to cor- rect it. Every encouragement, not only from the press, but from the manufacturers themselves, should be extended to this undertaking, AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Johno Bouse, 8 prominent mining engineer who returned lately from Madagascar, where he has been for two years for some French cap- italists, knows a good deal about the causes of ex-Consul Waller’s trouble with the French Government. Speaking of the case yesterday he said: “While I have no doubt that it is true that Waller made use of the information he obtained and got his large concessions from the Malagasys for giving it to them, I do not think that he would have been punished if properly tried. Waller was one of the victims ‘of L. Suberbi’s intrigues. Suberbi is the big- gest concessionaire in Madagascar. He has carried things with sucha high hand on his concessions that when he got into trouble with the Government through failing to fulfill his part of the contract, as a French subject he wasable to entangle France so as to force her to protect his concessions. “The common impression given out is that France is wa.gx;g its war against Madagascar for state meastires. That is notso; the diffi- culty was started to help out Suberbi. Wailer happens to be one of the victims of hisin- trigues. For the information he gave the Malagasys he was granted big concessions, and was about to become a hot competitor to Suberbi in getting laborers to do the required work on these concessions. He was popular with the Malagasys and Suberbi unpopular, and would have obtained all the laborers he wanted. This would have prevented Suberbi from carrying out the required work and holding his concessions.” The directors.of the Sharon Estate Company met yesterday to prepare for carrying out the work of making the proposed changes in the Palace Hotel. The most important of these are to enlarge the grillroom by adding to it the present billiard-room and making a billiard- room downstairs. A new roof will be built over the court and & number of minor changes made. PERSONAL. 8. C. Bidwell, a banker of Hanford, is at the Lick. Rev. Mr. Ben-Ham of Napa is at the Occi- dental. Dr. David Powell of Marysville is at the Cali- fornia. R. R. Bulmone of the New Almaden mine is at the Lick. Yates Stirling of the navy is a guest at the Occidental. Mr.and Mrs. J. 8. Severance of Los Angeles are at the Palace. Charles H. Lux, a capitalist of S8an Jose, is staying at the Grand. Thomas B. More, a capitalist of Santa Bar- bara, is at the Palace. H. C. Barrett, a banker of Spokane, registered at the Palace yesterday. Lieutenant George E. Wilson of the army is & guest at the California. Rev. W. H. Ramsey of Santa Barbara regis- tered at the Occidental yesterday. Lieutenant W. 8. Hughes of the navy wasone of yesterday’s arrivals at the Grand. W. M, Breakenridge, & Southern Pacific de- tective at Tucson, is a guest at the Grand. E. W. Churchill, a banker of Naps, and his family registered at the California yesterday, C. J. Cox, a big cattleman of Sacramento, came down yesterday and registered at the Grand. Thomas Derby, superintendent of the New Almaden mine, registeréd at the Palace yes- terday. John E. Budd, a leading attorney of Stockton and the Governor's brother, 18 staying at the California. Colonel William P. Harrington, a banker of Colusa and a member of the Governor’s staff, is at the Palace. P. Kerwin,a mining superintendent, came down from the Comstock yesterday and put up at the Palace. George D. McLean, & prominent mining man, returned from Grass Valley yesterday and is staying at the Lick. . Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Daggett came down from Vacaville yesterday for their daughter's wed- ding, and are staying at the Palace. E. T. Earl of the Earl Fruit Packing Company of Sacramento, and Mrs. Earl, came down yes- terday and are staying at the Palace. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK., NEW YORK, N. Y., Aug. 28.—Oalifornians registered at hotels to-dey: San Francisco—C. Keilus, Stewart House; S. Morean, Everett; E. T. Nesbitt, Grand; A. Plonsky, Broadway Central. Los Angeles—E. R. O'Neal Astor, Callilornm; A. L. Chaffee, D. 8. Hickey, Metro- pole, JUSTICE BROWN'S WARNING. Among the numerous addresses by dis- tinguished men, called forth by college com- mencements and similer occasions each year, some one is apt to excite thoughtand comment beyond the original loeality of its delivery. This year the most striking was that of Justice Henry B. Brown of the United Btates Bupreme Court, delivered before the Law School of Yale University. It treated of the dangers threaten- ing the stability of our Government and of the tendencies of our social system. The country is threatened chiefly from three directions: Municipal misgovernment, corporate greed and the tyranny of labor. This warning voice from a representative of our most august tribunal has called forth approving comment from the best exponents of pubiic opinion. It needs to be more widely read and pondered over by the highest and lowest in the land. The great social questions of the time have been before the Supreme Court within a few years past with a rapidity that surprised lawyers as well as laymen. The court, which has been_overburdened with legitimate business and has been reproached &t times with its delay of justice, has in every way expedited the cases plainly involving the interests of the whole people or of large sec- tions. These questions have been various and have attested the widening jurisdiction of the courts of fhe Nation. Itshould be remembered that Justice Brown upheld strenuously the in- come tax in the recent cases before the Su- reme Court. After the outlook afforded by is judicial experience his rebukes of evil tendencies in the social system have double emvhasis. It is hoped that thougniful, educated men may be aroused to their duty to the community by a clear statement from an authoritative-speaker. Whet must the man of leisure, refinement. education, do for_the rescue of his city, his State, the whole Nation from misgovernment? What is the limit of his duty in regard to the corporations which minister to his wealth? What is his interest in the laboring man with whom he shares the common country? What is the remedy for flagrant evils? Justice Brown thinks arbitration and profit-sharing have not proved themselves efficacious in behalf of the needs of labor. He believes that the Govern- ment must eventually take control of natural monopolies.—Philadelphia American, SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS. Welltrade—How did you get 50 many corns on your hands? Selimade—Tight shoes. Welltrade — Nonsense! Tight shoes would not give you corns on your hands. Selfmade—When I was & boy I wasa boot- black in a London hotel. “Did young Ploughboy do well by leaving the farm 7" ‘ “He tries to make us think he did. Says he's near the top in his business, and it's all due to his clever headwork."” “What's his business in Chicago " “Heading up barrels in a pork-packing mausoleum.”—Washington Times. Willie Simpson—Mamma is going to give a lawn party next week. Have you been in- vited yet? What Mrs. von Blumer— Not yet, desr. makes you ask? Willie—She said the other day she couldn’t qnt:l;: uz.nm up her mind about it.—New York TO SAVE LIFE AT SEA. Several automatic life-saving appliances have just been invented by a French engineer, Mr. de Ropp. The most interesting and prob- ably the most useful of them is a jacket of rub- ber, which, it brought in contact with water is LIFE-SAVING APPARATUS, JACKET AND PILLOW BEFORE USE. automatically inflated and will keep a man afioat, even in a rough sea, for an hour or more. The novel principle is embodied in a small cartridge, which when saturated with water will automatically release a quantity of methyl-chloride gas, sufficient to fill the ap- paratus and to keep a man of average weight afloat for some time. The inventor goes further by making a life- saving belt, which can be thrown a consider- able distance with a small gun ot his construc- tion. All these life-saving appliances may be JACKET AND PILLOW INFLATED. kept in a very small space and are therefore preferable on ghipboard to the antiquated life- belts and jackets, which take up considerable room. Another novelty invented by De Ropp is his provision for an accident happening at night. He provides e second cartridge fillled with phosphate of calcium. An automatic release opens the two ends of this cartridge when saturatel with water and releases the chem- ieal, which on contact with water will decom- pose and generate phosphorous hydrogen, LIFE BELT IN CARTRIDGE READY TG BE THROWN— ALSO INFLATED. ‘which burns spontaneously and gives a strong light. The chemical in the cariridge will give a flame lasting from helf to three-quarters of an hour, which in most cases would be suf- ficient time to save a man who dropped over- ‘board at night. EASTERN EDITORS. ‘Wheelmen as Voters, The great boom which cycling has taken this year will make the ‘“wheelmen’s vote” of con- siderable importance during the coming cam- paign. Shrewd politicians will not let the op- portunity pass without making a bid for votes by offering improved highwaysand concessions for which the wheelman has been pining for years. To the wheelman is mid' due the credit of starting the present effort which is being made to get better highways. Before the advent of the bieycle very little was done in the wn{l of .improved roads which were worthy of the name. The League of American Wheelmen has exerted & powerful influence in this direction, as they have in their ranks pro- fessional men, merchants and bankers and enterprising Keop\e who know what they want and mean to ave it,—Scientific American. The Key to the Gulf. Cuba is *‘the key of the Gull.” The “key” is one of the quarterings on the flag of the Cuban patriots of to-day who are so heroically bat- tling to rescue their island from the abhorrent despotism of Spainand make it free and inde- pendent. Our interests are involved in their success, for, if they succeed, *‘the key of the Gulf” will be in friendly and not in hostile hands. With a free Cuba as our ally, or Cuba 8 a part of our lsrrlto?'. not a hostile ship of war could enter the Gulf of Mexico aud get out again.—New York Press. x Honest Dollar. § It is a singular and very suggestive fact that, according to Shylock, a dollar may be down 50 per cent below par, but it is never worth more than 100 cents. The creditor never boasts that his gold_doller is worth§180 cents, but_he can protest lustily against being paid in 50 or 60 cent dollars. “We are friends of honest money and hence we demand the full restoration of the silver dollar. The goid dollar is not an honest dollar when it commands a premium of 40 cents, more or less,—Cincinnati Enquirer, Missouri’s Regret. The regret that Missouri has no officer in the Cleveland Cabinetds growing stronger in pro- portion to the turmoil now raging in Ken- tucky. The intensity of the canvass across the Mississippi is best éxplained by the adminis- tration gauntlet thrown down to the faithful by Secretary Carlisle. With a similar glove in the Missouri arend, the Republicans counld count on victory to a dead certainty.—St. Louis tar-Sayings. A Good Observer. It must be aamitted that as a long-range observer Senator Vest is a success. His state- ment that “the silver question will never be dropped in America until a free-coinage law is K“. "' is eminently correct. Equally true is is statement that a business revival will not retire the question because “the overwhelming sentiment in all Eg West and South is in favor of free coinage.”—8t. Louis Post-Despatch. Good Times Ahead. Corn is not the only product which is break- ing all records. The iron output these daya is the largest which the country has ever had st this time of the year. Moreover, it is ueldl‘}{ !rovflng. This is one of the most striking evi- lences which could be found that & %criod of business activity exceeding any which the country has vet known is close at hand.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. When the Season Changes. ‘When the maple leaves begin to crimson and the chili winds of autumn cool the fevered blood things somehow assume a different aspect. Politicians who would not touch a pomination with & ten-foot pole in midsummer are found hard at work in the hunt for dele- es, while some who had formed dead-sure c?mbhuuox_n and imagined themselves certain of nomination begin to realize that things are seldom what they seem.—Brooklyn Times. Massachusetts Towns. The census figures show that in ten years 143 towns in Massachusetts have lost in popula- tion, or nearly one-half of the total number. Forty-three other towns show a gain in popula- tion'during the decade of less than 100, or & gain of less than ten persons each year. Thus nelrl{)etwo-!hirds of the towns of the State have been practically standing still or losing ground.—Boston Herald. No Place for Him. ‘When Governor Foraker was asked about his own troubles he said: “When Providence created the universe he made no plac® in it for & man with a grievance.” There is an aphor- ism that ought to have better perpetuation thau printers’ ink can give it—Cincinnati Enquirer. Quite Unnecessary. It was quite unnecessary for Mr. Carlisle to teiterate that he has no Presidential aspira- tions. He settled that question when hestarted in to champion the European gold syndicates against the money of the American constitu- tion.—New York Mercury. Then Come to California. August is simply giving us the hot weather which July kindly withheld. All things con- sidered we would rather have these extra de- grees applied to moderating next winter’s cold snaps.—lowa State Registes ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. THE AtLANTIC—H. M., City: The steamer Atlantic, of the White Star line, struck on Meagher rock, west of Sambro, while steaming for Halitax, April 1, 1873. Four hundred and forty-two persons, including Captain Williams, the master, were saved and about 560 drowned or perished, many of them in the rigging, through exposure and cold. The cap- tein was suspended ior two years. JuMPING RECORD—S., City. The record for three standing long jumps with weights, in America, is 40 feet 9)¢ inches, T. F. Kearny, Oak Island, Mass., July 25, 1889; in England, 41 fect 7 inches, J. Darby, London, 1888, Standing hop, step and o Jup, with weights, the record in America is 37 feet 1-9 inch, J. F. Hartnett, 15-pound weights, at Lawrence, Mass,, June 17, 1886; in Irelaund, by an amatear, 33 feet 5‘2% inches, W.J. Rockett, Dungraven, August 27, 1888, MINING—S., Cornucopia, Union County, Or. The time for doing $100 worth of assessment work on mines yearly has not been changed, but the time suspending the operatien of the act has ended, so that now the old law is in full force. That requires that the $100 worth of work on a claim shall be done et any time during the calendar year, and in cases of new loeations, at any time within the year from the time of the location. FANCY CHICKENS—L. M. R., City. It is prob- able that your fancy chickens are affected with roup, a result of being kept toolong in confined air, This disease is an infectious one, and as & rule poultry-raisers as soon as thely discover & chicken with that disease kill it and bury it in quicklime. There are a num- ber of remedies published in books on pouliny: Ix:ilin', which may be had at the Free Public rary. THE FOUR-YEAR TERNS—J. A, J., City. There isno case on appeal in the Supreme Court of this State in which the constitutionality of the law under which county officials were at the last general election elected for four years, in- stead of for two years, as previously. The time for contesting the law, if it is to be contested, hes not yet arrived. Daisies—Mrs. F. H., Santa Cruz,Cal. The ox- eye daisies of the Eastern States isnot identical with the white and yellow marguerite that grows in California. THE BENSON CaAsEs—OId Subscriber, City. The Benson cases in the United States Circuit Court stand postponed until the 25th of November, pending compromise arrangements. IDEAS OF WESTERN EDITORS. The mining resources of Arizona are to-day unknown to the world. A few years hence, when capital has generally turned its atten- tion to the development of our mineral re- sources, there will be such an output of the precious metals as the world never saw before from so limited an area. This Territory has the capecity to-day to excel the whole outside world in her gold, silver and copper products. —Pheenix (Ariz.) Herald. The wretchedness of most people is caused by the fact that they prefer appearance to reality and reputation to character. They suffer because they refuse to accept responsi- bility, they wish toreap without sowing, and thus easily become the victims of every oily- tongued impostor who prevails over them be- cause of their dishonesty.—Living Issues. Claus Spreckels has made his millions in sugar, but nobody will complain of that while he uses his wealth in developing the industries of this State, The millionaire is among the ‘most useful of men 1f his wealth is invested in beneficial enterprises and is not used to op- press his fellow-men.—Fresno Republican. They who think the prosperity of the coun- try is measured and approved by the increased import of commodities which hitherto we have been accustomed to produce ourselves cannot but consider Democratic policy fully vindi- cated and just the thing for the country.— Portland Oregonian. California is working for all she is worth for the next Republican National Convention, ‘Washington and Oregon ought to lend their active co-operation. The holding of that con- vention on the coast would be & good thing for the coast and a good thing for the whole coun- try.—Seattle Times. All that the Republican journals will have to donext year to get all the good ammunition they want will be to take a file of any Demo- cratic paper of the present season.— Albu- querque (N. M.) Citizen. i OUT-OF-TOWN PERSONALS. Cloverdale, Cal., Aug. 28.—J. W. Lynch of San Francisco is a guest at the residence of Col. W. D. Bink. F.W. Hunt, mail contractor, and family have returned from a ten days’ visit with relatives and friends in Santa Rosa, Berkeley and 8an Francisco. In the City they were the guests of Mrs. Hunt's brother, J. T. Rodgers, private seeretary to Mayor Sutro. Miss Jessie E. Wood of Oakland is making a short stay with her parents at this prace. Mrs. L. Abrabam and children of Healdsburg are spending a few days at the residence of S, Pinschower. Fred Chalfant, a young law student from Ukiah. was in the town Monday and Tuesday. Captain John Field was in Ukiah on legal business Monday. Miss Nellie Haupt is visiting friends in Santa Rosa. Miss Nellie Carrie, who has been spending the summer here with her brother H. C. Carrie and (smilg, returned to Oakland Tuesday. Mrs, N. F. Conner left for the Bay City Tuesday morning. Mrs. J. H, Kleiser of Terre Haute, Ind., is visiting her uncle, J. A, Kleiser, o this place. Mrs. 0. W. Grove, whose husband is Bug:rlmendem of C8choolsof Merced ounty, and daughter, Miss Pauline, are guests at the Kleiser residence on West street. H. Burner of San Francisco is here on s short rest from business, stopping with D, Hall. Louis Wessell of San Francisco* js spending a few days at the Parker Vineyard vllf:, below town. Georgs B. Baer is in Boonvilie on business per- taining to the tan bark condensing and ex- tracting concern, recently established there. Chico, Cal, Aug. 28.—Miss Clara Peck of Portland, Or., s on a visit to Chico. Miss Mary Benner came down from the mountains yester- day to visit friends in Chico. Walter P.Reed of Colusa is in wwn. V. G. Durfee of Palo Alto isin town. Ben Giens of San Franeisco fs in Chico. Frank Smith, the Redding attorney, is in town. School Superintendent Stout came over from Oroville yesterday. Mrs. H. H. Brown of Healdsburg is in Chico on & visit. Mrs. William Elliott has returned from Sacra- mento. Justus Greely of Marysville came up last night. Miss Alice McLain is down from Oregon on a visit. Professor Seymore and wife of Chico State Normal School arrived home last night thelr summer vacation. Miss Ethyl Mattock of B is in Chico on a visit. Mrs. E. Morse of Su City is in Chicoon a visit. Mrs, J. T. Larkin came (;o'"l from the mountains this morning. Mr. and Mrs. Scott . of Pasadens arrived in Chico last evening. Misses Ida and Emma Kelbridge of Yuba City are visiting in Chico. Louis Sieber and daughter of Marysville are in Chico on a visit. Frank J. Connelly of San Frangisco is in town. Mr. and Mrs. Norman Rideout of Marysville came up on last evening's train. Mrs. J. D. Edwards and daughter of Eureka, Humboldt County, is visiting J. G. Newbarth and family. Misses Alice Sproul and Mary Benner left for San Francisco this morning to visit the Me- chanics’ Fair. El Paso de Robles, Aug. 24.—Among the reg- istered at El Paso de Robles are Chief P. Crow- ley, J. V. Coleman, C. H. Croydon, J. Ross Jackson, Franklin Haywood, H. A. Powell, W. H. Baly, A. F. Barnard, J. P. Burns, Rube Cohen, J. M. Adams, W. H. Dayis, Mrs. L. Day, D. Griffith, W. G. Cords, W. A. Carnes, J. West, W. H. King, A. M. Drinmond, A Raosburg, Dr. Westerberg, M. Clayburg and wife, Mrs. B. Fruna, George Peck, George Rob- ertson, R. M. Russell, A. Green, W Mrs. W. Johnson, John H. Peck, H rink, Easton Mills, C. J. Cox, J. R. Sloon, Mrs. L. Reinheart, Miss L. Wilson, Mrs. Wilson, E. Cappock and wife, §. B. Peterson, Miss C. Peter- son, Mrs. C. Nelson, Mrs. M. B, Heard, Mrs. F. M. Heard, Miss Heard, Mrs. A. J. Lindrum, B. . P. Crowley, J. Crow: i Wise, H. S. Crocker, Mrs. H. Crocker, Mrs. R. A. Morrison, Mrs. L. Le: Mrs. 8. Walker. Gilroy, Cal., Aug. 28.—Mrs. J. W. Lewis is visiting relatives in Santa Cruz. Mrs. E.Chace has returned to her home in Santa Cruz. Miss Sadie Matthews of Santa Cruz is visiting rela- tives here. Miss Florence Bassiquano and Miss Anne Dyer have joined the camping party near Magic Springs. Miss Lillian Rea and her friend, Miss Boyd of Marysville, have been spending a few days in San Jose. Mrs. J. Rick- etts is in San Jose. Miss Josie Cullen has re- turned to ber home at San Juan. Mrs. J. A. Baxter of Watsonville was in town Tuesday. In the voting contest for fireman’s daughter, Miss Fannie Moore bas 856, Mixs Josie Wol- fran 327, and Miss Laura Sewart 194 votes. Rev. and Mrs. John Struebell have returned from their camping trip on the summit of the Western range. Santa Rosa, Cal,, Aug. 28.—Dr. Lonigo of Oc- cidental is visiting friends here. Miss Edith McDonald has gone to San Francisco to join her mother and sister, who are visiting friends there. Miss Nellle Bumblufh of Woodland is visiting her cousins, the Misses Bumbaugh. Mrs. Nellie Yeargin, who has been visiting the family of her sister, Mrs. T. A. Atkinson, re- turned this week to Fresno. Rev. E.B. Ware has gone to San Francisco for a few days. Gus Donovan, United States Gauger, is quite sick at his home here. Miss Flora Gardner of San Jose is visiting relatives in Santa Rosa. Mrs. J. P. Berry is enjoying & visit from Mrs. Millie Treanor of Healdsbur; Capitola, Aug. 25.—Late arrivals at Hotel Capitola are: John Stock, Miss J. L. Stock, Mrs. R. R. Blake, Blanche Blake, Anna O. Malcom, Mrs. M. Heflfizeth, Mr. and Mrs. F, A. Hihn, Miss Theresa Hihn, Mr. and Mrs. L. W F. Davis, Hihn, Eulice Hihn, Mr. and Mrs. AugustC. Hihn, F. O. Hihn, Master Fred C. Hihn, Mr. and 5. W. T. Cove, Mrs. S. M. Cooper, Miss AlogRnssells © i ohisn s - PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT. Frederick Soler, the creator of the modern Catalan Theater, died recently at Barcelona at the age of 57. He wrote over 100 plays, alinost all based on Cetalan popular life and history, and had been crowned by the Spanish Acad- emy. Gladstone, in expressing an opinion on a recent book, said that while he was personally grateful to science for all that it had done and was doing, Christianity stood in no need of it and was as able now as ever to houd its own ground. Mlle. Jeanne Benaken, licentiate in philos- ophy at Paris, took her bachelor's degree at the age of 16—almost an unprecedented feat in European universities. Lord Rosebery is said to be greatly improved in health from his recent yachting trip. ‘Tax on Inheritances. In answer to & letter of inguiry from John J. Snyder, District Attorney of Calavaras County, Attorney-General Fitzgerald yesterday sent the following opinion: In reply to yourfavorof the 10th inst., and to your questionas to whether or not, “under the provisions of sectfon 1 of an act to establish a tax on collateral inheriiances, etc., a3 approved March 23,1893, the tax_therein provided for should be collected from nephews and nieces of a decedent. Tam of the opinion that as nephews and nieces are not included among those who are speclaily exempt from the operatiou of sald act, the tax should be collected from them. ROBERTS, card headquarters, 220 Sutter. * ————— BacoN Printing Company, 508 Clay strast. * T — 3000 patrons attest that Dr. Eady’s method of extracting teeth has no equal. No pain, no danger, no aiter effect. 822 Geary street. * e s “Haye you any cheese ?” asked a man ina small restaurant. “We have some cheese,” said the waiter, coming back after 8 moment's search, ‘‘but the truth is it's all in the trap!"— Chicago World. GAs CONSUMERS’ ASSOCIATION, 316 Post street. Established 1878.—Reduces gas bills from 20 1040 per cent. Furnishes new tips and burn- ers. Controls the pressure automatically, thus preventing the breakage of globes. Attends to all gas® complaints, and also all complaints connected with electric bells and gas-lighting apparatus, . —————— Ocean Excursions. 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