The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 17, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1895 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: and Sunday CALL, one weck, by carrier.§0.15 and Sundey CALI, one vear, by mail... 6.00 T aily and Sunday CALL, six months, by mail 3.00 Daily and Sunday CALL, three months, by mall 1.50 Taily end Sunday CALL. one month, by mail .65 7 . 1.50 funday CALL, one vear, by WEEKLY CALL, one year, b 150 BUSINESS OFFICE: arket Street. Telephone... G .Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS 517 Clay Strect. Telephone........ - .Main—1874 BRANCH OFFICES: £20 Montgomery sireet, corner Clay; open until ) o’clocl 8 Haves street : open until 9:30 o'clock. 717 Larkin € et; open until 9:30 o'cl SW. corner th and Mission streets; open wntil € o'clock 1618 n street; open until 9 o'clock. 116 Ninth street; open until 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE: €08 Broadway EASTEI'Q‘J OFFICE: Prevent lotte teries will go. elin was generous in offering more, but Dunraven has bad 1f the East will head off the bond issue we will head off the cholera. The fuss of an international yacht race lasts a long time after the muss is over. The only way to make San Francisco a complete home market is for every home to do its share. If some preachers had their way the bloomer would split the church as well as divide the skirt. Hawaii may be an earthly paradise, but so lo rages the emphasis erm discussion there y somet r of a public desire for Cleveland to try it once. Our ex a will speak well for the whole State, provided all sections of the State help it along. 1t looks as if the time were near at hand when there will be no week in California without a fiesta somewhere. San Bernardino invites the worid toa fiesta th promises of perfect weather and a glorious time. he Grand Army veterans naturally feel at home in the South, for it%is not the first time they have painted it red. It really begins to look at this distance asif Gorman’s attitude in Maryland was that of a man on a toboggan slide. It would be difficult to find a passenger inin this country that did not contain man going to a convention or coming home from one. With another bond issue in sight and the elections drawing near, Democracy can ha med for taking very little interest in itself. According to the California XKnights who bave returned home, Boston holds up the Atlantic Coast about as weil as we can hold up the Pacilic. So long as we get reports about the alleged Papal scheme to buy Rome from the Italian Government, we may know the silly season is still at its height in Europe. The Hawaiian Gazette reports that the history of the revolution is in press and will shortly be issued. The world will soon officially learn the names of the real heroes in the dethronement of Queen Lii. If the Germans really think they have another Von Moltke in Count von Walder- see, they had better content themselves with the thought and not put him to the tes That long - promised vigorous foreign policy must be hunting like the Valkyrie fora place where there will be plain sail- ing, no spectators and possibly no opposi- tion. With two or three fights to a finish re- ported every week from different parts of the country, it seems odd that Corbett and Fitzsimm can find no place to meet and jaw it out. If Chauncey Depew is right, the Germans have a passionate desire for war with France in order to reduce her army first so that they may be able to reduce their own afterwards, The report that the bankers of the coun- try are willing to aid the Government in maintaining the gold reserveis good, but it would be better if the Government did not need it. 1f Rockefeller believes his barn was set on fire by discharged workingmen, it may be taken as a sure proof that he had been employing cheap foreign labor instead of Americans. The enforcement of the Sunday law in New York may be said to have reached its rination in preventing drinksin the fashionable clubs, ana now we may look for the reaction. Holdirg the next Republican National Convention in San Francisco would be a good way of reminding some Eastern people they live in a country that has a western side to Theprocess of converting the great battle- fields of the war into Natioral parks is giving the South the advantags of having lots of spacious pleasure grotinds main- tained at the expense of the Nation. Now that San Leandro has produced a mosquito larger than any four ever fed on the richest blood of New Jersey watering places the East can no longer claim to rival us on anything that makas life lively and keeps men from going to sleep. It was not long ago that the Towa State Register told the people of that State not to emigrate to California as there was danger cf earthquakes here, and now Iowa has had an earthquake herself; not a big one indeed, but big enough to shake the argu- ment. The report of the Santa Clara Fruit Ex- change that nc fear is felt of Freach competition in prunes this year is cheering as far as it goes, but’ fruit-growers should have a protective tariff sufficient to assure them from the competition of cheap foreign labor every year. CONSUMMATED. That which was expected has happened. The Solid Eight of the Board oi Super- visors have granted to the Market-street Railroad Company a valuable municipal franchise under conditions that render it a violation of the plain letter of the law. They have done this in spite of the pro- tests of citizens, the warnings of the press and legal proceedings undertaken by the Civic Federation. The issue raised by this action is one that should be promptly met by the citi- zens. The proceeding taken by the Civic Federation heretofore was to prevent the carrying out of an attempt to violate the law. Now an action can be brought on the ground of an actual violation. The offense has now been consummated. The issue is made up bevond all doubt or cavil, and if the statute on the subject hasany meaning at all then an official misdemeanor has been committed which will work a forfeit- ure of office on the part of every member of the hoard who voted for it. The features of this high-handed action on the part of the Solid Eight are too fa- miliar to the public to need recapitulation. They consist of a clumsy but bold attempt to nullify orevadea law of the State requiring all municipal franchises petitioned for to be advertised and sold to the highest bidder. This franchise was offered for sale under conditions which practically excluded every bidder except the Market-street company. 5 As a consequence that company obtains for little more than $500 a franchise worth many thousands. We do not believe such proceedings will be justified by the courts. We are convinced the statute will be up- held in accordance with the plain intent of the Legislature and the express terms of the act itself. This, therefore, is the time for the Civic Federation to strike. It is no longer a case of attempted violation of the law. The act has been committed, the offense consummated, and either the law of California is a farce or the Solid Eight have gone too far for their own good, but far enough to benefit the City by a forfeiture of the offices they disgrace. A NATURAL RESULT. Two items of news published in yester- day's CarL present, when taken together, an i uctive condition of affairs. The first is to the effect that Government Rail- road Director Coombs, on his return to Omaha the other day, after an inspection of the Union Pacific, declared that the ruin of that road had been produced by the Southern Pacific. This had been accom- plished by the diversion of overland traffic by the latter company to its southern route, thus depriving the Union Pacific of its natural business and compelling it to construct the Oregon Short Line in order to reach the Pacific. Director Coombs says that this diversion by the Southern Pacific was in violation of its contract with the Government to maintain, in connection with the Union Pacitic, a through line for all overland traffic between the Missouri River and the Pacific Ocean. The second item of news is furnished by Wendell Easton, the well-known real-estate agent of this City. In an interview he said: *‘On my return from abroad I con- cluded to come through the Northwes country, by way of St. Paul, Minneapolis, Seattle and Portland. When I saw the large amount of freight that was being handled through Tacoma as a port of entry, which trade is a direct loss to San Francisco, 1 was impressed with the fact that the territory left for S8an Francisco lies between Siskiyou and Tehachapi and as far east as the State of Nevada. Itisa limited area, and when we consider that in the cities of this part of the State are nearly three-fourths of our population, it causes one to hesitate and think a little of the condition of affairs that demands a solution.” Laying aside all considerations affecting the rights of the Government in the prem- ises, to what extent has California been damaged by the Southern Pacific Com- pany’s policy of diverting the traffic from the Central and Union Pacific lines to the southern route? It isdifficult to imagine that the Southern Pacific, which unde- niably has pursued this course, adopted it for the purpose of injuring the State, as that would operate against its own inter- ests. The only apparent solution seems to lie in the assumption that the longer haul and consequently greater proportion of the charge for overland transportation which the New Orleans route offered was the leading inducement; that is, the dol- lar in sight was a more considerable mat- ter than the holding of as much traffic in California as possible. Itis not comfort- ing to imagine how many millions of dol- lars this policy may have cost the State by encouraging competition on the north and leading to the building up of the Puget Sound country at the expense of San Fran- cisco. Mr. Easton has wisely stated the pro- lem as it exists to-day, for the present and the future are the matters of vital concern to us now. It is the development of the region lying between Siskiyou and Te- hachapi that must now be attended to. In the building of the San Joaquin Valley road the beginning of the solation has been made, and if the people of this sec- tion of California can realize its impor- tance and understand the freedom which it will assure, they will support it with ail the earnestness and intelligence that are essential to prosperit; A PENAL OFFENSE. Moral suasion having failed to induce the leading daily newspapers of San Fran- cisco to abandon their pernicious habit of aiding and abetting swindling lottery con- cerns, the efficacy of bringing them under the operation of the more convincing methods of penal laws is to be givena test. The attorney of the Civic Federation has drafted an ordinance for submission to the Board of Supervisors, and it appeared in full in yesterday’s CaLr. Although it seems to cover the ground completely, it is hoped that all the lawyers who hayve the good of the City at heart will give it their close study, to the end that if it should be found to pos- sess a single fault which avaricious pub- lishers might seize upon for its nullifica- tion it will be brought to light before its presentation and enactment. It is deplorable that the necessity for this step has arisen. It isa proclamation toall the world that some of the leading newspapers of San Francisco, not yet emerged from border conditions, have to be prought under the force of penal laws to insure their good behavior. Better, however, this drastic measure than a con- tinuance of the evil at which it is aimed. The next interesting thing to watch is the treatment which the Board of Super- visors will give to the ordinance and the source of the outside opposition which may be developed. Aninstructive piece of news in this connection would be a list of the newspapers which publish lottery ad- vertisements and the amount received by each for the service. Already a hint or two has been dropped that THE CaLL's crusade against lotteries and the means taken to encourage them are distateful, but that was known before it was sug- gested. It is conceivable that some of the papers publishing the lottery advertise- ments are in need of the money which they receive for the service, but our con- tention is that even on mercenary grounds the policy of encouraging lotteries is un- wise, and that the newspapers receiving money for such service could make more by refraining. AN OPERA-HOUSE. Just as the news is received that Dam- rosch has determined ,not to bring his opera company to San Francisco for the reason that a lease of the Grand Opera- house cannot be secured, the announce- ment is made that enterprising local capi- talists have made arrang=ments to erect a splendid establishment of the desired kind on Howard street, near Sixth. The assur- ance is given that it will be a perfectly ap- pointed establishment, and as it is to seat over 3000 persons it isto be called an opera- house, and is to have numerous accessories needful to a first-class establishment of that kind, the whole difficulty seems as good as settled. The promoters of this costly enterprise have somewhat astonished the public by selecting the Howard-street site, for, it is contended, this is on the ‘“‘wrong side of Market street.” But thereis more wisdom in their choice than a cursory glance might disclose. The situation is in the imme- diate vicinity of the new postoffice site and is in close touch with an elaborate system of streetcar lines which give access to every part of the City. Few are aware of the great extent of improvements which have been going on recently in the Mission and South San Francisco. It isin those quarters that the growth of the City is making headway and Market street is rapidly building up westwardly in response to that movement. Again, the vigor shown recently by the Soutlfside improvement clubs indicates that an awakening has occurred which will modify the entire character of the'City. West of Fifth street the business section of the south side is on high. dry, well-drained ground. Sixth street itself is one of the most flourishing retail streets in town, and iy, already in the enjoyment of a large trade from the north side of Market street. Taken all together, the reasons for the ‘selection of the Howard-street site for a grand-opera house seem to be highly judicious. Themostenterprising residents of that section may congratulate them- selves on the fact that their own deter- mination to make that part of the City what it ought to be has undoubtedly been an important factor in the selection of this site for the one grand-opera house that the City will be able to boast. THE AFRIOCAN MINING ORAZE. In the interview published in THE CArL of yesterday Chauncey Depew conhrms the extraordinary story of the excitement in London and Paris over the gold mines of South Africa. He says upon the authority of one of the best informed bankers in Europe thatin the past year abouta hundred men have pocketed in cash upward of $500,000,000 by the sale of stocks or shares of South African mining companies. Such operations as these can of course have but one termination. There will be a collape of the South African boom and thousands of sanguine speculators will be ruined. In the meantime mines in Cali- fornda that would yield rich profits will lie unexploited for lack of capital unless we can in some way direct this enthusiasm for mining to our own mountains. This would seem to be a good time, therefore, to push our mining industries and inter- ests to the front as much as possible. Certainly if one-tenth the money that has been expended in the African mines had been used in developing a system of deep mining by scientific process in Cali- fornia, the results would bhave been incal- culably beneficial and might have gone far toward restoring the historic ratio of the value of gold and silver. A BRITISH VIEW. So much news concerning the financial operations of the Cleveland administration has come to us by way of England that no little interest has been occasioned by the recent statement of the London Financial News that there will be no new loan. The News says: ‘“The reasons are political. Mr. Cleveland knows that one of the first acts of the new Congress will be a motion for the impeachment of his Secretary of the Treasury, Mr. Carlisle.” ‘While this information is not more ac- curate than that usually given by the British press concerning American af- fairs it has the justification that if it isn’t true there are nevertheless several reasons why it ought to be true. Neither Carlisle nor Cleveland is going to be impeached for the secret deal with a syndicate of bankers by which the syndicate was so much en- riched at the expense of the people of the United States, but they will escape im- peachment only because the game is not worth the candle. The action certainly merits about the severest judgment that Congress can put upon it and to that ex- tent the British authority is correct. There will be no new loan from the syndicate at any rate and the reasons are certainly political. The San Joaquin Valley Fair, which is open this week, promises to be the great- est in the history of the association, and there are many reasons why the promise should be amply fulfilled, for never before has the valley had such fair prospects open to it or felt the thrill of so much en- terprise among its people. The proposed ordinance which the Civic Federation has drawn for the pur- pose of more effectively suppressing lot- teries seems to fulfill all the requirements of the case, and at any rate is so much bet- ter than the present one that the Super- visors should adopt it without a dissenting voice. The agitation now going on in favor of a short Presidential campaign next yearis not likely to have much effect. It takes a long time to get the machinery for a Na- tional election in order, and neither party is going to permit the other to get into the field much ahead of it. As the Spanish Government has bought a supply of arms in England for the use of her troops in Cuba, it might be worth while for America to furnish arms to the Cubans and thus bave another international con- test. The latest sanitary shiver has been caused by the discovery of bad bacteria in vaccine points used in Chicago. MENU FOR WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 18, BREAKFAST. Fruit Fried Corn Mush Coffee LUNCH. . Smothered Beef Brown Bread Frait DINNER. Oxtail Soup Brown Fricassee of Chicken Breaded Tomatoes Frizzled Beet Corn Pudd! Coffee . —Househoid News. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. H. Z. Osborne ot the Los Angeles Express was telling last evening at the Palace of one of his printers who has struck oil. “He owned a vacant lot near the one on which he lives and on it sunk a well shortly after the discovery of oilin Los Angeles,” said Mr. Osborne. “The first month the output was 5000 barrels, which he sold at 40 cents a barrel, and ever since it has been from 125 to 150 barrels a day. On this he will clear about $40. Better than set- ting type, yet he still holds his place on the Express, but has a ‘sub’ at his case. “Every factory in Los Angeles, the cable and electric roads are using oil for fuel. The Santa Fe has seventeen locomotives supplied with apparatus for burning oil and is preparing forty more. The manager of the Cudahy Packing Company tells me that this fuel costs them $1000 a month less than coal. The total out- put is about 3000 barrels & month, while there is ; demand for only about 1200. So the price is low.” Manley P. Hard, assistant corresponding sec- retary of the Board of Church Extension of the Methodist Episcopal Church, who has been out here on business for the board, was telling the other evening at the Occidental of the work done. “The work of the board,” he said, “is simply to assist in building churches through- out the United States, either by giving money outright or loaning. The loan fund amounts to about $1,000,000 now. During the twenty- eight yearsin which the society has been or- ganized it has assisted in the building of 9700 churches, or nearly one-half of the Methodist Episcopal churches in the country. Our de- nomination builds on an average four churches aday. In the South and West in many places churches would not be built at all without our help. In Kansas, out of the 731, we have assisted in building all except 52. Our loans are generally from $250 to $1000, at a low rate of interest. We very seldom fail to get our money back. Of course, most of the work is done in sparsely settled districts.” PERSONAL. C.J. Lang of the navy is at the Occidental. Dr. E. Z. Hennessy of Napa is at the Grand. J. J. McDonald, a merchant of Boca, is at the Grand. Silas Carle, a contractor of Sacramento, is at the Lick. Dr. C. A. Ruggles of Stockton is a guestat the Grand. M. D. Eaton, a merchant of Stockton, is stay- ing at the Lick. L. P.8age of Congress Springs and Mrs. Sage are at the Lick. T. W. Harvey, a merchant of Shingle S8prings, is at the Grand. J. E. McKinnon of the Enterprise of Virginia City is at the Russ. W. D. Keyser, a merchant of Carson, Nev., {s staying at the Russ, Sheriff Brown and Deputy Hutchings of Eu- reka are at the Russ. Dr. W. F. Wiard of Sacramento registered at the Grand yesterday. Charles Grimes, a merchant of Nevada City, is & guest at the Lick. J. H. McKinnon, editor of the Virginia City Enterprise, is at the Russ. W. D. Keyser, & prominent business man of Carson City, is at the Russ. Dr. I C. Bush of Fortuna was one of yester- day’s arrivals at the Grand. E. A. Stent, & mining man of Tuolumne County, is at the California. Miss Kate Mcwill of Nanaimo was one of yes- terday’s arrivals at the Russ. H.N. Macey, & mining man of Placerville, and his wife, ere at the Lick. H. B. Hutchins, a Deputy Sheriff of Eureka, Humboldt County, is at the Russ. R. C. McCreary, a leading flour-miller of Sac- ramento, is staying at the Grand, A.D. Laughlin, an attorney of Santa Rosa, registered at the Russ yesterday. Fish Commissioner Harry F. Emeric regis- tered at the Occidental yesterday. A. W. Simpson, a big lumberman of Stockton, and his wife, are at the Occidental. E. F. Qualtrough of the navy was one of yes- terday’s arrivals at the California. 1. L. Delano, a leading quarryman of Rock- lin, registered at the Lick yesterday, E. B. Willis of the Sacramento Record-Union came down yesterday and registered at the Russ. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Sept. 16.—Californians at the hotels to-day: San Francisco—C. Spreck- els, B. Holaday, Plaza; 8.8, Bradley, St. Cloud; Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Buckingbham, Grand; Mr. and Mrs. J. Foscher, H. Hallett, Broadway - W. F. Good Jr., M. I. Cohn, Imperial; E. E. Lake, Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Lincoln, Mr. and Mrs. M. McHenzy, Mr. and Mrs, E. Mohrig, Grand Union; Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Lake, B. B. Bowers, Murray Hill; Mr. McLaughlin, Sin- clair; Mr. and Mrs. H. Payot, Holland; H. Powsky, Stewart; J. Sladky, Cosmopolitan. San Jose—Miss L. G. Ross, Murray Hill. Oak- land—B. R. Banning, 8t. Cloud; W. M. Darling, Astor. Los Angeles—Miss Gouffe, Grand Union; J. N. Priest, St. Denis; Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Davies, Windsor. CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 16.—E. J. Tobin, Sherman Tobin, T. A. Driscoll, S8an Francisco, are registered at the Riggs House; Mr. and Mrs. A. Van Voorhees and R. H. Van Voorhees, Sacramento, at the Arlington Hotel; C. Kirby, San Francisco, United States Hotel ; S. M, Stew- art, San Francisco, National Hotel. A PLEASING CONTRAST. It is & pleasure to cell attention to the manner in which the work is being done at the southwest corner of Market and Third streets. The old building on the lot, which is to be succeeded by the Spreckels marble tower (the new home of The San Francisco CALL), has been torn down expeditiously and without dust or any other public annoyance. There has been no obstruction of trafiie, it will be observed. The ordinances as to fences and sidewalks have been strictly complied with, and yet the contractors have done their work as quickly and apparently as easily as if they had taken half the street for it. No doubt the new build- ing will be erected in an equally businesslike and respectable way. The operations at Marketand Third streets are in striking contrast.to similar operations we might mention, in the case of which the con- tractors have paid no attention to the rights of the public or to the ordinances. Butin no case bave they been interfered with.—San Fran- cisco Daily Report. e DAVIE FERRY STOCKHOLDERS, To the Editor of the San Francisco **Call’—SIR: I notice an editorial in your issue of this morning headed “An Amusing Discovery,” based upon what you assert was the disclosure of a secret, viz.: the nawmes of the stockholders of the Davie Ferry and Transportation Com- pany. The facts are that over & year ago this suit of McGovern's was commenced in the name of Joseph E. Shain. When Shain_ab- sconded it wes dismissed, and commenced in the name of Curtin. So far as any secret was concerned, McGovern was given the stock book, and copied the names for the purpose of bring: ing his suit. he subscribers to the Davie ferry stock con- sider it a “roll of honor” and that they were the first people in the State to deul the Octopus a staggering blow. Among other practical results was the reduction of %lre between Oak- land, Alameda and Berkeley which obtains to-day, damaging the railroad hundreds of thousands of dollars and to that extent bene- fiting the Beople. 1t did more than the costly Railroad Commission has done since its incep- tion, for it gave the Octopus a stroke blow between the eyes. The stockholders of the Davie Company are not composed of the stuff out of which cowards are made. Thev are proud of their courage and munfixoofl- EN Oakland, Sept. 16, 1895. AN, THE CALL INDORSED, The dailies, with the exception of THE CALL, are vying with each other in their efforts not to permit a single word spoken at the Durrant trial to escape. THE CALL is pursuing & course which is approved of by all intelligent readers. The busy man does not care for & page of minute detalls, nor do we care to welcome a criminal court record to our homes. Let such details be published in a court journal, that those who desire such detailed information may get it. It sbould not be blazoned tforth from the front pages of our home papers.—San Francisco Mission Mail. ABRIGHT REPORTER'S SUCOERSFUL DE- TECTIVE WORK. A SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE CORRESPONDENT SECURES A MURDER INDICTMENT FOR THE MAN ‘WHO SUED His PAPER FOR LIBEL. Dr. Joseph C. Hearne started out with a libel suit for $100,000 against the San Francisco Chronicle. He finished by being indicted for murder. Arthur L. Clarke, the Chicago corre- spondent of the newspaper, worked up the ev- idence that will turn a libel suit into a murder trial. Dr. Hearne and his wife were arrested re- cently at Hannibal, Mo., charged by the Grand Jury with the murder of Amos J. Stillwell on the night of December 28, 1888. For several years after the crime was committed public in- terest in it remeined unabated, but durinf the last two or three years the matter quieted down, and_had not tne doctor stirred “Q the case agein by his libel suit, says the New York Fourth Estate, it does not ldpgenr likely that any further attempts would have been maae to find the murderers. The story of the crime and the subsequent movements of Dr. Hearne and his wife have been printed many times. Mrs. Hearne had been the widow of the murdered man. She married the doctor less than a year after the tragedy, and, at the time the libel suit was brought, the couple were living in San Diego, ‘al. A short time before the suit was filed they had been divorced. They were Aubseguemly remarried, the law notallowing married people to testify against one another. The divorce proceedings had been carried on secretly, but tne San Francisco Chronicle correspondent in San Diego heard of the matter and wrote an article for his paper, giving the facts, together with a brief outline of the Hannibal murder. Other newspapers had been publishing arti- cles for years connecting Dr. and Mrs. Hearne to a greater or less extent with the crime, and the coupie had not brought any suit for libel. But, singular as it may seem, the doctor at once sued the Chronicle for $100,000. 1t became necessary for the San Francisco vaper tosubstantiate thestatements madein the article. So Mr. Clarke, the Chicago correspon- dent, was instructed to go to Hannibal end WOrK up the case. When he got there he found the task a diffi- cult one, Years had gone by, witnesses had died and memories had grown blank. The murder was still a matter of general talk and Dr. and Mrs. Hearne were freely spoken of in connection with it. but Mr. Clarke wanted something more than mere talk. He wanted facts and he set about getting them. Nine grand juries had investigated the famous case and had found no indictments. The matter had come to be regarded as in- soluble, and for several years the different Frnnd Juries had not taken it up at all. In the ace of these difficulties the Chicago newspaper man started in single handed to run down the murderers. This wes during last March. Since then Mr Clark has made numerous_trips to Hannibal, and has visited Joplin, St. Louis and La Plata, Mo., and Quincy, 111., in search of evidence. It is on this evidence thatthe doctor and his wife have been indicted. HAS MADE FRIENDS, It 1s pandering to & most depraved taste to reprint and dwell upon the nauseous details of the Durrant case as are brought out in the trial now goingon in San Francisco. If the story had not been told and re-told with all its hideous detail there would be an excuse in printing the news, but since all who read the papers have once waded through all the testi- mony that is now being brought out, it is cer- tainly unnecessary for the larger papers to give a verbatim report of the trial. The San Francisco CALL has made many friends in this regard by giving simply a synopsis of the case as it is laid open from day to day, and then it gives a fuller account for those who desire it, but carefully excludesall the nasty and sensational parts of the testi- mony. Such a report is all that is needed, and while a certain class may enjoy salacious de- tails and hair-raising sensational testimony it is not within the province of & decent news- paper to pander to such depraved tastes, and no editor with the least sense of whet is decent will print such stuff.—Stockton Record. REUNION, They’re havin’ big reunions from the mountains to the sea— The boys who marched with Sherman and the lads who fought with Lee; An’ the country fs in clover, like we'd never had & row, “The cruel war is over,” and we're ail a singin’ 0! he star-spangled banuer, Oh, long may it wave, O'er the land of the free And the home of the brave.” Here's one that comes from Texas; another hails from Maine; Another writes ¢ “Illinols,” from battlefields of grain; And there you se “old Georgia,” with the suulight on her brow, For “the cruel war Is over,” and they sing to- gether now: “The star-spangled banner, Oh, long may it wave, O'er the land of the free And the home of the brave.” So soclable and friendly! a smile on every face: The South serves up the tarkey, and the North is sayin’ grace! Were_the daisies ever darkened? Did we ever have a row? The bells of peace are rngin’ and the boys are singin’ now: “The star-spangled banner, Oh, long may it wave, O'er the land of the free And the home of the brave.” Chicago Times-Herald, PEOPLE TALEKED ABOUT. Sisaburi Mikonbat, the Japanese who saved the life of the Czarowitz of Russia when in Japan in 1891, was declared exempt from service during the late war by the Mikado. Mrs. Julia L. Decamp, who died at Lyons Falls, N. Y., last week, was the owner of a whole township in the Empire State. It is known as Township Seven and is in Herkimer County. Two French Deputies have united in intro- ducing & bill to punish the voter who refuses 10 vote at elections. For the first offense he is is to be posted and for the second he is to be disfranchised, thus making ‘‘the punishment fit the crime.” In Mr. Passmore, the publisher, one of the most notable men associated with Mr. Spur- geon has passed away. He was a prominent member of the Tabernacle, and it was he who suggested the weekly issue of Mr. Spurgeon’s sermons, which proved such a success. A marriage of Interest to the entire world is that of Count Savorguax de Brazza, the Congo explorer. He will marry Mlle. d¢ Chambrun this autumn and will, with his bride, rejoin his post on the Congo. Mlle. de Chambrun belongs to a family famous for the leve of painting and music. The Prince of Naples, heir to the throne of Italy, who has made more than one round of the European courts in search of a wife, is a dark-eyed, slim-built, profoundly fragile-look- ing youth of five-and-twenty, with just a faint sprinkling of down on his upper lip. He wears asingle eyeglass and dresses otherwise after the fashion of the average English dude; yet withal he is quite clever, being an accomplished linguist; and, because of hisextraordinarily re- tentive memory, he is looked upon as a sort of royal encyclopedia. In manner he is exceed- ingly gracious, He has the demeanor of a ‘mature man of the world, and the enthusiasm and freshness-of a boy. He is deeply devoted to his clever and charming mother. "He sends her two long telegrams every day when he is away from her, and he also writes to her each day a letter, giving a full account of his day’s worke The Sultan of Turkey has only four legal wives. He has, however, 300 others. Six thousand persons are fed daily at the palace; twenty men are kept constantly buying fish for the palace, and forty others have to carry in the tish that are bought. Ten tons of fish a week are eaten, and nearly nine tons of bread a day, one ton of rice and 600 pounds of sugar. The food of the Sultan is cooked by one man and his aids, and no others touch it. It is cooked in silver vessels, and when done each kettle is sealed by u slip of paper and a stamp, and this is broken in the presence of his Majesty by the High Chamberlain, who takes one spoonfut of each separate kettle before the Sultan tastes it. This is to guard against poison. The food is always served up in the same vessel in which it is cooked, and these are often of gold; but, when of baser metal the kettle is set into a rich_golden, bell-s .ged holder, which is held by wve while the Sul- tan eats. The Sultan ne uses a plate. He takes all his food from the little kettles, and never uses a table and rarely a knife and fork. Probabilities. There are no certainties in prospective poli- tics. A Republican clean sweep in ell the States outside of the Gulf tier holding elections this year is probable, however.—St. Louis Globe-Demoorat. IDEAS OF WEE;I'EBN EDITORS. The farmer who has been kicking over the low prices he has been paid for his hay this year will be surprised to know that upward of $20,000,000 worth has been imported from Canada and other adjoining countries since the Gorman bill passed,and the same is true, although to a greater extent, in regard to wool. They afl come in fre6 of duty now. and the de- mand for the home product has fallen off where the imported material could be more conveniently reached. How many of our farmers in the face of such iacts as these can vote a free-trade ticket? The last few years has been something of a revelation to many of the old-time Democrats, and they are now ready to listen to reason.—Stockton Record. Education and moral training as well as charity should begin at home, and the foreign missionaries who expend so much money and waste their lives endeavoring to inculcate civilized and Christian ideas and sentiments into the minds and hearts of the heathen in foreign lands could accomplish infinitely more good with the time and money in the lower strata of society in the large cities of our own country. The money would relieve much distress among the poverty stricken, and the male and female teachers of Christianity will find here a broad field of labor in which they can accomplish more appreciable results.— Grass Valley Union. Yachtsmen in the East are commenting on the toughness of the Defender’s topmast, which was abie to stand the strain of a thirty-mile race after it had been iniu\'ed by a collision. This “Oregon pine’ from Puget Sound beats the world.—Seattle (Wash.) Post-Intelligencer. When our Washington daughter comes to honor her old mother sufficient to quit ships ping Oregon hops as Washington, then, and not until then, rhould Miss Wash talk about the Defender’s mast not being Oregon pine. Oregon pine, however, is Oregon pine, whether cut on the shores of the Tacoma Ocean, on Mount Seattle or in Oregon.—Salem (Or.) States- man. 8ir John Schulz, who has been appointed the Canadian member of the Alaskan boundary commission, is an old Northwest man, and may be taken to understand the business given him in charge about as well as any one who can be suggested. In making choice of the American commissioner the President should use the same judgment as the Canadian authorities have displayed and select & man who has a practical knowledge of new and little known regions.—Seattle (Wash.) Times. The San Francisco papers, in describing the electrical display at Sacramento, continue to refer to the electrical line from Folsom to Sac- ramento as the first long-distance line in the State. This is not so, asthe electric power line from San Antonio Canyon to Pomona and San Bernardino, a distance ef twenty-eight miles, has been in operation for several years, and the Redlands line has also been working for some time.—Los Angeles Times. One of the unpleasant results of the Durrant trial is the dragging into newspaper gossip of the names of young ladies who have had noth- ing whacever to do with the case. The em- phatic denial Miss Ida M. Clayton had given to stories connecting her with the missing wit ness, who apparently only exists in the imagi- nation of gossip mongers, was confidently ex- Eecled by all who knew the young lady.—San rancisco Bulletin. Every time San Francisco is furnished a new setof Health officers a thorough investigation of the filth holes in the Chinatown district is made. Thet is abbutall thatis heard of the matter until & new board is appointed.—Hum- boldt Times. The snow-bound Eastern dairyman figures on three acres to the cow. In California one acre properly cultivated will keep two cows. S0 one acre in Yolo County is worth six on the other side for dairy purposes.—Woodland Mail. As THE CALL very truly and appropriately says, “One reason why the United States hag no right to interfere in Armenian affairs is that she has not yet made any attempt to pre- vent massacres in Cuba.”—Lakeport Bee. There are sixty-four counties in Texas with- out a newspaper and fifteen without a post- office. No great wonder that Texas is the Lan- ner Democratic State in the Union.—Alameda Telegram. The San Francisco CaLL is the cleanest and most reliable peper published in San Fran- cisco, and at the same time it is fearless in exposing wrongdoing.—Colusa Gazettte. The manner of publishing the City news in brief adopted by THE CALL is highly appreci- ated bé many who have no time to read de- tails.—Chico l{n!erpflse. THOUGHTS OF EASTERN EDITORS. The Minneapolis Census Frauds. It is just as we expected. The official popu- lation of Minneapolis is 192,383. This is a more audacious fraud than was dreamed possi- ble, even to the trained experts in padding of the great center of that ingenious industry. The population of Minneapolis by the census of five vears agowas 164,738, and even that Tested under the strong suspicion of being padded, in spite of the arrest and conviction of some of the men who undertook to swell it to 200,000 by the fabrication of fictitious names. So that thisalleged census would show & gain of 27,645, equal to 17 per cent over that i 1890. At least 20,000 of this is pure fraud. St. Paul Pioneer Press. Petty Litigation. There are Aldermen and Justices of the Peace who will hold every petty case that is brought before them to court in order to get fees from them. Such administration of the law is subversive of good order and the peace of society. Tt encourages neightorhood quar- rels and brings the majesty of the law into con- tempt and disrepute. Nothing could be more damaging to the Eublic estimate of the ma- chinery of justice than this mercenary encour- agement of litigation about trifles that ought to be settled outside & magistrate’'s office.— Pittsburg Dispatch. ‘What Ails Us. The financial troubles of this country are chargeable not more to vicious legislation and extravagance of government than to the specu- lation and gambling in which the American ople have been led by great expectations, mb?tl of improvidence, bonanza fevers an the boom disease to indulge wildly. The will- ingness of creditors to trust irresponsible cus- tomers and to make their bad debts out of good customers has been & noticeable feature of the American method of doing business.—Galves- ton News. « The Gypsy Moth. The fact that the gypsy moth is hatching out the seconad brood of caterpillars for the season in Woburn shows that this insect threatens ater ravages than were expected. If it can atch out two broods in an exceptionally ‘warm season here in New England, what will it not do if it ever finds a foothold in the South and attacks the cotton plant?—Boston Herald. Should Reform the Senate. Since Niagara was harnessed and the lower house of Congress reformed, the people have had hope that even the United States Senate would in time pull in the collar and help the people. The days of the Brices and Gormans and Voorheeses ought to be numbered,—Chi- cago Inter Ocean. Azote’s Career. It was only five years ago that Azote was pull- ing a plow on a California ranch. Now he has a record of 2:043f the fastest time made on any racetrack this season, Azote’s career af- fords another illustretion of what a great coun- try this is to grow up in.—Boston Herald. One Too Many. Senator Hill says that we have too many laws. It is certain that the Democratic Con- 5reu passed one too many laws. Billions of ollars would have been saved to the people of the United States if the tariff law had not been passed.—Cleveland News and Herald. THE BRITISH BREAKFAST. To the Editor of the Daily Graphic—SiR: My wife and I have been staying at Eastbourne and Hastings for some weeks, and during that period never once saw a shrimp or prawn upon the breakifast table, though we stayed at two of the principal hotels. It may be because we stayed at those hotels, where the taste for these innocent and delightful crustacea may be deemed low and degraded. I ventured to ap- proach the head waiter on the subject, who murmured something about the rough weather lately baving diminished the supply. As he spoke, we could see, from the hu% ‘windows, numerous vendors of the coveted delicacy, with ample and well-filled baskets. So we came away shrimpless, having consoled our- selves as best we might with the usual British breakfast—monotonous and stodgy—fried sole o efin and bacon. How is it that the waiter mind is unable to conceive the idea of an e; bl,mn hard, singularly indi- gestible apology for food, humorously called ‘bacon in the country? ‘We would have bought our own lhflmgfl qQr prawns, but their introduction to the hotel might have wounded some susceptibilities, and we mlfht have been charged for “corkage.” Yours faithfully, H. STACY MARKS. 5 St. Edmund’s Terrace, Regent's Park, NW., ‘August 26. —London Graphic. unaccompanied SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS. Clefi—They tell me your daughter Julia is quite asinger. Has she a good voice? Is her method— Staff—Can’t say so much about her voice, but her method is superb. She never sings when I am at home.—Boston Transcript. The young man had asked for a horse that was gentle and safe. As he drove out of the stable the liveryman said, “The spring on the right side of the buggy is the stronger.” And the young man blushed until his ears looked like a sunset in a chromo. —Truth. Flowery Fields—Kind lady, cud yer help an honest man dat’s got a sick wife and ten small children starvin’ ter death? Mrs. Goodman—Why are they starving? Can’t you get work? Flowery Fields—'Tain’t dat, mum. Terday’s deir regular starvin’ day; termorrer I'll hev ’em down wid de measles, and next day I'll hey ’em dead an’ no money ter bury ’em. I gives my customers variety, mum.—Judge. Next-door Neighbor—My new organ has twenty stops. The Sufferer—Why don’t you use them once in a while?>—Syracuse Post. Hoax—There goes & man who once took the nerve completely out of me. Joax—What is he, a fighter? ‘Hoax—No; a dentist.—Philadelphia Record. «Thig s & terrible world,” said the misan- thrope—‘a dreadful world.” «Y-a-a-5,” replied Cholly, “it does seem so at times; still the Pwince of Waleslives on it, you know.”—Washington Times. Uncle—Well, Bobby, what did you learn at school to-day? Bobby—TI learned that the world is round and turns on hinges like that globe in the library, Uncle—Well, what do you think of that? Bobby—I think, uncle, that they are asking me to believe & good deal for asmall boy,.— London Tid-Bits. BACON Printing Company, 508 Clay streat. - ROBERCS, 220 Sutter—“Cards by the mitlion,*» e GEO. W, MONTEITH, law offices, Crocker bldg.* ————————— FALL OPENING.—French pattern bonnets and hats Wednesday and Thursday, September 18 and 19, at I E. Connor’s, 36 Geary street. * — HUsSBAND'S Calcined Magnesia—Four firste premium medals awarded; more agreeable to the taste and smaller dose than other mag- nesta. For sale only ingbottles with registered trade-mark label. . ———————— Men who know what is good for the stomach, and who have had experience in the use of liquors, always call for the J. F. Cutter brand of Kentucky Bourbon. It has always been a favorite and is pure and healthful at all times. E. Martin & Co., 411 Market street, are the agents for this celebrated whisky, and they are also agents for the Argonaut brand, which has become so popular. * S e “I understand that you are playing the races,” said the employer, “We cannot permit that, you know."” “But I am on theinside,” explained the clerk. I always win—nearly. “That’s just what we are kicking on. First thing we know you will have enough money ahead to feel that you wart a raise in salary.” —Indiatapolis Journal Hoop's Sarsaparilla gives . vitality, richness and purity to the blood and thus enables it to supply every nerve, organ and tissue of the body with the qualities upon which health depends. - - ‘WHEN ill with pains and exhaustion PABKER'S GINGER TONIC i8 your surest relief. PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM aids the halr growth. e e LADIES are greatly benefited by the use of Dr. Stegert’s Angostura Bitters, the renowned South American tonic. e e Smith—T suppose the lawyers have all the money of the Coldplunks’ estate by this time. Robinson—Not only that, but they are going to have the heirs examined in supplementary proceedings, in order to collect balances still due.—Truth. ROYAR. Baking Powder Absolotely Pare Furniture At Auction SIX CARLOADS Consignment from Grand Raps ids, Mich. Finest stock ever brought to this Coast. Assorted Bedroom, Library, Dining-room and Parlor Furniture, and Carpets. Something to suit everybody. Everything goes—no reserve. Come and see the goods to-day and to-morrow (exhibition days.) SALE DAYS—THURSDAY and FRIDAY (September 19 and 20), commencing 10 A. M. " Don’t miss this. You’ll never get such a chance again. 747 MARKET ST. Opp. Grant Avenue. JOSEPH T. TERRY, Auctioneer. W*RADAMS KILLER, CURES ALL DISEASES. 1330 Market St., San Francisco.