The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 22, 1895, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, NUVEMBER 22, 18Y5. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, or and Proprietor. weel, by ¢ o year. by mail.... ALL "ALL, One Sunday CaLL, WEEKLY CAL ‘alifornia. EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. ... Main—1874 BRANCH OFFICES : 530 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open until hone...... open until nth and Mis n streets; open Mission street; open until 9 o'clock. reet; open until o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : 908 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE : Rooms 81 and 32, 34 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent. Newfoundland has many fisheries, but none so scaly as her banks The Sultan a Abdul Hamed Khan, but he belies it for he won’t. . if the next local issue lection. Tt begins to look would be a special Chicago is waiting for the convention to come to her, but we are going for it. 1f we must have a new charter, it would be better to have it sooner than later. In making prey do not forget that chari is a part of it. There are few men in these dayswho can s a turkey without a happy thought. talks against the Gorman tariff, but it leaves the conntry. Cleveland at last holdsa unique position: hei The poolroom 2 kind of blatherskite iness that should be made to shut up. Harrison nor was their wicked never knew what strides the new WO as making until she began to wear bioomers. e Ashworth trial may ter- eet contractors will be more ng that none of the fights for pubiic improvements cism. 1d not find liberty in his 3 we will give him rope enough for a fui the delegates to 1get as good a coming to omal Convention wil show as they will give us. There may be fun in shooting folly as it fiies, but it would be more profitable to hit | lead the Junta out of the that is all. There is no nd for Democracy , it may justly claim to great step forward. sachusetts offers Democracy three \didates for the Presidency, but she does not promise a single electoral vote, very movement for the public welfare leads to a battie-held. There'must always gt befora there can be a victory. New York Sun accuses Chicago of shing and it certainly does seem to be maki swim. Cuban insurgents have ordered the The sugar won't island. put a stop to raising cain in the The safest thing to say of the weather probabilities at present is that they are too good to swear at and too changeable to swear by. More earthquakes have been felt in the East, but the people have the option of siaking tbe country if they do not wish to be shaken. In sending three warships to Turkish waters, Olney has done well, but he would have done better to send a dozen to Venezuela. As Canada is the biggest sideshow to our circus it is worth noting that Cleveland has a considerable third-term support over there. General Campos will have to wait a lictle longer for cool weather for his aggressive campaign. Things are still too hot for him in Cuba. In comparison with the government of other cities that of San Francisco is well enough, but in comparison with its oppor- tunities it looks bad. To demand the release of Waller as a matter of right and then accept it as a matter of grace may be diplomacy, but there is no vigor in it. The rate war is making a real Thanks- giving season for the Portland people, as they can travel to San Francisco cheaper than they can stay at home. In the pressure of other things we must not forget Mr. Mills’ proposition of a free market. That was one of the good things that ought to be pushed along. The good work done by the Board of Health in the past gives the people confi- dence that in investigating the water sup- ply it will make a clean thing of it. By the time the Supreme Court gets through pruning off the powers of the Mayor that official will be too much dis- figured to serve even as a figurehead. 1f the state of the public funds permit an increase of the salary of Inspector Dockery, he ought to have it, for he has certainly earned it by the faithful per- formance of disagreeable duties. Now that Chicago is only three days from San Fraacisco her people ought not to overlook the advantage there will be in an opportunity to see a National conven tien and California at the same time. arations for Thankgiving | . © | revenues, mn—lssfi plantations to close up, but that | publican form of government. | expense of I €1z has published wi A LESSON FOR FREE-TRADERS. Mr. Larke, the Canadian envoy who has been trying to induce the people of New | Zealend to enter into reciprocal free-trade relations with Canada, has not found the ready agreement that he may have ex- pected. Even his appeal that such re- procity would be another *silken bond™ to hold the colonies together in the em- | pire has been flouted, and his arguments that the trade would be beneficial have been met by the reply that the benefits would accrue wholly to Canada and at the ew Zealand. The A in commenting upon the propos “It is pretty clear, and the public has voiced the fact with no uncertain sound, that the introduction of Canadian pine free of customs, or its in- troduction practically free of freight, by heavily subsidized steamers, would be equally ruinous to all concerned in any way with the timber interests and furni- ture and wood works of New Zealand. It is not that we think that absolutely free ports would be an injury to any country, but if our workers and our traders are heavily taxed on all the necessaries of life, and then have to go into competition with the low priced and Chinese labor that fells the forests and works the mills on the forest frontages of the deep sea sounds and rivers of British Columbia, they will be simply driven out of their own field.” The New Zealanders, it appears, have learned the lesson that our free-traders are too stupid to learn, even after the hard experience of the two years of depression. New Zealand not even to maintain the “‘silken bond of the empire” will surrender her industries to the ruinous competition of Chinese labor and subsidized steamers in British Columbia. With her people business and sentimenc are not mixed with fo! They are willing enough, doubt- less, to maintain the British empire, but they intend to maintain New Zealand in- dustry along with it. The Democratic free-traders have ex- posed our lumber industry at close range tothe very competition which the New Zealanders object to, even when protected by the immense distance that lies between them and their would-be rivals. Although there is now an urgent need for greater these free-traders of ours are still opposed to raising that revenue by customs duties that. would afford protec- tion to our wool and lumber. [t is cer- tainly a strange folly that has rendered so many otherwise intellizent Americans more devoted to British ideas of free trade than even the British colonists them- selves. SPAIN HAS A STRONG FRIEND. El Comercio, an able paper publ C: panish - English hed in this City, takes THE severely to task for a recent editorial rting that the Cuban rebellion is grow- | ing, that General Campos has proved him- self unable thus far to suppress it, and that the dissension in the home Government of Spamn and the apparent expectation of General Campos that the United States will recognize the belligerent rizhts of the insurgents seem to indicate that such in- terference would not only be proper and timely but would possibly be welcomed Spain as a solution of a difficulty from which it seems unlikely to escape without humiliation and great loss of life and treasure. Our contemporary declares that the news upon which our conclusions were based was false. “It is evident,” 1t asserts, “that the seeds sown by the filibustering center established in Boston have pro- duced a good crop, when so faithfully and with such conviction the falsehoods and calumnies there invented are upheld and pagated by said paper.’ Elsewhere it : It would be most disgraceful for should our silence in the matterauthor- ize such publication of groundless and highty offensive judgment on the nation | to which we take pride in appertaining.” As for the news from Cuba which THE know of no reason to doubt its accuracy, and our contem- porary has given us none except in saying that it emanates from a filibustering cen- ter at Boston. If Tur CaLn doubted the accuracy of its news service it would re- gard itself as having been grossly imposed upon in this instance, and would take prompt measures for redress. But it be- lieves its news to be correct. It adopted The United Press service because it be- lieved that to be reliable. The declaration by our contemporary’s 2 too much fussin the | editor that he takes pride in appertaining to Spain precludes any assumption that he is an American citizen or has any sym- pathy with the American idea of a re- But as it seems safe to assume that he loves Spain, her monarchical form of Government and her oppression of the Cubans better than a republican form of government, better | than the American love of freedom and r than the institutions, aims and as- merican people, the won- der is, not that he should so bitterly ar- raign those who sympathize with the Cu- | bans in their effort to throw off oppression and secure autonomy, but that, knowing of the existence of a filibustering center at | Boston, he should fail to assist the country to which he proclaims alleeiance in bring- ing it before the exterminating notice of our Government. In its readiness to sup- prees filibustering aimed at the security of Spain’s hold on Cuba our Government has set an example of ioyalty to its friendly relations with Spain which the Spanish patriot who conducts our contemporary might well emulate. It would be interesting to know how many of E! Comercio’s Spanish-speaking readers are in sympathy with the senti- ments which it expresses; how many of them prefer the monarchy of Spain to the republic of the United States; how many are ready to deride the efforts of oppressed peoples to throw off the voke of a mon- archy and exercise the inherent and in- alienable right of intelligent human beings to have a Governmeut of theirown making and conduct. We donot believe that there are many. We are confident that every Spanish-speaking person born on this con- tinent is a freeman and republican to the marrow in his bones, and that those nu- merous natives of Spain who have re- nounced allegiance to the country of their birth and sworn fealty to the institutions of the United States have hearts that beat in pity for those suffering under monarch- ical oppression wherever they are found, and that they cherish a generous sympathy for all honorable efforts to aid these wretched, helpless and worthy victims of tyranny. IRRIGATION IN NLBRASEA. It can hardly be pleasant for Judge Ross of California to read what the Supreme Court of Nebraska has just done, but ad- vocates of the California irrigation law have something to console them and pos- sibly to exert an influence on the Supreme Court of the United States in its determi- nation of the appeal from Judge Ross’ de- cision. The news from Nebraska is very meager. It is haraly sufficient to serve as a basis for an analysis, but it is this, as it has been telegraphed to THE Carn: ‘‘The case just decided was entitled The Alfalfa Irriga- tion District vs. Collins, an appeal from "made upon our Government. { the noble Russian heroes, and the outcome Kean County. The district act provides for the organization of irrigation districts and for taxation of property to pay the cost of constrnction of ditches and other necessary works. The act is copied after the California law, the constitutionality of which is a question now pending in the United States Supreme Court."” Taken in connection with the announce- ment that ‘‘the constitutionality of Ne- braska’s irrigation law has been sustained by the Supreme Court,”’ the news looks straight and intelligent. It means to say that the State of Nebraska, recognizing the necessity of irrigation and of laws to pro- vide for meeting the necessity; has not only followed the law of California but also the decisions of our courts upholding the law, Judee Ross and his famous adverse decision to the contrary netwithstanding. It means, further, that the States which know what they want and have the intelli- eene: to go about securing it have courts in sympathy with their necessities. And they are giving the lederal courts to un- derstand that there is such a thing as impertinent meddling in State affairs. 1i it should be deemed unlikely that the Supreme Court of the United States would deign to notice either the needs of a State or the rulings of its highest court, the Congressmen from those Western States which need National irrigation laws have an opportunity to show the extent of their combined influence on National legislation. THE KOVALEV VERDICT. From the history of Ivan Kovalev and his treatment in California it is hoped that our people have learned a lesson which will abide with them. Kovalev and a number of his associates were desperate criminals held in penal confinement on the northern Pacific coast by Russia. They escaped, came to San Francisco, were found here by agents of Russia and a de- mand for their surrender to Russia was Instantly a tremendous hullaballoo was raised in cer- tain quarters, principally the local sensa- tional press. It wasannounced that these men were Russian patriots whom the Great White Czar was hounding, because they were opposed to the tyranny which he exercised. The matter went into our federal courts, where it was decided on treaty grounds that Russia’s demand should not be complied with. The desperate criminals were set at lib- erty. Enough had peen learned to inform us that besides being common criminals they were possibly nihilists. Whether these dangerous men really were nibilists v posed as such in order to rouse sympathy on the score of being opposed to the Czar's government is a matter of no consequence. It ought to have been suffi- cient to reflect that a nihilist, like an anarchist, is an enemy of established gov- ernment, and that therefore the nourish- ing of the nihilistic sentiment in this country is the codaling of an enemy of An,erican institutions. Thereare nihilists whose opposition to constituted anthority is contined to a desire to see the throne of Russia overturned and a republic estab- lished. Such a desire is not incompatible with American citizenship. But Kovaley and his companions be- longed to a very different order. "Thev represented the criminal type in its most degraded and most dangerous form. Being of the Jowest and most depraved order of intelligence, their barboring could not possibly express an intelligent sympathy for any political idea. To make heroes of them was merely toarm them with greater power to steal, murder and rob. And yet they were transformed from a dangerous menace to life and property into pictur- esque martyrs to Russian despotism. Money was raised for them. They were placed on exhibition and people flocked to see them, glad to pay for the privilege. The end of the silly dream hascome. Desperate murders and other crimes have been committed hereabout by persons whose identity hasnever been discovered. An old German and his wife named We- ber were brutally murdered at Sacra- mento. A merchant of San Jose named Dowdigan was waylaid and assaulted one night by armed highwaymen, but he had the grit to fight and left one of the bandits dead on the field. After awhile the sharp men of the law turned their attention to of it is that they are known to have mur- dered the Webers and assaulted Dowdi- gan. What further mischief they have done may never be known. Kovalev, one of the surviving murderers, has been tried, convicted and treated with a verdict to the gallows.. The raw-head- and-bloody-bones of the mysterious third section of course strutted and made faces through the trial. The way for that had been paved by the maudlin folly of San Francisco. The next time that Russia makes a demand upon us for desperate thieves and murderers who have escaped from her bastiles, it is hoped we shall re- member that we have the lives and prop- erty of our own people to regard. “"THE CALL'S” STERLING VALUE. Oaklend Daily News. In yesterday's News appeared an article ad- dressed to business men, showing how neces- sary it is that the latter should show some sympathy for and interest in men who are struggling to live by their labor in spite of the crushing inroads of labor-saving machinery upon their source of income. That the gravity of the situation was not overstated and that the News, and labor gene- s not without friends and indorsement his matter, is clearly shown by recent action in San Francisco. The San Francisco CaiL, which is mow by tar the ablest and best newspaper on the coast, has contracted wtih the Typographical Union not to put in typeseiting machines for a year and a hall. Tt was led to this action by the consideration that labor must live: a matter to which it would be well for them if its contemporaries would occasionally give a thought. This course upon the part of THE CaLL will keep employed and able to live some seventy-five or eighty men, whereas the intro- duction of machines would have left but ten or fiiteen with a source of livelihood from their labor. This is a matter that means much to the men, and also to those busitess men of whom they buy their supplies, for neither of these classes can live comfortably unless the other is prosperous. For this action alone, to say nothing of its sterling value as a news- paper, THE CALL should have the united and active support of all classes of labor on the coast, TRUE JOURNALISM. Albany (Or.) Democrat. The editor of the San Francisco CALL, in an article in an Eastern paper, says he doesn't believe in coupon schemes, circus methods. lotteries, etc., by newspapers to get circula- tion. He believes in legitimate, straightfor- ward newspeper work, giving the news in a clean way. His head is level. The same may be carried into any line of business. It pays in the long run to do a straightiorward busi- ness without any prize elephants, etc., 10 draw trade. What the public wants 1s just dealing in all lines of business. —— INDORSEMENT OF MINERS. Merced Sun. Sunday’s San Francisco CALL has a long arti- cle on Coulterville mines, the second it hi published within a fortnight. The amount ot attention that the metropolitan dailiesare now paying to mining matters is indicative of the way in which popular interest is tending. The fi"l“ quartz claims of Mariposa are being well ept 10 the front, a policy that receives the hearty indorsement of all 9ld-time miners who have a knowledge of the district, AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Governor John E. Jones of Nevada, who has been at the Palace for a few days, to which he came from the sagebrush State because of ill health, is recovering slowly. He does not ven- ture out much and when he does it is with an nnsteady step, for he is weak. A physician at- tends him regularly and he thinks he will soon be in petter shape. The Governor may be called a Nevada pio- neer. He came to Iowa City in 1856 from Wales and helped build the Union Pacific road toward the West from the Missouri some years later. He was one of the first in the rush to GOVERNOR JOHN E. JONES OF NEVADA. White Pine, and later settled at Eureka. Eight years ago he was elected Surveyor-General, and last fall was successful as a gubernatorial candidate against A. C. Cleveland, who was known as a railroad candidate. Governor Jones is connected with a colo- nization enterprise in the Pahrump Valley, in which several Chicago men are interested. The lands extend through Nye and Lincoln Counties and over the line of California into San Bernardino County. “The lands extend over an area of 30 by 60 miles,” said the Governor yesterday, “and already filings have been made for from 100,- 000 to 150,000 acres. In regard to the new colony enterprise, about half a dozen families have come out already from the East and lo- cated, and I got a letter the other day saying a dozen more familes were on their way. The valley is to be watered by an artesian system. There is an abundance of water to be had with- out great effort or cost, and ere long it will be- come one of the most productive regions of the West.”” J.J. Connolly, Deputy United States Consul at Kobe, Japan, was among the arrivals on the steamer Rio de Janeiro yesterday. He is on his way to New York, and will be absent sev- eral weeks. The Deputy Consul does not have & very high idea of the probability of this coast getting the shipbuilding for Japan. “There ig, [ fear, nothing in it,” said he. “The representatives of the American yards were there recently, but they couldn’t find out anything, and just what Japan is yet going to do remains a closely guarded secret. Japan appears to want more ships, but out there among most classes the impression prevails that to get ships made so far away, although it has been done formerly, would add too greatly to the cost. This, however, may possibly be overcome, 50 that yet some of the warships may be manufactured. As yet, though, noth- ing has been given out as to the exact inten- tion of the Japanese officials, one of the most influential of whom is Count Ito. “Kobe, where 1 have been stationed since June, I fonnd a very pleasant place, and the members of the foreign colony are very friendly to each other. Iam making & hurried business trip, largely in the interest of my father, Consul Connol UNPATRIOTIC PEFFER« [The Kansas Populist Senator has declared war on official eulogies in Congress and the lavishment of flowers at National expense in funerals of state. ] Peffer, the Populist Senator, he Kicks at the services over the dead— Kicks at the eulogies solemnly read Over the great, when, at heaven’s decree, IThe mortal is dust and the spirit is fres, Peffer, the Pooulist Senator, would That the Republic to merit were blind— Ingrate, to Pefter-like narrows confined, Scorning the value of patriot blood. Skeptical always of motives of good. Pefter, the Populist Senator, may o Strive 10 put eulogies under the ban, Faith, hope and love do not enter his plan. “Dead men are useless,” this Poffer may say; “What Is a corpse 10 us® Shove it away ! Populist Senator Peffer was not. Moided like statesmen theirtimes who impress; Problems of nations—they trouble him less Than cost of the wreaths on & little grave-plot— Of tributes the lust to mortality's lot. Populist Senator Peffer, this land Tolerates as fleeting as you; Yet, while it clings to the red, white and blue, Heroes departed we'll honor full grand— Patrlot fircs by their deeds shall be fanned. Populist Senator Peffer, in flowers, A ould be hidden the graves of ourgreat. S they the people. and these are the State. Theirs be euloginm—all héroes of ours: Their end, from the ages the richest of dowers. Populist Senator Peifer will die— Die, and his name, void of fame, perish too; Yet. when bis cold clay is buried irom view, Surely sweet Charity, hovering nigh, O’er him will drop both & flower and a sigh, A READER OF THE TTMES, LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE FLORENCE CRITTENTON HOME. Goop WORK THAT Is BEING ACCOMPLISHED IN A QUIET WAY. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—S1r: Realizing the importance of the work being done by the Florence Crittenton Home in this City jor n mosi unfortunate class, I desire to give to the readers of THE CALL the benefit of a recent visit to and inspection of this institu- tion. This home has been in existence for the past six years, and during that time has been doing in & quiet and unostentatious manner & work that of its kind is notequaled on the Pacific Coast. Starting with an indebtedness of $196 and no assets the home now has over $7000 worth of property endis expending about $10,000 a year in caring for these un- fortunate girls and their babes and also assist- ing a number of their more fortunate sisters who have found their way to the City, yet who need the watching care of some one to prevent their going to destruction. The present capacity of the home is for eignty-s1x ndults and sixty-four babes, with a kindergarten well equipped ana a hospital that has no superior, considering its size, in California. The average cost of maintaining each inmate is from $11 to $12 per month, in- cluding everything. Lastyear fifty-six young women were saved and their lives tendered at least in a measure happy, as the resultof the efforts of the man- agement. Twenty-seven of these were placed in honorable service. twenty-four returned to their homes, three were married to respectable industrious men whno knew all about their former lives, and only two of tha entire num- ber have gone backward. During three years of the work of this home outof the 190 cases twenty-four are known to have gone wrong, thirteen were lost track of and five died, while forty-seven are doing well and at honorable service, fiity-three were returned to their par- ents and are doing well, twenty-three have been married and three are in active Christian work. The majority of these girls are under 17 vears of age, some being only 13 or 14. The following letters will serve to indicate the feelings of the girls towerd their benefac- tors better than any words of mine. The first is from one who has become a trained nurse and is doing remarkably well, while the sec- ond is from a Salvation Army lassie who re- turns to the home every week lo attend the prayer-meeting, and the third was written by one 22 years of age, who is doing well in every respect and who was taken by the manage- ment at the age of 16. She is preparing her- self for missionary wors : Letter 1: “The comforting rest to mind and body 1 experienced in the home can never be for- gotien. I felt that God In his great goodness nad led me out from the depths of despair, and though my lite one’s life was short it inspired me with nobler thoughts. May the Hand that gnided me leud otbers who seek consolation and sympaiby to the Rescue Home. I know many heaits respond With me and thank the heavenly Father who iilled the hearts of those to do this labor of love. We in his word, “They who turn many unto rightcousness shall shine as the stars forever and Leiter No, 2: *I have asked God to bless the words Ishall write to some use in saving others. 1was born in California in 1871, While young I remember I was very wild. * # *# Oh,the an- guish of those days.” I had many temptations to Kill myself, but a good Christian girl explained to me John fii:3-11, and told meof a place in the City where I could go. The manager of the Flor- ence Crittenton Home wrote me (o come and I found a Christian home where 1 could feel at rest. 1 could not have had batter care had I had a father, mother and sisters to cars forme. 1 thank God with ail my heart for the home and pray Him to bless it.” " letter No. 3: “There are so many thines I would like (0 say of the loving kindness of those who have charge of the home that I can bardly find words with which to express my zratitude and thankfulness that there is such a home and such a people who 50 nobly give their lives and time to helping deceived and broken-hearted girls. After months of great misery and sorrow, afraid to meet a familiar face, broken-hearted and alone, I en- tered the home, and Oh!the peace that filled my heart, when I realized that there was a refuge and friends indeed. While T was there I felt ft_was in- deed my home, and now that I am away 1 have the same feeling for it.” As the work is carried on purely by volun- tary offe:ings, with the exception of a small fee charged where the patient is able to pay it, the management finds itself in pressing need of funds to increase the scope of the work to meet the constant demands upon it. It is the only institution of the kind on the coast where that particular kind of work is done, and therefore many cases are sent to it from other institu- tions. Itis irue that a considerable source of revenue is derived from thank-offerings that come from girls who have left the home. While 1 was there one of the former inmates handed Mr. Ellsworth, the manager, $20 as such an offering, with expressions of gratitude. Since the 31st of January $1294 50 has been thus donated. The society has paid out during that time over $1000 for the maintenance of girls who have never been in the home, and purely for preventive purposes. 'VISITOR. FLAGRANT CRIMES AND PUBLIC NOTORIETY. THE REV. DR. HORATIO STEBBINS TELLS WHY HE WILL NOT SPEAK To-MORROW NIGHT. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: My attention was called to notice on Tuesday morning that & mass-meeting would be held on Friday evening, the 22d inst., to consider the fagrant crime too base to mention that has been committed, the supposed perpetrators of which are now in the hands of the police. Among others my name was given as of one who would address the meeting. In a former notice, I beleve, it was understood that none | but women would be present. In THE CALL of Tuesday morning i1t is announced that “‘both sexes will be represented in the audience ana on the platiorm.” With sincere respect for all good citizens and for their nhonorable and upright intentions, propriety and becoming regard for the com- mitiee who have invited me to be present | allow and, maybe, require that 1 should eive some reason for my dissent. In such a meeting, for such a cause, little or nothing can be dote to inerease the force of public or private morals, or for the detection | and punishment of crime. What can be dis- cussed in a popular assembly concerning so brutal a crime? Can enything be done, save to give notoriety to human degradation and wickedness, such as should be concealed from every man, woman and child? Can it help the | police or excite their vigilance? The polic know that the detection of crime is commonly & “still hunt,” and. the less noise the better! besides, the very important fact that there are many things—suspicions, guesses and gypsy tricks, of w h “the public”” knows nothing. The insinuation that such degradation is the outcome of the ‘‘common school™ deserves no attention, and to give it attention only gives it &n importance which otherwise it would not have, One of the most sorrowful things of so- ciety is the number of those who have no bhome or none of that care, authority and obedience that makes home & citadel of protec- tion and peace. In this sorrowful fact old wickedness and young sins hold their carnival, procuresses play their devilish arts, and chat. tering fiends tend the fires of hell. But home- life, security and manners are not established | by public discussion of the details of revolting crime. HORATIO STEEBINS. Thursday, November 21, 189: PERSONAL. John T. York, an attorney of Napa, is at the Lick. The Rev.C. Ben Ham of Napa is at the Occi- dental. Major J. R. Houghton of Chico arrived here yesterday Pierre Wibaux, a mining man of Wibaux. Mont., is at the Palace. Attorney Arthur Lezinsky of Stockton is registered at the Grand. Fred V. Holman, a business man of Portland, was among vesterday’s arrivals. Altman Scoville, a wealthy merchant of London and Ceylon, is in town. John J. Seymour, a practicing attorney of Fresno, arrived here last night. G. E. Holland, an extensive manufacturer of stoves, St. Louis, is at the Palace, Rev. Frank H. White of London arrived here yesterday and is at the Occidental. L. Monte Verde, a mining man of Robinsons Ferry, on the Tuolumne River, is in the City. Mr. and Mrs. George Crocker left last night for the East, where they will spend the winter, F. W. Flint, who is extensively interested in the oil wells of Los Angeles, is at the Grand. Assembiyman William Llewellyn of Los An- geles arrived here yesterday on the steamer Mexico. H. A. Moss, one cf the contractors for build- ing the Government breakwater at Port Har- ford, is in town. Mrs. A. Andrews, wife of Colonel Andrews, leaves Saturday evening by the Sunset route to spend the winter in New York. George Crocker and his wife left last evening for New York City, where they will spend the winter, in accordance with their annual custom. A. W. Thompson, agent at Everett, Wash., of the whaleback steamers, which are manu- factured there and which ply along the coast, | | heretofore, these figures are not given entirely isin the Cty. Richard Gird, formerly owner of the great | Chino ranch, and who has been engaged in the growing of beets and the manufacture of engar, is in town. Nicholas C. Den of Santa Barbars, son of the late Dr. Den, one of the early pioneers of the before-named place, and well known all over California, is in the City. Among those who sailed on the steamer Cop- tic yesterday for Japan and China was the well- known Episcopal Bishop, McKim, of Tokin, who hias been many years in Japan in connec- tion with religious work. George Warren, assistant manager of the Palace Hotel, has gone East, to be absent some weeks, the principal object of his trip being to visit his mother. Chief Clerk Cummings will act in Mr. Warren’s stead during his absence. Colonel I. Trevelyn of Fresno, formerly of the English army, and one of the heroes of Balaklava, is at the Palace. The colonel has | turned his attention to grope-growing and fruit-raising, eschewing the sword for the pruning hook CALIFCRNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Nov. 21.—8. L. Goldstein, W. B.Kirk, W. E. Wheaton, Hoffman; M. A. Kenney and wife, H. A. Smith, Grand Union; C. Michelson, J. J. Wheaton, Astor; E. Holli- | day. C. L. Hulsey, Broadway Central; C. H, Holt, Gils Mrs. M. F. Sanders, Brunswick; H. Colton, 8t. Cloud; R. Forster, Plaza. CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, D.C., Nov. 21.—Among re- | cent arrivals are: San Francisco—Captain J. E. Hansen, Riggs House; W. W. Sanford and wife, Willard's. — FREE PUBLIC MARKET. San Diego Union. The question of establishing a free market is being agitated in San Francisco. The project s an outcome of the present dlscussion of the subject of middlemen’s profits. Agriculturists all over the State as well as in San Francisco complain that they are unable to obtain any- thing like fair returns for their produets. Tie consumer on the other hand declares that when he purchases commodities which net the Browers next to nothing, he has to pay prices which should mean an enormous profit. For example, in San Francisco people who have grapes on their tables pay for them at the rate of $100 to $200 per ton. The housekeeper buys potatoes at 50 cents a sack, which would mean nearly $100 per acre to the fermer if the profit went to him. And so it is with other commodities and these conditions ADDLY to & very great extent to the entire State. The idea of the iree market is to pay the grower more liberally, while at the same time cheap- ening commoditics to the consumer. The mat- ter is being seriously considered at San_ Fran- cisco and it would not be surprising if it were to result in the establishment of a free market. Ii such should prove the result theexperiment would be watched with interest and should it be successful there is little doubt that like in- stitutions would be established in other cities of the State. ADVERTISING A WHALE. William H. Milis, one of the directors of the Southern Pacific Railway Company, is an old newspaper man and still retains the manage- ment of a daily paper, the Record-Union. of | Sacramento, Cal. In many respects Mr. Mills is a genius, and as an advertising expert he has at least beaten W. H, MILIS. the record, for he has recently increased the receipts of the railroad company by something like $20,000 on an investment of $50. | The opportunity does not occur very often | where an expenditure of 50 in judicious ad- vertising will bring about $20,000 in_cash re- sults. The Southern Pacific Railroad owns a branch line running from Los Angeles] to Santa Monica, a seaside resort, where the rail- road owns a mammoth wharf and a big hotel. recently some fishermen discovered struggling in th allow waters of the Southern California coast, not far irom San Pedro, a fishing town near Santa Monica. J. | M. Crowley, the Southern Pacific freight and assenger ngent at Los Angeles, thought the ig carcass would be a good attracticn at Santa Momea, and, aiter some trouble, succeeded in renting the Whale for one week for the sum of $50. The huge carcass was towed to Santa Monica and landed in shallow water, so that the multitudes who would come might getan cllent view—and smell—of the monster. nber of people in Los Angeles heard of the ire and paid 50 cents to ride to Sama Monica to take in the sight. The traflic was not s large ns Crowley hoped for, however, and it looked as if the $50 would be a losing venture. he genius then appesred in the person of Uliam H. Mills, who had arrived in Los in his special car on a tour of inspec- f the compeny’s property. Mr. Mills has d difficuit problems for the Southern Pa- ific in the past, and he solved this one for | Crowley. He suggested a little advertising. The plan was agreed upon. Mr. Mills said ) in advertising would pay big returns. So | he wrote out a_two-inch display for the news- | papers. Then Mr. Mills wrote a_poster for the | Los Angeles deadwsils und billboards. The | poster would have put a circus advertising | man to the blush. Los Angeles was papered { from oue end to the other. On the following | day, which happened to be Sunday, the South- | ern Pacific ran thirty-three special trains to | Santa Monica and carried 8000 people at 50 | cents per head to see the decaying carcass of | the whale which Mr. Crowiey had rented for $50. | The rush continned for a week or more, and altogether some 40,000 people visited Santa | Monica to see the whale, and the company | gathered in 50 cents from every one of them. | Upon_an investment of in advertising, therefore, some $20,000 was realized from railroad fares.—Wiil M. Clemens in Fame, i | | GLORY FOR LOS ANGELES AND “THE CALL.” Los Angeles Times. From time to time this journal has been making comparative showings of the Sunday advertising carried by the three morning newspapers of San Francisco and by the Times, to the decided disadvantage of the former. We now show, in the foilowing statement, a com- parison for an entire week, which gives evi- dence that this paper printed more columns of advertising every day—columns of equal | length and width — than any of the great papers of the metropolis, and that the Times coutained over 60 per cent as much advertis- ing for the week as all three San Francisco papers combined : THE COMPARISON. DATE. | As has been remarked in this connection for the purpose of exalting the Times new paper, but fo show to the world how busi {1n the vigorous end growing eity of L Angeles compares with its older and larger but | tardier neighbor at the bay, for the business of every town is best indicated by the business of its chief newspapers, which are the pulse of trade in the best sense. By this sign Los An- geles leads not ouly the coast, but ail other cities west of the Missouri River, which is surely glory enongh 'ORRESPONDENTS. City. An individaal who re- and Rets as agent for a foreign ANSWERS TO AGENTS—F. sides in this City vertisement only, comes under Section 30 of the local license ordinance, which says Svery person who, within the limits of this City anty, engages in the business or occupati or calling of what is commonly known as a conu | mercial traveler, or commercial agent. or traveling ] t, and sells or offers to sell, or solicits for the aie or purchase of any g00ds Or wares or mer- | chandise, shull pay a license us hereinaiter speci- fied. | Toen follows the amount of icense to be paid according to the amount of sales or busi- ness transacted. MINERAL WoOL—T. F., City. the slag of blast furnaces converted into a fibrous state. The process consists in subject- ing a small stream of molten slag to the im~ Mineral wool is i i pelling force of a jJet of steam or compressed air, which divides it into innumerable smell ; shot or sphericles, forming a spray-hke object. | | The threads are spun immediately upon the detachment of the slag particles from the main body of the stream. their length and fineness Gepending on_the fluidity and composition of | the materinl with treatment. The material is used to fill in between the studs and_joists in building to keep out the cold in winter and heat in summer, and in effectuslly closing up all passages in which vermin and insects make fllerr home. It is also used for deafening floors, as the wool is & poor conductor of sound. SENTENCE FOR MURDER—G. W. H., Sebastopol, Cal. In this State the jury determines the penalty that shall be imposed on an individual convicted of murder in the first degree. If the verdict is in these words, “We fiud the de- fendant guilty of murder in the first degree,” then the Judge who is called upon to pass sentence has no discretion; he must pronounce the death penalty. If, however, the verdict is, “We find the defendant guilty of murder the first degree and fix the penalty at impris- onment for lie,” the Judge must pronounce the sentenc: in accordance with that verdict. A CartoaD—Freight, City. What is gener- A 209 214 | firm, and carries on his business by mai! or ad- | farmers,” and says it is a means “to take the \:eigm of taxation off the agricultural triets, where land has littie or no value, irre- spective of improvements, and put it on towns and cities, where bare land rises to a value of millions of dollars per acre.” PaRALYSIS—C. 8. F., San Xavier, Hermosillo, Me: . The question yon submit is one ulfnx:;ceoanmcrgd ‘only by & competent phy Upon an examination of the patient and a thorough understanding of all the condl(lmut What you deseribe 8s paralysis may be only rheumatism. Forerey CiurcHes—X. 0. X., City. The seat- ing capacity of St. Peter's at Rome fs 54,000 cathedral at Milan, 37,000; St. Paul's at Rome, 32,000; St. Paul’s at London ,600; (‘nnmd‘rnl at Florence, 24,300; Noire Dame af Parfs, 21,- 000, and St. Mark’s, Venice, 7000. . H., Mendoeino, Cal. A twelve- | give no more power than one but increased power is ob- BLOC] inch block w f smaller sy 0 fained by the use of double blocks. The in- creased power is gained at the expemse of increased friction. A FoREIGN PAPER—A. B., Jamestown, Tuol- umne County, Cal. The only paper published at Devonport, Devonshire, England, is the “Western Independent,” which appears every Wednesday and exe; urdgy. Russta—J. A. H., Menlo Park, Cal. The popu- lation of Russia is 113,354,649. [FrESH Molasses Buttercups,25¢ 1b. Townsend's ==L e e Bacox Printing Company,303 Clay street.* . e - ROBERTS, 220 Sutter—*“‘Cards by the million.”* ——————— Buy your Underweer, Bed Clothing, etc., at Pioneer Dry-goods Store, 105 Fifth street. *ZJ —————— GENUINE eyeglasses, specs, 15¢, 40c. 8134 4th, nr. barber; Sun. 738 Market (Kast shoestore).* e SPECIAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * — HusAND'S Calcined Magnesia—Four first- premium medals awarded; more agreeable to the taste and smaller dose than other magne- sia. For sale only in bottles with registered trademark label. * e Port Alviso Benefits, San Jose reury. In the last six months 53,000 tons of freight wereshipped toand from Alviso. It {s easy tosee what a tremendous business would be done at that port, ana what a great saving would be effected by producers and merchants, were the Alviso Railroad in operation and the harbor improved. PURIFY your blood, build up your nerves, re- store your strength, renew the appetite, and in fact cure catarrh, rheumatism or malaria by taking Hood’s Sarsaparilla, the great blood purifier, —————————— CHICAGO LIMITED. VIA SANTA FE ROUTE. A new train throughout begins October 29, Pullman’s finest sleeping-cars, vestibule reclinin chair cars and dinin; Los Angeles to Chi- cago, vis Kansas City, without change. Annex cars on sharp connection for Denver and St. Louis. Twenty-seven hours quicker than the quickest competing train. The Santa Fe has been put in fine physical condition and is now the best transcontinenial railway. e « Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrap"” Has been nsed over fifty years by millions of moth- ers for their children while Teething with per: ruccess. 1t soothes the child, softeus the gams, lays Pain, cures Wind Colic, regulates the Bo and i3 the best remedy for Diarrhcoeas, whether arising from teething or other causes. For sale by Druggists in every part of the world. Eesursaal ask for Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrip. 283 4 bottle. e B CorONADO.—Atmosphere is pertectly dry, soft and mild, and is_entirely free from the mists com- mon further north. Round-trip tickets, by steam ship, including fifteen days’ board at the Hotel del Coronado, $60; longer stay $2 50 per day. Apply 4 New Montgomery st., San Francisco. N ABER, ALFS & BRUNE—Who are the manufac- turers and proprietors of the Baja California Dami- ana Bitters, have issued a very comprehensive cir- cular relative to this preparation. It can be had o; application at the office, 323 Market street, or will be sent by mail. — . o . Proper Way to Battle for Silver. Virginia (Nev.) Enterprise. The Republicans of Nevada will not stop taiking free coinage until their Eastern brethren are converted to the true financial faith. We can do a thousandfold more good by fighting for the white metal in the party than 1o go bushwhacking outside of it. R L Mr. Wiffen the poet, an enemy of tobacco, was once offered a cigar by a friend, “Inever smoke!”’ said he indignant- ly, ‘“Strange!” said the friend, “and yet you are ‘Wifin—always Wiffin.” Have you as yet enjoyed whiffin’ one of the NEW CIGARS? Of new crop Havana, with its bright colors, fresh delicious aroma, mild flavor and delicate fragrance. 2 for 25¢——10c—3 for 25¢. ESBERG, BACHMAN & CO. WHOLESALERS Every Cigar Banced Of course you are going to make your Thanksgiving spread as elaborate as possible. Did you ever think how new furni- ture brightens up things ? Don’t think you are expected to buy the particular pieces we show pictures of—unless they suit you. We've hundreds of styles to show at the store. erally understood by a carload is 20,000 onnds. The following articles make up a car- oad : 70 barrels of salt, 70 of lime, 90 of fiour, 60 of whisky, 200 sacks of flour, 6 cords of soit wood, 18 to 20 head of cattie, 56 to 60 hogs, 80 to 100 sheep, 9000 feet of solid boards, 17,- 000 feet of sidings, 13,000 of flooring, 40,000 shingles, 340 bushels of wheat, 400 of corn, 630 of oats, 400 of barley, 300 of flaxseed, 360 of apples, 430 ot potatoes, 360 of sweet pota- toes und 1000 of bren. SINGLE TAX—E. W. H., Mendocino, Cal. Congressman Maguire, who is the advocate of the single tax on this coast, denies that “‘single tax 1s & shrewd scheme devised by the money sharps to shift the burden of taxes on the Some Christmas presents last a day—some until New Year’s ; Furniture lasts almost a lifetime. CALIFORNIA FURNITURE COMPAN (N. P. Cole & Co.) 117-123 Geary Street.