The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 8, 1895, Page 20

THE - SAN' FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1895. CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Proprlttj& SEECR;TIO\K RATES—Postage Free: and Sunday CALL, six months, by L1, three months by mail 1.50 and Sunday v and Sunday sunday WEEKLY CALL, one BUSINESS OFFIC 710 ket Street, San Francisco, California. Telephone.... Levsesicsssvastuaseess Main—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Stre ....Main—1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 550 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open untll £:20 o'clock. 9 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'cl Larkin street; open until 9:30 o' s orner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open 9 o'cloc Mission street: Ninith street; OAKLAND OFFICE : 908 Broadway. OFFICE : Rooms 31 an Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agen Telephone. open until 9 o'clock. 9 o'clock. THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. The jingo tune keeps time to the music of America. Civilization cries, *Peace! peace! keeps on fighti and Salisbury must wait for an answer—our Grover wishes to shoot ducks. Fine boulevard but highws s are not pleasure roads s to prosperity. The horse show is a memory, but the lovely clothes will bloom another day. No dilemma will ever fret the Sultan as Jong as he can keep his grip on the Golden Horn. California novelties for your Eastern 1 Francisco was not so noted as the s as the City autiful. lay of loveliness at the Pa- ion San Francisco society has certainly ht to be proud of itself. A mass-meeting does not alway with a massive voice, that of will be heard across the continent. speak night The Sultan would like to have the world believe that Armenians are killing them- selves just to give the Turks a bad name. In Tom Reed’s statement, ‘“There must always be a tail to the procession,” the De- mocracy can find a reason for its existence. The immigration restriction bill should be so amended as to protect our home cranks from the competition of such aliens as Ahlwardt. Since Ingersoll was not converted by the fact that Kentucky went Republican it was hardly worth while for a convention to pray for him. Ma of the Chri familiar the shop windows in the evenings look as if they were illuminated by the light of other day In the five months that have expired of the current fiscal year the deficit in the revenues amounted to $17,601,541, but Cleveland never mentioned it. Pittsburg hotel-keepers claim that they can accommodate 35,000 guests in their hotels without raising the regular prices, but can they do it without raising the ro0is? Those people who remember that there Sawyer of Oshkosh may be pleased to learn that he will probably be re-elected next year. It is not easy to predict what kind of weather is coming in California, but fortu- nately that which visits us is generally so ger we have no occasion to object to the surprise party. New York has an idea that by consolida- tion with Brooklyn she would be bigger and better, but Brooklyn sees the other side of the shield and thinks she would be bigger and wors As a rule blizzards start in the north and drift southward, weakening as they go, but the one that swept the East and nearly blew Chicago into the lake the other day started in Texas and was a stemwinder that tightened with every twist. It was once said our leading rival for the convention was Pittsburg, but when we passed her we found Chicago in the way and now St. Louis looms up; so it seems we will have to face the tackling of all the cities in the East before we reach the goal. Some of the conservative women in the East have organized what is intended to be a National association called the “Home Makers,” with the object of ac- complishing the reforms advanced women are talking about, but through home in- fluences instead of platform oratory. It looked at one time as 1f the trustees of the big Brooklyn bridge could escape in- dictment by the New York Grand Jury only by jumping off the bridge, but they have managed to get ashore all right, and now there is a suspicion that the jury took water. Police Commissioner Roosevelt is a wag. One of his vpolicemen got into trouble through having soiled linen on his dormi- tory cot, his sheet being spattered with tobacco juice. “You have condemned yoarself out of your own mouth,” said the Commissioner, as he fined the culprit ten days’ pay. It would seem that the modesty of St. Louis is not widely different from the gall of Chicago, for she now asks the country to make her the established seat of Na- tional Conventions, and proposes to erect a building designed expressly for such purposes as soon as the two great parties agree to make arrangements for meeting there regularly. The rivalry of quick trans-Atlantic voy- ages is made sharper by the new plan of having a tixed hour for sailing from New York. The American line was the first to announce the sailing of their yessels every Wednesday at 10 A. ».; the White Star line followed suit, and with the new year the Cunard and North German Lloyd will have fixed hours of departure. THE MASS-MEETING. That Metropolitan Temple was crowded to overflowing at the anti-funding-bill mass-meeting last evening counts for little. San Francisco, from her teeming popula- tion, could send audiences large enough to fill a ball of that size on al- most any occagsion. But the char- acter and intelligence of the audiénce, the eminence and influence of the speakers and the earnestness that marked every stage of the proceedings do count for some- thing. It was a representative meeting. It spoke the voice of San Francisco, de- manding the rights of California and the maintenance of the claims of the Nation against the cunning schemes of a corporate monopoly seeking to defraud the Govern- ment and plunder the people. Good as was the effect of the meeting last night it will be of little avail in the strug- gle against the funding bill uniess fol- lowed by immediate and continuous ac- tion. The monopoly is fighting for its life and will fight hard. It has many able men at work for it and, moreover, it has the advantage of the field of battie. Wash- ington is on the other side of the continent, and the Eastern people have felt little of the blighting effects of the Southern Pacific Company. They do not see that the funding bill would be an injury to them. They are ignorant of the dangers and evils that lurk within it. A campaign of education, therefore, is necessary in order to win. We must make clear to Congress that the people of the whole country are interested in the ques- tion and that whoever votes for the fund- ing bill will have to answer for it to his constituents at the next election. To carry on the campaign of education throughout the country and strengthen the hands of our delegation at Washing- ton, men and money are needed. San | Francisco must do her share in providing them. There is no time to be lost and there should be no lagging. Let all who believe that honest debts should be hon- estly paid join the movement to enforce that principle against rich corporations as well as against the poor. A GREAT IMPROVEMENT. Tt is sincerely to be hoped that nothing will intervene to prevent the proposed im- | provement of the Blythe property, which 1s bounded by Geary, Market and O'Far- | rell strects and Grant avenue. This hope does not concern the merits of the new liti- ation which has been sprung in the matter of the Blythe estate, but goes to the gen- eral proposition that h improvement | as has been contemplated would be of in- | calculable benefit to the City. | Tt is a remarkable fact that, with few excepti administration upon the es- tates of dead millionaires owning valuable properties in San Francisco has been com- plicated in the most extraordinary ways and the improvement of the City delayed in consequence., The Crocker estate passed through the ordeal without a shadow. The Colton estate, although its settlement gave birth to litigious wrangles, did not affect the material interests of the City. | The Phelan properties escaped all trouble. The Parrott estate difficulties were of a minor character and were easily adjusted; the residuary legatees have developed into important factors in the progress of the City. The Hopkins estate troubles were settled, but they were of no great concern to the public, and that result of their set- | tlement which gave the Hopkins Inst | tute of Art to California was a public benefaction. The Stanford estate gave trouble that the United States courts | deemed it proper to settle in a certain way. The Fair and Blythe estates are now the eat bones of contention, and, excepting mas novelties are so | vas once in_the Senate a certain Philetus | few, they bear the most important relation | to the material interests of the City. The Fair estate seems now in a fair way of settlement. The improvements projected by Senator Fair were among the most im- portant ever undertaken in San Francisco. Unless the new litieation begun in the Blythe case immediately on the heels of what seemed to be a final determination of the case by the courts puts a check upon the improvement of the very valuable property beloneing to the estate, Market street within a few years will have a splen- did block to face the elegant new home which is being constructed for THE CALL, philosopher will appear who will present | an intelligent history of the litigation which has pursued the settlement of rich estates in San Francisco, and will be able | to deduce from it some conclusions, a w appreciation of whose basis might prove a valuable lesson to mankind. Such a his. tory would embody an umazng array of human weaknesses, whose power for evil was given efficiency by a prevalent laxity of morals and a small regard for the neces- sity of enforcing just.laws. The whole story would constitute a romance with in- cidents as inevitable to the founding of a new civilization as they would be obnox- | ious to a regime which time had tested and exverience rendered stable. Aliof these grotesque departures from | the rormal belong to and were produced by primitive conditions which no longer exist in this community, but which still are potent to cast their shadow upon the hopes and achievements of the present time. A lingering relic of the old days of a barbaric disregard of common rights and upright personal conduct exists in the form of corrupt politics, but even that towering structure of infamy is tottering under the assaults of a roused public con- science and an enlightened popular in- telligence. SELECOTION OF LAND. A member of a colony which recently came to California says that before he left the East his banker warned him to be- ware of land sharks, as worthless land in California had been sold to ignorant persons at large prices. It is a fact that this iinpression is somewhat general and that there is some foundation for it. Itis also a fact that when the colony industry was at its height in California from eight to twelve years ago the projectors of colonies sent out printed matter giving glowing accounts of profits which had been secured. It is time that an exam- ination of these matters be made. ‘When the colony projectors were send- ing out their circulars it is true that won- derful profits were being made. These ran all the way from $100 to $1000 and over to the acre, and numberless authentic in- stances of such returns were collected and published by boards of trade and cham- bers of commerce in Various partsof the State. That these reports were true was an absolute fact. These profits did not by any means represent the average returns throughout the State, but they did make an accurate showing of what could be accomplished in California at that time under a combination of favorable condi- tions. These were a great demand for special products, prevailing good times, perfect adaptation of place to the article grown and the most scientific cultivation. The large profits were made principally on raisins, olive oil, berries, apricots, prunes, oranges and almonds. % It wiil be noted that these are all luxu- ries and that hence the demand for them had to fall when hard timescame. Further than that, the enormous profits which had Perhaps one of these days a writing been made caused a large extension of the area of production. The available market was soon crowded, and in that sense over- production exerted its influence. The catastrophe was completed by the advent of hard times throughout the world. As it is a fact that the market has been vastly extended since that time; that California does not produce sufficient to supply even the present depressed demand of the United States for the special articles of luxury produced here and nowhere efe in the country; that our products are even finding a market in the densely populated countries over seas, and that as the won- derful profits secured a few years ago were from a market much smallerin proportion to the producing area than now, we are in a better condition now, other things being equal, to make large profits than we were when the profits were reaily much larger. ‘When hard times pass, therefore, we may expect to enjoy something like a resump- tion of the large profits of a few years ago. Every intelligent person to whose atten- tion these large returns were called was simply being shown what he could accom- plish by employing the means adopted by the successful ones. What was possible with one man might be possible with all men. This is not strictly true, but it is useful in stimulating all to do as well as the best by showing what the best is. Cali- fornia has received far more benefit than harm by the publication of phenomenal raturns from farming. And the hard times, by compelling farmers to be more economical and diligent, have raised the standard of farming in this State far above that of the flush times. The Eastern people who were really bit- ten by California land sharks were those whose avarice and greed made them feed with their money the disastrous boom that raged from San Diego to San Jose in 1885-87. In this foolish use of their money they had no idea of cultivating the soil and making an honest living. Of course they were stripped of their pelf, as they deserved to be,and ever since that time have been denouncing California as a fraud, its lands as worthless and its land- dealers as knaves. A gambler who “squeals” when he loses is contemptible. Intelligent people of the st should know that the present depressed prices of land in California, taken in connection with the past history of wonderful profits and their inevitable restoration on the re- turn of good times, make this the best op- portunity that has ever come for investing in a home here and proceeding wisely to develop its highest value. COUNTY MONEY. Judge Dougherty of Santa Rosa has ren- dered a decision that will serve asa valu- able precedent for controlling the discre- tion of every County Treasurer in the State. The decision is that although country treasurers may d public money under certain conditions imposed by the code, the funds, wherever they may be, must be ready to the hands of tne Au- ditor, the District Attorney and the chair- man of the Board of Supervisors when- ever, in the pursuit of their duty, they demand an accounting of the money which the reports of the treasury show should be on hand. There is probably not a Judge in the State, whether he be on the Superior or Supreme bench, whno will question the wis- dom of this decision. The history of county and municipal government on this coast has furnished us with abundant proof that custodians of public monéys may abuse their opportunities for placing out of their actual possession the money entrusted to their care. The disgrace- ful revelations from Tacoma show that the City Treasurer used in the most shame- ful manner the banking privilege which he assumed, and that certain banrks zonnived with him in the swindles to which that practice gave rise. Similar troubles, of a less ignominious kind, have been known in California. 1t is the rule here that banks refuse to connive in the crooked schemes which are evolved from the cupidity or rascality of public treasusers. All the same, Judge Dougherty’s decis- ion will prove useful. It is not likely that an appeal il be taken from his ruling, but should that happen, we may depend on the Supreme Court to uphold it. No treasurer can claim the right to say that the local government of whose money he has been made the custodian has not pro- vided him with a safe means of keeping it, and that in consequence he must seek a safe aeposit in some bank, He accepts his office with a full knowledge of the responsibilities which he assumes. He is privileged, if the safeguards provided by his governing body are in his judgment insufficient, to make special de- posits in safe banks, but such deposits are returnable on demand and are made at the treasurer’s risk; they can never be term deposits and can never draw interest. This does not relieve counties, cities and towns of the duty of providing adequate safesand vaults, but the absence of such precautions does not relieve the treasurer of the smallest part of responsibility PECULIAR COMPENSATIONS, A very singular thing to be noted in California is the peculiar fitness of each strange natural condition to all others. Let us analyze those appertaining to San Francisco as an exemplification of the gen- eral fact, and observe Low harmonious these relations are and how vitally they affect and contribute to the necess:ties and comfort of the people. It mizght be supposed, segregating one fact from the others, that the absence of summer rains would produce here the dis- agreeable conditions attending a drouth in the Eastern States, and that as the rains are confined to four months of the year we would have floods and a continuous suc- cession of dismal days in winter. To counteract the absence of rain in summer we have fogs and moist winds, and floods are avoided in the rainy season by the fact that the precipitation, compared with that in the East, is very small. Thus, while the Atlantic seaboard has from sixty to eighty inches of rain during the year we have only twenty-five to thirty inches here. That is to say, we have eight months of weather without any rain, during which time the people may pursue their pleasures and businesses without its hindering and damaging presence, and four months with a greater number of fair days than are enjoyed in the East during the same time. We have no gray days in winter. They come in summer, when they are welcome. That, to begin with, is an extraordinary fitness of conditions. Another is found in the seemingly providential relation be- tween the winter climate and tke topog- raphy of San Francisco. If, instead of the soft, warm rains that we have we should get snow, sleet and ice, the hilly parts of the City would be uninhabitable, and they happen to be the most desirable. The views which they command are unequaled for variety, breadth and grandeur by any other city in the world. That isa very happy fitness of conditions. In a place from whose winter all harsh conditions are absentand in which a bland sunshine invites to outdoor recreation, the people, not forced to remain in stuffy houses, are impelled to exercise the free- dom which they are permitted to enjoy. They would not be coutent with the sim- ple blessing of sunshine and physical lux- ury—the higher senses must be gratified. From every quarter of the globe the most alluring and luxurious flowering and ornamental plants have been assembled here and they are cultivated in gorgeous profusion. As though nature was not satisfied with a prodigality so rich as to make it possible for us to adorn our gar- dens and parks with flowering plants which bring to us the winter-blooming habit of sub-tropical regions, she has given us a singularly picturesque topography, which we have had the wisdom to utilize by means of splendid drives traversing the view-commanding eminences which adorn the City. With a condition which produces out- door bloom 1n winter come other vegetable products equally grateful to the senses. What could be more welcome than the midwinter crops of strawberries and oranges which, with roses, callas and heli- otrope, are so graceful adornments of the midwinter table? Added to these are the later and more luscious grapes of autumn and their genial product, pure and whole- some wine. And so go these strangely welded, ad- mirably fitted conditions which bring com- fort to life and zest to its aims. There is not a lack without its compensation, not a single misadjustment in all this intricate machinery, not a natural condition but that is pleasant in itself and that aspires to its highest utitization for physical, men- tal and spiritual needs. That Californian who, in the enjoyment of these advan- tages, falls short of the hichest standard of human intelligence and worth, arms the cynic with a reason for declaring that there is nothing good in humanity. OALIFORNIA BRIC-A-BRAGC While all generous and prosperous people are seeking Christmas gifts there will be many among us desirous of finding something essentially Californian in ma- terial and workmanship to send to their far-off friends. When later on the host of tourists comes to enjoy the winter sunshine of the Pacific Coast there will be not a few who will seek to find some dainty of treas- ure of beauty or utility to serve them asa souvenir of scenes in this fair land when they are far away. ‘Where will the Christmas-seeker find the Californian gift for his friend? What will the tourist be able to obtain as a sou- venir? There are things made in Cali- fornia to supply the double demand. There are shells and photographs and a considerable variety of articles made of orange, olive or manzanita wood. There are also, no doubt, some other things. But all these are as trifles to the innumera- ble articles of beauty, utility or perhaps of decoration that might be fashioned by our art and taste out of the wide variety of material which a profuse nature has given us for eriployment in just such uses. The most casual sbserver of Christmas shopping who notes the toys and bric-a- brac sent to us from Europe and the East- ern States can hardly fail to perceive that their attractiveness or excellence is due al- most wholly to the work put upon them; the material jtself in most cases having little beauty or value of any kind. He who knows anything of California needs but little reflection upon what he has seen of these imported goods to reach the con- clusion that in the material for making such articles California is far richer than the countries that supply them. We need but art and energy to turn our advantages of this kind into sources of great profit. Indeed, in some instances not much art is needed. Some of the wood of this State requires no more than a mere polishing to become an object of beauty not inferior to anything that handicraft can do. Articles of a nature to serve the demand for gifts and souvenirs have a double value. They are not only directly profita- ble to the producer, but they are among the most effective advertisements that a country can send forth. The popular de- sire to see Paris springs largely from the | delight given by all the beautiful work Parisian artisans furnish for such pur- poses. Almost every American home has something in its decoration or its orna- ments that suggests Europe and 1s a con- tinual enticement to us to go abroad. Cal- ifornia should have just such vleasing ad- vertisements of her beauty all over this country at least, if not all over the world. The only way to stimulate decorative art in California is to create a demand for it. 1f every Christmas shopper during the holidays should at least ask to see what the merchants have in the way of Cali- fornia products the merchants would soon begin to give orders for them. Such in- dustries as we have of the kind would be expanded and new ones creaied during the coming year. We must not wait for tour- ists to start the demand. We must start it ourseives by sending lovely gifts to the East, and thus interesting the people there, so that those who visit California wili look for such articles when they arrive here. California, we must remember, is ours, and upon us depends her welfare. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., Dec. 7.—Mrs. W.R. Quinn will remain here till next April at the Bartholdi. Charles Jost Jr. of the California Wine and Distilling Company is at the Bar- tholdi. He brought his mother on with him, and he will renew college friendships for a few weeks. Mrs. W, P. Morgan is at the Hol- land with her daughter, whom she is seeing off to school. Miss Julia Crocker is at the Nether- land, with Mrs. J. L. Requa and the Misses Requa of Los Angeles. They will remain here for two months. Among recent arrivals are: F. W. Lawrence, Coleman; E. Samuels, St. Denis; C. Bertheau, Murray Hill; H. J. Kil- gariff, St. Cloud. Mr. ar.d Mrs. M. H. de Young and Mrs. George Hearst of San Francisco are at the Waldorf. —— e, BEST PAPER ON THE COAST. Summerland Advocate. The San Francisco CALL has taken a position in the field of journalism very much neglect- ed, especially on the Pacific Coast. It has placed honor, honesty and worth at the head, and upon that line acts fearlessly. It is with- out doubt the most reliable daily on the coast, and as such the people are fast learning to ap- preciate it. Many papers please their readers with sensational matter which at the time is very interesting, but unsatisfactory in the end. THE CALL confines itseli to factsand gives all the news. B e CHRISTMAS IN TOWN., This is the magic month of all the year, Holding the children's golden precions day; Of which, with eager eyes, we hear them say “In three weeks, two weeks, one week, "twill be ere The sparkling windows of the shops appear In fascinativg wonder-bright array; With holiy and with greens the streets are gay; The bustlini town begins its Christmas cheer. Now secret plots sre whispered in the hail, Mysterious parcels to the door are brought, And busy hands are half-done glfts concealing, The eve is here, with lighted tree and a 1! And Santa Claus, with merry marvels fraught, e dawn, across the roofs comes steal- ‘The Lark, That Stab ¥rom the Government. “Hanford Democrat. 1f Tawyer Foote of San Francisco is right in his opinion that it is the duty of the Govern- ment to intervene in the matter between the Southern Pacific and the Railroad Commis- sioners as regards freight rates, because it affects the debt of the railroad to the Govern- ment, then the Government can puta stop to the railroad voluntarily reducing rates, for the same reason, Ettu, Brute, AROUND THE CORRIDORS. “If one will stop to consider,” said Henry J. Crocker of the equine show in the Palace Hotel yesterday morning, ‘it will be recalled that the horse has always been accorded more protection than any other amimal known in the history of America. A person who stole* & horse in early days was hanged for it, as his value to civilization was above price. “I think the funniest story I ever heard touching on the horse was told me by an old minister who went out on the plains of Ne- braska to establish a few missions among the | Indians and settlers. It appears that after he had been in the State a few weeks he was waited upon b; ong, 1] | e .8 dong, gaunt fellow wiio | the United States, in computing the acreage of wanted to know if the gospel leader wanted to join the Brownsville Horsethief Club. He was a little surprised at the suggestion at first, but upon being informed that the objects of ting it 18 50 great that the work proceeds too slowly. The British Commercial Sense. Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Having pretty effectually killed off the seals of Bering Sea it is now said the Canadians pro- pose to try and stock Hudson’s Bay with the animal, and these waters: being wholly within their jurisdiction they will have a monopoly of the seal business. The trounle with the scheme is that it all lies with the seals as to whether they will acquiesce in the change of their home and breeding ground: Arizona’s V. ure Region. Pheenix (Ariz.) Republican. The fact is not appreciated that in the Salt River Valley lies the greatest pasture region of artificially planted feed. Hither now are com- ing thousands of cattle for fattening, a process that uniformly is now accomplished to the full satisfaction of grower and of butcher. No «An 01d Rhyme,” which will be sung by Mme. Melba for encores this season in concert, was dedicated by the composer to Mrs, Kehrlem. pransttun AR PERSONAL E. Schweibler of Paris is in the City. Dr. B. G. Powell of Sacramento is here. Jobn E. Budd of Stockton is at the Lick. J. M. Knowles of San Diego is at the Lick. 7. D. Hollin of Wardner, Idaho, isat the Russ. Dr. G. A. Danziger of San Jose is in the City. Professor M. L. Driver of San Jose is at the Lick. George F. Wilson of Portland is at the Occi- dental. Senator J. C. Lynch of Cucamonga is at the Baldwin. E. P. Creighton, a business man of Montreal, isin town. Henry 8. Tanner, a merchant of Salt Lake, is at the Russ. D. H. Baer, a railroad man of Sacramento, is at the Grand. 8. H. Rice, an attorney of Ukiah, is registered at the Grand. W. A. Anderson, an attorney of Sacramento, is in the City. F. A. Boole, a merchant ot Red Bluff, arrived nere last night. John Driscoll, owner of & large foundry at Sacramento, is here. John Seales, a mining man of De la Mar, Idaho, is at the Grand. J. B. McCullough, & business man of Reno, Nev,, is at the California. Thomas Derby, & mining man of New Alma- den, arrived here yesterday. W. J. Gillespie, 8 mining man of Redding, 1s here, accompanied by his wife. Charles K. Lipman, the merchant of Sacra- mento, is spending Sunday here. George B, Stevenson, a business man of Van- couver, Wash., is at the Baldwin. Thomas P. Minturn, the extensive land- owner of Minturp, is at the Palace. Sheriff 8. D. Ballou of San Luis Obispo County arrived here yesterday for a short stay. Theodore Springer of Chicago, one of the best-known commercial men, is in the City. Mrlcolm Thomas and Mrs. Thomas, of San Mateo, came up last night and are at the Palace. Frank Short, editor and one of the principal owners of the Fresno Republican, arrived here yesterday. He is at the Palace. W. 8. Kinney of Astoria, who for some years has been engaged in salmon canning on the Columbia River, arrived yesterday. George H. Rowe, president of the Brooklyn Press Club, and Deputy Comptroller of the De- partment of Finance at Brooklyn, is at the Palace, accompanied by Mrs. Rowe. They will probably remain in California for some time. Frank C. Ross, one of the early residents of Tacoma, who rose from selling newspapers on the Kalama branch of the Northern Pacific to be a large property-holder of Tacoma, and finally a railroad builder, is at the Lick. Heis here on a business trip. Among the arrivals here yesterday was A. J. Fisk, editor ot the Helena Herald, the oldest daly in Montana. Mr. Fisk is one of three brothers who have long owned and conducted that paper. It fills the evening field solely, as it has always done, in the Montana motropolis, and is recognized as one of the best paying properties between St. Paul and the Pacific Ocean. Mr. Fisk was here a year ago. He will probably remain several we ks, “SEAVEY'S,” 1382 Market, greatest of bar- gains in millinery this week. . g ey E. H. BLACK, painter, 120 Eddy street. e S GREAT bargain saie misses’ and children’s . HENRY J. CROCKER TELLS HOW THE HORSE USLCD TO STAND WITH THE | hats, “Seavey’s,”” 1382 Market. PIONEERS OF NEBRASKA. [Sketched from life for “The Call”’ by Nankivell.] the club were not exactly what the title sug- gested and that it was an orgenization for the purpose of protecting members’ horses from thieves, concluded to join and put up his $5 admission fee. In a few days he receiveda notification that there would be a meeting of the club at a place named and that his pres- ence was wanted. “He was on hand, and ac he was the last one to enter the door was closed behind him and locked. The president of the club banged his fist on the desk and rising said: ‘Members of the Horsethief Club. Si Barton’s brown mare has been stolen. I hereby appoint Jack Thomas and Jim Bowers to goon the trail and report next Saturday. The meetin’ is hereby ad- journed.’ “With as little ceremony as it was opened the meeting broke up and the members de- parted without further comment. The minis- ter was prone to make inquiries regarding the method of dealing with the issue before the house. but received no satisfactory informe- tion. On the morning of the following Satur- day he was notified to be present again and complied. Upon arriving at the meeting place he found the same men there again. Jack Thomas and Jim Bowers were there also, hav- ing come back the night before. Again the president put his fist on the table with a bang and called the meeting to order with, ‘We are now ready to hear the report of the commit- tee of two.” Bowers got up, threw a cud of to- bacco behind him and answered, ‘We met the horsethieves two miles this side of the Kansas line, all of which is respectfuliy submitted.’ “The meeting is adjourned,’ howled the presi- dent with another smash at the desk, and the members filed out perfectly contented. “The minister this time was thunderstruck. “Did Mr. Barton get his horse back? he asked. Certainly,’ responded a big fellow. “Well, what did they do with the thieves?" “ ‘Nothin". “‘Can it be possible that they will not be brought to justice?’ «:Oh, that'll be all right, parson.’ “Well, what did the committee of two do after they came up with the offenders?’ ““‘Left’em where they fell, for the coyotes.’ “This, gent—lemen,” concluded Mr. Crocker, “shows how the norse used to stand in early days.” Ex-Congressman J. A, Louttit of Stockton, the builder of the Lodi road from that city, is at the Lick. He gives the condition of railroad building around the slough city as follows: “The Valley road now has thirty-one miles of tragk laid and the cars running. Billed freight has already been sent out over it. “The Corral Hollow road has over six miles finished, and has obtained the last right of way to the coal mines,a total distance from Stockton of thirty-two miles. The cars are running on the six miles now. The road is be- ing pushed on at the rate of more than & mile aday. There is considerable speculation as to where the other terminus will be. Ot course one will be in Stockton. “My line, known as the Lodi road, is pro- gressing rapidly. The men are now at work putting the grade up from 12 inches to 4 feet higher. Sixteen miles were finished on the original grade. It is being finished up at the rate of a half mile a day.” GOOD-BY TO COUFONS, Missouri Editor, Guessing matches, coupons, special pre- miums, lotteries and such like have about had their day. Letusbe thankful. Fake journal- ism is a fraud. A newspaper, like everything else, must win upon its merits. Itcannot, like the mountebank, stand upon the street cor- ners, with monkey and hand-organ, trving to hood wink the public. Whenever a newspaper takes on an outside accessory to catch patron- age it that far depreciates its own value—con- fesses that it is not worth what it asks for itself. Then it must keep it up year after year. for when {t quits it will Jose more than ii nas ever made. Big booms, large circulations, se- cured by these methods are so much sham and humbug, and the countrr is full of wrecks as a result. Never try it, or, if you have, never do 80 again. —_— OFINIONS OF WESTERN EDITORS. Chance for Some Inventive Genius. * Stockton Independent. A small fortune awaits the inventor who will devise a means of rapidly getting the sand out of the Calaveras River and Mormon Channel, The chief cost of the sand for filling streets ana lots is the labor of getting it out of the beds of those streams, The inventor who will deviso & digger to fill cars laid on temporary tracks d & means of rapidly hauling them to the anks will make money and do much gooa. The sand that comes down those streams to ob- struct them éan be profitably used to raise the grades of lots and streets, but the cost of get- | say that the ‘‘silver craze is dylng out.” meat can be finer, and yet the feeding in the open air, under genial skies, is accomplished at a fourth the cost ne v in Kansas. The *Craze’” Is Rapidly Spreading. Salem (Or.) Post. It is a common thing for gold-bug papers to But if those who say so would only go out among the people—the bone and sinew of the country —they would change their minds. Nearly every man you meet is in favor of free silver. Lamentable Errors Do Occur. San Diego Tribune. We wonder how often honest, but unfortu- nate, individuals are confounded with the genus *‘hobo.” Many of the former often suf- fer for the rascality and laziness of the latter at the hands of those who are not quick to dis- tinguish the good from the bad. Fresh Blackberries for December. Bakersfield California: Ripe blackberries in December are a trifle unusual, but just the same a fine cluster of such fruit was brought to the Californian office to-day from the Beardsley place, across the river. A PRETTY C ARETTE. \ The charming collarette shown here is suit- able for either fall or winter wear, a3 a sep- arate wrap or over a plain jacket or cape. Made of fur or rough eloth, with a frill of silk, itis warm and stylish; made of tan cloth, with a shaded figure of black and edged with black chiffon, it is very chic. A brilliant green velvet, made after this model, was trimmed with Periian lamb fur along the edge of the collarette. The ruffle was of the velvet, also 4w fur. There was a soft muff to maich, this set being designed to wear with a black crepon dress for calling. A charming collarette for theater or opera wear was made of rose-colored velvet, with a frill of chiffon to match seam inside the collar. Sable tails hung at intervals of three inches all around the col- larette over the ruffle, which was of velvet. A slnin cloth cape of black may be made ver: ressy by adding a too of this sort in green vei- vet, making the frill of black chiffon edged with an inch band of Persianlamb. A top of royal blue velvet edged with sable is also suit- able over a black, brown or biue cloth cape. 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