The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 24, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 1896 CHARLES M. SHORTRIDGE, Editor and Pr?flielor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: @ Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..$0.15 and Sundsy CALL, one year, by mail.... 6.00 £nd Sunday CaLL, sIx months, by mail. 8.00 and Sunday CALL, three months by mail 1.50 Daily and Sunday CALL, one month, by mail.. .65 Eunday CaLy, one year, by mail. 1.50 WEEKLY CALL, One year, by mall 1.60 BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, California. Selcphone.. R .Main-1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. ... Main—1874 BRANCH OFFICES: £30 Montgomery street, corner Clay; open untll $:20 o'clock. £39 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 717 Larkia street; open until 9:50 o'clock. EW. corner Sixteenth and Mission sireets; open sotll § o'clock. £518 Mission street; open until 9 o'clock. 316 Niuth street; open until 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : 808 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms S1 and 32, 34 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent. Telephone.. FRIDAY .JANUARY 2: Thé CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. val is here. Wheat goes up—the rey Every grain field in the State is on rising ground now. Not g goes aganst the grain in Calfor- We started the San Joaquin Railroad in ick of time. 1t is goi to be a Republican year all the way througt the In these days all wheat is spring wheat, and r Now is the time to sing “we will all be happy in this wheat by and by.” Nobody would object if some one in authority should giv g a transfer. Sal but he sions. bury is still unwilling to arbitrate, is w g to grant a few conces- The Senate does not advertise to legis- Jate while you wait, but you must wait all the same. Golden da; 3 ain fields as well as in the mines v Krueger the simple If Jameson is released why is held ?” questior Hammond ey to the present gov- but none of them can ere is many ernmental situat open the deadio Huntington will soon have to take his hands off the State, for he will need both of them at Washington. People who undertake to fill the bill as reformers shouldn’t fill their bills with unconstitutional provisions. In point of I breadth and thick- ness, every Senatorial debate isequal to an elaborate campaign of education. {rueger asserts that his American must stand trial, Mr. Olney must The new Election Board is ousted, but there are plenty of means Jeit for straight he to bring about municipal reform. California can defeat the funding billf if she can prevent the railroad from con- fusing the contest by mixing other issues with 1f Tom Reed bas anythirg of an itching valm at all it must itch sometimes to get hold of the gavel of the President of the Senate. Despite the Sultan’s announcement that he would not allow it Miss Barton has gailed for Armenia, and the Sultan won’t stop her. We were a nation 0ols to elect Cleve- land, but Providence has taken care of and we will be able to pay those bonds yet. Snerman may have been right in calling the sil The Kaiser's letter to Krueger seems to have been directed malnly at the mem- bers of the Reichstag who oppose an in- crease in the army. Wheat rises in price, and the competing road will give the farmers of California the means of keeping the monopoly from grabbing all the profits. Sherman says the silver Senators know their bill cannot pass, and Teller retorts that Sherman knows the bond bill cannot pass, ana there you have it, From the present outlook there will be no legislation of importance this winter, and the elections next fall will be practi- cally a referendum on a grand scale. Science continues to furnish the world with many improvements in the way of light, heat and motion, but what is wanted is an umbrella that will cover the town. The refusal of the Transvaal authorities to admit the American prisoners to bail has an vgly look, and Uncle Sam onght to put old man Krueger out of countenance on the proposition. It is evident that since the retirement of Campos a more vigorous hand has taken bold of the telegraph office at Havana, for the Spaniards are now reporting three vic- tories a day instead of one. Olney made a mistake in asking British aid in getting relief for Hammond and his friends in the Transvaal. He should have addressed himself to Krueger exciusively and been vigorous about it. Itis reported that the merchantsand manufacturers of Council Bluffs have re- solved that the United States should recognize Cuba, but it is not stated whether they were acting in council or only on the bluff. Kansas may have ceased to bleed, but | preferred the methods of the Southern | the fact that the authoritiesof the State University have refused to sanction an in- vitation to Ingersoll to deliver an address on law to the students, shows that she is still very raw in some places, | THE RISE IN WHEAT. The rise in the price of wheat is un- dountedly the most important event that has happened in the new year. It will affect society so widely that hardly any in- dustry will fail to feel its influence. The effect, moreover, will be wholly beneficial. Our commercial and industrial activities are so closely associated with one another and all are so largely dependent upon the conditions of agricultura! industries that the prosperity now seemingly assured to the farmers will be felt as a stimulus in all departments of work and trade, lead- ing to an upward movement in the prices of products of all kinas. It is significant that neariy all the busi- ness men who were interviewed by TrE Cary on the subject yesterday spoke more of the effect of the rise upon the fina ncial situation than upon any other point, It is believed that it will at once make the money market easier and start into brisker circulation that golden current which is the life blood of the social organism of every civilized people. If this should prove to be the case there will at once re- sult between wheat and gold an action and reaction mutually beneficial. If the rise in wheat prices gives confidence to bankers and makes loans easier that will in turn add to the industry and consuming power of the country and tend to a further ad- vance in wheat, so that the outlook prom- ises even better prices than now prevail. ‘While every portion of the United States will be more or less benetited by the im- proved outlook the prospects for Cali- fornia are exceptionally good. Our wheat is worth in the world’s market 10 cents per cental more than that of any other section of the Union. Moreover in our climate it is not yet too late for farmers to plant wheat for the crop of the coming season, and the recent rains have put the soil in most excellent condition for that purpose. This last a dvantage is one of great value, and if promptly made use of may enable many a farmer to have a much larger barvest and more abundant profit than he wouid otherwise have. It is in the highest degree gratifying at this juncture to know that the San Joa- quin Railroad is well under way and will be ready for business over a considerable territory by the time the wheat crop is ready for the market. Without the com- petition atforded by that road the grain- growers of the valley would gain little from the rise in prices. The monopoly would absorb it all if thenew road were not there to afford relief. Fortunately it is there, and the farmers of the San Joa- quin can count on the getting for them- seives the profit waich is justly theirs. A REPUBLICAN NEED. The Supreme Court decision declaring the new Election Commission of San n- cisco unconstitutional throws the election machinery back into the hands of the old board, which contains a Democratic ma- jority. At the same time the Superior Court of Los Angeles renders a decisio against the constitutionality of the p mpery election law, but this is not final until the Supreme Court passes on the question. The appeal from Los Angeles will doubtless be pusbed forward with all possible speed. Whatever may be the final decision in the matter Charles W. Manwaring, chair- man of the Republican County Commit- tee, in a card published in Thursday’s CaLi, earnestly urges the committee, either 23 a body or individually, “to make an effort to secure the choice by the Elec- tion Commission of good, efficient Repub- licans to represent the party in the pre- cinct boards.” He insists that none but “unquestionable Republicans” be selected. The urgency for this is very great. The shameful position in which the City has been placed by permitting unscrupulous bosses of both parties to manipulate pre- cinct boards by corrupt combinations and | to control the conventions should be remedied as quickly and thoroughly as possible. Had it not been for this kind of politics such a disgraceful thing as a Solid Eight in the Board of Supervisors would have been impossible, and the need of Grand Jury aisclosures of scandalous prac- tices in the Street Department would never have arisen. The increasing power of Christopher Buckley, the Democratic boss, n reorgan- izing his scattered forcesand thus present. ing a fair prospect of being able to over- whelm the decent element of that party in the City, adds to the necessity for ener- geticaction on the part of the Republicans to keep their own house clean and make it inviting to the respectable elements of all parties. The success of a corrupt boss in one party is an encouragement for the ad- vent of a corrupt boss in the other, for it is by combinations that they thrive best. A Solid Eight, composed of Republicansand Democrats, means simply a combination between the bosses who elected and con- trol them. The Republicans of the City have now the best opportunity that has ever been offered them to organize on a high plane and purge San Francisco of political ras- cality. The people are tired of boss rule. If the Republicans succeed in suppressing the advent of a boss of the Buckley type in their ranks and place only decent and responsibie citizens on guard they can swezp the City. The consternation fol- lowing Buckley’s reappearance has cre- ated an extraordinary opportunity for the Republicans, but they can lose all its pos- sible benefits by failure to appreciate its value. BRING THEM UNDER CONTROL. The people of the town of S8an Leandro, in Alameda County, through their public officers, bave been compelled to resort to violence in the protection of what they deem to be their rights against the aggres- sions of the electric railway which runs between Oakland and Haywards. The town authorities take the ground that cer- tain privileges, granted years ago to the railway company, bave lapsed by reason of a failure on the part of the company to avail itself of them at the proper time. Hence when the company sought forcibly to assert its privileges the authorities re- sisted, the townspeople lent a hand and a small riot ensued. The company, once a favorite with the people, has incurred their bitter animosity by pursuing what they think is a selfish and high-handed policy. It is not within the province of TmE Caww to deal with the legal phase of this case, but the privilege remains of saying that, had the company acted differently, it would have kept the good will of the people, would have enjoyed a larger busi- nessand would have made its road a more valuable property than it is. If it had been actuated by wisdom and a regard for public rights it would have gone openly before the authorities, announced 1its in- tention of making the contemplated im- provement, and, in case of a question of legal right, would have proceeded decor- ously in one or morec of the numerous proper ways open to it. It seems to have Pacific Company and its offspring, the Market-street Railway Company, and, asa result, it has incurred the popular hatred in which these companies are held. An end must come to all such aggres- sions, Even the Market-street Railway Company, which has been lording it over this City with the same imperious disre- gard of public right which the Southern Pacific has always displayed, is being called to terms, for a suit has been brought to dispossess it of a number of streets over which it holds frauchises secured under terms which have been openly and defi- antly violated. The way in which the Metropolitan road has beer managed by the Market-street Company has virtually checked the progress which the region south of the park had begun, and property values there have suffered accordingly. Persons who built homes in the section served by that road did so under the natu- ral presumption that the conditions ob- taining at the time of their building and required by law would continue. The in- convenience which they have suffered has been annoying and serious, Itis time that these matters should re- ceive a thorough overhauling and the fact be definitely ascertained if the railway companies are really stronger than the people, the laws which they enact and the officers whom they elect. p—— . THE MONEY DIVERTED. As M. G. Upton pointed out in a com- munication published in Thursday’s CALL the money which the Central Pacific earned by taxing the industries of Califor- nia was sufficient to pay the debt to the Government, but instead of being applied to that use, as was understood between the Government and the company, it was di- verted to the pockets of the company's members. Hence the private fortunes of these persons in reality belong to the Gov- ernment. The people have already paid sufficient money to the company to extin- guish its debt, but Mr. Huntington asks that he be given the opportunity to make them pay it a second time. This is mon- strous on its face. Not only would the people have to raise this amount of money a second time if a funding bill were passed, but the burdens which have borne so heavily upon them in the shape of railroad extortion would be largely inzreased, for we may be sure that the company will never be willing to re- duce the amount of its profits, and that in rasing the extra Jarge sum required by a funding bill it will increase its tariffs. Even that, however, not so seriousa matter as the perpetuation of the power- ful monovoly which holds the welfare of California in its grasp. We in this State are familiar with the many ways in which this power has been exercised. Undoubtedly the desperate eagerness with which Mr. Huntington is seeking to secure the passage of a funding bill is, in part, explainable on the ground of his fear | that if he is forced to settle with the Gov- | ernment his private fortune may be en- dangered. This is the property which he | should havepaid to the Government in- | stead of putting it into his own pocket. | There are “equities” besides those which { Le is urging as a reason for an extension | of his debt. The establishing of such a precedent as that for which the railroad companies are contending would be an exceedingly un- wise policy for this Goverrment to adopt. 1t would be going contrary to every busi- ness principle, and would be subversive of the wise and fixed financial relations ex- isting between the Government and its citizens, The whole proposition is so dan- gerous, absurd and unjust that the won- der is it should be gravely considered fora moment by the Nation’s representatives at Washington. UTILIZING THE ISLAND, The bill introduced by Senator Perkins for the establishment of a naval training | station on Goat Island has the hearty in- | dorsement of Secretary Herbert of the navy and the ardent support of the Cali- fornia delegation in the House. As the SBecretary points out, not only does the in- crease in the number of war vessels create a great demand for trained seamen in the absence of a merchant marine, but such training schools encourage the intro- duction of American citizens into the ser- vice of the country. 7 No place in the Nation is more admir- | ably adapted for this purpose than Goat | Island. Although a land station, 1t is | sufficiently far removed from the main- land to make its efficiency and discipline perfectly effective, and while this end is being served all the facil: city immediately at hand can be enjoyed The climate is excellent, and diseases of local origin could be rendered impossible, as the island is high and the drainage perfect. The bay offers a perfect practice sround, and there is ample room on the island for land drill. The putting of the island to some such use would effectually extinguish the dan- ger of its being secured by some great pri- vate corporation which may hapven to enjoy the special favor of the Govern- ment. If Congress passes a funding bill the act would be a betrayal of such a spirit of friendliness to the Southern Pa- cific as would endanger Goat Island. Had it not been for the vigorous fight which San Francisco made against the proposi- tion some years ago to turn over the isl- and to the Southern Pacific for terminal purposes its usefulness to the Government would have come to an end. It might be well, by the way, to keep in mind the ex- ceilent results which that opvosition pro- duced, in view of the necessity for an equally vigorous campaign against the far more important proposition of the funding bill. PEOPLE WORTH READING ABOUT. Neal Dow is now 91 years old and in vigorous health. Mrs. Emma Walker Herr of Lexington, Ky., has been elected enrolling clerk of the Ken- tucky State Senate. It is said in Paris that Emile Zola really stands a good chance of being elected to tne Academy to fill the vacancy left by the late M. Dumas. Barney Barnato, the millionaire, who has written a play in collaboration with Haddon Chambe the father of three children, parts his hiir in the middle, is clean shaven, except for a small mustache, and wears pince nez. Miss Mary C. Philbrook, New Jersey's first woman lawyer, is exercising a distracting in- fluence upon the bench and bar of the State. She is tall, graceful and good-looking, and young advocates particularly lose their heads when opposed to her. M. Andree of Stockholm, who will attempt to reach the north pole by balloon, is having his balloon made in Paris. Itisto be finished on May 11, when it will be transported to Goth- enburg and then to a small island in the Spitz- bergen group, whence the expedition will start. Dr. Jameson, the South African adventurer, is well known in Montana. He made Helena his headquarters during several visits to the Northwest between 1875 and 1886, and 2t dif- ferent times he spent several weeks hunting and fishing on Mussel Shells Creek and in the Judith Basin. The English “Peter Parley,” the pseudonym to conceal the identity of Willlam Tegg, died recently in his eightieth year. He was the son of Thomas Tegg, book-auctioneer and publishel in London, and succeeded to his father’s busi: ness in 1845. Under the pseudonym of “Peter Parley” he wrote a large number of books for the young, of which he was also the publisher. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. F. L. Erickson, one of the heaviest railroad contractors in the country, is at the Grand. Mr. Erickson and his associates have been en- gaged on the line of the Pacific Coast Railway in San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties. Just now the gentleman is taking a vacation, as the Southern Pacific Company has stopped building for a time. . Mr. Erickson was, witn his father before him, for twelve years at work on the Canadian Pacific. They built 360 miles of thatroad. They also built the Duluth and Iron Range and the retaining wall of Saperior streetin Duluth. The Canadian Pacific work took twelve years and the latter two and a haliyears. Five years were also devoted to the building of the Chi- cago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha road. Besides all this, they did pretty much sll the work on the St. Paul and Duluth. Mr. Erickson’s extensive outfit is now lying idle in Shannon Canyon, Santa Barbara. With the outfit are 285 horses and an enormous amount of apparatus, consisting of wagons, plows, scrapers, rock drills and the scores of Bankers will say that thelessonis: ‘‘Grangers, stick to your grange”’; but the real lesson is: “Don’t mix generous confidence with banking methods, for they are incompatible.” And Vice Versa. Lompoc Journal. The man who booms the town isthe man who advertises. Not Lost, * ‘San Jose Mercury. Nat Goodwin has sued the New York Tribune for $50,000 damages, because it charged him with winning $2500 at faro. This ought to teach the reporters to get thingsright. Nat lost, of course. Those Republican Millers. Marysville Appeal. The millers of this country are losing $16,000,000 a year on accountof the smashing of the reciprocity policy by a Democratic Con- gress. It is easy to understand, therefore, why they are mostly Republicans. Patriotic but Magnanimous. Pasadena News, The fact that the United States has not taken advantage of European complications and F. L. Erickson, One of the Leading Railroad Contractors in the Country, Now at the Grand. appliances of different kinds used in modern railroad building. The whole thing, he says, cost $72,000, and five years ago would have | cost fully $125,000. Mr. Erickson says horses which used to be worth from $400 to $500 a span can now be bougnt readily for from $30 to $125. The latter sum will buy & smashing team of big 1400-pound horses. The ages ne selects are from four or five to ten years. Under four the horses are too soft, work too freely and soon strain themselves and use themselves up. Bevond ten the horscs are 00 old. “It takes an enormous amount of feed to supply our horses,” he said. They use of hay alone from 300 to 500 tons every three or four months. Of the grain there is also a tremend- ous amount. When any of our horses get too old we kill them at once. Itdon't pay to keep them. The cost is too great. *The bicycle and electricity has immeasur- ably decreased the demand for horses. I wouldn’t think of paying more than $40 now for & horse that a few years ago would have readily commanded $200. “In regard to railroad building I think Cali- fornia is more promising as a future field of operations than any other State I know of. I wouldn’t be surprised if the Southern Pacific would get in now soon and build a lot of road. “From what I can sce, too, I rather think work will begin before long on the Salt Lake road. Mayor W. H. Carlson of San Diego has interested himselfa good deal in road-building. He built six miles some time ago by popular dollar subscriptions.’” Mr. Erickson will leave this evening for Og- den on & short visit. Malcolm D. Calkins of the Amador Record is & guest at the mopolitan Hotel. His son, Thomas Doun Calkins,and the latter's wife are at the same house registered from Sutter Creek. The son is editor of the Record. The elder gentleman, or Colonel Calkins, as he is com- monly known, has been a newspaper and min- ing man for the major portion of his three score and ten years, “I came from a race of journalists,” he re- marked as he sat before a comfortable fire, and I believe that I have turned out a race of newspaper men.” ““What do you mean by that, Colonel?” was asked. “I mean simply that I am the father of more live newspaper men than any man living,” he replied with a smile. “Here is my son Thomas, editor of the Record, who is a pretty lively specimen; and there is L. S. Calkins, Post- master at Nevada City and editor of the Nevada Transcript; Willard P. is of the Truckee Republican, and Oharles L. s of the Siskiyon Reporter, published at Fort Jones. “You want to know something about our mining boom, do you? Well, it has come to stay, and don’t you forget it. Thomas can teil you all about it.” “Yes,” responded the young man. “Things are booming at Sutter Creek. We have some of the greatest gold mines in the world. Many mines that have been idle for years are now being worked profitably in comsequence of modern appliances for taking out and reducing ore. “The mother lode runs directly through Amador County and on it is located such mines as the Hayward, Eureka, Central Eureks, or Summit, South Eureka, Oneida, Kennedy, Clyde, Volunteer, Jackson, Argo- naut, Hoffman and Alma. These all lie be- tween Sutter Creek and Jackson. The Oneida is a great mine, owned by the Rothschilds and Seligmanns, It has a three-compartment shaft. New machinery is being erected and the output is expected to be very heavy. Aside from this property nearly all the mines are conducted by local capital. New claims are being located every day. “The Central Eureka mine, formerly known as the Summit, lies in the southern outskirts of the town of Sutter Creek, occupying some 600 feet in width by 1500 in length, lying be- tween the old Eureka or Hayward mine and the well-known South Eureka. Some twenty years ago it was operated, but the machinery ‘was inadequate, and there was trouble among the managers. Now C. W. Randall of San Fran- cisco and his associates have possession of it through a forced sale. Last weeka contract was let to build a complete plant, similar to that now on the Gwin mine, and with sufficient power to sink eny depth - the mine will reach. Itig expected to sink at least 1200 feet before any cross-cutting is done. “Yes, sir; I tell you the Amador has got the boom of her life on.” VIEWS OF WESTERN EDITORS. Generosity, but Not Business. Stockton Mall. The Grangers' Bank experiment was very costly to the confiding farmers who made it. taunted England for her uneasy position seems & pleasant surprise to Salisbury and has smoothed him down to just about the arbitra- tion level. Humanity stiil lives. Signs of the Times. Selma Irrigator. The British empire scems to have outstripped its centripetal force and its fragments may be r twentieth eentu: By Time, Not by Conquest. Santa Cruz Sentinel. that soon or late all of North and South America is destined to become a part of the United States, Canada included, and that this ill be in obedience to natural relations. The United States is not anxious to nurry the pro- cess. Americans have an aversion for acquir- ing more territory by covert means. his feeling belougs to the National character, and shows that the American’s English blood hes been considerably modified. ROBERT BURNS. Away with your Boccaccios, your Drydens and your Poes, Your Marlowes and your Tennysons—away with all of those; They ornament prosperity, but when the current turns, We'd swap the aggregation for an hour of Bobby Burns. Your scribbling aristocracy let serve the bookish clan, The fellows who can follow out an epicurian lan; We'love him best who sang the worth of poverty’s | concerns, The peer of hature's poets and her princes, Bo bby Burns. FRANK PUTNAM In the Chicago Times-Herald. A CHILD'S PRETTY APRON. Here is en apron which combines plctur- esqueness with utility. Itis developed charm- ingly in any of the dainty white stuffs, such as nainsook, dimity, lawn and cambric. An in- expensive decoration consists of a very narrow Valenciennes insertion letin at the top of the hem on sleeves and Tevers. Another trimming which is dainty and not costly is & narrow {rill of Valenciennes lace of the Italian mesh, set on the edges. Narrow edges of embroidery set on flat recommend themselves on the score of easy laundering. Aprons of pretty light colorsarea nesllbmti. for the colored nainsooks wash admirably. It may be had in many colors—pink, couleur de rose, blue and pale green. Gingham in checks and stripes makes very serviceable aprons, and need not of necessity be in colors which do not please & child’s eye. Emtes of pink and white on blue and white wash quite, as well as the dnll grays and browns. A pretty contrast is obtained by using & plain color for the revers. Or make the apron of shln pink, with sleeves and re- vers of striped pink and white. He —I'm afraid the coming woman will swear, She—Oh, no; she intends to run things so well there won't be anything' to swear at.— Chicago Record. CountShuvaloft, Governor-General of Poland, has been instructed by tne Czar to prepare memorandum on the subject of the reforms Yhich he proposes to introduce into Poland. The Czar ’l; said to be sincerely anxious to bring abouta better state of affairs in Poland. flying through space before the dawn of the | Bir Charles Dilke said in Paris the other day | PERSONAL. Dr. 8. M. Chagles of Suisun is at the Grand Hotel. Marsh Ladd, a business man of Stockton, is in the City. A. D. Long, a business man of Chicago, is at the Palace. J. L. Phelps of the Stockton Independent is at the Grand. P. A. Kunkel, is at the Palace. H. M. Keyes, a druggist of Healdsburg, 1s registered at the Russ. G. W. Harney, & prosperous fruit-grower of Marysville, is in the City. B. V. Sargent, the banker and landowner of Salinas, is at the Occidental. John Lowe, chief engineer in the United States Navy, is at the Occidental. W. E. Sloan, & property-owner of Elsinore, Southern Celifornia, is here on a visit. George C. Bates of Columbus, Ga., is at the Occidental, accompanied by his wife. R. A. Thompson, editor of the Daily Demo- crat, Santa Rosa, is here on a short visit. E. 8. Levy, one of the weaithiest imerchants of Galveston, Tex., reached here yesterday. C. F. Pierce, a business man of Los Angeles, isat the Californis, accompanied by his wife. R. Robertson, manager of the Paraiso Springs, Wwas among yesterday’s arrivals at the Grand. George Humphreys, a sheep-grower of Christ- church, New Zealand, arrived here yesterday. J. B. MacDougall, one of the proprietors of the Great Northern Hotel, Seattle, is at the Palace. Dr.J. E. Stubbs, president of the Nevada State University, at Reno, was among yesterday's arrivals. General A. W. Barrett of Sacramento came down to the Bay City last night. He is at the California. F. A. Boole, & mill-owner and lumber menu- facturer of Red Bluff, arrived here last night on a business trip, Ex-Superior Judge C. O. Clarke of Siskiyou County, is at the Russ. He is a resident of Mott, on the Shasta route, and has lived long in Siskiyou. A.J. Marcus, of the firm of S. H. Frank & Co., leather merchants, who was a candidate on the Republican ticket at the last election for Railroad Commissioner, has been serionsly ill, but is now convalescing and well on the way toward recovery. W. J. Montague of Pittsburg, who has arrived here on a business trip, says traveling over the best Eastern railroads is now little short of a luxury. Every comfort and convenience are furnished the traveler, and he can go right along and do business at the same time. The train on which Mr. Montague came to Chicago had stenographers, barbers, ladies’ maids, prod- uce quotations, financial reports, United States mail boxes, observation cars and bathrooms. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, arrivals are: E. Gilsey; P. Hunt, N Windsor; Mrs mine-owner of Butte, Mont., . 23.—Among recent Forest, Grand; W. E. Marr, therlands; S. F. Wormser, Flint, St. Cloud. LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. MR. VINING AND THE NEWSBOYS. THE RAILROAD MAGNATE'S APPEAL TO THE MER- CIIANTS' ASSOCIATION. While Mr. Vining has succeeded in a large measure in subjugating the mature and adult portion of his subjects, he is severely exercised by the Indifference and insolence of the im- | mature newsboys, and has been obliged to ap- | peal to the Merchants’ Association to aid him in suppressing their handling transfers and | depleting the revenues of the monopoly. Mr. Vining thinks it is getting money under false | Ppretenges for a newsboy to sell a newspaper to any person with & transfer as a premium. Mr. Vining eontemplates petitioning the Super- visors to make it a misdomeanor to traffic in transfers. Mr. Vining was astonished on a rainy day at seeing a lady cross Powell street froun the west to the eastside to give a news- boy a transfer. But all tae anxiety and agony of Mr. Vining may be caused because out of 350,000 inhabit- ants possibly not more than 200,000 daily patronize his combine, and one in a thousand { may get » transter through a newsboy under ning's interpretation of iraudulent pre- . Mr. Vining ought to know that one- third of his 200,000 daily patrons ride from force of habit and not of necessity, and when the facts are brought to their notice and com- | prehension (as they will be) that the combine | 1s following in the footsteps of its illustrious predecessor, the notorious “octopus,”’ by con- unuing “to charge all the traflic will bear,” these 67,000 patrons will discontinue riding, save more than $3000 a day, keep the nickels, increase the contents of their pockets and im- Pprove their health by walking. J R. ROBINSON, san Francisco, Ja CURRENT HUMOR. He—My love will have no ending, dear. She—Now, I say, Relph, ain’t you going to MAITY m er ali?—Boston Beacon. Cumso—There are said to be forty-seven so- ciety editors in New York. Cawker—That is all right, ciety needs editing.—Juage. New York so- Watts—There won't be any European war. Those rulers are all related to one another. Potts—That's the very reason I think there will be war.—Indianapolis Journal. Mrs. Gossipy—I think young Mr. Chatter is & delightful conversationist. Mr. Gossipy—Well, yes; he succeeds pretty well for & man who never had anything tosay. —New York Truth. “I'm going to be married,” said Miss Trotter to Miss Kittish. “You! You going to be married! I thought you were an inveterats man-hater who wouldn't marry the best man in the world.” “Yes; but that was before one of the horrid men had proposed to me."—Life. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. CRAWFORD, THE ScoUT—T., Alameda, Cal. Captain Jack Crawford, the poet-scout, was in this City about two months ago and lectured before the Young Men s Christian Association. He went to Los Angeles. FI1zsIMMONS AND HALL—A. K., City. The fight between Bob Fitzsimmons and Jim Hall occurred at the Crescent City Athletic Club, March 8,1893. Fitzsimmons wou with a right half-arm upper-cut in four rounds. NoN-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS—P. T. C., City. Non-commissioned officers are ail below the rank of second lieutenant, appeinted by regi- mental commanders, and include sergeant- major, quartermaster and commissary sergeant, sergeant, corporal and dru: j -major. STATE TEXTBOOKS—A. R., Alameda, Cal, The law of this State declares that the State Board of Education shall employ well-qualified per- sons to compile the books provided by the State, namely, readers, speller, arithmetic, grammar, history of the Unifed States and geography. The reports of the investigation re- cently made by the Governor were correct. LANDS IN MEXICO—F. L., City. There are no homestead or pre-emption laws in Mexico as there are in the United States. The public lands of the country are not surveyed. A per- son desiring to take up land there must fir:l make & selection and then communicate with the Minister of Fomento, at the City of Mexico. The limit of land that can be i The limit o taken up is about county in which the conviction was had, e s bo proof By amdavit of th service. Unless dispensed with by the Gover. nor, a copy of the notice must also be pub- Iished for thirty days from the first publication in'a paper in the county in which the convie- tion was had. The Governor, when addressed by letter, should be addressed as “Hon. James H. Budd, Governor of California, Sir. STATE BOARD OF TRADE—J. T. E., City. The officers of the State Board of Trade are: N. P. Chipman, president; J. S. Emery, first vice- president; L. C. McAfee, second vice-president; J. A. Filcher, secretary and general manage: .M. Larue, treasurer; N. P. Chipman, W. H. Mills, B. M, Lelong, 8. J. Stabler, J. 8. Emery, L. C. McAfee, J. A. Morrissey, J. P. Irish and C. M. Wooster, directors. The ofiice of the board is in the Crocker building. Bursep DuriNe Riors—T., Alameda, Cal, During a riot in which anti-Catholics were prominent the Ursuline Convent in Charles- town, Mass., was attacked and seton fire on the 11th of August, 1834; on the Gth of May, 1844, there was a riot in Philadelphia during which the female seminary attached to the Catholic church of St.Michael was attacked by a mob that was not friendly to the church. 1he semi- nary as well as the church was destroyed by fire. A STATUE OF BURNS. To-morrow will be the one hundred and thirty-seventh anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns. The event will be observed by the sons of Scotland all over the world. In Statue of Burns to Be Unveiled at Bostom. Boston a statue designed by a young uculg-tor, Robert McNair Cairns, will be unveiled in Music Hall. The Scotchmen resident in Chi- cago will make the anniversary this year a conspicuous fete and inaugurate & movement to raise funds for & monument to be erected to the memory of the bard. ONE week—Gen. eyeglasses, 15¢, 40c. 8134 4th, nr. barber; Sundays,738 Mkt (Kast shoe store).s - EPECTAL information daily to manufacturers, business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * T HUSBAND'S Calcined Magnesia. Four first- premium medals awarded. More agreeable to the taste and smaller dose than other mag- nesia. For sale only in bottles with registered trademark label. » e The Countess Fedora Gleichen, one of Queen Victoria’s mother’s German descendants, who dabbles with sculpture, has been commissioned by her Majesty to make the bust of the late F. Clark, John Brown's nephew and successor as Highland attendant. Wxar Hood’s Sarsaparilla has done for others it can and will do for you. A fair trial of Hood’s Sar- saparilla will convince you of the entire truth of the above statement. Take only Hood's. ——————— “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup™ Has been used over fifty years by millions of mothe ers for their children while Teething with perteat success. 1t soothes the child, softens the gums, al- Inys Pain, cures Wind Colic, regulates the Bowals and is the best remedy for Diarrhceas, whether arising from teething or other causes. For sale by Druggists in every part of the world. Be sureand ask for Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrap. 380 + bottle. T — CORONADO.—Atmosphere is pertectly dry, soft end mild, and I3 entirely free from the mists com- mon further north. Round-trip tickets, by steam- ship, iucluding fifteen days’ board a: the Hotel del Coronado, $60; longer stay $2 50 per day. Apply 4 New Montgomery st., San Francisco. S e e ST TO REDUCE your weight, use Vrettos' Belt, iy Sir Samuel Lewis, K. C. M. G., the cosl-black negro who was knighted on New Year's day, is 52 years old. He waseducated at Wesley Col- lege, Sheffield, and University College, London, was admitted to the bar of the Middle Temple in 1871, and became Chief Justice of Sierra Leone in 1882. Last year he was chosen as the first Mayor of the ity of Freetow: NEW TO-DAY. HAVE YOU HEARD ABOUT 'THE WONDERFUL NEW REMEDY THAT SO QUICKLY RELIEVES AND CURES SORE THROATS, HEAD COLDS, HEAD, FOOT, FACE, EAR and TOOTH ACHE, ~MITCHELL'S MAEIC=LOTION Be Sure and Read the Directions. Fill & small teacup with Lotion; when Dbalt evaporated cover and keep for EXTEKNAL USE. When dry sadd | IRWIN'S NOMINATION— T., Alameda, Cal. William Irwin was nominated for the office of Governor of California June 29, 1875, his op- onents in the convention being Thomas Find- ey, James A. Johnson, C. T. Ryland and Philip A. Roach. He was elected September 1, of the same year, and the following shows the vote cast for each gubernatorial candidate: Irwin 61,509; Phelps, 31,322; Birdsall, 29,732, and Lovett, 356. JACK Pots—F. A. C., City. This correspond- entasks: A, B, C, and D are playing jack pots. After passing it up to acesand better A opens and the others “stay.” After the draw A passes and the others do likewise. Does the pot re- vert to jack pots or i there a show-down, the best hand winning, which, in tnis case, hap- pened to be A with two aces? Ans.—There must be a show-down, and as two aces were high A wins. EXECUTIVE CLEMENCY—A. C., Napa, Cal. Ten days before the Governor acts upon an appli- cation for pardon, when the application is made to him, itten notice of the intention to apply for a ::rdon, signed by the person ap- Lotion to cover the sediment and use for Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Sprains, all and Bciatic or Astimnatle Child’s Silver Gray Un- derwear, Spring weight, Fine, worth 25¢, short or longsleeves,1 to 8 yrs,15¢. Complete lists at your command. st Department Store. plying, must beserved on the District Attorney SmITHS' CASH SToRe, 414,416, 418 FRONT ST,, S. s