The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 21, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, MARCH 21, 1896. SUMCRIPTI(;N RATES—Postage Free: Paily snd Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..80.18 Daitly and Sunday CALL, one year, by mall.... 6.00 Dliglnd Sundsy CALL, six months, by inall. 3.00 Daily and Sunday CALL, three months by mail x.g Datly and Sunday CaLL, one month, by mall.. Bunday CALL, one year, by mail 150 WXEKLY CALL, one year, by mail 150 BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, Californta. Telephon 3 Matn—1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. ...Maln-1874 Felephone.... BRANCH OFFICES: 680 Montgomery sireet, corner Clay: open untll #:80 o'clock. 839 Hayes street; open until 9:30 o'clock. 718 Larkin street; open until 9:30 o'clock. §W . corner Sixteenth and Mission streets; open entil 9 o'clock. 9518 Mission street; open until 9 0'clock. 118 Minth street; open until 9 o'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE 3 $08 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 and 32, 34 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOETZ, Specisl Agent. SATURDAY .MARCH 21, 1896 THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. Thi the day you leave orders for THE SuNpAY CaLL. There is a big chance yet that the ex- pedition up the e will end up a tree. The failure of Kentucky to elect a Sena- tor shook the country a little bit, but itis all right now. While the goldbugs were looking to see the silver sun set in the west behold it has risen in the east. Democra is still in doubt whether Cleveland come to the front this year or hire a substiiute. Bayard may not apologize, but he will never talk again without first taking a sober second thought. The Southern Pacific Company can pay its debts, ought to pay them, and should be made to pay them. Missouri Democracy wearied but not ex- hausted proposes to go to Chicago shout- ing for Bland for President. If Vanderbilt and Depew are looking for a good opening for capital they are com- ing to the right pla ce to find it. The only way to close the contest over the Pacific roads debt is to foreclose the | mortgage and shut out the monopoly. There will be no more trouble with the Pacific roads when the Government has turned the rascals out of the management. The train-robber is shot in his tracks, but the fellow who steals a whole railroad is allowed all the time he wishes to nego- tiate, ‘While the Junta b are having their razzle-dazzle the Buckley fellows are con- cocting a dose for them that will sober them up in the morning. Now that the Bayard roast has been well done the next work for the Congressional cook is to stir up the syndicate bond deal and get the soup ready for Grover. That Huntington swindled Uncle Sam once is a sign that Huntington is a knave, but if he swindles him again it will be a sign that Uncle Sam is sometimes a fool. Since the City has made Van Ness avenue a boulevard the property-owners ought to feel willing to decorate it with sbade trees and make it a thing of beauty. A refunding bill that would prolong the monopoly wounld be no victory for it, but only a means of prolonging a fight which in the end is sure to be won by the people. Protection, reciprocity and bimetallism are thrge planks that make a platform broad enongh for all Republicans to stand . on, with plenty of room besides for the in- dependent voter: That Uncle Sam has learned a lesson from his experience with the Pacific roads is mude evident by a provision in the Nicaragua canal bill requiring that two- thirds of the board of directors shall be appointed by the Government. The open aniagonism of the McKinley men to the Cullom movement in his own Btate may be good politics, and then again it may be what the Chicago Inter Ocean re- ferred to the other day when it spoke of some candidates having fool friends. Among the minor items of political news that may have a big significance is a re- port from New York tbat an anti-Platt meeting of Mugwump Republicans called for the purpose of protesting against the boss did not draw a crowd big enough to fill a back parlor at the Windsor Hotel. ———— As Benator Chandler is reported to have stated recently that the Senate places at the disposal of each Senator four persons who are paid by the Government an aggre- gate amount in salaries of $482,000 a year, it would seem the fashion of calling it a rich man’s club has some foundation in fact. . During the first eighteen months of its operation the revenues of the Gorman tariff have been $75,000,000 less than the running expenses of the Government and about $100,000,000 less than the revenues derived from the first eighteen months of the McKinley tariff. That's the Demo- cratic record. Although much issaid about the relative strength the various candidates will have in the St. Louis convention, cautious stu- dents of the situation declare no safe esti- mate can be made before the end of April, by which time twenty-one States will have elected delegates and the party sentiment will be pretty well made known. ‘When in a speech in Congress Tom Reed said, *“To insure our growth in civilization we must not only have wages as high as they are now but constantiy and steadily increasing,”” the Republicans applauded heartily but the Democrats were silent. The incident is a good pointer for working- men who are in doubt how to vote this year. The way in which free trade affects the farmer is shown by the fact that of twenty staple articles of farm produce there were imported into this country in 1894 under the Republican tariff about $65,000,000 worth, but of the same products there were imported in 1895 under the Gorman tariff §$134,000,000 worth, being a loss to American farmers of nearly $70,000,000 of American money in one year. ENFORCE THE LAW. During the whole of the prolonged con- troversy over the settlementof the debts due to the Government by the Pacific railroads the advocates of the refunding scheme have advanced no argument in support of it save the one that in no other way can the Government recover either the principal or the interest on which the roads have defaulted. Reduced to simple terms the argument for refunding is that the Government must, yield to the demands of the monopoly or lose all that 1t has at stake. Ordinarily the creditor has an advantage over the debtor, but in this case all ordinary rules are reversed. The debtor assumes to defy the creditor to collect the Gebt. The law is mocked at. The Government is inso- lently challenged to recover 1f it can the money which the subsidized roads have taken from it. This defiance is not couched in diplomatic terms. Tt is an- nounced boldly. *If you expect to get back what we owe you,” say the directors of the defaulting roads to the Government and the people, “‘then you must wait our leisure, you must reduce the rate of inter- est on the debt, you must set aside the laws you have made, you must continue our monopoly and by refunding the debt allow us at least fifty years more in which to decide whether we will ever pay it or not.” In the face of an argument of this kind Congress should not hesitate a moment. If the Government cannot collect the debt now it can never collect it at all. Refund- ing the debt for fifty years would simply increase the amount due by the defaulters without in any way increasing the pros- pects of recovering any portion of it. Huntington and his colleagues have been trusted once and they have betrayed the trust. They have made no effort to repay principal or interest of their obligations. They have built themselves palaces in the City and villas by the sea. They have allied their families by marriage with the princes of Europe and bestowed dowries upon the brides with a prodigal meagnifi- cence. They have maintained a thousand extravagances and at the same time made an ostentatious display of philanthropy when the caprice seized them. They have never paid their debts, bowever, nor.ever tried to, nor is there any reason to believe they ever thought of doing so. Railroads whose revenues have been suf- ficient to pile up the colossal fortunes while permitting all the luxuries of the members of the Southern Pacific Com- pany can certainly pay off the debtdue the Government if they are economically administered. There are abundant evi- dences that if rascals were removed from the management of the roads, the income to be derived from a legitimate business would sooner or later pay all that is due io the Government and leave a good profit besides. This seems to be the opinion of the Vanderbilts and tne Goulds, and they certal know something of railroads. The course to be followed by Congress is therefore plain, whether considered from the point of view of expediency or of duty. It is summed up in the demand of the people: Enforce the law, foreclose the mortgaze, turn the rascals out. KEEPING UP ITS COURAGE. A Democratic contemporary professes to be delighted with the prospect of the nomination of McKinley by the St. Louis convention, asserting that while his nomi- nation may be assured the election of the anthor of the “Tariff of Abominations” is quite another matter. We bave all heard of the boy who, pass- ing a graveyard, whistles to keep his courage up, and our contemporary re- minds us very forcibly of that boy. Sup- pose that instead of McKinley the nominee of the National Republican Convention should be Reed, or Morton, or Allison, or Cameron, or any other Republican, can the Eraminer imagine for a moment that Presidential candidates can stand upon any except a protectionist platform? Governor - MeKinley is associated inti- mately with protection to American labor and American industries, not because he is any better protectionist than thousands of his party, but because he was the chair- man of the Ways and Means €ommittee of the House of Representatives which formulated the tariff measure known familiarly as the McKinley bill. Whether William McKinley or another be the nominee of the St. Louis convention is a matter of perfect indifference so far as the question of protection is concerned. The people of the United States have had enough and more than enough of free trade, as thinly disguised in the Wilson bill, with its accompanying train of deficit in the treasury, bond issues to meet cur- rent expenses of the Government and deal- ings with foreign money-holding syndi- cates. They prefer to return to a policy under which the National credit became the admiration of the world and by the operation of which there was created a surplus in the National Treasury, even though such surplus did alarm Grover Cleveland in Dezember, 1887, Of course no one really believes that our Democratic contemporary entertains even a hope of the success of its party at the coming Presidential election. To tell the truth, Presidential timber is pretty scarce in the Democratic camp. Cleveland is out l of the question, Carlisle is an impossi- bility, Whitney will not consent to bea can- didate, Boies of Towa is no longer a favorite son, Campbell of Ohio cannot make the race, and Morgan of Alabama, the ablest man of the party, is handicapped by geo- graphical considerations. There will be somebody, no doubt, who will accept the empty honor of a nomination, for some- times it is better, in a political sense, to have run and lost than never to bave run at all, but the long odds are that the nominee of the St. Louis convention, who- ever he may be, will be the next President of the United States and it is certain that he will be a protectionist. FERRY TROUBLES ENDED. The decision by the Supreme Court that the Harbor Commission has a large dis- cretion under the act authorizing it to.con~ struct a ferry building does away with all the annoying obstacles which have hin- dered the board, and now everything is clear sailing. For some time the progress of this improvement has been so delayed by trivial interferences that its importance has nearly dropped out of sight. It is most unfortunate that every act of the Legislature concerning matters of public interest has to be tested in the courts be- fore it can become operative, but this ex- pensive and annoying means of establish- ing or overturning acts seems to be a necessary evil so long as the Legislature ckooses to make laws inadequately con- sidered and imperfectly drawn. Now that the work of comstruction will proceed henceforward without interrup- tion, it is proper to ponder its meaning and canvass means for developing the highest usefulness of the building. It will be a handsome structure and an ornament to the City, but beyond that lie questions affecting the commerce of this port and the co-operation of the City with the State. It will not be sufficient to regard the new ferry building merely as an im- A Ipmvement on the wretched sheds that have served for so many years. The supe- rior facilities which it will offer will make 1t the center of activities bearing the closest relation to the best interests of the State and City. Two of the most important matters that are now under consideration by the lead- ing commercial bodies of the City are a reduction of the burdens now resting upon our shipping and an appropriation from Congress for.the removal of submerged rocks which are a serious menace to navi- gation. These two matters should be urged with all possible vigor. Neglect of them serves only to cripple the efficiency of the ocean as a highway for the distri- bution of our products and to strengthen the hold of a railroad monopoly. on our commerce and industries. These are matters which affect the wel- fare of the State. The City itself will ac- quire from the splendid structure an inde- pendent set of responsibilities. One will be the proper treatment of Market street as the highway from the ferry. to all the subsidiary thoroughfares penetrating every section of town. A good pavement is required, and an elimination of super- fluous streetcar tracks would be highly advantageous. It is by nomeans too early to make preparatiors for these improve- ments. They would be followed by many others throughout the business section of the City. Other matters springing from the new building will readily present themselves. It would be an everlasting reproach to the City not to make the most of this superb improvement which the State is making. THE DEBRIS APPROPRIATION. The communication addressed by Tirey L. Ford to the House Committee on Rivers and Harbors in response to a request from the committee for a statement relative to the wishes of the people of California on the subject of a Government appropria- tion of $250,000 for the construction of debris-impounding works places the mat- ter in a considerably broader light than it has been generally assumed to possess. After reciting the familiar history of the legislation which has been taken on the subject, including the actof Congress of March 1, 1893 (the Caminetti act), inviting the co-operation of California, and the California legislative act of the same year appropriating $250,000 for impounding works on condition that Congress makes an appropriation in the same amount for that purpose, Mr. Ford’s communication makes the following statement: *This committee must bear in mind that the damage heretsfore done to the rivers in California through the flow of detritus from the mountains has been from several causes. Nature is continually washing the mountains down into the valleys, and this has been greatly accelerated since the advent of civilization. The denudation of the mountain sides of the heavy forests that formerly grew upon them has per- mitted the’ soil to become loosened and thus more rapidly wash into the canyons. The grazing of vast herds of cattle and sheep and other stock upon the mountain sides has also accelerated the washing away of the soil. Farming and gardening have added somewhat, and mining has also done its share toward carrying debris into the canyons and rivers. No one cause is wholly to blame. It is impossible to take care of the debris-resulting from one cause without at the same time taking care of the debris resulting from all causes. The proposition is to impound this debris at convenient places in the lower foothills and in the canyons where nature seems to have provided places especially adapted to the purpose and thus relieve the rivers from the annual danger arising from the melting snows and freshets at spring- time.” This is a broad and generous statement of the present condition. The communi- cation further declares that it is a theory that the Government should take care of its1ivers and shows that for its outlay the Government is to require that the hy- draulic miners availing themselves of the benefits of the impounding works shall pay 3 per cent of their gross income for the privilege. It is further pointed out that the appropriation, instead of having the effect of fostering a particular industry, will not only make hydraulic mining pos- sible, but will prevent injury to the rivers and Jower farming lands by checking the flow of detritus that 'has already accu- mulated and that is constantly gaining volume from various sources. Such a presentation of the case seems altogether reasonable. In view of these facts and the favorable recommendation of the Govern- ment engineers appointed to investigate the matter, it is difficult to see how Con- gress -can consistently withhold the de- sired appropriation. “THE SUNDAY CALL" The feature of TaE SUNDAY CALL of to- morrow that will first impress the eye will be a picture of the young ladies of the High School leaving the building at the close of their day’s work. It is a picture attractive not only because it represents a typical scene in the daily life of our City, but as an example of the excellence of newspaper illustration on this coast. The literary teatures of the number will be marked by the diverse variety of the subjects treated and the high degree of excellence of the several articles. Promi- nent among these is a story of the struggie of a woman against the hard fortunes of life in Nebraska. 1itisin truth something more than a story, and to the reader will appear not as realism, but as reality, The effect of the pathos and of the resemblance to an incident of actual life is increased by the title, which is embodied in the sug- gestive words, “She Was My Sister.” z A charming pastoral suited to the spring- time will be found in an article by Miss Ade- line Knapp descriptive of early wild flowers and particularly of the ‘“Wake-Robin.” A sketch of a widely different nature but of equal interest to the general reader will be found in the narrative of tbe experiences of a Whitehall boatman of San Francisco under the title of **Around the World in a ‘Whitehall.” The series of Lighthouse Stories which has been running in THE SuNpay CALL for some time is continued to-morrow in an account of the lighthouse at Twin Brothers. Islands. W. C. Morrow con- tributes the chief literary feature of the numberin a story of mystery and tragedy, “The Garrulous Typewriter,” in which are illustrated some of those complex phe- nomena of life which make up the world of the supernatural. The regular ‘departments of the paper, including fashions, literature, science, so- ciety, childhood’s realm, ete., are filled with an entertaining miscellany of original and selected matter. It goes without say- ing that the news of the day will be found in full. THE CALL is the only morning pa- per in the City which receives United Press dispatches and is therefore one that must be read by all who wish to know all the news. Electricity and Irrigation. The Petalumian. : Fresno is to have electric power from & mouutain stream thirty-seven miles away and Bakersfield will not have to go quite so far for I tion electric are hers. Irriga: and power ing rapid changes in the big valley. i AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Sheriff A. C. Busch of Sierra County, who has lived in the mountains of the north for forty years now, mined and kept store and brought bold border bandits to justice, is at the Russ. The Sheriff has grown bigger in recent years, though.at the same time the snow has some- what touched his beard. It is only recently that he became a Sheriff. For a long while he conducted a general fner- chandise business at Sierra City, and he isyet interested in it. Then he was pushed forward for politics. > “Not & Democrat had been elected,’” said he, “and it looked impossible for them to elect me, for it is a very strong Republican county. However, I was really elected by & majority of 1896, is to become s conspicuous milestone in the forward marci of the party of protection in the present campaign. It must be apparent 10 the least thoughtful observer that the Ohio platiorm, s formulated by Mejor McKinley ten days before this Washington conference of manufacturers and silver Senators, is not ac- ceptable to the industrialinterests of the coun- try. Indeed, it is openly indicated by the lead- ing spirits_in the conference that the Ohio platiorm will not do, and that no alliance with the dominant gold power of Wall street will be tolerated. 1t is safe to assume, if a Populist can come anywhere near guessing the portents of the hour, that the **Ohio idea” is acceptable to the magnates of Wall street and to their allies of the gold-mongering class in Europe. 1f s0, the “Ohio idea” must be greatly modified and become an explicit declaration in favor of free coinage of silverat 16 to 1, or there will be a. conflict in the Republican party quite like that which has broken out in the Democratic party. 1 i SHERIFF A. C. BUSCH, THE VETERAN OF SIERRA COUNTY, WHO (S NOW HERE. [Sketched from life by a “Call’ artist.] about 150, and the second time I ran I beat my opponent two to one. I am serving my sec- ond term now. “It is rather bright and hopeful looking in Sierra now, though the snow has been very light. Last year there were three hydraulics at work in Sierra, and this year four more were started up. They were allenjoined under the anti-debris act, but since then they have all built dams, and now will start up again. “There is a good deal of interest in mining there. Lots of new companies have been or- | ganized. The old Alaskas mine has beep, re- opened and is employing over thirty men. It is expected that the Bonanza mine and its 40- stamp mill will start soon. “There is & San Franciseo syndicate thatis buying all the mines in frontof the Keystone. The syndicate is going to run a tunnel more than two miles long through these properties. It is expected that three or four pay veins will be opened. - “On various mines on which work is being projected the ore is showing up well. The Bald Mountain extension is one of these, and the North Fork and South Fork at Frest City. “There has also been a strike recently in the Plumbago mine. It is very good ore and there is a good deal of it.” Sheriff Busch intends leaving for home to- morrow. He says more snow is badly needed, but thinks it may yet fall. In 1838, after April 15, he saw no less than seven feet of new snow at Slerra City. A POSTER ROMANCE. She posed within a poster gown Eeneath a poster tree; A poster background wiggled down nto a poster sea. T mustered up a poster smile, And said: “Oh, queerest lass, 1t you decide it worth your while Our troth shall come to pass.” Bhe viewed me with a poster frown And cried: “It cannot be— You have no weird, grotesque renown— Too plain you are for me.” 1 wildly dashed upon my wheel; 1 scorched it here and there, Collided, spilled. and with a squeal Iheard my garments tear. All mud and blood and rags I ride To her who did me fling; She drooped upon my neck and sighed: “Ah, now you're jus the thing.” —Chicago Record. LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. POPULISTS AND THE TARIFF, THEIR DEMAND FOR FREE SILVER COINAGE MEANS PROTECTION. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIR: Your intelligent readers will readily perceive that Populists are profoundly interested in the news of to-day (March 20) from Washington of a conference petween the Pennsylvania manu- facturers and the Republican silver Senators for the purpose of linking together the two is- sues of bimetallism and protection as “an in- givisible issue before the country” in the pres- ent political campaign. Populists have all along been amazed at the apparent subserv- iency of the great manufacturing and indus- trial interests of the Eastern States to the gold- mongers of New York and Europe. It has been the constant cry of the Populists that the industrial interests of the country wereutterly op) to the interests and purposes of the gola-mongers, but protectionist manufactur. ers, assuming that Populists were free-traders, have disregarded the plea of the Populists for free coinage as only a Populist cry. Forelooking advocates of the free coinage of silverat the old and always safe ratio or 16 to 1 have continually pointed out the in- evitably disastrous consequences to our indus- trial interests (not alone of the farmer and commfmwer, ut of the manufacturer as well) of ignoring the silver issue and permit- unfl:he gold-mongers to rule the country; but while the farmers and planters have practi- cally all become aggressive advocates of free- silver coinage, so great has been the devotion of the manufacturers to the ‘‘party of protec- tion” that they have failed to see that it did not protect them, while it helplessly exposed them to their most dangerous competitors, the much despised and berated countries on a “silver basis,” sup 10 be the lasi and low- est state of inferior civilization, according to the wisdom of gold-mongers. It remained for Japan, China and Mexico, to whose low estate we were doomed to come, the gold-mongers tell us, if we venture to restore the free coinage of silver—it has remained for these despised eountries to open the eyes of our manufacturers to the fact that they, as well as the farmers and cotton-planters, are to be ruined if our great financial guides and g{:.flmphon, Senator Sherman and President veland, are permitted to keep this country on agold basis. It isadmitted that the awak- ening of these manufacturers has been some. what rude and unwelcome, but 100 per cent rofit to these much-berated silver- coun- ies hag led our manufacturers to open their eyes and see, 85 ident Dornan of the Manu- m‘eomnre, Club lcl hlhlllda‘l&hh ex'];;‘el:ud'i; t rence in Washington yesi *that tarift duties cannot be made high enohgh 10 glrou,ctonx mlnufu:n'{un if our country re- on & gold basis. 5 : who eagerly scans {flnh. To an obm'm t Po'puluci the signs of the times, the 19th day of | But how would such a modification be received by gold-mongers ? Heretofore it has been the policy of the Pop- ulists as a party to ignore the tariff issue, and individuals have had absolute liberty to hold and cherish any views they please. There are protectionists as sirong as McKinley and_free- traders as rank as Henry George in the Popu- list party all over the country who work side by side in the utmost harmony; but I think the conviction is general among Populists that the tariff issue should be taken out of politics | entirely and placed in the hands of a great non-partisan National tribunal, like that of the Supreme Court in dignity and character, except that the members shall be chosen by & direct vote of the people, each State to have at least one representative. As the tariff is purely & business matter it should be placed in the hands of business men of the highest attain- ments and character, who should hold office as lor:igaa United Staies Senators, if not longer, and one-half of the members sbould be hold- over. The interests of trade and manufacture would thus never be subject tosudden and rad- ical changes with & change in the sdministra- tion. The temptation as it now exists to use the tariff issue for partisan advantage would then cease forever. So far as I know the protectionist and free-trade Populists are now_ready to accept this disposition of the much buffeted and mischief-breeding tariff question as an issue in politics. JOSEPH ASBURY 11 Essex street, San Francisco. Jomssox. LADY'S WRAPPER OR TEA GOWN. A semi-fitted wrapper is a most comfortable garment, and is preferred by many to & tight or entirely loose gown. The one shown here hengs in graceful lines from a yoke back and front. These portions are rounded at the sides m e PRI and further fitted by an under-arm gore. The sleeve is unlined, making it altogether an ideal model for washable fabrics. The same design serves for handsome tea gowns. One seen was of blue crepon. The yoke was of white satin covered with creamy guipure lace. The e;)lnlellel were pf blue satin ribbon. A bow of the same ribbon, six inches wide, joined xlnwzge-:preumng bow at the top of thefullness nt. A gown of pink Dresden silk with narrow lines of black satin two inches apart had black satin yoke covered with chiffon. Around the epaulettes, which were of the silk, was a nar- row pleating of chiffon. A black satin ribbon was brought forward from the back of the under-arm gore and partially confined the full- ness a little below the waist line in front. Chiffon ruffles adorned the sleeves. A gownof dimity in stripes of green and white had green ‘ribbon epaulettes, with a folded collar of the same. A plain white lawn gown was exquisitely deinty, having epaulettes of lawn with insers tions of narrow Valenciennes set it. A ruffle of lace to match finished the edges. The ruffles on the sleeves were of lawn and insertion. A white ribbon witl' rose-colored flounces and a tiny black satin edge formed a folded collar and bow with long ends at the lower edge of yoke ir front. VIEWS OF WESTERN . EDITORS. e Can’t Whip Cuba, Carpenteria Courter. Spain can’t whip Cuba, yet she wants to tackle Uncle Sam. ‘Where Huntington Keeps Books. Poimona Beacon, C. P. Huntington thinks the best place s com- g;&;mmlug set of books can be put is into a hot Enterprising Redlands. Tulare Register. _ Alittls while ago the small town of Redlands raised a purse of $20,000 donated it to a man who would build a $60,000 tourist hotel, 4 the hotel is now open and ready for busi- ::n. Having completed this task the Red- 1ands people are making up & purse of to be given to any man or company of men who will establish s 30,000 cannery. A Peculiar Condition. San Jacinto Register. The Democratic party is confronted by the ugly fact that it cannot nominate a Northern man for President this year without taking him from a Republican State. Should Be Dethroned. San Bernardino Free Press. Men of all shades of opinion on every imag- inable subject are a unit on the proposition that King Kollis ought to _be deposed—that is, that he ought to be made to pay his debts, which would amount to the same thing. PERSONAL. T. J. Potter of Portland is in the City. T. C. White, & banker of Fresno, is in the City. I.YC. Ruddell, an attorney of Ukiah, isin the City. W. S. Stone, & business man of Eureks, is at the Russ. Charles €overt of Merced is at the Cosmo- politan. W. F. George, an attorney of Sacramento, is at the Grand. Colonel W. Forsyth, the Fresno vineyardist, is at the Occidental. William Eastman, a hotel proprietor of Hol- lister, is at the Grand. C. W. Mason, the Los Angeles lime-grower, is at the Cosmopolitan. . Harry Quinn,a sheep-raiser of Tulare County, is at the Cosmopolitan. L. W. Howe, & mining man of Tuolumne County, is on a visit here. B. Cohn, proprietor of a general store at Pomeroy, Wash., is at the Grand. George H. Hill of Helena, Mont., is at the Palace, accompanied by his wife. B. H. Marshall and Caleb H. Marshall of Chicago are among the arrivals at the Russ. Thomas D. Calkins, editor and proprietor of the Amador Record, is at.the Cosmopolitan. E. D. Bowman, who is interested in mining in different parts of Plumas County, is in the City. Editor H. A. McCraney has returned from a visit to Northern California with General Clarkson. George A. Wiley, superintendent of the Seth Cook stock and grain farm at Danville, Contra Costa County, is at the Grand. Among the arrivals at the Palace yesterday was Percy L. Shuman and T. Benton Leiter of Chicago, and E. W. Vest of St. Louis. D. F. 0’Callaghan, who bas been on an ex- tended tour of the world for some months and has been in Jerusalem and other parts of the Holy Land, Indja, China and Japan, returned here on the Peru yesterday. John Ritchie, who many years ago settled near Greenville, Plumas.County, and made some good mining strikes, selling out there- after and investing in Government bonds, is at the Russ. He usually spends his winters here. In the summer he goes to Plumas and raises flowers in a little place which he owns near Greenville. The growing of many kinds of beautiful fowers has become & fad with him. Bishop Morris of Oregon is at the Oceidental. For several weeks past he has been at various places in the south, including Santa Barbara. He says the people at the latter place antici- pate a steady growth, when the Southern Pa- cific begins, s it is to do, the running of through overland trains by that route in a few weeks. The Bishop is togo toSan Mateo and deliver & few lectures. He will start for home on Monday. Alfred T. Gashorn of Philadelphia, who is at the Palace Hotel, accompanied by his family, was director-general of the Centennial Exposi- tion in 1876. He says, in his opinion, the Chicago Exposition was too. big, and that this 'was the cause of discord in the management. Only the Midway Plaisance is remembered now, but of the Centennial Exposition, though twenty years have elapsed, it is -all remem- bered. The general is here on a pleasure trip. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK,N. Y., March 20.—Among recent arrivals are: E. D, Sachs, Miss M. Sachs, the Misses Sachs, Netherland ; H. Block, Broadway Central; C. Bannerman, St. James; D. M. Por- ter, Astor; C. M. Bishop, St.Cloud; L. Robin- son, Metropole. A WATCHMAN'S ASSISTANT. Special Officer Ryan, the night guardian of the Blythe-estate property, in the vicinity of Kearny and Market streets, has a most valuable assistant in his dog Jack. Mr. Ryan has little to say about Jack's pedigree, and possibly Jack has no pedigree, although he looks more like an Irish terrier than anything else. Jack, how- ever, does not seem to care what he looks like, He is too busy, and most of the time he ap- pears as if his shaggy coat of dark brown nair had been combed in a dozen different direc- tions with a currycomb. When Jack was still Jack Trying a Door. [From a sketch.] very young he showed strong talent for a“watchman.” Such a thing -E sleepingat ‘lfi;rlfi never entered his head, so that Ryan at last got into the habit of taking him with him when he went on his lonely rounds in the darkness. At first Jack only acied as a companion, but when he had seen his master “try” certain doors he thought it was his duty to do the same, In less than & month he knew every aoor on the route and would run ahead and jump ainst them before Rgm reached the ‘spot. The more he practiced the more perfect he be. e wouid put s dar 1o the Eeshole 15 Se1ors ear e (n; lnky ;ound ifinde. e ack is so well trained now that he several rounds by himself every night Tx:nlimi; -nyming is wrong it don’t take long for him tofind itout. He never misses a soor and never neglects to listen carefully before leay- ing. The dog has already been the means of capturing several sneak thieves. The men aid notbecome alarmed at the sightof a dog as ‘gl’:e‘yh:o;l& huve(;bee him an officer appeared e, and cofitinued th mh'( rpoé\u nrlvodh ‘*on the run‘."e“ Mnis - Ryan says he can form no idi Jack will develop into if he keaps?n?‘ gle“is growing smarter and smarter every day, and there is a possibility that in the course of time he may become a first-class detective. e s s e e PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE. A marble life-size statue is to be mad f f‘;"};’,’fig,‘""’ of York, who is now a ye:r ::d The late Empress Augusta of Germany did not permit her younger maids of honor to read & book br attend s theater without her consent. The late Arsene Houssaye wes a prime favor- ite with the ladiesof the French court, for he was a brilliant talker and a finished manof the world. In his first attempts at literature he nearly died of starvation, but when fortune began to assist him it was with & generous hand. P o ey CURRENT HUMOR. Mr. Dolley—What did you mean by saying that your {ather made light of my proposal? Miss Giggles—Well, he did. He used it to ig- nite his cigar with.—Detroit Free Press. Professor (reading)—*Dropping the reins, Mr. Flood assisted his wite from the carriage, and together they entered the store.” Can any little boy improve upon this sentence ? Bright Pup1l—The reins descended and the Floods came.—Life. It Never Walked.—Yon used to be a firm believer in ghosts; what cured you?” : “Iraveling with an ‘Uncle Tom's Cabin company in Wisconsin.”—Detroit News. Two of the lady survivors of a railroad wreck were bemoaning their losses to each other in the hospital after it was all over. “Oh,” groaned one, ‘I have lost my arm.” “Think of me,” cried the other; “I haye lost my husband.” “Yes, yes,” moaned the first, “but you can get another husband.”—New York Truth. “Thisis a remarkably high flavored roast,” said the King of Mbwpka. “It ig from that late Chicago inaividual,” said the purveyor-in-chief. «I am really surprised. That Boston mise sionary told me explicitly and distinctly tha¥ Chicago people were utterly devoid of taste.” - Indianapolis Journal «“Moral courage,” said the teacher, “Is tha courage that makes a boy do what he thinks ig right, regardless of the jeers of ' his- compane ions.” “Then,” sa1d Willie, “if a feller has candy end eats it all hisself, and ain 't afraid of the other fellers calling him stingy, is that moral courage?’—Cincinnati Enquirer. Maud—Are you & bachelor, Mr. Grumpy ? 0ld Grumpy (decidedly)—Yes, I am, and I always have been.—Princeton Tiger. Mrs. Grimes—And so your husband died quite suddenly ? Mrs. Blaker—Yes, there never was any dilly« dallying about John. He was so punctual, you know; he never was any man to put off; when he had anything to do he did it at once, Inever expect to get another husband like John.—Boston Transcript. LIBERAL discount on eatable Easter eggs to Churches and Sunday-schools. Townsend's. * - ————— Townsend" - EXTRA fine Cream Caramels. SoFr Baby Cream, 15¢ 1b. Townsend's. * A NIcE Easter Present, Townsend’s Californis Glace Fruits, 50¢ 1b., in Japanese baskets. * ns and Delineator for ce, 1021 Market st, * STANDARD paper pati April. DomesticS. EPECIAL information daily to manufactursr business houses and public men by the Prs Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Monfgomery. —————— . Cafe Zinkand Souvenir. Charles A. Zinkand has in active preparation an illustrated souvenir of the Cafe Zinkand. Large photo-engravings have been made, showing &ll the several departments. As & work of art it will be in all respects the finest of its kind ever issued in California. John F. Uhlhorn has charge of the compilation, and it will be of much interest to the public, as the visitors and patrons of this model restaurant can have the best cuisine and service, while the charges are no higher than other public resorts and restaurants. » ————————— Bad News for Huntington. San Jose Mercury. The Southern Pacific Company of Kentucky will have to pay its taxes, iu!‘t like any other roperty-owner. This is bad news for Mr. untington, the end and aim of whose exists ence is to tax the F(:ople of California all that their products will bear and to avoid paying taxes of any kind himself. “X was afflicted with eczema on both imy ankles, 1 took Hood's Sarsaparilla and used Hood's Oli: Ointment and it disappeared.” Charles Behren: 501 Broadway, San Francisc «Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup” Has been used over 50 years by millions of mothers for their children white Teething with perfect suce cess. 1t toothes the child, softens the gums, allays Pain, cures Wind Colic, regulates the Bowels and i3 the best remedy for Diarrhceas, whether arising from teething or other causes. For sale by Druge gists in every part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mrs, Winslow’s Soo.hing Syrup: 25¢ & boitle, TR T e Nowell regulated household should be withoud a bottle of Dr. Siegert's Angostura Bltters, the celebrated appetizer. e e e For relieving THROAT DISEASES AND CovcHs use “ Brown's Bronchial Troches. NEW TO-DA' REAL ESTATE FOR SALE BY Thos. Magee & Sons, REAL ESTATE AGENTS And Publishers “Real Estate Circular.” 4 Montgomery Street, UNION TRUST BUILDING, CORYER NARKET. NEW PROPERTY. $30,000—Rents $195: Polk st., near Californis 60x80; fine 3-story building: stores below a rooming-house abov Sixteenth-st. corner; best business part of tha street; large 1ot and good building in stores; §$17,5 000. Polk st.; brick building, in the best business ceny ter of the street: 3 story and basement; $20,000, California-st. residence, west of Laguna; very fine neighborhood: large lot, 27:6x137:6; mage nificent view; $ SE. cor. Waller and D~ Long; 30x100; bet. Mar sonic and Ashbury; $3075. SE. cor. Page and Clayton; 62:6x112:6; $7500, Stevenson st.; rents $60;' 3 3story and bases ment houses and lot 50x70; $56500. VERY FINE INVESTMENTS, Downtown brick building '0 one tenan: for fi teen years, «t $255;: on>ard u half blocks nor b Market <t : $36,000. Cheap; 1ents $200; reduced re:t; fine invests ment; north of Marke. st, ony 200 feet from Market: downtown. on a growing stiest; large log and well-built d-stcry building. Kents 8268 50. $28.000; 44 feet front on Clay st.. near Sansome: s e 'y rcn Ing: b ick building. Best wholesale < ist iet: Very €08 » to Market 8.3 brick h\lxmfi ard 1o: 46x137:6; rents $335, under lease: $60,000. ‘Lhird st., near Misslon—Btick building leased a8 $145: $22.500. Go'den Gate ave, and Franklin °.— Lot 85x120 t0 rear street; 3-story gcod dwellings on the avenue, Dbailding on rearsireet; :ma'l cOiner veeant; rents $240; $40,000. Sixth ., we:t side, near Brvant—Lo: 50x85 and 3-story bullding; two siorcs below ana sit tenants upstal.s; rents low, $68; $9000; hulf can remain on mortgage. WESTERN ADDITION HOUSES AND LOTS. California st., north side, near Webster; fine two- story house and lot 25x137 :6. _ 83000—Very fine house and lot 25x100: McAl« lister, near Baker; very easy terms; only $100 cash. Octavia st.. west side, between Broadway and Vallejo: 25x112:6 and two-story house, 8 roomsy in very good order: fine view of bay; street bituminized; only $6000; easy terms. Pacific ave., near Octavia: fine residence; 18 ;o-fima:)om modern; first-class order: fine view; Jackson st., bet. Fillmore and Steiner, morth side: 25x187:6 and two-story modern residence; 10 rooms and all conveniences; S8 Geary st., north side, near Larkin: 27:6x1203 buildings on front and rear street: $14,000. . If you want a sure relief limbs, use an as good for ~ains in the back, side, chest, Allcock’s BEAR IN MIND—Not : tions is “mmmmuywmmmb or Porous Plaster