The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 6, 1896, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, APRIL 6, 1896. _————— CHARLES M. SHORTRIDEE, Editor and Proprietor. SUBSCRIPTION RATES—Postage Free: Paily and Sunday CALL, one week, by carrier..$0.18 Dally and Sunday CALL, one year, by mail.... 8.00 Daily and Sunday CALL, six months, by mail.. 3.00 Daily and Sunday CALL, three months by mafl 1.50 Daily end Sunday CALL, one month, by mail. .65 Bunday CALL, one year, by mail. WEEKLY CALL, one year, by mall BUSINESS OFFICE: 710 Market Street, San Francisco, Californis. Maln—18/ EDITORIAL ROOMS: 517 Clay Street. .. Maln-1874 BRANCH OFFICES: 850 Montgomery street, corner Clay: open untll #:30 o'clock. 839 Hayes street; open until 9:50 o'lock. 718 Larkin street; open until 8 ook | SW. corner ixteenth and Mlssion streets; open antil § o'clock. 2518 Mission street: open until 9 o'clock. 116 Niuih street; open until 9 0'clock. OAKLAND OFFICE : 208 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE: Rooms 31 and 32, 34 Row, New Yerk Clty. DAVID M. FO. Special Agent. MONDAY PRIL 6, 1896 THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. In South Africa tramps are called “‘wasters,”” and that is just about what they are. All of our Eastern exchanges are begin- | ning to spesk of spring with a profound pessimism. However the House may act to-day on the Cuban ion the debate on it will never end until Cuba is free, England was careful to make no ad- vances to Soudan until she had made sure Egypt would guarantee the bill. Georgia reports prospects of the biggest peach crop she has ever had, but she hasn’t got it across her frost line yet. A Republican administration promises no millennium, but in comparison with that of Cleveland 1t wiil seem like one. Ivis hardly necessary for the Junta to practice steps for Lanigan’s ball, as Rainey will make the gang dance when he comes home. If Democracy can do nothing else with its Presidential nomination it might make | a bond issue of it and get Morgan to take it. 1t is evident from the Eastern weather reports that too many poets over in that | section have been writing ‘“Hail, gentle spring.” Judging from the tone of the papersof | the State, Texas is liable to go for the Pop- | vear with the intention of stay- | If Russia is permitted to make the trea- ties she wishes with Turkey and Chinashe will not care much who gets Europe or who pays the bi Up to date Carlisle has not declined to be a Presidential candidate, and probably thinks that as good a way to retire from politics as any other. sachusetts is surprised to find how solid she1s for Tom Reed, and, according to the Boston Journal, she has never be- fore known such unanimity. Trade has not revived as rapidly with the spring as was expected, but consider- ing the dose Democracy gave it the signs of recovery are quite cheering, 1t re were the slightest possibility of | an office in the Democratic Presidential nomination it would not have to take to | the woods in sea of a man. If the European war rumors were traced to their source they might be found to originate in the literary bureau of a syndi- cate trying to boom the lead marker. and the Democra tic situation | it must be borne in mind that v is as badly off for platform planks as it is for Presidential timber. If tne thirty years of Republican su- premacy had not established the credit of | the country on a firm foundation, four | years of Democracy would have ruined it | utterly. | Celebrating the birthday of Jefferson for the purpose of arousing enthusiasm for the Cleveland administration is the most futile degradation of a noble thought to an end that even Democracy was | ever g _ i Three years of Democratic government | have given us a bad tariff, an insolvent treasury, a growing debt and a disordered | currency, so it is not to be wondered that tbe chief ery of the campaign wiil be ““turn the fools out.” There may not be full freedom of the press in Russia, but as the St, Petersburg | Viedomosti has been permitted to call the British in Africa “‘bloodthirsty civilizers” it 1s evident that language in that country is not altogether restricted. The Raines liquor law will throw a good many bartenders out of employment in New York, but it is believed compensation will be found in the fact ihat the enforce- ment of the measure will require enough | special agents to give them all a job. | Itissaid that while the population of the South in the last twenty years has in- | creased only 34 per cent, the school attendance has increased 130 per cent, and this fact has probably a good deal to do with the increased Republican vote in that section. All Massachusetts is clamoring to Con- gress for a big, new drydock in Boston Larbor, so all California should clamor for a biz, new drydock in San Francisco Bay, and then the two commonwealths conld make the welkin ring from ocean to ocean and stir up all the Nation by their shout- ing. Joseph Chamberlain not only lacks a university education, but had not even the training of a high school. He has, how- ever, first-class get-there education, for starting in business at 18 he was rich enough to retire at 38, and then began that career in politics which has made him one of the foremost men in Europe. The X ray has been turned on wine in France, with the result that it disclosed the presence of ‘“fuchsine’’ in almost OOMMEROIAL PROBLEMS. Benator Elkins has been overwhelmed with attention by reason of his recent delaration that the commercial interests of the United States should be protected aganst the Canadian Pacific Railway. It will be remembered vhat the Massachusetts Kepublican Convention adopted this idea in its platform, and now it is said that Mr. Elking is working to secure its insertion in the platform of the National Republican Convention. His position is that the Canadian Pacific, living upon its subven- tions and being free from the operation of such a law as the interstate commerce act of the United States, is the great enemy of our transcontinental hauling interests and hence of our National commerce. There { is just sufficient foundation for these asser- tions to make them interesting, at least as & matter of discussion. Consideration of the subject has been precipitated by a proposition before the Senate Committee on Postoffices and Post Roads to grant a subsidy of $80,000 to the Oceanic Steamship Company for trans- porting the mails bestween the United States and the British colonies of Aus- tralia and New Zealand. Senators Elkins and Perkins are strong advocates of the measure, and they are preparing to show to the Senate the damage which American commerce has suffered by reason of the generous subsidies granted by the Do- minion of Canada to the Canadian Pacific and by Canada and the British dependen- ciesof Australia to the line of steamers connecting the latter with the western terminus of the Canadian Pacific and operated as a part of that transportation system, 1t is true, as Senator Perkins has pointed out, that the Canadian steamers receive a subsidy of $125000 a year from Canada and $30,000 additional from Australia, making a total of $175,000 a year for two steamers, or $14,533 for each voyage. Not satistied with this, the Canadian com- pany’'s agents are now industriously so- liciting additional subsidies from the Hawaiian and Society groups of islands. It is manifestly impossible for an Ameri- can steamship company to compete on equal terms with the Canadian company in the absence of something approaching a reasonable subsidy. It is by means of such subsidies that England to a large extent has secured her supremacy on the seas. There is nothing wrong in the idea, as England’s successful treatment of it over so long a perioa has amply proved. The only ground existing for whatever unpopularity it has in the United States is that furnished by the overland railroads in their shameless abuse of the Government’s generosity. It is now proposed to condone those evils by indefinitely extending the time for the re- payment of the loan, and that may make the subsidizing of trans-Pacific steamship lines all the more difficult. Stitl, the proposition regarding the Oceanic line is an annual subsidy, and not a lump loan, and may be canceled at any time. As, however, such an enconragement of trade between the United States and the Australian colonies would tend to increase the traffic of the American overland roads, this effect of a subsidy to the steamship line might properly be considered in any plan looking to a settlement of the railroad debt. The subject is comprehensive, and deserves the most serious consideration of Republicans, both in the present Congress and in the approaching National con- vention. OONDITION OF BUSINESS. The reports of the leading commercial agencies of the country are anything but encouraging. The free-trade policy of the present administration hasaggravated the general depression, and the ensuing steady drain on the gold reserve, with its accom- panying necessity to increase the National debt by the issue of bonds, has had a dis- couraging effect in all the centers of East- ern activity. Itis for these reasons that so acute an interest is being taken in political affairs on the Republican side, The possibility of Democratic victory seems not to command any general inter- est. All hopes for a return to better times are centered in the Republican party and its restoration of a protective tariff. ‘While general depression is the rule in the Eastern States, the condition of Cali- fornia, transportation difficulties aside, is exceptionally good. Generous prefits in wine, oranges and wheat have brought large sums of money into the State. A great deal of outside capital is coming into the mining regions, and the mines in operation are yielding more heavily than ever before in their history., Uncertainty still exists with reference to the fate of the Wright irrigation law in the Su- preme Court of the United States, but | there is a general belief that the law will | be sustained, and that means a great deal of capital to be used in the creation of irri- gating plants. Congress has promised generous appropriations for the improve- ment of our rivers and harbors, and they will bring money for present distribution and benefits of permanent value. The Valley road will reach Fresno in time to Landle a considerable part of this year’s crop, insuring profits to growers, an en- hancement of land values and an influx of settlers, Business failures are practically un- known in 8Ban Francisco and the other cities of the State, and the prospect is made brighter by a likelihood that the banks will reduce their rate of interest to borrowers. This indicates a feeling of con- fidence and a wise desire to promote de- velopment. Taken all in all, California is in a better condition than any other State, and is only at the threshold of the prosperity that awa itsit. As its agricul- tural interests depe nd upon a protective tariff it is taking a peculiarly lively in- terest in politics and may be expectea to return a handsome majority for the Re- publican Presidential candidate, FOR OHEAPER FUEL. A telegram from Seattle, published in Sunday’s CALL, announces that I. S. Bost- wick of Stockton, one of the principal stockholders of the California Navigation and Improvement Company, is visiting Puget Sound for the purpose of making &rrangements to lay down coal at Stockton at a price that will greatly encourage man- ufacturing. Since barges have supplanted schooners in the river traffic of California there is a large number of idle vessels that can be utilized in bringing coal cheaply to San Francisco, whence it can be trans- vorted in barges to Stockton and else- where. Mr. Bostwick’s immediate pur- pose in this underiaking is to secure cheap coal for his steamers plying between San Francisco and Stockton, but under the present condition of things he is evidently convincea that he may do a large and profitable business by bringing down coal for other consumers. As the steamers and barges of the Cali- fornia Navigation and Improvement Com- pany will doubtless bring to Port Costa and San Francisco much of the freight secured by tue Valley road, any economy in transportation expenses between Stock- every sample of claret photographed, and it would seem therefore that the science which teaciies men to make chemical ‘adulterations has been at last met by a bigger science that will knock it out. ton and San Francisco will aid the Valley road in advancing the development of the Ban Joaquin Valley. Not only that, but the coal which Mr. Bostwick proposes to lay down so cheaply at Stockton can be carried into the interior by the Valley road. This may render it possible for the S8an Joaquin to be a manufacturingas well asa producing section. The importance of such a matter cannot be overestimated. Fuel is dear in the San Joaquin. It is likely to be much cheaper before long, for whatever may be the outcome of Mr. Bost- wick's enterprise the Corral Hollow coal mines are preparing to lay down coal at Stockton at a price never before known in California. This matter of fuel alone, con- sidered with its cheap distribution by the Valley road, is of very great value to the future growth of the valley. DECADENT GAMBLING. The Prince of Monaco, who has been re- cefving for himself $250,000 a year for the gambling privilege at Monte Carlo, besides §100,000 a year for the public expenses of his little principality, is now demanding $500,000 a year for the latter purpose alone, being satisfied to let his personal receipts stand as at present. The proprietors of the gambling privilege are declaring that his demand is unreasonable, as gambling has fallen off heavily of late, the receipts for the year ending March 31 being $240,- 000 short of those of the preceding year. They assert that there is much less “plunging”’ than usual, and that the fre- quenters of the casino are a much less de- sirable class than formerly. This was to have been expected. Monte Carlo, as the one place in Europe where gambling is openly and shamelessly con- ducted, has felt the concentrated pressure of the sentiment which modern eivilization opposes to the vice. Even the authorized ‘“‘gift loans” and lotteries that were for- merly tolerated in some of the European countries have retreated before the march cf modern enlightenment. Every State and city of the United States has severe laws prohibiting lotteries and other pernicious forms of gambling. The last State to come under the influence of this wholesome sentiment was Louisiana, which a few years ago denied its author- ized lottery company a renewal of its char- ter and forced it to seek refuge in some South American country. The lottery is permanently outlawed wherever the Stars and Stripes float. Some of the American republics south of the United States still permit lotteries to be conducted, but all this will end as soon as the high sentiment which animates Europe and the United States has ex- tended beyond the Rio Grande. Unhap- pily California is still the prey of these companies by reason of the fact that the laws prohibiting our newspapers from as- sisting the evil are defective. The intent of the people in framing the laws was eminently praiseworthy, and if it were properly respected by all the newspapers it would accomplish the desired result. It is unfortunate for California that some of its leading newspapers, by promoting an evil banished from all the more highly civilized countries of the worla, seek to place the intellizence and morality of the people on a plane immeasurably below them. OOAST EXCHANGES, The importance of the orange industry in the northern part of California is some- times overlooked. A distinct point in favor of that region is noted by the Oro- ville Mercury when it says that the orange crop in that section is marketed from four to six weeks earlier than in most orange- growing countries. Itadds: This gives us the advantage of the highest prices and also avoids any chance of frosts, should they visit this section. The largest orchard here ships thousands of boxes a year already, and our orange groves are all comparatively young. For the navel variety this past season this orchard realized, f. o. b. cars at Oroville, an average price of $2 42 a box. These parties were offered a contract dur- ing the first of the season for $2 50 a box f. 0. b. cars for the entire navel crop. They realized from the acreage picked $290 an acre this past season; these trees were planted seven and nine years since. The orchard referred to is the Oroville Citrus Association of Thermalito.” With such profits as this, sure to be maintained, there is an extraordinary incentive to plant orange trees in Northern California. The extraordinary progress which Stock- ton is preparing to make under the stimu- lus of the Valley road is indicated by an- nouncements made in the papers pub- lished there. The Mail says that a strong company is being organized to generate electricity at the Salt Spring Valley reser- voir, whence it will be conducted to Stock- ton for manufacturing purposes. The power will be ready for delivery May 1. The enterprise is in the hands of Eastern capitalists. The Independent savs that the Stockton Gas and Electric Company has made a successful test of its new 150-horsepower dynamo and is ready to furnish power for running light machinery. S8tockton is responding promptly to the influences which are operating to make it a great city. The Los Angeles Express notes that salt in inexhaustible quantity, in a chemically pure state, has been discovered near Danby, San Bernardino County, along the line of tne Sante Fe Railroad, and that it will be extensively mined and shipped. The mines are to be handled by a Los An- | geles company, and they bid defiance to Liverpool or any other place on earth in the matter of supplying a puresalt ata low price. Extensive contracts have al- ready been made with packing-houses in Chicago and Kansas City to take the Cali- fornia salt instead of that from Liverpool and the Eastern States. The Contra Costa Gazette (Martinez) and the Oakland Tribune are vigorously at- tempting to revive the old scheme of a finely macadamized road connecting the two counties. A correspondent of the Tribune makes a strong argument in fayor of the project. He calls attention to the fact that only fifty years ago the land on which the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, is situated was selling at $4 an acre. The enterprise of people has made all that difference that now exists. Such a road as the one proposed would cost about $10,- 000, and would open up a productive region of 64,000 acres worth $2,000,000, ana would enable the products to be shipped to San Francisco. Enthusiastic meetings are being held, and the hope is indulged that this important highway will soon be an accomplished fact. The San Bernardino Times-Indez is urg- g its people to accept a proposition made by Eastern canners to erect a can- nery if a bouus of $5000 is subscribed, to which the company will add $25,000. The offer was made to Redlands, but the people there have been slow to respond. The Fresno Republican announces that Clovis is rapidly building up, The new $5000 schoolhouse will soon be completed. The Woodland Mail calls attention to a modest enterprise which is prospering there and which teaches an eloquent les- son of the resources of that section. Itis abroom factory, turning out & hundred { dozen brooms a month and eelting them all in the Bacramento Valley. The demand is 80 strong that the owners are preparing to double their capacity. Says our con- temporary: “The enterprise is entirely a local one, as from the broomeorn to the fin- ished article it is entirely the product of Yolo County labor. The broomcorn is grown on the Hennigan ranch, near the sink of Cache Creek, where a undred acres are being devoted to its cultivation tnis year. | The soil on this place seems peculiarly adapted to the growth of the plant, as it is said to produce a superior kind of straw for broom-making. The straw is brought to the factory in hundles and is cut about the length of the brush portion of the broom. It is sorted into three gradesto be used in the different stages of manu- facture.” The Los Angeles Journal announces that the Cahuenga dummy road has been sold to the company owning the recently con- solidated electric road connecting Los Angelesand Santa Monica, and thatevent- | unlgy it will be converted into an electric road. The San Bernardino Sun thus describes a condition prevalent throughout Califor- nia and calling for energetic and intelli- gent treatment: “The problem of induc- ing settlement of uncultivated land is pressing of solution in every new country, and in no part of Southern California is it of more moment than in San Bernardino County. It is safe to presume that not a hundredth part of the tillable land in this county bas been brought under cultivation. The Easterner who visits this section for a winter’s sojourn and incidentally investi- gates its possibilities and resources, is sur- prised at this, Wby, he asks, in a region possessing go many natural advantages, where the returns from cultivating thesoil are so great, is settlement comparatively slow? Tue answer is found in the fact that in but few communities has any definite and consistent plan of coloniza- tion been attempted or even suggested. Advertising is an excellent thing, but it must be supplemented by an intelligent colonization policy. Agents in the inter- est of a locality where settlement is de- | sired could bring about more practical re- sults in an Eastern community in the way of inducing immigration than all the ad- vertising matter that might be mailed tili doomsday. To render practicable any plan of colonization it is best thatindi- vidual ownership of the section desired to be settled shouid be centralized in a few hands. That this condition prevails in the case of large corporations accounts for their success in settling up large tracts.” The announcement is made that Wright D. Bresee of Fresno has acquired an in- terest in the Jackson Ledger, and that the paper is soon to be converted into a daily. The Healdsburg Tribune begins its ninth vear with the record of a prosperous and useful career. The Santa Ynez Argus has entered upon its ninth year with all the hope and vigor that have so ably sustained it in the past. The Benicia New Era, noticing an in- advertence in these columns which made its name appear New Age, makes this happy declaration: ‘‘We are well satisfied with our present name of New Era as in- dicating our continued purpose to do what wecan to bring about a new erain Be- nicia—an era of peace, progress and pros- perity.” Itisrumored that John N. Larkin, an able newspaper man of large experience and at present publisher of the Sunday Leader of Sacramento, is about to start a new morning daily there. Mary Lynde Craig, the accomplished wife of Scipio Craig, editor of the Rediands Citrograph, is writing a series of bright let- ters about Florida to that paper, The Los Angeies | superb special edition in celebration of its twenty-fifth anniversary. The Amador Record has entered upon its fifth volume with bright prospects. The Ontario Observer has begun its eighth volume as enthusiastic as ever over the superb attractions of that part of the State. The Reno Gazette celebrates the round- ing of its twentieth year by making an in- structive comparison between the sturdy pioneer struzgles of twenty years ago and the present bustling aspect of the city. CHINESE GIRL FOR SALE. If anybody wishes to buy a little Chinese girl they have a chance at the fishing camp on the bay shore, near Brooks Island. The little girl’s mother is Mrs. Ping, and the child is named Pio. Sheisabout 12 years old, and her mother says that she will take $800 for her at the camp, although when she brings her to San Francisco in a few months she will ask $1000. The mother who contemplates this inhuman act isabout 35 years of age. She makes no Little Pio, the Chincse Girl Whose Mother Is Going to Sell Her. [Sketched from life.} secret of her intention and looks forward with Dpleasure to the time when she can exchange her daughter for gold. Pio has been raised for the purpose of being sold, and the methods of the WOTK are most peculiar. Pio was born in San Francisco, and before she was a year old was taken to the flshing camp 80 as to be properiy trained to bring a good price. Both father and mother went with her. The father worked as a fisherman, and the mother devoted herself entirely to training her daughter. r10 is always dressed in clothes of the finest silks, but they are somber in color and cutin the plainest fashion. Her hair is always brusned back plainly, and she is never lowed to wear an ornament of any kind. The reason for this is that when she is sold and her master gives her jewels and ornaments she will be pleased with them. Inthe whole twelve yearsof her existence Pio has never been ten feet from her mother’s side, and she nas mever been in a different room. She is occasionally taken 10 San Pedro, but has never been anywhere else. The child is not what would be called pretty, even for a Chinese. She isa little over four feet tall and must welgh about 130 pounds. She knows that she will be sold soon, but does not seem the least concerned about it. She can speak English, but it is almost impossible to make her say a word. Like all Chinese, Mr.and Mrs. Ping intend to go back to China as soon as they have sold their daughter and got the money. AROUND THE CORRIDORS, Bamuel W. Parker, for many years past one of the proprietors of the famous Grand Pacific Hotel, Chicago, and known throughout the globe to all classes, cailings and profes- sions, is at the Occidental. Mr. Parker was with the notea hotel from its opening to its close. The closing took place & year ago yesterday. He entered the hotel in June, 1873, and remained for twenty-two vears. He was chief clerk at first. That was when Gage Brothers and Rice were the man- agers. John B. Drake, who was in California two years ago, then became proprietor, and s00m after that Mr. Parker entered into part. nership in the hotel. The house was prosper- ous, as Mr. Parker tells, down to the last, and ‘was closed because of his inability to make a Watsonville, came up yesterday and registered at the Grand. Charles S. Meson of Sissons and M. Marx, two Siskiyou County mining men, are at the Russ for a few days, P. Kervin, the superintendent ‘of the Gould & Curry mine at Virginia City, is in town. He is at the Palace, William H. Hilton, a vineyardist from Glen Ellen, arrived at the Grand yesterday for a short visit in the City. §. Jacobs of Reno and S. Jacobs of Wads- worth, brothers and merchants of Nevads, are registered at the Russ. John Hale, & railroad contractor of Portland, Or., arrived at the Occidental yesterday with his wife and daughter. Dr. H. N. Cross, H.J.Gage and F. H. Gould (o Samuel W. Parker, One of the Noted Bonifaces of the Windy City, Long of the Grand Pacific. [Sketched from life by a “ Call ” artist.] satisfactory new lease. The hotel needed to be overhauled to fit it for modern require- ments, notwithstanding the fame that sur- rounded it for many years after its opening. It is now tenantless. Mr. Parker is completing arrangements to go into the hotel business again in Chicago on an extensive scale. He has been in California for two months and five days, as he told a CALL representative yesterday, and says the half has not been told about the State. “It has scarcely been hinted at,” he said. “In the two months and five days I have been here I have seen four rainy days and four other cloudy days, and the remainder were as clear and bright as the" finest day that could he imagined, the sun shining beautifully and nothing but a vault of blue above. “I have met an enormous number of Chicago men whereever I have been in California. I entered the State by the Atchison road and went to San Bernardino, Colton, Riverside, San Diego, Los Angeles and Santa Barbara. Isaw Chicago men everywhere. Theyare putting in s great deal of money here. H. C.Durrand, the wealthy wholesale grocer of Chicago,ls building a $100,000 residence on Orange Grove avenue, Pasadena; D. C. Cameron, presi- dent of the Chicago School Board, has bought Joseph Medill’s place and is going to erecta large handsome home; young Libby, son of the sentor of the firm of Libby, McNeill & Libby, the great pacXkers, is building a magnificent 1esidence also on Orange Grove avenue in Pas- adena. There are many others who are build- ing winter homes in different parts of South- ern California. “I shall stay here a few days and will then go to Monterey, Sants Cruz, San Jose aud the Yosemite.” Mr. Parker will attend the hotel men’s con- vention, which is to meet here in about two Wff}i;!.' Little of Dixon, who purchased a $10,- 000 gold brick of & gentleman named “Big-foot Dave,” some time since, and which transaction is now being aired in the Oakland courts, is at the Russ. Mr. Little is a banker and ranch- owner of Dixon, and till the gold brick episode came out has always been known as quite keen in a business transaction. “Big-foot Dave,” one of whose other names is Gordon, related to him a guileless story about a mine in Arizona, whose owner named Little couldn’t be found. Hehad specimens of rich ores and made alto- gether just the kind of an impression that pleased him most. A little later he interviewed a friend named Root, and before all the wires were pulled an Indian was sprung on the scene togive the story of the mine a truly realistic Western hue. Thiswas sufficient. When the brick was brought forth, which had already been thoughtfully assayed by Mr. Gordon, the transaction was not long in being closed. “Big- foot David” and his partner are wanted in sev- eral other cities. H.G. Schulze, a partner of Mr. Little, and D. H. Rice of Dixon are also at the Russ, PERSONAL. F. D. Nicol, a Stockton lawyer, is at the Lick. Judge H. R. McNoble of Stockton is at the Grand. Claud R. Watson of London arrived at the Palace yesterday. G. H. Dennett and wife of Rockford, Iil., are staying at the Palace. J. D. Swanson, a barrister of Carberry, B. C., 1s stayiug at the Grand. Arthur Malins is at the Palace, registered from Westminster, B. C. 8. Goldfish, a Hollister merchant, is in town and has a room at the Grand. Sheriff C. N. Gordon of Klamath County, Or., arrived at the Russ yesterday. Charles E, Elliot of Cambridge, Mass., ar. rived at the Palace last night. J. W. Ditworth, a life-insurance man, is stopping at the Cosmopolitan. Oscar A. Tippelt came up from San Diego yesterday. He is at the Palace. L. A. Kerr, a jeweler of Wellsborro, Pa., is stopping at the Cosmopolitan. A. W. Silsby, a merchant of Grant’s Pass, Or., is among tne Russ arrivals. J. R. Gaun, a dry-goods man of Fresno City, is stopping at the Cosmopolitan. George E. Guard of Los Angeles was among yesterday's arrivals at the Palace. E. D. Openheimer, a New York merchant from Yokohama, is at the Palace. M. A. Gett, an attorney of Sacramento, is making the Lick his headquarters. W. R. Spalding, one of Truckee’s best-known business men, is staying at the Lick. J. 8. Young, an orchardist of Santa Cruz, was among yesterday’s arrivals at the Russ. E. R. Earnest, a retired merchant of Nor- born, Mo., is a guest of the Cosmopolitan. came down from Stockton last night and took rooms at the Callfornia. L. 8. Calkins, the ex-postmaster of Nevada City and the editor of the Daily Transcript of that place, 13 at the Lick. Dr. Z. T. Magill and Dr. V. B. Watson of Healdsburg while in town are making the Grand their headquarters. Oscar B. Hinsdale, interested in the lumber- schooner business on this coast, is registered at the Lick from Gardiner, Or, E. H, Vance, extensively interested in the lumber business at Eureka, is at the Grand with his wife and two daughters. Edward J. Baxter, a prominent rancher of picturesque Scott Valley, came down yesterday for a short visit and is at the Russ. T. H, Kleinschmit, a banker from Helena, Mont., is here on & visit with his wife. They have apartments at the Occidental. D. L. Gillispie and wife, Mrs. Mabel L. Gil- lispie, and Miss 8. M, Bassett of Pittsburg, Pa., took apartments at the Palace yesterday. Thomes A. Menary and son of Gold Hill, Nev., are visiting this City as the guests of Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Ferguson, 2814 Clay street. 8. J. Chapman of Chicago arrived from the East yesterday with his wife and went to the Palace. Mr. Chapman has a home in Santa Barbara. John F.Moody, proprietor of a stage line and a hotel at Truckee, and one of the pro- moters of the Truckee Ice Palace, arrived at the Lick last night. W. Waterhouse, 8 wealthy plantation-owner of the Hawaiian Islands, is registered at the Occidental from Pasedena, one of the places where he owns a residence and sometimes makes his home, The owners of the Boston and Montana copper mines of Butte City, Mon., arrived at the Palace last night after an inspection of their property, and they are now on their way East. The party consists of A. S. Bigelow and Thomas Nelson of Boston, Mass., J. Maurice Meridith of Batn, Me., and Leonard Lewisolm and G. M. Agaues of New York. They say that copper mining s waking up. A HANDSOME CAPE. Of all the different length capes of this sea- son the one shown here is the mogt popular for dressy capes. It is cut circular, thus avoid- ing seams and making a delightful model for the home dressmaker. Of course, if narrow goods, such es satin,is used a seam in the center back is necessary. The goods and lining may be 12id face to face stitched around the bottom and tHe fronts right side out and pressed. flannel or of one of the many fiber interlini may be stitched in if the extra warmth wished Ruflles of black lace adorn the cape of blac! saiin shown here.it meets in kg:t,‘ng 12 v‘,:z.r‘a‘;rn back in the illustration to show the A fayorite and extremely chic trimming is white lace over black chiffon put ol{ v:nrly filll. gathered into the neckband. A second ruffie of ehiffon not ?nm 50 deep as the lace lies over it and a full rucne fiul&a the neck. Collars of net or chiffon heayily syn:gled make & dressy garment over black satin; these make & good trimming where it is necessary to save labor, for they may be had in endless va- riety of designs and prices. A wide ribbon gathered through the center makes a fashion- in s seam turned An iaterlining of Superior Judge E. V. Spencer of Lassen County is down from Susanville and is at the Russ. i B. A. Seabury and J. Grunwald, Los Angeles capitalists, were among yesterday’s arrivals at the Baldwin. J.J. Morey, cashier of the Pajaro Bank at I sble finish for the neck, but it must be ve full, at least two and & half yards beisg nesded for the ruche alone, with a yard and a W0 yards for & bow if one is desired, HUMOR OF THE HOUR. Waiter—Wasn’t your dinner satisfactory, sir? Guest from the country (in & dazed sort of way)—Yes, the dinner was all right enough. What T don’t like is the size of that "ere bill you brought me.—Sorerville Journal. Same old violets, same old blue: Same old grass plat, same old hue; Same old look in everything; &ame old season; ssme old spring. ~Chicago Record. “Oh, yes, my husband has been a collector of curios and such things for a number ot years. «Was he in that business when he married you?” “Yes, indeed.” «I thought so,”—Wilmington Star. «That umbrella you lent me yesterday,” sai@ the man who had just come into the office. “}lfi; itis. Icame toreturn it.” «Dear me!” was the absent-minded reply. +I had no idea it was in such bad condition as all that.”—~Mexico City Herald. In s dreamy rapture he kissed her goldem tresses. “The future,” he exclaimed, joyously, “with 1ts castles in the air.” She turned with sudden earnestness. “Reginald,” she said, decisively, “don’t de. ceive yourself! I tell you,once for all, Ishan’s live above the second story under any circume stances.”—Pick-Me-Up. LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. A MODEST LIFE-SAVER. THE HEROIC ACT OF A YOUNG MAN ACKNOWIe EDGED BY A GRATEFUL MOTHER. To the Editor of the San Francisco Call—SIRY 1 ask you to print & word of thanks for me in THE CALL of the brave act which & young man did the other day. Last Wednesday afternoon my son Frederick was on Harrison-street Wharf playing, when he accidentally feil overboard, and but for the timely rescue by & young man who plunged off the wharf he would have been drowned. The brave rescuer gave my son's laymates his name as George H. Thompson, gut gave no address, I therefore esk you to print a word of thanks for me. H. B. 8. — e CALIFORNIA glace fruits, 50¢ 1b. Townsend's.® —————————— EPFCIAL information daily to manufasturets, business houses and public men by the Prasy Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Monigomery. S e e Teacher—What is meant, Johnnie, by the saying “‘the sun never sets on England’s flag?”” Johnnie—I guess it means the sun’s afraid to leave it alone in the dark near anybody else’s boundary-line.—Puck. “Y HAVE fourd Hood’s Pills upequaled. I always keep them in the house and resommend themto my friends.” Mrs. Vernon Upton, 738 Pipe st., San Francisco, Cal. l Take the Northern Pacific to all polnts East. Lowest rates to Minnesota and Dakota polnta. Upholstered tourlst-cars, Puliman palace and din- ing cars on all trains. Two fasi through trains daily; time to Chicago shortened six hours. For tickets and information call on T. K. Stateler, 638 Market street, San Franciaco. - ““Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup”’ Has been used over 50 years by millions of mothers for thelr children white Teething with perfect suc- cess. 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