The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 18, 1896, Page 6

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OAKLAND OFFICE : 608 Broadway. EASTERN OFFICE : Rooms 31 and 32, 34 Park Row, New York City. DAVID M. FOLTZ, Special Agent. BATURDAY.. _APRIL 18, 1896 ;t;l: CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL. e ——————————————————————— Santa Barbara has done the State proud. This is the day to order THE SUNDAY CALL. Delegates who have to be pledged are as a rule hardly worth pledging. The trouble with Carlisle is that he maunders too much and slops over. There ave plenty of queens of beauty in the State, but they are not common. California cannot afford tosit down until she is assured of a seat in the Cabinet. The Carlisle boom was started by bank- ers, but all the same no one is banking on it. 1i the fruit crop should not be as big as was expected perhaps the prices will be bigger. The poetry of spring has been realized at Santa Barbara to make a California - holiday. If the Cubans can hold on uatil Cleve- land drops out of office, recognition will come to them, It is a pity the local Democratic factions cannot do politics without disturbing the town worse than a dog-fight. be willing to show his hand in Africa, but up to date no one has exhibited any desire to call it. The Canadian Pacific is something of an octopus itself and should be made to keep its tentacles out of this country. Although the campaign is at hand, no Republican should put on his war paint until after the St. Louis convention. About the worst bust of humanity possi- ble to conceive is that of a disgruntled ward boss trying to pose as a martyr. Great Britain has a surplus while we have a deficit, and that is the way the Democratic tariff works out its results. The Republican procession has now started on the right road and has a cer- tainty of victory by simply moving straight ahead. The Lanigan crowd, the Buckley gang, the Rainey push and the Daggett pull are all in evidence, but where is the Demo- cratic party ? 1f an attempt is made to pass the fund- ing bill at this session of Congress, we may as well abandon hope of an adjourn- ment in June. If both the silver Democrats and the gold Democrats should manage to be in it at Chicago, one of them will have to be inside of the other. If Kelly and Mahoney would eet them- selves born again and be born Democrats they might find themselves mn a faction that would fit them. Eastern people may run in a few picnics between blizzards at this season, but a week's festival is not possible anywhere outside of California. The attitude of California at the St. Louis convention should be that of abso- lute impartiality—friendly to all candi- dates and hostile to none. For an unpledged delegation strong, brainy, sagacious managers of men are needed, but for a pledged delegation -al- most any old thing would do. Why send a delegation with instrue- tions to 8t. Lonis when it would be easier, safer and much cheaper to send the in- structions direct by telegraph? The festivals, carnivals and fiestas that follow after Santa Barbara will have to make a wonderful spread if they are to be ranked as coming out ahead of her. ‘We shall not grudge the British their present prospericy, for as soon as the Re- publican party returns to power we shall have a greater prosperity of our own. As a rule the tin-horn politician has not wind enough to keep himself moving while blowing his horn, and when you hear him tooting loudly you may know he is stuck. St O Senator Hill 13 resolutely fighting against any investigation of the bond deals. He knows his friend Cleveland is in & hole, but he does not intend fo have the hole caved in on him, The latest suggestion in regard to the cathode ray is to use it in photographing criminals, as it is believed no crook in the world could ever succeed in altering the makeup of his backbone, Salisbury may be an effete aristocrat while Cleveland is a fat Democrat, but all the same the British lord has brains and energy enough to diminish the national debt of his country and Grover is doing the other thing. Between the Canadian Pacific on one side and the Southern Pacific on the other, California is in « position where she must strike out with both hands and fight for all she is worth to maintain her commerce and vprotect her industries at the same time. . THE IMPORTANT QOUESTION. Tue CaLy yesterday published inter- views with a number of leading Republi- cans on the attitude the California dele- gation should take at the St. Lowms Con- vention. The opinions given were not unanimous. That was not to be expected, of course, for they were gathered impar- tially with the intention of representing the sentiments of all sections of the party. There were few, however, who favored a pledged delegation. The great majority were in favor of a delegation sent to St. Louis for the purpose of advancing the interests of California and bound by no pledges that would interfere with the best performance of that work. It was clear from the interviews that those who favorea a pledged delegation looked at the subject from a point of view widely different from that of those who favored an unpledged delegation. In the eyes of the one the National Convention will have no other purpose than that of nominating a candidate for President. In the eyes of the other the convention will be a deliberative body, having large poli- cies to outline and the means of carrying out those policies to devise, and therefore the nomination of candidates, instead of being the chief object of the convention, will be only a part of the means for ful- filling the principles to which the party is devoted. There can be no question that those who regard the convention as a deliberative body are right. Every one baving a prac- tical acquaintance with politics knows. it is at these National conventions that party policies are formed, the measures to in- sure them adopted and the men who are most likely to succeed in carrying them to perfection named as leaders of the party in the campaign that will follow. There- fore those who favor an unpledged delega- tion have the truer view of the situation and understand better the duties which we are to expect of the delegation at St. Louis. If there were to be done at the conven tion nothing more than the nomination of a President, and California were to in- struct her delegation for one man, to the exclusion of all others, it would matter littlewhat manner of men we sent there. In fact, it would not be necessary to send a delegation at all. We might simply telegraph the pledge to the secretary of the convention. If the other view is taken, however, it is clear that we must send a strong, brainy delegation, com- posed of sagacious managers of men, well informed as to the needs and inter- ests of California and the Pacific Coast. We are among those who believe that the attitude of California at the conven- tion should be one of absolute impartiality among the leading candidates. That atti- tude, we are convinced, best represents the whole Republican party in California and certainly best assures us of exerting our rightful influence at the convention in shaping the policies and forming the measures which the party will carry out. It will also give us a prestige and an influ- ence that will go far toward obtaining for us a representation in the next Cabinet. That is what we ought to have. It is what we must have, if we are to make the next administration all that it shonld be for the Pacific Coast. Opposed to no can- didate, favorable to ail, loyal to all, de- voted to the interests of the Republican varty and to the State of California, we urge an unpledged delegation to show at St. Louis that, no matier who is nominated, California in this contest will be a Repub- lican State. A STRONG MAN DIES. California has suffered a loss in the death of Dennis Spencer. Those who were acquainted with bis commeanding presence, his bluiff geniality and the rug- ged directness of his manner did not haye to be informed that by sheer force of character, intellect snd physical vigor he had raised himself from the ranks of the common people to & consplcuous position among world-builders. It is pleasing to reflect that there was nothing factitious in his eminence. Had he been possessed of the smoother graces which heredity or fortunate circumstance of rearing can im- part the honorable politiral aspirations which he cherished and which are so be- coming in a worthy man might have been easily attained.. Unhappily, it is not given to the world at large to understand the better things of life. In whatever position the Democrats of California might have placed this man he would have been an honor to his party and a bulwark of popular rights. While a contemplation of his approxi- mate failure to receive the political dis- tinction warranted by his worth is not encouraging to other men of his type, this being due in a measure to some errors of political judgment which time made clear to his calmer understanding, his life as a private citizen was particolarly whole- some ana exemplary. He dug his liberal education out of unestablished byways, being nothing of a schoolman and yet a scholar. Reared in poverty, and bearing in youth the burder of physical labor, he retained to the end that sympathy for the poor which is so essential to breadth of character. That he-did not employ his splendid abilities for the amassing of a fortune was due as much to his generosity as 10 his contempt for power which leans on wealth alone. His brilliancy as a lawyer was of hardly less value than the honesty and pains- taking thoroughness of his work. To be known as an incorruptible man must have been pleasing to one who held personal integrity 'in so high esteem. His aim seemed to be to command his own respect above that of the world. Only a chosen few have ever understood the man as he really was—a gentleman by instinct and a man of principle. AWAITING THE PLATFORM. ‘While the Republican press throughout the country is vigorously keeping the principle of protection before the people, and while the same idea has been aggres- sively embodied in all the recent State con- ventions held to elect delegates to the Re- publican National Convention, the Demo- cratic press and Democratic politicians are baving very little to say on the subject. The cry of a revenue tariff is drowned in the clamor for protection. The wide dis- tress which has resulted from the Wilson- Gorman bill of 1894 is no longer explained on the ground of a universal financial de- pression, The history of American politics reveals nothing more interesting than that ruin- working measure. The McKinley bill of 1890 made a great reduction on the tariff which it supplanted, but was more wisely framed in that the protection of industries in which labor was a leading factor was its controlling motive. For purely political reasons it has been more grossly misrepre- sented than any other tariff measure. And yet the Wilson-Gorman bill, which took its place in the beginning of 1895, clearly recognized the sound principle on which it was based. This fact is accepted by all unprejudiced thinkers. Among them is Professor James Albert Woodson, who says this in the April Chautauquan: “The Gorman-Wilson measure, the last generalrevision of the tariff, although en- THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 1896. acted by a party which had denounced protection as unconstitutional, was made almost entirely on the principle of protec- tion. The Wilson bill as ‘it originally passed the House considerably modified the McKinley act, lowering the duties on an average of 20 per cent. * * * Speak- ing generally, the new act merely. read- justed the rates.’” Thus the Democrats gave to their tariff measure the form of free trade and the substance of protection. It was the boldest fraud ever perpetrated by a political party on the unheeding vot- ers who so blindly maintain it. That Mr. Cleveland and the other leaders of the party were fully aware that the measure ‘was not what it purported to be—a scheme for raising revenues for public necessities— is shown by the wretched and abortive at- tempt to secure sufficient revenues by means of an income tax law, which the Supreme Court promptly suppressed. The Wilson-Gorman bill leaned further toward protection than revenue, though from either point of view it was a fraud and failure. It will be interesting, thercfore, to see how the Democratic party proposes to handle the question this year. At present it does not seem to regard free trade as an agreeable topic for discussion, but there may be reasons for this other than the awakening of an intelligent conscience. “THE SUNDAY OALL. The desire to make the Sunday issue of T'HE CALL a more generous exponent of the ideas which it fosters has compelled a large addition to its ordinary number ot pages. Hence Tue Suxpay CALL will pre- sent itself to-morrow in formidable™bulk. This might be cause for regret if the sole idea in its compilation had been to make a showing on the score of size. Itisnot difficult to make a big newspaper out of “syndicate” matter bought blindly by the yard forasong. To produce a distinctively California paper, carefully prepared by able home writers and garnered by experi- enced editors, and issued largely with a view to encourage outside interest in the infinity of charms possessed by the State, is quite another matter and the special function of THE SuNDAY CALL. All the more intelhgent readers will be delighted to find in to-morrow’s issuea paper by Frances Fuller Victor, entitled “Light on our Early Literature.” It con- tains hitherto unpublished matter refer- ring to numerous writers of eminence. “‘A Death Valley Elcpement” isa dra- matic love tale with the most uncanny of settings, the terrible desert of Southern California. A description of the great Fresno wine cask, double the size of the more famous tun of Heidelberg, will prove instructive to those who do not realize the magnitude of the wine-making industry in Cali- fornia. In a sketch entitled “Brocky Brown's Boy,” Tom Gregory relates the adventures which befell a8 man-of-war’s man and his Simian pet. An eminent San Franciscan wiil pre- sent a pleasing comparative analysis of the styles of Webster and Clay. In “Ancient Olympia Seen by Modern Eyes'” lovers of classical and modern sport will find something of special in- terest. “Taking the Fence” will be a contribu- tion bearing intimately upon the struggle between the bicycle and the horse and showing some things that are likely to be overlooked in the prevalent rage for the “wheel.” A story rather strong for weak nerves will be given by W. C. Morrow under the title of *An Unexpected Interference,” as it-concerns a tragic struggle between a burglar and an orang-outang. From all the great centers of the world will come exhaustive telegrams and letters explaining important matters and hap- penings. The regular Sunday departments devoted to the children, the drama, books, fashions, society, science, art and all the rest will be crowded with timely and meaty things, A PRESSING NEED. San Francisco is by reason of her geo- graphical location and natural and ac- quired transportation facilities the legiti- mate center for not only the accumulation and distribution of the merchantable com- modities of the Pacific Coast country, but is the natural gateway for the passage of the trade movements between the Orient and the Occident. Nevertheless, nowhere the full measure of the requirements of commerce will be reached until the Gen- eral Government promotes a system of ocean craft to sail from and return to San Francisco. The territory that is naturally tributary to the commercial and money center reaches beyond the coast country to all the shores of the Pacific, but it can- not be possessed by means other than by vessels that &re enabled to enter into com- petition with foreign carriers and distribu- tors of commerce by such subsidies as oc- casion demands. Not only were the projectors of the Canadian Pacific Railway given princely aid in their enterprise, but the British Government by liberal bounties enables the maintenance of a line of steamships between the eastern terminus of the road and the countries of Europe, and another line between the western terminal and the countries of Asia. The United States in the meantime has done nothing to direct this immense volume of trade and traffic to our own coasts. The people of San Francisco and of the Pacific Coast country are obliged to forego the benefits that would otherwise accrue to them simply because they are not sustained by the Gen- eral Government in their struggle against Canadian rivals for commercial suprem- acy. Itisnot good business sense to per- mit this state of things to exist. California, as well as every other Pacific Coast State, is deeply interested in the purpose of San Francisco to have a mer- chant marine service that shall be strong enough to maintain itself against any and all competitors, but no system of ocean transportation could compete unaided with the subsidized carriers of England, ana hence the absolute necessity of substantial recognition of that fact by our Govern- ment. Now, San Francisco possesses every re- quired advantage and facility for the ini- tial and objective points for any number of ocean merchandise carriers except one thing, and since that one thing must come from the General Government why not move upon Washington with such argu- ment and influence as will secure the sail- ing to and from the metropolis of the Pa- cific Coast of a fleet of merchantmen that shall fetch beyond peradventure that which belongs here by every unwritten law of trade, interchange and merchan- dise distribution? A more extensive mer- chant marine is S8an Francisco's pressing need. In addition to all the other factors and factions in politics this year Kansas claims to have a political organization known as the Mystic Brotherhood that expects to cut 2 wide swath among the caadidates. What the Democrats want for a Presi. dential candidate is one of those all-round men who can get around every issue in sight without touching any of them. AROUND THE CORRIDORS. Court Commissioner D. R. Prince of Fresno, familiarly known as Judge Prince, is at the Grand Hotel. The Judge is up in connection with the bonding of a large number of mining properties in which he is interested near Coulterville. He is a native of Angels, finished the course at Santa Clara College, where he afterward taught two years, and then launched into law. In August, 1887, he went to Fresno with the late David B. Terry and entered into law prac- tice. Now heis chairman of the Democratic County Committee of Fresno and by appoint- ment of Judge Erskine M. Ross is Circuit Court Commissioner for the southern district of California. It was Judge Prince who built up the Police Court at Fresno. He was first elected City Recorder, which in cities of the fiith class corresponds to Police Judge in cities 25,000 t0 51,000, in Colorado from 53,000 to 82,000, in Georgia from 42,000 to 96,000, in INlinois from 22,000 to 59,000, in Indiana from 22,000 to 29,000, in Iowa from 20,000 to 32,000, in 3chighn from 19,000 to 30,000, {n Minnesota from 29,000 to 87,000, in Missouri from 41,000 to 42,000, in Montana from 7 10 15,000, in Ohio from 14,000 to 56,000, in Texas_from 99,000 to 159,000, in Virginia from 12,000 to 81,000, in Washington from 19,000 to 25,000 and in Wisconsin irom ‘9000 to 25,000, while they have held their own completely in Tennessee, South Dakota and Oregon. “Now let us look at some other figures. The winning candidate for Presiaent will need %24 votes in the next electoral college. Ii the emocrats should not carry a single Northern State the Republicans would go to the Missis- 8ippi River and face the Populists of the great West with only 207 votes, or seventeen less than the requisite number.” Quite natu =1y this showing of Populist strength leads the consideration of what is likely to take place “if tne choice of a Presi- L1 Edv!N;J - Ex-Judge D. R. Prince, Chairman of the Fresno County Democratic Committee and Circuit Court Commissioner for the Southern District. [Sketched from life by a “ Call” artist.] of the first, second, third or fourth class. Then he was elected Justice of the Peace and served one term, afterward forming a new partnership in the law, which he has practiced steadily since. It wasin June that he was ap- pointed Court Commissioner. Judge Prince says Fresno County will be very active this summer as it now appears, though it is a little dry.down there and the recent frost may have hurt the grapes a little. “Itook a drive yesterday for fifteen miles | east of Fresno,” said he, “and from the Boston vineyard, three miles from town, to Clovis, the vineyards seemed to be injured to some extent. This was true of both the wine and raisin grapes. “If we get more rains the grain crop may do well; otherwise it will be at & disadvantage. Ihear the grain crop in Tulareis in need of more rain. As it is it is tending to lightness. ‘‘However, there are a number of things un- der way in that part of California that promise to more than straighten everything out. The new electric power from Pollasky, thirtymiles from Fresno, is one of the big things. It will light the city, and make Fresno the best-lighted place on the coast. Itisexpected that there will be power enough also to run all the miils there, and others that may be started, and thus Fresno is expected to go ahead rapidly asa manufacturing eity. “One of the big fruit canneries of San Fran- clsco has made arrangements to move down there too, in order to be right where the fruit 1s grown. This will help the city considerably. The future of Fresno seems to me to be very good, indeed.” The Judge will probably be here for two or three days. “‘Oh, yes; there are other interior cities 1n California, but—" Editor Robertson’s pause was accompanied by & facial expression which s&id more emphatically than so many words, “there’s none of them in it with Placerville.” Now, Placerville is the home of the Placer- wille Nugget, and Rob V. Robertson is the edi- tor and half owner of that bright little after- noon paper. Mr. Robertson came down with the Editorial Association as far as Sacramento and then made a fiying trip to this City on business. Heis full of Placerville, of Placer- ville’s climate, of Placerville’s fruit, her mines, her people, her natural advantages, her poten- tial and substantial wealth and the *“wonder- ful thrift and enterprise of her citizens.” ““The frost never touched our fruit,” he said yesterday at the Lick House, “We're too high for that. We send out the first and the finest cherries of the season. There’s & lot of capital going into the mines up there now. 80 far as El Dorado County is concerned, we are work- ing the mines in the ground just at present, instead of in the offices in San Francisco. It's that way a good deal all along the foothills, too; but there’s no county seat in the State ahead of Placerville in a good many things. We're putting in & new fire-alarm system. We expect to get a cannery located there before long, and we're going to sprinkle ten miles of & good country road between Placerville and Coloma. Oh, yes; Placerville is the coming city. There’s no boom on, but things are brisk, trade is good and the people are wide awake.” LOVE'S CRIME. Love played with matches in her eyes, A dangerous game, with none to hinder; AS to the pole the needle flies, 8o in my breast a spark found tinder; 1 sought to check the lambent raid, But s00n in ashes spread the pyre,— It is & crime for any maid To set a young man's heart afire. Stralghtway I sought the Sherift grim, A warrant for the culprit, Daphne. I poured my sorrow out to him, e only Iaughed and tried to chaff me: “Young man.” quoth he, “I think you're right, The maiden should be charged with arson Ng ludge or jury can requite— You'd better call upon the person.” —JOHN NORTHERN HILLIARD. LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE. GOLDBUG ADMISSIONS. FIGURES WHICH SHOW THAT THE POPULISTS ARE DANGEROUS. Zo the Editor of the San Francisco Cail—SIR: Aside from the proposed joint nomination by the Populists and silverites of the same candi- dates on separate but not antagonistic plat- forms at the National conventions which are to meet in 8t. Louls, July 22, asindependent conventions, it is admitted by so conservative a gold-standard journal as the Boston Globe that the Populists alone constitute a-formid- able force which will have to be encountered in the approaching Presidential campaign. After a careful review of the several Presiden- tial cempaigns since 1872, and reaching the conclusion thet in no one of them the race for the White House was won 1n & walkover, each one having oeen a real contest, thejGlobe pro- ceeds to say: “If the I{emocnh should persist in their sulking and sacrifice every and scufflin, Northern State fn the election of next Novem. ber our Republican friends still would have the Populists to reckon with—the much de- rided utlmdi:m:{ed Populists. “‘Look at the voting records if you imagine that the Populists are not profiting by this state of things. In spite of the tidal waves of Republicanism nw‘omu been gaining Arllm(m everywhere in the South and West. In Arkan- sss their vote jum; from 11,000 in 1892 to 124,000 in 18 T:dc-mamh 1t rese from dent isleft to the House of Representatives,” and the Globe reaches this conclusion: ‘‘The silver members from the South and West control twenty-four ot the forty-eight State delegations, and if the silver Republicans irom any three States like California, Idaho, Montans, Nebraska, North Dakots, Oregon, South Dakotas, Washington and Wyoming should carry out their current threat and cast aside party “lines, the election of the Republi- can candidate for President by the House of Representatives would be impossible. ‘‘In other words three members of Congress, controlling as they do the vote in the House of Idaho, Montana and North Dakota, would bave it in their power to defeat the Republi- can candidate. “Furthermore the Senate is so divided that the Republican candidate for Vice-President could not be elected under any imaginable circumstances.’” 1i the desverate struggle of Senator Hill, re- ported in the news of to-day (April 17) to pre- vent an_investigation into the facts now so sedulously concealed which underlie the no- torious bond deal as proposed by Senator Pef- fer of Kansas X‘}’ofiuhst) and Hil’s wrathful assault upon the Populists for proposing such an investigation, may be taken as a frankex- pression of the ieeling entertained by the gold- standard men of the country, there is some reason for supposing that the Populists have come to be regarded as dangerous 1o the plans of goldmongers, and he was wise in saying that “it is about time for Senators who repre- sent States interested in this question to act together,” regardless of party afliliation. JOSEPH ASBURY JOHNSON. 11 Essex street, San Francisco. SENATOR PERKINS’ Oakland Tribune. Senator Perkins occupies a good position to survey the political horizon. He does not think that any candidate for Vice-President will be selected west of the Rocky Mountains by the St. Louis convention. But he thinks the California Republicans should conserve all their influence by sending an unpledged dele- gation to the convention. That delegation wili know a great deal more sbout the politi- cal situation when it gets to St.Louis than it can possibly know before that time. There are five or six Republican candidates who are pos- sibilitles. Even General Harrison is a poesi- bility; for itis known that he can have the backing of his own State if he wants it. The California delegation should be free to act as it shall seem best when it arrives on the VIEW. ground. It does not even need be pledged to’ protection. There is moi & sound Republican in the State who is not heartily committed to that policy. Every man who has been named 2s a possible Republican candidate for a Prosi- dential nomination stands squarely on the doctrine of protection. Of course delegates will have their preferences as to candidates, but they should be iree to adapt their action to eircumstances that cannot be clearly fore- seen in advance of the convention. A PRETTY SKIRT. The skirt shown here is especially liked for very thin materials, for wash goods or light- weight silks. It also develops well in the light-weight crepons and may be made with- out the box-pleat in front. A charming evening dress of pink taffetas with & black stripe was trimmed with black satin ribbons run through a creamy lattice- work of batiste, as shown in the illustration. The waist had a black chiffon bodice, with short, puffed sleeves of the silk. Three stripes of the batiste, with black satin ribbon run through them, formed bretelle trimming on both back and front of the waist. A ‘blue dotted mull dress had a ruffie of narrow Valenciennes lace on the edges of the double box-pleat. The waist was made with a blouse front, which was also made with a double box-pleat edged with lace. The short puffed sleeves had four rows of lace from shoulder to the glbow. e Too Many Foreign Landholders. Santa Barbara News. There is altogether too much of the baronial estate business in America; the East is already honeycombed with estates owned by foreign holders to the extent of 198,714, acres; foreign methods are eating up the freedom of the land. First Doctor—Good photograph, isn’t it? Second Doctor—Fairly good. Flatters the 1eft lung a little, I think.—Puck. PERSONAL. Major A. 8. Hay of London is in town. E. M. Terquem of Paris is at the Palace Dr. H. Cross of Sacramento is at the Palace. J. E. Higgins, a business man of Astoria, isat the Lick. R.’H. White of the United States army arrived here yesterday. Samuel McMurtie, the railroad builder, of Guadaloupe, is here. Charles 8. Fitch, a mine-owner of Yreka, ar- rived here yesterday. Mr., and Mrs. N. W. Scranton of Scranton, Pa., are at the Occidental. A. E. Jefferson of Fairview is in the City, ac- companied by his wife. C. T. Hills, a manufacturer of Muskegon, Mich,, is st the Occidental. Dr. Charles Ware 6 Brooklyn, N. Y., has ar- rived here and is at the Palace. D. F. Griffin, a hardware merchant of Merced, 1s a guest at the Cosmopolitan. The Rev. G. A. Offman of Sacramento isat the Occidental accompanied by his wife. G. Pacheco, a livestock-grower of Ignacio, ar- rived here yesterday. He is at the Grand. C. W. Thompson, the general merchandise dealer, of Tomales, is nere on a business trip. J.Q. A. Fritchley, & wealthy business man of St. Louis, is on & visit here accompanied by Mrs. Fritchley. Major George M. Downey of the United States army, retired, now & banker of Salt Lake, is at the Occidental. E. W. Halladay and wife and Mrs. L. W. Holer of Sanger, Fresno County, are staying at the Cosmopolitan. J. Churchill, the extensive land and mine owner and general merchandise dealer, of Yreka, i8 at the Grand. J. Waldere Kirk of New York, known as the Kingof the Dudes, has returned here after several months in the East. A, F. Mulgrew, the proprictor of Skaggs Springs, Sonome County, eight miles from Guerneville, is on a visit here. Heisat the Russ. A. Paladini, the millionaire fisherman, who has been unwell and confined to his room for a month past, has recovered sufficiently to be able to be around again. The Baron E. de la Grange of Paris, who isin- terested in gold minjng in Trinity County with F. 8. Beaudry and 'others, and who was here some months ago, has returned and is at the Palace. Anson Phelps Stokes, the millionaire society leader, of New York, and John Sherman Hoyt, who is with him on his Western trip, returned to the City yesterday after a week in visiting outside points. B. Campbell of Portland, general freight agent of the Oregon Railway and Navigation, eand W. H. Hurlbert, general passenger agent of the same line at Portiand, arrived here yester- dey and are at the Palace. Robert V, Robertson, editor of the Flacerville Nugget, is in the City. Mr. Robertson reports business first class in his city. The miners are taking hold with both hands with the opening of spring, and the fruit industries are also widening and developing in an excellent degree. General Traffic Manager Taro Adach! of the Japanese Railwasy Company, Superintendent T. Hiraoca and Engineer 8, Mimura, who have arrived here via Vancouver, are examining the shops and other features of the Southern Pacific system. They will leave for Russia to- night to witness the coronation of the Czar. A. C. Perry, a wealthy livestock grower of Round Valley, Mendocino County, is at the Russ on his way to Weaverville to attend the trial of persons charged with the killing re- cently of two alleged cattle-thieves who were taken from the Sheriff. Mr. Perry is to be a witness in the case. With him is I. W. Grist, J. L Carner and P. K. O'Farrell of Covello, also witnesses in the case. Samuel M. Nicholson, president and general manager of an extensive file manufacturing company at Providence, R. L, isat the Palace. Ex-United States Senator H. W. Corbett of Oregon, who arrived at the Palace Hotel sey- eral days ago, accompanied by several of his family, has been quite i1l for two or three days, but was considerably improved yesterday. Mr. Corbett is a banker of Portland, He's s pioneer of many years in Oregon. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, N. Y., April 17.—To sail on the steamship Saale for Bremen and Southampton : Mrs. H. B. Burrell, Dietrich Rogge. At the Morton, W. H. Elj Hoffman, E. Kennedy; gn;l;]exi;l,\l‘i E. Hall; Murray Hill, F. L. King: oliand, Mr. and Mrs. H. Me; 3 W. M, Randel; Hotel Albert, H."l;.mel;xz!;.ev‘m' —_————— IN THE POLITICAL SWIM. The molting of the Carlisle boom did not cause & slump in the feather market.—Wash- ington Post. In spite of Mr. Carlisle’s figures we laid upa good-sized Government deficit during March.— Towa State Register, 1f we understand the Ohio folks Mr. Reed may be Vice-President or practice law in New York, just as he likes.—Detroit Tribune, Grover Cleveland will still be the next Presi- dent—notwithstanding all we hear about him to the contrary—of some rod and gun elub, — Salem Post. Various recent rumors would seem to indi- cate that President Cleveland wrote a letter declining the nomination, and then lost it.— New York Press, It cannot be successfully denied that the Carlisle boom s raging furiously in the col. umns of Colonel Watterson's newspaper.— Washington Post. Lo 2 The season for egg-rolling haying passed the politiclans beg that the public will kindly give its undivided attention to the log-rolling once more.—~Washington Star, It is wonderful how unanimous Democratic leaders are in suggesting that ‘‘some other fel- low"” take the Presidential nomination.—Cin- cinnati Commercial-Gazette, Perhaps the possible Democratic candidates are wisely holding back until ex—Guvem:r Campbell formulates his plan for the salvation of the party.—New York Press. Hanna is sure it’s the Ohio man on the first ballot. Quay tninks otherwise. This is ‘mer;f those little points wherein Matthew differs from Mark.—Philadelphia Times. The Philadelphian wh Pattison two pounds of bly meant it as a hint away his Presidential Item. President Cleveland is quoted as Mr. Boies of Iowa has conducted smazingly. Mr. Boies might retaliate b; - ing that Mr. Cleveland has conducted thny(;:z- erulmant most disastrously.—Kansas City Jour- nal. 0 sent ex-Governor camphor balls proba- that he should pack boom. — Philadelphia saying that himself most At the late election in Rhode Isl: Democrats carried but one town in u:en:t:ltl: Little Rhody is practically unanimous in favor of Republican policies, and her Position is a prototype of that to be assumed by the entire country next Novemher.—chicngo Inter Ocean, —_— P80 . = PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE, Mary Anderson Navarro has left Eng), & protracted tour of the Continent, Kn:r.::nltto; is broken and she goes to Southe; with the hope of improvement, 2 S The foot of Ouida is perfect, winter alike it is lncn::l fi‘ o shoes, which prevent it from torted by unnatural pressure Her hang, too, portions, Dr. Carl Peters, the African explorer who Summer and Den, buckled becoming con on the bones. is faultless in shape and pro- has just deserted the German Government, is described as *‘a little knock-kneed man with & gold pincenez and a lisp. He hails from & vil- lage on the lower Elbe, where his father was & country. pastor.” - The. fourth woman to obtain the doctor’s degree at the University of Goettingen is Miss Alice Luce, & graduate of Wellesley. She has been made doctor of philosophy, cum multe 1aude, by Goettingen, She had spent two years in philological studies at Leipsic, and has been at Goettingen througn one semester. CURRENT HUMOR. He was Clande, She was Maude— They married, but soon separated. She was Mande, He was Clawed— A climax all anticipated. —Detrolt Free Press. Timmins—I fear that I will never succeed as aliterary man aiter all. Simmons—You don’t mean it? Timmins—But Ido. I had myself carefully examined by a most eminent brain specialiat, and he says there is nothing the matter with me.—Indianapolis (Ind.) Journal, Old Gentleman—It is folly to talk marriage for years yet. My daughter is a mere child, She knows nothing about human nature and could not begin to manage servants. Mr. Slimpurse—Oh, that needn’t matter, won’t haye any.—Spare Moments, We A Leader in Thought To-Day. Among the subjects treatea editorially fn this week’s Bdn Francisco News Letter the fol. lowing are of especial interest: “Uncle Adolph i d “Rallroad Debts *‘The McKinley Shout" ‘“The Wilmerding School,” and *‘How to Mai: tain Our Australian Trade.” In Pleasure' Wand appears a clever criticism of *‘Bean Brummell,” besides much other matter. The unprejudiced critique of the paintings at the art exhibit will interest all readers. Two handsome pictures on plate paper go with this number and are very desirable features in themselyes. i Sutro, the Ass; Their Payment” . BROKEN Baby Cream 15¢. 1b. Townsend's. * e e e GLACE Pineapple, California Cherries and Fruits 50c. 1b. Townsend's, 627 Palace. * ———————— Two pounds Cream Mixed Candy in Japanese basket only 50c. Townsend’s, 627 Market st. * e S THIS week, genuine eyeglasses, specs, 15 cts, 8134 Fourth street. Sundays from 9 to 12, e e EXxTRA fine Cream Caramels. Townsend’s.* T D —— SPECIAL information daily to manufaoturers, business houses and public men by the Press Clippgeg Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Montgomery. * - No'SUNDAY picnics taken on theN. P.C. R.R. via Sausalito ferry, thus affording families and private parties an opportunity of visiting with out annoyonce the country, which is nowat its height of beauty. & . BARRY’S STAR Roasts rogues to-day to & crisp. Among other things it deals with Almshouse Brutalities and Crimes; Sane Lunatics; Rev. Colburn’s Sus- %icious Silence; McDonald and the Other Bank hieves; - Chinese Female Slavery; etc. 5 cents at all newsdealers. . e Poor Policy. Woodland Mail. The custom in business of selling on eredit articles of ordinary daily consumption 1s too often the beginning point of financial disaster and bankrupte: MarcE, April, May are the best months to purity the blood and build up the system. Don't neglect such an important matter. Take Hood's Sarsapa- xilla with the advent of spring. Litmm oot IMPORTANT CHANGE OF TIME.~The 12th inst. the Northern Pacific Railroad inaugurated a double daily passenger service between Portland and St. Paul, making « saving of ten hours between Port- land and Chicago. These are the fastest and finest equipped trains that ever were run out of the Fa- cific Northwest. The superior accommodations in our passenger equipment recommend our line to all. Ours is the only line that runs dining-cars out of Portland. T. K. STATELER, general agent, 638 Market street. San Francisco. ———————— DB. SIEGERT'S Angostura Bitters, the world renowned South American sppetizer and invigo- rator, cures dyspepsia. dlarrhes, fever and ague. — THROAT DISEASES commence with a Cough, Cold or Sore Throat. “Brown's Bronchial Troches give immediate and sure rel NEW TO-DAY. REAL ESTATE FOR SALE BY Thos. Magse & Sons, REAL ESTATE AGENTS And Publishers “Real Estate Circular.” 4 Montgomery Street, UNION TRUST BUILDING, CORNER MARKET, INVESTMENTS. Rents $274 50—Fine corner; Ellis and Hollig sts.: 90x125; covered with 6 dweilings and 9 nearly new flats; price asked, $30,000, and offers wanted: it is an estate and must soon sell. 330,000—Tents $195: Polk st., nr. California; 60x 80; fine 3-story building; stores below and room- ing-house above. t. corner: 45:10 front; rents under tory frame building; $20,000. te ave. and Franklin st.: 86x120 to rear street; 3-story good dwellings on the avenues bullding on rear street; small corner vacant; renty $240; 340,000, Within 150 feet of Market st.; downtown» 29 65 aud.frame building; only $32,000; a fine in vestment; 820,000 on it and can remain at 614 er cent. P’ENind at., pr. Mission; brick building; leased at $145; 82251 Near Bust 2 fronts; 0. : 3§ frontages; 000. T beyond na; tory and pianked basement houses: (n an fine order: $1800 just svent on them; reats $120; price $17,500; always rented. HOUSES AND LOTS—-REDUCED PRICES, Chesp: reduced to $6250 fornia st., north side, near Webster: fine 2-story and lot 25%137:8, California-st. residence, west of una; lot 27:6x137:6 and fine residence: nearly $3000 lately spent on it; fine view from rear windows; only $9500. Stevenson st.; rents §60; three 2-story and base- ment houses and lot 50x70; only $6500. Grove st., N. side, bet. Franklin and Goueh: 27:6 x68:9, and'2-story in two tenements; $4500. Clay st., bet. Scott and Devisadero; flats. well bullt and cost $4000; rents $67 50; lot 25x125; $6500: fine neighborhood. Pacific ave., near Octavia: fine residence: 13 139 and miodern; first-oldss order; fine view; Octavia and Hickory ave. basement house in g0od ord $6125. rents 3x80 corner and 2-story 3 bet. Oak and Fell: Ashbury st., near Waller, in the best bloek; fine new flace, wiich cost $4500, and 10t 27:43108; street in order: $0800; $1500 cash, balance af er cent. #7000—3 lett; new houses, just finished; 9 rooms and all modern conveniences: fine view of bay: only 8500 cash and terms as rent if desired; Bu. chanan st., near Green: 3 short blocks from Pae cific ave: 1 block from Union-st. cars and 2 blocks from new line on Fillmore st. CHEAP LOTS—8900 AND UPWARD, NE. cor. Clay st. and 1st ave.; 27x125; only 2000. ‘cor. Webster and Hermann sts.; 37:6x87:64 # asy terms. 2 SE. cor. Waller and De Long sts.: 30x100; bet. Masonic and Ashbury; $3075. Reduced to $1300; Verv cheap Geary-st. lots west of Central ave.; 26x100; cable-cars pass. Reduced 10 $4100: Grove and Lyon sts. corner; 87:6x100; for business or residence. Very cheap: ot 37:6x96:3, on Laguna st., nr. Waller, one block trom Market st.; only $3750. 1 very cheap: st., ng the 'k, cor. 36th ave.; 120%450, imaking 18 1o, (o0 Pa NE. cor. 18th and Flint sis., just above C: 50x58:6, $900, or corner, 58:6x90, or 53:i tine view. g If you want a sure relief for ~ains in the limbs, use an Allcock’s BEAR IN MiND—Not one of tions is as good as the genuine. back, side, chest, or Porous Plaster the host of counterfeits and imita~